Regular Board meeting 11/20/2025

001Everybody except that guy. That guy didn't show up. >> He should be exist. Okay. >> Good evening everybody. It's 5:41. Welcome to the Union School Board District November 20th meeting. This Monday Today is a regular board meeting of November 20th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. Members of the board in attendance. President Linda Chavez >> present. >> Vice President Andes Clinto. >> Clerk Men Fam >> present. >> Member Co Aloa >> present. >> Member Men Nuin >> present. >> Members of administration interim superintendent Sandra Garcia >> present. >> So we have quum. And so can we all stand for the pledge of allegiance? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. >> Good evening Mr. Carlos. Uh can you please

002>> Good evening uh board president. Good evening board members, superintendent and members of the public. Um remind me kindly item three. >> Okay. Oh, before we start, for those members who are Spanish speaking, we have interpretation services. We have headphones available in the table that's in the hallway. Um, item number three, Exist. That was item number three of section one. Thank you. So, we're gonna have the presentation. Miss in Superintendent Sandra, can you call your staff for the ethnic studies? >> Um, did we get through um reation of the agenda? Sorry. >> Uh, I'm just want to get right in there. [laughter] >> I was going to ask if we can move item 2.2 to um either right before the ethnic studies presentation or right after um they might want to see the presentation >>

003um from the Mexican council. >> Okay. Which one do you prefer? >> Um >> you said either or. So which one? >> It's a brief presentation, five minute presentation. We can do it right right away. >> Wait one second. We'll do the presentation >> of 2.2 first. first and then what did you say vice president? The second one was >> uh right before ethnic studies. >> Okay. Ethnic studies >> and that would be it. >> Thank you. Okay. >> Yes. >> Um, considering that we have Mak Maloney folks, First Nations people of this area, I'm wondering if you would consider having them the presentation go first and having them present since um, they are here and uh, ready to present before 5.2. If you all would be considerate enough to have 5.2 go after 3.1.

004>> I'll leave it up to the will of the board at this point. We have a motion. So, it's a very brief presentation. >> So, let's just keep the order we have because I don't see anybody second. Okay. >> I don't think anybody second to the first motion. >> Okay. Do I have a second on the first motion? I'll second. Okay. So, do I have a second on the third motion? Second motion. >> Move to adopt the agenda as amended. >> Okay. So, we'll put your item on third uh which will be the so that we will put 5.2 first then 3.1 item and then what item number is yours? >> That was temporal. >> No. >> Yeah. I was hoping that First Nations people can go first. before the Mexican consulate. >> 3.1 I

005was hoping that we could put >> No, excuse me. I just asked for the item number. >> So, no. >> Thank you. >> Uhuh. Thank you >> for considering [snorts] >> Okay. So, uh can we start with the 5.2 presentation? >> Uh first we're going to see if the agenda to adopt the agenda. Do I have a motion? >> Motion a second. >> Okay. And a second. I just want to make sure that um Miss got all that and so uh all in favor please raise your hand. >> Okay so opposed. Okay so 400. >> So we have two item number two going next. >> 401. Hold on. >> Yes. And then next is item two public members who wish to address. >> All right. I'm sorry. Um, you're talking while he was talking, so

006I heard what he said. I didn't hear what you said. >> I said it before him, but if you hear him first, that's great. >> Okay. All righty. So, let's move on to 2.2. >> Uh, the two, excuse me, item two. Um, >> let's just item two. There's no public members. >> So, item two, public members who wish to address the board. Um, thank you for being >> so. Oh my god. >> So, can you put the timer on, please? So, we're going to allow How many speakers are there for right now? >> Okay. So, we'll allow >> two minutes for 10 speakers each. Two minutes each. Okay. 10 speakers tops. Go ahead. >> Great. Hi, my name is Veronica and I am a parent of a child at San Antonio Elementary and I'm actually

007here uh to talk about the dysfunctioning of San Antonio and Lucha that is happening. Um the our students have been their social emotional has been impacted severely. Uh our teachers are actually fighting against each other and coming down with all that rhetoric. Unfortunately, it is not to fight Lucha. It is not to fight San Antonio. It is to fight this system. The system that got them there. The system that put them together and that has not provided any resources. The system that has not care about our children. My child started still harming because of instances that have happened within the school of the same kind. Um, I also want to talk about how the special education director has been asked to go and he has not gone. So, Mr. Tony, whenever you have a chance,

008please do stand over there at San Antonio and Lucha because they need your support. Um, as well as any of you going beyond the holidays, going beyond to take pictures and seeing how our schools are doing. We also heard that the Lucha uh where Lucha was before is going to be uh rented to a church that profit what's going to happen to that money because resources are actually they got cut down. Grail family service who gave tutoring one-on-one yes you can read has been cut down because they didn't have space that is not news to anyone. So resources have been cut down. uh the lack of any kind anything that coming down to the school has been cut down and continues to be hurting our children's social emotional well-being, their academic well-being, our families and

009our teachers. Thank you. Hello, my name is Rosio Okana and I'm a parent of San I have a child at San Antonio. Have a parent have a child at San Antonio. >> My son Isa since age three has been receiving speech uh therapy services. He's been exited from the speech therapy because of the amount of the case load of kids that she the therapist has. Antonio it's only one speech therapist for San Antonio and Lucha. >> I disagree with having him exited from the speech services but I had no there was no other option. in the same classroom that he's in. We have kids >> that are being supervised by uh young members from YMCA and some of the kids um haven't been di the school psychologist hasn't wanted to diagnose some of the kids

