001meeting of the board of education for Temple City Unified School District on this day, Wednesday, October 8th. Um, and we would like to call the meeting to order. Um, and roll call for all of us that are present. Uh, member Sneak >> here, >> member Georgino >> here, >> member Espinosa >> here, >> member Smith is absent this evening. Uh, I am here. Uh, student board member Xavier Munoz >> here. >> All right. Okay. Excellent. >> All right. Tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded. Um, and now we look forward to our pledge of allegiance led by our wonderful Long students, uh, Colette Nelson and Tristan Moo. [Applause] right over there. Look at the podium just for you. >> Yeah, that one. >> Yeah, right there. Yes. >> Maybe she's >> all right. So, half of
002our duo is here to do the pledge of allegiance. >> Okay. You know, that's pretty good. >> Yeah. You ready to do this one? >> Okay. Please stand. >> Put your right hand over your heart. >> Ready? Begin. I pledge alce 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. >> Great job. >> Okay. All right. Next. >> All right. And we have more guests coming. That's great. Okay. Um, are there any uh changes to our agenda this evening? >> No changes. >> Okay. All right. So, I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. Uh, may I get a second, please? >> Second by member Sneed. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. All those
003in favor? >> I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 4 Z. Um, okay. Best part of the evening, special recognition presentation portion of our meeting. And this evening, we are graced by our friends from London Elementary's dual language immersion program. We're excited to hear about this. Welcome. [Applause] >> Thank you. Thank you very much for having us tonight. Um, good evening district board members and cabinet members. In case you did not know, I am Kyle Bender, the proud principal of London Elementary School. I'm very honored and fortunate to share the great things that we have going on at our school. Before I begin, I have to say thank you to you, the school board. >> Is that me? Is that AI? >> There's someone punking me right now. It's all right. It's okay. >> I'll keep
004>> I'll continue. Um, I want to say thank you to the school board and our district cabinet members for continuing to allow me the opportunity to be the principal of Long Elementary School. Hold on. Sorry. >> You can blame me if you want to. >> No, no, it's a it's a technical timeout. We're good. >> That was the first time. That was interesting. >> I have never come across that. No [Laughter] >> keep going. So, thank you. I want to say thank you for uh the opportunity to be here, but also thank you for having me. Um this is my fifth year now at Long and I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be at such a great school and a great community. Um, is it hard? Maybe. Um, but I do do love every
005second of my job every day coming to be with the students and our staff. Um, at Longden, we've had a great start to our school year. We had many parents come to our back to school family event. Uh, many parents getting our two back to school nights uh in August. Um, year two of our Vapa program is is already up to a great success, especially with our fifth and sixth graders having that elective process has been very cool. Um we've already participated in some of our monthly safety drills. We've had our fire drill, a soft blockout drill, and yes, Longan is ready for next week's uh great shakeout. Um on Thursday, we've had some great uh monthly spirit assemblies already um with our last assembly. We now have an official name for our Longden Tiger.
006His name is Timmy. >> Timmy the Tiger is now our official mascot um at Longden. And then just last Friday, we had our first lunch on the lawn. And if you ever want to see a grown man cry, that almost happened on Friday when it was drizzling because in the last couple years I've had to cancel lunch on the lawn because of rain. Luckily it did not. And it was end up being a beautiful rest of our day. But for there is a little hairy as Dr. Ays there with me and seeing that it was not going so well. But the biggest part that the starting of our school year is the launching of our dual language emer program. As you know, this has been quite the journey to get to the spot. The past
007two years of planning meetings, hiring staff, visiting similar programs at nearby school districts, developing curriculum, and getting classrooms ready was all worth it when it came to life early on that first day of school. I know many of you have had a chance to come actually see it in action. Some were there even on the first day of school, but it certainly was a very proud moment, maybe an emotional moment, that moment in that first day of school in that man classroom that you can see that it actually had come to life. So now I want to introduce our two dual language immersion teachers. Mrs. Daisy Leia and our Mandarin teacher and Mrs. Thompson our English teacher. [Applause] Now as they come up here these two are already quite the team as you can see
008the smiles on their face. Um I am lucky that they have already bonded really well. Um it's great to watch them interact not only with each other but with their students and certainly embracing this uh teaching opportunity. So, I have some questions for you. Are you ready? Pop quiz. >> So, what inspired you to want to take on this adventure? >> So, I was actually a high school graduate. So, I went to Oak and then City High School and it's it's amazing. I've always wanted to come back to teach. So, it's an honor to be here. And just working with the kids I'm working with has been amazing. And um I just really wanted to preserve the culture that we have here. >> And then what how's the experience gone so far this year? >>
009Thank you. >> Well, as you can see, we also have some little friends here. Now, as they come up here, we do have a short little slideshow to show you um that what's been happening so far. Take that back. Let's talk about them first. It's not about them. Come on, little guys. They all have match matching London shirts. So, as they're coming up here for Mrs. Thompson's class we have Nathan Kuo, Iris Lei, Jacob Man, Aver Tuazan, and Tristan Woo. And for Mrs. Leo's class, we have Natalie Kuo, Lucas Lu, Colette Nelson, Hazel Soy, and Avery Tang. So, I believe they have a couple things. Yes, >> so they have a couple things that they're going to be doing with Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. We can't leave yet. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
0108 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 80 19 20 [Applause] [Music] to G. [Applause] of the year. Ready? Begin. Over [Applause] Okay, next we have someh slideshows. There's pictures to show you on a little mini slideshow with some of the great things already happening in the dual life dual program. You want to hit play there for me, Mr. Yeah. So, we start with our first day of school headphones. We love headbands in kindergarten. And of course, the famous pizza cat headbands. So, we had pizza aver that day. Pizza. Who's that? Natalie. Pizza Mark. And more pizza. Pizza Natalie. Pizza. And of course, our infamous lunchon >> and no rain. >> No rain. It almost got cancelled, but thank you so much parents for coming. I know it's not that. And we also made um
011apple pie and Here's a short video. Eat. Yeah. Just to wrap up, to say I'm proud is an understatement. Even though I might have the title as principal, it certainly is not about me making this dual language aversion program happen. I need to recognize many people that got us here to this point. Thank you to the board for your vision and with the Temple City community's input to make this actually happen. Thank you to our district leaders in the building here in this building that put the countless hours countless hours of the work to make this happen. Thank you to my staff back at Longden for embracing this program coming to our campus. Certainly thank you to my co-leader, Mrs. Nikki Oaxin, my sister principal, for her leadership on campus with our program. To my
012amazing teachers for being the pioneers in this inaugural program. Thank you. Thank you to our families in this program for trusting us to provide this fantastic opportunity for your children. Thank you for having us. [Applause] >> Do any of you want to say anything to them? Do my fellow board members have any comments that they would like to share right now? >> I have a question for the teachers like so what is like a normal day? How does it how does it go? Is it um mand how does it split up? >> Um so we have two classes. I have a home class. She has a home class. I would start with my home teaching English and then after English. It's wonderful. >> So beautiful to see. I'm almost like emotional about it because it's
