001Well, teachers and our amazing lunch staff in May for teacher appreciation week and school hero lunch day. And I can't give away too much, but we are super pumped about what we're going to be doing for that. And we're just really thank you. Thank you for having Yeah. at 6 p.m. in the play. We're really thrilled about >> August 23rd, 24th. >> So, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and I'll be sending out just the approval on the fly. >> Thank you. >> Oh, we have a fill in for today. Our principal Miss Johnson want you holding this vice president for that and all right take it away. >> So the PTA gala Sparkles and Spurs is one month away. Ticket sales are strong with more than half of the available tickets already sold. Uh we held a
002ticket sale at the pier this past Sunday and will be setting up shop outside of Kaukas Coffee on Friday mornings to help people buy tickets and register. Um let's see. PTA is putting together a new board for the next school year. It's looking like it will be a repeat of this year um with Megan Tulle as president, Katie Madonna as vice president, Melanie Gada as secretary, Robin Sin as treasurer. The vote will take place in a special Zoom meeting election day to be announced soon. Our goal is for next school year to work towards inviting new faces to fill in some of the um accessory roles with more opportunities to shadow our current officers so that we can hopefully create a pipeline of new officers. That's the PTA report. Um and then I'm reporting that
003today we did have our volunteer tea. Um it the gym is beautifully decorated um for the volunteer tea. And this weekend um teachers brought lots of treats and snacks to thank our volunteers. And we had 31 volunteers show up which was really nice. And we had some uh school uh ch uh performances from the uh students. We had TK perform. We had fourth grade. And then we had our elementary choir sing a song which was really nice. That's it. Okay, >> great. >> I have the honor to introduce a new face to elementary school, although she did a three-point visitor of Molina Smurl, who is our current fourth grade teacher, um, who has a very similar story to her love of the school. I did um we both from a very young age saw this
004school and dreamed of being here. Um I was lucky enough for that to happen four years ago and Molina last year I had worked with Molina in past globals. I have always been incredibly impressed by her professionalism and love of learning dedication students and she has absolutely carried that on here at our school. So without further ado, >> thank you so much Mrs. Gabiola. Good evening. Um, for those of you that don't know me, that was a beautiful introduction. My name is Molina Smurl and I'm our fourth grade teacher here at our wonderful school. First, I would like to thank you for having me this evening, but also here at this remarkable school. Being a part of Kyukus Elementary has truly been a lifelong dream. Um, Jenna and I certainly have that in common. When
005I was a little girl, my grandmother owned a home on Studio Drive that she rented out and always saved for our family on holidays. I grew up coming here multiple times a year and playing basketball on these same courts with my wonderful family who are all here tonight. Every time we came up from Orange County and we all saw this as absolute paradise and we all sort of migrated up in waves. It has always been clear to me that this is a very special school and community. This is my 13th year teaching and I spent the last nine years teaching in Paso where I was fortunate to meet our wonderful superintendent and her move here really confirmed for me that this is the place to be. her leadership and our shared belief in relationships and
006rigor combined with this wonderful community and what I've believe these two would agree is like a true class family has confirmed for me that teaching at the best little beach school was my ultimate dream. I am proud and honored to be a Falcon. Thank you for trusting me with your incredible kids. Our fourth graders are extraordinary. You guys knew I was going to brag about you, right? In our class, we say once you know better, you can. And their amazing work on our civil rights unit that we're going to share a quick slideshow with you about absolutely encapsulates that. They have researched, created art, and written brilliant, if I do say, five paragraph essays that are truly beyond their years. I'm so impressed by them. I am beyond proud of not only their work but
007the empathy, love and compassion that they have shown. I know they will be future leaders. This class embodies the words of Dr. King. Intelligence plus character. That is the true goal of education. This class is going to change the world. And I am so fortunate to spend my days with them learning and laughing together. Two of my wonderful students are here to share a little bit about their favorite civil rights leaders. Please join me in welcoming Harbor and Emmy. I'm Miss >> Hello, my name is Harbor and I am so excited to share with you a little about Jackie Robinson. I was inspired by learning about Jackie Robinson. He was the first Africanamean That's awesome. Yeah. So Terra is someone we hired four years ago as part counselor. The position was open and her quality
008care but she had also worked at elementary and so we did oneonone meetings um where we help them plan their four years. We have kids with us for all these years and then they go into a high school with the counselor. Well eventually we'll get to know them but at that point you know they've already started classes and a whole, you know, year has gone by or whatever may be. So, we think it's a great like personalized class. >> So, it's um actually just more related to just the teacher report. I just want to say I really enjoy having teachers come in and I stay up here nice, but I just It's helpful for me. I don't know. >> And next time we'll have the new teacher history, Mr. Stevens. >> So this year we
