001e e e Works entirely call to order then Board of Trustees meeting March 13th at 6:15 p.m. roll call um Miss Parker will you please take roll call trusty NM pres trusty Sandi here trusty Haida here trusty per here and president Tanaka present agenda item two um approve agenda for the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees on February 13 2025 you have a motion to approve so move second thank you any questions or discussion hearing none I'll call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries public comments close section agenda item three in accordance with government code section 549 54.3 anyone who wishes to address the board on any item of interest to the public that is within the jurisdiction of the board may be recognized at
002this time matters not on the agenda may not be acted on by the Board of Trustees but may be received and referred to staff or be placed on a subsequent board agenda for consideration items on the agenda may be addressed at this time agend is in accordance with board bylaw 9323 individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item the total time limit for public comments on each item is 20 minutes Miss Parker do we have any cards no thank you so um we'll be recessing the Clos session 4.1 is conference with labor negotiators 4.2 is conference with labor negotiators and 4.3 is employee performance evaluation recess close session at 6:17 p.m. e e e reconvene to open session 5.1 reconvene to open session at 7:04 PM
003close session report 4.1 conference with Labor negotiators Act the board received information staff no reportable action was taken 4.2 conference with labor negotiators CCA board received information from staff no reportable action was taken 4.3 public employee performance evaluation superintendent the board and the superintendent selected dates for the 2025 2026 superintendent evaluation cycle no reportable action was taken 5.2 Pledge of Allegiance trusty Needum will you please lead us in Pledge of Allegiance please stand put your right hand over your heart ready to begin I ALG to the FL of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all 6.1 recognition of the 2024 2025 Cypress teacher of the year uh and nominees at this time I'd like to invite Tracy Moren
004Lawrence to the podium good evening Board of Trustees superintendent silov and guest it's so wonderful to see everyone tonight it is my pleasure to help celebrate our teachers of the year and classified employees of the Year these employees are the boots on the ground that make the magic happen and they keep Cyprus number one in Orange County so I'd like to invite Cara Patton act president to come up and I'd like to invite an love super intendent and Troy Tanaka board president and Lily Jimenez assembly woman from Sharon qu Silva okay so when I call your name you're going to come up and you're going to get some gifts from act and then shake the hands and stand um in front of the Podium dis to get a picture because Dr Kim mclen will take
005your picture so the first is Arnold School Tammy Newman first grade teacher and she is here with six people her husband mom daughter son daughter's fiance and son's girlfriend would you all please stand too we'd like to applaud you okay hi congratulations so I just like to say a few words about Tammy um Tammy Newman is an exceptional teacher she has taught in the Cypress School District for 35 years 34 of those years have been spent teaching over 150 first graders eight I'm sorry not 150 850 I like 150 too low 850 first graders to read that's amazing um a quote from Tammy teaching students to read and watching the growth they make throughout the year is my greatest passion in the classroom Mrs Newman creates a warm classroom environment where every child feels valued
006and empowered to succeed she helps make first grade fun and engaging for all of her students connecting with students is her greatest gift every student in Mrs Newman's class is made to feel special loved and respected she has a unique ability to provide a calming presence for any Arnold student who may be having a rough day and in need of some extra emotional support Tammy is also an excellent colleague and friend to all at honorable Arnold school and is always a team player she has been instrumental in planning and executing schoolwide PBIS events she has been very involved in our PTA by being a liaison between staff and parents and helping promote and attend PTA events Tammy's presence can almost always be found after hours um after school hours at act and District events Miss
007Mrs Newman makes a difference every single day with her extraordinary teaching abilities and love for her students in Arnold Community we are proud to have her as Arnold school teacher of the year congratulations congratulations and next from King school is Jamie Barry first grade teacher Jamie has her husband mom dad two sisters and one brother-in-law will you please stand also in celebrate Jamie a few words about Jamie which we love her at King's school that's my school so I have a a special place in my heart for Jamie Jamie is an amazing and dedicated teacher who has been inspiring kindergarteners at Fir and first graders at King school for the last 15 years aside from having insane fashion sense Jamie does her very best to make some of our newest Learners love school she has
008a passion for teaching children the love of reading how to think and most especially how to find the joy in learning to this end she creates many experiences for her students like letting them read with a flashlight in the dark or creating passports and taking them on a virtual airline to foreign places to learn new things if there is a way to incorporate the families of her children she will find a way to invite them into her classroom that that the partnership between the parents kids and school is reinforced Jamie is the last car out of the parking lot of just about every day always just kidding we always tease her about it um but she always has a bright smile or an encouraging word for the rest of the staff when we are struggling
009some of Jamie students have challenging behaviors but she finds ways to reach them helping them learn to manage their feelings and behaviors with a firm but loving reaction King school could not be prouder to submit Jamie Barry for Cypress School District teacher of the year she has proven her dedication and commitment to the students and the teachers to the staff she works with and to the family she loves in the words of one of her past students Mrs Barry was so nice she'd keep us after school sometimes and help us with drawing or Gigi if we were having trouble she always wanted to make us better congratulations Jamie next from LEL school is Jessica hollandsworth fourth grade teacher okay Jessica hollingworth is an amazing fourth grade teacher at landelle she dedicates many hours to her
010students in the landel community she motivates students to work to their best potential by using using Innovative teaching methods this includes creating engaging and meaningful activities that address her fourth grade curriculum Jessica can reach her students social and emotional needs by creating a caring respectful learning environment Jessica the lead student council adviser has developed student council events that positively influenced our PBIS programs such as slime making Turkey Trot movie and popcorn event and a scavenger hunt just to name a few the students and Community are fortunate to have such a devoted and resourceful educator congratulations Jessica congratulations next is Luther School Melanie Bray ecsc preschool teacher she has her husband two sons mother-in-law father-in-law and sister here tonight please stand so we can celebrate together hey Melanie's colleagues has stated I am deeply honored to
011present Melanie brial right as teacher of the year for Steve Luther Elementary as an early childhood special education teacher teacher with the Cypress School District that's wow her passion is to create an inclusive supportive and engaging learning environment for all students she strives to make each child feel valued and capable by focusing on their individual strengths and needs this recognition reflects the dedication she brings to her work and the strong collaborative relationships she has built with her colleagues families and students Luther is proud to have Melanie represent her school as she contributes to fostering a n and inclusive community where all students can Thrive congratul congratulations Melanie congratulations next is Morris School Deborah Moss kindergarten teacher her husband two sons and mother are here please stand and help us celebrate Deborah hey we are pleased
012to announce de Moss as our Juliet Morris teacher of the year for 20242 Deborah has been an outstanding educator for the past 30 years from the college level level to her favorite grade where she feels right at home kindergarten she has taught kindergarten across the district for the past 26 years wow one of her many accomplishments was to obtain a grant for 24 roller bik bikes and helmets to teach the children how to ride bikes over the course of the last few years 300 plus kids have learned not only how to ride a bike but also about bike safety how to take how to take turns and be responsible for a bike Deborah also takes an active role outside her classroom she has served as the Morris act and Friends of Morris teacher representative and
013has assisted on several committees including read Across America Safety and our senior volunteers Deborah is a dedicated teacher who supports her colleagues and creates an environment of support curiosity and creativity for her prized Kinders Deborah and enjoys traveling with husband Mark and her two grown sons Samuel and Daniel they enjoy biking kayaking exploring yosity and places far and wide Deborah is also an avid pickleball player you'll find her on the cours just as soon as she recovers from her recent injury from these reasons and many more the Morris Community is proud to nominate Deborah Moss for Cypress School District teacher of the year congratulations congratulations next is vessels Jenny Lee kindergarten teacher her husband two daughters mother brother and sister-in-law are here please stand and help us celebrate oh Jenny Lee is a devoted kindergarten
014teacher at bessels is this working where she takes great pride in her role she earned her bachelor's degree in English teaching credential and masters of arts and teaching from the University of California Irvine she began her teaching career in the Cypress School District in 2001 initially serving as a sub substitute teacher frequently in special day classes and as a long-term substitute in Morris in 2002 she was appointed as a kindergarten teacher at Dickerson Elementary that's where I started um following her first year Jenny taught fifth grade for two years before returning to her passion for kindergarten she has remained in the kindergarten classroom ever since including teaching a K1 combo class in 2022 Jenny is particularly passionate about teaching reading and utilizes cognitive guided instruction in her math lessons she believes that establishing strong relationships
015with both parents and students Embraces her teaching Effectiveness additionally Jenny values collaboration with her team to provide a solid foundation for early Learners throughout her tenure in Cyprus she has contributed to various initiatives including serving on the technology team and Safety Committee as a s cico coach as a PTA representative as a member of the vessels leadership team her experience has also allowed her to provide input on District assessments and contribute to developing the kindergarten Universal Universal math screeners furthermore she collaborated with her formal principal to secure a technology Grant facilitating the acquisition of Apple equipment for creating student podcasts Jenny worked with Dickerson PTA in her early years to produce the first school yearbook she's enthusiastic in exploring new technology and integrating it into her classroom on a personal note Jenny has been married
016to her husband Paul for 17 years she actively manages both of her daughter's club soccer teams and enjoys attending professional soccer games with her family most weekends you can find her on a soccer field supporting her daughters and enjoying quality family time congratulations Jen congratulations yeah and we have certificated specialist Mindy steel tosa stem she's here with her husband and three children please stand and help celebrate Mindy hey Melinda or Mindy steel has taught a variety of positions over the past 20 year and currently is our stem teacher on special assignment for the past eight years she has been supporting the district stem program by designing and implementing science un that are aligned to the ngss standards her passion is to make science Hands-On and accessible to all students and Ed Educators it is her
017mission to give them authentic learning experiences and to create a love for science her position also includes supporting the math framework shifts as well as implementing the career in college readiness standards in grades TK through six she works hard to secure extra grant funding yearly to support these programs and bring more Hands-On activities that fully engage students in the classroom Mindy's dedication and passion as an educator extend beyond the classroom leading trainings to empower teachers to refine their practice Embrace collaboration and create meaningful learning experiences for their students congratulations Mindy congratulations now I need you to all stay there don't move yet because I need to bring Jenny Lee back because she's our Cypress teacher of the year and we come up C down right there and then you're gonna go through and you have
