001And I would like to call the meeting to order. Uh we will do our roll call. I am here. Uh member Smith here. Member Espinosa here. Member Georgina here. Member and our student board member. Next we have public comment. Close session agenda items. Um, do we have any session? No. Okay. All right. Close session. Um, Board of Education will uh meet to consider matters appropriate for close session in accordance with government code sections 3549.1, 54956.7 through 54957.7, and ED code section 35146. If the board does not complete close session discussions at this time, the board may return to close session at the end of the regular meeting. Uh we'd like to mention that uh this disclosure of items to be discussed in close session. Uh first are personal matters government code 54957 uh public employee
002appointment uh discipline dismissal release. Item two is public employment uh public employee performance evaluation government code 54957. Title is superintendent. Next I'd like to to uh make a motion to adjurnn to close session. May I get a second, please? Second by member Smith. Okay. Uh all those in favor? All those opposed? Okay. Uh motion carried 5. We are now in close session at 5:31. Can I get a motion to reconvene to open session? Motion. Motion by member Espinosa. Second by member Smith. All those in favor. All those opposed. Motion carries 5. We are back to open session at 605. Okay. Tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded. And uh next uh we have our pledge of allegiance led by Kaylee Menddees Mero and McKenzie Lou. Okay, please Put your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin.
003I aliance 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. Right. Thank you very much. Okay. Announcement of actions taken in close section. Uh close session actions were taken in close session. We will be reconvening to close session at the end of this meeting. Um next we have changes to the agenda. Okay. All right. Uh may I get a motion to uh approve our Okay. Okay. May I get a second? Second by member Georgina. Okay. Preferential vote. Student member Wang. Yes. Okay. Uh all those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carried. 5 Z. Next we have our favorite part of the evening. As always, it's our special recognition and presentation of all these wonderful kids
004and everybody else here. But first, we have uh our very own uh PCUSD golden apple recipient with us this evening, which Miss Miss [Applause] Yod. Yes. So, we we had the privilege of uh honoring um Michelle last Wednesday at the AXA Golden Apple Awards uh breakfast and I won't go through everything that I shared at that meeting but the celebration but one of the things that I did say is Michelle has given countless countless hours and years to Temple City Unified School District. Um, and I was I was beside myself last year because I thought I missed the opportunity to recognize Michelle because her daughter Lauren was a senior last year and I thought, "Oh my gosh, I'm not going to have that opportunity because Michelle will not be with the district anymore." Um, but
005Michelle is still with the district. She is still supporting PTA, which it says so much about you, Michelle, as an individual. um and being able just believing in what we do as a district and giving back to uh obviously the district that has given work so much. Um, and I shared at the meeting that, you know, I could talk about everything Michelle has done with and everything else and founders day PTA and school council, all of those things. But I do appreciate you. And one of the things, and I will just say this, uh, at the end of our breakfast last week, I I saw Lauren and I was like, "Hey, thank you for coming. school and she goes, "Oh, I wouldn't miss it. She's awesome." And I was like, you know, not many 19
006year olds I don't know. Have that feeling about their their parents at times like but to say you're awesome. She knows exactly what we feel. So we have this little apple here logo on it. There's your golden apple. And then we have this just talking about all the wonderful things that you Michelle I don't know if you want to say anything thank you James for letting us have Michelle for so many years I did share this though um at the meeting and I'm going to share it again because I said at the meeting I have to speak things into existence um and I shared at some point I'm gonna hire one of her kids and they're gonna have kids in our district and Michelle will still be here volunteering as a as a grandmother. So,
007it will happen. We watch. So, congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Applause] I'll just say thank you Art and thank you to the board um and the administrators. It's I mean it's an honor to receive this award, but it's been just a joy and a pleasure to raise my kids in this district and to get to know all of you guys and to volunteer my time has been nothing but pure joy. So, thank you so [Applause] much. And I also thank James for letting me spend my time doing this. [Applause] All right. Thank you very much. Okay. Uh Michelle, you inspire all of us. So, you know, um next I'm excited for this. I've never seen anything like this before. Um I don't think anyone has. Uh we'd like to present to you our
008very own baristas, Eagle Screw at Emperor. Please come on up. [Applause] I know you want to center stage. Start here. Thank you very much for having us tonight. Um, as you know, getting kids to school can sometimes be a challenge. Some want to come to school, some not so much. And part of getting kids to come to school is, you know, obviously knowing their stories, but also making connections. And sometimes when you don't always know what those connections are, you have to find them. It could be what is the right thing to sell in the Eagle store. It could be what are the right toys to have in the toy bin? What are the right books to have in the library? But everybody obviously has different needs and different interests. And sometimes adults, we assume
009we know what they want. um and all of a sudden they have a different idea and you're like wait a minute that's brilliant. So this group of students and Mrs. came to me with something that was very important to them and I found it to be very fascinating, something I would never consider, um, never would have thought of, but yet it makes everyone want to come to school for either participate in it or to receive the product of it. Um, and so it's one more way to, you know, find that relationship and make that connection with students in a totally different way outside of the box. And I'm so incredibly proud of them. So today I have Mackenzie, Burl, Kaylee, Isa, Violeta, Candace, Ryan, Andrew, Jacob, and Esther. This was all their idea. Um, as
010my PTA knows, and Emperor staff knows, I'm I'm a yes person. We'll figure it out. We'll make it work. I said yes before I kind of knew exactly what it entailed. Um, but I'm so proud of them. It was their idea, their plan, their vision. They they did everything from the conception of the idea to all of the business planning, all of the hiring, the firing, the um the commercials for the students, the making of it. So, I'd like you to welcome my people. Good evening, board members. We are the managers and videographers of Eagles Brew, a studentrun beverage company at Ember Elementary School. The idea was born when someone spontaneously said, "Wouldn't it be great if we had a Starbucks at school?" Hi, I'm manager Candace and Eagles did not happen overnight. It took
011several months to develop a business plan, create a theme, hire and train baristas, create a menu, and then promote the beverage shop. Hi, my name is Barl and all the Eagles logos, menus, sliders, and presentation slides were designed by me and Mackenzie. Hi, I'm manager Isa. We have as managers, we have learned from our mistakes and how to make things better. Our first menu had hot cocoa, but that was too difficult. So, now we serve is craft lemonade and sweet treats. Hi, I'm Jacob and this is it was created by Jacob, Esther, and me. It was very hard to make and we have a lot of bloopers to show for it. Please watch the video from the Eagles inception to completion. Hi, I'm Kaylee. Hi, I'm McKenzie. and we are two of many managers here
012at Eagles. Oh yeah. Go. So this is one of our Eagles for teams. [Music] So this is one of our Eagles routines with managers and baristas. And then this is one of the slides we included in a presentation to advertise positions available for the Eagles Brew employees. We designed this application for future employees of Eagles Brew to learn about their strengths, interests, and personalities to fill all positions needed to operate the store. One of our managers, Isa, created this schedule to organize interviews among the managers and 38 applicants. This was a promotional video filmed and edited by our own videographers. Please watch. Foreign And this is our hot Oh no. What happened? Okay. Okay. This is our spring menu designed by Barl and McKenzie. So, this was the flyer we used to promote our spring
013beverages and food items. And um we actually had a sale last week and we were pretty busy. So, this is a sample of the pre-sale ticket. Once pre-sales are over, we count how many of each items um there are and how much we need. And then we categorize them on a spreadsheet to determine the supplies needed and the cost. So this is the part of our spreadsheet we drafted to determine what our estimated cost would be. Right now our goal is to cover the cost of the products and supplies. Once we make a profit, we will be donating to a local charity. Here are Few pictures of the managers working with the newly hired B. These are Bita taking orders. These are the managers and baristas preparing the drinks. These are the four to sixth
014graders picking up their crafty beverages and treats. And these is this is grade one of three picking up their beverages. This is people enjoying their drinks. Thank you. We are forever grateful to the board members for giving us the opportunity to present our shop during this board meeting. Up next is Ryan for one final statement. Thank you so much for for sharing your time with us. Here's a sample of our pink lemonade with strawberries. It's our most popular beverage at Eagles Brew. We hope you like it. Thank you. [Applause] So, the one thing I want to say though, this could not happen without Mrs. Bars. And as you know, she's our school counselor. But it doesn't just happen. One, she was with them all the time. She heard them, but they felt safe enough to
015go to her to share their ideas. And so, without our school counselor, we could not do any of these things. So, I'm incredibly grateful to her and to all these students. So, thank you for having us. Thank you. All right. Oh, I'm gonna Oh, hold on. You, all of you are incredible entrepreneurs. I thought I was ahead of the game when I was trying to force our high school STEM teams to manage their own business. You guys are doing it at the elementary school level. Outstanding. All right. So, we have uh some certificates here for all of you to recognize you for your incredible work. I I do have a question to ask all of you. How many uh employees do we have? That's amazing. Oh, wow. And are your employees also your customers sometimes?
