001All right. Welcome everyone to the regular board meeting on Wednesday, June 17th. Um, we are starting the meeting at 5:00 pm. Are there any public comments for close session? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. All right. So we will go to close session also at 5:00 pm. Okay. Actually I will join the webinar as well so I could see the two trustees that are online. Okay. All right. So, uh, we are now calling or reconvening back to public session at 6:11 p.m. Um, and just a reminder of the public protocol. Uh, we are here for the last SUSD regular board meeting of the year on June 17, 2026. So members of the public who wish to remotely provide comment during the meeting, please
002use the raise hand feature during the agenda item. Speakers must raise their hand during agenda item 7.1, the public comment portion of the meeting in order to comment on topics not included in the approved agenda. To speak about an item on the agenda in person, please fill out a speaker card. Indicate the agenda item and hand the card to Laura at the dis. When the requested agenda item comes before the board, the speaker will be called forward. So, first we'll do roll call. Trustee Nory >> here. >> Uh Trusty Cruz >> here. Trustee Thompson >> here. Vice President Gin >> here. >> President Co >> here. >> Aquarium is present. Right. Uh, next we have the approval of the agenda. Do >> I have a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >>
003Uh, do we have to do roll call because we have two trustees remote, right? Okay. So, roll call vote. >> Trusty Nory. >> Yes. >> Trusty Cruz. >> Yes. >> Trusty Thompson. >> Yes. Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Co, >> yes. >> Motion carries 50. Okay. >> Um, so we do not have any items to report out on closed session. Um, so item seven is public comment. So the for public comment, the board does not act upon any matter that has not been agendaized except under limited circumstances as permitted by law. It is the policy of the board to refer matters raised in this forum to staff for investigation and or action where appropriate. Board policy ordinary limits the time to be devoted to any single agenda topic to 10 minutes and individual
004speakers are ordinarily limited to three minutes. If the board decides to expand the amount of time to be allocated to a particular agenda item because many speakers wish to address that item, the board may reduce the time allocated to individual speakers to two minutes or to one minute as appropriate in order to permit more speakers to comment. The board will announce the amount of time to be allocated to each speaker before public comment on each particular agenda item before it begins. We ask all speakers to keep within the time limits. Are there any public comments? >> We have four in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. >> I see none online. So, four total. >> Okay. Um, we can do three minutes. >> Okay. Three minutes. Our first speaker is Diana Bloom.
005Good evening. Two years ago, when I asked Superintendent Leech directly if she planned to address the rampid anti-semitism in our district, she turned her back to me and said, "File a UCP complaint," knowing full well that the process was a broken system designed to gaslight and revictimize students and families. Instead of reflecting on how to address the serious issues exposed by the documentary Killing America, this district responded with false copyright claims, attacking a filmmaker who is black, deaf, and a descendant of Holocaust survivors. It took six brave families fighting for two years to finally win justice. Yet just last week, this district had to be threatened with a legal breach of contract before it finally revised its anti-semitism policy to abide by the law. A forced written policy change does not equal restored trust. This
006district is drowning in legal complaints because it systemically refuses to do what is right. And this goes way beyond the Jewish community. I sat through over 20 hours of strategic plan meetings watching this district waste taxpayer money on consultants promoting ideological agendas while ignoring parental concerns and declining educational outcomes. The anti-semitism settlement only treats a symptom but does nothing about the underlying disease this district has. Instead of course correcting, this district continues to push a rigid, hyperpolarized, oppressor versus oppressed ethnic studies curriculum. Despite numerous pleas from the community to change, this framework is the very lens that fueled division and Jew hate in our schools. Without addressing this, this district is not serious about stopping hate. I am speaking tonight not just as a frustrated parent but as a neurologist. This type of indoctrination is
007dangerous to developing brains. When you force children into reductive binary world views where human beings are categorized by immutable characteristics and then judged by privileged wheels. You are not teaching young minds how to think. You are infusing a psychological toxin into the classroom which alters how adolescents process social information, stunting empathy towards each other and actively wiring them for hostility and conflict. Every single lawsuit facing this district was completely avoidable. Your failed leadership is costing our community and our children. This issue is not going away and neither are we. I hope you finally do the right thing. about with respect to ethnic studies and we are prepared to hold you accountable if you don't. >> Our next speaker is Johanna Mahal. >> Thank you Diane as you're leaving the building. Um I appreciate your comments.
