TCUSD Board of Education Meeting - 04/09/25

001I am here here student board member Wayne here tonight is being digitally recorded And I will go ahead and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. So please stand over your heart. Ready to stands nationy for all. Thank you. We have any public comment on our agenda items for this meeting? Okay. So, uh on to the main portion of our meeting at this moment is discussion information items items that the board would like to discuss or information presented to the board. Uh these items do not require board action. And we're going to item six which is our board education members. We will have a discussion on our previous goals and information. I believe we go to Okay. So, um we have agreed to keep the same goals for this year and to continue the work

002that we have begun. And it's item 33. plan for the development and training of the board and uh basically we agree that we will share advocacy opportunities with each other and if they come up uh the superintendent's office will include them in our weekly update. Hold on. Excuse me. Those are last year's goals. Okay. You're saying them like they're this year's. We agree that we will last year. Let me let me let me clarify that. Thank you. So step where it says the board has agreed. That's from last year. and 56 that we were going to pursue partnerships to support district efforts and that includes everything from working with our chamber of commerce, the city of Temp City, further community involvement um you know increasing our uh marketing to potential families that are maybe interested

003in moving here. Uh for their partnership with local institutions such as City of Hope, uh Disney and further expanding our CT program, which saw that program as well as some others and also number 57, we have uh we are advocating on behalf of students and public education uh at the local, state, and federal levels. And and uh I believe that we have kind of accomplished that we attend these legislative action days for support for our district, state channels, local channels. Um, adopt more resolutions and writing campaigns to legislature that that would be helpful to our needs here and inviting state, county, city representatives to district events, which I believe we have as well. um and attending last meetings. I missed that last one. We were having city meeting so on that one. So my apologies

004for that. Uh and uh item 23 we had a discussion on how we how we agreed to bring up new ideas and I think we have done that throughout the year. Certainly seen that on a couple of our board meetings. So I think that is just basically a summary on a review on what our previous goals were. So now we can go ahead and look at our I think we're supposed to discuss it. Oh, are we supposed to Oh, you're right. Absolutely. Have a discussion discuss how we all think we did on them. Okay. Absolutely. So um Okay. Let's go with um So we have any comments from any of my fellow board members regarding that particular item and how I have a question for um so one of them we had was about the

005annual presentation to the chamber of commerce Mary did it last year have they approached us or we approach them. So they they come up with who their guest are and they approached us previously for us. I'm happy to drop a but um a question about that because this this goal is about plans for development and of the board. How did this particular goal end up in this one instead of like advocacy, right? Because it's not really training. Yeah. But and then also like um is there if we're talking about advocacy, I get why we have the chamber presentation. I get I get why, but I just thought it was strange to be under development and training of the board. include advocacy. I think it's like a I'm almost feeling like it's a partnership thing, but

006I don't know like it would be a 56 thing and it TC Chamber of Commerce is in 56 already, but not the presentation. But I get why like they don't want to repeat the same presentations or you know I kind of get it why they might like give us a pause for one year and then maybe come back like every other year do something it's possible might also just be times I mean they do I think it's also because I think 33 should have um the fact that we go to the education conference every year because that is board training and development. Yeah, I actually I know several chamber legisl You mentioned city district meeting just a few weeks ago this year services California budget workshops conventions for us local things back to school nights

007performing arts school assemblies. I know we're always short on that one, but that's a good list. But I think most of those are local. I think maybe where we fall short is especially at the federal level. I don't know. Other when we have Judy Chu at something if we talk to her. I don't know that we do anything at the federal level at the state level. Um I didn't I did not do the legislative action day this year because I was in Australia. I don't know if anybody else did, but I think there's probably more we could do on the state and federal level, which is pretty important considering that's where our funding comes from. Yeah, definitely the state. I was thinking about the presentation that we heard the um PTA March brunch. Um I

008feel like there's some really they get to talk to people um about specific things. Um and he talked very passionately about vouchers, the voucher systems issue. And so maybe we have an opportunity to um participate there in some way. Yeah. Through the PTA legislative branch that they have. invite them to our meeting. I do like talking to our person, but not where it's like a an event where you've got like 10 minutes and then they move on to somebody else or something else. I think if we had some dedicated time, you know, meet with our local representative. That would be great. But I think those are less likely to happen because they're so busy. Like when we have big city events, lots of times, but the legislative action day, that's exactly what you do. You're

009talking to the state legislature. specific education issue. Do you have to stick in those in those um in that type of event, do you have to stick to some type of agenda that somebody comes up with or you can talk about what's on your agenda? They have um certain issues that they come up with, the CSBA legislative action committee comes up with and then they ask you to uh give examples of how that affects your school district. So they kind of I guess hone in on some of the more critical issues and then they ask different districts to give input to the legislator about how that affects your district and when is it usually um at the same time every year when so in like February or March? No, it was March because I was

010in Australia. Yeah, it already happened. That's what I was gonna ask you guys. Part of the conversation last year was also being part of Y. Thanks. That counts. Yeah, maybe I would like to do that. When is that? It's in March also. So um you know some of these things that discuss right now it looks like it's partly part of setting the goals but not exactly share. Um, is there anything else here on this summary? Well, do we want to stick with the same goals, I guess, is the question. I mean, it seems like the advocacy thing is always a work in progress. Um, but how about the other ones? I mean, I I'm comfortable with them. I think the partnerships is an area where we still have room for improvement and I know we've

011made some headway with that but I think we could still keep working at it. Y agreed. And then the training and development is that one I think we always you know training should be a focus always I think just to always be um you know the best informed that we can be for ours I just think when we when we draft the new one we just probably want to re what's under here right now because I think it's more doesn't really talk to traination. So for an audience our board evaluates how each of us feel we accomplish our group and we give it like this. So we can talk about how's this framework that we derive from California has their copy here. You know, I'm extremely proud of the fact that we are almost practically

012green across the board with these different categories, but let's go through the categories one at a time. I think maybe that's the best way to approach it. See if there's anything we need to cover in those areas. The first section is conditions and first one calls for ask questions about unity. How are we functioning as a whole and I'm saying that we are in situations what we've been building this past year. We are very focused on our goal to support our students here in the city. Um does anybody have any comment in this particular area? Um I would just say that um I do think that we have pretty good board unity. We work well together. I think we have the same um you know focus um and we don't necessarily feel like we have

013to vote the same but it just so happens that our our own opinions align so that you know we we all feel like what's good for kids and we have the same ideas about what's good for kids. So that's why we do end up a lot of the time voting 50. But I think we all feel comfortable, you know, questioning things when we need to question them. Um, so let's go on to the next item, which is um our roles and responsibilities. And we have sorry. So um this category um really you know it's more of self-reflection about our responsibilities as board members and how we present ourselves in public but also within ourselves as we have these discussions. Um, and I want to say that our our scores are selling. Um, and uh, we

014do have a couple items here, but I don't know that there are anything that is to look at, but I will leave it to my billboard and see if anybody has comment. I think even on a perception you think it happened. Yes, this is true. You know, and this is why there is the five of us because we all have individual ideas and thoughts and you know, it's a collective of all of our experience and that's why we're here. So, um and next section is culture. Again, I think we have an excellent culture. I think we work incredibly well earlier. So I think discussed there uh foreign operations how we function we follow our policies by um clarifying for information before meetings of that sort of Next section, next section on effective governance is our

015our board meetings. Um I think that our our agendas do reflect our district priorities. Uh we do come to our meetings prepared. Um and uh you know great thank you to our incredible district because you really help us make it clear understanding. making decisions based on the data that you've given us. So, thank you so much for that. And uh the next item is board development. Uh and uh I think we touched on that a little bit in the sum summary about how we can continue to develop and train ourselves to become better board members uh to be uh more in touch and supportive of our students. And the next section is a little bit more specific about what our responsibilities are as board members. The first uh area is setting directions and uh so

016that basically talks about how we work collectively as a whole, how we adopt and measure these indicators to assess how we perform as a district, how we develop our mission, what programs it is that we want to adopt for uh our students. And and we look at this from a long range perspective, not just from the perspective and again our scores reflect that we are doing a great job and that's a big part as well with Dr. his staff giving us that opportunity to do that. I think I think it's I think number 36 it's what occurred to me when I was going over these is have a great relationship with PTA with other community groups but I think we can always look to see are there other community groups that might want to be