018superintendent silov is going to present you a plaque and monetary gift from rotary and board president Troy tanako will be presenting you with the Cypress plaque because we want you to have all your Plex when you get your picture taken yes yes stene for pictures look that's a beautiful group congratulations everyone you remember you make the magic happen and we appreciate it okay now we're going to do the classified employee of the year so president Tanaka please come back up and I have Kelly Frasier from csca oh I didn't know that noine okay our classified staff from landelle we have Sandy borbor ha educator instruction she's here with her daughter please stand and help us celebrate Sandy so um Sandy has an exceptional ability to enhance the school experience for both students and staff alike
019her commitment to Student Learning is clear in the way she continually seeks out new creative methods to support classroom classroom instruction and keep students engaged her contributions extend beyond academics she plays an integral role in fostering a school culture centered on inclusivity acceptance and positivity and our efforts help students feel supported safe and motivated to succeed while her supportive attitude towards staff encourages others to strive for excellence congratulations thank you congratulations and from bessels we have Stacy Burke library clerk she's here with her two children please stand okay Stacy truly embodies the spirit of the classified school employee of the year award her impact on Vessels Elementary School is immeasurable from fostering a love of reading to creating opportunities for students to express themselves through musical performances she has enriched the lives of countless students
020and staff members her selflessness creates it and dedication Inspire everyone around her making her an Irreplaceable part of the school's success whether she's organizing Accelerated Reader competitions directing school plays or mentoring strug struggling readers helping students regulate emotions or simply greeting everyone with a warm smile Stacy has left an indelible mark on Vessels Elementary School work is a testament to the transformative power of education and she is more than deserving of this recognition congratulations congratulations and for Morris we have Sandy contras school administrative secretary Sandy is joined by her husband daughter son mother fiance of son and boyfriend of daughter please stand to help celebrate Sandy brings something special to our school She's Not only incredibly efficient organized she's the person everyone relies on for a smile a laugh or a helping hand her influence
021reaches far beyond her desk she has spearheaded small but meaningful changes to help streamline office processes making life easier for everyone her positive attitude and unwavering commitment to our community have left a lasting impression on staff and students and families alike she's more than a school secretary she's the glue that holds our school together and and more than deserves her the award for her dedication thank you congratulations now Sandy and Sandy I need you to stay there and I need Stacy Burke to come back because she's the classified employee of the year for the district and we have Ellen basil presenting you with a gift from csca and then we have an silabs and Troy Tanaka presenting you with the plaques Rotary Club and a monetary gift it's always good to have an envelope and
022another plaque now we want to do a photo op yep it's a beautiful group thank you congratulations everyone thank you all for being here tonight 6.3 recess we'll now take a 10-minute say to enable our students and families to go home and get ready for school tomorrow we re will reconvene this meeting at 7:26 p.m. I mean 7:36 p.m. e e e I'm reconvening the meeting at 7:37 p.m. reports Association uh item 7.1 Association of Cypress teachers they will not be having a report tonight uh next agenda item 7.2 California School Employees Association I don't see anybody here for them so I don't think they're going to be having a report tonight Cypress Council PTA I do not see them so um they will not have a report tonight we'll go to 7.4 which is
023is our Board of Trustees truste B yeah hi everyone um it's good to be here I will pull up my calendar so I can look at what I was up to um oh goodness I we attended one of uh probably the the best events I've been to and it was I was joking it was a bad event to wear eyeliner to um because I I was I was uh cheering up quite a bit it was that every student succeeds um breakfast it was um just incredible to see these kids and and what they've overcome to accomplish what they've accomplished and you know what was really special was um how intimately the teachers seemed to know um the kids and in the speeches were um you could tell they they really had taken time to think
024about and learn about the the specific um struggles and and um successes of these kids so um thank you for you know bringing that to our district superintendent salvs and um um holding it successfully for a decade now um and inviting us to it and putting that together that was that was spectacular um we also um had a you know the monthly literacy night at landel that um you know we went to and um another event that we had at Landell that was really fun was um stem night um and I you know I'm not sure if uh that's on the the board's calendar to attend but I encourage you guys to to go there it's uh been a little rainy the last couple times I think but it's it's all has a fantastic attendance
025and it's just such a joy to to see all the kids excited about um about science and um and learning and you know having fun um while they're learning um I I was unable to attend the the new uh board member dinner uh last night but I look forward to to hearing from you guys if you were able to go how that went um but uh yeah that's that's about it for what I've been up to thank you trusty Haida thank you good evening everybody and thank you for coming or tuning in um with regards to what I have been doing the last month it was a quick month I can't believe we're in the middle of March but on um February 21st I attended vessels Flag Ceremony uh which was um it was postponed
026from earlier but it had to be it was for Lunar New Year and it was very educational and I appreciate principal Holman's um use of the flag ceremonies to integrate um cultural um awareness opportunities for the kids because it was a lot of fun and glad that we were able to go on March 6th I also attended the every students succeeding breakfast and I completely agree it's just amazing to see what those students have overcome and a very inspiring stories makes you just feel like anything is possible um yesterday was the ocba and AA joint dinner meeting and there was a very good speaker uh don't remember her name but she just she really helped to I think bring awareness to looking at every student and T not just looking at your standard um requirements
027and things that people look at but to think outside the box as to how to help students and I know Cypress does a really good job of that so um just thankful for all of our teachers and staff for doing similar practices and then lastly today uh I attended the elected women's Round Table held by Sharon Kirk Silva assembly woman in the Palma and that was very inspiring to see all the women around the table and just to hear leadership and have the opportunity to talk with her with the assembly woman about ways to partner and uh strengthen programs that's it thank you trusty sndi thank you well I want to even though all of the teachers and uh classified staff are uh with almost ex exception everyone has left I do want to congratulate
028all of our um honores for this year knowing that they are just the tip of the Excellence that our community uh schools uh manifest on a daily basis and uh just know that uh um want them to know that we're so appreciative of all the hard work and the efforts that they that go into uh becoming the excellent role models for not only their students but also for their uh their colleagues within the district District so just starting with that and then on to the activities that I engaged in this month there are some months where I'm going to say I have to say that don't don't have anything this month wasn't one of them we had a really very busy month on the 19th of February landel had their farmers market and uh farmer
029Matt was there all coveralls she didn't have straw in her teeth or anything of that sort but she was just phenomenal in terms of the way in which she engaged the students at every grade level uh I was I was definitely amazed at how she worked with the kids and uh was able to elicit uh excellent responses from them while she was being um uh very um what do you say uh very specific about the learning experience of talking about fruits and vegetables if you can imagine that fruits and vegetables are exciting uh it was exciting to watch her uh perform if you will because that's exactly what it was she represents a um a farm of 68 Bakery Farm called orange uh old Orange Grove in Redlands and uh that particular Farm does provide
030fruits and vegetables to our Cypress School District so that was kind of really exciting each kid was able to walk away with a little bag of their three choices of whatever she had brought in terms of produce so it was neat for them to me for me to be able to interact with some of the kids afterwards to find out well do you eat this particular product at home is this going to be an experiment for you um you know why did you choose this particular vegetable or this particular fruit uh it was really kind of interesting to hear their answers some of them have never seen some of these things fruits and vegetables before others said oh this is part of our daily diet uh that was that was intriguing for me because I
031know when I was that age there were some of those things that I had never heard of so it was really kind of neat to be able to find out that several of the kids were familiar with some of the items on the 21st of February I did attend the vessels Lunar New Year that is beginning to be a I don't know whether it's a pattern if I've seen it in two years in a row or not but it's really uh it's really excellent uh a lady from citos um um actually um comes down and teaches the students uh how to do the dragon uh dance through the uh the the quad and it was really interesting to see how the kids got engaged with that and the young kids having their uh the little
032stick nois makers and uh being able to participate in that process so that was really kind of interesting on the 26 uh my committee which is the Gela met uh here in the um Cypress District building and I just wanted to report out a couple of items from that there were some information materials that had to do with um the Coalition for adequate funding for special education for the 2025 priorities one of the things that I thought was particularly interesting that was sort of the preface of this was that there is a model for funding that has been used since the early 2020s uh that uh makes the assump that 11% of our students are generally going to be identified with special needs and yet the identification as was uh reported out in this particular
033paper was is that in fact we actually can can say that there's more like 15% of kids who are identified with special needs and out of that uh the Assumption of that particular model is is that about 177% not 17 but um I'm I'm getting my percentage Yeah 17% of the students have severe uh special needs and the reality is that more like 30% of the kids have severe needs so I think you can see where this is going what they would like to do is to have the um uh model reconfigured so that is more reflective of the reality of the special education needs within the state and what that would entail obviously of course is the requests for additional monies and so that was very interesting to see that particular report there was
034um another um portion that um identified various um types of um informational parent training um sessions that are available for parents throughout the district um and not only our district but our companion districts that are part of this organization one was on mindfulness which is coming up on March 20th and one is on mental health and why does it matter in school which is going to be on April 2nd and um these are readily available I'm assuming that parents are going to be informed about these on a regular basis or do would it be expected that I bring that information to the district to share or what our our staff already know about these it gets funneled through but I was really impressed with the opportunity for parents to be able to go to different
035kinds of um uh training sessions there was another one which was basically a free uh ASL uh sessions there are going to be 10 sessions that actually started um I believe it was tonight and we'll go for the next um the next uh 10 weeks uh that if anybody is interested that was a question that one person asked could anybody go and if anybody's interested in learning American Sign Language uh this would be an opportunity to have at least some introduction or if you already know some there would be an advanced class and an opportunity and if you wanted to know more about that I do have some information on that we also had an opportunity to look at the uh greater Anaheim Supa special education pupil counts for um the the period between December
0362018 to 20 uh uh to October 2024 and as might be expected based on post covid we have had an escalation of uh numbers in all of the um all of our Our member districts uh Cyprus included we also discussed the fact that the um Director of Business operations who's evidently been a very pivotal figure for that Organization for you know years and years and years is retiring and that position is open so if there is anybody who knows anybody who has excellent administrative skills and is interested in uh touching bases with um the um organization that might be a fit for somebody um that's about it with regard to um that um uh that meeting but I also wanted to note that on the 6th of March uh like my fellow colleagues had an