010that are in the classroom. the youth me, the young man from the YMCA or young lady takes some of the kids, takes them out there, >> and when the child is already, you know, calmed down, he brings them back into the classroom, what my son is learning every single day, >> that's a system that when you misbehave, they take you out of the classroom. Half an hour later, they bring you back into the classroom. I don't I don't want to say all the bad words that they these kids say every single day. >> I'm very concerned about it. Thank you. >> Yeah, board. I'm back. Uh you'll excuse my voice. I just got done rep uh coaching a match against Lea where our girls team absolutely smashed them. I think it was 46-2 or something

011like that and our boys lost 42 to 40 because we didn't have enough for rest all by four. But that's not enough about that. Uh we had six eighth graders who were recognized. We because we did not have a home match this year. Our eighth graders were not able to be recognized in front of their schooling. I'm hoping that's something that we can do. But my daughter Izzy, who is an eighth grader and former county champion from a year ago, she's looking to do it again. We have a lot of kids. I have can say there were two of you that I've seen at our matches. And one of us, we we we saw the excitement. Yeah. The others, let's see you get out there. Yeah. Our kids deserve it. We had the first match

012at Okala, the first match in that big gym. It was humongous. people all over the place and yet we didn't see you. Okay? We cannot saw and I just hear this. We cannot say that we are here for the kids and then not show up. We cannot say we are for the kids and accept money that when our kids need the money whether it's legal or not is irrelevant. Whether it's ethical that is what is important. By the way, last meeting or two meetings ago, I heard uh one of the board members said that another board member had gone to Disneyland. I looked into it. This person was at a conference for board members, which probably everybody should have been at. It's on leadership. If we're going to be leaders, if we're going to help

013our kids, we have got to stand up, take responsibility, put the money back in the kids' hands, let those who want to help the kids work and and learn. Let us do our job, but give us the at least the resources so that we can help these kids achieve something more. Thank you. [applause] Good evening, uh, Superintendent Garcia, uh, President Chavez and trustees. Uh, my name is Vince Tran, uh, proud and painter at Shephard, parent of three students at Shephard, uh, Painter at Shepard. And today, I just, um, I want to talk about something positive. I want to talk about how excited we are on your board agenda. Uh, I think it's on consent. Anyway, you know, it's uh our very first um painter PTA sponsored event that we've been able to put together. The

014PTA was formed uh in September. Um a lot of parents are really excited and engaged and want to contribute uh something meaningful to the school to bring more fun and to bring more spirit to the school. And so for the first time in a very long time, not only do we have a PTA, but we have a walk-athon. We're so excited about it. And uh so we uh really appreciate the board support of uh the PTA. If you're not familiar with the PTA's slogan, this is the state the state and the national PTA slogan. Uh it's uh every child, one voice. And we really are leaning to that as a PTA. And we want to be a PTA for all students and a PTA for all families. and anyone uh if you know can join

015the PTA whether it's the parents, guardians, even the students, community members and even board members. So we even invite you board members to join our PTA, right? Uh to put your name on the roster and contribute and and there's a lot of really exciting things happening at the school. Um and uh we just want to say that there's so many beautiful things happening at Painter really appreciate your support. Uh the staff is amazing, the school is amazing, and just really happy to be there. Thank you. >> Well, interim supervisor and uh trustees, it is critical that the board has accurata when making decisions about school matters. In December 2024, Trusty Sheldon asked how many students could fit in Fiser with the current accommodation and was told 1,200 students. This was incorrect because K through three

016class sizes are smaller than what was projected. The board was also told that the projected savings was going to be a million dollars through the merger. Parents highlighted this as incorrect and inaccurate. What's the current reality? Potential savings are now dropped to 500,000. To fit 1,200 students, you need to add at least eight additional rooms, if not more, which were not part of the design. And Fiser cannot safely handle 1,200 students. There is insufficient drop off area, parking or cafeteria space. Revenue considerations. Since last year, Advente 1 and 2 added 83 students, generating $1.2 million additional revenue than the previous year. So, it's not just about savings, it's about additional revenue. The school could still add revenue of approximately $400,000 without consolidization just filling it out. Consolid consolidation risks has high risk of losing between

017500 and $1.5 million because we have 84 families who are fed up and are ready to leave and it is real. The board should pause discussions around consolidization of the onto schools. Current projects should show the merger would reduce Alenrock revenue, strain facilities, negatively impact students, teachers, and families rather than provide the promise and benefits. It's time to stop and reset with real data. >> Um, hi. I'm a a parent and proud PTA member of Painter at Shepard as well. I just wanted to echo what Vince said. Um there's a lot of great things happening at Painter and um it's thanks in part to the the board's support of Painter um keeping us open. Um I mentioned in a previous board meeting that I our family is trans um from Beretta school district but we

018transferred into Elamrog because when when we toured painter we could really feel the strong presence of the administration the teachers and we believed in them. That's why we decided to move our kids out of Beressa into Elmrock. Um, we really appreciate the the great environment that's been set at Painter, welcoming, open to feedback, um, warm for the families. Um, and so I just wanted to put it out there that we are we appreciate the environment at Painter that's and the board support of uh, Painter. Thank you for listening. Hi, my name is Rosemary. I live across the street from Fiser Renaissance School that is going to be converted to the I believe Adilante. My issue isn't with the school. It's with all the traffic, with the parents dropping their kids off in the middle of