016That's perfect. All right. Let's let's go ahead and uh I want to present all of these to all of you. Let's start with Jacob Buy. Please go over there. We want to take a picture with all of [Applause] you. Uh next we have Oops. Hold on. Uh Candace, we have Daryl. There you go. Next we have Ryan. Ryan. Ryan. Okay. Thank you. Next we have Esther Lamb. Next we have Mackenzie Lou. All right. Okay. Next we have Kaylee Menddees. All right. Next we have Marcado. Next we have Violet. And finally Mr. [Applause] Wow. We should take a break and have a drink and relax. No, we can't do that. I'm just kidding. Um, thank you and to our incredible baristicas at Emperor uh for sharing their uh amazing venture with us this evening. Next, we
017have a presentation from the Dr. Doug uh Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center uh school. How are you? Great. Great. All right. So, good evening. Oh, yeah. Uh folks that are sitting back there, there are open seats. If you would like to sit, please go for it. All right. Sorry. Okay. So, good evening. I'm Jessica Gould. I'm the principal. I have the privilege of being the principal of all of our alternative schools. So, that's the Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center, the Temple City Virtual Academy, the Adult Transition Program, and the Temple City Community Adult Education. So, while there were numerous exciting things that we did this year, the Crown Jewel is of course our new beautiful site. Now I need my glasses. There we go. I'm so sorry. Which way is this? Can you go ahead
018and click to the next one? Here you go. So, construction began. Go ahead and go to the next one. Thank you. Construction began in July with laying down of fresh asphalt. All right. Next slide. In August, the DDSLC and ATP teachers moved in and we got ready to receive students. Okay. Thank you so much. As the year progressed and construction continued, students still found ways to play and teachers were creative in their classrooms. Here you see Mrs. Lopez in her room with students who are learning how to film a short commercial with the help of course of our own Mrs. Susan Capra. While our site has a lot of beautiful spaces, the basketball court is definitely one of the students favorite things. Shout out to our M crew who helped build the hoops. And you
019can see here both our DDSLC and ATP students playing basketball together. While here, uh you also see the new trees being put in and the shade structure being built. Our ramps that were during Thanksgiving and the construction continued, but we continued to celebrate with our students. You see Mrs. Ioli rocking out as some students enjoyed pie and cider for our Friendsgiving. When we came back from spring break, our site was transformed. The temporary fencing was down. The students could now enjoy the whole campus and they have been enjoying it. Here you see students relaxing during lunch in many of the beautiful And then I invited one of our DDSLC students who enjoys the hoops quite frequently to just sort of speak very briefly about how great the site is. So I'll introduce Joseph. [Applause] Good
020evening everyone. So the basketball the basketball court is like one of my favorite things about the the like me and my friends we we play every single even break too, like every break and it gets kind of competitive, but at the end of the day, we all have fun. So, yeah, that's all I got to say. [Applause] All right, we also had our Wasque accreditation. So, both our Dr. Dreseier's learning center and our Temple City Virtual Academy were accredited this year. And here we also see Mrs. Lopez receiving her district teacher of the year and being celebrated to LA County. The DDSLC celebrates our students and encourages them to take charge. Um you see two students leading an art lesson here in Mr. Rios's room and Miss Loer has students decorate the doors for each
021of our months to celebrate and that one uh specifically is our Black History Month in February. and our leadership hosts an events whenever we do that. So, we celebrate pretty much every holiday. We also have our ATP join in. Our Temple City Virtual Academy has been active and social as students work hard on their studies online. Here you see Mrs. Paulino and uh Mrs. Ioli with our professional soccer player um Matas. So, I'm gonna go ahead and play that really quickly. talk about it easier for me to keep studying at the same time. Academy studs have been very to help professionals. Okay. All right. Also, because of Prop 28, we were able to enjoy um music for our adult transition program. And so I'm going to have and Miss Pauline Sai share. One of the
022other things that our ATP program does is that we're preparing students for um the real world and for job skills. And so Mr. Diaz is having students create websites and do art design and flyers to promote things and then also voiceovers. So you can play that video. We would like to thank all. So, the students are learning how to do all kinds of wonderful graphic arts. And if you ever need a flyer made, they are your crew to go to. We also have um community- based instruction and sometimes that's in the classroom where they're learning how to cook. Here you see um our Miss Aala, one of our new teachers. She brought in her friends from Starbucks. They literally taught our students how to create cold brew. And so they'll be able to have like
023a coffee cart up and going. And then um other students going to guitar and learning what a job there. And then of course our own Temple City, Mr. Ron, who uh welcomed room five to and talk about bike safety and stuff. So, so our kids are out and about and learning all kinds of wonderful things. And I'm so lucky to have both Mr. Diaz and Miss Abila as our new ATP teachers. All right, our Temple City community adult education. This program is growing. We're hosting potlucks to help build community with our English as a second language learners. We have also several adults who have earned their high school diploma. One of our students that just earned their high school diploma was a blind student who we were able to figure out and help out. And
024so they now are going to be able to have more job prospects because they're they have their high school diploma. And then last but not least, positive mental health. That is certainly something that we focus on in all of our schools. And Miss Ioli, she's created social emotional lessons that help impart all this to all of our students throughout the year. Um she focuses on topics such as resiliency and how to manage time and stress. And these um to give the students importance to tools that they need to be successful in life. Also, we're preparing our students for college and career readiness. Pictured above there you see speakers that from our recent career day. We had a wide range from ultrasound tech to real estate to automotive to military and um the person in the
025green jacket there was actually from our ESL class three. We had a cancellation at the last minute of photographer that canceled them and he's a professional photographer. So he stepped up and he ended up uh presenting to all of our students the next day about how to be a professional photographer. So, thank you so much for your time and we have a small gift that Miss Ioli has has got here. Awareness month and green is for mental health. Should I have anyone from the five schools come up? Miss Gold. Miss Gold. Uh just just quick, we would like to present uh a certificate of recognition to uh All [Applause] right. Carefully. All right. Very good. Yeah, that was fun. Bye. Okay. All right. Uh continuing on with our uh meeting this evening, we have uh
026the uh public comment portion of our board meeting on agenda and non-aggendaized items. Uh we may limit the time for presentation to three minutes per speaker. per subject and a maximum of 20 minutes uh for each subject matter. Uh we do have some public comment with us this evening and I'll call you guys up uh one at a time and uh again just as a reminder if it's uh regarding the same topic that we do um have you know 20 minute u time limit on that particular subject matter. First we have uh Miss Jasmine Um good evening everyone. Good evening um board me board members. Good evening Miss and it was Oh, it's okay. Okay. Yeah. Um it actually was such a pleasure to hear the incredible presentation from Emperor Group coffee shop. My girls
027are from Emperor too. So, as a emperor parent, um I'm here to share some um informations about the concerns and and the feedbacks from the families that we hear from about the lunch. Over the past few weeks, we conduct a communitywide petition and survey to gather parents and student feedback on current school meal program. We received over 700 handwritten signatures, 414 electronic signatures and total 279 survey responses. These numbers speak for itself. Our families are paying attention to the meal program and we do care. Nearly um 85% of families who participated um the survey feel that the current school lunches does a poor job to provide the nutrition and energy to our children. Here is a list of comments received from sur participants that um mostly from parents and they talk with their children at
028home. I'm going to read it um one by one. Too many preservatives in food. Too much sugar. Food quality not good. Lack of a meat. Too much cheese. Not enough food for kids with allergies. Less processed food. Not fresh. Unappetizing. Tastes strange. Tastes awful. Reheat leftover food too many times. Undercooked. Not cooked well. Not enough food. Milk is watery and moldy. Need more choices. Food is frozen. Food is cold. Lunch line is too long. Some foods are too salty, too sweet, too soggy, too greasy. Egg rolls are hard to bite. Hair and pasta. Get hungry easily. Fish are small pieces of bone. Hot dog is mushy. always the same manual. Bread is mold and four pieces of chicken nuggets are not enough for fourth graders. Chicken nuggets look pink. And last but not least, they