017involved in our decision making in town. We have the Asian businesses. We have different groups that might want to be part of the might I want to share their voice when we're looking for input. And so we have a great list now, but perhaps in the future we want to start inviting more more groups that are represented in our community to share their thoughts. We're looking I mean, like I said, our association with PTA is fabulous. They've been great support for us, but this would just expand voice of the community. Um, and next we have structure. Um, again, uh, you know, this is being fiscally responsible. Um, making sure that we take care of not just the students but also of our staff. I think we do really great job with that. And uh next

018we have support and our commitment basically we also touch on that right now. Support goes a long way and it's rather broad from everything from attending events to helping to foster a positive where we can continue to develop new ideas for our students. Next we have Yes, we do. Thanks to we are always able to progress our students and their benchmarks and all the success indicators that uh that are shared with us year in and year out. So, thank you for that and you know we're blessed to have an incredible community of students here as well as families. And the next item here is community leadership and of the items here are good. Item 57, I think we were touching on that just a moment ago about advocating more at the local, state, and federal

019levels. But I feel that as far as being visible to the community, of very and you know, we're here for you. We represent you and we hope to continue doing our job. So, That kind of summarizes our self evaluation for Can I make a comment one more one one comment on it before we move on? Just going back to structure. I I just wanted to it talks a lot about budget alignment and regular monitoring. And I just wanted to thank um Connie for all of her work and she you know she presents to us um gives us best case scenario, worst case scenario. I I trust the the the analysis um and um you know I appreciate your integrity and and your thoroughess. So thank you. Um one of the benefits of the evaluation is

020that it um makes us aware of opportunities for improvement. There's kind of a lot of green on here. So I I just want to say for myself and hopefully for everybody else here that this uh all this green doesn't limit us in our efforts to try to always do better for our students because they deserve the absolute best and just because we, you know, have a green evaluation, a good evaluation, we should not start stop striving to do the best job we can for our students. I don't think that any one of us can. I think inherently, you know, we have so much pride in what we represent here as districts that went through the district, longtime community members, students, but at the end of day, we take an incredible amount of pride in how

021we can help city and ideas of some of these kids involved. We can deliver It's really exciting. I think that's what drives all of us here at the table. So, um now that being said, uh you know, this report is available to the public through the link on our website and uh now we're moving on to item eight, which is setting new goals. And as you know, we kind of touched on some of those areas. Um and I guess a better question is we agree with that we are just going to continue with the current goals that we have. Is there anything that anybody wants to add to our current? I don't want to add another goal, but um like Melissa pointed out number 33 probably isn't quite in alignment. I think maybe what we

022want to have under there are um um things like uh we want to try to attend CSBA conferences. Um we want to uh participate in LAX these things where we can get more informed and more knowledge about how to govern. So maybe we need to change that a little bit. Anybody? No, you know, I think maybe sometimes I will be honest that um it's some sometimes a little bit more difficult to set goals for us uh on a on a granular level because uh Dr. Kuna and his team have done such an incredible job with helping our district move forward. So now it's kind of like what else can we do? What is next? I think that we're all kind of saying the same thing. How do we continue to do our task, our job

023to help our district? So, and I think we can all agree that we're excited about the prospects based on uh what we have here as a community, the culture that we have here. And a lot of it honestly is again some ideas. So we will continue with that as as time moves on. So uh if there are no other comments or suggestions, I suggest that we move to adjourn the meeting. Okay. So may I get a motion please? By member second by member. All those in favor. All those opposed meeting at 529. Does anybody need Does anybody need a quick break before we start? Wait a minute. We love an audience. district uh on this evening, Wednesday, April 9th, 2025. Um I will call the meeting to order at 5:31. First, we're going to do

024our standard roll call. Uh member Espinosa. Okay. Member Georgina here. Member Smith here. Member and I am here. Board member here. Next we have item three which is public comment on close session agenda items. Um do we have any comment on our close session agenda items or close session? Okay. Okay. So now we're moving on to our close session portion of our meeting. um were in accordance with government code sections 35491 54 956.7 through 54 957.7 and ED code 35146. Uh we uh will be discussing items that are specifically for close session and that includes personal matters, government code 54957, public employee appointment discipline dismissal and release or uh and item two, public employment, public employee performance evaluation title superintendent. Um and can I get a motion to adjurnn to close session, please? I'll move

025by second by member. All those in favor? All those opposed motion carried. We are in close session at 532. May I get a motion to reconvene into open session? Okay. Moved by member Smith. I'll second that. Okay. All right. Uh, all those in favor? I. All those opposed? Motion carries. We are back to open session at 5:51. Um, and uh, tonight's meeting is being uh, digitally recorded. Uh, next we have our pledge of allegiance led by none other than our student board member. Please stand. Put your right hand over your heart. Ready to begin to stand one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Please be seated. Sorry. Announcement of actions taken in close session. Uh no actions were taken in close session. Next, we have

026changes to the agenda. Changes to the agenda. Okay. May I then get a motion to approve our agenda this evening? I'll second. Moved by member, second by member Espinosa. Preferential vote. Yes. All those in favor? All those opposed? Motion carries. Next, uh we have we say this every week. We never get tired of saying this. Uh It is uh the best part of our evening uh during our board meetings is our special recognition and presentation section. Um first we have uh a presentation or recognition from our women's club of Temple City. Actually, can we change that? I I think we have a couple of students who may need to leave. So maybe we can do the uh reflections first. All right. Absolutely. Let's let's go ahead and do that. Okay. All right. So, let's uh

027let's switch up here. Let's have our PTA reflection winners up first. Okay. Um, good evening board of education members, our superintendent Dr. Kuna, cabinet, and good evening parents and students and TC community. My name is Maria Gardner and I am here representing Temple City Council PTA, our Reflections program. Um, our national PTA has a long-standing commitment to arts education. Reflections was created and founded 56 years ago in 1969. Reflections is a national PTA art recognition and achievement program that helps students explore and develop artistic literacy, increase confidence, and find a love for learning. This program provides opportunities. Can you guys hear me? For reflection, I mean for recognition and access to the arts, which boosts student confidence and success in the arts and in life. Each year, hundreds of thousands of students in preK through

028grade 12 create original works of art in response to a student created theme. This year's theme was accepting imperfection. The program first started with three categories: literature, visual art, and music composition. Through the years, more were added to include film production, photography, and dance choreography, which um a total of six categories. Within those categories are five divisions, starting with primary, which is prek through grade two, intermediate, grades three through five, middle school, grades six to eight, high school grades 9 to 12, and the accessible arts um which is our special aid. I have also some testimonials from parents and from one parent and from um some kids um around from around the country that I was able to find. For me, art acts as a means of self-expression and exploration, fostering creativity and cultural understanding

029in and out of school. It has a therapeutic effect and promotes mental well-being. This is from AA Ray who hails from Colorado. Um this person is Annabelle Martinez, a participant from California. She says, "When I participated in the reflections program, it fed my creativity. It made me feel like the arts were an integral part of what we did at school. It reinforced both my identity as a creative person and my selfworth." And this one is actually from a mom um from Colorado and her name is Joy Blackburn. She says, "I never imagined the terrific positive effect this contest would have on our family. I am writing this because I want you to know that this program truly makes in our in others lives. I know it did for us. It came at a time when

030it was it came at a time when it was so important for not only my son but our whole family to have something happy to talk about. It turned a difficult topic into something positive that he could share with others. Best of all, he learns that not only could he share his feelings about something difficult, but he could be rewarded for it. Um I just want to encourage and keep encouraging the students all of you guys um to continue creating and crafting your artistic side. Me I started this pro I mean I started um cheering this program at Emperor and I love love this program and it's near and dear to me and I always want to recognize the kids that participate in it. So it starts um the program actually starts at each school

031site and submissions and entries are due at the end of October and We have judges that come and judge your piece and then the winners are moved on to uh to council which is um council PTA and then from there um the outstanding interpretation winners move on to uh first district and then from first district to California state PTA and so forth and then national. So when I did it my first year at Emperor, we had a California state winner and she got to fly all the way to Sacramento, meet the governor and was recognized there and that was like highlight of my profession career. Um, and I want to preface this by saying, and now we're going to um, introduce and present our awards for students. And this is my favorite part. Um, first

032I want to preface this by saying that two of our um, attend attendees tonight, our recipients received their award at First District uh, PTA on March 22nd when they had their ceremony. And that would be Judy G uh, Gang, right? This cutie pie over here. She received the honorable mention um for dance choreography in the primary division. She's a first grader at London and she wore a really nice pretty red dress. I also showcased all of these pieces at our March brunch um last month and these some of our board members were able to see it. Our superintendent uh Mr. Lman and Miss Connie Woo and a lot of our board members so there and the principles were there to see it too and we're so proud of you guys. So thank you for your