019the street, parking, leaving their cars there, honking, parking in my driveway, blocking my driveway, throwing their trash on the street. It's not safe for the kids when they drop them off in the middle of the street. They don't care. They don't live there. I do. It's the safety of our community that I'm worried about. And where are they going to park? There's not enough parking that they have right there. What are you guys going to do about that? That's my question. Hello. Uh my Diaz here, Adilante. I'm speaking to express my concerns regarding the consolidation team for Adilante and Adilante 2, specifically the transparency and equity of the selection process for this group. Recently, I was instructed not to attend further consolidation team meetings until there was a clear justification for my participation as Adilantes

0208th grade ELA teacher and as area Eboard 68 director. I attended the second meeting as soon as I became aware of it and intended to participate in the third. However, I was approached and discouraged from attending until my involvement could be justified. Justified. This is deeply concerning. I have been a part of Adilante's middle school team since before the middle school existed. I have continuously committed my time, expertise, and support to our program, our students, and our community. I had every intention to contributing collaborative collaboratively to the consolidation team. Instead, I now feel shut out of the process that directly impacts the future of our school community. My participation is important because the decisions made by this team will shape the culture, climate, and academic direction of the new unified adelante. Excluding voices with historical

021and instructional knowledge of the program is a disservice to the community we serve. Therefore, I respectfully request clear answers to the following questions. How was the consolidation team formed? Did all staff and community members from both Adelante campuses receive an equitable opportunity to participate? Is the current membership of this team exclusive or by invitation only? If so, who made these decisions and based on what criteria? Given the import given the importance of this work, it is critical that the process be transparent, inclusive, and fair for all stakeholders. I look forward to a clear explanation and corrective action if necessary. Thank you for your attention. You're the ninth speaker. I say good day, good evening in my chenya language. I'm the chairwoman for the Makma Aloney tribe of the San Francisco Bay area. Um, good evening

022board members and President Linda Chavez. I'm here today um because I was sh a video was shared with me on your October 23rd meeting based on the proclamation and land acknowledgement acknowledging our people of this area. But you read most importantly uh President Chavez, you read a letter from Zo Lofrren and I'm here to correct that letter. This letter is very troubling and it's falsehood. The assertion that Congress never recognized a tribe that was denied through the federal acknowledgement and administrative process. This is simply not true. And Congresswoman Zo Lofrren knows it very well. In fact, Congress voted to recognize Little Shell ban of Chipoa Indians in Montana in 2019 in the National Defense Authorization Act. Little Shaw had been denied in the process, the federal acknowledgement process just like we did under continuity just

023like we did. We were denied under the same facts. But what did Congress do? They corrected the administrative their administrative department's mistake and they took action because they have plinary authorization to do so. So Zolofran's assertion that they don't have authority to do it. It's wrong and very wrong around the community that you're reading this letter. I would like an apology from your board and Zolofran to correct that mistake and that falsehood because it's just plain a lie. This mere oversight is a deliberate misrepresentation. >> Thank you. >> One more. >> Thank you. That's it. Your time is up. Thank you. and this >> you're very disrespectful and we want to let that you understand that you don't speak on behalf of our people if you actually stand on the words of an oppressor who's

024actually been fighting us from day one. Your house is all are built on Mak Maloney territory and that's the blood of our land. That's the head of our chiefs. We understand our spiritual journey as we've been fighting since day one. Nobody here has the right to tell us in a political way that we are erased. What you are doing is erasing our families. Our children will be here to take on anything that you bring. As we are educating our children on all these political fights from the school systems we work with, San Jose State, Stanford University, we're raising our flag and you better be there on December 16th at city hall, San Jose. We are inviting you and we're also inviting you to find some healing at our ceremonies at Mishika Newu California nights when

025all of our community we invite in solidarity to come and join us with these ways of our words of our cultura. You have to understand what side you stand on when you're choosing the side of a a colonizer to tell us who we are on our own very land. This land is stolen and we will continue to fight as we traveled all the way to Washington DC. The trail of truth. Everybody, please educate yourselves and look it up. This is something we have a very, very strong passion to do and to continue our struggles. There's no rights that you hold as a relative. And I, yes, I identify you as a relative because you carry the same melanated skin as me. You don't sit in higher places with those colonizers who tell us that who

026we are. Your family has traveled here as a relocate, as a relative who's traveled and fought for their right to stay on this land. And we don't tell you to leave as you are a visitor. And we pray that your ancestors find you in the next world. You have to understand what we're about. And this is not a game. This is our fight for life. [applause] Okay. He was our 10th speaker. I'm going to allow you to speak. Okay. But you're going to be the last one. Go ahead. >> Okay. Um well, hello. Um one of the things um we we've been saying all along is that the numbers are incorrect because if you look at the numbers that um social works has been providing since 2020. As of right now, Atlanta one should be

027at 427, Atlanta 2 should be at 239 and Painter should be at 250. Where in reality, Alanta 1 is at 538, Atlanta 2 is at 433 and Painter is at 440. Dual immersion schools are different than the regular schools. The numbers have constantly gone up since since the co. So yes, all the other schools have gone down be before the mergers, but the dual immersion the three dual immersion schools have always gone up. So now we're saying, well, we're probably going to lose 10% if we merge Adalante one and two. That's $1.5 million to save $500,000. The math ain't math. How are we >> recording in progress >> losing $1 million a year to save 500,000? That's according to the numbers that's been provided. The 10% comes from last year when you when we were

