001e e e hello um I'd like to welcome everyone to the uh regular meeting of the board educ of the board of education for Temple City Unified on Wednesday February um all right uh roll call for members that are present um member espanosa here oh oh right I apologize uhud student member Wayne here okay member esposa here member Georgina member Smith member sne and I am here tonight's meeting is being digitally recorded next we have our Pledge of Allegiance led by the kings and queens of our Comming Festival King Roman Salazar and queen nael Chan we can we can wait wait it's all right's down okay hi we have a for you put your right hand over your heart ready begin States thank you very much okay all right wonderful all right next is item
002five changes to the agenda no changes all right perfect okay can I uh get a motion to approve the agenda for this evening member Smith second by member Espinosa preferential V by stud member way yes all in favor all oppos none uh motion passes 5 Z next we have and we all say this because this is absolutely true uh the uh most favorite part of our evening every time we have a meeting which is uh when we recognize some of our outstanding students and uh and hear about all their incred Adventure so this evening I'd like to welcome in none other than our amazing 2025 Chamilia festival Royal Court [Applause] it's more familiar here right well first of all I want to thank you for inviting us tonight and um uh being a part of
003such a tradition uh for our community involving our school district is is indeed one of the highlights and I've been involved with it for many many years and we are so glad to be here uh the mission of the community Festival is to promote the desire and every child to participate in the Affairs of the community it is through appearances like tonight's that we are able to promote our local community organizations so I would like to start by introducing our Chamilia festival Royal Court for 2025 we'll start off with our Banner carriers Emma mag and Benjamin Cho [Applause] next is Charlotte hoe and Ethan [Applause] bogga our Banner carriers walked that entire parade with smiles the entire time our princess Chelsea Chang and Prince kaai Rogers princess Cassidy Peterson and Prince Maxwell Le [Applause] and
004queen n Chan and King Roman [Applause] Salazar now these children were selected from a group of Temple City first graders uh who took part in our annual play day back in November they were judged on how they got along with others and following directions and in addition each child a chance to answer questions using a microphone which do this um uh part of their Royal duties include Opening Our Carnival uh leading our Chamilia Festival parade and making special appearances such as this um as a board do any of you have questions for our kids they are very good at answering questions yes Donna I would like to know who their favorite baseball team is [Laughter] oh wow yeah I give you a clue notice the blue yeah I got to pick that and it was
005for that very reason other questions yes Mary s [Laughter] not all right no kidding those are F Starship is that the one that that spins boy I'm jealous of all of you because I can't ride those things anymore drive me czy as one of the um roal MERS do you get go ride wantek so how many of you spent all three days at the carnival okay excellent It's to all right yes strain I like that okay us that's great yeah start with you we'll go right down the line so what school did you go do you [Music] EMP go ahead your name and I got emper my name is Benjamin and I go to Lon first grade my name is Cassidy and I go to L Anda my name is n my name is nelli
006and I go to my name is Roman and I go to lososa my name is my name is Chelsea I go to Balwin soccer my name is Ka and I go to L Roa my name is Charlotte and I go to Longden is Ethan and they go to London all [Applause] right we also have here our Royal Court govern Gina aicio the back one of our Festival directors Don tan and of course the official Royal Court photographer Mr J and we also have all all of the parents would you stand our our kids parents here these folks have been very very thank you well uh oh yes Donna georgino and marye yes and I think that is it okay all right alrighty all right um uh now real quick last thing um would any any
007of you board members like to explain to the kids what it is that you do sure absolutely all right let's all right let's see if we can explain this correctly okay all right okay so for all of you here that sees the five of us along with the rest of the cabinet what we are are folks who are very committed to your education okay and so what we mean is that we try to bring you um not just the academic education that you you know U experience the in and day out when you guys are at school but also we think about all the other extracurricular stuff that you guys can get yourself involved in so um and uh Our Hope and our goals for all of you is to continue growing and to continue
008learning so um if you have anything that you see that that that you think um is a fun thing to do or something that would to your fellow students this is what we're here to do we're here to to help you guys achieve your dreams so all right sound pretty good does that does that sound right okay all right well thank you all right thank you so on behalf of the uh Chamilia Festival committees and the parents uh and our community thank you uh for supporting the chamia festival and all of the different activities that we bring uh each year and with that you will say good night thank you hold on yes um yeah I was going to say that uh and we have some uh we have a few gifts for our esteemed
009guests this evening so hold on for a second otherwise you won't get they won't be looking at the camera every we not Ro [Music] thank you all right that was a lot of fun yeah okay all right thank you have a have a nice evening all right so next we have item eight public comment on agendized and non- agendized item we do have one public comment this evening uh from Mr Francis Fong that's correct and repr the City of Hope uh Mr F welcome good evening superintendent Board of Trustees um I represent the City of Hope blood Don Senate a place where courage and kindness begin we're all touched by cancer we all know somebody with cancer neighborhood cancer friendwood cancer a coworker or somebody even closer to you a cousin an uncle an aunt
010a nie NE or even closer a brother a sister a grandmother a grandfather a grandson granddaughter son daughter wife or husband it's so reassuring to know that right here in our community we have world class cancer hospital in city of P city of P ranks right now in the top five in the entire nation as far as Cancer Care and every drop of blood that we collect goes directly to our brave cancer paent we did not sell our blood to other hospitals or to bobile companies or to pharmacal companies or to academic centers every drop of blood goes to our brain cancer patients and it stays here in the community um in February of 2023 um almost two years ago I received a call from a gentleman named Brock and he reached out to me
011about hosting a blood drive uh as we discussed the details he shared with me that he was organizing the drive honor of his wife her name is mar a a patient at city of p and a teacher here at the Temple City UniFi School District he spoke of her strength and resilience throughout her journey uh and it was just a beautiful story today I am grateful and honored to say that Temple City Unified School District is hosting its first ever blood drive right here in this room um and in memory of Maurice rain uh so please join us uh and making a difference we're going to be here this next Friday March 7th from 10:00 a.m to 4m here in this room uh there are posters of posted and also those flyers there that you
