001e e e to uh bring the regular meeting of the elag gundo Unified School District distri Board of Education on Tuesday March 11th to order and uh first order of business I'd like to invite our Chief Financial Officer Kim Linds to lead us in the pledge of allegiance of the United States of America and to the repu for stands indivisible andice and forward um this time we're open for public Communications I don't believe we have any speaker so we can move on to special presentations starting with student representative report Grady Loops good evening everyone we are rolling through March with a ton of exciting events and achievements to celebrate celebrate so first off a huge congrat congratulations to Abel Lee for winning gundo Got Talent his incredible singing performance earned him the top spot in
002voting and $100 from PTSA on the giving backside our UCLA blood drive was a massive success collecting 90 pints of blood that's actually better than some of the bigger schools in our area so that's very impressive bsu's open mic night was also a huge hit I heard some staff even stepped up to the mic so if you weren if you were there you know that it was a night to remember for our Gamers the Super Smash Bros Esports tournament had some insane battles with Shane Hopkins and John Brody Thomas taking the win in the end they secured a $100 prize courtesy of PTSA again and of course ultimate bragging rights looking ahead ASB elections are coming up fast right after spring break we'll be in full election mode which will be super fun a new
003fundraising game coin Wars has begun each grade is battling it out students can drop coins in their class bucket to score points or or sabotage other grades by adding other coins to theirs every scent goes to PTSA so even if your class doesn't win the school does in the end also on the horizon our March Madness three Onre basketball tournament is coming up soon some crazy teams have been made I'm going to be in it but the competition seems rough so I doubt that I'm going to win but um in other news are spring pep rally is happening on March 28th so we'll be bringing the hype with fun games uh spring Sports captains will be out and plenty of school spirit finally spring sports are off to an amazing start with several teams already
004looking very dominant expecting very big things this spring season that is my report thank you and now I'd like to invite uh the CEO of the El Segundo Education Foundation Carol PUK for an update thank you everybody I'm I'm happy to be here I just want to give a quick update about Ed we have our summer school registration open so any student would like to take summer school for enrichment middle and elementary school that registration is now open and then we have our Gayla coming up on May 9th so please save that date it's one of our biggest fundraisers we um we're very close to meeting our goal of raising $2 million our pledge Grant to the district and we need to raise about we want to raise $400,000 at this Gaya to ensure that
005we can make that $200,000 $2 million um are we actually can make it with less than 400 but our stretch goal is 400,000 so please help us get there and I'm excited to say that we had the Sketchers uh Fick walk uh check presentation last week uh Frank and Jason attended and um we are excited to say that we got $22,000 for our participation I have a big check here for the um our participation and we killed our goal of um we we had over 1100 Walkers which is great for ELA gundo so congratulations everybody and thank you for participating last October and we look forward to everyone registering next October so I'd love to get grab a picture if you guys don't mind thank you Carol y was it here we go ready it's
006like no more and now we will have an update from the employee associations and first uh elund Teachers Association we have a representative yes we do good evening as I was watching Grady run by me when I was parked in the 20-minute parking lot spot it had me wondering a dilemma is it 20 minutes when you get there or 20 minutes once you leave the car nonetheless um we are entering Casp testing High School um the Juniors did C testing last week the middle schoolers are starting it this week followed up by the another day um this is just highlights the well-rounded education as we Prov provided to our students by the board as well as us Educators so we look forward to seeing how will we compete with the rest of the South Bay
007and hopefully we're up there once again so thank you and have a good night thank you Andrew and uh Now we move on to item 2D presentation of the second interim report for fiscal year 2024 2025 Miss Linds good evening president Glenn members of the board superintendent Johnson Tracy I'm here to give a financial update for our second interim report which are our financials through January 31st 2025 so just to give you an idea of where we are on our continuous budget Journey That Never Ends we are at second interm you see it in yellow last time I was here in December it was first interm those were our financials through October 31st and then I won't be back again on this particular budget until September when we close the book so just to keep