013so beautiful to see everything just like come together and see these young students here like singing and counting in another language. It's like it's great. Thank you for your work. >> I'm I'm seeing the parents that are so excited about this program. I I appreciate the two of you being our inaugural teachers for the program. You've gotten this off to a great start. Something that we've been hoping would come to fruition for a couple of years, but we I appreciate all the work you're doing. And parents, thank you for being part of this this first experiment that we're doing this year. Thank you. Thank you for entrusting our your children to this program. And it's it's going to be exciting to see as these students move through the grades by the time they are done
014at Longden as sixth graders how much they will have gained from being in this program. So thank you and thank you parents for being part of it also. >> Okay. Thank you so much. Yeah. I mean, you know, language and culture is the fabric by which this country was built, and it's so wonderful to see our younger generations get immersed in more of that. So, but uh young gentlemen, young ladies, we have some certificates we would like to share with you this evening. So, if you don't mind, uh [Applause] We're going to take a picture. Congratulations. Next we have There we go. I have welcome. Are you sure? That's absolutely fine. Please We already teach. There you go. [Applause] I can never Adorable. >> I see elementary school kids. It's like you cannot say no
015to them. How do you say no to them? >> Oh yeah, no worries. Okay. All right. Okay. So, let's go ahead and move on to the next segment of our meeting. Uh, it doesn't look like we have any public comment on any agenda or non-aggendaized item this evening. Um, okay. And let's go on to community updates. Uh I do want to share one update and that is the uh Temple City Historical Society Museum will be open this coming Sunday uh from 11 uh a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 12th. And and following this historical society uh will have their general meeting at 2 p.m. And at this meeting uh they will be featuring uh John Santos uh the new public information officer for the city of Temple City. and they will also be having their
016elections at this meeting. So for those of you that are available, please uh you know, please join them and and learn a little bit more about the history of Temple City. Um and then now that next we have bargaining unit comments first, uh Temple City Education Association. Likewise, good to see you. All right. And then next we have CSEA 105. Okay. All right. Next we have CSEA 823 likewise. Hi, how are you this evening? All right. Okay. Next we have district updates. First we have uh business services. >> Good evening Miss Board of Education. Dr. Kuna community member October 2nd is national custod. And I would like take this opportunity to thank Mr. Noel Lopez. He is the office and did as a custo. So sometime working in the late evening by himself in this
017building kind of every challenge but he did a very well. He always smile smile always went to help. So we appreciate his hard work and dedication. October 1st um marked the sens day for the 25 26 school year and we had five 200 students enrolled in our district including the special public school. So on that day our official enrollment standard 5,283 compared to 2425 our calad enrollment which was 5,298 we were five students short. However this week we gave four more kids and we are looking for one more special kids coming. It is bring our total enrollment in the same level as last year. So great news. Historically our school district experience highment when the school year goes by and at the end of last school year we had 526 kids. So we hope that
018when the school goes on and by the T2 reporting which is end of the March we will have more kids. we have right now October 13 and 17 from October 13 to 17 is actually national school lunch week which promotes the importance of healthy school lunch and their positive impact both inside and outside classroom. We have made significant changes uh improvement for our meal program and this time to express my sincere appreciation to our full service staff and sometime it is a little challenge when in the house summer at the high school. So I'm pretty sure that their hard work committed will all notice and we thank them for that. That's my >> All right. Thank you so much for that. Um next we have at services uh Dr. >> Good evening. So, I'm happy
019to report that we had our first round of dual language immersion information sessions this past week for the 2627 cohort of kids and we had over 50 parents in attendance. So, we still have two more meetings happening next week on October 15th at 9:00 and 4 o'clock. So, families, if you have students that are out there in TK or preschool and are going to be ready for kindergarten next year, we hope that you will join our sessions on the 15th. We look forward to having you learn more about our DI program. What a great commercial we have for that tonight, too. All three of our schools um that had had Williams compliance visits um have now passed for textbook sufficiency. We still have one more uh compliance visit related to facilities for Oak Avenue Intermediate
020School. So, we're waiting to hear when that visit will be, but I want to give a special thanks to Principal Johnson as well as Principal Le and Principal Lee for all of their leadership to have a successful Williams visit for our textbooks. And thank you to Lou and Amy from Ed services for um supporting them on those visits. And then finally, I just wanted to give a heartfelt shout out to our elementary program. Uh, I had the opportunity to visit classrooms with principal Bender this past week and Jean, Lacy, Gilbert, Robin, Kelly, Jack, and Kyle. All of them had the opportunity to meet um with me either in groups or oneon-one and clearly their passion and dedication for growing our programs at the elementary level is truly commendable. Um, if you haven't had a chance
021to see the FAPA classes, I invite you to come and visit with me. Um, Mr. Bender and I walked away with new knowledge um thanks to Mr. Gilbert. He was teaching music uh composition on Chromebooks where the students were composing a song and he was having them create various types of melody beats and chorus which a week ago I probably couldn't tell you the difference between a melody beat or a chorus because I do not have any type of music education background but I left Mr. Gilbert's class with complete understanding and knowledge. So I want to Thank him for providing our students with this opportunity for music education. And then also our new media arts class. I had a chance to visit Miss Robin's class and she was teaching students on ProBooks how to how
022to animate their digitized drawings um which was just very impressive and all of the students were really enjoying the class. So it's a true reflection of the talent that's happening in our classrooms and the innovation that we see across our school. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing. Um, all right. And next we have uh human resources. Uh, Mr. Lman, how are you? >> Good evening. Um, somehow I'm supposed to go from BAPA to benefit. I may request like my position in this light up move. Um, so open enrollment for our benefits um, officially closes on Friday. There's still a few more appointments available for any of our staff members who are eligible who have not made the appointment yet to be um in person on Friday. And we extended beyond the deadline to
023Saturday for Zoom meetings. So if we have any employees who need to meet with um their families included um we have Saturday as well as through Zoom meetings. Um and then last month I reported that HR was working on the CALSASS report. Just a reminder, the CASASS is the California Statewide Assignment Accountability System that was created by created by the California Commission on Teaching Credentiing to monitor assignments of certificated educators in California. So, we submit our data, they match what our teachers credentials are up against to what they're teaching, make sure everything is good. So, we're just waiting for CTC to respond to us now. Um but Jurus has done an amazing job working with with um our sites as well as ed services to make sure we are in compliance. >> All right. Excellent.
