001Good afternoon everyone. Everyone, I call to order the regular board meeting, June the 16th, 2026, little after 3:30 p.m. Roll call. >> Mr. Mark Anderson, >> here. >> Mr. Harry Block, >> present. >> Mr. Bruce Mandre, >> Absent >> for now. Mr. Jack Turner, >> present. >> Lori Campbell, present. All four board members present and accounted for. Do we have public comments regarding items to be discussed in close session? >> We do have close session. >> We do have items >> For public comments. >> Okay. We will entertain those at this point. >> All right. So, first we have uh Tony George. My name is Tony Michelle George. Um I am here to speak on behalf of somebody who was very impactful in my life. Um not once, not twice, but three separate times. I'm
002speaking on behalf of knowing Mr. Sample. By knowing him, I don't mean as a friend. I was more of an adversary to him. And I don't mean that in a good way. I mean I mean a bad way. I mean it in a good way. Cuz every time I came to him, I came to him with a problem. But he didn't run from that problem. He did not not answer my call. He did not get someone else to do it. He faced me head on. You may not know me, but I will speak up for my kids and I will speak up until I'm laying in the grave. my son Edward George, my daughter Iana, and my baby Anniah. I will speak to what he has done and how impactful it has been in my
003life. I don't know what he has faced up against, and I don't care because I know the leadership that he brought before his staff that assisted me through what I had to deal with with my children was very, very helpful. I wish he was here for me to tell him that. He actually showed up at my son's graduation and still patted me on the back. The times that I have encountered bringing the news forward, talking about bringing newspaper people, going on the internet, he never ever once turned away and said he did not want to deal with that parent. That parent has a mouth on her. And I know that. I know that to be me because I speak up for what is right. And what is right is Mr. sample is I I didn't
004even want to write anything down cuz I'm going to speak from my experience. He is very attentive. He is um very professional. He he comes with integrity. Um and in all honesty, he was the only person that probably could have settled me down. Um I stayed standing when I'm talking about my children when there was a problem. But when he come, he brings that environment that's so inviting. I had no choice but to come to the table and I respect him for that. I respect him so much and he was so impactful in what he has done in my children life that not one but both of my children got accepted him to four colleges and they both go to Graman State University. I will always always thank him for the leadership he brought to
005his staff and for the assistance he gave me with my children during the time they were going to that school. So thank you >> and we all love your children. >> Thank you. I just had to say that probably not supposed to, but thank you very much. Um, you have a wonderful son. >> Thank you. >> All right, ma'am. Yes. Um, I have another one. Uh, Lynn, please forgive me. Deloneyi. Delani. >> Deli. >> Okay. >> Yes. I need to get her name, but like she said, um, speaking on behalf of your children, I had three. I was a single parent and um um Mr. Sample not only has guided them, talk um helped my daughter get back into school and now she owns her own shop, uh he also um was there for my
006son and now he's the officer of the law. And then my daughter, my younger daughter, she's an accountant. And just not too long ago, my uh granddaughter just graduated from Sierra College and with her um LA Health and Medical and I just thank God for that. But Mr. Sample has been in their lives when they were younger and everything, but for them, I know I was getting te I don't like getting teeyed, huh? But he has been in their life and my grandchildren's life also. and he has been there to help, encourage, and keep them what I say not get in trouble or anything. He has always been there. And like she said, he does when you go for help, he doesn't turn to um turn to someone or oh, go talk to this person.
007He's not like that. He'll have a solution um helping solution for you. He's also helped in the community. Um it'll be a year that my mom passed and she was a TLC soup kitchen. He helped in that. um he helped with uh doing Thanksgiving boxes, uh doing Christmas toys during Christmas time for different um families and everything. So, he has impact the community a lot. And just to hear, you know, the things that was going online about the building, I'm like, "Wait a minute, they must have somebody else." But yeah, he has been um very helpful. um even at the uh church um they do uh um bass food baskets every um every other week and everything. But he has been a uh a big benefit to the community. Maybe we should have wore sign
008you know Mr. Sample is the one that's helping us. Maybe you know you could see that. But yeah, he has been excellent in the community and I was just here to give my support for him. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Do we have other speakers? >> Okay. So, yes. Um, I have again Een Walker, if I said that right. Hello. I'm uh speaking and showing up to support Superintendent Jason Sample. I have known Mr. Sample for several years. He has and still has a hand in our community, schools, and lives. Mr. Sample is not only involved in my advancement of education, but all of my siblings, some family members, and friends. He has definitely been a a pillar within our community and also getting us all connected with GCC cuz I never even knew
009about GCC until Jason Sample presented it to our community. Um, but I've sat back and watched a few of the board meetings through um, YouTube and was deeply disturbed and disappointed when some of the employees were dragging Mr. Simple's name and not only attacking him as a man, but his character and faith. So, I just would like to reassure everyone here and watching that's watching on YouTube that Mr. Sample has always had a deep passion for serving his community, especially families and children, as well as being a man of faith. And before I conclude, I would like to say to Mr. Sample, I hate that he's not here so he can hear it as well. He's doing a wonderful and a magnificent job for only have been holding such an important seat as a superintendent
010for three years. He's truly made a difference. So, I want to tell him to keep up the good work and thank you. THANK YOU. SO WE NEED TO TAKE A break is having a problem. >> Live stream is >> make sure that it's working functioning. >> Okay. >> So can we just take a Are you back up? >> Up and down. So >> um is it possible to just take a five minute recess? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Canp. We She's asking for five minute recess. Do you can you hang on for a few minutes till we get the live stream back up? We really appreciate it. Thank you. >> Okay. I haven't got to get these wires. Yeah, you tell me. No, you won't. You'll be okay. >> Back into the session uh after we
011have everything up and running again. Okay. Do we have any more? >> Yes, ma'am. I have Nashia Woods. >> Nisha. So, sorry. I was trying. I was trying. >> It's okay. It's okay. Um, good afternoon board members. Am I okay to go and speak? Oh, yes. >> Okay. My name is Nikesha Woods and I come to you as a parent and also as a a mentee of superintendent sample. He is one of he is my bishop. He has supported me in my spiritual growth. And when my daughter was bullied at Analopee High School, she was transferred to GCC. In that space, she found safety, she found support, she found guidance, and she found love. Now, um I'm an educator. I've been working for Twin Movers um Unified School District for 19 years. I'm now serving
012as an adult educator for California Council for Adult Education. So I understand how much children need to be shown love and appreciated. So my daughter was greatly offended when she first came to this school. Um and and and and there was a there was a situation to where she had to be removed from a said individual's class because they they had a biasism against her. Um, and as soon as I came in to speak to the principal and we started making movements, my daughter is no longer in that class and she's thriving. She's caught up on all her credits. She checks in with her counselor. Her teacher emails me and text message me every single day. And that's the type of love my daughter needed so she can thrive so she can be better. So
013when I hear accusations about um I know him as Bishop, my heart is sad and it hurts because it it hurts to see someone coming at a person or being disrespectful or being um just downright accusatory when that's not what I've seen. I've been around a long time. I worked at Grant Norwood Babcock uh Village Elementary School. I just came from Norwood working for Grant Summer School. So I know what education looks like. I know what educating the whole heart of a child looks like and that's what he's doing as a superintendent. So, I just came in here to give my my words of encouragement so I can just tell you guys that um education is powerful, but first we have to educate the children's heart. If a child doesn't feel safe, if a child
014doesn't feel welcome, if a child doesn't feel loved, the barrier is done. It's broken. They're not going to be able to move forward in love. I see it every day with adult school. That's where the kids come in. The adults that don't um get their uh high school diplomas. It's not cuz they failed. It's because the system failed them. So, right now, I just want to make sure that we are I only got a little bit more time. I want to make sure that we honor that we honor what Superintendent has done for this community in this district. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. we still have a problem. >> We're confirming that we are in fact live streaming. So, I apologize. Uh, we're just going to wait just a moment for confirmation. >>
015If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. I think it's true. How many more do we have? Do you three more? Okay. So proud of myself. >> Who's still waiting to see an AI problem? >> No. Bye. >> Well, >> it's definitely not on. It's not live. >> Yeah, >> I just stop. >> Should go to a live stream. I'm going to speak up and speak fast while we got some >> ma'am. Try it again. >> He's the next person. >> Yes. Um, Andre Wilson. Audrey. Audrey. Audrey. >> Audrey. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> And I pressed the button, the red button here. >> Oh, it's on. All right. >> It's on. Okay. Um, good afternoon everyone. My name is Audrey Williams and I come to you this afternoon as a CBO, a
016community based organization here in Sacramento. I'm from the Southside, y'all. So, good afternoon. And I also come as an involved community member. And before I knew uh Superintendent Sample, I know him as Bishop Sample. He's a community collaborator. >> Yeah. >> But before we all knew him as superintendent or bishop, he was just sample. Jason Sample. And I heard his name ripple through the community for years before I ever met him. But what I heard was a man of integrity. I never saw him, but I saw his work in the community. he was building through his writing, through his building of uh community uh organizations and working with folks and mentoring a number of my loved ones. So when my partner and I came and built site family services and what we do is we
017help families when CPS does doesn't know what to do with them they call us and so we have an office in South Sacramento but we needed a place of refuge here in the north side and Bishop Sample provided us a complete building where we can take families women that are escaping violent situations we can take them to a place of refuge And so when I looked on YouTube and I saw what my sister said was disappointing information by people that have been under his leadership, I heard someone say that the problems have existed for decades. >> And so I said, "Okay, so when did his leadership become a problem?" Because he's only been here for three years as superintendent. >> Was it a problem when he was building GCC? >> Come on. >> Was it
018a problem? I was at the very board meeting in Elkrove Unified School District because that's my stomping ground. And I was there when the team presented his plan, his vision, >> and you all were granted access into my home, into the hearts of my children through his work. So I said to myself, if this problem has been for decades, where were they? And it wasn't under his administration that the problems formed, >> whatever they are. And you know, I said to myself, that kind of has a similar flavor, a similar tone, but I won't go there. But we can no longer sit by >> Yes. >> and just allow our leaders. >> Come on. >> To be hurt by people that are upset. We can all agree to disagree. >> That's right. >> But he's
