001[Music] Good afternoon. I call to order the GCC regular board meeting June the 17th 2025 at 4:45 or 4:46 p.m. Welcome everyone. Roll call. Mark Anderson absent. Mr. M Anderson is absent. Harry Block present. Bruce Mandre present. Zack Turner, present. Lily Campbell, present. Welcome. Welcome. Uh, do we have any public comments at this time? We have no public comments. No public comments at this time. Welcome everyone. It's so good to see so many faces tonight. And you're supposed to be on break. School's out. And here you are. Not yet. Thank you. Not yet, huh? Not yet. You're still on calendar. Well, welcome everyone. It is really delightful to see so many people here at this time of year. And to those of you who are watching us virtually, welcome also. And it is going to
002be a long meeting. So get ready to just settle back and relax and enjoy the night. So with that, we will now move into what we call our annual organization items, our annual organization meetings. Board members, are you ready? Ready for the annual organization meeting? Okay. Didn't hear anything, so I'll just go down the list. The first item on the um annual organization meeting is appointment of board officers for 2025 2026. Yes, Mr. Jack. I I move that we maintain the status quo. We get your mic on, please. I make a motion that we maintain the status quo. One second. Okay, we have a motion and a second that we maintain the status quo. So, would you kind of give those for the record? Mention the status quo, please. that the officers we have in
003the present positions, bless their heart, stay in that that position unless they they so decline in which I would be very very unhappy. Well, I think we're talking about uh the secretary mood. Yeah, the positions I'm talking about are president of the GCC, the vice president, the treasurer, and the secretary. Very good. Excellent. Now, do any of you who are officers except the president right now have any comments? Mr. Bruce, Mr. Block, secretary, and Mark Anderson is not here, but he did give me permission to say that he would love to stay where he is. So well I guess hearing none hearing no comments Mr. Block anything no I'm both All right I know Mr. Bruce Mandreick anything from you in terms of vice president? No no well with that I will call for the
004vote. Um and I'm going to do a roll call on that. Mark. Um, who am I calling it? Harry Block. Yes. Bruce Mandreick. Yes. Jack Turner. Yes. Lily Campbell. Uh, yes. I was going to say, would you like me to vote for you? You can't vote for me. No, I can't. I'm non voting. Non voting. Well, it seems as if the officers uh for the GCC charter school program officers are in place. Thank you for your vote of confidence. Well, thank you for your service, all of you. I and and I really uh think it truly you've done a great great great job and we need to continue that. Thank you. Yes, I agree. I really do enjoy working with this board. Uh you come prepared, ready to do the job and if you have
005questions, you ask those questions and try to get your answers. So we want to tie up all of the board meeting with uh questions and what have you. So I appreciate all of you and the work that you do reading your information, asking questions that you need to have answers to and trying to get things answered before we get to the board meeting. So, thank you very much and I'm looking forward to working with you for another year. So, thanks very much. Okay, the next item is approval of GCC board meetings. That's in your um backup information. So if you will turn to that if you can get it uh it is in the and just we have a tenative board retreat August the 19th we have a board meeting on the 22nd at this
006point September the 9th October the 14th November the 11th December the 9th January the 13th another tenative board retreat February the 10th March the 10th April the 14th May the 12th and June June the 9th. Is there discussion on any of those dates or anything that we need to have changed at this point? Hearing none. Seeing none. Okay. Then I will need uh a motion to approve those states for now. So move. So move. Okay. Second. Any other discussion on those dates? Uh board members only hearing none. Roll call. Harry Block. Yes. Bruce Mandrek. Yes. Jack Turner. Yes. And Lily Campbell. Yes. So the board meetings for next year for the coming year has been approved. Thank you. Okay. And the very next item for approval will be appointment renewal of board members terms. Um
007there are three board members I believe that are up for terms. Mr. Bruce Mandre, Jack Turner, and Mr. Mark Anderson, who is not here, but he did indicate that he would consent to serving again. Madam President, just a point of uh order or correction there. It's uh Bruce Mangri, Jack turning Harry Block. Oh, Harry Blanc, not Mark. Okay. Sorry. No problem. Okay. Thank you for correcting that. All right. Okay. Any comments on whether you want to Nope. No comments. Okay. Okay, I'll entertain a motion for the terms of and that's uh I'll move approval of the uh renewal of the three board members. Three board members. May I have a second? I second it. All right, it has been moved and second. Um let's take a vote. Uh Harry Block, yes. Bruce Mandrek, yes. Jack
008Turner, yes. Lily Campbell, yes. So that item is approved and we have two members who are on special committees. Uh Mr. Harry Block on Cabback and Mr. Mark Anderson on the GCC Foundation. And Mark didn't indicate to me that he would like to stay on if that is the wish of the board. So he has indicated that he would love that. Mr. Block, do you have Yes, I'll stay on the seabback. You will stay on a seabback. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Motion. I would move that those two individuals be reappointed to their position. Okay. I second. Second. All right. Harry Blanc. Yes. Bruce Mandre. Yes. Jack Turner. Yes. Lily Campbell. Yes. Okie dokie. I think we have done it. Yes. That is it for another year for the 2025 2026 school year.
009Officers are all in place. Thank you very much board members. We're looking forward to another wonderful year and thank you for your patience out there. This is something we have to do every June. So, thank you. All right. Now we are moving to ah we're ready for the superintendent's update. Okay. So with that we're moving to the superintendent. Thank you sir. Great. Thank you uh madame president, members of the board and to everyone that's here tonight. Good evening and welcome to the board meeting. Uh I would like to first just start off by uh offering my congratulations to our uh returning board officers as well as to the uh extension of re uh the renewals of your terms uh in all sincerity. Uh it speaks again to the organization, the strength of our continuity and
010your work as well as your dedication and you know the work that we do is not possible without your leadership, your guidance and your commitment. So, I just want to say on behalf of all of us as staff, we want to say thank you uh and we are honored to continue to serve alongside of you um as we continue to do great things for students. So, thank uh each of you for that. Well, Mr. Superintendent, I was kind of looking out there to see if I saw any frowns or anything, but I do see some smiles. So, Oh, yeah. They they they smile. Trust me. If not, uh we'll have a conversation. That's all. See, look at those smiles. Uh just a few things I want to highlight for you uh tonight uh in terms
011of the superintendent's report. I'll keep it very short uh due to the uh heft of our meeting. Uh one, last week we had a chance to uh have our final SEBACK meeting for the year and uh director block was present and uh I had the opportunity just to share about our uh GCC and the work that we're doing with our annual kind of superintendence report. Uh I want to by the way congratulate one of our CBACK members Dr. Nikki uh Kamsuki who recently received her EDDD and so very proud of Dr. Nikki uh and her work and Mr. Block uh knows her from way back uh long time ago. Yes. When she was a little girl at the youth investment center. Yeah. So really proud of her work and her commitment and the work that
012she continues to do with us um through the GCC. We also uh last week uh had the opportunity to join our community engagement department and attend the community schools empower summit. Um Gateway was recognized as a deep dive transformation partner. Uh this recognition reflected our commitment to the community schools model and reimagining what's possible for students. I want to affirm our CED team uh for their work uh on this project. And also I want to highlight that of all the uh schools and organizations that were there and even the other deep dive sites, we are the only charter school system in the state uh that has ever received the deep dive funding as well as the deep dive uh look. So, it really speaks volumes to the work that we're doing at a deeper level,
013uh, not only to educate, but to also support our community. On June 10th, uh, GCC joined the Sacramento Region Refugee Coalition at the County Board of Supervisors meeting. You'll see the resolution up there, uh, recognizing the 24th anniversary of World Refugee Month. uh as an active coalition member, our uh community engagement team helps connect refugee families to community resources and shares the impact for work across the GCC and all of our schools. So again, proud of that work that is happening. And there we go. You see the uh that's the CED team there in beautiful hot f I mean beautiful Fresno and uh the rec recognition by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. Uh next uh many of our summer school programs uh they started last week. Uh our programs are really giving our students
014a chance to stay engaged in learning uh throughout the summer. I had the opportunity to go visit Sava uh North Nas or NAMUS and visit one of our students and also see the work that Chelsea and her team is doing with our kids this summer. Very exciting work that's happening out there. So, I want to affirm all of our administrators for having innovative and uh engaging summer programs and offerings for our students. Uh as we always do at our August board meeting, uh assistant superintendent will as part of her ed services update uh give an update on what's happening or what happened uh during the summer months. And then finally, I know all of you are with baited breath waiting to hear what happened with our uh futures high school students who went to Atlanta
015uh for the uh Junior Achievement National Stock Market Competition. Uh we recognized these students back in April and uh board you may remember we also approved a overnight field trip for them. Uh I am proud to report that our students have returned from the national competition where they placed second in the country. Uh so again, I am just impressed with their work. So congratulations to our future students on this incredible accomplishment. Uh and they continue to make GCC proud. So really excited for these uh young men who uh turned a I think they turned a million dollar profit in 16 minutes or something like that. But uh really proud of their work. Wish they could bring it to Yeah, they can bring it right here. I don't know. We may need to because one of
