Board Meeting 5 20 2025

001Good evening everyone and welcome to the Irvine International Academy regular board meeting. Today is Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. Uh the time is 6:02 p.m. We are located Irvine International Academy 4782 Karen Lane, Irvine, California 9264. We may have a teleconference location located at 6833 Buswell Street, Richmond, British Columbia 36 YOL3 in Canada. Like to start with roll call. Molly present. Felipe present. Uh Brett is present. David present. Miller is absent. Okay. Next, the approval of the agenda of the for the regular meeting of the Irvine International Academy Board of Directors on May 20th, 2025. It's recommended the board of directors approve the agenda for the regular meeting of the Irvine International Academy board of directors on May 20th, 2025. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you, David. Is there a

002second without any remote personnel or board members? So, we'll take just an all in favor I or nay vote. All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed to say nay. Hearing none. It passes. Next, we have community input on closed session agenda items. Members of the public may comment on items listed on the closed session agenda only. Public comments, including email comments, shall be limited to three minutes per comment with up to 20 minutes of public comment. Any we have no comments for close session. Okay. Uh next we're moving to close se uh close session for discussion of possible action. Uh the topic is the public public employee evaluation for the executive director. Uh hopefully should be back within 45 minutes. Yeah. Thank you all. And thank you everyone for your patience. uh we're

003reconvening at the Irvine International Academy uh board meeting. Uh the time is 6:50 p.m. Uh basically the report out is that we've uh started the review process for the current executive director uh in terms of her evaluation and uh we will over the course uh of the month here complete that evaluation. will plan to complete that by the next board meeting uh which right now says June 17 but uh will be rescheduled to June 10th. Okay, next uh moving on to the flag salute. Um today I'd like to volunteer for that if that's okay. If everyone would please stand. We have our flag here to our left to your right. Uh please put your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

004republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay. Next we have uh public hearings. Public hearing presentation of the IIA LCFF budget overview for parents 2024 2025 annual update and 2025 2026 local control and accountability plan known as the LCAP. Recommend the board director the board president open the public hearing determine if members in the public have submitted requests to speak on the item and after hearing any speakers formally close the public hearing. I believe we do have some speakers correct. Yes. panel. Miss Craft. Okay, Miss Craft, are you ready? We'll give you time to prepare whatever you need. We will open this uh here at 6:52 p.m. Thank you so much. Okay. Okay. Thank you for the opportunity to share public comments this evening. I'm here

005in my capacity as the school site council chair to comment on LCAP and the 202526 budget. I have appreciated the opportunity to serve our community in this capacity and I'm pleased to report that we had three very productive meetings throughout the school year. Our last meeting of this the school year was last Thursday, May 15th. I'm encouraged by the progress we have seen and improvements in school climate and culture from the from meeting to meeting. I'm encouraged by the commitments made by our administration to make improvements in planning, communication, and staff support. And I truly appreciate the open door policies. The intent of these meetings, school site council meetings is to review and vet the school safety plan, review the parent student teacher compact and to go over LCAP goals. Another important purpose of SSC

006serves Another important purpose SSC serves is ensuring that the voices of our community members are heard and directed to the proper channels for dialogue and problem solving to ensure to ensue for dialogue and problem solving to ensue for the betterment of our IIA community. You will hear from parents tonight and you have been hearing from them throughout the year through various channels available to them. Specific to LCAP in the 2526 budget, I'd like to touch upon our enrollment numbers. In my capacity as schoolside council, I have raised concern about enrollment numbers at the January 25th board meeting via public comments. February 11th LCAP advisory meeting. February 20th coffee with principal. March 6th school site council meeting. March 11th LCAP advisory meeting. March 18th board meeting via public comments. The April meeting and the May 15th

007school site council meeting. My request was that we establish an enrollment cap, no more growth, and be mindful of the impact of increasing enrollment has on our community culture and our ability to deliver a high quality immersion experience for our students. I have since reviewed our charter and see that pages 19 and 147 stipulate that IIA will be at full enrollment at 440 students. That's stated in our charter. That number was surpassed and our forecasted enrollment for next school year is 171 students above what the charter stipulates. My question to you is why are you allowing this to happen? It's your responsibility to adhere to and uphold our charter. Such an increase above full enrollment ought to trigger a material revision to the charter. What assurances do we have that there will be improvement that

008comes with the growth as opposed to the many challenges we have faced this year stemming from too much growth? Thank you. Good evening. Thank you for giving me a chance to speak. Um I piggybacking on the LCAP about enrollments. Um this year is coming to an end and we all survived and that's a wonderful thing. Uh the beginning of the year with all the transitions was really rocky from what I understand. We were capped um or you guys were supposed to cap it at 5 by10. It was allowed to go up to 540. So this whole year the fifth graders and it's gonna be changed next year um got lumped into middle school. So instead of having an English teacher, a Mandarin teacher, and then a switch and a homework packet, they were just launched

009into the world of Google Classroom, six different classes, homework here, homework there. Um excessive Chromebook use. We have people on parent chat talking about videos being sent. I honestly feel like fifth grade really lost the year that's supposed to be elementary and in addition to that um there was an RTI period. It's not going to come back next year. But I bring this up to say that every day my kids are in school, they're in fifth grade and sixth grade. they get 45 minutes of study hall because I guess administration couldn't figure out like when this period would happen for people who are English or Mandarin learners and it's full of Chromebook and so that's just as a parent like very concerning but what really hurts the most is when this got brought up and

010I met with principal the vibe was basically that um this is what it is we're preparing them for middle school and now we're hearing that that's not how fifth grade was supposed to be. Um, it was Dr. Bean who had it that way, which I don't know if it's true or not, but that's what the enrollment numbers did. And I really, really want to hesitate in sharing this video, but I just want you to know my kid is an IEP student and he suffered a lot at the beginning of the year because he like literally So he was probably like that the first month of school because he went from fourth grade in that structure to boom, you're in middle school and homework's everywhere, mental breakdown. And it's just it was it it shouldn't have

011been that way. Well, thank you for hearing me out. Okay. So, uh public hearing closed at 658. Uh next moving on to the public hearing presentation of the IIA 2025 20226 budget recommended the board president open the public hearing conferative members the public has submitted a request to speak on the item and after hearing any speakers formally close the public hearing first okay uh we'll open the public hearing at 6:58 a.m. Hearing that there are no speakers, we are closing it at 6:58 PS. Moving to community input on agendaized items. The public may comment on items listed on the agenda, including the consent calendar, presentation, discussion, committee, and action items. There any public comments? Yes, we have two. So um Miss Craft are general public comments happening at the end today or Yeah. Yeah. As

012for the agenda. Okay. Thank you once again for the opportunity to share public comment. Truthfully, I would really prefer to comment at the time the agenda item comes up, which is the governance handbook. But I'll go ahead and share now because the purpose of sharing during the agenda item is for us to hear board comments in response to the public comment share. Okay. So with regard to the governance handbook, I would like to appeal to this board for there to be opportunity for parents in our community to apply for open IIA board seats. In the spirit of our charter, this opportunity should be available for our English speakers as well as our non-native English speakers alike. The board bylaws have changed and now stipulate a more formal process for declaring interest. The process is overseen

013by a recently formed fall of 2024 governance committee that Dr. Kernan is part of. We have parents that are interested in serving on the IIA board and would like to step up in this capacity. With the updated bylaws and IIA board governance document and Dr. Kernan listed as a member of the governance committee on the IIA website. There is concern that candidates will be handpicked based on a desire to appease the executive director rather than selected based on qualifications and an earnest desire to uphold the charter, scrutinize where warranted, problem solve and self-reflect on board performance. I ask for your assurance that this will not be the case and I kindly request clear direction be given to those interested in applying and that there be transparency in the board member selection process. Thank you, Miss

014Lily. Hi again. I'm speaking today on agenda item one, governance. I last I'd like to ask the board to seriously reflect on whether the current structure allows for meaningful parent involvement and transparency. As the updated bylaws now state, the governance committee committee currently made up of board president Brett Freeman, board member Molly Chang, and executive director Amy Kernan holds the power to screen and decide which candidates move forward in the board nomination process. That means someone like Tiffany Craft who spends countless hours attending board SSE and LCAP meeting and who is deeply trusted by the car parent community could be blocked from even being interviewed not because she isn't qualified but because of gatekeeping. We were told at Coffee with the principal that the governance committee process was long-standing and neutral, but these bylaws were

015just approved on April 29th. That's misleading at best. And the fact that the executive director who reports to the board sits at the committee that's that determine who joins the board is a clear conflict of interest. I don't know any of you guys at all. I mean I know you a little bit Felipe. I don't. So I think with the school what's most important is the student and teachers, right? We don't need to talk about a bunch of things. Everything is just noise unless it affects the students and the teachers. But who knows the students and the teachers best? The parents do. And if the parents don't feel they have a voice, like we have nowhere to go. We feel really stuck right now. If you want one illustration, the sex ed issue, which I'm

016not going to talk about tonight. I brought it up in September at coffee with the principal. Dr. Kernan and Dr. Schmid, I mean Mr. Schmid heard me. Then I didn't I never got a response. I didn't feel like they really cared. So then I spoke to you guys directly to you, Mr. Freeman, at the October board meeting. No, I understand it's not a time to dialogue right now. But no one, no recourse. No one got back to be nothing. Cut to May. The curriculum they picked is the one I was scared of. Plus, half of the class, more than half the class opt out, including one person who opted out is a student because she told her mom, "It's too inappropriate, so please sign her out of the class." So, she didn't finish the class.

017So, as you could see, this kind of pattern like where do we go? Like, you guys are kind of like our line. And if we don't have anyone who we feel advocates for us and there's no real way in and believe me, I don't want to be there. Um what what what voice do we have? So please, I really hope that the however the selection process is is more fair. So people that actually represent the voice of the students who actually know what's going on in and out that affects the students are sitting there. Thank you. Okay. Can I speak on that? I know I didn't sign up to reach a decor. Can I speak for just a minute? Uh if you if you want to speak at the public comments, you're more than welcome

018to wait at the end of the meeting. We have other public comments to read and we welcome your Yeah, I will speak on that about something else. Your feedback at time. Okay, moving on next to items for consent. Uh okay, we've got uh two items here. Approve the minutes to the regular meeting of the IIA board of directors on April 29, 2025 and approve the personnel report. It's recommended the board of directors approve consent items A through B. Is there a motion? Uh, sorry, Miller also joined um at 653. Perfect. Thank you. Still have to do a roll call. We'll do roll. Thank you. Uh, is there a motion? I'll motion. Thank you, Felipe. Is there a second? Thank you, David. Okay, we'll do roll call vote. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. Yes. David, yes. Miller,

019yes. Thank you very much. It passes. Uh, moving next items for presentation. Uh, we've got our school update by Principal Schmidz. Y good evening. Um just some quick updates. It's only been a few weeks, but um a lot's going on. I just So I'll kind of keep it brief. Just kind of giving you a quick overview of what's been done and then kind of a re look for what's going to be happening. So we've just about finished our CAPS testing. has gone very smoothly and overall the general feedback from the students is that they did feel that they felt prepared for the test. So that's one thing that we always like to hear is from the students whether you know did you feel like you were prepared or not unprepared but the general feedback from

020the students is that they felt prepared. Um so as we get that data we can we'll work on it. So we don't really have a full picture yet but we'll be getting that. Um I do have an update too, but our Mandarin um data that has come in Apple testing and also our level learning data is very encouraging. Um Mjang, our AP, she'll give some more details on that at our parent workshop on May 29th. Um but we have a number of students who actually are receiving a seal of biiteracy. I believe it was eight students as well as eight students received the seal of bi literacy. Um that's a new thing that we've able to do that this year because we've done the Apple testing and when we look at the overall proficiency of

021where the students are at um the school believe was was it do you remember the percent it was well over 40% but it's getting close to 50% overall as a school and our kindergarten class our new our new you know a lot of our newest students were at 78% of students who were at the proficiency level. So what we're seeing is that our our proficiency in man overall is going up. So we're encouraged by that. And so as we get the calf's data, our manin data, we'll be doing a deep dive into all of it this summer just to kind of see what are some areas of strength, what are some areas of weakness, and what can we do as a school to adjust that. Um especially since as a school, our e population has