028closing the schools. Those are numbers that all been provided by to the board or from the board that we've heard. So, you know, I'm not making this up. These are the numbers. So, compromise. Move just one adante. Move just one adant to the FER site because in reality, that's what's the most important is that you guys retain the Fisher site because of all the investment. One or two pick, but just move one of the sites. you have less likelihood of the pe of the students leaving because as we know the alleantes the dual immersion schools have the most kids out of district. So if the out of district kids leave that money is gone and mind you these a lot of these districts already have dual immersion schools but they choose to go to adalate

029one or two because the teachers they've been there for decades and they have a reputation and that's why they stay. Thank you. [applause] So uh on the special presentation, Miss uh interim superintendent pinha call your staff for the e ethnic studies presentation. Um consulate one first. >> Oops. >> Yeah, I think we're doing that one first. >> Excuse me. 5.2 item. >> Yes. >> On the consulate. I'd like to welcome um our Mexican consulate um representative to the podium. He has a very brief uh presentation for us. >> Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity, Mrs. Chavez and board. Uh my name is Uarez. I'm the deputy council general of Mexico in San Jose, California. And uh we are here in order to propose to the district a partnership in uh what would call education

030orientation window ventana the ducativa of the Mexican consulate. How do I do this? Like where is it? >> Okay. Okay. Okay. This is a a program created in the 1990s in and now is working in many of the Mexican consulates. We have 53 Mexican consulates just in the United States and around 40 of them have this uh program. The program is tries to provide free education, guidance and information to Mexican and Mexican origin communities and focus in access to education, revalidation of studies, scholarships, adult education, parental education and more. Okay. Uh facilitates access to educational opportunities both in Mexico and the United States. Helps families navigate school systems and understand academic pathways. promote lifelong learning and ex inclusion for migrant communities. Guidance on the US and Mexico education systems, all levels, information on scholarships and

031financial aid. Uh support for validation, accreditation of studies, adult education for parenting courses, distance learning and community workshops. As I told you there is four windows of the education bentas education as we call them in all over the United States. Uh the way it works is a the is a Mexican institute for institute in Alexander Alexor is a office inside of the foreign affairs office inside of the Mexican chancellors and it coordinates uh these works through local partners, fiscal agencies and the consulate staff. All partners follow EM operational guidance 2025. E and the consulate approve all agreements memorandum of understanding resources must be exercised within the frame of fiscal same fiscal year. The way is one express your organization interest to the consulate review the email guid guidelines and sample confirm capacity receive and administer

032funds and collaborate on the annual work plan with measure measurable goals. Thank you. This is well to be very very clear is just a proposal that is making the Mexican consulate to this district in order to be our partner in the f in now and in the future in this in this uh in this event. >> Vice President >> um Madame President I would um as a person who brought this forward I would urge my colleagues to support this effort. I think it's um it is a completely um straightforward common sense thing that we should engage uh program that we should engage in because it's funds coming from uh the Mexican government to collaborate with us to give support to Mexican nationals. Uh there's a lot of folks every day we receive at least 250

033people. We're talking about uh 1,250 people around every day, every every week. >> And so with that being said, you have a captive audience of folks right there. Obviously, not everybody's from Alro, but the vast majority are coming from Santa Clair County. They also have folks coming in from Montter and other districts, Santa Cruz as well. Yeah. >> But the vast majority of people are from Santa Clair County. That gives us a captive audience with which we can work to provide services in addition to encourage them to enroll in our schools. uh given the fact that we're in declining enrollment. I think this is a benefit that benefits us all. Um I have served with the with EM as I'm an alumni of their advisory body, the the Institute for Mexicans Abroad. Um it was

034an advisory body to the Mexican president. And so, um, I would encourage this board to, uh, uh, approve this action so that we can go ahead and engage with the Mexican consulate, have them come, uh, and have staff come back to us at the next meeting with anou that would allow us to move forward with this partnership. >> So, are you making a motion? >> Yeah, that's a motion. >> Do I have a second? >> Okay. So, we have a motion and a second. Any public comment on this item? >> Seeing no public comment. Any trustee comment on this item? Gracias. >> So as a chana from parents who migrated here from Sakatas, Mexico. >> Okay. >> Um proud uh you know to to have thisou um I think for me there were some questions

035because there was noou attached to my book. I didn't go into the umou. So, um I hear that there's money coming to this district that it would be a partnership where the Mexican consulate would support this district with resources. Well, is uh yes, it's to support this district with the Mexican consulate. But at the same time, we have to be clear that we do not only uh support people from San Jose or the eastern area of San Jose. The Mexican consulate in San Jose has jurisdiction well we call it different but jurisdiction over four counties in southern bay area. We are in charge of uh the Mexican affairs in the Mexi in the counties of Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and the Nito Notre and uh well we provide the services for all of them. But

036yes, the idea is that uh having [clears throat] a a um majority Latino population in this district. We believe [clears throat] that would be very important and very interesting for us to to help the people of the of this area especially. >> So you would be investing in our community. >> Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that we're not, you know, putting money out. Again, >> we're not asking for money on the contrary. No problem. We are I just wanted to make sure that that was said out loud. And as the oldest in my family, my mom still depends on me to, you know, help connect. So, she actually comes here from Alama County and brings my Theo who needs services to get services. They were just there a couple weeks ago at

