001And we'll start with roll call. Uh, member Espinosa here. Member Georgino here. Uh, member Smith here. Member Sne. Uh, I am here. Uh, student board member Wang here. All right. All right. Uh next we have um item three, public comment on close session agenda items. Um and uh any public comment? No. Okay. All right. So next we're moving on to the uh close session portion of our board meeting. Um and here are the disclosure of items to be discussed in close session. Uh number one is personnel matters. Government Code 54957, uh, public employee appointment, discipline, dismissal, release. And item two, uh, public employment, public employee performance evaluation, government code 54957, title is superintendent. Um, may I get a motion to join to close session? Uh, motion by member Espenza, second by member Smith. All right.
002Uh, all those in favor? All those opposed. Uh we are in close session at 5:31. Thank you. Get a motion uh to reconvene to open session, please. Moved by members needed. Moved by uh member Georgino. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries 50. We are back to open session at 6:05. Okay. Uh tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded. Um and the next item we have is our pledge of allegiance led by none other than our student board member, Miss Lexi Lane. Please stand. Put your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance 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 very much. Okay. Announcement of actions
003taken in close session if any. No actions were taken. I'm sorry. Okay. Okay. Um, we did do something. We did not take action, but uh we did evaluate uh the uh performance of our wonderful superintendent Dr. this evening during our close session. So, and uh oh, okay. And we gave him in areas of commendation um for his outstanding leadership skills, for his unwavering focus on student achievement, and for continuing to demonstrate a progressive vision regarding the future of curriculum and the educational opportunities for our students. And for that, we thank you for your incredible work. Um and All [Applause] right. All right. Uh, next we have changes to the agenda. Uh, there changes the agenda. Okay. All right. Um, I will move to approve the agenda as is. May I get a second, please? Second
004by member Smith. Okay. Preferential vote. Uh, student member Wang. Yes. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries. 5-0. Next, uh the one area we look forward to at every single board meeting, which is our special recognition and presentation section. Uh, first we have We're kind of sad you're leaving us, but we're also really proud of uh, Miss Lexi Wang here uh, for the time that she has spent with us. Um, the year seems to have gone by really, really quickly. Um and uh we appreciate your comments, your input, for sharing with us the lives of a lot of these students here particularly at the high school level for always keeping us uh aware of all the uh different functions and events and the successes and and and also some of the uh
005concerns that your fellow students have. Um and I think that There's so far and few of you uh that you know have this sense of civic engagement and we really appreciate that here at the board level uh because everything that we do here collectively as a group is on behalf of all of you uh to do our best to give you the best possible education during your time here at Temple City. And I can't think of a better example than Miss Wang over here. Um I know that uh what is it called? senior send off isn't until next Monday, but I am excited for you. I know wherever it is that you go, you're going to be an incredible success. You're going to represent us in Temple City so well, and you know, we hope
006that maybe someday uh we get to hear back from you and get to share some of the exciting new adventures that you take part in. So, uh, Lexi, thank you for being here and, uh, we would like to, uh, present you with Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go up. Yes. All right. So, am I reading? I'm reading. Okay. Uh, Temple City Unified School District, uh, to honor your service to education. Presented to Miss Lexi Wang, 24 24 2025 student member uh from the board of education on this date May 14, 2025. Student leaders are are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. [Applause] And on behalf of uh the board of education and cabinet, uh we have this pretty much just uh all of the uh emergency kind of gift cards that you might need as a uh
007first time college student, freshman. Um but we are extremely proud of you. Uh we are going to miss you and we have app you have brought to uh our board um and for our district. Thank [Applause] you. Sorry, I got it. [Applause] Okay. We're good. We're good. All right. We're getting excited. We're near the end of the school year. So, um, next we have Wow. This I don't know how many years has this program been around for a long time. Yes. Uh, oh, I'm sorry. Um I think so. Uh next we have um our sister city students that's heading off to Australia. Hi guys. All right. Please come on [Applause] up. Oh, there we go. Hi, my name is Ari Pedo. I'm with the sister city committee. We've been around since 2000 and we do
008a student exchange to our sister city in the Hawkbury, Australia. It's about an hour outside of Sydney. And this year we have five incredible students. We are missing one tonight. She is at the color guard rehearsal for her performance on Friday. That's Olivia Castro. Um but tonight you have our four and they're just going to introduce themselves to you and say something that they're looking forward to when they're in Australia. Hello, my name is Leilani Garcia. I'm current junior at Temple City High School and I'm most excited for trying new foods and experiencing new cultures. [Applause] Hello, I'm Aaron Wong. I'm currently a sophomore at Temple City High School and I'm most excited for exploring my independence. [Applause] My name is Phoenix Greyzik. I am a sophomore at Temple City High School. And what I'm
009most looking forward to is spending time with my Australian family. [Applause] Good evening board. Nice to see you all again. If you do not know me, my name is Amelio Madreal and I am a current junior at Temple City High School and I am most looking forward to bringing a foreign culture back to Temple City. Thank you. [Applause] For anyone that does not know me, I'm Nancy Terry. Ari and I work together and we are both lucky enough that we get to go along with Matt Smith on the adult trip in June. So, we will meet the five students that our kids are going to be staying with before they do. We're really excited about that. And if anyone is interested in an adult trip, just let us know. We will keep your name on