019a leader in the good times and the bad. Mhm. >> So today, continue as you all have. You've mentored him, you've tutored him, >> and you've supported him. >> And it'll be people like me and all these women here that'll be standing applauding you and thanking you as we do. Superintendent Mission Jason Sample. Thank you. Is it working? Okay, our next speaker. I'm >> so sorry. Whoever you are, you can do it. You can take your time. >> MA, >> thank you. >> Okay. Hello everybody. Um the key word I keep hearing today is community and I'm very firm and a good believer on community. Um I am here to speak on behalf of Mr. Stample. Um I bring it when it was brought to my attention that his name was in the name of
020um defaming I knew I couldn't miss this opportunity. Um I'm sorry but um >> Jason I've been knowing him for over 30ome years. um he's worked side by side with my grandma um Mary Watts who started this in this community. Um she's served in this community um which is where this school is in um for over 20 plus years. I've never seen or heard anything negative about this man. Um but let me get back to topic. Okay. Um he has worked side by side with my grandma the late Mary Ross who served and ran nonprofit organization TLC Soup Kitchen for over 20 years in the Taso Heights and Greater area. She was well known and Jason has worked side by side with her for years along with other leaders um and council members just to
021name a few. Sandy Sheety, Rob Kurt and other names I see um just to name a few. Jason has worked and put in countless years of working with well-known organizations such as mutual assistant network that is still servicing the council community to this day. Jason Sample has also assisted in starting programs such as the Sacramento neighborhood center that has that has held several programs such as summer summer camps, teen centers, brotherto programs that mentorship many people in our community. um programs that outside his role as superintendent has required countless hours of dedication, strength, and encouragement. He has played a huge role in overseeing large scales of opportunities, implementing plans, setting structure and policies into practice. That's just a role he's played as a community leader. Jason Sample as one of is one of the few
022people that I know that has worked countless times for nonprofit organizations. It's been times where he's have not been paid to do his job, but he's done it with no complaints to make sure that this district is up and running. He's been there from the beginning, so he knows what it takes to work in this community. He's been there to help start this. So, the fact that his name is being thrown under the bus, um, to me is very, um, shocking. And um I just wanted him um to know that I stand by him and want the people 100%. Um I've seen him work, but little paid to no pay. Like I said, in doing so, the vision to execute to execute the community educational vision and ensure the opportunity for students to achieve and
023graduate has always been his main focus. So I just want um it to be said that you know if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. And I want you guys to know that this MAN IS GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK you for your words. >> I have one more. >> One more. We have >> Santana. Good afternoon. Greeting board members. My heart is broken. I'm Marggo. Today I share the purpose of being here today to attest for my brother's character. >> That's right. >> I've had the pleasure to know Jason for all his life in both personal and professional capacity. By the age of five, we clearly saw something about Jason. At the age of three, I was impressed by Jason's ability to lead. He would preach in our front yard. I was
024in high school, so we could see what that was like. And bring out the neighboring kids to listen to him. That was challenging. And one of the kids that would come was our ex mayor, Kevin Johnson, >> who lived down the street. During Jason's time of growing up from elementary, junior high, and high school, he was always been a person of moral and personal qualities such as being honest. I've never seen my brother not being honest. >> Wow. >> He was very responsible. Jason has always showed positive qualities such as his work ethics, his compassion, and his community involvement with his love and courage. When Jason attended his high school El Camino, he was the first black youth to start at the BSU that required some tough leadership skills, which was a gift Jason was
025blessed with. Yes, he has some rough and tough times with his car being damaged, hateful notes put on his car to cease and end the program, but Jason held strong. Jason had three older siblings. He could have called us up there. Yes, we would have came. >> And today, our older sibling, my brother Bert and my sister Tra has passed away. But if they would, they would be sitting here today standing with me >> to show you all of Jason's positive trait of problem solving. because he has always been meek and humble. People has taken that for granted. >> His leadership has never and will never be questioned from us or none of the community leaders. >> Right. >> I hate that we have three minutes is not enough time. >> But some of the
026challenges he has in his life that I have witnessed as him being a male trailblazer, it came with a big cost. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> He was judged. He's been disrespected. He's been humiliated. >> He's been attacked with racism, which needs to be placed back in the Pandora box. >> Jason was one of the first youngest board members at Grant Union School District, and done a phenomenal job as he is doing here at GCC, a blended identity, consisting ethnical diversity lives that he's dealing with. Whatever culture it takes to build these schools, we all need to work together regardless of the color of our skin. >> That's right. >> The word on the street is GCC is the best. They're the bomb. >> I have many calls where people ask, "Where can I send my
027schools at, Mark? My kids to school." And I share, "Go to GCC. They got a dual enrollment program." >> Dual enrollment. >> There is no room for racism at GCC. from the top or to the bottom. Please, let's be the change. >> That's right. >> We have no more comments. >> Thank you for your time, for your words. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We are now moving into Thank you. Thank you. Um, our close session items are employee personnel matters pursuant to government code section 54957 and the other is closed session anticipated litigation government code section 54956.9 and we will reconvene after to share the findings. So at this point we will leave for close session and again thank all of you for your time and your energy and for being here
028tonight. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Hey, brother. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. ready to reconvene our meeting and at close session. The board took no action in close session. We received information and update on personnel and anticipated litigation from legal counsel. So that is the report back from our close session. And now we will continue with our board meeting as agendaized. Uh you said we have one other comment um from close session. Oh just one other comment. Okay. Um we will have that now. We have one more comment for our general. Um, >> not on the agenda. >> Correct. Um, Ivan Lushuk. >> Thank you. >> Happy summer everyone. My name is Al Lechuk and uh I have a privilege and honor to be here to share my success story,
029personal success story related to GCC experience and as well success stories of my kids. Three of my kids, they finished successfully graduated from GCC. And uh I feel that uh moral obligation to say publicly thank you to GCC administration, GCC board members, Lily Campbell, personally to you, to Jason Sample. He is not here today. More than 20 years ago, I came to California with zero English, no experience in education, American educational system. And it was not easy time for us because it took a lot of efforts, energy, knowledge, uh you know, resources to adjust to a new culture, new environment, new educational system. And I still remember Jay. She was uh Maria's my youngest daughter, first teacher. Thank you, Jay. My uh oldest daughter, Victoria, she finished successful UC Berkeley and now in law school
030thanks to GCC, thanks to this quality of education. Younger's daughter, Maria, she finished UC Berkeley as well. I'm proud of that. That's like pattern, you know, in our family. And now she is almost finished medical school. So I I'm going to have my personal doctor. Thank you GCC Community Academy. And my journey spoiled boy now doing business going to college and that's why I'm here. I'm getting older. I'm almost 60 and I feel that obligation to thank you guys. Thank you for the GCC school systems. It's really, really, really beneficial for our community. I'm Ukrainian refugee, so I'm still communicating, keeping in touch, getting relations with a lot of people who are struggling in Ukraine. You know, there is still war in Ukraine. And we have a lot of refugees from Ukraine. They came after
031war and they mentioned a lot of time to me community art academy, futures high school and other school like paradise for refugees because we are serving EL students. We are serving uh people who need really need resources. So thank you so much. Thank you Mr. call for your support and I now represent not just uh my family, thousands of refugees, Ukrainians, immigrants and that's why GCC is very successful. Thank you so much. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my story. >> Thank you. and he's has always been a pleasure to work with you and I appreciate all of the work that you've done too. Thank you. And now is that it for all of our Thank you again. Thank all of you. Uh and if you need to leave, I guess we'll
032give you permission to do that. But thank you for being here today. So, thank you. All right. Now we're moving into item six, annual organization item. Yeah, that's where we are. So we have several things that we need to do board members and this is for us. The first one is appointment renewal of board members terms and the terms for Lily Campbell ends 6:30 2026 and the term for Mark Anderson ends 6:3026. So uh we will need a motion Mr. Mark. Yes sir. >> I move >> get your your speaker on. I move the motion that we we extend Oh, excuse me. Yes. >> I make the motion uh with a great deal of uh joy that we extend the terms and condolences to the people that we're extending them to. >> A great a
033great deal of joy, huh? Second. >> Uh and you second. Okay. Mr. Mark with great deal of joy. And uh Miss Campbell, I guess. great deal of joy. All in favor of the uh renewal of board members terms, Lily Campbell and Mark Anderson, let's have a voting sign of I. >> Any oppose? No opposition. Okay. So, our current terms starting 6:30 26. Thank you. The next item for business guys is appointment of board officers for 2026 2027. So we have president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. So those are >> I'll make a motion every sing. >> Okay. Um >> I second that. You second. Any discussion? Um, well, >> I didn't ask the people if they were interested to do that, but I >> I assume they are. Uh, >> well, speaking speaking on behalf
034of my position, um, in having conversations with Bruce, who's the current vice chair, um, I I don't believe that he wants to continue in that capacity. Um, >> okay. >> And so, um, I had I'm suggesting myself to step into that into >> Yeah. And I was going to, uh, nominate Mark Anderson as vice president and we've talked and I think he would consider that. So, I move that Mark Anderson will become vice president for the coming year. Vice >> chair. >> Vice Yeah. It was vice president. >> Vice president. >> Uhhuh. Vice president. Yeah. >> I second that. >> You second that. Okay. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none. I think under the roll call >> for clarity management. Does that mean that Bruce Mandri would be the >> Bruce Mandri would be >>
035the treasurer? >> Okay. Perfect. >> Yes. So, and I guess I'm still president. Okay. So, >> we got to we got to cancel that person. >> Got to cancel the person. Okay. So, let me go through and see if we agree as and then I'll call do roll call. So, President Lori Campbell, Vice President Mark Anderson, Secretary Harry Blanc, Treasurer Bruce Mandre, and Director Mr. Jack Turner. >> Okay. And that's what I have as officers for the board. So, and I do have a second. >> I move that. >> Yes, you did. You move that. Okay. >> I'm moving that. >> Okay. And I do have a second on that. Right. Did you second? >> I second. >> Okay. All right. Roll call. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Jack Turner.