037Kin Sophicina. So, thank you so much for providing resources not just to San Jose, but the greater Bay Area as well. So, yes, I'm our my family has been a beneficiary of your services there. Thank you so much. Um, so that was just my main question just because I didn't see it in my board book and I uh didn't get it. Um, and so thank you so much. That was just important. Thank you for investing in our community here at >> I I I would like to say that uh the Mexican consulates have we can say uh prelexs to work. One of them is documentation. Another one is the protection of the of the rights of Mexican people in this area. And the third and very important one is the help to the community, the

038the development of the community. And uh we have been doing that for the last we can say 30 years and we develop more and more different programs. One of them is the educational one. We have another talking about health. We have another talking about the rights and help to the original communities of Mexico that live here especially where we actually our council of commun of communades she is one of them. She's uh she's part of a original uh group in Mexico and we're very proud of that. Uh, vice president. >> Yeah, I just want to make sure they were abundantly clear because in the agenda, it clearly said that this was directing staff to move forward and explore an MOU and then bring an MOU back for the board's consideration. Yeah, >> there was never

039any mention of an MOU already being developed. So, I want to make sure that people don't think there's some underhandedness or something's being um uh, you know, kept from the public. the agenda was very very clear saying uh staff go out there develop an MOU and then bring it back for the board's consideration by the first meeting in in in December. In addition to that, I want to underscore that um I was fascinated to see the having visited the Mexican consulate for services myself um to see the uh direction that uh the government has taken. A lot of people go out there and say, "Ah, Mexico, it's a backwards country or there's no um it's not underdeveloped." And uh we walk in under the under the the leadership of President Shimbam, we've seen significant changes

040obviously as well uh where we walk in and there's an elderly woman happen to be there with a guy who happens to be a staffer for another elected official and she happens to be his grandma. He's walking her in and they say, "Hey, come on over. You're an elder." and then you you were you were entitled to come up to the front of the line. That was fascinating to see a government agency that's proactive that has rules in place that allow the elderly to be able to function in a society where when their body is now giving out, it's weaker. They're able to come on up and take the services that they need. having uh having a son who's autistic. Um the staff was proactive, observed that there was something there, obviously was very very

041careful not to make any diagnosis, but they said, "Hey," and so eventually we said, "Yeah, he's" and they're like, "All right, get up to the front of the line." Um understanding that those folks that have uh children with special needs deal with the particular situation of having to be looked at as if um you're, you know, you're you're a leper or something's wrong with you. why don't you slap that kid? And um and so we avoided that by uh that that shaming uh by being allowed to uh staff taking into account his condition and moving him up to the front. And uh and so just wanted to make sure to underscore that uh there's significant changes. People have these outdated notions and ideas. uh Mexico has a government that uh has a quota system and

042it requires certain number of seats to be occupied by women in their congress% >> half of them has to be women >> and so um those are the things that I just want to underscore as we have the representative from the consulate here uh to um some of the observations I was able to make myself and uh to kind of dispel some of those uh outdated notions that people have from whenever they were kids or whatever. So those are my >> Okay. I want to say something now. Um you said rules >> rules in place. So under item I I just want to um uh put uh this on notice and you can also see that we also the district provides the agenda for the public and under item five superintendent board business board discussion

043andor action. So it is okay to take action. Before we do do the vote, I just want to let you all know that it is on the uh agenda here under uh superintendent for business. Go ahead, >> Mr. of the motion and I thank you for coming here to present to our district, you know, with so much of our student population of Mexican heritage. I hope I look forward to a positive discussion between district and the Mexican consulate. Uh I hope that we can have a good and strong partnership that serves uh our community. >> Thank you, sir. >> And one more thing, and I'm glad to see you here. Uh you guys do good work, and I know that that is one of the steps that must be taken in order to uh retain

044citizenship or green card. And I thank you for being here. And so now we're going to go for the vote. Okay. All in favor, please raise your hand. So the vote passes unanimously. 5 Z. Thank you. >> Thank you, M. >> So on the next item, uh 3.1 item, we're going to have Miss Intram Superintendent Sandra, can you please ask your staff for the ethnic study presentation. >> I'd like to welcome Wyatt up to the podium. Um she is going to uh present an overview of the ethnic studies curriculum development um and the co-phase uh co-design phase and outline the key operational milestones achieved in preparation for this spring pilot. And she also has one of our students with us this evening um and she will um be sharing with you um his role. Thank

045you. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Good evening, President Chavez, board trustees, Superintendent Garcia, colleagues, and members of the community. My name is Wyatt, and I've been given the honor of serving in partnership with all of you as the diversity, equity, and inclusion coordinator here in academic services at the district office. We'll begin our time together with a land acknowledgement from one of our brilliant student leaders who is a member of our black student union at Okala Middle School and our district-wide student advisory committee. His name is Bmani Trinidad. Welcome Bmani. [applause and cheering] >> Hello. My name is Trinidad. I am >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can barely hear you. If I can >> Thank you so much. >> Let's close the door. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Pardon the interruption. Hello,

046my name is Bmani Kiwi Samuels. I am Yaki and uh uh Tyena or wait Tiana, sorry. We um today I will be reading the um land acknowledgement on behalf of the Mo Tribe. We acknowledge that Santa Clara uh Santa Clara County and our schools occupy the unseated territory of the Makma alone tribe sovereign tribe and original people of the skies land and waters where we work on and learn. The Makma aloney people are the stewards of these lands and of the teaching and learning that come from and responds to the needs of [clears throat] of the land and people who share it. May our daily lives and work, research, teaching and community enga engagement support the evolving vision of Makma Maloney for their community and these lands. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you so

