001may wish to address the governing board regarding a matter that is not on the agenda. You wish to address the board about an item that is on the agenda, please do so when the agenda item is called. The board respects the rights of all community members, praise, criticize, or otherwise discuss matters related to the district business. However, we kindly ask that individuals speak respectful and professional manner to avoid disruption and to ensure the orderly conduct of the meeting in a manner that is consistent with the district's welcoming and professional culture. Complaints against specific district employees should be resolved the district's personnel complaint procedure. right to address the board does not exempt the speaker from any potential liability or defamation. Public comment will be limited to a maximum of 3 minutes per person, a limit of
002approximately 450 words with a total of 30 minutes designated for this portion of the agenda. Mr. Monia permission. Thank you. Oh, is it starting? Oh, wait. Me walking up there starts my time. Yeah, it's 227. I see. I mean, I won't go over it. Okay. All right. Uh, TUSD board, it's like um once again I'm up here and I I am uh preaching to you guys about the violation of SRO. And the violation is SB 1273. SB 1273 says protect students from a necessary contact with the criminal legal system to decrease school related law enforcement arrests. On May 2nd, on May 2nd of this year, my granddaughter, not my not my grandson, my granddaughter was arrested by your SRO over there at the junior high school. Once again, here we go. You You have something
003that's protecting the child right here. SB 1273. Did you Did you after you received this? Now, here I want to talk about these things that I I gave you to receive. Obviously, you see in there the judge's order to go ahead and drop all the charges. Now, did you go over with your with your SRO's that about 127 about 127 SB 1273 after the fact that them charges were dropped, Mr. Mr. uh Barney, because you're the one that's causing all this. You're the one that's going to go ahead and and and it's like get these people taken to the grand jury. I mean, it's like we have no protection. Just like I said, you guys don't want to give us no no uh no legal legal enforcement. That's fine. because we have 12 of our
004peers up there that will give us the legal backing of our our our claims. Now, it's it shouldn't take that long. We need a pathway through the student complaint and the TUSD complaint system that will lead us to success. Thank you, Debbie, and thank you uh Mr. Ogden for uh celebrating this PBIS and the restorative practice that is working but not at every school site at least not at my school sites where I go where the SRO takes over and he goes ahead and makes our arrest and and is and is praised by it you know because it's like we can't make a complaint about him only play we can make is the UCP we cannot complain to them on a regular complaint or we could come to you guys but Like I say, we're
005limited to our complaints on the SRO's if you guys bring them into into view or in into the system, which is is legally not allowed. SB 1273, which you guys have uh on occasion, a second occasion here is a violation. And obviously we need to take this, you know, up a level, up a notch because it's like, uh, we're tired of going ahead and getting misused at at the site, misused over here at the at the what you call it at at the board and misused. It's like at at at school side. Thank you. Is there anyone else that would like to address the board at this time? recess close session and return at approximately 6:45. Thank you. As the new interlock, I'm excited to meet out together. We ensure that all the best school
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020serve. We teach our students to imagine. We're building the next generation of leaders. We prepare our students for the real world. We win championships. We graduate college and career ready. We are TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. USA. We're QSD. As the new interim superintendent of Turlock Unified School District, I'm excited to lead an outstanding community of Together we ensure that all students learn at high levels and have the best school experience because of the work we do every single day. We lead with our strength. We get kids to school safely. We serve nutritious meals. We keep our schools safe and clean. We keep our schools ready. We protect our schools and connect with kids. We take care of families. We help our students learn. We teach scholars to observe. We guide
021our scholars. Look at my schedule. Absolutely. Let's look it up. We teach our scholars to read. We teach our students to calculate. We teach our scholars to serve. We teach our students to imagine. We're building the next generation of leaders. We prepare our students for the real world. We win championships. So do we. We graduate college and career ready. We are TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. TUSD. Say USA. TUSD. We're TUSD. As the new inter superintendent of Turlock Unified School District, I'm excited to lead an outstanding community of educators. Together, we ensure that all students learn at high levels and have the best school experience because of the work we do every single day. We lead with our strength. We get kids to school safely. We serve nutritious meals. We keep our
022schools safe and clean. We keep our schools ready. We protect our schools and connect with kids. We take care of our students learn. We teach scholars to observe. We guide our scholars. You look at my schedule. Absolutely. Let's look it up. We teach our scholars to read. We teach our students to calculate. We teach our scholars to serve. We teach our students to imagine. We're building the next generation of leaders. We prepare our students for the real world. We win championships. We graduate college and career ready. We are T USD. T USD T USD like to welcome everyone. All this meeting back to order. Taken. Join me in the flag salute. Martinez the police submission. I'll be reading I'll be reading the vision statement. students will become self motivated, responsible citizens who graduate from college
023and career ready. And boy, did we see that last. Thank you. The roll call show that all board members are present. Have a motion approve the agenda. The agenda moved and seconded to approve the agenda. This is a roll call vote. Carlson Jackson Martinez Mis and the motion carries next superintendent report. I'd like to use this time to simply recognize members of our team for their incredible devotion to the success of our students. The graduation season we just worked with last week was fantastic and I was reminded of all the work the people that are TU to our students. Thank you to all who made our graduation celebrations a success. Our M team, school administrators, teachers, counselors, support specials, and staff, and more all contributed to making each ceremony a celebration worth remembering for the
024families we serve. We wrapped up the year yesterday with our final administrative council meeting, which we recognize individuals for their exceptional work this school year. Terrell Labasi, Mavel Romero, John Aka, Mandy Coronza, Leslie Swisser, Michelle Bliss, and Joseph SA. We also recognize one more time our two retirees from administrative council. Thank you communications. At this point I believe there's no staff reports announcements. June 17th will be our next uh board meeting at this time. consent calendar or any question comments about consent calendar of the board. Any comments or questions from the public about consent calendar? Not could I have a motion to accept it? Properly moved and seconded to approve the consent calendar. This is a roll call vote. Miss Carlson, Miss Jackson, Miss Amy. Hi, Miss Martinez. Miss Ramirez. Hi, Mr. Shields. Hi. And
025board president votes I motion to approve calendar. Next under finance and accountability item 31. Miss. Yes. Good evening, President Silva, members of the board, and David. Um, tonight I'm here to present information regarding the 2526 local control accountability plan or LCAP, followed by a public hearing. Uh, just as a reminder, I will be specifically referring to the district's LCAP process and plan. Um, and after my presentation, Gabonos will be presenting information specific to themy's LCAP. So the required components of the 2526 LCAP are listed here. Uh go into detail about the first three items that are on there. Um as far as the bottom three items, instructions are required to be included in the LCAP so that all educational partners can review more detailed information about the requirements and the prompts of the LCAP. Uh
026the 2526 budget is going to be presented after Academy LCAP um presentation and the local indicators are going to be presented at the next. So the budget overview for parents is our required uh template which populates these graphs and most of the wording to explain our total expected revenue and breakdown of LCFF funds. um also how much of our overall expenditures are within the LCAP and a description of the expenditures that are not included in LCAP. Additionally, in this section, there is a portion for what they refer to as high need students. I will be honest in the fact that I don't know why they refer to them as high needs in this one section and everywhere else they're referred to as our unduplicated students, but they are the same group of people. So, those
027are our students that are English learners, foster youth, or low income. Um, this also shows our supplemental and concentration grant funding and a description of the access and services to meet the needs of these students. As a reminder, an action can only count as contributing to increase or improved services for unduplicated students if LCFF funding is used. So, as you can see from this graph, TUSD has about 35.8 8 million in supplement on concentration grant revenue and about $58 million in expenditures that are budgeted within the LCAP process. The 2526 template is comprised of many components and so I have listed the beginning page numbers of each section for your reference. Uh general information contains a description of the district, the schools and students. The reflections annual performance section addresses work completed to address school