009really focus on people that you see >> great. um safety meeting always fun and um I know the a lot of the talk about was you know making a really big push for safety at the end of the year and we also discussed some about the um the kindergarten playground and everyone's concerns about that because I think it's rated 5 to seven age is that 5 to 5 to 12 and our prek out there and so it's not really equipment that's appropriate for them. And also there's some issues with the cushioning underneath the underneath the structure. And so that is something that we just need to keep on, you know, on our forefront. That is something that we do need to take care of fairly soon. Um, and then I had a great time with
010the science fair. I was um called in as a judge um and I worked with Mrs. Matias with judging the third grade and I could not get over these kids. And we were supposed to we were supposed to figure out who was and we just it was a terrible time. so well spoken and I I I thought Mrs. asked them some really tough questions and she'd asked one, you know, this one pair of students who had done an experiment, you know, um when does ice melt faster, in cold water, room temperature water or in hot water? And they timed it. And so she asked these these girls, you know, what now if you were to do this again, what would you do? And they just piped up and they said, well, we would take different
011water and we'd stick it in the freezer to see what froze the fastest. And they were just, you know, it was like all of these kids, they were really quick on their mind. They were articulate. They're dealing with adults that they've never met before and they're nervous. And I was just absolutely blown away. I would have given everybody a medal if I were just it was great. And I know Brian worked really hard and then some eighth graders worked really hard. is I think it was eighth grade. >> Yeah. So, I was just absolutely blown away by that and guys ever have a chance to judge the science fair, I highly recommend doing it. And then I went to CSB, not CSBA to SSDA, which is small school districts association, and Carrie went with me.
012Um, and um I thought it was really a great conference, really geared towards schools. Um, so there were a lot of um I first one I first one I went to was on personnel which I'm really glad to because I was learning about a whole bunch of different nuances that I wasn't thinking about that Jen has to has to deal with um being our personnel and so I feel I feel better I feel like I have more better understanding of complexity with the staff Um and um we did get to go to sip and paint and was a lot of fun as well. Um let's see. And I did go to one um talk that was put on by the San Bernardino and they um have started up this group of retired superintendent that help
013guide boards through superintendent evaluations. and I was really impressed with what all they had to say. I do have their packet here with their little slideshow that they gave to give to you. And so I think it's something um we may want to think about for next year maybe having them come in and help facilitate. Um let's see what else. Oh, and then um I don't know if you want to talk, but there was a really a lot of talk about AI and its place in our schools. Um and um I think probably were all keynote no not all the keynote speakers were on AI. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it was very very AI heavy which really got me to thinking that we should probably be looking forward to getting together and coming up
014with a strategy of dealing with AI in our school. Um and uh the superintendent from Hol gave a couple of talks that I was able to go to and I can't remember her name. The first one I went to it was called AI Playground and we walked into the room she says what do you want to do and somebody said I want to build a website and she showed us how to build a website. Then she showed us how to create a story book and all these using these different AI tools that all of us have access to because we have our Google accounts. Um, and most of it that she was working through was something called Notebook LM and you know I've come home and I played a lot with it which has been
015really a lot of fun. But then the next day she also gave a talk on what they're doing in to bring AI into the classroom and how they're dealing with it with the whole focus on making our students responsible technology users. Um, and so she she has she has a YouTube presence and she's made some videos on that which um I can share with you at another time if they're interested in seeing what she's doing. And then I also did go to a talk on um Proposition two, um, which is about school facilities funding. And it was at first when Prop 2 came in, it was for school, it I believe it was for schools who attempted to get a bond and then fail. And there are some things around um, Prop 2 that have
016changed and been more refined. And it's more on um, bonding capacity. And um some this group um King who was doing the presentation, King is um who did our um developers fees report um they believe that we may um that we may very well qualify for Prop 2 funds and so it it we might want to look at that um in order to our field and doing something about our which from which I learned from Jen which has been on the campus for 38 years. That's our estimate. Yeah. >> And and the question is whether or not we got that new right. We don't know. We do not know that. So we don't know if it's 38 years young or if it was actually used prior to that. That's where Martin's looking into but not
017Yeah, it's it has seen better days. So uh it's something that in in some type of future planning you can eventually >> and and the thing about measure u prop two I don't keep on thinking um prop two um oh is um application needs to be made by November but the funds do not have to be used for so you knows Also, um, you know, before we even apply for funds, if we were to apply for these funds, um, we have to have a resolution in place that states that within a certain time, the funding will have. So, we do not have to have any plans for facilities prior. I know. I'm sorry. No, that's >> I did I did >> here that they showed us and I I stuck it in notebook LM into