008Um I too believe that this district is in deep problems um with the leadership the current leadership that we have. Um we are moving forward on an intent of recall with the three trustees um that have terms till 2028 and we are seeking new trustees for the 2026 election. The entire board needs to be turned and the superintendent needs to be replaced. That's it for now. Thank you. Our next speaker is Shaunie Stevenson. Hello everyone. Nice to see you all on this side of the way. Um I'm actually here to just thank you guys. I I've always been told you go back and you thank people when they've done things well. So I wanted to read this. Good evening board members. I would like to publicly thank Dr. Kenzel Salasse for his partnership and service
009while he was here. I know that he's gone now. So I want to publicly say that. And I recently learned um he's no longer here and I wanted to wish him well in his next chapter. I also wanted to recognize the staff who supported the primary school's closure um who helped our eighth grade students transition to high school and even some of our seventh graders. Um through this process, families were connected with more than 20 public, private, and charter school high schools as well as several programs that support students through their high school and college experience. Most importantly, our students learned that they have choices. staff help sta students and families, especially those with learning differences, understand their options, educational rights, and available supports that could make an informed choice. So, thank you to your
010counselors, your administrators, your staff who made the complex system feel more welcoming and accessible and inclusive. Because of your efforts, our students learned that um they matter, their voices matter, and their futures matter. And as you guys know, that was a big big concern for me being on a school board. So for Woodside, Eli Thornton, um Jackie, um Grimmaldi, Milo Atheertton, Shondaanda Nickersonson, Jenna Carson, Mr. Krueger, Karina Escobar, Weaver, Elaine Rios, Middle College, um Louise Song and Dr. Wilcock, um EPA, Dr. Silverman, Veronica Pik Pikney and um Vidiana Sanchez, Tide with Simone Kennel and Daphne and Sequoia High School District U High School which is Sean Priest the district office Janelle many of the parents and students who came and talked to our students and some of your community partners FCE East Palto tennis and
011tutoring college track live in peace boys and girls club Ravenswood family health clinic um and just really wanted to make sure that you all knew when we invited Mr. Mr. Krueger over here. One of my greatest experiences being a parent of three children with IEPs. Um, and I know there's lots of work to do in that area across our state and in our district as well. Um, but one of our students asked we when we're teaching them their rights and they were coming to talk with one of your teachers, she said, "What makes it so difficult to teach me?" And your teacher said, "Everyone's brain is different and unique. So, I hope to support you um how to support you different from what another person. That's a difficulty we enjoy." and it was the first
012time I saw a kid say, "All right, this is a place for me." So, the kids who are coming have chose to come to our district and so I'm excited um to share that with you all. People don't always say thank you and so I just want to come and say thank you. >> Thank you. Our last speaker is Andromeda Garcelon. >> Good evening. Hi. Um, I am coming to speak on behalf of the TAID community one last time. Sad to see it's not on the agenda still because in transition um I have some I expected you still to be on this for the whole year until the kids are all transitioned. Very sad to see it's not on the agenda tonight. Um, but what I did want to say is, uh, in particular, you
013came to us and said you would help every kid through the transition, Superintendent Leech. All of the Tide inner district kids have now been denied going into our district again. So, not only have you closed their school, but they can't even transfer with any of their teaching staff or their peers that they have gotten to know over the last few years. That seems atrocious to me. And when you said you would help every family, I had the hope that you would. And this is just one instance of showing how much you aren't caring for the Tide community and families. If you if they would have continued at Tide, it's so disappointing. And the process was made so hard by the district that these families finally have given up on their appeals. And it's heartbreaking. There
014are still many tide students who are now transferring to Woodside MA Carlmont and Sequoia and EPA. Please trustees hold the district employees accountable for doing that transition well. Stick with your promise to support them all next year. It is hard to be um students who have had even elementary schools closed and now you're high school. I really expect the district to be watching out for this community. As was promised, please stick to your promise. And I would like to iterate again, other speakers have mentioned, I would so like to see the money from this district going towards the kids and the teaching staff, the staff you have, and not towards lawsuits. If you choose to involve community upfront and have a positive way to deal with that, if you clear out some of the stuff