028and student groups who receive the lowest performance level on one or more of the state indicators on the 2023 dashboard and on the 2024 dashboard. The reflections technical assistance section describes the work related to differentiated assistance. It should be noted that TUSD has no eligibility for differentiated assistance for this year but remains eligible for a second year of assistant based on the 2023 dashboard. Um, no sites in TUSD were identified for comprehensive support and improvement this year. The engaging educational partners which begins on page 14 is a summary of the process used to engage educational partners in the process and a summary of the feedback that was provided by different groups. Um I'll go into more detail regarding the educational partners in just a few minutes. And then really the meat of the the plan
029is the goals and actions which begin on page 17. Um this contains our six goals, the metrics used for measuring and reporting results, a goal analysis of how the goal was carried out in 2425 um and actions to be implemented to achieve these goals. The increased or improved services describe how contributing actions are effective in meeting the goals for our unduplicated students. And then lastly on page 107 start our expenditure and action teams. So in terms of engaging educational partners, our LCAP steering committee started off the process by meeting in the beginning of January. Our LCAP cohort followed up by meeting three additional times in February, March, and April. However, those people that know me know that I can turn any meeting into an LCAP meeting. So I will just say that we also have
030input regarding um actions throughout the entire year um in the form of staff and department meetings um certificated and classified forums the superintendent paired uh advisory council our ELAC and DAC meetings um our surveys and you would be surprised how many times I just receive random emails with whatever thought popped into that person's head at the moment and I just collect all to share with our cohort at the appropriate time. So, um, our LCAP steering committee is comprised of 46, uh, TUSD staff members. We really work hard to try to represent a balance of all of the sites and programs to make sure that everybody is represented, as well as 10 parent, student, and community representatives on our street. Here is a list of members of the steering committee and those that are in bold
031also served on our uh smaller cohort committee. And then you can see um with the asterisks of those community, parent and student representatives as well um that we have student representatives from our secondary sites. One of the ways we collect input regarding the LCAP actions is our yearly LCAP survey. Um, as you can see, this year we received a total of 2,155 responses with 892 from staff and 1,263 from parent and community members. And then information is compiled from these surveys and um reviewed by the cohort. I will also say that the the cohort then discusses this information, reviews all the data and prioritizes actions. But a lot of times in these surveys, we receive um information that really pertains to sitebased work as opposed to our district-wide plan. Um therefore we also shared this
032information with um regarding surveys with site administration so that they could review the feedback and um work on actions that were specific to their site. Whoops. Sorry. Okay. Um we continue with um five goals focused on academic achievement, social emotional learning, access and opportunity, curriculum and instruction, parent engagement and safety and security. This year we did make changes to goal two to create practices and experiences that focus on the awareness of the needs of the specific school communities. Um, as a reminder, our goal number six is required because of the new LCFF equity multiplier funding and the only site that is eligible for such is Roselon High School. And so, Roselon has their own um educational partners and inputs to create that goal and those actions that align with it um because it is specific
033to their site. So after a review of input data and budget, the following actions were prioritized for the 2526 LCAP. Please note that the first three actions are funded by the learning recovery emergency block grant and that funding expires in 2728, June of 28. Um there is a new requirement this year that any action funded by the learning recovery block grant u must be included in the 2526 LCAP. And so um those are changes that we implemented in there. They're noted in our reflection section and they can be found in goal one actions 2D and 15A. Considerable data was reviewed regarding item number four to determine the order of when the remaining three elementary sites could hire an MTSS site specialist. Unfortunately, budget constraints at this time are not allowing us to do so, but
034at least we have our order so that when we have the money, we know where we're going to um hire next. Item number five uh will not appear as a new action within the LCAP, but it is included in our professional development um action, which is action 3.5. Um but we really wanted to make sure that um we received the feedback from our educational partners and that we have those trainings specifically noted um in the feedback that was received from those um actions. So, um I just also wanted to take this time to say that, you know, with with our budget constraints the way they are, anticipated declining enrollment, um the LCAP cohort work tremendously hard on making datadriven decisions and that is something that is um very difficult task to do because um as
035you can see when you receive over 2,000 responses, everybody has input of what they would like to see done. And my answer is we can do anything, but we can't do everything, right? And so, um, I I just really wanted to thank the the steering committee and the cohort and the ED services team and everybody that contributed data to this so that we could really go through and review all of that data so that we know that we were making the best decisions for our students um, based on data and not opinion. Um, beginning on page 81, you will find the required section regarding increased improved services for foster youth, English learners, and lowincome students. Um, as I mentioned before, we're expected to receive approximately $35.8 million in supplemental and concentration grant funds, um, which
036are allocated based on our unduplicated student count. Um following this chart, there are detailed descriptions on how each contributing action is meeting the needs of such students and how those um are effective in meeting the goals of our LCAP. In the last several years, the amount of concentration grant funding changed from 50% to 65% of the adjusted base grant. And with this increased funding came a new requirement that the district plan for how the additional concentration grant funding will be used to increase the number of staff providing services to students at schools that have an unduplicated pupil percentage higher than 55%. So, as you can see from this chart, all of our schools within TUSD have an unduplicated pupil percentage higher than 55% with the exception of Walnut and that is at 44.9%. Therefore, when
037we go through planning our actions and expenditures, Walnut may not receive some of the staffing as um our other sites do. And one of our latest examples of that was um when we hired community liaison that there was not a full-time community liaison at Walnut um because of this required rule. And then, as I mentioned, the very last thing in the LCAP prior to the instructions are the action tables, which on ours begin on page 107, that cover the total expenditures and contributing actions in both 2425 and 2526, as well as the 2425 LCFF carryover table. For 2526, there are just over 58 million in total expenditures documented within the LCAP. um with about 37.1 or 25.176% of those expenditures counting as contributing. For 2425 there were approximately 56.7 million in implanted expenditures and um
038we estimate that we will spend around 53 million of that and 33.8 million of that are contributing actions. So that left us a little bit of LCFF carryover just under 1% um that we had to account for in our 2526 LCAP which we did and I will say that this is really due to the fact that again an action doesn't count as contributing unless you're using LCFF funds. So if we used any other funding um such as grant funding um then even though the action took place and the was provided, we can count it as contributing. And so tonight, this item is presented as an information item. Um the document has already been reviewed by SCO and is meets all compliance uh with all of our requirements. And after receiving feedback from tonight, um, we'll
039make any necessary revisions and this will be brought forward for adoption at the next meeting on June 17th. So, at this time, you can open the public hearing or I can answer any questions. Thank you, Miss Bettton Court. At this time, we call the public hearing to order. Are there any comments from the public or the board? Monio. Good evening board. Yes, I'm I'm here. I'm trying to get the understanding on uh the the low income and it's like are you providing services like if they're about to graduate and have don't have enough for books, are you providing them services or or is this just books and whatever? So, well, first of all, all of our books are provided for our students in um in our classes, but um we get additional funding based on
040whether you're an unduplicated C uh student. So, if you're an English learner or a foster youth or a lowincome student and even if you're all three, you only count as one, right? That's what it means about duplicated. We get additional funding based on that. And so this LCAP goes through and describes actions that are put in place to increase or improve services for those students. But when I'm talking about a specific type of student, a student that is graduating and needs the funding for, you know, to pay for his books or to pay for any services that he he is needed to like like they won't graduate. they won't get their diploma if if they don't have the funding and they're they're they qualify under low income. So it's like could they come to you