012can just scan your the Curr code and schedule your appointment or simply just stop by we're going to be here from 10:00 am uh to 4m thank you so much okay thank you so much for sharing that okay um next we have have Community update um I actually don't really have any uh specific Community Updates this evening except I just remind um everyone that our musical is two weeks away so if um you haven't gotten your tickets yet um now would be a good time uh the uh play this or the musical this year anything goes is uh from March 14th through the 16th at the S Bill Mission Playhouse all right next we have bargaining unit comments uh TC TCA Miss Gall Miss G okay all right next we have CSA 105 all right
013but Hi how are you okay um and next we have csca 823 okay all right so let's go ahead move on to the next item District updates we'll start with uh Business Services good evening M of Education super and community members um on January 28th and the city issued a final plan Pro for our two classroom which will be built on field as a part of the tchs sports comp um sports complex project CDs approv allow the district to um apply the funding from the state um opsc so that's the first step which is also required February 12 to the um Bond oversight committee as required by the public9 the school facility so um the district present 2324 the um Bond Financial audit as well as performance audit without any funding and the dist for
014the state constitution regarding how the bond money was spent and Dr kuna also provided the update of the tchs project scope because as of right now all the project by the DSA and um our um general contractor B they provide the status of the of the project the um the district ke analy they provided the funding and update since the entire measure s um Bond was approved and the total the revenue including interest received and expenditures school first gr Union they offer the local education School the um fire relases emergencies supplies and um applied and we we received a couple of items which is useful for us including duct tapes emergency blankets work R safety goles safety helmets and school drivers also and also the um the box of King and 95 Mas school um
015the first is a part of the the district employ nor use them and supp appreciate for their contribs that is my opin thank you very much next we have Services good evening um I want to good evening everybody I wanted to uh share with our community that we City Unified has partnered with parent education bridge for student achievement foundation and are offering comprehensive family engagement um classes so these classes are really to get our parents um involved in active participants in their child's education as well as the the other side of our kids besides the education and so um we've offered 20 classes so far this year ranging from ESL for our parents managing anxiety anger and depression in our students and also understanding social media and its impact on our students so if you're
016interested in taking these classes they show up in your weekly bulletin that come out from each of your sites and welcome to go to any of the school sites to to attend so we're really excited about some of these classes that we're offering um and the opportunity that's giving our parents um I also want to thank Leo with especially for Dy and her team from the center for distance and online learning for the last three days um me and a small team have been with them at a conference that was really looking at supporting all of our students and all of our students me all of our students through a Visual and Performing Arts land and so some of the things we saw in the last three days were Tru amazing and the the heartwarming
017part is we do a lot of it already um that we have inclusive programs that really embrace all of our students and so seeing this on this larger scale and hearing the stories from these adults who their lives were changed because of Performing Arts or Visual Arts it was really inspiring about what we do here um and then finally there's two upcoming events for our family the first one is our annual family literacy night which actually is scheduled for April 19th sorry April 16th at Longden I here we have a local author who may be presenting her book her newly published book um at this event and the second one is in March more details to come on this one we will have our first dual language emersion parent night at London as well so
018excited to see du immersion continue to move forward um and so far um it's looking great we have all the kids for the classes we need and they'll have that first opportunity to meet with Kyle n and so I'm really excited that thank you all right thank you very much okay next we have board member comments um got my list um let's start to the right I'll start with member all right um good evening everybody um I want to First recognize and say how happy I am that we we will be recognizing Arts appreciation month that I'm a big Advocate and supporter of Arts education I think it helps not only uh social emotional wellbeing of students but I think it teaches the students a real world skills that will last them a lifetime so
019happy to be recognizing that this today in our board resolutions um in terms of attendance since our last meeting um I went to the city's celebration of or New Year at the end of January uh the Royal court corination on February 1 U the PTA council meeting um and just to report um out on that one they are planning their March brunch which is on March 20th at 9:00 am here um and the the sites are really focused on you know some of their final fundraising and their final community events because we're the final couple of months of the year the school year and so they are very busy um at work with all of those things um founders day I did attend that as well on the 15th and congratulations to all those people
020who who were recognized so well deserved and really really lucky to have people like that in our community that give us so much um I also attended K student of the month thank you Jerry for your your support the students and for their support of our students and that is all I have thank you so much next we have uh thank you president um I have just a short one also um I attended the honorary service award and I uh want to thank Council PTA for for the honor that they surprised me with I um it was so wonderful to see so many volunteers from all of our schools being honored that evening volunteers are just so important to supporting our schools and our students so thank you to PTA for the honor I am
021very blessed to be honored that way uh congratulations to the committee of Festival committee for a great event this weekend beautiful weather made for a beautiful weekend um I'm really proud to work with such a great committee and they've been doing this for 81 years not the same people but some of us are getting close to no but it Festival has been a part of Temple setting for 81 years which is quite an amazing amazing feat and U it I want to congratulate um Longden and clly L Roa for their wonderful floats and also to Oak Avenue and the high school band for the great job they did in the parade and so sweet Court here it's just really cute to see them at every event they go to and they're they really are very