016the things that uh through director Madden's work this year, we're doing more interns in the GCC. So, I don't know, Ashley, maybe we need to get one of these young people to intern in our business department and work with Ommyra and her team and see how we can continue to uh leverage our our money. So, with that being said, um the final thing that I want to share is as much as I have the opportunity every board meeting to share the superintendent's update, it really is because of the hard work of all the people and more that you see sitting out here. So, I only get to be the megaphone or the mouthpiece for the work that they're doing every day. And I couldn't be more proud to have this as uh the team helping
017and leading the GCC. With that being said, uh I hope everyone has a wonderful and restful summer and uh we'll be back uh in the new in the new school year to do this all over again. So, thank you. And that's my report tonight. Thank you, superintendent. Uh board members, any comments on the superintendent's report? Anything? And again, thank you. Thank all of you, as the superintendent stated, for all of your hard work because without you, none of this would be possible. So I echo what he is saying very much. So thank you superintendent for your hard work too. Thank you. All right. And now we're moving into uh study session. And our first study session is community outreach academy elementary school coe. So with that you want to bring in Miss Lissa Gunshaw. Thank
018you so much for being here with us tonight. Good evening. Good evening, boy President Campbell, GCC board members and superintendent simple. It is my pleasure to present to you COA Elementary. It's my honor to share with you all of the wonderful things we have accomplished this school year. Here you go. Um, Seway Elementary has so many good things to share with you. They have created and nurtured our school motto for all of the years that we have existed as a school. Everything we do, we think about the students first. We are proud of the success. We are proud of the successful complete completion of our wasque midcycle visit and charter renewal for both elementary and middle school. SA is a a 8year national showcase school for capturing his heart having uh having shown strong implementation
019and commitment to building a positive school culture and relationship between teachers and students. We have a very strong connection with the community we serve and are very well known by the entire community. We have very strong enrollment numbers. We are currently expanding our TK program. We have a very strong afterchool program which our students love to attend. We offer summer school for all students for a full day, which is a great which is a great help for parents who work and do not have access to child care. We pride ourselves on our support of refugee and newcomers into the country. We put so much effort to ensure this these families feel valued and appreciated. In this picture, during uh National Charter School Week, our staff and students all gathered on our large soccer field to
020create the name of our school with their bodies and faces. This picture this picture reflects of 1,414 students and over 200 staff members. That is beautiful. Beautiful. The I ready results for COA M elementary during the 2425 school year shown notable achievements in aerial progress. Uh COA uh elementary students have grown in reading. 47% of students are now performing at or above grade level. uh up from 16% initially initially making a significant positive shift that 61% of students haven't met or or exceeded their typical growth and 32% of student have met or exceeded their stretch growth indicating that many student are making substantial progress and surpassing expectations. There has been a decrease in students performing two or more grade levels before reducing from 43% initially to 21 reflecting progress in addressing lower performing students. Math
021results also have growth in math. Uh C students 48% of our students are now performing at at or at our grade level. A significant increase from 10% initially with 55% of students having met or exceeded their typical growth and 27% of student having met or exceeded their stretch growth. Students performing two or more grade level below decreased from 36% to 11% indicating strong intervention for lower performing students. At COA, we have developed a pro uh comprehension plan to ensure all all students achieve proficiency or higher on local assessment by emphasizing datadriven decision making and collaborative cycles of inquiry with in grade level in PLC meeting. We have provided time for teachers, instructional spiras, and instructional coaches to collaborate during planning weeks, planning days, and throughout the the school year to analy analyze standards and assessments
022such as a ready reports to this to design instructional plans and prioritize professional development. We implement a pyramid of intervention to support students not meeting profic proficiency by continuously analy analyzing assessment data. Students are placed at appropriate level of the RTI pyramid and receive support throughout differentiated instructions. There is now a dedicated time block built into our schedule to provide targeted instruction to address the individual academic needs of each students. The 45 minute block of time is referred to as um when what I need time and is provided every Monday through Thursdays. When time is a small group leveled instruction, all teaching staff have been trained to provide instruction. Data is gathered and analyzed regularly at weekly Friday grade level PLC meetings. With our focus on attendance this year, we have launched the attend program
023to help us with attendance loss prevention strate strategies. Parent are notified by mail if their children have missed a certain numbers of school days. This focuses uh parents to take school attendance seriously and deters unnecessary absences. Our students are recognized monthly and yearly to for perfect attendance. This year, in partnership with the North Highlands Rotary Club, we were uh able to send 44 students to John's Incredible Pizza for having perfect attendance all year long. We value our staff and professional development to equip them for success. We offer a multitude of PDS for staff members. Teach like a champion. Guided language acquisition design trainings. Building thinking thinking classrooms for third through fifth grades. P uh PBIS active supervision for after school PS classroom management for all staff members. COA Elementary prides itself on the family-like culture
024they have built among staff over the years. We are proud to have a culture of affirmation where every staff member has an opportunity to affirm another staff member. We get together every month for our staff meeting where we recognize and celebrate our staff members. We spend a lot of time encouraging communication and collaboration for our staff members with grade level meetings, common prep time, professional learning, community meetings, school leadership meetings, academic focus meeting, school management team meetings, and weekly Friday messages from admin to all staff. In this picture, our superintendent, Mr. Simple and assistant superintendent Miss Chikoy attended our school events and helped celebrate our achievement. We are so grateful for your support to our school. With the population of COA, our equity looks like a little bit different uh than other schools. We have
025a large English uh learner learners population 68.28% 28% also 85.97% of our students qualify for free and reduced price meal meals which categorize them as social socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Supporting our students is at the heart of everything we do. uh COA implements an multi-tered system of support or MTSS using researchbased practices and supplemental curriculum. We have also invested in additional staffing such as a full-time counselor and um special education par profofessionals. We offer primary language support, afterchool tutoring, reading and math intervention, small groups with PAR educators and level library time. We celebrate teachers, staff, uh students and parents for their achievements and always strive to make them feel appreciated. Every month we hold character education assembly. We have seal lessons in the classrooms. We have a counselor on staff to help the students who are
026struggling more than others. We have a very large number of bilingual staff members who are are always a available to support translation needs for any students that needs it. We also pro uh provide a lot of support for our staff members. We have four instructional coaches that support grade level teachers. SEA Elementary offers very many opportunity for our students. Our students have an opportunity to particip participate in Russian, Ukrainian or Spanish Spanish language classes. This not only enriches the curriculum but also celebrates the linguistic and cultural diver diversity of our community creating a more inclusive and welcoming environment. We have a very large afterchool program which serves over 800 students on a daily basis with offering more than 40 clubs. The afterchool survey indicates that our students and parents appreciate our afterchool program and feel
027safe and supported during after school hours. We ho we host lots of schoolwide events which always draw a very large crowd of families. In this picture, President Campbell visited our transportation parade to show her support of our school. We are so grateful for you, Lily Campbell. Very nice, Madam President. We offer students and parents opportunity to complete surveys to give us feedback on what is done well and what needs to improve. This parent survey shows the growth, but they have enjoyed the school year. Parents have noticed that their children like going to school and feel that CA really prepares their students for colleges and careers. We also have several opportunity throughout this school year for our parents to attend workshops that help them build a more robust knowledge of the education system in which their
028children are being being taught. that this year's attendance focus we have lowered our chronic absentism rate from 17.4 to 14.4% which is so proud we are so proud of but we will continue to work on getting this number even lower next year. In this picture uh member Mark Anderson joined us in uh our annual transportation parade along with his wife. We had the opportunity to have the Sak Sacramento shar shariff helicopter do a special lending for uh our students and parents for the 25 26 school year. We are in initi initi in initial initi initializing initializing every brand of our school which be uh which will be called community outreach academy of arts. We will be infusing language and arts into our regular day program with the addition of music music and art teachers. We
029will expand our TK program for from three to four classes to serve 80 students. And we will um continue to focus on student achievement and attendance for next year. And we will also continue with our implementation of MTSS and immigrant and immigrant outreach and services because whatever it takes, our kids are worth it. Thank you very much. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer. Yes. For members, I really want to thank you uh for your presentation. Again, very very informative. I really appreciate your comments on getting the attendance up in the in the COA because as you know that trying to recover from learning loss, we have to have the the students there. So, you really feel it's going in the right direction at this point? I I don't I'm sure the numbers