041and ask you for I mean not you specifically I mean the the whole group and ask them could could they come you know and ask for them to pay the services if they owe for books or if they owe for you know I mean different types of things. Yeah. I'm again I'm not exactly sure what you're meaning by paying for books because we we do we do provide books for that but they do I mean if they lose a book if they if they lose a book and then and then have you know they charge they charge services in other words they threaten to keep your diploma if you don't pay for the book you know so these services would be things of programs to do help them graduate as far as special interventions or
042taking concurrent enrollment or things of that nature. Um, but that's what the kinds of services are that you you'll see in the actions that go through our programmatic services to help students um meet all of their needs and requirements for graduation. That's what they would need for graduation is to to pay for the books, in other words, and their parents can't afford it. So we we were saying that if we could come up with a program that would help the low income as they're graduating if they need to pay for their books and you know I mean you guys will come up with it with in the from the 35 million. I mean that's a whole lot of money and you're talking about maybe $200 per student or or or maybe you could make a
043make a agreement to where what you want to cap it as but it's like should come out that money just in case they're they're being threat. I mean, not threatened, you know, I'm just saying have action not to get their diploma if they don't pay the fees. Yeah, that's you're saying just for clarity sake here. So, if something were to happen, they book lost their book or they lost their Chromebook. Right. Right. And then they have their diploma withheld until they paid for the replacement. That's what you're asking for, right? Right. Right. That if there's services for that, right? Okay. Yeah, we do have policy that governs that what we do pay for. Um, but we we can look at that for sure. Okay. I just want to know if it falls under this low
044income. Sure. There is not a specific action in the LCAP that we have put aside funds to help pay for fines. That I will say that things that doesn't mean that again we can't look into stuff, but I will tell you currently that does not exist. I'm not specifically saying fines. I mean it could be any it could be anything that they owe money for. could be just basically anything that that they owe money to you guys that is holding their diplomas. But if that so so specific that's that's actually not covered in the LCAP. We do have more policy that governs our policies really defines because that really is what you're what you're describing is a fine a fine for a lost textbook or damaged Chromebook, that kind of thing, right? That's not governed
045by the LCAP. That's not dictated by the LCAP. Okay. Okay. That's all I wanted. Any other comments from the public? If not, I close the public hearing at this time. I just want to thank you for this work I don't know how many years in a row of leading the process for us and um I want to say that my favorite word in it is that it's a local accountability I so appreciate the requirement to report back well this was our goal and we kind of didn't meet it we fell a little bit short here we were hoping for you know 7% increase and we just so clear in the way it's laid out and a lot of times we are meeting our target. I know it's a big document to read through but it
046really gives such good educational system. Thank you, Miss Bonus. Right here where it says um budget overview for parents and then you mentioned high needs. Would that be different from atrisisk students because I know that we're in question at the DOJ in Washington as far as our title is going. So I'm trying to defer the high needs for the e foster low income versus the at risk. Are they areing differences now? Yes, there they are different. So again, this one section in the budget overview for parents in in all the rest of the document, they refer to them as unduplicated students, but for some reason in this one section, the template refers to that same exact population as high needs students. um as because again you're given supplemental and concentration grant funding based on that
047specific student population and these are the actions that go through and say what you're going to do to to help increase or improve services for that specific student population or that at least it was based on that premise of it. So, I don't know why they use the words high needs in this one instance as opposed to the rest of the time, but that's how it was built into the template. But I would just say replace those words high needs with unduplicated students. Thank you. I'm going to look into that. Sure. Are we good? Thank you, Miss Betty, for the fine fine information. Next item, item 32, Mr. Ronda. Good evening. I tried this last year. I'm going to try one more time. Can I just say ditto and we're good. I didn't think it
048would work, but I will uh apologize upfront. It's going to sound a little redundant, but no. uh E Academy we're a school of about 160 students. Uh so as far as numbers when we start talking dollars amount uh it's going to be a lot less but uh just as important for our population. So good evening board president Silva board of trustees superintendent ladic administrators and guests. It is my privilege to present the ecammy 2526 LCAP as anformational item. again um previously explained uh but here are the required components of the 2526 LCAP. We do follow the exact same template. Okay, I will go into some detail regarding each component on the following slides. As a reminder, E Academy does have to do its own LCAP and local indicators which will be presented in the next
049board meeting. However, since E Academy is a dependent charter to Turlock Unified School District, our budget is part of the district's budget, which is on the next agenda item. The budget overview for parents shows that E Academy receives about 1.8 million in revenue with $1.7 million coming from the local control funding formula. About $370,000 of revenue is from supplemental and concentration grants which is used to increase our improved services for Mrs. Martinez. I'm sorry the verbiage is here high needs or unduplicated students. Right. So I will uh concur with Mrs. Ben Court. It's in that template. The language is there. But we do uh going through the whole process. It is referring to the same group of students. E Academy has about $2.6 million in budgeted expenditures uh for 2526. Uh $1.1 million of those
050expenditures are budgeted uh within the LCAP. So here as far as the template, the 2526 LCAP template is comprised of many parts. As you can see here, I have listed page numbers as uh to where each section begins. General information contains a description on our school, our school model and our students. Uh the reflection section is comprised of a description of successes and any areas of improvement needed based on the review of the California dashboard and of course local data. E Academy was not identified for technical assistance nor comprehensive support and improvement this year and we hope to keep it that way. The engaging uh educational partners section is a summary of the process used to engage educational partners and a summary of their feedback is also provided. I will go into more details regarding
051all this uh section on the next slides. The goals and action section begins on page 11. This contains our five goals, the metrics used for measuring and reporting results. The goal analysis on how this goal was carried out in the previous year and actions to be implemented to achieve these goals. And then the increased and improved service section describes how contributing actions are effective in meeting the goals for our unduplicated students. And lastly, the action tables, which of course is, uh, Mrs. Ben Court's favorite part, uh, which provides a variety of financial data, which begins on page 60. The ELCAP process sets a high emphasis on the educational partners providing input to create our LCAP. As you can see on this slide, improve student outcome is the overall goal. The slide showed here uh shows
052our meeting dates for various groups uh steering committee, cohort meetings and student meetings. You see the number of participants which attended anywhere from one to seven meetings. Also note that the ELCAT meetings coexist coexist with the wasp process as our goals are aligned to both plans. Th they are married and divorce is not an option. Here you can see the type of community support and representation we have received. Of course, the majority of our ECAD staff participated as expected and I'd like to point out the amount of community who contributed to the LCAP process. 24 parents, 50 students, five TUSD administrators, and five community members, including board members. Mrs. Martinez attended all our cohort meetings. So, thank you, Debbie. On this slide, you could see the list of members colorcoded by group. But to be
053transparent, I will share that not all listed members voluntarily participated. But please, no fear. I did not tie anybody down. But as an example, to get to 50 students, I visited each in-person class on campus for a period of time, and explained the WAS LCAP process, reviewed dashboard results, and directly gathered their input to help improve our school. One of the ways we collect input regarding the LCAP, of course, is our yearly LCAP survey. This year, we received a total of 102 responses, 94 student, 17 parent, and 11 staff responses. The cohort then discusses the information collected from all these surveys plus of course all the direct feedback we have received from group meetings, reviews all the data and then prioritizes actions. We continue with these five goals. academic achievement, school climate and social emotional