037opportunity to to attend the every student succeeding uh breakfast at the Community Center and I really enjoyed the fact that we weren't grouped as board members together at one table so that we could sort of talk to ourselves but we were actually stationed at each one of the individual tables that gave us an opportunity to interact with uh at least one student who was going to be a recipient of an award and it was really uh interesting to be able to uh hear their stories uh one-on-one with them but also to hear the passion with which their teachers and administrators um uh engage with that individual student and wanted to highlight the success that those students have had um another um activity that is also always exciting and that is uh the vessels oratorical contest
038occurred on the TW the 11th which was is that just two days ago just two days ago um I judged both act uh both events the primary and the upper grades and was just blown away with the um uh what the the skills that each individual student uh exhibited in the presentations that they chose to give some were creative in the sense that they were self self um self-written and and and presented others were uh taking already prepared materials and presenting them as a memorized uh recital but no matter which way it was they were all quite excellent and so as I indicated to several people I thought that it was important that we had these kinds of activities in the schools because it um challenges students to stretch a little bit and to actually
039uh perhaps if they're a little afraid of public speaking to um sort of um push themselves uh to sort of um sort of uh break down those barriers of fear and be able to move forward because speaking and interacting with people is such an important part of our ability to live in the real world and that's where they're going to have to live um lastly last night uh like uh SE like several of my fellow board members attended the Orange County um school boards Association acts a joint dinner with our guest speaker Dr Robin Robin abalar Lal and she wrote a book called where Equity lives and I believe that that was the title of or was essentially the essence of her presentation where she was what we've talked about and and that is that
040we meet every student where they are and attempt to work with them to take them where they need to go and uh she said it in very in different types of different language but that was the essence of what she was talking about is that we see child as an individual child as opposed to as a part of a demographic group or as a uh part of a um a class group or something of that sort so I thought it was very intriguing to listen to it she brought a different perspective I know I was sort of backing off from some of the things she said occasionally but we had some fun that night and um it was an unfor evening and had the opportunity to interact with my fellow colleagues thank you thank you
041trusty Needum thank you so uh like several of the other trustees I attended the dinner last night um I also was at the every student succeeding breakfast and that was uh very much a treat to be able to to celebrate um all of the hard work that those uh students have put in um aside from the other trustees up here I was able to attend the vessels seal night um where where the Second Step curriculum was shared with parents and we were able to participate in some activities with our kids and um just talk about um how to meet kind of their social emotional needs and things that we can do at home and the things that they're doing at school um so that was very informative for all the families who were able to
042attend I was also at the vessels movie night um which was hosted by PTA and very successful um and and very fun for the kids and all the families it was a great opportunity for the community to get together um and then personally I was at the Cypress Youth Baseball opening day and so it was really great to see a lot of Cypress kiddos out there ready to get the baseball season started that's it for me thank you it was a very busy month this month but on August 14th I was able to attend the amazing vessels uh School visit was superintendent Slavs thank you so much for all the teachers and staff it's always great to go and visit the schools on February 19th I had the pleasure of attending the landelle mini farms
043uh Market with trustee sndi it was great to see the students learning about the different vegetables how they're coming from Farm to the table and farmer Mack did a great job explaining this with all the kids even gave them that chance to go get a bag and go down the shopping line to be able to pick all the either fruits vegetables but it seems like the kids they're always going for the apples and oranges not the radishes and some of the other vegetables but it was such a great event uh on February 24th I was able to attend the vessels lunar Lunar New Year's flag celebration I think that's a such a great event that vessels does because they also tie it into the flag as well as the Ws for the no I think
044it's their pride um things where they get the lawn signs of for each of the kids that they can proudly display in front of their house which is such a great thing to get the kids involved more and more within the school so I think that's such a great event tying it into the Lunar New Year where they had uh the lady from SOS come in talk not just about the showing them how to do the Dragon Dance or that but also telling them what is the zodiac signs what each one means and what the story behind it given some history behind that which I thought was very very interesting on um the 21st I was also very blessed to be able to attend U the Cypress High School uh social justice day uh that
045was an amazing event being able to see the kids create art projects go and create all the projects for their um clubs that they're in and then doing soapbox speeches um to all the peers and all the things so they had bold auditoriums filled up with all their displays of their art and their projects through the campus they had art projects done and then they went in the theater and the as their groups they went and spoke about it this is where this is so invaluable to where we're going with the oratorical being able to tell the teach the kids to get them more practice in public speaking you know so I think that was such a great thing to be able to see that progression um even from our elementary school to where they're
046going to be going to middle school and high school and so thanks to U Teresa mwa Julia Park and general for brown for inviting me to that uh the 28th I was able to attend the Morris third grade field trip to the San anaz zoo that was such a great thing I wasn't planning to go when my son asked me Dad can you please go I am so happy that I went just to see you know Mrs Gutierrez Miss armor Miss zoa being able to manage all those great kids running around screaming through this the zoo but to be able to also teach them things about the animals then get them to learn additional things outside the classroom it was such a great field trip for me to be able to attend with this so
047thank you for that on the six I was Al also be able to attend with my fellow board members the every student succeeds it's such a great event in my opinion because it not just for our school district we're bringing in our community the other schools within our community and doing this for the students and I think that's I can't say thank you enough to that it's a great job um on the 11th I was able to participate as a judge for with truste sndi for the vessels oratorical uh thank you Miss Kim Miss sells Prince Homan the rest of the teacher and staff for helping cover that because it's such a big thing to be able to go through all the meetings with that and to see the creativity and the organization that these
048kids were able to put in together from this it was such a great thing and the just to be able to learn certain things that that I would have never thought I wouldn't want you know be hearing like the trailer hitch right or you know the history of Walt Disney these kids blew it out of the park and at fifth grade I cannot wait till see what happens in sixth grade um on the 12th I was able to attend um The District budget committee meeting thank you David and Dr mcllin it was great to see you know the participation from the csca staff act staff being able to talk answer questions and go through this the details reports and we'll hear a little bit more later tonight from Dr McCullen on that uh I think
049that was a great thing as well is you know emphasizing the future projections right the 2.43 cola projection as well as you know uh for 25 26 54.5 million in total expenditures with approximately um I mean 54 um yeah .5 million total expenditures around 5 um 7.6 so you know you know I think that was a great thing to be able to at least continue to have these discussions so instead of just having tossing something over the fence at the last minute um last night as well as being able to go with u fellow board members to that uh new trusteed board member as well as a csba dinner I think that was a great thing being able to go uh with Mrs Taylor as well as superintendent salof so thank you so much and
050that concludes my report trust I mean superintendent SL thank you president Tanaka um just a few things um one I want to thank all of you for being there last Thursday for the every student succeeding breakfast I know that um everyone's busy and you have work schedules to manage but we had 100% participation from the board and I really appreciate you all being there so thank you for that um also I want to acknowledge um Mindy steel and Jean woo our stem toas they coordinated um District participation in the Orange County Career pathway showcase recently that was held at the Orange County fairgrounds and a big thank you to uh teacher Kathy Whitten from Arnold and Tracy hbert from Morris they took a team of students and they had a booth where they sat and
051they talked with people that came by about the RC mod model and um and then they also had a chance to go and visit other booths as well and what I understand is at the end of the event they didn't want to leave they had such a good time and so um we've made it very clear that that's going to be our booth every year now from the future for moving forward so um Jean did a lovely video of the experience and so we'll provide that link for the board and the Friday report so you can check it out but it was really great and then uh just one other thing I wanted to share next Friday is our monthly Orange County Superintendent organization meeting and the March meeting is always dedicated to legislative action
052and advocacy so we have invited our locally elected representatives to be there and we've been working um with our um um our legislative Advocates and um lobbyists about packaging our messaging so the three messages that we are sharing with our electeds next Friday is that we need continued funding and that's not only Cola but that is full funding of prop 98 and continued support for lcff and that process that was established quite some time ago now and a lot of the folks up there in Sacramento don't have familiarity with the history of how that change occurred so we want to continue to voice our support for lcff and then secondly um the second message is flexibility and local control um that's what the whole lcff premise was local control funding formula was that you the
053state gives us school districts our allocation of funds and we work with our communities determine how to best meet our community student needs with the resources that we have so we are continuing to advocate for that as well as reminding them or asking them very kindly that as you are um establishing new programs at the state level that um you try to build in some local control and flexibility um one example being the um reading screener that they're going to be implementing for K2 to primarily be uh screening for dyslexia and while that's a very Noble Endeavor um it's a very short Runway and a very fast implementation timeline so things like that we need more time to prepare so that we can support our staff as they're implementing those worthy programs and then finally
054um just really uh continuing to um advocate for uh student mental health and um specifically setting aside funds and resources for that um because we know that every district is struggling with the needs of our Our Youth and we need to be able to have resources to um to help facilitate their um you know to receive those services and to facilitate um their their social emotional needs so those are the three messages and I look forward to sharing with you how that went following next Friday's meeting and that's all I have to share tonight thank you agenda item 8 um public comments in accordance with government code section 549-5433 may be received and referred to staff or be placed on the subsequent board agenda for consideration items on the agenda may be addressed at this
055time agendized in accordance with board bylaw 9323 individual speakers shall be allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda or non-agenda item the total time limit for public comments on each item is 20 minutes Miss Parker I think we just have one card correct thank you um I'd like to call please uh Joanna SE seani to the podium please and please be reminded that you have three minutes as noted it on the uh screen overhead hello sorry I've never done this before I'm shy so I'm really stepping out of my comfort zone so I am actually here today because um I'm here for my son he he attends landow Elementary School and since he's been there and um he's always had a great experience however since he's had his teacher um Miss anch