010the list and let you know when we have the next one. We're sending people. So, it's the biggest group we have sent since 2000. So, we're quite excited and we would just like to thank the school board and superintendent, everybody involved at the district for supporting our program and supporting our kids. It really means a lot to all of us and to our students. So, thank you very much. [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Please Yes, we will. All right. Well, this evening we get three. So, this is fantastic. Uh next we have another outstanding group of students uh that will be sharing their experience with us and this is the uh directing change student film award winners from I believe Temple City High School and Oak Avenue. My apologies Sorry. Okay. Thank you. Um so we did
011a film contest this year as part of the creative aware grant that um I have been helping with and it is a program called directing change and the idea behind it is to promote mental health awareness not just um under basically awareness in any activity walking in student shoes which our Oak Avenue students did which are all right here and then we had several entries from the high school. We had nine. We had 11 entries in total. Eight from the high school and three from Oak Avenue. So, I want to give a special thank you to Mike Kidd whose class all but one participated. And then Miss Bjilei also gave her the option to her class and about half of them participated. And tonight we're going to go ahead and recognize the and show right
012the award-winning films. We did have three award winners, two honorable mention categories, one from the middle school and then one from the high school. And then we also have a first place winner category um that will actually be going to the state level to be recognized as well. And so all of these kiddos can part that won get to participate in an award ceremony, a red carpet award ceremony next Thursday. So we're very excited for that. [Applause] I know we have I I provided the film. So, okay, I'll go ahead and introduce the film. Sorry, I'm very like this is not my forte, but um so we'll we'll start with um the one from Oak Avenue and that's no matter how small and that was Kyle. So, if I say your name, go ahead and
013stand up. Kyle, Alana, Paris, Laya, and Sarah E. [Applause] Okay, so all of the films are supposed to be 60 seconds public service announcement with a couple added things into it. So, the great thing I loved about working with these kids is they were just so adaptable and I I was learning with them and I thank the teachers because you could just see the support and everything within them. So, the next one we have is Aiden Dwang and Joe Palamino and they also received honorable mention and their film was titled Spot the Signs and that was under the suicide prevention category. [Applause] Okay. And then that leads us to our last film that we'll show tonight, which is it's okay to get help. And that is Kaden, Amelio, and Matteo. So, they are our first
014place. Sorry, they are first place winners. such as Just all that's okay. [Applause] Um, so again, there were eight other videos besides these and all of them were just equally amazing and I'm just really proud of them. They did an amazing job. So, thank you. [Applause] So, we will go ahead and call up those that are here. We have some certificates to Sure. All right. Okay. We have Johnson. [Applause] Next we [Applause] have next we [Applause] Next we [Applause] have next. We [Applause] have next we have Lauraley. [Applause] Have [Applause] fun. Everyone and Elena [Applause] Also, I did also want to point out a big thank you. Big thank you to Miss Castro who did a lot of work for this project. So, again, thank you, Miss Castro. [Applause] All right, thank you for that
015students. Amazing job. Amazing job. Thank you for for being here. Um, next we have uh public comment on agendaized and non-aggendaized items. Uh, we do have uh one comment from uh Matt Buyers. Hello, sir. How are you? All right. Well, I am here with the committee of festival. I'm here with Don Terran, our festival director. All right. As the general chairman for the 81st Chameleia Festival, it has been one of the highlights of my life to represent the Chameleia Festival to this wonderful community that I grew up in, attending LaRosa, St. Luke's, Cloverly, Oak, and the high school and then returning as a staff member at five of the schools for 36 years. Three of my kids attended the schools. Two of them are current teachers in the district and I'm married to one of
016the best substitute teachers in the district as well. [Applause] So tonight I represent our marvelous comm Chamellia Festival committee and would like to express our deep appreciation uh for the Temple City Unified School District's support of our program, including the theme contest, parade, and a three-day festival. For over 70 years, the school district has encouraged the youth in our community to participate in this grand event, showing our unique interests and community service. Teachers, administrators, and school board members have partnered with the students and the parents of our schools to publicly display the commonality of our civic pride and identity. Tonight, the Kameha Festival has provided you with a list of all the donations made in 2025. uh two TCUSD programs totaling $9,700. With us tonight, we have Mayo representing the band boosters, Alan Wong representing
017Cloverly Larosa Float Builders and Katie Kurson representing the Longden Float Builders. Come on up. We have your donations and uh we currently have we are just finishing up our theme contest for this next year. Uh and um invite all students any that are left here. The theme contest is going until Friday. And I have to point out that we have two exists young. So anyhow, thank you for allowing us to make This is good. All right. Okay. All right. All right. Next on our agenda are community updates. And just in case uh our guests that were just here a moment ago uh didn't uh get that message across uh you know the theme contest for the uh 2026 Camille Festival has been extended to this Friday, May 16th. And contestants must be the ages of
0185 to 18 years old and attend school in the Temple City Unified School District. Each contestant can submit up to five entries. That's really cool. All right. There are cash prizes for the winners and the contestant who submits the theme for next year's Chameleia Festival will get to ride in the parade. I don't can't see anything better than that. So, uh, for more information, please visit chameleia festival.org website. And please, I encourage all of those you students and whatnot, please, please take part in this. It's It's an amazing piece of history. So, thank you so much. All right. Okay. Next, we have um bargaining unit comments. Uh we will start with uh CSEA 105. All right. Well, hi. How are you? I do this every meeting. Okay. Um next we have CSEA 823. Jazz, how