018a video and I made this really cheesy video on AI to share who you guys thought and I will mail send that out to you. >> Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to see it. >> It's six minutes and my husband was watching it. was like, "Oh, >> that's funny. >> Awesome." >> Well, when we get to task when we get at the tasking end of it, we can see if there's a consensus around uh especially related to the Prop 2 discussion and then um also I have a follow-up on tasking related to the AI discussion too. That'd be great. I went to the SS the sin conference but I mean not destruction and I Mary and went as well. >> We were there. >> My two favorite sessions were one was on crisis management
019>> and just what to do in a crisis and the lady that led it was amazing and somebody in the audience asked is there ever a time that you don't respond and it was a she didn't even know it wasn't even a think about it. So when there's a crisis, you respond even if it's to say don't know anything, you know. So I really like hers and I also attended most of the superintendent um session and I really like they're presenting as far as evaluations and you guys know >> great >> um I don't have much to talk about. I just did have this more about a former student here but Norah just got her first letter in wrestling. >> Wrestling. >> Oh my god. >> Oh my gosh. And the coaches award. Is that
020what you said? >> Oh wow. That's my favorite award. A >> get some wrestling skills from my mom. >> She almost broke my neck off one time. >> Very cool. >> The um the AI stuff like we talk about later, but are kids using it here now like to write? Yeah, we've busted a couple kits. So, as much as uh yeah, but you know, it's a learning experience. Um we have just like any type of plagiarism in our handbook, we have um a process we go through around the grading or if a teacher is going to let them do a redo or accept it. But our teachers have the ability to run things through an AI detector. Super easy to do, especially if it seems out of their writing capacity. Yeah. Yep. >> They haven't
021got to >> I know exactly >> because there's a there is AI detector beater. >> Yeah. So what he's talking about is you can run your essay through and say five like 2% of this is AI. Um so for example, you write a letter and then you have AI look at it or very similar like Grammarly and they make adjustments and you're like, "Oh yeah, that does sound a little better. We're going to not have the there blah blah blah." Right? Add a comma here. I always want to add a long dash. It seems like the big thing in AI. Um, but in doing that, you will get a, if you ran it through the AI detector, a rating. Uh, most people will say less than 5% is an adequate rating because it's just grammar
022checking really. After that, there's a scale of what really actually dictates what what appears to be your not not your work, not original work at least. >> Yeah. It's quite interesting. Yeah. But it's it's here to stay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Superintendent report. So, uh, hot off the press. Um, I do have handouts that are at in the room because this was not attached to the agenda and I put one at each of your seats. Um, so it's in front of you. Uh, we are in the middle of cast testing which is C, which is Are you missing one, Carrie? Oh, >> I think it might have gotten behind. Okay, I got >> Yeah, I got them. >> Well, they are they are very um >> they're like collector items, so people do we don't
023Yeah. We don't guard them. They >> Okay. >> So weird. Okay. >> All right. Perfect. Um, so we are in the middle of cast testing. Cast testing is the California standards test. So it is part of state testing now. Uh, fifth and eighth grade are the only grade levels here that test. Uh, Miss Jensen, our principal, is actually taking the lead to help support that along with our fifth grade teacher, Miss Schwaki. Um, and the students are working very hard on that. eighth grade will take a pause from it, do their field trip to UC Santa Barbara tomorrow and then finish up um on Friday prior to the spring break. Um if you recall, uh fifth grade did incredibly well last year. Uh they scored above the 70th percentile and the state average is like
02432 percentile. Um so they they did incredibly well. Um so we're looking forward to seeing how well they will do. Um we did have LA since our last meeting, we had our parent training night. Uh Lisa and I uh we had over 30 parents attend. Dan was there. Oh yeah, we could have added that. >> Yeah, Dan was there. We had a great meal. Really awesome dialogue with parents around what is and what isn't state testing. We individualized it by every parent getting their student scores, their actual child's scores so they can see how those um look and then wrapped up the evening really looking at um going onto the device, seeing the type of questions the kids do now because it's very different than our little CTBS test that we took if you were
025in California or CAT testing depending on your age. Um and uh parents seemed very engaged and really positive afterwards. So, I thought it was a good a good evening together. Um, and we gave some two sheets out, uh, elementary and middle school tips for parents as they go into this testing cycle. Uh, so that will be great. Um, we actually went to at SSDA, Carrie, were you with me or Gretchen when we went to the high achieving school district. Okay. Yeah, it was a superintendent presenting on high achieving schools, how you continue to grow on state assessments. Um, unfortunately we did all of the things that she does and then some. So I was like, come on, what's the tidbit? But, uh, it was still great. It was great to see that we're on track