056he's uh shown I wrote down how he felt he said he feels anxious sad and unhappy she has been saying um calling the kids pests um she has made him feel like he's not worthy he hates to go to school now he's never been like this before and it worries me a lot I did bring this up to miss fredman and she showed a lot of compassion and empathy um I do think she has done everything she can you know to make sure something is done but um my thing is more so I feel like the process I know I work for a school so I know these teachers these veteran teachers are very well protected by the union um my question is when you have students that are feeling this way because I know
057I'm not the only parent that complained I'm just the only parent here um what processes can be implemented to hold these teacher more accountable because from my understanding this has been an ongoing issue for a year and it seems like her behavior hasn't changed so what process can be implemented to not affect moving forward any other kids coming into second grade their mental health because like I said my son loves loved going to school he always asked to go back to his first grade teacher it's to the point where I have asked to transfer schools and it makes me sad because I think the school H has a bunch of great other teachers I think the principal is great I just don't know what to do in a situation where my son's mental health is
058declining due to how this teacher is treating and teaching not teaching because he asks for help and I can tell in his grades he's not learning I don't feel like academically he's where he should be at so that's my concern I don't know where else to go because I do think that the principal is doing everything she can in um her power I only had three minutes so I wasn't trying to like overload with everything thank you Mrs missani for your comments the board will have the district reach out to you okay thank you thank you agenda item nine approve the me minutes from the special meeting of the Board of Trustees held on February 1st 20 I mean from U March uh from February 1st 2025 in February 13 2025 um do I have
059a motion to approve so moved do I have a second do I have to break out we have to do them separate okay I'm sorry uh let me start over again then uh approve the minutes of the special meeting of the Board of Trustees held on February 1st 2025 do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you any corrections questions or discussion I'll call for a vote all those in favor say I I I I motion carries approve the minutes uh from the regular meeting of on February 13th 2025 do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you any corrections questions or discussion hearing none I'll call for a vote all those in favor say
060I I I any opposed motion carries consent consent items require one motion only items may be removed from consent in Act on individually at any board members requests do I have a motion uh to approve consent items 10.1 to 10.7 so move thank you do I have a second thank you any questions or discussion I am going to um I'm going to ask to um speak to 10.1 which is gifs I know that this occurs on a regular basis every year but I'm so thankful for the effect families within our district as they support uh our students our sixth grade students going to sixth grade camp and funnel their money through their PTA I'm I'm pleased to say that vessels PTA has um uh contributed over $116,000 uh this particular um this particular month and
061um part of that went for um uh substitutes but most of it went to uh the sixth grade camp and so that was really um kind of exciting to see we're kicking off the uh kicking off the um uh process of collecting that money for those kids to be able to go to sixth grade Camp uh I also wanted to uh speak to or ask a couple of questions with regard to 10.6 which has to do with the um let me go back up to it um approved check report um I noticed that um there was a um uh check number 6275 that was uh over a half a million dollars um uh written at to Magnolia and I kind of wanted to have some clarification as to what that amount was for I I
062know um I asked the same question for superintendent salav and she got back um so that is U for the four kids attending the baen power school and it's expense to Magnolia so it's for the four kids for the special education okay I was just uh didn't know if that was an ongoing figure or whether that was something that yeah I saw that was a large dollar amount so I asked the same question and then just a more generalized question I noticed that um you know we have a fairly substantive check written to the Boys and Girls Club for the elop and OC Kids and ABC Child Care and it's just a general question because the sum total that you that you wrote checks for were $29,000 for those three different entities and uh I
063didn't know what for what time period and just sort of um question off the top of my head I I are our elop funds funds that we continuing funds are do we have a um bank account that once those funds are gone we have no more elop funds uh elop is an ongoing program Dr mcllin do you want to speak further to that uh yes first I'd like to back up and talk about the check to Magnolia um we do have students that attend Magnolia they provide services special ed services um and we do make quarterly payments for the services provided there um at their school um to answer your question about elop elop continues to be an ongoing money um Source the governor has shown commitment to elop in next year's budget and so
064we will continue to have a um Extended Learning opportunity program for our students offering them a 9-hour day with 30 additional days during the school year the checks that are written are to the preschools that you see um or that you've identified um they are partners and helping us in execute the uh the program I I guess my question with regard to the Boys and Girls Club is that a um is that just an uh a quarterly payment or is that a monthly payment what what are we looking at for the the payments that were that were written where these for um um singular month payments or what are we looking at they were given an initial payment um in the summertime and this would be part of the payment structure that's in their contract
065okay thank you um just one last question having to do with a um retention for MP South um we keep them on a retainer is that the item that was in the um check register was that for um just um ongoing keeping them on board as um what Consultants with us well they're utilized through a master contract agreement and I'm looking at Teresa I need to look at the exact check you're pulling up to yeah it was I think that it was check 62 736 um so with each construction project that we do so if you remember we just did a notice of completion for some of the projects that MP South ha uh did so as part of their payment process there is What's called the retention so they have to keep 5% not
066being paid until they complete the job and they actually have to wait 30 days after the the filing of the notice of completion before they can get that retention so this that's why it's called retention is they're basically just getting their last 5% of whatever their contract amount was for that construction project so they call it a release of retention because we hold it throughout the whole project 5% okay I was I was thinking that it might be like attorneys have a retainer no which meant that you know you pay it up front and so I was I I I mistakenly assumed that so I'm glad you clarified that so thank you on that course no more questions any other questions I have a a couple questions um the what item number is this these
067are the payments to Olive Crest for viw Delo and the the Craig what what payment what are these payments for if you would um identify which checks I'll be glad to get you this information in the Friday report um Del Soul is a partner too with special ed and so we probably have a public um we have a non-public contract to provide services to a particular student oh they the individual service agreement correct okay okay but if you provide me the exact check number we'll be glad to give you a much better answer yeah and I think it'd be helpful to know how frequent the the payments are and um again if you could provide that information to the superintendent we'll be glad to put that in a Friday report okay um and then for
068the elop payments that you you brought up I think that would be helpful it' be helpful to have more information on that again I would um I would ask that you give that information to the superintendent and we'll answer any question you have okay I'll put those questions together okay and send them out um that's all I have um actually as a just a procedural question um so is the is the process that we vote like if we move move and then we vote and then we ask the questions that's like the way in which we're supposed to do it the Parliamentary procedure is that you get a first and a second then you have a discussion on an item and then you vote for consent um because they're routine items that have been previously
069approved through other board action you just do them all as a group unless someone would like to pull a particular item but there is an opportunity still to have discussion on items which is what you're doing right now um so does that answer your question um yeah I just have one other item um this is one of the other questions I asked um regard along with the Magnolia to superintendent laws about the West dead um cost for 56,000 and that was um just for the rest of the board didn't understand as well because that to me was a large expense it's that's for the TK and preschool teacher uh personal development and any other questions hearing none I'll call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any oppose motion carries 11.1
070approve agreement uh approve a service agreement with Orange County Superintendent of schools for the school link partnership and capacity grants program with a grant funding of $194,950 for the period of January 1st 20 2 through June 30th 2027 do I have a motion to approve so move thank you do I have a second second thank you any questions or discussion just want to say that it's always good to see that as we have uh opportunities to tap into additional funds that um the um effort to is made to um to to reach out for um identification of our our our concern or our need and and to be able to receive grants in that in that fashion so particularly since this is uh an area that we've been talking about for quite some time having
071to do with uh Behavioral Health um issues and um we know that um we are have ongoing issues and um having these grants I'm sure um makes it so much easier for us to be able to address some of the kinds of concerns and considerations that need to be made uh for our students any other further questions or discussions hearing none on call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries agenda item 11.2 approve a service agreement with Orange County superintendent of schools for the inclusive Early Education expansion program with grant funding of 730,000 do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you any questions or discussion hearing none I'll call now now call for a vote all
072those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries agenda item 11.3 uh approve the agreement with the association of Cypress teachers which includes the following documents one tentative agreement between the association of Cypress teachers and Cypress School District Two public disclosure of collective bargaining agreement and three certificated wage schedule effective July 1st 2024 you have a motion to approve so move thank you do I have a second second thank you any questions or discussion hearing none I'll Now call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries 11.4 accept the initial proposal um for the 2024 2027 essor negotiations from the California School Employees Association and its Cypress chapter 325 to the Cypress School District and hold a public hearing and adopt initial bargaining proposal for the
07320242 negotiations from the cyer school district to the California School Employees associ Association chapter 325 I'll now open the public hearing to allow comment from the community prior to the board consideration of the uh proposal any comments hearing none I'll clo now close the public hearing do I have a motion to adopt the Cypress School District's bargaining proposal for 2425 negotiations with the California School Employees Association chapter 325 so moved thank you second thank you any questions comments hearing none I'll call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any oppos motion carries agenda item 11.5 hold a public hearing and adopt the bargaining proposal for the 2024 25 negotiations from the Cypress School District to the California School Employees Association CS a chapter 325 any comments I'll now close the public
074hearing you have a motion to adopt the Cypress School District's bargaining bargaining proposal for the 2425 negotiation with the Cyprus School Employees Association chapter 325 so moved do I have a second thank you any comments questions hearing none I'll Now call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries 11.6 approve the following revised job description and Associated salary increases mop Rover to maintenance operations Transportation mop Rover with a change of salary from range 26 to 30 and bus driver utility worker with a change of salary uh from range 23 to 27 effective April 1st 2025 do I have a motion to approve so move thank you do I have a second second thank you any questions or discussions I have a question if I can ask Teresa uh