022been growing. Um so because of that, we want to see make sure we're meeting the needs of all our students and if we need to adjust that, we'll address that. Um, also there's a lot of planning underway for the year- end events. So, uh, next week, Miss Shen has her spring recital. We have a field day for our students being planned on June 4th. And then we have a day of promotions and our last day of school June 5th. Our kindergarters, fifth graders, and eighth graders all going to have a promotion ceremony. Um, so there's a lot going on with that. And then right now too, there's a lot of work actually looking at planning for next year, schedules and um raw staffing and all that. So we're aim we're a lot we're a lot

023further ahead of the game this year. We'll have field trips list of field trips before school gets out. We can plan those for next year, calendar, get that work underway. So by doing all this work now um and getting things done in summer, we'll have a very smooth launch next school year. So, we're comfortable getting ahead on that planning. Um, so we're excited about that as well. All right. And kind of looking ahead, um, there's some older things on there, but we do have our last ELAC meeting this Thursday. So, I encourage those of you who, uh, either are are, you know, are have an EL learner or have a interest in it, I encourage you to come out this Thursday. It's our last ELAC meeting at 3:15. Uh, Mrs. Brown's going to be giving

024a lot of updates about our updates about our EL program. So, I encourage everyone to come to that. Um, this Thursday, we also have our after school performing arts class putting on a show. If you look around, you can see some of the sets that they'll be working on. So, we're excited about that. Um, we've been working with them to make sure that we're ready to go. But, I know the kids are excited. I they were just rehearsing in here before our board meeting about 45 minutes before our meeting. It you would not know that there was a board meeting happening, but they're working hard. Um so the kids are are ready for that. We do have our spring recital next Wednesday by Miss Jen and then that parent meeting I talked about um with

025Miss Jang next Thursday and then obviously our last day of school and promotions on June 5th. So we're a little over two weeks away from the end of the school year. is see there's a lot going on in that twoe window. Um so we're getting everything good ready for that and also looking ahead to next school year. I got a couple questions for you. So could you expand a little bit more on that mandrin seal what was that by literacy seal by literacy. Could you expand a little bit more? So um there are certain requirements that well the state of California gives special recognition to students who are determined to be biiterate. So that's where the seal of bi literacy comes from. In order to do that they have to meet certain criteria and so

026because we are doing apple testing this year that is one way for students to meet that criteria. So it's a recognition by the state for students who qualify for that. So think of it as like a special award from the state um recognizing students for uh their knowledge in both languages. Right. And so we got eight students who achieved that award this year. Yes. Right. And as I understand it, there's also like a secondary thing. There's like a path of bi literacy. Is that what Yeah. And so that and that's kind of where that's what we're working our students towards is that there's different levels that they're working to. So every grade level in our manner program there, it's like a different level of fluency. And so obviously as a third grade third grader, you're

027not going to have the same expectations of fluency as an eighth grader because the goal is for them to meet those standards. And so the seal by literacy is basically verifying you have met those standards and you're verified and you're getting the seal by literacy. At the same time, we have those different benchmarks and levels in place for other grade levels. You know how many of our students are on that path? Yeah, that's the uh I think it was it's close to 50%. That's where that 50% comes from. Okay. So 50% approximately 50% of our students on that path to achieve that goal. We only this year we got eight but yeah which is actually Yeah. And so then when you look at that's why we're really encouraged by our younger students too. Kindergarten it

028was almost 80%. That's amazing. So we're getting that's this is a good recognition too getting that strong foundation for our students. that we just continue to reinforce that. Yeah, that's great. That's great. You know, certainly we've had concerns about our Vanderin program over the years and it sure seems like that it's coming around. Yeah, that's why I encourage everyone people to if you're interested in our Mandarin program, you want to know more, come to that workshop on May 29th. It's on Zoom. It's also going to be recorded so that you'll be able to kind of we'll be able to go into more detail on all those all those things. I got more. Right. So, also I know during the cast they're they're officially done now with the cast. We have some makeups that we're still

029doing makeup because I know we temporarily halted the pledge of allegiance in the morning. It's coming back because because it it's slightly inter I should say interfer to facilitate the caps test. Yeah, we've only temporarily stopped it, so it's coming back. Yeah, it's coming back once we're done with that. So, probably on Thursday. Yeah. Okay, fantastic. Um, just to follow up on the pledge of allegiance. So, I know last summer we had some flags that were missing. Uh, how we plan on not having that renewed this summer? So, I mean, we're we've had staff do inventory. So, thanks to some donations. every cl every classroom has a flag. Um and so that's going to be a part of just inventory making sure classrooms have their flags. So they're all in the classrooms. There's plenty of

030them. And we have two new classrooms. Make sure. Yeah. Because we got two more classrooms. So when we restart the school year next year, is there a checklist that the staff goes through and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you very much. Okay, moving next to the local control and accountability plan. Dr. P. Hey, could I ask why the public comment go to the a normally public comments in the beginning? What's the reason today going to the end? Um, oh, go ahead. It it actually has always been um at the end on our for non-aggendaized items. Um all year it's it's been at the end. Last meeting um for agenda items and last meeting we actually made um an exception um to that uh but it was actually agenda at the end of the the um the

031meeting. However, it that it has been placed at the end of the agenda for every meeting. It's just we allowed people to make those uh comments early at the last meeting, but that was not where it was at the agenda on the agenda. So beneicial for parents, right? to try it here. I don't think it will it will make sense to do it in the beginning but then again be good for parents outside. So I just again I'll yield my time for my comment but this is another one I'm going to add for lack of transparency we did that that is how the agenda was posted and um and how the board approved the agenda. So, um, so that would be up to the the board to to, uh, to change that agenda. Okay. Um,

032is there a motion to rechange the agenda? So, the So, so the non-aggendaized public comments can be made now. Is that what we're asking for? What's the point here? Well, so we're just following Yeah, I understand. We're just following the protocol. So, this is the way it's been all year. And so, we have public comments for agendaized items that are on the agenda and then public comments for nonaggendaized items. And what is covered in the agenda items or shifted public comments? We have that period. So, but if any problem if you choose Is is it okay? But I understand, but we're talking about this now in the middle of a meeting after we've already approved the agenda, which is what we did at the beginning of the meeting. So now we're looking to reorder your

033request so we can accommodate what you're looking. Thank you. Yes. Because with all due respect, you've been urging for us to get community members here to these meetings. It's very hard. It's a sacrifice because these are often long meetings and so I will own this because then I was under the assumption and I in the past have been told I can't comment at the end of the meeting on public comments. It was at the beginning and so I overlooked the fact that public comments got pushed to the end. So we conveyed to these parents that public comments would be in the beginning of the meeting after close session after we came back from close session. So I appreciate your consideration. Okay. Okay. So um right out. So um is there a motion to restructure the

034agenda? We ordered the agenda. So we put the nonaggendaized item public comments. We set it to now. Okay. Okay. The agenda comments they've already so this would be the non-aggenda uh public comments would be uh and that still within the a lot of time agenda 30 minutes uh three minutes each and uh and then Dr. would speak after 30 minutes. So it's it'll be clear but is there is we're just moving that discussion item forward to so how many how many comments do we have totally I do yeah could you do a quick calculation of how many so they're not going on yeah so so everyone's aware we have a 30 minute cap and it's three minutes each depending on how many comments we may need to adjust. Yeah, that's what I'm getting. Let's see

035how many there are and then divide it into maybe two minutes each because if there's a lot of them there's nothing wrong with some of them are are emailed in a little bit shorter. So, but but because it's the noniz items, you'd have to read those. Yes. Okay. So, you'd have to read those also. So, there's 17 of them, but not necessarily. Sure. So, I mean, [Music] set it at two minutes. So, so I'll make a motion. Yep. That we reorganize the agenda for the non-aggendaized comments but be limited to two minutes each because there's so and there's email comments. Okay. So that's that's what they can do. So I'm okay. Is that because they sound email and can be read? Okay. Because a lot of parents are here. So, we have a motion. Is

036there a second? Yeah. A second. Okay. So, we'll do roll call. Uh Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. I'm a yes. Yes. Miller. Yes. Okay. So, it passes. So, we will do the non-aggendaized community input on non-aggendaized items. We'll do that now. We'll set it at two minutes each and we'll cap it at 30 minutes is what we have, right? hopefully hopefully closer closer. So please, we hope you can appreciate that and please we want to hear your public comments. We understand there are many of them. So we we encourage you to be fruitful in what you tell us. Welcome. So uh and maybe not repeat over and over. Yeah, it's our first time you've had this kind of show up the whole year. Give us some grace. There's no clerk to help orient people to the

037process and we have non-native English speakers. So please thank you so much. Thank you. Mr. the timer when we start speaking. Thank you. Yeah. So I don't have a thing prepared but first I'm really shocked in the response of the voice of parents. My my comments today was about a voice of not heard. I think I speak pretty loud but I I feel like we're not the hero. It's dead silence. And the reason I've been in the school was for the values and I do feel that the values were drifting especially in this reaction in terms of the voice of parents asking for something and you guys were jumping on the legal ease. This is us. This is why we here. So what's going on? What's happening? Who are we becoming? And I don't like

038the side of it. when my wife looked for this school. We're very appealing in the school, dual language, we're already bilingual. Giving another language for our kids was great. The the uh my my first my my kid was in second grade was one of the best years he had. And I was looking forward for that for my my fifth grader. And unfortunately, I didn't know about all I hear today about the increasing the uh the cap and why the grief of my fifth grader was so hard this year. And now I'm kind of connecting the dots, right? I think you guys have to listen to us in terms of and I I I feel that's not being heard at all. I'm hearing parents complaining and yet what I'm seeing is that silence on the side

039and today is a very good example of what and I thank you Mr. Barrett in terms of you bringing up and making the change but this is not what I the natural reaction is dismissing and why are we doing that? This is not a school I've enrolled into and I hope that you guys are making change. What's my time? Because I need to add something else. Uh 19 seconds. 19 seconds. Okay. So, transparency is important and I know the first reaction will be that we guys are transparent, but I'm saying transparency is important. So, therefore, hear me out. Hear the parents voice. Thank you. I just want to echo everything you said. I agree with everything that you said. Um I think that what I really wanted to talk about, what really got me up

040here was the sex ed agenda that that that came out to the eighth graders. I don't agree with a lot of the things that I saw on it. specifically the steering children towards abortion, steering our children towards denying parental consent and the woke gender theory, the radical gender theory that that that curriculum included. I don't want to have either of my sons have to pull out of that curriculum next year. I would like it to be changed. I would like it to be different. I don't want them to be taught that and I don't want to have to have them excluded from it, if that makes sense. So yeah, I think a lot of the problems and I'm guessing a lot of what you might hear from the parents could could be avoided by just

041having a little bit more transparency. I know that you're aware of the problems that that I'm talking about right now, but I haven't really had any discussion from any of you. And um I know a lot of you. I consider some of you friends. And uh we've stood together to protect the integrity of this school in the past. And I hope that's what we're all willing to do in the future. one. So, uh thank you for having me and um I I have a little disagreement with the something happened like to my son uh the school policy to deal with the situation. So what happens is my son got by from uh one of his uh classmates and this not a big deal but when that happened we were requesting the school to facilitate a

042meeting between two parties and doesn't matter who who is right who's wrong I just want to school to be that in that position to hosting the meeting between two parties but what I got from uh from the school is by law and that's going to violate the privacy something like that. Bear with me my with my uh language. So um that part I don't understand. Um and um so I go to the other party privately. Actually my wife went so everything's good peacefully problem solved and turns out the other kid uh that's the words from his mother. She said uh that kid got beaten before. So which makes I think you know he thinks um that's the way to solve problem. So I think anyway I think that kind of meeting if it's hosted by