033artistic talent. So Judy J. [Applause] We're gonna take a picture, a group picture. She's so cute. Okay. And next we have Emma Zong. She um received the award of merit for visual arts. Um intermediate division and she's a fourth grader at [Applause] London. Next we have Constance um was awarded the mer award of merit for literature in the intermediate division for fifth grade and she's from Emperor [Applause] And then we have Mason Hang from Longden. He who received the honorable mention for visual arts in the middle division and he's a sixth grader. [Applause] And then we have Paley Chi who received the honorable mention for photography and she is in the middle division in eighth grade at [Applause] Oak. And next we have Emily Lamb who submitted two pieces. She submitted a literature and a

034dance choreography piece. She was awarded um the award of merit for literature um at the high school. She is an 11th grader. [Applause] Chloe Woo, who couldn't make it tonight, but she did receive the honorable mention for visual arts and she is also a high schooler at in 12th [Applause] grade. What is your name? Um and then we have Daniel Woo who received the outstanding interpretation. This is first place. So he his moves on to the California state um competition and his was in film production and he is in 11th grade. Now I just Daniel I just want to tell you your piece moved and touched me. I was um yeah I cried when I watched it. So thank you for being your bravery and just your honesty and your raw talent. That concludes our

035support. Thank you very much. And you know I I just want to add that art is just like music. It transcends languages, cultures, borders. And u you know as a youth growing up here that was if I had a skill set that would have been it. And that really allowed me to adapt. So appreciate all these kids and all the wonderful stuff that they do. Um look forward to the work that they do in the future. Okay, next we have a presentation from u our amazing women's club of Temple City. Good evening. Thank you for having us. My name is Carol Rodenbucker. I'm the president of the Women's Club of Temple City. And this is Jennifer Pedza, our first vice president. And just to let you know, we're celebrating 100 years this year. We think

036we're the only club in Temple City to meet 100 years, but if anybody knows of another club, let us know because we'll we'll we'll chase we're going to chase that number. We are here to give awards to all of the schools. Um Typically, we give them a check and it takes a little while for their processing. So, last year after that episode, we decided to give the each school a $100 Amazon card. So, can we ask if the principles are here to come forward? I know there's a few of you. Oh, there they are. So, Myra is first because it's emperor. I'm going kind of alphabetically, but Emperor's the school, right? There you go. Hey, you're welcome. Oh, yes. Especially if my kids went there. Yes, I would do that. Cloverly, there you go. Thank

037you. Thank you so much, Larosa. Thank you. Hope you guys can use them. Longden. [Applause] I remember you from last year. Yes, of course. I'm memorable, right? Yes, I remembered you. Yeah, we, by the way, we used to have them come to the women's club and have lunch with us. And I know they loved it. Oh, yeah. They loved it. And and we gave them the $100 check, which of course we realized they couldn't cash, so they had to bring it into the district office. So this year, we were hoping to be a little bit smarter or maybe more techn technologically advanced, not me. Um, so this [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. And TCHS. I know who that is. [Applause] She had both my boys and still speaks to me, so I think it's pretty

038darn amazing. And the DDSLC, there you are. also known as my sweet Jessica. Thank you for having us tonight. I hope that this will help. We hope that this is a more efficient method and please don't hesitate to tell us if it doesn't work out for you because then we'll look for a plan C and or you can give us some ideas. So, thank you. Um we are celebrating this year December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day. We're going to have a 100year celebration slash community Christmas party. It's going to be at St. Luke and we'd love to have you come. Uh there is a cost involved. I'll just put that in there. But we'd love to have you come because we think it's a big deal that it's 100 years. So, hope you can come. Thank

039you for having [Applause] us. Hold on. Not yet. Almost got away. Where is everyone? Okay, that was wonderful. Thank you again to Women's Club Temple City for always supporting our schools. All right, next uh we have uh public comment on agenda and non-aggendaized items. And I see we do have some public comment uh here this evening. And I notice uh there are uh quite a few here that uh wants to discuss or share their thoughts on the food program. Uh I do want to remind those of you that um you know we we do try to u try to give everybody uh time to speak. Uh but we do you know have to limit it to three minutes per speaker, 20 minutes total for a specific subject matter. Um so I just want to remind

040everyone of that. But first uh this evening we have Uh, Miss Ela Pang from the office of state senator Sasha Renee Perez with us. [Applause] Good evening school board members, superintendent and everyone here. I'm Ela Penn, state senator Shasha Reni Perez, district representative. I just joined her office last month and I'm very new. Our office is in Pasadena and we have bilingual staff who can providing assistant in resources to your students and parents. I speak Chinese, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. And if you guys have any questions regarding state funding, please reach out to me. And if you guys hosting any events and would like to invite the senator to attend, please reach out to me as well. The senator recently presenting a bill to support school gardens and if you guys would like to have

041her to tour the school or have conversation with students, please reach out to me. Thank you. And a little bit background of myself, I have six years in local nonprofit and about five years in a local news outlet. Thank you and I look forward to working with you all. Okay. Next, um, and this is, uh, where I'm just going to call up, uh, folks, um, based on the order that these, um, inquiries were received. Uh, first we have Miss Melinda Zoo. Good evening, council me. Sorry. Good evening. And good evening everybody. On uh last Friday, right, last Friday we have a meeting with Connie W and Mary and uh we expressed parents concern about our school district food program and discuss how to solve the problem. The food provided are frozen precooked that look like

042low appetites. Sometimes there were ice in the food when children ate them. Some items were passed due day and close to the dday. Each item are packed with plast plastic that they are hard for children to open and eat them. Children do not like the food and waste a lot. The food portion are not enough that children still feel very hungry even they eat them all. The waiting line are too long that some children don't have enough time to get food or finish their eating. Parents complained many times already. But the food service make minimum improvement. Now it's time to make change. In our school district about 65 children are Asian. I did some research that there were only like 50% of students ate lunch at school in the school year of 2023 and 2000

043two 2024. We hope school district can provide fresh cooked meals. I own three P schools. I have more than 20 years experience of handling food program. Our school always offer fresh cooked meals. I shared my experience at the meeting with Connie and Mary. So, I hope I can help our children by becoming a vendor to provide fresh cooked meals which fully comply with all regulations of USDA. a US lady. I don't mind if I am chosen to be a vendor. We just hope our school district to offer fresh cooked meal to our children instead of order commercial made package from the cooperative purchasing group. It won't affect the employment of food service within our unified school district. We just hope to change the lender. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, next U we have

044uh Lisa. Okay, nobody. She just walked out. Okay. So I'm going to go ahead and uh move to uh the next person I have here uh Miss Sani. Hello everyone. My name is Sani. I'm the parent in Temple City and I have three kids. the the oldest one is in 12th grade and then is how ch and the second one and the third one is in crew and yeah I'm we are here to to ask him for change the lunch for our kids for my oldest son and although he he he is in 12th grade but actually when he is he was in oak he lunch but after he moved to high school, never eat lunch. Yeah, that's at first he uh he he tell us the portion is not enough and second the line

045is too long. It's very hard to get a lunch and third and he told me the lunch is is disgusting. He doesn't want to eat and that's cause three results. Number one, he always keep hungry. Wait until he go home at 3 afternoon, keep hungry the long time. And number two, uh they order food, but it's very expensive. You know, it's like $20 because they need to add the delivery fee. And number three, we need to spend time to prepare the lunch for them. Yeah. You know, it's Yeah, I'm an agent in the local and you know, the price in this area is like super high. most of them like over like 1 million and we need to pay the mortgage and the tax and like over like 6,000 per months the parent need to

046work like really hard to survive and keep us in this area and if we need if we need to spend more time to put lunch for them yeah it's like it's like a little bit hard for us and recently I heard from Donald and like only 50% of the student eat lunch in the Yeah, it's a very terrible number for for our school because um you know I just know like more people more student eat lunch and we can get money more money from the state. So why not we made a better lunch for our kids and earn more money for our school district. It made our school district like better, right? And you know uh as a parent we choose to keep in this area and pay the highly tax pay the highest mortgage.