030have improved significantly for this year. I was very very thank you for this actually this comment and we are proud of this and this year I'm really really involved in this process and I personally meeting with uh met with parents who took a lot of independent studies this year and I have habits to to continue to do this and also uh with our attend program we had uh opportunity to send messages through to email to mail through mail through uh uh portals to explain and we had visuals like showing every month our attendance. So with our goal you know 95% we always like p put explain to our parents during school site council duck and visual visual showing them so we have expectations so that's worked good so you can actually visualize the increase in
031the improvement that's a that's a great technique uh again I want to applaud you on your the integration of the Ukrainian uh student population I know it's probably really significantly impact your language skill test scores, but uh I know that's going to turn out to be a very great success. I know you're working very hard at it. Thank you. And I just can't pass this one up. I I it just jumps out at you. 93% of the my children like to go to school. I wonder if that number anywhere else in the Sacramento area. Uh and maybe we need to really work on the 7% that don't really like to come. But anyway, congratulations on that. Thank you for your your report. Thank you for your comments. Yes, Bruce. And just a little follow up
032on what Jack said. If you look at the 20234 and 245 on this parent surveys, um significant improvement in everything, you know, that that yeah, 93% was 83% and it's not now 93%. So, you've really done some things with the school of climate. Thank you. I know if I were a student, I would love to be there. There's so much going on there and it's such a fun place. It seems to be so many activities. The arts particularly and just visiting the school gives you such a great great feeling of well-being. I guess that's the word I want to use because you feel like something is happening all the time there and it is just and it is because of the staff and the hard work that you guys put in and and it's obvious
033it is obvious. Uh on transportation day, I saw so many people working to make sure the vendors were well taken care of, to make sure we were well taken care of, just everything in place that it just makes you feel so good when you walk on the campus and see all of the things that's happening and all of the programs from the new Duty on to the old old buildings and the ambiance and and I look at that a lot. The ambiance, it's just great. It makes students want to be there uh and want to come. That's why that 93% is up there because they really feel good about being there. Okay. Thank you. I love my school, my children, my parents, my staff. So, we love you. We love your school. Your staff, your
034children. Who's here? Let's see. Well, just any staff members. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, they're few. Thank you. Thank you. Michelle supposed to be here, but something happened. I think anything, superintendent. Uh, no, nothing. Just want to, as I've done, just continue to affirm the work that uh, Principal Gonchar continues to do uh, with a very unique uh, population. And I'm excited as the school transitions to an academy of the arts and we continue to expand our work to uh do performing and visual arts for our community. So, thank you. We have been asking for that. But I I really think you could have found another picture. I like the picture. I like the picture. And you have wonderful gifts. I'm just again, thank you for mention making mention of that. These are your gifts
035and they're just as cute as they can be. Thank you. Yeah, Miss Larissa, I think next year for the transportation parade, you need to talk to Director Ash and bring the low rider out so that it's right there. [Music] So, there we have it. We will have it. We will have it if I have to go get it. And now we shall move into COA middle school. All right. Well, before we get started, got a few gifts from our after school students today. Oh, thank you. Making some art, creating some things. I always like to see that. Oh, this is beautiful. I'll take the other one. Oh, that's gorgeous. Thank you. Oh, where's it going to go? All right. Well, uh, good afternoon, good evening. It's a pleasure to be here, president, vice president, uh,
036board members, superintendent, sample, cabinet. Um, it is my honor, privilege to be here today to uh deliver the end of the year report on behalf of Community Outreach Academy Middle School and soon to be Community Outreach Academy of Sciences. Oh, it's going to be changed. Yeah, we're going to get there at the end. I got that. Um, before I begin, I do want to thank uh some of my staff who came out to support. Uh, we've got wonderful staff. Uh, Miss Bai and Miss Johnston. Without them, we couldn't be doing the important work that we're doing. All right. As always, there's good things everywhere when it comes to COA. Uh many of our things our good things overlap with what Lissa had already talked about, but uh some of the things I want to highlight
037again similar the positive culture that we have, the dedication of our teachers, our staff. This was our first uh full year with a new consistent uh leadership team. We've achieved a sixth year as a national CH showcase school. And as Lissa mentioned before, we uh moved through a successful WASK and um charter renewal this year. We're always looking for ways to support our students and this year's no different. Um, we've got expanded opportunities in our expanded learning program, our summer school. Uh, we're taking steps towards site beautifification. We've got some, uh, funds from the CTE grant. And one thing, just mentioning on here, we we're always doing fun things, looking for ways to engage with the community. And we found somebody who donated um a series of A's tickets this year. So, we were able
038to have a giveaway each month to our students uh so they could attend the AIDS games and it was really neat uh to see hear students talk about how they've never been to a game before. They were greeted by the Ukrainian ambassador. They received all kinds of little gifts and things and so it was just another fun thing we could do for our students. All right, moving ahead. This year when we looked at our school learning plan, we decided to expand on the reading comprehension vocabulary piece by uh further aligning it to the GCC uh portrait of a graduate. The details of this plan included reading comprehension as I mentioned, vocabulary, uh fostering essential skills for students, monitoring attendance, much like Lissa described. Uh part of that was to increase instructional time and engagement and
039then overall look uh looking at the overall well-being of our students and what we can do more. Um in line with this work, we engaged our teachers in professional development throughout the year that centered on uh depth of knowledge trainings for our science and our EL department. We focused on close reading strategies. We engaged staff in learning rounds. Our math department uh participated in a building thinking classroom uh phase two training professional development through Sacramento Meno County Office of Ed and in collaboration with our GCC team. We focused on uh some trauma-informed practices for our staff and additional classroom management and discipline training for uh specifically new teachers as they came in. When it comes to uh learning and data, we've seen uh solid growth all year long. This table in front of you shows
040the uh the change or where students began at the beginning of the year as measured on I Ready and where they ended at the end of the year by their grade level or by their levels performance levels. To me, these are really exciting gains. In reading, we saw 17 our students move from 17% total performing at or above grade level to 28% performing at or above grade level at the end of the year. In math, we saw students move from 18% performing at or above grade level to 40% performing at or above grade level. For students performing below grade level, we saw decreases in every area across all uh subgroups as well. As we drilled down and looked at reading comprehension and vocabulary, we saw an increase of students performing at grade level move from
04120% to 26% vocabulary from 15 to 30%. And then when it came to our stretch and typical growth, we saw progress there as well. 55% of our students met or exceeded their typical growth goal in reading and 58% uh met their typical math growth goal. The typical growth goal is the average amount of growth that a student is expected to grow at that level. Then when it came to our stretch growth, uh 29% of our students met or exceeded their reading stretch growth goal. And in math, we had 30% uh meet that goal. That stretch growth goal is a more ambitious goal that is designed to help students move from where they were to at grade level a lot quicker. So, it's a little harder to to reach. Uh given our high number of eels,
042though, this is all um extraordinary data to us. Um, every year we see more and more students performing at or above above grade level in every grade level and this year is no different. As we look at leadership across our school, this is another area that I'm uh particularly proud in. As mentioned before, this was our first full year with our new team. Uh we restructured a little bit yet last year and we moved through the year together, learning, growing, reflecting, and now we're ready for the next level as we move into our second year together. We worked tirelessly to make sure that everyone felt supported, that they had a say. We kept uh the idea of leading from the middle a priority, and it showed with our results, our survey results, and things of
043that nature. We also had three staff members participate in the GCC teacher leaders group which empowered them to pursu pursue their passion projects. This year we had a PE teacher implement a plugging project on Earth Day. That's where uh students competed in a a jogathon where they also picked up trash and learned about their uh impact on the environment. We had one of our eighth grade teachers implement a uh college and career exploration project much like a science fair. This is where students researched various projects or um various dream careers and the means to get there and the schools that would allow them to do so. Next year we're going to continue with these. And then lastly, we had uh a para educator participate in this project or in this uh cohort as well. Shout
044out to Dimma Mission. He uh developed a math tutoring support program for our students. Started off small, expanded, and it's set to continue next year. He's working with students after school, during school, and then uh next year we are having him pair up with a math teacher to further support students in uh in line with a math type of intervention class. When it comes to student leadership, uh there are so many things that we've been doing, we've been building on this year. I'm proud to say that we've been able to uh it feels like we've been able to empower students, help them build their capacity at new levels, providing new opportunities for students to mentor each other, whether it's our school or working with our fifth grade buddies at the elementary school. Providing opportunities for