019are you? Good evening everybody that's here with us tonight. My name is Jazz Thomas. I'm the current secretary of the blue collar tipple city union 823. I just also and and a former member of the negotiation team. I just wanted to be able to extend our thank yous on how this year has been going. As the members of our blueco collar unit, we do take pride in servicing and working at all our sites in the different capacities that we are. And we just wanted to be able to express ourselves and I bet you 105 feels the same that we are so excited for the next school year that's going to be happening and super excited for the graduations that are be conducting in the next couple weeks. So, I want to thank every single one
020of you guys of the board and our district for all the hard work that we do. Thank you. [Applause] All right. Next, we have the uh Temple City Education Association. All right. Well, hi. Good evening. How are you? All right. All right. Next on our agenda are district updates and we shall start this evening with business services. Today's the day the governor released the May revision for the 2526 budget. So um I only pick up some things I think important to us. So first one the uh they are fully fun for cola for 2.3%. So for the next year so um I think it's a drop from 2.43%. So but at least they are fully funded. So that's good news. So uh the other things is there's a deferral the um there is a$1.8 billion
021dollar which is supposed to the state to all the public school um around June 2026 it will be deferred to July 26 this is um the state has used this vehicle before so the other things we have a couple of one time and there around half million dollar about the literacy literacy instruction the other things is the teacher recruitment And the little bit more money is $1.7 billion for the student support and professional discretion grant. So um this all the statewide win money. So uh we um as our common practice will not budget until we know what portion of this time money. So we will budget revenue as well as so um state agency will in the next 24 hours will probably detailed information but we do already register for the school of California workshop
022it will be virtual is on May 21st this so join us I will be there so today as a part of the district um bond insurance Dr. and I as well as our team including bond council financial advisor and we did for the S&P because it's the process very important for the rating for so I share with the financial data and our team is share with our current structure and potential insurance and what So um as of four o'clock I received another 10 question about our financial situation. I think um compared with my prior experience I think that they really looked at the more detail um the district situation compared with before. So I will response in a timely manner and we hopefully we get our reading next Monday. So this will be um it's
023time the money will help for our next step for our last things is the good news actually the um fitness our local fitness um prime fitness um office they send us an email because the um summer high school summer free pass program that so for the starting June 1st to August 31st all the teams in our community from age 14 to 19 they can out um in the planet of fitness location. So they open the reg pre-registration starting May May 19. So you can either stop by the location or just register online. So hope our our kids in the community can enjoy that free pass opportunity. So that is my update. Thank you. It's great news for our students um especially with summer. Uh next we have uh head services. Good evening. Um, I just
024have two thank yous tonight. The first one is I want to thank Stacy and the inservice team for all the work they've done in preparing the LCAP. Um, they'll be Stacy will be presenting both meetings in June. Um, LCAP will present it to you. The first meeting and the second meeting will go for approval. Um, I also want to thank the parents and staff who participated in the LCAP committee. It is a a long process, a year-long process to build it out. As we look at the goals we adopted last year and make sure the actions are associated with those goals are what we still want. Um, we had site reps from all the schools, all the unions were represented. Um, but really it's that parent voice that I wanted to hear. So, our parents
025had a say in and how we shape the expenditures within the LCAP. So, it was really exciting today to see our LCAP committee and our DAC committee together um going through the final phase. So, um I'm looking forward to Stacy presenting in June for us. I also want to thank our site admin. They are currently closing out their SIPAS for the 2425 school year with their school site councils and in July their school site their new SEPSAS for 2526 will be brought to the board for approval. Um it is tireless on both groups the cap committ and the school councils, the tireless work they put in to ensure that our programs reflect not only the community needs, but there's this goodness for all of our kids on the back end. So, um, Connie talks a
026lot about budget and the expenditures. Um, my team seems to like to spend the money. Um, so I appreciate that and I know as times change and things get tighter, um, the SIPA and the Elk have become very much important as a driving force as they match together. what we do. So, thank you to all those. Outstanding. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. Uh we don't have any report this evening from uh human resources. So, uh we'll go ahead and move on to board member comments. And this evening uh we will start with members. Thank you and good evening everybody. Um I have a really long list here. I'm not going to go through each item because it'll take a while. But um it's been really great to see all the year
027school year coming to conclusion and all the activities that are associated with that. Um had a chance to attend a couple open houses at Longden and Oak. Uh had a chance to uh attend a patriotic assembly with at Emperor. I helped out Teresa Wong with the ELD senior ceremony in the the media center at the high school. And also um helped by my fellow board members in that um a chance to attend, this is pretty exciting, attend Congresswoman Judy Chu's artistic discovery awards ceremony this past Saturday at the um Thank you so much with Donna. Uh and we had two of our students who did very well. Um, one of them is uh, Monglu who got an honorable mention for her submission and it's going to be displayed in um, Judy uh, Chu's passing office.