022calm and very they're not nervous at all when they get in front of adults and tell about themselves so I want to congratulate several of our student groups yoke Avenue science B Team a who won the 2025 Regional championships and they're heading to Washington DC for the finals and also to our girls water and boy sucker who went into further competition and corio song and pep black are taking all the first placees an overall Grand Champion with sharp International state championships um I attended the state of the city last night um I think our close working relationship with the city really benefits not just our students and family but the community as a whole and I it was a really interesting the way it was presented but it really brought home the fact that the
023city and the district are the two biggest Employers in the in the city but working together we are benefiting our greater community and last but not least thank you Jerry for arranging rearranging your time for the K students of the month but I want to thank you for continuing to recognize our outstanding students from all of our schools so thank you so much it was very very nice to have some of your um leadership from I believe the state level some of the people that joined us last night Governor or Lieutenant sorry but it was really nice to it was nice to have them join conversation last night thank you all right thank you so much all right uh next uh we have member Georg thank you mine's not so short um I wanted to
024stop start off with the Chamilia Festival because these last couple months have been a real Downer but this past weekend was so upbeat and so much fun it was so great to see our teachers of the year and our classified staff of the Year writing in the pre being recognized by the community for all the great things they do for students and our schools that had floats in the parade um you know they spent a lot of time working on those and they came out great we had so many school groups in the parade of course our bands which every time I see them it's just so much I have so much pride because they are so awesome um we had our solar car in the parade um several School groups hosting food booth and
025game Boo and then of course the of this year's Chamilia Festival was recognizing 60 years of Temple City High School Musicals so it was a real upbeat um event and it um at the end of the weekend it left me feeling much better than I had felt the week before so um I'm really grateful that our district participates in the Chamilia festival and that our children have the opportunity to to be involved and I want I didn't know you were going to be here darl but I did want to publicly thank you because darl AR for all the cars for the teachers of the year and the and the classified of the year and I really appreciate it and you know that opportunity to recognize our our teachers doesn't come all the time so thank
026you very much for helping with that since our last meeting um I attended our um subcommittee meeting with the city and uh the school board and uh one of the things that came out of that is after I think it's nine years we are finally going to have a joint meeting of the full school board and full uh city council it'll be on March Monday March 17th 5:30 at Temple City High School of course the meeting's open to the public we hope people come out um this will be a great opportunity for us to have uh formal conversations with uh the city council and also to show the community that have we work together the same goals of serving our community uh last night I attended the state of the city and um as Mary
027mentioned it was a little different than they've done it in the past and it was really great but they actually had one section of the state of the city about the schools and talked about what a great job the schools do um how they are the Crown Jewel of the city of Temple City they had uh they showed the stadium talked about how proud they are that this Project's being done and how they want to work with us and cooperate with us so um it was really a great evening for uh not just the city of Temple City but for Temple City Schools I attended the girls CIF water polo game unfortunately didn't go the way way we wanted but I was really proud of the girls that they made it to CIF I attended
028the signing ceremony for Patrick Jones who's a water po player that's going to be playing at UC mered so congratulations to him and his family I um visited Emperor school to see their vaa program specifically the um art program it was uh kindergarteners and um that was like my level of art is equal with them so it was perfect um and thank you um Richard for arranging that for me and I wanted to announce um to everyone that the historic of Temple City is uh displaying artwork from the schools at our Museum um we have some up now we'll be getting more putting more up and then on April 13th it's a Sunday afternoon at two o'clock we're going to have a presentation at our general membership meeting about the art programs in the Temple
029City Unified School District so everyone's welcome to attend that I attended the girls CIF basketball game and darn we almost won that one we were ahead at halime and then it slipped away in the second half but again really proud of the girls and what they accomplished I attended Founders Day um congratulations to all the awardees and our own board member Mary sne I attended the emperor patriotic assembly U where the fourth graders uh put it on and they did a great job uh I attended the Temple City National Little League opening ceremonies which was on the first night of Festival but um it was funny because uh I think half of their board are me are staff members here in the district so it's uh again a real good U working relationship real good
030collaboration between the Youth Sports and the school district I attended the students of the month um thank you juas for doing that again and I also attended the ELD Lunar New Year celebration at Temple City High School finally I wanted to congratulate corio song and pep Flags they've been racking up the awards last month um also boys soccer who made it to the quarterfinals are 10 football players that were chosen to um all rionda League honors and um are two um Temple City High School football players that were chosen to participate in the Heritage Bowl thank you very much thank you so much that made mine so much shorter okay let's go uh well um yeah again I I just you know want to give my thanks to everybody that was involved in the uh
031chamia C coronation I hadn't been able to attend on in some years and you know it's nice to be there um outstanding job and you know really happy for the group that we have this year I know they're going to have a lot of fun visiting and growing it's it's it's going to be pretty awesome um and also to council p for um that tireless work of recognizing all of our volunteers because that's what our foundation is in the city that's what we're built on and um I remember the first time that I was invited to one of those things I honestly did not know what this was about or what I had gotten myself into but uh it was such a wonderful thing to see the strength in the community that we have in
032how we Thrive and how we support our kids um I also attended uh an e Scout recognition for three of our students one that graduated last year Daniel Sue and two senior aen kit and St she are on soon to be astronaut he says so looking forward to supporting him there um and unfortunately I wasn't able to attend the coming up Festival but I saw thanks to the wonderful work of Mr Jan seeing all the photos and videos um you know I want to thank the uh Festival organizers for um supporting our students and it's just so incredible because uh it it really really such a big thing for them to be able to uh help support all these activities that they do so um you know thank you to miss burrow and M tan