029suggest to ask the school district and staff to try school lunch for a week. Um, many parents have shared that their children would rather skip lunch entirely than eat what's offered. Not enough nutrition is being served and it does not just cause hanger. It can slow down physical growth, impact academic performance and slow down overall development. Our children deserve better. Among the survey there is a list of popular entries that asked to keep. The list has been shared previously with I believe with um everyone in the email and we hope these will continue to be served on the menu. This is not just about preference. This is about making sure our students have access to fresh balanced meal that fill their bodies and minds. Last and but not least, I personally would like to thank
030you for the food service department for their inputs and Please wrap it up. Yeah, almost there. Making change we understand is not easy and as parent want to be part of the solution, not just raise problems. And thank you everyone for the time. Okay. Thank you so much. Next uh we have uh Miss Anne Wang. I have some hand up. So, good evening. My name is Anong. I'm a oriental medicine doctor work closely with pediatrics and dietician at UCLA. I'm also a mom of three kids. One graduate from Temple City High last year. The other two are attending London and Temple City High. We settled in Temple City 11 years ago. Like many other families, we chose here because the good reputation of schools. However, the school lunch menu has been unconerned for a few
031years. About three years ago, at that time, my little one was first grader and he told me he feel hungry even he finished the full portion. I start to to take uh take a look at the lunch menus and notice a large portion of the protein options falls into the category of unhealthy. If you already get hung up, please see the first page. And we'll categorize the food into three categories. So the processed meat, ultrarocessed foods are in the unhealthy category. from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The heavy process foods including hot dogs, chicken nuggets, potato chips, sausage, pepperoni, and this kind of processed meat occupy the largest weight of our lunch menu. Three to four days a week, like five school days, we see this menu. This Monday at cloverly meeting Miss Connie
032said she search for chat GPT that chat GPT gave the answer that zoo district provide the better version of process meat. So if it true please provide references and scientific evidence. Uh please turn the second page. So uh I will show you uh two researchers about the food study. So the second page this study show um the association between dietary factors and motility from chronic disease. It showed 45% deaths from heart disease, stroke and diabetic are directly attribute to suboptimal diets is exclude family history or genetic risk as well as smoking and other lifestyle habits. That's mean nearly half of the chronic disease death relate to health food habits. And please uh take a look at third page. So this is another research about risk factors of chronic disease also show the same result. You
033can see at the top is the dietary risk. Battery risk is the number one risk factor for chronic disease. More than tobacco use and high blood pressure. Currently 70% of calories consumed by American adults come from processed food. Unfortunately we are seeing similar trend reflecting. I do apologize but three minutes so everybody has a chance. Okay. So unfortunately we see the same trend in our school menu. Okay. So if our student they eat this kind of food for three uh 12 years during the whole school from elementary to high school. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So they will became a lifelong diet habit. So we do next person please. Yes. Okay. Thank you. All right. Uh next uh we have Matt. All right. Hi everyone. My name is Matt. Um, I majored in dietetics in college and
034spent years studying how food impacts our health, energy, and ability to focus. Um, I'm a dad here. I've got two kids in this school district. One in TK at Larosa and one in fourth grade at Cloverly. So, this isn't just a professional topic for me. It's pretty personal. I care deeply about what our kids are being served at school every day. And I want to be clear, saying there's not enough money to improve quality of school meals isn't a good enough answer. For many kids, these meals are their main source of daily nutrition. In California, over 5.9 million students attend public schools, and all of them are eligible for free breakfast and lunch under the Universal Meals Program. But if that food is unappetizing, moldy, or the same thing over and over again, what's the
035point? We've had reports of the menu being repetitive, food showing up with mold, and meals that kids simply don't want to eat. That's not just disappointing, it's unacceptable. Meanwhile, we know that nutrition directly affects how kids perform. Students who eat breakfast at school about 17.5% higher on math tests and miss fewer days. We also know that diets high in processed foods are linked to poor attention spans, mood issues, and lower academic performance. And childhood obesity is still a crisis in California. Nearly 3% of all children are considered severely obese, and schools are on the front line of this issue. The good news, there's solutions. In 2023, California awarded over 52 million through the farm-toschool incubator grant program. Those funds helped nearly 200 projects reach over 1.6 million students with healthier, fresher food. There are also
036grants up to 15,000 per school from the California Department of Education to expand breakfast and summer meal programs. So, I have to ask, why hasn't Temple City applied for these grants? If another school district like Rosemead under John Rivera can build a surplus in their food service program by doing this, why not us? We owe it to our kids to look into every available resource. If we want them to succeed, we have to fuel them properly. That means prioritizing nutrition in the budget. That means taking action, not just saying there's no money. Our kids deserve better. Let's stop making excuses and start making progress. Thank you. Uh, next I Is this Clip H? Okay. All right. Um, my son goes to London and he knows I'm coming here, so he wants to make sure that
037I tell everyone that the chicken sandwich that I had this today was flat as um, the first thing I wanted to clarify for the board members today is that In the last meeting, you were told that the kids can get extra food if they ask. No problem. Well, I'm here to tell you that's simply not true. At least not across all the schools. My son repeatedly asked for extra in the past and the answer he was given is always no. You can only punch in once. He even asked again last week and still got the same answer. And another source of of my frustration comes from the lack of communication effort that the district has shown to to address parents ongoing concerns about the quality and quantity of the meals. Yes, some of some of
038us can have the option to pack lunch for the kids. And yes, there's always going to be complaints about the school meals. But I also have to remind everyone that the situation get us to the point that parents are willing to sign petitions, fill in surveys, and show up at schoolboard meetings to express their concerns. Um, for me personally, all I want to know is that you, the district, has done the best you can with the resources and funding you and I believe the district has failed to convince the parents that's the case. With that, I have six questions for all of you or any of you. One, how often do you incorporate student feedback into menu planning and meal improvements? Two, what steps are taken to ensure meals meet both uh USDA nutritional guidelines
039and the culture or dietary needs of your student population? Three, how do you monitor food quality, quantity, age appropriate nutritional needs and safety across all schools on a regular basis? Four, can you share how you track and address any patterns of food waste or uneaten meals? Five, what criteria do you use to evaluate and select food vendors during the feeding process? Six, how is the meal program funded in addition to the state funing? Are there other funings that they can be added to improve the meals? Lastly, I encourage the board members to visit school sites more often to see the lunches for yourselves instead of listening to numbers that we throw around. Talk to the kids and get your own opinion and say something about it here and to all the parents. Thank you. Thank
040you very much. Uh, next we have uh Lee Lu. Good evening members, superintendent. I'm here again to address issues. Since my last presentation in the last meeting, I've learned from another from other school directors that my understanding of the San Diego Valley co-op was incorrect. I apologize for that. Um, multip members do exist from the co-op allowing district to make varied purchases. Um I'm asking for better quality purchases from researching different vendors. One district with just over 3,000 students has about 60 to 80% lunch participation rates. They utilizes USDA funds to acquire 100% raw beef and also offers organic fruits. This district high quality food and actively involve students in taste test every 3 to four months through ASB and clubs fostering collaboration between teachers and cafeteria. Students group conduct these tests taste tests and
