001thank you good morning everyone a call to order the GCC board retreat on March 21st 2023 welcome everyone and now we will have roll call of the board members Miss Mark Anderson here Mr Harry block Mr Bruce mandrick here Mr Jack Turner here Lily Campbell all board members are present so welcome cabinet people who are watching virtually we submit that you're with us and we are excited about the wonderful day and we're going to have with good information uh good relationship and we're just open for a great day and so with that do we have public comments we do not have any problems no public comments so with that I will turn the retreat over to our Deputy superintendent our superintendent elect um Jason sample all right thank you madam president good morning board good
002morning good morning and administrator as well as staff really happy to be here for this our mid-year board retreat you know in the spirit of capturing kids Hearts we always like to start off with good things and so today I'm going to ask our cabinet members to help uh by kicking us off with some good things that are happening in the GCC so who wants to go first thank you all right so um a good thing is just this past Friday I was able to take some COA team members some intervention teachers and Nicole Strobel the assistant principal to go tour another school to look at their reading intervention programs to really start to put into place some very systematic interventions for our students it was just so exciting to see um what they were
003able to take back we came back to the GCC had lunch and debriefed and everyone was just so invigorated and just started to talk about you know next steps and how they can really start to offer those services to their students so just so fun to see us learning from one another and coming together and just never stopping right the learning just continues great I'll jump in next uh I also had a great day on Friday um separate from Heather but with the Saba team we hosted all of our partners for our EV lowrider conversion project um during our advanced class where students were working on the project and had KCRA 3 come out to highlight uh all the work that our students are doing it'll be on the air sometime in the next couple
004of weeks and we're excited to get some publicity out about that project in that event we also had our city councilman Eric Guerra on site to just support us and watch watch the work that's going on on campus so very excited to be able to really highlight around the community what we're doing with our students fantastic I'll go ahead and jump in um we are currently fully stuck in the business services department so I'm super excited to um be 100 staffed against so just wanted to show that yeah that's a huge thing foreign engagement specialist uh who's going to be helping my department with Communications and things like that so really uh proud and happy to have Julie on board with us she'll join us on the tour for a little bit so she can
005this is day two so yeah local glad to have you all right so just kind of want to talk a little bit about what our day is going to look like and kind of the goals that we hope to accomplish by the end today uh definitely we'll spend a little bit of time here in the morning around best practice governance uh teamwork uh as we know our governance team is shifting a little bit so we're going to do some uh team building with us as a new governance team uh don't worry we're not going to do ropes courses or anything like that is going to be mostly walking and writing uh but uh definitely want to begin to build that relationship uh our team we're going to give you some updates on our progress towards
006our goals that we outline in our blueprint for excellence this year and how that work is going as well as our department and as we begin to look at kind of what our direction is going Beyond I definitely want to talk a little bit about the transition and the planning that has started for uh next school year uh revisiting and looking and reminding our core commitments of what's important today is going to be a lot about strategic Direction uh that will come together with as a governance team and agreements to figure out how do we begin to continue to move the organization forward in his strongest position relationship and connection so we're going to have some relationship opportunity hopefully you enjoyed breakfast and we'll have an opportunity for lunch I think in the afternoon we
007have desserts and uh coffee that is coming from the firehouse Cafe so definitely sometime and then lots of information shared in discussion uh as always board this is a day that we kind of uh have an open dialogue uh with one another so looking forward to the work that comes today so I just want to kind of remind us where we started this school year uh we started in these little boxes uh I don't know what was happening here but Bruce was raising his hand uh and so this was our fall Retreat uh and this is how we all started and then today that was our February 2023 meeting so we have came a long way from the boxes to actually being back in person I will tell you I am excited that once again
008we're kind of back in this environment together and so um I just had to yeah that was a moment in time really I don't know if this picture was taken on day two of the retreat or day one but either way we were all tired I could tell you to all of our faces uh but really happy to see that we are back in person and together so I just want to kind of remind us a little bit of where we started this year this year was really about unleashing greatness this is the year that we wanted to go beyond Brave if you remember in our 15th year we start off by saying be brave be brave came through the pandemic we're in our 20th year and it's like we really have to go beyond
009Brave how do we continue to move our staff and our organization forward and so these are some quotes that you may remember uh the one that I like the most the most is your greatness is not what you have is what you give and so we've been really bright in that moment with all of our staff with our administrators uh from cabinet all the way through we were reminded by this Poet by this poem excuse me poem by Amanda Gorman that when they comes we step out of the shade a flame and our freight the new do the new dawn balloons as we free it for there is always life if only we're brave enough to see it if only we're brave enough to be it and this was kind of our rallying Pride that
010we shared with our staff with our administrators and with the board these were all things that we kind of said this year as we moved in and we're moving beyond the pandemic that we wanted to push our organization forward and board I will tell you this year you did a lot of work to push us into our next level so this year was about unleashing greatness a lot of work around Jim Collins coving uh greatness is on a destination but it is a continuous Journey that never ends and so we've continued to drive that home with our staff you may remember the Monty Williams Mantra I'm not calling you out I'm calling you up so this year has really been about accountability as well as capability what are we doing to grow and hold our
011staff and our people accountable for excellence and so as much as we talked this year about doing that as we move into next year we're going to continue that hard work and then we really did a lot to help others see uh what they're capable of yes that's a Disney movie and I've been promising people that I would show it it's in there um but really it was this you know this whole notion of story in a conto that we show people what they don't see in themselves and that's what we've been doing with our administrators with our teachers our principals we're showing them what they maybe don't see on themselves but we see it again and we're pushing them forward no oh I don't have sound so just want to remind us where this
012all started we believe in our people our students are Staffing each other uh sometimes more than they believe in themselves I remind you that this was uh the you look in the back here that's the theater this is the grassy area between uh by COA Pavilion all that looks very different today but these were the faces these are our students these are our kids that's why we're here that's why we do what we're doing we're the evangelists for courage and finally our Edge is that we start early we stay late day after day year after year this guy says it took him 17 years was taken us 20 years to get to where we are as an organization and as my dream is my hope that we're going to be 20 more years from now
013because the work that we're doing is making a difference making an impact and sustainable and so today's work that we're going to do as a governance team is looking at how do we sustain how do we continue pushing the organization forward as we look to grow and continue to build all right so today is kicking off the minus uh she's around the corner extremely good governance and looks so one of the things that we want to kind of kick off today is looking at our governance handbooks as well as kind of the professional I mean okay the Professional Standards um that we have that's another binder for you to to keep and um yeah there it's a handbook just for you I will tell you in each of your handbooks you will see that's hearing
014your form 700 yeah uh which is that time of year for us to begin to work but build that legal requirement in your annual forms and you'll have some time throughout the day to to do that so one of the things that we do in the form of best practice is number one we have this book and our board governance handbook not only includes the blueprint for excellence but it also includes our kind of our our job description your job description as uh the governance leaders of the organization and kind of your commitments it includes our code of ethics and what we hope to do and today we're going to talk a little bit about them when we go through these next few slides of how do we as a governance team the board superintendent
015want to work together to really build and push the organization to its next level uh you'll also see in here just our normal conflict of interest we have the board meeting dates for next year believe it or not yes we're already talking about that uh there is a roster with obviously the board member uh contact information and then just for your reference uh our Articles of Incorporation so all of those documents are just kind of angled documents that we like to provide for you uh to have so let's set the stage for the governance team um there's a wonderful uh book that was done by Davis Campbell who is um a big California school boards Association former superintendent former School Board member uh Miss Lily she's shaking her hand so you know Davis Campbell uh
016one of the things that Davis Campbell shares in his book The governance Corps is that the governance team really is the six of us we make up the team that worked together that uh brings together and helps move the organization forward so today this morning for a little bit before we go on our tour with Saba I want to just kind of set some how do we work together how do we continue as a team to build up on the foundation that we've made over these last 20 years to keep pushing the organization forward so the core understanding of the basic principle of governance and again I'm referring to the sixth of us is systems thinking strategic Focus deep learning and a matter of governing how do we ensure that the work that we do
017our constituents our schools our families they see it they feel it and they know that it's meaningful uh having a governance mindset which is something that we always try to do as a board keeping the uh focus on the children knowing that ultimately what we're here for is for those 5 700 students it's almost impossible to say that number but that's who we're here to serve um we're here to serve those 700 staff members to ensure that they have what they need to do what they need to do to make an impact on that here watching the budget so it's your work to ensure that we are fiscally sound and that everything that omira puts before you it goes through the gauntlet you look at it you review it you make comments you help uh
018where it's needed and I will tell you omyra and her team do a wonderful job of giving us great information today in the retreat you're going to get some multi-year projections you're going to hear about some of our uh concerns for the future and some things that we feel like okay this is what's happening in the greater landscape of the economy and so uh that's part of our work focusing on the long-term goals of the organization when we do the blueprint of Excellence that's our opportunity to focus on where we see the organization going long term the one that's kind of important to me is this one right here supporting the staff and creating a positive organizational culture the work that you do is really helping to set that organizational culture so I know from
019our end we do a lot around capturing it's Arts we do a lot of round uh inspiration but as a board you're also part of that one of the things I'm most excited about this year is as we start moving from the pandemic is getting you as a board back on school campuses to have the opportunity to reconnect with our Purpose with our mission with our vision so I'm going to stop right there for a minute I'm just going to ask you to kind of pair off to your board member mate there and just talk about this slide a little bit uh you're going to get up just turn so Mark and Harry and Lily Bruce and Jack could I just say one thing before we pair off because yesterday um Jason and I met
020with uh GIS and the staff that was looking at the program the Baccalaureate program and one of the things that I talked about more than anything I kept repeating and I finally apologized for supporting supporting as a board our role is to support the staff teachers children and what have they and I kept coming back to that support and I see and I felt it was good because I said it just I didn't know he was going to talk about supporting uh today but I just wanted to share that with you that I felt that was our role because the gentleman asked what is it you feel the board does and I said the board supports that's what we do we don't manage but we support we support Financial we look at the budget at
021off of that I just wanted to share that before we break off into the different I apologize oh no absolutely that's what this is for today we're dialoguing uh we're just dialoguing on camera all right so go ahead and just talk about this slide what does it mean to you how you connect to and how do you connect to the work so the three of us here yeah three of you so foreign president s again um diver thank you all right thank you so just kind of listening to uh each of your conversations I enjoy being with this group you know I want to share anything out that you kind of heard or that you kind of took away from those books the Lily thinks we ought to give you a lot of different ideas
022and uh suggestions so you know I have another slide that talks about setting Direction no please go ahead yeah no that was my suggestion yes but one of our jobs this kind of support but it's kind of long-term support it's just throwing things out that uh you know you're the one that's going to have to sit through those kinds of things but sometimes if you throw a lot of ideas on the table some are going to be good some are not that's your job to get to another job and throw them out there you know yeah like we want a Performing Arts yeah we want to you know do those kinds of things yeah you know yes absolutely yeah and you know that's I think that's where in our blueprint all the dreams and aspirations
023those are all things that Foundation board see back I'm all thrown out and we begin to kind of go through so thank you for that uh this is Robert Mark Harry I think Harry and I are both in in agreement that really being engaged being out in the team into the school's interfacing with the students interfacing with the staff you know be more than just the picture on the wall you know I mean we're we're there and we're supportive and quite frankly that's why I'm part of this board is is that part to really where the rubber meets the road I guess absolutely great thank you so much um and I mean everything that uh each of you have said is really I think the heart of how we want to begin to uh continue
024our work as we again move past the pandemic so the value of the board is the Strategic oversight and support that the board provides the governance team brings the passion the drive that commitment to achieve the moral imperative not distracted by day-to-day administrative challenges that's what we get to do but together as a governance team we get to to tackle the big thing the big moral imperative the big ideal of how do we change the lives of kids and then staff we get to figure out how that happens but we get to say this is what's going to make a difference in these kids and these lives and these students in the department so one more uh quick activity I have and then I think will be ready to uh turn over to the Sava
025team is I'm gonna have you stand up we have some paper around the room and a Cabinet member is going to join us uh and here's what I would like for us to do on the paper we're going to write what are the attributes what are the things that you see as necessary to have a successful governance team what do we need to have to be successful um it may be communication well what type of communication it may be um School visits what type of school visits it may be seeing other schools that are doing similar work well let's put those things on again I think Bruce this goes back to we get to throw a lot of stuff out and then so if you'll go ahead and get up and just find a paper
026and then I'll ask a Cabinet member and again it could be a couple of you grab a uh pin here it's a red box red box for the paper their box for the wall yeah and those will work on the paper paper and I think we have four papers you can get like two two in each kind of space okay and I'll go in a group and so that's perfect yeah what should we be doing what should we be looking at things with that nature too obviously um from others Communications by the way I share the reasons thank you okay right that are not necessarily highlighters yeah it has been the culture well I'm sure Innovations Russian intense detrimental to other well I think Lord have us the issues what else is like that yeah
027[Music] are we publishers Arkansas all right everyone we'll bring it back all right thank you thank you uh board for just kind of uh I know the group that I was in some really good uh Rich conversations I would just give a highlight talk a lot about communication being open positive that builds trust uh not only within the governance team but also within our entire system uh just looking at this group um I like this explore other Charters and Innovations and understand that communication moves both ways this is going to be big always student syndrome so I love that one uh over here um being visible uh supporting uh the Innovative ideals for instruction as well as supporting social emotional learning and mentoring so again board I definitely feel that as a team we really
028have a good grasp of where we want to go in so staff will take these things back and we'll begin to kind of uh build up on them the ongoing role in work of the board commit to a shared Vision with high expectations for students and staff focus on understanding the data and monitor to make governance decisions apply a goal monitoring system to improve focus share a common understanding and commitment to ongoing Improvement develop a common message that supports Relentless focus on student learning outcomes and communicate the goals and extend dictations for the board in the community this is our work and this is where we're going as a team so and it's interesting how we parallel that absolutely yes if you look at all of these yes wording might be a little different but
029the content is the same but I put that up last but yes that's exactly which means we're we have sitters I am with that being said thank you so much um I really am excited about our team and uh the work that we have ahead just looking around the room you definitely are uh in syncs I appreciate that all right team Sava are you ready to take it away ready all right so I like to have the principles for Sava uh summer Ash and Ashley Madeline also known as Ash squared foreign but really I am definitely proud of both of their leadership and the work that they are doing here at Saba you know when you talk about uh someone that's taken the school to the next level uh these two are doing just that
030and so I'm excited for you to see today and to hear from them how they're taken to school thank you Jason thank you this is all right thank you board members represent Campbell cabinet um we are so excited to be able to talk with you today about our Career Technical education at salvage yard schools um we're going to spend about 10 minutes just giving you an overall timeline of where we've come in terms of our Pathways from our Inception to now um we're going to dive a little bit into current CTE data with enrollment and completion numbers and then we're going to end with some um a little bit of information about where we are currently with our grant funding and some fun project highlights all right so today um for our timeline we are
031we've had a lot of pathways come and go throughout Saba's history and so what we're focusing on today are our current Pathways and from the very start in 2009 when we had one Auto class and one Wildland fire class that was held in our parking lot at our power and campus um to now so you can see on the timeline that um over the years we added photography and these were really Pathways that started from the interests of students and from our staff's own knowledge and experience so we took our current staff and helped them get their CTE credentials then in 2014 we added our culinary which you can see in the view of our beautiful culinary space now we went from a um more home style cooking to now full industry grain kitchen um
032in 2015 we added fashion design Building Trades and construction and recording arts and recording Arts we've got both our Elk Grove and powering locations then in 2016 we added Fitness and Recreation and agriculture um and then in 2017 we brought on um one of our instructor current instructors from Arc and we moved away from um just basic Auto auto maintenance that kind of morphed into a partnership with Arc with um uh clean diesel but with that program kind of sun setting with Arc we moved more towards Advanced Automotive Technologies which is really focused more on the Collision and Repair um so that has been one of our most popular pathways along with the evolution of our fire program we have moved away from Wildland fire and in 2019 we brought on a new instructor to
033focus more on fire science and rescue within the commercial residential uh areas which is really more applicable towards Sacramento region in 2021 um right out of like actually during coming out of covid we added broadcasting and TV which has become a hugely popular pathway with us and just this year we have added manufacturing which is CNC Machining we've added public safety law enforcement this last semester and our hope is to start building out with our EV project a green energy pathway moving into next skill so really a lot a lot going on so jumping into a little bit of data um these are were our enrollment numbers so not complete our numbers but enrollment numbers broken down by semester started so you can see on the side um it's by school with the total at
034the bottom and we broke it down by semester starting from Fall 2019 but right before we went into the covid-19 pandemic um as you can see school-wide we had 410 students overall enrolled in completing any pathway course in CTE at all of our schools there's a gap from 2019 to fall of 2021 which was you know the coded years where we uh we our data is a little skewed because we weren't offering our higher level classes so our participation was a lot lower but you can see coming out of remote learning um are the trends for each semester follows our enrollment growth events so we we have more and more students going through our Pathways completing classes um really so that this last fall we had 838 students completing um CTE classes for classes school-wide
035now when we look at pathway completion the numbers are look a little different because these are students who have completed a full two-year sequence and completed the Capstone course at the end of that two years so as you can see in Fall 2019 um this is before the pandemic we're we were hovering at about a 25 overall completion rate for students um it dipped dramatically over covid and so coming out of the pandemic and out of remote learning bringing those classes back on campus in Fall 2021 we really had to start our Pathways from scratch because we didn't have the students complete going through the pathway sequencing we saw more students during the pandemic actually taking more variety of classes rather than sticking with a pathway because we weren't offering those higher levels um so
036we have more students trying different things um so our completion rate went for pathway completers went down to five percent as we've been have we had been building back um those semesters so last this last fall we jumped significantly because this last fall was the first semester that we brought back all of our complete completed courses so we actually had a 34 class uh completion rate which if you look at last year our overall completion numbers we had 36 completers all year in Fall last fall alone we had 64 completers so you can see that when we bring back those classes students are willing to step through the pathway if we are hovering so that's really exciting that we saw and we expect an even higher number this semester because we have offered more sections
037of our completion classes because the demand is done higher another big piece of our completion rate for our CTE Pathways is our school-wide five-year strategic plan to focus more on not just CTE but our College and Career indicators as a whole so we're really working with our staff and all of our stakeholders to make sure 100 of our students within the next five years our College and Career prepare on the California dashboard and they can get that through multiple um you know multiple ways but CTE completion is a big piece of what we do together I just tell number one members that this information is in your bind it too so if you need to look at it more closely it's in your mind thank you thank you just a quick summary again um of
038our 12 Sava Pathways I'm really excited I mean I was here in 20 2009 um when we had two Pathways and just to see as a whole us grow in our Pathways and our courses we have 12 Pathways but guess how many classes that actually is for our students that's over 50 classes thought of a wide that we provide to our students that are CTE focused that's huge not a lot of schools do that they stick with one or two Pathways and really specialize in those we have 12 with over 50 classes which is way amazing um pumps me up all right so we also want to talk about our funding for this year um so um we wrote some grants and we received in 2022 2023 over um one and a half million dollars
039in grant funding so what just to give the board an idea where we are going with that money um we really are looking in as we've created at this beautiful middle school expansion to our high school um we are really gonna jump in and provide CTE in the Middle School grades research has shown that the younger you provide those options for CTE and that hands-on experience the more students are going to be more comfortable and more knowledgeable about what their interests are and what they feel are passionate about going into high school so when we take you on this tour we'll show you but we've got for for this year and going into next year we our students will explore in four weeks um different modules of our Pathways so we have a miniature engine
040that they're going to get to work on for four weeks and explore the auto program there's a culinary setup that they're going to get to cook and do some things to then jump in to culinary if that's something that's interested interesting to them so in middle school they're really going to have a chance to build up what their CTE knowledges and interest is so that when they go into high school maybe then they don't have to explore as much they can jump right into a pathway and complete not only maybe one pathway but two Pathways um which would be great for our students because we want to make sure that they're getting that full knowledge and sequence another piece of the grant that we're I'm going to be jumping into is building out our agroscience