028And then Leaky Yang got the first place award for the entire group and her uh, artwork is going to be displayed at the United States Congress building. So that was pretty exciting. And then uh congratulations and thank you to Lexi for the great job you've been doing and really help uh I really appreciate the manner in which you've raised issues and addressed things and it's been a good good year or two. Um and uh I think I'm just going to leave it there and because I'm sure my fellow board members have plenty more to say. All right. Thank you. Um next um we have member Espinos. Good evening everybody. I do want to start with I think you have been a true advocate for your fellow students. you know on the instructional side your the
029homework policy that you pursued I think that was great and also from the social emotional side just recently um I think those things stand out to me and I don't think um I don't think I've ever been touched as much by some of the things that you are passionate about that thank you very much for that I very much today, but I want to congratulate um the visual arts students recognized by Judy Ch's office. Um I want to recognize student Jesse for winning CF division 2 diving championship. Um I want to recognize the students for their short films. They were pretty amazing. I'm so glad I got we got to see them today. Um and then also recognize the elementary science Olympia students for their receiving gold and for placing first. Um and then in
030terms of attendance, um I attended this extravaganza on May 2nd and the foundation meeting on May 6th. Um I think they're kind of winding down their year. Um there's they're looking at summer school and uh just looking at things for the future. Um maybe ways to raise money so that they can put that back into our schools and our students. And so we the foundation for all their support and their work. Thank you very much. Next we have members. All right. Thank you so much. Uh, next we have members of your team. You I'll start off with the activities I've attended. I was at the Longden Open House, the Emperor Patriotic Assembly, uh, the Chamber of Commerce lunch with Judy Chu, the Coro showcase, uh, the elementary science Olympiad tournament at Temple City High School
031where all three of our teams got gold medals. Um, Emperor Fun Run, the Temple City High School spring concert, the Temple City High School uh, ELD senior ceremony, Brighterside performance, Oak open house, Oak Royal performance, and I attended the reception uh, for the GB Chu art contest. And um, I think for those of you that aren't familiar with it, it's a really big deal. and we have had, I believe, three winners in the last six years. And so that really says something about our visual art program at the high school that we won. Um, I want to congratulate the students who were involved in the youth creating change video program. Um, the two Temple City High School bad mitten players who will participate in the Panama Games. Um, our TCHS student Jesse who won the
032CIF diving championship. Our Oak Avenue Science Bowl team who placed they tied for fifth in the nation which is really amazing. Um also congratulations to our Temple City High School students who won awards at the Los Angeles Scholastic Art and Writing uh award ceremony. And finally to the jazz band who received a unanimous superior rating and one of our students Mars uh he was the outstanding soloist at the Oceanside High School Jazz Festival. Um I want to invite everybody to come to the Temple City Historical Museum this Sunday from 11 to 2. Um our museum director Mary Sneed has done a complete overhaul of the museum. We have a lot of great new exhibits. expanded our exhibit of the school. So, there's a lot of new and interesting things to look at. So, thank you,
033Mary, for doing that. I hope everyone will come out and visit her. And finally, I I want to thank Lexi. Um, it's been a real pleasure working with you. I'm so proud to know you and I wish you the best of luck in college and I hope you will keep in touch with us. All right. Thank you very much. Um and we'll close that out with uh my comments. Um you know, year end is here. There's just so many things to take part in to really get a sense of, you know, how wonderful our students are and and beyond that also our staff because they're the ones that are directly involved in educating our kids and creating these opportunities for them. And uh you know, everything from the performances showcase uh or um the uh
034auxiliaries at Oak and the program that they or the presentations that they do. Um you know, it's it's it's a reflection of of what we do for our students. It's a reflection of our families and what they do for their kids. Um and um I am, you know, kind of really involved with a lot of our STEM U opportunities here and for division the Division A Science Olympia tournament that went by a couple of weeks ago. Um I I really need to, you know, take my hat off to our high school team. Uh because unbeknownst to most people, uh our high school team, um they are the ones who write all the tests, they're the ones who proctor and administer all the tests, and finally, they're the ones who grade all the tests. So really
035what we're talking about is um a group of students that's getting this leadership opportunity, this ability to give back and they've done such a stellar job. We were concerned because the weather wasn't bearable, but it couldn't have gone any. And um and I think uh more importantly as well uh maybe selfishly speaking for our students at the elementary levels to see uh that type of um quality in that experience that they have. Uh it's inspiring. And they may not know how to express themselves yet, but I can tell you that I know that they know and that I think some of them are looking forward to getting their opportunity to give back. So, u these type of opportunities don't come very often, but I do really appreciate it when we get a chance to complete
036that circle, so to speak, um as our students are ready to head off to that uh next stage in their lives. Um and uh you know, we're really looking forward to I'm really looking forward to all these to the continuation of all these year events uh year end events uh from I think last One more. One more. One more. That's it. Cloverly. That's correct. Cloverly next week. There's just stuff. You look at our calendar. There's just every single day of the week. So, leading up to our promotions and graduation. So, um I just want to congratulate all of our students for all their achievements because there's too many to name. And of course again we've uh already shown you know our appreciation to Lexi for the time that you've devoted to us and for being
037that example um to help to share some of uh with some of your fellow students the value of civic engagement and and that we are a community that does everything together. So thank you for that. That are my comments for this evening. Next we have none other than Miss Wang, student board member comments. Um, sorry it's a little bit long, but I'll try my best to kind of condense it a little bit. But, um, good evening everybody. Um, it's been a year and um, it's a little bit nerve-wracking still to kind of speak. Um, but before I get into my other remarks, um, I want to quickly highlight um, some of the events that's been going on. Um, Rampage released their newsletter this morning and you can check it out on the if you're not