047much Bmani and Makma community. Thank you for being here. All right, friends. So, we are going to get to an update. I'm very excited. I will go as quickly as I can. Um, so the ethnic studies model curriculum is the California Department of Education's guidance for how educators are to serve the Assembly Bill 101 for ethnic studies to be a mandate for all high school students to receive one semester of ethnic studies coursework between their freshman and senior year to complete their A3G requirements. Our entire programming for our district and code design is grounded in its principles and its guidance. We will ground our journey on the progress of our programming through the model curriculum. Our first guiding quote for the district's codeesign team is as a field ethnic studies seeks to empower all students

048to engage socially and politically and to think critically about the world around them. It is important for ethnic studies courses to demonstrate the experiences of people of color in order for students to construct counternarratives and develop a more complex understanding of the human experience. Through these studies, students should develop respect for cultural diversity and see the advantages of inclusion. In order for our system to be effective in housing an ethnic studies program that is robust, rigorous, and authentic, there is groundwork that needed to be laid first. Multicultural representation and celebration in and throughout the entire district is a crucial first step to laying the foundation of the culture that needs to be just the natural way that Alamrock will go about our business. Designed to meet Alamrock's mission of together with stakeholders, we will provide

049Alamrock students with high quality 21st century learning that builds upon our culturally diverse community to prepare our students to be lifelong learners and compete for the careers of the future." End quote. I created a space this year called cards celebrating Alam Rock's diversity squad of which some of the members are here in attendance tonight that meets our that meets monthly to work on the implementation of our representation matters literacy initiative. There's about 40 30 members from diverse personal cultural backgrounds as well as grade levels and sites throughout the district. Every single classroom, front office, and district department, district office department received two books per grade level band. The grade level bands are TK to grade two, grades three through five, and then grades six through eight to honor and celebrate each month's theme along with

050flyers for every single door and giant posters for main gathering spaces like staff rooms, front gates, and front offices. So, I showed this month because it's this month. The bit.ly in the QR code lead to an instructional toolkit that range from six to 10 pages long as we are continuing to grow and build each month's toolkit. Inside the toolkit is vetted lesson plans, unit plans, resources like primary sources of photographs, interviews, videos, a local community events calendar for families to engage with, vetted classroom library book lists, and daily announcements to be read in every room or over the announcements at every single site each day of the year. And we've started to add a slide deck with images to accompany each of these daily thoughts. We're also holding monthly community webinars that is open to

051the public on Zoom from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. You'll get parent square messages about those. Please join us where the co-host has been teachers and students who identify as members of the community that we are honoring each month and we share updates on what's happening at sites as well as informative background on what those friends would like families and educators to know about their culture and be pushing forward for our students. To ensure authenticity and relevance, I've been working really hard with state level and local ethnic studies educational leadership organizations and groups. For example, this month's toolkit and professional development offerings were grounded in the materials that I've been trained on in being a member of the California Indian Educational Leader Pathway Cohort, collaborating with the Amamuten Tribal Band, as well as the authors of

052the California Department of Education's Native American Model Curriculum, as well as indigenous teacher leaders from our own classrooms to ensure that 100% of our materials in all 10 pages are indigenous and native designed. I am also turnkeying as fast as possible other units and lesson materials that I get my hands on in these spaces and facilitated what's about to turn into communities of practice because teachers asked for it after uh attending the first one which was the California Department of Education's Native American model curriculums Native American survival and resilience during the mission period source investigation to encourage our teachers to take a critical eye our fourth grade teachers and how and what we do to teach these California history standards and ensure that our materials are grounded in pedagogy that is indigenous created and primary

053sourced materials. The next section of our model curriculum that guides our next layer of work we're doing comes from page eight and I quote by affirming the identities and contributions of marginalized groups in our society. Ethnic studies help students to see themselves and each other as part of the narrative of the United States. This helps students see themselves as active agents in the in inner ethnic inner ethnic bridge building process that we call American life. So while working on districtwide a district-wide culture that I've named in celebrating and centering communities who have been historically on the margins, work has been done in our student advisory committee to create space and a pipeline for empowerment and agency in the form of civic engagement. So Bmani was a wonderful example of a student who is a part

054of this group and we have gone to great lengths to bring our students to numerous spaces. Um we are bringing we brought them to when our sorry when our students are inundated with a constant focus on celebrating diversity and centered representation in the curriculum that they receive in and throughout their day. And then they strengthen their civic engagement tools and learn how to help organize and implement district-wide weeks of action in Days of Honor like we just had last Friday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day. How to navigate advocating for what they want and what they need by learning how board policy works, how board meetings work, how to present in these spaces, how to feel comfort comfortable and centered in spaces where they have sometimes been historically excluded. We've brought them to Sacramento

055numerous times to meet with senators Senator Corteesey with his bus for education. We have brought them to California Native American Day for three years in a row where they have met with community leaders and tribal groups and members and made connections to bring back to our district to continue partnering with when they learn how to work with senators, how to talk to congress people and how to work with our city council members like organizing helping us organize for the Cinco de Mayo parade with Peter Ortiz, our council member. Then our students can start to see the vision and the goals in their mind and in their bodies. It will become habit of body and mind that civic action can be taken once they learn the localized history and current events within the local place-based ethnic

056studies coursework and get to the point of considering the critical thinking around well now that I've learned this what is it that I can do about it. Our students will gain these tools through what we've been working on. So to the left you can see that one of the tasks that I had our student advisory students work on was to help co-design a survey for all middle school students because we are starting to design our ethnic studies curriculum from grade 8 and we're articulating down. So grade 8 is done this year, six and seven next year and then we'll start elementary. Although we do have some things happening in elementary like I named the grade four things. Um, our students made this survey, sent it out, and then they helped to make sure that all