075um this is a not biggest Ben but I think this event started to Trend down this year did last was last year's um significantly higher than this year's for the transport uh the transportation expense oh did it okay uhhuh yeah oh I put it in the wrong spot I'm sorry oh okay I just thought the Gap because I know this is significant Gap that we have to come overpay from the district standpoint and I thought last year it was more like 300,000 versus the 280 no oh okay yeah but thank you so much I appreciate that any questions or discussions I'll Now call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries um 11.7 ratify the revised certificated substitute salary schedule effective March 1st 2025 you have a motion
076to approve so move do I have a second second thank you any questions or discussions hearing none I'll call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries yes this is where my question was I'm sorry I should have waited till I got to the bottom um agenda item 11.8 approve the district's 2526 transportation services plan do I have a motion to approve so moveed thank you do I have a second thank you any questions or discussions oh okay okay thank you any other questions or discussions is she driving no [Laughter] I pictured her in the bus too hearing none I'll Now call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries 11.9 approve Award of a mastered agreement to the 20125 concrete
077nasal unit price bid project CS 03- 2024-25 to Ben's asphalt Incorporated for one year effective March 14 2025 with a option for Renewal with board approval do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you any questions or discussions could I ask a question here does this imply then that we are locking in uh this particular entity for a period of time so the cost will not go up or down yes for the first year based off of the bid you get that first year as part of the contract there they only get CPI increase so whatever the CPI increase is for the following years is what they can request they actually have to request to be able to do those increases so if they don't
078then we get the same pricing that we have now the main reason for this is obviously um we have different defer maintenance uh asphalt playgrounds those things that we need to do so being able to have a vendor just kind of like an MP South that focuses strictly on asphalt because so much of our school sites are asphalt or concrete um was one of the reasons why we paid the cost to go out to bid um for this so that we could have that type of vendor um on contract for those types of projects and needs well then basically I I I think I I I think I knew that answer but I just wanted to commend you for um being so in ightful and for you know for with with so much forethought on
079this as well because um you know we know that across time building building materials um you know have have they're volatile and so the fact that you can lock something in for a period of time is really amazing and so good good good job I have a question it's okay okay so is this the first time that we have used use this company so yes and no um so they are um because it's a public bid so we got whoever you know bid the process but um several of our fellow districts have used them and I've used them in a previous uh role um so I'm very familiar with the company um we I don't think have used them for big projects or this type of contract in Cyprus but I know we've used them
080for um like our modernization projects or different projects of that nature okay good so I'm because I'm looking more at like quality because you see asphalt all over the place and it doesn't really hold you know muster this days so I'm glad that you have that previous experience and good appreciate your your expertise and your attention to detail thank you any other questions hearing none I'll call for a vote all those in favor say I I any oppose motion carries 11.10 approve the districts 2024 202 5 Second interim financial report and certify a positive financial status for the remainder of the current and two succeeding uh fiscal years do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you do I have a second second thank you before I ask the board if you have
081any questions I'd like to turn this over to Dr McCullen for to say a few words uh thank you president Tanaka um staff presents to you the second interim report it is one of two interim reports that we do throughout the school year uh what it does is tell the board the community the county and the state how we are doing in comparison to the budget that was approved in June we are recommending approval of this report uh with a positive certification positive certification is the highest certification you can give it means that uh the board has no doubts that it can um cover all of its expenses in the year it's in um and maintain a balanced budget in the year that it's in but in addition to the year that you are in
082it also um confidently says that we feel comfortable about the out two years as you pointed out president Tanaka um revenues are coming in as we expected um at about 54.5 million much of that is the lcff expenditures are also coming in as we projected in June um they are coming in higher than revenues at 57.6 million we're consciously um spending more than we get because we have one-time monies from the past that we're consciously trying to spend and we will end the year with a a healthy $9.7 million balance some of that is restricted some of that is ongoing um but it will also confidently we know know that we have the 3% required for economic uncertainty at $1.7 million um but more importantly about then beyond this year um you will have a
083healthy balance at the end of 2627 projected to be at 6.6 million if our assumptions hold true so um we feel good about it and we um respectfully recommend that you approve this enum report thank you any questions or discussion from the board hearing none I'll Now call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries agenda item 11.11 um vote for no more than seven candidates for the California School Board Association region 15 delegate assembly for the term April 1st 2025 through March 31st 2027 have a motion to approve oh we just vote okay so usually usually this we previously just turned it over and took the recommendation from so this year um before previously we had a board member who was a delegate so um I think
084for many years the board kind of deferred to um that board member for advice in terms of who to vote for um because there was familiarity with the different candidates um but now we don't have that available but you have all of the applications from the different uh applicants um there are on the ballot seven uh candidates and seven openings however there are also three additional uh candidates who've launched a writing campaign they have been um nominated by their boards but for whatever reasons missed the deadline I don't know if it was a timing issue with board meetings or whatnot or paperwork but in any event there are three additional candidates for your consideration so you have 10 to choose from for seven positions well I have a question so does should everyone fill their
085no we only get to submit one ballot okay so you as a board are going to need to have a discussion in terms of who you think you should be voting for I would I'd like to make a comment okay I mean I I I don't know uh what the um what the situation with the three people who have lobbied us to um uh consider their um applications for a position on this but you know unless there are extreme extenuating circumstances that somebody has actually said from an official standpoint that these individuals could and should be included as potential right-in candidates you know let's say for instance the um um the um um who is who is man region 15 is the one that is actually managing the process from our from our region which
086case they set the deadlines they set the deadlines and I would like to suggest that because we have seven who met the criteria of meeting the deadline that we vote in Mass for the seven that have been presented unless there's a compelling reason for us to consider one of the three individuals uh that are outside of the um the timeline um from that standpoint then we would have to decide which one of the seven on this ballot that we would want to drop off and I think that the easiest thing to say would be hey these Seven For Better or For Worse met the met the deadline and that should be the ones that we vote for um that's my thoughts on it so I I don't know if um I received emails and I
087don't know if everybody else emails as well as I know like one of the potential candidates you know said there was an error from being listed on it so you know that's where her name did not show up on this so that you know I do understand that you know there are times where technology or some things that could happen right I don't think it it's really fair if somebody if there is an error if somebody missed the deadline because they blew it off or forgot to I that's a something different but you know I have to believe that somebody's going to say that there was an error because they didn't get listed I it didn't say from what the eror was I think they should be given the opportunity again looking at it from
088a standpoint of basically saying that there was Silence from region 15 to acknowledge those three individuals um either that they had valid reasons to be included or not after the fact and that didn't occur then the official ballot really is this in looking at the ballot um Lauren we can say their name right so Lauren did email us indicating there was some glitch as you uh president Tanaka had noted and in looking at the each of their um the printed I guess resumés and and submitted applications um I I appreciate that Lauren reached out and and um indicated that there was something and then um also requested support as did two other of the uh candidates whose names are already listed and to me I appreciate when when candidates do reach out to the board
089or or people who will be electing them because to me it shows additional initiative and so I and then in again referring back to the seven that are on here um reading through them um one is pretty new if I read it correctly um Angela Hernandez is pretty new she's brand new and so for me Lauren has more experience and so I would make that swap but would keep consistent the other six that are listed on the the paper the ballot I I would agree with that the only reason why I brought up this Lauren um is because in her letter to us the email she has been a delegate previously so I don't know what transpired how but if she was a delegate previously you know for three years I think three or four
090years I think mentioned in there um I think she'd be getting the opportunity especially it's not like it's a new person coming in and of the three um wrin potential candidates she was the only one that emailed us yes for consideration I'm sorry it was she's been on serving as a delegate for last two years there's one delegate who's been serving for one year and one who's been serving for two years uh Hernandez and Guerrero but I do tend to agree that the other two who didn't submit their application on time uh should not be right in candidates should not or correct should not and there were three not two so well the two the two cand Ates who did not reach out and did not submit okay okay on time okay they're kind of
091in my no pile I agree I agree um but if we're looking at swapping somebody out and one of the criteria is years we have you know two candidates who have one one candidate who has one year and one candidate who has two years where the other candidates have multiple years right and Jessica was one of the three that I received an email from requesting consideration correct I received one as well on the ballot what are the asterisks for there's three they're um they're currently oh the coms okay lber is also a current delegate that's what her email says car planers you what why these people not get their applications in on time was there truly like some sort of a technological glitch I don't know well we don't know region 15 has is silent
092on it yeah wish we had information I believe all of the wrin candidates are all existing delegates again I can't answer the question why what happened but if you look on the back of the um sheet you can see that they are um current D maybe it's because they lost two seats they have less it says on there the 2025 region 15 will have a loss of two electricity right that's that's why we have seven well it's always a challenge when you have um a list of people that you don't have somebody to be able to provide you with any kind of insight to the individual um we we've obviously had individuals um as if you as you see that have um been current ones that are somehow or another now supposed to be theoretically
093write in candidates and unless we actually make a motion to make a specific decision we're going to sit here and and go back and forth the whole the rest of the evening so I would like to move that we retain uh that we vote for the existing uh the existing ballot as it exists with no consideration for additional um um applications at this particular time so on clater application on her email um it does say due to an error she was not listed as being up for reelection I have made a motion so we should then um either for lack of a second um come back to discussion or see if there is a potential second no second okay then I would like to have trusty hayashida because she made another recommendation if see if