045our students to lead and start their own clubs. um lead orientation for incoming students, plan events, fund raise, things of that nature. This year, uh in align with those, we started our ASB student council for the first time. We've got a school uh president, a treasurer, and a secretary. And this year we involved them in uh they opened the doors for fundraising for leading events for increased input on deciding how ASB money is allocated and voice their uh opinion or thoughts on the various policies and things across the school. It was really nice to uh have time throughout the year to meet with these students, talk with them, propose ideas and then discuss that further. Um, as we look ahead to next year, we plan to uh really expand upon this, build upon this, and
046increase that student voice, take it to new levels. When it comes to equity, uh, first, our CK culture, the culture of our school always helps us to fos positive that f that positive community or to foster that positive community where students, staff, parents, everyone feels welcomed. Uh like Lissa mentioned, our handover data, our ELCOP surveys speak to this and is very pleasing, especially as a first year principal for the school. Throughout the year, we provided targeted support from our counselor to work with some of these students. We have a student support adviser who works one-on-one with students and in the group session. She works with our uh resource officer sometimes and our vice principal to engage students in different ways. We have um other highlights for our special populations include that we've implemented SIP and
047Sunday curriculum for our students with disabilities and uh or those who are in need of other remedial interventions. We've been able to sustain our English language development support classes. We offer we have three teachers teaching three different levels across four elective periods each covering as many students as we can. In this sense, we're also working to refine our MTS practices, which we did. We've partnered with the GCC professional learning department to better equip our teachers as well and our instructional coach. And then one really exciting piece was that we were able to reclassify 58 students as English proficient this year based on their ELPAC assessments. This is more than double the previous year and triple the year before really. And as a school with English learners, a high percentage of socioeconomically disenfranchised students, to us,
048this was a really big deal, and we're excited about the progress we're making. An important piece at our school is always the well-being of students, staff, and everyone else involved with our school. We always try to keep this a priority. We do celebrations. This year we really emphasized from the individual to the groups to students to staff various different things. This year we pro uh provided positive behavior support and recognition for students. We consistently celebrated their positive behavior, their academic growth and their teamwork. This trickled up to staff as well with some of the fun things we did for them. We've updated our assemblies across the school to go deeper on topics such as signs of suicide, drug awareness, bullying, self-love, and this moved into lessons that were taught in the classroom through units during
049our advisory time to better address the needs of our students. To further sustain that well-being, that positivity that we always try to hold on to, we uh ended the year with our annual tradition, second year in a row, the eighth grade clap out and affirmation walk. Uh this is where our sixth grade, seventh grade students line the halls with posters, signs, affirmations. We've got music playing through the intercom and the eighth grade students parade through the halls as they're getting high fives, fist bumps, and everybody's cheering for them right before they go to promotion. Um, and then this year we even had some of our students uh cheer for our neighbors at CCCS as they did the same thing just as a show of, you know, community. And on that note, I want to highlight
050that uh when it comes to the well-being of everyone, we really tried to take our collaboration up a notch when it came to CCCS and other schools within our district. We did an or organized a lot more or many more positive uh activities events with CCCS for both campuses. Our students at each site left positive notes to each other. We made posters for each other. We had our leadership teams meet. They worked. We walked around. We handed candy to students. We delivered candy canes to their staff on uh Christmas. Things like that. We even planned a uh the first annual spring social together. We got our leadership classes from both sites together to plan, organize, and it went uh really well. Unfortunately, I couldn't be there, but uh Mr. Sample was there and spoke highly
051of it. Pictures were pretty cool, and everybody looked like they were having a lot of fun. Um we even hosted when it came to after school athletics, we combined our basketball teams so that we had students from CCCS and COA. And it was really all about modeling these kind of things for our students, for our staff um just to create that a deeper sense of well-being for everyone. And these are just some of the things we did together. At COA Middle School, like COA Elementary, we have a variety of opportunities and programs for our students. We've got a diverse array of elective options from world languages like Ukrainian and Russian to art and dance things of that nature. But this year we added some new electives. We have a new project lead the way flight
052and space elective. We have an introduction to CTE class that we've added uh a second period of and then next year we'll be talking about some new things. We've um continued to add and build on our expanded learning program, our afterchool sports and athletics, lunchtime clubs, things of that nature. We're always looking for ways to continue to showcase the talent of our students, whether it's the athleticism, the academics, or uh other. This year we hosted uh our students participated in seven performances uh schoolwide and within the greater community and a couple of them I actually got to play guitar with them and it was super fun. All right, try again. Oh. Uh oh. Are you doing the adoption? I don't know. Where were which one were you? viewer engagement right at the engagement one. Yeah.
053Yeah. All right. And then so when it comes to engagement, we look at this through various levels and things as well. Starting with the students, we always work to uh build in that portrait of a graduate uh into everything we do. We engage them in different ways. So this year we sought to up that to really make it real, make help it come to life, be a part of what we do, who we are. This led into our college and career career explor u exploration and research program that we've started across the school. We have generally good feedback or positive feedback from our students as well. They're feeling happy engaged for the most part middle school stuff but in general the numbers are good. We've worked to sustain and expand all the different ways that
054we've engaged with the community as well. talent shows, academic events, high school information night where we invited other schools from uh the G GCC to come and set up booths. And then we're continuing to work with Futures High School, plan field trips and other presentations of that nature. When it comes to family and community, we're always looking for ways again to continue to engage them. We had a high number of uh instances and opportunities and this too was highlighted in our uh LCAP handover data. I worked with my team to expand upon these create a little deeper opportunities to have uh conversations with their new principal. We hosted listening sessions for the parents. We engaged different and diverse staff on the ethnofm program. I had students come and perform. We had different staff go on
055and talk about their programs. We continued with a lot of the supports that we've been doing like the food box distribution and things of that nature. Parent workshops continued. We expanded a couple of those topics to go deeper on ways to support their students in person. We when I say uh parent awareness initiatives, that's talking about the attendance and other programs that we started to help parents understand the importance of that. And as Lissa mentioned, we did see a decrease in our chronic absenteeism this year as well. As I end this presentation, this slide to me is a very exciting piece. Um, so I'm thought you know what's next? We've, as I mentioned before, community outreach of the Academy of Sciences. So we're looking at the way that elementary is looking at the arts, expanding
056to a school of sciences. Science has always been embedded into what we are, but with this, we're looking at how we can take what we've been doing uh, infuse CTE pathways into student schedules that might lead to uh, stronger pathways offered at futures in other schools. In this sense, we're going to continue with our solar program where we're working with uh UC Davis aerospace engineering grad students to mentor our students and really just looking at ways to expand science access to our students and inspire them. Uh some other future things of what's next in addition to that type of rebranding, we're working with just to uh redesign our motto, perhaps a updated refined logo. This year we've also got a facility modernization that's begun and we are super excited about that. I can't wait for
057you to see the uh results of that as well. As we look ahead to our re uh in connection with our rebrand rebranding, we've got a new project lead the way class. So this year we'll have three. The new one will be medical detectives which aligns perfectly with some of the work at Futures High School. We're going to continue with our uh tier 2 support when it comes to MTSS. We've been looking at uh ways to refine our college and career readiness curriculum and program throughout this year. So, I'm excited to see what our counselor and vice principal are able to do. They've scheduled things throughout the year, new project ideas, ways to strengthen goals, uh career fair. It sounds it's really exciting and I can't wait to share with you uh or have you
058see some of the the results. Now, as always, that collaboration is key for modeling everything that we do. collaboration, well-being, and just general good uh ways of being a human. Continued collaboration with CCCS futures and elementary will happen. We've done uh we will continue with our regular meetings, finding ways to bring our students together, finding ways to connect and align academically. As well, as Lissa mentioned, we'll continue with our immigrant outreach services, science fair, career fair, positive behavior interventions. Those are all things that are coming this year. We've got a dream team ready to go to the PBIS training next year and bring that back to our school. And as well, we'll all continue looking for trainings and targeted support for our teachers. Um, overall with that, I just want to again say thank you.