047Yeah. We we we like to hear because the school district is very good and you know um we would like to we are kids have their like better future and healthy grow up very good. So that's why we keep here and we always we would like to tell like you guys the parent always here because we stay here we keep here we always willing to support our school district and like you know let our school district like better. So I I think like no problem cannot be solved right. It depends on would you like to solve the problem right? So um he already like have long time to find a problem of our lunch but still there the problem still there. So yeah, I I just want to say if the school help us to

048help our kids prepare good lunch and our kids like grow like healthy and the parent don't need to like spend a lot a lot of time to prepare the food for them. So we can have more time to support our school to be volunteer, right? To support more kids, right? Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh, next we have Miss Ningley or is it Mr. My apologies. Okay. I'm sorry, but um he's going to read his speech in Mandarin, his primary language, and I'm very limited. Any volunteers at translate? Okay, I'll try my best. Good evening everyone. Sorry for my poor English. Well, I don't make uh we move immigrant to America because we pursue better education in this country. We found some deficient uh education in China. That's why we're here. But when we

049move we here with some shortcomings here as well. Of course in education and the lunch and breakfast is one of the problem we found. So in the common uh sense or most people think the food safety problem as a as a big problem in China. Okay. So, uh from his experience, he used to working with um like more than like 50 schools, many schools in China and he know how they provide food, how they the company provide food for the meals in China for school. So um yeah uh he know the school in China they're very standardized uh or how to store the food, how to sanitize the the the the equipments. Yeah. equipment and they monitor uh all the process how they prepare prepare the food. They think uh the quality of food and

050the sickness uh is better compared China compared to here. And he um he want the other board members is more put more emphasize and more focus on the safetiness of the food and the development the the health of the kids rel It's hard to say because we need studies. Now he feel from his perspective he feel the development case here is not as good as now in China. So as as a new immigrant comparison both side Okay. His conclusion is if we do want make American great again, so the future is on our kids. Okay, that's the end of his presentation. Sorry, can I add a few word uh from my perspective? Um also a parents uh from the school districts. I have three kids. Sorry, but um I know it's one walk away. So

051maybe I have one minute. I do apologize. It's fine. It's fine. Maybe next time. Yeah. Thank you so much. Okay. All right. So, um just uh as a reminder, we have roughly about seven minutes left and I do have quite a few. So, just to remind everyone here to be mindful about that time. Uh next we have Good evening, President Bell, board members Espanosa, Smith, Virginia, and Temple City administrators. My name is Roxanna, and I was here two years ago to talk about Temple City School lunch. Thank you for helping to make the lunches better by offering the kids more variety, but we currently still have problems. We asked our TC community if were happy with the school lunches yesterday. In 24 hours, we have almost 500 parent signatures asking for change, which is about

05210% of our student population. About two months ago, a survey was put out by Temple City High School asking the students where they would like to see improvements. The main concern was Temple City High School students was again their lunches. Most of the time, the kids do not eat the school lunch and wait until they get home to eat. That's about seven hours without eating anything. I'm not able to concentrate on an empty stomach. A concerned mother told me to read the following to you and about her son's school lunch. I'm a sixth grader at Cloverly Elementary. On April 8th, 2025, I went to lunch and saw it was mac and cheese, usually dry and stuck to the plate, so I passed. I got a grilled cheese instead. While joking around with friends, one of

053them accidentally knocked over his mac and cheese, but it didn't even fall out of the container, which says a lot. We He only took two bites before throwing it away. When I finally looked at my grilled cheese, the cheese inside was brown. My friend choked and I almost ate it and pretended to throw up. I didn't eat anything except for the milk. During PE, I had a hard time running and my stomach was grumbling all the way home. Lunch is usually bad and as a result, my friends and I skip lunch a lot. We believe Belinda's offer to provide guidance on how to offer freshly cooked meals for students is wonderful news. We hope a meeting can be created between all families of Temple City that couldn't attend tonight. Food services, Belinda, and the district

054on how we can make our kids lunches better. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right, looks like we uh fortunately have time for one more and we do have three here, but uh you know, we want everyone to know that you know, we are here to listen to you. So, you know, wait also until after the meeting is over perhaps. Um, next we have uh Vicki and I'm sorry. Hi. Um, my name is Lee and I'm I have two kids at city school district. Um, I just want to say we are requesting for a change now. Um, we would like to look into not having San Diego Valley Co-op as a purchasing center because they have highly processed food products that's offered to the school. And we we want we want we already offer

055our own fair share of pizza parties, McDonald's, you know, when when we treat our kids that they ask once a month or, you know, some once a week. We don't want to be feeding our kids these type of food every day, you know, like hot dog and hamburger. Um we want better quality food, less processed food because it's not healthy. It's not. And We have to look at longterm health issues in the United States, not just, you know, oh where they're fed right now, but not a lot of kids are eating these food. That's the thing. We hear a lot of comments from doing the petition. A lot of kids are waiting to be at home because they don't want to eat lunches. Um, and we had um we have not just coming from us,

056we hear a lot of comments from staff that had seen the And they tell us the food right now is very poor. It is very poor. That that is a fact. With the percentage that you guys see um about 50% of the kids are eating that food, you know, um whereas we can get more funds, you know, I don't know how much funds you get, but um I think you would have 2 million versus 4 million of the potential funds. That was the figure that for with Connie and ourselves. So, um you know, we're we're just simply offering a plan. We don't want to cut back any workers. We just want to change the vendor. We're not proposing that, you know, we just we just want a different option. We you don't have to choose

057Belinda. You just find other options, fresh cooked vendors like that would actually prepare food, real food to the kids. Um And we lastly want to welcome you like to have a meeting with the superintendent and even the manager to come up with a plan with us. We work as a team. We are from a lot of parents are from PTA willing to offer our time. We are willing to you know do a lot of um fundraising activities for the school because we our kids education. We want them to grow successfully and we want to, you know, do what's best for the kids. Thank you so much. Thank you for your time. Um, now, um, in respect to everyone who sent up sheet to make a comment, we do have one left, so I think finish

058this out. Uh, and this would be the last one for our public comments. Uh, we have Mr. Scott Porter. Hi, I'm Scott Porter. Nice to meet you. Uh, I'm here wearing two hats basically. Um, I put three kids through this school. I've worked here for 25 years. I put three kids through this school. Um, food has always been an argument since they were in school. The thing was is that if they didn't like what was being served on that day, we made my ex-wife or I made something that they could take to school and not worry about getting something they didn't want to get on. All three of them went through the school with no problem. My ex never thought for one minute to go to the school district and say, "Hey, we want to

059change the menu." That was an option that we had was to get food for them. It was also at a time where you had to pay for food. Now the food is free. It's given to all the students. So there are options out there for children. like to eat school food instead of just overhauling the school lunch program because they don't like the food because there are options. If there were no options and that's what you have to do but there are options. Uh secondly, I worked for the school district. I worked for food service for 25 years. I've watched how food service has transpired through the years. I've had four different directors. I've had We had a company come in Sedesco came in for three years and ran the ran the food service. So

060I've seen how how the program has gone. If I just I just think that to try and overhaul a whole system isn't the way to do it. There's there are other options besides overhauling the system. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you everyone for coming and sharing your thoughts with us this evening. All right. Next, uh we have uh community updates. And I do have a couple of things I want to share. Uh first is uh the theme contest for the 2026 Camila Festival is ongoing now throughout the month of April. And uh the winner will receive a $100 award and to ride in next year's parade. So, I think that's wonderful news. I think hopefully our students are interested in uh taking part in that. Uh next, uh this coming Sunday, April 13th,

061from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., uh Temple City Historical Society, uh museum will be open to the public. Um and uh if you haven't bought that book, I recommend that you do. Um and it will be followed by their general meeting uh which will include a uh presentation about our district's u incredible wa program that some of us most of us got to see yesterday and uh as was mentioned by uh Mrs. Garner and we'll feature u some incredible artwork from all of our schools. So uh hopefully some of you have time in that Sunday late morning the early afternoon to stop by and join them. Um, and that's what I have this evening for community updates. Uh, next we have bargaining unit comments. First we have CSA 823. Anybody? Good evening everybody. My name

062is Jaz Thomas. I am a member of the Tennessee Blue Collar 823 Union. I'm also their board secretary. We we just had a meeting yesterday with our blue collar union to read over some of the bargaining that um notes that we had from our meeting we had a couple of months ago and we did have an unanimous vote of the comfort of what we agreed upon at the negotiation table. Um our members all work with various hats as well. Some of them substitute within different areas of the blue collar union. We try our best to make sure when we negotiate at the table, it makes it easy for everybody, no matter if they're working food service for part-time as well as being uh a custodian certain hours of that same day that all their work