024Thank you for sharing that. Um okay, next uh we're on to uh board member comments and this evening uh we will start with members. >> Thank you so much. Um I want to thank all of our custodians in the district. We just had custodian appreciation in the district and I'm glad all the schools recognize them. Um, our campuses always just absolutely shine and sparkle because of you. So, thank you. Thank you for doing that. Um, congratulations to Livia Depala who is named a member of the 2026 Rose Court. I think we have some cross figures over there. Temple City is just gonna be really proud to see her go down Colorado Boulevard on January 1, whether she's Queeno or just a member of the court. She's she's a remarkable young lady. Um I also want
025to thank congratulations to Lola Y who was also one of the 28 finalists. Um I attended the night of traditions at the emperor a week or so ago. Um and that event mark their efforts to celebrate the different cultures and the different traditions represented by the students there. Um I want to thank uh Mr. Tim, Mr. Gilbert and all the families who shared food and displays and entertainment that evening. Um, congratulations to all the groups who performed at the fall festival on the 27th. It was a really nice morning. There was a little bit of drizzle in the morning and cleared up and the kids were able to all perform. We just have most amazing students. It was a really fun morning. Um, I enjoyed the last home flag football. That's mouthful. Flag football game
026last week. They really put great effort in, you know, on the field and um there's something really nice that they did also. They were recognizing our seniors, but they also recognize the seniors from the other team. I thought that was really a nice touch to give flowers to the seniors from their opposing team. Um on Saturday, I attended the memorial service for Patrice Gen. Um I want to thank Joel and he did a really beautiful job leading the service and I want to thank also the high school staff. They you did such a beautiful job on the reception. It was it was just beautifully done and Patrice really left remarkable legacy behind. Um that night it was a full day of activities because that night I attended the Bamboo event. They really did a great
027job and everybody was having a good time and some people it was the first time they had ever played Funko so there was a little bit of explanation going on but everybody had a good time and I want to thank Long for presenting tonight. We've just been so excited about the launch of this of our dual language program and they just it's nice to It's kicked off and looks like the kids are having fun in the class. The parents are enjoying seeing their children grow. So, I appreciate all the work that went into it. >> All right. Thank you so much. Next, uh we have member. >> Thank you. Um I also attended the uh bunko fundraiser for the band and the guard and um from what I understand they they did really well and
028they raised a good amount of money. Um, they are going to be having the preview night for their field show on October 17th. And I was trying to find how to get tickets, but Elias, maybe you know. Yeah, I was trying to look it up. I know I've seen it somewhere. But anyways, it's uh on October 17th and um I'm sure it's going to be great. It always is. So um put it on your calendars to come out and see that. I attended the um fall festival on September 27th. Um really enjoyable event. This time it was a little extra special because we had the elementary choirs performing and they were just awesome. Um I attended the joint meeting uh between the district and the city. Um we have continued to uh focus on ebikes
029and safe routes to school and um It's a challenging topic, but I think we have made um some some headway. Um the city, you may have noticed, they've they went to the high school and they did assemblies there for the kids. Uh they were at back to school night. Um they've made some improvements in the front of the school and so um our good relationship with them is really paying off in terms of uh safety for our students. I also attended the football game, the last one that was at our stadium. It was interesting to see every time a little bit more gets done. So, we're moving along in the right direction. I wanted to congratulate Olivia Depala being chosen for the Pasadena tournament of Ros's Court. It's a a big honor for our city
030to have um someone from Temple City represented. Um I wanted to acknowledge the custodians. It was custodian appreciation day um last week. Um they do such an excellent job keeping our campuses clean and safe and um you may not realize it but 69 years ago yesterday the Temple City High School campus was dedicated and that is our newest campus we have in this district. So they do a remarkable job keeping our old schools looking good and being safe and clean for our students. So, thank you very much for that. And then also, um, pat on the back for Temple City Unified. Uh, Nich rated us 434 out of 10, and three 394 districts in the country. So, that means we are in the top 4% in the country, which is remarkable. So, yay for us.