057of the students in middle schools, we got over 600 responses. It's pretty good. Um, to answer to the question, what do you want to learn about for ethnic studies content? So that our codeesign team is answering to their wants, their needs. Um, on the right, you can see this is our student advisory helping to organize for Ruby Bridges Day. And we also had support from the Black Student Union under Miss Veronica Telton at Okala. Okay. Our next section is from pages 8 as well as page 77 in ethnic studies model curriculum. In ethnic studies, it is crucial to focus not only on understanding oppression and fostering compassion, but also on recognizing advances in ways that promote student agency. This begins with each teacher seeing the assets and strengths every student brings to the classroom. Students

058should leave an ethnic studies class knowing their choices matter and compelled to think carefully about the decisions that they make, realizing that their choices will ultimately shape the world. End quote. So, as I said, we actually had an ethnic studies design day today, which is amazing. So, I was able to put in one photo from today. My co-f facilitators are people that I've been working in the ethnic studies and HSS, that's the history, social science um framework space for the last 15 years of my career. Dr. Daisy Martin, um she is the history director of UCSC history and civics projects and lecturer at UCSC and also Mark Gomez who is ethnic studies coordinator history and civics project. He's also a teacher supervisor at UCSC. Um so these are some of the spaces that we have

059shared in and they are my co-f facilitators leading our co-design. Um thank you for stopping by today. That was amazing. So while all of this has been building in the districtwide sorry in the districtwide culture and climate that's how we are preparing the entire district to be ready for ethnic studies coursework. We've been co-designing that very first semester of curriculum with our eighth grade ELA teacher leaders. Today we actually landed on our first two units and I'm really excited about the guiding questions that we've landed on and uh our first unit design day is going to be January 22nd. So we'll probably have our first unit done by the end of January. Um we have eight full release planning days this year. We'll have two units ready to pilot by the end of the spring.

060Uh, oh, we are also working hard as you see on the bottom right hand corner that we are articulating down because Mark and Daisy also work with the east side ethnic studies coursework and so we are in close contact with them. I've been collaborating with them for over a year so that we are articulating down from high school is specifically Overfelt James Lick and Independence so that our courses will will prepare our students so that the information that they will be entering in high school is very comfortable to them um next year. Actually, I'll get to that in another slide coming up. Okay. So, since we know that Assembly Bill 101, the ethnic studies mandate, is only for one semester of ethnic studies per student within their four years of high school, we, the Alamrock

061School District, did something really exciting by passing a board resolution and offering this opportunity for all students, grades TK to 8, which is very innovative, and we are the only district in all of California who has committed to do that. We also had to be creative about how we can legally teach this coursework since we don't have a zero period yet that houses ethnic studies content only. We chose English language arts for the middle school space because the history social science standards do not align with what we would like to be teaching with the guiding principles from ethnic studies. What we can do is take our curriculum alignment work that we are doing under the guidance with our partnership with Arenda and we are taking that assessment matrix, those standards using those assessments and for

062two cycles out of the five the content will be ethnic studies teaching those ELA standards through ethnic studies guiding principles and content. Okay. Then we will do grades six and seven next year as we are piloting and going through multiple feedback and iteration sessions from board members, community, families, students and educators. Then six and seven will start to build their curriculum next year. And while they are iterating and through their feedback processes, we will continue to focus on our elementary ethnic studies does move at the speed of trust and the partnerships that we are creating are deep and longasting so that things are done ethically, morally and with the intention of the communities and voice of the communities driving what goes in our materials. Every district will tell you that it takes three to five

063years to get ethnic studies from a dream into classrooms. We will have our first units ready at year three and we will have all units ready by year 5 to six and that is nine grade levels that we are discussing. So as long as we can keep our commitment to this and keep going at the full speed that we are, we will have them covered within five to six years. every grade level, every classroom. Almost done, friends. Okay, here is the just a visual of the timeline. So, you can see visually because universal design, multiple means. I wanted you to also be able to see what I was just saying so you can see where we are right now in 2526 with grade 8 and then you can see how it rolls in all of

064the grade levels as we move forward. The last one that's covered up over there is 2728 if I just counted right. Yeah. Okay. So, the two first themes that we've landed on today, I believe our essential question for the first unit, I want to give you a sneak peek is potentially what is the role that sports and athletes have played in moving forward for movements of justice. Um, and we are going to be rolling in also art and music. So, we've planned out mostly everything except for the specific readings and stimuli that we'll be using, but we have our assessments to backwards map from. Now, we have our guiding question. Our essential standards are done and by the end of January, we should have a product full for one unit. All right. I wanted to

065just name so everyone is on the same page that the following eight essential outcomes for ethnic studies. This is from the model curriculum and what we are designing each and every lesson in unit 2 as well. Here are the outcomes. Outcome number one, a pursuit of justice and equity. Outcome number two, working toward greater inclusivity. Outcome number three, furthering self-standing. Outcome number four, developing a better understanding of others. Outcome number five, recognizing interexuality intersectionality. Number six, promoting self-empowerment for civic engagement. And number seven, supporting a community focus. I wanted to end on a thought. The power of our ethnic studies programming speaks for itself as it continues to grow in collaboration with educators, students, and families, local politicians, and community partnerships. I share a short 30- secondond video. This was our first time that our