036>> Yes. >> Willie Campbell. Yes. Okay. Thank you. So the officers are in place board offices for 2026 27th year. We have the next item is the approval of GCC board meeting dates 2026 2027. You have this in your binder also and it's on the screen. Uh you see the possibility of um the board retreats, tenative board retreat uh August the 18th, 2026 and the other tenative board retreat February the 9th, 2027. So these are the current board dates that have been presented to us. Any discussion? Move approval. >> Move approval. I have a second. >> Second. All right. Uh, roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Harry Brock, >> yes. >> Mr. Jack Turner, >> yes. >> Willie Campbell, yes. So, the uh board meeting dates have been approved as presented. Thank
037you. We also have board representatives and we want to make sure that that is uh here and the board representatives are Mark Anderson is the current rep for the GCC Foundation and for Seback Mahari Block. Do either of you have any problems with staying there on as representatives? No, we don't. >> We don't. What about you? Okay. Entertain a motion. >> I move approval. >> Okay. May I have >> Second. All right. Roll call. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Jack Turner. >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell. Yes. So, the um representatives for the foundation and seabback are in place. Mark Anderson for the foundation and Mr. Harry Block for the Seabback. Okay. And I think this concludes our organization piece for now. Thank you very much and congratulations. Congratulations to all
038of you. Thank you for your time, your efforts, your energy and uh for being good board members, excellent board members. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And now we are moving on to study session. >> Thank you madame president. Uh we are going to start with our study session with the GCC spring sports recognition. We have our uh ED services uh director Ashley Cal presenting. Um the ED services team has a few celebrations to share with you today. While our students are out for the summer and not able to be here, we are wanting to celebrate them publicly. Mr. Andrew Lincoln, um our athletics activities manager is not here, so Ashley is stepping in to speak for him. We'll give you an update on the spring, elementary, and middle school sports leagues. >> Okay. Thank you
039very much. What was that? Oh, >> yeah. >> Oh, that was a hip away. Okay. All right. Thank you very much, Miss We ready. >> All right. Thank you for that introduction. Good evening, board president Campbell and board members. Thank you for providing this time to celebrate our elementary and middle school student athletes. I don't yet. Although our student athletes have already received their medals and were recognized with certificates at the end of the school year, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate their accomplishments with the board. Their dedication, teamwork, perseverance, and sportsmanship made this a memorable season and reflected the values we strive to instill through acade athletics. Our elementary co-ed soccer season was exciting from start to finish. Every team competed with tremendous heart and demonstrated outstanding teamwork and sportsmanship throughout the
040season. The competition this year was especially strong with Epic HLA and COA all finishing the regular season with tied 3-1 records. In an exciting championship match between COA and HLA, COA secured the title with a 3 to1 victory. Congratulations to both teams on an incredible season and a very well-played championship game. So, there's some pictures of the championship game for you guys. At the middle school level, student athletes continue to showcase their skills, determination, and commitment to their teams. Congratulations to New Hope Charter who captured the championship with a 4-2 victory over CLA Middle School. We are excited to welcome New Hope Charter to the league this season and look forward to continuing to grow the league and expand opportunities for our student athletes in the years ahead. Before we conclude, we would like to
041recognize the many individuals who made this season possible. Thank you to our outstanding student athletes, sports managers, coaches, and site leadership teams for their commitment and support throughout the year. We would also like to extend a special thank you to GCC athletics coordinator Andrew Lincoln for his leadership and dedication to creating meaningful athletic opportunities for our students. The success of our athletic programs is a reflection of the hard work and collaboration of so many people across our organization. Thank you for joining us in celebrating the achievements of our student athletes and everyone who made this season a success. Thank you very much and uh congratulations to all of the young people and to the schools for making sports possible. We really appreciate the hard work, the dedication of the athletic directors and what the schools
042are doing to let students know that there's more than just the academics that's going on. So, we really appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm going to go ahead and um have Ashley come right back up. Um she will be presenting on the fifth and eighth grade biiteracy pathway award recognitions. um who will share a celebrating a celebration regarding our multi-ingual students and new GCC recognition programs. >> Okay, great. Thank you. >> Hello again. Tonight, I'm proud to recognize There we go. 49 students in grades fifth and eighth from Community Outreach, Academy of Arts, Gateway International School, and Empowering Possibilities International Charter, who earned the biiteracy pathway attainment recognition award. These students successfully completed all program requirements, including projects, presentations, and assessments beyond their regular classroom assignments, demonstrating proficiency in a language in
043addition to English. The biiteracy pathway awards are designed to celebrate students progress on their journey towards biiteracy while encouraging them to continue developing their language skills and ultimately earned California's state seal of by literacy in high school. Unlike the state seal of biteracy which has established statewide requirements, the pathway awards are guided by state recommendations that allow local education agencies to develop criteria aligned with their educational programs. To establish these requirements for GCC, we collaborated with multiple stakeholder groups including administrators, our ELD, ELA coach, and world language teachers across the organization. Together, we designed two developmentally appropriate pathways that recognize meaningful language achievement at the elementary and middle school levels while preparing students for future success in multilingual learning. This year, GCC students earned recognition in Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and Arabic. Their accomplishments reflect not
044only strong academic achievement, but also dedication, perseverance, and a commitment to multilingualism and multicultural understanding. We are incredibly proud of these students and grateful to the teachers, staff, and families who supported them along the way. Community Outreach Academy of Arts had 35 award recipients representing Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and Spanish language learners. Gateway International School recognized seven award recipients representing Russian, Spanish, and Arabic language learners. Last but not least, Empowering Possibilities International Charter celebrated seven award recipients who earned recognition in Russian. Thank you to the board and GCC leadership for supporting our World Language Programs across the organization. Please join me in congratulating our 2026 Biteracy Pathway Attainment Recognition Award recipients. Thank you so very much. We did get a chance to recognize some of the students at the graduations at the high school graduations. So
045that was very special and the eighth grade promotion. So that was great. Thank you so much. Thank you. >> Thank you, Ashley. Uh thank you, Madam President. Mr. Mr. Ma uh principal at GIS and team are here tonight to present on the bianual school report for Gateway International School. >> Thank you. Bye-bye y'all. Bye. Thank you again for being here. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome. Madame President, board cabinet. I'm excited to be here tonight to talk about some of the great things happening at GIS. Here's a brief agenda. Uh, I will forewarn you. I'm going to move kind of quickly because there's a lot I want to share, but would love to continue these conversations with anyone who is interested. So, starting out with some good things. First of all, we are a
046an accredited international baloria world school in both the primary years program and middle years program. We are a CKH national showcase school for the 10th year in a row, keeping relationships at the center of everything we do. We have all-time high enrollment. Uh we added an additional fifth grade section this year and have plans to continue expanding next year. A big part of our work this year was putting the instructional action framework into action. So looking at the portrait of a graduate competencies and how does that manifest at our school building the foundation for our multi-tered systems of support and increasing community engagement. We also are currently completing a major construction project. We opened four new middle school classrooms at the start of this year. Open a new track and field midway through the year.
