001e e e bring the Tuesday February 25th 2025 El Segunda Unified School District regular Board of Education meeting to order I invite our executive director of educational Information Technology Mr Daniel GAA to lead us in the pledge of un there is no report of action taken in close session and there are no public Communications so we'll move on to special presentations um are you here to Grace would you like to make a presentation hey guys good evening everyone gr grd couldn't make it today because he's with ASB at a mixer event that Mar Costa was holding uh but luckily you have me so it's okay it's been another exciting couple weeks at aund high school filled with Talent competition and Community Spirit first off gundo Got Talent was a huge success the trial showcased some
002incredible acts and and four finalists moved on to today's livei Final where students voted on the winner the video will be released on Friday so look out for that and the students vote on the winner the top act will walk away with $100 so thank you to our PTSA looking back kindness week was a lot of fun and brought positivity all around campus from goat yoga to mini golf there were great lunchtime activities all week a big thank you to our staff who volunteered to to be dunked on the dunk take on Friday and an even bigger thank you to everyone who made sure Grady got dunked at the end and it was very fun for us probably not fun for him but that's okay looking ahead the UCLA blood drive is happening soon March
0034th at the high school if you're 17 or older and it's an easy way to make make sure you go try and donate blood or support it's an easy way to make a real difference right now bsu's open mic night is in full swing at Smoky hollow's roers I've heard some staff members are even stepping up to perform so I can't wait to hear how that goes another tournament has begun it's time for the Esports world our Super Smash Bros tournament kicked off today with 16 teams battling it out in this highly competitive event looking forward to seeing who comes out on top and finally spring sports are officially underway there's already Buzz about some potential CIF runs to come and I can't wait to see our teams in action as we continue through the
004semester that's all for now thank you thank you R and now we have date from our employee Association cundo Teachers Association then we have Steve lubs good evening um short and quick just like Andrew likes to do it um uh on the Middle School level today actually we had our step it up uh I guess you could say culmination due unfortunately to the fires there was yeah the delay and all the kids were stoked to be driven to Inn out and get a a free meal um at the elementary level they just finished their schoolwide readathons and are gearing up for the March book Madness which honestly sounds really awesome it's a 16 book bracket where students all over the world read the same 16 books and then each week the books square off to
005ultimately eliminate down to a single winner um the high school's kind of already been mentioned I'm glad to hear that Grady and Mr Kelly both uh got dunked more than once all right thank you thank you Steve and now we have a student recognition the El Gunda Middle School student recognition of model un students and we have is Sarah here Sarah deanes yeah good evening president Glenn members of the board first board meeting with with Heather Southerland as well so welcome it's nice to see you here thank you for having us this evening um the elag gundo model un program which has been sponsored by the elano Ed Foundation um immerses students in diplomacy negotiation and problem solving by simulating United Nations proceedings through research debate and collaboration students enhance their public speaking critical thinking
006and Global awareness while advocating for assigned Nations on December 8th 2024 our students participated in The Condor model un uh six conference at uh Whittier High School um engaging in committee debates on global issues such as climate change human rights and security they they hone their leadership teamwork and diplomatic skills this enriching experience Fosters global citizenship and prepare students for future academic and professional success we're extremely proud tonight to honor Mr Al Luna as well congratulations and then we have some of our students here this evening too so we're first gonna honor Mr llin awesome um Tyler mavy Toby Wright and vua all right come on up for a photo I'm going to take one and I'll get out of your way you can you'll have a chance oh no my pleasure my pleasure thank
007you very much and now we have a presentation of the citizens Bond oversight committee annual report for fiscal year 2023 to 2024 barl Smith you know only me right see really this to anybody right my time's not started right oh my gosh really setting the my name is Cheryl Cheryl Smith and I am here from the bond oversight committee here to give you a report I probably can't turn it off though y I tried that's good them music through the the entire time hey guys how you doing hi so oh don't even tell me this isn't working either there we go we had a plan a master plan that was not just for your eyes only oh my God how is this going to stop the whole educational community had a say in this master
008plan in order to achieve this Spectre of a plan we needed money and with a golden eye on our goal we went to the public and asked for million yes and with a Thunderball of support of 63.3 2% of the voters they said yes yes to new classrooms upgrades and repairs and new buildings and with no time to die I mean no time to waste no time to waste the bond committee stepped up and established a purpose went on track we developed roles we are the back end the bond back we go over everything on the back end we the esusd has their role that they play you guys spend all the money and we make sure it's spent correctly we put together a team oh sorry no this one's pretty one I like this
009one actually so the roles of responsibilities first you see the facilities advisory commission or committee then you got the board you lovely people right there and then we got the bond Cheryl bond No the bond oversight sorry no spilling water and we are the one who evaluates all the spending on the back end make sure that everything's being done as it should be according to what the proposition said proposition yes so back to our awesome committee members the bond committee was set up and we formed a team unfortunately that team changed this year and we want to say goodbye to Lance bstrm Scott Patterson and Bill Watkin for all their amazing time we are welcoming Gwen Sanders Loretta zarp and Chris Powell because the world of facility advisory committee is not enough for him and