054learning, curriculum and instruction, parent engagement, and safety and security. They are very similar, of course, to Turlock Unifi's LCAP goals, but they are not identical. One of the outcomes outcomes from the LCAP process is to prioritize our actions moving forward. You can see here actions have been prioritized for 2526. The LCAP committee feels that these actions truly make our school more meaningful and successful for our students. For example, action 1.1 and action 3.5 allows us to hire the additional tier 2 support needed for our students. Beginning on page 50, you'll find the required section regarding increased or improved services for foster youth, English learners, and lowincome students. E Academy is expected to receive approximately $370,000 in supplemental concentration grant funds, which are allocated based on the UN unduplicated student count. Detailed descriptions follows this chart
055describing how each contributing action supports this group. Explains how the needs of our unduplicated pupils were considered first and how these actions are effective in meeting the goals for these students. Beginning on page 60, there are a variety of action tables. The action tables cover total expenditures and contributing actions in both 2526 as well as the 2425 local control funding formula carryover table. These expenditures also align with the information presented in the budget overview for parents for 2526. are approximately $1.1 million in total expenditures documented uh in the LCAP with about $780,000 or about 55% of those expenditures counting as contributing for 2425 there were just over $1 million in planned expenditures and we estimate we will spend around 955 to 669,000 in which are contributing actions. So, this is presented as anformational item for
056public hearing after receiving comments tonight as well as additional feedback from the Senate County Office of Education who will make necessary revisions on the LCAP and bring it forward for adoption on June 17th. May I answer any questions? Thank you, Mr. Anttoveris. We'll call this public hearing order. Are there any comments from the public on this matter? Seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. Are there any other questions for the board? Miss Martinez. Dave, I just want to say thank you for a very successful 2425 school year. your graduation attendance proved it. Keep up the great work and um I look forward to working with you again. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Raveris. Next item is item uh 33. Missport, you're on again. This is on our on our budget. I'm back. I will try
057not to speak with my hands. So I stop hitting the mic and we'll see if I can make it through this one. All right. So also tonight I am here to present the tenative budget for 2526. And as a reminder, this process really began in January with the release of the governor's 2526 proposed budget for the state. And um this budget was then updated with the governor's May revise funding changes. So I am going to start with information from the governor's may revise before I get into the effects of how that is on the TUSD budget. So the governor began his press conference by noting California has advanced from the fifth to the fourth largest economy in the world. He then pivoted to actual and anticipated impacts of federal policy, specifically the tariffs imposed by
058President Trump. The governor's May revision resolves the dual problems of lower revenues in 2526 and increased health care costs in the current and near-term through a combination of reductions, borrowing, funding shifts, and expenditures that would only be activated if sufficient revenue materials. Um, thankfully for K12 education, Proposition 98 is largely insulated from these problems with minimal disruptions to the proposals from um January. So due to California's deteriorated budget condition, the May revision reduced the Prop 98 minimum guarantee across the 23 24 2526 budget window by a total of 4.6 billion from the governor's budget estimates. The May revision maintains but marginally reduces the governor's budget proposal to delay fully appropriating the 2425 minimum guarantee to the TK through 14 agencies to mitigate against the risk of providing more funding to education than the California Constitution
059requires. The May revision continues to retire aortionment deferrals from the 2425 enacted budget, but also proposes to institute new deferrals for TK through 12 agencies. The proposal is deferring about $1.8 billion in LCFF aortionments from June to July of 2026. Also in 2526, rather than deposit the additional 376 million to into this public school system stabilization account, otherwise known as the school rainy day fund. Uh the drop in the Prop 98 guarantee triggers a mandatory withdrawal from the education rainy day fund and that will completely deplete the fund. The May revision does fully fund COLA for the LCFF at 2.30% which is slightly lower than January estimates which were at 2.43%. The statutory COLA is proposed to be applied to other educational programs funded outside the LCFF including the equity multiplier, special education, child nutrition,
060foster youth, and mandated block grant. However, state preschool is not adjusted by the cola. The May revision continues to provide ongoing funding for full implementation of TK in 2526, reducing funding to 2.1 billion because of revised ADA estimates and the lower cola. The total ongoing amount for the TK add-on is 1.2 billion. And again, that is an add-on to reduce the staff ratio from 12:1 to 10:1. Uh the May revision maintains that the governor's commitment to ELOP stating that LEAs with an unduplicated pupil percentage greater than or equal to 55% will receive rate one which is adjustment at currently it is at 75%. And the governor proposed no changes to his proposal to restore 378.6 million to the learning recovery emergency block grant to support learning recovery initiatives through the 2728 school year. The May
061revision proposed reducing the investment to the longest name in the world block grant um student support and professional development discretionary block grant um to from 1.8 billion to 1.7 billion. The governor maintains the flexibility of this grant to address rising costs and other state priorities. The May revision continues investments identified in the governor's budget for literacy and adds additional funds to ensure aligned implementation of the ELA ELA framework and the statewide literacy network and also adds a statewide mathematics network. The governor modified the investment supporting teachers and the education educator pipeline by repurposing the January state budget proposal for $150 million for the teacher recruitment incentive program to instead provide $100 million in one-time funds for student teacher stipens. The administration remains committed to fully funding universal meals and is proposing $90.7 million in additional
062funding to fully fund universal meal programs in 2526. The governor either eliminated or reduced his January proposals regarding the master plan for career education which included no inter agency council, reduces um expansion of regional coordination models, reduces the career passport proposal and reduces credit for prior learning proposal. And the May revise included two proposals that would impact facilities funding. First, it proposed the reversion of unallocated school facility program funding, which was made available through August of 2025 on an asneeded basis for LEAs that were impacted by the fires in Southern California, noting that they may not be able to use these funds by the deadline. Second, the May revision proposed new language that would allow school districts to apply for hardship assistance in cases of extraordinary circumstances if they can demonstrate the circumstances are beyond
063their control and excessive costs would need to be incurred in the construction of school facilities. Again, a lot of that was just based on the fires in Southern California. And although not part of the May revise because this is not part of the state budget, but it's very important to note the proposal for the 2026 federal budget. And although title one and special education funding are proposed to be maintained, um President Trump did propose to eliminate adult education and title three funding which would have a direct impact on Turlock Unified School District. As you know, our adult education program is quite and and very successful here and it runs on um federal funding. Um so without it that would put that program completely in jeopardy. Additionally, our title three funds are used to support English
064learn English language learners and um we currently fund district ELD teachers and paras from such which again would be affected by the elimination of this program. Um and then based on the advice of all of the the consultants and school services, um everybody basically says budget though as it's going. Remember these are all proposals. Um nothing has been approved at this time. So um we budget as we always do and the only thing that we really put in our assumptions is the fact that they he would fully fund COLA at 2.3%. So with that um update of the May revise, this is how it affects our TUSD budget. So um we are projecting revenue of about $243.9 million for 2526. As a reminder, our general fund revenue comes from three major sources. The state government,
065the federal government, and local sources. A majority of our revenue or approximately 78% comes from the local control funding formula which I will go into more detail about in just a bit. Our federal revenue is our title one through four programs specific grants. Our other state revenue is um special education lottery and some other specific one-time grants um that are used for special purposes or targeted for specific groups. They are mostly restricted funds and can only be used for the purpose for which they were awarded. And then we do have a final source of local sources which are primarily restricted grants and programs such as our TUPI which is our tobacco use and prevention, our NAMI which is our national alliance on mental illness and strong workforce. We also have um our fee for service