043the school will be hugely helpful you know for that situation to me I think what if something serious happened in the future like what if that you know serious injures you know are we still going to not allow to you know you guys not going to hosting any you know meeting like that so we just going to waiting to to hear from you guys about you know the communication between you and the other I mean I just want to share about that. I have a little disagreement uh disagree with that policy that that's it. Thank you guys. Thank you. What's your name on him by the way? I think Joe easier for you guys. Yeah. Okay. Um dear board members, uh thank you for your contribution and your service to the school. I'm the father

044of a first grader. Um it hasn't been long since my child been in the school. It's going to be a few years until she attends the sex ed education. Um, but today I'm compelled to share my opinion because I do hope my child can continue in this school until graduation. Um, first off, I feel very concerned about the current chosen sex ed education at AIA. uh their explicit description of sexual activity and um obvious um homosexual um education. Um I'm concerned I will lead the students when they're still uh innocent and immature to a wrong direction. Um uh worse um to u take them away from the rightful path in their life. Um from my own research I discovered that even in California they are conservative um um sexual education that also meets stakehold um

045I learned that the uh previous school leader Dr. being had also um chosen such a do curriculum. I sincerely hope a school will reconsider such curriculum that meets the family values and community um values of such a curriculum. for the new uh after school provider. I also have uh some concerns. Uh my child is in the current after school provider program and she has been very happy. Um before the notification I did not even know the reason um um for this change. The the new after school provider has different pricing. All of them almost all of them are higher in pricing than the current after school provider. And also I do not know uh what are the classes uh program or uh included in this pricing. Um um at the very least it's not specifically

046outlined the program enrichment classes and such. Uh I do not know the reason behind this change. And I have not heard of any uh bidding discussion um um between different providers against time. So we we did allow for extra time for translation but very fast and and I've not seen any other providers who have participated in the bidding process. I've not seen the comparison between pricing. Sir, sorry. We have we have just to be fair to others that you speak Thank you very much. Oh, to read. I have it to read. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that Thank you. So I'm going to read the comment. Um we have not received the news that the after school class will be replaced. If the after school classes changed, do we need to get consent

047of each of our parents for the after school class next semester is too high. We do not agree to change to a new after school class. So we need a clear explanation from you and tell us why we refused to pay without notifying every parent. Then the rest are email comments which I'll read. Uh thank you for your dear board members. Oh sorry the comment as parents we believe that transparency and decision making is crucial in fostering a strong partnership between families and schools. However, recent decisions such as selecting a new afterchool program, choosing a food vendor, and implementing a new sexual health curriculum have been made without sufficient communication with parents. We respectfully request that the school provide clear explanations for major changes. Share candidate choice through direct emails so all parents are informed

048and actively seek parental input such as through surveys before making decisions. Open and accessible communication will strengthen trust and ensure the decisions align with the best interest of student. The next comment, I hope this message finds you well. I'm ready to kindly ask that the following comments be read aloud during tonight's board meeting. Thank you for your consideration. There has been a lack of transparency in school administration throughout this school year. Parents have not been properly or promptly informed about important matters. The school administration appears to be disorganized this year. Teachers in PTO have been asked to send messages that pressure parents into paying for school field trips, which is concerning. More parents should be recruited to serve on the IIA school board to ensure broader representation and input. The next one, um, incident May

0495th, 2025. My son has been bullied multiple times by the same classmate at school. My son warned the other student not to do this, but the bullying continued until the afternoon of May 5th, 2025. While waiting to switch classrooms, my son was sitting on the carpet and didn't move. The other student jumped up and meet my son in the groin, causing him severe pain. After reporting to the teacher, my son had to walk to the nurse's office in pain and clearly told the nurse that he was injured by the other students knee. The nurse did not call home immediately. She only gave my son an ice pack. This response is very unreasonable. at 6:00 p.m. when I went to the my son, he showed me the school's ouch paper and that's when I found out

050about it. The night my that night my son said he had no sensation when he urinated. The next morning on May 6, I took him to urgent care and then he was referred to Kaiser so he couldn't go to school. On Tuesday and Saturday, we had to cancel baseball practice twice because he couldn't engage in intense exercise. On May 5th, Thursday afternoon, I went to the school to meet with the principal who said it was an accident. He refused to explain why the parents were not notified immediately. On May 16th, I met again with the principal and the nurse along with my friends. This time, it was even more ridiculous. The principal lied in front of everyone. The out paper clearly stated jumped, but the principal said slid. These two words have completely different meanings.

051What the principal did was refuse to apologize, covers and protects the other party. also refuses to reimburse the medical expenses incurred during these days. Moreover, refuses to explain why parents were notified immediately. On May 18th, 12:38 a.m., my son suddenly became responsive and defecated while asleep. We suspect nerve damage. I was scared and would sleep all night. On June 19th, I told 6:00 p.m. We went to see the doctor again. The doctor said to observe him and if there are any outcomeities within a week to schedule an MRI. Since the incident, my son has started to dislike going to school. During the second meeting, my son was called out to explain what happened that day. So, he saw and heard the principal lie, distort facts, and protect the other party. This has a very negative

052impact on the child. It's unbelievable. As a principle, an attitude is extremely rude, and this behavior of refusing responsibility and lying is very disappointed. This is behavior. Next, I am writing to bring to your attention a matter that has significantly impacted the fifth grade classroom community and my experience as a new educator at Irvine International Academy. A parent in our school community, Miss Tiffany Craft, has unfortunately engaged in a pattern of behavior that has continued to an increasingly tense and stressful school climate. Most recently, she submitted a concern to the Orange County Department of Education alleging that I failed to provide students with assigned reading materials. This concern was filed without any prior discussion with me or school administration bypassing usual channels for resolving such issues collaboratively and constructively. This issue is part of a

053broader pattern that has persisted since the beginning of the school year and this past taken steps to that appear to encourage division and resistance to my role as a classroom teacher creating an environment of mistrust that undermines both both classroom operations and staff morale. In one notable instance, during state testing was trapped entered the classroom without authorization despite clear signage indicating that testing was in progress and access was restricted to authorized personnel. This disruption affected both students and staff during a critical academic period. As a first year teacher and member of the I faculty, I remain deeply committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive, and academic enriching environment for all students. However, the repeated nature of these confrontations has presented significant challenges to filling my responsibilities and has at times impacted my well-being and professional confidence.

054Moreover, these actions have contributed to work environment that feels increasingly hostile not only to me but also to colleagues who are working diligently to support our students. I respectfully request the board's guidance and support in reinforcing standards and respectful communication and engagement with our school community. This is my sincere hope that the board's leadership will continue culture grounded in trust, collaboration, and choice. Okay, wrote that it was and every Tuesday I am signed up to volunteer in the classroom and so I I'm just gonna read the comment. Um, thank you for your continued dear board members and Dr. and thank you for your continued oversight of IIA. As concerned stakeholders, we feel compelled to speak up in defense of the founding principles of our school of gender and immersion and a foundation in conservative values.

055Sadly, under the current leadership team, both of these pillars have been intentionally and gradually dismantled. With Dr. Cananan's upcoming retirement, we respectfully request that the board not renew Mr. Schmer's contract. This moment presents an opportunity for a muchneeded leadership. We said one that could bring IIA back to its original mission as a mission focused, conservatively guided charter. We understand that dissatisfaction among parents, staff, and teachers may not be immediately visible to you. To gain a clear understanding, we insist that the board to conduct a year and survey for all stakeholders as stipulated in the charter. Crucially, this survey should be conducted by a neutral independent agency of the school's finances are indeed strong enough to support salaries totaling over a half a million dollars for school members in the administrative team. And surely there is

056room in the budget for an objective and professionally administered survey. The need for neutrality cannot be overstated. Under the current leadership, fear of retaliation has increased significantly. Even PTO members have been targeted for dissenting views from fellow PTO members trust and silencing open dialogue within our communities. He also asked the board to be fully transparent with past survey results. What was the completion rate of the most recent survey conducted by Dr. Kan? Have you reviewed the unfiltered data yourselves rather than the 911 summary provided by administration? Many of us chose not to participate due to fear that even an anonymous feedback could be traced back to us from the examples and issues we were to bring forth. It pains me to say that our trust in our board has significantly verted too largely due to

057what we perceive as uncritical support of a leadership team that is out of alignment with IIA's value and vision. We urge you to act with humility, openness, and a commitment to transparency. A professionally conducted secure survey will speak volumes for the listen to what the community has to say. Uh, next one. I'm writing this email because I'm concerned about the current health education cont teaching content um delivered to my daughter in 8th grade. First, I am not entirely familiar with all of the content my daughter has been taught. However, since one of the parents and my daughter thought and stood to reach out to me and others and mentioned there would be something inappropriate, I would like to request further clarification for parental involvement for this purpose. No street out because everyone is doing a

058great job supporting their own students and kids for better future lives. So, getting everyone on the same page may require much time and communication. Thank you for having this rest of your evening weekend. Thank you for reading my comments since I could not be at the board meeting this evening. I have a kindergartener and a third grader who started at IA last year. I thank the administration and the PTO for the care and great work they've done to support the school while doubling in size and having a new administration come in. With the close of the school year, I have noticed a shift in the school culture of a small charter school field to a more rigid box big box style. I understand with about 500 students, we can't make everyone happy all the time.

059I also understand as a public school, we need to follow the law and pass audits. But after that, we still do have flexibility to meet the community's needs. For example, I've seen students turned away from programs because of the rigidity of leadership unloaded to make minor, modest, and reasonable accommodations even when they are appropriate and feasible. Another example is that the sex ed education curriculum families want and al and is also used by other public charter schools like OCA is not being considered. IA can stay in compliance while also remembering that chose a charter school for the specific education and community over the neighbor district school. There are leaders in our communities who have been here a long time who I believe can help keep the original school culture while also staying in compliance. Tiffany

060Croft and Dan Parker are leaders in the school, not because they have an official title besides Tiffany and PTO, but because they are looked up to, trusted, and therefore have influence in the community. As a normal mom, I do not know the ins and outs of schools. But I hope there are official positions for people like them who are already leaders together with strong leadership already things we can keep our distinguished school academics on. We focus like a little charter school culture. Great. I'm writing to formally document ongoing and deeply concerning behavior by Miss Tiffany Craft that I believe constitutes a violation of disability policy outlined in the work family handbook. This policy is intended to reduce potential triggers for violent contact such as fear, anger, frustration, and alienation, especially by making problem solving procedures

061and alternatives to violence readily accessible to both students. And I don't think that's important. Misscraft's conduct has instead created an environment of fear, frustration, and alienation, particularly to staff members targeted by her ongoing actions. As the only middle school faculty member remaining from the school's first year, I witnessed firsthand the damage caused when parents are allowed to intimidate staff and manipulate school climate express behavior is alarmingly similar to the destructive patterns that led to the dismantling of leadership and a breakdown of moral during our inaugural year. Her behavior is disruptive and poisonous to the respect and inclusive culture we work so hard to rebuild. Specifically, Misscraft has publicly criticized and discredited teachers, especially in the full teachers before repeated unfounded complaints that have contributed to teacher burned out burnout. Volunteered on campus without authorization or

062invitation from school staff made staff feel targeted, undermined, and unsafe in their professional roles. As the BBIS coordinator, I face direct obstruction from this craft, particularly around the school's use of the applicant pride within our behavior expectations rather than approach me. And constructively, she accused me of promoting a personal agenda to ask the issue to Dr. Steven student superintendent to question whether I had permission to use the term. Her communication felt personal and accusatory, requiring me to spend multiple weekends responding to her messages just to justify a word that is widely accepted in PBIS from the across the country. Furthermore, this practice actively led the charge against our school's adoption of a comprehensive sexual health education curriculum with a specific focus on targeting and excluding LGBTQ plus representation. While those students and staff at our

063school identify as part of this community as the only credential teacher at IIA qualified to teach this curriculum and someone with a bachelor's degree in health science, a master's degree in public health, and with an emphasis on community health education, I find this attack deeply disrespectful both professionally and personally invalidating. Because Miss Croft's rhetoric, I as well as my fellow fellow middle school faculty have been publicly dismissed and discredited by other parents, including hon and other parents who behavior towards staff has been traveling parents have perpetuated a narrative that disrespects my expertise, marginalizes the LGBT plus community, and compromise the health and well of our school culture. The emotional professional toll of this has been significant. I, many of my colleagues, no longer feel safe, respectable, and college to carry out the duties without fear

