TCUSD Board of Education Meeting - 03/12/25

001e e e on Wednesday March 12th 2025 and we would like to call the meeting to order right this is a roll call um member Smith yes I'm here okay uh member Espinosa here uh member sne uh I am here uh student board me oh I'm sorry uh member georgino is away she won't be joining us this evening um and uh student board member wayang here all right perfect okay all right tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded next we have our Pledge of Allegiance led by Mr Eddie way from our ELD mentoring program Mr way would you please make your way up there attention May the audience please rise all those with uniforms please salute all those all those without please place your right hand over your heart all right thank you very much next

002we have item five changes to the agenda not believe no changes all right outstanding okay uh can I get a motion to approve our agenda this evening okay move by member Smith uh second by member Espinosa preferential vote board member Wang yes okay um all those in favor all those opposed okay we have four Z okay mtion es okay uh we should just record this part we say it every time because truly we do mean it this is the best part of the evening for all of us so our special recognition and presentation uh of all the wonderful things that are happening all around our schools this evening we have the pleasure of uh learning a lot more a little bit more about our uh ELD mentoring program at Temple City High School courtesy of

003Miss Teresa wayang all right yeah yeah we have a student who's trying to figure out how to get here because she thought she was at tchs okay um how do I change the slides just push the button oh okay all right welcome everyone uh to our ELD mentoring program um I'm going to use some slides that I usually use with a few extra pictures from recent of years U we rebranded our program to be called Elevate last year starts with e for our El students and also because we like to think of our program as elevating the status of our El students in our school okay so um we began in 2014 and we are beginning or we are now ending our 11th year of providing services and our goal is to support encourage and

004Empower new immigrant youth in Temple City High School to make positive Life Choices that enable them to maximize their personal potential part of our program involves support groups every semester we provide enough support groups on Wednesday mornings during their e classrooms um to introduce them to the American culture and lifestyle some of the topics we discuss are culturation ethnic identity School Life Community Life peer relationships manners and etiquette and safety we ended our last support group this semester just this morning with talking about safety confidentiality and some etiquette for example um we also have visits from the LA County Sheriff every semester um this is an old picture of some students who got to interact with them and put on their gear um and we also um have mentoring relationships where we assign English-speaking students

005to different ELD students and here's some examples of students who are here tonight um when they meet with their mentors and mentees um and these are some girls and this year uh this is not everybody but this year we have 97 mentors and um about uh 70 or so ELD students who are being served um and but it was only the second year we've been in the yearbook this was our yearbook photo this year um we also have elac parent meetings where our mentors get a chance to speak um here you'll see Angel who is going to be speaking today and this year we had the largest turnout at our elac meeting about a hundred parents showed up at our first elac meeting last semester Mentor trainings occur on a monthly basis sometimes they are

006lectures guest speakers sometimes they're interactive sometimes we have activities and we have monthly culture events you'll see Matt on the top left helping us with u passing out red envelopes um and um we have Latin culture Halloween Christmas Thanksgiving and Easter coming up in April we do those every year starting a couple years ago we started something called English corner and this happens during office hours in lunchtime for half an hour where students get to meet in small groups and practice their English so you some of our students who are here tonight in some of these English Corner meetings and they are co- facilitated by mentors um every year we have educational Partnerships in the past we had Huntington Library and the last three years we've had mocha our next field trip will be this

007coming Friday and we try as much as possible to incorporate students in student activities such as sports games football soccer basketball and volleyball are represented here this year we also brought them to their first water um and then some activities we like to do on the side are hiking the beach voting in the past every year we have a senior ceremony where mentors and mentees who are graduating are recognized this was our most fancy one that we had at the hunington library back when we had a partnership with them now we usually have it in the media center um and Matt and Donna are usually there to help us out that as well and um that's it I would like to introduce my guest students we supposed to be five but right now we have

008four hopefully the other one will show up we're going to start with our el2 um M um Mike L hello everyone my name is Mike uh I'm uh and I'm senior this year I live in China before I came to I came to the United States uh it's been two years since uh since I came to the United States uh when I first entered temp City High School uh I feel very stressed because uh the language environment and the lifestyle were very different from China but with the help of the counselor um and missan and teacher um I've been improving in the El class and my and my English has been improving my mentor also uh contacts me every week to practice English and uh discuss Gade I'm very grateful to them um now I

009feel that my English is much better than before uh thanks to the teachers and counselor of T City High School and of course Miss thank uh thank them for their patience and sincerity thank you next we have an el3 Mente named Enoch pan hi everyone my name is I'm in 12th grade I come from n China and have been the United States for 10 months when I first arrived at my school I feel nervous and excited because of the new environment uh I think the mentoring program helps me a lot because for example the new student the new student meeting group helps me learn more about the system and the activities in our in my school and my mentor always helps me with my questions now I feel more comfortable because there are many teachers

010and students that support and encourage me um I'd like to S the TC USD for help into the United States and I'm grateful that I can join the soccer team and have the chance to I truly appreciate before we go on to have some mentors share I'd like to recognize a few of the other mentees who are in the audience so they are actually the mentees of one of our mentors so could I have stand up stand up both of you so they are here to uh support their Mentor uh Eddie way who did your flag salute hello my name is Eddie way and I'm a senior this year I was born in California and I've been a mentor for years my initial goal of becoming a mentor was build my experience as a leader

011and guiding others but now realizing the Gap cult cult differences andage like to make the transition into our school easier these didn't start off easy as you may expect contacting my was difficult but it was a consisten of overwhel but but that's what over time that's what I realized that's what it takes to be a mentor to be able to have that sacrifice and patience make difference and it Wasing helping my with their English or history impa ment and i' like to thank T and foring Me This opportun I this experience has taught me just as much as I taught my and I'm truly grateful to be part of this program thank you I just received a word that our eld1 m is here so I she said she's here hoping can someone check her

012name is Ricky Ren she is y1 so she's going to try her best to speak English I think her mentors helped little a little bit to prepare for today um just a little background on Ricky she was here last year and then she went back to China in the summertime and then she wasn't here first semester but she just came back this semester so Ricky why don't you come up come up it's okay hello everyone my name is I come from CH and I come to United Stat one years ago and I come us my English is not very good and after the mentor mentoring program I feel everything is been simple and when I first come to United States I think everything to me was easy and when I meet with my teacher I

013feel this is a big family I like this feeling very much and for U my teachers helping and I know how to do my homework how to uh communting with people and I love this school thank you very much thank you [Applause] for all right before I introduce the last Mentor I just like to say that it's always so wonderful to see some of our El students become mentors themselves right so you just heard from Eddie that he was born here and um he decided to um generously help um some El students um and even though he does speak bilingually he himself was not an ELD student in high school right um so when we do have high schoolers Who start off as mentees and then eventually they are they exit the ELD program and

014their English is good enough to be recommended by an English teacher they need a recommendation to become a mentor it's always wonderful we don't get too many but we do get some and so I want to First recognize some of our mentors in the audience um who came to support our next Mentor can you stand up Nikki and Bella and Jasmine and [Applause] EV and then our next and last Mentor Angel is um our previous El student who became a mentor and she is a senior now and I'm going to have her close us um good evening members of school board my name is Angel and I'm a senior El Mentor at high school um I've been us for five years and this is my second year as an Mentor so I chose to become

015a mentor because when I first arrived my own mentors help me feel welcome and supported now I want to do the same thing um for others who are experiencing what I once did when I first arrived at TC USC I feel really warm and kind environment so the people around me were so nice especially when I entered High School I met people like Miss Kong who's like our school parents and always be there for us the mentoring program not only gave me a way to helping others but also help me grow um it tell me responsibility and I truly enjoy planning culture events with other mentors and I'm really happy to see mes enjoy what we prepare for them for my M but she's now here um so last year she participated in my club