066for our special education programs and interest income in within our local web. So the LCFF the local control funding formula provides uh grain span specific base grants based on ADA that reflect adjustments for K through three class sizes and 9 through 12 education. Additionally, supplemental and concentration grants are awarded on our unduplicated uh pupil percentage again unduplicated pupils are English learners uh lowincome or foster youth supplemental grants are equal to 20% of the adjusted uh base grant multiplied by the ADA and the total unduplicated pupil percentage and concentration grants are equal to 65% of the adjusted base grant multiplied by the ADA and the unduplicated pupil that percentage that exceeds 55%. Um, and as a reminder, I change this every year to try and make sure that this is where everybody understands that it's coming
067from. This is where the cola is applied. It is not applied on our final numbers. It is applied on the LCFF base grants. So, the proposed 2.3 cola was applied to the 2425 LCFF base grants. Um, so that you could see what our proposed funding is. hopefully he will come through with funding the full cola um for next year. And just as a reminder, that means that our ADA must either stay the same or increase to recognize the full effect of that 2.3%. Um the district is projecting an unduplicated pupil percentage of about 70.02% for 2526. However, for LCFF calculations, we're required to use a three-year rolling average, which is 70.86%. Um, as a reminder, um, the household survey is a vital data vital data point to determine our unduplicated pupil percentage since we no
068longer use free and reduced lunch forms. So, thank you to everyone who collects that and turns that in so that we can have accurate data and funding for our students. Um, the district's total LCFF entitlement is going to be about $186.2 million uh with the dollar amounts included both for the entitlement for TUSD and E Academy. As a reminder, these are the unrestricted components and do not include the approximately $2.7 million we receive as a pass through through our SULPA, which is why this amounts uh slightly different than what the uh slide two slides ago said. any changes in ADA uh percentage of unduplicated students whether the funded cola or allocation formulas all affect LCFF. So student enrollment and attendance are critical components of district revenues. Currently school districts are funded based on the current
069greater of current year prior year or the average of the three most recent prior years average daily attendance. We use a fiveyear weighted uh average cohort projection template to project enrollment and a three-year cohort average to project a ADA in the future. So when combined with our county operated schools, TUSD is projecting an ADA of just about 12,570 for um 2526. Academy is projecting about 116 117 for 2526. So if those projections come to fruition then TUSD would actually be funded on prior year ADA because that would be about 12,675 so about 100 ADA more. Um charter schools are always funded on the current year. The district projects approximately 2 62 million in general fund expenditures for 2526 and we spend a majority of our funds on personnel costs which are salaries and benefits. Approximately
07084% of our general fund expenditures are committed to salaries and benefits for our employees. Other expenditures include books and supplies which are textbooks, instructional materials and office and custodial supplies. Services and other operations which are contracted services, utilities, um the internet. Capital outlay, which are equipment purchases, repairs, and renovations, and other go other outgo costs, which are charges paid to outside agencies for bus transportation or non-public school costs. Employer contribution rates to the state teachers retirement system and the public employees retirement system have increased significantly over the past 10 years, but are leveling off. So based on the most recent actuarily study stirs employers rates have will be maintained at the existing level for the next few years. The 2526 PERS employer contribution rate is an uh actually a 0.24% decrease from the current year
071rate and the outyear rate projections will fluctuate based on future investment returns and other demographic changes. rates for 2627 and 2728 are estimates at this time and they are subject to change um based on the respective boards of those two pension organizations. Additionally, this budget recognizes the state's ongoing contribution to STRS on behalf which is about $9.7 million. It's included as an expense and a contribution um corresponding to So this chart it illustrates the effects of the increasing retirement costs based on district salaries. This covers a period of time since the inception of LCFF through the estimated years of which they anticipate that they will fully fund the system in case you're ever wondering why there's all those years on there. So uh the employee pension cost for 2526 is about $31.8 8 million for
072TUSD. With that review of our revenue and expenditures, it brings us to the summary of our 2526 general fund budget. Components of indie fund balance include revolving cash and stores totaling just over $400,000 approved for ongoing operational needs. Additionally, administration has committed six million in lottery funds for textbooks adoptions and related instructional materials and $3 million for MTSS initiatives. The district's 2526 unassigned general fund ending balance is projected to be about $28.5 million which is equates to an approximate 10.87% reserve. existing law opposes a 10% cap on the amount local student uh local districts can maintain in their reserves. Um however, based on the May revision, the reserve cap is inoperative for 2526. So that cap will not be in effect. The state requires at least a 3% reserve level for a district of our
073size and board policy states that a 5% is the district's minimum reserve level. As a reminder, reserves are one-time funds and cannot support ongoing expenditures. We are also required to prepare a multi-year projection for the budget year and the two subsequent fiscal years. And these projections were prepared using factors from the May revis county office of education, school services of California's dart board, and the LCFF calculator. Multi-year projections um Multi-year projections are projections and as such demonstrate future effects of current economic conditions on current financial decisions. They are not meant to be financial forecasts and not meant to predict what reserve levels will be in three years. Um the projected colas were updated at May revise. Um um so that's where you see the 26 27 and 2728 colas that were adjusted. And um as
074you can see our unduplicated pupil percentage is going to hopefully maintain around 75 70%. So using that we project that we will be able to meet our financial obligations for the next two years as well with an 8.77 and 6.19% reserve. Um it should also be noted that again the supplemental and concentration grants are also projected to be about $36 million in both of these years which again these funds are intended to be spent to increase or improve our unduplicated students. This budget is presented as an information item and review for public hearing. It will be updated with any recommended changes or uh funding presented um and be presented for adoption on June 17th. This is the initial budget for the fiscal year and there are many factors that will change this um after it
075is adopted including the state's adoption of their budget. And so um it will be updated several times throughout the year. You may start the public hearing or I may answer your question. Thank you, Miss Bettton Gordon. Before we open up the public hearing, we have a number of guests there seating, but you please make yourself comfortable. Here's a good time to find a seat. And I know you're not all here to hear this, so I apologize. This at this time open up the public hearing. Are there any comments from the public about this matter? See none. We'll close the public here. Oh, excuse me. Okay. Good evening. Uh, my name is Ashley Zar and I'm a resident here of Turlock in area 4. I'm here tonight as a parent of two Walnut Elementary students, a
076full-time working mother and the spouse of a full-time working father. Like so many families in our community, we rely on afterchool care programs to bridge the gap between school and the end of the workday. last year and this is specifically related to the budget in ELO. Um last year my daughter participated in the ELOP program run by the city of Turlock. It was a positive experience. She formed meaningful friendships not only with her peers but also the caring and dedicated ELOP coordinators. Because of that experience and with both of us working full-time, we decided this year to rely on the ELO program for both of our children rather than turning to extended family for after school care. So when we heard TUSD would be taking over the ELO program, we were we anticipated there might
077be a few bumps in the transition, but we didn't expect what actually happened. Let's begin with the summer program. For Walnut Elementary families, we were told we had to compete with available ELOP spots with students from two other schools, Dennis, Earl, and Maderos. That's 100 total spots for three schools. While we understand that priority was given to unduplicated students in line with state guidance, every single one of those 100 spots went to unduplicated students. My children were first and third on the wait list, and neither of them were offered a spot. We were informed of this just days before the program began. ahead to the upcoming school year. We're now in a similar situation. My children are enrolled in ELOC, but once again, they're on the wait list. The registration process was deeply frustrating. As