038subscribed to it already. Um May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month as well as mental health awareness month. Um and it's been a very busy time of the year obviously. So, I really want to shout out the counselors at the high school and all the other schools because um I actually talked to one of my counselors um these past few days and the amount of work that the counselors have to go through to talk to all these students to work with them closely is just unimaginable and I really commend them for all their hard work. And I want to congratulate um Nikki Chen who received a $2,500 uh Jean Ward Foundation grant for her art portfolio. Again, it just speaks to our amazing VAPA program at our schools and um I can only imagine
039how much work she put into that portfolio. So, congratulations to her and um I just wanted to say uh it's been an honor to serve as a student board member um and serve in this role and to be trusted with representing all the students across um all the schools and the high school as well. I'm really grateful for this opportunity and um it's provided um I'm incredibly grateful to provide a student perspective to this board and um also this role has been um really educational for me and really meaningful. I've loved recognizing and um speaking with parents and teachers and most of all working to improve the educational experience and wellbeing of all of our students. Um one thing that really stood out to me this was that um seeing all the students from elementary
040to high school grow in confidence through their p through their personal passions. Uh whether it was VAPA um other programs, academic competitions, uh new activity offerings that we have, um the joy and pride on their face said it all. So, that really stood out to me and each board meeting was a really um great learning opportunity for me um to be able to communicate all my um updates to the board and as well as my peers back at the high school. And I want to shout out um all my board members and um people that are always here at the meeting. So, to President Bell, thank you for your unique love for STEM. Um it really shines through everything that you do. Um your support Helio um Helotech team and the and it becoming an
041upcoming club is really inspiring for all of us and all the students at the high school. Mr. Mr. Roino, congratulations on your book this year and your continued dedication to Temple City. Um I really um enjoy how kind and curious you are. Whenever there's a presentation, I always take note that you're always asking the the questions I also have as well. and to Miss Espinosa. Um you've been such a fun and insightful um board member and your background in the LA USD and your love for the arts um has always um inspired me and your advocacy for all of the awareness months and everything from the gene days to all of your your love for the students has also inspired me as well. Um Miss Me, thank you for being um my C partner this
042year. um your leadership as the board president um in the beginning was very amazing and I'm honored to have served on the same board as you and alongside you as well physically and mentally and thank you for your tireless advocacy for all the students. Um Mr. Smith, thank you for your thoughtful perspectives. Um it's really helped me understand all of our district operations better and also your family's involvement with our district speaks volumes to um all of us and the students as well. Thank you for that. and Mr. Lman, thank you for also being my se partner, but I guess not today. Um, you know, um, thank you for your work. Um, introducing all these new educational opportunities for the students. Um, one of the ones that, um, stood out to me was the PCC
043course offerings that you're trying to continue to strive for because personally PCC has been a big part of my journey um, throughout high school and I'm so grateful that your work is so important and inspiring for all of us. Thank you. Um, okay, Dr. Kuna, um, I've learned so much just by listening to you. Um, as a listener, your ability to communicate all of your thoughts and updates to the board and our community is just so inspiring to me. Um, I kind of came into this, uh, board being a little bit um, inexperienced with kind of speech, but just observing you talk to our community um, has been really inspiring and will definitely be instilled with um in the future years and it's just really inspiring um to everyone. So, thank you for that. And
044Miss Woo, um I don't really know how you do everything, but you handle all of our district's finances and explain them in ways that everyone can understand. Um I love your presentation so much. I think that you break it down in a way for um everyone to digest and it's understandable, relatable, and all your images and um clip art stuff like I love it so much. Thank you. Um, Miss Montero, thank you for your kindness, patience, and support. Um, you really kept me grounded throughout this entire year and made me feel really welcome um when I was a little bit scared in the beginning. Um, and I'll miss you all so much. Um, Mr. Jambasian, I really want to thank you so much. um photographer to photographer. Like your work uh your work is so
045inspiring to um not only me but the entire like community, not even within Temple City. Just everyone sees how dedicated you are. You're at every single event I could possibly think of. Your work is not only like quantity good, but it's also quality good. Like I'm so excited for you to take um all of our memories um and even at graduation. Like everyone is for you. So, thank you so much for your dedication, Mr. Jameson. Um, also, um, shout out to, um, Miss Lee and Mr. Sherman. Um, principles. It's been amazing to watch both of them, um, kind of lead the school. Um, they've uplifted students in ways that I really haven't seen before. They deeply care about the student body and they also kind of talk to the students in a way that's not
046not um, scary. Like, a lot of principles can be perceived as really scary, but I that they're trying their best to be as nice and uh approachable as possible. And um now I'm really excited to introduce our next student board member, Xavier. He's with us here tonight. Um sitting right there. I wish he could be here, but [Applause] um so a really quick medium quick introduction. Um Xavier has been in Temple City Unified School District since kindergarten and has taken part in many activities. Right now he's involved in ASB, Yearbook, and EL mentoring. In ASB, he served for two years as part of the campus committee focusing on community outreach and fundraising. In yearbook, he's a copywriter who interviews students to share their stories and voices. In his free times in his free time, he
047enjoys going to the beach, visiting amusement parks, photography, and spending time with family and friends, especially at Disneyland. Um, as student board member, Xavier hopes to work with the district. And one of his goals that he's communicated to me over and over again these past few months that I've been working with him is that he wants to um create graduation banners throughout the city, just like um how we have uh ones for like the Marines and stuff like that. So, he he has really big ambitions and I'm so excited to see uh what he brings to our district. Um I know Xavier will be a wonderful addition to the board and I'm so happy to welcome him to this role. So, [Applause] Yes. Yes, please. Yeah. Welcome aboard. Um this is the last thing, but