008that in mind we had a you know four months by first interim uh we're at 6 months right now 6 months till we get to the end of the year when we close so this is going to be our biggest game gap between reports just a couple of um items to highlight so we did have a settlement with estaa for 1% salary on schedule along with an additional $650 in benefits that may seem like it happened a while ago but it wasn't in first interim it is showing up in second interim uh next in January the governor submitted his proposed budget which estimates a cola of 2.3 43% for 2526 we will see if that sustains through the May revise we also added a really important position to the district of board certified behavior analyst
009or bcba um who specializes in Behavior to help our students with those needs and added an additional six classified positions to the district as we um I'm this is a shorter presentation because we just had a very long presentation last week which was much more detailed but um but as we look at our unrestricted general fund you can see that our Reserve levels maintain a healthy level um there are some spending increases that you see in 25 26 and that is primarily from step and column increases so as teachers move over in credits or up in experience they um those are increases that are built in before we even open the school doors and then as we look out towards 26 27 as I mentioned previously we are in a slow growth economy so while
010it is growing slowly we do anticipate additional Revenue in those outy years looking at our restricted fund um our revenue and our expenses are falling due to the spend down of one-time funds um I did want to point out however because there is a pretty big deficit in 2425 and that was a transfer that we made into to cover the HVAC projects uh the districtwide HVAC project um and so that's why you see that bigger deficit in that year um looking at where our Revenue comes from and where it goes 70% of our 77% of our revenue does come from the local control funding formula or the state general fund but I really do want to point out that blue and that yellow pie slice because without our local funding we couldn't do all of
011the extras that some of which Grady spoke about today um that really enhance our students experiences and finally um as Dr Johnson likes to say 82% of our budget eats and sleeps um and so our most important people are the most important the largest portion of our budget as you all know there are three different possibilities for certifications we like the top one positive that means that we can meet our financial responsibilities for this the current as well as the subsequent two fiscal years we will be be filing a positive certification with the county and see no reason why they wouldn't support us in that just as a reminder no more of these centilating presentations until September after we close the books in June and get everything rectified um and then I'll be pres presenting
012un audited actuals at that time and with that I'm happy to take any questions and thank you for your attention I think we exhausted all the questions last week so I would have been surprised if there were any but thank you very much thank you and on to uh item 2E Eagles Nest Preschool and the learning connection guadalupi oh that's a test what that's a test my last name a test Galva okay exactly good evening school board members superintendent Johnson cabinet members I am here my name is Guadalupe Gala I'm here to speak to you today about eagles Pres and the learning connection with an extra accessory today let's begin by speaking about eagles nness so this year we were relocated to Richmond Street um we have had a magnificent move we brought over Furniture
013we brought over a lot of manipulatives and toys but if some of you might attest who have visited we brought over the feel that our Eagles Nest Preschool had on Sheldon Street um we're lucky to have our board member um Miss Southerland to be also an alumni from our program who is also our school Pro member president I mean representative for our our school um and as you see all of the routines all of the experiences everything that made our preschool us came over with us and we're very proud of that and I have to give credit to our teachers for that we had four classroom teachers who had to work collaboratively together to create this space and compromise because we had four very strong leaders who had a very strong vision for what our
014preschool should be and they're meeting that need um additionally we continue to learn through play a lot of our Hands-On activities have a different feel now because we are more open to the community so when we have construction across the street then the children start pretending that they're constructing and they're talking about cranes and things that are happening in the community which is wonderful because it is part of what they're learning they're learning through what they play with every day we have continue to have music every week um one of our parents is our music vendor and we continue to have blog parties as we always have um we continuing with building our friendships so that our students can move over to elementary school together our PTO Mighty and small this year but very Mighty
015um and also I'd want to give credit to the PTA at Richmond because for fall they included us in their fall flutter which was amazing because they knew we were on campus one of the I think Miss Tara Diaz who is going to be taking over in the next year was like we're going to do something for you guys we gave you guys some coloring sheets they invited us to go do the track a couple of times which was amazing aming for them and then we became the cheering squad for the next grade level they came to present um we continue to have our community connections um we had trunker treaters come over um for us the fire department the police station it was really awesome um so our year as you know wherever Mary