031>> Thank you. That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you so much. Okay. And I guess um okay I am next. Um yep I want to echo comments by my fellow board members. Uh having our dual language program uh students uh come here this evening uh was really wonderful to me personally and I accidentally caught myself counting with them which thankfully I stopped. Um and u it just brought back some really good childhood memories. Um and it's so good to see that um we are looking outwards towards world learning all these different languages and cultures and I hope that we can continue in that direction. Um and uh I didn't know that 69 years. >> Wow. Okay. It's certainly a legacy here and all the great things that we do. So that's that's wonderful
032to hear our custodians. You know, I think we're all going to say something about the amazing work that they do and you know the heart that they put into not dayto day and the way they keep our campuses amazing, but also all the other things they do outside of those hours when we have all these family events to cater to um those kind of services to to help make sure that our families have a wonderful time and all these things and and when we do have guests uh come to campus, let's just say like from other schools and we have events, it's it's just they do so much to represent us so well. So really appreciate them. Um and Olivia, is this like the last the first time in about what nine 10 years that
033we had somebody? >> Yeah. Yeah. That's wonderful. I hope that uh she has an incredible experience throughout the year. So congratulations to them. Um that will be it for me this evening. Uh next uh oh member Smith is not here. So next we have member Good evening everybody. Um I I definitely want to echo my fellow board members thoughts about um the custodians of our district. They are um important very very key critical part of our ability to operate safe schools. And so we thank you. Thank you for your service and for all that you do for our families and our students. I want to echo congratulations to Livia. Um she's very poised and well deserving of this honor. We're so so proud of her. Um I also want to comment um I I did
034comment when um our dual language students were here but um this is like one of my favorite meetings so far because um we're hearing great we're seeing that lang dual language program come to fruition right in front of us. We're here getting updates on our VA program and these are the things that like were very um high on our priority list for this for this board and for this cabinet and and it's it just shows that it takes like it takes time for things to come to fruition and when you want something for these students um you know there's a lot of thought that goes into that a lot of planning a lot of money um so we got to keep going and Well, we're good for now. We gota we got to keep going,
035keep um improving, keep providing for our students the things that they need. We are pretty much busting at the seams um when it comes to our VA program as to where they can perform. And so I'm hoping I'm excited about the fact that we're talking about the bond. Um so yeah, that that all these things just just make me so happy. Um and then I also wanted to um just share that I did the um the fall festival and it was a really fun-filled day. Lots of talent at all ages. I'm happy the weather cooperated and that I'm hoping that they they did well in their fundraising. And then I did attend the foundation meeting and I just want to report back to the board a couple of things that they are working on because
036what the Temple City foundation does um really does um support in the when all is said and done it all supports our schools in this district. So right now they're working on a calendar card fundraiser um which is this lovely pink card here. Um it's it's $10, but it it gives you a ticket for an opportunity drawing for every single day in February. Um they're giving out different amounts of money every single day. And this particular card will um be good. Even if you win one day, your card stays in selection for the entire month. So um if you would like one, obviously I have some, but you can any at any event they're trying to attend and sell at all the events that are coming up. So just look out for the pink cards
037and from Temple City Schools Foundation, thank them for all their work and efforts. They are also um planning the fall um junior musical which is Rudolph the Redmond Ree. It's going to be running from November 19th to the 21st. Um and on the 21st they're actually going to They're calling a gayla, which is fundraising. Um, and that will include some um some food, some drinks, non-alcoholic, and um and a show. So hopefully you can make it um and support them in that way. And then they're also planning to start discussing summer school. That is my update. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you so much. All right. Next we have uh our student board member comments. Uh Mr. Mos. >> Okay. Good evening everyone. Um last week we had our fall festival. We had very different
038performances from our coro, our pep, our auxiliaries, our brighter side, our color guard, our band, and just so many other wonderful um bas. And then we also have our um first homecoming first homecoming game. our new stadium next Friday at 700 p.m. And we're gonna have so many even more different performances from our band, our color guards, basically everyone from Fall Fest is there. And then we also have and if that doesn't really interest you, we also have an amazing firework show um choreographed by or not choreographed but planned by Mr. B. So I know that's always very exciting for everyone. And then I also do want to congratulate one of my very close for being part of the court. I know she's so very honored and excited to be part of the court. I
039know she just met Magic Johnson today, so that was very cool. And I also want to congratulate one um one of my other close ASB friends, Lola, for also being one of the finalists. And I know they're both very excited. That's all my updates. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Okay. Uh next we move on to uh superintendent comments, Dr. Thank you. So, I I saw some eyebrows when we mentioned fireworks. They're in a different area and we're going to keep them far away from the field. So, Elias is on it. Uh but I did want to say thank you to Elias uh literally for the the little things like that podium that make a big difference. Thank you. Um you know, I just we always talk about making our kids feel like they
040belong, right? And I think that podium helps our students feel like they belong. Um, there's a couple of things that uh I need to uh reiterate and I and I normally don't uh try to do that, but uh I will say that this year we we um we tasked our administrators with putting a face to the work uh for our custodians. Um, our our kids are good kids, but our kids are also kids and they don't always clean up after themselves. Um, and sometimes our adults don't clean up after themselves. And there is somebody there that does that work and there are people that don't always realize that there's somebody doing that work. There's somebody cleaning up after you. Um, normally it happens at home with your mother, whatever. But I I really, you know,
041want our administrators to put a face to the work so that our students acknowledge the work that our our custodians do. Um, I also wanted to uh just say that when I was at the announcement for the Tournament of Roses, um, and I saw Livia up on the stage and I and I just saw her interacting with the media and and you know, and with the other uh contestants like she was just how they don't pick her to be queen would be beyond me. I I just I really would not understand it. Um, but I don't have a boat. So, um, the dual language, uh, I am so happy to see that those kids, uh, seem to be getting along because they're going to be spending seven years together. Uh, this cohort travels together and
042so it's good that they get along and that their parents get along because it is a little family for the next seven years or so. Um, and just like uh, Espinosa shared like we we we do talk about how we expand uh and just this Monday in cabinet we were talking about you know what would a Spanish dual language class look like in our district and we're not there yet but it is something that we're we're working towards um because we want to offer multiple languages within our district and so if we can get to that point um I think it benefits our our communities our community and our families uh and our students And so, uh, we'll get there. Uh, you know, this was when we first started talking about the the Mandarin class.
043It was it was a lot of work, a lot of stress, and here it is, and it is I agree, it's beautiful. I I loved watching it. Um, so we'll we'll be looking for some things in the future to expand. Um, I want to wish our Hindu families a a happy Diwali day on October 20th. I don't think we'll have another meeting before then. And then um I wanted to say that I'm a little disappointed in our governor. U he vetoed uh Assembly Bill 1224 which was supported by AXA, CASBO, CSBA, and California County Soups. And that's one of the ones that I think uh you guys uh signed off on as well and just urged him to support our students in the classroom with being able to grant substitute teachers a 60-day uh assignment.