064of harassment or retaliation. Although our school administration has intervened and has made multiple attempts to stop the constant ridicule from Mississippi, I respectfully and urgently request that school leadership take concrete steps to enforce our civility policy and restore professional climate in which staff and students including those in marginalized groups are protected, supported and valued. Penis is the ring of muscles that allows releases of solid fluid releases i.e. about movement from the body. An erect penis may put into the anus during sexual intercourse sex. Some people choose to put a penis finger or an object into the anus during sex. On contraceptive on contraception, visit your local visit your pharmacy or public health clinic to get emergency contraception. In all states, people of any age can purchase some type of emergency capture sexual chose over the

065counter without parental consent and without a prescription. These are excerpts from the comprehensive sex ed binder. Many of you on the board are parents yourselves, playing a critical role in shaping your children's valuable beliefs. How would you feel if someone told your child they could engage in sexual activity, take contraception, or seek an abortion, all without your knowledge or consent? There are numerous sexual education curriculum available. Why then has our school chosen one that appears to contradict the values and beliefs held by the majority of our school community urging to review incredible PCP curriculum with the heart curriculum. To date, more than half of the eighth grade students have opted out of sex ed with optout rates that high. Should we consider whether the curriculum is truly serving our students? As board members, you are

066interested shaping the foundation of our school. Every decision we make, carry significant way before judgment impacts our students directly. Please take time to gather accurate information, explore diverse sources, and make informed decisions. If you find you cannot commit the time and care to this responsibility demands, I respectfully ask that they consider stepping aside so that a committed parent, one who truly prioritizes best interests of our school community, can take their place. Two more. I'm writing to express serious concern over the board's decision to solicit and consider sex education curriculum without seeking meaningful input from parents and guardians as primary as a primary educators and caregivers of our children. Parents have both the right and the responsibility to be involved in decisions that directly impact their children's moral, emotional and physical development. Curriculum decisions, especially those

067sensitive and foundational sex education should be transparent and collective reflect the values of the families within the community. Bypassing parental involvement not only undermines trust but also roads to collaborative partnership that should exist between families and educational institutions. I urge the board to pause any further action on this matter until a clear, inclusive, and open process for engagement has been established. Our voices matter and our children's growth being depends on us. I'm writing this letter to you to discuss a growing concern happening at Irvine International Academy regarding its culture between students, parents, and staff in fifth grade through 8th grade. This year, I felt personally attacked and questioned by a small group of parents in fifth grade. I know I am not the only staff member experienced this and it is creating a toxic atmosphere

068that is ruining student teacher relationships, parent teacher relationships and the overall school climate we have worked so hard to build. I chose to work at our right international academy because of the high academic rigor, supportive staff and parent involvement such as parents being part of my interview process. The sixth grade through eighth grade parents have been great to work with trusting me each day with their students showing support creating open lines of communication and making sure the parent teacher relationship remains strong. However, a small group of fifth grade parents spearheaded by Tiffany Craft and on Willy have been creating a very toxic and hostile environment in our school that has made it very difficult to continue working here. You may think it is the principal support even executive director's responsibility to create and instill a

069positive school climate. This responsibility also extends to teachers, sports staff, students and even more. However, with such strong parent involvement, the responsibility also falls on parents. In my opinion, things that disrupt a positive school environment, include pushing personal agendas or beliefs on an entire school community, undermining school authority, and creating hostile work environment for those you disagree with. I witnessed this group of parents do all of the above mentioned. As a public charter school, it is my understanding that we need to remain apolitical and a religious. This has been the case that every district and every charter school I have worked at thus far. However, this group of princes threatened the integrity of our public institution by pushing continue using using asexual education curriculum that is not state approved because of its exclusionary removing the

070mention of those who are not straight and gender conforming which deliberately disregards the state standards for sexual health education and supports exclusionary practices in our schools. Multiple schools site council and popular principal meetings both my and the stress mayor's professional authority have been undermined by constantly questioning why and how decisions were made. something that did not seem to have a previous administration, at least not on video recordings. It is great to question why and how decisions are made. If you have a genuine question, but the repealing repeated asking of the same as answers questions shows this group has ulterior motives. Lastly, undermining or trash talking teachers in front of other parents, such as on platforms like class dojo or in large group chats, creates a toxic environment among parents delivering the classroom since children's minds

071are often influenced by their parents. These are things I've experienced this year and can be linked back to Tiffany Crafting on Billy. As the stakeholder at Urban International's future, hopefully for decades to come, I want what is best for our school. I want us to continue growing, improving, and attracting high achieving students and staff. I worry that this group of parents antics threaten that future, not just for me, but for my colleagues and students. Thank you for listening. Okay, thank you for reading those. Thank you. Thank you. I believe they sent it to me that they sent it to you since I'm the spearheader apparently from Mr. Fel. I did not receive a comment myself. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't receive any comments from him, but he can definitely get a a reach out and get

072back to I read it. Can I read it for them? Can I read it? Okay. So, we can hear it. Thank you. Thank you. We can hear any of your stuff. Yeah. Here we go. Scrolling to his message on this is what I sent. I'm writing you today to discuss issues I see with the current board member selection process. The process as it stands today does not resemble any legislative or commercial corporate process which keeps the board and an administration or executive team separate preventing a conflict of interest and true and true bipartisan decision processes. Currently, Amy Kernan is part of the board selection process which gives the IIA admin administration power over the board which sets her charter and approved the direction and policy for IIAa that she as executive as executive director should

073be implementing and reporting on the progress of this is unheard of in a Fortune 100 company for someone acting like a CEO to have power to control membership of its board. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or even Elon Musk never had control of the board or its election process as the board held them accountable just as the IA board should hold our executive director accountable. If you recall, Steve Job was ousted from the company he founded due to the board's ability inability to act independently. Shortsighted, shortsighted in hindsight or not, it emphasizes the independence a board must have. While all of the famous leaders have or had massive stock and voting capabilities as any shareholder, they did not sit on or control any aspect of the board. Several parents and staff have reached out

074about the impacts of a new policy and decisions over the last year and direction it has taken with school with great concern. Recently, I was compelled to take time off work to attend coffee with the principal to make my voice and the voice of my community heard as the administration continued to avoid answering questions. And when they did answer, the answers would change over time, which equipped the lying or withholding info. This grave disservice to the parents of inaccurate, inaccurate, untimely, or just poor communication will hopefully be over with Amy's resignation. This pattern of communication also happened at Oxford Academy where several of the parents have said it was a pattern under her leadership there as well. With Amy's resignation of her position and appointment of Stephanie Henry as executive director, we ask that you

075remove Amy Kernan from all responsibilities at IAA interaction with the board as she has fulfilled her duty and chosen to move on with her personal and professional goals. Stephanie needs to be free to execute on the board's direction via her admin administration without influence from her predecessor. We the parents also also humbly request that you change the board member approval process so that the board and administration run independently like corporations and legislation does. Governors and state legislators are independent. CEOs and corporate boards are independent. The president of the United States and Congress are independent and we ask for the IEA board and the school industry administration to be as well. We understand that administration members like an exec like an executive director may be a guest attendee at times for continuity or to report to

076the board but the in the independence of the board is critical to growth success and stability of our school. Thank you. So thank you to all that that provided public comments. Uh I would like to for the sake of time uh task the executive director here Dr. Stephanie, please follow up with every uh every public comment submitted and to plan for the next board meeting to have a report out uh on on the followup each of the items. Some of the items we'll be able to address where some of the items won't be addressed till the next so if you wouldn't mind appreciate that. Okay. Thank you all. And uh Dr. Karen, we would like to hand the floor back over to you for the local control and accountability plan. Yat, please. All right. Thank

077you. So, um, this is our presentation regarding our local control and accountability plan. Um, basically, this is our plan for our schools. So, it's a it's really a three-year plan that is adopted. And actually, I'm kind of in a weird position, but um to really address student outcomes, the different goals of the school, um different metrics that we use to determine whether we're meeting those goals. And they it kind of is consistent or comprised of different pieces. So, there's an LCAP budget summary for parents, um a plan summary, how we've engaged our educational partners, goals and actions, increased or improved services for foster um foster youth, English learners, and low-income students. There's some action tables which sort of outline all of the different things that we're planning to do as a school. Um and then

078we actually have to add the instructions at the end, which is kind of weird, but it's a lot of extra pages. So our LCAP has to cover our eight state priorities. So basic necessities, um implementation of the state standards, access to a variety of different courses, um high student achievement, um school climate, student engagement, parental involvement, and then other student outcomes that we might look look at um as a school that don't fall into these other categories. So, um there's a lot of information on this slide, but I did want to share out um some of the different ways that we have solicited um information from our educational partners. And so, uh we do have an LCAP advisory committee uh that meets to kind of go over our LCAP goals and provide input. And there's

079parents and different staff members on that committee. School site council, coffee with the principal, our safety committee, um our instructional leadership team, our English language advisory committee that's actually meeting this week, um our LCAP stakeholder survey, and then different board public hearings like we had tonight. um and some of the different things that we um kind of added to our LCAP or revised in our LCAP based on this feedback um and has been kind of I think Felipe you brought it up earlier is looking at how to improve our Mandarin program and provide a really robust uh Mandarin program for our students. Increase small group interventions and supports for our students. Um providing more enrichment programs. um providing more social emotional learning supports and services and then um looking at at ways to increase and

080improve our parent communication. So in looking at our LCAP, we have three goals. So the first goal really kind of revolves around our um academics. So it's ensuring all scholars are meaningfully engaged and achieve in a rigorous and standards aligned dual immersion program in both English and Mandarin. and students are engaged in academic interventions if it's necessary. And we have a variety of metrics that we look at to determine whether our students are meeting this goal from course access to how our students are doing on various assessments like the CAST ready level learning. Um how our English learners are making progress. Um as well as things like our teacher retention rate. Um whether our teachers are appropriately credentialed and assigned. Um and then like I said our different assessment scores and then we added based

081on feedback um from our different uh stakeholder groups um some new metrics for this year. Um we're revolving around different um LCAP survey questions. also talking about how many different professional development opportunities that we've had this year. And we have a variety of actions that are covering this goal of different things that we're going to do to make sure that we're achieving this goal. And as part of our LCAP, our LCAP, our LCAP coincides with our um our budget. And so in our LCAP with each of these actions um we have to state how much money that we're going to be spending um or projected to spend on each one of those actions and then that's aligned to our budget. Um and this year we've actually implemented on our board agendas putting that LCAP goal

082on there so that the board can see exactly what goal um and action each one of those expenditures or different items are tied to if they're tied to one. So, uh, some of the different actions for our goal one have to do with staff development and support, retaining highly qualified teachers and staff, um, providing coaching and support to our staff, providing interventions and acceleration opportunities for our students, um, using a variety of different assessments as well as, um, keeping our library updated. Uh some additional things uh that are actions for this goal um are implementing a writing program and that's actually a new action based on um feedback based or making sure that we're really doing that in both Mandarin and English. um providing an English language development program, special ed education programs, um identifying

083our gate students and providing enrichments for them and then um having curriculum materials and resources for our students. Um also having our middle school making sure that we're providing different experiences and activities and resources for our middle school students. We also added a an action for steam instruction at our school to make sure that we're really highlighting that because that is something that we do highlight in our charter. Um, also a goal for Mandarin instruction definitely based on a lot of feedback that we need to really focus on our Mandarin program and then providing summer and afterchool programs. So that's basically um goal one. Goal two has to do more with school climate and student engagement. So, positive school climate and student engagement. Create a safe, inclusive, and welcoming school climate where students and staff

084are engaged and fully invested in students academic, health, and social, emotional learning. So, again, some of those metrics are things like our attendance rate, um how many students are considered chronically absent or those students missing 10% or more of the school year. um suspension rates, expulsion rates, luckily we've never had any expulsions. We hope to keep that at zero. Um our school facility in good condition. Um and then uh different metrics around our school climate or our LCAP survey um regarding school climate and then our actions for that. um a first action um MTSS which is multi-tered systems of support. So providing a lot of different supports for our students who might need um academic support, social emotional support also um PBIS which is positive behavioral interventions and support. So that's more to do with