010now from Elsa gundo with love let's talk about the $92 million shall we this overall revenue is $92 million we've had total expenditures of 67 million I'm just going to use round figures uh the interest income on that is about 3.5 million cost of bond issuance is 1.2 million so that's how much we spent to actually issue Bond fair market value adjustment say what this is 1.5 so what is fair market adjustment because I had an issue with that I'm a marketing major not a uh not a a bond expert although I do like Bond James Bond um anyway uh the the fair market adjustment is an unrealized adjustment yeah D is impressed now it's a mark to Mark so Mark to Market um and it fluctuates so what I'm going to use as an
011analogy so then that way you guys kind of get this all going let's just say that I was really lucky and bought my house for $500,000 prob not um but today let's say it's worth $2 million right so you got 500 and you got two million that 1.5 million in there that's an unrealized adjustment because I'm still living in my house I'm not going anywhere you guys ain't getting rid of me that easily and it's not something that I can actually have tangible so it's unrealized that's kind of like this for fa market value adjustment it's unrealized it's going to fluctuate it's going to change it's cool is something that happens every year so then we go on to the measure Bond es revenues and expenditures this is by year so that was an overall
012thing this is by year so you can see every year the bond sales that we've made the interest income that we've gotten off of it the cost of issuance and even all the expenditures that we've done by year in the past we haven't we've only had this we didn't have the full measure but now that we're going and getting close to spinning and all we thought let's give an overview and then kind of a breakdown do I need to go through the numbers sweet so let's do go through these numbers just a little bit though as you can see this last year we' spent 14.7 million where did that go that went into by sight you're looking at Center Street got 93 uh 93,000 the district office is starting to get up there we're starting
013to spend money there now with 840 elsag gundo High School 7.1 yes that was awesome Richmond 4.5 million that's fantastic and the Middle School 1.3 just love all this money we are dumping into our schools and making them better so project type where did that money go to we now know which sites it was at but where did it actually go to new construction was 12.7 Million of that money some of it went into modernization some of it went into program management Safety and Security but most of it was new constructions those amazing new buildings over the life of the bond by sight we are spending a lot of money at the middle school with the new gym with the the high school with the new band building Richmond Street with the new six room
014class Edition and then we've got some more sprinkled out throughout so everybody's getting a little bit bit of something some sort of renovation and again back to the total $67 million um that has uh expenditures incurred you can see where it's going to most of it is going to new construction the 39 million as I explained before that was the uh Middle School gym the high school band building and the Richmond six classroom building the modernization that's just a fancy term for remodeling like back to my house remodeling uh we remodeled the middle school science the Center Street School library High School library and Jim and Richmond we did Windows Corridor connection and we've also done a bunch of other things with roofs and plumbing and all that kind of fun stuff so this takes
015us down to the independent audit as I said we have um an the financial statement findings came back and that's where they reported The unrealized Adjustment and this is SAR to the district audit so you've already already seen that it's pretty much the same thing the district we have been assured is taking steps to correct this and so we're appreciative of that the performance audit findings there was nothing no recommendations and for PRI prior audit findings again no findings or recommendations so finding on compliance this I have to read ver beta based on the review and observations of the citizens Bond oversight committee we find that the Segundo Unified School District is in compliance with the requirements of article 13A Section 1 B3 of the California Constitution and that funds are being used for the
016purposes specified in the ballot language we would like to rest wrap this up with a word of thanks um we definitely don't do this alone and um we give these people a pretty hard time uh four times a year and we question everything that they do uh yeah we're pretty brutal uh we come in with a huge list of little nitpicky things and they go through everything with us we are so appreciative of their time and efforts to make sure all the reports are readable and understandable and we definitely couldn't do this without them on that note I did want to say that uh there are some open positions coming up so I think we have three or four positions everybody out there in the camera world we uh to apply look on the uh
017I don't know which camera I'm looking at that one uh we are asking you to apply go to the website and you'll hopefully see an application if not it'll be going out shortly and uh unlike diamonds bonds are not forever thank you very much any questions any questions I'm just going to refer you to the site I don't have any questions but I will say I am thankful that you are on this committee because I know that you ask questions and you ask great questions so thank you for being a part of the community and thank you for being on this committee thank you I'll Echo to steuart who's sitting back there as well and everybody who's not in the room uh we appreciate you all it's not nearly as fun of work as you
