GCC Regular Board Meeting - March 11, 2025

001[Music] for [Music] good afternoon I called to order the GCC board meeting regular board meeting 3 March 11th 2025 at a little after 4 sorry for the delay just trying to get through the traffic so we're here roll call Mr Mark Anderson here here please note that board Treasurer Mark Anderson is participating in today's meeting via teleconference due to just cause circumstances permitted by the brown act government code section F2 A1 thank you for being here with us Mr Anderson Mr Harry block is on his way he will be here within the next 15 minutes or so before we start voting on items Bruce mandrick present Mr Jack Turner is absent today is that correct corre Lily Campbell present we do have a quorum with uh Mr Anderson uh by teleconference and Mr Block coming

002in within the next few minutes so with that welcome everyone welcome do we have public comments we have no public comments we have no public comments so again I wish to welcome all of you to our 4:00 board meeting the traffic is horrendous out there so that's why some of us were a little late trying to get here so if you've been on the road at all on 65 and 80 you know that it is really pretty bad out there but we're so glad to see you and welcome to those of you who are watching us virtually so thank you all of you for being here and so with that we will get started and go right into our agenda for today um superintendent's update he's just waiting I'm anxiously waiting yes you are so

003you're on thank you madam president and members of the board uh good evening and welcome to everyone that is here tonight at our board meeting uh just a few items that I want to uh just kind of bring to the board's attention you'll notice that uh both of our assistant superintendent uh Mr Coy and Mr Elliott are not in attendance tonight um Mr Koy is out uh during this time I want to report to the board that her husband had a very successful uh procedure and he is at home uh recovering and resting well so uh she is there taking care of him uh during this time and then assistant superintendent Elliott is uh managing things back at the convention center for our conference so this week our leadership team is attending the California Charter

004Schools uh conference uh which is downtown and so that's where he is at tonight but you're in the AP aable hands of Dr gold Mr Taylor and Miss Raina uh I didn't put myself in that but you're in their capable hands tonight so and if anything is needed we have principls and directors here directors and principles here so that's great yeah so also I'd like to uh just tell the board I appreciate uh your flexibility and allowing us to start our meeting early tonight so that we're able to attend uh the uh meeting at Twin Rivers UniFi later on I also like to start by saying happy women women's History Month uh that's the month of March uh this past Friday at COA Middle School uh myself and uh the board president had the opportunity

005to attend the international Women's Day celebration to honor and celebrate women everywhere and I'm going to stop there and I will later on during comments allow um there we go I'm going to allow Miss Campbell to go ahead and share that later on yeah all right um also for tonight uh the the Twin Rivers Unified School District board meeting we anticipate a vote on the charter renewals for cccs COA as well as Sava and we look forward to sharing with you the outcome of that vote uh on Thursday um the 12th at the California Charter Schools conference I will be part of a panel discussion on actionable strategies to support immigrant students during times of uncertainty uh I'm really proud to represent Gateway Community Charters and our schools as well as the work that we

006have been doing to support our uh newly arrived Refugee and immigrant families and in later on in tonight's meeting director tacov will be giving the board an update on some of the work that we have been doing directly on February the 28th at Futures high school and Higher Learning Academy uh they hosted a black black history family engagement night uh there at RDP and it was a wonderful event um had the opportunity to sit and watch Madame President uh do some talking and there's a gentleman up there who uh for purposes of the audience it's uh Miss Lily's husband who she kept telling to cut it short uh I believe those were her words as he flipped as he flips a page uh but it was a great opportunity to have um that moment and

007that I want to thank board president Campbell as well as Mr Block for their attendance so last week uh we had the opportunity to participate in the first ever uh superintendent read Across America week and I'm really proud of the work that happened across the entire GCC and our goal this year was to have readers from our central office from our community from uh community leaders to go to every one of our schools and to read to our students and so we had the opportunity to uh have read Across America for students at every GCC school I had the opportunity personally to read to students at Epic uh Virtual Academy and I have to say and I meant to bring it to you one of our teachers uh Miss Tera Miss Delaney nurse she teaches

008second grade third okay she teaches third grade at the Virtual Academy she wrote a book called Percy um Percy the perod thank you Percy the period and so I was honored to read that book uh and hopefully I think that did get to her class but uh very proud of the work uh of all of our students and then I had the opportunity to go over to cccs tk8 yeah there they go and read to some students there and uh I think probably the part that warmed my heart the most was when one of the students said hey last year you read to us about baseball and they remembered the song Take Me Out to the Ball Game and so that was that was kind of fun uh but this year we invited quite a

009few I want to affirm our central office staff members of our business department our human resources department ed services we all went out as you can see by those pictures and spent time reading to our students we also had elected officials um we had supervisor Desmond and we had a member uh Hoover what I feel like there was another one that I'm forgetting Sergey another supervisor theed supervisor believe supervisor Rodriguez Rodriguez thank you uh who all came out to read to our students so really proud of that work and then in addition to these elected officials our own board president uh Miss Lily also came out and she read with me at COA and cccs so really proud of that so the next one I I'm full of uh update tonight but this one is

010also another exciting on January the 24th students from Futures High School uh put their civic engagement skills into real life action at the California state capital and they met with legislators and staff to advocate for key issues including sustainability fire safety public health and youth policymaking um this experience as part of their senior project as they work uh towards earning their state seill of Civic engagement and our Communications team had the opportunity to speak with some of the students and we're going to get ready to share a video with you but I want to affirm uh the work of uh Mr Taylor who helped to put all of this together uh along with our advocacy team to get our students to the Capitol which I will tell you I've talked to people outside of Education

011just in the policy world and they seem to keep talking about these kids from a local high school uh that was a charter school that came and talked to them so I want you to enjoy the video real quick and then I'll share some more information on the other side I'm Miss Pro I am a history teacher at Futures high school and I'm the coordinator for the senior project which this year is with the state SEO of Civic engagement students here are talking to the assembly men and legislators about their senior projects and the key part of the state SEO of Civic engagement is getting involved in the government trying to um get their opinion trying to get the word out and whatever their project may be because the whole project is them trying to

012find an issue in the community that they're trying to solve and so we're here to talk to the comp men to voice their concerns to hear what they have to say um and really get their projects going forward from there I feel like as of right now our community could definitely be stronger we hope to bring um our community together not only just in a way so that we can bring awareness to fire safety but also so that we can make our community stronger we presented our project we told them uh what we were doing what we're hoping to accomplish and we ask them how we could Implement more policies to improve access or maybe even some projects that could potentially uh have the community Guardians for like at schools or in like uh big

013areas I think it was a valuable experience just being at the capital seeing what the people do seeing that their voices can be heard and that there are people willing to listen to them CU right that the base of it is finding a problem that they want to solve so it's really personal to each student to each group whatever the problem may be and how they can solve it for their Community our project is about vaping the negative effects on it we're currently doing writing a script for a documentary to show our community and show the legis to see if we can get the parents and all the community involved onto it and um help students understand like the consequences of VAP being and how it affects them in their everyday life and how we're

014so growing and when they Vape it's going to be B bad for the mental health and their physical app and and they day of course my whole life I've had this like perspective that they're like they're like really fancy or like above you know regular human status but really they're just the're regular people and it's like he had like a picture of Tupac on his wall it really is different for each group so some of them next steps can be reaching out to that some of them that they were talking to um some of them want to know more about the project some of them I mean it could even ideally optimistically could get to the point where we can even start writing some bills you know get some the word out there legislator that's