016Joe is that's where preschool is um she came over to us this is I think her 24th year at the preschool she's been here a while um but everything that we ever wanted for our kids at preschool is continuing to go on on now and we continue to have that plan to have that for the new coming school year as well um this year we had a big push for student collaboration so we had some elsag gandoo high school students begin interning at the preschool we have elsag Gander Steamers working with our TK and Kinder classrooms we have some students from the Middle School coming to do their eighth grade projects over at Center Street and are presenting on like cell and um seal and uh uh different kinds of topics for each of our
017students which is really wonderful but the thing we'd like to point out is um the workability students we have workability students working at Richmond and at Center Street and these are um students from the high school who are earning job experience as well as a little bit of compensation for coming and spending time with us and they become very popular within our program because everybody wants to hang out with the high school students um The Learning connection for this school year our elop enrichments continue to be fabulous and fun kiwi Co Steam kits um we removed them from the TK Kinder because they were a little bit too complex but everyone from first over to the Middle School are enjoying these kiwi Co steam kits so these are kits that get delivered to us kits
018put them together and then you know rock paper scissors who's going to take the project home additionally this year we also had some elop funding go to academic recovery at both Richmond and at Center Street so students who needed additional help have a certificated teacher working with them at the end of the school year at at the end of the school day um and these are all students who are recommended from their teachers to attend um this year we did a lot of work on The Graduate profile for TLC so a lot of our inservice was around articulating The Graduate profile for TLC we finally finished this this past Friday and in the coming months we will send over to miss Penny over at the high school to print our personal graduate profile for our
019program and we hope to have that up on the website as well so you can see a lot of the work that we went through in terms of what is mean to us to support The Graduate profile what are we doing in the after school program to support these students and what does The Graduate profile look like when you're after school with us additionally at the middle school we have a whole bunch of fun things that they enjoy you know middle schoolers six to e8th grade anything to have to do with cooking they're down with it because they love to eat especially after school they are growing wonderful Gardens with PV Gardens and they have a lot of new teacher-led activities that are geared from the interest of the students so jewelry making some of
020our teacher directed activities that we have are um t-shirt printing so some of our students have begun designing and printing their own shirts but um one of our TLC teachers Mr John hildr he is a RC car fan so he brought some RC cars over to the middle schoolers and so now they're purchased uh RC cars to put together to design and we're also going to be building a track which are the materials that he has with him from Home Depot so we're looking looking forward to that project and probably starting some kind of RC racing team at the middle school soon and that's all I have for you guys today let me know if you guys have any questions or comments I can help you with um that is amazing watching all the things
021that are happening and just um seeing all the pictures of the kids and being there with you guys and seeing all the the different things that you guys are trying to Pivot and you know bring to the students has just been an amazing thing and we got to get yoga going on there yeah yeah so um but amazing job thank you yeah I just want to say I'm especially excited to see the cooking classes that are happening there because I know they've been popular you know through our Ed foundation so this is definitely a good uh fun but also life skill things that you're bringing into it that's an amazing addition but as always like the joy that comes out of those photos like is just so wonderful to see so thank you for sharing
022that thank you I'll just add that uh I have a 27-year-old who got a start with Miss Mary Joe yes so she's been here a long time and she still looks as young as ever she does I will let her know you said that yes and that's why it's a big part of us too I think I wanted to throw a picture of her like a lot of people she's been part of the preschool for a really long time so a lot of times when I meet people or ask people like she's still there and I'm like she sure is come on through I'm sure she'll probably remember you or your student yeah well thank you very much thank you I'm moving right into the consent agenda would somebody like to yes I move to
023approve consent items 3 a through K any discussion seeing none uh Grady your preferential vote all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes five to zero and uh at this time um hidden in that consent agenda we have a new classified Personnel person who uh we'd like to introduce to the world and that's Kitty Lyn who is our new director of our incoming new director of fiscal services so Kitty would you like to say a few words um dear board president Glen members of the board superintendent Dr Johnson cabinet members and the community um I'm Kitty um I have um being very honored to be considered for this position uh as a director of fysical services and Cabinet member um for elund UniFi School District um I'm a