063positions are respected and are also looked upon and given with the right type of guidance so they can be able to work proficiently in their district. On behalf of our union, we do want to thank you guys very much for having the time for us to sit with us and be able for multiple meetings because we had more than one or two and were able to come to negotiation with language that was able to work with not just that it was clarified and understandable by our members, you know, because we have multiple languages as well in our union, but that it can be clear enough as well for the rest of our departments here at the school district so that we can continue to work well together and our staff and our students the type

064of care and work that we do in our union. Thank you guys and hopefully we'll be able to negotiate with you again next year. Thank you so much. Uh next we have uh City Education Association. Hi Miss How are you? Okay, next we have uh CSEA 105. Hi, how are you? All right, next we have district updates. Uh first uh we have business services. Good evening board and good evening and parents. Good evening executive and committee member and union leaderships. So um the district has applied FEMA assistant for the January 7 strong damage and we have met the FEMA representative and California office of emergency service representative. We have several meeting and uh we starting going to have a regular Monday morning meeting. Our application has already submitted in the system and it is a

065very extensive long process. We require a lot of documentation and and backup information. But you know the district try to capture every possible funding we can receive. So this part of funding will be support part of the cost which our JP will not claim because JP not for our insurance purpose. So they will so I will keep the board um updated for progress. I attend the LEO and public affairs workshop in preparation for our own bond issuance. And during the um presentation we have a big Mac representative share the um summary of the state budget situation and basically our state revenue have um risk due to the uh influence of the economic condition federal policy and impact California. So uh the governor will release a new revision next month and we uh we have assigned

066for the workshop and it will be at district boardroom on May 21st. working to um so um my first is um I want to thank um and call me and schedule meeting with me and I really appreciate their time and they spend a lot of time to do research and especially you outside and you and I'll try to get information and thank you very much for work and I share with you that I already so I think our goal is we want to feed our kids we want kids and also the district will follow the state regulation rule and then department of health regulation so our goal But the approach because we have a we as a public agency regulation is little bit different from outside even including private sector and nonprofit organization. So unfortunately

067we could not our standard and we could not certain process and then sorry because all agencies. So that's so I also realize that there is lack of communication that is the job we all for example um our parents didn't realize that if our kids need more food if they have problem food on a single day. They are welcome to talk to our cafeteria staff. So today I was at and the kids looking for more food and then our cafeteria manages to help without any question. So I appreciate that. So this is we will continue to the communication and then we will continue for example our survey we are not only including serving our kids we also want have principal we will schedule regular meeting with our parents we also want to have to speak or

068talk our principles. So we we will increase our feedback from various resource so that we make sure that our feedback is not across all and and also um we had one speaker regarding new and I also want to share with the board the new family which I heard without okay we do have family immigrated from um the United States. This is the first time the kids come to school. The kids the family they when they were in China they top notch private school in China. The parents tell me the kids never eat lunch in China school even if they meal price. But the kids love our food in the school and the kids is actually anxious from school want to stay. So there's a different opinion but um again our job is not depends uh

069as our job taking control. So there's a lot of work to do communication and then um I have already talked to my director our menu we will revisit our um the orders and the items we we select. So again we will continue work with the PTA we partner them and theycluding her wisdom for the fresh cooked meal. I think we we do need to balance our financial responsibility and the food we um offer the district fund for the meal service depending on the number of meal we serve to the you know all the district all the food service I supervis never ask And as far as I know that the district has mentioned to me that district has general payment. What that mean is if the district general fund support our meal which mean that

070we have to take the the money the district support the classroom supplies everything we have to put back to me. So we have to balance our service. But again the the improvement plan we already discussed even if my meeting with the parents last Friday we already discuss what is our changes in the next year. So, so um we will continue to work, we will continue have a communication with the parents group and then make sure that um we will explore the um fresh cooked meal concept and during the meeting I suddenly realize there is a culture um you know element in this conversation because I'm a Chinese I understand what parents need. So we will continue um understand just um address what is our culture Chinese group what their special culture because our kids never

071have ice water. So they always like the warm drink. So that is just just but we will keep that. So I know it's a little bit longer but we will and improve communication and thank you for sharing that. Next we have services. I have a couple announcements tonight. The first one is I'm excited to talk about our dual enrollment offerings for next year. So we continue to expand our program with PCC. Um has done a great job um with Elena at TCHS. We've surveyed our students and it looks like for the 25 26 school year we'll have three tracks that our students are interested in. Um so we'll have fall and spring courses. There'll be a winter interession course that's related to the track we have in that time period but working on different offerings

072but the three tracks we have are gaming architecture and fire technology. to see how this is going to work out. The we don't have students in those courses yet. The requests are just coming in. Um but I'm excited to see what they look like for another exciting piece with the dual enrollment Carlos who works at PCC in conversation with him. He's very excited to offer campus. So I spoke with Jessica today. She has a meeting set up with so I'm not sure what we'll offer but there will be at DDSC for our students. Um within all that our students at the DDSC are eligible to take DCS in the evening but just having something for our kids who are here for them. So it's really exciting. Um state testing which is not always really exciting

073but it is something that we do. So state testing started this week started this week at the high school and math for our 11th graders. Um over the next couple weeks um all of our students from third through 8th grade and then the 11th graders will take and math. We also have part of that testing this year is science. So at the high school our 12th graders will take it and then grades five and eight as well. So science is a little bit different than TLA and math but it's still exciting to see where our kids will place with the new curriculum that we as our teachers get better at delivering the new curriculum, we should see those scores begin to change. Um, and then finally, I don't want to talk about the event last

074night. I know you guys will, but I wanted to officially thank Lacy and Gilbert. What we've done, what they've done with Rihanna, and we include in that as well, is they're changing school. So, they called me up there, embarrassed the life out of It was two years in the making. So within that group, we have to thank um Jack Taylor as well. So Jack and Kristen Shore came to me three years ago and said, "What are we doing?" And so this is the people. So those of you audience, your babies are amazing. what we saw last night. Yes. Couldn't agree with you more. Thank you so much. All right. Doesn't look like we have uh any updates with human resources. So, let's go ahead and move to board member comments. And this evening, I'd like

075to start with Thank you. Um, I've attended a lot of activities recently. I attended the Cloverly Steam night. Um, I also attended the Encore presentation which was the 60th anniversary of the Temple City High School Musicals and it was absolutely outstanding. And I was kind of hoping maybe at some point we could recognize the people who worked on that because they did not get paid for that. That was a volunteer thing. And um it was just really remarkable, especially for me the the most touching part was to see the kids who were in Newsies finally get to perform in front of an audience. It was very touching and so um I enjoyed that a lot. I also enjoyed Anything Goes. Um another great musical put on by our staff. I participated in a a WASK

076meeting for the Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center. So, I hope I helped them out and contributed, but I guess we'll find out. Um, I also attended a joint meeting with the city council. Our whole board did that. Um, so it's been what, eight, nine years since we've had one and we've decided that we want to try to do them annually. So, hopefully we will be meeting more often with the city council and working together um for the better of the community. I attended the uh Emperor Caesar Chavez assembly. Uh the student of the month program put on by the Quantis Club. Uh PTA had a brunch here um that was mentioned um last month. Um and I attended the student and business recognition for the professional pathways partnership program. Um that's a new program that

077we do with the chamber where our high school students um go to various businesses throughout the community and learn about what they do and um get experience that way. Um and then I attended the BAPA showcase last night and it was awesome. I really I was so proud of our district to put on something like that. It was very good and and I know you were embarrassed, Richard, but you deserved it. So, thank you for all your hard work on that. Um, and I'll just add um that Rihanna Siri is going to be the teacher speaking on Sunday at the um uh historical society um general meeting at 2 PM. So, if you'd like to hear more about the BAPA program, she will actually be the speaker there. So, um, congratulations to Stephen Chi and

078Nolan Cow who are two most recent ROC scholarship recipients and we had a article in the uh, San Gabriel Valley Tribune about our three students that received scholarship. So, that was really great. Um, congratulations to Haley, Ryland, Ethan, Erin, and Neil who participated in the 2025 Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair. And I believe Neil got first place and he's going to be moving on. Um, also our TCHS band members um placed first in Temple City's Got Talent. So, congratulations to them. Um, drum line boy um they were first place in a local circuit against 67 other schools. And then they won on the same day they won the WGI, which I don't know what that means, West Regional Championship. Um, and I believe now they're in Ohio right now. So, we'll keep our