041pathway really connecting that farm to Fork movement plant science and then this will also give us an opportunity to um buy a greenhouse so that our students have access to um to soils and plants and growing and we have a great space in the back here to put it um so we'll kind of show you that face on our tour as well and then Maury I know has given you a presentation on our EV conversion project and it gave some highlights during good things but really jumping into this partnership um for that conversion but not only the conversion project but how do we grow our pathway um to be that green energy because it's not just Auto it's you know culinary it is the infrastructure of green energy and how California is on that movement
042to get zero emissions by 20 35 or something like that so we're really wanting to be on the Forefront of that movement for our students a couple quick highlights um again that UV conversion um partnership with SMUD the California Auto Museum the um Sacramento low rider commission Air Quality Management District and CMC has been huge more kind of some of my thunder a little bit I was going to talk about hey Siri are you coming on Friday but it was an amazing time to have all of our partners there see the work that we've done have been doing and then have a show of our students in they were Hands-On working on cars seeing how electricity and the batteries will work through it I mean there's just so much that goes into this Eevee conversion
043that our kids are having to think about we have an engineer who comes who talks to them about you know we have to have a 3D model of the battery so that we can see where the weight will shift because we need to know that for the Hydraulics so they're learning all this really cool Innovative and you know interesting talk about relevant curriculum um things that they're passionate about and then our one of our I could talk about CTE highlights forever but our last CTE highlight that I'm going to share is just our new Culinary Kitchen and the work that students have been doing in here they are in here every Thursday and Friday and one of the for me one of the things that they've done in this kitchen is they had I forget
044what it's called Chop challenge yeah Challenge and so they had one hour to create multiple dishes with secret ingredients that they didn't know about until the timer started oh my gosh and they didn't have any recipes to go off of or anything they prepared it and we were judges so that was the perk and they brought us we got to grade them on presentation taste teamwork um so it's been really fun to see them jumping in and using this kitchen fully maybe the best chocolate lava cake I've ever had in my life all right thank you for your time do you have any questions for us yes okay I want to really appreciate it and by the way congratulations on the growth on those programs uh I really really support your partnership with uh people
045with the technical fields are the vocational fields that they're training students for um it's so expensive the technology changes you for us to try to set up and create programs is almost impossible without the partnership because you've got to have what's happening out there and what's happened in the automotive deal where are they changing how do we need to train them same way with it agriculture anywhere across the of our program so yeah any of that partnership is is critical to the success of these programs and frankly don't be afraid to to come in and say wait a minute this isn't working maybe we need to modify it you've done that already with the fire tech and you you essentially changed Auto you're probably going to change the number of others or maybe it's a
046field that is is no longer viable yeah and a technical field and it's sad to do sometimes but to eliminate to say we'll put the resources somewhere else where that is a career because that's a career path that means somewhere at the end there they can go out and maybe that I will should be able to get a well-paid uh job and and we've got to communicate that to the students and to their families yeah I agree I mean even when we are looking at culinary um the food truck that we're that we're building out we're going all electric with it because again that's part of that Evolution that the industry is making is going electric so how do we build that into our program so that our students are prepared yep and that came
047from our partnership with sled telling us that you know this is where the industry is going and there's a lot of maybe resistance because with induction codes in all the restaurants but all the new restaurants popping up guess what they're going induction so they need the incoming chefs to know how to cook those high-end meals on an induction stove top so we those we've benefited from those Partnerships and that advice um and we're we're looking to system and systematize that a little bit more through smaller advisory boards so that we can have those regular conversations and keep our our programs updated and I think with the auto is a good point we we could get certification for working with electric vehicles and so forth uh it would be a ready-made position because that obviously is
048changing but anyway congratulations thank you it's exciting so this is great you ever watch fire country on TV yeah that's a great show and it you know I didn't realize how hard and what it is out there fighting part of themselves and then with the thing and now that they just we just got more accepted Community Center and we got to go all electric get another gas got to get the gas out so comment yes I just want to again give you activations affirm you because I was here when we had two programs two CTE programs I think I was just getting started didn't know what it was all about Solitude programs and have watched this program grow and grow and grow and what you're doing for students who otherwise would not be able to
049make it in the other world it's just phenomenal I talk about this program whenever I get a chance you know I talk about GCC but this one is I guess closest to my heart because of what you're doing for students who would not have the opportunity and their learning skills that can take them through the rest of their lives and the program it's just grown tremendously and I can't thank you enough time to scan and I talk about it more than I should probably thank you well we thank you board members for always supporting our programs and being open to sometimes our crazy ideas that we bring to the table so we appreciate it well I definitely want to keep us on our time schedule so we may want to start the tour yeah we
050are ready and if you guys are okay with it it is raining outside but we would like to take you on a quick tour where we'll try and minimize the rain as much as possible but we'll jump we'll take this um building we'll do the middle school and then jump over to construction if you guys are okay with that if they'll need to put on there yes [Music] I think like something else okay thank you um definitely want to uh thank the Saba team for a great tour uh and um I think it will kind of again you know they'll come back to the board I want to say in June for their end of the year school report uh but this really gives you a little bit of a glimpse of some of the
051work that they're doing uh right now okay so this is next thank you put it on very good so this next part um you know before we jump into this uh next kind of like really the next part of our day uh I definitely want to take this time to affirm our very strong cabinet team so we have a great team of Elmira Lori Heather uh Dr Golds who's been doing the Performing okay so Mr Elliott Dr gold um this is uh Reyna but in all sincerity uh omaira Heather Mori we really are a great team that I think Ford you couldn't ask for a better cabinet we're doing a lot of things together uh we're working together common mind to move the organization forward and so today as much as you'll hear a lot
052from me uh you'll also hear a lot from the team because we have a very capable team so I just want to make sure that um we recognize that and we affirm them for their leadership um they are a huge part of all the things that are happening and so you're going to hear some of that today so at the beginning of the year when we started our blueprint for excellence and we had our fall Retreat we outlined some key initiatives that we wanted to focus on this year one was really looking at the learning loss identification and mitigation uh our social Motel learning competency Wellness including trauma-informed practices our diversity equity and inclusion work our coherence uh work in terms of our gradiently to implement uh instructional Excellence across all GCC schools uh really
053dealing with our people uh caring from the heart and soul of sap while providing resources fiscal integrity and sustainability planning for today and tomorrow's changing landscape and I think Omar was going to lead you through some of that and then finally look at how we can serve our Ukrainian and Refugee population so the next few kind of sessions that we go through this team is going to lead you through where we are how we're fulfilling some of those goals that we have outlined this year and then honestly where we want to go again as I said earlier it's a dialogue so we kind of invite you to say hey let me ask let me get some more information I think you had on one of your sheets over there that communication runs both ways we
054don't want to just give information today but we want to also uh have a back and forth and dialogue so what that means said Dr Golden and Mr Elliott are design directors of educational programs yes as we're reporting because I yeah so I get the opportunity and privilege to talk to you about some of our progress towards our goals that we set and the other day I read a quote and it really resonated with me it said don't set goals to make promises right and so when I really reflected on that though we set goals I'm confident when I say that all of our schools have really made promises to make sure that we are doing what is best for students and for our families and community and so one of our first uh goals
055or promises was student achievement right real estate at Senator cocus as some of us has said which is why we are all here to make an impact on students and so I'm not going to read all of these because you guys do have the information but I'm just going to highlight a couple of schools on each of these give them all A Little Bit of Love on how they are making progress towards our goals and our promises this year so for student achievement the school that I want to highlight is epic we're very excited and announced that epic got out of their CSI this year and that is really due to their hard work on their sip plan so that is their Improvement their instructional plan that they make and they've done a lot of
056work on their math they've been building thinking classrooms they've been working with scoey to really make uh math very visible and come alive and because of their hard work and student achievement like I said they have exit CSI which is such a great celebration the other school I really want to point out here is Futures Futures this year has really been working with scoey in their partnership on aligning their Ela curriculum to embed elv as you know they have a large ELD Focus as most of our schools do so they've been very intentional what supports that they're going to offer for their English language students and also really using data right using data to inform their decisions and so they notice after first implementing i-Ready they didn't have the results that they wanted they didn't
057have as much student buy-in so they decided to take a book out of a a page out of the Playbook literally and they had an I ready uh Blitz is what they called it where every single teacher on that campus met one-on-one with all their students to talk about where they were helped them set their goals on what to their next steps and they saw a huge success in their data due to just really engaging the students so I thought that that was a couple of our schools to really highlight for you our next goal was parent caregiver and Community involved submit and COA right Top Notch all of our schools do a great job COA especially in really involving their community and so they really focus on you know making sure that they have
058science nights Multicultural Affairs as well as a lot of supports for our Refugee families on parent education they also partner with Horizon Charter to make sure that our parents are getting the knowledge and support that they need as well to be successful here the other school really to highlight this year on this is HOA they've been working really hard with Futures to really create a cohesiveness amongst their culture so they held a Dia de los Muertos and a black history month to really kick off and start to come really bring their communities together for culture awareness for curriculum the couple schools that I really want to highlight is GIS as a president Lilly just said she was there at uh GIS this week they are going through their IB walk through and off right reauthorization
059and so they really have that rigorous IB work that is fully embedded it's their culture it's their identity of who of who they are and then of course our Virtual Academy right they started from the ground up so they've been doing a lot of intentional work of incorporating a lot more live classes especially for their junior high students making sure that they are offering regular regular rigorous rather curriculum to students even if it's in a virtual setting so really want to give a shout out to all of their hard work at the Virtual Academy the next goal that we set for ourselves the school culture and environment and really want to highlight Sava obviously you guys saw today the Partnerships that they have are absolutely invaluable and we wouldn't be able to do it to
060the level that we are without those Partnerships and so they are very intentional in seeking those Partnerships and getting them is one thing maintaining them takes a lot of work as we know so really wanted to celebrate saba and our work of really developing that school culture and environment and then the other school the second one will be Futures on this um find an identity for that school school spirit right and engagement is so essential for high school and so they've worked really hard on bringing prom right building that school culture and identity so they had their first prom last year they started golf this year where are you at here at golf uh wrestling for the first year they just got their new wrestling mat so I'm super excited I gotta help with that
061cross country um they have a new partnership with scholar with Athletics and then of course they really did a revamp on their ckh to continue to build that culture and across their school environment and then for College and Career I want to highlight Salva again obviously you see all of their greatness that they're doing here for the College and Career um indicators but also that really you know uh leaks out to our other schools and they really you know not only are we teaching other Charters but within our Charters cccs and Futures and really help to develop their CTE Pathways and they've created a very strategic plan for implementation what I also like too is they're really focusing on those College and Career Readiness for college so that dual enrollment right is saying okay yes
062you're going to have the CTE Pathways but you're also going to make sure that you graduate here being able to read write and do math and then the other school to really focus on here is cccs so they too as I said are be expanding their CTE Pathways with with the help of Mr Elliott um they've added nutrition and Hands-On art so really trying to expand their their College and Career readiness and then for our high quality staff I would like to highlight um the Virtual Academy again so they haven't added this year of instructional coach they've added an El teacher bilingual staff um and they also are partnering epic Sava and actually Virtual Academy partnered with um the college Corps through UC Davis and so we actually have college students who are coming and
063helping to Mentor our students which is a phenomenal part partnership so there's some intentionality there and then of course COA they have really been focusing and cccs on their mtss and updating their uh professional learning communities and that is one of our key priorities this year and moving into next year is really keeping ntss at the Forefront of all of our of our decisions any questions I know that was um just a couple of highlights for all of our school but they are doing such an incredible and amazing job and all the promises that we have have set up I know I really appreciate it and truly informative I I also appreciate that you have broken out the Virtual Academy because that's one that is relatively new that I'm really surprised at the growth of
064it it's it's not an independent Charter it's what part is part of CC yeah yeah so but it it truly has somehow tapped into uh a a need and so kind of describe for the it cuts across all of our Charters so they can use it you talked about the meeting one on one so they meet face to face with the students that are personally apparently and then it's it's virtualized so from then on how do you avoid the pitfalls that we discovered in in as a result of the pandemic and the learning loss that really takes place to keep keep those students motivated we brought them back in and do a hybrid course where they have to come back in occasionally yeah no we don't really we don't have a hybrid model and that
065really is dependent on because some of our students do not have to meet some of the other legal requirements to be actually in person and so a lot of it is just a really a lot of communication and effective communication with the families making sure that we're offering them in appropriate education that this is the type of learning environment that is best for them and they're able to excel um that's also why they also increase the number of live classes so they realized that you know just having like Ingenuity right in that independent study of being able to do it independently all alone was not successful for elementary and even Junior um and so we they have a very um I don't say strict schedule but they have a schedule right like where all the
066kids are on there they have their morning meanings they do very traditional classroom type things in a virtual setting they then have breakout groups for small group instruction they have a break they all come back on so they have a full day in elementary okay and then our Junior High have a lot of like their math classes especially are all live instruction because we really lies having them take you know an advanced math class independently at that age loses that engagement and so they're getting very creative on spirit days and just ways to engage them culturally well that's certainly unique and and keep it up uh and and obviously it's it's has great potential for more growth yeah we're seeing a huge demand even at Savas right the clientele of students that are wanting more
067of those advanced classes that have virtual setting has dramatically increased so again just really want to infer the VA team you know Tara and all of her teachers and staff there and Mr Elliott to really helping us get that program because you know just a short amount of time we have what 250 close to 300 15. 150. okay was that like two or three months ago is 150. it's a little harder than that to start the year we started around 200 at the beginning of the year but it is you know we we saw it as a kind of safety net after covet sure um and it's yes it serves that purpose but there's like Heather said there is a demand around the Sacramento area I'm assuming around the country for alternative hybrid School settings
068now where people realize they don't necessarily have to spend all day every day and bring more to classrooms so the population that we're receiving at our is schools both virtual and on site like Sava um it's changing fast yeah they're wanting to pre-calculus they're wanting to calculus but they also need that support right and so that's why we're looking at live classes and again not being stuck in a box like if the need is there we're being Innovative to to meet that need and meet that demand sure just a question about so do we actually look for other models to leverage um yeah what we're doing okay absolutely can you talk a little bit about that one example would be uh last week Sava hosted a tour of Administrators from around the state during the
069California Charter Schools Association conference we were a um a showcase school that they brought folks to um happened to be one of the administrators who showed up was from another Virtual School uh actually up in uh kind of up in the Foothills area and we have connected her with Tara Jones to say hey talk learn share best practices so every chance we get we're looking for ways to learn from other organizations how many people did you have it was about 50 15 group they did they did an operator when everybody was tired yeah we had some also at COA and they um toured our TK program as well to learn from us because they hadn't yet started their TK program so I had the poem edge of being there with uh Michael survey and his
070team to really showcase what we're doing with our TK and we had about um individuals there for that and then um you know we also put down right learning from other Charter Schools I had the opportunity to go and learn from and I'll be taking a team to one of the Rockland family Community Charter School which is a high school to just learned because they scheduled their school differently so they're able to like offer their high school students 50 minutes of intervention every single day embedded into their their school day and 30 minutes of SEL so we're constantly trying to look at what can we learn from everybody else what can we take from it and then just Elevate and continue to elevate our program yeah and I was going to say the Virtual Academy
071you know they had they do a cooking class remember I'll tell you about the cooking class they cook they have the kids at home and they cook and they bake and they use this stove in the oven and everything so and I had to eat the macaroni and cheese yeah it was good yeah so we're Innovative in providing those materials like kits right for like the month or for the week so that then they have those Hands-On engagement opportunities we also offer through enrichment enrichment opportunities for VA so where they can go to the museum where they can go on field trips right so that they're also getting that engagement and that connection so they feel connected to the store and they do something I think it's like uh training uh I know the girls
072go out and they do some gymnastics stuff I think something correct and I I know you know they're good I think on Tuesdays similar how we have after school program opportunities we do the same thing for our VA but we have Partnerships with different community members across the Sacramento area so that you know some Turners will give funding to their their families we do not do that rather we have Partnerships that they can take advantage of you said they do their math on site but you know why classes virtually oh my God virtually okay okay yeah instead of like a recording you know sometimes teachers would record stuff and then expect that they were gonna watch it there's no relationship there right so when they're live virtually you have that interaction okay do we have
073additional questions for Dr gold okay next uh executive director Elliott is going to update us on our lcab mid-year uh update uh last year this was a requirement of the state but as you know Ward we've always done this as kind of best practice so you'll know what's happening with our lcap goals what's happening in terms of uh some of our expenditures and so uh Maury is going to lead us through that some morning all right well good morning boards good to see everyone and just as Heather said our I integrated all of our goals for each School onto one slide here so you're going to see a couple of kind of summary highlights of how each of our schools have spent our lcff supplemental and concentration Grant dollars to specifically support our unduplicated students
074one of the very unique data points about GTC is that we have 87 of our students across the entire organization that qualify as these unduplicated students that means they're Foster youth low-income or English Learners it's an extremely high percentage and going off of the promise thing Dr gold talked about what the lcf supplemental and concentration Grant dollars are is our promise to serve those students above and beyond to make sure we give them the extra supports that they need to be successful all right so you'll see a lot of integration here between our GCC goals that Heather just covered and our outcome goals obviously when we talk as leadership teams about what our mission is what our vision is what the outcomes are we want to get to we are working hard to integrate our
075GCC goals with our lcap goals with our wasp actually plan goals to make sure they Co Heats a path to the ultimate Student Success outcomes we're after so you'll see some overlap here but I'll cover how we have spent dollars in an impactful way to record our unduplicated students so first stop for COA again just highlighting it a couple they have really used dollars this year to support to hire elb teachers and support ELD training as well as supporting apparently Liaisons with their Outreach efforts for the Immigrant Community coming in from Ukraine um the last column you can see our budget for the Year this is one change two years ago when we had supplemental and concentration Grant dollars if we didn't spend those dollars we'd roll those over into next year no big deal
076but again going back to our promise this money is to make sure we are giving unduplicated students the best opportunity possible to succeed and now we are mandated and it's our goal to make sure all those dollars are spent effectively every year so you can see COA is budgeted about 5.8 million for the year 2223 and they have about 600 000 left so we're about a three-fourths of the way through the year right on track to spin down those dollars effectively looking at cccs one of the big focuses of that program this year has been to build and expand CTE so they've used a lot of their SSD dollars on teachers and mentors for their CTE classes as well as at the K-8 on glad trainings and making sure you know they've also seen a
077not near as much as COA but a small uh surge of immigrant English learner students so we want to make sure those teachers are trained up adequately to serve and provide supports to those English Learners and their budget is almost all spent for the year less than a hundred thousand left of snc to max out their dollars yes but that is a user or loser it is not a use it or losing um I think omira might go to that later if we don't spend it we are mandated to make sure we budget more next year spend it next year but there's the goal is we know what it's for we know it's purpose they don't take it from us but it is a main thing that we serve these students effectively with the dollars
078a lot that I explain that right on Myra yes all right epic again a begin flood some English Learners this year at Epic charter school so they also worked on funding elb teachers and training supplies they also have funded some staff specifically supporting their IB program to expand in that area and they also are down to about 135 000 left on their SEC budget for the year moving on to Futures uh Futures have done a lot of work around capturing kids parks as Dr gold mentioned um mindfulness programs and really building culture and just um kind of starting over at Futures as far as the foundation of who they are as a school what their goals are where they want to go so a lot of dollars have been invested to help on that end
079also you're seeing it being here ELD teachers across the board as we've seen a huge influx of immigrants from Ukraine that's been a need across many of our schools they do have a bit more remaining about 560 thousand dollars but we do have budget meetings quarterly and we're working with that team to make sure that we are finding ways to effectively use that money throughout the remainder of the year moving on to GIS data funded and instructional coaches school counselor out of their snc dollars this year again supporting College and Career Readiness those positions support their IB program and again English Learners that have enrolled in their school also GIS does a fabulous job of attendance Awards and events family engagement community events and we're able to use SMC dollars to support those activities and
080they have spitting down gosh about 95 of their dollars for the year so looking good on that front HLA again an instructional coach specifically supporting their IB programs is one of their highlights for the year and a campus monitor to build school safety and school culture making sure we have adequate Staffing just to supervise and support kids out on the playground around the campus in between passing periods it's a big deal and that uh that goes a long way in growing a positive culture at a school campus they do have about 25 of their snc budget remaining again with a quarter of the school year to go we're still in good shape to be able to spend those dollars down effectively throughout the remainder of the year and last but not least we'll look at