078a parent who was online and ready to register the moment it went live, I encountered many technical issues that caused the registration to be delayed by a few days. And again, we've been told we won't know whether our children will have a spot in the fall program until the last week of July, just days before school starts. How are working families supposed to make child care arrangements with such little notice? Furthermore, TUSD falls under rate two for the ELOP funding tier. Given that the state offers no funding for nonduplicated students and TUSD is incentivized to serve only unduplicated students, what pathway, if any, exists for a nonduplicated student to access this program? So, tonight I'm asking TUSD to take a few steps to support families like in this upcoming school year. Number one, look to
079successful models in neighboring districts and consider adopting best practices for ELOP management. Number two, notify parents by the end of June for their child's ELOP status for the upcoming school year to allow them for enough time to plan. Number three, partner with the city of Turlock to expand after school care options, especially since the receives grants and donations specifically to support these types of programs. We want to work with you to ensure that every family, not just some, can rely on quality, consistent, and accessible after school care. Thank you. Be assured our district is working on this but it's a very difficult matter but we are working on we understand okay is there any other comments not to close this public hearing closed any questions from the board about anything else Martinez just have a
080comment Fingers crossed it gets passed. A good report, Marjorie, and good job. I've saw you work through all of this and it's rough out there right now and I get it. And so I just want to thank you and commend you for your work and your just diligence and and making sure that the needle is in the right direction. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Bonor. Next item on the agenda, educational service. This is an information item. Item 34, Mr. Aka. All right. Thank you. LCAP's going to be hard to follow. Marjorie there. Tell you what. Um, good evening, board president, members of the board, executive cabinet, superintendent ladding, and members and guests in the audience, all here to see me present. I see. Um, got a lot of friends and and folks. Can't wait for
081the later announcement. Um, in case you don't recognize me without my tie, I chose to go with a semiathletic look tonight. Um, semi used loosely, John Aken, director of secondary education, and with me, uh, Coach Dustin Curtis, athletic director, Pitman High School. Coach Mike Brown, athletic director at Turlock High School. So, here tonight to share about our very impressive programs. Um, kind of always have been. and I'm a product of uh Bulldog uh athletics and a student athlete there, coaches behind me uh as well as a coach at Pitman for uh baseball for 10 years. So very excited to have the honor of just sharing an update and the successes of our student athletes and the hard work and dedication of our coaches this year. So, with that said, if you didn't know, we have
08224 different sports reported or um programs going on throughout the year with over 1,800 plus athletes participating across both sites. Uh you can see a large number of students earning a 3.5 or higher GPA, which is extremely express impressive. We know how hard they work, how much time and commitment that takes, and then also to stay up on your academics uh is is amazing. uh multiple CCAL MVPs uh and then also we had one Delaki scholarship winner that was Alexi Pledo if you don't know what that award goes to uh nominated for our section and we have uh some of our top athletes over the course of their four-year career or athletic career in high schools get that and Pitman had the Dale Lackey scholarship award winner and then Turlog High School had the uh
083won the 2425 Cal athletic excellence award meaning you get points for every win and every championship ship and all those things and uh won that incal. So very impressive a lot of cal championships across all three levels. Uh we're very fortunate in in most if not all of our sports able to fill all three levels. I know uh it's it can be difficult for some schools and we've been pretty consistent with that across uh both campuses. 12 championships at Pitman High School, 26 at Turlock High School, as well as I just want to give a congrats to Coach Ka and her golf uh team. I don't know how many they won in a row. They went out, she went out to champion as she retires. And then one of the things I didn't realize, 12th
084in a row, that's correct, coach, for boys golf. So, just pure dominance over the last uh decade plus. And uh something to be recognized. We're certainly not recognizing all of the sports. this would take an hour and I know our folks here don't like me, you know, going on and on for an hour. So, uh, but we do want to appreciate all of our coaches and their endeavors over the course of the many years. Uh, playoff successes, uh, both high schools, each team, 20, uh, teams making playoffs at each high school. So, I have 24 sports and you're making that many playoff runs is amazing. Pitman picked up a slew of section championships, blue banners, uh state tournament wins, state medalists, the state championships. Turlock saw some nice first times uh qualifying for state and
085boys cross country. Boys track winning section for the first time. U if you saw the football uh season last year, Turlock High exciting game against Central Catholic. And as I say that, I remember I might need to look at my CIF streaming that I did uh pay to watch that game and I don't think I canceled it. So, when I go home tonight, I'm gonna see how much it was 10 bucks a month since then. So, uh and again, many more teams having playoff success. And then the last thing that I'll speak about is year one of flag football, girls flag football. If you didn't get a chance to go see this, you have to go see next year. So exciting, so fun. The energy. Uh brand new sport attracting 60 plus girls. It's only
086going to get better. It's only going to grow. Both Pitman and Turlock were the only two schools to have a team at all three levels. That's saying something. Pentman won the CCAL championship. I had a um conversation with a coach and they were just so excited about um the energy behind these young ladies. It's a new sport. They were excited. Probably really great athlete in some other sports. They were just sponges was what the coach said. They just listened, attentive, and were just engaged. And uh you could tell on the field. And we have some great playoff runs for both of those teams. So, I'm gonna stop talking and I'm gonna bring up coach athletic director Dustin Curtis uh to speak and share some celebrations from Pitman. All right. I want to start by thanking
087Mr. Aka for setting this up. Um, also happy birthday to Mr. Ak. You guys didn't know it's his birthday today. He told me 31, but I don't believe him. I don't know. U So, first thing I'm going to talk about real quick is just our wrestling program. Um, our wrestling program has had a huge amount of success the the last five or six years. Uh, this year was truly remarkable. Uh, wrestling's a little bit different sport. Uh, the way it works is they have two blue banners that they give out one week and then if you advance and you have enough players, you move on to the next round and they give out two more, a boys and a girls. And then if you advance, it gets a little bit tougher as you go and
088then they get two more. So, out of the possible six, we won five. It was really impressive. Uh, and the only one we lost was the last one for the girls and they finished third. So, they had a really good run. Um, and obviously this is the third year in a row that our boys have won a section title. So, uh, a lot of section championships there with our wrestling program. Uh, included in that is, uh, this individual here, Junior Bea Austin. She repeated as a state champ. Um, it's not easy to be a state champion. It's very, very difficult to be a state champion, and she's done it two years in a row now. Um, and she's only a junior. So, next year, her senior year, she will have a chance to become the
089first three-time state champ at Pitman High School in wrestling. We have a couple that have won two, but she has a chance to be the first one. This year, even though she was the defending champ, they say they seated her as a three seed, which she kind of laughed at. Um, and then she just beat everybody. Uh, including in the championship, she won uh by by six points, so it wasn't even that close. She she is a very impressive athlete. Um, and we're lucky to have her. And then the last thing I want to talk about is our boys soccer team. Uh they finished third in league which is interesting for the run that they went on after that. They finished third in league behind Turlock and uh I think Gregori. Um so they were
090given the six seed in the playoffs which isn't a great seed. We thought we had a really good uh season. So we thought we might get something higher but the six is what we got. Um so we won our first round game at home against Merced. And then they went on the road three games in a row and beat the number three seed Grant, the number two seed Whitney, and the number one seed Wood Creek in consecutive uh days or day off and then a game, day off and then a game u to win their first ever section title for in boys soccer for our school. So it was a very impressive run. Um and then after that they actually qualified for the state tournament. Uh they won their first round their first first round
091state game uh here at Joe Deley in an amazing game. and they scored late to tie it and then they scored again to win it uh with a golden goal. It was really really amazing. Um and then they unfortunately lost in the second round to Cardinal Newman in another exciting game. Um it was just a great atmosphere for the kids. Um I think we have the highlight of that one. Do we? Okay. So on I'm going to set up this next slide before we get into it. So this is the second round state tournament. This is the chance to get to the to the NorCal Championship game. Um, and we're playing a team from Santa Rosa, Cardinal Newman, which is a private school, um, up there, and they're traditionally a very, very good soccer team.