048even though this is my last board meeting, um I definitely plan to give back to our district that has raised me since since first grade. And actually, this is um one of the things um I want to talk about um this past Monday um I was u a competitor at the PCC pitch business pitch competition and um actually my story originated from this district. So um as student board member this past year um I've gotten to seeing of course like kind of the behind the scenes of all the different varieties of groups we have on campus not just academic but in every single aspect. And um personally I have seen um a lot of students who actually are not not appreciated or shown as much and that is um the group of students who have
049speech language disorders. So I took note of that not and took inspiration from all the different teams that um different groups of students that we have here. Um and I actually um was able to come up with an idea of um my from my love of business and technology. I was able to come up with an idea of a speech therapy app um that is powered by AI and I am so excited to come back here in the future very near future to maybe partner with our school and surrounding districts and I share that with um the other judges and as well but I'm definitely going to come back here and um work with you guys in that way. So, all right. That's fantastic. [Applause] And you're going to the right school for all that
050stuff, for all the technical stuff. So, um, thank you so much for that. Uh, and Xavier, welcome aboard. Welcome to the family. All right. Next, we have our superintendent comments. Thank you. Um, Lexi, thank you for your words and I just want to We all are here because of you students. Um, and to hear how our work impacts you and your peers, it means a lot to us. And so, thank you for sharing what you did today. Um, I want to talk a little bit. Uh, Connie shared that the May revis, uh, what a difference a couple of months made. Um, back in January, the state was projecting a significant surplus in revenues. Uh which a lot of the organizations that we listened to were very excited for what that was going to mean for
051the for education. A lot of it probably being in surplus one time monies. Uh but now just a few months later they're in a deficit. And so now they're going to be making cuts. Most of those cuts are going to come from are going toffect insurance and they're probably going to have to drop rain again. But if those cuts or the deficit continues uh to grow, who knows where those cuts come from? And so that's one of the challenges we always face is the uncertainty of what is going to happen. Right now, we've been hearing that education is still fine. Uh but you never know. And so we'll keep you guys posted as we hear more. I You know, obviously over the next month, uh, the legislature and the governor will work to kind of
052hammer out a final budget, but, uh, the federal government does have an impact on what's going to happen going forward with our state budget. Um, I want to echo what, uh, Richard shared with the LCAP meeting. Thank you, Stacy, for your work on that um, and for bringing together so many voices. It's so important for us to hear from our parents and I really do appreciate the insights that they bring um and just some of the conversations and questions that uh I was able to either answer or be part of. Uh but it is really a nice perspective um listening to our parents and stakeholder groups as we talk about how we are going to move forward. Um, and you know, one of the things is, and I, and I shared this in the meeting,
053um, I try not to complain, but one of my pet peeves is the the legislature, uh, tends to just hand things down to us. Uh, not really understanding how the decisions they make impact us. And if that bothers us, why would we do that to our families? So having their voice part of it is really critical uh in in the work that we do. Um and I shared I was very honest uh you know I've gone and talked to legislators before might not have changed anything but at least they heard my voice and that's the same thing that happens with our our parent groups as well. There are some things that we can do some things that uh we may do and some things that we can't do but it's still important for us to
054hear the voice um and and know that we value and respect is being shared, but sometimes we just can't do certain things, whether it's based off of regulations or uh just the overall capacity to do something. Um so I do appreciate our our parents and thank them for being part of that. U a couple of Saturdays ago, uh Richard Connie Jur and I were able to join our labor partners for CSA 105 and 823 as we uh went to the unsung heroes benefit or banquet. Um they had a really nice uh tribute to art contraries. Uh Jazz uh gave a nice uh speech regarding art and it was although it was a a difficult time, it was a good time to be with our labor partners as we got to recognize uh Adriana and Stephanie
055and all the work that they do with CSA. Um, I want to thank our high school team. We have been working really hard to get this uh stadium done for graduation. And although I appreciate the rain, it has been bothersome as of late because it's been impacting some of our schedule moving forward. But we will be ready for graduation. It will not look the same as it has in the past, but it will be in our state. Um, the team has been very flexible with, you know, juggling things. We we've tried to make sure that we can have certain events in the stadium. Um, but unfortunately because of the rain, there are certain things that we just could not do. And so, uh, they have always had a plan B. They have worked with us
056on this. And so I I I know it is difficult because uh Miss Lee ends up hearing most of the complaints, but she she understands kind of why things are going the way they are and she is very appreciative of what we have been able to accomplish. And so I am looking forward to uh hosting our graduation in the stadium. I hope that our our students really do appreciate just how magnificent this project has been. And Jerry, thank you for the drone footage. Like, it really has been something that uh I think is, you know, helped keep everybody excited and informed uh about what's going on. I was sharing uh the construction company Valkaby, their president came out to visit our uh our project yesterday and uh I shared a picture that Elias shared with
057me as he was flying over the stadium in his plane and he always takes a picture and will send me the picture. Our field looks so awesome like it is just like this jewel right in the middle of the community and so um I I was able to share that with her. But uh it will happen. I know things have not always been as fast as we would have liked them to be and I know we've had challenges with things that we cannot control. But thank you everybody for your flexibility and for your enthusiasm, excitement as we continue this project. Thank you very much. All right. Uh and I beg to differ. That field is amazing. It's glowing. And I'm excited for you guys that you are. Um, all right. Uh, next we have written