015the goal right but at least if the voices are being heard and we're letting the community know about Futures about GCC and what we're doing here very good excellent so I will tell you for me one of The Proud moments is those students did not go to the capital for Charter issues they went for youth issues and their voice was heard very clearly and so I'm very proud of our students I'm proud of that work and we're looking forward to doing more in the future and that is my report tonight oh good any comments anything nothing thank you so much for your comments and as the superintendent said we had a busy sorry we had a busy week uh last week and I think the week before he had mentioned uh the uh black history

016week at uh HLA and Futures where you saw my husband he was there representing the organization called 100 black men and it is an international organization and their goal is to mentor and to bring young men to the fold and they are there as examples and uh my husband was asked to speak about the 100 black men he thought there would be more students high school students there but there were more elementary students and they were kind of a little anxious to leave and my husband had a three-page speech that he was going to give and I kept saying cut it down honey cut it down come on now you know just say how good it is to be here and let it go of that but he didn't do it so anyway but it

017was an event that we hope will continue in the organization and so we had a chance to visit with them um the other one was I forgotten what else um the women's the women's International yes at uh where it was COA middle COA Middle School yeah I did so much I forgotten which school I was at but it was COA middle school and it was beautiful please make sure that the people there get the accolades they did such a wonderful job it was like a high te and uh the students performed just exquisitly it was absolutely very rewarding and I had a chance to speak to them but I think I kind of went on too like my husband did I no you were fine you're the bo president you were fine yeah give me

018a mic and I just start talking but it was great it really was and then the reading at cccs um we thoroughly enjoyed it I read to Fourth grades I thought they were going to chew me up but they didn't they were very very nice first time I read to fourth grade since I got through teaching third grade so it was quite experience I love reading to the kindergartens cuz they just sit there looking but the third grades they were great though they really listened so it was it was an invigorating week for me cuz I did so many different things and I really really loved it and I enjoyed being with the superintendent yes likewise yes so thank you very much and so with that we shall move on time to move on all

019right we are now moving to our study sessions and our first one is by Dr gold and we are going going to do artificial intelligent update and I told her don't do anything that's going to embarrass your board members cuz we don't know what we're doing never never we have lots of support for you today well good afternoon president Campbell uh board of directors Mr Anderson coming in Zoom for us and Mr sample and cabinet members today I'm excited to present to you an update on AI and as requested by the board give you an opportunity to interact with a couple of the AI platforms um I told Mr mandri that by the end I'm pretty sure I'm going to get an update how he is using this to help plan some of his amazing

020vacations from around the world see if I can use this new clicker that we have wrong way there we go um so at the beginning of this year I provided with you all an update on the AI progress and shared our strategic rollout plan which emphasized not only gcc's implementation but also our goal to make regional impact as you've seen in your weekly board updates GCC continues to lead the way in strategic AI integration including my work with skoy and csla in delivering AI workshops to Regional leaders and a community of practice for leaders across the region including those from local Charters districts and county offices of edge such as pcoe in caleris County I'm also Beyond to share that our impact is actually now extending beyond the region and we're actually making a global

021impact on July 6 this book um which I have a copy for you in front of you infinite education the four-step strategy for leading change in the age of AI was written by the bestselling AI education author Daniel Fitzpatrick if you may remember we brought in Daniel Fitzpatrick and we flew him in from London last year to help provide um us professional learning and build our capacity and as a result he then interviewed us to learn about what we are doing in leading the change of AI and education so in this new book he leveraged the voices of educational leaders and organizations from across the world including ours and I'm very proud to say that we are the only United States K12 school that was used in his book and he highlights some of the

022groundwork uh groundbreaking work that is being done in Ai and education in addition to using our interviews to guide some of his work we were quoted multiple times showcasing our leadership in this space and so in the book we were quoted uh multiple times and one of the quotes my favorite which I was so glad because I always say we are currently in the dialup stages of AI and that quote made it in the book um and said just as the internet has evolved so significantly from his earlier days AI is expected to undergo substantial advancements and transformation this early phase is crucial time for Learning and adaptation uh the other one that I'm just going to highlight is saying that we believe that AI serves as a catalyst for creating inclusive Innovative and Equitable

023learning environments it allows us to offer personalized learning at scale automate those administrative tasks thus allowing our Educators more time to focus on pedagogy we're also very mindful however of the challenges um such as a digital divide and privacy concerns and we're committed to providing see what it says training and support to our staff to navigate these issues efficiently so those just are a couple of highlights uh from the book so got you all a copy there um I really want to affirm my partner on this which is Mr Adrian Pier Adrian you know uh give you we give a clap could not do this this is a big undertaking as well as all of our AI Mavericks who are really leading this charge at our school site so really want to affirm all of

024them also would love to give you an update of what's new um on artificial intelligence and one of the biggest ones and causing a recent disruption in our stock market was a release of a new language learning model which we call an llm for Shir short rather deep seek this caused Nvidia if you're familiar with that which is a big GPO semiconductor stock to to crash momentarily uh Because deep seek is a powerful language model that is similar to open AI meta llama and it's really great at optimizing reasoning comprehension and response generation but what makes it so ground breaking is that is open source this means that any of these smaller companies who otherwise would find it difficult to compete with large companies such as open Ai and Gemini are now able to use

025this technology to innovate and to create the other positive outcome of deep seek is the cost Effectiveness it was said to have been built for only six million dollar now compare this to open Ai and Gemini who've literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars on these language Platforms in addition they said for last money it's also uh said to perform at or better better than these other llms but using lesser uh using less rather gpus graphic processing units this means it uses less energy therefore costing less money however with all these greatness comes challenges and some of these big challenges are bias censorship and uh security so one notable concern is content moderation and bias in its response an example of this is during my community of practice at skoy we decided to give it

026a little test to see how it would do and uh one of the participants asked kind of hard to see um a question about how's it t square massacure and and um it basically said that it refused to engage in conversation with it and it said it wanted to talk about something else so I wouldn't even talk about that controversy whereas if you asked a different llm perplexity um it actually had no difficulty providing an objective historical perspectives which you can see here the other issue that we found was when one of the participants provided it with a statement which was Taiwan should be free deep responded by stating it opposes any form of independence from China and that discussing this topic was disrespectful to China that's in some whereas again if you look at

027another llm perplexity it took a more n neutral stance declining to provide an opinion but rather offered an objective historical perspective on taiwan's political complexities so why is this important is because these challenges highlight even the geopolitical influences and limit ations of artificial intelligent models raising concerns about censorship and misinformation so as AI continues to evolve it's essential that we rigorously vet and monitor our AI platforms to ensure that they serve as unbiased and Reliable Tools For Education additionally we must also be intentional in integrating AI Literacy for both staff and students equipping them with the Knowledge and Skills to navigate AI responsibly and critically so now that you had a little update of what's new in AI we're going to give it a try uh I provided you with a couple of resources this

028first one is also for you to be able to take home and use this is an AI tool comparison that we develop that compares four of the primary language learning models chat GPT perplexity Gemini and Claude it gives you an overview about when you may want to use some of these AI platforms what are some of its strengths but what are also some of its limitations so for example chat GPT is really great at ideation creative writing brainstorming a lot of creative work whereas like perplexity is really great for deep research factchecking it's real time current events and it sites resources that you can then go and check um to make sure and clarify that it is valid so again they has that real-time search and uh those are the two just for time sake