018make it seem when you give your report so thank you for for Jing it up as we say thank you well this is Stuart and I's final appearance here so yep after six years we're hanging it up it's a long haul thank you for yeah for I can't be on the bond anymore you Turing out appreciate I'm tering out I've renewed as many as times as I can we'll try to hurry up and finish spending the money then exactly come on yeah no I'll come back any other questions comments concerns sweet great job Cheryl thank you very much thank you Stuart and thank you it all right thank you item e present ation on the midyear local control accountability plan known as the lcap from Mara janicek I just want it stated that I had
019to follow Cheryl last time also so I I don't have music I don't have plan however I have a great presentation um president Glenn Board Dr Johnson cabinet and all in attendance tonight thank you for having me this is going going to be a brief presentation because a lot of the information in here you already know this is a legal requirement to present however I don't think anything in here will be new for you so just as a reminder this is year one of a three-year plan that is written in collaboration with many many many partners and uh evaluated over the year in a continuous cycle of improvement this is why we Rite the plan for our students and our staff in the beautiful schools and align it to their needs I think it's really
020important to note that our enrollment continues to stay fairly consistent almost 3,500 year-over year so the goals that were written last year were combined into three goals they were five we condensed them to three to make it really clear so each one of these goals has actions underneath it and then metrics to measure it that are qualitative and quantitative so goal one is really looking at at our students every single student looking at how they're doing academically and how they're doing as a individual social emotional well-being so that they can go out into the world and Thrive so an example of an action within this goal would be um our literacy specialists at the elementary school to support another one would be our Avid classes and teachers so those are um I'd have to say
021goal one is very heavy in actions and metrics goal two still here um it's our amazing parent and Community engagement and this is a requirement however I feel like this is one that is really well done and it's thanks to people like Cheryl Smith and um many many others but an example of an action within this goal would be parent nights and we couldn't do that without our ptas they really bring everyone together and put together great events for our students and for our families so another action underneath that goal would be important to note is our internships and that's really bringing in our communities we couldn't do that as well without our Ed Foundation who really helps us connect and then support so that our students can go out into the workforce and learn
022the skills that they need to be even more successful goal three that's kind of like the what we have to have best teachers and staff we have to have great facilities infrastructure and devices so it's clearly delineated into what the goals are are so that you can actually speak to them here is our expenditures I think it's important to note we're a little over halfway past the midyear Mark and we're on target with our spending to meet the needs of the goals some of the metrics in place are um in progress one of the things I think I'll just point out the slide really quickly for each one of the goals I gave three examples the metric itself is listed the Baseline which was put into place last year with the actual data that we
023um put into the lcap and then the midyear outcome data is listed if we have that information and then the desired outcome is at the end of this three-year plan so I just want to highlight chronic absenteeism because that has been a target of ours we already went down 3% from the year prior which is good work but it's not done yet we're moving towards that 3% and every single one of our schools is really dedicated in this work and actions that align with that goal two uh we don't have any data yet this this is really getting input from the community we'll have a spring survey and I just want to highlight the middle um metric because it's looking at school safety and hearing from our parents and I think Dr Johnson has come
024in and really made this a big priority along with the board to do some safety assessments and really get out there and communicate so I'm hoping that this one will actually increase this year too goal three finally is more of the what stuff and this isn't new and I'm only highlighting it because you already know this information is the independent audit report we receive this every year it was reported on we had one finding this year improvements have already been made so that it won't happen in that area again and we anticipate not having any in the future we hope not to have any in the future timeline this is the midyear survey update um we continue to get engagement we're still asking for input our lcap committee is um moving into our second meeting
025soon so that we'll be looking at deeper metric work we have been attending all of our PTA meetings um and sharing input or gathering input I'm sorry then we will be having a draft coming back to you in June for your input and then for Action at the end of June I think it's important to note though with the next presentation coming up that the district goals while being developed and the LC over the next two years we'll really work hard to make sure that they're aligned and consistent and can easily be connecting the dots that's it thank you any questions to say thank you um have you found it easier this is kind of a Next Step you you're in a new cycle um I was in the first cycle and it was incredibly
026difficult because nobody knew what we were supposed to be doing um how is the cycle going now how how much easier is it um now that we've had this established a little bit I think I think it's easier actually um because we have the aligned goals and we're able to make them meaningful for our district it's also really nice our committee members from our teachers union and classified have consistently remained the same so we're having ongoing conversations which has been really nice and our parents have been actually new this year and they've been asking a lot of great questions so I I think it's gotten easier in the sense that um they're not making all the changes on us right now so we can continue working on what we've developed in the past thank you