081asaba and this is all three Savas for each school and the column on the right hand side but as you saw today CTE is huge at saba and we fund if we're not funding CTE teachers with swp Grant dollars we're most likely finding those teachers and classroom supplies with our snc dollars solid has also been a lot I should have mention it for cccs as well but with Community Partnerships and mentorship programs both ccps and Sava are working with the Sacramento Youth Center um in the Southeast Center is providing a phenomenal mentorship program I was able to give it to her last week and I got to see it in action for the first time and it is uh you know it's hard to find mentorship programs that are really impactful we've tried to do
082over the years and quite frankly um many of them have bombed this one was sap Youth Center I'm highly impressed it is impactful they are building phenomenal relationships with our students and it is a fabulous partner to have if you look at the budget for the year elk Grove's already spent their snc dollars so we're looking good there Sac City has about 130 grand left in Twin Rivers just under 100 so well on track to spin down as we should before those unduplicated students there you know let's see I think that's my last slide there is one handout in your board binder that I did not play slide Fork but you'll see it in there and it is the results of our lcap survey this is from one of our vendors Hanover uh this is
083the outcome of our contract for the year we sent that survey out to all stakeholders uh families parents students staff uh to gather feedback specifically on our outcome goals we incorporated our average school programs this is a stick page summary of all of that data I'll leave it to you to look through the whole document but I'll highlight just a few key points I thought were impressive one we had over 1500 people take this survey and to the best that's the uh I've taken outgap survey that we've done across the GCC 93 of our staff so they enjoy the work we do I know I'm one of those 93 if we have staff that like the work they do we know we're going to get their best and that is huge and we've received that
084number drop we know we've got to go back to drawing board to figure out why but um you know 93 is a pretty good rate of people who come to work every day loving their job and hey we still have room to grow we got seven percent that we want to get by next year and we'll continue to talk about ways to make sure those staff are engaged empowered and have what they need to come to work uh happy and ready to do a great job every day 87 percent of parents are satisfied with school level leadership wow um which I thought that was a terrific point we know that we're not going to make everybody happy all the time but when 87 of your parents say our administrators are principals our vice principals are
085doing a great job now I mean give me chills that uh that speaks very highly of the work that our GCC leadership team does our principles do at their sites and honestly the work that our teachers and staff do because parents mostly hear from the teachers and staff which means the words they're using the way they're talking about our leaders in a very popular that's a huge thing across the border and if you want to go to page one to what do you think it's page five specifically focuses in on some special populations it'll give you data about uh support for English Learners and support for special education I wanted to highlight the special education section um my child or my school provides special education education students with encouragement accommodations on tests Learning Materials social
086emotional support academic support all of those items I just mentioned were above an 84 rating for our special ed population so the students that really need it the most that need a little extra support a little extra help to meet those academic outcomes they're feeling that they're getting here and I'm very proud of that data points so great information here on this chart you can dive into it deeper if you would like we'll be reviewing this with our administrators at one of our April principles meetings and again just one of the outcomes we get from one of the vendors that you commonly see on our board agendas annually and then they will get also each school will get their own data to segregate and based off of their problems so this is for all of
087GCC but we won't receive those until the end of March so the one of our schools Mori have parent councils well every school has a school side Council okay um there are like Futures has an HLA parent act the organization right and different schools have additional groups that meet at times but every one of our schools has a parent Council per se through school side Council parent representation and most of our schools uh with the exception of a few have apparent liaison that works closely with Sergey around some of those ongoing parent engagement events and even the schools that don't have apparent liaison they usually have someone that's assigned from their site to really try to uh they meet once a month they come together to get best practices and things like that to really
088try and reveal parent engagement yeah can I just do a follow-up to this please do yeah any questions so and it's great that we had 14 uh of the total respondents where parents or Guardians um how do you think we can increase that that number because to me that's still low right yeah it's still low and it's but they're very key constituent you know it's like how do you get more parents involved and that's why I was asking the question about apparent liaison how active are they are they're communicating out to the other parents you know getting them letting them know that this survey exists you know and one of the ways that I thought about increasing that number next year is by strategically planning now what is our window for this survey next year
089getting that principles in July so that they can plan events whether it's just a parent engagement night whether it is a School site Council but get parents on campus while this survey is open so we can hand them Chromebooks and say hey we're here right yeah great ideas we didn't plan strategically enough ahead this time around but again that's what we'll do if you're thinking about it and trying to figure it out and so this year we won we gave it to principals instead if you have any events push it out there and we just sent out parent Square after parent Square after transport message to make sure their parents knew about it I received those from you know my student schools and you know how it is as a parent if you're doing anything
090that's making it you're busy at the time you're not good or so it's hard yeah um it's not necessarily your top priority when you're sitting at home making dinner driving home from work but if we can get parents on campus I think we'll do a much better job making that 14 even more next year yeah shoot an extra credit for the older kids that's right yes I I really appreciate the format you know we've seen El Cap presented in different formats and it's been really complicated and this was a particularly like the fact that we see the resources of the the dollar allocation there as I remember lcap was given to us as a result of Governor Brown streamlining education and making it less complicated for us yeah right we won't go there yes itself
091isn't too complicated scheduled to Sunset somewhere in the future this is the base funding now it is yes it is fully funded based on Governor Brown's initial goals back so it's great that is the funding model in the state of California okay yeah my concern is that I'm looking at your spreadsheet or your uh presentation is if somebody of the sites have become so dependent on the uh the resources yes as a as a district organization it's 87 unduplicated we relax have the weight on these funds yeah my the only reason I raised that is that given the state's quote deficit spending this year of the state budget as I was just areas which they might look to uh deal with uh deferred funding and so forth so I I don't see in America could
092speak to it better than I could I don't see Cuts really ever being made to supplemental and concentration components there may be changes to the base LC cff funding based on state budgets but um this piece when you're talking about serving your most under under resources we are not I don't see us touching that okay and I'll touch more on that I'll say about other lcat questions yeah okay thank you very much thank you Lori thank you so Lord in our plan right now we have uh a designated recess or break if you would like to take that we're more than welcome to we have uh I think about 15 uh for that or we can move right into elmira's portion uh which will be about 45 minutes talking through fiscal before so um I
093have notes so I needed my Podium but I don't like the 45 unit part that's about it speak fast we want to be efficient but yet meaningful uh I want to um affirm uh definitely uh Myron her team uh Omar and I've been spending a lot of time together here lately having two and three hour meetings um and so I'm really looking forward to the information that she's going to share with us all right so skip the recess write to uh budget so welcome to my section of uh this portrait tree so I'll try to make it less than 45 minutes but no promises it's like one third of the board retreat go ahead and get started I'm gonna go over uh the governor's uh January budget I'm going to talk about some of the
094federal and state funding for K-12 uh we'll go over enrollment and Ada numbers over years or over time multi-year projections by schools uh Mr Deputy uh sample will be going over salary increases and then I will wrap up with the reserve all right so as you know in January we attended School Services January uh Governor's update and um I'm bringing some of those updates to you here and maybe also some relevant information that's come up since then so uh we continue to see persistent inflation in the economy economy interest rates um increasing supply and demand delays struggling uh stock markets in the state of California so that's continuing uh state revenue revenue um changes since uh the last two years we have seen a cut in January a 29.5 billion in the state's Revenue general
095fund Revenue so that's significant since July so July we were expecting more we're 29.5 billion lower um the estimated gap for 23.24 is 22.5 billion so again it's ongoing issue Governor has been able to maintain a state Reserve intact so I'll kind of go over a little bit about how he's going to try to balance this we're seeing a slower economic growth but with the 29.5 billion dollar decrease in general fund revenues they're looking he's looking at different things the governor is and school services in January they talked about sweeping about one-third of the Arts music and instructional materials blocker which is a significant number um the other thing that they could be tapping into is the cola so those are conversations that are still happening we still don't know what that's going to look
096like I'll bring back another um update in in May foreign so as you know um our state revenue is made up of the three major taxes this is your personal income tax um so as you can see we have a decrease on the upper uh right hand slide to you and uh we see a decrease of uh 9.2 billion in the current year in 17.1 billion in the second year out so that is significantly lower than what we were expecting obviously they're going to have to try to figure out how to balance that and so we'll we'll see some of that um upcoming okay the other two big taxes is Corporation and sales and use tax and again we see decrease it in both current and future year of 1.1 billion and 1.5 billion um
097respectively for sales and use tax and then you see flat for Corporation and then you see a dip down of 2.7 million in the out year in the 23-24 year and these uh slides are according to school services some of the risks we're seeing in the 20 for the 23-24 budget is going to be our progressive tax system is extremely volatile right now um we're assuming the governor is assuming slower economic growth so he's actually said he doesn't believe there's going to be a recession but the economies are assuming a mild recession their geopolitical turmoil there's increased inflation um and raising interest rates for the Federal Reserve policy uh which is causing also inflation on the Consumer Price Index um and then we see a further decline in the stock market and Omar if I
098could just add a little bit to that uh in addition uh just this week the legislative and this office the Lao uh also put out kind of their concerns really highlighting these exact same risk to the California economy and so as we always know the governor always goes ex very optimistic and then the Lal was a little more based in reality so they're really highlighting these exact same things yes when are they saying is the cause of the drop in the income tax we I I'm not really sure what the the issue is I mean there could be uh issues with the the timeline of when we're we're going to be um recording our taxes for this current year so as you know there's been an extension until October and so that's probably also going
099to affect the budget numbers for 23-24 here but most likely unemployment the market jobs I mean I would imagine that that's cause of the decrease and there's you know there's a lot of discussion around the fact of the restructure of the tax you know the federal tax structure what can be deducted and written off has greatly impacted States like California and New York um just because of our high property taxes so we have that cap plus a lot of families are losing that influx of federal stimulus money you begin to start seeing some you have to say it writing of the ship financially yeah thank you Jason okay go on to uh probably eight um and how we're funded so um we have three tests and currently we're falling under test one which is what's
100giving us the most money as you can see from the slide um to your right the test one is um a lot higher than test two and three and so that's what we're going to be um which is the fair share test just wanted to point that out that's what funding model we're going to so here is your 2324 lcfs funding assumptions so this is uh the school Services dart board and I just want to point out that currently this is based on an 8.3 8.13 Cola so that is subject to change whatever we did in May that's going to be the final but since there is a deficit um a low general fund Revenue there are they could be looking at cutting that either lowering or cutting it completely the other thing is the
101great expand adjustment we went over that in second interim but as you can see right here we get amounts for certain grade levels in additional we get TK dollars for our um TK students because of the lower class size and then also we have our supplemental concentration dollars that we set aside and spend uh for what Mori uh just presented just a little bit ago thank you I want to point out that last year we received one time dollars of ADA loss Provisions uh we were paid out last year uh one part of it and we accrued part of it last year the other part was coming this year and so we've received apportionment letters finally this year uh this month and so uh we're excited to say that the the additional 3.7 million has
102come in um from last year's 21 22 88 loss provision here are our multi-year projection assumptions so um as you can see um our California CPI was some of the stuff that they're talking about increasing um Federal interest rates and causing uh the Federal Reserve the effects of the Federal Reserve causing this number to increase those numbers are subject to change obviously depending on what how the market is doing um as of January's presentation to now there's a conversation on the cola that 8.13 is um basically on The Chopping Block in case um they need to balance budget the unemployment insurance we've also got a notification that that potentially can come down to 0.05 um so it's coming back down you see um your mandated block uh grant numbers down below your California Lottery restricted
103and unrestricted um 170 and 67 respectively for 88 production so here are some of the multi-year pressures uh 24 25 and 25 26 increases um are above Arcola so even with the colas that they did on the assumptions we see that our step and call on our Calpers increase inflation CPI increases Etc are actually going to be more in those two out years too far years you're going to see that the costs are going to be more than what we're going to be getting in additional money so um that's something to kind of um pay attention to also loss of one-time money so we have Esser um and elog that are pretty much spent down uh we still have a little bit of extra money but from you know 11 to 12 million dollar Grant
104we have about you know 800 000 left so that's just kind of give you in perspective what's left in these in these resources so that one-time money is depleting um and then also um in the 24-25 year we're going to be most likely been Have Spent down the art music instructional Supply Grant and the learning recovery emergency block rent because our average one-time spending is about 11 million so with the S are gone we're gonna have to shift some of that over to the new block grants and kind of see how those fit um in terms of maintaining what we're current what currently is working for students um in place art counselors and Calpers rates uh for the next coming up years we see that calstrs is flattening out to 19.10 so that's consistent in
105the next three years uh unlike Calpers we still continue to see growth on the employer contribution based on actual reports for the next four years it's still climbing so that's what we have and Omar from Greg there is no State Relief um in these upcoming budget bills that is important there was one year where we had ever State related but in the last couple years we have not last year and this year where we have not seen anything our minimum wage also continues to increase um and for this next year we would have to be at that 16 per hour rate because it's the 23-24 year and January 1st 2024 it's where we hit we currently have all our positions within that range so we are okay we won't be making any changes this year
106for that I talked a little bit about the mandated blockchain and the rates you can see the difference between school what school districts Charters and Coes receive um and just a little bit of History the mandated block grants came about to facilitate the required recording that was intended to fund so this was intended to fund the cost of the applicable all mandated activities identified by government section 17581 so it's to cover whatever expenses there is to uh do these these mandates um without us having to report every single mandate like we used to before the block correct came about and just so you know the block grants are uh tied to the cola so whatever we get in Cola those rates increase okay so I'm gonna speak a little bit more about the Arts music
107instructor material blockground because that is one of the biggest chunk of money that we'll be using in 23-24 to to save one of some of these one-time positions that are going to be you know impacted by the loss of our other one-time money which is Esser e-log Etc so um the governor is proposing to cut this particular program by one-third um there is conversation out there that they potentially will not be able to cut this program because it's already been allocated um some districts have already and organizations have already spent these dollars so there's a lot of conversation out in the state of what's going to happen um so we'll know more in May but as of right now we have budgeted our second room with that one-third cut 50 of it will be paid
108out in December so we've already received 50 of this Grant and the other 50 will be paid out in May so based on the apportionment payments we are getting both of these um we're getting a grant fully paid by May so how they're planning to cut this in the middle I'm not really sure so we'll see kind of how that plays out um it requires a board approved plan so that will be coming to you shortly not today but it will be coming to you shortly must be spent by June 30th of 2026 so it could be used over multi-year some of the allowable expenses or uh standard aligned professional development and Structural Materials instructional materials and professional development to improve School culture so we we heard a lot about culture and and um improving
109um School environments uh diverse and cultural relevant book collection for School classrooms and libraries operational costs it's a big one to highlight so it's pretty much anything operational to run a school covid-19 related materials supplies and equipment and then uh there's a couple caveats 80 of it must be spent on staff and no more than one percent can be spent in admin okay um board approved plan must include types of Arts funded so some of these five key components have to be uh called out the number of Staff uh that are being that will be um paid out of this Grant and then the number of students served with this okay so that's just some general information we do have our Awards and our allocation so you can see uh it's a significant it's an
110actually three million dollar Grant you take 30 off which is what we did for our second interim just to be conservative and ensure that we don't spend those dollars before we really know what's happening and then the effect of what the cut is so it's it's a good chunk of money um the other big block grant is the learning recovery emergency block grant so this is a one-time funds also intended to establish initiatives that support learning recovery and social and emotional well-being uh 50 was received in the fall of 2022 and then the other 50 will be received this year so we're recording these block grants this year uh we are just not spending them just quite yet allowable uses is uh lower class sizes additional instructional time uh interventions or integrated supports for pupils
111instruction for credit deficient students early intervention and tutoring there's going to be some reporting requirements for this one um so reporting template published will be published in June of this year the initial expenditure uh will be submitted December 2024 there'll be another one um and a final and everything must be spent by June 2028. this one's significantly more than the Arts so just to give you an idea so these really will replace a lot of the SR Sr had a lot of the same uh requirements for learning trying to uh make sure that the loss mitigation component was done so this this money is for that purpose okay is this is one time that it can't be carried over they can be carried over up through January must be spent by January 2028. okay but
112based on our one-time spending Trends this will most likely be spent all my share okay maybe carry over a little bit okay um I'm going to speak just a tidbit about learning uh expanded learning opportunity program Dr gold will go over more details on that um just general information on how much we get per student uh EP Upp or unduplicated people percentage greater than 75 which is the majority of our sites is 2750 per Ada you can piece lower than 75 percent is 2053 per Ada so the only site that falls under that would be epic um this amount fluctuates depending on the distribution of High um Upp leas uh funds are allowed to carry over so we're allowed to carry over funds uh requirement for 23 and 24 and Beyond so uh some of
113the requirements is that any Lea or Charter that has a Upp greater than 75 which again is all our sites excluding that way must offer programs to all students grades t k to six and must provide access to all students in grades PK to six who request the program now requirements for Upp lower than 75 percent it must offer programs to all unduplicated that's the key difference right unduplicated students tk6 and must provide access to all unduplicated students grants TK to six um this program has not currently been audited will not be audited this 22-23 year but starting in 23 24 it will start to be audited and it has the same requirements as our Asus program and so it's going to be very stringent and uh monitored so um they're giving us a couple
114years to get our ducks in a row so here is the schools this is a seafood program and obviously our primary schools are the ones that are getting um funding and so you can see what kind of dollars we're talking about this is a 5.3 uh million dollar investment this is just the 23 24th year uh Dr gold will go over a little bit more about what kind of challenges we're seeing with carryover um the fact that it was new money implementation Etc so she'll go over a little bit more on that component okay I'm going to go on and talk about Universal Universal transitional kindergarten so the date has now shifted a little bit from um September 2nd to April 2nd so every year they're adding months to ensure that all kids that are
115between September 2nd and August 2nd get served in a TK program so we're out to April 2nd now um there's a 690 million ongoing Journal fund um investment to fund and implement the second year of TK it's expansion the other change is that the student ratio has decreased from 12 to 1 to 10 to 1 starting the 23-24 year which is why we're getting that additional TK allocation in our lcf back right that's their way to mitigate how we're serving or stacking these classrooms for students ratios can be met by using classroom parent Educators but they must be 18 years or over and then TK is requiring it as a certification so there's examples of some of the certifications that they they can have or need in order to serve in these classrooms and as
116all great programs there's penalties so if uh we don't obviously this will be audited also uh to ensure that the proper credentials or teachers are holding the proper credentials in the classroom um that the classroom ratios are met and that the class sizes are ten to one right take kids to one adult some of the other programs uh that we've had are special education program uh that allocation will be 886.66 for Ada that's increased by the cola so that will change depending on what our Cola is there is a new program um or the next couple of programs are new the literacy Coach reading specialist grant program but they are not knowledgeable because it's really for um unduplicates above I believe 90 so we don't qualify for that particular Grant there's a 12th grade cultural
117and enrichment kind of like the after school programs offering our high schoolers to be able to attend plays theater Etc kind of enrich their experience and so um we still don't know what schools would be but we would imagine there would be the secondary high school level grades obviously since it's the 12th grade culture enrichment Grant uh those are the sites I would believe uh would be eligible for it we also have an opioid overdose reversal so that is uh due to the number of increased deaths due to overdoses at school and so having um we've already started to talk about this in our admin meetings um Eric Crawford Dr Crawford has come out and um really advocated on on how this and teach and and I'm sure rule out this fall implementation on how
118this will work and how what sites would need to be traded on in order to administer administer the the medicine um the school facility program uh full day preschool there's a delay on the 500 million one-time general fund Investments school facility program was reduced by a hundred million um the charter school facility it has a 30 million ongoing prop 98 funding so that has not changed and then there's a school kitchen infrastructure of 15 million one time and again we work and we partner with Twin Rivers to ensure that we are able to access and without the other Grant that's out there is the community school partnership program so we had two of our schools that applied for the planning Grant so we would be actually in the implementation Grant phase and we have cccs
119and teachers participating in that and so this is a grant that works with the outside community and organizations to um to ensure that we are able to partner uh for our students and our students success as you see this is the perfect example of how it's utilized our solver programs um how the great Partnerships out in the community so this is just additional funding to help other schools the um I'm going to move on and talk a little bit about enrollment so we'll go uh side by side each one and as I mentioned before in other board meetings we're at an all-time high enrollment you can kind of see that Trend um 606. um and we're maintaining Flats the current enrollment at cccs as of March 10th is 736. we tend to be conservative when