029that we're going to focus on today and practice the other tool that I provide Ed you is with a prompting tool what we call spark so you'll hear a lot about prompting when it comes to artificial intelligence and a point of a prompt is we say quality in quality out so the quality of your prompt is what the quality of the information that you're going to get back with it the biggest mistake that individuals use when first trying and using artificial intelligence is putting a prompt in it like you would a search engine like Google it's just very usually Tas driven give me this in reality you want to think of AI more like a collaborator like a friend like having a two-way conversation that you can push on and clarify and it asks you

030questions back so this prompting tool is called spark and it's just a framework to help you develop better quality prompts so you get the best use of your AI tool so s is for situation really describing the current state or context in which you are operating in problem letting AI know the specific problem or challenge that you're facing a is aspiration what are you wanting it to do for you what is your vision what does success look like results do you have a specific measurable result that you hope to achieve and Kismet which is like an element of serendipity or surprise you can ask at things like hey is there anything I missed from my prompt that you think I should have added but I didn't and it will actually give you feedback on what

031maybe something you didn't even think about adding that's giving you a better prompt uh you do not have to include all of this but again it's just a nice little framework but Miss Campbell just like you said I'm going to make sure that we're all looking great up here so I created some prompt options for you uh so we have four different prompts or you can choose your own and the goal is for you to interact we've already created um logins for you and we have everything up on your computer so in just a moment Adrian's going to come up in Lydia and we're going to help guide you through a couple of these I already have the prompts on a tab for you as well so you can select a prompt I would like

032you to put it in open Ai and then put the same prompt and perplexity and see what the different result are you're getting so for example prompt four is a fun one to draive which is write a letter of recommendation for Adrien Pier Heather gold Mora Elliott for blank position and highlight their strengths you're going to see two very notable differences of what you get from chat GPT with that prompt versus what you would get from perplexity and we'll talk a little bit about why in a second sound good so here are four prompts we're going to copy we're going to paste we can also choose our own like develop me Trel itinerary to the to Greece we can also try that as well um but we're going to have some a little bit of

033fun engaging with these tools okay okay e e e [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for [Music] okay I hope you guys had fun uh Bruce has a big old smile I'm sorry Mr uh mandrick has a big old smile on his face right now did you enjoy uh interacting with AI I went around the world you went around the world how about you Miss Lily I didn't go around the world I just went to Hawaii it was great very interesting I I think it has compelled me to want to know more now fantastic I want to show you guys perplexity real quick because um Miss Lily or Miss Campbell your uh yours was faulting a little so I'm just going to show you real quick with this perplexity um you can see I have my

034name in here as I said with perplexity the great thing is it does real time uh events so whereas open AI is not as accurate with that so I just asked it to write a letter recommendation for me so it's going to search um for me and you can see it's pulling stuff from LinkedIn from GCC Charters um from here so then when it creates my letter of recommendation is going to be more targeted based off of what is able to find so you can see all of the different highlights it talks about how I do mtss spearheaded districtwide Innova Innovations and then you'll see right here this one is going to provide the resource for it this will allow our Educators to be able to site and make sure that the information it's providing

035is actually accurate which which is essential you can see it also pulled up my picture as well uh you can see the citations here one and three so this one is coming actually from um this is a different Heather younger so maybe I would let it know that that source is not accurate to remove that right but that's a great thing about being able to verify my resources the next tool I just want to briefly show you you all do have accounts for this as well so if you're interested just reach out to miss uh DeMarco and she'll show you this tool is called defit and it is a great resource for our Educators this allows our teachers to be able to create differentiated materials to use with students within seconds the cool thing about

036this you can literally put any topic that's why it's called literally anything you can do an article YouTube link you can do text or PDF for from current uh curriculum that they already have so for example I'm just going to tell this to do one on the Gold Rush okay I'm going to make sure that it's standard aligned to ELA standards you will see all the standards pop up so I can just select the standards um I'm just going to leave it blank for the sake of time down here I can choose a reading level fifth grade fourth grade I'm going to change it to fourth grade the language also it does uh translate in over 70 languages including Ukrainian and Russian which is very rare I'm going to keep it in English so we

037can we can see it I can also decide if I want to do informational text or if I want to do fictional text and then I'm going to generate resources So within seconds right now it's going to create me uh a plethora of different resources that I will be able to use with my students and continue to differentiate them based of based off of need which is great for our English language Learners so you'll see here that is actually providing me with pictures which is great e strategy if I do not like these pictures I have others that I can choose from I'm also able to continue to adapt it so like I said I wanted it at a fourth grade reading level but I can then come and change the text length of it

038I can say I want it shorter I can make it longer I can do a customized length depending on what assignment I'm using or based off of the need of my students I can show sources I can also edit this to add any changes that I want to myself here's a summary of it as well I can edit this and key vocabulary words with the key vocabulary words I can add my own I can also add images which again is one of that great pedagogy right Strat strategies for our students it will also provide multiple choice questions for me already created short answer open ended Etc you'll then see here it says get Student Activities if I when I click on this it's going to provide me a bunch of different ones like fers vocabulary

039practices summarizing strategies reading strategies and writing strategies and let's say I want to work on this one I'm going to work on vocabulary with my students it's going to import all of those vocabulary words that you just saw as well as any of the images into these resources for me that I can then print into worksheets for my students I can also put it into a PowerPoint so I can provide direct instruction or I can also put this in Google Classroom as well so just a quick little highlight of this amazing tool that our our teachers can use thank you ma'am thank you so very much for bringing us this information um I know that we just starting into it but it's kind of nice to see how it really works first time we really

040had a demonstration of how it really works so thank you so much yes that was fascinating yeah how does how does AI how do these different programs deal with copyrighted information or information that that I can get to if I have an account uh with it um how does it can it draw from those databases and how does it do it yeah so anything that it's trained on which right now is anything that is on the Internet it's able to use you're also able to customize your own chat Bots which means if you purchased a book you can then train your own um AI on using that material that you purchased copyright though is something that we are in Uncharted uh charted territory right now and it is you know on court legislation um they're

041not really sure right now how to navigate that but it is whatever it is trained on is it is using yeah you you also mentioned we were you were mentioned in the book by name Mr pier and I yes ma'am there's certain pages yes I can get you the pages uh but for example if you turn to page 100 you will see quote the leadership voice where Gateway Community Charters Mr pier and myself are qued I see it also page 106 excellent excellent yes thank you you're very welcome any other questions I'm not going to um just want to let you guys know that parent AI information night we just had our very first parent night this was our strategic plan that we shared with you which our step First Step last year was on

042building our internal capacity Miss Campbell that's what you're saying is how do you know so much information about this so quickly um is making sure that we did have the knowledge so that we can strategically lead this the second is building our staff capacity which we've been really working on this year and then engaging our families and then students so we had our first AI information night on March 5th we had some great questions and even a great affirmation about how a parent was very excited to see how strategic that we are implementing this and then we are starting student use guidelines we have our second round of that this Thursday um I'm not going to read this to you guys but if you have time this is a prompt I ask perplexity to pull