041parent teachers can also uh be allowed to purchase these lunches for $6. So you know when parents do their PTA volunteer they get hungry they said they can go and buy their lunch at the cafeteria. Never heard of that from our school. Another district invested in culinary consultants to develop nutritious and appealing entre. Their in-house adaptation of bombade sandwiches featuring house pickle carrots and a consultant developed sauce for the chicken was successfully implemented across all four kitchens. They also employed surveys, student representatives, taste test again, taste test, including blind taste testing, comparing graded hamburgers um and hot dogs from this company named Cream Co. The overwhelming student preference for cream products led to the decision prioritizing quality over cheaper additive laden alternatives. Focusing on simple ingredients, this um this district boasts impressive student lunch participation
042rate 90% in the elementary school and 80% in middle school. So significantly higher than our school district which is probably less than 50%. We have extended warm invitation for our group director, parent, whoever that wants to go and you know um visit that facility. They also share that they use seasonal fruits from valley produce. Strawberries, berries, blood oranges, watermelons are their favorite. Vegetables are cooked because kids like that more. Garlicky um broccoli. They have cheese, cheesy corn, Asian sesame salad. They also purchased from Bowar chicken and vegetable dumplings popular paired with Asian sesame salad. Their strategies are um they're achieving higher student satisfaction. I'm I'm really happy if I can set up a time we can share all this information from other school districts. Thank you so much. Thank you. Uh, next we have Miss
043Rox. Good evening, members of the board, administrators, fellow parents, and concerned community members. My name is Roxanna Ing. I'm here tonight like many of you as a parent invested in the well-being and future of our children. For two long years, we have voiced our concerns about the quality of the lunches served in our schools. Two years. Yet, when we look at the food our children are eating or the menus posted online, we see the same reality. Meals dominated by ultrarocessed entre loaded with preservatives, excessive sugar, and high level levels of sodium. This isn't just about taste preferences. It's about the fundamental building blocks we are providing for our students during their critical years of growth and learning. And this concern is no longer just coming from parents like us. It's being recognized and acted upon
044at the state level. Just this past January, January 3rd, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsome issued Executive Order N0125. This order explicitly directs state agencies to find ways to limit the harms associated with ultrarocessed foods and specific food ingredients to pose health risk. Our state board of education and the CDE are right now working together to raise the bar for healthy school meals across California. What specific ingredients are they targeting? Preservatives like BHA, BHT, provocalate, and TBHQ. Chemicals added simply to extend shelf life, not to nourish our kids. Sodium nitrate and nitrate used in processed meats. Artificial non-nutritive sweeteners like aspart and sucralose. Additives like a decarbonide used to condition dough. Beyond specific chemicals, they are calling for real reductions in sodium and added sugars overall. So, how does our district measure up against these clear state
045priorities? When we analyze our own elementary school April menus, we that on 100% of the school days, the meals featured the very preservatives the state is urging schools to eliminate. At Oak Middle School and Temple City High School, the picture was the same. 100% of the entre contain these preservatives or the other additives designed for appearance and longevity, not for student health. We are clearly lagging behind the direction our state is heading. More importantly, we are missing a crucial opportunity to provide the best pos possible nutrition to fuel our students success. But improvement is possible. We don't need to start from zero. We can look to neighboring districts like Rose Unified. They are now successfully making 40% of their school meals from scratch. It took time and commitment, but they proved it starts by taking
046that crucial first step. Tonight, we urge our district, reach out to Rosemi, learn from their experience, take that first step towards fresher, healthier, less processed meals for our kids. Improving the food on the tray also requires transparency behind the scenes. We also need assurance that the 52,000 currently held in the cafeteria fund account will be strictly used for approving student meals, not diverted elsewhere. So, overall, our team TC senior reform team will help you guys if you need help. So this is the step that we want to go. Okay, like Rose me from scratch. Thank you so much. [Applause] And uh finally we have uh yes it's 20 minutes. Um we have just one more from student named she's not here. Okay. All right. And that is it. public comment portion of our meeting. Uh
047next we have community updates. I do not have any community updates uh to share this evening. Uh next we have bargaining unit comments. Uh first uh DCA. All right. Hi. How are you? All right. And next we have CSA 105. All right. How are you? I'd like to say hi. Um, and next we have CSEA 823. Hello, good evening. How are you? Uh, next item 16, we have district updates. Uh, first is business services in board president Miss Bill and board of education superintendent Kuna. Um, exact parents staff um attend conference last week funded by district and our JPA and during the conference the district was reminded that ongoing uncertainty surrounding the federal funding this including all the title fund as well as the federal meal reimbursement and we will also share that increasing number
048of district across state are facing potential school closure and there's also green shortage of skilled in the physical service area. So notably many schools I believe use the AR tool for their daily operation. The presentation I um showed on the um second report all the picture. Actually this is my first time I use AR to generate all the picture but we need to be very careful because for example for the second interim the March 15 is the calendar right? So I ask five times the calendar is not exact correct. For example, they say March 2nd, they list the second a couple of times. So, we do need to be careful and just give them correct direction. And we me including me and a lot of uh school district official we realize that the efficiency and
049the time saving for use AI but just like double check the accuracy is defin budget control expenditure monitor and then they turn out to be revenue monitor. So that is the the cautious on the AR. So um during the conference I also take care of school business and there I specifically talk about legal business advisor. I uh was surprised that legal changes some process and guideline for the second interim approval which I'm not aware of it. So again with Dr. help and then we will solve it and then we will get approved and the letter was already sent to the district. The second board probably aware that we have some concern regarding the American who is taking uh take care of a lot of our employees benefit. So I did talk to the management team
050um I request to improve the service and customer service and the communication. So We're going to continue to have a team um meeting because we do have some issue this year regarding the reconiliation of some benefit because they obviously one of the vendor the vendor purchase prime vendor and it looks like the vendor with American disconnection. So this problem foration so I talk to the entire American fidelity management team I will meet every people in the and faced with the name. So it will expedite um our um future um the in the area of the open enrollment and their benefit management and interesting um I share with Dr. Tuna um on the return flight I meet several um district employee from one specific district. So I um talked to the couple who sitting beside me
051and they actually turned out to be um the husband was retired um benefit payroll technician the other district. So I asked him whe they have already went through the HCM legal payroll commission said he said yes and I'm said whether he's willing to help out and he happily say yes. So I get his phone number. So let's see because um HM it is ongoing challenge and even for those district who already implement there are still issues for the software bridge. So we are in the group nine our implementation is October 2020 2026 starting the process starting launch October 2025 which is also delay so we additionally help will make sure that our transition is smooth and there's always This past Monday, um, Mor and I, we had a parent meeting at, uh, we we want
052to hear from the parent directly because it is my personal opinion. Sometime when you do the email, there's a lot of story from what the person's opinion is and and where they come from. Is there any culture involved? So um of course the topic is the same as tonight open comment including the meal portion including the meal quality um manual concern and the meal waste. I encourage the students and parents if they have any concern of the of the meal, the quality, the portion and some bad food. Please not wait. They can speak with our principal. They can talk to our cafeteria manager on a time basis. They can even call me or any administrator because we really want to address their issue immediately. And we have set email address called service at pcuse.net to