033for organizing this year in and year out um the reason I was in at the chilar festival was because I traveled with our high school team they were competing in science olymp up in Northern California um uh against uh some of the best teams in the country in the national champs we finished uh Seventh Place overall out of 60 teams uh we were the highest placing uh team in Southern California so um know we always represent well not just academically but um as a group Temple City is very well recognized so and I and I am incredibly grateful the support the district has given them throughout these years um and yes and also uh congratulations to our amazing science go te help and uh wow they get a free trip to Washington that's really cool
034I mean that is that is that is amazing I'm I'm so excited for for those kids um and yeah there's just a lot of that that's happening I'll be attending some events this coming week weekend Saturday again our uh Middle School team is going into their Regional competition at riondo um our some meral team is going to be a joint High School competing so it'll be a busy weekend uh but again all the support of our students so it's it's a wonderful time um that will be it for me this evening and finally uh I have members all right thank you very much um I'm GNA try to be somewhat brief it's the same list we are all working on I had a chance to attend Roger locky's memorial service back on January 26 I
035did not really know Roger locky very well I probably engaged with him maybe less than 10 times but he obviously had a big impact on our district and we have a lot to to appreciate that he what he done for us uh also back in January I had a chance to attend the kuas of the month kuas students of the month recognition and then again last night once again and thank you to Jerry and the kuas for organizing that uh I had a chance to attend the uh ELD Lunar New Year um presentation or Awards whatever we going to call it Teresa Wong is the one who organized that and um she is she does such a great job working with those kids and helping them come along and be more comfortable socializing and whatnot
036so big kudos to her um had a chance to attend the Chamber of Commerce lenion legislative Lyon a few weeks back um the guest speaker was actually uh somebody who does a lot of work in Washington DC in terms of working with congressmen and and that crowd in terms of putting forth their the agendas or things that they would like to be discussed and it was quite this guy gentleman top his name was Jennings I know but he talked off the top of his head and he really went into some fascinating details so anyway um had a chance to attend the Chamilia Court coronation that was great uh Kudos that everybody else has passed along the Founders Day dinner celebration on the 15th of uh February the the Temple City Opening Ceremonies at milham Phil
037um the Chamilia Festival this past weekend and the state of the city address last night and then lastly actually I saw an email from Judy Chu's office this morning announcing that she's uh accepting art submissions I think April 2nd is what I have written down here um when the submissions are due and of course we were very fortunate this past year one of the people that she recognized was from our district and that students uh painting was displayed underneath the walkway from the con Congressional office to the hall of Congress so anyway look forward to seeing what we can do again this year and that's it thank you thank you very much okay next we have student board member comments thank you um good evening everybody um as held the annual Oak showcase this morning
038at the gym and the quad and we set up the rally showcasing many of Performing Arts as well as Coro um bide and band and our electives and extra off at the high school and one of our unique unique points this year was um actually pitching our new concept of a comprehensive four-year business curriculum which would be um kind of a four-year uh course and where um students would be able to build their own business by the time um they get to their second year of the class and about the stem opportunities offered and you know art performing art opportunities but um there's kind of limited options for other ones so um some of our officers at fla uh we talked with Miss Lee and Mr Sherman and um we've decided on this so since
039the eth graders were here today we were pitching the idea to them and you know kind of asking if they were interested in the course and we got a lot of positive feedback so that's really good to hear and you know it could be implemented as soon as next year so excited for this and um those who are interested in the business field have this opportunity and they would be required to take the class to um also join the club fbl so and also next ASB worked on the Cilia float that the RO Court was on and we attended the community Festival which was always so exciting um it was amazing there was so many people on Saturday night like just amazing to see all these like boots and you know Bo Scouts troops like
040there's so many different groups out there volunteering and you know it's just like a big Community event and finally once really significant event that concluded this past month was our ASV officer elections where um you know this next ASV um student board member was elected and there were six candidates this year um compared to like very few in the past few years and um I was able to kind of promote this um position more um because you know held this position for two years so um since I'm leaving next I really wanted it to get out there to as many students as possible kind of Garner more attention to this position because I feel like it's really underrated and you know we got so many um different it was really a diverse kind of applicants
041compared to like last years and um you know we got people advocating for different kind of cultures different kind of um ones and I would definitely look into that and I want to con to Xavier Munos who is a current Junior in ASB who received the most votes and will be taking my place next year um Xavier Munos is one of the kindest people I know he is always there to listen um he is really suited for this position he is always there to listen to people's concerns like you guys will love him so yeah and yeah thank you all right thank you so much yeah we're certainly looking forward to meeting Mr Muno soon um next we have uh superintendent th thank you uh Lexi it makes me sad that you're reminding us you're
042leaving it's just a um it's just a few months until the end of this school year I'm sure you're not counting down right yeah um I I do want to say that uh I do appreciate what you shared about the uh the business aspect of of finding opportunities for our students uh it was very similar to the article I read in ramp page uh regarding the humanities as well um and it's it is something I think that is important for all of us to remember because not all of our students are are they do not all fit into the same world right and so we do have opportunities in in other areas um and some we do a better job than others and I think it's important for us to remember that we we have
043to find Opportunities to our students so I I do appreciate that and I have heard from uh Miss Lee as well with regards to her plans for expanding some of the business opportunities and I am very much in favor of that and it's something that I uh have been an advocate for as well so I think we'll be able to do some good things so thank you for for bringing that up um I will say that uh another aspect of of you know when we listen to students I want to thank uh Stacy Dr Stacy a for putting together some talking tours uh at our school sites uh we have been as part of the elap but still you know I know it's part of the elap but we don't need to actually go and