058communications. Uh, we do have one um that we Oh, okay. We had two and they're summarizes one. Okay. All right. Let me correct that. So, uh, we received a letter from, uh, the, uh, crediting commission for, um, schools, um, and colleges, uh, in regards to our DDSLC and Temple City Virtual Academy. And it was their decision, uh, to grant a six-year accreditation status through June 30th, 2031. And uh, that's that's awesome because that's how our students get credit for all the work they put in. So, and it's a great job by Principal Gold and her staff for um getting getting them there. Um there will be a midcycle visit during the 2728 school year. Um and that's uh the summarization of the letter that we received. So again, congratulations to DDSLC and the Temple City
059Virtual Academy. Um all right. Okay. So, we don't have any discussion information items on our agenda this evening. Uh but we do have some discussion action agenda items on our agenda this evening. Um first is item 21 the uh adoption of resolution 2425-28 authorizing memberships and educational societies, associations and organizations for the 2025 2026 school year. Um and this is a Okay. All right. So, okay. Uh motion by member Espinosa. Can I get a second, please? Second by member Georgino. All right. If there are no questions or comments, uh I believe that this is a roll call vote. First is preferential vote. Member Wang. Yes. Okay. Uh member Espinosa, yes. Okay. Uh member Georgina. Okay. Member Smith. Yes. Member Sne and I am a yes. And uh motion carries 5. Um next we have uh
060on the business services side adoption of resolution number 2425-29 approving the associate membership agreement joining the education technology joint powers authority or abbreviated edtech JPA. Um I think this is something new and I think maybe some information. Yes. So um When we talk and we incidentally found that there's education technology currently there are over 200 school district in that JPA the purpose of the JPA is increase the members person system and then the other system came so by joining this JPA we were able to enjoy the uncompensated wea so I'm very excited we are towards the end of this fiscal year so next year we we were looking for the good price for all these two system so they are required in order to be in the membership they are required resolution and then after
061that I will sign the contract and then there's no fee for being a membership but however when the prices they probably allocate each membership so little percentage so that it will cover the JP cost but the member membership okay first let's get a motion um I will make a motion uh may I get a second please second by member Espinosa All right. Well, thank you for sharing that. We're certainly excited to, you know, try this new avenue. And if you know, you said saving money for the district. That's fantastic. Um, so, um, does any of my fellow board members have any questions or comments regarding this item? No. Okay. All right. Let's go ahead and vote. Um, this is also a roll call vote. Uh, first, uh, preferential vote. Member Wang. Yes. Member Georgina. Uh,
062member Smith. Yes. Member I am a yes. Member Espinosa. Yes. Okay. Motion carries. 5 Z. Next we have item 23 adoption of resolution 2425-30 authorizing the issuance of Temple City Unified School District uh LA County, California 2025. General obligation refunding bonds. Uh bonds. Um yes. Um earlier um board has already approved in the previous board meeting the board approved the major SD bond. So um in addition we would like to approve this refinance which mean that this 2025 refinance which the current exist the purpose is that we were able to take advantage of the low interest rate. So so that the first proceed from this bond will retire the old bond and then there will be extra the extra money will go back to project. So so that is the purpose for this one the
063right now the savings around $840 but that saving can be changed the final savings determined on the date we sell the bond and the interest rate on that that closing. So the the process is the same as this but by the two bond issued together we're going to saving the cost of insurance and by ref so that insurance will be able to issue more the interest of the capital appreciation. So they help each other with the documentation. Very good. Okay. Um let's go ahead and get a motion for the second move by member. Second. Okay. Okay. All right. Um, so yes, a little bit different. The same one. Yes. So we are refinance 2019 refinancing refund that bond right now we talking about the interest is 4.3% but interest fantastic thank Okay. So, uh let's
064go ahead. If there's no other comments, let's go ahead and vote on this item. Um and this is also a roll call vote. Yes. Member Smith. Yes. Yes. Member Espinosa. Yes. Member Georgina. Yes. Okay. Motion carries 5. Next, we have item 24, adoption of resolution 2425-31, approving final amended high school stadium and athletics replacement project LLB contracts and authorizing final increment construction phase work on the project. I want to understand let him present because he did a lot of work for good evening board president members of the board Dr. and executive cabinet tonight this res or this approved agenda item will complete the rest of the phase of the project um for a final GMP after the addition of softball and final project. So this will help us um okay um can I get a
065motion please? Okay. Moved by member Smith, second by member Georgina. Okay. So, basically this allows us to close out. Yeah. So, uh what we've brought to you previously is increments of the project. Uh and the final phase of this was softball and now that softball has been approved and softball has been bid. Uh now we can bring you a final GMP for the entire project. Fantastic. Thank you so much. Let's go ahead and vote on this item. Preferential vote. Member White. Yes. I member Espinosa. Member Georgina. Yes. Member Smith. Yes. Okay. Motion carries. 5 Z. Thank you so much for your time this evening. Okay. Next we have item 25, acceptance of proposals and award of contracts resulting from RFP 2425-00002P extracurricular and athletic transportation services. Yes, the district issued the RP to request for
066proposal to to compromise or for our need for the after school program and the athletic program. We push two van and everybody love the van and looks like everybody want the van. So we have some challenge here right now. So um sometimes we have multiple school have have possibly need at the same time same day. So there's a need for um additional support. So that's why we decided issue a contract for all five company who submit proposal. But not just for our need, it's for convenience. But based on the prices, we will go low rate first, the company first and then if there's more need, then we go to the next one. So this is just for our operation and consideration and the need and the staff when they um place the order they will
067decide the based on the fact that Honda is going to be no longer after this next year. The reling is going to increase our need for transportation as it is no longer going to be a leading based off of school site as opposed And so we could have multiple sports going in different directions on the same day being added that just increases the distance we're traveling all may get a motion please. Okay. Motion by Second by member buses or buses. I have a quick question. I have a quick question. What did you mean by Rio Honda? So that boat just has taken uh so I don't know every three years they look at releging um and Rio Hondo league has been around for 30 years longer than that and the uh powers that be decided