015at the district office, which is keeping people from actually trying to make good connections with community that is there to try and make a better place for all of us in this district, you would do so much better and have lawsuits would drop and instead it would be community building. Please consider spending the money not on lawsuits and legal retainers but on our students and our teachers. Thank you. >> Thank you. That concludes public comments. Appreciate everyone taking the time to come to our last board meeting um and share your public comment. With that, we will go to item eight um board of trustees correspondence. There are none to report out. Uh, agenda item nine, board of trustees, superintendent comments and committee reports. Anyone want to share anything? Nothing here. Um, Trusty Nory or Trusty
016Thompson. Okay. All right. Um, so no no updates from the board. Um, other than, you know, summer has started, so I'm sure like summer school is ramped up. Yes. Yeah. and uh you know hopefully students are doing different things over the summer and so good luck with all all of the endeavors. Um superintendent any comments? No. >> Okay. Um okay. And then for agenda item 10 is I don't think there's anyone from the SDTA or ask me. Oh, she's online. Oh, yes. Okay. >> Hello. Um, thank you so much for um, offering the time at this meeting. Um, I am not going to speak during uh, the next item on the consent and ask for anything to be pulled, but I do want to express I very much understand that the um, timing of the
017lawsuit settlement led to things being um, pushed to the end of the year. Um but to have such enormous considerations and on top of that the discussions of the cell phone policy which we know are um very uh very important to many of my members, many parents and students. To have those lumped in in the last two meetings that happen after the end of the school year is disappointing. it. Um I'm not suggesting that it was intentional so that people would not be available as certainly people were available at the last meeting to speak to the cell phone policy and people have availed themselves of public comment to talk about the settlement at the last two meetings. But it doesn't it doesn't communicate the same sort of um open and inviting um communication that we
018uh would expect and that we've had on other issues when they are um shoved into the June meetings um especially with the cell phone policy which we all knew had a deadline of July 1st and could have been handled on a different timeline. Um, and it's especially frustrating when we see that these June meetings have 50 or more items on the consent agenda and it is easy for things to get lost. Um, so I have reached out to Associate Superintendent Hansen about um the communication on the settlement that indicated there would be enhancements to the complaint procedures and the fact that we have not yet seen um those board policies um addressed. And so we'll um look forward to a conversation about them in the fall, I hope. Um and hopefully in planning the board's
019calendar in the future, we can uh pay a little more attention to the fact that um staff, students, families are not as available uh for these June meetings as they are from August to May. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Salvator. Um and then I don't think there's anyone from ask me, right? Okay. Um, so item 11 is the approval of the consent agenda. Um, so board action to approve the following items is taken simultaneously with one motion which is not debatable and requires a unanimous roll call vote for passage. The action indicated on each item is deemed to have been considered in full and action taken as worded therein. Only members of the board and the superintendent may remove items from the consent agenda. Members of the public may provide comments at the start
020of the consent agenda item which may convince a board member or the superintendent to remove an item for further discussion. So first, are there any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see one hand online. Okay, they can have three minutes. >> Okay. Um, you have three minutes. Our speaker is Camala Lambar. >> I just wanted to share some concern with the fact that the uh legal fees are put into the consent um agenda. This district has spent so much money on lawsuits. And if if they had spent less time doing lawsuits and less time paying lawyers, I wonder if a school had to be closed. It is just very concerning that this is being passed as a consent agenda item when it's actually a big
021part of the problems with Sequoia School District. Thank you. Okay. And then fellow trustees, um >> whatever. >> Do we have um any changes to the consent agenda or is there a motion to >> I'll confirm. Is it item 48 the correct one that I'm interested in pulling? See >> 11:53. No, no, you're uh 11:54. >> 54. >> I also have one interested in pulling, but now I am the number I had written down is also different. I have 1149 or it's 1153. >> So 1153 for mobile communication devices and 1154 for second reading adoption uh human resources and student services department um board policies. >> Okay. Yeah, because the numbers changed since the >> Oh yeah, I'm looking at an old one. The old one mobile was 53. The new one mobile is 49.
022looking at mine from this morning. My apologies. >> So this the our printout version is supposed to be the accurate one, right? >> Yeah. So this one uh mobile is 49 >> and 48 is human resources, student services, education services. >> Uh no, >> no, it's 11:50. Okay. So for So I'm 50 and she's 49. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So I move approval of the consent agenda other than 49 and 50 which I'd like to act on separately. >> Seconded. >> Okay. Roll call vote please. >> Justine Nor. Yes. >> Trustee Cruz. >> Yes. >> Trusty Thompson. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gin. >> Yes. >> President Co. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. 5 Z. >> All right. So, we will put those to the beginning of the actions. Oh, do it right now.