043your profiles and it actually created a very fun I asked it to create a Dr Seuss poem um about you board members I'll just read the beginning and the end but it says oh the board of GCC what a marvelous crew five dedicated members tried and true there's Lil and Bruce Harry Mark and jack for students and staff they've always got their back and then if you go to the ending it says Innovation and quality their constant aim putting Gateway Community charters on the map of Fame so here's to the board Oho wise and true Campbell mandrick block Anderson and Turner 2 their dedication shines oh so bright guiding GC towards a future that's right great thank you thank you that is wonderful thank you and we are trying to do that and Madam president

044I just want to take this opportunity to publicly affirm Dr gold for her work she really has you know when we started first talking about Ai and what those initials could even mean uh Dr go really has taken this uh initiative and this work and uh has leveled it up so really want to publicly affirm her for the great work that she is doing and is seen as a leader not only here but I think you're also seen as a leader some other places so why don't you tell us real quick about this other place you're going to go soon and talk about AI at are you pcoe I'm which one well I'll be other play to but pcoe uh yeah I was very excited I had a a connection by Mr Sergey tpof and

045G garbino moika did I say that right almost garbolino moika um anyways the amazing Superintendent at pler County Office of Education has asked me to come to their board uh retreat in April and so I will be doing a session for their board as well we're so proud of you so proud of the work you're doing really AES thank you and I think I got I have some of you on my side now so I'm excited to hear the updates I update but yeah thank you so very very much and we're going to move on because we have quite an agenda here um the next study item is California Community Schools partnership program Grant update who is that you yes so Madam president I'm going to call for director terv who will come and introduce

046Our Guest yes and you know Sergey if you could just give a brief update about our trip that we just took in terms of our Deep dive work oh thank you super superintendent SLE and assistant superintendent Elliot myself and a couple of our staff members uh actually B maroso and I so we went to two districts in Southern California to do a learning exchange on Community School uh program which went really well so we have um visited um Ontario Monclair as well as Delver vver pardon me it's in one is up in r sun bernardina County the other one is in the Riverside County so had wonderful time to learn about their their wonderful work I mean they started their community school work it didn't it was not called community school but they started their

047work like 20 plus years ago in terms of like incorporating various Services into the school like at one place we saw Community Clinic actually two places we saw Community Clinic functioning there in partnership with uh County Public Health you know there was laundry mat and to to just name a couple of of those so it was wonderful exchange that's part of our Deep dive program where like we uh along with Woodland and those two other District that I just named are part of so with that I'd like to say that Community School Community engagement and particular community school program requires a lot like a great uh Community Partnership collaboration and and I'm very proud and very honored to say that we over years we build wonderful relationship with uh Community strong strategies now and I

048had a chance to work with Richard when in his different capacity when he was executive director of mutual assistance network uh particular in the youth enrichment programs as well as when uh Richard was leading economic development for CR Health foundation and now with Community strong strategies so it is my pleasure and honor to introduce a partner Richard De Dana of community strong uh strategy thank you so much uh good afternoon it's good to see you all again I had the pleasure of uh presenting to you at your border treat last year and went over what I I'm going to recap a little bit today some of the need the comprehensive data needs assessments we did um we looked at then using that some best practice material to make sure that and I'm going to see

049if I can use this thing there it goes it's a I have to point it is what it comes down to um so we uh you know to we're going to use that to like launch into what superintendent sample Sarah Gay's team did in in terms of really creating their platform for the community strong Pro or Community strong that's me Community Services Community Schools wow uh initiative I'm excited though because what you're going to see through this is how you've all taken data you've taken best practices you've taken informed Knowledge from your students your parents your staff and turned it into what can be a game changer for uh Gateway Charters so as a quick recap and I will not spend much time on this because I really did go over all of this with

050you but I want to make sure you remember or just can see some of these core points we went through three key areas we looked at demographics so things like median household income median age home ownership rates this is all about community distinct Geographic communities that your schools are in um economic barriers violent crime rates walkability rates things that would impact your students either positively or create concerns for them right then we took the next bucket which was community services so really considering the social component and the support that's available to take your students and your families to that next place to to that next level to make sure that anything that is a barrier can be supported and then we looked at academics and again this is creating a baseline for you that was

051like well where are we if these communities are looking at like X then our students are actually performing at y level because they have either strengths or concerns that they're dealing with on a regular basis we took that all that information and we merged it into your communities where your schools are so this one I will not go through all of those I promise but this is an example of the demographics one this is the household median income and you were looking at really what it is that your students income wise their families um where they stand in comparison to the counties so you can see where they're high and low and as we discussed last time generally because you are doing good stuff in tough communities where students really need you your communities have

052some lower income rates we then took the community services components we said well where which communities have which type of services you know whether it's social engagement opportunities building mentoring um health or Community Based organizations that maybe are doing mental health work and other things and we really tease that out out for you and looked at it from a broader level what we can see then we looked at your student scores in comparison to what would be the county scor so we could get the general average of where we are we did that for both uh Ela and math and we took that and turned that into strategies so we really identified the core areas that you all already knew we just use data to exemplify it and say okay we know there's economic barriers

053we know we want to bolster the academic support but academic support doesn't always mean just academics it often means enhancing um the methodologies it also means enhancing Community promotion and um and resources it also means being focused on that student we took that and then then we went through a whole process of looking at Best Practices that fit those core areas that your team could use if you recall we landed on uh the Harlem children's Zone which we presented to you so I'm going to be very brief the Harlem children's zone is over 20 years old it's a charter District so that's why it fits so well um it's also uh you're going to see in a minute it has differences than your District but it also focus on health and wellness it focus on

054family and Community as a center point to support your students and it took best practices National programs and readapted them for their students they went all the way from Early Childhood to what they call Crib to Career inside of that each of their levels their uh Elementary or middle or so on have comp components that overlap each other but are designed to do all the things that enhance the student and the family simultaneously including and I'll just say health so they have health clinics um mental health they have um enrichment activities and their enrichment activities are designed academically to just bolster the kids approach so your team did an amazing job of taking that then adding a lot to it they did a focus groups surveys um they connected with staff uh they created a

055pathway to um launching the Community Schools partnership program that pathway is actually designed in essence around taking your students bolstering their academic opportunities by supporting family and including Community inside of it doing that and I stole this you know from your own computer it's on your website I didn't use AI though I will admit that I just pulled it up um you can see your four core areas which include integrating student supports everything I just said family and engagement a collaborative leadership opportunity and then Extended Learning time and opportunities which is that enhancement Beyond just look just the classroom experience in the corner you'll see the family community and schools all wrapped together so that matches a lot of what I just talked about in terms of best practice and all the data and how

056that relates to it so you see your goals are pretty much the same as the Harem children's Z Model but there's some core differences that you need to really kind of approach with what I think is your best opportunity for Success so looking at this from a standpoint of Harlem children's Zone it's a small community Harlem is 96 97 blocks Gateway is not 97 blocks I'll just like it's much bigger you have multiple communities and if you remember when I showed you that first slide around the median household income you're talking about multiple communities so you're going to have some nuances that are similar in approach but maybe different partners grabbing onto them you're going to have as a core approach your work has been really wrapped on community hubs your schools are Community hubs

057they offer wraparound Services Harlem children's zone is a neighborhood in itself it's the entire pipeline is that neighborhood your phone your program right now is state funded only that's okay you're just starting uh Char Harlem children's zone is over 20 years old they are now really focused on philanthropy private funding some place that we are going to work with you on moving yourself towards a sustainability model to build out from the first step which is launching an in implementation which your team is really close to moving on a full plan with to actual sustainability approaches um from philanthropy to public dollars as well um and then lastly the target population you have similarities but again you're looking at um a difference in from student base and their family to community which har Harlem Children Z