016the kop club in my in our school and we um practi together we um performance on simply and dance concert and this year she joined the JB girls basketball team um seeing her get involved in school activities make me so happy and reminds me of why I love to be a mentor I want to thank TC USD for giving me students the opportunity to grow by helping others and I'm really thankful for the district support in caring for students who come from other countries it's been an honor to be part of this program and I hope it continue to help future students feel support it thank [Applause] you thank you so much for allowing us to come share today does anyone have any questions I think I missed it before how often do the mentors

017meet with the mes I know you have group on Wednesday do they meet with them daily do they the group on Wednesdays is a a support group that I conduct last semester we had six support groups this semester we just had one because it depends on the numbers that arrive in our school every semester the mentors themselves arrange their own time um on when they meet with their mentees I highly recomend recommend them to check in with their mentees at least once a week um in the beginning of the school year I recommend face to face and sometimes B second semester that it's not necessary but some of them still need it so it really depends on the needs of the student um at the beginning of the school year we usually only have about

018two or three support groups this year we had six so that kind of tells you of our numbers because the support groups usually have eight to 10 students at the most so and our current support group this semester is also the biggest we've ever had in spring semester we have 12 and and you know usually in the spring we have about six to eight I have fores is there anybody a memory of the weirdest or most surprising thing about our culture that you learned or different or just you you were surprised that's amazing all right um so um had a question oh I'm sorry oh yeah um you mentioned how mentors were recommended by their English teachers right how are the mes recomended like do they how do they know um the el1 and el2

019teachers usually provide a roster at the beginning of the year and the el3 students are given option for example both Enoch and Mike are in el3 now Enoch was actually in el2 and he promoted to el3 this semester um but Mike at the beginning of the actually know they both sorry I forgot okay they're el2 sorry okay el3 mentees are given the option of having a mentor or not we have about half of them asking for mentors and then they have toit if we have enough mentors usually um we actually have more girl mentors than boy mentors so for example each of our girl mentors might have two or three mentees um that they have to part well sorry two or three Partners um working together for one or maybe two mentees whereas our Evan

020for example and Eddie our El boy mentors they each have at least two mentees because we that's amazing if you have friends we need boys more boys all right very good um so I just want to say and to all of you here that your story resonates with me being that I was an immigrant as well um and um when I uh actually I have a question uh for any of you that would like to answer this or not how many of you um here today um that the temple city was the first American school that you've attended how many of you a few of you right and so okay that that's that's that's awesome so um I was in your situation 40 years ago when I moved to this country from the Philippines and

021Temple City was the first school that uh system that I attended and I can't tell you how much I appreciated the support that I received from our teachers my fellow students at the time and uh it really helped me to um realize how nice it was to be here uh not just in America but here in Temple City because of the community that we have although I I would imagine that most of you here uh feel that and understand that so um and and I'm just curious um entertain me you don't have to answer but if anybody wants to um what was your first vision of America as you arrived here what what what were you what did you think you were going to expect like especially going into school did you guys base anything

022off of Western culture media that you saw did you guys have any expectations at all expectation no it's fine so uh from a movie that she watched she had the impression that America had freedom that people had freedom but um there's a lot of um strict rules because she saw people going to jail ah okay but clearly you found out that that's not true I hope so that's good yeah so you know uh before we are done I just want to I I want you guys to feel at ease I will share with you one of the most embarrassing things I experienced as a new immigrant we did not have uh any type of physical education where I came from and that was the scariest thing for me being given a set of gym clothes

023and a locker I literally put my gym clothes on top of my clothes and went out there on the field so you can see no one recruiting me for the football and I don't want to talk about baseball but nobody would catch for me so I'll leave it there uh but uh all these experiences are amazing I'm glad that you guys are here um and I will say this like I said I you know had a lot of great um help uh support from staff members fellow member students but you know what I didn't have I did not have someone like Mrs so you guys you guys gota she done an amazing job amazing thank you thank you for what you do and all the other parents that are here to support them so um

024we have uh some certificates for you guys this evening so we'll come up here and share them with you right have e e e that's all right next up on our agenda is item eight public comment on agendized and non- agendized item this evening we do have uh one request and that is from none other than Mr Jerry jamban thank you president uh B and superintendent kuna and board members with the looking at the news today I was kind of discouraged to some degree but I'm just wondering and asking the question how is the dismantling of the Department of Education going to affect us federally and how is it going to affect us locally here as a school district does anybody know yet okay thank you all right all right next we have uh some

025committee Community updates to share with you um I think uh hopefully uh everybody here in Temple City Community knows that this weekend is our big musical anything goes um and I believe that's Friday Saturday evening as well as Sunday afternoon uh but somewhere in between we have a very special performance called Encore which is an alumni event on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 for those of you that are interested in taking part in that as well um now I I I know that there is uh something else we wanted to share but I'm going to defer to board member sne uh for that in regards to this special book signing that we have coming up um and uh we also have an upcoming uh Joint City Council uh Board of Education meeting on the 17th which

026is next Monday um first one we've had in three or four years maybe longer than been longer than that because I I remember I was there on that last one but um or or one of them so I think this is going to be a really fun thing it's going to be at at Temple City High School let me any is that correct okay all right um and uh I don't know that I have anything else to share beyond that oh and spring break I we hope everyone enjoys a nice and rest pool spring break as we get you know that's sort of like the uh the flag that says we're getting Clos the end of the school year so that's that's that's wonderful news so all right and that's all I have this evening

027for Community updates um next we have bargaining unit oh yeah sure please go ahead I apologize my bad on April 4th as some of you might be aware m georgino is the author of the latest IM of America book City the Society of temp city isil um besides a book signing there will be light refreshments and entertainment is actually going to be by the great grandson of Walter Temple Senor the gentleman's name is Mike G he was in The Familiar parade a couple few weeks agoing represent the family but anyway he's actually a very good musician who has performed get some things out of the homestead Museum and he's going to be the entertainment that evening so this will be an opportunity to purchase the newest book of the series but also to have donino

028for thank you so much it's it's a great book hope you guys pick one up um and I know I you know I've been here for a few years but it's so good to look at the history of the city and to really understand this community that I grew up in so hope everyone takes time to pick up a copy um all right next we have bargaining unit comments first we have CCA 105 s up right hi there okay uh next we have csca 823 Mr cont what okay all right all right um all right okay next we have uh tcea uh Miss scall very well okay outstanding all right next we have item 11 District updates first we shall start uh with Business Services Miss W how are you this evening good even miss

029and and our leader and business department we had um meeting with our auditor so although 24 25 school year has not ended but our audit work for this year already started so the first audit work is the school visit to check the attendance record make sure that we um properly document attendance for each of our students and the auditor went very well so the next uh auditor inter field work is my office they will to my is to look at our bill make sure that we pay the bill properly anding correctly and make sure the money we received actually there cash in the in our account so this F exam work testing is scheduled on the week is on the week of April 14th so um as a part of my agenda tonight is um

030you know as a result of the wi and damage at the early of January and our insurance agenta actually approved our um tening final final um permanently permanent replacement at um high school so um which mean that we can move forward with our architectur work and studing design and then process so it take a while but the Cen already around the cour so we make sure that it's safe our to and also protect the the the neighbors because our teams were faing the street so that is my update for to all right thank you very much okay next uh we have head Services mran I had no in my office this week so was good so I want to start out bying to incriminating start to our elementary teachers so they've done two rounds of

031PD with with the Cali Science Center for our NGS curriculum and so what their takeway is it's it's really bringing our science so thank you all of our teachers there's one more start thank you our teers but also than you amyl who entirly put this all together and the work she does it trally as part of that P process we are ping survey started we to informs ands and they and build and then finally I want to um thank darl and Eva so we every year Public Schools across the country have to submit some right data to the Department of Education and so it is a Monumental task um that requires people from all three floors in this building so HR busol but Eva and darl awesome thank you so much all right uh we

032don't have any comments this evening from Human Resources okay next we have board member comments item 12 and I believe uh this evening we will start members need I felt to mention when I mentioned the community upate experience that makes it even better experience coffee or any other warm drinks come on okay um I want to thank Teresa Wang and the students for sharing their information about the mentoring program I really have to hand it to this she's just done a fabulous job helping our ELD students um it's only been a couple weeks since our last meeting um it's been a busy couple of weeks uh I attended the Cloverly steam night uh there were really lots of fun activities all over the campus from the cafeteria out groups outside their media center the families