023Okay. Okay. So, 11:49 has been pulled out. So, >> yeah. So, I think Trustee Thompson, you you wanted to pull this one off of consent, correct? >> Yes. Um I I just wanted I pulled it off. I am very thankful for the continued um communication, particularly the strong um the this the continued communication particularly from my from my zone, from my constituents as well. Um and I am prepared to vote, but I I did want to pull that and vote it away from consent. Are you advocating for any particular vote on the item, Trusty Thompson? I am very appreciative that the board that the um not the board that's us haha that the district has gone back and revised it and although it is definitely moving in in the right direction to my belief I
024I still cannot um I still cannot vote a yes on on 49 um truly believing it's not what what the constituents at least my constituents want. Anyone else wanted to provide any feedback or comments? >> My understanding is that if we vote to pass it tonight that we'll be doing a survey in the fall. Um I'm just not trying to change anything. Maybe you could confirm what the plan is if this is passed as written right now. Mhm. As written, uh this is the policy for the uh school year. And in the fall, we will be doing more community engagement and an additional survey uh to compare policies of bell-to-bell versus in classroom for a decision by December for any potential changes for the 2728 school year. And I I do also appreciate the the
025many feedback and emails um and comments people have made in the past. Uh and and there were some good suggestions um that were made, but my understanding is those can be addressed via a policy bulletin. Correct. >> Yeah. Yeah. And maybe just for the audience who's not aware of what a policy bulletin is, can can you describe it? So, policy bulletin is an internal uh document that we share throughout the district that dives into more of the how-to. Board policies tend to be at the higher 30,000 uh foot level. And your policy bulletins can have FAQs. They can have different scenarios to provide further clarification for staff. >> Okay. Any other comments? Okay. I support that proposed approach and a move to approve the agenda item as worded. >> Okay, >> I second. >> All
026right. Um, yeah, and I also agree uh we can put more of those details in the policy bulletin as part of the implementation of this policy. Um, and so with that, uh, roll call vote. >> Trusty Nory, >> no. >> Trusty Cruz. Yes. >> Jesse Thompson. >> No. >> Vice President Gin. >> Yes. >> President Co. >> Yes. Motion carries. 3 0. Okay. Wait. 32. Right. >> 32. >> All right. Next agenda item is 11.5. Second reading and adoption of revised board policies and administrative records. Oh, 50. Did I? Well, I think I said 0.5. Um, human resources and student services departments. And I know Trusty Gin requested. >> Yep. So, I'm going to move approval of passing it as worded. I just wanted to um say that um we got some questions and to
027me I'm interested in learning specifically if a policy as written specifically contradicts someone's job description. what happens and whether the policy needs to be revised and I'd also say other responsibilities people have other responsibilities for other parts of their life and a board policy explicitly contradicts it how that works and if I'm interested to learn about that and if it makes sense to review this policy in light of whatever we we learned from that reviewing it in the fall but I propose passing it um as written with if um I can get support for understanding those two questions and any other questions if any other trustees have further questions. >> Any other trustees have comments or feedback? >> I'm aligned with Trusty Gin. >> Okay. Any Okay. So, just for clarification Oh, I'm sorry. Never
028mind. I H >> I understand. We're good. Okay. Okay. So, I'm I I move approval as worded. >> Second. >> Okay. Let's do a roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nor, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Coo, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Spy Zero. So now we're moving to section 12 um which is information items. So 12.1 presentation of local control and accountability plan LCAP local indicators and reflection. Are there any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. Okay. All right. Thank you. And uh we can get started with the presentation. Good evening everyone. President Coup, Board of Trustees, Superintendent Leech. It's nice to be here on this June
029evening. I am uh the item in front of you is our local performance indicator self-reflection. A quick word on this is that while you're seeing it here tonight, it's state law requires us to report our progress on the local control funding formula indic local indicators as a non-consent item at the same meeting where we adopt the LCAP and to post the results publicly on the California school dashboard. There are seven priority areas in this report and I will walk you through the highlights of each and I'll be candid about both our strengths and growth areas. So priority one is focused on teachers materials and facilities an explanation I'm scrolling through so take us through it. Okay so let me start with the fundamentals. Priority one covers teacher assignments, instructional materials, and facilities out of roughly
030489 teaching full-time equivalent positions. Uh the large majority are clear and properly assigned. Zero students lack their own copy of standards aligned instructional materials for use at school and at home and zero of our facilities fall below the state's good repair standard. These are the same data elements that appear in our school accountability report card, so they should look familiar. Priority two is our implementation of the state academic standards across every subject area, English, language arts, English language development, math, science, history, social science, and our and our other adopted standards in career technical education, health, PE, the arts, and world language. We rate ourselves at full implementation, which is a four. out of five. Behind that rating is a lot of ongoing work, a new reading assessment in English language arts, continued rolled out roll
031out of our EL curriculum alongside a revised English learner master plan, science curriculum aligned to the next generation science standards, and continued building of our CTE pathways. One number I'd like to highlight, about half of our faculty have now completed multi-day training on embedding language support directly into their content area instruction. That is our integrated EL program. Priority three scrolling. You can see this is about parental involvement and engagement. It is one of our most datarich sections across the 12 practices in the state's self-reflection tool. We rate ourselves mostly at full implementation with two areas we've honestly marked at a three. Meeting regularly with families about student progress and co-designing engagement activities with families themselves. Our strengths are real. We hold parent meetings in both English and Spanish. Every comprehensive site has a full-time parent