047And we are currently finalizing two new TK classrooms and two new playgrounds as well as an outdoor shade structure so PE classes can be outside in the heat. Digging into our school dashboard a little bit, I've highlighted three indicators here. On the left, we have our suspension rate, which went from yellow to green. This has been an ongoing focus in our school learning plans over the last few years. We're seeing continued growth there. Our ELA metric again went from orange to yellow. This is also part of our school learning plan this year and will continue into next year which I'll share more about in a minute. And then the new science indicator. We came out of the gate strong with a blue rating and we're seeing continued growth there. On the right side of the
048screen, you will see our ELA and math data versus our authorizing district. And so you can see the blue and green squares, which are students who have met or exceeded the standard. And you can see we are beating our local competitor in every domain. Moving to our local data, you'll see here I ready data for both reading and math. You can see uh on that colorful line we have the beginning of year diagnostic on the bottom which is a little smaller and then the end of year. And so you can easily see we've made some very significant growth almost doubling the students who have met or exceeded standards in both domains. And on the right a little more granular look at the data. Uh couple things I want to highlight. One is that average percent
049change of all students 28 and 27% that has nearly doubled since the last time I was GIS was here two years ago uh from 17 and 14%. I also want to point out the very strong growth in the early years, kindergarten, first grade, early literacy efforts have been a big focus over at GIS for the last few years, and I think we're seeing the results. Our school learning plan for this year focused on improving our ELA scores. However, much of our work was actually laying that foundation of the instructional action framework. And so our goal is at the top there. Um, and you can see it captured in the right side of the graphic. I do want to point out this was written at the beginning of the year and we are about 18 points
050below the standard. We are now 12 points below the standard. So we're already seeing some progress here and expect to continue. So this foundation had multiple components which you can see in the graphic. First the essential standards. This is our manifestation of the academic promise. It's our non-negotiable promise to students that every kid who leaves our doors will master these standards and they were chosen by the teachers. And essentially what that means is that we're going to spend the time and energy to intervene on these standards. To measure those, we developed common formative assessments across every grade level and built these structures into our regular meeting cadence to do professional learning community data review. And so we have a huge opportunity looking at common assessments to see what's working, what's not, what can we learn
051from each other. And ultimately that will lead to targeted interventions during our universal access or UA time. Teachers will swap kids across classrooms to have threeleveled groups based on the standard we're focusing on. And that does include enrichment on the standard as well to provide for those kids who need a little more challenge. Ultimately, the goal is to improve student outcomes and keep those ELA scores rising. We've built a lot of capacity this year. You can see there a list of some of the professional development opportunities we've had. Um, big pushes are building thinking classrooms, a math methodology and language essentials for teachers of reading and spelling, also known as letters, which is probably the most positive feedback I've ever gotten from teachers on a PD. And so our aim is to train all K
052through2 teachers. We started this year and will continue next year. In the photos, you can see one of our student leaders, a student council member on the phone there getting on the intercom. some of our lead teachers, our IB lead, our mathlete coach, our AI maverick, and some of our after-school program students. We created a new structure to partner our classroom teachers and our afterchool program teachers for collaboration best practices to make sure we're getting the most out of the afterchool program. Looking at equity, uh, I've chosen a couple key indicators here for our significant subgroups. These are ELA scores. On the top is GIS, the top row, and the bottom row is the state. We have about 50% English learners at our school. Hispanic is our most significant racial minority at about 10% of
053our population and about 65% of our kids are socioeconomically disadvantaged. And so in ELA we are beating the state with all of our significant subgroups. And as we build out this intervention program again I only expect that to increase. In the picture you can see some of our intervention supports that is our English language development uh pull out mini lesson. So we do offer push in and pull out reading intervention and EL services. Uh we also have a tiered system of supports including student study teams, 504s, IEPs, but there are major revisions happening to that this year and we are shifting that focus to be on the essential standards, our non-negotiable promise. Digging into some local data, this is our I Ready data, math on the left, reading on the right. Uh again for significant
054subgroups, I want to point out a couple things here. one, we're seeing uh very similar growth and I take that as an indicator that our interventions are working. We have a lot of the supports in place. That's not to say that we don't have gaps to close. A big one being special education. We've had some turnover in that position, but we've been doing a lot of work with our new RSP teacher this year to really lay a strong foundation for that program. And with the additional guidance coming out from GCC with our new special ed director, uh we're we're really feeling optimistic and next time I am here that will be a celebration. Looking at well-being, our theme in the school year was I be me, you be you. GIS is getting more and more
055diverse over the years. And so our big push was to both understand and celebrate our differences. One uh big outcome of that was GIS cultural night. This is something the school did in the past, but we brought it back with a significant twist. We actually had our community, our families and our staff represent their own cultures and you can see a picture of that in the bottom right. Got lots of great positive feedback from families, especially our less represented families. uh very se feeling seen, feeling respected and really appreciated the opportunity. Uh we've started a couple new structures in our regular meeting cadence. One is positive connections. We take five or so minutes and send positive emails or phone calls home for thing catching kids doing good. Uh again, we've received so much positive feedback
056from families. It helps build that teacher family connection and can be really refreshing for a family that's used to getting a lot of negative calls. Uh the other picture there, you can see some kids representing their school spirit points. We do have a sunshine committee for our staff. Uh and the rest of the things you can see there. Program offerings. We do offer two world languages, Russian and Spanish. We also offer music and we are going to be offering much more next year. We're bringing back a um art class, a vapa and also the IB design class which will be different electives for for different grade levels and kids will actually have a choice whether they want to take music or art. So very excited about that. Our afterchool program continues to thrive. We are
057at nearly 70% of our school uh and 25 staff members employed and again with expansion next year that will likely only increase. We continue to add new clubs, rotate the clubs to keep kids interested. You can see a few of those on the slide. We also uh this year started to integrate some performance opportunities for those students to kind of give them a capstone experience. We also started a new eighth grade field trip uh really centered more around team building and we got rave reviews from the kids. We had the most students ever attend. So we're excited to continue that. We've also really been working on student council impact and giving them more voice and decision-making authority in school happenings. For example, this year they were co-planning our monthly assemblies, so there's a lot more
058games and fun now, which is great. Uh, so you can see our girls on the run team there on the bottom in the green shirts. We do have both a my PYP, similar clubs, field trip photo, and a performance. Terms of engagement, uh, first of all, we've really been using the attend software. Thank you for bringing that to us. You can see our ADA in the bottom right is relatively high about 94% and it's only been increasing through the years. I do attribute a lot of that to the attend structure and approaching families from a supportive problem-solving perspective. Um trying to figure out what are the barriers to attendance and helping them solve those problems. We do field trips at every grade level. We offer a variety of sports. You can see there we have
059both fifth and eighth grade athletes team. But much of our engagement work this year has been on family and community engagement. So first of all, we went from monthly to weekly newsletters really trying to keep our families tapped into what's going on and getting building the muscle of checking school communications frequently. We significantly increased our parent volunteer opportunities. We launched a new spreadsheet that gives parents more information about what it might entail. They can see what we're looking for. This also was shared with teachers. So, there was more of a direct line between teachers and parents in terms of volunteers. We added 41 additional level two cleared volunteers this year, bringing us to a total of 128, which I'm very happy about. We also launched a new GIS volunteer appreciation breakfast. again really trying to
060communicate we want you here we value you partner with us and we also launched a new GIS connections YouTube video series uh trying to build awareness of not only school happenings and logistics but also our IB mission we have a number of community partnerships you can see there on the bottom and many school events that we've been continuing and you and see a picture of our winter celebration there. So, what's next? I am very excited for next year. I feel like a lot of the work we've laid this year is going to really come to life. First of all, our construction project will be finished. We're going to open the new TK building, the new playgrounds, uh where the NTSS framework is going to come to life. So, our interventions are going to be significantly
061improved and we are expanding. We're adding four additional sections. We've added six classrooms and honestly, we're already outgrowing the space. So, projected enrollment of 715 at max capacity. Uh expanding has also allowed us to reduce class sizes in our middle schools down to 25 students. Uh, and we're continuing to do that in our youngest years, TK, K, and first over the next few years. So, you can see one of my favorite pictures of our superintendent there, Mr. Sample, getting on his hands and knees to engage with our kindergarteners. Uh, never seen it before, but really appreciate that. So, really looking forward to next year and a lot of good things on the horizon for GIS. All right. Comments, board members. Yes, Mr. Jack. >> Impressive, Jack. Really impressive. Congratulations and really to your you and
062your staff. Uh I the growth is is phenomenal. I think we've maxed out the space. But looking at the your the footprint of the of your uh site, I I don't know if we could really expand anymore. But uh >> you know that dashboard with the science really getting that check mark on science. I I I would say that's really congratulations. >> So thank you. >> Anyone else? Great job, Michael. You and your staff. I mean, the growth is amazing. Um, >> I always ask the question about parent engagement. You've answered that question. I greatly appreciate I'm glad that you're getting more of the parents engaged. You're creating a volunteer list and the number is is incredible. I mean, I'm just really really happy. Obviously, that that communication really helps strengthen the relationship with the
063entire family. So congratulations to all of you. >> Thank you. >> We have a couple of your people here with you. They could you could That's right. You couldn't do it by yourself. So I really needed to recognize them and acknowledge them. >> Thank you. >> And I also need to acknowledge >> some of the Oh, I don't see one here, but Miss Joy is here and Miss Deep. They started and they start building and they start building and building and you continuing to build on what they started. It's just phenomenal what you're doing. The work that you all are doing is just impressive. I had the uh privilege of being at uh was it the fifth grade promotion >> and it was so well done, so well organized. I was so impressed with how
064things went. You are doing a fantastic job that has been started and it continues and I just need to say thank you. We we really don't have much to say because you're working hard. You are really truly working hard and continuing to grow from what is already started. I was there for reading with your students and I'm always impressed when I come there. Just really impressed. Yeah, it's great. >> We all need to visit because we got a lot of new exciting things to show. >> Yes, you do. And we do as much as we can come and visit. But but thank you again. Thank all of you for your hard work and we can see what's happening. >> Amazing. >> Acting superintendent, anything? >> No, just great job. It was a very uh informative