058does so to move this into like for you your next steps that your team is working on with Community strong strategies we are looking at the process of Engagement across the board for your entire District so you're talking about areas of Professional Building community outreach and engagement support and design establishing a community uh partner model which includes curriculums and all of that um and then doing an annual update which is one of the things will be starting on right away so although I did that from the back right if you look at like the what would be 11 o'clock that's going to be your your next step actually is really updating that and launching then what is the next pieces and components for your work so next we actually are going to be taking all

059of that annual community needs assessment work that I just mentioned we're going to be breaking it down for you into refined data points that instead of being zip code based which is what your first needs assessment was we're going to go we've got software tools that do use AI that really wrap a specific geographic area around your schools so you can be more defined in your community I'll give you an example um 95838 one of your community areas that zip code wraps multiple communities it doesn't quite fit where your school is 100% located we'll be able to narrow that down and be much more refined for your students and for your school and we're going to do that also in in line with co- listening um co- lising sessions with s's team we'll be supporting

060in working with students and parents and faculty to make sure that we've actually got their input in process that becomes comes an annual evaluation assessment as well as a tool because each year we'll be able to talk to the students about how they're engaging in this work we'll see their changes in their thought process through it uh we've used this process quite a bit we're excited because all of that's going to happen between now and the end of May uh there will be 16 sessions and we are going to like be able to provide you all with amazing data that we will as a baseline for your project as you're moving ahead from there we'll support you with all the other areas that we talked about your team is the one that's up front your

061team is the one that takes the the push to move it we're the behind thescene backbone that supports with all the tools and everything else that you need to make it work thank you what is the board's responsibility to this you said you g to have this done completed by May how do we fit in just receiving the information or that's a great question I'll start and I'll actually look at superintendent sample because that's more of his line of work than mine but I'll start by saying you all have already played a really key role when I met with you a year ago and you gave us a whole bunch of input right away during that discussion which we have carried forward in terms of how the model would look right away the next step

062is actually for us to bring that next assessment back so that you would be able to give us the next set of thought process you know your communities your school your District certainly better than we do and we look at the students and the parents in the same capacity superintendent tample no I was going to just say I think that the needs assessment work did start with our board uh last year doing our board retreat and so that will continue to be part of our feedback cycle where Richard and his team will bring back data from uh current and then we'll start looking at moving ahead so yeah members any any other comments questions no you okay thank you you're welcome thank you thank you very much we we'll be waiting for the next step

063thank you thank you okay here we good yes all right okay item three in the study session immigration and refuge family update that's you again okay thank you all right director terv super the righted one okay here you go um the GCC board so first of all what I'd like to say is thank you so much for taking your interest investing your time and care about immigrants and refugees the reason and from the day one when I joined Community uh community and business advisory Council which was I believe 2010 so the previous superintendent and uh and current superintendent and you guys were all well invested into you know well-being and success of refugees and immigrants and as an immigrant and Refugee myself so I did come as a refugee in 1996 so it is very

064dear to my heart so with that um you know I'd like to uh because of the current um it's not a news necessarily but some information that got out to Media which was not confirmed by current Administration particularly concerning United for Ukraine program so I'd like to share some facts and some data and uh some thoughts on like where we at and how this can potentially impact us so with that um okay um so in February of 2022 as soon soon as the war started the war in Ukraine we we began receiving thousands of of people fleeing Ukraine as well as the neighboring countries and the first uh route they were going through US Mexico border and coming through Sacramento that the local churches and Community Based organizations worked very hard to actually they bust

065people here to Sacrament they use their own cars and uh Biden Administration current uh the previous administration they allowed those people to come as as Asylum Seekers and on a temporary protective status and then in April of 2022 so previous administration came up with uh with the program uh that that's called United for Ukraine and it's a humanitarian parole program uh that allowed up to I believe the current count is 240,000 of Ukrainian Nationals that came through that program to United States so anecdotally I believe in in Cali we have roughly probably 40 to 50,000 of them that actually stayed here and I believe that a large number of of them you know and we're talking about tens of thousands are actually settled in in Sacramento in the greater Sacramento area or they came through

066greater Sacramento area I should say all right um so the eligibility to be to be eligible for the program one has to be a resident of Ukraine actually a citizen of Ukraine or a foreign citizen who lived in Ukraine as of February 11 of 2022 and and they have to have a United States based sponsor whether it's a it's a family individual or or an organization right so currently unfortunately I have to say that this program is on hold and no new arrivals are allowed at this point so what makes this program unique you know that it it it um allowed office of refugee resettlement which is a federal uh office to uh bring some resources and allow those individuals and families to receive public benefits um as long as they pared before September of

0672023 so as of January 27th United for Ukraine and definitely suspended by the Trump Administration uh so no new arrivals as I mentioned are allowed at this point and we have uh approximately 240,000 of Ukrainian Nationals who are currently in the United States States under this U foru program so the the ukrainians that arrived to United States prior to program being in place are not allowed also to seek uh U foru uh eligibility at this point so I'm aware that many of those families and individuals particularly now learning about the news of potential uh closure of the program they're they're Desperately Seeking temporary protective status and some other legal measures to remain uh legally residing in the United States and um you know superintendent sample and I we went to largest Ukrainian Church Baptist Church

068here in the area uh it's called Spring of life that was uh that was in the summer I think it was July of uh last year and um you know this church has been a very longtime partner because as soon as we you know saw those families coming to Sacramento area so our GCC staff stepped in you know principal ganar myself Ian leuk Community engagement specialist Pina maroso and others we actually were engaged with those churches with with with the soul with bethan you know being onside you know talking to to church leadership talking to those families and actually helping them to resettle as well as enroll to our schools so as a result you know from February up to now I believe we enrolled over 900 uh students uh not all of them stayed

069but currently we have approximately 600 26 that with I'd like to acknowledge uh director VI that you know he helped us to put this data because we as you guys know we're not you know asking for immigration status when students are enrolling right so the way we went with this particular uh data so we looked at students who came from Ukraine and they were enrolled in United States school as a February 22 and and later so that that came with the 626 so probably a few of them might have different immigration status but majority of the folks are are definitely uh youu for you right so this is kind of like how U how this embedded in in our schools and you can look at the breakdown Gateway international school has 40 epic has 71

070COA middle school has 128 and then Elementary has 2 229 cccs has 45 as well as the Futures have 107 and H has six and as you can as you guys can see uh our schools GCC schools became School of choice for those people right so I mean we are probably you know the most in terms of like per capita we have the most of the students you know or the ratio is very high for us right I don't know anyone in sacrament or any Lea that has higher numbers so so what makes people come to us is the services that we provide on site you know people from the community that are cultural and linguistically can connect with those folks and this is one of the actually one of the reasons why we were

071chosen uh by uh by the state to be a deep dive site because of that uniqueness and the services that we provide so we are working very closely with number of Partners in a particular in the light of of the latest events and you know the information coming about uh potential uh closure of the program so we work uh very closely with organizations such as Sacramento fuel Network so we do get alert about any potential ice rates or if there's any kind of legal Updates Sacramento act actually we uh work with Sacramento act to put to put together a resource page for our for our families you know in terms of uh you know what they can do if there's a threat of deportation then uh another organization is California rural legal assistance Foundation that