094we can go that way make a motion and see if we can get a second okay so I would like to make a motion that we um I don't know how to make the motion um that we approve right the let's see should I name the the six [Music] and that would be clear okay so uh I would like to make a motion that we approve Lauren clater Susie Schwarz uh Rood AED Beverly barryman Bonnie Castro Jessica Guerrero and art Montes do we have a second I'm sorry could you list his names again this is confusing so it's I'm I'm taking out Hernandez herandez with cl yes I'll second that actually that makes sense to me thank you oh and Sheed did you say Sheed so the the the names were um starting from the
095left side barryman castri Guerrero Montes and then on the right side uh Sheed Schwarz and then add in clater swap out from and motion was by uh Trust Haida and seconded by Tristy PRI so do we have any we don't need any other discussions right we just go to vote okay so with that um first and second can we get a vote U trusty PRI are you good with that yeah trusty hayashida yes truste Sandi trusty need him no I can vote right I say yes or I'm sorry vote Yes you can say yes too agenda item 11.12 uh adopt the Cypress School District Governor's handbook revised for February 1st 2025 do I have a motion to approve so moved thank you do I have a second second any questions or discussions hearing none I
096will now call for a vote all those in favor say I I I any opposed motion carries number 12 which is information discussion and the topic is Workforce housing Workforce housing is uh that affordable for housing uh earning between 60 to 120% of the area median income it helps median income households find housing in the area where they work truste s attended several workshops on this topic during the California school board association annual education conference and has an interest in discussion in the possibility of such a project in the Cypress School District she has provided two resources as background for this discussion education Workforce housing in California developing the 21st century campus executive summary exhibit one and education Workforce housing in California Miss and facts exhibit two I'd like to turn this over to uh
097trustee sndi to give us some background information first please okay I um I I hope you will in indulge me for a few moments in terms of trying to sort of sets the stage for uh putting this forward um the um the quote that I'm going to give actually comes from the summary document that was uh included as part of our I think it's exhibit exhibit one and I'm just going to go ahead and read the a quote from it among the many negative consequences of California's long-standing and deepening housing crisis is the toll it takes on people who work in public service jobs especially the hundreds of thousands the hundreds of thousands teachers teachers and other employees working in California's Public School System among the 300,000 Public School teachers in California many cannot afford
098to live in the communities where they work forcing them to commute long distances or pushing them out of Education out of the education system altogether attracting new teachers has also grown more challenging housing prices have climbed across the state yet the majority of the nearly 10,000 local educational agencies leas in California offer entry-level teacher salaries below the area median income as uh is indicated here the term Workforce housing is um associated with trying to uh provide housing for the workforce in the community in which they live uh one of the things that we note uh both nationally and at State levels is that the concept of talking about um uh housing as a a policy issue uh throws around terms such as area median income fair market rent and the employment base of the particular
099region without necessarily talking about to fund the initiatives or to create sufficient incentives or mandates and therefore it is most generally difficult to have any impact on affordable housing since 2017 the state of California has adopted over a 100 new laws designed to increase housing production most of these laws laws have been focused on incentivizing local governments to approve more housing and expedite housing approval processes and most of the increases occurring in multif family permits so the question is why do we need it and who is looking at it the high cost of housing plus the difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified staff equals a crisis who is doing something about it 83 sites in California owned by 46 local education agencies are in some stage of looking and building Workforce housing factors that feed
100into consideration by the Cypress School District would be that ever increasing cost of rental as well as owner occupied housing in Orange County and the state salaries cannot keep Pace with Rising housing cost HUD which is the housing and uh um Housing and Urban Development uh Federal arm uh defines affordability is 30% of gross income for all housing cost and they also Define 80% of median income for one person in Orange County one person as $88,500 th000 $400 rather and for a family of four is $26,250 are we in crisis in Cyprus right now some indicators at present do not suggest that we have a crisis here however when considering the total process from preliminary preliminary steps through leasa which can take 10 years to realize we may say that we do not have a
101problem in Cyprus at this particular time because we have a strong pipeline to new teachers that has not failed us yet the operational term is yet we do have some indicators that by the end of that 10 years we could be in crisis mode at the very least we should engage in preliminary exploration do we have sites that we might be able to use and if we should decide to move forward at the very least the consideration of closed School sites suggests space that we own that could be explored with the Swain site potentially the most promising partnering with local leas as such as Anaheim Union High School District which has three School sites in our community is a possibility working with the city of Cyprus which has affordability mandates from the state that would
102have 4,000 plus homes required based on Reena numbers should also be on the table what would preliminary exploration look like and this comes from that summary report as well it says the first step would be to familiarize the board with Land Development then to survey Property Holdings to select potential Parcels if we should decide that we would want to go forward three would be to survey staff and understand the political and financial landscape then engage in community outreach Outreach to determine development Pathways as well as resident population op options and the timeline for this based on this particular report is 1 to two years I would like to suggest that we engage in preliminary exploration and at its conclusion determine whether to move forward the full report that you have only the summary for may
103be found on uh the csba org Workforce housing uh site at the bottom of the page and there are additional um resources case studies um Workshop information that kind of thing because csba is very interested in continuing the conversation and working with I believe the uh organization is um um City lab UCLA which has been very instrumental in working with the various other leas that have been working on this across the state so with that I'd like to open up discussion I have two questions at the gate uh my first question is you you happen to mention that there are potential indicators of us um entering a crisis mode what would those indicators be correct well again basically they're saying high high high cost of housing plus um plus being able to uh recruit and
104retain Quality quality staff essentially you put those two together we already see that in at least our um classified staff that we have some difficulty um in um um finding qualified staff for certain positions like we've heard we don't have a lead bus driver I don't know whether there's no lead bus drivers in all of Orange County or what the situation is but again we probably don't have the ability to offer a salary that would be uh an incentive to bring that bus driver into our community uh as we look forward in terms of 10 years most of our um most of our certificated staff uh have been here as we heard tonight some of our marvelous teachers have been here 30 plus years we don't know in 10 years whether they're planning on being
105here for 40 years or even 50 years so there's every possibility that we might be in a position where we're looking for a lot of brand new teachers in which case they're not necessarily going to be coming in at the high end of the salary schedule which means then uh are we going to be able to bring them are we going to be able to continue to use the pipelines that we've had in the past uh I know that the conversation is is that we haven't had a problem bringing in teachers but I don't know whether that problem will be exacerbated in 10 years or not okay thank you and my second question is what would be the cost of this exploration I have no idea what the cost of exploration would be it does
106not require at this particular time it appears other than um uh staff hours um whether or not this would become something that we would put within our um um one of our goals uh you know laborate of one of our goals and part of the work product of the of of uh the successive years it would be potentially one of the things that would go into um um steps that would be completed across a time period according to um according to this particular chart that is uh included in this document it says that this process could take one to two years and as it could be as much as uh looking at things like uh putting on a workshop uh what whether that would be staff uh delivered or whether that would be somebody that
107would be a consultant delivered I don't know and again that probably would be all part of the preliminary thing would be for us to look at what would we talk in terms of preliminary costs that we would want to expend to actually do this search the idea here is is not that we would use any of our capital I mean any of our own operating Capital but we would actually look for different funding streams to actually produce the housing and so one of the things that uh I think would be part of that exploration would be looking at what are the financial um obstacles that we would overcome or have to overcome and so that the first step is not engaging Us in anything at this particular stage other than just doing prelim preliminary work
108uh feasibility would come next and then that probably could cost us money by going out for a consultant thank you g I'm new at this sorry um I love the idea of Workforce housing I've been a fan um of it since 2020 um when I started looking into politics and seeing the issues in the city and now since the Los Alamitos racetrack I know there's their their plans to put housing there um I would like to see what that potential partnership could look like as well as um what options we can come up with um for uh so yes I I like that idea of doing an exploratory study I think that again um when I mentioned the Anaheim Union High School District having three schools within our city that would be a potential person
109to a group to bring to the table uh in addition to the city of Cyprus because one of the things that we do know and and one of the things that has been identified is that part of the state's mandates for housing requirements do suggest that uh affordable housing is supposed to be a component of the development of housing within any community and what we are seeing is uh workarounds to that I know that we are party to that to a certain extent because we actually have a project when we sold our district district site uh have um half of those units going into affordable housing but when you actually look at that those are owner occupied housing units and if you actually look at the cost of those I don't know whose um affordability
110figures those actually calculate out to be but they are pretty pricey they're owner occupied they are senior citizens and the City of Cyprus has been very um uh what would I say I won't say using the word calculated um uh I don't mean that in a in a in a negative sense but uh there has always been a perception that senior housing is the safest bet in terms of putting in a affordable housing because you don't have to worry about uh the so-called lowincome uh element which potentially uh brings in crime and so forth uh this is not intended to be what we can typically think of as affordable housing it is essentially Workforce housing which is generally not the 60% that is here but 80 to 100% 120% of area median income and that
111is Def you know you look at the you look at what the um the median income is for um Orange County and it's about 1220 some thousand for a household now when you're thinking in terms of a household a household can be anywhere from one person to uh seven or eight people so it's not necessarily meaning that um you know automatically we're looking at people that uh are making 80% of 120,000 or uh 120% of 120,000 but it very well could be and when we're looking at um communities like Cyprus we generally look at and see uh them looking at 80 to 120% of area median income as being the figure that they are trying to work with and so uh we would be looking at here if we would be looking at uh doing
112Workforce housing would be looking at a much younger population as opposed to seniors primarily the only other successful housing uh projects that have been uh UTI uh have been um um encompassed in the city of Cypress were the um Habitat for Humanity houses which are only like three or four in any kind of of development project and also um uh developer uh City relationship back in the early 2000s that built housing there on Lincoln Avenue where some of the units would be affordable housing for the current uh individuals who bought into those housing units but by the time they were ready to sell those housing units they could go back to market rate and so uh those idea of those particular units remaining as affordable units would disappear so we we we don't have we