024certified public accountant U with a master's degree in accounting and I've have been devoted um 17 years um for Education um so thank you for considering me um I'm told to mention the rigorous interview process so I went through uh three interviews um it's very um it's very thorough the first time I met with the staff um HR and then also the uh Union Association the second time I met with the cabinet members and the third time I met with the um superintendent so it's very thorough uh regardless of my backgrounds and then what I have U put um what I have um added to my career profile so I'm very honored um thank you for your consideration well thank thank you kitty we uh welcome you on board and look forward to working with
025you thank you uh item 4A approval of the 2025 csba delegate delegate assembly ballot Dr Johnson thank you this is a routine annual item um like many of the years the the the there are five candidates for five open positions um it's recommended to the board um to vote for them unless someone has other ideas I'll move approval second any discussion yeah I was to say I just always say these folks that want to serve and especially repeats we thank them for their service for their extra Duty Beyond here see how that works Tracy yeah I hear how that works this is pertinent to previous discussions indeed all right all board members oh no sorry Grady your preferential vote please I and all board members in favor please say I I I any oppose seeing
026none passes Z now we're going to try something new here so item 5A Kim Linds okay so this is an exciting um item uh this is the lease leaseback agreement the final agreement for phase two of the Eagles Nest Arena high school and district office project so our last really big project that we're doing um and I do recommend approval for item 5A second any discussion just a really big number on the dollar amount very exciting I hope it stays there though that's all I'm going to say well I will I will say that um spent a lot of time with Miss Linds and some other community members and we went through this with a fine tooth comb and uh we're very excited that that we have the funds and that we're looking forward to
027a very successful project uh any further discussions uh Grady your preferential vote please I all board members in in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z Item 5B Miss Lind so this is approval to pay the fees to the California Department of Education um in order for us to apply for modernization funding not only does DSA have to approve our specs and plans and construction so does the California Department of Education so these are just their fees to to perform that work and I recommend approval I'll move approval second any discussion seeing none uh Grady your preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z Item 5 C Mr gner thank you on the proposal with Nic partner
028involves the purchase of the uh TV displays for the district office project um phase two I recommend approval I move to approve action item 5 C second is there any discussion seeing none uh Grady your preferential vote please I all board members in favor please say I I any opposed seeing none it passes 5 to zero item 5D also Mr Gana thank you uh The Proposal with Paragon systems is to purchase and install low voltage infrastructure for the district office Bond Phase 2 their proposals include installing installing new cabling new network equipment and for the district office buildings I recommend approval I move to I move to approve action item five D I will second is there any discussion seeing none Grady your preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I
029I any opposed seeing none it passes Z Item 5e Miss Lind this would be approval of the proposal from goo advantic for all of the inspection and testing services that are required as we go into soils and break into walls um and this is also for phase two of of the of the Eagles Nest Arena high school and district office project I recommend approval I move approval of 5e second is there any discussion seeing none uh Grady your preferential vote please I all board members in favor please say I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 item five f Miss Lind as part of the district's requirement for receiving Transportation funds from the state of California we are required to submit an annual Transportation plan by April 1st of each year this is our plan
030for the current 2425 year as well as subsequent 2526 year I recommend approval I move for approval of action item five F I'll second is there any discussion seeing none Grady your preferential vote please I all board members in favor please say I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z Item 5G Miss Lind I don't think there's much left to say on this one so I do recommend approval I'll move approval second any discussion seeing none Grady your preferential vote please I all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes five to zero item 58 Miss Lind so the human resources business services and superintendent office are being either have been or will be relocated to ELO Middle School in um Bungalow classrooms in order to facilitate confidential