033really having a good time and learning having them with some hands on activ science activities and last week I got to enjoy an activity I always shared with my students when I was U still teaching and that it was in celebration of read Across America and I was able to read to several classes and several grade levels at different schools several of the elementary schools and then last Thursday I attended roa's open house um it was really nice to see that despite the rain the place was packed families came out they Brave the rain to see what the children were doing and a lot of parents really congratulated their their children on doing a good job so great job toosa um I stopped and enjoyed the beautiful artwork at the high school um Media Center

034they had artwork from all the classes in the media center there's still some ceramic Works in there uh they really use their Works to express themselves in very unique ways uh Friday morning we said goodbye to Kim Hartman at her Memorial mass and it was really wonderful to see so many people um who came who turned out to honor A really lovely lady and to support her family uh congratulations to the high school uh business future Business Leaders of America they placed fth overall in the Regional Conference to be moving on to the state competition in April also congratulations to the high school Science Olympia team who play seventh overall at the 2025 Golden Gate in invitation at Cal Berkeley and the winter drum line who took first place at tascal Valley Canyon um I

035want to congratulate our newest high school student who won in R Roc scholarship this afternoon U we're very proud of you and I want to thank you for being willing to to serve our country and I'm looking forward to seeing our 60th High School Musical this weekend anything goes in the alumni performance I get I understand it's quite the show um on Saturday and I want to thank all the stud and staff and support staff behind the stage and behind the scenes who both on the stage and behind the scenes who work so hard to keep our Performing Arts alive for six decades so it's going to be a very fun weekend thank you right thank you so much member s okay I am next um and uh as uh M sne had mentioned um

036corly had a steam night um like a running joke when you say steam I just somehow show up um and uh it's expanded from from last year I think it doubled it was really nice to see um more students more families uh be engaged um in in that activity um I uh was in and out uh this past Saturday our Middle School Oak Avenue had um their Science Olympiad Regional competition at riondo College um like to share that they play second moving on to state competition uh this is the best finish that they've had in their history and you know uh want to thank uh Mrs Joe Mrs shifter and all the parents and the kids uh who work so hard to get really good at something that they enjoy doing um and uh L

037roa's open house I mean yes I mean it was wet but it was p a lot of families and you know there's something magical to level I mean really really there is you know for the families they just come no matter what I mean I I believe even if the weather was forc they would still be there um and and and and that's so good to see and that's part of what is our foundation here uh how strong our community is um and finally um I wanted to share that um our High School uh solar car team will be uh doing a uh television commercial uh in partnership with uh the US Army and it has something to it's it's related to Stem uh we don't have any particular details yet uh although we're kind

038of excited for it because it'll allow us to feature uh the work that our students and our mentors have been doing at the high school for the program uh and and really to highlight you know what we do here at the district and and all the diverse offerings that we have so we're excited for that uh we're waiting to hear details and our amazing Pio mrra is the way there and as I'm sure our incredible admins at Temple City High School as well so we kind of excited to see when that kind of matures and may you will get to see that on on television sometime soon um that's it for me this evening uh next we have M Smith see last THS my wife and I had a chance to participate in the read

039cross America program we read to three different classes different um book between the two of us three classes book she pick for Emperor was if you give a dog a and while I traditional B I also had chance to attend Thea open house THS night I those nobody to go I don't blame but but it was a really great turnout so maybe that's not a bad thing open um the next day we uh participated again in the reading across a ner program this time at long uh this time my wife read a book give cookie stuck anyway the classs were able to participate in Mrs Mrs Reed and Mrs Saturday we had a chance to attend the um Patriots parade downa Beach where was participating and it was a great day very nice day great

040showing and enjoyed it very much um I also wanted to compliment Teresa and that great job she's been doing she takes on so much more than she monily she spend a lot of her own time and money all the opport to looking forward to attending anything goes this and the Saturday I also want to thank trans Engineers who are in our to The District home by the way money that our student reive LC not that's it that's awesome thank you so much all right finally we have M espanosa good evening everybody um I'm really excited about this weekend because of the musical I love musical weekend it's a great time of year um to see just the the hard work um just lay out on that stage and they leave it all out there so

041good luck break a leg to all the performers thank you so much to all the support staff and um and Orchestra and the parents who volunteer back there um it's all just so worth it and thank you for your your time and efforts um I do also want to offer my congratulations to the Future Business Leaders of America drum line SE perch team um Science Olympiad they are just doing a phenomenal job in everything that they um are working toward and it's getting you know recognized more broadly so congratulations to all of those teams um in terms of attendance I volunteered to read at Emperor um and it was um I had enough time during my lunch break to read to two classrooms so that was really really fun um it's kind of what doing

042this is all about and so for me um it was it was a great experience and I loved it um and then that same evening um I went to L Roa for their open house and you know it is earlier this year so I want to thank the teachers for really working towards um you know being able to have enough works to post and make the rooms look so beautiful um and I know it's a little earlier I mean that's kind of good you can get it done um but also you know there's a lot of work that goes into that um and figuring out what you can post and how to make it look you got a little less time to do it so thank you so much um to our teachers who are

043doing that this week and next week and week after um and then I also shed at the Mission Playhouse on Saturday um I think it was their first day at the playhouse and that's just brings with it a lot of great energy so that was a lot of fun that's all I've got thank you thank you so much all right next we have uh student board member comment thank you um good good evening everybody um I have a few comments so ASV is uh planning to add even more incentives to buy the ASP card for next year and um that's on top of the discounts already um at restaurants AP exams and dances uh we're working on additional perks uh to incentivize more purchases next year because Mr kid was able to share some wisdom

044he learned um from AATA conference where he learned about extra features that we can use that we already using in our fivar program so one idea that we're brainstorming about is to boost um participation by offering like front row access and integrating our five star app into like a reward system like um kind of like a subscription that unlocks free rewards monthly and we're also considering custom digital badges on the app uh for students to see um which school events they attended like dances um lunchtime activities so if they collect dances then they can get like a badge on their little thing it's actually kind of cute um and also kind of this is kind of a fun one like 311 day like room 311 uh all ASV card holders will get free uh slushies

045on March 11th and this year we're rolling out um incentives already so uh for example this Friday um P day um March 14th we're actually giving out our card holders like to spin a wheel so they can earn a slice of and for the dance um the high school sades dance no rest for the wicked is scheduled for April 4th this weekend um no no sorry um April 4th from 7 to 10 p.m on campus and I want to congratulate the varsity boys volleyball team for their three- Z win yesterday um against linat and they're playing again tomorrow at 4M at our high school against Blair so and on a personal note I'm also arranging um our dust collecting lost and found to be cleared out by Spring Break um hopefully people can um collect

046it even though it's not theirs you know it's been there for a while so yeah and also regarding the musical um anything goes I heard from some of the actors and um students working in Dragon flick that the set is going to be um even more beautiful than last year's Shrek musical so that is definitely a must see this weekend and I'm really excited for that so thank you great thank you so much for that next we we have uh superintendent comment thank you so coincidentally I'm going to speak about the Department of Education um and how the department of Ed is being somewhat dismantled and it kind of goes along with h what Richard was sharing um you know darl and his team have been working on a a big report for the uh

047office of civil rights which is one of the Departments within the Department of Education that has been significantly cut so I don't know what is going to happen uh with regards to that whether or not those reports are going to continue to go um how that affects some of the uh some of the things we do at a a local level um I will say that there's not a lot of information right now on what is going to happen um there's a lot of fear because there is an unknown uh and a lot of it stems from the support that we receive uh with regards to either our Title One programs schol nutrition programs our special education programs so there you know it's not a significant amount of money that the federal government gives to