072provide legal aid to immigrants and we work very very closely with office of congresswoman Doris Matsui so we're build those relationships and and we have a commitment from Matsui staff uh to help uh if if individuals need urgent assistance in terms of like getting temporary protective status or any other matters they can uh we can connect them with the office of Doris MSI and we're also uh in the contact with other Congressional delegations but kind of matsis is leading the way here so and and we are um providing very unique Services right now with uh you know with we have for students and families you know through community school program as well as cbhi so we have we have a lot of resources and it does very uniquely position our schools you know in terms

073of being a community hub for those families in the event currently as well as in event if if something happens with the programming and it could be that you know uh the the federal Administration can uh can shut down funding to to for them to receive uh cashes Assistance or or Medicaid or whatnot so that that could be a substantial barrier for them now talking to those families from what I understand majority of them are have no plans to leave United States which is kind of a good news for us in terms of like enrollment and impact all right and at this point I'm happy to answer any questions question comments thank you I think you have given us of of wanted to know what the population was and where they situated so so we

074really appreciate the fact that you had that information available for us you're very welcome and we're monitoring situation and staying in touch with superintendent uh and superintendent's office in terms of any kind of updates or changes thank you so much great job at this time because very much needed anything else board members yes Madam president I just want to bring to the board's attention that later on in tonight's board meeting um the board will be adopting uh a resolution uh to uh our resolution 2024 2507 which is safe and supportive learning environments for all students regardless of immigration status and so again uh that work really goes to the work that Sergey and his team have done and will continue to do with our families but I just want to bring that to the board's

075attention thank you if we have no other questions I'm sorry I said myself REM maturely thought we sorry about that we good we're good okay we're good yes yes all right um are we ready for recognition We There we go we are ready for recognition so Madame President members of the board tonight uh we are proud to recognize the Gateway stunners uh drum line uh the drum line was La launched uh this fall and uh it really is to give students across GCC an opportunity to connect through music what I love most about this group is it's not just one school but it is multiple uh GCC schools that have come together so through rehearsals and performances students are learning uh discipline leadership as well as responsibility uh all while sharing their talents with the

076community so tonight uh we have Mr Connor and Mr V and the m of the Gateway stunners drum line who are going to be here what's that Melissa she's looking at me oh I was like did I I'm already oh you're ready and so I'm excited to to hear our students I'm going to ask the board if you will join uh because it's going to get loud in here oh yes uh so I'm going to invite you to join us at the here in the audience as we uh invite our students to come in and then we will recognize them afterwards you need we going down there they coming in here need anything you good we're ready for y'all yes we are [Music] that's [Music] wo [Music] [Applause] [Music] right [Music] he two [Music] n

077[Music] thank right [Applause] [Music] he e [Applause] all right so to our students uh why don't you tell us what school you come from actually I'm going to ask Miss Julia uh who is our communication specialist now I will tell you uh every now and then Julia gets pulled into something that's called superintendence projects uh that are not really Communications related but they end up being uh what tells our story so Julia thank you and you can introduce the team hello board hello superintendent hello everyone um so yes this is our incredible drum line um our students actually started drumming this um October right of last year and so it's only been a few months but they sound amazing right um so whenever I call your guys's name just raise your hand so that we

078know who you are um so we have Mia rice from cccs high [Applause] school um Emil Alber jov Emil COA Middle School kill K Kazmir from COA Middle School Elana Anderson from Sav atomas Alexi casparian from COA Middle School your hand Alexi and Jaden Irvin marbie Harris from svin at toas and so this couldn't be possible without our incredible drum line instructors so we have Mr zavon Connor of course Mr James Van beeren but another Mr V so I do want to give them if it's okay the opportunity to just share a little bit about their EXP experience and all the work they've been doing with the drum line go ahead be first okay well I'm going go hey y'all um so my experience with the drum line has just been amazing um these wonderful

079students have really put in the work practiced and practiced literally got this whole show down within two to three months so I'm just very proud of you guys keep going keep doing what you guys have to do and I just think that this is just a great outlet for students to just come and play music and just have a good time without getting in trouble so thank you thank you and I have to say I second everything that Mr Connor says you know initially as you know with all new programs you're going through what ifs and what if and how's it going to make it happen and we overcame those challenges and then once we got together then we realize there was a significant language barrier if you understand what I'm saying but music is

080incredible it's a beautiful instrument and beautiful Avenue to communicate with people and as you can see it's been a great job and we've established pors with them and I'd like the direction that we're going and thank you guys for having faith in us so tonight uh the board would like to recognize these students I'm going to ask them if they will come up here and take a picture with the board we do have certificates for you that um we will uh give to you and Miss Julia if you'll come help pass these out and then we'll take a picture uh with our students unless you guys want to say something right [Music] oh I do want to say something m j I have heard you I think at each of your performances yeah you know

081see you yes you seen me and I am just so thrilled and proud of each of inter VI I think I watch your your director more than anything because the way he gives instructions and you follow those instructions I want to get up and just dance with you I tell you it is just tremendous what you have done in these three months I am so proud to say I am with GCC and with you guys thank you thank you so much and I will be wherever you are whenever I get a chance because you are great thank [Applause] you you'll join us right here and we're going to line up board come on and and by the way if you feel the the front of your certificates it feels a little Dusty you guys knock

082dust out of the uhing tonight do know you my [Music] special seen [Music] [Applause] you thank you all right yeah you guys thank you good job guys it's all worth the traveling when you see students who are progressing and that's why we're here so it's wonderful thank you superintendent for your vision all right I think we're down to consent agenda items okay very good for the sake of the uh guests I will read the consent agenda items can you hear me okay I'm okay approve adoption of GCC board meeting minutes to 11:25 approve Personnel consent agenda approve purchases over 30,000 approve elica Health Center mou approve board policy revised approve School field trips uh ratify ratifying Futures High School rest interment because they have already gone it was February 13th and 15 and the superintendent

083approved that overnight approved Sala whitewater rafting Cal River California field trip June 23rd 26 overnight and approved s Smithsonian folk Life Festival Washington DC field trip June 30th and July the through the 8th overnight uh before we entertain uh a vote on this motion there are oh and then last one approved resolution 2024 25-7 safe and supportive learning environment for all students regardless of immigration status um just for discussion there are a couple items there I would like to pull for just to talk about and I mentioned the um restant tournament has already taken place and the superintendent ratified that could you talk a little bit bit about the Smithsonian folk Life Festival Washington DC uh I think there's something interesting that's going to happen there absolutely thank you madam president so the uh item

084on the Smithsonian FK folk Life Festival in Washington DC this summer um SAA has been invited to bring and showcase the uh electric vehicle low rider uh by the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC this summer the museum as you will see in this background is paying for our students as well as chaperon to come and be there for this display and the Smithsonian will be shipping the car so they're paying for the shipping of the car uh to Washington DC so we are extremely proud uh of that work and uh the work of our students and that it will be on display in Washington DC I thought it was noteworthy to talk about that before we take the vote so that we will know that something significant is happening there and um the resolution um

085for supportive learning environment is what we talked about with the report so I just wanted to make sure that we brought that to your attention too because we talked about it our board retreat and now we're voting on it so any other questions or comments on any of the uh consent agenda items hearing none I will entertain a motion I'll move approval of the consent agenda move approval of the consent agenda second it's second all right any other discussion questions comments you good all right okay we'll call for the vote uh Mr Mark Anderson yes thank you Mr Harry block yes Mr Bruce man re yes Lily Campbell yes the uh consent agenda items have been unanimously approved as presented so thank you very very much and now we move into item seven business approv