026with other high achieving school districts. Um, as the as the kids mentioned, we had lit we had read across America week, which was awesome. Um, with adult adult readers, but also kids reading to their buddies, which was great. Um, we were excited about our science fair. Gretchen did highlight that beautifully. It's one of my favorite events of the year. It because it's our first kind of formalized students presenting in a formal way, which is a skill that um, everyone needs to learn uh, in order to apply for jobs um, apply for colleges and to be successful. And it starts that process. Uh, and it also starts it a process of kids realizing it's okay to be nervous and being nervous means that you care about it and working through those nerves to be proud afterwards,
027which is what we really saw with all of the third and fourth graders just tremendously. So, last but not least in the superintendent report, uh, the kids highlighted it a little bit, but we're moving into that college and career focus. Our eighth graders leave tomorrow morning at 8:30 for UC Santa Barbara for a tour. And then when they come back from spring break, which is next week when they come back, we will have co college week. So talking to them about all the different avenues of college. Uh we have done a career week as well. So I don't want you to think that we're not equally invested in also career development and interest as well. Uh which is great. I like college week as um teachers start to share their own journey. Um because kids
028see this person out there and they're not sure how they can relate to it. I know that um when I talk to the eighth grade every year uh when it's the new eighth grade uh about my own journey being the first college graduate of my family, kids are shocked because you know they like she's a superintendent. They're probably all school teachers and they're all these things and um my family were hardworking individuals. Um but I was the first one to go to college and graduate. So it's I think an important connection to make for kids. Um and it was my story and my path but my had my dad who was equally successful as a mechanic and a welder his whole life and that was his craft and his passion and he provided incredibly well
029for his family for that. So just sharing those experiences to open up um different ideas for kids I think is important as they launch into high school. And then um one change we have in our calendar this week this time is we are aligned with St. Louis Coastal this this uh spring break which a lot of our families are very pleased with. Um also uh with with coast so almost all of our sibling families are off next week. That is um not surrounding the Easter break. So this year um to kind of soften the blow because we're our families are so used to having Easter week either before or after Easter week off. We did take the Friday and Monday surrounding Easter. So we have the following week off for e uh for spring break.
030We come back, we have four days, then we'll have that Friday off and then come back to school on that Tuesday. Um so it's a little bit of a softening and then we go hard into the end of the school year which is going to be great and packed with awesomeness. So, um that is my report today. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> The uh on the ASL report, >> the dance is going to be down the vets. >> It is. >> Is the vets all kind of loosened up a bit? >> No. >> Um but I'm glad you asked. So, one of the things we were talking to our kids about um is really about their interests as well. So when I went to them and we were talking about state testing, I mean they
031were really enthralled and wanted to, you know, uh just have an engaging conversation about state testing. Uh but I I've really framed it as, hey, I need you to do your very best. Whatever that very best is for you or you or you, I need you to commit to me that it's your very best. And if you can look at me and tell me you're going to do that, what can I do for you? And so we started brainstorming with the eighth grade class. what are things that you would like? And at first they were kind of like, I don't know, I don't know, you know, and we wanted an extra dance and you already gave us that. I'm like, yeah, we did. Um, so then we were on this dance one. I said, what
032if our dance wasn't here? And then we kind of got brainstorming on it. So, um, some of our lessen engaged students were like, "Miss Gaviola, I will try my very hardest if we can do that dance at that vets hall." And I'm like, "Oh, that's a that's a challenge." So, uh, we talked to the vets hall. uh the parks and wreck for Soul County. Um unfortunately they did not agree to my um I thought great argument which was that many years um they hosted events for the school at that at no cost. Like it was actually part of the practice 8th grade dances lots of things. And then during the renovation cycle of nine and a half years, we basically ended up hosting almost every community event at basically no cost, just minimally charged for
033our cleaning fees for the entire community. But that uh didn't work. Um so the friends of kaugus which is a service club or organization representative group uh are able to give halfpric um rentals uh to a certain number of agencies uh a year they met they agreed to our school being one of those. So, with that said, um through fundraising, uh we were able to pay $1,900 to use the vet, >> but the kids are so excited about it and I do want to make it a tradition um that the last eighth grade dance, which which obviously includes sixth and seventh grade is there. I think it makes it a little bit extra special and um and they're great kids, so I think it'll be great. So, that's the long story. Sorry. >> Glad I
034asked. Yeah. >> Yeah. 7.3 school facilities bought update >> really quick. Uh so we have uh currently our bus is still not working. I know it's just an ordeal I tell you. So I guess the type of motor our bus has is the one that most mechanics hate honestly and I don't like the h word but they absolutely hate it. Uh they were able to fix the initial issue. Uh and two other issues have come around. We are still borrowing a bus, which we're very grateful for. Um, but we are looking at the options of a long-term solution. Uh, because this is something that when when this and it only has 60,000 miles on it. Uh, buses usually go 300,000 miles, these diesel engines. Uh, no. No. So, it is literally the worst motor you