120we budget for adopted budget just to ensure we're accounting for kids that leave us graduate Etc and then um building our program up again 308 of them are Virtual Academy for 128 or all the other cccs campuses so so we continue to see growth in the Virtual Academy a lot of kids are opting to move that way here is your Ada to enrollment numbers for 22 23 and 23 24 at the very bottom and then just over the years we're maintaining an 88 percent uh roughly 88.58.6 enrollment 88 to enrollment um this I have a feeling will shift a little bit with the VA being part of this school to kind of increase just because independent study tends to kind of increase um the Ada 21 numbers if you go to the bottom of this
121but that's what you're the last one 20304 is that showing what it was or is that supposed to be 20 23 2024. 2023-2024 okay okay I didn't even see it again when I looked at this life but yes that is the following year okay going back in time yeah I didn't know we were going back and just so it was a long time ago or what happens when we celebrate our 20th year we don't want to keep something for 20 years uh here's our current enrollment numbers over time for COA as you can see in our 24 25 year you see a uptick of a hundred we um potentially have students in the 23-24 but again we're being conservative moving into the next year until you know once our building is finalized and and uh
122available for student use uh we're not going to allocate that until we get closer to that but uh we are thinking that it has a capability of serving about 150 students about 150 students so um that number could potentially go up about 150 more than in the 17-14 we did Count 400 more and again this is that cow fit building expansion we currently have enrollment as of March 10th of 1754. but we are a little bit higher than our 23 24 number here these are CPAP numbers so these are snapshots of where our duplicated will be counted at um and all those numbers kind of are data points uh for the state um next slide is your email to enrollment over time you know this site contains a 92 to 93 uh attended right John's
123pretty good here's futures we are seeing um a little bit of a drop from C bed number so our C bed number was 459 our current enrollment is 446 so we've kind of been seeing a dip a little bit at this particular school um so we're a little bit more conservative than the out years of 440. so we'll kind of see once enrollment hits the beginning of the year we might change that but this this is what our numbers will be for adopted to here is uh Futures 88 to enrollment over time again this one's 92 to 93. attendance rate [Music] we're back to uh this office so we see an increase from prior year to seabeds at 176. our current enrollment at the site is 196. uh 26 of those being middle school kids
124so um again the reason for an increase at this site is due to or middle school expansion in all of our saws so again like I said our independent study schools usually have enough tip to um enrollment Ada to enrollment or in Roman numbers a seed bed number as of October uh time frame and so we usually see in that tick in attendance um mid-year so there are always uh receiving kids into the program so that's why we keep those those Ada to enrollment numbers jump up we did have a little bit of a decrease in our forward years um but we're back up to where we were historically as you can see from his sword there there's some hundreds in there next one is sava Sac City campus and again you see the uptick
125on your seatbelts number of 709 our current enrollment is 747. so um again it's it's 88 students new students Middle School uh no we did have some students last year at Sac City we had roughly 55-0 and I think now we're up so there's about there's 88 now here as of uh March 10th so that's what we're seeing there I'm just gonna have a ticket enrollment here is the Ada over time currently it's at 93 percent uh Ada to enrollment we're seeing um hopefully 94 based on historic Trends hopefully we can get it back up but it's still pretty good so we had HLA enrollment currently it's at 526. um it's lower than the sea bits number currently so our CBS number was 533. we are projecting conservatively for 23.24 a 510 and then kind
126of pointing out here's your Ada to enrollment over time so this school is um about 89 but it's been as high as 94.95 and it's just been harder with the covid absences Etc to kind of get those number of the attendance to enrollment back up so that's what's affecting that GIS um C bets number was 577 we're projecting out um the same as last year's speed this year seabeds our current enrollment as of March 10 is 588. and here's your Ada to enrollment over time the school is maintained to 93 it has dropped a little bit since our coveted time but again like I said hope it has impacted um you know I think even an employment right people get sick or don't come in stay home so that's you know that's happening everywhere not
127just at work so here's Epic about a significant increase from third year their seed beds were at 374 and that's outgoing the same went flat over the last next three years um epics current enrollment to date as of March 10th is 389. so we're doing good here's our Ada uh co-enrollment over time uh they're mentioning a 92 um percent almost 93 percent um Ada to enrollment and then our very last school I'm going to go over for enrollment the South Elk Grove and currently I don't think this number is right so our C bed number 360. enrollment here says 423 100 right yeah there's still budgeting conservatively um for the future for adult budget 423 67 of those uh being students for the middle school and that and that's a big piece of it we
128did not have Middle School right and it broke last year but we kept on in the spring having students come and ask and once you see a pattern our mission is to serve so we said let's figure it out and from June July to now almost 70 middle schoolers which is why their numbers yeah are they in the same complex then yeah it's all squeezed into the same space right now and I've got a I've got a facilities update for you on that coming in just a little bit oh yeah all right pre-covered that site was hard to get to even 300. yeah I know we had a lot of empty space yeah so our 88 from enrollment numbers over time 97 attendance to enrollment rate here okay so that was it for enrollment in
129Ada we're going to move on to multi-year assumptions and then go over the multi-year website so some of the assumptions is our CPI um well I'll start with the cola up at the top so Arcola is projected to be 8.13 4.324 again we'll see what happens in May 24.25 is 3.54 um our Lottery mandated costs again those are just things that are on the assumptions uh salary increase step in column of 2.5 we have economic uncertainty of three to five percent we actually maintain a five percent across all our sites um our leases we increase three percent every year uh California CPI stands for Consumer Price Index uh we talked about that a little bit um those are the Assumption numbers for that and then again the retirement um the unemployment work comp all the
130mandatory benefits associated with building our budget so these are numbers as of second in them so you saw the the long form of the nyp but I'll kind of go over each one um and I split these up into unrestricted and restricted so you can kind of see the difference of where we're seeing the loss of that one-time money right so I'm going to start uh down here with the restricted side on the left hand side you see that um between the years 23 24 24 25 you see a significant drop well you see a significant drop in Revenue um just going into the next year and then the following year you're 24 25 years for most of these sites are all this this is just your ongoing restricted dollars right so here we can
131see how much of um 4.4 just for this particular site of one-time money that they're receiving and how much different that is from your 24-25 year right that's that's the clip that everybody talks about right so um we do also have um like I said those block grants are going to be recorded in this current year so you see that ending net assets or the ending fun balance is going to be 1.2 million for this site that rolls over into the next year for spending we're assuming that the spending there's going to be some decreases there there's about a million dollar decrease there to be able to stain whatever's left in the restricted side of the house if you look up at the top on the unrestricted side you see a different Trend right where
132your revenue is increasing slightly by Cola but you see your expenditures are also increasing the offset some of this right some of these decreases you can see up in your expenditure line of you know about 1.2 million increase on the 23 24 year on the expense side okay and then um moving on to the 24-25 here then we're just trying to live within our meetings and you see that the expenditure side of 24 25 on the unrestricted side is also Ghana so this is assuming we try to maintain as much of restricted position as possible um to not impact student um but we'll talk a little bit more about how potential salary increases could affect these numbers so these are just numbers as a secondary just as you have an idea of what's happening to
133our um I think these slides kind of separating restricted and unrestricted really give you a snapshot of what's happening with the one-time money and how it's going to fall on right um you see the same pattern on all the slides right you see uh huge revenues in the 22-23 year and then you see them drop out um out to the 24-25 uh what saves us is the ending fund balances that get carried over to help us sustain this particular site will roll over still into the 24 25 about 861 and that's really the e-lock which Dr gold will emphasize more on which we do have the spending deadlines they have about two years spending their lives will show go over but that one's rolling over um since the size of the school is so large
134they have a lot of money right so that will roll over and then there's more but you see significant cuts on the expense line a lot of these are salaries right about half of it is salaries and then on the top on the unrestricted side you see the increases slight increase in 24-24 and then a significant increase in the 24-25 year to try to mitigate some of the some of the one-time loss there's futures students has a lot of money having a new administrator in place is a republican kind of um start using some of these resources effectively so we see a drop about 1.3 million in that third year out in your restricted side of the house but then you also see an increase of about 1.4 in that 23 24 year in expenses
135and so they actually will not see much Cuts if they maintain their their positions the way they are perfectly and that's just because you know with the change in administration and just the spending and being strategic on how they're going to spend their dollars slowed down their spending online on other sites you'll see so here's Sava Twin Rivers the North Market and again you see a decrease of about a 400 000 in the first year in expenditures and then the future 1 million more in that third year round so that's a significant drop also on the other end you uh don't see you have about 900 000 that's going to get increased so if you're decreasing about 1.4 and only adding about one there's going to be some Cuts right there's saw the Sac City
136or this campus beautiful campus we're at so um again the revenue drop in the restricted side of the house that's the loss of one-time money you see the expenses also dropping and then on your unrestricted side of the house you see those increasing but the level of decrease to the level increase is significantly different right you have about one point 1.1 decrease in this first year an additional 1.8 decrease in the next year and 23 24 to 24 25 but then you see only about a 1.2 increase in the in from 23 24 to 24 25 in your unrestricted side of the house so there's going to be Cuts right that need to be made a lot of the Savas have um CTE dollars that also drop down so this one looks a little bit
137different than the other ones because of our CTE dollars we cannot budget our CPU dollars until we apply and we are awarded those dollars so we have to decrease those expenditures on top of the one-time place so that's what you're seeing with this particular site okay well the other thing I wanted to point out is expenditures from 22 23 to 23 24 some of that is also the you see that it decreases when we have um CPI increases Etc and maybe some of the restrictive going into there we have the drop of the power and expansion this particular project that's being dropped out of that budget so the next one is HLA so again uh we're seeing drop in revenue on our restricted side on our third year out from 23 24 to 24 25
138in expenditures we're seeing a 1.5 million dollar decrease and about a million dollar increase in from 23 24 and 24.25 and on the unrestricted side of the house so again our decreases are lower than our or higher than our increases right so there is that's coming um because over lots of that money GIS again Revenue coming down adventures coming down and then you see an increase in expenditures on um the unrestricted side of the house the revenues are going up just by Cola right because we're projecting flat for most of them for the of COA um but again same same thing we're seeing the same thing 1.2 cut and restricted 1 million increase that's a two hundred thousand dollars okay so epic we're seeing um similar but we're seeing um a significant uh drop in
139again in the third year out there's going to be a little bit of um cuts here you have about a 300 uh difference there from 22 to 23 24. and then about another 800 000 in the next year and then uh we have about 600 in total between the two years to absorb some of those cuts so you have 1.1 decrease to 600 000 increase right one too fast last school Sava Elk Grove we have about 1.2 million dollar decrease in your restricted side 200 in the first year about a million in the second year on your unrestricted side you'll have an increase in total about 900 000 in the next two years that's to absorb some of those one-time dollar losses um and yeah that's kind of where we're at just kind of interject
140with our multi-year um this is a conversation that we're having ongoing with our principals with our admins so none of this is a surprise to them that they know that we have a cliff coming and there will have to be adjustments and so that is something matter of fact we'll have our next series of budget meetings next week next week and again that is very uh prevalent as part of our conversation omyra sits goes through the moti year so that they understand really what the next few years are you getting pushback I don't I wouldn't say we've got any pushback I think everyone understands that these were one time dollars that quite honestly we maximize there's not going to be principles and I'll give you a pushback for cutting their budgets and we're doing what
141we're supposed to be doing which is spinning these one-time jobs right so we're asking them there's deadlines if we don't extend it right yeah we need to and so they're being strategic on you'll see some of them coming through like buying a lot of Chromebooks and updating some of these things that we really need to sustain us for the next few years when we won't have access to all these one-time monies right it's that thought of how do we maximize the one-time dollars yet we're being very transparent with our administrators but there's a clip coming and we have to be aware of that so and then uh like I said about 50 of it uh we've done a little bit of analysis on what is made up of this one-time money about 50 of it
142is supplies and services therefore that's that's where we're going to look at first right we're going to see what were our Co pre-covered expenses before this one-time money add CPI to all these expenditure lines and see kind of ballpark where they need to be back to that time frame so they can keep as much positions as they can and maybe cut in other places where it's low hanging for well all I know is having been there it will be built they've been spending it and you get used to it yeah and the staff gets used to it yeah and so it's gonna be it's gonna be impactful it is your last slide is a good example that when you look at the res the restricted area you see these big drop-offs when you look at
143the end restricted they have more in net-ending assets than they do an operating budget so yeah and I'll talk a little bit about that in the next slide back to the notice we're not at bank you know and there needs to be a plan over time and lowering uh some of those unrestricted balances to to a reason more reasonable level and get that money into the educational programs that offset some of the other Cuts now you know you obviously you can't drop that money into one into ongoing expenditures uh over time but you can certainly use it to offset drops in some of the one I'm expenditures over over a period of time um any school district would love to have an end event that's equal to their annual I was going to say there's
144a level that's reasonable yes and I think we need to really look at that and put a plan in place that allows a buffer for some of the higher times and that's a perfect segue for the next one so the next one so our reserves uh what is a reserve it's a reserve portion of the net assets from Dallas that's designated to stabilize and non-profits finances for unexpected cash flow shortages expenses or losses reserves should not be used to make up for income shortfalls unless the organization has a plan to replace the income or reduce expenses in the near future in short reserves should be used for skull timing to solve timing problems not deficit problems so we can't fund this forever right if we decide to use one-time dollars to to buffer some of
145these sites that are going to see my goal would be to get them on track on time um but it could be used for short-term uh Solutions but it shouldn't be um to um address structural deficits right uh we have um operating so cushion against unexpected events loss of enrollment or Revenue so we're budgeting our adopted budget if there is a loss in revenue or enrollment that could be used for this an emergency a legal situation uh or revenues not received on time so with the governors having such a huge shortfall we potentially could see deferrals right so that's kind of what the reserves are meant for um some special building and repair replacement seed funding for expansion new programs textbook technology and equipment so I really want to point out the building repair replacement
146seat funding for expansion and new programs so some of the reserves were used for to expand this building here we wouldn't have enough money to do something as big as this if we didn't have the resource that we had um COA has a lot of needs right so just thinking about purchasing buildings uh renovating so we have the outfit expense right that building um those are kind of things that we're going to use the reserves for right there are large reserves we're currently having facility planning long-term planning to kind of figure out what are the sites facility needs and what do we need to do to ensure you know do we see growth at that site are we looking at potential growth and so um we'll speak more on that um shortly I'm sure okay
147outside of LDA control so there is a component of non-spendables so things we hold in the revolving account endowments prepaids Etc so at the end of the year you usually see that and at the adopted budget uh restricted unspeed state grants so all those uh beginning balances that you saw that will take you back to that slide oops I went forward not backwards this particular side so all these here where there's an ending balance that's your restricted ending balance so that is your unspent state Grant so that's part of the balance right is is your unspeed statement um committed can be used for any purpose designated by the board so we use our facility as a committed facility acquisition uh maintenance and construction so you see that line item in your sex reports on your
148fundo once you should be able to see that in your designations on where we sent that money there um and then you have your assigned and we we have a line called the reserve for sustainability and then on a side if we have your reserve for economic uncertainty okay and then this is just kind of what I talk about this is our goal is to always have 15 in facility acquisition constructing the maintenance 10 always for reserve for sustainability five percent for our economic uncertainty that any site has more than 30 it's placed in the facility acquisition construction and maintenance line item okay just to give you um an idea they didn't put numbers up here but we have about of our unrestricted general fund we have about 53.8 percent so take away 30 of
149that you have about 23 percent of on basically unassigned above these numbers right but we this costs a lot right because it costs more than 15 to do this project yeah definitely so board was restricted reserves are very good we need to yeah make sure we keep that for future growth exactly so that's kind of where I'm I'm taking um this conversation we we don't apply for bonds we don't go out what districts you do right we don't there's no choice line that's just to kind of give you an idea of what kind of things we use for this for these dollars okay so I'll go ahead and hand it over to Mr Smith um just a couple of observations it's fascinating that the state is looking to cut the coal at the time when
150we're going through this period of inflation I don't know what the universe they're living in but but that that's a degree of just creating Mayhem throughout the educational system uh the comment on the minimum wage which I strongly support and it's probably not even high enough but that pushes everything up so you have to I'm sure you're well aware of this you didn't have to build into all that separation between all of the steps that you have yeah and I think we've done that um I think was it last year the last time we did that and we rolled out to the rest of the the preference salary schedule placements and again on higher on Higher Learning I you were not around but we were really concerned a lot of hand ringing that we would
151not get the growth when we moved to the new campus and it's it's a gift that keeps on giving that is and I assume we've maxed out those facilities that Higher Learning that we added last year we have and uh that's that's a very plus which again back to our facilities and so forth I would just say for future planning it shows that if we can offer a nice facility well staffed in a good location we're likely to draw a student population if I think that is just going to be one of our mantras as we go forward I would really promote that I somebody I know you're going to cover elop but it just jumps out at you that COA has three million dollars to spend in it for I don't know exactly what
152but I'll be fascinated to find out where they're planning to put that type of money and we already talked about the loss of the one-time money but thank you it's it was a very in-depth and very insightful budget presentation any other questions comments yeah I really have one and it goes back to the art music instruction material block bank and under one area allowable expenses and they talked about 80 percent must be spent on staff is that just that that is purchased for teaching the art the music and what have you not general staff so you could have teachers above the student ratio so teachers you have Educators that are doing mentoring so it's not really specific art and music it's the five categories Flickr it's way back um but it was under the art
153music instruction materials block grant I should have uh so these are the five allowable expenditures so when they Define Arts music instructional background it's these five here right here yeah that's what it is five bullets can be in any of these components so like operational costs let's say we wanted to um Mr super trust me block mentioned uh HLA and custodial needs right so if we decided that we want to use a custodian there it's an operational box right so and it could be related to covet right because they want to keep it clean and sanitary right so as long as it meets any of these five bullets okay then it can be used yes the one that's more restricted for student instruction is the uh learning recovery emergency Block Craft so this one has
154a very specific um instructions for credit deficiency integrated support for students um in increase or stabilize instructional time and then um the staff to student people ratio so this would be like class sizes right making sure we have smaller class sizes to be able to give that one-on-one attention to our students you're welcome any other questions I was looking at uh I didn't quite understand uh unduplicated and the elop program once I have a program to all unduplicated students and grade teachers agents and was it a teacher yeah so what it is is so if you have a Upp over 75 which all of our schools do except for epic it says we must starting next year offer it to every single student whether they're a Upp student or not so all students and any
155student who wants to take advantage of the program we must serve that student so that we cannot have a waiting list or we will face penalties we don't know what those penalties are yet because they haven't come out with the auditing guidelines if we're less than 75 such as epic they only have to offer it to all their Upp students and then they have to accept all their Upp students so if they're not an unduplicated student they can be set on a waitlist we don't necessarily have to serve that student and then you unduplicate students is English learner Foster view free and readers yeah homeless Foster being reduced so if they don't meet one of those criteria epic it's okay for us to have them on a wait list um if they do meet that
156criteria then we need to serve them they can't be on the wait list all of our other school sites we won't be able to have one okay any other questions thank you all right thank you okay let me get you back to work all right thank you oh Myra so on the heels of kind of talking about uh the budget um I want to talk a little bit about our salary increase proposal later on in today's agenda you're going to have the opportunity board to approve our new salary schedule uh but we want to take a little bit of time to walk you uh through some of the the changes in what we made first of all I want to um you'll hear me say this multiple times just really affirm the team um omyra
157and Laura uh they were subject to two four-hour meetings with me uh going through this and so definitely want to affirm them all the way up until Friday night probably around eight o'clock still working on it a great job want to firm Maury and Heather uh who also did a lot of work just trying to figure out different scenarios uh that would work now and also scenarios that we should be looking at in the future as we continue to grow and development so what I wanted to do was just walk the board through obviously where we've been what's our proposal and ultimately the fiscal impact of this proposal one of the things I looked at and I asked Laura to pull this information for me is what we've done over the last three years and
158then now the fourth year so for our classified staff over the course of four years we would have given them a 13 increase in salaries or certificated staff 13.5 percent for our classified management 9.5 percent and for our certificate in management 9.5 the board may also remember that over the course of the last two years you utilize some of those one-time dollars to give one-time uh stipends to our staff uh totaling uh 4.5 percent that have been off the salary schedule stipends when you take that total package of everything that we just shared it means that our classified staff over the course of the last four years with this year's proposal would have received 17.5 percent our certificated staff 18 it's classified management 13.5 certificated management 13.5 I will tell you those numbers are on
159par and even in some cases Excel some of our local districts uh Twin Rivers negotiate a three-year 18 for their certificated staff were at four years 18 so a lot of these things we looked at to see how we could remain competitive um within not only the charter sector but also within the traditional uh public uh sector so for this year our proposal will be that certificated staff are teachers Specialists Etc uh would receive a seven percent um raise classified and I say seven up to seven percent classify 6.5 certificated and classified management uh three uh percent and really these numbers were based on a review of our local districts Charter School salaries to ensure that we were competitive including that there are some positions that will receive a larger um percentage of a raise
160to ensure that they move into a more competitive I will tell you we won't max out to match dollar for dollar for our districts around us but we really have been close some of the districts in uh this was a lot of work of Maury and Heather to pull this information we looked at uh some of our local Charter School entities we looked at districts on in Placer County we looked at our authorizing districts including Washington Unified uh for West Sac just to again see where our staff kind of uh lives in the other area that or you have done over the course of the last few years and in one of our kind of research I was speaking with someone from our Statewide Charter School Association about these two last points uh that we