086second interim revised budget and financial report thank you so much you are ready and ready to go so thank you Miss Omar good evening um board president uh Lily Campbell um and trustees superintendent Campbell and cabinet members and our audience um offline on zoom and um here in person so let's get started okay Melissa what button is it to the right just this one no there okay just want to make sure I pressed the right button okay so um to start I want to acknowledge the team that goes into um this over 300 Page document um it takes a team um to create this this document a lot of input from different stakeholders so um Valerie Rogers Director of Business Services which is here in our audience Ivon graser fiscal uh Services Supervisor Sophia corneto

087which is is our new fiscal Services Supervisor Cindy ponikvar is our budget and financial analyst Mia V is our brand new uh budget and financial analysts site staff directors campus principles and clerks um always put in input in every single interim we have and every budget um cycle we have and then our ed services team of course they're invaluable um recommendations opinions and feedback are always needed for this particular uh for all budgets um so thank you thank you thank you all right we'll go ahead and um do the overview of what we will be discussing tonight um just brief introduction just did that lcff assumptions um the enrollment in the Ada figures your undo duplicated pupil percentage the revenue expenses your fund balance and then lastly some risks and conclusion to our present to

088my presentation okay let's see which one I want to use this one works better I like it thank you Melissa um well actually this is a second introduction the first one was acknowledgements um the second in rum is uh your it includes the original budget your board approved budget which is your first interim your revised budget which is your second interim which is the one we're presenting tonight it includes expenses or your actual expenses through January 31st of 2025 this presentation will focus on the comparison between first interim and second interim revisions across um rgcc sites if you need additional uh information it's in your budget book okay we're going to start with uh the lcff assumptions which is the biggest chunk of our Revenue um the assumptions for this uh interum is that we

089have a 1.07 cola that has not changed um our base based on those numbers is for tk3 is 10,269 that has a great span adjustment due to the education level for those particular grades of 1,68 per student um we have supplemental concentration add-on it varies between sites so I'm just saying we do get those fundings for both for all of our sites um and then we have TK add-on which has increased about double from uh last year to 6,404 and that is due to the new ratio that is required this year of 10 to1 uh Gres 4 to six the base is 10,424 and uh for 78 is 10,733 those two uh grade spans do not get any grade span adjustment those are just flat numbers plus the supplement on concentration of course and then

090grades 9 through 12 is 12,439 with a grade span adjustment of okay okay sorry for those that are viewing on audience it looks a little tiny but um in summary enrollment is flat this is based on seeds and it's not necessarily mean that our enrollment uh stops growing or declining this is a snapshot as of seabeds um and so we report seabed numbers to our authorizers at every single interim um after first interim so there's not an increase in enrollment um but I do want to point that cccs has 26 increase enrollment as of uh last Friday and Sava Twin Rivers has an increase of 18 based from these numbers at ceds GIS has an increase of eight students and Sava elro has an increase of 12 students to date and so that also varies

091and changes our our P2 numbers our P2 numbers are um at this particular time at second and room are based on your P1 data points which we have already reported to the state and we look at historicals of the change between P1 and P2 and so that's why you see that increase of 70 .47 in ada8 so we look at hysterical historicals and figure out what that new number is okay our unduplicated people percentage is um is to serve is is used to calculate um your supplemental concentration uh dollars and it's lowincome English Learners and Foster youth um and these dollars have to be split out on the plan which is our lcap plan um and um show how these dollars are spent and how they're making an impact for our students so pretty flat

092from first interim there's not really big swings we're going to go ahead and uh move on to our general funds uh Revenue our lcff increase 1.1 that's due to your adaa increase of 7.47 I already explained what P1 and P2 data points and how they reflect on that number uh we had up increases for three of nine sites but pretty much they were pretty flat um in our federal revenue we increased 248 and that is due to school Improvement or CSI dollars coming in twice as high so um uh associate uh assistant sup Mor Elliot and I kind of looked to see why that was and there's less participants less people less districts and eleas that qualify for this funding and so makes that poll less so just because we got twice as much this

093year doesn't mean we're going to get twice as much next year so it's really based on what schools qualified and then they divide the amount of money between the schools so the more schools we have the less money we have the less schools that are eligible for this money the more funding we have and so this year we saw twice as much as the prior year national school lunch program that is uh we're running it here at Epic um has shown an increase in the reimbursement rate so we've adjusted that number and then there were some slight increases on the title one allocation um there's revisions to allocations throughout the year um and so this is um what that reflects for federal funding for your state funding we have an increase of 4.7 million 4.3

094of it is the Golden State Pathways uh grant that was awarded for all the Salas so the three Salas receive funding of total of 4.3 to be spent over the five years um this pathway had um they've kind of been going back and forth where they said we're going to give it to you at the end of last year then they came back and said no we lied we're not going to give it to you so it was in in our our adopted budget it was taken out at our first interim and then it was put back in right now at second interim so we finally got the Gans which means that hopefully it's official and they're not going to back out I believe we've received apportionments already for this funding yes we did so

095um it's here and it's not going anywhere anymore uh 459,000 of Career Technical incentive education uh Grant dollars were received for two new sites so now all all of our nine leas uh within GCC are receiving this type of funding this is a vocational Grant um it can be used for counselors teachers teaching uh vocational classes um and any other type of um Career Tech instruction so that's great news um local Revenue we have an increase of 1.2 it's mainly due to our interest payments we've gotten a lot of um interest money in the last couple years and that's really just due to our cash balances uh being so high at this point as one time money goes down we'll see those potentially coming down too uh 185,000 for cbhi this is the same money

096same type of money as the heluna grant that uh Sergey turoff uh director Sergey terv applied for this is another one that was also that he also applied for through uh Sacramento County Office SED and so it's to um be for Community use Mental Health uh Family Resources Etc so that uh is a new grant that we received this year and uh the rest of it is uh donations facility use which is something new we started this year with facilitron uh we've been getting Revenue through there to pay for um our custodial any type of uh potential um facility um improvements on those fields could potentially be used uh with some of this this funding and then we also had an insurance claim for our Sava power insight there was a flooding um claim that

097we had to put through so that's what that entails okay we're going to move on to expenditures um we see a decrease in all three categories for certificated salaries classified salaries and benefits the bulk of this is vacancies um we bring down vacancies at every interim based on where we're at um in case they hire we need to leave funding there to ensure that they have money to pay those salaries uh we're getting closer to the end of the year and so if some of these are reflective of potentially having a scoot sub or a swing Sub in positions throughout the rest of the year the other piece that we're seeing is attrition we are working diligently with our sites to ensure that uh due to the cliff for next year and um reductions in

098the their budgets that they're making sure that we're looking at every position making sure we're making Cuts Now versus having to do layoffs so that is the other piece that you see in both certificated and classified salaries in um benefits they're just directly correlated to your certificate and classified uh being lower for books and supplies uh with the new Golden State Pathways we've budgeted a portion um to this category we have also um increased the the four the 4,000 uh category for the c a lot of materials and equipments get paid for these vocational programs in order to be uh able to teach the instruction for services and other operating expenses we increased 584,000 and this is correlated to the vacancy savings you're seeing in the certificated and classified salaries um with the special ed