048us it's about 10% of our budget is federal funded um but at the end of the day if we didn't have that it would significantly impact what we were able to do um unfortunately and again it just depends on who you believe and who you listen to um there are reports that you this dismantling is really just cutting the the red tape and the waist at the Department of Education um and that funding is not going to be affected um but we don't know that for sure and so I I wish I had a better answer I have a meeting tomorrow with the LA County Office of Education we're going to talk a little bit more about this topic and see what you know what if there is anything that we can do about it

049but uh right now we are still kind of in the unknown so I will keep you guys posted as I hear uh I do want to say um a couple meetings back I talked about how uh sometimes we do things and we don't know whether or not they're going to be good or successful at the time we think and we hope um but I will say there are two things that we did uh one of them we've done we did a little while ago but um it was our Pio position and just having Susanna gone um and having her back um it really does show how valuable her position has been to this District um so I appreciate her and everything she doesn't and I know it's hard coming back from uh her maternity leave

050and leaving her baby but she obviously is you know and we're working with her but she's happy to be back and you probably have already seen the difference in social media just in a couple of days uh with things on there so thank you Susanna for that the other thing that we tried um was we ordered uh vans from the high school and and uh they are 10 passenger vans we have already put them to good use they uh they were used for the uh Road show for the musical to the uh elementary schools yesterday baseball used them to go toest was it yesterday Monday I can't remember the day uh Monday they used them to go to uh mobia High School uh to play a game and when you think about it the cost

051for busing has just gotten absurd um and it is almost a, dollar a bus now and so just by having these Vans they and our hope is to get a third because that actually will cover fair amount of our teams um and if we can do that then I think it will obviously save us some money in the long run but I think it's been successful in just the how many weeks have we been operating them just two weeks and we've already gotten usage out of them and and it's already saving so um so again uh we don't always know if it's going to work but not onw it's working so far um I do want to go on the record right now Jerry posted a video of our Stadium uh the progress of the

052stadium this weekend Jerry you did not alter that video right see everybody has asked me if it's AI or what I I because it looks so good it looks fake and so um and it is you know that we now have the lettering down in the end zones and it just it really looks good and so there's going to be a lot of work in the next few weeks because we have to meet some very critical timelines in order to be ready for graduation um in May and so um part of that is just making sure that we have the asphalt for the track board uh hopefully by the 21st because that is when the bleachers will start arriving and they will start putting those together and it takes 10 to 12 weeks to assemble

053the leur so it is a tight timeline I still am confident that uh we're going to make it we may not make it all the way but we'll make it enough to have graduation there um and I think it'll be good for our students who are leaving us who have been part of this process and enduring a lot of the pain and suffering of having to you know have all away games and not have our St available I'm glad that they're able to partake in some things for that um I also to say thank you to our fiscal Services team the um Connie and her team this is a lot of work this this second interim you know we we just met three months ago on the first interim and from the in that three

054month period we've also had our winter break we've had numerous holidays and now here we are again putting this back together for second inter so thank you toy her team Veronica there thank you Veronica for the late nights sure that this is ready to go uh and that we are still in a good spot um and then finally I do want to say thank you to Jessica for looking at ways to improve our adult education program you know one of the things that I've I've always thought is that we should be offering some classes during the afternoon particularly for our ESL classes for our parents and she is exploring that and working with theity to figure out how we can uh find a place to house those classes um because obviously we can't bring adults

055onto campuses with our students but um I think it is a valuable resource for our community and so hopefully we'll get that done and so I appreciate her doing that and I also wanted to say thank you to Teresa for what she does with our students you know it is hard enough to just start high school um and then to start a high school as your you know brand new into this country not knowing the language um it can be a really lonely lonely place and the fact that she is bringing them to uh events and really kind of immersing them in our culture I think it it says a lot about not it's not just about the language it's about the culture and the whole person and so um I'm going to give credit

056to Nate because he's here is not but you can share with Elena um I think you guys do a fabulous job of making sure that all of our students are included um at the high school and when and I thought about this when our you know our students who are new to this country and new to the campus go to these events who do they see there they see you guys and they see you at all of their events and so I think it's just it's really welc and I think they know that you know if they need support high school for creating a culture of acceptance for all of our students and that's it so much can agree with you more um next we have written Communications I don't believe that uh we don't

057have any this evening and uh we do also do not have anything in our discussion information item uh portion of our agenda next we'll go ahead and move on to the discussion action portion uh of our agenda items that may require discussion but upon which the board is expected to take action during the meeting first we have item 16 on the um approval of the 2025 2026 Board of Education meeting calendar um is there anything that we wanted to add so it's really just discuss for all of you I think we brought up previously uh might have been this year when we had the meeting but just know that um if you guys choose to to go a different route that's fine too um our our first meeting in August will always be on the

058first day of school um because with the change in calendar uh we start the second Wednesday of of the month and it just happens to be a meeting day I don't recall if we've always had two meetings in August um and I think we may have added that meeting because there was a need from fiscal services to have a meeting in August for the 45 day budget revision um but I don't think we had that this year I don't think it met the timeline so we still did the budget Revision in July as opposed to August this year because we working on I can't really remember the reason but for some reason the timeline just didn't work out for us to happen in August so it's just a discussion for you guys to have you

059want to keep the days change the days but this is our calendar for next years okay I mean I can make a motion we can have a discussion and then we can agree so um I would like to make a motion for that um and can I get a second okay second goodbye M so um yeah um I think that superintendent kuna brings up a good point there um as far as having the two meetings in August if it's not necessary I know member georgino is not here and we certainly would would like for her to have um her um input on this as well so um um I'm comfortable with only having one meeting in August because it sounds like that that makes sense however I don't know what my fellow board members think

060any thoughts or ideas should I'll chime in just with my thought um I'm fine with one meeting as well I just think we just need to time it so that it doesn't negatively impact fiscal or HR because there's a lot of hiring that needs to happen and I think we used to have it really late in August and it was problematic because we we it affected HR it affected fiscal so I think our calendar is completely different so you know one is fine as long as it's early early enough on that it doesn't have negative impacts on Trad start you guys don't mind I'd rather just hear from Connie because I think it's a fisal uh reason why there was the meeting added but um again I'm not opposed either way I would rather I

061think we had a little bit challeng Dr mention that it's the and H because you hire new people need some but I think second so which mean that is the August 27 so we not first of do you is there any impct to we move to the August 27 so then you need the AUG yeah so I think aug I it's fine yeah yes I mean I the only I think the only reason we would have a conversation about the 1th because it was first 27 doesn't um I'm fine if just have one meeting on 27 what we can do is we if there's any change we know ahead of time because normally the state ad budget um at the end of June so which after the we if we can we just prepare for

062the um July 2 I mean I honestly I hear hesitation in your voice like if it's the 13th it's the 13 we had it we had a meeting the first day of school this year so I mean it's and we'll do our best to keep it a short Mee that's can do that too are we are we saying only I think we're keeping both yeah so as yeah motion as this yeah very good okay so uh if there's no other comments or anything like that um I think uh it's agreed that we will uh keep both dates in August and the rest of calendar as presented to us um let's go ahead for a vote um preferential vote Yes okay all right all those in favor I I all those opposed carries 4 Z okay

063next uh we have um ed services item 17 receive board policies for second reading and approve for bp- 0410 bp-1 3123 bp- 1340 bp- 35152 bp- 5111 and bp- 5145 9 um is there any uh anything else that we need to add now just second reading okay sure can I get a motion please okay move by member sne um okay um can I get a second okay second by Wang consider board member Wang okay um um if there are no discussions I think let's go ahead and vote on this preferential vote Yes okay all right and all those in favor okay all those opposed motion carries next we have U item 18 uh the approval of a new pathway at Temple City High School's alternate diploma um Mr lman thank you Mr slaymaker is going

064to present and he has the next three items so he's gonna stand there awkwardly while we read through the agenda pieces but he's going to go ahead and share the alternative diploma which is something we've been working on years in the making so um this is exciting for our students yeah so thank you board and exit cabinet for the opportunity to present a few things to you that are either exciting new additions or just adjustments to things that we've already had our first one is the alternate diploma pathway so a little over two years ago California legislation passed a bill assembly Bill 181 uh requiring schools to have an alternate diploma um different than the regular diploma that students earn for their graduation requirements uh in the past what we've had for students that may