161do that a number of charter schools do not uh and that's one we cover for an employee only four or six Health Plans will cover a hundred percent sure uh for a employee and their spouse two of our six Health Plans covers a hundred percent uh for our employees and children three of our health plans cover a hundred percent and that includes dental and vision and then for an employee and their entire family we cover at least one of our plans 100 percent that by itself is one of the really huge uh benefits that we offer and so it's part of our work as a team as a Cabinet team is to be able to articulate really what we have done uh over the course of the last four years to be competitive finally you
162know my recovered those wonderful numbers uh whilst versus flat first people keep uh kind of costing us more uh that's all right uh we do offer that a number of charter schools offer 401s and uh we are again offering something that a lot doesn't so Margaret you want to talk about the fiscal impact of this uh proposal of the 6.573 and three yeah so um there was a significant changes to our salary schedules so um I grouped it by the different type of certificated salaries um and applied the increases accordingly classified and then at the very bottom you have your statutory increases which is what is the change between this year and next year of hers your step and column your unemployment that was a savings uh your CPI increasing your Health and Welfare increases
163so that's just kind of a broad um perspective of what um we're anticipating obviously this is an estimate of what we um believe are fiscal impact will be and one of the things that I'm sorry Bruce is the statutory increased number included in the multi number or is it an addition no it's an addition okay it's an additional number this is just the top yeah changes so it'll be those two numbers uh one of the other things that we did with our salary schedule if you remember last year uh before we extended our schedule uh to be to take it out to step 20. we also eliminated the three-year bands and replaced it with two-year bands uh this year uh Maury did a really good job of mapping out us doing what we call smoothing
164our schedule because we had these little weird this year you got this much of a percent that year you got this so we actually have a more consistent uh percentage uh step in column uh from year to year it's going to do miracles to help uh omyra and her team know from year to year what to uh expect so really I think our salary schedule is stronger uh but yet more work to be done why was there why was that choppy so it was just as we grew as an organization so we started out as an organization and we went to step five and then we started saying well we're losing people at five so we'll give them a eight percent raise okay and we did that and then two years later we said well
165give us six percent so it was just I call it it was 20 years of bookmaking and we just added a square each year the idea was good it was yeah it was and it made it difficult when you know you're looking at just wanting to you know off the pay six and a half percent to everyone because it's just very well it was interesting because one of those things that when when there was no shortage of teachers yeah you could you know the world has really changed I have a question for whoever Personnel I guess the sac B had an article about you know districts going out to job fairs just this week my question is what really attracts teachers Now you kind of hit on the benefits the salary is obviously one is
166there something we're missing in this we can't give them housing I guess but that's one of the things in our area that's a big deal absolutely and I will tell you Laura and her team have already started the round of job fairs we are really driving home the retirement and the benefits okay and the fact that we really are competitive um plus the environment so you have smaller kind of expenses you have uh much more autonomy in terms of the small block that you're doing yeah like it's unmatched compared to traditional districts where we have the parent Liaisons we have the student support Specialists we have the paraprofessionals and then from just coming from traditional three years ago I had told them I said well I still get people who say I can't believe you
167gave up your retirement to go to a charter because again a lot of Charters don't offer Calpers and stores and then we paid significantly more for health and benefit so you know the discussion was we really need to highlight and dispel that mix that hey we are Calpers and stores you're not giving that up if you come to us so in fact you're going to gain so much more but it's educating them we've also started to pick up more applicants since January in our alternative settings and that's another big piece that just the type of programs we offer a lot of teachers in the classroom right a lot of teachers are burnt out of the traditional school system and their setup and they hear about ours and go I want that and they're leaving the
168traditional settings they're saying I read an article in our paper in the B I think it was it's a few few weeks ago saying we just started we gotta find something else doing some of them don't even know what they're doing but they're leaving teaching middle school students yeah to come in there that's some different you know you might also want to pick up the number of teachers that have been with us for a number of years that's a good selling point because that shows that it's a nice place to work and people staying well I don't know what that number is but can we have anyone at 20 years we do yeah we do so uh and that's information that matter of fact even yesterday um for president Campbell and myself were sharing with
169the IB uh committee uh the evaluators just the retention of that's what that's right staff uh GIS has one of our highest staff retention numbers and people always say well IB is too hard there's no way that teachers want to work in an environment yet that school is managed to retain teachers at a higher level than most schools in accounting okay and so again it goes to all of those things that we just talked about little supports so I agree with you it's something that will continue so board you'll be asked to approve uh the salary schedule I believe later on in our regular business and the consent agenda item so if you have any questions more questions for the or please ask them now so oh well are the administer or this classified managers
170and certificated managers they're aware of this sorry schedule so we want to present it to the board first and then we have a admin meeting this week in which I will share this information uh as well as we have an executive cabinet meeting where I'll share that information with our classified manager go forth and do a good work yes absolutely again I'm really proud and I have to say this I'm proud of what you as a board have done over the course of the last four years when you look at what we've done or our staff over those four years it sometimes doesn't feel like a lot but when you put it together you really see very clearly that we have worked hard to move to be in a very competitive organization so I do
171appreciate your information I guess they haven't just gave us that you know when she's talking to other people about what we do and how we do it that's a testimony in itself that we're doing something right for her to leave and come here with us it has to prove it'll be okay and omyra said we can afford it all right so overall what a nice presentation yeah very nice really in-depth and just again growth is good yeah all right so we have a oh so well this was on my wrist thank you but can I go ahead on Myra no you go ahead all right so definitely what affirm and thank our entire Business Services teams obviously our CBO or Myra our director of Business Services Valerie Rogers fiscal supervisors Yvonne Grazer and Lilian matu
172uh and then our new budget analysts who has been with us a month and a half a month Cindy uh and then uh we we continue to stay in really good relations and connections with um uh Aaron thornsberry who's served as a contractor uh on some of our projects so again want to affirm this very capable team I just want to Upper Marion too uh if he's watching but he helped us on our second interview on our site so um as you well know we had two analysts out and so uh it was picked up by administrators and everyone was was uh gracious to help us at least with one so on top of his own work I'm sure he has lots of work too all right so before lunch we're the only things standing
173between you and lunch so I think we're going to knock out one uh other thing item which is our e-lock so Omayra shared with you a kind of the a number of dollars that we are receiving for our e-lock programs I know the board has kind of questioned uh multiple times uh some of the uh contracts that we send through for various vendors uh around our Elon program so what we thought we would do for a few minutes is to give you a comprehensive picture this is as Elmira shared this is the millions of dollars that we're receiving but here is the plan that we are executing to ensure that these dollars are being spent well and uh serving our students so it's a little bit of kind of giving you some context to the
174dollars and the comments just to tell you how much I I think that's the best a lot of people do CDE doesn't like that we call e-lock they like the elop but we've all grabbed the bull by the horns and ran with it so they don't they don't have too much of a choice um so as a Myra touched on as you guys know that ewop is to really extend the learning and the focus for it is it could be before or after school but the focus rule should be on enrichment programs so the goal is not to just replicate what the classroom environment looks like during the typical instructional day so they've really energicized to provide students for opportunities that they otherwise would not receive and that's why the focus is on Upp right
175so really getting students to go on field trips to experience things that they otherwise may not have the ability to go and do with their families so I just really want you guys to have that contact so when we see vendors coming through or we're seeing a lot of field trips and it's really because we're trying to create those experiences is for our students they also really really encourage Community Partnerships so they want us going out and seeking these Partnerships within our community so that they can offer these experiences for our students now the one exciting part is and we've done a lot of research on this is you see this here at the bottom system it doesn't say you can't you can believe it or not that is the motto for the elop program
176right and so anytime that I have emailed the state or on the emails with in meetings or talking to the state they always respond with the same exact verbiage every single time which is the California Department of Education but it's not approving or denying individual Le requests for allowable expenditures all expenditures should be consistent the statue and the LA's elop program plan which is approved by the governing board in a public meeting and posted on the Lea's website so that is the statement we get every single time and so we check with our Auditors check with the state have it in black and white we can use this funding for Capital expenditures so that is some of our plans is to really look at for COA hoping to split fund and pay for our expansion
177to the new Cal Fit building so I crunched the numbers and looked at because the requirements for elop are nine hour days right and so for most for all of our sites that's three hours past the instructional day and then on Fridays because we're out early it's actually more around six hours a day and then the requirement is we have to have 30 non-instructional days that are not um so during intercession and summer that are nine hour days right and then for Charters because we serve at our Charter we choose to do 180 school days they allow us to use those additional five days because it's 175 days required by state to account towards our um uh program so when I did the math it's about 50 of our time our students spend in the
178after-school program and 50 in the instructions so we feel comfortable and our Auditors uh Mr Elliott reached out to our otters approved that we can go ahead and use this capital expenditure so we're going to be looking at split funding some of these bigger projects so for example at Epic something that is a world need is a bathroom facility outside next to the playground well we use that playground all the time and after school so we're going to be looking at split funding that project we have quotes um in the works right now that I know Mr La will talk about later as well as some expansion of fields at HL at HLA in a bathroom as well at HLA at GIS we're looking at some potential additional modulars to help because they're running out
179of room in space there and in fact we're looking at potentially purchasing one to two fully with the e-lock funding because it will be dedicated space for the after-school program so again just really wanted to emphasize is what we can use this money for because it is a substantial amount for some of our schools there is talk potentially that they may go to changing the funding for how many students that actually attend the program but again we don't have auditing um guidelines out for that right now it's still funded based on the Ada of the school so at COA we serve say 350 students in the after school program but we're receiving funding for all TK through sixth grade students is a program only goes TK through the six how much will it save us
180on the expansion for COA by using it with facilities do you know we have not yet received a final bid for the ti component of the project so that's hard to answer but a lot of what we're using could be it needs a lot maybe it's a lot of work up to 50 of what we do could feasible abuse dollars easily so easily um and just some new things as we had talked about so starting next year we must offer office right so that means that we are doing our due diligence to really advertise it's not supposed to be one and done it's to really inform our families of this opportunity um no waitlist will face penalties and then also Transportation offered for off-campus programs so this is new so for example um epic partners
181with YMCA so we have to offer transportation from epic you want to say even though it's only like a mile down the road and parents can opt out but we at least have to show that we made that offer for them so looking at the budget just to give you an idea so year one 21 22 was the startup year we received our funding very late we didn't know exactly how much funding we were going to receive and the goal was really just to start building the program so you'll actually say we did not we were awarded 2.3 million approximately and we only spent about a half a million so that left this with about 1.8 million dollars in carryover to spend this year plus we got admissions Award of almost 5 million dollars so
182just this year across our seat based schools we had approximately almost 6.8 million dollars to be able to use they did just let us know that as um omira said that you have two years to use the funds so our carryover from 2122 we need to be able to expend right by um 23 June of 23 which we are on track um doing that you have seen probably a lot of vendor stuff come through right we're really building our program right we're buying all those really cool technology and gadgets to get this program where we want to be then you'll see for the 22-23 school year so like I said six point almost 8 million our expenses were running at about 4.9 because we are buying some of those one-time Furnitures um and so we're
183a little bit more expense this year we're anticipating right now approximately 1.8 almost 1.9 carryover which will be then added to our award for next year which is approximately 5.3 for a total of about 7.2 million dollars going into next year and again just for after school epic does is our only school right now that offers before school they offer a six to six and also this is an addition to our Aces funding so um Aces funding is not as much as a couple hundred thousand dollars and we do have a 30 contribution match on that but we're allowed to use the Ewok funding for the 30 contribution match um and so we are also being strategic and when we purchase certain things like we just bought these really cool you saw them come across
184your um the board it's called from kid jumpstarter TK sand digital TK sand kits that are 3D you guys have to come and play with them they're so much fun um but we split we can split on those because we use them also an after-school program right and so that's how we're being creative with some of these monies that are one time that we're losing we can start split funding some of these uh materials and supplies Aces is not like that so Aces funding is a lot more restrictive in uses if it's bought for after school it's only supposed to be used for after school so typically we expend our Aces funding on Personnel um and that pretty much depletes it and then we focus our e-lock funding on all the materials and supplies because
185it's less restrictive and then these are just a few pictures from our after school program I'm really providing those opportunities and field trips I told board members hey let's go to a Giants game you know usually that's a lot it's hard to spend taxpayer dollars on that during the instructional day or for after school those are the opportunities we're wanting to provide for our students and I just really have this is one of the digital um Pig jump things they're playing digital soccer during a rainy day uh in the gym and I just really want to affirm our schools and director uh Joy decoy who's really helped to support this program this year and being able to provide these wonderful merchantment opportunities for our students it's pretty phenomenal to see what we're offering so if
186it isn't prohibited you it's probably something you do so we could contract with the local golf driving range and take the students there wasn't it or we could have a rival team and make it participate in in marchmanship and so forth yes pretty much the sky literally amazing yeah I assume that they do the driving range they can play on the golf course so yeah that's an interesting yeah so if it doesn't say you can't you can't and like I said balls too we are not going to approve or deny anything that the Lea wants as long as it again it's that they say it's the best practice to split fund it and it should be for enrichment for after schools and again we felt that this was important to give the board context so
187that it it helps you understand a little bit of the contracts that when we kind of keep coming back through that this is the funding source and this is the flexibility uh with it yeah and that encouragement for Community Partnerships right I mean if it's 300 000 like oh my gosh that is a lot of money and it is a lot of money yeah but a they have the funding and it is that is the intent of the program well that's a very excellent point you made about being able to use it for Capital and facilities and that uh that's that but very very insightful yeah a fun thing is Dr McCormick I don't know if they could do it for 4-H right on Saturdays well it's a Saturday yeah it's not instructional it's 4-H
188yeah buy the Lambs expanded learning that's what it is any other questions or comments is there any talk of this program being in the chopping bar because of the or is it eventually no it's part of the whole upk um package deal of expanding from Early Childhood uh to after school like I said there may be reductions potentially them not funding it based off of every single student Ada but we haven't heard any more on that and this is really a state program so as long as our Governors and and play assuming you could have different yeah I was going to say and you know we'll talk about this later on in the uh legislative second part of this um this is a I don't want to say pet a project but as a pet
189project of the governors um now as we always know when the governor leaves and maybe runs for something else it depends on what that next Governor feels as a priority uh that same thing applies to the Community School Grants all of these are really major projects of his that we'll see if they're sustainable to them I went to the leadership uh women's leadership at um yeah COA and I was looking at the young ladies there uh in one of the pictures and I thought that's where that after school money is going uh that e lot money is because it had some great art programs and the kids performed just beautifully gymnastics martial arts like things that parents typically or even me as a child like my mom couldn't put me in right exactly now you
190actually can do martial arts you can do gymnastics you can do music right right there within the school within the school yeah and it shows that it's being very well used so with that I think Deputy we are yeah so I will say we had one more but we're gonna move this next contract session to after lunch so we're going to Madam president and members uh taking recess uh for our uh designated lunch break next time all right thank you the board is back from their lunch recess um definitely want to take this opportunity to Outlook the uh affirm and thank Melissa for uh really a wonderful job of our food and our breakfast and our lunch and all of the nice amenities so thank you Melissa thank you okay so next we have um
191three of our directors and members of our executive cabinet group uh Dr Eric Crawford who is our director of special education and student services director Joy deploy who is our director of academics and director Sergey tarikov who is our director of School parent and government tool relations who are going to just give the board uh some brief updates on within their various areas so with that being said director thank you Mr Simple and good afternoon your board members so we'll start with the seaback community just listen to the library Council and you probably familiar with this uh uh with this group um you know we really appreciate our friends and allies and the community that you know come and meet with us every quarter and we give them updates on uh various schools and programs
192as well as soliciting feedback particularly as an example the latest example was BCC blueprint so we got a very extensive interaction with this group and got a lot of good information so every um every meeting we're trying to highlight one of the schools and programs so pretty much we'll go around and even take turns and make a circle with all of our principals uh to Common present on this and as you can see on the screen we have very good diverse group of leaders uh starting with Virginia geeks on that as she's been aware and we've been with us for many many years and I know a lot of our teachers went through her uh through her program and then of course our own Mr Block here and uh you know Commander Tom Jones from
193Aerospace Museum uh more or less recent additionalists Mr Wiley from villara which is uh hitting an air conditioning company that is based on what's partner up with Sal and some students and we have McLean Park you know we have but several folks I'm not going to go and read the whole list but we have pretty good um pretty good sample of uh you know of uh people there and if you see on the picture there's an in-person meeting now it's like pretty good so unfortunately this is not a reason uh so let's say like four years ago so we are actually planning to have our next meeting in person and people are very excited about it and uh so that that will happen uh late spring this year next slide and um you know GCC
194Foundation once again I mean this is not new information uh for you uh your board members businesses are helping arm support 501c3 and that was formed to a fundraise and assist programs that are not funded by general fund and uh through our you know through our main GCC sources you know and um uh the president of course is the superintendent and then you know we have oral Mark Anderson as a board chair uh Mr harm is our architect that we work with uh for quite some time so here's the wife's here and uh uh So currently I believe you know with the transition so it will be uh Mr Elliot will be replacing Json am I correct uh so and then we have our only our own thermostat or formerly home uh they're on thornsbury
195that he did move to uh Yuba County but we still uh have this uh wonderful relationship work is helping us to be the treasurer on the foundation and then we have several folks from the community if we rules of boron Alex uh Sergey vinegar and Max Gunter is our latest edition so he is actually a former GCC student and former GCC employee um so one of the things to highlight you know we have done multiple ground development uh activities the most recent ones is around we have submitted an application with mutual assistance Network jointly to the city of Sac to support Firehouse Cafe unless 400 000 more so if we can get granted and then the other one that we actually got granted very recently he was a McClatchy Foundation uh books of drinks and
196and that's that was 9 000 Lords and change um that we are planning to use for uh to support our Refugee families and on the fire ask if we've been uh third year now since we have started this project and that was actually a partnership with smart so we did receive um a shine Grant which is a very prestigious uh program with uh SMUD and currently we have uh I believe a few days Thursday and Friday Friday and Saturday that we have it open and we have kids from cccs Sawa and uh Futures High School that are helping and operating this and learning skills this is a wonderful program where they learn uh customer service cash handling and skills how to operate the coffee card and be able Barista there's also some elements of financial
197literacy included there so it's a really awesome program I think up to this point we graduated about with 15 students the bedroom uh and then the other highlight of small grants distribution to teachers and school sites so Mr Anderson and and the other people that are connected to funding Foundation know that we do provide small grants to your teachers and and administrators or merely to support advance and various programs in school trips uh typical amount of those 500 boards we're trying to make it as easy as possible uh pretty much unless this is there's a lot going along with the goals of foundation you know all of those grants are getting uh approved thank you for those who are approving it um you know the other thing is like the school and land sponsorship support
198that would be another example A lot of times school is doing a very specific Community engagement or parental engagement activities such as Multicultural Festival Baron night for teacher appreciation event and those are the resources that we're using from Foundation to pay for those activities and then like Athletic program so as you know that you know the the goal terminal Gold Tournament 100 of proceeds are going toward athletic programs to support those ingredients and and purely reason we have added Refugee support and it's a variety of things starting with backpacks school supplies sometimes it's food and clothing so we provide a number of grocery cars that we just you know purchased to win good because wingas you know uh one of the cheapest options and we also have an option where like alcohol was excluded from
199that purchase or making sure that they're they're buying it so they're very thankful for that and this is really working out really good um with of course we're looking for more resources uh and working with other partners as far as events I know we have it yes we had a we have some convenience so after covet we've we're slowly gradually coming back so we had our golf tournament very successful back in September so this year uh well actually would be the next school year we're planning to have wolf tournament and adding the dinner uh what whether it's going to be a crack feed or just sit down beers that's kind of our goal and the benefit of having those is this is honor extracted funds that goes to from that goes to Foundation that we
200can use for our programs so um so the newly arrived families um actually even before this this the war started back in February of last year we are increased flow of newcomers coming and primarily it was people that were seeking Asylum from countries such as Russia you know Central Asian uh former Soviet Union Republic so they were seeking Asylum coming here undocumented so the the most frequent route they go to Mexico they fly on the tourist visa and they get to get to Cancun or Mata plant or some other uh the cool places and what they do is they go to Tijuana and I'm trying to close the border with you know with others and Central Americans of Mexican Americans that are seeking a sound so we have seen in the last few years we