053address their concern and um please do not worry about we will not definitely will not retire your kids because the kids is our customer. They eat our meal. We we love to hear their feedback and our cafeteria manager love to hear their feedback. So so please do that. In regarding of the meal portion just unfortunately the city has specific guideline the portion is based on the grade level. So I don't know district the state program audit their audit program based on state guideline. So um we hear the parents concern and we will share the parents concern with the county of education as well as city to explore potential solutions. So this is definitely team work. the district alone will not able to solve the problem because this is from state island. So in in order
054to me I do want to clarify the process meal because I have visited the manufacturer for the company to um create a meal for the school district. They literally have the inspector which is independent person at the side of the office in the manufacturer. They they inspect they have a record. They inspect every process of food manufacturer. So I understand the the um um processed food is not that great as a fresh cook meal food and I totally understand but please mindful that our school processed meal is definitely different from way purchase because this is regulation the guideline um you know um I understand the guideline of the change I totally understand the governor have a new audience but the new audience need to all this food manufacturer and distributor because they are trained and
055has to follow state because otherwise they will not pass inspection and state will not them as a public school district meal distrib. So there is the guidelines we need to trust our system and if we are not happy with the system you know we all have a right raise our concern to the school board. We also can have a raise our concern to the elect officials. So we have a various options in regarding of the food. I personally believe that there's a couple way to cause the bad food. When is the distributor? So there occasionally we do receive the bad food and the food which is close to expiration date. Then we do need the students and parents help to bring to our attention immediately so that we can communicate with distributor right away to
056stop this man. And we also remind our cap manager to if the time to do the inspection. The director will quickly do the inspection. The food cafeteria manager was or the first staff they will direct to do the the checks depend on the time depend on when the deliver. So, so they will do the regular check and for those food if we serve the kids they still have ice still cold still for the heart then please bring to our attention to our cafeteria manager I'm I'm pretty sure that they they're willing to help but if there's any issue with our cer manager they can talk to principal talk to the director talk to me immediately because we are here to support kids in so order Thank you for the um meal ingredient and transparent. We
057heard the parents voice. We are actually looking for different vendor which also our neighbor district user to able to allow the district post the the food and ingredient and we are working unfortunately we have to do our due dilig I personally share with the the parents educate the village to educate the kids during the school day. We will try to find a way to educate the kids but we also need to partner with the parents in the evening and after school when the parents help to educate the kids to do not waste our food. That's also the purpose of the share meal table. We and we allow the kids who certain meal they don't want to use and put table and I personally witness our kids some kids still hungry they pick up the the
058food left on the table and they they're happy to have it so so please continue do that we will do do the education to um reduce the meal um waste and u moving forward and there um we also reach out to the neighbor district who the parent mention that and as a matter of fact the male district who was taking the um parents call they actually reach out to us and the we all the food service um director we all in the group so they all know each each other so we were definitely seeking for other um the good practice for make our meal more attractive to our students. So moving forward that um we will conduct various food tasting in the different school event. So we starting planning for that and we we will
059um including in the students if parents want to uh in the meal survey and also we will partner with PTA to establish committee committee to make sure that we partner with the parents the meal improvement and meal feedback it's ongoing basis and u um um also I want to remind parents we received the survey from the last email. But I personally the the the survey is the most favorable meal is teriyak um chicken bowl. I personally ask the kids during the lunch time whether she like it. The answer is no. So which mean is that the district challenge we will try to it's very difficult to have the pattern to have every students like but we will do our part. So this is the the next week every day we will hosting all the meeting
060at different time different school site. So we welcome um the more participants so we can have all their feedbacks and input. So that's my thank you very much for sharing that. Um next we have Ed services. Thank you. Thank you. Um, I just have thank yous tonight. So, the first is Family Literacy Night. Um, it was last week. It's always an amazing event. It was our third annual, so we're already looking forward to our fourth annual, but I want to especially thank um, Amy for all she did on that event. Um, Stacy and Jen there to support her. Um, we have to thank Donna. She did a couple things that night. um what I learned about Temple City after I've been in this district 10 years and I learned stuff about Temple City that I
061guess I never thought about but walked away like man this is good. Um and it explains why we are here and why we do what we do. I want to thank Longman staff for all they did including Kyle Jav and his crew for all the work they did. We had district teachers um from all the elementary sites there and I want to thank Jerry for the book who showed up gave us 250 books that night. So, thank you very much. Um, and I also want to thank Kristen Castro. So, Kristen is a counselor at the high school and she works with our aware grant. It's a grant we have with LEO um to promote mental health awareness. And so, as part of that grant, um, directing change, um, this is his third or fourth year
062of directing change with us. We had a number of our students from Oak and the high school do um, public service announcements. And so out of that, we had um 10 of our students in three different teams. We got a first place and two honorable mentions. So it's pretty amazing. Um I don't know if you've had a chance to see the videos or not, but they are really good. Um and I'll have to thank Marta Bile and Mike who students once participated. Um but really Kristen Castro worked so hard at this to make sure that mental health is a constant topic. So um in the next with the other counselors and school sites hosting an event at the high school with more information. Thank you. Thank you so much for sharing that. Um, okay. We
063don't have any uh updates this evening for uh human resources. So, go ahead and go ahead with our board member comments. I believe I will start this evening. And uh again, I want to uh show my appreciation for our wonderful kids at Emperor for their amazing business venture. Can't wait to see uh you know what they bring back in some more time after they've had some chance to get more experiences. Um and uh it's wonderful uh to see all this incredible improvement at the learning center. I think uh most folks don't realize that the learning center is so many schools in one and trying to capture and help so many different um not just kids, young adults, even older adults. Um and um and and I think uh that the service they provide is is
064is indispensable for our community. So I want to thank Miss and her amazing staff. And of course uh Miss Yoder u you know she's again plan right? She's going to stay here for some years. We won't mention we won't mention but years. Um and uh just you know it's good to recognize those that have given so much to our district throughout the years. Um I myself was able to participate in a few things. Um helped with um some of the logistics when NBC Universal came to film their commercial at Temple City High School. Um and that was kind of fun. I think even a couple of our Dragon Flick uh students got a chance to spend a day uh basically working with professional film crew. Probably learned quite a few things along the way. Um
065I spent that was pretty busy weekend and you know I had steam night again it's a lot more just reinforcement idea that steam and stem works here in this district and that the capacity here and it shows year after year I want to say that our ice cream line was probably by far the most congested but worked out really well and the kids a lot of fun so Um that same weekend that was u our science state competition. I'm proud to share that our Oak Avenue uh team finished their best finish ever in their uh in their history high school coming back up the rank finishing fifth. So um a lot of good kids in the program now growing year after year. And also on the same day we have this uh little underwater robotics
066team uh that competed down in San Diego and led by Leilani Garcia. Um and uh you know that's in about six weeks and uh yeah and I think that was all the events I was able to participate in the last meeting. And that's it for me this evening. Next time we have um well you can sure tell we're coming to the conclusion of this year because there's something to do every night but it's been all good stuff. Um going back to April 10th the ele elementary band spring concert was at Oak Avenue. The place was packed. You couldn't walk. The kids were sitting everywhere on the floor and everything. It's a huge testament to the the program that we have there and so it was really nice to see it's growing by leaps and bounds.