059It's been a pleasure to be here. I'm so proud of everything that we've done. I've got an amazing team, our students, staff, families, the team we have here just inspirational. And as I conclude my first year, I have nothing but pride and eyes on the prize. I have a vision of where we're going. I know we're on a trajectory toward greatness and we're just getting started here. With that, uh again, I want to say thank you and open it up to any questions you might have. Okay, board members. Yes, Mr. Turner. Well, I want to say first a very informative report and congratulations. Your enthusiasm is well noted and particularly on your first this is your first year uh with the new team that you have and obviously there has been a lot of hard
060work. It really uh uh is rather dramatic the increases in both reading and math. And I think I I just really have to ask when you look at 60% of your student population consisting of English learners. I know it's a lot I know you could say a lot of hard work has went into those scores to improve. What do you what do you think has been the one or two most successful techniques that you your staff has been doing to to get those scores improving? Sure. So, with math, I'm going to start there. Um, I really believe in the building thinking classrooms work that we've done with our teachers, but I think a big part of that is or uh one of the factors that helped their impact is we've had a number of staff
061who have been with our school for a long number of years. They understand the community. They understand how to work with English learners. And so when we're going through this building thinking classrooms training, they're able to apply what they know about our students to make adjustments to make this work just right for our students. And so I think understanding who our students are and having that retention has also helped with that. We've got teachers 17 years. We've worked together. We've come up together. We've built on everything that we have. And now we're at this place where we're firing like a fine. Uh Well, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. When it comes to English, uh ELA, reading, uh we focus on comprehension and reading in every area of our school. When we looked at our school
062learning plan, we embedded that in. whether it's art, whether it's PE, whether it's your electives, we're all focused on vocabulary, we're all focused on comprehension. And so that effort, I think, uh, has impacts not just in their classrooms, the reading, and so a product of our collective efforts is the growth that we're seeing here. Our students, there's still plenty of room to grow, but we're all coming at this from all different angles. I'll walk into art. They're teaching vocabulary, but they're also doing really cool art. I go into dance. That's a part of what they're doing. They're reading vocabulary, but they're also learning about dance and having fun. Same with PE. And so, we really tried to make it a cohesive uh just impact. And that's what we just tried to do. Um, and again,
063retention of some really quality staff has helped as well. They've been through trainings together. They're glad certified. They've been with us for the long haul. and they start they've understand our students a little differently which helps our new teachers as well. They can guide and mentor them um and great leadership. Thank you from the people from your vice principles and for you. We're very glad that you ended up over there. So yeah, we have a a strong instructional background and I think that also plays into it as uh leaders. Bruce, did you have something? No. Oh, your speaker was on. I'm sorry. Anyone else? And uh you mentioned the music. Yeah, always. If you haven't heard Dr. Diego, he plays a pretty good guitar for sure. That's one thing I loved in the after school
064class. We have a band and to see kids playing and then get the opportunity to let my hair down a little bit, jump in and play some songs. It was great. You played most of it the whole time. It wasn't just one or two. It was really great to see you and to see the participation of the principal there which makes a big difference. I really firmly believe that you've got to walk the walk too. And so if this is what you're asking your staff to do, you got to show that you are committed to doing some of those things also. And I think this is what's what has really happened that has made this school so special as it is now. So, thank you again and I appreciate coming and seeing what's happening over
065there. Thank you. All right. Anything else board members? Thank both of you for your reports tonight from the schools and we were very, very pleased with staff and please give the the boards, you know, when you get back. Thank you guys for being here tonight. Thank you. All right. Okay. And as I stated, we have a long agenda. So, you know, if you feel that you need to go and get some rest, please do so because we're going to be here for a little while. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now, I got to figure out where we are at this point. Okay, we are now with review information. Uh and the next item is GCC990 review. Uh yes, uh Madame President and members of the board, uh the next two items
066are kind of file and receive. So the first one is our annual 990 uh tax return and this is for your records. Uh if you have questions after you review this tonight, please feel free to reach out to uh CBO Raina who can answer those. And then your second item is just providing you with an update on the written improvement plan that we presented to the board last year around this time regarding uh the uh low performing status of Futures High School and our implementation. Even though the school moved out of low performing, we still have a standing adop board adopted plan that went to our authorizer. And so this is just our annual uh review to bring this back to you for you to uh review our progress on it. And I'm proud to
067say that uh we continue to work and make progress uh through the plan and uh looking forward to the work that next school year assistant superintendent will do with uh the futures team to continue uh our work in that area. Okay. So no action item is required. U board members, any comments, any questions or anything on these two items? No. That's uh the GCC RS990 review. And did you go into the update written improvement plan of Futures High School? Uh yes, ma'am. Yeah. So those were just information items. Correct. Okay. Any comments? Hearing none. Seeing none, we shall move on to um the consent agenda items. And okay, I'm going to read them just for those who might be listening quickly. Approve GCC board meeting minutes 513 to 5. Approve GCC board meetings because we
068had two meetings. Um 610 25. Approve personnel consent agenda. Approve purchases over 30,000. Approve disposal and surplus technology. Approve reading difficulties risk screener. Approve board policy. Approve California Intercolastic Federation CIF League representation. Um, approve job description update revision. Approve 202526 education protection account. approved Sacramento Youth Centerou CCCS and approved GCC administrative credential stipen schedule. Those are the consent agenda items. I will entertain a motion for I need approval and I I want to comment on one of the items. Okay. May I have a second? I'll second. All right. Then we will go into discussion. Yes. I I really want to uh praise our superintendent on item number four, which is the purchases over $30,000. The superintendent's newsletter. I you may have started a trend, but it really was very very informative and and just immediately
069answered the questions that you we constantly keep asking you. So, I don't know if you want to integrate it in the uh the the board item or you want to include it in your future newsletters and I know it's more work for you, but that's your work and I don't I just get to read it. So, anyway, thank you for that. I agree. It was very lengthy. He did a lot of work with those making sure we understood them and if we had questions we we could go back and ask those questions. So thank you. It was very detailed. It really was. Yes. Okay. Uh purchase over 30,000 the bala avenue. I was looking at that one. Yes. Have we checked with the state and see who really supposed to be taking care of the
070streets? Yes. I'm going to uh ask director a little to come up and he can kind of share with you. I call it a very unique journey on uh this pathway. Which one was that? This is uh paving of the boulevard. Oh, the pavement. Yeah. Okay. Uhhuh. Okay. 50 and 80 out there. Yeah. Okay. Yes, they are. Um, this is a part of the section if you go over to the school and you the county owns up to where the creek is is what they say they have and nobody's claiming the section that goes around the school. Yeah. So, we have gone out to get some bids to fix the street. We've tried doing our side of uh just repairing, but as soon as we get rain, it just pops everything back out again. So,
071we have these bids now to go through um to repair that part portion of the street up to the corner, which would eliminate all those potholes for safety reasons and everything else. We are going tonight for the approval, but we are not planning on moving forward with it yet until we know for sure what's happening with the site. Yeah, it is rough trying to drive around that area because I have done that in one. It's rough trying to get out here to this board meeting. We I turn that curb up right up here on off of Dudley. A little curve. I turn that. There's a big hole right there. I have to go like way over. I'm almost hit a car if I I don't go slow. Yeah, this has been a back and forth
072thing for a few years trying to get this fixed. So, that's why we finally just went out and got our own bids on it just to kind of take that approach. And again, I think the important piece is we will not move forward on this until we know the other aspects of uh where we're going with the facility long term. Okay, we got a motion in place and I want to go back to personnel just to to make a couple things. Thank you, Mr. Little. Thank you. Okay, roll call on the motion for the uh consent agenda items. Um, Harry Block, yes. Bruce Mandrich, yes. Jack Turner, yes. And Lily Campbell, yes. So, the consent agenda items have been approved, but I just want to mention a couple of things under personnel. Did you have
073something? I know. Yes, I did. Yes. Okay. Would you please? Yes. Madame President, members of the board, I just want to uh draw your attention to two of the items on the personnel consent. three, excuse me, items on the personnel consent that was uh approved tonight. Uh one is the change of position for CCCS director, Mr. John Campbell. He was in the room, but I think he's left. Uh Mr. Campbell will be transitioning to the role of independent study compliance director. Uh there is one person in the GCC who has actually trained just about everybody in independent study and that is uh Mr. Campbell. And so we're excited for the work that he'll be doing with assistant superintendent uh as we continue to um work through all of the uh state requirements regarding uh our