068that uh it would be more competitive to change the league structure and so now we are going to be I don't know the name of the new league do you know Richard the But they've added more schools into the league and they're going to do some conferencing within the leagues and so it's supposed to be more competitive per sport as opposed to per school. Yeah. So, you know, if we're really competitive in tennis, we're going to be a conference A. But if we're not as competitive in different sport, so that's Yeah, we'll wait to see how that works out. Next year's our next year. All right. Okay. Uh any other questions? Okay. All right. Okay. So, let's go ahead and vote on this preferential vote number one. Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I. All
069those opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. Uh, next we have item 26, uh, the approval of joint use agreement between the city of Temple City and Temple City Unified School District. I'll take it. Uh, so this is, uh, so last year we brought you the uh, agreement uh, joint use agreement with the city. We did it for a one-year trial. We had various things that were listed on there. Uh, we felt, you know, perspective and the school district perspective that it worked out really well. So, this year we're bringing it to you as a renewal, but on a three-year basis, we took uh we've changed a couple of things. Uh originally we had six tennis courts that we would use at Live Oak Park, but now there's only five because they added a pickle ball court. We
070no longer have a need for welcome back, but we are looking at the possibility of live for possibly some ESL classes through the adult school and uh make sure that Founders Day is part of that as a school function. obviously we can look at this agreement again forward but I will go ahead and make a motion on that it's great to see you know our school district is there have a question. Yes. Yeah. So there's no there's there's contingency in the contract that if something comes up it can be worked out between myself. You mentioned the classes being held on live. How would that It's for the adult school. So, it's the uh adult English language uh English as a second language classes. So, um what we would our goal is to offer those during
071the day as well. So, we normally have our adult school program here at the DDSLC campus, but because it would be something that we would offer during the school day, we can't have students or adults on our campus with our students. So, we find an outside location for that. Um, and we're probably we were going to look at public library, but that's county operated, so it's not something we could uh mix or put into this joint use agreement. But the city did say that they might very good. If there are no other questions, let's go ahead and vote on this item. Uh, preferential vote, member way. Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries. 5 Z. Uh, next item 27. We have approval of disposal of equipment from the district warehouse.
072Um, particular a for that I'm sure has served us well. Yes. Our years old is is out of life and they need recharge constantly. So, um, the request had be um sent to me um years ago. I just wait until the opportunity come. We were able to um use the brand and then get approval. So the replacement uh book is arrived today and it is a used one. Of course, we will not buy the new one. It's a used one, but it's paid by grant. So it's it's it's I'm very excited. All work out very well. So we're all happy. That's so are we. Yes. I just again thank you so much for finding ways that maximize our dollars. We really appreciate it. Um okay. Um may I get a motion? Okay. Second by member.
073This is probably one of the strangest items we've seen in a while, but that's fantastic. Okay. Uh I'm sure no one has questions about this hopefully. So let's go ahead and vote. Member Wang. Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. All right. I will remember this for a long time. Um, okay. Next, we have items on our consent agenda. Routine items approved by one motion and one vote unless a member of the board or audience request that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately. Um, okay. All right. Perfect. Let's go ahead and uh um Can I get a motion, please? Motion. Okay. Motion. I Oh, wait. This has no Okay. Okay. All right. Thanks for couching that. Um um can I get a second? Second. Second by member Smith. All right.
074Preferential vote. Member Wayne. Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries. 5 Z. Um next we're up on uh item 36, which board comments. Does anybody have any uh ping? Okay, members need um we're coming down to the end of the school year. We're also coming down to the end of some of our employees time with us and I want to thank everybody who is retiring this year. But I want to especially mention Terry Fliring at the end of the school year after I believe 35 plus years in the district. I had the pleasure of working with her for many years. I um she is a great lover of California history, great lover of our national park. So I hope during her retirement she'll be able to visit the rest of
075the national parks in the United States. But I want to thank her especially for all of her years of dedication to our district, to our students. She really brought her curriculum alive to her students and we have many generations of students who have benefited from her her knowledge and her excitement about about our our curriculum. So, thank you, Cherryanne, and I hope you enjoy every minute of your retirement. Thank you for sharing. Okay. Uh item 37, future agenda items. Anything there? Um and item 38, additional public comment on agenda and non-aggendaized items. This is it. No. Okay. All right. Um All right. So, next item 39. actually going to uh I'm sorry. Oh, you do. Sorry. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think we're all looking forward to a lot of all of Thank you for sharing. Thank
076you for reminds. Um so, uh may I get a motion? Oh, actually I'll make the motion today. I'll make a motion to adjourn to close session. Uh can I get a second, please? Second by member Smith. Okay. Uh preferential vote. Member Wang. Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Okay. We are in close session at 7:38. Thank you so much. Okay. We will be back. May I get a motion to reconvene into open session? Motion. Moved by member Smith and second by member Wang. Uh I All those opposed? Um, I'm sorry. Preference of vote. Member Wang. Yes. Thank you. Um, okay. And, uh, I think I heard 5. Uh, we are we can be back into open session at 7:57. Um, and no action was taken in close session. Um, so now
077we're ready to adjourn. Um and tonight we we are going to be adjourning in memory of Jeff Sweeney. Uh Jeff spent 16 years from 1990 through 2006 with Temple City Unified School District as a principal at Ember Elementary School and Oak Avenue Intermediate School, then as assistant superintendent of ed services. Um Jeffin's vocational life was spent serving public school students, staff, and families for over 40 years, demonstrating his lasting impact on school communities, resiliency, and his commitment to facilitating lifelong learning. Uh we are blessed to have had Jeff with us um as as a member of our staff uh for 16 years and we would like to adjourn in his memory. Um, may I get a motion, please? Motion. Motion by uh by Yes. Final motion. Member Wang, second by member Sneeed. Okay. All those
078in favor? Oh, I'm sorry. Vote. Yes. Yes. Very good. Uh, all those in favor? I. All those opposed. Okay. Motion carried by Z. Thank you very much. Thank you.