201have seen approximately 10 000 of them coming in to the greater Sacramento area and actually settling uh so our schools of Rockland we have about 600 new students and I specifically use term refugees or Asylum Seekers or new immigrants because they're not all refugees legally a lot of them are Asylum Seekers but you know we serve them they get service all of them are getting service and um you know enrolling their kids to school and I think that's been very successful and part of the benefit to them is the fact that we have built very robust program from in for English Learners with um uh certificated and a lot of classified staff that speak uh the language and we do understand the culture and I think this is a great transition also I have to
202mention that the the the apparent liaison uh position that we have I believe we have five or six five six Islamic uh currently I think this is actually being working out really good um because those those are people that are on the front line meeting them helping them with resource us and most of the time they're able to connect with those with those folks and do not full-scale wrap around stores but a lot of hand holding you know probably with a rule number with other things and on the typical needs for for those families are housing particularly long-term housing um and then one-on-one assistance with food School enrollment proper documents Healthcare wraparound Services mental health is a big deal actually we're looking into submitting a grant uh to the state to apply for some resources
203to help our families that are experiencing very very severe trauma you know going through the war or like being displaced and one of the ones that are not coming from the war zone I mean it's as a result of that and they experience trauma and then you know uh what are like obviously as a school you know as a school as a K-12 organization we don't have capacity to provide all those services but we work very closely with our partners and you know we work very closely with psych County Department of Human Assistance uh reselling agencies such as World relief IRC in the International Rescue community and others the churches are crucial partner too in particular like in highlight spring of life for us so all Church in Orange also not only we've got a
204bunch of gifts from that church that are painting and enrolled in our school the senior pastors the children going there but they're the number one hub for refugees and Messiah is so a great partner second amount of food bank starting last year we have food distribution to to those families you know whether it's a box or or individual wise referral to the uh Canada food bank but did you get this uh the services and of course you know we're partnering up with elica and other uh clinics uh to make sure that they connected to health uh Healthcare and Health Resources thank you and I'll touch very quickly on the marketing so marketing is very crucial component because we are not uh neighborhood schools so it's a school of choice and yes most of them are
205families and and and students are coming as a result of word of mouth or someone who's happy with with us but nevertheless we want to make sure that our brand is recognized so all the community is know what we're doing that this is an option available to all the diverse population uh that in the region that we serve now we do have I'll call the mainstream media so we work with Sacramento be on the as a muted basis just because cost is a bit higher but then we'll also work with neighborhood media such as art and arcade magazine and Southport magazine I'm an epic is advertising there in GIS is doing Art Market and then we do a lot of social media paid marketing so which is very inexpensive way to give the school in
206front of of families uh we're talking about hundreds of lowers we're not talking about thousands of boards to run a robust campaign so that's been working really well and our community engagement specialist militia Bridge is a very heavily and I'd like to also uh highlight our edit Media Partners such as Russian American Media official headline FM word to Russia by the way I just need to clarify and they're located in West Side they're not located in Russia which is the name Mr lockerman who passed away was the founder of this organization they were like working with Russia and then of course magazine I apologize for my poor Spanish so that's that's a Spanish language uh publication that we want a number of our schools uh to make sure that you know our log index Community
207have access to the information yeah thank you Sergey I'll speak to the upcoming marketing that we're looking at as we get into hiring season um starting in April our goal is to have the next board meeting a proposal to the board for a gccy marketing plan that includes uh having posters like you would see here up around 60 different Transit shelters across the region we would be on some digital Billboards that are up on the major freeways 55 80 um 99 and those will be strategically ran certain times of the day targeting certain demographics and here's the cool slash scary piece if you've Fallen the demographic that we are marketing to and you drive by one of these Billboards and you have your phone on you it's going to Ping your phone and you're automatically
208going to start getting those same advertisements on your cell phone if you drive by one of our apps really so it is a very direct targeted plan um it will be looking for one enrollment for all of our schools but two uh hiring we're going to be having our own Gene to be hiring Fair coming up in the month of April and we want people to know about it so that'll be one of the main ways that we put that word out for this community and try to pull in more teachers staff members administrators as needed to grow our team and grow the capacity we have to serve students so be on the lookout for that and we're excited for you guys to be able to see GCC branded all over the community starting in
209about a month yes we're still doing the buses uh we don't have any right now on the buses but again this kind of takes its place all the buses you know the bus transit shelters so instead of on the bus we'll be at each bus stop um we may expand to that but this specific plan just includes the shelter seeds basis still doing Pandora you know we haven't done Pandora in a while uh we would we would track data students coming into the school to see hey how did you hear about us and right at first Pandora was was good what was that 2014 2015 there's other mediums and folks use for music now and we just haven't found that effective word of mouth as always it's still gcc's the biggest form of marketing uh
210when you look at places like the Virtual Academy zero to 315 a year and a half um because people talk people talk when good things happen more people come so that is our number one Olympic Market we tell each other about the good work we're doing but two we do want to be intentional about programs like this so people know the brand that's a big piece of it too you know a billboard may not always produce a student enrollment today but it's a brand the more people see that in age so the GCC GIS whatever school it is kind of automatically built when you see it over and over again and you know oh that's a sustained organization any questions on marketing ends or any Community I'm sorry yeah well and I want to just
211add um really a huge affirmation to Sergey uh throughout last school year and this school year we have been struggling with uh homeless camping across from uh community outreach Academy and cccs really a huge uh problem along uh Dudley and Sergey kind of worked with our County Board of Supervisors our district attorney's office um sure Sheriff's Department CHP um code enforcement to over kind of just share a creative yeah so over the uh course of the last few months to actually re-zone that area so that it's no parking uh anytime no stopping actually which is more than no parking and we host monthly uh all of the McClellan kind of residents with those people at our offices so really a good Outreach to our governmental local officials and uh we know that we'll keep giving
212him things like that to do so I just want to publicly get acknowledge that I mean it took us a while oh is it six months remember when you sell first email yeah that was like well yeah uh I know there's a lot of food and that type of stuff for refugees is there a need for other kinds of household things that people may have or yes we're trying to stay away from like having a storage or or closet would rather sell them so short answer is yes yeah so we usually refer them to another Agency for example allocate but schools they have full uh clothing uh clothing closet so and then which are like if the school's new glow it's very easy to access most of the food banks they also have called and
213then the Jewish school so but I'm like yes thank you we should take it to those depositories yes instead of language don't have the capacity to you know store it and you know really provide Direct Services yes it hasn't been quite a year yet but what's your assessment of the integration of those 600 students in the GCS and how they have fit into our culture and working it's got to be a shock for them you you stress the mental health part of it how what's your assessment of how it's working it's a process Jack it's a very good question I appreciate you asking this question I think there are a very successful track to assimilate and and to give within you but it's a process it's going to take a while okay brawling on Jake
214Warner you know for some people it could be a master of process but you know there really depends on their background you know whether they knew English whether they came from urban area you know or like rural area uh the exact circumstances if we have something else that lead like literally Wars on or like their house was been lost the people relatives were killed so this is a huge problem so probably on taking them longer but I'll say wish but there are no like track I think there we see that enrollment is growing um they're not leaving unless they're like moving out to some other areas you know so they're staying with us which means this is a good sign okay you know all right are there any other questions for Sergey or Mori uh
215and as Maury shared uh you'll see uh some contracts coming over our next few board meetings to kind of begin to put this marketing plan into effect okay so next I'd like to call up Dr Eric Crawford who is our productor of student services thank you very much so much thank you Miss Campbell Mr Campbell uh cabinet and Report uh I wanted to get here I'm here today to give the sped update for spring so this is an overall track of time from my tenure here throughout where we currently are and as you can see that um with our overall organization with increased enrollment so is our special education showing increase in Romanian numbers so just from the fall to the spring we've gone from 540 students up to 629 that currently qualify for special
216education services um a lot of these a lot of our students are coming to us from the Savas they're enrolling with us um with IEPs that we are taking in and meeting services and providing their services in this office and that's our highest point of enrollment second is COA with a lot of new initial referrals so we have a lot of students who are qualifying for the first time in our elementary school the next piece is our staffing over time and this one is a little bit more tricky to navigate in the fall we have the GCC and these are our employees and then the next part is the contract in place how many contractors we have in each of the positions so highlighting on spring so right now we have we still have our
217Behavior Sports Specialists our Ed specialist and you can see we have 21 positions with three bracketed those are three open positions and we have two and a half of those being covered by contractors right now but I am excited to say that we have two applicants as of this morning so we will be looking to interview a couple applicants and hopefully being able to fill a couple of those spots two out of three of those spots by early next week um we closed in one of the nurse positions and changed it to a health clerk position so that we could better uh serve our schools around immunizations specifically and Data Tracking and that was filled very quickly by one of our own uh a COA middle employee who came over and said this is the
218work I want to do so Justina head is joined our student services team and working with our health clerks and our nurses and providing services for all students we still are have our 1lbn and bring nurses so the change on that is the nurses you saw to and then um above that was two we had one of our own nurses that completed her schooling with us and so she was able to move from an lbn to a certificated school nurse so we have a very high ratio of actual certificated School nurses within our organization as compared to other organizations which I'm very honest to be able to say that we have that um we have rbts we have one RBT that registered Behavior technician which is currently with us and we are Contracting out with
219one um we have two positions that are open for that that are not quite filled yet our School site interns um this is neat in the sense that in the fall we had two School psych engines and now we only have one that is because one has completed her program and if you look at the next line our Sykes went from four to five and our intern was of high quality where we were able to hire her into that this site position so we were able to recruit and trained when she became a full-time site and we hired her onto our own team as as our own GC GCC employee uh the one psych intern that we still have is completing her work by this June and she'll have her letter so she can she
220chooses to apply for us wonderful but she will be ready to go out and join the world as a full play school psychologist a very shortly on the next line our speech language pathologist assistant we did have con we currently we had two contractors and two people that are with us in-house and the difference between the uh the speech pathologist's assistant and the speech pathologist the speech pathologist carries the license and they can do the case management work um the assistant can give Direct Services and help prep the speech pathologists and with materials and with overall services to build the capacity of our speech team so that they can meet the needs of our students So currently we have two school speech pathologists that are under contract and two that are with us full-time we
221have one of the biggest upticks and that we've seen with the increased enrollment and new referrals is a lot of speech assessments so we have a lot of kids and we do believe that there is some peace from coming out of cobit for the past two years where the lack of socialization has impacted some of the developmental pieces of speech so we are seeing a lot of kids that are coming out of that gives me a little bit of tune-up around there um with some tier two interventions that we're doing in the classrooms around speech now this this final one so in total we have 17 of our own um people that are on contract that 17 does not reflect the uh Ed specialists in that number and we have eight contracts so we are
222reducing the numbers of contract people that we are working with so we are having more of our own GCC staff members that are on there because contractors um there we have good solid contractors but they're not our people we want to build our GCC family and with our own people so that we have more flexibility with deployment the next slide and this is an overall breakdown and Miss Campbell I know you asked me this question so I wanted to make sure I had this for you about so I wouldn't ask you again where are our kids and what is their primary disability and so as it Trends um our specific learning disability is our highest destination of primary identification rate uh secondary to that is um our Ohi or other health impairment so anything primarily
223ADHD or something like that that might impact a student's ability to learn but it's something that doesn't fall into some other specific classification we have 92 speech language impairment students so that that's speech only so speech is often a secondary uh identifier as well but we have 92 Primary speech-only students which is a large population of students and then the last number that I want to highlight on the bottom is that 42 at the very bottom of the corner and that's pending so we have 42 open assessments right now for the students who we are assessing or special education services now not all 42 will qualify but probably a large majority given the uh the robustness of our SSD process and the way we have kids channeled in for assessment the majority of those students
224will qualify so we are going to see an uptick of those numbers as well there any questions yes sir yes uh again I appreciate the the presentation and and uh are really very positive about building some of these staff positions and I know we were struggling with it last fall when we met I have a question that was what it's a render dramatic increase of almost 90 students from the fall through the spring and my question is what do you contribute that to is it just better the what what's the factor for that I think we're looking at our enrollment numbers and increases in enrollment especially around our independent study programs we do see an increase around there especially in Fall to spring because our numbers in general increase around that time with our high
225school programs um and so we're taking in a lot of IEP students that already have IEPs and so I attribute a lot of it to that and I also attribute it to the early identification of the younger students primarily around speech and some specific learning disability some of our younger students you know I know special education usually runs around 10 percent of the student population in the district so you know we're a little bit over that but it it just kind of jumped out at me thank you absolutely and the is schools are a little bit more disproportionate but if you think about the population that we serve and have a traditional setting right isn't successful a lot of times for students who are on IEPs right with the Hands-On project based learning and engagement
226so I think that's why we see more students coming to us in an is school right they want to finish their education but in an environment that's more conducive to their learning style and you probably you know I have no proof of this but I assume because of the positive program we have we may get transfer students with the services of our program and frankly there's nothing wrong with that so there you have we serve about 25 percent sped students at our is populations we have schools which is significant right which is the next game more staff people referred students out now than we have people to serve those positions so keep that in mind say what we've maybe caught some districts doing that we're writing lessons yeah writing us into their plans funding for
22725 we really need to look at also um ethnicity observation so you don't want to we will populate we're not over um I feel very confident that we are not over identifying okay students um especially in in specific demographics um I I hold a pretty high standard in terms of what I want to see for a student to qualify um and it's not just a whim it's got to be based on data and testing and valid assessments over time but as Mr Ellie said we are disproportionate in our is programs but we're a little bit underrepresented in some of our other programs and which I find is encouraging with this increased number because that's showing that more families are willing from our seat based programs to say you know what I acknowledge that my student
228needs some extra support and they're trusting us to work with their student and work with the family and provide that extra support so I do see that as a positive overall any other question thank you so much thank you all right thank you Dr Crawford and thank you you know I want to just take this time in front of the board to affirm Eric for really the work that he has done with our special ed team as you know when uh Eric first came on we were still in the midst of a transition from being with Twin Rivers to kind of building our own uh department and so that work was started with Dr McCormick and carried on by Dr Crawford so definitely want to affirm him for that continual work uh to really take
229us to our next level of Excellence so thank you all right next we have our director of academics good afternoon everyone good yeah it's raining outside but it's bright in here and I smiled as I walked through this building because it was amazing oh it is and gorgeous and I just want to affirm the saw the staff and the GCC for your work and support of this project it's exciting for me to see the access and the opportunity our students have to this awesome facility for middle school and it's exciting that you're increasing your enrollment with that as well right so I'm sharing with you today about something that is my passion project it's also another awesome thing within GCC our students have access to an awesome program which is IB and as I look
230around at the work you've already done today I see how IB supports your goals as a board being open-minded being a communicator right being student-centered and supporting student and staff social emotional well-being IB supports what we do as a district as an organization I correct to myself but Ivy is just a small part of what I do um in addition to IV IG CSI comprehensive School Improvement um targeted School Improvement testing TK expanded learning a says lots of other things that I do to support schools but this is especially my heart so I'm excited to share with you about IV today first I need to give you some context about the process of ID there are three key steps in becoming an IB School the very first step is to become a candidate School that's
231where HOA is Higher Learning Academy is a candidate School thriving during that candidacy phase you do a lot of work a lot of creating a lot of collaborating a lot of compliance on expanding your program offerings for students and then you apply for authorization that's the second key step GIS and epic or authorized schools and then the third authorization there are only of certain things that have to be in place a limited number of actions that must be a place to be authorized and then in five years the last key step is you're evaluating at evaluation now you have to provide all the rigorous things that were not required at authorization so epic is authorized GIS is evaluated and Miss Lily and Jason participated with us yesterday and GIS is nyp evaluation visit so it's
232a three-day process we like it when it's in person but it's not in person right now it is remote and they are being visited by someone in Lebanon yeah and I think the other person was from Indiana yes and yeah but originally Australia yeah but it was so interesting the girl from Lebanon her electricity went out while we were wow yeah right so and it was 12 a.m there when she was working with uh stalking with us am where she was exactly so just knowing that that is the key um part for Gateway International that they're experiencing right now and they especially appreciate um the board's support for that um their pyp or Elementary program the primary years program is refining their program they were evaluated two years ago and they're really working to make
233things teacher friendly so they transition from one digital platform to a new digital platform that's more collaborative and supports teachers it's called total and HLA has followed along and they are now using title as well but they're really focusing on increasing student agency the kids should be a part of creating the units you should be adjusting and pivoting based upon student input from your needs they should have ownership of their learning and play a role in it so that's GIS and then HLA I'm so proud of Asia this year uh they're getting ready to submit for authorization April 1st they really come a long way this year we've done a lot of vertical and horizontal articulation for their teachers to finish writing their units of inquiry for the primary years program and I want to
234just of course send kudos to Capri core and to puts fokunin for their work for that and then for nyp they are building their capacity at British their site coordinators and they've chosen Brenda Benghazi as the new nyp coordinator and we're clarifying what our next steps for the nyp at HOA so we're really trying to focus on reasonable action steps for each School we don't want to overwhelm our stock because IB can be scary as you know it's a lot at one time so we have to reasonably manage the tasks that we do our science so that's key for these two scores this is GIS students with some of their projects in middle school and some HLA students with their learner profile certificates and then I'm going to start with Epic epic has also come
235a very far I made good progress this year with Miss Nina simarov being their pyp coordinator and they are working to submit for their very first evaluation for pyp for next year they had to complete its very rigorous a self-study rewrite their policies and align on their units and they will submit and have a visit next year and in nyp they have a new coordinator Micah Hancock and a new lead teacher at an upon a bar and they're working to map their learning skills to their enlightenments and I'm really excited about high school so you know we've talked about a possible IB High School within GCC we've considered poor ways of creating this High School are we going to ride a new Charter are we going to write it within a current existing High School
236um so other Mr samples direction we're looking now at considering how can we Is it feasible to create this IB high school program within Futures High School you know is that more feasible And Timely than creating a whole new Charter and is it good for our students right because we already have a lot of parents who come to us every year and say they want GIS parents they want a high school epic parents want a high school hlaib students would like an option to move to an ivy high school that's within GCC not another District right this would be a goal and the board has expressed it as a goal and so I'm very excited to have gone to visit two high schools just within the last month in Winthrop I actually evaluated a school
237and because it's on the same campus as their High School got to visit our high school and got to visit with the school in Seattle and I invited staff from teaching High School to join me in Seattle so get our brand again the curriculum coach from Futures High School joined me and so we're currently considering our options for IB high school programs and there's actually quite a few options so our next steps are to talk as a GCC cabinet what are our priorities which program do we think best fits Futures high school and then of course going back to the staff to have them look at the different options and give us input and then moving forward to get buy-in and bring this to the community we're still staying very open-minded about what that might
238look like and what that timeline could be but in conclusion our my goal as director of academics is really to support the sites and embracing IV and lean into the IB framework because it supports so much of what we do in JCC for example when you add differentiation to your IB units you're essentially putting your multi-tiered system of support within your IB framework so IB can support many of the initiatives that we're already doing and to build the capacity of our sites to lead their own IB programs so we've done a lot of training with our staff they have initial training we have you know a long-term plan of how we're building their capacity year after year after year for the purposes of bettering their programs so thank you so much for your support for
239IB for our schools and I just want to say kudos to our principals I'm Dr Kosh I did mention HOA but I want to mention Dr Kosh and Ms Steve Dillon for their work as well and for your support any questions about fighting it was a pleasure both of us have been there yesterday thank you thank you and I definitely also want to just firm uh joy and her work uh with IB even as we explore if you remember the ivy High School concept has been a dream and aspiration I want to say since year one of the blueprint and so to have this opportunity to once again uh see what the feasibility is uh I'm really happy excited and looking forward so um just want to affirm joy for that work and and the