044follow up uh you know as as a part of the results of a survey but it is so nice to be able to hear from kids and we have these groups that uh we we pull a cross section of our our population random and we hear back from kids on some of the things that we can do better uh as a school district to help support them but the the one thing that I do appreciate is our students are very articulate and they also understand that there are some things that we require help on as well um you know we require help from them as students to be able to help take care of some of the things that we give to students we need help from parents to reinforce some of the expectations or
045rules that we put into place and and help uh you know to to help follow those rules um and so you know we talk there part of our survey results are you know oh the bathrooms need some attention and when we dig a little bit deeper it's not that the bathrooms start out dirty the bathrooms start out clean but human behavior tends to take over and and sometimes our bathrooms are because of behaviors in the bathrooms um and so for students to be able to recognize that they have a part in this as well I really did appreciate that but it also you know there are there are things that we can do as a district and there are things we're talking about to make sure that we can help to lessen some of that
046uh concern um but it does take everybody to make sure that you know schools AC I this uh yesterday I was at the capital I got to speak to six different legislators as part of a legislative action day with the Los Angeles County Office of Education so I'm very appreciative of of that I will say one of the legislators we talked to was Mike B in his office over there um and I you know after talking to multiple legislators I I really think Mike is doing a fabulous job um and it was good to talk to him uh in his in his area but there were some things that I was able to bring to light um and who knows what will happen because of it um you know I I still do recognize that
047the people I was talking to the politicians um and sometimes you get certain answers and whether or another there's followed through we'll see but it is always iici these plant seeds um and I got to talk a lot about you know the the disparity and funding particularly for districts like us um in which you know we are really in the middle of being able to to receive additional support from the state and or receive additional support from the community um and so when I shared some of those uh pieces I I think it did raise some attention uh or awareness legislators uh the other thing that I talked about is whether or not the state is really um funding according to their priorities and a good example of that is you know not good not
048much good came out of the pandemic other than the fact that we went to a one toone ratio for technology and every student got a device but all of those devices are reaching end of life and for districts to be able to m a one toone ratio the state really needs to talk about how they're going to help support funding for technology and it's not just about putting a device in front of kids but it's about putting a device that will prepare kids for the future and so without the funding that goes along with that you know you you tend to give students not an inferior device but a device that does not they may need especially when we talking all the that are coming AI we need more robust technology to be able to
049to train and prepare our students to be able to handle this in the future so um there was just a lot of good conversation there's another mandated reporting uh or not a mandated reporting but a mandated training that a legislator is is proposing and I shared with we have multiple mandated trainings you have taken away our ability to do professional development because you have mandated every training that we have and there's no money to go along with it we need something to help support this to be able to pay our our staff to be able to do these trainings so long story short I said my piece we'll see what happens uh but the good thing that happened as a result of it is uh Dr dardo the County Superintendent asked me to be part
050of her superintendent's advisory councel uh so I will be sitting on uh her advisory team and again I don't think we can make any change without a seat at the table and so as long as we're sitting there maybe there's some opportunity for us um so I am appreciative of that and I will say uh I'll close with um I I agree with uh Donna parade was uh a bright spot in a rough couple of months um and I also want to say that if you have not seen the book that the Historical Society has put out as a result of donor's work you really need to it is a well thank you so much for all your hard work uh and advocated on behalf of the students of this district and and actually students
051Cali so um yes hope some good things come out of that yes you won't know unless you try so um next we have written Communications I don't believe that we have anying so now let's go ahead and move on to the discussion information item portion of our meeting where the board would like to discuss uh or have information presented to the board and these items do not require any board action and this evening we have with us uh Mr Steve gold of California Financial Services uh to have uh a presentation and update for measure espod Mr go good evening thank you for being here thank you um Board of Education superintendent cabinet of members of the public um as was mentioned my name is Steve bald I'm with California finan Services uh we represent the
052temple um City Unified School District as Municipal financial advisers in that role we assist the school district in evaluating U opportunities to fund Capital facilities improvements through the issuance of public uh debt so what I have tonight is a short presentation on an opportunity to generate additional uh Project funding from The District's existing measure s geob Bond authorization um um in November of 2012 the community supported uh the school district with the authorization by an affirmative vote of over 64% um to establish measure s measure s establishes the ability for the district to annually Levy and collect tax within the community at a rate not to exceed $58.80 per 100,000 to support the issuance of up to 128 million $18.8 million of funding for Capital Improvements since the authorization of measure s the district has
053issued approximately 81 million of bonds and completed improvements with those funds leaving approximately $48 million of bond authorization left we get into the math a little bit um as it relates to how the measure works but the basic concept is the voters within a community they authorize three items they authorize the maximum level of tax on an annual basis that can be levied so this is the payments that can be collected the maximum amount of bonds that could be issued at any given time the total authorization which is 128. million and then finally a list of improvements uh were authorized at that time as well so every time we speak of measure s we're talking about completing the list of improvements approved by the community back in 2012 so here's a a diagram that explains