085our um you know student student discipline um and student engagement. Um also continuing to provide those um monthly assemblies for our students to recognize our students. Um but also to address different um different topics like bullying um and digital citizenship, things like that. Um community building activities, all the great things that we do here at IA like field days and mid-autumn festival, um Lunar New Year. Then um something that has been in here is researching a social emotional learning curriculum um and implementing that. We did add a goal this year around campus safety. Um and so really looking and that was you know again from from stakeholder feedback looking at making sure that we have a safe campus and that we're implementing um what we have in our school safety plan. mental health curriculum um

086and making sure that we have community resources for provided for families who might need them. Um ensuring that our facilities and our grounds are wellmaintained and clean and safe for our students. Um we also added um an action for uh cyber security. So, making sure that we provide that device monitoring software and make sure that we know what our students are doing when they're online. Um, attendance support. So, providing some training and support um to make sure that we're really getting our students here to school and maintaining um high attendance rates. We also added um a goal on technology and equipment. So, making sure that we have uh the technology and the equipment necessary in all of our classrooms. Um things from furniture, making sure that we have the steam steam equipment um and everything

087that we need not only for our younger elementary students, but also to support a robust um middle school elective program. And then classroom um behavior support. So offering training and PD to to teachers in um in classroom management and PBIS. And then finally our LCAP goal three um is parent support and engagement. So create an engaged parent, student, staff and overall community population that is fully invested in and actively connected to the school community and academic program. So some of the metrics for this are the number of families that participate in our annual survey. Um and also just you know any other surveys, percentage of parents accessing parent square. Um number of families contributing and providing input on decision-m so you know through coffee with the principal, schools site council and ELAC. And then um

088again our stakeholder survey results in the areas of communication and engagement. And then um one that we actually added for this year is the number of um community engagement activities that we have each year and making sure that we continue to have those activities that really get our community together and make IIA so special. So, some of our actions is continuing to provide those parent engagement um workshops. So, things like um our parent workshop on Mandarin that's coming up on the the 29th, making sure that we have those opportunities for for our community. Um bilingual community outreach and support. and making sure that we have interpretation services um for our families that might not speak English as well as providing um other resources for families who may be in need. Um school supplies um school

089clothing, things like that. And then oops, I skipped one. Um community partnerships and engagement. So again, supporting bringing our community in for all of the different events that happen here at IIA. And then family access to dual immersion online support. So making sure that families understand our different assessments, they um have access, you know, to online curriculum and things like that so that they can work with their students when they're at home. Uh communication, providing information and consistent communication to parents. And then one thing that we've discussed a lot in our ALIAP advisory was providing um some welcome resources for new families that are coming into our schools. So um you know especially those students who might come in either during the school year or come in not in TKK but kind of later on

090um making sure that they have all of the resources and they're acclimated well into our community. Um, and then you know just providing different recruitment materials and and things that show what great the great things that we have going on here at IAA. Another piece of the LCAP um is for increased or improved services. So these are services that we give to um our subgroups of students or English learners, our lowincome students and our foster and homeless students. they're sort of above and beyond what we would supply or what we would do for all students. So, um so our total projected amount of money that we should be um using to kind of go above and beyond for these student groups is about $539,533. Um it's about 8% above what the total amount of LCF

091we get. And you can see that we have actually in a lot of our different actions addressed ways that we can meet the needs of those students above and beyond. Um so things like having our small group EL um sessions with our um with our EL coordinator, having that constant monitoring of our English learners, um providing different resources for our lowincome families. Um, so just different ways that we can go above and beyond for those students who might need some extra support. So again, thank you so much. Um, everybody who has provided input, has come to meetings, has um, you know, given us feedback that helps us to make a really good LCAP um, for our students and provide the best education we can for our students. [Music] Okay, moving on. Thank you very much.

092Let me next item. 2025 2026 budget. Mr. Jones. Jones, are you there? Yes, I am. Thank you for your patience. No worries at all. Thank you guys so much. Okay, now Amy, can you allow me to share really quickly? Please turn it on. Oh, okay. Meant to do it before I went up there, but I forgot. No worries at all. I got to do it down there. Thank you for waiting, Dano. We We changed the agenda a little bit, so the nonaggenda items. No worries at all. I I do understand you guys have far more important uh Thank you for things to hear there and certainly the public is part of that. So completely understand. Okay, Delano, you should be good now. Yes, I am. Thank you. Okay. So, to piggyback on what um Amy

093uh just laid out, obviously this is uh layering inside of the LCAP um the budgeted items um as she um uh just went over. This is more or less just a 30,000 view of the preliminary budget. Hold on, I need to figure out why it's not sharing my screen. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Now you're on. Okay. Perfect. So, as I was mentioning, so this is the preliminary budget um which is directly tied into the LCAP uh goals and actions that Amy just reviewed with you all. This is more or less just a 30,000 foot view of that budget. Um we will be bringing the budget back again uh in June for final review um barring any changes or anticipating any changes that may come or known information that may come up between now and

094then. I'm trying. Yeah. Still having issues? Nope, we're good. I just had to make full screen right perfectly. Um so as discussed before we're looking at this column here for the 2526 budget uh enrollment currently as planned uh 611 students uh with an average daily attendance of estimated 97% which should derive roughly 592.678. Total revenues as budgeted um 8.7 million and you'll see that in just a second. Uh components of that is 7,274,197 for LCFF revenues. Uh of that 5.6 million in uh property taxes, another 118,000 the EPA protection account uh revenues and then 1.5 million in LCFF state revenues. Uh on the federal side, we're looking at 198,271. Um 65,000 in special eda funds. Uh those are for your uh your federal dollars for special ed. Another 52,000 in in child nutrition or for

095the lunch program on the federal side. And then we have 47,000. We basically just repeated cuz these estimates here will change uh in the fall again. But currently we're going to use the same estimates as current year for our title funds title one two and three. On the state side we have our our state nutrition program of 254 254,000 other 10,000 from mandate block grant restricted lottery of 48 113,000 in unrestricted lottery. our ELOP amount, which is our afterchool before and after school program. We're looking at estimated 281,000 for that. We're looking at special ed mental health revenues of roughly 30,000. And then our state dollars for special ed of 485,000 and then Prop 28, our art music uh grant of 46,000, which will yield in total 1.269 million in state revenues. On the local

096side, we have roughly just about 88,000 in interest. We did not uh put in or book any ex uh any revenues uh for donations or anything of that sort. We want to be a little bit more conservative with that just so that will sort of play itself out in terms of, you know, we may receive some and we may not receive some, but at this point we're going without any um uh local revenues in terms of donations and things like that that we like we had in the past on the expenditure side and I'll quickly discuss here our expenditures. um 2.7 million in certificated salaries and I do have the breakdown here in terms of our our staffing for that. That yields roughly 31.25 FTEES in terms of uh certificated staff on the classified side

0971,317,000 which is uh 26 FTE in totals inclusive of uh classroom aids, support staff, office staff etc. Aligning with that are our benefits which are roughly 1.2 million and obviously this covers retirement of various sorts and also um your the normal benefits for Medicare, Social Security, um health and welfare benefits, unemployment insurance, things like that and retirement as I mentioned. All in all, our total personnel expenses of $5.3 million on the program side. Um, and again, these are closely tied to the growth in uh in student numbers in ADA. Um, I won't go through all of these, but we have budgeted for textbook and curriculum, instructional software, um, supplemental instructional materials, office materials and supplies, classroom materials and supplies, testing and assessment, just to name a few, non-cap equipment, technology, and obviously our school uh,

098meals um, for a total of 715,71. On the operational side, um just a couple of things. Obviously, some of the big drivers here would be the the cost of insurance, our professional development, our facilities lease, which did go up a little this year as well. Um things like that, our cost for ancillary services for special ed, which you can see down here or one more down here. 5815 here, excuse me. Uh field trips, uh your fiscal services, your student recruiting, your IT services, etc. for a total of $1.3 million um for those services. Uh we did build in some interest on the current um lend donate amount uh here of 5050,000. That's interest debt services for that which will put our total operational expenses at 2.149 million. Adding that with our personnel costs and our

099books and supplies um puts our total expenses at 7,466,000. Subtracting our revenues of 7 of 8.7 million which leaves us with about net income of 1.2 million. And again, we're very conservative with some uh expenditures. And obviously, this does leave room for uh additional expenditures as they may come up or if again, as I mentioned, if if something comes up between now and when we bring this budget back, we'll make those adjustments. But right now, we're predicting a net income of roughly 1.2 2 million which is significant jump from where we currently are in 2425 with our estimated net income of roughly 54,000 um the total revenues and just to sort of give you a quick summary of where we are here and this is the personal exp uh side that I mentioned here in

100terms of our FTEES for staffing and you can see how that plays out in terms of our certificated staff and as well as our classified staff and that total number here of roughly ly 57.25 FTEES compared to where we are currently this year about roughly 46.25 total revenues increase compared to 2425 which is obviously were driven by more LCFF and property tax revenues personnel costs um of course obviously increased as well accounting for roughly about 75% of our total expenditures which is roughly on par for for a school of this size. you you tend to see somewhere in that 70 percentile low six mid60s to low 70s in terms of uh that cost for staffing and benefits etc and as I mentioned net income here 1.284 284 um which is really good uh in terms

101of having that projected now and again as I mentioned that may change obviously if we get any new information between now and when we bring the budget back in June and overall the enrollment expansion increased by 85 students compared to where we were in 2425. I will stop and take questions if there are any. Hey, this is David. Hi, David. How are you? Yeah. Question. You said um you know from compared to 2024 there's an increase of 85 students. What's what I don't remember what was our projection? Our projection was actually 612. So we dropped it down. I mean based on the budget that was done last year um it was 612 for next year it actually went up to almost 900 um in the in the out years. Um so we actually dropped it

102down um we couldn't hold 900 students in this building. So um so we dropped it down and kept it around 600 and then it dropped down by one student just based on on our projections for next year. Yeah, because previously we heard some comments from the parents in terms of enrollment cap you know we're just curious so what is the kind of the minimum break even point in terms of enrollment where you can barely make it right they got some point you know you if you below the threshold you can't cover the fixed cost yes curious about it Yeah. Yeah. And so if I could touch on that just a little bit and and I did hear some of those comments regarding um uh the enrollment cap etc. And I think Amy has done a

103tremendous job because um from the outside looking in obviously there is a huge amount of interest in your school, right? And so it it I can only imagine that you have a weight list of parents who want the same opportunity as everyone who's currently enrolled or will be enrolled uh next year. But if you look at the outy years here and I only added on 26 27 as part of this um that enrollment is only going to go up about 19 students uh next year right and even so the growth from this year to next year had to be significant to sort of maintain any sense of fiscal solveny etc. number one and because the natural growth within the school itself um obviously was going to push your enrollment up anyways. But to your point

104um or Emily uh Amy's point with the current configuration, there's no way you can go into the 700 numbers in terms of enrollment. I don't think you have the capacity internally in terms of classrooms to be able to do that. Um I believe at some point in the past um the enrollment when this was a regular school within the district was upwards of 7 to 800 students which is well above where we currently are. But for us here or for Irvine I think this is ultimately the sweet spot in terms of being able to to provide a great education but also at the same time protect the organization by having that surplus to be able to support the program. uh for years to come and that is the ultimate gold. Um you guys have really

105turned that corner and now is that time where you will see that you really can't you know um have a great educational program if you don't have the resources in terms of funds to do it. And so I think this is a really good spot to be in and I think if you were to hold true to this um with minimal increases obviously you will certainly get where you need to go with that. Yeah. Just just along the same line that let's assume we kind of max out 600 or something right 600 no more than 620 what's your projection for next year because we are going to be operating as a quote unquote normal school right uh because previously we got a loans high interest rate loan and I predict by next year we're going