065presentation. >> Thank you. So, thank you. >> Thank you very, very much. Thank you. >> I got so excited I closed my bind. I think I'm ready to go. >> Uh we're we're going to uh get ready to present our last study session with uh Assistant Superintendent Mory Elliott for the California Community Schools Partnership Program Grant update. >> Oh, yeah. >> All right. Well, good evening, Madam President, board. It's great to be here tonight and I'm going to walk you through our annual update for our California Community Schools Partnership Program. This program is not something new to GCC. Even though we're only in year two of the official implementation, we all know that GCC has been built around the concept of community schools. And that is one of the reasons I love getting up and
066coming to work every day because that impact in the community, being able to connect, to grow, to build programs that the community asks for is really at the heart of our work at GCC. Uh the CCSP program really is focused in around four pillars, which I'll show you in a slide here in just a moment. But everything that we do is focused on using those four pillars to remove barriers for students. We know that so many of our students almost over 80% are unduplicated um eels's foster students low-income students and this is the type of work that students that are underserved need to get on track and to excel in education and that is exactly what we do through this program. the framework of the community schools program, integrated student supports, family engagement, collaborative leadership,
067and expanded learning across our work, whether it's directly at the school sites, whether it's central office staff that are implementing out in the community, or whether it's our community partners that are bringing resources to us. Every single thing that we do will fall into one of those four pillars and sometimes multiple of those pillars. Um, Michael mentioned in his presentation, the attend software program. It's a simple thing. It's a simple tool, but it makes a big impact at sites communicating with families and engaging them to let them know what attendance is like for their children if they're struggling. That is something that is funded through community schools. So, it's it's simple things like that and then it's bigger things as far as staff and community engagement specialists um and the Slavic American Chamber of Commerce
068coming in to provide workshops that create all those wraparound services for our students that ultimately help us accomplish the outcomes in our portrait of a graduate. in the 202526 school year. Here's a few of the ways that our community school dollars were spent. First off, these dollars directly supported staff at the school site. So, we have multiple student support specialists as well as a community schools program specialists that are based out of school sites across the GCC that provide direct supports to students. We have GCC staff, which is really our community engagement team that is assigned to schools to not just show up to schools and communicate with those school site staff, but to identify challenges and barriers for students and then go out into the community to find solutions, whether it's through resources or
069partnerships and then bring those back to our school sites. And then we have a number of contracted services. And this is really unique because these services are things that the school sites don't always have capacity to do themselves. But this program gives us the funding and the resources to be able to go out and bring in partners like the Slavic American Chamber, like the leadin, like Community Strong Strategies to make sure that any need that we identify at the school sites, we can meet it through one of these partners or through our staff. How support reaches students and families. Ultimately, we take that group of school site staff and community partners to go onto our school sites to lead meetings, to interact with counselors, to interact with teachers, to identify students and families that are
070facing barriers. Ultimately, those staff then coordinate with the site teams to match students with the right support, whether it's internal support here at GCC or community- based organizations that bring additional supports to those students. We do a lot of connecting students to basic supplies, food, clothing, health services, community resources. We know that if students come to school hungry, they are not going to be fully focused on academics and learning. They're first going to be worried about how do I get my stomach to start growling and making noise in my seat next to another student. Like the basic human needs need to be met first. And that's a huge part of what this grant helps provide. And then ultimately once we find out what those barriers are, we try to bring in supports and then our
071community engagement team will spend time following up with sites to monitor attendance, engagement, and progress for those students. I want to take just a moment to highlight one of our sites, the Sacramento Youth Center. Um, as you all know, this is a non-classroom based program offering flexible student support within a community center setting. And it's a perfect example of what community schools should look like. We are right there next to the youth center inside the youth center where they have their own supports and resources for students in the community and then we offer the academic component. Um it's an amazing program. It is a smaller program and a very small space like no bigger than this room. Uh but it's very successful. We serve dozens of students out of that site. And I specifically wanted
072to mention it today because Christina Roberts has been leading and implementing this program there for the last couple of years. And uh that has really been her baby. this community schools work for CCCS and she is retiring this year. So, I wanted to just give a shout out and affirmation to her to recognize the work she's done implementing this community school model at the Sacramento Youth Center. Ultimately, we need to see that the work we're doing is producing outcomes. And I it was hard to narrow down what outcomes to show you tonight, but I honed in on these three. Over the 2526 school year, our community engagement team has completed over 130 home visits across the entire Sacramento region across all of our schools. They have supported over 220 school events. That includes planning, coordination,
073resource allocation, and partner support. And they have provided over 75 school tours. Some of those tours are to potential families and students that want to know more about our schools. Some of those are community partners, industry partners. Our goal as a community engagement team is to make sure that whenever there is a person in our community that needs to know about GCC, we bring them onto our sites to show our impact, to show how we connect with families, to see if it's something that might serve them and their students, or to see if it's something their business might be able to support our students through being a part of. So, just a few key data points there. Um, but to put in perspective, home visits are huge when you look at chronic absenteeism. Um, specifically
074in our non-classroom based settings, oftentimes students can disappear and if we cannot get out to their homes to track them down, we'll never get them back. And having a team here at the central office to provide that type of support has been incredibly beneficial to our school sites. I want to highlight a few of the the big ways that we have supported students throughout the school year and their families and even our own staff. So, we opened up a teacher store in the fall and served around 50 teachers across the GCC where they came in and were able to take home hundreds of dollars in supplies for their classroom, all for free through donations from community partners. We also held a Thanksgiving and Christmas, a food giveaway for Thanksgiving, a gift giveaway for Christmas. And
075the picture you see on the right, that is one of our families uh that's got a whole crew of kids and they were able to show up to our Christmas gift giveaway and the parents were able to take home one gift for each of their kids. It's a huge benefit to the community, a huge benefit to those families that might be struggling during the holiday season to be able to give their kids that that precious moment on Christmas morning. Uh we have a great relationship with the food bank and over 5,000 food boxes were distributed to our families this year across our schools. We have a new partnership with Convoy of Hope. And if you're not familiar with that organization, they drop off truckloads of deliveries of household supplies, cleaning supplies, food items, snack items,
076drinks. This is a partnership that is 100% free to Gateway. And every delivery we receive from Convoy of Hope is valued at well over $10,000 in supplies. Currently, we started this partnership in I think March to April was our first delivery. And we quickly, I mean, it's amazing. It is a box truck full of about 12 pallets. And those items are gone within weeks to all of our families. $10,000 every delivery worth of food products, things that they can take home if needed to clean their house. Um, an amazing service to our community. So, I want to give a shout out to Convoy of Hope and that nonprofit for the way they support our kids. And then, of course, we have our own GCC Foundation, uh, which goes above and beyond to develop partnerships in
077the community. And one I'll continue to highlight is Capital Compassion. And through our foundation, we're able to work with that nonprofit to bring in additional household supplies and uh really um bring in items for our winter resource fairs to provide families goods around that holiday season. It's not just about being on the school sites developing resources and partnerships at the school sites. It's about being out in the community to build relationships so that people know who we are. And another big piece that our community engagement department focused on this year was being at events across the Sacramento region al together between our community engagement department, our college and career readiness team and our principles. We attended over 25 chamber of commerce events this year. Um we also attended over 40 additional community events whether it
078be at parks on weekends um schools at night sac state for uh a charter school night. There was a plethora of events that we attended just to be present in the community. So when people hear the word Gateway Charters, they know what we do. They know who we are and they know the impact we make. One great example of this, you know, we attend regional and national events. And uh I want to affirm Mark for coming out a few weeks ago. One of our events that we attended, we were able to connect with an organization called Rail Power. They build hydrogen locomotive trains out of West Sacramento. And with our futures high school students that have been a part of the H2O hydrogen grand prix, uh we were able to connect the picture is Michael
079FA the CEO of rail power and get those students connected with industry partners through that organization as well as the Sacramento Air District. And it was amazing to see the impact that those field trips and connecting face toface with industry people made for our students. And I think Mark, I know when we walked away, um, the CEO, Michael, came up to us and said, "Hey, I have given dozens of tours throughout my career." This, and this is honestly one of the most affirming comments I've received this school year. He said, "We've dozens of dozens of tours throughout the year, elected officials, other industry, other schools. We have never had an in-depth conversation around the work that we do with hydrogen fuel with anybody compared to what we just had with your high school students at
080Futures High School. So, you as a board should be proud of that comment. Uh the staff, I don't know, I saw Vente earlier, he left, but um it's amazing the work that Futures High School is doing, the way they are preparing their kids, connecting learning to life, and again, it's all about that community engagement so that we can do more community- based learning. Uh it it's great to be on site and learn, but it's even more powerful when we can take them out to rail power and they can learn from CEOs in the industry. Uh also sharing our work beyond our schools. We do a lot to get out to education conferences. We presented at three different conferences this year sharing our work around community schools. I know President Campbell got to see us present
081at the AXA North State Conference just last month. We have had multiple publications in journals and magazines across the state from Acts of Leadership to the UCLA Community Schooling Journal. And then we've also continued our deep dive work. If you recall last year, we hosted multiple tours across our sites to share the community schools work that we do with educators from around the state. We continued that this year um and we had dozens of staff from our local authorizing districts come to our sites to learn about community schools the Gateway Charters Way, which was very special. advocacy and statewide leadership. Um, you know, I want to tell a little story here, but if you recall back and about March or April, the governor's budget that was proposed early on was going to provide potential ongoing
082funding for community schools. But there was one line in it that said this is for all schools except non-classroombased charter schools. They were going to exclude our schools like Saba and CCCS. And we know that is, you know, all students need this type of support, but specifically students that are attending our non-classroom based schools oftentimes need it even more than students in a traditional school setting. And we were not okay with being excluded. So, we went all in at the state capital. Superintendent Sample and I had meetings in legislator offices. Uh, I was able to present and give public comment at the state assembly education hearing on community schools. And we just hit the ground, hit the pavement for about two months straight. every meeting we could attend, we were advocating, trying to tell people