027Marissa great presentation thanks sorry I didn't have any music and on to item f uh presentation regarding District goals survey Dr Johnson thank you president Glenn members of the board Tracy uh tonight I'd like to present on our district goals survey um we've been building this work uh since January so I'm going to take a little step back in time and then take us forward uh so tonight um you know the board has already determined its three key Focus areas we're going to do a little refinement on the Excellence goal area uh and then we're going to show you the survey where the board can approve or modify or change the survey but we just want to give you an opportunity to look at it before it goes out next week all right this is
028where you're at in the process um we've done our uh budget or sorry our governance Workshop we have selected our goal areas and now we're on to uh our stakeholder feedback draft this is just a friendly reminder about our goal structure and you mean like looking at this is three Focus areas and then an architecture of goals um as stated this was the uh three Focus areas that were proposed um Excellence community and Legacy uh we are going to talk about uh language refinement on the Excellence goal and then it was brought up to me um about the uh Legacy of sustainability and Innovation and the suggestion was should we consider legacy of innovation and sustainability so thus I leave it up to the board which order of preference you prefer um both seem good
029to me and I could understand why Innovation would would be wanted first but I could also understand why sustainability would be wanted first and therefore I thought I'd take it to you what do you think for how do you think we F the co I don't know I mean it's one really more important than the other they're both like you said they're both order no I view both equally valuable like my children yes I have no yeah it's good I'm glad I'm glad so any preference I before s we're fine alphabetized okay alphabetized excellent I the Hermosa board did something very similar uh with using alphabetizing in case they were asked like oh why it's like oh we went with Alpha all right yeah sold consensus therefore it is the legacy of innovation and sustainability
030due to Alpha because we view them both equally like our children okay next moving on to Excellence and academic athletic art and professional Pathways we and conversation with the board we liked this as a goal area you we like the sub uh topics with it but it was just kind of a mouthful so then we started playing around in wor smithing the word excellence and so tonight I bring to you a plethora of excellent possibilities um and I'd like you all to take a moment to read through them and then have discussion as a board of what might be a preference or something that's not on the list we'll have quiet time now I'll open that with excellence in educal experiences and I will come in with Pathways to academic excellence because everyone has their
031own road but the road supports all are there any other nominations on the [Music] table I have Pathways to academic excellence and uh excellence in educational experiences I I do like the wide brush stroke that just Pathways to Excellence gives us because we're not calling out just academic or just educational because because people will argue Athletics are not educational even though you do learn things by being on teams and playing sports so I'm going to pull back to the broader Pathways to Excellence umbrell um that all these things fit under this lovely umbrella I have three thumbs up right now for Pathways to Excellence further discussion I said Pathways to academic Excellence I I hear what we're saying in terms of Pathways to Excellence and I definitely support it um we do offer an academic
032experience with umbrellas to all other areas meaning you come to school we do give you that academic background we do give you that opportunity for sports that all of that enrichment makes the whole child but we know that we are here to educate the kids and the the blessing of that education is that they get experiences that recognize them as they show up with their talents with the things that motivate them and Inspire them and that is often times Sports it is often times art it is often times the other parts of their education that really allows them to thrive sorry just taking some notes other thoughts that cover for you does that dilute it pretty no not at all I am absolutely fine with Pathways to Excellence I have no problem yeah I'm not
033hung up on we have a job to do how we package that and label it doesn't distort the job that we're doing yeah and when the reasons like you've seen me like as some of you start talking in the last me as well too I'll take notes is because like we take like we take that because this will not be the only way that we Market this and so just trying to package yeah you know keywords thrives you mean like you know uh what motivates and inspires you know those those are those are things that you know again because we need to have our elevator speech ready we need to have our you know uh at the last csba conference there was a district that had a a pamphlet for their goals seem like something
034that was just like really easy so this is the added language that could be upon that so not only that I'll say this that our graduation rate um and us being a destination dist District those are all built into our academic excellence and how we are helping kids Thrive once they leave here so whether we include that in our elevator speech or not it's it's in the fabric of who we are and what we do when we release students from this District we prepare them to be successful in this world and we allow them to show up in a manner that they can Thrive best so that is excellent that is accur pic that is everything that we have on the screen how we collectively choose to classify that I am completely fine with we
035have consens yeah I hear I hear Pathways to to Excellence is is is running with the ball right now yeah good thank you Bor let's call it let's call it an umbrella let's call it a all those the the aaap all fit under that all so we'll have Pathways to Excellence community of well-being Legacy of innovation and sustainability sold shorter better tighter thank you Bard I and I do think that words matter so thank you um okay moving on to the district goal survey uh so this just gives you sort of like a a picture of the structure of the survey and its recipients um and then how it would be communicated out so as an example for students we would break it into elementary middle and high school as far as surveying are the