054a little bit of how uh the authorization works and we'll talk a little bit about the opportunity the last time I was in front of uh the board on these items was in 2019 so those that were at those meetings will U be familiar this um at the top of the green line here represents the maximum tax levy that could be imposed on the community and generated for this purpose the tax only can only be utilized to support bonds issued under this measure this so what's happening what what you're seeing here is not the actual tax that's being collected rather it's a an illustration of what the maximum tax rate could be underneath are the are the payments outstanding General obligation Bond uh Bond so the district has issued several series um ending or the
055most recent uh being in 2019 um and you can see the total payments for those bonds are underneath that green line so at no time can those payments exceed that green line in addition to the payments you'll see that there's a little bit of room between the top of the bars and that green line with a larger portion of room kind of clearing in the back so when we talk about um the opportunity to fund additional facilities it's important to recognize that what we're really doing for the district is filling in that the back end of that schedule so there'll be a small amount of bonds issued across schedule but most of them issu back so based on current market conditions and space that we just showed you Between the Bars and the line um
056the district is expected to have the ability um to issue about 11.7 Million worth of additional Bonds in total generating about 11.3 million in capital Improvement funds to complete active and ongoing projects the balance of the 11.7 is used for cost of issuance this pays attorney fees banking fees and those types of things and will Beed out proceeds um one of the things that we'll talk a little bit about is the this number or this opportunity assumes that the district does not close the bonds prior to July 1 of this year the reason being is as we as I spoke about because we're we're trying to we're really taking advantage of the back end of the schedule um it's important that in order to generate this amount of funding that we to take advantage of
057the Li 25 years um for issuing bonds that will in a structure that will allow us to capture that additional Revenue so by delaying until July 1 of 2025 it allows us to do that so one of the things you'll see on the on the agenda tonight is a resolution a reimbursement resolution and what that allows the district to do is to um hold off on the final issuance until after July 1st allowing you to generate additional proceeds but also allows Connie and to continue to pay invoices onjects and then re proceeds so once um if the board approves the issuance of series D um this is kind of an illustration of what the result will look like as you can see the darker the darker blue is the series D projected Debt Service payments
058and as I mentioned there's small Debt Service payments across the top in the beginning years but really primarily what the district is doing taking space on on the tax capacity back so the way that the school district takes advantage of those back years is by issuing a type of bond called a capital appreciation bond this is important to note for a number of reasons what a capital appreciation bond is it's a bond that's structured where the investor instead of getting periodic payments every six months they uh hold off the payments only pays off bonds at the very back end so it would be um imagine having a mortgage where instead of paying your monthly mortgage payment after 25 or 30 years you just write one check and it to the person um because of that
059our Cal our calendar our proposed calendar does have two additional Bond two additional um board presentations or board items so February 26th this is the presentation I'm giving you today and and the approval of the reim olution between February 26 and March and March 26 will be the team will be preparing the various legal documents running analysis and those types of things to be ready and on April 9th the district will be board will be presented with an information item uh regarding the utilization of capital appreciation funds this is a a step that's request required by Statute when this type of debt is being issued and then again the next suceeding uh uh board meeting you will be considering the approval of the issuance of the bonds and the various Bond documents what's important to
060note is as you can see on April 23rd that's not mean the bonds are actually sold or issued after your approval your uh approval goes to the county and then the County Board will consider approving the issuance on May 2 the reason the county approves the issuance is um though the is being levied and collected on behalf of the school district to generate the funds for your facilities it is administered and oversaw by the county assessor so the County Board has to approve all of the issurance of bonds with these types of taxes um after the April 20th board approval we'll continue down the process including getting a credit rating and again with the idea that uh we would be selling the bonds in the week of June 9th and then cling the bonds after
061that July 1 date so July 2nd what we've done is we've set it up so the week of July 2nd somewhere in there Monday or Tuesday will be the soon week Del Pro and still meet that 25 so are there any questions regarding the opportunity any information that I provide yes interest R absolutely yeah as so School the school district is an issuer of debt so we're always rooting for lower interest rates um we the numbers that we provide to you are based on kind of current interest rate environments um the going uh best guess is that we're in a stable to maybe slightly declining interest rate environment um but we will be subject to the variance of interest rates all the way up until that week of June 9th the week of June 9th
062we will engage with investors and we we will at that point agree on the interest rate and lock that in for the July second dat but yeah we're rooting for lower interest rates stable economics anybody else coms yeah I mean uh it's thank you for the timeline we truly appreciate it us something to forward to and think I saw CS probably about n years so it be good to kind of memory all of that works thank you all that upate to the yes thank you very much all right so next we have the discussion action agenda portion of our meeting items that may require discussion on which the board is expected to take action during the meeting um next item we have number 17 um it's the uh 2025 California School Board Association delegate Assembly
063election and as a board we may vote for two delegates and as so it happens it looks like there are two candidates here that's Kathleen cross and Dr Gary Scott um well um I was informed that uh as a board if we are in agreement to nominate both of uh these U fine folks that we would only need one motion so uh do I have a motion to nominate both Kathleen cross and Dr Gary Scott okay by second second BYO okay uh well you know I want to thank them for their service because we know that everything that we do here um is uh well it's volunteer work and we're doing it uh uh to support our community so thank you to uh M CR and Dr Scott um okay if there are no other
064comments let's go ahead and let's go for is a roll call Wait no that's not it okay preferential vote uh member Wang yes okay uh all those in favor I all those opposed motion Carri all right congratulations okay next we have item 18 adoption of resolution 24220 for claiming March 2025 as Arts Education Month um is there anything that we need to know besides the fact we do it every day was I think you guys spoke pretty eloquently about the Arts uh within the district but I will say as part of our talking tours uh when we get to the elementary level uh a lot of our students said the highlight of their day is the about the programs that we're offering and so I think that just goes to say that we are doing