079fingers crossed for them. Winter Guard placed first at a competition at Glendor High School and at and in Baldwin Park. Our science Olympiad team placed seventh at a competition at Cal and then they were first in regionals. Yay. And they're moving on to the state competition. Um FBLA was fifth uh in regional and we have 34 members that qualified for state. I'm sure Lexi is going to tell us more about that. Um Se Perch had a competition and placed second. And one of the most impressive things I've heard in the last uh couple months is we had two children at Cloverly on Pi Day who recited over 300 numbers each. It's totally amazing. So congratulations to them. And the last thing I wanted to say is if you've looked at our agenda, you might have

080seen that we received um several um donations from the Chameleia Festival. And the goal of the commu chameleia festival is to support the youth in our community. Um so not only do the chameleia does the chameleia festival provide our school groups and clubs with opportunities for fundraising, but when we have a profitable year, we donate that money right back to the groups that participate in the schools. So, um I don't know that very many people realize that we do that, but um it's a really um I think a a great thing that goes on here in this community. Um and I want to encourage everybody to always get involved in the Chameleia Festival because it pays off. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next, I am up next. Okay. Um, so I'd like to congratulate

081all of our reflections winners this evening. As I've said before, you know, art, music, they're universal. And uh, I'm so glad that more and more of our students are continually getting involved in it. And uh, you know, talking about all of our longstanding organizations here in the city, the women's Historical Society, Chameleia Festival, uh, our school foundation, these are the organ that have supported all of our students since I was a student. So, and uh and it it is the fabric of what represents us as a community here in Temple City and and it's something I want to thank everybody who is involved in all those organizations. It's it's it's so incredibly meaningful for all of our students. Um and yes, like to congratulate our ROC students. Glad to see there's more of them because

082I think that there's an opportunity there for our students uh who find it to be a fit sort of way to higher education. Um there's absolutely nothing wrong with that and I think there's a lot to learn. Um and uh I believe they're all going to come out. So I I'm so excited for them. Um the encore musical again we talked about BAPA it's one circle it's one weave it ties together um I may have mentioned more than once that you know I was once a student here and taking part in festival and seeing those generations is it was incredibly touching so um and and maybe that's more personal for me but I believe a lot of folks in the audience felt the same way uh and God that We should have that every year,

083although we probably can. Uh I I would go, okay, I would go watch it, you know. I mean, I never participated in uh the musicals as a student, but you know, I certainly remember going to them, you know, and enjoying time with with with my friends. So, um the joint city meeting uh between uh city council and us, I think was truly productive. I think it help better. um in in the years ahead. Um yes, uh regionals, that was the first time at PCC. Um and uh you know, our high school now has two teams. Both came in first and second. Uh they're heading into state competition this Saturday. Um and I would not like to say that this is their last competition. One day I'm going to say it's not. So I'm looking forward

084to that when that gets there. Uh so both our Oak Avenue and our high school teams are getting ready for competition. A week later I stopped by PCC for their inaugural ribbon cutting for their new Armen Sarafian STEM building. It is amazing. It's fivetory STEM focused building focused on biomed and chemistry. I mean you know I didn't want to leave the building. Uh but that's me. Yeah. Yeah. But it's certainly truly inspirational uh because you know you have an institution um as well regarded as PCC uh forging a hand and and and understanding the needs of this region, this community and the students with this community and what they can bring to them in those areas. And those are areas that again I I believe we're going to need more in the future to help

085us build our society. Um so um you know certainly it's inspirational for you know what's hopefully potentially come here at our district. Um and I got a chance to meet a lot of folks um so looking forward to more conversations about opportunities. Yes. Yes. You should see the most people won't understand what I'm talking about. Okay. I'm okay. So um anyway uh and yeah the yesterday again it scares me four years from now our musical with those kids I mean and the vocal talent elementary it's just ridiculous it's just so uh and and everybody involved and you can see how we're building that culture at every elementary school with all these very specific disciplines I don't know if that's the right word but um maybe it is so uh time tomorrow we start our film

086shoot at the high school you know, upcoming commercial. So, we're kind of excited about that. The two day event first day is we show them what we do with our solar solar car team. And then the next day we uh or a group of kids forunate kids get to visit the beach grand sponsored by US Army STEM and produced by NBC Universal. Um but they get now to see what they're working on their project. Again, all of this is to inspire our students to see that many ways, many paths to career beyond just a fouryear university. There are so many ways to get there. You just have to have the heart. You have to want to go there. You have to want to accomplish something. So, um, and yeah, it's going to be a busy

087weekend night on Friday state competition on Saturday. I'll be happy after Saturday. And that's it for me this evening. Thank you so much. Next, we have Thank you. Um I I'll try to be brief, but I would like to start off by talking about the encore presentation and the anything goes program. I talked to Sher's wife said, "How did they get that done?" And they did things individually they planned that out in the first time they really got together. presentation musical sorry so it was quite quite fantastic when you think about that um uh I also as we all did participated in the joint meeting with the city of Temple City media center the high school we talked about a lot of a lot of things most notable of which was the e situation by

088students who travel to and from school and often dangerously riding on the sidewalks long way side of the And I would just add that I mentioned several weeks back I think probably close witnessing some three young men I guess I'm using that term liberally on one ebike stop sign around cars and how they did that I don't know but they had one student was in the front wheel axle one student back wheel axle one steering the thing was hard to see through people but the reason I mentioned that is because Yesterday afternoon picked up my son from school again and there were three kids on eBay. So I hope something happens soon to correct the situation because I'm afraid doesn't something that happens. Um, we just need to address these issues. Uh, on the 18th,

089I attended the city of Temple City reorganization meeting. Congratulations to our new mayor, Cynthia Stern. And on the 19th, I attended students of the month. Always really great. Thank you, Jerry. I attended the Emperor open house on the 25th. Great turn. food trucks all lined up in that half circle. Huge crowd there and all the classrooms were really nicely done. Enjoyed that time. Also had a chance to attend the showcase last night out. Anyway, so that was really great. Um, I'd like to congratulate tonight's honores who were recognized for women's club and reflection. And then tomorrow night is the elementary band concert at 6 concert at 7 TCHS and then some other things coming up 5:30 to 7 on the 11th which is Friday. Sadly, our funeral service coming to all of us what happened

090there and then looking forward to Golden Apple program. I don't know how I did that. I was there last year, too. I get it twice. Okay. Sorry. Um and then looking forward to the family literacy night at Long Friday, excuse me, next week on the 16th. Um we participation. Thank you so much. Next we have Good evening everybody. Um I want to start off by um recognizing um paraprofessional day. Um I I know it was not too far um in the last few weeks but I want to recognize it today. Um I think that pair professionals play a critical role with some of our most vulnerable students and so I thank you for all your efforts. Um and you are your efforts are much appreciated. I also want to echo all my fellow board members

091recognitions to all the students that have been working really hard achieving some great things not only um in our community but outside our community at the state level um at the national level. The the kids here are amazing and we're so proud. Um definitely I'm so proud. I also want to um bring awareness to the fact that the month of April is sexual assault awareness month. And um I'm hoping that we can maybe um recognize denim day on April 30th. And um basically wearing denim signifies that there is never an excuse for sexual assault, including what a woman wears. So um I would like to recognize that and maybe at our next meeting we can all wear denim. I will um attendance uh I went to the musical fantastic the acting is of a level

092that I don't think I've seen um and the um performance overall was really really great um encore was um heartwarming and touching and I did cry um because I was there the day that they found out that they would not be for newsies Um, and it was uh a very very sad day. Um, and to see them on that stage just really warmed my heart and um I was emotional about it. Um, I also went to the I I went to obviously the the joint meeting I was there and the ebike situation. I would just say this I would only add this to member Smith's comments that there is for parents there is a lot of There are a lot of resources out there to share with your children to help them understand the need

093for safety and what you know what is the requirement. There are laws that apply to um riding ebikes and you want to make sure that your child is in compliance with those laws and that they're safe. They're there for their safety and it's really important for not only the children to know what those rules and laws are but you as a parent to know what they are and to ensure that your child is complying um to keep everybody safe. So, I would that's all I would say about that. Um and then I do want to express my condolences for the loss of our Contras and his wife. Um he will be missed here and um that's all from and finally uh we have Thank you. Um I sitt there at Encore. It was just I