031conversations that need to happen in those offices we did have to construct some temporary walls um and that service was provided by Jr Universal it also involved ducting you can't just put up walls you have to make sure that all the requirements are met so I recommend approval I'll move approval second is there any discussion I just can I just ask like is this so one classroom has multiple people in it is how explain just how's it how's it looked so how it look Bungalow one has uh Tracy and and Dr Johnson in it Bungalow 2 has um all of the HR team so three people uh Bungalow 4 has half of the business team so um Kitty myself and our accountant are in there and then we have a Lego person joining us as
032well for a temporary period of time potentially um and then the balance of the business team is in the final Bungalow um so there's four people in there as well so plenty of space it worked out well I think it's it's well set up and we're we're going to be able to work well there thanks yeah I was just curious how how that all was going to lay out thank you Grady your preferential vote I uh board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z and item five I miss Lind so we are in our in our efforts to maintain safe facilities and um safety for our students we are purchasing safety backpacks for every classroom in the district we'll set a district standard for what's required and
033also we'll be will be purchasing emergency supplies for each site which will provide uh supplies for three days for every student and staff member an adult on campus in the district um so this would be to allow us to move forward with those purchases um and and get those items on campus I recommend approval I move approval of item five I second is there any discussion yeah I was just going to say as a past PTA president I mean it's awesome the district is taking this on because we went through a lot of bags a lot of years and it's just really nice to um you know share in that whole um venture to make sure all the students are safe so awesome where are they housing all of the the extra stuff at the
034various buildings so the backpacks will be in each classroom and then there are the large garbage can siiz tubs that are on wheels that will be stored in um storage facilities so um some campuses have um the big shortage sheds things like that so they'll be stored internally but they are mobile um and they're they're easily stored Grady or preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z moving on to section six 6A Miss V yes this item is the release of teachers who are assigned to a one-year contract um there are two reasons why we do that one is that they're on uh they're a placeholder for teachers that are on approved leave of absence and the other is if they're funded um by
035onetime funds and they Sunset as you can see we have very few because they are placeholders for one um for teachers that are on leave of absences I recommend approval of the resolution I'll move approval second any discussion seeing none Grady or preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I hi any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z and item 6B Miss field this item um school and District administrators often have to rely on a personal cell phone for personal um for district related communication and for um responsiveness after hours um to acknowledge that necessity and to offset the cost of uh related services this proposal recommends a $60 stien um related costs will come from District fund I recommend approval I move for approval of action item Six B second any
036discussion I would think with you all being all over the place um and not being at the district office now this is going to be even more of an issue for you guys using your phones so I certainly think that this is something we need to take care of because you guys are going to be kind of Here There and Everywhere so and site Administration as well allows them to be able to respond in time on campus wherever they are absolutely I'm actually surprised we didn't do this as a district before I don't know um but I'm just curious how how did you come up with $60 is enough or the appropriate amount how how do we do that and we just looked at neighboring districts and kind of looked at the norm and looked
037at what um other people were paying in terms of their plan and it's kind of fell in the median yeah great gr a preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z section seven action items 7A Miss janicek yes good evening this item is for the addition of an AP art 3d course at El skendo High School this is student driven teacher supported and it would not be at any cost to our district as it the curriculum is already there and it would be built into a section I highly recommend approval I move for approval of action items 7A second any discussion exciting yeah sounds ex I love seeing if you can insert AP here and there for these specialty Pathways and this is
038another one to say yay this is great okay Grady your preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 z uh Section 8 item 8A Dr Plotkin good evening yes in recognition that a diverse group of Learners including students with disabilities ultimately make us stronger we are thrilled to celebrate and recognize neurodiversity week on all of our campuses the week of March 17 I'm excited and I recommend approval I move to approve action item 8A second any discussion um this warms my heart my everything so I love that this is a week that we're going to recognize I think it's very important so thank you great your preferential vote I all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes
0395 Z section nine item 9A Miss jisc yes this item is for consideration it'll be brought back for Action at the next school board meeting this is in consideration of ela curriculum at the high school our teachers along with the curriculum committee have been meeting all year to pilot materials and recommend what they think is best for the school district research-based and highly recommended it is also available in the school library because of construction it's at our high school library and available for anyone to preview and ask any questions I'll move approval no oh sorry it's just pending go look I was jumping ahead my bad I'm ready to go I trust you let's do it sorry allow me to retract that and say I look forward to looking at the book with the rest
040of the community so that we can take action in the future when I might then then I might then uh recommend approval then she would like it to be her motion that she does when we get there in two weeks thank you for all your hard work on this look forward to seeing you next time and moving on to uh section 10 the inform AAL calendar and anybody can shout out anything that looks exciting on there where's Heather's birthday I don't see that on it's coming up yeah I mean it should be a holiday that's up there but Frank holid Patrick's Day I mean you know these items are not listed but they will be celebrated in Eland do birthday St P yes all these things busy meeting went though lots of good stuff all
041right on to section 11 board members reports starting with Miss beachley since last we met I've been to a few events so um classroom walkth through at Center Street with Tracy and Jason um this is one of my favorite events is a chance to kind of see Hands-On amazing things going on with our students experiencing you know our amazing teachers and support staff um I even got left behind at one point because I was helping a couple of of young men on a challenge math problem that I couldn't step away from uh Jason even earned the class a uh homework pass by answering a complex volume problem and then actually sinking the basket so that was kind of fun I continued my time with Center Street that evening um as the tal the students showed
042off their many talents which included did dance music magic comedy you name it they had it we even got a routine performed by the teachers and of course our very own Mr Kyle who was actually here earlier I actually sat with Sandy out there um and uh did some MC duties Heather joined us for this event because she obviously knows a whole lot of those kids uh we had a special board meeting last week uh which was focused on budget so as we were going through the second interim today that was not news to any of us um I saw many students and even a few staff members uh giving blood at the UCLA blood drive on March 4th um and they didn't bruise me or anything which is exciting um Frank Jason and I
043attended the city school meeting here at um City Hall um where we discussed the jpa some of the high school Pathways some City events safety communication few other things and we'll be meeting again I believe in May um uh I stood in for deima at the high school PTSA meeting some of the highlights included the coin War which uh Grady spoke about a CPR class that's being offered this weekend um new officers were elected and the SoCal Rock Prin principal Brienne Nakayama presented about some of the future courses um that are going to be offered at scr and some of the transportation news that is ongoing at soal Rock and then last Friday I joined Tracy Frank and Jason at the high school while some of the students were home reaing and having a good
044time there was also a group of students that ran the first um El Segundo High School aim conference and we have our cookies and t-shirts and a few other things um these kids were amazing they presented on various ways that they are using AI to enhance their educational um experience um they were knocked my socks off I went to two different presentations that were fantastic and I would i' like to give a big shout out to Chevron who helped sponsor the event and gave us an amazing lunch to boot and that is my report well I don't have much um let's see uh the talent show was amazing uh Whitney grandell does an amazing job she's taking us over the teachers at Center Street used to run it when I was even in the talent
045show there and um she took it over and this year she did it um at the high school and it was an amazing event funny lots of funny things the teachers and it was a great um last one to have my kiddo at um what else I we had our long board meeting like we said and sports is kind of my jam so I'm just kind of throwing this out there that if there's any Grady too maybe you can throw this out there if any of representatives from sports teams want to like just send me an email if they want me to shout out or anything I don't want to keep shouting out baseball but because my husband is an assistant varsity coach it just kind of like is my house all the time but
046I don't want it to be like I'm only shouting out baseball so if there's any highlights from any teams that you know sometimes we can't make it to games but they want to be highlighted I'd love to just be able to or band anybody but I just I don't want to be just the baseball person but right now I'm going to be the baseball person because um our team is undefeated and we have one tie with Los Al which was a very very hard game and um lal's coach is actually an El gundo High School lemonni um and he's actually a talanoa so he is Leilani's nephew I believe um so and my husband went to high school with him so was it was really a good game and um good team and we played
