001[Music] Good afternoon. I call the regular board meeting to order. GCC regular board meeting, June the 10th, 2025 at 4:45 p.m. Roll call. Mr. Mark Anderson here. Mr. Harry Block here. Mr. Bruce Mandrek here. Mr. Jack Turner absent. Lily Campbell present. Welcome everyone. Um, do we have public comments at this time? We have no public comments. No public comments. Well, again, welcome to this board meeting. Uh, board members, it will be a very short board meeting. We only have uh one item on the board for today. So, please let's give our attention. Uh, superintendent, do you have anything you want to tell us right now? I do. Thank you, uh, Madame President and members of the board and to our wonderful audience. Really, my uh, largest, uh, uh, report out today for the superintendent update
002is we just completed uh, last week with Sava the final uh, graduation, promotion, end of year celebration. And uh I will just say to the board uh really uh some some great great great uh um events and activities that we had across all of our schools. Uh it feels like it's a lot of work uh during those weeks. But uh I also want to affirm our uh central office staff and directors. You may have noticed that we had a few more at our events. Again, just showing our sites that they're supported and they're cared for. Also want to affirm our administrators for doing a great job of uh leveling up our events and uh overall can just cut me off the lights on. Yeah. Well, now oh that light. Okay. Overall um really good strong
003events and uh with that being said, that's my report. And I do want to agree with you. It was a very busy busy couple of weeks, but it was very rewarding. uh and to see so many of our staff people with us and and our board members. It was great and the graduations again just for the schools was and promotions was very very good and very rewarding. So I personally want to thank all of the staff the members who worked so hard for the students to make it a pleasant pleasant events and it was quite pleasant events. So thank you and so anything else at this point? So with that we are going to move to the reason why we are here today which is under curriculum and instruction and we have a public hearing
004uh FY 2020 fiscal year 202526 local control accountability accountability plan LCAP public hearing. So we will now the board will now open the public hearing on the 202526 local control accountability plan for all of GCC schools. Are there public comments? Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item? We have no public comments. No public comments at this time. then we will turn it over to our presenter, Mr. Mayor Elliott, who will lead the board through our information. All right. Well, good evening, uh, President Campbell, Superintendent Sample, and members of the board. I'm going to provide a brief overview of our LCAP process and the goals and actions within it tonight. This should look familiar to you. Last year was year one of this current LCAP cycle. This is
005year two, and we have made very little changes in regards to our goals and actions. So, first off to remind you guys that LCAP is a three-year plan that describes the goals, actions, and services uh to support specifically unduplicated stu students, low-income, foster, and English learner students within our nine GCC schools. And the LCAP provides an opportunity for eleas to share their stories of how, what, and why programs service and services are selected to meet the needs of those students. Slide please. Engaging educational partners is a key component of this process and our nine schools do this through a number of different ways during the school year. Those different ways to engage partners include staff meetings, school site council, ELAC and DAC committee meetings, family engagement nights and surveys to students, families, and our community
006partners. Slide please. Goals one, two, and three. Again, these have not changed since last year. Goal one is to develop college and career ready students. Goal two is to increase academic growth, specifically working on closing the achievement gap uh for our unduplicated students. And goal three is to foster a positive culture and climate through providing a safe learning environment. Again, all of these goals line up perfectly with our strategic action framework that our school sites work on throughout the year just to bring alignment in all the different work that we do together. Slide, please. The actions within those three goals are very similar. um all reaching towards preparing students to be career ready, close the achievement gap, and provide a strong culture at school sites. And the specific things that we fund are certificated and
007classified staff, intervention teachers, student support specialists, and parent educators specifically for academic intervention across all content areas. We provide professional development with LCAP funds to equip teachers with necessary tools to help close the achievement gap with our unduplicated students. We provide funding for classroom supplies and materials. And we also fund events and activities to promote family and student engagement. Slide please. Last year when I presented, we talked about Epic being our one school that qualified for equity multiplier dollars. Uh this year the data didn't hit and we didn't get new funding for the equity multiplier, but we do still have leftover dollars from last year. So when you look at our LCAP plan for Epic, they have a goal four and a goal five specifically geared towards EL intervention teachers and parent educators to support