044And he he vetoed that uh bill saying that there was no training uh component within that that language. But the alternative is you have a 30-day sub with no training component and now you have to change that 30-day sub out every 30 days. And so now there's no consistency either uh for students uh which we talk about mental health all the time and and the importance of of continuity and consistency for kids and and for him to do that I just I wasn't happy with it and I wasn't happy with his rationale either. Um but again I don't have a uh we did have LEO Superintendent Collaborative and we had legislators at the LEO Superintendent Collaborative and these are some of the things that we were able to share with them. So that was uh
045last Friday I was at that and uh at my table was uh Sasha Renee Perez and so I was sitting there with Alhamra Pasadena Linata um and somebody from the Analopee Valley and we all shared the same concerns and I think it was something that was valuable for her to see that regardless of where you are there are things that all of us that legislators do sometimes unintentionally without knowing, but the conversation needs to happen so that when they make these decisions, they know the impact that it's going to have on school districts. So, um, hopefully it is something that we'll be able to continue to, uh, you know, have conversations with them moving forward and just share some of these, uh, you know, pressing issues, our concerns with them or some of the things
046that we support. Uh, I wish that the veto had come out that Friday. It came out on Monday. uh so we didn't get a chance to talk about it at that point in time but these are just some of the things again the decisions that are made that are really not always in the best interest of students and that's it thank you for sharing that highlighting some of those are very important subject matters u next we have written communications I don't believe that we have any this evening let's go on and move on to the discussion information item portion of our board meeting items that the board would like to discuss or information presented to the board. These items do not require any board action. Um we have item 16 from uh the city of
047hopes blood drive and Miss Francis Paul. >> Oh, mister. Sorry. Okay. All right. That was my scope for today. >> Thank you, Superintendent Dr. and board members for inviting me here today to share City of Hope's mission and story on the slideshow here. Um, one of the greatest gifts in your life will be the one you give away and donating blood is one of those gifts and you will find out how your gift impacts our patients at City of Hope. The City of Hope blood donor center is a place where courage and kindness begin. And we are so grateful to be able to bring back our blood drive uh on Friday, October 17th right here in this room. 10 a.m. to 400 p.m. And you simply scan the QR code to schedule your appointment. This
048is open to uh the district uh students that are 16 years or older uh parents. And for coming in to donate, you will receive uh a t-shirt um with our slogan this year, lead with your type. Um you know, the the sad reality is that we're all touched by cancer in some way. We all know somebody with cancer. We know a person, a neighbor with cancer, a friend with cancer, a co-orker, student, teacher, a coach, or somebody even closer to you, uncle, an aunt, a nephew, a niece, or even closer, a grandmother, a grandfather, a granddaughter, a grandson, brother or sister, mother, father, husband or wife. And it's reassuring to know that right here, not too far away in DHY, is a top five cancer care hospital in the entire nation. Uh, and we're number
049one in California. And we're making miracles happen every single day. And every single drop of blood that we collect goes directly to our cancer patients. So what that means is that we don't sell our blood. We don't sell to other hospitals. We don't sell to pharmaceutical companies. We don't sell to academic centers. Every single drop of blood goes to our cancer patients. That's very powerful because that means that the blood we collect stays in this community. And if that person that you know that has cancer is being treated right now at City of Hope and he if he or she needs that blood, you can at the blood drive right on the on the registration form, I want this to go to my cousin. I want this to go to my sister and that blood
050will be set aside uh for that person. So it's a very powerful thing that you can do. Um, in addition to doing blood drives, you know, one of our goals is to hopefully engage more with Temple City High School students. Um, to bring our blood drive to the campus. Uh, we have a very unique high school program that gives high school seniors an opportunity to uh, experience what it's like to work in laboratory environment. Uh, we also have volunteer opportunities to help students get a understanding of what our culture is all about. Uh, we have a very, uh, powerful toolkit that will help clubs and sports teams how to fund raise uh for field trips or for equipment and uniforms and we're willing to share that information with your clubs. Um and we also have
051a upcoming Walk for Hope that we do every year that's happening on November 2nd. So we welcome you to come uh to our campus for that. Um I like to always ask this question. You know, what is the number one reason why people do not donate blood? And a lot of times people will say, "Oh, it's the needle or they're scared." But in actuality, the answer is because they never So tonight I'm going to finish by giving you three simple reasons why we should all donate blood. And the very first reason is that um it's very easy. You roll up your sleeve. You'll feel a slight pinch when you forget about in two seconds. The rest of the time you're going to be sitting in a nice comfortable chair. You'll probably be on your cell
052phone flipping through Instagram videos or Tik Tok videos. And before your favorite song is done in your Airbud, you're finished. Only takes 10 minutes. And you'll head over to our canteen area, have some snacks and cookies and juice. pick up your t-shirt or gift card and you're back to your day. Uh second reason why we should all donate blood is donating blood as I mentioned earlier is one of the greatest acts of kindness uh gift that takes a decent amount of effort. So whether you're giving an act of kindness or receiving an act of kindness everybody wins every feels great and we definitely need more of that every single day. And finally the third reason why we should all donate blood is if you have the opportunity to come to our campus and we invite
053you to come to our campus and visit. It's beautiful campus. If you walk past Hford Hospital and if you look up onto the third floor, that is our pediatric floor. And in one of those rooms is an 8-year-old little boy that just finished chemo, radiation, his body's tired, his body's aching, and he's waiting on a blood transf. And all he wants to do is go home because he hasn't seen his. So, as you can tell, your blood donation makes a huge impact on patients. Your blood donation gives our patients time. time to recover, time to battle another day, and time to go home to their families. I'd like to share something very personal about myself. I have a very unique 360 degree view of the blood donation process. Not only am I the blood drive
054coordinator uh for City of Pope, uh but I'm also a committed blood donor. In fact, I just donated platelets on Monday. And thirdly, um 17 years ago, I didn't want to be at city. You see, 17 years ago, my wife and I faced the reality that were going to be caregivers to our own 8-year-old little son um because uh he had leukemia when he was eight years old. And the photos I showed earlier, that was my son uh being in the hospital. And because of the care uh that he received and the blood donors, uh he is now a two-time survivor and he just turned 25 uh this past Monday. And uh I found out very quickly that I was at the right place. He was at the right place. And now I'm I'm really
055grateful to work for saved my son's life twice. Um, you know, one thing about City of Hope is they don't just treat the patient, they treat our entire family. You see, he has two brothers and a sister there. And, um, you know, as a young as a young father at the time, I struggled with, you know, what do I tell my son? He's eight years old. Uh, he's been diagnosed with cancer. What do I tell him? How do I teach him how to fight? Well, fortunately, he knew the answer already because he was a baseball player uh before he got sick. And through the game of baseball. Uh he learned that like baseball uh life like baseball is a game of adjustments. Life like baseball is a game of failure. He live and he learned
056through the game uh how to fight cancer. And today as I as I mentioned, he's a two-time survivor. He went off to play baseball in high school. Not only that, he went to play baseball at the University of Lever. And uh this is a photo of him. True story I mentioned earlier about the puppy. That puppy on the right side, that was a dog that um he couldn't wait to go home to see. You see, when he uh was first diagnosed, we got him a little puppy and he said, "Dad, I want to go home and see the puppy." And that was the puppy that he saw there. And then this is my wife and I with him graduating college. I can share one more story of one of our patients. Um are you able
057to play that video? >> My name is Jade. >> My name is Jafari. Jackie's parent. Thank you. God bless you. I'm very proud to say that my daughter is bone donor. It's been an amazing experience. Thank you very much. >> You know your donation saves lives today. And more importantly, it will bring forth a whole new generation. You see, kids like Jazzy are going to be able to grow up, go to high school, learn how to drive, go to prom, graduate high school, go off to college, earn a degree, uh enter the workforce, maybe be lucky, meet somebody, get married, and then have their own family. You see, you made that happen by that simple blood donation. And there will be generations of people because of the gift you gave away. So, please donate. Donate.