032center coordinator and this spring we're we have uh fully launched parent square for over a year to strengthen how we communicate. The data also shows us exactly where we are to focus. Um only 34% of parents tell us they fully understand the A throughg requirements and only 41% fully understand graduation requirements. And so out of our 1745 survey respondents, more than a thousand told us email is our preferred way to hear from us. So we'll continue to use the parent square email tools to send clear, more frequent updates on where the students stand. We're also working to close a gap between our Spanish and English speaking families perceived student involvement in activities and to create more on-ramps for the families who reported no involvement in parent groups. Priority six, sorry, is about school climate. This
033is really the heart of the report. Um, it is a place where I'd like to spend a little more time. Our measure here is the California Healthy Kids Survey. And comparing this year to last, we have a lot to be encouraged by. Students do feel safer. The share of 9th graders who see schools safe rose from 72 to 75% and 11th graders from 78 to 80%. Connectedness is up. 9th graders climbed from 64 to 70% and chronic absence teism among 9th graders dropped from 16 to 11%. We saw declines in harassment, bites, weapons on campus and cyber bullying. And our overall student wealth health index came in above the statewide average at every single grade level. This survey also gives us an honest look at how our students are doing emotionally and it tells us
034where to lean in. About one in six students told us they're carrying real stress or sadness and our ninth graders in particular show signals we're taking seriously around mental health. We don't see this as a crisis to react to. We see it as exactly the kind of early information that lets us put the students supports in place. We also learned that about a third of our students would currently only a third of our students would currently turn to an adult at school when they're struggling and tells us we have work to do in making help easier to get less imitate and less intimidating to ask for. One note on how we read this data, several of our student groups are small and small numbers swing from year to year. You know, as one example in
035the data that's presented, nth grade African-American students reported feeling safe at 90% last year and 64% this year. A swing that reflects sample size more than a real change. So, we're making a point of weighting multi-year patterns over single-year spikes. In response, we're strengthening our multi-tered systems of supports and our engagement strategies, expanding mental health services across all of our sites, updating our suicide prevention and crisis response procedures, training staff to recognize the early warning signs, and making our wellness centers and counselors more visible. All of this gets bolded into our LCAP goals and metrics. Priority seven is access to a broad course of study. Over the past several years, we've moved to placing all students in A throughG eligible math and science courses and we've gotten support courses like English one intensive and academic
036literacy approved for A throughG credit. And I I'll be candid about our barrier. our English learners and students in support classes have less room in their schedules for electives uh which can make school feel less meaningful. Standardizing our English learner reclassification criteria with partner districts is helping here because reclassified students consistently outperform their English learner peers. And the last uh two areas uh areas nine and 10 are we're not responsible for just county offices of education are. So, uh, we don't respond to that. And the last, um, area I just want to sum up is that our fundamentals are solid. We've made real gains in school climate, and we're using this reflection exactly as it's intended to drive specific concrete actions in our LCAP, especially around student mental health, helping families understand graduation requirements, and
037building belonging for our smaller and historically underserved student groups. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you Dr. Wmont for the presentation. Um before I go to other trustees, I just had a quick question. Um what's the difference between like fully implemented and then fully implemented with sustainability or kind of that difference between four and five? I think I mean I can you know in a rubric uh that has that notion. And I think when you think of full implementation and sustainability, it's like everybody knows it. Everybody around knows what's happening. It's ingrained in the in the system in the ecosystem of what we're doing. Um and so what I think of it is is that means if somebody were to walk away like a you know leave their position, everything would continue as is, right?
038It's not person dependent. It's not um you know some programs can be you know some person's personal passion project that has a lot of implementation and fidelity um and unless that person creates a model that is sustainable where they walk away that program continues so I think that's where the piece of the difference in my mind between full implementation and full implementation with sustainability. Okay, thanks. That's helpful. Uh, any other trustees have any questions? >> You're welcome. >> All right. Thank you. >> The next one is 12.2 presentation of the East Palo Alto Academy 2627 LCAP and local indicators. Uh, do we have any public comment? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. There are none online. >> All right. Welcome, Miss Silver. Y Good evening, everyone. I'm
039just trying to figure out what to press. It's not showing. It's not Okay. Thanks. All right. Good evening everyone. Um, so Dr. Wilmont gave a great overview. So I want to say dive into all the specifics, mainly just the specifics to EPA. Um, so I'm going to skip the big overview and okay, so for our data, this is 2324 because the TAMO website only has that data. So from 2324 data we had 21.1 total FTE and at the time 18.9 were clear and then um 0.3 interns 0.9 ineffective and then NA for the rest. Our students do do currently this is current data do currently have access to all their materials as well as access to all the standards and the buildings are in good shape. Uh for standard two um the majority of our
040teachers have been trained using e ele achieve um I think over 80% of our teachers have e achieve training at this time and then uh we also have a bilingual resource teacher on campus who has a point to to support all of our teachers to to teach our multilingual students well and provide additional supports as needed. Um as well as a partnership with Foothill College. So we offer three concurrent enrollment classes on campus for our students have access to Gurley College while still being to Foothill College while still being current high school students. Um and we also follow the district standards for a use NWA map assessments and math that we're going to continue for next year as well as well as the defensive learning. Okay. as well defensive learning exhibit which you guys saw
041when you came to visit the school as well. Um for our ratings um they are sustainable in all the areas. Uh for EL again not all of our teachers are trained in EL achieve and so that is a growth area for us to make sure all of our teachers are and then since the majority of our students are actual multilingual learners it's really important that all of our teachers are trained in EL standards as well as their content standards. So that is a growth area for us. Okay. And then again, we use um our professional development on Wednesdays as a time to work on instructional practices. And we have been focusing on literacy standards and supporting multilingual learners. So, we also are doing that work at the school site every week to better support our