083the story of Gateway, the story and the impact of these dollars going to our students. And in May, when the revised budget came out, guess what? That one line was gone. So the ongoing funding that's now approved for community schools will include our non-classroom based schools for GCC and every other non-classroom based charter across the state primarily because of the work that we did with advocacy at the statewide level. Um, and I can see there was only one other charter school, one other school period that was at the capital advocating like us. So, it was two schools, two, well, two organizations that were able to change the scope of the future of non-classroombased funding with community schools. So ultimately what we built this year, a stronger community school system that responds better to student needs,
084a GCC-wide comm community engagement model connected to attendance engagement and student success, new and expanded partnerships that bring resources directly to our schools, greater regional visibility for GCC, and ultimately we use this community school work to help GCC move from isolated supports for students to a stronger system of community connected student and family support. So with that, thank you for the time to present tonight and I'm happy to take any questions if you have any. >> Members, any comments? Any questions? >> I just want to thank you for the update. I mean, it's impressive that the continual connections that we're making within the community to support our students and families. Um and I am impressed with um with all these initiatives that we have going on and how we're growing them. I think even at
085the cap to cap you've got u synergy with many of the folks that we're attending there as well. Correct. So this is going at a national level and national anywhere. And that's what's great about this organization is wherever we go we can tell the story of impact and people buy in because the impact is huge. >> Yeah. It's fantastic. Congratulations. Yep. >> Thank you >> for this information. It was very well needed and appreciated. >> So, thank you for letting us know what actually took place and and how we're reaching out. So, >> happy to be here. Thank you, President Campbell. >> Thank you. And anything else for that at this point? >> No, we're on the >> Okay. All right. We are now moving into our consent agenda items board members. So let's go
086through those very quickly. Uh adoption of the GCC board meeting minutes 51226. Adoption of GCC special board meeting 52026. We had couple of meetings in adoption of GCC board meeting minutes 6926. Personnel consent agenda items purchases over 30,000 approve board policy update new approve school field trips and they are futures high school UC Santa Barbara uh overnight trip July 11th through the 15 2026. Oops. And approved futures high world finals. This is a trip to Switzerland field trip June the 27th July the 4th overnight. So those are the items for consent agenda. >> Move approval. >> Second. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. Any other discussions or questions on any of the consent agenda items? Hearing none. Seeing none. Roll call. Sorry. Harry Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >>
087Jack Turner, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. The consent agenda items have been approved unanimously. Thank you very much. We are now moving into business. And business item one, approve Proposition 28, annual report for Gateway Community Charters. that is yours too and thank you for being our superintendent tonight. Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Keep us on task. >> I'm doing a double roll tonight, but um very capable. Um so I am here tonight to present on proposition 28 on what we've spent um for the year and just to let the public and the uh the board and our cabinet and our public know uh how our dollar is being spent. >> This is a um requirement of the grant and so this will be brought to you yearly. Okay. So, Proposition 28, um, arts
088and music in schools initiative was a California ballot measure to increase funding for arts, music education, and public schools. Key points include funding allocation. Um, requires additional state funds for arts and music education supplementing existing budgets. Source of funds, we uh it's uh 1% of the state's general fund for K12 and community colleges without uh raising taxes. Use of funds, it's allocated for hiring teachers. Uh parent educators are also allowed purchasing supplies and supportive um programs. It focuses on lowincome schools to close uh gaps in art education and also providing um enrichment and schools must report spending and demonstrate the impact of the funds. Proposition 28 aims to enhance art and music education fostering create creativity critical thinking in students. The funding allocation for any school over 500 students is 80% must be spent on
089staffing. 20% uh cap is for professional development, material supplies um or any type of vendor that potentially uh will be coming to the site to provide any of these services. Um Proposition 28 funds cannot be supplanted uh with current art and music funding. So there was a stand base year that was the 23 24 year and anything um above that base year is used for um above that supplemental. So there is a very complex uh formula that goes into um this funding and I personally am the one that calculates that. So I get that fund piece at the end of the year. um some of the allowable uses as you can see there's u five categories dance theater music visual arts and media arts and so I also want to uh point out that some
090of our CTE programs were kind of looking at for example visual arts and media arts how can we leverage some of this funding to also keep some of our CTE programs that are currently being impacted part of the report requires us to disclose uh what we are spending in staffing. And so I've um created a chart on FTE and costs across the nine LEAs in terms of what we're spending and um the FTE on both certificated and classified staffing. Uh primarily we focus on funding art teachers, music teachers, media design as uh GIS just uh talked about providing uh art teacher and then also design. They also had music programs. So this is kind of across all our sites. Um I know that we are finding a recording and broadcasting uh teacher out of this
091also. So I already talked a little bit about so I won't repeat what I just said but um some other components besides teachers we have some PAR educators that support the art and music classes we have enrichment uh classes used with vendors and so that's very minimal uh because of that 20% cap unless it's a school that has less than 500 students then they can use the full amount on vendors uh field trips art and music related uh field trips can be also accounted for here and any type of materials used for these classes could also be paid out of these funds. Um our next steps is to analyze the expenses for each site and meet with staff to ensure fully implementation of the funds as they are ongoing. So this year we are in
092the very first year where we have to have spent the 23 24 award. Um we are on track to uh completely spend down. I think the only one that we had that was at risk right now was Saba Elkrove, but we are working we've been working with them all year to ensure that we can um completely spend that award down. assessments of existing programs and see uh equitability across sites. Sites are encouraged to find enrichment activities that are outlined in the Prop 28 allowable uses. Um so if we have a school that's trying to um have some type of enrichment program that maybe doesn't fit with art and music, but they have funding, we try to encourage that they shift their thinking in using these allowable funds for that purpose. Um AB1505 requires credentiing um
093for these teachers that are uh working in the classrooms. And with that I will entertain any questions. >> Thank you. We're able to fund uh the drum. >> Um >> that's correct. That is one of the um vendors that we do operate across the GCC is our our drum line. >> That is great. That's wonderful. Good use of funds. Great. >> Anything else? >> Okay. I think we are to take a um approve the uh funding for this. So, may I entertain a motion? >> So, move. >> Second. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Seeing none, roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Harry Block, >> yes. >> Mr. Jack Turner, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. So, this has been approved unanimously with board meeting board members present. Thank you. Thank you very
094much for that report. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. >> I will go ahead and um go ahead. How about you? >> I was just going to bring you in uh on the next item which is um we now getting ready for the budget. >> Yes. >> So, thank you and we are ready. >> Uh good evening everybody again. So, um I will be presenting um the adopted budget for the 2627 school year. I want to give some acknowledgements out. This was actually one of our hardest um budgets in I would say my 22 years in uh school finance. This has been the hardest budget we've had to uh do and meet and collaborate with. Uh I want to thank the business services staff, Miss Valerie Rogers, which is here in the audience, our supervisor, Sophia
095Corno, and our two uh budget and financial analysts, Cindy and Mia. I know a lot of work has gone um through their desks and in terms of paths in terms of trying to digest everything in terms of how that rolls out into our budget. Um I also want to thank our human resources department. I know that they've been impacted as well. Um our principles and site support staff with their collaboration, their feedback. uh our assistant superintendent and um lastly the our newly budget work group which is uh Joy Tcoy, myself, Laura Beran and Jason Sample. Uh we worked together with the principles this particular year and we also started with a zerobased budgeting which is something new that we've never done. Um, so this is um a very brand new uh way of budgeting and
096um just want to thank everybody that was involved in that process. So I'll go ahead and start with an introduction. This budget is based on assumptions from the governor may revise. There was significant changes from January to May. So I am going to present on a little bit of extra slides that uh will show the differences between January and May. We will uh continually monitor the state budget assumptions and ensure any impacts are reflected in our first interim. So there is going to be a July enacted. Um I attend all of our school services um charter development um webinars in terms of making sure we know exactly what's happening, what changes are occurring um and what's sticking and what's not sticking in terms of uh what has been proposed in the May revise. that our
097budget is due to the chartering authority and county office of education at the end of this month on June 30th. So, I'm going to go over some of the state revenue and economy um highlights. So, they were able to the state was able to eliminate uh projected ongoing deficit for the next two years. So, I want to be real specific. I didn't write the number two years up there, but it is um a significant win from uh January um governor's budget update to now. Um it has shown significant personal income uh tax growth uh fueled by capital gains. So that that is good news for education. Prop 98 minimum guarantee is up more than six billion over the last three-year budget window which is future current prior. Right? Prop 98 per student funding is at
09822,000. That is all state funding not just LCFF. So I just want to be clear because you'll see another slide where I talk about LCFF um per I think it's it's actually on the narrative. I don't think it's on here, but um you'll see the difference in the two. Uh the capital gains are mainly on artificial intelligence that represents 2% of the gross domestic product in 2026. And I'll speak a little bit more about that and how it ties back to the ongoing deficit. The Department of Finance projects strong personal income growth. So they're still projecting in the next two years that we'll have strong personal income growth. Uh businesses are cautioned about future growth and unemployment has remained California unemployment has remained above the national average despite economic growth. And then Prop 98 reserves
099are um at the end of 2526 at 10.3 billion. uh at the end of 2425 day we're at 5.3 billion and our cap is 12.5. So we're pretty close to the cap which is good news in case of any type of emergency there is some reserves in that bucket. There is also conversations about do enrollment investments an additional 100,000 on one time and so that will continue um we're expecting an award then for this coming up year for that program. These are the slides that I kind of want to talk about on um the changes. So the first slide is the personal income tax and the grayish uh lined area is the governor's budget versus the May revice and this is the three-year lookout that uh I was referring in the previous slide on how
100there's over 6 billion more in revenue um in the three-year window. And so you can see that um we've received an additional 3.4 four in personal income tax in the billions um in that category. So, we are receiving more funding. The revenues come in stronger and so that's just an illustration of where we were at the January governor's budget workshop to where we are now in May. Uh also the slide the second slide at the top right the gross domestic product shows where our stock market and our our artificial um artificial or AI has been coming in and so you can see that we've had some uptick um towards the end which is a reflection of our stronger revenues. The bottom left slide historical stock market downturns and state revenues. This slide was very um
101intriguing to me because it shows the dependency that we have on state revenues where back in 1973 we had a 90 month time to recover from previous from a stock uh stock market crash or revenue crash where now we're at 24 months. Um so it's actually less right. So California's st tax structure is highly dependent on the stock market. So we are more dependent on the stock market than we were previously. And then the bottom uh right slide is um an illustration of our stock market and where we can see that it's growing right in the last last quarter. Okay. Even though we've had more revenue, our governor has still continued uh to express that they will have a settle up or underappropriate our uh Prop 98. And I think that's due to a couple