058Thanks so much. >> Thank you so much. >> Can I know how important donating blood is? I've been a blood donor for years. We can count. that um I've gotten respons who I donate through usually and they say your blood is gone here >> and it's nice to know that to hear from them where it's gone in a lot of cases it's it's a child going through cancer and I've been a power red donor for many years and It it doesn't take long. >> Yes, it doesn't take long. >> Doesn't take long. So, I appreciate you doing >> working with our district >> and hopefully you'll have every every spot fil if I'm if it's been long enough since my last donation. But it doesn't take long. It doesn't hurt. >> And you get juice
059cookies. >> Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing. Thank you so much for sharing this. Thank you. Next, uh we have uh educational services and our review of Williams complaints quarterly summary for July 1st, 2025 through September 30th of 2025. >> So this is our quarterly report for Williams complaints and we have zero to report. Excellent. All right. Thank you so much. Okay. Next, let's go on to our discussion action agenda portion of our meeting. Items that may require discussion but upon which the board is expected to take action during the meeting. And we have an item in administration uh line item number 18. um the appointment of two board members as representatives to the subcommittee for a possible future general obligation bond and uh like >> yes so at our last meeting
060we approved uh two contracts one with a a company True North to uh provide a survey to uh our community to gauge interest on a a future general obligation bond and also with team civics who would help to facilitate that as part of the process um in developing the survey. They would like board member input. Um, but due to Brown Act regulations, it really should be limited to two members of the board. Um, who can then relay information to other members of the board, but also provide input uh, as a representative of the board as a whole. Um, and so, you know, I'm I'm hoping that we have two individuals that would be willing to give up some of their time to uh help support the u the survey uh development and start to get
061the word out for uh the need for a future application general application. All right, thank you so much. That's wonderful news. Okay, so now I would like to open this up uh to see if any of my fellow board members would be interested in being our representatives uh for this survey. Okay. All right. Okay. We have now and Espinosa. Okay. All right. Okay. Looks like we have our two. Wonderful. This is great. Okay. >> That was easy. Um Okay. Um I would like to make a motion uh to approve members and Espinosa to fill those rules. May I get a second, please? >> Second. >> Okay. Second by member Munoz. Okay. Um, all those in favor Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, preferential vote. Member Munoz. Okay. All right. All those in favor? >> I All those
062opposed. Motion carries. 4 Z. Congratulations and thank you so much. >> All right. Forward to that. That's really exciting stuff for next. There we go again. Yeah. Yeah. It's uh can't wait. Good stuff. We we've done a lot of good. Um All right. Next, we have ED services. Um, item 19, uh, receive board policies for second reading and approval on BP5125, uh, student records, BP 5125.1, release of directory information, and BP 51453, response to immigration enforcement. Um, there are no questions or comments. This is our second reading. Uh, may I get a motion, please? >> Moved by member Georgo. May I get a second, please? Second by member Sne. All right. Um, preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> All those in favor? >> I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 4 Z. Okay. And next
063we have business services. Um, item 20 um to accept the measure S citizen oversight committee's annual report to the board. >> I think they present first. I think Thank you and good evening everyone. I don't need to bend down. Do >> I can hear me? Okay. Good evening everyone. Board member, superintender, Dr. Aruna and guest. It is my pleasure to bring you the annual report from the measure as citizens oversight committee. My name is Gina Aparicio and I'm the chairperson of the committee. I'm gonna put up the popoint. All right. Um, he's going to put up a PowerPoint that uh I was going to point out the pictures on the first page. Thank you. is missing. Oh, there it is. Okay, good. Okay, here is the first page of the slide presentation. And uh I
064just wanted to point out that the first slide uh the first picture in the first slide shows a picture of the Friday night lights which took place on June 7, 2024 and was the actual kickoff for the new upcoming stadium project. and many alumni attended and Dave we talked about memories of the old um of the existing stadium. And then uh over to the right side or the middle picture is currently on our new stadium wall and it shows pictures of past alumni and past events that have taken place throughout the years. Okay. And uh there's picture there that actual back to the first page. >> I know >> running away from >> Okay, the third picture actually shows the beautiful new Temple City High School Rams Bob Hitchcock Stadium. On Friday, September 12th of
065this uh last month, we celebrated our first Friday night's uh lights with the community where past, present, future Rams attended. It was a memorable e evening for all. Now, I would like to introduce you. Thank you. Now, I would like to introduce you to members of the uh citizens oversight committee. Um I am Gina the chair and then an Sites is our vice chair that is not present and we have member George Ghoul, member Sunonny Lo, member Albert Leong, member Peter Lie and another one our last member in attendance is Candy Mccernin. Thank you Candy for being here and um sorry. So I uh the measure s citizens oversight committee conducted business meetings in accordance with our bylaws which included budget updates and project status reports. The committee met on the following date February 12,
0662025 in person at the in the district office boardroom. In accordance with the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown public act, the committee conducts meetings for the public attendance and participation. Meeting agendas and notices are sent to committee members and posted within the required period of time at the Temple Cedu invite school district office and the district website. Meeting notices, agendas, minutes, and all other documents received by the committee are a matter of public record and are available on the Temple City Unified School District website. On February 12, 2025, the measure is citizens oversight committee received the annual performance audit report for the year ending June 30, 2024. On behalf of this measure s citizens oversight committee, I am pleased to inform you that the district is in compliance with article 13A section 1b3 of
067the California constitution and the current projects are authorized under measure S. Thank you very much. Now I'd like to turn over the presentation to Connie Woo, our assistant superintendent of business services. >> Thank you Gina. I will continue with the um measure S. So um as B recall that our community uh approved for the major back to November 6, 2012 and um authorized 128.8 million and over the years the district have four issues. The last issues major S series D was just completed in July 2025 this years. So the um the former two uh formerly issue ABC the total revenue is about $83 million interest by the end of June 30th 2025 we spend all the issued measures bound for our various project I believe that before I came um there's a project in the