065earn this diploma is called a certificate of completion or certificate of attendance and that's what our students have earned up until this point um and th those are the these are typically the students that might eventually attend our adult transition program at the Doug Fel sear Learning Center so with that background uh we've been working on this for a while there's some reasoning behind it uh that not only the state but also we have been looking into uh the positive outcomes that could come from this alternate diploma it increases post-secondary options for our students uh even if they go to the adult transition program a high school diploma increases their options for whatever they might want to do with their education either during their time at the adult transition program or after that time as

066well uh so a diom in their hands helps with that the statistics show that having an high school diploma increases employment opportunities for students uh only 24% of adults without a high school diploma are employed and so that's a scary number that we want to make sure our students when when they leave our high school can get uh employment um because that includes those with significant cognitive disabilities as well and the alternative pathway also helps us to more directed way to help our students who may have learning challenges to access standards and curriculum that the rest of our students enjoy uh we've been doing that for a long time at our school but this is a little bit more of a directed way uh for students who are in certain grades to get certain standards

067as well so that's some of the reasoning behind it not only from the state but from our perspective as well so the eligibility to receive an alternate diploma is also given to us from the state uh these would be students who have significant cognitive disabilities when students come to the high school the IEP team meets and this even happens at the lower grades as well where the IP team determines what type of State Testing a student should take there's the normal esac State Testing or or Casp testing but some IEP teams say well this this uh testing is not really appropriate for this student so we're going to give them the California alternative assessment which alternative State Testing so any student who an IEP team has determined a California alternative assessment is appropriate is also

068eligible for this alternate diploma and so that's how students become eligible there you see some of our students uh that would be eligible for this diploma as well so the requirements given down to us from the state is that these alternate diploma requirements may not exceed the California state minimum requir for graduation so our normal tcusd requirements there's a little bit extra things there that we've decided are important for tcusd graduates but this alternate diploma may not exceed those requirements and uh the requirements that the minimum state requirements are listed there there's an asteris next to the ethnic studies and personal finance uh because those are things that are coming in the future as requirements so this is the proposed uh pathway for students who the IP team has met they've decided that the alternate

069assessment is appropriate for their student and so that means that the alternate diploma is also something that would be appropriate for the student as well um these things were already happening in our special education classes at the high school we're just giving them different names to really um have a deeper dive or understand better what's happening in each of these classrooms for each of the students so they have their English path on the top there their math pathway the third line is their uh kind of their science and nutrition Health pathway the third line is their social studies pathway and they also have been taking physical education and elective courses this whole time and so they'll get to choose those as they uh age up at our high school as well they get to choose

070some electives not only that that are of interest to them but are they also appropriate for uh their skills as well so this is the pathway and you can see there's about maybe 16 new course names but a little bit of it for us is just a renaming of something that we've already done but we kind of need your approval to call them something else basically and to add this alternate diploma is something that tcusd uh gives out to students who have met this pathway this would start for our students who are graduating next year which we're ahead of the game U before this St is officially required and we're a little bit ahead of the game as well thank you for sharing that um I mean I know that our Al alternate um program

071is is is doing incredible things for appreciate that um can I yeah I gotta make a motion um okay um can I get a motion okay uh Smith okay second by member ESP okay uh please go ahead okay so I have two questions um one um how does this look different on paper so like when you write like let's say on a resume that you have a high school diploma how does that look different and second question is is this only able um to join for freshman like do you have to start at the Freshman level because like I saw your pathway it's really it's kind of yeah so the difference is that our students that would be taking these classes up until now actually did not receive diploma they received something called a certificate

072of completion so on an employment application if they were ever asked do you have a high school diploma they would have to say no and now with this this alternative dipl alternative diploma pathway they can say yes on those employment applications so yes they are receiving a high school diploma we have made it in such a way so that we the students that are graduating next year um we can kind of back change some of the things we were already doing like I've and so that the students who graduate next year have an opportunity to receive it does seem we're not really changing any of the choice I know you may say like oh all of their classes are kind of decided for them already none of the choice that they had before is disappearing

073they still all have all the same choices it's just a renaming of some of the classes okay all right um does anybody else have any okay all right uh well thank you for making this adjustment for our students we appreciate it um let's go ahead and go for a vote uh preferential vote number way yes okay all those in favor I okay hold those opposed motion carries 4 Z okay uh next up I believe you have another item wor two also Mr Slayer alsoo Mr slaymaker I'm going to change that right here okay um we have approval of a to English learner course pathway at tchs so this is also us trying to be responsive to our students so we saw what Teresa did and the curation aspect of it this is the education side

074where it's really our students support we saw with Rick and we have seen an increase in El students um we've always been a school that has traditionally had a large population but when the co shutdown happened it slowed down a little bit and just in the past year or two we've seen it go back up to levels that we've had in the past so it's made us really introspective on how we're best meeting the needs of our students we have the wonderful program that you saw tonight more on the academic side we' we've looked at how we best um support our students in that way uh and it's really um a balance between making sure we're giving them English acquisition support while also giving them the English language instruction that they also need and the

075social science instruction and the math instruction and the science instruction and and blending those together um and doing it in a way where they are also being challenged what we found when we were a little bit introspective on our current model is that our students were placed in support classes based on their scores on the English language proficiency assessments of California the lpac they were placed in classes based on their scores in that exam and sometimes students would stagnate in at a certain level and so we wanted to have that balance of supporting our students with what they need but also challenging them to rise to the expectations they have for themselves and what we know they can do as well and so in looking at that we wanted to get away from using and

076we used other measurements as well when we were placing them but away from using the assessment for the most part to place them in certain classes uh to move to more of a model that looks like this so uh in the middle column you'll see these are the names of the English courses that we're that we are um proposing uh they match the English courses that the rest of our students take it's just there's a little bit more support for English language Learners in these classes if you're a newcomer to our country not necessarily to our school but this is a first year that you've had in our country and you come with no English skills we're still going to plan to support you in a newcomer English class even for your English language instruction

077but after your first year we want to challenge you by putting you with the same standards and curriculum that the rest of our students have but we're not going to just abandon you that the color coding is actually important here you'll see those are all dark um the darker green because we also have English language acquisition courses that our English students take at different levels at a newcomer level an emerging level an expanding level and a bridging level and what we hope that this revamping of the ELD program will do is that students will better Advance through the program and and not become stagnant uh that they'll move after a year of being a newcomer they should move on to being an emerging student and any student who is in the newcomer or emerging program

078which means that they have two or less years here in the United States they also qualify for these Support classes uh where there's extra supports not only in English but also in our other content content areas of social science and and science there Support classes there as well so if they're they've only been here for two or less years we still have all of those supports there and then as they continue to grow a student who's here for their third year would move on to the ELD expanding class and some of those supports would become less but they would also receive all the supports that our general education typically developing learning students would receive as well so there's still supports there but we we felt like we were being a little bit restrictive in their

079growth in the way that we were offering the courses before and this is more of a having them rise to the occasion and the bridging class is students the hope will be that students will um graduate from the program and be redesignated after the El expanding course but for students who maybe are not quite at that level yet we would still have an El bridging course to fill in the little gaps that there might be that are keeping them from being redesignated out of the program so this is after a a lot of um conversations with uh administrators at the district office but also with our teachers in the program and with many of the students that you saw here um that are are some of our great examples there um this is what we've

080come up with that we think is a better representation of of the balance between supporting and also challenging very nice okay um first let's get a motion I will make a motion for that can I get a second please second by member Smith um board members have any question comments regarding that pce no I you know I just want to say thank you to you and and and everybody um that have worked so hard to you know clearly Custom Tailor this to suit our community and the students that we have um and uh it's going to be such a great just for clarity uh the classes would they be considered elective or would they be considered core so the English classes that were in the middle column are core English classes and the science and