047against South the other day and won 1 to zero which was a nice little win over there and we got rained out today though so again I only know this cuz I live with him so I'm just shooting out what I'm told every day um and I think that's really all I got so thank you all right so I will start off by saying happy women's month and there are two well there's one week or excuse me two days that I want to point out that are super special during this month for women's month one is one fell on March 8th and that was International women's day and it's a day for celebrating social economic cultural and political achievements of women the second day that I would like to shout out is this Friday because
048it is Heather's birthday and then also during this month very very excited Dr plin that we get to celebrate and recognize neurodiversity week it's just a test Testament to our district it's a testament [Music] to what we believe in how we support how we see and how we hear respect love everyone here so thank you I'm glad as a board we were able to vote on that and then for the events that I attended on following our last meeting like ran out of here year and then went to this on February 25th I attended the BSU open mic night held at the roosters and it was a wonderful crowd where we really had the opportunity to watch our students display their talents other board members present were our own vice president Miller Zari and lastly
049I attended yesterday the RSS PTA meeting and they conducted their elections for their new board for 2025 2026 the upcoming Richmond PTA events are as follows they have the fifth grade ice skating night at the Toyota Center on Toyota Center on March 29th they have the RSS steam literacy family night which is a great event on April 3rd and daughter's night out on April 26 and lastly I want to say a special thanks to member beachley for stepping in for me for the high school PTSA was able to reach out to her because I was stuck in Brentwood and she saved the day so thank you all right um Heather I don't think you mentioned the one baseball thing I thought you were going to mention about the LA Times mention so so I I'll
050just I'm just going to Pigg you cuz you didn't mention it either I was surprised if maybe you didn't hear this but um the baseball team was listed yeah number 25 I think of top 25 again in Los Angeles our baseball team I don't know the last time I've seen a listing for that a very long time ago very long time ago and I'm just going to also mention that Harvard Westlake is on that and they're very highend in there so the fact that we made this this is like the jam of life that that is that is again like you know in the Greater Los Angeles community that's pretty amazing so so kudos to the team and and everybody that's built that program um all right I will add to what has been stated
051by mentioning the Southwest selpa Community advisory committee Awards which was a couple weeks ago I was happy to see uh three of our our our amazing employees C uh Carolyn Daws Kimberly corales and our own Dr Plotkin honored at this event um and the hard work that you and many others put in with our special education students it's it's Priceless really but U it was really special to know that you were honored by that Community as well so um we were glad Jason and I were there as well and as were many of our administrators to applaud and um was really great to hear from some of the students actually that are served not th those students were not from our district but just to hear the impact that Educators such as ours that we're
052honored to have on their lives um really great so I'm glad I could join that night um um again thank you to Kim and team for the budget Workshop as always good to see the numbers talk about the numbers see what's coming and hope we plan accordingly but again with your team and now Kitty adding to it um I'm really still very confident with what we do here um I will say thanks again to the AI crew Everybody students and and staff that made that happen I really learned a lot in the two sessions I could sit in and wish I could have seen them all like I feel like there was such a breath of topics covered so for sure um please invite us all to the Future ones because that was amazing um
053I will tell my fellow board members you probably already know this but um if you haven't noticed your email it is legislative action week with csba this week if you can tune in they would love to have you for our meetings which are Thursday at 10:15 a.m. on Zoom with Almer sui's office and 11:45 a.m. that same morning with Ben Allen's office so I unfortunately can't be there I Know This Is My Jam and this is where I like to do things but I I cannot that day um attend so if any or all of you can log in please do because they love to see us and hear from us and I think it's important to always have a voice where we can so please do check your email for the uh links that
054our wonderful Sarah Bradshaw sent out and you can hop on in if you want any tips or training ahead that let me know I'm happy to chat with you tomorrow um lastly I'll say join me if you are available for another laxa meeting online next Monday night 6 PM uh again a link is already in your email box we're going to hear from Kevin Gordon with Capital Advisors about school budgets which we are definitely having very top of Mind conversations about as it is um also Pamela Gibbs from Leo uh she's a lobbyist and she'll do a presentation on policies and advocacy so that is Monday night at 6 if you can log into that I will spare you the executive board meeting before that from 4:30 to 6:00 so you only have to pop