092Um, and we're down one to nothing. And, and it's it's just about over. Um, and if you don't know soccer, they stop the clock with two minutes left, and the the official on the on the on the pitch keeps the track of time for the last two minutes. So, you really don't know how much time's left. Um, but we knew this was like the end. It's he was supposed to give us two minutes. I think he gave us about two and a half already. Um, and we had one last shot to to see if we could tie the game up. So, let's see what happens here. And the thing that I love best about this obviously is our senior Dave. He's one of our captains. His emotion is just crazy. And you can just see
093the I mean, this was literally the last chance we had. Um, the other thing that I really love about this is our counselor is right there on the field celebrating. And in the top right corner, you can barely see him at the end. He's got jeans on there. And then that's one of our principal or one of our uh Spanish teachers going like this with her arms. And then our other Spanish teacher is right next to him. And they're just going crazy. So I pointed that out to him. I sent it to him uh the last day of school and I said, "Hey, check out make sure you guys look in the top right corner." Uh, it was just a great a great environment. Unfortunately, they lost that game in the very, you know, it
094went into overtime and then after that they lost in uh PKs. But it was just an amazing year for them. Um and just the emotion and the energy and all that stuff was just something that I don't know if we'll ever see that again um in any of our sports because it was just a magical once in a lifetime run. So, thank you for letting me share uh about Pitman Athletics and now I'm going to give Mike Brown the chance to share about Turlock athletics. All right. I want to thank the board for having us come up. And like I said, this is the first time that I've ever had to do this. So, it's kind of nice. It's kind of fun. Uh we've had a lot of a lot of successful programs at Turlock
095and it our sports program is above and beyond. I mean, in our cal Turlock and Pitman just dominate. I mean, we just dominate. We were talking about it. Uh you figure there's we've won 38 league championships and we think that there's only like 50 of them total 50 for the whole league. So, yeah, that's pretty dominating. Uh, I want to thank the our staff at Turlock High because they support athletics. I mean, teachers help us out and everything else. I mean, they do stuff for us. And our our uh admin and our activities office, phenomenal. I mean, these are great people to work with and work for. So, I appreciate that. And that all comes from you guys because we're all programmed together. Um, like I said, our our football program made a good run
096this year. And we always run up against that one team that very end. We they beat us three times now, but we're going to get them this next year. I guarantee you we're going to get them. Um I did want to touch on our cross country, our boys country. Our they made it to the state tournament, the state uh meet down in Fresno. That's the first time in history that we've ever had a team, an entire team qualify. And so that's saying something. And same with the boys track. Our boys track we had this year we won the section, which is the first time ever. I coached track for 23 years. And like I said, that that's a feat. That's a pretty big accomplishment. So, I want to just mention that. Uh, I want to
097bring attention to three people that three athletes that we have at Turlock High. These are our athletes of the year. We have uh Okay. So, our female athlete of the year is Reese Thomas, and she's a two sport athlete. She does water polo and she does swim. And she's great. I mean, that's one thing we do when we talk to the coaches and we talk to our other we talk about, you know, okay, what kind of person are they? What kind of athletic accomplishments are they? And Reese is a great person, really fun. And like I said, I like to get the the pictures when they're younger because that's to me that's kind of fun to look at, too. She uh has dominated in our water polo program and in our swim program. She had
098went a long ways in uh swim program for the playoffs, too. Uh we had two co this year boys. And you might recognize uh we have Christian Maghard. He is our golf uh pro and he is phenomenal. I mean I I really good friends with Jason uh and it was pretty cool to see his son these kids come through because as somebody who knows a kid when they're this little and they come up through and they come to high school and and he did a phenomenal job in golf. I mean, it was just one of those things where our golf program is one of the best in the state. And I mean, he these leaders like this help our program so much with recruiting kids and getting kids that come in and oh, golf. What's
099golf? I mean, you don't see golf in in like junior high. You don't see it in elementary school. So, it's one of those things where some of these kids come in and we've had some of these kids that come in as a freshman and they just go from one spot to another. And that's what happened with uh Christian. He did a great job. I mean, it was our coach said that his freshman year, he was just like, "Oh, this kid's going to have some I mean, he's going to have some accolades by the end of this four years." And our other athlete of the year is Cooper Harris. And once again, he is a water polo kid and a swim. And once again, he's a team captain. He's been up there for uh three, four
100years for our varsity water polo and he's just dominant. This has been one of those years where we've had a lot of phenomenal things happen with Turlock and Pitman and like you said the soccer program and I was it's just fun to watch these kids come out there and like you said you got third in the league and he almost got a state championship. That's insane. I mean that they get out there in playoffs and it's like a completely different uh turn on switch just like beating S Kaplan. That's a huge step for us. That's a huge accomplishment. One thing I want to end on is I don't know if you guys know this or not, but Turlock and Pitman are the only two schools in our entire uh section in our division one section
101that don't have full-time athletic directors. The time that we put in is unbelievable. I mean, we both teach three math classes before we even put our hat on for athletic director. I have to get here at 6:30 in the morning, get all my stuff ready. Dire Delhigh all Modesto Turlock Christian they're full-time athletic directors. I mean this has got to get changed because for people to put on this much time I mean we talking about girls fight football. They're changing the time now. It's going to take about an hour and a half for each one of the games. That means we're going to be here till 9:30. That's tough. So, as a board, I mean, these accomplishments we have, phenomenal, and I want to keep it going, but man, it it just it's tough. So,
102as a board, you got to think about making our position a full-time position because without it, I don't know how much how much longer some people are going to do it. So, just want to end on that. Thank you, Coach Curtis and Coach Brown. Uh, very proud of our athletes, very proud of our coaches, the dedication, the time they put in. Uh very impressive and uh I'll open it for any questions but not for me for them. Are are there any questions? Are there any questions for the board? The actual girls. Oh, you know what? I do apologize for that. I was trying to keep the balance and we tried to I assure you it wasn't I know there's our coaches have a lot of dedication for our students very Ramirez also participating. Yeah, they
103have um and and I know Michelle's been really trying to ramp up opportunities there. It's not through CIF, but there are some all dead um kind of leagues that you can get into and um as an effort to engage students more. You know, athletics brings students to school once gets them to, you know, show dedication. um trying to find any ways to increase attendance and and hook students into programs. So, uh I think that's a great, you know, idea and approach and we hope to see that grow as well. E Academy concurrently and can enroll. Yeah, we have a athletes who are E Academy students and then sixth period go over six period athletics as well. We work with families on that. Any other questions for Mr. Shields? Yeah, it's more of a comment than
104a question. I I you know, I want to say thank you. I know participating in in sports in high school was a big deal for me and my family. Coach Brown, I mean, you coached half my family uh in cross country and um it's something that has stuck with them their whole lives, right? My brothers are now consistent runners and they do half marathons and 50 mile marathons, things like that. It's something that they they learned a love for running and a love for cross country in high school. uh doing it with their friends and they built lifelong friendships out of it. Uh and I know for me personally it is something that taught a lot of uh my friends and I the the dedication and the grit needed to get through some of the
105things that you're going to go through in your career path, your life, things like that. Uh so I just want to say thank you to both of you. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your mentorship to a lot of the the the young adults that are going to be going into our community and the workforce and into the universities. Um, athletics is something that is is near and dear to a lot of people's hearts, especially at the high school level. There's a lot of tradition and a lot of pride in our school district specifically. Uh, and and you're right, Mr. Brown, it it's dominance, right? I mean, 38 out of the 50. I mean, there's you look at the other school districts and one of the other ones is Modesto City Schools has
106multiple, you know, schools in our in our division. So, it's you're talking about beating schools with much larger pools of students. And so, um, it's a big deal and I really appreciate your guys' time, dedication, and I I really understand that we we do need full-time athletic. That's my personal opinion. I think we need to take the next step uh as a district. I think we need to continue to improve our athletics. Um, we're in a day and age now where opportunities for students is a lot different than it was either five or six years ago, right? You've got federal legislation that's going forward about and likeness and things like that. And these students have real opportunities to uh excel in a career path beyond just the the field, right? So, uh I 100% understand