067Same night Temple City High School annual spring concert with Chaos of Music and TCH gym and that was really nicely done too. A lot of good information performances. Um wow they were they were really great. On a kind of a bad note um I attended the funeral services for one of our employees who recently passed away, Art Contraras, and it was really nicely done. The church was standing only and just a really sad situation and I know there's a lot going on behind the scenes to understand everything how it happened, what anyway, that was a kind of a downer, but it was it was nice to see that it was a good turnout. Um, had a chance to attend the Golden Apple breakfast and shows there with I enjoyed that. It's always a nice thing
068to see happen. Thank you for all your hard work you've been doing for us and will continue to do. Um, let's see. Family literacy night at Long. Had a chance to participate there. Really good turnout there as well and saw a lot of the people excited about the idea of talking about books and making making them come alive. So, that was nicely done. had a chance to attend the Doug Sears open house on the 17th. That was really well done, too. Hands off to Jessica, but anyway, that was nicely done. Um, same night, actually my um Temple City High School on the 18th, the sports complex. We had a tour catch up on where we are. It's coming along very nicely. The bleachers are being built. the announcement booths in. Uh we're going to have
069the school facilities available for our graduations for the for Oak Avenue and the high school, but we still have more to do after that, but it's it's coming really close. Um had a chance to attend the Laxa meeting uh on Monday night. Um it was the Los Angeles County Schools Trustees Association, I'm sorry, meeting. It was interesting to see what's going on throughout County. Uh on the 22nd, I had a chance to attend I had a chance to participate in the Zoom call with Guanas and students of the month and a lot of kids were recognized. A lot of good things going on. And then just real quick, um tonight we had the three people who or three organizations that received recognition again, Michelle for her job with Golden O, the Eagles Brew and Emperor
070and Dr. Learning Presentation. All great and Thank you for all those people for all they've done. And then um I guess I'm just gonna stop there. I've got more behind me. All right. Good evening everybody. Um All right. So, I wanna just appreciate my fellow board members and everybody up here for wearing denim today to recognize um you know raising a voice against sexual assault. Um it's a very important issue and I'm thankful that we will not be here on April 30th when the actual day is we are showing our support for that today by wearing denim. Um I also want to um my appreciation to all the administrative professionals and a special thank you to Monero because she takes such good care of the board and we appreciate everything that she does. Um her
071support is just so appreciated. So thankful. Um congratulations to Michelle Yoder. Um very welld deserved. She is an amazing volunteer and I will say um we met the first day our kids started at Emperor in kindergarten the very first day and we have you know been friends ever since and she has always kind of been very quiet behind the scenes with her support and so I'm so glad to see her recognized in this way. So thank you. Um, so in advance of rec the recognition days that we have coming up, I think they're on our agenda today. I want to thank both certificated and classified staff for their tireless dedication to our students. We appreciate you and thank you for all you do each day for our students and our school community. Um, also congratulations.
072There's just so much going on and our kids are just excelling in a lot of different ways. So to keep it brief, I just want to give my congratulations to all the wonderful achievements of the student groups that have competed recently like Skills USA Perge and the list goes on. Just amazing. You know, our kids will continue to celebrate them and you know, they're just amazing students. So they'll continue to excel and we will continue to celebrate them. Um in terms of attendance, you I went to the elementary band choir. The elementary band performance, the choir brighter side performance, golden apple award breakfast and family reading night, the DDSLC open house, um the stadium tour and the student yesterday. Um and thank you so much to our emperor. I drank my entire drink. It was
073that good. Um and And yes, the DDSLC doing great things and just continue to do that. So in all the things that's all for me. Thank you very much. Uh next we have member. Thank you. Um I it was a it was wonderful to attend the Golden Apple Award Breakfast where we honored Michelle. Um Michelle really exemplifies the volunteer that we have in Temple City. And uh Michelle, I'm just really glad we can recognize you tonight at that wonderful breakfast. Also, uh thank you to the DDSLC uh tonight. I I really enjoyed your open house last week and getting a look at the classrooms, getting look at how the facility just looks so beautiful right now. Met a couple of your new teachers and um the kids were just the kids were so excited that
074night. It was really great. Um, thank you to Emperor. I'm still enjoying my drink, but um, it's really exciting that the students have led this and the a lot of the new things we've in that that we've been that we've started in the last few years has come from our students. So, this is wonderful that they've started something like this. Um, it has been a busy couple of weeks, I think, for all of us. um since our last meeting. Um I attended the elementary band and orchestra concerts. Um just amazing to see hundreds of our fourth fourth through sixth grade students creating just wonderful music that they could probably go down to the Disney Hall and they would fit in beautifully down there. Um, I understand from Jack Taylor that over 40% of our fourth
075through sixth grade students take part in the music program. Whether it's instrumental music or chorus, over 40% of our kids are already doing music and it was obvious that night that the orchestra room was packed to the rafters. Um, I also attended the the Rosa Steam night. Families were having a great time. I want to thank Anthony Salazar for a tour of the new sports complex last week. Um if you drive down or drive past the high school, the progress is absolutely breathtaking. Um so um I know the community is really going to be thrilled with the final final facility. Uh thank you to also to Amy and London's staff, the Kuanas and everybody who worked at the pulled together the district uh district literacy night. Um city kuanas. Thank you. Also u congratulations to
076board member Georgino. Your keynote address was great and you really shared some great information about Temple City. Um, thank you again, Jerry. I know this was our last Kowanas student of the month this week, and I appreciate you doing that every uh every month. You had a packed Zoom meeting the other night. I think you had the most people you ever had on a Zoom meeting that night. So, I I can see that. Um, yeah, congratulations. Uh, as member Spinosa mentioned, the C Perch team who plays second overall high school skills team who took top honors will be going to presenting four students to national championships. Um under leadership of their advisor this is the seventh time in eight years that we that they've qualified for the national championship. So that's quite that's really outstanding.