081social science are core in their subjects as well the English language acquisition courses that we were supporting them with that had the different colors on the right side those are elective credits they would be earning so they show up as elective credits but I'm always impressed by how how how you always come up with ways to challenging our students respond to theirs whether it's newway like this I applaud I applaud you coming up toses like these to respond to the needs of our students thank you for okay all right uh if there are no other comments or questions let's go ahead and vote on this item preferential vote u m Wang yes okay uh all those in favor I okay all those opposed motion passes 4 Z and uh one more and this is going

082to be really fun not that those aren't fun but this is really fun yeah I wonder how much Miss Lee had to do with this okay um approval of new pathway of tchs CTE culinary pathway so that was a great segue from memb schne over there because we do as much as possible hear the requests and demands of our student body um and so we try to adapt the courses that they want into our schedule as much as we can and so for years we have had a course at Temple City High School that is kind of a blended pathway in CTE of both business and culinary and we've had teachers that they they kind of use the idea of owning a restaurant to start a business and the path has been Blended uh I

083coming from the counseling office I have personal experience of telling many students you know I'm sorry this course is full you'll have to wait until next year uh and and so we every year we have many requests for that pathway and so we would like to split that pathway into two more focused Pathways one that is a business pathway which technically we already have so you don't need to approve that one that's what our original one was called but also a new pathway that is a culinary pathway um that is focused just on the culinary aspect and becoming a professional in The Culinary field uh and just to make sure we kind of waited to propose this until this month because for the last month or so we've been receiving requests from our current high

084schoolers nth 10th and 11th graders but also from our eighth graders at Oak and we usually get about 50 more from other schools as well and the demand for these two Pathways is still through the roof um so some of those difficult conversations will still have to happen even if we do approve this new pathway tonight but uh there's definitely um um requests for this type of split of those classes so uh yes we have student requests um even without adding the new freshman which we were just able to do this past week we have enough requests to run both Pathways still if you're not familiar with CTE Pathways they can lead to employment opportunities they receive certifications or or they even just kind of plant a seed of desire in students as well to

085follow certain Pathways and help them become more employable in different Industries in the future uh and also this opens up an opportunity for us we believe a few years out that is something that could be pretty exciting as well um so this is this is kind of our hope we already have the Business and Entrepreneurship class we have uh level one and level two of business this would be a renaming of them right now they're called entrepreneurship and marketing via renaming to make it a little bit more clear what the pathway is uh this coming year if approved we would offer culinary one you can't offer culinary 2 until you already have had culinary one so uh we have had many many many requests for The Culinary one level uh and then in two years

086we would be able to offer The Culinary 2 class and then the idea would be uh it does take a commitment from students to do three years in a certain CTE pathway but we have an idea in the future to combine the two classes into a business and culinary third year class as well and the possibilities for that those students to work together um after they after they've completed their pathway takes two years a concentrator course and a completer course to complete a CTA pathway but after they've completed it if they really have that desire and we can pair them together in a class and the possibilities for that class are pretty exciting as well but that's three years down the road but we could approve the pathway tonight excellent all right okay can I

087get a motion please motion by member Espinosa may I get a second second by Smith yeah this is you know this the generation today they are curating experts I like to think because I you know when I was at their age there's no way that I would have known where to go and have dinner or whatever it was if it wasn't McDonald's trouble uh but it's amazing the amount of knowledge that they have and this passion that they have for anything um that uh involves I don't want to say food because that's probably the wrong term uh but just in general um and also on the health side they're really really well aware so this is this is wonderful um do my any my fellow board members have any question a student doesn't there's no

088room for them to get into it the first year they chance they could finish yeah so normally with courses we do give preference to Upper classman it is a little bit more tricky to have those conversations in a CTE pathway because we can't have only seniors taking up the level one course because they wouldn't necessarily complete the pathway but this is our step in the right direction to not have to have as many of those conversations anymore um so I guess the short answer would be yes was a little bit more complicated than that but yes this is a step in the direction of being able to give the students what they want on our as soeters offer seniors I know there is a legacy in Temple City where I I get the foods class

089my senior year we have to shift that Legacy so we will have seniors next year who will not be happy wither they've all Cho chosen alternate courses hopefully yeah so we want we want really want to Target freshman and Soph for that first year I think again I applaud the idea that we're preparing our students for college but we're also preparing the students who choose to go those students support they can successful I also want to highlight as well it gives an opportunity for our business path to be a little bit more focused as well many of you mentioned the future Business Leaders of America they are excited for the opportunity for our business CTE Pathway to maybe not be so tied to the culinary aspect and really focus in on what they want to

090learn as well okay right it's definitely something that we will look into yeah next year we'll have the year one students but that's kind of part of the excitement of the students who may be will make it to the year three course all right okay uh if there are no other questions or comments go ahead and vote uh preferential vote uh member Wayne yes okay all those in favor I all those opposed motion carries 4 Z thank you so much for your time this evening Mr slave maker that's amazing stuff all right so next we have business services item 21 um approval of the 2024 2025 second interim financial report uh thank you yeah yeah no because so on tonight I wor share with the board and since the December board approved for the first

091report what has been changed so in the last six weeks there's a lot of change from federal to State and the what is edqual requirement and what is the district use to prepare the second inter report what is our second report Say and What detail report what is multi-year projection which is also at the question and what is this next step to position ourself to adust the unties so from federal level we know that January we have a new occupy the office and there we have car so this weeks actually the cars between Canada become intense and after the negotiation the there's no double um cars from United States the Canada will suspend 25 additionals electricity to or electrical devices to import to United States and then March and the C in Mexico already Implement

092and then China back to Fe already Implement so what is there really mean to our operation to tempish which mean that most likely starting next school year our food service the to serve our kids the cost will be increased and then our facility so if the high school sports complex the kickoff is not happen in June 7th instead 25 in June in 26 our project cost will be increased at least 10% because when the board looked at our fi and Jerry sh our our project mostly metal Steels right and the bricks so and our breaches the material cost will be increased so we will definitely impact so uh immigration we all worry about our students safety we also worry about immigration and then um as of right now the students we have not see the

093impact in our year but will that impacted for 25 26 school year is still a way to see and I know Jerry and Dr kuna mention about thisal education um Department of Education the purpose is shift the administration the B the responsibility to the state but is the funding allocation also shift to this the state level we really don't know so uh this is also the territory and there what is happen in California the beginning of second semester this looks like one of our campers here so the strong Wi on January 7 and then the damage of um our sh structure the the trees faing and then lucky enough that our district we our campus still here and then Pasad our neighbor scho and USD they did L some of the so we stting the

094school we we had a school corosion three days right this first time for official School cure since pandemic and now the board approve J 1 make sure that we as a district still um finish wer the in minist reement as the um the Ed code required and also our fund is not impact so J has already to the city and now what that mean so this happen during the pandemic you know we all get a brief as a individual taxpayer the um Duty for the tax uh tax to the state federal is um postpone from April 15 to October 15 so um for the a county all the residents so we at a county I just noticed it's a very interesting information the state Rue is from three major tax which is the individual income

095tax the cish business tax and the sales and use tax all residents business in a county we contribute 25% of state revenue so by delay the a county the tax it will be impact how the state correctly project our state revenue this going to impact how they project for the district allocation for for the income years so we have a lot lot of cty from both state and the the federal and then the other thing I want to mention that for those of you who are closer watch the stor M yesterday everything is red right so which mean that our stock market is very volatile and then our state that's why the state California state revenue is is just like rural C because more Revenue if our Rich res in state California their capital gain

096increase they can contribute more to the state revenue not State get more fun but now the capital gain is is lower so does that mean the state revenue will be impact so that is something we as a business people need to take into consideration when we do the multi-year projections so again the Ed requirements not changes it's a deadline it's the the board approved today so we can submit to the county and before March 17 and then County was starting review and then we will self qualify is the qualification is depend on the district criteria and the criteria have not been changed for a long time so we build up of the second inter report is based on the first inter report the board approv to December so in middle of January around January 10th