036responses that we're receiving how we group those responses um uh the staff uh same thing we have classified certificated and management so we separate those out as well also too okay I'm going to now move into the survey itself you can stop me at any time as we conduct it it does follow a similar structure the one thing I am you know promoting to the board is is a focus on free response I I do think that we are looking for qualitative data not necessarily quantitative or you know boxed in data um so ELO Unified School actually I'm not gonna read you guys can read that there um uh I would say the focus of this question is to get an idea on the ex and then we will use the language uh that we
037just described here for what's in yellow and we wanted to articulate some of the things you know would fall within those topics but in a way that's clear for everyone uh and then asking what within those areas do they want to see improved and the the reason we say Improvement you mean like is because the focus of these goals is not is not just to to to say like okay these are the things that we're doing and you know this is what we do but like these are the areas where we're going to grow over the next three years um you know kind of as dam was saying like we we provide outstanding graduation rates and Pathways to Excellence and the purpose of these goals is like and then what what are we how are
038we going to move the ball in the next three years any questions or feedback about survey question number one and anytime we can come back to a question as well too survey question number two um this is on the community of well-being we uh on recommendation of of team we we listed out some examples for this one just to try to be more clear um and again as always open to to feedback uh but there's you know uh Community well-being we realized is is a is a broad uh um grouping of areas and so we just wanted to make sure that people had tangible ideas of what that might mean yeah if I can ask in on the bullet point of social emotional Wellness I know some people don't know what that means in the
039greater World it might behoove us to put a few examples with that one you got it which I know that does overlap a little on like the student support services but but I mean I feel like there's that one begs the question sometimes of what is thisal thing that's great feedback this is a surve survey created by a bunch of Educators who are live you all talk with your little the community perspective is that that's very valuable we will make sure there's examples there thank you same thing we can come back to this if there's other fewb back and I I'll do one more run through uh at the end survey question number three um there you see now it's the legacy of innovation sustainability that's why it's in yellow it's subject of change um
040and there is area we we did not put examples for this the one that we went back and forth on was environmental stewardship and do people know what that means and then sort of beg the question of do we know what that means and we're like we're still figuring out what that means so that's sort of where our headp space was there questions and feedback yeah um in our first slide on that we have safety listed out separately but it's not there so I don't know you want to combine it [Music] or instead of environmental stewardship we have safety we will make it which I'm not going to say take environmental stewardship yeah feel about that we'll make it five bullet points uh and and safety will be added good feedback 100% any other pieces
041of feedback here this question requires a little visualization um uh so uh this is you know a general question of like you know which I do think that one of the conversations we'd have as a board through our Workshop is we really are looking you know at from a Pathways perspective and part of that Pathways you mean like is does does one you know part of the pathway prepare you for the next part of the pathway and so I I I I think when we try to measure our success that is a very fundamental question for us um and so uh Jack who's so great uh what we're proposing is doing this by a matrix so people have the ability to provide feedback for each one you mean like um and and then I I
042I just actually thought of this we'll probably put an NA as well too for those that may not know um yeah yeah not parool parent you can't really say too yeah yeah so we will um but that's that is the and and the goal is is like to create some sort of Baseline for us I mean like you know qualitatively of how we fill that perspective and from all all sides too staff included questions or feedback here great and then the catch all question five we expect the best answers here do we get to read all these I just want to know this yeah the board is welcome to look at the raw data we're gonna uh I I I myself also like to read raw data and uh I this time around because I've
043done servers like this in the past but uh I think we're really going to try to have chat G gbt synthesize it so try to create some sort of balance in the responses because there's bias when you try to collect it yourself um so we will um but yeah the board is welcome to look at the raw data okay just I'm gonna bounce one more time through just you know sort of like a speak now if you want to give it more input two there's three for my personal favorite um next steps so uh pending any more adjustments to the survey uh we are going to finalize it the survey will be distributed next week our goal is to make the March 3D date uh on that date as well too we have our budget
044Workshop so looking forward to working and talking to the board about our proposed budget for next year as well as programs that we considering um and then on March 25th all things going well we'll present the survey results summarized yeah I just had a thought sorry can we flip question five to instead of saying areas that you feel remitted from or could we go to the more positive are there any areas you would add for Focus yes I just I like words are important I just feel like this like leaning negative but asking the same general question um with the board's permission can I uh just I'm gonna I'd like to send a draft to Tracy and just to look at it to make sure I word smithed it right everyone okay with that yeah