094think I I started crying ahead of time because I was sitting behind Jessica and she told me that her son was going to be singing a solo that his father had sung in Camelot many years ago. So I I had already the tears had already started before it start before the show even started and then they just continued throughout the show. But it was just an amazing afternoon. the evening before we went to anything goes and I was just it's just amazing to see the quality that our students have been able to show for 60 years of musical theater. It's just totally amazing. It's they're they're so professional on that stage and it was really a wonderful weekend. Uh thank you again to the women's club for supporting our and PTA for recognizing our students

095tonight. The last young man we had a chance at the PTA brunch to see his video which was most amazing video. It was about mental illness but it's there's a link that they can link so people can see his work is really amazing. Um after the joint u meeting I know Several of my fellow board members mentioned the information we got from the sheriff about ebikes and living on Temple City Boulevard when the students are leaving for lunch. I see a lot of not great rule following. Um, in fact, there was one across the street that uh he waited for his girlfriend to catch up with him. She ran up, jumped on the back of the eBike to go for lunch. Apparently, I was really much more aware of the danger of how some students

096writing. So, I think a big part of as several my board members mentioned is there has to be some information so these students don't end up as a casualty casualty. Um I'm just very quickly going to congratulate the students who um in so many different areas the writer side members who went and performed at Carnegie Hall winter guard drum line science olympiad our students who placed at the LA County Science and Engineering Fair. Congratulations to the three students, excuse me, who have earned NOTC scholarships for a total of more than $500,000 in scholarships. On a personal note, my oldest grandson just awarded one of those two weeks ago. So, I know how proud those families are of their students earning those scholarships. And I also want to thank those students who will be serving our

097country after they finish college. Uh thank thank you to our professionals, our librarians, and our assistant principles. who have helped them celebrate recently. Um, last week I attended Longd's multicultural night. Um, and it was really great to see so many their lunch shelter was absolutely packed. Uh, they had it was a sunny day. It rained a half hour before it started and half hour after it started. They had little break and they managed to get their multicultural night out. Um they've been hosting that event for several decades now and um our district really represents so many different um just dozens of nationalities and cultures and I think one of the reasons our district is so special is the way that we welcome and celebrate families to our district. um to be really to be full

098and contributing members of our district, not just our district, but the community as a whole. And multicultural night is a really wonderful uh opportunity to celebrate the diversity that we have in our in our district. Uh last night I also enjoyed the showcase of those students were just really amazing and it was a result of our um spending our arts money very well. Our teachers did a fantastic job and um there were some of the students soloists that we that I listened to and I thought, okay, that student's going to have the lead in the high school play in a few years. They were just really amazing talents already. Lastly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of Art and Paris. Um, Art served our district for many years and he really was

099a true leader of CSA 823 and he was a gentle man and he was a good man. So, our rest in peace. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, we have student board member comments. Um, thank you. Um, I wanted to start off my comment by quickly briefly introducing my fellow um, ASU member Xavier Munos. He's going to be taking over my position soon and he's amazing. He's so kind. Um, he's a junior right now and it's it's April and he's already here to kind of um, just take in what his new job is going to be next year and I mean he's so passionate about it and I'm sure he'll do amazing. And um so a lot of um exciting events are happening and our 2025 prompting was revealed um at the Sadi Sades

100Dance last Friday which is a dream come true located at the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday, May 17th from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. And a lot of people were really confused on um how a prom is going to work at at a zoo. But um yeah, um we got a little bit of clarification yesterday from our activities community that it's not going to smell. Um that's the that's the biggest concern that people had. And it's going to be outside, but um the animals are going to be um kind of with us, but um obviously like behind maybe like a like a glass or something. Um, and also the giraffes are going to be in by by sunset. So maybe we get to um have a photo op with them. I'm not entirely sure right now,

101but it's really exciting. It's definitely unique. Yeah. And Temple City's um annual spring concert is um the Chaos of Music is tomorrow, Thursday, from 7 to 8:00 p.m. in the TCH's gym. And it is completely free to watch. So I invite everyone watch tomorrow. It's going to be amazing. And ASV is going to be filming a commercial with the Navy on um hosted by NBC which is showcasing the STEM opportunities and we're going to be the extras in the back. So, if you guys see us um you guys can let us know um that you guys knew us before we were famous, so you guys can say that. Um, and congratulations to TCH's drum line who finished first and became the WGI West region champions and they received bronze in the SCPA championship this past

102weekend. And to Winter Guard who earned first and to our science Olympiad team who also placed first at regionals and would be moving to the state competition in April. And also congratulations to our model UN at our high school who competed at the SGV MUN number two sweeping five awards. Yeah. And our FBA California state conference is going to be held um on April 24th to April 27th in Anaheim. So, and oh yeah, and our annual Mr. TC show is coming up um on Tuesday, April 15th in room 601 at the high school. and you can come watch nine of our senior boys perform their talents and pickup lines. Um, tickets are $10 and can be purchased from an ASP or PE member or at the door. And regarding the PCC dual um enrollment courses,

103I'm just I just want to say really quick how I'm really glad that it's it's being more um widely um accepted, not only accepted, but implemented into our school now because um personally, I've taken dual enrollment courses for more than two years now. So I started I think in 2023 spring and I can honestly say that these dual enrollment courses either um taken at the high school itself or PCC they have helped me tremendously in um kind of preparing for how to study um for a college course and it's definitely different than um how you would study for a high school course. So I think it's really important for to have this opportunity on campus and off campus um for our students. So you can trinkle some of your um dual enrollment courses with your

104schedule and like that it's really easily integrated and it's really easy to kind of get used to that um college get to that level. And um regarding the school lunch, um I wanted to give my two cents on this. Um it's it's obviously a two-sided um subject, but um I personally know a lot of people who run to the school lunch um every single time and even before the school lunch even the bell even rings. Um a lot of people a lot of people enjoy the school lunch from what I've seen and if they don't if they don't enjoy it, it's on some certain days. And I would say for the days that they don't enjoy it, it's mostly um more of the really processed foods. So, for example, the um the peanut butter and

105jelly um the really heavily like packaged kind of foods are not as enjoyed as let's say um crisps or the hamburgers, which are more kind of fresh and hot. And I know school lunches are free and we also do offer free snack as well which both of them have amazing fruit salad vegetable options not a not a snack but our lunch has um a salad option as well so there are definitely a lot of healthy options available for us right now but we can do better in I would say the processed food category and yeah that's all I have so thank you thank you so much for sharing that with us We have superintendent. Thank you. Um, so obviously I mean you guys have already talked about it. We've had a lot of loss within

106our district over the last few months. Obviously the individuals we missed, but I do want to say thank you to folks who had to step in and fill those roles and duties while also grieving. I just appreciate stepping in our special education office. I just I know that it is that much more during these situations as well. So I appreciate them doing that. Uh Dave Dickiy's class today got to visit our construction site. So the students took a tour with our construction company. They've actually had presentations within Dave's class from some of our contractors as part of their uh class. But uh today they got to tour some of the stuff that was taking place today. They were all very good. Um, I know you probably have been watching the news the last couple of

107days, weeks. Um, and there is just a tremendous amount of uncertainty within our economy. Um, and hopefully for those of you who have 401ks, you're not looking at those 401ks. But, uh, the reality of it is these decisions impact us as well. We don't know what's going to happen with future funding. One of the things that we were we were kind of just okay like we were gonna we presented about the bond and everything was going to be good and you know we needed those proceeds to finish our project and now here we are a couple weeks later and it's like maybe maybe we have to consider some options. So I app Steve Financial sharing some options with us. Uh should uh should things change with not not necessarily going out for the bond but

108releasing the remaining proceeds that we are able to but maybe some options to fill in any basance option that could save us some money. We'll see. we don't have to do anything today again. We shall see and I will keep you guys posted on that front. Um I would like to thank our parents for coming in and for speaking on our food program and also for acknowledging the fact that there has been improvement uh but there is need for further improvement and we understand that. We know that. Um and I also appreciate our parents uh you know wanting to work together with our food services program to you know help create some of that change. So uh we will do everything we can. I agree with me when she shared there's there's always room for

109improvement regardless of what we feel like we've done there's always so we will continue to do so and then finally I do want to speak about the program uh last night and not so much with regards to how great the program it's just understanding a little bit about what our intent was with this program. And so really what you saw last night was just the tip of the iceberg, right? Like if you can imagine every single one of our K through six students get to experience something. The students who performed last night were just the ones who take part in our after school. But every single one of our students gets some exposure. And the reason why I bring that up is something that's important is two points. One, I really do feel that it's