106to be operating you know without all this we're going to be uh absolutely Absolutely. As I mentioned, this last column here is for the 2627 school year where we're looking at an enrollment of roughly 630 and again this is an estimate for ne for 2 years from now which certainly will assist in in adding to and if you look at where that shakes out here in terms of what the resources will yield overall and I'll just get down to the bottom line here for that obviously with more students, you're going to have more expenses. But again, we're looking at here at 2year and again, these are just estimates as of today. But we're looking at a net income increase of about 1.7 million in 2627 if the enrollment of 630 comes to fruition and the

107ADA etc. and all those things uh line up as we have them estimated here. And again, this is written in pencil, not in pen. um because there are so many factors between now and two years from now that may change right um you know to to get a different result obviously um but I think the enrollment where we are currently um you know is is is where it needs to be to be able to get the organization in a place where you can have that great fantastic program and offerings that all parents want um uh for their children. So I think this is a great place to be. Thank you. Thank you. Just just to be clear, Delano, so an enrollment of like 200 students is just not feasible. No. Uh and I think you

108guys can all you know attest to if we were to sort of do a little bit of revisionist history here and going back to when we were, you know, 300 students and I certainly have, you know, that data. um if you know and I don't think anyone wants to go back to that but you can see the struggles then just two years ago right even at the end of the first year my eyes at night when I close my eyes at night I see it already okay so you don't have to show yes they yes so um you know and I get the the idea of a small school you know small community school in a sense but it's not really fiscally viable just because you would have to you know you would have to

109reduce the program down to you know, barely the nuts and bolts um to to be able to survive. And again, that's up to the community, obviously, the community, the board being part of that, the leadership to determine, you know, Irvine's destiny in terms of, you know, how big you grow, how how fiscally solvent you want to be and and where those numbers are, right? uh because I think as I mentioned you have a huge weight list and you can grow to well over 7 800 students in the next couple of years right but is that where you really want to be right so um but you have that interest and you know just from an outsider looking in most schools would are craving for what you have in terms of that weight list in terms

110of those interested parties who want to come to your school. So without going back to two years ago, short answer to your question, I think this is the best spot to be in from a fiscal point of view and again um you know in terms of providing a a really great educational program. Um you know this is almost in the realm of a private school education if you will with public dollars here. So this is you know this is an awesome thing in my opinion but again I do get that you know you don't want to have a place where you're having 8 900 or thousand students you know that may not be ideal for you um but that is something that you guys will have to come to you know a decision on I'm

111just talking about your professional opinion as an accountant and you know your experience in this in this you're talking like where we are six I'm just going to throw a number out there 600 students with on the path path that we're on it definitely like you said uh other schools are you know this is the model they would want to see. Oh absolutely. Um with with so many schools uh seeing declining enrollment and in fact and you're growing by leaps and bounds that that says quite a bit about the program offerings that you have. the program in the school, right? And the the curriculum we have and the potential we're going to have, right? Because we have starting to have the dollars behind that. 100%. Yes. Absolutely. And I think this is, as I mentioned,

112this is, you know, this is where you want to be. This is where you should have been, you know, in year two going into year three. But we're here now, right? And I think that's the most important piece is that absolutely correct. That was always the vision that the school was going to be climbing at this this level. But Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And you were here from the beginning and that's truly what we were looking at. Yes. So, I have one more question for you. You know, the uh when you look at the budget here is something I I know we had to uh restrain raises for the staff. I think it was maybe a year ago, whatever. This new budget takes that into account that they'll Yes, it does. And if you were to

113look at just where we are in terms of uh let me shrink this down a little bit. A little too big. I don't want to ever have to tell them that again. No. And again, this is this is this is definiteration. Betsy did a basically an entire spreadsheet with each one of our staff members um what salary they'll be getting for next year. Um and so this is based off of um exactly what the what the salary is for each one of our staff members. It's been factored in already factored in with um their their you know step advance. So even with that even with that the I the estimated um net income at the end was it 1.2 or 1.78? Yes. 1.2 million. Well 1.28 1.284. that even with the increased growth, the increased

114salaries, you know, the increased programs that we're going to have, we're still gonna we're gonna have a net income or approximate obviously this is all in pencil, but the estimate at this point is 1.2 million, which yes, can't believe we're talking about this actually all these years, you know, that I'm saying that. So, thank you, Don. I just wanted to get that in there. Absolutely. Yes. to confirm their raises are built in here per Amy's uh uh uh uh statement a few minutes ago. One more thing, Delano. One more thing. So, you work very closely with this budget, right? Very Oh, absolutely. Yes. You're watching some from year one here. So, if if somebody was to walk in here and say there's some impropriety in our budget, the mayor of Irvine walked in this door

115right here and said that there was impropriy in our budget, you would know what they were talking about, right? That would be Well, they would have to be more specific than just an a statement of impropriy. They would have to give us, but I can attest that between Amy and I, um, there are no impropriities here. There I wouldn't even know where to start with that, but no. Okay. Thank you. And our financials are audited as well. Yeah, they're audited also. So, Oh, yeah. Absolutely. So, there isn't, you know, um, you know, every year we we are audited independently or your school is audited independently of me and of you. Um, which is, you know, and that's also a a contracted service that's built in here. So um um there's plenty of transparency to go

116around as I would say absolutely bored everybody. So any accusation like that really is an a conspiracy would have to be like a conspiracy, right? You don't have Yeah, maybe perception, right? Thank you. Miller, do you have any questions? No. No question. No question. Okay. Thank you. So I know I have one question as Brett. Uh do you have any sense for the max draw down? I know it's revolving for the line of credit for next year. How much we think at any given point we'll need to draw down from that line of credit. Well, in I I anticipate that in in July you you may need to to have a small pull from that. But as we get into August and September, obviously then when revenues pick back up again. Again, remember you're going

117to start to get funded on a higher ADA than a year ago. Um, so you will be funded on your 511 or whatever that number currently is. Um, your 510 ADA. You'll be funded on that uh through the first half of the year. So, that will help tremendously in terms of the amount of resources that you will have compared to a year ago when we really had to do a lot of that borrowing just to um keep ourselves afloat. Um, but I do not anticipate um that you will have a need to pull all of that 1.5 because in the summertime most of your personnel expenses will be minimum because you won't have your teaching staff, excuse me, your your instructional aids and those non um if you will um staff that are not seeing

118students or serving students during that time. Is it a possibility that we may not need it at all or is that we're likely to need something? You you more than likely you will need some but again there's lots of cushion in there with that and I'll let sort of Amy I heard you were saying something so I'll sort of yield to you. I think you likely will need some especially I mean we have to pay back the donate loan. Um, and we are projecting to be net positive this year with the 500,000. Uh, but we won't see all of that money before we need to pay that off. And then once we do see that money, we still have to make it into the beginning of next year. Um, you know, kind of like we've

119talked about I think at Nauseium now that funding we don't get funded, you know, up front, it it kind of has a little bit of a lag. So, so it is likely we will need to drop it next year. Uh but the good news is that looking at our projections um going into the following year we should have a very strong reserve. Um and then that will just you know be there for us cushion or if you know if there was you know some expansion or looking at other facilities or things like that. Um we'll still have that line of credit that we can utilize but we won't actually have to draw on it in future years unless it's for some type of special project or something like that. Thank you. Uh, next item we

120have the financial update. I hope you I think you probably combined it, but I wasn't sure. So, I separated them out. So, if you have anything else to add, but otherwise I just separated them out into two things, but I think you combined them to me. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else to say on your part, Delana, that you want to make? Oh, in relation to the to the preliminary budget? No, I think you guys have covered and I've said um quite a bit already. So, financials um because I separated them out as a budget presentation and a per financials presentation, but I think we did both of them. So, okay, Dana, well, we appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Mhm. Are you sure you guys don't want to go over the uh the April financials?

121Yep, that's what we were asking. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. It's a little late for all of us tonight, right? Let me share that again. Okay, perfect. All righty. So, continuing here. Um, so we've, you know, and I I know the the I'm sure the the the the school staff is a little excited. We we've certainly turned the corner here and, you know, we're, as they say, we're down the home stretch here, uh, in the last part of the fiscal year. So, this will this will probably be the last time that we sort of look at 24 25 financials um, you know, barring anything that comes up obviously. Um, but this is probably will be our last look until we get to the end of the fiscal year, the audit and things like that.

122Um, but I'll dive right in just for the purpose of time here. In April, we received 738,000 in revenues. Uh, 630 of that was our LCFF. another 93,000 in state revenues and about $6,400 in federal revenues. Uh April expenses were $571,000. 57% of that or 328,635 were attributed to salaries and benefits. Another 80,000 in curriculum and books, materials and supply costs. uh 142,000 or 25% of that were for operational matters and then uh 20,000 or roughly 4% in other outgoate revenues um were 5,590, 361 78% of that obviously our LCFF revenues um our revenue limit source which comprises of obviously our state aid EPA and property taxes. We received 57,000 in federal dollars, another 821,000 in uh state revenues, and then 336,000 in local revenues. our year-to- date expenses of 5,347,000. Uh salaries and benefits

123of 3,493,000 465,000 in uh program costs, operationals were 1.3 million and other outgo were 78,237. our year-over-year comparison looking at where we were the same time last year. Obviously, revenues are up roughly 38% or about 1.5 million compared to last year. And as I mentioned in my budget presentation, that's what you will see now. We, you know, we were starting to recognize and and receive the revenues based on this current year uh ADA. Um so that's a really um a great thing there. As you can see here, the big bulk of that was in our LCFF revenues. Obviously, our federal dollars. This is a bit misleading because we're actually getting more federal dollars this year. Uh this was the PCSGP grant from two years ago that we finally received all of it back in in

1242024. Um so that's really the the the variance there was that. but we're actually receiving what I would think would be more federal revenues this year. So total revenues are up 38%. On the flip side of that, our expenses, and again, I credit Amy with a lot of this year in terms of, you know, getting these costs under control. And I'm sure it was not an easy thing to do u with so many stakeholders um uh uh to please. Uh but our total expenses were up only 12% compared to the same period uh last year. We're at 4.7 million in April of 2024. This year we're at 5.3 million. So roughly 577,000 difference there overall. And again, um this is really where the bread is buttered in terms of keeping those expenses under control. You

125can see here last year at this point in time, we were kneede into borrowing to the tune of about 292,000 in in fees and interest to where we are this year roughly only 78,000. So it's a huge jump of about 73% decline there. Looking at our budget vertically here, we have net income uh as of April of 243,000, which is lining up nicely to what we have uh predicted or estimated our net income to be at the end of the year, which is just a little over half a million. We've received roughly 72% of our budgeted revenues and we spent roughly 74 uh.3% of our budgeted expenditures through the end of April. Looking at our balance sheet here, our total assets of 1,51,000. Most of that in cash. Um, in terms of our uh assets,

126last year at this point in time, we were at 576,000. So, a jump of about 474,000. Uh, our liabilities obviously have come way down. Um, some 748,000 there. And if you can look here, you can see where last year at this point in time, we had receivables uh sales of about 1.3 million. But again, those are offset here with our lend donate of 984,000 uh still on the books. And our net income obviously has increased here. You can see last year at this point in time we were down 707,000. This year we're up uh 243,258. So total net assets here we're still in a deficit um of about 300,000 but compared to where we were last year we're at 1.5 million in terms of the deficit to the fund balance. So huge improvement overall and

127then again that's all related to you know being fiscally conservative number one and obviously the growth this year in terms of your overall student numbers which has generated more revenues but also at the same time um making sure that expenses are being curtailed and and watched closely. Whoa, little too fast there. As I mentioned, most of our net assets there was cash um total cash on hand of 988,000. You can see here the various accounts that we have um with those amounts in there. Um 988,000 in April and then April of last year we're roughly at 532,000. So again, roughly about 40 50 days of cash on hand, which is a little over a month and a half, month and 10 days or so or 20 days uh on hand. Still not out of the

128woods yet. But again, you know, the idea here is to build upon this each and every month, each and every year in terms of building those reserves to get to a place where we're comfortable in terms of having somewhere between 3 to 6 months of reserves on hand to be able to mitigate any unforeseen expenditures or circumstances that may arise. I will pause here and take questions if there are any. No questions. What was our days of cash on hand last month? No, this is April. I mean the last president. Do you remember? Uh the the last board meeting we were Let's see here. I could tell you really fast. Um 26 days last board meeting. Help me. This is so that would be April, right? April 21 41.92. So now we're at 50. Last