107where you're coming from. Again, thank you so much. Thank you to all the coaches, all the parents, all the administrators and the bus drivers and everybody who does all the work to get everybody there because it takes it takes all of our district to support these students. And again, I think it's says a lot that the consistent high GPA that these students are achieving. And the emphasis when I was in school and I see it today that you're a student first and the athlete comes behind that. If you're not a good student, you can't continue to be an athlete. You have to focus on your education and this is a little bit of a carrot unless of a stick right in the situation. So, thank you guys so much. I appreciate it. Miss Carlson, I
108want to also thank you for coming. I've never heard a presentation about, you know, athletics. And so, and I want I think I want to say I appreciate the commitment of the coaches at the high schools also just the opportunity to celebrate the success of students. So, thanks for bringing that and highlighting the Are there any other comment comments at this time? Yes. I don't want to bring mean to bring uh bad news to the to the table, but yes, um we do appreciate all the athletics in there in the what you call it, but we we had problems at at the uh the high school with the athletics on picking the the people on the team. It seems like there was there was a a couple of of parents that were coming up here
109complaining about uh being uh misjudged or something or their their kid not being placed in in the right position or or not being able to to go ahead and succeed. But if you I believe if you're coaching I I can I can guarantee this because it's like I I am a sevenyear bat boy for the Oakland A. I worked around major league people for seven years as I was growing up. I I what you call it I pitched for three championships teams. I know baseball up and down. It is my sport. So if there was a person that I could have went in and trained and maybe made the team that wasn't maybe supposed to make the team, I would be willing to do that. I mean I I know that I will be able
110to coach a person to being the part of that team and not being cut. Especially if it's a senior. If it's a senior, automatically they should be on the team because it's like, hey, this is her last year. It's her last time to make it. So, I'm I'm just bringing up that as a case in point because it it has been brought up to you guys in in previous uh uh meetings or sports. So, thank thank you. Here's your chance to get some help. Any other comments? I'd like to have the people at the back if you want to have a seat. There's plenty of chairs. And before you run off, I want to thank you. And then we can start a new tradition. It's like your birthday song. This is This is your birthday
111song. It isn't very long. Happy birthday, John. Thank you, President Silva. And also I'd like to thank Mr. Brown and Mr. Curtis for the fine presentation. Very good. Next is an information item item 35. Miss Sha. Good evening everyone. I'm Erica Shance, the director of special education. So good evening, President Silva, board members, superintendent latte, cabinet, and our community members. I'm here tonight just to give a very um brief overview and update of the work that the mental health leadership team has done this school year just to keep everyone updated. One moment. There we go. So, um these are the members that were on our mental health leadership team this year. So our our team is comprised of directors, site administrators, school psychologists, mental health clinicians, and school counselors. We had six different meetings over
112the course of the year. And really the role of these meetings was just to kind of work we our our group felt that we were tasked with working through constantly working through all the changes with our mental health um our model that we had revamped. And so we did go into this year just really with the view of we're starting kind of a new um process, a new program, and we're just going to take things as they come at at us and help our team solve those problems. So this is the historical work of the mental health leadership team for anybody that doesn't know just a quick overview. So at the it seems like so long ago, but on the first day in August of 2024, we did do our trauma-informed strategies work workshop for
113our certificated staff, which was overall very responsive. Um, everyone seemed to really enjoy that. Um, this last year we did restructure our mental health model just to build capacity with our site level teams as well as making sure that all students have access to short and long-term mental health services. And um we've done a lot of work on the curriculum starting with the research and initial elementary rollouts as well as just comparisons pilots. Um we form K this any I try I'm still not here tonight but um form K makes this team laugh because form K is just a document that we continuously revise and so every time any of us say form K um we laughed and so when we were met this last time I said something about form K and everyone's like
114stop talking about form K just because it's been we continuously updated this form we also um last year we did revise our crisis guide and kind of rev Vampire risk screener process and do training for all of a higher number of staff on that screener. So this was our focus for this school year. Um we did have the beyond SST roll out and just the different SST structure regarding mental health needs um across the board. The school sites all of us did a lot of work with our tier 2 teams. Um, something Gil and I did do with that is we realized, gosh, I want to say it was November, we had different tier 2 teams working that should have been working together, working different. So, we just started structuring up some of that to
115really provide some support, tying everything Gil and the county is doing with PBIS all to that because that that's really the same team. Um we did a lot of work with just um what do small group counseling what do those services look like and who can or can't provide the group level counseling um working on wellness rooms for Turlock Junior and Dutcher currently um the curriculum the um roll out for elementary we're still working on secondary as I've shared in other presentations secondary is very different in regards to the structure and just how you roll something like that out um did a lot of work on visual breakdowns for different documents regarding just tying mental health and PBIS services together. Um, for anybody that doesn't know, there are six different actual IEP services for a
116student with IEP regarding counseling. So, a lot of training around what are those different services and what do they mean and what do they look like? Um, and then continuing to restructure and just look at our medical billing regarding the work that our mental health clinicians do. So that that's a lot of what we did this year. So at the end of all of our meetings um we our last meeting we really wanted to sit down and say hey what are our next steps? Where are we going next year and where do we need to go? And so we actually did um that's when the form K joke came up. But we went back through the last two years and we really looked at everything that we kind of said we were going to do
117or we hadn't yet done or we hadn't yet gotten to. And so that's how we really focused on this list. Um so we the the group overall did feel there needs to be continued support for the character strong pilots and initial roll out at secondary um behavioral health and recovery services at BHRS. This is with our county mental health. And so we do a lot of work on the special ed side with county mental health and BHRs in regards to to concepts I know you guys have heard such as w inhome services all of those components. The easiest way for me to explain um BHRs probably is when you think of the concept of a homeless or a foster youth and the types of services and supports that they need. We also sometimes we tend
118to forget that we have a lot of students and families here within our district that are still with their families and in our district that do need an extra layer of support at home and those are called wrap services. And so um I've been starting to meet with them to kind of um to to just look at some of the different components that we have going on on our own school sites where students need to receive BHRS services as well as school district services. So starting to work through that process with them and align it um so that so that it um it's manageable for the school sites that have additional mental health providers that need to be on their school sites in regards to spacing and all of that. Um the team did feel
119that we really needed to kind of come up with some tier 2 teams best practices just to align everyone. Um, another large conversation is what's called an RFA, which is a a request for assistance and just aligning this through our our current PSST process. Um, is something the group would like to look at as well as so MS is educationally related mental health services and that is the highest level of mental health services that a school district can provide before we move to that county w. Um, but we want to look at a way to exit that criteria. But we also want to look at um a more clearly defined um short-term counseling exit criteria and just kind of align some of those for for our team two teams so it's easily more definable. At
120some point the group would also like to extend the trauma-informed training to our classified staff as well. Um that's been something that's come up kind of consistently. And then um our secondary mental health clinicians have been starting to work with the school site administrators on some different work that's going to be coming out in in August. So that is really kind of where we've been where we were this year and and what the plan for the team is is for next year. Um, I really want to just thank the individuals that took the time to be part of this group because um, it was I mean every time we met we had to meet for two to three hours in order to kind of get what we needed done. Um, but really they're a group
121um, with just a very unique um, level of expertise. And so them taking the time out of their days to leverage their expertise expertise in order to help all of us and all of our school sites for all of our students. I I just wanted to thank them.