102years back uh them overappropriating and then having to deal with how they were going to make us right. And so this settle up agreement has been a topic of conversation in the last couple years in terms of a mechanism that the state is using in order to not over appropriate um Prop 98. And so you can see that um the governor's budget back in January was 5.6 settle up where now we're at 3.9. um in the presentation for school services, they were very disappointed that he was still uh proposing that as it doesn't give us a clear guarantee of when we're going to get those funds paid back and how. So, um that is an item that we continue to look at and we continue to follow um in terms of where the governor and
103the state is is um appropriating our revenue. Here is just a component of LCFF revenue. So, I did talk about what Prop 98 funding was in total was 22 um,000. You can see um in this slide and in this um um illustration the per ADA amounts for LCFF alone. So that it's 11 uh 11,811 for TK3 with an additional add-on at the bottom. If you see that 5,704 for TK um and that is because they have uh smaller class sizes. It's a 10:1 ratio and so that is to support the staffing needs um at that grade level. 46 is at 10,860 78 11,181 and the high school at 13 uh 2. Our LCFF uh assumptions are 2.87% COLA. Due to the revenue increases uh the governor has proposed an additional 1.44 four four of uh
104additional investments um to the COLA. I just talked about the TK add-on and then we are currently on test three of uh LCFF projected on state projections of revenues and student attendant factors. So it's not that 40 to1 40 cents to a dollar uh for this year. We're actually hitting test three. Um, the programs that are receiving COLA are usually state programs. So, child nutrition, special education, charter school facility grant, the LCFF equity multiplier, and the mandated block grant. Okay. And continue with some state highlights. Our student support and professional development block grant was received this year. They are um proposing an additional year of one-time funding in the mark of 5 billion which is very significant compared to the January uh governor's update. It uses P2 data and it's 936 per ADA and uh
105the expiration of these funds is through June 30th of 2030. literacy coaches and reading specialist grant program is going to receive an additional 440 million in one-time funds. Um the schools and they talked about uh awarding this to already re recipients of this year. So this year we had CCCS, HLA and EPIC receive these grants. This is specific for the use of literacy coaches. So reading specialists, reading intervention teachers, those type of positions. um and will really help those TK through third grade uh grade levels. The next uh topic they talked about was attendance recovery and the use of ELOT funds for attendance recovery. So that is uh in full effect and we are implementing some processes in around that area. final aortionment uh also for the learning recovery emergency block grant. Uh if you
106recall a couple years back they had clawed back um the aortionment for the learning recovery block grant. They paid us back onethird this year. Next year they're going to pay us the two remaining years all in 2627 uh to kind of get that off their books I'm sure. And so that equates to 228 per ADA. uh we are currently for this particular year been using it for summer school and we anticipate that that will be the continual use of that funding for AB 602 special education we had a 40% increase to the rate um that is historic increase that's a340 per ADA and um this is money uh that special education advocacy groups have been fighting for for a long time, >> years, years. >> Uh we hope that they continue to get COLA after
107this year, but we shall see what happens for next year. But for this 2627 year, that is what is budgeted. Our community schools grant as uh super uh assistant superintendent my Elliot um talked about, there is ongoing funds, 1 billion in new ongoing funds for community schools. So, we are excited to see what that looks like. um in uh funding that is not uh funded yet until we receive award letter. So we don't know exactly what that is um and what that will entail, but we will present that in future interims as we find out what how much we get. Uh proposals to the mandated block grant for ongoing funding. So the new rates for TKA is 2131 per ADA and from 812 6048 per ADA. There was also a new uh legislation passed uh
108for paid pregnancy leave. So we are now responsible to pay uh 14 weeks of paid uh leave for any pregnancy, miscarriage, um any type of uh pregnancy leave. So that is new and that is a new liability that uh we will do some analysis around to ensure that there's funding for that. The next page uh goes over the enrollments. Uh we were at 5,900 at Cabbeds for the 2526 year. We are currently budgeted at 5,826. Biggest changes are obviously our CCCS program for TK was uh removed this year and so you can see that reflected in the 100 in the very first line. But we do have some expansions as uh we talked about as um Mr. Maida uh presented on the GIS expansion and additional classrooms. So that is reflected there on the new
109TK classrooms 40 students additional at that site. And then our COA um campuses continue to have weight list and so we are anticipating another 27 students there. Um and then I don't want to miss Epic. Epic um has uh built out two TK classrooms downstairs in order to continue to expand that particular location. So um that is something that um is reflected in that number. Enrollment to ADA percentages um that is our projected ADA uh for P2 uh for the 2627 year. And so those numbers are pretty flat compared to where we were at P2 this year. Uh no significant changes from uh where we're going to end in 2526. The unduplicated pupil percentages are um below. You can see it's the chart on the bottom left. Um, you can see that I added a
110single year versus the UPP three-year rolling average. So, we get funded on the three-year rolling average, but I do want to disclose the single year, which was which was much lower in the 25 26 year. We use the same rates. We kind of do flat funding u for up until we get uh numbers from our data team. So, we will be doing a lot of outreach ensuring that we get um income forms back in order to ensure that we are classifying our students correctly. Uh the top chart just kind of shows you uh what we're getting in LCFF funding for the base. It kind of uh replicates the other slide we had. Okay, I'm going to go over our revenues. And so for LCFF, regardless of the uh decrease in enrollment in ADA, you can
111see that there is still an increase of 2.3. That is because we have a 2.87% COLA with an additional LCFF investment of 1.44. Um we also the assumptions are the enrollment in the ADA decreases that were shown in previous slides and a flat UP for federal funding. We have an increase of 170. I've been working really hard with our facility department to ensure that we uh get permits for our Sava uh sites in order to uh apply for National School Lunch. And so, uh that's been something we've been working on all year. Um, we were expecting that to happen last year, but due to permitting and what needed to happen with the health permits, uh, there needs to be some work at these sites in order to to get funding. We did project about 50%
112of a year's funding. Um, so I'm anticipated anticipating that by January we'll we'll start getting um, reimbursements. We also have carryover from CSI and Title 3 that is accounted for. And then um the for the title programs, they're they're pretty flat funded in this budget. For state revenues, we had an increase of 35,000 and that uh was a lot of loss but a lot of gains in different areas. So I'll kind of go over that. uh one-time losses of dual enrollment, early, college, and middle. Even though the balance carries over in terms of the fund balance, we record our state revenue all in the in the given year in 2526. So, we got to show that as a loss of the next year until we get another award. Um same with our literacy coaches and
113reading specialists. And then our strong workforce program for green energy is ending at the end of this year as well as our universal TK prek program. There were some reductions to Elon due to the upp percentages in prior year. Um a lot of our state programs are receiving cola and then we show increases in learning recovery emergency block grant. That's that 2-year um payout. We are also budgeting the student support project uh professional development grant which was that $938 per ADA. And then we're also deferring some revenue uh for CTE that was unspent in the 2526 school year. So those net together are kind of what makes up the 35. They're very large numbers both ways and so that's why that number was almost flat. But there is significant reductions and significant increases on both
114sides. Uh for local revenue, we have an increase of 1.3 million and that is due to special education um 40% historical increase on that rate. Uh we do have reductions that are offsetting that number of interest due to restricted balances uh balances being uh drawn down and then the facility facility use revenue. I bring that number down by at least 15%. Until we know until it materializes. Okay. Going to talk now about our expenditures. Our certificated and classified salaries increased by 2.4%. And I want to state that there was no changes to our salary schedule. I do have a placeholder in there for potential uh retention bonuses once the time comes. We're still waiting on some legislation in July to find out if the funding will be unrestricted, but for the most part, uh there's
115no changes to our salary schedule. It's just step column increases. Um and the reduction of staffing that was made um and that was on the consent agenda item in this board meeting. Um it also includes the expansion of uh GIS, the reduction and loss of the CCCS uh K TKA program and also reductions in ADA loss for our benefits. Uh it increased by 2 million and that's with assumptions of STRS at 19.1 PERS at 26.4 that actually went down from prior year. um our health and welfare uh we've projected an 8% increase um in order to stay competitive with other organizations. We will bring that back to the board for approval when the time comes for employee caps. And then um unemployment stir, social security, Medicare all stayed the same as prior years. The rates
116did. Okay. For books and supplies, we have an increase of 328. Our consumer price index was applied at 3.76% on ongoing programs and resources. There is one-time program expenditures that were removed from the budget. And then also we look at non- capital equipment. If there was large furniture purchases, etc. That's the place we bring down for adopted budget. Um for our services and other operating expenditures, we dropped by 1.4 million. And this is because this is the category that um provides contract contracted subs for our vacancies. I'm hoping that this year we will have a lot less. There was a lot of people released in some of our sites, but we also placed them back into the organization with our vacancies. And so I am hopeful that we will have a minimal um services and
117contracts that are uh offsetting our vacancies. Uh for special education, we tend to always have some vendors there um just because that's a specialty type of program, but we are hoping that we can minimize that impact in this given year. So we'll see. uh one-time uh program expirations are obviously removed from this category and then again CPI was applied at 3.76 for ongoing costs such as utilities, insurance, etc. Our capital outlay is reduced by 8.1 million. So this is the big projects that we had. The epic 2K 2 TK classrooms, the GIS expansion, there were some projects at SAP PI at the beginning of last year. And then the playgrounds at Dudley C and at the COA elementary campus. So those I remove at the beginning of the year. And then um the only thing
118that I did leave in there was the futures and HLA's field. And so you'll see that in uh one of the last slides you'll see uh where that is other outgo decreased by $9 and that's just the debt and interest payment differences. Okay, so I really want to spend a little bit of time on this slide. So this is the unrestricted fund balance and so this is where your reserves come into play. How much unrestricted fund balance do we have? We started with 72 um million at the beginning of this year, 2526. By the end of this year, we're at 60.9. So that's a significant drop of 11.1 million. A lot of this had to do with the ADA drops. And so you can see that the biggest impacts were on those four independent study
119schools. We do have uh 4.6 six are at the COA campus that includes the purchase of deadly sea and um some of the work that has been done with the playgrounds fields etc. And then uh the other um big balance is in GIS and that's the expansion payout and so that's completely paid out in the 2526 year. Now if you look at the ending balance or beginning balances for 2627 you can see um that we will end pretty close to where we started for the exception of 1.7 or 1.8 million in the variance in 2627 and you can see that those negatives are sitting with futures in HLA and that's for the completion of the field that we want to get started. We've been waiting on prop two to see if we're going to get
120that funding to see what way we're moving with that with that um project. Um trying to think if there's anything else on this slide that I want to speak about. Um yes, one one last thing on GIS. You can see that there's a 452 positive variance in the last column and that is the repayment back of reserves. So they they have agreed to we agreed to use some of their reserves but with the agreement that they were going to rebuild those reserves. So that's the reflection of that. Now on the restricted fund balance the yeah the restricted these are some of the programs that are within this balance. Civil Learning Recovery Block Grant, School Improvement or CSI, Student Support and Professional Development Block Grant, the California Community Schools Partnership Program, ELOP, Title Carryovers, Dual Enrollment,