097the governor released 2526 param budget so all the state agency we work uh we follow them to get their guideline is school service California um the board and our Union um leadership and District we attend their um workshop and then we also um look at the the input from the capital advisor they have a close with Sacramento they have a lot of inside U you know information to help us prepare and then this is all a county study this pH physical Year all of us have to use this feac the lcf calculation so lcf calculation is very important because why our general 96% of Revenue is generate from calculation from this formula 96% revenue and our cost for the administration for 88% our personal cost is funded by this lcff so so so so ACC

098calculate our revenue is very important so this is a legal guideline because the legal need to approve our second uh second income report and this this is guideline to to how to prare information what kind information so just give the Border FY I try to save you guys time because part of the package in your binder it is the The Narrative is a part of requirement information we submit to the label so every time there's a change I try to use a different color so yeah you can skip the standy black color because this all standy unchange then just read those the colored parts so that save your time so um good news is we will self self certify the positive certification which mean that the district were able to meet an adequate requirement for

099the current year financial obligation as well as the next two years so here are the changes since the U First intern report um our enement still stable uh when we sted the um semester at beginning the January and we our is stable so that is what we rely on the revenue come from we still need to work on the attendance I know that before pandemic Temple City we have a High attendance percentage um over 90 97% right now we are 2% low so so um there this is area we we we will work on but the good news is starting July 1st State um each district required to implement attendance recovery plan so basically um there's um additional funding we can use EOP money to help the students uh um help the students um catch

100up the M of instruction um time and we were able to catch up the um attendance okay so um then um this schol year I think I don't think that I emphasized in the first intern report and there um thank um Richard and his team that we were able to get the um title three immigration students program we haven't received this before and then we are definitely entitled because as tonight the plation we we all m m three plus three in the in the students we will definitely qualify this grant so we will get um 46,000 this is first year and the good news is the district office including Dr kuna's office including the budget we allocated for the board and including my office and the additional office too we we had uh reduced our

101expend for the contract Service so the additional money we saved we can um use in other area so um the other area is the the special ed uh we do um see the special ed Department um cost increase it's it's kind of I need to spend some time explain that because during the pandemic we have a lot of one-time uh money so the district strategically uses money to support our special program border you you will recall that a lot of one time money the key word adjust is mental health right so that's why we strategically use this um part of the mental health portion to support our special and and our operation but just unfortunately when wi company is gone then Jif have to pick up and also the inflation and the cost the the

102outside of contract will will high their price is increased too so we will closely work with special department and um good news is we have a very competent capable special director who is studying with us this year we are going to look at we will have a new eyes loc at program we closely work with our s and the good news is my new director she's also com from s so so from program Wise from the financial wise we will have a new L look look at the the program did we request a clean from spe special supp program did we clean every D do we need any program adjustment so that we allow us to recuit More Money More cost we spend on this program so so we were we're determined we definitely were

103were doing that actually I think the work already started this week and then the uh measor sbond has already spend which mean that the measure spound we already issued and the money we carry over before and as as of right now because of the working program at the high school the um Sports conference project we already expand this one and we are use the another part of the capital A funding to um keep going for support our program so um again this our guideline for the um multiyear projection assumption as a well second intern report and there um the the changes I want to bring to board attention is the um second inter report the um Governor released the budget in back to January the caller for the um um next year um um actually

104is drop from 2.93% coming to 2.46 which is 0 5% decrease and then 26 27 this is actually in increase from 3.08 to 3.52 but the point is when you decrease the cola the base for next year is going to be lower than the high corer so so so there still have be um multi-year purpose the two years they still have impact because you have a low base there you will have a low base sted even if you have a high Cod so um V brr and there there's a minor changes the k k to8 have a little bit job couple of cents in the both year and then the um 9 to2 has has been a little bit in increased so the other things is next slide we will sh with you that our

105lcf projection is a little bit higher compared with the first in Port is because we adjust our en elment more close to reflect the students population we have starting uh the January semester so this is our total general fund is our main operation fund for the unrestrict and the restrict unrestricted is really our true operation um um fund because restrict is title with money state state program and special there is a program requirement so really we weong whether we can self certify positive or um negative is really depend on the unrestricted General so again the by the we project by end of this fiscal year we have 17.9 million dollar um on the general fund and 8.3 million yes the restrict uh restrict fun we are def spending it is really not def spending it's

106because some of program we just carry over just the two main program is educated effection Grant and the art music ins material Grant because they already funding us uh from from first year and then back to 2023 we'll continue use that Grant so you will see that that that is standing this is the revenue comparison and from the second intern to First intern and we will have we will project high and lcff because we adjusted the enrollment value Revenue we we project less there three program mainly Title One title two we we have the program and the pl is little bit less is because uh this school year our free reduced meal student count is lower so so we have a um plan for make sure that next year when we send our the family

107the free reduced meal application make sure that we we we will do more um the information sharing we will post more information par square and then we we will make sure that all the family who are entitled to submit application because um I want to take this opportunity for those family who watch our um presentation tonight um the district has a responsibility to protect and students privacy so we will not share the students information doesn't matter your immigration status your test the the score the era system we will definitely not not not share so if any of parents have a hesitation has a question so give us a call we will share with more information because of that the the two uh program will have less funding here and because when we project first inter

108we don't have a clear allocation so we used the last year so once we have we know what is the um allocation that we adjust Accord accordingly little bit of big surprise is the federal mental health we we lost compared with last year the funding is drop more than $100,000 so we will definitely work with s and the contact State we want to know why because mental health is actually we it's continue and we probably need need a more so so we really need to rely on the funding the the state program we project more and and as a matter of fact I appreciate that Dr Kun recognized my work as as a matter of fact before even I come here um Veronica and I we still look at the number we make sure that

109the number we present to the board is the we truly believe that the number we believe the accurate so we we try to soon realize that we um the state and the the state revenue will increase $1 million we try to figure out why this is why because we received the 25% C money remember we report I report to the board that uh we are looking we are we are the few of school district who get in apply the c c program and we are we are get funded for $4.5 million for all the schools that except London and the high school for the hvsc program and actually uh they gave us 25% so so this is true money we have we have the the program that is why the the other state revenues increased

110$1 million so local Revenue we decrease and there um we um I decided that um Char be more conservative because we talk about the economy we talk about in interest we really don't know the interest whether for the job or interest St T so um I um adjust the uh interest Revenue projection um from the first inim to to Second inome and I'm confident that um this will still um um exceeding my um projection so um at the end um the second inter total revenue is high there first inter revenue so that is all that's the important message Bo should remember we have more money so um this is the um part chart I will uh let uh share with um all of you guys um what is our rue look slide but remember this

111is combined this is combined restrict and restrict so combined because we still have a big chart of the other state revenue we have not spent car over and our sccf is only 72 but if we take our all the category program out our lcff is 96% so um we all know that um the next year the two um big um wi time money educated factions Grant and there other music instructional umum block grant will be and the standing deadline will will be end the next year so by that time U the percentage for L definitely will be increased so and then um this fed revenue and then Lo local Revenue local Revenue actually it's kind of a little bit Miss and then just because of the accounting the all the special s program uh we

112coding in the local local Pro local revenue is just the the the accy because of the money go to s s pass to us so this is the expenditure again this expenditure is including the categorical program the restrict and so um most of scho St is most of budget is on the Personnel the classifi certificate and and and um the benefit um we required for for the retirement for the payroll benefit and the the books and supplies and their operation and the um Capital Outlet so um we have a still we budget high for the for the um 70% because you know utility is increased and and and their operation and does does increase so we we make sure our goal is budget enough and then make sure that our actual expenditure is less than

113we budget so that is always our our our goal this is the um multi-year projection for the threee that is the base that's why we self certifi the um positive because um yes we are def spending and this is also including ceg program the unry general fund is around the five $5 million uh def spending and then we were able to meet our Reserve is 3% is 5% is U um according to border policy 3% is required by edod so yes we meet need and then um our 2% 3% we add together is a around 5.8 million really five 5.8 million is less our entire District wom's payroll our wom's payroll is BAS all the salary and classy certificate salary and the benefit is around $6 million so so really is our responsibility make sure