055in for the informational part later um I think that's it for now so thank you have a great rest of your week thank you for some great reports I'm not going to go over anyone that you've already mentioned so I will mention the um Sketchers uh celebration that Jason and I attended with Carol and her team last week and um i' just like to say that uh the CEO of Sketchers Michael Greenberg and his team do an amazing job and also um Rabbi Yosi and the friendship Foundation this is something that it's Unique to our area and it's almost beyond belief that we can get a thousand Walkers and pay 30 bucks each and and a check for $22,000 comes back from that it's um just just amazing and the event itself it's a real
056celebration of the South Bay and I was so delighted to attend and I attended because I'm the president of the board and I'm trying to figure out how I can get to go again next year because it's it's so much fun and um you get to see your peers throughout the South Bay uh members of uh city council members of boards of education and Volunteers in the Ed foundations of the various cities neighboring us so again um thank you to Sketchers and by the way I wear Sketchers so just so end of my report yeah very good thank you president Glenn okay uh uh piggybacking on the AI conference had the pleasure to attend and I just uh first off shout out to the kids they were amazing but I really want to highlight Steve
057it's his school so great job principal GB har uh Dr yoff uh just has been the gift that keeps on given and Marissa I mean like AI has been her baby for years now and I don't know of any other school district that's doing this work and you're the through line so just fantastic work I just my hat is off uh and then the same day uh she was working with our principles and our staff on our PD day um so we had PDA across uh the school district and I just want to give a shout out because I I I got to visit two different professional developments on school sites um just to our teachers uh who were just actively engaged participating working hard um and doing the work so thank you for that
058uh our goal survey closes on 314 that's Friday um so make sure you you get your input in um all students are participating grades 3 through 12 uh and then our parents and our staff uh Kanani and rotary they had their little their little golf shindig um which was really hilarious to watch that competition I I just wanted to highlight that just because you know Kwan's being in the same space with the quanis and the rodians which I am a member of both uh just doing great stuff for El gundo you I mean like that's that's why they come together that's what they they do and they're they're doing great stuff for Elsa gundo they were having a good time that day but it was still in the spirit of helping Elsa gundo so just
059really appreciate them Sketchers and the 200k earned I want to give a shout out to to Carol and Barbara Briney you mean like you know it's the best game in town I I I love playing the Sketchers game since I was in Rondo um but it does require people sort of greasing the wheels to get it all moving and shaking and so I just those two in particular um and many others uh I I really think are you know the reason we're looking at a $200,000 check there the PTA honorary Service Awards which I'm a big fan of because we High rely on our Vol parent volunteers uh are on March 20th uh strongly encourage you if you can come out and see that it's nice to see those people acknowledge the young entrepreneurs is
060coming on Saturday that's uh March 22nd um I've already messed up that date once and I showed up here on February 22nd with my daughter so she's like Dad I don't think anyone's here so once again I was like well let's just go to Acacia park instead uh so uh for real March 22nd um be there it should be really fun and then the Esports competition on April 1st it's at Paris middle school it's a South Bay competition I saw those fine gentlemen when the championship at elag gundo High School in the library Watkins Library it was fantastic to watch uh I was losing my mind um uh and cheering louder than everyone else honestly I'm a dork and I did play Super Smash Brothers when I was a kid so uh I I want
061to just give a shout out to uh to Chevron this is just another uh thing that Chevron um makes happen and Mr Jay uh who's been leading the team for a while now and uh we we we feel pretty good about our chances I obviously am talking a lot of smack to the other superintendant they're not sure what Super Smash Brothers is which makes it more fun to talk smack to them about and then finally I'd like to compliment a colleague uh just the board as a whole um the the board has been participating in our our Workshop process to develop our goals and just recently the budgets but it's a lot of time you mean like you know each evening is about 4 hours and so I just really appreciate you putting the time
062I I promise you it will pay off you mean like that we will have goals like that we we really believe in I mean like and will help us move the ball and that is my report thank you thank you Dr Johnson um we are not recessing to close session so at 656 it's my pleasure to adjourn this meeting I e e