065Arts every day um but it is nice to recognize particularly during the month that we host the new absolutely okay um get a motion please motion okay motion by m esposa second by all right okay so this is a roll call vote I will not mess this one up okay preferential vote member Wang yes okay all right uh member Smith yes member s i yes uh member esposa yes M Georgina okay all right here 5 Z motion passes next we have ed services item number 19 uh we are receiving board policies for first reading uh BP 0410 non-discrimination and District programs and activities BP 131 12.3 uniform complaint procedures BP 1340 access to District records BP 351 15.2 disruptions bp5 admission and finally bp- 5149 hate motivated behavior um I take it this update through
066csba yes uh through csba and through the uh California Attorney General's office but we have a a quick presentation for you not on every uh particular policy but just kind of talking a little bit about what all of these policies do refer to is going to give you a quick presentation hello hello good evening board president Bell I guess right I guess board member superintendent Dr kuna executive cabinet and Jerry jaian Janette Johnson Sans as well as um gives you an honor to again represent our district in the the role that I play more importantly to look out for our students here in Temple City so um obviously with all the changes that have been going on current ministration in light of some of the movement we want to make sure that our kids are
067protected so our board policy will definitely that they always have prior to that's what's happening here just inviting the immigration just but also the rights next slide please you want me to do it onl oh tells you how often I get to do this Connie will you be my Vanna too late often times I win so there are three three bullet points up here as you can see uh for our student state of constitutional rights at the school sits so number discrimination student rights that all students including those undocumented and from immigrant families have the right to these are really important attend a public school participate in all our school activities and also receive a quality education free from discrimination and again these are things that constantly go on throughout the day as Dr kuna
068earlier made uh made mention to was sitting with our kids in these student advisory comms been hearing our kids articulate not only from the elementary level but to middle school high school um he's a wide range of our kids so to hear them is pretty powerful so we're glad they're part of our our school Community confidentiality of student information we don't really set out at all un that's obviously that we're required to do so this is also requesting Social Security numbers as well to inquiring about citizenship we don't re that information we will not and also to promising that our kids will have a safe School today's day and age this is per we do that not only principles but also stff slide darl absolutely thank you there you go so focus and purpose of
069proactive measures on our initiatives number one we update our policies and procedures to align with the latest legal guidance that we have um organized resources to keep families informed and supported which have already been pushed out from our district and we train our administrators and key staff to ensure that they all prepared to respond effectively to the changes and our staff and our administ from our Administration with our our School principles down to the teachers do that day and day out on a regular basis so we're extremely proud of them there're the board policies I think there's a first read for all of you uh that you'll see before you today and then what we are doing and I think that's important for our school Community to know as well as for you as a
070board we're monitoring student attendance patterns to identify potential concerns and really to support our fam how we can best do that engaging trusted staff to reach out to our families and I think the the really big piece there is engaging trusted staff we have so many of our staff members if you ask our kids who you go to they can identify at least three to four people just three to four people on the campus uh connecting with families with available resources Support Services my and one of my roles I'm I'm blessed to work with our guidance department and our school counselors um and they' been providing theour families that have concerns or questions we're able to give them tangible readily available services and one of them for example just being Family Promise Unity center inob
071have been extremely helpful to our fames during this time communication sent out to our families would you do via parents Square training for administrators in our leadership team meetings and um Richard does a really great job doing that with our principal dr's able to step into really important we have that time together and then resources provided to our office we're we're cing them on the front lines as we know when that door opens up and they buzz in that's the first person they see and we want to make sure they're that they're extremely valuable to our school communities and then our reassurance to our students our families and that's a big one um right now is that what what are we doing to reassure our students our famili there's all this spirit I was recently
072went to something at Leo that um was put out regarding the immigration issues educational setting and right now we need to keep doing what we're doing as a school Community as schools will act in accord with the guidance from the state of California you have the first of those Bo policies administrative RS that really are all about supporting the student focused and then age appropriate statements for elementary middle school and high school students that three bullet points there every student is valued and protected campuses are welcoming and I think we see that already when we walk in our campuses so again these are things we're already doing but it just it's nice to hear it and we see it and we reinforce it it's not just on paper but we can really look look at
073what we're doing just look at our community on this weekend I mean it was a Feelgood I I I thought that we needed that and uh to have that and our people being celebrated and our staff being celebrated a lot and uh schools are committed into safeguarding students from external inquiries and disruptions nobody from the outside school's a safe place it's a safe place for kids to learn kids have one job today it's pretty easy to learn but we make it difficult and so we want to do whatever we kid can keep learning and lastly messages will be shared by our teachers and Communications at school organize activities events just equipping our staff show that's it yeah well sometimes we do no outside but again it goes back to what we do day in day
074out we arti in our schools City for our thank you and we thank all of our staff for their continued you know outstanding work and support for um the students of our district um I hope that for the families who are uh watching this uh can feel rest assured that we together as a community are going to do everything U that that we can to make sure as Mr Della mentioned that schools are safe learning spaces for our children so thank you so much um I will go ahead I will make a motion to approve our first reading can I get a second second by Smith okay preferential vote V member way yes okay uh all those in favor I all those opposed motion carries 5 Z okay next we have item 20 in Business