121and Strong Workforce are some of the few that I'm um that are in these balances. And so you can see how much money is um across our nine LEAs, how much uh has been spent down. So we spent about 4 million in this 2526 year and we are projected to spend about 6.5 in the coming up year for 2627. So that's kind of a reflection of how they should this charts work. The variances show the spend down of of those balances. And I want to point out that in the 26 27 year, the 5% set aside that I have for potential retention bonuses is in that number. Some of the risks moving forward is the stock market dependability um on technology and financial markets. And so this makes um the state budget volatile in that
122area. Right? We're strong for two years, but this potentially could impact if those markets come down, right? If they come down back to a normal, I think they they talked about that this last year that that could happen. So far, so good. We we're trending up. So, uh we hope to continue up or flat and hopefully not see losses. But that does make the state worry and um why maybe they are underappropriating uh Prop 98, right? is that they're uncertain that uh the stock market will materialize the way they want it to. Some federal impacts we have inflation, volatility due to the tariffs, rising energy costs, federal leadership transition, uncertainty related to immigration, foreign trade and geopolitical conflict. um insure insurance market instability with wildfire recovery costs and potential climate related disasters. Uh structural deficit
123persist despite strong revenue and improved tax collections. So there is still some concern on the structural deficits. Even though for the next two years we're we're probably on the safe side, there is still some concerns about the structural deficits at the state level. medical costs and case load pressures along um with reduced federal medic Medicaid spending is a concern. And then um also the results of the November 2026 ballot are also factors that could change the dynamics of our of our state. And with that, I will entertain any questions. >> You say this was budget. It was >> yes because of why >> um I think it's the loss of one-time money. I think it's the ADA uh situation we've experienced in our organization. Um I think just the fact that we've had to figure
124out how to move and be creative. Um and you know I my acknowledgements for the staff is it goes for everybody. there wasn't not one person that wasn't thinking creatively trying to figure out how could we make this work how could we keep our staff what's open what credentials and so this was uh a team effort and you know I I don't do this alone I might present it but this is not this is this was a difficult budget >> I understand I just wanted to hear why >> okay and I know Jack I want to thank you for meeting with afternoon. You answered most of my my questions and also uh uh please thank your staff because this really represents endless hours of work. I'm often reminded that people often don't understand that business
125services is really what makes school districts work and function. the complexity of the state ed code and then whatever legislation the federal government has and it changes constantly. It isn't static. It's dynamic. It was interesting looking at one of your last slides on the restricted reserves. We were supposed to eliminate all of those. You remember we weren't going to have them. I think you I looked at there was something like $17 billion worth of them or something there. Uh just to highlight some of the things you and I talked about the TK. Um it I really appreciate the state putting in the additional funding because you you answered my question. The class the the size of of those uh TK classrooms has 10 students for each instructor. I I will really be interested in once
126this really goes into effect what that's going to do to to daycare centers across the state. I'm sure there's going to be many articles and and data about that. I also appreciate your point about the special ed increase that uh again that's an area that the state really needs to start putting more resources into. A final comment we've been getting and and I I wish Jason were here because he's really made an effort to get the parents to commit for for pre-enrollment. And if you look at those numbers we've been getting uh for that that looks impressive even if if I know those all of them won't show up but that certainly gives me some comfort in in going into the next year and agree >> and and Jason's the one that really started saying
127that we wanted those >> uh students to commit not just you know say maybe or whatever. And so I think we ought to uh really uh congratulate him on that because that appears to be successful. Omar, again, thank you and your staff. I I just truly understand that this and and most people just kind of think, well, the budget is is something that's really just does it by itself. We know that doesn't happen. Thank you. >> You know it doesn't happen. Yes, Mark. >> Uh kudos and we've talked before about this. It is zerobased budgeting is really really a challenge. I'm very familiar with it and thank you again to all your staff for all the hard work managing nine different budgets and all of the complexities and the changing that's going on both the
128federal and the state landscape. Um I I know that Laura isn't here. Do we have any feel for how many openings we have now going into the new school year? Um I I don't have that information um for you, but I know that we've been uh heavily recruiting within our organization on our our layoff list and trying to tackle that. I know she mentioned earlier that we just offered two more um employees that were affected positions. So, I'm I'm hopeful, but anything that is open currently would be on Ed Join um for anybody out there interested in applying. >> Yeah, I know we're you you're as you mentioned, you're trying to get away from outsourcing these positions. So, which is a very costly >> thing to our to our budget, but I just wondered if
129you had Thank you. I appreciate it. >> You're welcome. >> You're going to have to leave. Okay. >> Yeah. Uh yes. I just said, you know, this is great for us to look at this because I was going through this all this weekend and just my head just going crazy. 270 pages to look at. But then I got my insurance bill and I said, "Oh, now I know my insurance went up and I don't live out in paradise." >> Yeah. >> I live. So, but thank you. It was great. You're welcome. Thank you. One question you mentioned uh pregnancy leave that we have to start paying for. Is that family pregnancy leave or just the uh mother vote? >> That's a very good question. I actually as I was listening to school services had that
130same um thought. Is this it? It kind of seems like it's it's for the mother and the recovery, but I could be wrong. And I'll have Laura bring that back. Yeah. >> With an update. >> Great. Cuz I I it could be for the family. >> For family. Yeah. It could be spouse. Yeah. So, we'll we'll find out. >> Okay. >> And bring that back. >> Thank you so much. I know this is difficult and we really appreciate Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. the hard work and I know it took many hours to get this as it is now, refined as it is and we just hope when the budget is finally signed and sealed that things don't change much. >> Yes. >> So that's my hope. >> Yeah, mine too. >> Yeah. All
131right. Thank you. Okay. I think you have one more item line of credit with far Wells Fargo. >> We need to >> Oh, we need to take a vote. Um a vote. Okay. I uh will entertain. >> So moved. >> So move the So move the adopted budget for 20627. Okay. >> Second. >> You have a second. Any other discussions, questions, comments? Hearing none. Roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harry Blanc. >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell. Yes. We have a three vote. Mr. Uh Turner had to leave. Um so I'm sure his vote. So thank you very much. Okay. And now we go to the next item, line of credit with Wells Fargo. >> Uh yeah, just uh this is a renewal of our current existing line of credit. Um it's just
132extending it for the another three years. um and just here for approval, especially with the reduction in the fund balance and um just the uncertainty. It's uh useful to have that as an emergency. >> Yeah. >> So here to get it approval. >> Okay. We here to get approval. We need a uh move to approve. >> Move to approve. >> Second. Any other discussion, comments, questions? Hearing none. Mr. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Lorie Campbell. Yes. So, that item has been approved. And now we're moving to uh curriculum and instruction. Approve curriculum. Salva Outgrove and Salva uh Sak City. Um entertaining a motion for approval. >> So moved. >> Second. Any other questions? Discussions hearing none. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Brock, >> yes. >> Moren Campbell, yes.
133The next item for approval, uh, approve. We're now getting ready to go into the local control accountability plan, LCAP, and those have to be taken one by one for each of the schools. So, I'm going to need motions on all of those, all nine for approval, one each. Okay. And the very the board will now on the local control accountability plan for community collaborative charter schools. >> All right. So, moved. >> So move. >> Second. Any other discussions? Hearing none. Mr. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell. Yes. The vote votes for local accountability plan for community outreach academy. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Uh any other discussion, comments, questions? Hearing none. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Willie Campbell, yes. Local control accountability
134plan approved for empowering possibility international charter epic. >> So move. >> Second. Any other discussion, questions? Hearing none. >> Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. Local controlled accountability plan for Futures High School. So move. >> So move. >> Second. Any other discussions, questions, comments? Hearing none. Mark Anderson. >> Yes. >> Harry Block. >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell. Yes. Approve local control accountability plan for Gateway International School. >> So move. >> Second. Any other questions, discussions? Hearing none. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. >> Approve local control accountability plan for Higher Learning Academy. >> So move. >> I did hear a second. Okay. Thank you. Any other discussions, questions? Hearing none. Mark Anderson? >> Yes. >> Harry Block? >> Yes. >> Lily
135Campbell? Yes. Local control accountability plan for Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy. >> So move. >> Second. Any other discussions, questions? Hear none. Mr. Mark Anderson? >> Yes. >> Harry Block? >> Yes. >> Lily Campbell? Yes. Local control accountability plan for Sacramento Academic and Location Academy, SCUSD. >> So moved. >> So move. >> Second. Any other questions, discussions on that item? Hearing none. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Jack Turner, I'm sorry. Harry Block, >> Lily Campbell, yes. Hey, one mistake. All right. Uh, approve local control accountability plan for Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy, Elk Grove School District. >> So moved. >> Second. All right. Any other questions, discussions on that item? Hearing none. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. All nine have been counted and voted on. So, thank
136you. All right. Facilities. Item number 12, approve authorization to complete purchase of 5839 Duty Boulevard property. >> Move to approve. >> Second. Okay, that is the Duty that we voted on talked about last time, but it's now approved to complete the purchase. Any other discussions, questions? Hearing none. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. So, three board members. Yes. On that is approved. Item number 13, central administration. Approve Elkrove Unified School District, Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy. Solvou theou for Elkrove. >> So move. >> Second. Any other discussion, question? Hearing none. Roll call. Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. That item has been approved. Okay. And the next item for approval will be person and the personnel declaration of need for fully
137qualified educators. you receive that in your uh binder so you know what it entails. So I will entertain a motion. >> Move to approve. Thank you. >> Second. Okay. Any other discussion, comments, questions, anything? Any no questions, comments? Mark Anderson, >> yes. >> Harry Block, >> yes. >> Lily Campbell, yes. So that item has been approved unanimously for the board members who are present. Okay, we are down to board comments. Board comments. Anyone? Anyone? Okay, I think I need to make one comment and to continue with our discussion on the issues that we've been dealing with since our last meeting on June the 9th, 2026. We have received communication from the charter authorizing districts requesting a meeting as a followup to the board's resolution and directions to legal counsel and staff. legal counsel and I
138will be meeting with the district's representative to discuss the next steps in the review and investigation process and that came from the superintendent. The I is the superintendent. So this is just a followup to let you know what is going on and to keep us informed of what's happening as we move through the process. Any other discussions or questions on that? Okay, hearing none. Do you guys have any other comments, board comments, anything from either one of you? We have concluded a long board meeting, but it was very informative. We have our officers in place for the new year. We have our uh board meeting uh dates in place. So, I think we are ready to go. And our next board meeting is >> our next board meeting is going to be July 28th at
1393:30. >> July 28th at 3:30 will be our next board meeting. So it's almost as if you got a month off. Almost. Not quite. And I want to thank Miss Omire for filling in and keeping us moving in the right direction tonight. Thank you. Thank all of you who still here. It was a long meeting. Thank you very very much. And so with that, I will entertain a motion for adjournment. >> So move. >> Second. All in favor voting sign of I. >> I. No eyes have it. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you for staying. >> Long meeting. >> It was a long meeting. Yeah.