045works for me yeah yeah yeah yeah no I'll good I words words can very much change their responses from doing I'm sure all of us have participated or read the the surveys like it can really change what people put down um so we want to be really thoughtful so I appreciate you all speaking up can you go back to that last slide 100% okay any questions how are we sharing the results with the community on the 25th it'll be a board presentation you mean like and it'll be summary based so we'll try to synthesize like top responses which so it'll be thematic responses um um and we will share that within the board uh uh board meeting summary as well too so like that's an email that goes out to uh to the to the
046district and on social media as well I appreciate the quick turnar around on that yeah I know that the the window is short but we we are we want to make the the results there would be a lot of time to be part of the process of drafting um so team effort other questions thank you board thank you very much moving on to the consent agenda and I need to pull item C because of a family member all right then I will move approval in items a b and d through G any discussion all in favor please say I I any opposed seeing none passes five to zero and all right do have a motion for approval on item C so move I'm move I'm sorry go ahead it's a second all right any discussion
047on item C all right all board members in favor please say I I I those opposed motion passes for zero and we can let our president back in 6A approval of contract change order two to the agreement with archo design build Inc for the 24-6 district office modernization site work project Miss Lind yes this is a um change order for the contractor doing the work in the back of the district office with the Ada accessibility ramps there were a number of unforeseen circumstances that led to this change order I would Point your attention to the very bottom though there is a deduction of unused allowance in this change order as well um we are coming hopefully to the near end of this project so um we're getting some money back in their allowance so I
048recommend approval I move to approve action item 6A I'll second any discussion seeing none all board members in favor please say I I any opposed passes 5 Z Item 6 B approval of the final division of State architect fees related to the 2 2-4 elag gundo middle school gymnasium project Miss Lind so these are the final fees to DSA as you know we have close out this project but we do the close out projects uh DSA sends us a final bill um so this is to pay that final bill and then the Middle School gym will be fully complete I recommend approval I'll second any discussion I just like how it's dated from 22 and here we are in 25 still like wrapping this up thank you for your continued diligence all board members in
049favor please say I I any opposed seeing none pass 5 Z well in line with finishing projects um Frank do you want to introduce the did you introduce Freddy you did in line it with finishing projects this next item 6C is the notice of completion for the districtwide hbac projects um we did have a su uccessful successful completion of that project we did replace approximately 28 HVAC units across the district so I recommend approval of of acceptance of the notice of completion I move to approve action item 6C second any discussion seeing none all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none passes 5 Z Miss Lind again um so again this is um acceptance of the work authorization letter number 14 with telu construction this is for our bond
050accountants so we do have an employee with telu who manages all of processing all of our invoices all the accounting filing all the state reports and making sure that we are on top of all of our finances for the bond um this will take us through summer of 20 26 um for this particular position and I do recommend approval I'll move approval second any discussion seeing none all board members in favor please say I I any opposed passes 5 Z Miss Lind again two more projects that we're finishing out so item 6E is the acceptance of the notice of completion for the um elago High School band and CBI building project this was again another successful project that has come to completion and I recommend acceptance of the notice of completion item six I'll second
051any discussion woohoo well board members in favor please say I I I any opposed seeing none is 5 Z and Miss Lind one more time I'm on a roll for completing projects um so this is the acceptance of the notice of completion for the Richmond Street six classroom building again another project finished thanks to the community members in Elsa gundo we heard Cheryl presenting tonight um great new buildings that our students have been in for um almost a year now so I do recommend acceptance of the notice of completion I move to approve action item 6s second any discussion seeing none um all board members in favor please say I I I any opposed I passes 5 Z thank you very much Miss Lind moving on to uh um section seven a this a public
052hearing comment on the CA and its chapter 71 proposal for amendments to the successor collective bargaining agreement with esusd for the 2024 2025 fisal Year miss fi do you want to address that at all or no I'll address the second one I just want to open it at this time okay yeah get in so um item 7B acceptance of the huh I am opening it yeah but isn't that what I'm doing here oh no we open it now okay sorry it's open at 652 thanks Tracy did it well and now I am closing the uh comment period at 653 so I will move on to to Item B now which is acceptance of cca's initial proposal for amendments to the successor collective bargaining agreement with esusd for the 2024 2025 fiscal year this is a
053sunshine proposal from our classified Union CSEA to the district asking to open negotiations and highlighting the three articles they wish to negotiate for the 2425 school year I recommend I recommend acceptance of The Proposal I move to approve action item 7B any discussion seeing none uh all board members in favor please say I I any opposed passes 5 Z it uh item seven c a public hearing to comment on the elaga Unified School District District proposal for amendments to the successor Collective bar bargaining agreement with CSEA and its chapter 71 for the 2024 2025 fiscal year is open at I'm closing the public hearing at 6:55 and moving on to item 7D acceptance of esd's initial proposal for amendments to the successor collective bargaining agreement with CA and its chapter 71 for the 2024 2025