129month our cash or at the end of March, so this was in March we had 41.92 days of cash or 826,000. And then this year obviously we have or this month we have 50 days of cash. So we've increased by about eight days. That's another indicator. I mean that can still eb and flow, right? But it's certainly an indicator another indicator going in the right direction. Absolutely. I have a question. Uh it looks like we had an overdraft of 142,000 in our cafe a bank account checking account. Can you maybe speak to the negative number there? Yeah, so it's really um so the the check-in and the savings account are tied together there. So it's really really it's not an overdraft. It was just that we just needed to move that money up to the

130from the savings to the checking account. And and and for the most part, this was during that period where we were transitioning transitioning away from the Cathy account to the Endeavor Bank account during that time frame. What is the current status of the Cath? We still have so we're keeping about um I think right now we have about $80,000 in there just to make sure that we can cover any you know outstanding things that are coming out of that account if we have any additional bills. So we're um we're planning on closing that account down probably at the end of the summer once we've closed out this entire the financials for this entire year. Um, but we've Mary best been working really hard to move all of our um, you know, any a um, withdrawals

131or or anything that else that we have that's coming out of that account to switch it over to the endeavor account. So, we're anticipating to be able to shut that account down hopefully at the end of the summer once we close that. Yeah. anticipated probably a few more months of you know I would probably recommend keeping it open to Amy's point through the summer just to make sure but we're really not processing any activities through there. No um we're not cutting any checks against that account or anything. It's just some items were electronically set up or automatic withdrawals are coming out of that account. Um but we switched everything over to Endeavor is then as the main operating account now. And that's been there for a while, for at least a month or so. I

132just want to make a a comment and I notice the revenue grows at 38% while the expense grows only at a very modest 12%. I mean, yes, you take inflation into account. I mean, I I don't know what's the official inflation 5%, you know, from last year to uh I think we're at what 3.4% 4% or so somewhere in there right now based on the current CPI. Yeah. So if you take that into account the really kind of the incremental increase or nominal increase is a very small single digit we're talking about really kind of a yes you can you can shake that lady's hand to your uh help me here to your left. Uh David, Amy really, like I said, has been, you know, she's been a pleasure to work with in terms of,

133you know, understanding what needed to get done and got the job done in terms of making sure. So really, you know, I I can't take credit for it because she is really the boot significant growth in enrollment and stuff, right? And but we only pay with the expense of growing at a single digit. That's, you know, it's enough. Yes. Uh-huh. We don't tell you. And that is not easy to do in a school with, you know, almost 600 students and and, you know, staffing and things like that. So, I'm sure she had a tough year in managing all of this. I can only imagine, you know, getting to where we are. And again, it's it's good news, but I'm sure it came at a cost. Okay, thank you very much, Dylan. We really appreciate your

134your insight and your report out. Thanks. Thank you folks. Thank you. Okay, moving on to items for discussion and possible action. Thank you. We've got a approved education protection account EPA 2025 20226 spending plan resolution. Proposition 30 was approved by voters on November 6, 2012 which added article 13 section 36 to the California constitution effective November 7, 2012. The provisions of article 13 section 36E create in state general fund and education protection account to receive and disperse the revenues derived from the incremental increases and taxes imposed by article 13 section 36. All the monies in the education protection account are continuously appropriated for the school for the support of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts. Monies deposited in the education protection account shall not be used to pay any

135costs incurred by the legislature, the governor, or any agency of state government. Monies received from the education protection account shall not be used for salaries or benefits for administrators or any other administrative costs. required that the governing board of the charter school make the spending determinations with respect to monies received from the education protection account in open session of a public meeting of the governing board goal action not applicable funding source not applicable budget financial impact not applicable it's recommended the board of directors approve action item A any comments um so this is every year you have to approve a resolution um and then we look at what we spent um our EPA funds on and then we make a projection of what we're going to spend uh those funds on for next year. Um

136so you can kind of see the the expenditures. Um normally we would try to spend all of those um expenses and we spend all of those uh expenses on instructional um instructional related costs. Um so like like you said in the blurb, we can't spend it on administrative salaries or anything like that. So, it's normally um we would we would spend that either on instructional staff, our our IAS, our teachers um or any instructional materials doesn't have an LCP. It's interesting that it doesn't have an It doesn't really have an LCAP because it's really just a funding source for us. Um, and then we, you know, we utilize that, uh, normally we would utilize that for instructional salary. So, technically, I guess we could tie it, um, to action 1.2, which is our our staff

137instructional our staff action on the outcome. Okay. Uh, is there a motion? I'll make a motion that we approve action. Thank you, Felipe. I'm happy. All right. Molly seconds. All right, we're going to do roll call vote. Molly, yes. Felipe, yeah. I'm a yes. David, yes. Miller, yes. Thank you. It passes. Moving next to approve 2020 2025 2026 consolidated application. The consolidated application con app is used by the California Department of Education CD to distribute categorical funds from various federal programs to local education agencies, LEAs, throughout California. Each LEA must submit the spring release of the KONAP spring release documents participation in these programs and provides assurances that the LEA will comply with the legal requirements of each program. Program entitlements are determined by formulas contained in the laws that created the programs. LCAP goal

138action. All ELCAP goals and actions funding source federal title title funding budget financial impact approximately 50,000 reflected in the 2025 2026 budget. This is just our application for our federal title funding. Um and we have applied for just like this year um title one which is uh for lowincome students. Um title two which is professional development. Title three is for our English learners and then title four is kind of a a catchall that everybody gets an additional amount of money. This is our application for that. Thank you. It's recommended the board of directors approve of action item B. Is there a motion? All right. Thank you, David. And then Molly seconds. Roll call vote. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. Emma, yes. David, yes. Miller. Yes. It passes. Thank you. Next. Approve resolution to the Orange County

139Department of Education to issue funds to charter schools. This resolution allows the Orange County Department of Education to transfer money into the new IIA bank account with Endeavor Bank. LCAP goal action not applicable. Funding source not applicable. Budget financial impact not applicable. Uh it's recommended the board of directors approve action item two. months. Um, so like we were talking about with the new bank account, this just authorizes Orange County Department of Ed to transfer money into our Endeavor account instead of our cafe account. So, further helping to make sure that we're clearing out all that the cafe stuff. Okay. Is there a motion? All right, Molly. Thank you. Thank you, David. Just a second. Uh, we'll do roll call vote. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. I'm a yes. David, yes. Miller, yes. Thank you. Uh, it

140passes. Uh, next item. Approve board policy 3260 fees and charges per California Education Code sections 49010 to 49011. No, students shall be required to pay a fee, deposit, or other charge for participation in an educational activity which constitutes an in integral fundamental part of the school's educational program, including curricular and extracurricular activities. Sport policy outlines these regulations and instances where fees or charges may be implemented. A cap goal action not applicable, funding source not applicable, budget, financial impact not applicable, board policy requirement recommended board policy. Uh so this policy just basically outlines um what different things that parents um can be charged fees for and um and what things that parents can't we can't charge fees for any instructional related um you know textbooks or or things like that. Um and so we also providing

141some staff training and adding this policy on our website and in our campus. Okay. Thank you. recommend board of directors approve action item D. Is there a motion? I'm happy to make the motion or second. I'll second. Thank you, David. We'll do roll call vote. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. I'm a yes. David, yes. Miller, yes. Thank you. It passes. Next. to approve the proposed board meeting calendar for 2025 2026. For the IIA bylaws, the IIA board of directors must adopt a regular board meeting schedule at its annual meeting. This schedule should ensure compliance to education code approval dates for items such as the LCAP and budget. LCAP goal action not applicable, funding source not applicable, budget financial impact not applicable. It's recommended the board directors approve action item. Any comments? Um, so we sort of

142stuck with what we've been doing this year with um kind of the third Tuesday of each month. It actually worked out well with the different holidays so that we didn't have to really move it around. Uh, so it would kind of line up with the third Tuesday. Okay. Is there a motion? Motion. Is there a second? Thanks, Molly. Okay. Roll call vote. Molly. Yes. Felipe, yes. And yes, David, yes. Miller, yes. And thank you. It passes. Next item, approve the IIA governance handbook. IA governance handbook was created by the governance committee and reviewed during the February 25th, 2025 board study session. The governance handbook will provide information for onboarding new board members as well as a reference guide for current board members and leadership. LCAP goal action not applicable, funding source not applicable, budget, financial

143impact not applicable. recommended the board of directors approve action item F. This is the same one we talked about last uh last last board meeting and you guys have the study session on and so I provided a clean copy of that as well. Is there a motion? I make a motion. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Second. I'll just give it to Miller's got it. Uh, we'll roll call. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. I'm a yes. David, yes. Miller, yes. It passes. Approve the extension of board term for Brett Freeman for one additional year. The IIA bylaws state that each director shall hold office unless otherwise removed from office in accordance with these bylaws for four years. And until a successor director has been designated and qualified on an annual on an annual

144basis, the board may extend the term of an existing director for an additional year by majority vote. El capital action not applicable. Funding source not applicable. Budget financial impact not applicable. It's recommended the board of directors approve action item G. You will have to I will recuse my vote. Any other comments? Can I make a comment? Yeah. Uh, is there a motion? Uh, let me make a comment. Okay. Yeah. I would really love to have stay on the court that he really kind of a takes over president provide very very clear good leadership very very good organizational skills and he can stay on the board. So, I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you, David. Thank you, Emily. We'll do roll call vote. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. Okay, I'm going to recuse abstain. David, yes.

145Miller, yes. It passes. Uh, moving on to the next item. Approve the election of IIA board officer president. Each year, the IIA board of directors holds an annual meeting to elect officers for the school year. These officer positions include board president, secretary, and treasurer. Officer POS positions will rotate every two years unless 51% of the board votes to keep an officer in his her position for an additional year. LCAP goal action not applicable. Funding source not applicable. Budget financial impact not applicable. Uh, is there a nomination uh for a president? I nominate the president. I see. Thank you. [Music] So, is the first, Molly is a second. Uh, we'll do roll call and I will abstain. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. Hughes. David, yes. Miller, yes. It passes. Approve the election of the IIA board officer

146secretary. Uh, is there a do clarification? We want to make sure the roles are clear. Current secretary, the current secretary. Okay. So, um, is there a nomination for a secretary? I nominate Felipe. I'll second. Thank you. Roll call vote. Molly, yes. Uh, Felipe will recuse. I'm a yes. David, yes. Miller. Of course. Yes. Thank you. It passes. Approve election of the IIA board officer treasurer. The current treasure is David. Yes. I nominate David is the treasure. Thank you. Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. I'm a yes. I will recuse vote. Miller, yes. Okay, that passes. So, we're going to be the money. Yep. Again. Okay. Uh, moving on to the executive director's report. I have reported a lot. So, I'm going to seed my executive director's report to our new executive director to make some comments instead.