042teachers as well. for family engagement. Um we have a full-time bilingual liaison, family liaison. Um this is her going to be her fifth year, went in her fifth year. Um and she she's doing some great work in terms of getting parents involved with understanding the LCAP and attending um all of our uh meetings as well as having a parent engagement project is parent project is what um it is. And so our parents are very involved, but yet we still need to increase our numbers. So we still want to see more parents attend our LCAP meetings. We want to see more parents attend um our SEC and more parents attend the the parent project um because it's it's a growth area for us as well, but it has a solid start. Okay. And then from our
043panorama data for the parents in terms of positive climate um we are seeing an increase in parents saying that they feel that there is a nurturing learning environment um as well as a feeling safe both parents and students showing increase in feeling safe on campus. Um and then in terms of seeking parent input um again around the same premise of we use very like we use the panorama survey, we have the parent project, we have you know teachers that connect with parents um so and I we have open door policy. So we have lots of ways to get parent input and they were all the majority were involved in adopting the LCAP as well as sending out surveys through um through our messaging system as well and getting input that way. Um it's also important
044to note that we also have the CAB which is different um as a charter advisory board. So the CAB also has reviewed all of our LCAP and is another way for our community members to provide input uh community partners as well as parents and staff to write input into our programs and what they would like to see either retained or changed. And then um for the school climate, our data for the students is showing that 50% of respondents felt like they belong at school. Um this is extremely quite a bit that is down by 6%. Um 54% found the school extremely nurturing down by 2%. Uh 27% of students responded their engage in activities and then an increase in school safety for our students. I would like to note that our school sponsored activities, so
045we did have to close our soccer program this year due to lack of engagement by the students. Um, but we will have soccer again next year and so I'm hoping that that bounces back. So I think that's more of a reflection of just logistically what we could have. Yeah. So it will increase again. Um, and then in terms of the the data as Dr. Wilmont mentioned, right, there's less students who responded because we have less students as well. And so we are also seeing a shift in our data, not necessarily because there's any drastic change on campus, but because there's less students to respond. Um, and so you will see a little bit of shift. Um, one or two% would be a normal shift around that area. But again, also we do want to increase
046the number of students who respond. Um and then for this area for us I just really want to highlight just the work we've been doing around school safety in the school climate. Um we are continuing the PCRC which is our restorative justice program. We are working with the Boys and Girls Club. Um we just signed their MOU recently and there's a new agreement with them being more on campus. Um and so we're doing a lot of work to make sure that you know our students are safe, our families are safe. Winfield's welcome on campus and it's always a work in progress. Uh but it's work that we enjoy doing and that I think will pay off continue to pay off as students see. Um and then again we have a broad course of study and
047then the last ones are just not for us to respond to. There any questions? Any questions from those on online? >> Yeah. >> Using um using Diana Wart's definition that she used was the difference between the four and the five. And the five means that um those different programs are in fact not just existent but sustainable beyond who runs them. Um I noticed you had a a few fives particularly like one for example in the LEA. um not the LEA. Um uh it wasn't that one. It was one that was earlier. But anyway, I'm just curious in your like in your definition, do you feel that all of the ones that you have truly marked five are actual ones that are going to be sustainable for long term beyond just this particular LCAP year or
048LCAP report? >> Yeah. So when I think of five, I think of the things that came before me since this is going to be going into my second year and what will continue after me, right? So it's not dependent on me being present. It's not depend on any adult being present, right? It's dependent on just the systems that have came. So that's my lens. It's probably a little bit different um from Dr. Bmont because she's been here longer than me. But my lens was just like what has been in practice and what will continue in practice based on our programs um that have been sustained for a very long time. So that was a lens I was using. >> Perfect. Thank you for the clarification. >> Great. Well, thank you for the presentation. Um, and
049yeah, we really appreciate all the work. So, thank you everyone. >> Y Okay. Um, and before we go to the action items, um, I did want to go back to actually item number six, uh, report out from close session. Uh cuz I did mention earlier that there was nothing to report out, but there actually was something to report out. Um so I did want to mention that the board took action in closed session by a unanimous vote of 50 to reject a government tort claim filed against the district by Doria Vidov Vidovich alleging unequal pay and related violations of the Equal Pay Act and the Fair Employment and Housing Act. All right. And with that, we're going to the action items section. Um, and just for a point of clarification, um, there are certain items
050in the action item section that normally would fall under the consent agenda, but we put them into the uh, open or the the general agenda because they're either greater than $250,000 or um, they're related to measure W bond money. Um, so we do have a criteria um for putting those in the regular action item section versus the consent agenda. Um, and so that's why you may see us go through those really quickly because uh for anything on the consent agenda, we would normally read all of the attachments and um it moves very quickly. All right. So, the first action item is 13.1, approval of the Sequoia Union High School District 2627 local control and accountability plan and local indicators. And let's see, tonight the LCAP and local indicators are attached for final board approval. Um,
051>> is there any public comment? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. >> I move approval of item 131. >> Second. >> All right. Uh this would also be a roll call vote and um we had previously a public uh hearing as well as discussions at the previous meeting. So >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trustee Thompson, >> yes. Vice President Gin. >> Yes. >> President Co. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5-0. >> All right. Next is item 13.2. Uh, approval of the East PaloAlto Academy 2627 LCAP and local indicators. Is there any public comment? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. >> See none online. >> I move approval of item 132. Second.