240work that she's doing with these schools so thank you Joy thank you all right so moving to our next kind of Staff report will be our facilities uh update and we have um it says Jason's sample but it's really Jerry little um so one of the things as obviously through transition facilities has traditionally fell under me that's why it says my name but we are transitioning that over to Mori uh so this report will be done by Maury Elliott and Gary little all right and I'm just here for uh page one then I'll come back on for something at the end but I want to start with talking in a big scope of GCC facilities one of the items in our cabinet team along with Jerry have just started meeting and uh really deep discussions
241about us developing a real facilities master plan for the GCC right now we serve almost 6 000 students I believe we have 21 or 22 different sites across the GCC so um and we want to make sure that we are strategically moving forward with the capital Investments we make with providing spaces where students feel safe spaces where students feel comfortable spaces where students will effectively be able to learn and grab a sheet by every time you know one of the pieces that Valerie actually shared with me this was from a casbo training a couple of weeks ago I've always known like you know it's deep down facilities make an impact on student learning but I've never seen hard data to back that up and something that was put together by the Department of Education came
242out in this presentation and it says students in buildings with good environmental conditions earn test scores five to Seventeen percent higher than if they're in poor condition facilities schools with better building conditions have up to 14 lower suspension rates and student achievement test scores tend to decrease as buildings age so when you when you understand the data behind facilities um it it makes me excited that we have a facilities team that wants to make our facilities great for students that we have strong School enrollment in right now good budgets to where we can really look at what expansion overtime looks like and do it in a strategic way to provide good spaces for students to get the outcomes that they deserve so with that I'm going to pass over to Jerry to talk about our
243different sites and what is upcoming in the near future good afternoon board um yeah we've briefly hit the master plan idea and a lot of that is something you may know what a master plan is for the sites for the district it's basically going over our sites finding out additional assessments doing that on the sites and also utilization are the main two factors of it just to kind of see the condition you know the condition insights the age of them like more you were saying and also how they're being digital address if there's other space that we can use within finish within the sites as well so we will be going out on an RFP for that our advice so that will be um going out and you guys will probably be seeing that later
244on as part of an agenda somewhere that you'll see so we'll go through our schools Community collaborative Charter School um the high school this year is looking at getting a little bit more flooring done and a couple of remember the campus Bill bowling alley there but on the uh north side of it it's got those two larger Labs those still have the original carpet in them so we're going to pick that out put some new flooring in there there's large storage room it's in the back of that space we're going to divide that they don't need as much storage now so we can divide that down and make a classroom out of there in a smaller storage area and they're also expanding into that building as well into the backside for some CTE rooms and
245COA is able to take over the help those buildings which we'll talk about in a little bit over the TKA site the old the future site it's over on Stephen Drive we're working with Twin Rivers on that as far as the echoing there they're looking at getting quotes to put in a roof on that so that will be helping out a lot with some leaks we had recently also looking at um AC units replacing those as well down the line You'll see that that they've done some of that work on the Claire already and then the Virtual Academy that's all that's going to be expanding into our central office when we do that expansion on the end which we're currently in construction on and you'll see a floor plan of that as well community outreach
246academy uh the elementary school we are looking at getting rid of all the park and rubberized park that's in the playgrounds to look forward to the place units that will have a long longer life on them um adding security cameras to the site and also like I said we're expanding into the account building which is down the road and we'll look at that in a little bit as well the Middle School we're looking at working with Twin Rivers on that we're doing some landscape enhancements in the courtyard areas getting rid of all of those little mulberry trees that have those roots that are sticking up uh eight protection on this on the campus remember a few years ago Twin Rivers could put a fence around there a lot of people were able to reach around
247because it didn't get the bars and protection around the crash bars so we're going to be putting getting that done too to secure the campus a little bit more they replace three HVAC units on the h-wing already they did that a couple of weeks ago and then um also did some resurfacing on the gym aging forward aimed at the gym and they're also looking at updating the Lockers in the girls locker room and the boys locker room along with that project we'll also be painting and doing some wall repairs and stuff in there from the weeks as well yeah Middle School possibility Courtyard landscape upgrade I was over there last week well last and then it rained and and it was a mud yard you know and something has got to be done with it
248and I know it's not us it's yeah we met with the new director over there that's been with now for about seven or eight months I met with him on site just a couple weeks ago reviewing that and he's got some ideas and he's going to put me in touch with their landscape architect that they produce and then they give us some ideas about what to do in that area okay if something has been done we're talking you know we don't want to do all concrete make it look like you know a big yard out there and so they're talking about doing some decomposed Granite along with some other features in there as well to help with that issue and then Jerry uh I'll take this opportunity just to kind of update the board uh
249as far as the COA middle school as you know the district has it on their Surplus list we currently have an active uh application uh with the state allocation board and opsd get all those initials correctly um as we are still waiting for the state funding uh the district still maintains or holds the title of the position once we receive the state funding that then will kind of trigger us to move into the purchase of it and the remodelization because the state funds need to be awarded to the district not us so the district needs to own it receive the funds but then in our mou with the district we'll be able to utilize those funds for modernization and I think even in Parts our initial feasible facilities and some of it will be actually
250demolished uh taken down but definitely uh is on our ongoing list and we'll keep the board updated as we keep going yes thank you okay we talked a little bit about the caliphate building um this is the floor plan of what we're looking at currently it does have his nose in the lower right hand corner has a gymnasium and they're already this full court basketball court that is going to remain the same we're not really doing a lot of work in there other than doing some painting we're going to keep that the way it is and then you'll see all the other classrooms that we're putting in as far and this little Bank of restrooms that's in the middle of this campus there on the top um that will be going in as well Carrie
251where is this building located that is right by Freedom Park it's on Dudley Boulevard the parking lot that's adjacent to Freedom Park yeah okay Cal fits just right kind of right behind the baseball fields again okay so if you know where if you remember where COA currently is at the point of Arlington at the apartment complex across the street from that okay thank you you know I had a chance to to visit the facility is huge in size and I'm glad you're keeping the basketball court but also they have a huge footprint outside the building uh and I'm not sure if we're future use but it's it's I don't how much land is do you know how much how much acreage is there I don't know the acreage it goes if you're familiar with the
252site the the tennis courts that are to the south of the building those are included and to the north it goes about halfway through that parking lot which that doesn't really do as much on the parking lot side of it because that's and on the back we're actually pushing the back of the property line right now that's one of the things that it's a it's a major major piece of property then okay yes we'll be working on those tennis courts resurfacing and making that outdoor space it would be a great outdoor area for students yeah the other thing that we're really happy about is uh in the initial plan I believe we had eight classrooms we were able to redesign with the work that we're doing to move over uh the classes over at the
253bowling alley to create more space for CTE there we were able to reconfigure this to get three more additional classes so we have 11 classrooms uh in this space and I I think they're all well positioned good use of the space yeah can we move on to Epic um look at epic's campus over there they too have had the original carpet from when we originally moved into there in the hallways so we're actually going to be taking that out and going back with carpet again in it we're going to look at maybe doing an upgraded carpet that might last a little bit longer but we can't really do any luxury tile floor like we have out here or some of the other sites because we do have tenants downstairs but we might pull up and
254take the carpet off we're taking away some of the sound or dead things so into that upstairs so we are looking at replacing carpet uh they have an art room in the back that we're looking at adding a sink into it kind of backs up to the lab and in order to say there's going to be will be a huge project there and then looking at the possibilities of putting an outdoor restroom out there by the playground that's been something that epic's been wanting to do for a while um cost of it and everything we're looking at you know pretty significant because having to get everything everything's ties in over the buildings we're going to go across the whole parking lot to get any utility out to that area but something we're looking at now
255as a possibility GIS we've been working with San Juan for quite a while on that site and they did that nice modernization we're actually in discussions with them now about maybe doing some other future expanding in the grass area over there taking out the ball diamonds as it said doing a tour field and also maybe possibly getting some more Portables out there too so to expand you could put the TK back over on the main campus so we're looking at working with them and looking at the possibilities of what we can do on that as well things are pretty early talks I just want to tell the board members if they haven't been over there I was so impressed when I walked till then saw what has taken place from San Juan with my remodelization
256it is just great and if we can get some in that feel and all that that you're working on it's going to be even greater yeah yeah really they have the same problems in that field during the wintertime they don't have a gym right to go inside for PE they need a good field space or even if it's a little wet it's completely I agree yeah yeah okay Rancho Del Paso Futures we're also looking at doing a turf field out there kind of on the back side by the detention Pond and I would like to get a soccer field out there if we can to help expand their their Sports and also looking at additional security cameras on that campus as well um we've done a couple of upgrades Through The Years on camera on
257the cameras there we're looking at maybe getting a couple well quite a few more actually but we're missing the whole back of Campus pretty much so we got to get some more on there and also some more out in the parking lot in the front areas so that's what that would be coming for um HLA on the same campus we're looking at long long time long-term maintenance plans for the Portables um as you know we just did that modular project and then the company went out of business kind of left us you know with all the maintenance on so and the warranties that we're kind of looking at long-term plans for that um also they're looking at again a storage building we're looking at putting that on the um out there by the retention Pond
258as well on the blacktop area and if places kind of dirt right now and then HVAC platforms those are for the second floor modular units um right currently they use a ladder to get up there and then they're kind of just in this little tiny room they don't have a really platform area to work safely on the on the equipment so that's going to give a little bit more space to work on that so we're having technicians out there and then the turf field that we're doing for futures will also be shared by HLA as well I was not aware that the company that did the modulars without a business how how much of the work have they done in it's an impleading project they did everything they did and they underbid it they went
259out of business because they well I think that I think the product itself I think what the problem was is this was one of their first projects to do and they over promised they were they had everybody out there and said that they would get done and they just they wanted it to look so good that they spent all this extra time to make it like that okay and went five months to go on there Beyond there that time that they're supposed to so and I think a lot of that I can't say I can't talk on their behalf but probably didn't those sit well with the investors okay you know I can't speak on their behalf but um I know that they went a lot longer than what they promised that would take but
260the buildings are all right buildings are on there okay yeah buildings are okay a couple of things you know that come up you know with them as far as HVAC how that is designed and things like that but everything else is fine okay um I'm going to talk about Solomon but I'm going to get out in the morning but I'm going to skip ahead here to the central offensive expansion here this is a little floor plan of what our office and the expansion looks like on the on the other half of our building on the south side you'll see that there's going to be another training room it's going to have a larger Warehouse in-house storage area that we'll be able to have a lot of that might be taken up by VA and the
261community engagement team who also will be on this half of the building there'll be Virtual Academy be in this section on this plan it's up in the right hand corner that will be those some rooms there would be Virtual Academy Community Development engagement will be in the middle and then we've got our break room some offices on the site and that will be where we expand into I'll give it back to Maureen for the samba updates all right thank you Jerry any questions on items Jerry cover a lot going on I'm busy it's a busy gig all right a number of different different things happening across our solid campuses obviously at Power in we've finished this building here we are fully functional and now we are growing and so no current projects right now at
262this campus it might be the first time in the last three or four years if you've said that uh looking at our other sites though we have a number of important items to updates more STEM Center has been a big challenge uh since we came back from covet there is a homeless population a homeless encampment right next door to the Sim Center and we really struggled with the way that the community center it allows access to the homeless population into our classroom space specifically in Suite 900. um it's been hard it's been challenging we have had teachers and staff assaulted by homeless we have made numerous calls to law enforcement surrogate has been a huge support in reaching out to his contact at the city of Sacramento and we've made some good strides yesterday we
263had a meeting with councilman Guerra to City assistant managers for the city of Sacramento and the director of community engagement from mayor Steinberg's office so we had the right people in the room uh one of the potential Solutions we're looking at is getting the city of Sacramento to give us more classroom space inside the main hall in Civ Center so that there has been an entrance into SIM Center and a separate goal into each of our classrooms to trade we would then give up Suite 900 which is where we have most of the challenge with homeless people walking in our doors we don't lock our doors we're a public school we want people to feel welcome um so it's just a real challenge when you have that separate entrance so that's one solution we're looking
264at it's great to have supporters like councilman Eric Guerra uh in our corner on that meeting saying hey City Sacramento we got to do this we want Saba here so let's find a way to make it happen so it's it's great to be supported uh by our local leaders Elk Grove as omara talked about we are up to 420 430 students up until 2021 we never went over 350. our parent facility is not built to hold 420 students and we'll be coming to you shortly probably in the month of April with some information on a potential additional Suite to pick up where we might be able to house our middle school program as it continues to grow so that'll be something new coming your way and same challenge in the notice we have been really
265captive right about that 196 to 200 student enrollment range because of facility space we're in 10 000 square feet we are pretty much maxed out and we're looking at other locations connected to the same building so that we're not moving but just finding additional learning space that we can provide to students so be on the lookout for more information in the months to come on that as well and with that uh that concludes our facilities updates any questions before we move on yeah in the trees Paul yes yes [Music] you know with the downturn and commercial property use and business property uh is is it are more facilities available now for leasing the purchase we're not finding that in the areas that we need to stay in you know like the areas that we're expanding
266into are pretty saturated already so there's not a lot of space available we're trying hard not to pick up and move the campus this building has to become available for it to work so you don't want to do material revision right and then also like with the Natomas campus the the boundary where it starts in Natomas University yeah yeah and Natomas probably noticed eyes open yeah and again these are all things that we've done strategically yeah uh sure to position us but yeah it does make it a lot of different Mark um so if we were to convince the city to let us use the other part of the room how are we going to how is the security of going to be enhanced I guess well the security would be enhanced specifically by having
267a separate room with a separate door a separate entrance okay that is um much harder to get through we would have staff right by the student desks okay so if somebody opens that door it's like Steps right there to let police say this is not your room um also looking at options like campus monitors and other security measures yesterday in the meeting with the city uh they even mentioned hey maybe we can work into our next agreement for next year that we split that cost of additional security at the Sim Center so they seem very open they want us to stay so there's a sense of urgency on the city's part too there it is yes there it is and if the city's struggling too I'm sure you know there's been they're not going to
268not allow the homeless to use it Center but they want it to be a safe place for the community and sometimes that is not the case all right thank you all right so thank you Jerry again I want to just share you know Jerry is a you know for an organization our size to have one guy that does facilities and he has a maintenance and a part-time the I.T uh Jerry really does a lot of work and works well with our outside contractors and Architects so just want to affirm Jerry for that work and say thank you foreign all right so we are moving along we are just about we can do one more thing and then take a break or we can keep balances all right let's bear them all right so I want
269to talk a little bit about our vendor contracts uh just a little context to uh what this item is a couple of work Retreats ago before you asked us to at least keep you updated on what's happening with our various vendors with um the individuals that we're using our various contracts and so uh Dr gold Mr Elliot and myself will walk you through briefly some of those uh where we are as we reported in the fall so we'll kind of do our next report so I think it's another slide first yes so we've hooked these up into three different categories so uh professional learning vendors that we use the news that we use to really support our students and then third the ones that we use to help support our staff and their leadership in
270building their capacity so the first one here are some of the vendors that you are going to be seeing um contracts um come in right uh for our sites that they use and just want to provide some context about some of them so now that we're back to in-person learning we have a lot new staff be glad it's a phenomenal professional development for our teachers on helping them build English language to development strategies that are very research based these are high impact instructional strategies that you're going to that all of our sites use to help meet the needs of our English language Learners of course capturing Kit's heart is at the foundation and the core of who we are as a GCC and all of our sites use that partnership and we will continue to
271use that partnership moving forward in fact I know Mr Elliott has already worked on securing professional learning dates for next year for us um scoey we've developed a great partnership with um scoey and phenomenal at the County Office of Ed they all not only do they have very highly trained skilled professionals they're actually a really affordable rate as well compared to some of our other Partnerships and so you will continue to see COA Elementary School Middle School epic HLA and GIS we're adding in GIS this year continued our work with that building thinking classrooms which we've talked to you about in math which we know has really helped epic get out of CSI one of the reasons so we're going to be continuing that partnership as well as Futures as I had noted one of
272the highlights for curriculum achievement for them was working with them on their Ela and their elb development and again what's great about scoey Partners is that they're Specialists that's all they do I mean they geek out on that all day long right that's their one thing it's all the professional development so we get to reap the benefits from that Solutions tree um it's going to help continue with our ntss work as you know that is a continued priority of ours moving forward and so we have cccs and HLA that started their work with Solutions tree this year and then Sava is actually going to be working with one of their partners because we got such great feedback from cccs I'm going to work with a coach there called his name is Kwame and so since
273how Savo went into CSI they're going to work within strategically on a plan what's mtss a MultiCare assistance of support so that is really just developing for our organizations a lot of systems and processes both social emotionally and instructionally like tier one tier two and tier three support us so rat Brown services for our schools um pcoe I'm very excited so the other part about mtss like I said is social emotional so very high impact research-based strategy is using PBIS which is positive behavior interventions of support for students and um that uh ccts started their work with them this year and the feedback was phenomenal and so they've been dropping seeds to our other school sites and so HLA Futures are interested in using them next year and then ycbc um is mindfulness and HLA
274features that is the yoga the mindfulness that they use I'm not I did look it up as like youth Christian mindful I can't remember the acronym honestly I haven't written down though this Lily so that's the yoga mindfulness some of the student vendor Partnerships but you'll see again most of these are our e-lock vendors that we use for before and after school so the edmo which is actually named after it's part of his first name and part of her last name is what I I took how they came up with the name of their program and that they're out of East Bay they came highly recommended from the state for the elop program and so each La will be partnering with them to help provide their summer programming this year they did survey their staff
275to see how many were interested in providing that after school five days a week for nine hours there wasn't a high interest you know our teachers are tired um we the ones that do have interest will be hired actually through the company so they have agreed to hire our staff who are interested in working olivo um is also it's been a learning you can see for CCS GIS and HLA they do a lot of sports support Elementary School in middle school they do a lot of the gymnastics the music enrichment for our students after school word to Russia you'll see the skills primarily in the music program they're doing all the amazing Orchestra violin the tar YMCA is the partner that epic has made for again supporting their after school during summer program so we'll
276be offering transportation from epic to YMCA but YMCA will be providing their nine hour program they did that last year as well and it was very very successful and then finally Futures will be using academics for athletes which is mentoring family engagement and college readiness to really help support our athletes in our high school programs so those are some of the student vendors that you will see coming up here in the next couple of months and so some of our administrative vendor Partnerships um is our work with future Management Systems around the leadership coaching for each of our school sites uh this year as in previous years we have continued that work uh with primarily Lau curtman um and even some years back for futures uh John Pierce so uh we'll continue to work with
277them around uh that work for our administrators uh in our conversations with them our administrators are very interested and desire to continue having that especially as we begin to bring up a new group of Administrators in our campus principles um next is Hanover uh you may remember Hanover we've worked with them for multiple years each year we have continued to downscale uh their contract from our original um which I believe was somewhere in the ballpark of the 80 some odds into even this year just limited in limiting them to our lcap culture and climate survey that's the data that I believe Maurice shared with you earlier we really felt that that's in their wheelhouse is to gather the surveying information and data and then staff we present that data if you remember our early iterations
278was they did a lot of the presenting they did a lot of the working with our staff we just found that it was better cheaper for us to provide that option I try to sound my ground that option to uh our staff we continue our work with LTL 360 which is our coherence work now all of our sites again this year we brought that down and we continue to slow step or as I call the warm handoff to ensure that the investment that we've already made in these programs is sustainable as we uh kind of Empower our own internal uh staff to do that and so you'll see uh this year quote Dr bold Mr Elliott Mr Coy have been actively involved in this work so that as we continue we begin to see uh
279decrease uh in that and then finally um I can't promise a decrease here I wish I could but let's be honest uh school education really has been substitute support we continue to struggle to find uh Subs uh to fill some of our day-to-day vacancies that we have uh in a number of our schools food has provided long-term Subs so uh you will see as we move into next school year another contract for us to keep this our principles our administrators on site find this extremely valuable because it really helps them feel that day-to-day gap of having these Subs in the classroom so part of this is we wanted to give you as a board just a thumbnail to note these are some of the things that we're looking forward to these are some of the