147Thank you. Um, so it's officially day four. Um, it's been a it's been a great um, week and transition. Just to share some of the things that have happened is I really going on a listening tour as I shared as part of that 90day plan. Um, I had the opportunity to meet with our eighth grade class to talk to them and really learn more about IIA and culture from their perspective. It was that was like the highlight of my week. I love students. It was really fun. They're a great group. Had many one-on-one meetings with our directors, our staff members. I'm meeting with um grade levels of teachers starting tomorrow. Um I was able to attend my first day coffee with the principal school site council PTO. So met with a lot of parent groups

148that way. Um so it's been a great transition and um wanted to share that with you. Also um I wanted to thank our PTO and other parent sponsors for hosting uh we're on day two of a wonderful teacher appreciation week. Uh, we've had quite the menu and um I know that Felipe was apparent sponsored for today's lunch um our taco Tuesday with with your wife, but we had uh some Asian food for lunch yesterday. There's also been breakfast of bagels. Tomorrow um is Italian food. Um, our PTO also, I thought this was wonderful on Monday, hosted games for our staff. And you could hear the laughter and the fun that our staff were having on their lunch break while they were um participating in these in these just fun games of stacking things and throwing

149balls. And it really um it really made my heart happy to to see that type of a culture. So, it's been a great four days. I look forward to many more. And that's a final report. Thank you very much. Okay, moving on to the board of directors uh reports yeah comments today. Um actually very very glad to see a lot of parents showed up and you know it's a little bit little bit you know more than what I normally see. Uh I'm very glad I I think there are a lot of you know I sitting here I heard a lot of comments you know just make me think I'm keeping just kept taking notes like I got a lot of the stuff and uh I think you know some of the the parents talk about

150transparency issues. Okay, several parents talk about transparency. I think we got take it a serious state and the other issues talk about the sex education materials. I I'm a parent my two kids that used to be here until just several months ago. I share some of the concern. I I also know there's a you know state California regulations. We got to find the right balance and make sure some of the materials we can you know meet the requirement state requirements well to the extent we can and make sure it's as appropriate as possible and so I suggest you know next board meeting we should have a agenda agenda discuss this address all these issues raised by the parents transparency and sex education materials. We should have a review, have the materials review and uh consult

151with some professional including lawyers make sure we you know we don't step out of the boundary and well to the extent that we can and address all these concerns. That'll be my suggestion. Uh the other issue pickable message is kind of a communication channel. To me I think we have a PTO I think that PTO can function as a good bridge between the parents and the school administration. If some of the issues cannot be addressed or you know failed to be addressed by the school administration there shouldn't be a channel some of the issues should be you know we can discuss here the board meeting but you know probably and should be proposed in advance give the board some time to think about it respond that be my comments feedback Thank you. Um I agree

152with what David said. So I also I agree and I also uh thank the parents uh coming here. Um I hope all the parents know that you are free to come. We always have more chairs. It's not you know it's only if you want to have comments and then you need to let us know ahead of time but you are welcome to come in here. So I hope you know if you're in PO just let parents know you know. So that's the way we feel and we're very transparent. We open we want you to know what's going on. Um so first I want to thank the parents. I can tell that you know definitely there's room for us to improve our communication and uh and also I think maybe um because I I talked to

153some of the parent during the year this is year that I actually spent more coming in talked to some of the parents and some of them basically said you know they're they they don't know what the how the teacher will feel the administrator will feel and I told them that it's fine you know Uh as educator myself, I totally under I would like to have parents come and talk to me. But some parents said that they they just maybe culturally they just feel like so I even told them that you know maybe you just drop a note or not like a common box know it's some parents don't feel comfortable you know let people know who they are but if they can just remember then we can try to address let them know that their

154words been heard. Um so and I also today you know uh Dr. Kernan and Delado mentioned you know kind of like go through uh the elab progress and we're towards the end. We only have 20 left. So um I have to say I'm just so uh happy to be on the board and so happy to see the improvement. and saw that I knew about the school at the very beginning and uh and then later on when I step into and I saw the progress I mean especially this year um maybe the with the parents some of you we see it from a different angle but I see audit is in progress um but definitely I think there's room for us to improve our communication and um and so continue to let us know And but

155at the same time I think there are certain things that um as this on the school board as from the school point of view uh we also have to think about the big picture but I think with communication there are ways that we can you know come to the center and agree and respect each other. So thank you uh Dr. especially the finance situation. Uh I mentioned this many times. I don't really know finance that well, but I've learned a lot this year and and yes, so I know it's not easy for us to get into our position. So, thank you for your hard work. Thank you for finding the grants and finding money here and there to save. Thank you so much. Don't break this. Is brand new, right? Don't break it. Oh, it's

156not even on. Oh, man. Okay. You should have started with that. So, I think you bought it. Oh, um, this looks expensive, too. That's how I save money. Yeah. Well, good, good. I I appreciate that. So, I want to of course welcome uh Stephanie here u to the school. Welcome to the party. Like I I always say, you know, I'm glad to see that you to see you hit the floor running because there's a lot going on. We're certainly not the small school we were a long time ago. You're we're actually blowing and going. So, and next year, I'm glad to see that you're looking into this year for next year, right? There's a lot of activity going on there. So, I appreciate that. And Amy, thank you for all your hard work there as

157it applies to the budget and because that's uh certainly been a huge point of contention. I think I mentioned earlier that when I close my eyes, I still see the two years ago, right? And what that looked like because this this is the spot where we're at where Delano kind of promised us many years ago, right? you know, he promised us that this day would come, you know, and so so just wait every month to hear that we're on on the right track and like you said, you know, reducing the the um cost, right, is really actually single digit, right? If you factor in inflation, stuff like that. So, thank you very much because I know that's a lot of work. Um, uh, as far as the public comments, you know, there there's I won't

158repeat what you said because it's all true and I and I support that, but there's two there's a couple of them in there that I'm very concerned with that I'd like to get when you look at them, Stephie, because you're going to look at them very closely. Right. There's two I particular that I'd like to get feedback on or at least be a little bit more involved in. One is that little boy that got hurt, the one that got hurt and you know, it's an ongoing issue. I'd like to know more about what was going on there if you can because uh I'm I'm just concerned about our students obviously and also this the teachers complaints because I've been here four years and you know the first year it's the first time that I've heard

159teachers complaints and I am very pro teacher so if they're rise to the level of complaining I want to know what that what the outcome of that is you know once you do your little investigation I'm sure you're hooked for me in the future. Okay. But everything else looks great. Thank you for all everybody, the teachers, the staff, the PTO, everything. You know, you reflects totally on, you know, the entire school culture, the um last month we had the main dance. You know, you don't get that kind of energy without a school that's definitely positive and going in the right direction. and you know so yeah I'm really happy that this is finally going in the right direction talk to you more I'll talk to you more later just want to add one more comment

160because I noticed you know the the reason why we now become a cash flow positive or almost a cash flow positive at least from net income standpoint you know 500,000 right that's net income doesn't necessarily mean cash flow. The bigger driver is really the reduction or reduction of the loan interest. I really appreciate you did that because I was a strong proponent two years ago. I pushed to have a low interest rate loan and you you made it happen. I really appreciate that. It was hard. Yeah. Because if we are still paying high interest rate, there's no way we're going to be cash flow positive. I'm very very glad you, you know, struct your deal and bring the interest down to to that level. We, you know, desirable more desirable level than double digit. But

161in defense, I think, you know, anybody predecessor, it wasn't enough to to find those those opportunities to be able to lower that. You know, David, you could have donated. Go ahead and talk. Miller, did you want to say something? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. I I would like to express my thank. Thank you for all of you as a board board member. Your contribution, your leadership and then also your devotion for the for the ultimate goal of IIA since the beginning that I see that and then this is my probably what I call not the countless longest meeting is the only the number four the longest meeting that I attend in the board meeting. So that means say that you know I would thank the whole community of the IIA that you know for all this

162year the parents contribution and then also the teachers contribution and then also the leadership contribution makes that you know makes us to move so you know forward in so many ways. So I thank you and especially this year that you know out of all the you know comments that you know you know parents made or the public may I would just say that I know my deepest deepest thank to Amy for all this you know collective you know effort and also collecting all this information allow us to go forward for more transparency. So this is the this is the cast that we're making moving making making forward. So I thank you and especially the first F that was just say financially that you know it's proven that you know the for the whole year you're

163hardworking with the board and then to make that you know making you know sure that you know the school on the safe side on the a what they call a a a a cash flow without worry and also that you know not to waste money and I think Amy you probably has a Chinese uh what do you call culture because Chinese don't like to borrow money they like to save money so I think the school that you know going forward with a very strong uh uh uh foundation is you know really that you know how we're managing money know where the monies are and where our hearts are so this is a great uh approve for our leadership and then the second I think yes you know we probably will you know deal with the

164curriculum the selection of the curriculum but we're also facing the current challenge that you know if we're school not don't teach then depends on the parents to teach the sex education that is also very crucial because the public information is overwhelming so and then we have to guard that but at the same time we need to balance the concern of the parents but also concern of the growth of the children that to learn the proper way. Yes, that's not the easy, you know, easy decisions, but I would say in the process that, you know, we're going through and then test that, you know, what what material that we're going to use, it needs the wisdom and patient. And then I think the parents that voice out your uh concern but at the same time that

165I would say you know as David suggests we need to spend time together to work out this what's the best solutions for IIA. So I I would just say we have a great hope of the future that you know because we are not just say blame to each other or accuse each other but we are supporting each other. let's walk together along the way that would become you know relational and you know friendly approach rather than you know I had an experience that being attacked that will be a very very forceful so then that way it will not easy to make the transition or transparency so thank you so much for all this is happening and I enjoy every every meeting that you know we are putting together So last but not the least, I

166just wish I can be the outstanding school for the whole state that you know what we in practice. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Miller. Okay, I have several items. Uh first I would like to say thank you again to the parents and to all those that submitted public comments. I hope that we can all continue to respect each other and uh treat each other with civility and uh treat each others as we would want to be treated ourselves. Uh we're all here for the same reason, which is to support the kids. So, we hope that is clear. We're available to you and uh we make ourselves accessible. So, please feel free to reach out. Uh, next I would like to highlight the oversight report because I think that's really important to

167mention, Dr. Garnett, and I know we we we work and uh we stand on the shoulders of those before us that have done great things too. Uh, but I would say that the report that came out was uh very impressive and spoke very highly uh regarding IIA. Uh we know that there are areas for improvement and we will continue to approve but you should you should take a bow for that because uh you you definitely spearheaded it along with our principal Schmidter, our staff and all those that contributed and we especially thank the families for being so so supportive of the school. I would like to welcome Dr. Henry officially. Thank you I for your participation and thank you for taking charge. uh and helping us to address so many of these items. I think

168we all care about making IIA a better school. I would like to thank the PTO and all those that attended the May dance. That was phenomenal. So much fun. Thank you, Felipe, for MCing and for bringing so much entertainment to the evening. And we loved your outfit. Quite quite fantastic. So, uh thank you to to all those involved. Uh, I would like to thank the board for your time, for volunteering, and for your support and confidence in me. I appreciate it. Thank you for your roles. We do it as a team. Lastly, I do have an announcement. The IIA board would like to announce that board member Miller has chosen not to have his board seat renewed. His additional year term is expiring at the end of this June. I would like to personally extend

169a thank you to Miller for being a founding board member of IIA and for his involvement in the school. He has a big heart, very very very big heart for the school and we thank him deeply for his many years of service. So Miller, this is not goodbye, right? It's until next time and obviously we have another board meeting but I just wanted to say thank you to you and make it publicly known how much you have done for this school. You're still welcome on campus. You're welcome. Yeah, but check in first. I will always see my heart. In addition, we would like to announce the opening up of one of the board seats. There is an online application that can be found on the homepage of our website. It will be next bar because

170you had to Yep. The application period will open on Wednesday, May 21st, and will close by end of day, Wednesday, June 4th. The governance committee will submit a written suggestion to the board of directors regarding which candidates should be removed forward for interview at least 30 days prior to the board meeting when interviews will occur. The governance committee will nominate candidates based on a set of criteria determined through the survey recently taken of current board member strengths and areas of needed support expertise. Prior to voting for any new board member, interviews of qualified board candidates are to take place during the open session of the July board meeting. More than one round of interviews may be necessary and may take place over multiple board meetings. During the board meeting, a motion for a vote on

171a particular candidate must be made in order to vote on that candidate. An affirmative vote by 51% of current board members that are present at a quorum fulfilled board meeting will appoint the new board member. If no motion is made, there would be no vote. So that will go public tomorrow. Actually widget on the on the home screen of our of our web page. So anybody who's interested would be able to to access that. Right. Okay. So sending out aation. Yeah. Yes. To all families and the community that has the same information. Yeah. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Uh any other comments? So uh moving on to adjournment. recommended the board adjourn the regular meeting of the Irvine International Academy Board of Directors on May 20th, 2025. Is there a motion? Thank you, David. Is there

172a second? Second. Molly Molly got you there. Okay. Roll call vote. Uh Molly, yes. Felipe, yes. I'm a yes. David, yes. Miller, yes. Board meeting adjourns 9:29 p.m. Just a reminder that our next board meeting is not June 17th. It has been moved to June 10th.