052>> Then roll call vote. >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Co, >> yes. >> Motion carries 5-0. >> All right. And then I item 13.3, adoption of the 2627 proposed budget for all funds. And this was also previously a public hearing and and discussion item previously. Are there any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. None online. >> I move approval of item 133. >> Second. Roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Co. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> All right. Um, item 13.4, 4 approval of agreement renewal with
053adroidit advanced technologies for transportation services. Are there any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. >> I move approval of item 134. >> Second. >> Roll call vote, please. >> Jesse Norie, >> yes. >> Jesse Cruz, >> yes. >> Jesse Thompson, >> yes. Vice President Gin. >> Yes. >> President Co. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 5-0. Okay. >> Uh item 13.5, approval of agreement renewal with Green Cab Peninsula for transportation services. Any public comment? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. See none online. >> I move approval of item 135. >> Second. >> Roll call vote, please. >> Trustee Nory. Yes. >> Trusty Cruz. >> Yes. >> Trusty Thompson. >> Yes. >> Vice President Gen. >>
054Yes. >> President Co. >> Yes. >> Motion carries 50. >> Okay. And then item 13.6 is approval of agreement renewal with one life counseling center for me mental health and counseling services. >> Any public comment? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. No, there are no public comments. I move approval item 13.6. >> Second. >> Okay. Roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Coo, >> yes. >> Motion carries 50. >> All right. Item 13.7, approval of agreement with P2SLP for commissioning services for the new DE wing classroom building at Menllo Atherton High School project 200W005. Are there any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any
055online? Please raise your hand. See none online. >> I move approval of item 13.7. >> Second. Can we have a roll call vote, please? Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trustee Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Co, >> yes. >> Motion carries 50. >> Okay. Uh, item 13.8, approval of food and supplies bids for the food service department. Are there any public comments? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. >> I move approval of item 13.8. >> Second. Okay. Roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gen, >> yes. >> President Co, >> yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> Okay. Uh
056item 13.9 approval of the mitigated negative declaration the associated mitigation monitoring and reporting program resolution number 26 from 2526 school year adopting the initial study mitigated negative declaration SQA findings mitigation measures and mitigation monitoring and reporting program MMRP of facilities master plan projects at Carlmont High School. Any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. >> I move approval of item 13.9. >> Second. >> Roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Coo, >> yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> All right. Uh, item 13.10, 10 adoption of resolution number 27 from the 2526 school year supporting award of lease lease back agreements and approval to
057enter into site lease and facilities lease including preconstruction services with Roden Builder Inc. for Woodside High School's new baseball field project. Any public comments? There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. I move approval of item 1310. >> Second. >> Okay. Roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Co, >> yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> Okay. Uh item 13.11 adoption of resolution number 28 from the 2526 school year supporting award of lease lease back agreements and approval to enter into site lease and facilities lease including preconstruction services with BHM construction LLC inc for Melo Athetherton High School's new athletic facility project. Do we have any public
058comments? >> There are none in person. Are there any online? Please raise your hand. I see none online. >> I move approval of item 1311. >> Second. >> Okay. Roll call vote, please. >> Trusty Nari, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trusty Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Coo, >> yes. >> Motion carries 5. >> All right. So the last action item is discussion consideration and approval of second amended employment contract with Crystal Leech. Uh so I will read a summary of of the employment agreement first and then we will do the uh public comment afterwards. Okay. Um so this is the second ad um addendum to the superintendent employment agreement. So California government code section 54953C3 requires that a verbal summary of the proposed compensation and fringe
059benefits be given to the public prior to final board action on certain employment agreements. The second addendum to the superintendent employment agreement with superintendent Crystal Leech requires board action in open session at a regular school board meeting. Accordingly, the proposed second addendum employment agreement contains the following material terms. One, the term the superintendent employment agreement is extended by the second addendum agreement to June 30th, 2029. All other contract language in section one of the July 1st, 2023 employment agreement and the first addenum agreement effective November 13, 2024 shall remain unchanged. Second base salary effective July 1st, 2026. Section 2A of the superintendent's July 1st, 2023 employment agreement shall be revised as follows. The superintendent's annual base salary shall be $367,000 and no cents. All other contract language in section two of the July 1st, 2023