068high school um for twotory building and all our elementary school for the share structure and the classroom organization. For the 2425 school year, we had a little over $3 million including the carryover from previous years as well as interest earned in 2425. And there $3 million will spend for the high school sports complex. And of course our project is more than $3 million. So the rest of the funding will come from the fund 40 is also the just cap out. So next I'm going to hand to Dr. Kuna and he will present us the most update about scope of our project. All right. So obviously the the project was grand in scope. Uh you know when we started the the project we were thinking about just doing a a football field with a uh a
069synthetic uh rubber track as well as a uh turf field and bleachers. Uh that kind of morphed into expanding our capacity in our our bleachers. We've doubled the size of our our bleacher seating. We used to sit about 1500, now we sit 3,000 in total. Uh we have a great press box which uh gives opportunity for our students to be able to um produce videos that I think are on the level of some Yeah. I mean, they're they're good, right? Um but it's only going to get better. Um, and our and our goal when we did this was to bring in a board that uh had a curriculum component to it as well so that it became part of a class for our students and that's where we're heading as well. You'll see that uh
070pretty soon mares are going to be going up on Temple City Boulevard uh so that they would they'll be visible uh for northbound and southbound traffic. Um just waiting on a couple of metal pieces there. And then those boards will go up. We have brand new concessions, fieldhouse, uh team rooms. U we have a new batting cages. We have uh pretty soon we'll have the new football, new baseball field, new softball field. Uh new tennis courts. We also um made sure to offer something to our golf team. So we'll have a putting green that is going in the uh west side of the softball fields uh that are gonna or the softball field is going to be there. Uh and then because it's turf, they're also going to have the ability to set up their
071nets and and do some driving uh as well. And so every sport that is not in a pool or any gym uh is going to have something new out in the sports complex area. And so our goal also was to make sure that everybody had access to concessions to give everybody ability to be able to, you know, fund raise or or do some of the sales that they need to to support their programs. The entire project is supposed to be done by the end of December. Um, I shared last night at our uh foundation meeting that when we talked about this on Tuesday, we got some interesting looks from our construction crew basically letting us know that It should be really close to December. Um, might be January, but we should still be good in
072the sense that we'll be able to have our our spring sports uh in place. And so, you know, I I mean, we anticipate it with construction. It's never as easy as we we would hope it would be, and there's obviously some things that are beyond their control. Um, but they they're they're working hard and We're we're proud of the project. We we think we we put a quality project out there. Our goal is to or our hope is to make sure that the community uh values what we've put out there. Trust us with uh their their hard-earned dollars um and trust us to be able to move forward with future projects uh soon. And so total estimated cost of the project a 52.8 million project. It is a but it is a big project. Like
073the scope is just unbelievable. And I and I and I'll just hearken back to a comment that that Jerry made to me a couple of weeks ago uh where he had said, you know, I don't even know now how you got it done for that price when you start to look at the level of detail that we put into this uh uh project. And it's just, you know, I talked to a little bit, you know, with about the little things. So much of what we did with, you know, the brick or um capturing some of the pieces for our alumni, it really was to make it seem like this project was meant to be here all along. And it does not look out of place at all in in our stadium. I mean, it looks
074great, but every comment that I've heard is just, you know, it looks like it belongs here. And so, we're proud of the project. Um, hopefully all of you are as well. And I thank our citizens oversight committee for, you know, following up on the things that they need to and being part of this process all was there more? Did I Oh, pictures. Sorry, I should have been doing as I was going along. So, um obviously the upper leftand corner is our um football field. The the middle picture is uh what is going to be the uh softball field. And the thing that I'll say is u about softball which and and about baseball. These are not just athletic uh facilities. They're also for activities. And so when we put in the field. We ended up
075turfing the entire area that the utility field was on. Even though softball is only going to use a portion of it, but we we put in a removable fence so that when softball is not in season, that entire space is opened up now for our band or other activities to be able to practice. Uh we'll be able to use it for some of our winter sports while the stadium is being used. So, there was some thought that went into that. Um, and it's still going to be a great looking uh turf field. We have tennis courts on the far right. That's that is the reason why we're delaying until um probably January. You would think tennis courts would be the easiest thing. It's just a slab of cement. But for some reason, it's not the
076easiest thing. And uh that's where we're getting DSA. So, uh, they're working through that with the architects and that'll be done soon. Uh, at the bottom there, we have our baseball field. Uh, that one, uh, I'm hoping within the next couple of weeks, you'll start to see, uh, turf going down. You most recently, we have the the netting going up, the poles for the netting. And so, we had a little bit of a delay on on baseball, but it's coming along. This is a different Okay. All right. That's it. >> Our question. Do you happen to know how many acres that project >> encompasses? I don't >> just curious. >> Yeah. And we we'll find that out. And the funny thing is, and I've talked to a few people, we added more than we had
077before, and it seems bigger and we didn't take up any more footprint. Like, we couldn't add space. So, it was just really how we utilized the space and and so it it uh we'll find out. I don't know. >> Okay. Thank you. Out of curiosity, in any of these pictures, does it show the So, >> so you know what? I I I'll show you. >> All right. Thank you for that presentation. It's inspiring. Um, shows that I think we're what we do. We've been outstanding stewards of the money the community has given to us. Um, and uh, you know, I can't believe it's been 13 years. U look at this. So, I hope the community is watching and uh appreciates that when we ask the committee for your support for our next general obligation bond
078that uh we would like to promise that we will continue to be good stewards of the public's money and uh keep the best interest of not just our students but of the community as well. So, thank you so much for that. Um yes. Yes. Yeah. We'll do a a a community type open house and then we're also talking about um you know how we're going to be able to open up uh the track for the community to be able to walk. Uh I did get some of those comments at our PTA meeting and The only reason I I shared with them that we could not as of right now is it's still a construction uh site and so we really have to make sure that the project is completed before we open up to the