113don't have main stream affordable housing here in Cypress that would actually look at um and offer um our our staff the opportunity as they come into our system um affordable housing I think it would be nice to see what that looks like um what the options would be as far as purchasing leasing you know all of the those details and then also to reach out to um some of the cities that have done it successfully to learn their um experience with it so I mean I'd like to at some point have see those details as well I think that that would be part of what we would be looking at in terms of preliminary um a preliminary um exploration um as we look at um where is Workforce housing uh already implemented there are at
114least to my knowledge two you two two developments in LA and two down in the San Diego region which would be reasonably with in um uh a distance to be able for us to to look at if we wanted to go actually physically look at it but on the other hand you also have the case studies that csba has on their website of various projects that have been um implemented and many of those will actually take you through the processes that the different um different leas engaged in to uh do this preliminary versus feasibility versus planning versus construction and so on to actually getting the final product trusty Peri do you have any questions um comments and questions yeah um I I I I appreciate the forum for this discussion I should say that this
115is a really good way for us to have a discussion not just on this topic but you know any other topics that that may come up um it's an intriguing concept um I would be curi curious to see what the thoughts are of the workforce that would be utilizing such a development so maybe you know I'd suggest that be the first step to figure out is there an interest from you know the folks that were were looking to help with this initiative um whether they think that this would be a um something that's useful for them and B you know rewind a few years and see if this is something that would have brought you here you know would have been a factor in bringing you to the school district um I I don't know
116if there's a a way of even screening prospects to see if this is something that people find attractive um and if we do choose to to move forward with the the exploration um maybe we look at other elements of um housing that could be an attraction to you know if we're talking about this is sort of a recruitment tool like um you know is there a way for us to encourage homeownership in the city for our Workforce by maybe having some sort of a um a special relationship with a bank that you know gives them a more favorable mortgage rate you know um other sort of avenues besides a development that's short term and focused on on newer um teachers and staff other staff yeah and staff um but yeah I mean I I think
117that exploring the the concept and the primary objective really would be to figure out if you know the people that would benefit from this view it as a benefit that was one of the reasons why I was suggesting that we would engage in at least the preliminary State step uh the preliminary exploration because part of that does include uh actually surveying the workforce uh as to whether or not this might be something that would be attractive because it could potentially actually benefit uh staff that we already have um in place um one of the things that is also interesting that uh would be that um it's a recognition that some of the uh some of the research is suggesting that when you have um uh your staff liveing your community there's a great deal more
118investment in the community and the ability for stability in the workforce in terms of retention so I'm not sure that we have that problem either right now but I'm not sure that we we don't know what 10 years from now is going to hold but I would suggest that we don't rest on our Laurels to make the assumption that the workforce and the way it looks today is going to be the workforce that it's going to look like in 10 years time either so I do have a couple things while I believe this is a very very important issue I have to admit I don't have a full understanding of what the scope it's going to take to do something like this not just financially but resource from the staff that's you know this just
119such an unknown to me what you know from the financial as well as the terms of the manpower to make something like this even happen so I'd like to ask uh superintendent Slavs do we know if any other schools have initiated this Workforce housing project so in Orange County I'm sorry so so president Tanaka asked me in preparation for the discussion to to find out what's happening in Orange County um I wasn't aware of any districts pursuing it but it is a new thing and obviously it's not something that people are talking a lot about so I actually went and surveyed all of the districts to find out what was happening and so of Cypress is one of 28 districts so 27 other districts responded to the survey um 25 are not considering Workforce housing
120at this time two are going to explore or study it and those districts are Newport Mesa and Tustin um you know those are two very large districts with a lot of resources and so I think that that's a potential resource for the district looking forward um because you have a couple of districts that may choose to go down this path and they are close they're not as far as us San Diego or LA they're right in our neighborhood and we can learn from their experience if they choose to go down this road um and benefit from that um I have to be honest I don't have any background in this I I can't speak for Dr Mullen but I would imagine and he's probably in a similar situation where we have a general knowledge not
121not expertise so probably even just to do this the exploration and kind of some of that initial study we would probably want to bring in a a consultant because I don't feel like I have the knowledge based to be um teaching the board or schooling anyone on this topic I just don't have that level of knowledge so I I would think that if that is something that tonight you want to have additional discussion on that um we would give maybe our staff enough time to find out what Consultants are out there maybe bring a contract back to the board for a certain amount of time just for initial exploration maybe we couple this with a facilities master plan uh uh we don't we haven't been doing a separate study session but we've been doing that
122within the um within the structure of the regular July board meeting maybe that could be a component of that meeting um but um that's just some food for thought no thank you because as a board we need to prioritize you know our top initiatives I know we've been speaking about what the goals are for the board as well as the district we need to make sure we don't overload everybody because it's not good to have too many things and be good little get good at this better at this to be able to say hey be focused on this and then be able to the goals that we have to be able to do it but with that said you know I don't see any harm having further discussions on this to go to that where
123all the board can at least get some more information and with this information that we get maybe from that study or what we can say Hey you know this could work or you know what it's just not the right time for our district right but at least we're going into it eyes wide open and getting the information to make better judgments and at least have that because I don't think any of us really have that information till we at least have further discussions with that I have maybe a couple comments and some food for thought um you know in my experience in Orange County um finding qualified quality teachers is not uh well not all of Orange County but in our area specifically um is is not difficult we receive a lot of applications for
124teaching positions um they're very highly sought-after positions and many of the districts in Orange County are facing declining enrollment where those qualified teachers are losing their jobs um even teachers who have been in it for years they're losing their jobs um because of this declining enrollment so and you know cuts and all those kinds of things um from information that that I've received it sounds like a lot of districts are heading in that direction spe specifically over the next few years losing more teachers having to pink slip teachers things like that um and so my concern would be you know yes we do have high housing costs here um but that other component of the crisis mode I don't see that here we don't have um we're not lacking qualified teachers um I'm concerned with
125pulling resources um at this time financially um you know even when it we look at our goals for students um you know is this our top priority kind of something that you mentioned um I also question districts that are having trouble um attracting teachers why is this something that they're not doing there's other districts in California that do have trouble attracting teachers and this is not um something that that they've um explored and so I do like the idea of kind of letting some of the other districts uh Newport Mesa that you mentioned Tustin that you mentioned maybe um spearheading this idea because they're much bigger than we are um and kind of see what they they come up with first um I just but I do I do like what you said um president
126Tanaka about you know there's no harm in additional information but my concern is pulling those resources and pulling any um Financial you know any money from other services at this point figure out what you know the moving forward decision will be I agree with you that I think that I'm not not certain that we have a um a problem in terms of attracting teachers I I would like to if you know doesn't cost too much it doesn't take up too much of administrator resources to see what you know those the workforce that we would be considering this for has to say about this would it be sort of a you know not very time consuming process to get their feedback to say you know as an important stakeholder is this something you want us to
127to consider and work on um and then the second spe could be you know us being more educated about how does this stuff even work is when I looked at this I mean conceptually sounds like a great idea right but if one we don't have enough information about it and then two if our Workforce isn't interested um I don't know if we can really move forward or make any decisions on this or even spend further time to think about it I think also it was important to note that we don't know what it's going to look like 10 years from now but I also think it's if if you're looking at that you have to look at the flip side as well we don't know what teaching is going to look like 10 years from
128now with AI with virtual learning with all of these things I mean is the need for teachers going to decline even further um I know that families are looking at alternate education plans there's a lot of families who are homeschooling all of those kinds of things so do we really have a need for it at this time and I I almost wonder if we could just do a quick Google form or something and send it to the teachers and staff and say is this something you would like to pursue because I don't feel like um time and resources should be put into it if it's not something that that the majority are interested in hearing more about how do I we we can we can move forward with whatever it is the pleasure of the
129board if if there is consensus that the board would like us to do a survey we can do that um if there's consensus that the board would like to bring in a consultant to learn more about that we can do that but we just need to know what the consensus is from this discussion tonight in terms of next steps do we have a guesstimate of if we were to get some a consultant to at least have a discussion with us what that would cost I don't but I can certainly we can make calls I'm sure other districts that have been doing this work did not do this alone so we can we can explore what the cost of of having a a speaker come in and talk with you about that and you know we
130can bring that back to another board meeting as an information item but um I I wouldn't want to venture a guess I just I don't know I would argue that's maybe our best bet is to not spend any money or a significant amount of time until we know what the initial investment would look like and if that's even something that's up for discussion amongst the teachers and the staff I can say that um the information that uh that was shared with you um this evening and was part of the agenda is just a tip of the iceberg of the information that the csba website on Workforce housing has as I said if you wanted to go ahead and pull it up and just basically do csba org SL Workforce housing all is one word you
131will see an entry page and there is a whole um index of um things that uh they have posted you go ahead and scroll down to um that left column here you've got I can't read it from here but uh they've got training materials they've got everything on there uh they also have a big 150 page document that is that you received the summary from but obviously we didn't attach the 150 page document to and if you uh what I guess I'm saying is what I'm hearing is that nobody has enough information based on what we've talked about tonight to have a spark um and I I could appreciate that um uh that that um uh I have had an opportunity for the last two years to attend the various workshops at the csba EA