077I and I believe the oak science bowl team is in Washington DC right now competing. So um lastly, two of the items on our agenda are resolutions proclaiming that we'll be honoring both our teacher of teacher appreciation week and our classified employee appreciation week. Um, I'm very proud to have been both a classified aid and a teacher in this district for around 30 years and I want to thank our entire staff uh for making a positive influence in our students life. So, thank you very much. Please share that with your fellow staff members. Thank you. That's it. All right. Thank you so much. Uh, and finally this evening we have members. Thank you. Um, in terms of activities attended, I also attended the funeral for Art Contraras and I mentioned it to several of my
078friends who had children who graduated years ago and they all commented about how nice art always was to them and accommodating and helping them to do things for our students. So, it's a great loss to our district. Um, on the brighter side, I attended the Brighter Side concert um at Temple City High School, which was great. Um, thank you, Mr. Lman, for arranging for the artwork for the historical society. We, uh, displayed it at the historical society over the past few months, and it was really great to hear all the comments from the visitors we had there. Um, I also displayed it at a woman's club meeting and then we had a program at the historical society and we had our um, elementary vapa teacher Rihanna Siri come and speak and she did a great
079job. So, I think that was a a really good opportunity for us to showcase our students and what great artwork they're capable of doing. I attended the Golden Apple ceremony. Congratulations to Michelle. We're really glad to have you. Um, also congratulations to Oak Orchestra. They provided the entertainment for that event and they were magnificent. And I think people probably thought they were a high school orchestra. They were so good. But I'm sorry. But anyways, congratulations to them. They made us all very proud. Um, I attended literacy night obviously, but thank you for asking me to be there. I really enjoy sharing uh Temple City's history and especially the history of the Temple City Unified School District. So, it was a lot of fun for me. I attended the DDSLC open house, the elementary orchestra concert,
080um the stadium tour. I'm so excited. I can't wait till graduation to actually be able to sit in those bleachers. Well, I guess I won't be sitting in the bleachers, but u to be out on the field. Uh I attended the uh Quana student of the month last evening. Um and as always, it was a lot of fun to recognize our students at all our schools. I have a couple of cor congratulations. Um first, I'll do the easy one. Congratulations to Lacy Scandlin, who is our district teacher of the year. Um very welld deserved. she's uh well she's been teaching here but this year she took on a new role as the elementary um BAPA teacher for performing arts and so it's really exciting that she's going to be honored. Um the other congratulations I
081wanted to give and this is kind of hard to explain to the girls water polo team at Temple City High School. Uh CIF gives out award academic awards to sports teams and our girls water polo team um got second place for overall GPA. The team had a 3.857 GPA and that I think it there was about 50 schools that they competed against and it was they were in the category of schools 1500 enrollment and more. So that's really an awesome achievement. Um they're they were a great water polo team, too. They uh they competed postseason, but academically um they really did an excellent job, too. And finally, I just wanted to um say that um Thursday and Friday, Coro is going to be doing a showcase and I'm going to be attending on Friday and
082I hope people will come out and support them. And also there's a spring concert on April 30th at Temple City High School at 6:30 and I'll be at that also. Thank you. Right. Thank you very much. Okay. Next we have a student board member comments. Uh Miss Wayne. Thank you. Um good evening everybody. Um I'm going to keep it a little short today but um I attended Mr. TC on 15 and it was really fun and stuff. to the judges. It was really fun. Um, and the annual showcase again is this Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. and it's at the high school in room 601. And you can buy tickets from a member or it's $15 after. And I'm also going to be participating in skates, which is actually this Thursday all the way
083to Saturday. So, that's really exciting. It's going to be in Anaheim. So, hopefully we have some people and it's in Anaheim again. So, And congratulations to Skills USA who participated this weekend um or last this this past weekend um in its eighth straight California state championship. And also congratulations to the se team. And also congratulations to the science Olympia team who placed fifth overall at the state tournament. And also to the drum line which um was representing California alone. Um they competed at Ohio and they secured a spot in the finals and performed the same night securing a sixth place overall ranking. And also just some fundraisers um class of 2028 Thursday, April 24th at your land and in Arcadia the flyers on Instagram class of 28. And also another fundraiser is at Crispy Cream.
084Um their fundraiser is going to be from April 21st to May 13th. So you can check out their Instagram. Also, um, next week is staff appreciation week at our high school and also next month is mental health awareness month. So I wanted to talk about something that um, I haven't written down. I'm going to kind of say off the top of my head, but um I personally feel like at our school like um I feel like a lot of but passed away. Unfortunately, there was no kind when I was talking to my updates and everything, no one knew like none of the students knew and I hate that they had to know from my communications and I just during that was giving up last meeting. I was just I was just wishing that I was
085just wishing that maybe our school could have done a better job at communicating these hard topics because I know for high school students um we're not mature enough yet to kind of process these feelings as well as maybe adults do and learning it not directly from the school is definitely not ideal and I wish there were more communications from our school directly and also on top of that provide resources for um all students because as you may know like mental health is a really important topic right now and it is mental health awareness about these topics. I wish that um in the future for these topics that there would be a more formal way to kind of communicate with students what happened and to provide direct resources so students are not alone because I definitely
086feel alone in this and when I communicated this with my entire they always have someone to be able to talk to and especially learning this from another student like what can we do because it communicated from the school. So yeah, from now on I hope that the only way um students can learn about this is not through word of mouth, not through rampages like last page in their small box like I hate that rampages are only kind of sourced to know about this information and they wish that there's better communication. Thank you for sharing that with us this evening. Definitely take note of that. Uh next we have our superintendent. So, this is obviously really council members. I'm really summary. And at the meeting, I got to meet students. Students are worried about the meeting.
087Yes. So she said yes, but I just thought it was obvious. We're worried about adults. later this afternoon. You know, one of the things students Particularly just meeting appreciate I thought that was really nice. I also wanted to thank something last week and PTA appreciate being. And then lastly, I did. It is, you know, so often It is so cool. I do appreciate our students. Thank you very much. I still haven't figured out how to get out. I'm kidding. I love Okay. Uh next we have written communications. Uh we do have a couple of written communications uh to share this evening. Uh the first one from Leo. Um the county superintendent reviewed the uh Temple City Unified School District's public disclosure of proposed collective bargaining agreement uh concerning tenative agreements with the following bargaining units.