035could have in a bus that we have. Um, which is no fault to obviously our our transportation department. So, we're looking at experimenting on what is our next big thing that we need to do because eventually we have to give a borrowed bus back. But that's where we're at. The good news, if any, is that many school districts do not give um door-todoor transportation or home to school transportation anymore. So they have had such a shortage of bus drivers that there are fleets of buses sitting in local school district bus yards and you can actually buy a bus for quite an inexpensive amount that is not this motor that has low miles. So that's probably our next looking at where we're at um of what we need to do. I cuz I keep telling Martin
036like how much is this mechanic going to charge us? Like I'm like wait he's coming back again. um because you can't even find local people to work on this type of motor. So, it's a it's a deal. But, um every time you learn something new and I I actually was thinking of my dad in my head, I was like, "Oh my, my mechanic head like, wait, do we get an estimate? What is this going to be?" And blah blah blah with the hours this man is spending and what are we what does he charge on travel time versus work time and all these things? So, we're getting a a current estimate of what we've already char what he's already charged and kind of where we're at, but that's where we're at. The digital marquee is
037here. It will be installed the week after spring break. It is great. It's It's bigger than we all thought. Um, and it's going to be wonderful for community updates, whatever it may be. And last but not least, Gretchen already addressed uh which is that we are we did have um someone come look at the playground uh play structure. This is no fault to anyone who was here before. It's simply because our ages, as you guys know, every year we're getting younger and younger. So, we have four-year-olds in kindergarten, we have three-year-olds in TK. Um and so the play structure, our people are getting smaller. It's all st now. we've all rolled back as far as we're going to roll back, but the people are smaller than they were. So, it would be the rare exception
038before to have four-year-olds. Uh, but that's just not the case anymore. So, uh, we are looking at some options and what that would cost and that will come back to the board and that's it. >> 7.4 summer stars. >> Summer stars. So, Kaiukas extended learning experience. Uh we as um Jenny and I did some research and uh around our extended learning opportunity program um we need to offer a summer school program in order to be in compliance with our state grant. Uh you have to offer a 9-hour a day program for um after school care or before school care but nine total hours of care in the school day which we do. Um but in addition you have to uh do set number of days in additional uh during the year uh in addition to
039the school a day. So we are looking at a program that will be funded through that extended learning program grant. We do have a lot of employees who are really excited about it and parents. So more to come but you'll notice the outline. We're looking at a really visual and performing arts. It's a fun summer school engagement program. Um possibly some culinary arts. So, we have this great kitchen that isn't utilized in the summer. Um, we live near the beach, so hiking and beach exploration possibly. Uh, music and theater arts. So, it should be a great program. We are modeling it after our neighbors of the St. Louis uh coast coastal. Um, they have a very large awesome expansive program and we're kind of pairing down what we would offer here. >> Sounds like too
040much fun like >> I know, huh? Yeah, it should be great. We are looking at the grade levels of students entering second grade and sixth grade. Um, just because of our sheer size to be more expansive in grade levels, I think would be really difficult because we'd have one or two kindergarten or one or two first graders and it's just um critical mass is going to be hard enough to do with just second through six, I believe. But we're going to see the interest and be able to bring back a full proposal to the board. Most of middle school does junior guards, so that's where their interest lies in case you're wondering. >> Absolutely. Yes. Yep. Okay, that's that. >> 8.1ent agenda. >> Before we approve the consent agenda, um we are going to open
041up the Zoom call for anyone with comments regarding the transportation plan. So, one of those things around the transportation plan is input. um either obviously in person or on Zoom regarding the transportation plan which is how we fund home to school transportation basically. >> Melan is the only one on >> No Mel you don't want to say anything about the transportation plan. Okay. >> We we can move forward with the consent agenda. Thank you for that. >> I'll make a motion that we approve the consent agenda. I'll second. >> Any further discussion? Trusty Ross. Trusty Castillo, Trusty Pewitt, Trusty Schuler, Trusty Friend. Motion passes 5-0. >> Oh, is that part of the >> Oh, we move along here. >> 9.1 Review and accept donations. So, we are very pleased to say that the Lioness Club
042continues to support our theater arts program. They have donated $500 to our Beauty and the Beast production, which is uh April 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Um, it is a beautiful production, a musical, and it will be utilized for costumes more than anything, and a little bit of props. But, uh, they are on our new poster in gratitude as well as CEF who also donated to the program. Additionally, you'll see a familiar name which is Donna Dawson helping out families that might be struggling with our after school program fees and she's helping to support them. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Trusty, any further discussion? Trusty Castillo, Trusty Pewitt, Trusty Schuler, Trusty Friend, Trusty Ross. Motion passes 5-0. you >> second interim financial reporter. >> Okay. I was going to stand up there,