280names that you'll hear and uh all of that being very cognizant of our budget priorities around this area and developing our own internal um leadership and staff to carry that one yes I I really appreciate this because for the first time I see them in a category instead of just one bit up together and I know I probably over the years have been one of the local individuals just asking for more information could you give some thought of not wanting to speak English workload but some thought to a matrix or a criteria or something so that when a one of these comes back you have talked to the stakeholders in this because what happens in some of these they just have a life of their own if you have a one year you get the
281next year the next year and they kind of many times as you have mentioned the fatigue Factor sets in or there's an expectation I don't know how you would do it because something that just says talk to the criteria in which we have it's within the cost range of the budget and we've talked to the it meets the need of the of the stakeholders yeah and maybe that would lead with be some of the costs of some of my discussion about some of these are extensive programs and so I keep thinking maybe it would be better if we hired in some internal staff to deal with them but maybe that's not cost effective and then finally watch the difference if we use the substitute service support service can I ask what's the differential between what
282we pay the substitutes and what they pay oh my word you have that number I think we talked about that uh when we were looking at the scoop contract and they're pretty um comparable oh really yes because we're paying the mandatories on top of uh their gross and many times these are certificate stuff that you know are subbing in our prayers or Spurs members remote in this case stirs because it's okay certificate we're only using them for certificate of stuff um so in the benefit just scoot the reason why you know so it's like well why can't we just hire them is they are in an intern program and so they're getting like their schooling company all right so they they work with the educational institutions yeah that's good classes and so then by the
283time they're done they get their credentials and they explained that probably also so you've got two screening processes and because we do screen them even though they're coming from this we need to check out their background we knew that they were interns I don't think that has been very clear to us Jack that they were interns in college no I did not know yeah I don't think that was clear to us yeah so that has made it clear and now we understand how accessible they are and where they're coming from but I mean these are really to have a body in front of students because of sickness or illness or leaves um vacancies so it's really just to have uh something we're not debating the Youth of them at all and it's just a matter
284of understanding why and how and where they come from yeah especially about it's about 95 to 98 like of our sites are happy with the scoot socks so they actually gotten so which is great like they're aspiring teachers and so and you won't have full administrators to go into the class yeah we have our local Administration kind of overseeing them and yes okay oh yes okay thank you so much and uh Jack to follow up staff will make note of that too well I I don't want to increase their workload I've got a feeling today where you're overworking them I think that was one of the pieces of paper that you had around what was it brings uh you guys come up with the ideals to create more okay we expect you to delegate I
285had it and I'm sorry I had to step out but this edmo summer learning I was looking at the PO it seemed very expensive to me I know this is probably not the time to be talking about videos but for six weeks three hundred thousand dollars the breakdown comes down to about fifteen hundred dollars per student which is actually very reasonable it is not less than what a lot of other organizations would charge um for that many students when you actually break it down how many students are we expecting uh 200. oh really okay so we we basically know the the student population that's going to take advantage of the program before we're actually doing correct yeah they surveyed their their students their families and their staff okay and similar to uh last summer in
286the summer before we continue to find it hard to have our own staff come back and we'll convert the additional time during the summer which has necessitated us to be able to go to these contracts so and even strategically with nine hour days right the thing that's typical with that is you're like well we can only work eight hours without overtime two months Right double stack right and so now that's there's another right now as a parent you know less than 300 bucks per week to send your kid to a full day camp that's a steal of a deal trust me because I do it for my own kids I have no concept right now um you know we'll do I could go on around but it's a good deal it's a great day I'll
287buy camp and we we look at different vendors Solutions and then basically a very competitive process yeah we try to partner with YMCA Unfortunately they don't have the bandwidth you know to be able to to support so we definitely have explored other Partnerships okay um for our schools thank you all right thank you so we're going to now move to our dual enrollment hello again I want to provide the board with a brief overview today of what does it mean when we say we want our kids to be College and Career ready um and on the California dad or Derrickson specific guidelines indicators outcomes that determine if our students graduate with that checkbox of the College and Career ready so I want to show you first the brief summary of really the rubric for kids
288to earn that prepared mark on the College and Career ready indicator and then I'll show you specifically what we're doing with dual enrollment and a little bit with CTE that was already covered this morning by summer nationally um on how our schools are really pushing to increase the percentage of students that are prepared when they graduate if you look on the CDE website they have a huge list of items that are check boxes to earn your prepared mark on the collagen career indicators I highlighted just six of them here that are really primary ways that our students across the GCC earn that prepared Mark um first up on this side here if you complete a CTE pathway then you must complete one of these other two bullet points and you will be considered prepared when
289you graduate from our GCC school so the other item you have to do is receive a score of three or higher in either math or English and then you score of two or higher in the other area on the annual status so a CTE pathway completer plus a three and a two on your annual assessment or CTE pathway completer and one college course through Duel of the Romans on the other end uh if you're just looking at core academics you can receive a level three on both math and English and you would be considered prepared when you graduate if you take AP classes and you receive a score of three or better on two different AP exams you would be prepared if you are taking dual enrollment and you do that for two separate semesters
290and earn six College units you will be considered prepared or if you receive the state still by literacy with a level of three or higher and score three on the ELA starter assessments at the during State Testing you'll be prepared so six indicators that's what we're shooting for I want to show data from the last time this indicator was actually available 2019. this indicator obviously was not available during covet but we didn't have State Testing and they didn't release it this year either so this is the last day we have that's a little old but it gives us a starting point to work from as we move forward you can see Futures High School back in 2019 had 35.8 percent prepared I wanted to give you a scope of where does that fall in the
291general realm of other high schools if you look down here one River School District their average across other high schools was 29.1 percent of their graduates so Futures was a full almost six percent ahead of their authorizing District in that area when you look at our independent study dos schools we're floating between 4.9 and 10.1 percent lots of room to grow and again comparatively we looked at scoey and there are is it alternative Edge programs they averaged 4.9 percent back in 2019 so we're in that same ballpark again with a lot of room to grow as we move forward into this year as Heather and I meet in our monthly meetings with different high school principals this is a big topic of conversation we've really honed in on dual enrollment I mean one this is
292just fun it is it's awesome for our students to be able to say I'm a freshman in high school but I'm also a college student and walk away with college credits if it's a quick summary of what happened last semester over 45 GCC students completed dual enrollments in the fall of 2022 and that equates to over 135 College units earned by GCC students Futures led the way they had over 25 students complete dual enrollment last semester this current semester across the GCC we have over 50 students enrolled across all the schools and futures of leading the way again they've done a really good job of making that a priority for their students and as we enter next semester our goals my goal that we're really pushing out there is that we have over 100 students
293enrolled in dual enrollment programs through this new agreement um and down here at California accurate access Pathways this is a new program that comes with dollars that we'll be applying for this month the application is due March 30th and the hope is each of our five high schools receive a hundred thousand dollars a piece through this grant to support dual enrollment efforts we can help fund a counselor we can fund any costs for books um any other incidentals that come along with needs and supplies and requirements for these college courses we can use that money to fund so this is going to be 100 free to our students again the other big component is CTE and I won't spend too much time here summer and Ashley give you the full overview today but again this
294year alone we received almost three hundred thousand dollars in CT grants across the GCC and over a million dollars in fwp Grants for our EV pathway and our agriculture pathway currently Futures High School is working on the development of a Performing Arts pathway for their school they've got a few music classes currently that we just met last last week to say how do we how do we analyze the California CTE Frameworks and standards and turn it into a full two-year sequence of music classes and this Performing Arts pathway uh speaking CS Jerry mentioned that we are moving their CTE from currently over at the tp8 site into the Familia building which we believe will do two things one is just going to make CPE more acceptable to the high school students on that campus we
295know that Transportation can often be a barrier and just having to go two miles down the road sometimes prevents a student from staying in that class or wanting to enroll in that class it's going to be at their home base next year and we're excited about that and two the more CTE that's offered the more kids will be able to mark and have ready prepared on that pelaging career indicator as they graduate and then the last piece I know I mentioned this in previous presentations throughout the school year we are working with COA Middle School in talks with GIS and epic and how we can Implement Middle School career exploration across all of the GCC six through eighth grade programs we've got it here at Power in kind of using this as the model uh
296we're we now have a facility space plan COA is still in development with epic and GIS but we're getting there and the goal is you know sometime within the next year one to two school years all of our eighth graders will get this correct exploration before they enter High School so that's our current plan as far as dual enrollments College and Career Readiness and CTE ghosts any questions before I pass it on yes Jack yeah if you could set a meeting up again with the chancellor of the Los Rios uh Brian King I'm able to be we met with him I had to say 10 years ago or something like that and uh but I think he I'm sorry may be aware of some of the numbers here but it might be nice to share
297and just say we appreciate what they've been doing and if there's anything more they can do right I mean the dual enrollment is all these dollars swp that runs directly through his office yeah and the community deal the community colleges right now are desperate for student enrollment they're they're probably less as an epidemic that applied in student enrollment and a number of other factors that's been the decline has been significant yeah we're talking uh 20 30 percent decline in the community colleges and that's why this was created last year because I mean they needed to find some other Avenue to help so let's form this new partnership and I'll spend another 30 seconds explaining this but the way this works students in these dual enrollment courses it is our own GCC course it's all GCC
298students taking psychology 300 it's asynchronous it's online but it is an instructor that is specifically working with our group of students which is great so it's a you know it just again it removes that barrier to access of having to go to the Community College sure they do these in class while they're sitting here at Saba or at Futures yeah it's built into their schedule I don't know if you get the chancellor but it would be nice if you could get some what someone who runs their uh and concurrent enrollment program to see this facility also so anyway thank you absolutely all right all right thank you Maury so uh I have actually a very brief uh legislative and a legal update to share with you every year we kind of like to build through
299kind of what's top of mind for uh Charter Schools education in general and so I just want to share a couple of things uh with you today uh as you do uh I have more words that I'll say than slides that I'll show uh some of the big names that are kind of hitting the world of Education legally is uh decline enrollment client enrollment continues to be a conversation that's happening not only within the traditional public school but also the charter school sector uh matter of fact last night I was part of the uh aasa uh cohort for USC and there's Urban superintendents Academy we have a big conversation around uh the decline enrollment that's happening across the state of California while the state is of course experiencing the client enrollment we are not so
300we continue to look at ways that we can support our schools with the growth that's happening the other thing that's kind of out there is a Senate bill was introduced last week that uh was sponsored by the California Charter Schools Association uh csvc the charter school Development Center and a signature that is friendly uh to the Charter movement to basically seek an additional two years of renewal relief um it is currently unlikely so we have um and in part some years back when the first bill for Renewal relief came out everyone was behind it I called the alphabet soon so CTA was okay with this the sca was okay with it SBI was okay with it that love is not there this round so uh we'll see where that goes but it is a bill
301that they have introduced and also hoping to get relief which will probably look like a one year uh in the trailer of this so we'll we're watching that bill very closely in terms of some of the other pieces of the political landscape uh there is a bit of a movement in the state of California to move the superintendent of Public Instruction from a elected position to an actual Governor appointed position which will kind of change the dynamic and some of this goes back to if you remember uh Governor Schwarzenegger when he was governor he kind of circumvented the FBI by appointing a secretary of education uh California is unique in that the governor does not have control of that key cabinet position and so the movement would allow the governor to appoint that position again
302obviously we're watching that because at that point as the governors go so does that position which will have some impact on us the other thing is we're just dealing with new legislators the the uh every year or every 10 years excuse me when we have the census and we begin to move to uh some new bodies coming in uh we are currently experiencing a number of new legislators locally we have a new Senator uh Senator Richard pan turned out of the state senate and so he was replaced by a former city a Sacramento council member Angelique Ashby um council member or now Senator Ashby has been what I would consider a supporter of charter schools but uh her work in the Senate will yet remain to be seen and that she was very supportive of
303schools and homeless unified in the totalitarian we have a number of new assembly members uh the biggest shock is uh Ken Cooley who was a long-term assembly member in our area for years uh lost his re-election bid to John Chopper who who is new and a redistricting the district became a little more what they call split it became an eagerly Republican and Democratic district and Josh uh pushed through and was able to win that and through our connections with ax so we're beginning to make uh relationships and reach out to him um assembling member Jim Cooper uh is now the new sheriff of Sacramento County and so that of course vacated his seat which was filled by Stephanie new win who was an Elk Grove City council member um coincidentally in a previous kind of
304Life had a chance to work with Stephanie uh through uh her work with the One-Stop uh employment centers and her work uh that it was sent us some years back the other thing that's part of the political landscape is uh dare I say president Newsom um is he running is he not there is a lot of uh speculation around uh what the governor will do and if he will speak higher office as such uh that will potentially change the Dynamics of California because uh what's going to happen is there's a lot of things that a governor who is in his last term will do if he's leaving versus someone who's running for president so we may see things like the lane of the filing of tax returns and everything to get a better Financial picture
305and so we're carefully watching to see uh what the governor's political Journey uh is finally um we continue to work hard to build a relationship with our authorizers we have a lot of changes in terms of our Charter Liaisons um Ori and I had the opportunity to meet the new liaison for Sac City Unified uh School District we have had some turnover in that office the new individual is actually a former charter school teacher a what she teacher administrator yeah so someone who's very familiar with Charter Schools are long-term uh uh connection at our studio liaison at Elk Grove unified uh she also I think is promoted up but Maury has already been in her replacement has visited us last year and very supportive good relationship uh Twin Rivers they continue to they were using
306an outside consultant to do their oversight they move that in-house and uh the Dr gold and Maury conducted I want to say a couple of months ago the annual visits which win rivers and they went very well uh Yolo County they just hired a new uh person to build their Charter oversight seat and we're going to have an opportunity here in the next month or so to meet her and make our acquaintance with her in the meantime Dr gold will be touring two of the new uh Yolo County board members um but a month ago we toured one of the board members who partly has been our one of our biggest extractors uh and I think she left uh well impressed with the work that we do and then we continue to really have an
307exceptional relationship with San Juan uh I think as Maury shared the fact that uh when we said that we were thinking of something facilities their assistant super facilities got on a zoom and said hey let's talk about it so you know one of the things I think as we talk politically it's very strong that we continue to build these strong political relationships and um we will share a little bit more about what that means for us in the future politics is everything so to finally kind of close out just want to I think know our renewal timelines currently our five Twin River schools are deep in writing and here's our thing even if we get reading no relief we're not going to know until uh June or July and that's too late to start writing
308uh the renewals so we have already been working on this with each of these schools and our lawyers and attorneys are ready to do their work and so that our staff is able to go on to their summer break without the worries of renews um right after that we'll move right to the Sac City and Elk World renewals for Sava as you remember those were created as a result of the Anderson case uh and then shortly after that we'll be renewing San Juan and then shortly after that we'll be renewing uh Yolo County and believe it or not shortly after that we'll have a year to breathe and then we'll be back so um it's kind of you know we've we've had a two-year reprieve of our renewal cycle but we will be joining back
309thank you and that is kind of our legislative thanks Jason I had question for you and I mean hesitate asking this there there was a moratorium passed on new Charters when when does that moratorium go off so the moratorium wasn't for all new Charters it was just for none plaster rides and that moratorian ends in 2025. okay so that's something for our future discussion yes so I believe at this point we have your recess um and there's a few things that we want to do in this recess not just uh recess you for a few minutes but we have some desserts and so we also have something else though okay all right I'm going to talk slow while you're grabbing me yeah so the month of January in the state of California have been traditionally
310observed and uh kind of held and recognized as board member appreciation month and so we want to uh as a staff thank the five of you for your word your time your energy but you you bring your heart and as much as the world has opened back up uh even in the midst of covet you still continue to do your job of governance I was going through some of our old board minutes and I looked um and it was funny Bruce um the meeting right before the world shut down uh we did a study session and you asked the question you said so do you think we're going to shut down and at that point I said it doesn't look like it you know this is what's happening and then uh two days later we
311were calling the special board Visa and I will say at that moment uh as a board you stepped in the Gap you met by phone until we figured out zoom and then when we figured out Zoom you just kept being apart and so as staff we want to say thank you and um luck of the drop all right and so we would like to say to this certificate of appreciation is presented to Bruce bangridge in honor of GCC appreciation month the GPC would like to recognize the significant contributions you make to the GCC schools into the education of our youth and this is signed by our uh outgoing superintendent Dr Peterson and your incoming Mr sample look at that thank you appreciate it so it it would get you same wording but we would like
312to recognize again in this 20th year of unleashing greatness Mr Harry block you got to read it um Chris you know we probably could change the word on this because I know all of you have been around but Jack you have been around since day one uh and have been a part of this 20-year journey and so we definitely not only honor you for this month I'll be honor you for the 20-year tournaments there you go and Mark has asked for us to read this so in honor of two years [Music] points leash and greatness in our students and yeah good job doctor I know there we go thank you thank you Mark and then last but certainly not least our board president uh who continues to just do a phenomenal job and all that
313you do and brings her heart and her passion Miss Lily camera Mexico and so um just as our appreciation we have a little suite for each of you to again say thank you thank you no calories so what we would like to do uh Madam president is if we could take just a uh brief break and then uh the board will move into closed session okay and I believe the closed session item is employee uh matter evaluation yes so the board will go into recess and after recess the board will return so we'll come back in here and are we going to do a group picture yes [Music] we are back from closed session in the uh this information item so no actions taken but I do want to bring you to your attention that
314one item on our agenda will be held over for our next board meeting which was the school the board's staff evaluation process and it will be at our next board meeting the results of our set evaluation and so now we will go into consent agenda items and I will just quickly review them adoption of the board minutes of 2723 adoption GCC special board meeting a minutes of 3 15 23 Personnel consent purchases over thirty thousand twenty four twenty five school year calendar if it's overnight field trip California Association of student leaders conference tccs overnight field trip can camp Ross fellas cccs overnight field trip Shakespeare Festival 22 2023 school safety plans board policy 03-23 staff student boundary responsive disposal and surplus of items mou with Sacramento County Office of Education scoey and last item salary
315scheduled 20 23 24. these are the consent agenda items and I will take a motion and a second for them before we go into discussion so move Mr Anderson second Mr Turner now any discussion yeah could we call item number four purchase over thirty thousand voted separate item number four um purchases over thirty thousand okay you need you want to discuss something under that item yes yeah yeah okay I just want to abstain oh you understand okay all right no no comments just okay I'm gonna call for those all right so we will stay on the one item though yeah he wants to so he wants to yeah so remember he's asking to pull that one item so we'll vote on that separate okay and then you'll vote as a whole of the rest of
316them yes agenda okay um so I will roll call Mr Turner yes Mr Mandrake yes Mr Block yes yes the uh consent agenda items have been approved except item four which was removed from the consent agenda items purchases over thirty thousand yes move approval thank you second second okay discussion ready for discussion do you have anything no all right uh roll call on item um for purchases over thirty thousand Anderson yes uh Turner yes mandrick yes block what I'm saying Campbell yes majority vote on purchasing over thirty thousand item passes okay we are now down to board comments item 12. board comments yes take back to the if all the staff today of those the president I just found requested were and their hard work and I know it only took him a couple of
317hours to put this whole thing together but Adele it was really impressive and uh I know they have to go back to the real jobs tomorrow and and it was and really the your staff that's talked to us and so forth when we went around and uh saw the sites uh so very very impressive thank you great meeting and I want to give accolades to the staff the cabinet for your hard work and also to Miss Melissa who provided food for us all day snacks just wonderful uh setting up the room for us everything was so very well done and I personally want to thank you um I think throughout the day I mentioned uh some of the things that we have done and we've talked about it so I won't prolong that in terms
318of GIS uh would you please note that uh thank you card to Futures that I will be sending one and thanking them for remembering me so please do that and Mr Santo so um board Madam president I just want to first thank the board for your attention today and all of your hard work that you put in we had a lot of heavy lifting and so definitely appreciate you uh the staff uh you know my team you guys are just knocked it out the park so definitely want to affirm our entire cabinet team as well as our directors for their work today and then I can't do all this without Melissa so Melissa thank you uh so much for your help support uh I will tell you uh all of our beautiful slides and everything
319that's all product of uh Melissa DeMarco so just really uh want to appreciate her and then the spirit of capturing kids Hearts uh before you uh adjourn I want to just launch us with this uh quote of Mines I love from Simon sinek that says the role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas the role in the leader is to create an environment in which great ideas can happen and so that's what you did today is you created the environment staff we created the environment and this is the work that we have ahead so I may be lost who is Simon sink Simon siniki uh is an author who wrote about the why why do we do it oh yeah oh okay yeah he's the white guy okay our
320next board meeting April 18th April 18th and that's when the school presentations will start Monday full presentations will start that day so we have all of the calendar dates right we've we've gotten those on them I haven't looked on my my phone you should all of them should be for this year okay okay so once again they go away and now I will entertain a motion for Germans [Music] all in favor