132conference and recognize that the people who are engaged in this and the city lab from UCLA is very instrumental in doing and developing this as well as csba also of compiling a directory of information or um um a resource file of lots and lots of materials such as case studies how do you do this um you know uh financial implications land use you know all the different component parts that everybody is you know going well I don't know I don't know well I don't know either you know I've skimmed and touched and read several of these things but again I don't know enough either and um it just seemed to me that at least doing some sort of preliminary um exploration uh as to whether this is before we've been talking about feasibility preliminary exploration
133uh and so the idea of doing a survey sounds like a good not a bad idea but I think couched within that is you know when you actually survey the total staff the total staff are already housed so the question is more couching it in terms of well if this were available when you came to the school district would it be something that you might have been interested in or even if now maybe you are a house but is there a possibility that if the price was right that you could be interested in this even now so I think that we would need a couchant like this but if you already have your housing and going okay I'm I'm I'm I'm buying my house I don't need I don't need this no I'm not interested
134uh I think that we look at it from you know how would we frame that survey in the context of being able to elicit the kind of information that would be valuable for us to know whether or not there's interest would be important but I also think that it's important for us to actually look at you know Anaheim Union High School District is across a big swath of cities and we have three of those schools within our community to at least do some Outreach to see if I don't know whether or not uh in your survey you touch bases with them and said are they all responded and and Anaheim Union is not not even not right now okay not right now but I think that it's also something that we need to explore with
135our city because they have vested interest in providing affordable housing so Partnerships is part of what I have read in some of the materials that you should be looking for are how do you how do you leverage what it is that maybe you want and have with something somebody else has and or has a need for uh in terms of meeting meeting a need in the community and uh we know that um um you know the uh housing element for each individual City is such a critical thing that you have to get passed on an annual basis and we just have the ballot measure that where are we going to put that housing and uh you know the public approval of putting it on um you know putting it on the racetrack property so we
136know that there is going to be several thousand homes that are potentially could be built if and when the racetrack should close so but we don't know whether or not there's a partner in the city in terms of some of this so I think that there's a lot of unknowns you're absolutely right but unless we have an opportunity to actually take to let's say for instance our joint our joint um um our joint committee with the city and actually have that on our agenda at least one time um is worthy of us considering as well so uh and that doesn't take money to do that to put it on an agenda and to have a conversation so uh I think any of the kind elements of the preliminary that we can do that doesn't cost
137us any money other than a few man hours I think is important for us to at least have um a little bit more education uh behind us I I would just like to note that you know you mentioned um staff coming in I wonder if we could potentially partner with the teaching programs uh where we get our student teachers and maybe even survey our current student teachers or student teachers across you know different districts I wonder um if the universities would be willing to push something out to their teacher candidates just to get an idea of what future teachers are thinking think you add a question to the application you know would something like this affect your decision to accept or if you were to be off with the position like literally a question at
138the I just mean kind of like student teachers um or teachers who or or students who are in the teaching program um if that's something that would even interest those college students at 18 19 20 years old who most likely have not purchased their first home if they're going into teaching if that's something that would bring them in my concern is just right now we're still trying to create the will right I don't think we even have enough information to understand what that is to make that informed decision right so I think we should get back to maybe one of the comments that um trusty sndi mentioned is can we have does the board think it's important to have further discussions to even get to a point to say hey this is good for us
139or you know what it's not good for us right now I don't even think we could even say that right so I think and I don't want to put words in your mouth but I think you would like to at least have further discussions to see if this is even feasible right right and I think it has to go Beyond just us having a discussion here between us yes because we don't have the ability to lead uh the the knowledge part of it um and uh I think that that's the that that's the big thing I think that um as as I indicated in my notes and was on that document that is that first document um let's see if I can get the um when you look at the tail end of this document
140you see this graph right here uh I was suggesting that we start with a preliminary exploration and I can't see that it's too small for me at this particular point but it basically you know um you start off with um familiarize their members with Land Development um survey Property Holdings um get survey you know survey the staff so you know you tapped into the survey of the staff but we don't know anything about Land Development uh for schools and whether there are constraints building on our own properties or not uh we don't know whether we would have any kind of measurable uh propert you know measurable land that we could even build anything on within our own community so I think those would be some of the kinds of things that we would need to
141have some questions answered with regard to land use and uh these other kinds of things may I make a suggestion um just um a good place I think to start is the next joint meeting that we have with the city let's just put that on the agenda as just a point of conversation um to find out what opportunities there might be for any kind of partnership that they're doing um because we don't have we have some some land but there's processes for um development I mean we know from The Moody property you just can't start building homes on based on the current zoning so we have those considerations there's also Ed code in terms of processes for identifying Surplus school property and that's a whole other process that takes time so maybe just a good
142first conversation might be that first um committee meeting that we have with the city just to have just to open the conversation I think that also gives us a little bit of time because it's March right now and we're kind of coming into the wrapping up of a school year so kind of taking on a new project at this point in time is a little more challenging um but we can start with some of the easy things that we can do to gather information and I think having that conversation at the city level is good um and we can the board members that sit on that committee can come back and share what some of the outcomes of those conversations were and then based on that there could be conversation amongst the board do we
143do we think we want to do a survey now or do are we still not really sure what how the land situation would go I mean we can take this I I think we have the gift of time and so I think we can take our time without overwhelming ourselves and our system um in terms of gathering information and educating ourselves along the way yes there is a plethora of information available from csba um and so but that in itself can be overwhelming because there are there are a lot of resources so U maybe we can slowly just kind of start to chip away and read read some things ourselves and kind of start to get just a a a Layman's understanding of it and kind of start to have some conversations and see where
144that takes us without Maybe be um taking on more than we're ready for at this point in time so just a consideration I I think that's a um that's a really good Next Step um and I I also like what you said about you know figuring out what our options are because I I don't think what trusty s is saying here is like we're going to become land developers right she's saying like what options do we have in a conversation with the city would be a really good next step to say you know what actually in this upcoming development maybe we could allocate four units for this purpose right like we could tag on to something the city's already doing um but I I do think that an instrumental maybe next step or maybe something
145in concert is to sort of let the workforce also voice their interest because that'll determine you know whether we even move in this direction I'd also like to add could we contact City lab with UCLA and csba I'm sure they have a person or person that might that way we don't have to necessarily go through all of the information but they could help pull out things specifically that would give us a good first start there are good contact information present in that in that website um that if you if if staff wants to go through there are a lot of consultants and other entities that uh are out there that have information and are actively involved in this and as I said before there are uh 46 um local educational agencies that are involved in
14680 some projects across the state they may not be necessarily near us but uh and that may that may be seems like um a relatively small number but for a uh for a concept that is is is beginning to have active conversation both at the uh State and National level I think that's a pretty good first start in terms of saying we've got some we we've we've got some examples of uh projects that are um already in place that we could look at and see are there any that would actually uh have people that would be willing to come and talk to us about it um you know obviously there are um paid Consultants but I think we should look for the free ones first if they're out there for [Laughter] sure so truste SI
147are you okay with moving forward with um the lwh hanging fruit which absolutely starting with the uh conversation with the city uh committee yeah and then continuing on and get updates from staff and keep this is on the back burner and at least not closing the issue that um at least we can continue on and let staff be able to find out is there any free resources or at least provide us an update later if they get an update hey Tustin or even Newport Mesa came up with something and then provide us that and then at least keep that open for you can have that discussion items well I think if we continue to slow move um you know our education uh education of ourselves um it doesn't uh you know if 10 years is
148the um the tortoise and the hair and um the hair got there in 10 years we can be the support us and maybe we won't get there until 20 years but by the time we get to the 20th year we might be very a very well-informed board and um uh body that if we are ready to go with something at that particular point we should have uh a very good knowledge base to um to do to do something that would work for us but then again as you say we don't know whether this is something that would would fly here in Cypress but I think one of the things we need to have a conversation about and we've heard this we've said this before is we can't continue to raise salaries um one of the
149reasons why salary in the negotiation process is such a uh such a such a you know let's get as much as we can is a recognition that it costs so darn much to live in California and if you could offset some of that cost by being able to live in housing that benefits you to the point where yes it is subsidized from the standpoint that it maybe that we don't earn money from any kind of project that we do and tell many many many moons out into the future but definitely are benefiting our employees that if you could actually shave off their housing costs by you know 500 to $22,000 or somewhere anywhere else that is a that's an indirect benefit that does not have to be put on their income statement at the end
150of the year but it is an actual dollar benefit that they would be receiving and um it would be offsetting the potential for um having to exponentially continue to um increase salaries which are unrealistic for us to continue to uh to to do to keep Pace with the cost of housing if that's the if that's the main driver of um of uh salary escalation so Tristy B and Tristy NM since you two are both on the city committee um are you in agreement to continue to move forward and work with this city and keep this on hold for now until we can get least some updates with that perfect yes and then trusty ha are you okay with that perfect so I think we come to agreement um that we'll continue to work um through
151the subcommittee work with the city and then continue to keep this open as an open discussion and as we get more information we'll be able to provide that over to the board thank you number 13 which is adjournment this concludes our meeting this evening where the meeting will be adjourned at 9:35 p.m. and my apologies for