043but we're having a mic issue, so I'm going to stay where I am. Uh, this will be uh kind of a a quick um overview of the second interim. So, you have a handout that's stapled. It looks like this that I'll be going from, but also you have the full second interim that Jenny prepared um and has beautifully narrated in the beginning um few pages. Um, and she continues to be such a strong and wonderful partner to us and we're so grateful. So, thank you, Jenny. Um, I'll put the county on notice that we will eventually steal her. Um, and they if they're not listening, that's not our fault. Um, so, okay, here we go. So, the second interim, as you guys know, in the budgetary cycle, um, is the last part unless we were
044at a a fiscal crisis where a district was required to do a third interim, which does happen if you've had a negative certification, but we are not doing a third interim. Uh, this is the last part of our budgetary cycle before we start it all over again. Um, so it's like the wheels on the bus. It keeps going round and round. So as we go through this, this is the another dipstick or checking point um for where we're at in our budgetary planning. So the purpose is again to look at and project the end of the year health of the district so that it's not a surprise when we go into September with the unodudited actuals when we see everything fall out of the budget. Um and it's important to look at any changes. So
045that's really what we emphasize within the second interim. So you can move on to the next one. As all of you are aware, we are considered a community funded or also known as BA basic aid district. It means that we are funded mostly a large portion in local property tax. Um and as a result that uh some of the things that you will hear in the news when related to local funding or state funding don't um pertain to us at such great magnitude. we only receive uh approximately $134,000 through the LCAP process. And so when the districts are are informed of COLA or cost of living increase, it's applied just solely to that chunk of monies and everything else is from the property tax or federal dollars which is also fairly small. Okay, the next
046one is one of my favorite slides. As someone who came from Pasa Robels, which we were a uh we were an LCFF or local control funded model, um this is really an eyeopening slide that helps you see the varying differences between our funding and the funding of LCFF. So, if we were to switch out of community funded, this is the the stark difference that we would have. Um, and it's why most local superintendents never feel badly about St. Louis Coastal or Cyukus um or or even Coast Unified when we have our budgetary woes. They're like, are they really that big of woes? But, um, you know, everybody has a different reality of what we work with. Um, you'll notice the stark difference. We would be funded about half. So, really going from just under five
047million to about 2 and a.5 million if we went to the different model. What would that mean for Kaukas Elementary? It would mean combo classes. In a lot of cases, um you'd see um what's uh probably half the staff of a middle school where you'd have an English history teacher, uh science math teacher because staffing makes up over 85% of our actual costs. That's where you would see that budgetary gap. Um it's not it's not anything we would elect to do um at at any point in the future. they help you get that right. >> Yeah. Well, they will actually um there's an analysis that Jenny does for us which it this is a beautiful graph for it. So when those two numbers become very very close, it triggers uh a state audit to look
048at what should the funding model be within it. In our gap, it's so great that that's nothing that we would look at in at this time. Okay. We did budget based on a 4% which is a fairly modest increase. We'll talk a little bit more about that in the property tax increase. Um uh end of the story is this. You're going to see um the multi-year Oh gosh, this guy's kind of silly on here, but um you'll see it on your chart here. The multi-year projections. Current year is at 27% of our reserves. Uh our district policy is at 15%. next year uh is at 22% and the year out is at 16. Again, that just it don't be don't be worried about the 16. There's certain things that we can't put into the budget
049yet when it comes to automatic funding. And it's always like that that you see kind of that crash down a little bit and then um the adjustments that are made within the budget based on things that we can count on from the um state and federal dollars. Okay, let's keep going. Uh so in this we'll be submitting a report to the county office that we do have a positive certification in about a month to a month and a half. We'll get a letter back. They'll analyze the books all the hard work that Jenny did um and then uh agree or disagree within the numbers. We received that. That's part of that budgetary cycle. Um some key factors of our revenue changes. So, right now we're just looking at what shifted, what didn't shift with our
050budget. Um, you'll notice that we had a slight decrease thus far in our property tax. Um, which isn't unheard of at this time of year. Jenny, you said end of April, right, is when we get our Yeah. So, we get our next um summary at the end of April. That'll give us a really strong um amount. But it again, it's nothing to be worried about. It's just a slight decrease. And there's a chart that's going to show you that. I believe it was $4,000 under budget right now. um you'll see a modest decrease in title one funds. Title one is a federal amount of monies and it's based on the number of students you have that are eligible for those programs. Very slight decrease within that. But then two increases around state and local funds.