079community. And I and and one of the things I shared is I know that's hard to hear since we're hosting football games and other events on the the stadium, but we have supervision during those times. And if I don't have supervision, then it there's a liability issue for us. And so we really need to make sure that the project is complete before we open up to community use. >> Okay. Um There are no other comments. Um, I'd like to ask for a motion to accept. Okay. Motion. >> Second by member Georgino. Preferential vote. Uh, member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 40. All right. And next for that slide that we just saw u accepts our student attendance report. So um I feel like it's much
080easier to explain uh when you see the numbers um through the matrix. So this is actually the attendance percentage. So attendance percentage mean that which is a ratio between the actual students but on the seat versus the students roster. So um over the before the pandemic our district is very proud that our um ratio is the gap between. So we are not school. gradually notic. So also impact by the flu season, the raining season. But um our goal is make sure that our number is higher and for 2526 we have advantage and I know uh and Stacy's work with her team is u implemented the attendance recover plan which mean is give the opportunity to recoup those kids who are absent after 10 days and for the um elementary school level and ticket to six
081and there we it will allow the district use additional the part of the existing category program to make that attendance recovery. So we hopefully that 25 26 with various you know plan support we have our attendance ratio is high the attendance ratio it is important it because it the the higher ratio mean that this will receive higher funding uh in the future. So, so and the more funding then we will provide more different support to students and the different programs. So, that is the report. >> Standing so glad to see that our numbers continue to rise and see in particular for the uh learning center. It's good. Um okay. Um I'll make a motion uh to accept our student attendance report. May I get a second, please? Second by members. Okay. Um are there any
082questions regarding this? No. Okay. Then if not let's go ahead and vote. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh all those in favor I. All those opposed. Motion carries 40. All right. And then next we have item 22 approval of services agreement with Subler Incorporated. >> Me again. So currently um we still use many process for the outside organization facility from the approve the facility use to the issue the invoices and collect money. So we um the finish of the um high school complex for December anticipate the finish day and the increase um growing increase of use of facility. So we anticipated that the number of usage will be increased. On the other hand, the district is interesting make sure that all the facility use in the same calendar and they are more
083automatic and we also want to take this opportunity revisit our office. Um so at this time we had a lot of option but stab is one of the company we have talked to and Dr. Coney and I we have been successful negotiate with them. online platform for the facility use. There's no fee charged from the um by charged from the district which mean that district will not pay any fees. >> Yeah. I think the the other component that is beneficial for community is um you know part of the the requirement to be able to access or or utilize our fees is a there's an insurance requirement and a lot of folks don't have the insurance that they need or or even understand how to get it. This company has the ability to offer a daily
084rate for insurance to help people who want to access our facilities, be able to buy that insurance for a daily ba on a daily basis. Uh that meets the requirement that also protects us as well. So, um I know some people probably look into their homeowners to help cover them and it's it's a dangerous thing, but uh this this is an opportunity for them to access insurance different means. Okay. Um, may I get a motion to approve? >> Moved by second by member Espinosa. Are there comments or questions from fellow board members? >> It doesn't change our fee structure in any way. >> Not yet. We we need evaluate our fee structure to be to make sure we're covering cost but also to be more competitive in the area and it's something we haven't reviewed
085in >> we we have not just like Dr. said our fee schedule is prepandemic and we know that all the cost increased and our cost to maintain the field is also increased. Just a comment. I I noticed today uh new legislation just passed regarding um the structure of how we can charge fees. There are more things we can include in that. So yeah, so it probably is a good time to to look at that. >> Um yeah, I think this is a great idea. Um if nothing else, it really streamlines the ability. >> I'm sorry, I just We needed to add that um those those organizations that we already have agreements with that doesn't this does not change anything. So you know obviously we've had some agreements with PTA and we have an inind with
086little league and everything. So this does not change uh anything for them. We made sure that when we talked with them that some of those were grandfathered in and then if there's new ones in in the future that they don't that we also have the ability to use the system to keep everything on one platform without having to incur cost for some of the people who are working. >> Thank you for that clarification because that's why I asked the question had many discussions about that in the past. >> Yes. Very good. Okay. If there are no other questions, let's go ahead and vote. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 4 Z. And u next we have our consent agenda. Routine items approved
087by one motion and one vote unless a member of the board or audience requests that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately. Items. Okay. Right. Okay. Uh, I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda. May I get a second, please? >> Second. >> Good, right? Yeah, that's right. Okay. Excellent. Cool. >> All right. Um, since there probably will be no comments or questions regarding this, let's go ahead and vote. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh, all those in favor? >> I. All those opposed? Motion carries. 40 Z. Um, do we have any board requests or comments? >> I have something. >> I I just wanted to ask, do we have um like materials for the blood donation that we can share with people or did he did he leave
088us anything or how do we get the word out? >> I have not received anything. Okay. And then I was wondering like can we share it with the city? >> Some of the employees might be willing to do it. >> It's a good idea. All right. Okay. Um, next we have future agenda items. uh just one that I think uh our district is working on which is the presentation and update on our security and it looks like sometime in November. Thank you for that. All right. And finally uh let's move to adjourn our meeting. Um may I get a motion for that please? >> Moved by member Espinosa. May I get a second? >> A second. >> Second by member Georgino. >> All right. Preferential vote. Member Munoz. >> Yes. >> Okay. And then all
089those in favor? I. All those opposed. Thank you very much. Uh meetings adjourned at 7:05. Thank you.