054fiscal year Miss fi this is the response from the district to CSEA outlining the article articles it wishes to negotiate with them for the 2425 school year I recommend acceptance of The Proposal I'll move acceptance second any discussion seeing none all board members in favor please say I I any opposed 7D passes 5 to zero and on to section eight information pending action the consideration of the 2025 csba delegate assembly ballot and I'm going to show that it's just for board members consideration yes and moving on to section nine the informational [Music] calendar anything we have a special board meeting next Monday and then two board meetings on the 11th and 25th on item n financial statements from the high school ASB are available for review and moving on to item uh section 10 board
055members reports starting with Miss beachley okay so um I wasn't as busy this last couple weeks but I was one of the judges at the esusd spelling B last Wednesday and after 14 very impressive rounds Ellie Chan from Center Street inched out Irene Kim from Richmond Street and we'll be moving to the next level at the LA County Regional Championship which after we find out how well she does there hopefully we can honor um her here um congratulations to both of these young ladies for representing our schools and good luck to Ali as she moves for um I also attended the Center Street PTA meeting last Wednesday and they are very very busy at Center Street PTA um with their new vending machine they're putting new artwork all over the building they're um working on
056dances for the kids and the parents they're setting up a Cold Stones teacher scooping ice cream fundraiser they've got a bingo for moms at Richmond Street um to raise money for the fifth grade uh promotion and such always um run for education so lots and lots and lots of things um if you are available to help they are always willing to take more help and for whatever reason my computer is frozen so we're going to move into a different location I love technology it's kind of like when I was in the back um I am going to be at Center Street this coming Thursday for the talent show which will be at 5:00 in the high school pack which is very exciting president Glenn and I travel to Bishop Amat um to watch the soccer
057semifinal and why the result was not what we had hoped it was great seeing the number of friends and family we had a whole section the kids were there it was cheering it was um it was it was great to see so many kids that far away from home quite frankly so that was really nice to see um my SoCal Rock meeting was last night uh we got some exciting news our enrollment numbers are up again for spring semester I believe Elsa gundo has I want to say 60 which is exciting uh The Hop skip Drive cancelled rides are on the decrease so yay for those of you who are calling in if you are not going to be using that service and uh we did our second interim and our future is looking so
058much brighter than it did two years ago when I started with SoCal Rock um it's really fun to see the numbers in the black so that was very exciting um I'm also excited that um former board member Mike bryy is applying for the at large position which is going to be vacated by former board member n cob um when she leaves in June so um Mike was an asset to this board and was also a member of the SoCal Rock board um and so uh that would be a great addition to our board um at SoCal Rock and that is the end of my my report okay um my report is actually not just about schools it's about Community um on Saturday while everybody or you two were um attending the soccer game I was
059wearing my little league hat board member and I was setting up for opening day actually we did it Friday night but we had opening day on Saturday morning and we had our parade on down Main Street and ended at Brett field um and the really great thing we did this year was um I worked really hard with um uh East Altadena Little League they um they're a small little league with 150 um kids that play and 26 of them had lost everything in the fires so um beach cities um baseball academy and town wanted to donate all of their amount of money that they got for their Camp to East Altadena and our Els going to Little League match them so fourth ,000 went to East elaena um for funds and then I knew we
060could do more so I contacted them and they gave me a spreadsheet of all of the things that the kids would need and I put together signup genius and little leak sent it out the chamber sent it out um it was all over a lot of Socials um and we had so much gear come in and then um LLC is a organization that Mark bloom is a part of and he's a local resident in town and they saw it and they donated $5,000 to East Elena um and we were able to get two representatives from east aladen to come to our opening day that day and we presented all of the funds to them and then gave them a car full ride of um gear to take home and then I still have more coming
061to my house um and also I'm sorry with that um the community donated over $2,000 um and I was able to purchase a bunch of um gear as well um and then we had the son that um represented East altaa and a Frontline firefighter from elag gundo throughout the first pitch for so it was an amazing day and it was just something that the community should be so proud of because everybody came together and I know everyone was coming together to do so many things but is um you know baseball is kind of this town's thing and it brought you know a lot lot of joy to those kids and their families so and then ending my report with um our baseball high school team is undefeated right now they just won uh three to
062one against Carson and our softball team is doing amazing twoo and they've only lost one but they're playing tonight at 6:30 and that's the end of my report well thank you for that report Heather I was doing some quick math in my head head so the initial donation was 4,000 and then you decided to piggy back on that and get an extra 7,000 so that's great community support and great leadership on your part thank you so it definitely was a light week still in the month of February but it is wrapping up quickly I attended just last night the reflections art Awards we had 193 entries from our district we had one member or one student Advanced to the state level and the theme for the reflections contest this year was accepting imperfections and last