099contracts and classroom teacher and parent educator contracts that we're having to um have in order to ensure that they're Staffing for uh the instruction of our students our Capital outlay increase is 5.7 this is including um the field at Futures an HLA of 3.5 million that field um is needed for uh physical education for sports we currently have a field that is not adequate um to be able to be used year round um a fourth of this field is being paid out of the elop we have a lot of elop carryover that we're trying to ensure that we're spending down and that we're not sending back to the state um COA Elementary playground same thing partly funded at of elop we want to make sure that we use those elop dollars now before they're having

100to expire the gis Expansion Project is another project that I've ensured we have all the funding there to be able to complete uh that was board approved uh earlier this year at 8.1 million I believe and um we are moving with phase one of that project um we have a phase two that might not happen till next year if that is the case we will end up rolling the purchase order and lastly your fund balance uh shows an increase of fund balance of 2.5 let me get to that slide and that's really due to to the golden pathway um being added into the the revenue so we are only budgeting one year or half a year in the current year therefore the 2.5 that you're seeing increased is due to the golden Pathways carryover funds

101that are going into the next year if you look at your restricted programs on it's that 5.2 million figure that is the increase due to anticipated carryover so the closer we get to the end of the year um the the amounts get tighter in terms of what we're budgeting and so our new uh carryover for restricted has increased by 5.2 million one has to do with recording the golden pathway and the rest is due to um the cybh funding and the uh California um partnership program okay and then if we go down to the facility reserves you see that there's a drop of 2.9 that's really to ensure that GIS has the funds to uh pay for this field so that has now been added to the expense line and so the the numbers are

102still in there they're just on top in the uh 6,000 Capital outlay the reserve for sustainability we've had to pull a little bit out for the gis expansion in this category um by 357,000 and then um again for your reserves that went up because we have all that much more expenses in your in your budget we have to increase the the 5% set aside for reserve for economic uncertainty and in conclusion just some risks that we have to be aware of and be looking at is the potential shutdown of the Federal Department of Education it's been all over the news we're continuing to watch that um federal policy of uncertainty with immigration and tariffs um the elevated interest rates um tax revenue delays so this to me is a really big deal we saw what

103happened in the last uh cycle where the tax were delayed they were overstated and so this is really due to the wildfires that are happening in Southern California they're allowing um California is allowing a delay on taxes so that's not going to give the governor his numbers uh within the time and and can really change change uh the prop 98 like it did a couple years ago uh the new Governor's maneuver to under appropriate the 2425 minimum guarantee by 1.6 million so in the budget he reduced his uh prop 98 minimum guarantee by that much potential loss of one-time funding promis for the 25 26 year of 1.8 so there's a professional development block grant that we're hoping to get um but I don't know how this maneuver is going to impact that Grant I'm

104sure that these numbers are very close in in um in the amounts and so you know I'm I'm we're not probably going to um budget this for adopted budget we're probably going to wait until we have more information more concrete information there's still stock market volatility purse costs continue to increase they did lower from our first inter room but they're still continuing to Rise um competitive salaries uh across our surrounding districts continue to be an issue for us and then uh the cliff the loss of one-time funding is coming to an end with the exception of that potential 1.8 million of professional development but again we got to be real careful on not banking on that until we know it's for sure and I will entertain any questions thank you very much I want to

105congratulate you and the whole team um I want to say that we continue to be in very good hands in spite of all the risks which are real uh but the risks that we've already faced uh have been met very well and the planning is very good and I'm really uh thankful for the the leadership and the staff and the whole team that's put this together I can't believe it's a second inter of time already already yeah so you're in the budget already so that's next year yeah we're already starting that work yes we are no no comments well let's see how many staff people one two two right now two right now two right now thank working they're working well will you take back our congratulations and thank thanks to to all of you

106for your hard work because if it were not for you we wouldn't have this budget uh so thank you we can rest assure that things are in great order based upon what you've given us thank you so thank you very much you're welcome okay all right any comments no comment just uh board vote okay board vote um I will entertain a motion to approve the second and room um budget revised budget and financial report I'll move to approve the uh second in room budget so move okay might have a second did you second yes okay I'm sorry I did not hear it okay uh any other discussion questions comments hearing none roll call Mr Mark Anderson yes Mr Harris block yes Mr Bruce mandri yes Lily Campbell yes thank you again with accolades and the

107inim second inim budget has been approved unanimously so thank you all right we are now moving to approve Articles of Incorporation Amendment you want to yes so uh Madame President members of the board tonight uh myself and CBO Raina are uh requesting the board to update or amend our Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State's office traditionally our articles have read that the specific purpose for which this Corporation is organized are to manage operate guide direct and promote previously said one or more California public charter schools what we have learn as we continue to grow um it's often confusing to know what Charter Schools we operate and this is really more for the federal government's purposes and being able to do some work through uh Sam's and duns and amyra can tell you what

108all those initials mean uh and we had two kind of Pathways that we could do we could go and create dbas for each of our schools or we could amend our articles by adding the school names directly in so that it's very clear when you think of Gateway Community ERS we operate the following name schools obviously if we grow and add more schools we would be bringing back another amendment to add those schools to our article so that it is uh very clear and this will uh actually assist omy and her team and being able to um more fastly draw down federal funds um as those come in so we're asking for that change and then we will file this with the Secretary of State's office so we're eliminating one of more and putting in

109the names of the schools that we service here in GCC correct that's what it amounts to any other comments or questions okay I I think it's very clear what is happening the Articles and Corporation so I will entertain a motion move to approve move to approve second second any other comments or questions hearing none call Mark Anderson yes yes Harry Blan yes Bruce mandri yes Lily Campbell yes the Articles of Incorporation have been approved by the board thank you very much and now um we are moving to board comments before we break for Clos session what comments yes Mr I one comment that I have a bag full of lemons I picked off of our tree and I'll bring it in and put it right in the back as we head out to close session

110so make sure you pick up a few that's a big smile there all right and you can take them all because I will be sharing some with the superintendent and the board separately so everything that comes in here is fair game fair game so just have you have fun all right any other comments at this time and again I want to thank I think they've gone but the principles and all that I participate in activities so thank you for that privilege of participating in schools and whatever you so with that we will now get ready to break for close session employee Personnel matters pursuing to government code section 54957 and close section anticipated litigation government code 54956.9 and we will return to report out so with that we shall break for now [Music] for [Music]

111e [Music] e [Music] for [Music] e [Music] we are back from Clos session and we had no's just information given to us on a couple of the items so thank you and now we are getting ready to start our journey Madam uh good evening um we want to dedicate this uh last this board meeting to uh Scott Crocker as we close tonight's meeting I want to take a moment to honor The Life and Legacy of Scott Crocker a Visionary leader and dear friend to our community Through Crocker's branding Scott dedicated his talents to elevating organizations telling their stories with passion and leaving a lasting impact on those who worked he worked with his commitment to Excellence creativity and service was evident in everything he did and his influence will continue to inspire us we are

112grateful for his contributions his kindness and the difference he made in so many lives in loving memory of Scott Crocker may we carry forward his Spirit of dedication and purpose in all we do thank you very much and as we get ready to close our meeting we will treasure the memory that we have with Scott Crocker and the business that he did with our organization in memory of it we Clos this meeting in his honor and now I ask for a motion for adjournment move to adjourn second it's been moved any other discussions or comments All In fav favor of the adjournment by the V voting sign of I I the meeting is adjourned and thank you board members for being with us [Music]