074independent study schooling programs. Uh the other uh item I'd like to highlight is that um with some of the moves at CCCS, uh Michelle Jordan, who has been the principal of CCCS Maine in high school, is uh retiring uh at the end of this school year. And so um principal Angie Praxia von Brionis will be moving from CCCS TK8 uh over to the high school to continue her work there. And uh we're uh proud uh to have hired uh Dr. uh Carla Galbreth who uh will be the new principal of uh CCCSTK8. Dr. Galbreth comes with uh a wealth of charter school experience. Uh has worked in both comprehensive schools as well as uh charter schools. uh most notably her time was uh spent in the Salano County area at Valo schools and she worked
075for Fortune Schools and so we're very happy to have Dr. Galbreth uh as part of our team. And then the final one that I wanted to share is under classified. You see that uh director Sergey Terov is on that list. Sergey will be retiring. And I just want to publicly express uh my uh appreciation and affirmation to Sergey for his years of service uh not only as a staff member but as a member of the SEBACK. And previously, you may remember he was the board liaison uh from the SEBACK to the board. And so Sergey has been definitely someone that's been around our organization for a while and we look forward to continuing uh working with him. But uh we wish Sergey uh our very best in his retirement. Yes. Thank you very much for
076for mentioning those changes because we talked about them and I just want to make sure on the record that they knew uh the changes are good and that we definitely will be missing uh Mr. Sergey uh as director because he's been around almost as long as I have and uh so we will send our best to him and uh we're going to miss him. He's done quite well. Anything else? Okay. All right. So, that takes care why that takes care of uh the consent agenda items and now we are getting ready to go into business and that is approve the adopted budget for now. Thank you. Good evening board. Um for excuse me on my uh Director Campbell is in the room now. So we talked about you sir and so is my phone. You
077felt it, huh? Thank you and congratulations to your new position. What? Oh, thank you. All right. Am I good to go? Good evening, President Campbell, trustees, superintendent, cabinet, and our audience. Um, I am going to present our 2025 2026 adopted budget. Okay. To start off, I always like to do some acknowledgements. This is a big report. takes lots of hours, months to prep, to work on this um report that's over 400 pages. So, I want to acknowledge my uh business services staff, uh Valerie Rogers, director of business services, that's with us. Sophia Corno, which is our new supervisor of fiscal services. She's also doing budget and overseeing our analysts. And then Cindy Panekvar and Mia Vang, which are not with us. um they have left for the day. Oh, hi there's Cindy. So Cindy's still
078here with us. I saw Mia walk out. Okay, so uh those are our budget and financial analysts. They do a lot of the work revolving entering and ensuring things are balanced and movement of people and ensuring everything from meetings are captured. So thank you uh to those individuals. uh human resources plays a crucial part in ensuring um compliantly um making cuts or uh movements. And so we thank them for their support, our executive directors or directors, assistant superintendent, principles and site support. So it takes takes a village to to get this report completed and accurate to reflect what the vision is for our sites. So I just want to thank them. I also want to thank my department that a lot of the times, you know, they see our doors shut because we're focused, laser
079focused, couple days ensuring this gets done. Um, so I also want to thank them for sometimes having to figure things out while we're we're busy um getting this done. Okay. So, the adopted budget is based on assumptions from the governor's May revise. We will continually continuously monitor the state budget's adoption and ensure any impacts are reflected for our first interim. So the the May revise is a proposal and it gets enacted in July. So once we hear more, we will reflect those changes via first interim budget. Uh the budget is due to our chartering authority um at the county office of education on June 30th of this month. Okay, I'll go into some state budget highlights and kind of how that impacts us. So for uh May reise, the governor proposed $114.6 billion for the
080educational budget. LCFF adjustments um and deferrals um assumptions are 2.3 COLA for LCFF and I'll talk a little bit more about that in in a little when we get further into the slides and we will have a June deferral of 1.8 billion. So we had a deferral this year. It was less than the one coming up for the 25 26 year but we will have a June uh deferral. Good thing about that is we have a lot of of uh reserves that will sustain us and will not be an issue for GCC as a whole. Full implementation of the universal TK. So these are all components of the LCFF. Um we are getting more funding for that and we'll see that a little bit further in our slides. the professional development block grant. That is
081a grant that has been promised, but due to the fact that they've clawed back new block grants, um I was hesitant to put it in our budget. So, we do not have it in eight of our nine LEAs, I did include that for um the Sava at Power in or Sava Sac City due to their tightness of their budget. Um so that one um is roughly 20 323 per 88 GCCwide that's uh 1.8 million. So this is this was on the state's um budget proposal. So we're hoping that this does come into fruition giving some relief to our sites that are are going to start feeling the tightness of our budget. Um we have federal um funding uncertainties. So that was expressed in our May revise. It was also expressed um in circulars that we've
082been getting on updates on the federal funding. There is proposals to cut some of the title 3es um potentially lumping things up into um bundles and kind of giving it to us and in a one resource kind of like we had when there was a recession before and the state put all the categoricals together and gave us a block grant. Um federal st starting to sound a little bit like that. There is um obviously some protected federal funding with IDEIDA which is the special education funding and the title one. So those can't be touched but there is uncertainty with all the other federal grants. We do get title two, we get title three and we get title four funding as well as student nutrition funding for EPIC. Currently, um for AB84, there's impacts um up
083to 3% to change our uh oversight fees to our authorizers. Um that won't take into effect until the 26 27 year. Um therefore, for this year, it's not um impacting us, but we are prepping for it as it most likely will pass. Um SB 414 is um impacts on the non-classroombased schools. They're looking at some type of reforms to um take some testing out but potential cuts to these to these schools. So uh we're looking out and keeping an eye on these bills um to see how that will impact us moving forward. Um they also discussed the attendance recovery plan using ELO funds. So uh Dr. Gold is very aware that this is an opportunity for us to be able to increase our our attendance um percentages and use this funding for that purpose. So
084that's moving forward for the 25 26 years 26 year um the learning recovery emergency block grant. So uh if you recall there was two block grants about two years ago where they were clawed back at one point. This is uh the one one of the ones that we hadn't heard back if we were going to get the funding back. They always said, "Oh, we're going to give it to you later." Well, that time's here. They're saying that they are going to pay within the next three years. So, they're going to divide for GCC. It's $1.3 million that will be divided over three years. So, we're looking at uh potentially getting a little bit of funding here. um this funding because it's going to be split into three years is only 400 430,000 per year for
085the whole organization. So divide that by the sites it's a little bit less but nonetheless I'm sure this will be a relief for our schools that are are are going to feel tightness in this coming up year. Again for this one I have not included this in the adopted budget. I was being conservative uh not knowing exactly when we will see those funds and how they will come about. So um again the only site that has this funding is Sava Sak City. Um and we will continue to monitor to see where where we are at with that. Um they've expressed the expiring one-time funds. So that's here. We're living it now. And so, uh, that was a highlight in the May revise. Um, the same with insurance spikes, uh, premium, um, spikes for, um, property
086and liability as well as the sexual um, assault insurance. So, we do have five of our nine LEAs with SIA, which are impacted for Twin Rivers Insurance. So, we we um have two carriers. We have SIA which is with Twin Rivers. So those five sites, we pay into them and they're heavily um affected by this um by the sexual assault laws that have come about and so we see the reflection in in those premiums. We do see some in Charter Safe, but it's more impactful in the SIA world that's more of a district insurance carrier. Um, we are also seeing the depletion of Prop 98 reserves by the end of this year. And you can see the little cartoon. I stole that from school services. It says, "I guess I shouldn't have spent all the
087reserves for ongoing costs." So, that was a cute slide, so I decided to share it. Okay. Now we're on to our enrollment um for the 2526 seabeds projection. I've included the 2425 seabeds for reference to kind of see where we were in October, November of last year to where we are projected to be at now. Uh the enrollment numbers are projected looking at the current enrollment of whom we're looking at um enrollments for adopted budget. So around April May time we're reviewing this goes through a a rigorous review through our assistant soups our intent to return our superintendent. We all review it before we make a decision on where we're going to lock the number at. Um so this is where we're at. You can see that the highest impacts is with CCCS and that's
088due to the Connections Academy um site being open. And you can see um an increase at GIS and that's due to the expansion. We're hoping that these numbers are pretty conservative and we should be able to see an increase at first, but we do go conservative not knowing how our advertisements will take effect and how many kids are outgoing versus the ones that are incoming. Our enrollment to 88 percentages for 2526 are still somewhat low in the 93%. Um, Sava Elkrove is at 96. Some of the independent studies are a little bit higher, but our goal should always be about 97 96 97%. So, we are losing some funding. We're hoping that the ELOT program can kind of support and um help with these numbers. Our unduplicated percentages are listed below on the bottom half.