060employment agreement shall remain unchanged. Third, health and welfare benefits. Effective July 1st, 2026, section 3A of the superintendent's July 1st, 2023 employment agreement shall be supplemented by adding the following sentence to section 3A. In addition to the health, dental, and vision benefits described in section 3A, the superintendent shall receive medical retiree benefits to the same extent as classified management employees of the district as those benefits plans, providers, and other terms and conditions may change from time to time. All other contract language in section 3A of the July 1st, 2023 employment agreement shall remain unchanged. Fourth, fringe benefits, sick leave, and vacation clarification. Effective July 1st, 2026, section 3B of the superintendent's July 1st, 2023 employment agreement shall be supplemented by adding the following sentence to section 3A for clarification purposes. For purposes of sick leave
061and vacation approval under section 3B, 1 day of sick leave is equivalent to 7 and 12 hours. All other contract language in section 3B of the July 1st, 2023 employment agreement shall remain unchanged. This concludes the summary of the following second addendum superintendent employment agreement. Copies of the second addendum employment agreement will be available upon request. Right. And with that, we can take public comment. Are there any public comments? >> There are none in person and I see one online. Uh, sorry, two online. >> Okay. Uh, they can each have three minutes. >> Okay. Three minutes. Our first speaker is Edith Salvatore. Salvatore, sorry. >> Good evening. Um, unfortunately, because I am on Zoom, which is not optimal, during the second bullet there, um, there was a distraction in my house and I did not
062hear all of what was being said, but my understanding is that that was amending the automatic 2.5% escalator that is already in the superintendent's contract. And I comment only with my um fervent hope and belief in your fiscal um stewardship of the district as board members that if you are approving that in this contract when you approved the budget last meeting, you also did the math to ensure that at the very least there is room for a 4.1% increase to all staff salaries as it would be unconscionable to raise the superintendent salary above and beyond what is available to all employees within the district. Everything else as I understood it was to um make her contract in line with other um contracts within the district which seems very appropriate. So, I thank you in advance
063for considering that um it would only be fair to also make her compensation in line with that of the rest of the district. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our next speaker is Camala. Camala, you're there. I think we lost you. There's no response. I think that you need to look for a superintendent that would be increasing the engagement with the community in a honest and trustworthy way. >> Well, I think we missed the first part. Most Sorry. >> Yeah, we're we're unable to hear. >> Wait. >> Okay. >> Wait. Why am I not What happened? >> Come on. Can you Can you try again? >> Could you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you now. >> Yeah. >> Now we >> talking about her. >> Are you able to hear us? >> Okay. Well, I
064don't know what's going on. >> Yeah, we can hear you when you're whispering. So, I think she's not able to hear us for some reason. I can't hear anything. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think if if you're not able to repeat um what you said um you can also email the board with your comments. I think right now she's on mute though. Oh, it just changed to mute. Yeah. Yeah. She can't hear us at all. Yeah. Otherwise, um yeah, Miss Ubenhar, um unfortunately, we're having some technical difficulties. Um, so you can email your comment to the board after the meeting. All right. And with that, to the rest of the trustees, any feedback or questions? Okay. All right. I I have I'll just say uh thank you for your service to our the students and families
065of this district. And I also want to comment that um the role of superintendent is a highly competitive role and we can look at the salaries that others in the region are getting and this is a well-deserved and appropriate salary in my opinion. So thank you again for all you've done for our district. >> I move approval of item 1312. >> Seconded. >> Okay. And I agree it's it's been a tough year. Um, and this is um I'm supportive of this uh second amendment to the employment contract. Yeah. Okay. And with that, a roll call vote, please. Trustee Nory, >> yes. >> Trusty Cruz, >> yes. >> Trustee Thompson, >> yes. >> Vice President Gin, >> yes. >> President Co, >> yes. Motion carries 5. >> All right. And then now we're on to 14
066future agenda items. Well, this is the last meeting of the year. So unless we're talking about next year, there's no more agenda items to add. Um so uh we look forward I I saw that all all the uh meeting invites for the upcoming year have been added to our calendar. So um have a restful summer and we will get going again in August. And then we are going to return to close session right now at 7:19