088Temple City Educators Association uh California School Employees Association number uh 105 and California School Employees Association 823 uh as well as management and confidential and unrepresented uh staff with the cost of the agreements incorporated districts meeting the required reserves during the term of the agreements. So wanted to share that with everyone. Uh second is uh we also received a letter from LEO uh um that we that they have completed our review of uh Temple City Unified School District's 2024 2025 second interim report and they concur with the district's positive certification. Uh we strongly advise that the district address its ongoing structural deficit and take necessary actions to improve the restricted general fund balance. Um And uh well, you know, I think every district is in that situation, unfortunately, for you know, hopefully a short period
089of time. Um but I want to commend our district for doing a great job of managing us through some difficult times. Um okay. Uh that is all for communications this evening. Uh we do not have any discussion information item uh to talk about. Uh but we do have some discussion action agenda items to go over. First in administration, we have item 21 um receiving board bylaw for second reading and approval u for BB-9320- meeting and notices. Uh this is our second unless anybody has a motion. I'll make a motion for that. Can I get a second please? Okay. Second by member. Okay. Uh Mary. Oh, wait. Was it Lexi? Mary. It was Mary. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Okay. Um if there is no uh questions regarding the second reading, I would recommend that
090we go ahead and vote. Uh preferential vote. Member Wang. Yes. Okay. Uh all those in favor? I. All those opposed. Motion carries. 5 Z. Next we have item 22 adoption of resolution 2324-26. declaring April 30th, 2025 as Denim Day. And as uh member Spinosa has shared already, raising our voices against sexual violence. Um I don't think other motion. I'll second by second by this happens to be roll. So I think first is preferential vote member. Yes. All right. Member Espinosa. Yes. Okay. Vote is 5. Motion carries. Next we have item 23. Adoption of resolution 2425-23 proclaiming week of May 5th through the 9th, 2025 as teacher appreciation week. Uh personally should be every day. However, um now um there's nothing else that we need to add. Self-explanatory. So, let's go ahead and All right. So,
091um may I get a motion, please? Member moved by member, second by member Smith. Um preferential vote member. Yes. This also is a roll call. Um Yes. Member member Espinosa. Yes. Okay. Motion carries 50. Next we have item 24 adoption of resolution 2425-24 proclaiming week of May 18th 20 through the 24th of 2025 as classified school employees week. Um again uh I'll make a motion for that. Uh second by Espinosa. Let's go ahead and vote. Vote member. All right. Yes. Member. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Um, okay. Next we have item 25, adoption of resolution 2425-25, authorizing the issuance of Temple City USD election of the 2020 uh 2012 general obligation bond series D and actions related related there too. Yes, good evening. Um we last board meeting um as part of tonight's board meeting is
092we issued a issue um 2012 bond which is up to $15 million and issues including current bond so make sure that we will finish the interest project and there's also the agreement for the gems and then continue disclosure as part of form before. So let's go ahead or comfial vote number we have sorry my uh okay um I'll make a motion for that may get a second okayial vote member so this one first members motion carries. Next, we have item 26, adoption of resolution 2425-27, authorizing Connie Woo to execute all documents required by the state department of rehabilitation to effectuate the execution of set agreement and all amendments for pre-employment transition services for high school students with disabilities. This program actually the district receive brand from department of rehabilitation. This is through the weekend program
093this great program for our ATP kids. Basically this program provide vocational counseling and why the students with us between the 16 to 21 but after the kids graduate the program continue to provide guidance for those kids. So it's a three year program and then each year we allow 20 kids in the program and each will be 30 yeah 300 hours paid working experience. So this definitely very helpful for our people prepare them for the workforce and prep them for a motion. I'll move by support of our students for longer periods of time. Let's go ahead and vote. Yes. Member Espinosa. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Next, we have I was on a roll. I mean, just kidding. That was a bad joke. Um anyway, Um item 27, approval of authorization for the county superintendent of schools
094to make 2024 2025 year end budgetary appropriation transfers. Yes, this routine agenda item by the board approved this um resolution basically allow the county of education during the closing they will try to transfer the fund between different program to make sure that our financial obligation and we expend Next one is advance and the last one is make sure we pay our bill. Okay. Thank you. All right. I will make a motion. A second. Second by member Geo. All right. Uh let's go ahead and vote on this then Wang. Yes. Okay. All right. All those in favor? Those motion carries 5. All right. Item 28A to approve opening of public hearing for disclosure of collect collective bargaining agreements with Temple City Education Association uh CSEA 105, CSEA 823 and management confidential and unrepresented employees in accordance
095with AB1200 for the 2024 2025 school year. Yes, this actually approved this conclude our 2425 negotiation with the PC and CS5 and 823 as well represent 0.6% ongoing salary increase and the district health contribution increase additional $250 because for the 24 school year our open is already closed. So this is the only the contribution will of the check payment. Um can I get a motion please by second preferential vote member all those in favor. I those opposed. Okay, so public hearing is now open at 7:58. Okay, sorry. Let's move on to I mean um Okay. U approved closing of public hearing for disclosure of collective bargaining agreements with TCA. CSA 105, CSEA 823 and management confidential and unrepresented employees in accordance with AB1200 for the 2024 2025 school year. I will make a motion for
096that. Can I get a second? Second by she can't sorry by got it. All right. Uh okay. So um vote number one. Okay. All those in favor I all those opposed? Uh motion carries 5 and public hearing is 759. Okay. All right, the third segment. Okay, 28C. Uh, approval of public disclosure of collective bargaining agreements with uh TCA, CSEA 105, CSEA 823 and management confidential and unrepresented employees in accordance with AB1200 for the 2024 2025 school year. Um, I'll motion please. Okay. Move by member Smith. Second. Second by member Espinosa. Okay. Preferential vote member Wayne. Yes. Okay. Uh all those in favor? I. All those opposed? Motion carries. All right. Okay. Uh next we have a couple items in human resource. Um item 29 the approval of declaration of need for fully qualified educators. So
097it's an annual declaration. We are not listed there. I'll make a motion for that. Can I get a second? I'll second by member. Um there's going to be any discussion on that. So, let's go ahead and vote. Uh student member Wayne. Yes. All those in favor? I all those opposed? Motion carries. 5. Next, we have item 30. approval of a new position uh adult education data and curriculum specialist. So this is a new position. Reality school program. And also it's difficult for Thank you so much. Okay. Um, I'll make the motion. Esposial vote. Member Wang. All those in favor? I motion carries 5. Next we have our consent agenda items approved by one motion and one vote unless a member of the board or audience requests that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately.
098Um okay I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. May I get a second please? I'll second bye. Vote member Wayne. Yes. All those in favor? I those motion carries 5. Next we have any additional board requests or comments. Okay. All right. So next is additional public comment on agenda and nonaggendaized items. All right. No, we have to do the public comment and then go back to session. Yeah, that's so um on the public do Oh, we have to right. Okay. So, we are going to Well, you need to do public comment first. Oh, he did. Oh, okay. So, um, we are going to adjourn to return to close session. Um, I'll make a motion for that. Can I get a second, please? Second by member Smith. Uh, student member Wang. Yes. Okay. All
099those in favor? I all those opposed? 5 Z. We are going back to close session at 83. Thank you for joining us. to open session. Thank you. Uh can I get a second, please? Uh second by member Smith. Uh let's go ahead and vote. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Uh motion carries 5. Uh we want to announce that no actions were taken in close session. Uh now we want to um in our meeting this evening. So, can I get a motion for that? Okay, hold on. Members need motion. That's I had Yeah. Yeah. Stereo. Exactly. Um motion by members. Uh second by member Smith. All those in favor? I. All those opposed. Okay. Thank you everyone. Motion I mean motion carried. Meeting is adjourned at 8:27. Thank you.