051Um and then you also saw a minor increase in developer fees. Developer fees last year though came in very strong. Uh it had been the strongest year we had seen in quite a few years. But you kind of notice that even within coming around in our driving around in our community. Um not just renovations but some some strong builds that are happening. Okay. With that there is the chart that relates to those revenue changes. Um and Yep. Oh. Oh. >> A chart. >> Yep. Chart. >> Is it in order? >> Yep. Go. There it is. There you go. >> Yeah, that's a chart. or table. Is a table better? Sorry. A table >> table. T table. >> There we go. Okay. So, this is this is basically what I summarized to you. But overall, it's
052a it's a positive trend. Okay. Um, and just a couple quick summary. So, some key parts. I think it's going the wrong there. Oh, >> no. Keep going. There we go. Okay. Um, these are just some data points for you. So, if you ever need to speak to some key data points within the district, you'll see our uh enrollment still is strong at 204. Um, estimated average daily attendance is 191. That means when you take in absenteeism, what our ADA is, that's only impacting your LCAP monies, that 134,000 because it is not impacted by property tax. our property tax is not impacted by that number. Um, when it looks at unduplicated students, you'll see that's 53. So, it's just about 25% of our students are eligible under lowincome English learners or foster youth. Um, then
053you'll look at our average number of dollars per students in education, uh, which is quite high and that's, uh, called MOE is maintenance of effort. So that's the the baseline number that we're maintaining um to educate our students. Uh the state did look at an approval rate of indirect cost. So if we were to get state dollars um uh that's what the district can take off the top for u managerial um duties. It becomes really important when you have a district office and like 25 sites and then you're funded at each state or at each school site and then you have them, you know, like who's doing all the title one reports or those type of things. And then um on our average, which is looking at the consecutive years, our average daily attendance was
054at 188. Okay. I think notable sorry it looks like yours and mine might be in different orders but at the top of my slide is notable expenditures. There we go. Thank you. Thanks Rory. Um so a couple things to note between first interim and second interim is that we settled with our uh our teachers. So we increased at 2 and a half% salary increase. Um and that's what you see there. Uh we did have a um updated new allocation uh and carryover from the prior year related to our uh universal prek program um and CIG. So those that that was a positive influx in our uh in our budget and then um we also had an increase due to special education contract that was not included in the budget around its initial development. Um but
055that's nothing that we can it's not an ongoing cost. It was just something that needed to be um calculated and paid out um around a billing cycle from a neighboring district. Yep. All right. And I think that you're pretty comfortable with the LCAP goals. So, I don't feel like we need to go over those again, especially since in May you hear them again and then twice in June. So, I think we're good there, but I have them noted there as a part of the budget. Um and then um last but not least are recommendations and actions. So we've reviewed the second interim. We know that we have a strong uh ability to be solvent as a district at a very healthy reserve. Um we will continue to monitor our April property tax and I'll update
056the board on that at the meeting in May because it won't be um by April 8th which is our next meeting. And then um there are some interesting state developments. So there is a new grant that would be really nice uh if it remains in the governor's budget. That would be a real positive to us. Uh likely to be an upswing of about $100,000 for programming, which would be nice. Um and it seems to be getting some traction. Nobody seems to be targeting that money for anything else. So that would be kind of a a nice little boost for us. um and a slight increase in special education funding but nothing really that big big or substantial and uh end of the story which is a continued LCAP stakeholder engagement. Are you guys ready? Um
057so last year Chris you were really impressed that we got 77% of our parents to return the LCAP. I of course had to set a goal higher than that which was 80. Uh we ended our LCAP survey process which will be presented at the next meeting on the trends they had talked about with 84% of our parents returning the LCAP. >> So jealous at this he said well our superintendent has you know >> yeah even Tahoe was jealous by the way they're at like 30%. Yes 30%. I don't either. But anyway, so yes, so it's really great and it's a large large uh compliment to our parents and our mom squad, which is our room moms who then send out texts to all their friends and everyone in there saying, "Hey, let's get this done."