063night we had students talk about how they are trying to break away from being a perfectionist and uh being a secret or closeted perfectionist um I could so understand that you probably didn't know that you probably didn't know that about me but it it was definitely refreshing to be in that space to know like hey this is awesome other board members present was President Frank Glenn and of course our super excuse me I said supervisor superintendent all right um Grace mentioned this already she noted that tonight which I will as soon as we leave here I'll be scooting over to The Roaster for the open mic night for BSU and be very excited to see that so I'll keep this brief for ptas we have for the high school PTSA their next meeting is March
0645th at 6:30 p.m. and for Richmond their next PTA meeting is March 10th at 6:30 p.m. thank you yeah I think I'll join you at the smoke the H roosters we can get over there before they wrap it up um I will add uh kudos to the many high school students that were out at the blue butterfly Hillside rehab last week uh a week ago Saturday uh great turnout I think we had about 30 students out there and so it's pretty pretty awesome and um we had uh a lesson from one of the women who have established the Conservancy about the the different uh floral plantings we've done on purpose the ones that have shown up accidentally and trying to respect you know what what that and habitat needs to be so it was a
065great learning opportunity for the students as well as actual getting dirty getting the work done so it was great so thank you to all the students who came out to do that um in other greenish news I want to thank the environmental committee for the district for meeting again today and this time bringing it in Bright View to talk about environmental stewardship from their perspective which again thank you Kim for the partners that we have and bringing them into this effort to take care of our campuses and future better so we appreciate that um and I think that's all I have for tonight yes oh wait one thing sorry there's a LAX of meeting last night um and if anybody's interested in the presentation on U math adoptions that you want I can forward that
066to board members so I'll do that now I'm really done thank you so much H Tracy you left the door open because you forgot that you were at the facilities advisory committee yeah so uh um the big takeaway from that is that the um our our Administration staff is going to be scattering and the date for that is imminent so um we we uh we're going to be vacating the district offices and we have people at the high school and people at the middle school and and Richmond Street so I know you'll uh all be connected virtually but um you'll work work through it and that's going to be for about a year right and um that's really it I I also attended the reflections program last night and just want to um a shout
067out to H PTSA and particularly Kristen NEP who um gave a great presentation and um it was more than just like here's the winner here's the winner she um she brought color to it and it it was really nice and I was also at the followon meeting which was the PTSA council meeting because I just can't get enough of Cheryl Smith that's the end of my report thank you president Glenn um so I had the pleasure uh last week to attend uh a uh professional learning uh community uh professional development with Marissa um for Richmond and Center it was held in Westchester and just I highlight this because um this uh professional learning community structure was something that was developed by the principles and working with their teachers on the local level and then we
068as a district have adopted so we we were paying for the training this year and just a good example though of of great site leadership and seem like in in a high quality high yield um uh professional learning structure um that came from the local sites seeming like and you know and to me I do think the best answers are generated by people on the ground um and us working together in order to support that on a on a macro scale so uh looking forward to our budget workshop on March 3D uh talking about programs such as you PLC and to mean like you know looking forward for the next year and then two beyond that for a three-year budget uh the I'm I'm really looking forward to the AI student Le conference on March
0697th which is a non people day but uh I keep I was trying to explain at PTA I was like I was like I have no idea what it's going to be but I think it's going to be awesome you mean like student L AI you had me at hello so looking forward to that at the high school um just want to give a shout out to Ed Foundation you mean like you know who's uh in the the second run here of uh annual giving and just give a big thank you to those folks that do a great job marketing the district I mean like they they really have to go out there and sell um I think that's a really tough job and I'm just really grateful to that work I mean like and
070apprecia and humbled by it so thank you to those that have serve on the Ed Foundation um I also was at the PTA council's reflection and I just want to stress that uh that to me the thing that's most special is like there's a space where kids have an audience um and can perform and then you know something that I think is really cool too that they do is it's it's judged by professional artists in the community um so they you know get to have their look their work looked at like by artists and I so I just think that's a really unique opportunity and appreciated I want to give a h special special shout out to city council and our city manager uh Daryl um for uh green to house Arena uh High School
071um we're work we're put the final touches on the site uh but uh yeah I mean like we're pretty much we might as well just move the district to the City Hall as well too I mean like me and Daryl could shack up together in his office um um and then finally in the spirit of complimenting a colleague I I really want to give a shout out to Meredith who is the scr president I think it's hard enough to serve on a board period much less two boards um so special thank you I also think that um I have a I have a former colleague who is an employee at scr and so it's just really nice to know that scr has board members that are supporting and positive and want to see the program
072Thrive um and it's not just like a burden uh so I just you know we've talked a lot about SC and I just really appreciate that work it's a lot of work and so thank you for your leadership there and that concludes my report president Glenn thank you so we do not need to recess to close session so at 712 it's my pleasure to adjourn our meeting thank