008to support our English learners. And then in the chronic absenteeism realm, we are hiring or we've already hired and have had a parent leaison that we use these dollars to help support. Uh again, that is our only school with equity multiplier funds and we expect those dollars to be fully expended by the end of the 2526 school year. And with that, my presentation is done and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have on our LCAP. You know, I was reading and 76 78 pages and you finished with those 767. I I could dive in to about the 120 different actions specifically, but I'll save that for the midyear report when we give a a detailed budget overview of how we've spent our dollars. We spend our dollars. Yeah. Board members, any comments, any
009questions, anything that you know when you were going through that I was kind of relaying in my mind those things I have read at the school level you know in terms of the surveys in terms of um where we are academically if there's some one of them I remember math was a big area of concern and how the schools were working on that area of concern so you It's all written down. It's all written down. It's a lot of work for our administrators are saying, a lot of words as we a lot of words. Um, you know, and I'll just throw out throw out a few affirmations to our budget office. Um, Valerie and her team, it's a lot to track the specific expenditures for all of those actions and they do a very good
010job at it. And then for our principles to keep track of it and to make sure they're using it effectively and impactfully is a big process and our teams do a great job. It's a big process. when you read it, you know it's a big process. Yeah. Yeah. Any comments, board members? All right. Uh, thank you. At this time, hearing no other comments or hear no one from the public, I will close the public hearing. So, thank you very much, Mr. Elliot for bringing us up to date on what we should know and and what the uh LCAP is all about. So, thank you. Anything else on this item? Yes. Okay. All right. Hearing nothing else. Superintendent, do you don't have anything else that on this item? Uh nothing on this item. All right. Then
011we will move to And I did close the item out. Yeah. And it is not an an item that we vote on. We don't vote on till next week. Yeah. I was going to say, and Madam President, just so you'll uh kind of know and the board will know as well as our public, uh tonight's the first step in a two-part kind of two-step series. At your next board meeting, you will take action. We will take action on it. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure the board understood that we won't take action till next week. So with that we shall move into item 12 board comments. Okay. Okay. I just want to say 10. I I attend a lot of graduations and the ones that I enjoyed the most was the seniors that spoke
012and I think we can book do a book behind what they've done because they talk about how they accomplished and got a degree and some I went through homeless no parents and all of this you know it really touched my heart had me almost in tears at one time I had to drop my head so nobody could see me but it was beautiful and that's what I said. It was great. So, I see that we're doing some great things with the young peoples in this community. Thank you. I want to echo what uh what Mr. Block said as well. I was very impressed with the speakers that we had and the teachers and the administrators. You know, I remember going through high school and I thought, you know, when graduation time came, it was more
013of a process where this is much more engaging. I mean, it's personalized. The messaging that was given to the to the to the students was very moving as Harry said. So, I just want to thank the staff for the thoughts that and the preparation that went into having these promotions and graduations was excellent. And I want to give a hand out and to Superintendent Jason who were keynote speakers at several of the graduations, the high school graduations. really thank you for putting forth the effort and the words that you had of encouragement and you can do it kind of thing. So, thank you both for the time that you spent being the keynote speakers. I think you two were the only ones. Was there anyone else? I don't think so. Oh, you were? Oh, yes.
014Miss Joy, please forgive me. Yeah, you were with GIS. Yes. Thank you. Uh we got some great people in this organization who really talented and up for the challenges of whatever the organization needs. So thank you. All right. Anything else for the good of the organization. Our next board meeting our next board meeting is going to be next Tuesday, June 17th at 4:45. June 17th. Okay, board members, you got that? Got it. You got it. Okay. And just that will be our organization meeting, too. So, certainly hope to be here and then the vote on the LCAP. So, all right. So if there's nothing else for the good of the organization, I will entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. So move. Second. Second. All in favor of the meeting adjournment at five minutes to
015five. Voting sign of I. I. Meetings adjourned. Thank [Music] you. [Music]