075Services uh adoption of resolution 2425 D21 reimbursement resolution regarding Temple City Unified School District's intention to issue tax exempt General obligation bonds and um I think this has something to do with the presentation we had yes so as mentioned the district to issue part of author ISS measure as Maxim the B Insurance over 10 million and then after July 1 of the new year be the best way to do that as know that we we have four group of the construction young and high school Camp so from March to June we cash offro and resolution all thect use other sources outside to go ahead pay for the construction when District ISS Bond the bond able to reources Advan for the project there reement by the IRS including that this resolution must be ADT days of
076exp so for us if the board approv today and I don't think the before the before the EXP because as as of right we still have some funding to pay our bill but in the future because of project so as option as option as needed so it will allow us to pay the bills use the other fund and get reversed so the the resolution couple of the requirement six days within expenditure and then back that 18 months and duration payment it should be years all right thank you for clarifying that um and that sounds like a good way to go in case and in case this just in case we do need to utilize it okay fantastic um all right um can I get a motion okay all right student member Wayne then uh okay
077all right uh yes allow us to complete it um it is very very tight so we're hoping that we can maximize as as much as uh as Steve had presented that puts us right there to be able to complete everything um but it is it's tight so we're you know but we we we're confident see the field is try to soon um okay um all right if there are no other questions or discussion um I say let's go ahead and vote on this uh preferential votes student member yes okay all right this one is a roll call vote first member sne yes all right I am a yes member estos yes M Jor member Smith okay all right so we have 50 Mo carries thank you very much next we have item 21 approval of
078form j-13 a request for allowance of attendance uh due to emergency conditions has to do with the wild yes as days January and allow us to avoid to P due to the school closure because of the emergency the St allow St submit this form including the state the governor's EXA order the back of information this stand plan and also although we are Clos for three days but as Dr mentioned before that original schedule January 29th we will that will resume ordinary instruction which mean that we are only for two days which is January 8 and and it's not just a uh the attendance it's also a waiver of the not meeting the 180 instructional days for the school year so 17 sounds good and you know it's unfortunate of a situation that was the rest
079of the Staffing an excellent call on taking care of our kids and keeping them thank you um okay um may I get a motion to approve okay move by member Smith second by member Espinosa um if there are no questions or comments uh let's go ah and vote uh member Wayne yes okay all those in favor I all those opposed okay motion carries next item 22 approval of Master memorandum of agreement between the County of Los Angeles and Temple City Unified for schools posive Recreation uh so this is a uh it's a standard agreement that uh we get approved every year but it allows us the opportunity to reserve County Parks uh at a discounted rate for either District business or School field trips or whatnot U but we would not be able to do
080so we would not be able to reserve those Parks without this m of understanding more of an insurance requirement piece that they they require from us as well um but it is something that we did approve I think we approved it previous yes this is an annual yeah we didn't know it was going to be annual when we first did it and I don't know they changed that it is now well this is actually really good and it's great opportunity for student groups as well imag so um can I get a second ESP okay um no questions or discussion let's go ahead and vote preferential votes St member Wayne yes okay and all those in favor all those post motion carries okay now we uh come down to our consent agenda routine items approved by
081one motion and one vote unless a member of the board a requests that any item be reviewed reviewed and voted upon separately hear anything so um I'll go ahead and make a motion for that you get a second please second by Smith preferential vote M Wayne I have a question number oh sure is that like lagy so they they are are typical lifespan is anywhere from probably six to seven years on our device it really just depends on how long the uh support for the device is still available um we try to stretch it long as possible just because of the cost but if you do have issues just email text right that's a good question to ask I mean we see it from time to time right yeah i' i' I've wondered about this
082years ago as well like was the uh but it's just a mixed bag of everything so it's spring cleaning of some sort so um okay all right so let's go ahead and vote on this uh per official vote board member Wang yes okay all those in favor I all those suppos motion carries uh do we have any uh board comments or requests absolutely for those of you who saw the parade on Saturday one thing you may have noticed was that the Oak Avenue band was wearing a new set of uniforms is the first set in 25 years and I know of one music teacher who was thrilled to be able to display those and that same music teacher actually was the recipient of the previous uniforms that were in 2000 so it's been 25 years
083and they're thrilled and that was the vapa money wow well worth the way that's awesome I have one thing too absolutely forgot to announce um on Saturday March 15 uh in addition to the musical there will be a special alumni performance on it's at two o' purchase tickets Ahad of time and we saw a little preview of it I didn't because I was down at the end of theak people the beginning of the break saw it and Jerry perance think it's going to be a great so I encourage everybody to in addition to buying tickets foric buy for thank you for that thank you for sharing that um okay um we don't have any feature agenda items good there okay uh item 31 additional public comment on agendized and non- agendized items from our audience
084perhaps no okay very good all right so uh now we're moving on to the last item on our agenda and um I thought about writing something but that wouldn't have made any sense because uh I probably would have fumbled that all the way through uh this evening you know we would like to adjourn in memory of a a special individual um I had a great Fortune of actually meeting him while he was a student many many years ago and particularly during that year when our high school partip um and uh you know Jake Fern was not just a graduate of Temple City High School he was an outstanding IND individual outstanding Community member and as I've said in uh in the past or some of these other things have we've uh adjourned in memory of
085some wonderful folks uh that has had an impact in the lives of our students or Community you know I'd like to see it as a celebration of their life and their contributions to us and his memory will last with us forever uh our thoughts and prayers our hearts are with Mr and Mrs FTI um you know we miss an outstanding individual and uh his memory will live on with us forever so um I would like to adjourn our meeting this evening in memory of Mr Drake FTI um I would like the motion for that can I get a second please second by member Espinosa okay can I get a preferential vote s member way yes all right all those in favor I all those opposed meeting adjourned at 659 thank you very much everyone