114that we have a heal Healy Reserve to to make sure that um oh my hand Healy Reserve to to definitely need a me our pay so this is Al our commit and assign and this SL has not um has not changed that much the only change is the bargaining unit health insurance Pro balance because our um enrolement is um January 1st so uh we work with all our Union um team so make sure that um we they will give us um um their D how much the Ping will be contributed active employee we will just the the balance this balance is going be Carri over to the to the next open room which is January 1st 2026 so the rest of this is have not been changed and and they um it's it's very unstable

115so the other fund so we um could High School our students um the students activity which is ASB um they did a great job so the district like our size normally half million dollar as far as know so they they are still they continue grow their program because they I think they they running um good program and the adult education um all other the fund it's very healthy and then the um we all have any different b as I mentioned except the meure as we spend on project and then we have a um healthy balance and Child Development which is our own before and after SCH program and they our cafeteria still um strong and we will we will make some little bit adjustment for our program U uh starting next next year and then

116the other things is um the fund 40 this is the fund um I after the bond fund left we we're going to use the capital only fund and um most likely that the June bill is going to be sent us in July so um I project we still have a little bit money because we're going to pay the bill in in in July and then um depend on when they will give us we we either crew or we will decide that at that time but at that time most likely in in July our plan is to issue um a new ball so so we will make sure that money uh will continue help us to finish the uh the program so um then what is the next step so this is what we will do

117bud business so we really don't know um m reev m revision will come and U couple months later so um we we haven't have any information about potential what it looks like for M region so we at the uh local school um scho we make sure that we will improve our attendance make sure we capture all the U money we we are entitled to to and then make sure that students learn Al learn and we have a healthy Reserve we're going to control our budget and monitor our expand expenditure and U um we will do all we can to make sure that um we will have a healthy Reserve again 5% Reserve is is bar pay for our women's so this this is what we're going to do legal has they are doing after we

118submit to the second interm and they here what what I I doing so um the I Shar with the board before um when I first start here I'm trying to um make some changes for how we um um do um do the accounting and we're going to continue make that change because most a lot of time if we use State gave us one time money we starting pay for ongoing employee salary what happen is you will see that when the winter money um gone expire with SP then suddenly you have a Major Impact for the district andar general fund so so we try to reorganize how we conduct our accounting to make sure that the wi time money is we are strategic user wi time money so that it will not make our budget looks

119like a red Coast so so that what we're going to do and then we're going to submit to the report and then we're going to um work with our um B Union leadership to finish this this year's um the negotiation process and then we we're starting the budget meeting earlier we starting budget meeting earlier we starting year closing earlier so that we will prepare ourselves to to adjust any potential changes because um on our personal side we don't have a lot of flexibility for for NE next year so we will make sure that our operation sites we were able to have have um Cushing for for us if there's any changes so that is my presentation any question from v um I'm going to make a motion first um I'll make a motion to approve

120the uh 242 2024 2025 second intern financial report um I will uh make that motion can I get a second please second second by student member wayang okay uh first of all thank you um that was a lot and thank you for making it and I feel it's clear as it possibly can be um do my fellow board members have any questions about any of the new items that introduce to us with the second intro I actually don't have a question but like rather a statement um which is but um I want to uh recognize you for the way you present and um are able to communicate like this Hefty information all the hard work that you and Veronica are doing behind the scenes because I feel like the way you presented like all the

121infographics charts pie charts like it is so visual in a way that not only we can understand but the people back home who don't have this um you know background knowledge well I'm taking the financial algebra course right now but you know even people take that class or haven't taken that class like they can understand that which is so important so thank you for that okay right uh there are no comments and uh questions let's go ahead and uh vote on this item um preferen v m way yes okay uh all in favor I I all opposed motion carries 4 Z thank you so much again for that that was again a lot to digest and thank you for making it make it work for us uh next we have item 22 approval of District

122transportation plan this this is actually the third year um we submitted this Transportation plan for board approval and then back to the 2020 22 23 the state um starting funding provide some funding for the home schol Transportation so in our district based on our board policy we do not provide Home Tool which this plan did not requir to do what we do is we do provide home school trans for our special at student space on the IP need and then um the for use and m mck v use we we actually purchase some token for for them so as a part of the condition to receive the funding the district require for the board approval for the transportation Plan before April 1 this is kind of part of AUD proc process and then what the

123fund give us the the state only F fund us 60% of the total cost we spend of the last school year and then deduct the funding part of the transportation funding they add on the lcf app then the balance will so we will expect that $184,000 but you know with this um the unfor going on so any money it will help our operation sounds pretty good okay uh let's make a motion to approve this plan uh motion by member espanosa may I get a second second by member Smith okay um are there any comments or questions I mean this is again something that sort of routinely happens for us annually uh if there are no comments question let's go ahead and vote pressional vote student M yes okay all those in favor I I all

124those opposed motion carries 4 Z okay uh thank you um next we have item 23 approval to end resolution 24256 authorizing emergency repair work from heavy Wind and Fire due to the completion of emergency repair work so the board approved resolution 24256 and for the tion rep due to the damage as result strong the part of language in the resolution said that we need the resolution if the temporary replacement has been complete so that's Reon why I submitted this end of the submit this agenda so what we did is for the temp repair replacement is that the high school and Tennis cour we have temp F and then we also replace the entire District the HBS fut because of the E fire so close to us so we make sure that it's a saf students

125staff teachers and and the district employee and also that uh right after the strong store we we hire we actually use our consultant to go to each campus and take care of the the fing trees and debris so those work is already completed and then what the next step is the Asam men my report that the insurance company approv the um our architecture to design starting the process of permanent fcy in the high school yeah so we we were starting that process but because very good thank you for that um okay um can I uh get a motion please move by member Smith may I get a second or I'll second um okay um so we're following procedures um and which is really good uh that was a bad joke um anyway um are there

126any uh comments or questions by my fellow board members was there damage yes yes but uh and that's still going to be replaced but because of the height of that it requires DSA approval so we couldn't get a temporary fence in there we just have to wait for approval from DSA to def okay all right uh let's go ahead and vote on this item professional vote stent Wang yes okay and all those in favor I I all those opposed motion carries 4 Z okay uh now we're now up to our consent agenda routine items approved by one motion and one vote unless a member of the board or audience request that any item be reviewed and voted upon separately um okay is there any that okay all right perfect okay let's go ahead and let's

127make a motion um may I get a motion please okay move by member sne may get a second okay member Smith all right yeah we're getting there um all right so uh let's go ahead and uh let's go ahead and vote uh par VES remember Wang yes okay all those in favor I all those opposed motion carries 4 Z all all right so now uh board comments you know um does anybody have any other board comments I I did forget one item uh and I just tend to ramble and also I care about efficiency so I'm trying to um um be efficient um in any case you know I I do want to recognize our C perch team um and and the way they uh U competed um two Saturdays ago and I want to

128thank Dr kuna for being there we shuttled between rionda college and Troy High School to see both Science Olympia on teams at Oak and as well as C perch but really SE perch um what most people don't know is that um we're talking about three total teams student teams four members each uh but what's incredible is I got to commend um two of our Juniors leani Garcia and Stephen Lee they basically um managed this whole entire program uh more or less on their own and um and they've been able to guide two red teams they came in second place overall I mean they're just bringing home hardware I mean no one's complaining about that so um I just want to thank them for that and and I'm sorry I didn't get to comment on that

129earlier and that's it for me um anything else no okay all right so very efficient trying to be not really but okay um item 32 additional public comment on agendized and non- agendized items all right okay so let's go ahead uh last item uh ah yes um okay um you know I think for um our general public who may not know we recently uh lost one of our students um she was new to us in a couple years and we want to make sure that we honor her memory as we do with all of our uh community members we are a family so um I would like to make a motion to adjourn in memory of Oak Avenue student Barbara varvara uh may I get a second please okay second by member Espinosa preferential votes

130to the member way yes okay all those in favor all I all those appos motion carried meeting attorne thank you so much this evening