058We had a pop-in party uh pickup for parent participation. That's that's really hard to say. Um which is those lovely pre prebiotic drinks. Um, our parents really like healthy drinks. So, those are what we got them uh in reward and they were very thankful for that last Friday or Monday. That was was that >> this week? >> Oh my god. No. >> Yeah, that was Monday. >> Wow. >> That was two days ago. Okay. Yes. So, we had a whole bunch of those at pickup and it was just a a boost and people were really joyful about it and it was a really hot day and they were ice cold so it was perfect. So you'll get um some trends from that LCAP survey next meeting which I'm excited to deliver. Okay. And that's it
059on second interrum. We would love for you to approve the second interim. >> Any further discussion? Trusty Pewitt, >> Trusty Schuler. Hi, >> Trusty Friend. Hi, >> Trusty Ross and Trusty Castillo. Motion passes 5-0. 10.1 committee dates. >> Great. So Dan, we have you down on April 1st for the CCAC, which is great. And then um there were two things that Gretchen brought up in her board member reports that relate to tasking. And so when I reviewed the board uh bylaws, we just needed general consensus from the board. One of them was to look at pursuing the idea of are we eligible for Prop 2? So basically that would say that you would like me to for example uh talk to King and Associates, see uh what the process would be, possibly what it would
060cost for them to prepare our eligibility and then if so bring that back to the board for action. Again, it gives us eligibility for state funding. Most of it would be matching, but it's dollar for dollar. So I mean it's it means everything would be h half price basically for us if we were to look at facility needs like a new um new portable for art or something like that. >> That also be like the play structure or >> they do not do play structures on prop too. I know I tried that for the down below but luckily our community came forward but >> um fields. >> Yes they do do fields. >> Yes. And they do DSA approved shade structures as well. But yeah. Yeah. So is that something you guys would >> Yeah,
061they do have a they have that patio cover. Uh and then they have brass. Yeah. So they do have some. Yeah. >> The question just should we investigate? Yeah. I think Okay, great. So we'll get moving on that. And then the other one, why did I write AI? >> Yes, AI. So, I did want you guys to know LA last summer I did visit Cold Springs with Amy Alzena, Dr. Alzena, and they put on a mini AI conference. Um, and it was really interesting. Um, one of the things I committed to this year is doing like AI sparks every month with my my staff. So, showing them notebook LM, showing them what's something called gamma, um, showing like these little things that can help them uh with some efficiencies because one of the big takeaways
062from that is just like anything else, like you can lead a horse to water, you can't make them drink, right? So, it's my intention on all of that was this year to get them a little bit excited each and every month to then jump in, get their toe dip uh in that and go, you know what, maybe this isn't all bad. Like, we're not all scared of AI. Um, so I did reach out to Dr. Alzena. They do still have spots. So, at the next staff meeting, I am going to ask if some of them would like to attend this AI summit. It's at the school site. It's very similar to ours. It's 185 students, K6 though. in Monosto. Yeah. Um to see if it was something they might be engaged in and interest in.
063So that I think is >> a lot of >> I do. I loved it. >> Is a ton of fun and >> three other people who are going to be presenting at this and they are fascinating people doing really amazing things in education. >> Yeah. also outside of education um with AI. And I I feel like I I feel like the whole the whole idea is these are the tools and how can we teach our teach our students to be responsible technology citizens, >> right? >> And I think that is really important. >> Yeah, I do too. I think one of the one of the takeaways I had at um the AI conference last summer and I used it this summer when the teachers came back was does anyone remember and some of us won't
064because we're some of people are too young but does anyone remember when there was a push lawn mower before a motor like it just had the wheel. Okay. So then your family gets a actual lawn mower with gas, right? Did anyone once you had the gas lawn mower go you know what? No. I want to do it that hard way. I'm not going to use that tool that makes it easier for me. So what the big message was that is that we have to keep thinking this is like did it make us lazy? Did it make us terrible? No. No. It actually just was a better use of time and efficiency. And so we don't want AI to think for us. We're not going to have AI, you know, write your own write your book
065for you. But there is a tool there that is an efficiency tool that they could be using for feedback for some of their their essays that their kids are writing or whatever it may be. um and really opening their eyes to that opportunity. But anyway, yeah, so we're going to definitely look at that and see the one thing I she gave me all the links is that doesn't say what the registration cost was last year because it was the first year ever. It was 150 bucks to go and the hotel which was Monaceto in which is lovely was 200 bucks. So it was like drive there, do this, are you kidding me? It's done. This year I know it has a lot more uh ramping up. So, I'm trying to get a price from them
066to see how many people I figured it increased. >> And they >> That's why they give us the rate >> they're and they're planning on giving the same, right? >> Yeah. It's like 200 bucks. Yeah. >> Okay. That's the one thing >> we need to include for next. >> We don't have to do anything. It was really just making sure that Yeah. We're all >> feeling comfortable with it. Oh my gosh. Thank you for Yeah. Go ahead. Um Okay. >> About superintendent evaluation. Okay. Y >> So we want to investigate or consider investigating this or is that >> It's up to you guys. >> Oh yeah. Um do we want to do do we want to take a look and see? >> It doesn't have to be right, but we got something for a future
067agenda item. >> Yeah. to talk about. >> You could do it after we >> So, do you guys maybe they'll let the board members who didn't attend it review this and then at the next meeting we can look at tasking for that. Does that sound like a plan? Just so they have an opportunity. Great. I think that'd be great. All right. And if anyone's not busy, right, uh this weekend is the Rotary Spring Fiesta in our gym. And the gym looks pretty amazing right now. It's not done, but it's close. Um, and the Rotary is a generous community partner to our school with at least $10,000 in donations every year. Last year was $60,000 6. Um, so >> and so >> Yes. Yeah. >> Tickets are still available. >> They are. Yeah. And it's La
068Katrina is catering it. There is a salsa dancer that is going to do instruction. You have the cashier right next to you here and the silent auction chair decorator right here. So, uh, yeah. But anyway, it should be a great event. And if you want to peek at the gym, we can show you real quick. It looks great. That's it. Aan.