089Um, I just want you guys to note that Saba Twin Rivers and Saba Elkrove have a decline in in their uh unduplicated. They're a little bit under but still above to receive concentration dollars. So, um, that's a good thing. Uh but we are watching those to ensure that um we are monitoring and the impact that potentially could have if they were to lose any type of funding. Um up above is a table on how the impact from our 2425 target base grants what we were receiving per ADA in each of the grade levels. The 2.3 is the COLA that we are receiving for current year. the grades span adjustment you can see that TK is the full implementation so you can see that in that column in the uh grades span adjustment of 6 uh,612
090and then also the K3 uh grade levels and the 912 grade levels have a gradespan adjustment um due to the fact that it's uh takes more resources to educate those populations. And then in the final column you can see how much we are receiving per grade level per student. So for our general fund revenue assumptions for LCFF we have an increase of oh there was a typo on there. It should be 5.1 million. uh 2.3 of it is uh cola due to cola increase and then the rest is increased due to enrollment and ADA. So that 167 that you saw in the previous slides with the the enrollment that's reflected in in that 5.1 number. Our federal revenue increased to 689,000 and that's due to accounting for uh national school lunch. I am looking into
091applying for the Sava's um school reimbursement. Um they currently pay out of pocket. They pay uh Saba Elgoro for meals for their students. And so uh working with the vendor that's been working with me on Epic to get them um applied for and reimbursed so it's not coming out of their their their site budget. In addition, we had um um CSI dollars which were about three times more than they were in previous years. And um we were a little puzzled to see that it was so high. So we look to see okay what what was the difference between this year and previous years and that's just this is due to um certain uh categories or certain parameters that that trigger CSI funding. Um and so there was less participation. Therefore there was more money to
092be split out between the the people that were uh allowed to receive this funding. uh there was flat funding for the title programs and so that is what makes up LCFF and federal revenue. So moving on to state state revenue we see a huge decrease of 15.1 that's loss of one-time revenues that are accounted for in the 2425 year. So, the California Community School Partnership Program, that's a 5-year grant. All of the revenue gets recorded in the 2425 year. Therefore, it appears that we've lost that funding. We've only used about 1ifth or less of the funding. Therefore, that money is sitting in the fund balance. Same thing with the Golden State Pathways. We're on year one. I believe we're on year two of of five. And same same concept, right? We we have spent very
093little. A lot of it you'll see in the fund balance and I'll show you that in the later slides. The dual enrollment, we got that for two years. I was hoping it was ongoing, but they've told us that it's not. So, we got two years of dual enrollment uh funding and um that is good for another uh two years after this year. Um, all of state programs have the increase of the 2.3% COLA. And then looking at our next category of local revenue, it decreased 164. And again, that's one-time revenues that we received in the current year. We received a um Sacramento County Office of Ed U capacity grant, which is the same as the CBH money that we get from Paluna. So, same type of funding, um, just more of it. Um, and that
094was I I want to say it was about 185,000. The CrossFit Foundation was a $10,000 grant that that uh, Sava secured and are using for equipment and such for that pathway. Uh, donations and facility use revenue. I usually take that out every adopted budget until we see the revenues come in. we will account for those. Okay, moving on to expenditures. We see that huge increase uh at the beginning of the year always in certificated and classified staff. That is because we're funding all our vacancies that we've had throughout the years the year I mean so the there's an increase of 7.3 million in our certificated salaries. We had um step increase or for step and column is 3.5 for certificated 2.5 for classified and there was a 4% for certificated and classified management. That's just
095the step and column increases. Uh we did have increase of change to the certificated step one teacher salary which then in turn changed the whole salary schedule for the certificated side. Um and so we worked on that. In addition, we restructured the certificated and classified management salary schedules to go from 20 steps down to nine uh to kind of mirror what we have at other um local um educational agencies and 1.5 increase for all classified staff. Everybody across the board regardless of what impacted them had at least a 1.5 increase in their salary. Benefits directly correlated with benefits are directly correlated with the increases in salaries. Our stirs um is flat from prior year at 19.1 but we did see a decrease in PERS to 26.81 which is good news. Um our health and welfare
096is projected at 3% annually. So we have that reflected and then our uh unemployment, social security, Medicare are all staying the same as prior year. Okay. Now we're going to address the negatives. Bottom half of the expenditure table, we have books and supplies decrease 343,000 due to decrease of one-time funding. largest reduction was 876,000 in non- capital equipment. And so that again looking at the lowhanging fruit where could we pull before we start hitting um salaries or um other categories. So that is one of the areas we look at to see can we pull these down for services and other operating expense that dropped by 1.5 million. This is primarily due to the contracts we have with Scoot, with Swing, and all the special ed contracts that we have to support positions that are vacant
097throughout the year. So, those are dropped at the beginning of the year in order to justify the increases that we're seeing in certificated and classified salaries also because otherwise you would be double counting it. Okay. Capital outlay uh that has a decrease from prior year of 7.9 million. Some of the bigger projects that we had in the current year, 2425 that are being dropped off are the epic two TK classrooms, the GIS expansion. Uh we had HVAC and PA systems at um Savas. I think El Grove also had a PA system and then we had a couple playgrounds at COA Elementary. Um and then lastly, the other outgo is a transfer from the carb consortium. So that is between Sava uh Twin Rivers and Sava Sak City. So there is a $500,000 grant. We're just
098moving funds over and so it looks like they're receiving new money. It's just movement within the LEAs from one year to the next and showing that change. Okay, we're almost done. So fund balance on the unrestricted side of the house. I'd like to kind of split restricted and unrestricted so you can kind of see make sure that we're staying operating um in the black with your unrestricted budget. That's what we want to make sure is solvent and that we're not overspending. All sites receive some sort of cuts in order to be solvent for the 25 26 years. As you are aware, there was a list of PAR educators that were released um in our last couple board meetings. Um, Epics's Epic does have a 350,000 and that is to cover the facility that is to
099cover the TK uh facility that is being built downstairs and they'll use reserves that they have over the 15% uh to cover that, but we anticipate that they will have uh additional reserves in the future due to the enrollment increasing at that site. Uh we also have we are also working on tightening up um future years based on uh our federal and state budget proposals. So we will continue to work and massage this budget specifically the unrestricted side of the house to ensure that we are solvent in future years. Now we come to the uh restricted side of the house and this is where you'll see some of the five-year grants kind of rolling into um the beginning to the end. You can kind of see that there's still uh funding available. So at the
100beginning of of this year, we're anticipating having 19.9 million um dollars in restricted dollars that are rolling over into the 2526 year. with the changes. So the the numbers are that are in the variance is what we are expending over what we are receiving in budget that year. And so it's going to drop our fund balance to 12.8. That's anticipated because we have programs that are for five years. Some of the programs that I've listed below are some of the programs that are carrying over um amounts over to the next years. So, I won't go into too much detail, but we're just drawing down our one-time money. Some of the risks moving forward is the cash deferrals for 2526 for the June aortionment. We have federal impacts with the tariffs, proposed federal cuts, changes and
101closing of the Department of Ed. Uh we have tax revenue delays for the Southern California area due to the wildfires. We have the two uh bills, the AB84 and the SB414 that are um heavily impacted on charter schools. We have the state economy um state e economy uncertainty with Prop 98 budget relying heavily on how the health of California economy and the strength of the state's general funds are. So if we don't do good with the state that's going to really impact our Prop 98 and also we don't have any cushion to kind of save us because we have depleted the the 90 the Prop 98 rainy day fund. Um, and also we have the expiring of one-time revenues. Again, we have for the most part seen the expiration of the one-time money. These other
102grants are five-year grants specifically to other purposes. They're not very flexible. They're very much for mental health, community engagement, those type of funding. So, or for CTE. Okay. And I will entertain any questions. Okay. board members. Yes. Yes, sir. Omar, as always, thank you very much. It it just and and I particularly like the this summary because it it's very easy to read it and and u really is a a snapshot of an extremely complicated uh budget. I think Ommyra really understates the complexity and the work that goes into to this budget. I I just can't begin to communicate to people with nine charters what it really takes. We're not one charter, which many schools, which most charters are, we're nine. And each one with a separate budget and separate needs and separate guidelines and
103all sorts of separate regulations for accountability. So, I just I I know again you mentioned your staff. I just want to say thank you for the work that you put in on this. U it really jumps out at you and if you combine two items uh the number of teachers that we have hired for next year, certificated staff and the restructuring of our salary schedule and the increases in salary. I think I think it has served us well and I certainly hope that's a correct statement in the future and I'm not overreaching. So, uh, and we certainly hope that the the teaching community in the Sacramento area becomes aware of the fact that we we are not only an outstanding educational uh, operation, but we are also very competitive in compensation. So, I want to
104say that again. Thank you. I thank you. I I again I marvel at this and the the work that your staff puts in and it it's reflected at the times when we go through audits because that's where the the rubber meets the road. You and I know that. Yeah. And uh that's really an important thing. So again, thank you. Thank you. Any other Mr. Block? Uh my question is about students and books, Chromebooks and regular books and this and that. Do we collect for the lost books? Do they pay for those or what's going on with those? Do you want to answer that, Joy? Do you want me to answer? We just might know a little bit more. We do allow the sites to collect um money for Chromebooks when students have damaged them. Um
105we do allow for some flexibility if the family faces hardship or um qualifies for free and reduced price lunch. Um but yes, we have accepted um payment for damaged property for Chromebooks and textbooks. Okay. Have we got any figures on where we lost money? I don't think that we've collected that data from any of our sites. Yeah. Yes. Director Brock, we um while we kind of anidotally know this uh information, it really has not been a major impact on the budget, but we can uh begin to look at kind of those impacts because it if you look at the cost that we were paying for lost textbooks and damaged textbooks, it really is the same, if not a little bit less, and assistant superintendent can correct me as we're paying now. So, it's not like