110important for us to try to find that students may not ever know where it just by experiencing something, you know, within music, dance or art. Maybe that's the path they start to go down that they never realiz. And the other thing is when you look at the smiling faces yesterday, not only of the kids but parents, I really do feel like those opportunities help to improve the social emotional well-being of our students and give them an opportunity to be connected somewhere. So, in a perfect world, we would find a connection for every one of our students. And I know that that is not possible all of the time, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to try. And so, I really do appreciate all of the different offerings that we have. And I think, you

111know, this is just a testament to not just our staff, but our families for participating in it and our board making these really special nights and musicals and everything else. It was I saw Matt Buyers there. I think he was scouting his summer musical. But it really was a a phenomenal program and we talk all the time about getting the right people in the right places. I feel like as part of our stew. I do love it when I never know how it's going to work, but this one. Next, we have written communications. It does not look like we have any communications this evening. So, let's go ahead and move to the discussion. item portion of our meeting items that the board would like to discuss or information presented to the board. However, these items

112do not require. First, uh in ed services, we have our review of our Williams complaint quarterly summary for January 1st, 2025 through 31st, 202. Okay. Next, uh we have item 22 in business services. Uh we have information on the adoption of resolution 2425-25 authorizing the issuance of Temple City USD election of 2012 general obligation bonds series and actions there too. As you recall that on the February board meeting and Steve our bond financial advisor from California financial service he um provides the picture for all the measure s which was the committee member v 128.8 million and then we had issued three series and now we are planning to issue the four which is called series D and this series will issue um including his current interest bound as well as the capital B so require

113to have two consecutive one is information about this issuance try to finish as Dr. mention our project. So really is we think that finish this project at this time it will save the cost of a project with the inflation with the tax issue and they um it is good way and also our students deserve that. So um students join me today and they will answer any question have and we um the information for the next meeting Title board as part of the code requirement is adopt the resolution and also the uh including the form of purchase agreement and and the home of official statement and then the form of continu to Thank you for being here. Well, when you were here before, you mentioned that um lower interest rates were to our advantage, right? So,

114they're not going down most likely. So, um So I guess just what what is your opinion um of our situation at this point? Yeah. So um great question as the superintendent described his comments. The last couple of weeks have been fairly voluntarily to policy driving a level of uncertainty in financial markets. Our markets both stock market as well as bond market are in the United States of America are very resilient and they process both negative and positive information very well. However, one of the things they struggled to process is so as we have this inflection point interest rates have increased over the last two weeks and specifically interest rates for type of debt issued mun. So what you're doing now is you're taking initial board action through item. We've got another item coming next. Then

115we will take that packet that a county to wait for the county to approve it then based on the time. Um the expectation and hope is that between now and late June whichever direction the policy decisions go there'll be less uncertainty less uncertainty markets to achieve interest rates that I mentioned to the superintend We end up in kind of recessionary type expectations recessionary environment that actually helps you as an ineression environments interest rates as the government tries to encourage further spending. So again, we don't really know what's going to happen, but our hope is that the very worry about the insurance is two months. Thank you. You made me Thank you for your time this evening. All right. Next, we have our discussion action agenda portion of our meeting items that may require discussion but

116on which the board is expected to take action during the meeting. First up we have item 23 administration. um the approval of 2025 2026 designation of California inter intercolastic federation representatives to the um so this is an annual item once We are a motion. All those in favor I carries. Next we have item 24-9320 for meetings. So uh couple of revisions why we brought the the bylaw to begin with was just to change some of the language regarding meetings for the board and because our calendar Last year uh we ended up changing to only having one meeting in May and two meetings in April where we had one meeting in April and two in May. So we needed to change the language that bylaw but the other piece was just updating it with CSBA uh

117information and most of it regarding teleconferencing how basically it's been extended but they really don't want you to do it because Uh, so that's ahead and make a motion. I'll make a motion for this one. Second. Yes. All those in favor? All those motion carries. Next we have item 25 and business services. the adoption of resolution 2425-22 recognizing April 28th through May 2nd, 2025 as school nutrition employees week and May 2nd, 2025 as school food hero. This resolution we take want to take us opportunity to honor our cafeteria food workers. They play important role to provide the meals in according to the guideline and They are they really work harder and that's why a lot of them showed up tonight because there's of course there's a room around so there's a miscommunication but by showing

118up tonight they want they want to show the board that they determined to provide the nutrition food to the students and some of our cafeteria staff did a good job. They they know each of the students name they even know which students like which kind of food. this how determin determination they made and they love their job. So I think it's it's a time to honor their service. Of course while we discuss improve the meal they will be playing important role in this whole process. We all have to do our Okay, this happens to be a roll call. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, now roll. Yes. Yes. Yes, we have item 26, approval of purchase agreement under California multiple award schedule pricing and provisions with asphalt fabric and engineering incorporated EBA sports for the Temple City

119High School athletic facilities modernization project. Um, for softball. Yeah, Mr. SA, our director of facility and maintenance will present it. Good evening everyone. Good evening, board president Bell, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Exe. Thank you for having me tonight. Tonight I'd like to ask for the approval to use California multiple for astro turf using RBI filter for upcoming softball renovation project. Using a Cass agreement holds many benefits. One of them is we get to take advantage of cost savings for competitively contracts or service agreements such as this one. I believe we had a substantial savings using this agreement versus what was proposed by our contractor. It also ensures that we stick to any procurement rules and regulations. They already stipulated in the agreement they set forth what we need to implement and pretty confident

120in this decision. Dr. Kun and I we visited 25 and really looking at technology and what that brings to the students and I feel very confu One of the things he got to do was change some of the turf out. And so in a portion of the field that really was not utilized, we are putting in a green for so much. Wow, that is fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing that. Yes, I mean it's exciting. I mean I hear from students not every day but often enough you know the whole community is looking forward to all motion by member Espinosa vote for vote. Yes. All right. All those in favor? Motion carries. All right. Now we are to our consent agenda portion of our meeting between items approved by one motion and one vote

121unless a member of the board or audience requests that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately. All right. So may I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? Second by preferential vote member. Yes. All those in favor. All those opposed. Motion carries. 5. Next we have any additional board requests or comments? Item 36. I have something. So, we were we've been talking about food service workers, and I bet most of you don't know that for over 20 years, we had an Olympic athlete working as a food service worker in our district. And if you want to find out more, you'll have to come to literacy night at Longan School on Wednesday, um, April 16th. Jerry, don't tell don't tell. Jerry knows all the details. I just I had one really very brief comment,

122um, about kind of adding to um Dr. Kuna's comments about the rap program. Um I also saw not only the talent and the benefit of the program, but I just saw so much confidence out there. And I remember when my children were young, I mean you could see it wasn't of this level, the confidence level at that age. And so what these teachers are teaching is so much confidence. a very young age that will serve them well in everything they do as they get older. So, so proud of the work that has been done in this area and just looking forward to seeing it grow further. Say thank you to all of our instructors program. They are I'm so glad we have they're so amazing. So, all right. And if there are no Um we

123have item 37. So item 38 additional public comment on agenda and non agenda item. Very well. Okay. Uh now we move on to uh item 13 which is adjourning our meeting. And I will be honest I think I've seen this far too many times this year already as it is. and each and every time it's never easy. Um, you know, strangely enough, I've had some relationship with some of these folks throughout the years being a volunteer. Um, you know, and we celebrate lives, you know, I can actually say something about because I've known this guy for so many years. He's that guy who would help us get into the gym so that our kids testing so that they can do well in their competition. The man had a heart of gold without question. Was he

124very unique? Yes, he was art. He either like art contras or he found him interesting. But we are so fortunate to have him for so long. And you know again I I don't like to talk about the sadness. I like to celebrate the life, the memory of all these individuals who are part of our district in one shape or another to help make us who we are today and you know by extension is one you know this is a family and they've meant so much to us me personally I remember when I heard the news from Dr. I just I couldn't even process it. Still can't honestly. Um but you know I his memory lives on here just like all those that come before him and you know we appreciate knowing him and him being

125a part of us. So in memory of Archer and his wife uh I would like to make a motion to the meeting. May I get a second? Second by member Espinosa Pential. Yes. Okay. All those in favor? I those opposed? None. We are at 7:45. Thank you for joining us. Five.