106we've seen a huge jump because we're now using technology versus textbooks, which were also themselves fairly expensive, but that's some information that we can look into and provide back in a Friday letter. Correct. And we do usually pull up how much we paid for the item and try to charge them equivalent to what we paid for it. Yes, Mr. Mendra. Yeah. I just want to second what Jack said already. Um, thank you. This is an amazingly complicated organization financially. But in addition to that, it's also a very strong organization financially and that everybody has to share the um blame for being a good organization. We'll call it blame. Um it's it's um everybody working together and it's as complicated for the educational side as it is the financial side. But um we've managed to pull
107the whole thing together and I really want to thank staff uh up and down the organization for maintaining a real strong program. Thank you. All right. We um you've heard a lot of accolades to you and the staff for this budget. Um but before we go any further, we do have um we need to entertain a motion for the adoption of the 202526 uh adopted budget. Move approval. Move approval. I'll second. Second. All right. We have an approval. Do we have any more discussions or comments? Any more hearing? None. Roll call. Harry Block. Yes. Um, Bruce Mandrek, yes. Jack Turner, yes. Lily Campbell, yes. The budget, the adopted budget has been approved with accolades for you and the staff. Thank you for the information, bringing it to us, and we appreciate it. Yeah, I just
108want to thank you for helping me in understanding the budget what we had. So, I appreciate that. You're welcome. And I also um had our director Valerie Rogers create some acronym definitions for you guys um on the request of uh Mr. Block. So, hopefully that's helpful and uh you can reference it for future budget submissions. Yes. Thank you very much. you and those are only the most important acronyms. Yeah. If you have any more, just let us know and we'll add it to the list. Okay. And you up for another item. Approve Proposition 28 annual report for Gateway Community Charter Schools. Okay. So part of the proposition 28 which is 1% of the LCFF uh revenue is to do an annual report uh to the board on what we spent it on uh how much
109FTE we're we're spending. So I will go ahead and get started. Just going to read uh a little bit about uh prop 28. Um, so this is the art and music in schools initiative that was a California ballot measure to increase funding for arts and music education in public schools. Key points include funding allocation requires additional state funds for arts and music education supplementing existing budgets. Source of funds uses 1% of the state's general fund revenue for K12 and community colleges without raising taxes. the use of funds allocated for hiring teachers, purchasing supplies, and supporting programs related to arts and music. Um, equity and distribution focuses on lowincome schools to close gaps in arts education. And then the accountability and transparency component, schools must report spending and demonstrate the impact of these funds. Prop 28
110aims to enhance the arts and music education, fostering creativity, critical thinking in students. So that is what this program is. Uh funding allocation 80% of it on Prop 28 must be spent on staff. Um this can't be a consultant. This has to be actual staff. The only caveat here is if it's under if the um enrollment is under 500, then we could uh wave this this requirement, but for the most part, most of our sites um are above um that 500 mark. And we do have to have 80% of it spent on staffing. And then the other 20% can be used for professional development, materials, supplies, um or consultants. This is where the consultant piece can come in. Prop 28 um funds cannot supplant current arts um arts and music funding. So there is a
111base uh year which was the 23 24 year. That's our b base year and then we always have to spend more than that every year. Some of the allowable uses I kind of like this slide because it allows sites to be creative in how they spent this money. um it could be used for computer coding, animating film, video photography. So we do have a lot of CTE courses and other enrichments that kind of fit within um these parameters like dance, uh hiphop, modern, you know, just just ballet, those type of things that we see in our afterchool program. Okay, so this slide's a little tiny for anybody viewing the screens, but hopefully you can see a little bit better in your um physical. Uh we have all I've recorded what the carryover was from prior
112year. So last year was our very first year of funding. So there was about 537,000 carryover, which is quite a bit. Um, if you look at our current year award, that was 900 969,000. I can't even read how tiny this is. Um, so 969,000 is our current year. So we carried over about half a little over half uh prior year and that's because it's hard to implement new programs. Um and so in the bottom you can see the expenditures and then what is left over um anticipated carryover after after the year is over. Right? So we still will have 1.3 million carryover. So this is just an analysis. It also shows you how much FTE per site. This is all certificated staff. We have had hourly staff coded for PAR educators in at least uh
113one maybe two sites. So that is that slide. Okay. How did we spend our funds for 2425? So, Gateway Community Charter sites spend our funds on teachers, PAR educator, part-time that support the art and music classes, contractors, field trips to enhance the art music education and materials. The also the GCC drum line was paid out of the Prop 28 funding. That is a great um incentive GCCwide that we can express without calling out any given LEA. But this is uh one of the programs that was paid with this funding. So our next step is to analyze the expenses for each site that meet and meet with staff to ensure full implementation and funds um as they are ongoing three-year spending requirements. So the 2324 that carryover you saw that we carried over in the prior
114year we have to have spent that by the end of this fiscal year coming up the 2526 year. So it's always you have three years to spend it. So they did give us a little bit of a runway to be able to to really implement this program assessments of existing programs and see equitability across our sites. And then we also encourage our sites to find enrichment activities that are outlined in the Prop 28 allowable uses. So when we're looking at after school, if a school does not have ELOP funds and they're trying to do an enrichment course, then we we really encourage them to use this funding to look at arts, to look at music, um, and figure out how we can spend it creatively. The other impact to this program was the AB50 credentiing
115requirement. So we did have to lay off quite a bit of par educators that were music, art, PE. Um, and in turn, we have to hire teachers due to the new law. So, this is something that is impacting this this program and that I'm continually looking to see how we can uh get creative. And that was it for my Prop 28 presentation annual report. Do you have any questions for me? Yeah. Did I understand that we have to have credential teachers for this? Now for arts and music. Yes. For arts and music. We can't use par educators or do you can have par educators in this category. Um but they should be in the par role not teaching. Okay. Class. Yeah. Okay. Um can I see a lot of uh uniforms you know dresses and
116different kinds of dress when they are performing costumes. Yeah. Thank you. That stuff can be paid out of this. That can be paid out of this. So people who make those costumes and what have you can be uh reimbured for that. Correct. Okay. Okay. Yes, Jack. I'm sorry. Oh, no. Uh, I just want to comment from the over the last few board meetings, we've had presentations from a number of our charters and across the board uh they seem to really be excited and uh and praise the afterchool programs in the arts. So I I again my assumption is these have been highly successful and I imagine uh greatly appreciated by the parents and that you know if they want their child to get into the arts it's something that the which has should be the
117case that the schools are providing that. Yeah. Have you got any other further information on that because that appears to be the case. Yeah, as you saw on the consent agenda item, there's a lot of uh ELOP providers that are doing a lot of the arts um dance and music. Um so we are really encouraging them to kind of meet both um the ELAW program requirements as well as the Prop 28. We're kind of using leverage there for that purpose. All right. Any other comments, board members? Okay, we need to uh approve um Proposition 28 annual report for Gateway Community Charters. May I have a motion? Move to approve. Move to approve. Thank you. I'll second. And second. Any other questions, discussions, or anything? All right. Roll call. Uh Mr. Harry Block. Yes. Mr. Mr.
118Bruce Mandre, yes. Mr. Jack Turner, yes. And Lily Campbell, yes. So, that item has been approved unanimously. Thank you so much for your work on both of these. Really appreciate it. All right. So, now we are moving into curriculum and instruction. And there are four items here. uh approve instruction continuity plan ICP adoption. I'm wondering board members if we could just take those four. I'll go down the list unless you have questions on any of them. Uh approve curriculum list updates for GIS, COA, MS futures and CCS. uh adoption written improve improvement plan for higher learning academy and approve fiscal year we had a report on that last last board made local control accountability plan LCAP um can we approve all four of them in one motion or do we need to approve them separately
119that's what I'm thinking I think we can approve yes all of them in one motion so madam president and members of the board uh you can approve all four of these items in in a singular motion. If if that's the case, I would I would move approval of all four items. All right. Second. Okay. Any other discussion or comments on any of the items? Any further clarification? Hearing none, we take the vote. All in favor? Um Harry Blanc? Yes. Bruce Mandre, yes. Jack Turner, yes. Lily Campbell, yes. that those items have been approved. I did something. I lost some. Did I do that? Oh, well, I think I lost my stuff. Okay, let me go to my board. Okay, comments. All right, I think we are down now to close session. Board comments. Board comments.
120Yes, board comments. Thank you. Thank you. Board comments. before we move to so we've done all of that. Any comments board members? Anything at this point? All right. Um then we are getting ready now to go into close session. And close sessions there are five items for close session. Uh anticipated litigation government code section 54956-9 student matters pursuant to education code section 35146 and 48918 student case number A25-1. Third item, close session, employee performance evaluation, superintendent government code section 54957. Uh item four, close session, conference regarding real estate negotiation pursuant to government code 54956.8. And number five, close session, employee personnel matter pursuant to government code section 54957. and we will return back after close sessions to uh report out. So with that we will be adjourning the close session. Thank you. [Music] back from
121close session and the board took the following items. First one, number one, heard and upheld the superintendent's decision regarding student case A-25-1 by a vote of four yes, no, zero, no, and one absence. So, that item passed. We received an update on real estate negotiations. Number two item. Number three item discuss the superintendent's 2024 25 annual evaluation and again the evaluation was very well received with accommodations and thanks to the superintendent and to the staff but particularly to the superintendent for a job well done for the two years. So, we really do appreciate all of his efforts and his hard work. And one thing that was on there, he was the right man at the right time for this job. So, that's how we leave it. So, with that, um, next board meeting. Yes. Uh,
122the next two board meetings are scheduled for July 22nd and August 19th. All right. Anything else board members for the con good good of the organization hearing? None. Seeing none I will now entertain a motion for adjoinment. So move. So move second. All in favor? Eyes. Meetings adjourned.