066ethnic studies, some of our students from um Louvia Solis's classroom that was at Renaissance at Fiser, we got to help plan with Peter Ortiz and the city of San Jose for um the Cinco de Mayo parade. And this is a moment that really resonated with me and how I know this curriculum is going to move with community and partnership. So, thank you, Louise. [music] Right. Next studies ROCK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. YEAH. REPRESENT. OKAY, that's where we're headed. Thank you, friends. [applause] >> Um, go ahead, Vice President. >> Um, so >> I want to thank you for the excellent work that you're doing. Um, one of the best ways of um of seeing the results of the work that you're doing is or or that the work that our staff is doing out there is when

067we get excellent feedback from the community. I meet with a lot of people who unfortunately I can't remember this fell's name but he was giving great remarks about the work that you're doing here and the engagement that you've had with him and at some point I don't remember probably at midnight tonight and I'll send you an email. >> Thank you Trusty. I appreciate that. >> But so thank you so much for that work. Um, additionally, I wanted to I I had asked this a long time ago, but uh San San Jose City College had talked about setting up a a certificate for those faculty that don't come with from an ex ethnic studies background. >> Was there any sort of um followup on that to see if they pursued it or anything like that? Because

068I think that it would be important if you're going to >> I would love that. I know that there's professional development, but a certificate might wind up getting people the tools that they need fully implemented and so it was it was brought I think we even had a presentation here a long time ago, but it I don't think it went anywhere. So, >> might have been before I was here. >> Yeah, no problem. It was a long time ago. So, >> in there's a way of looking at that and seeing if they've done any progress on it. Um, that might be >> I'll jump on it now. >> A resource for our uh faculty to to tap into. Thank you so much for that, trustee. I really appreciate that. We'll follow up on that immediately.

069>> Okay. Well, thank you so much for the presentation. I'm glad to see uh you know, the work is doing well. You know, just the fun. Did you guys enjoy the Cinco de Mayo parade? I I think Herrera and I worked that one and I guess we missed you guys >> along the way. We were at the Oh, okay. I missed it. I did the afternoon. So, >> we were a small crew then. Don't worry, we're growing in numbers. [laughter] >> I know. >> Thank you, Trusty. >> First of all, thank you for your hard work. I know that you came in and it was like sink or swim, do all this. So, um, you know, starting with I mean, you've gone through three superintendent, some that were like do it, some that were like

070pause, don't do it, and then now we're here. So, I just want to thank you for staying consistent, staying on it, your hard work. I've been a witness because I've been at many of the events, the Low Rider event, you know, the Cinco de Mayo, the um I've been there to see you. I've been at Sacramento on the bus with you guys. Um the power lunch, you know, those were my shoes. I'm wearing the same ones today. I'm like, do I have any other shoes? Um but, you know, I've been there and I've seen you at work. So, I appreciate you just making it happen, you know, and um I know it's hard sometimes like, >> you know, I I feel like some teachers maybe not with you like trying to make sure everybody's going

071in the same direction, right? Focusing on our children and ensuring that our children are learning the best, right? learning about the first nations people of these lands. First of all, Moak Maloney, ensuring that we learn the right information, the truth, um about the differences with one another, uh all the different um things that we get to learn when we go to college. And some of us until our, you know, late teens, 20s are like, "What? I've been taught all these lies." So, um, you know, I just want to thank you for your work and also having been here um, long enough, I do want to highlight in 2020 when we were going through a COVID and I was board president at the time and the 150 community members at least, I think it was a

072little more because we sat there and those of you that were here sat and heard each and every one of them and their comments um, and support on the resolution that I brought forward then. Um, thank you for that. >> And so I want to thank those community members that were here advocating and pushing each and every one of us to vote yes on something like that. Um, so that was in 2020. So I mean we're not late. You're on time. But you know, I do want to highlight that I know the work has started. There was a initial committee that was formed before we brought you on. Um, but I really want to thank, you know, the district leadership when we said we need to hire a Wyatt to make sure that this gets

073implemented and um is sustained for good. You know, there's no uh good in passing a resolution that's cute, that sounds great, that people are happy about that they clap, but then it gets placed on a shel on a, you know, shelf and nothing happens. This here is what it is to create um you know sustainable changes um in a policy and making sure that when we leave we leave it better whether we're here for a little bit or a long time. Um and I think one of the most important ones for me and I know we had a conversation so you might want to share um is that fourth grade mission project. You know my daughter who's now a junior in high school had to do the same one I did years ago. same exact

074one, right? And she was in fourth grade. And she told me, "Mom, can we put little red dresses to highlight the missing and murdered indigenous woman on this white mission, right?" And I said, "Absolutely." But it took a parent, right, who shares about all these things and goes to different workshops for her to be like, "Can we do something different?" So, the fact that our children won't won't be doing that in the future, this mission project will be gone, you know, that to me is a big win. Um and I know it's the hard work that you are all putting in and the fact that Alam Rock is the only district in California is because of not you know one person is about the community who came together and said we need this in Alam

075Rock. So I just want to my like my dream come true to see my nephew Bmani doing the land acknowledgement. I mean all the things and I we didn't even coordinate like I always see him at events and I'm like what you're here too and it's so awesome um you know to see youth and um you know have youth like Bmani be uh so inspirational too to the other your youth and other peers. Um so thank you so much Miss Wyatt for leading this effort. >> Thank you. Powerful parenting trustee. [applause] Okay. So, I want to thank you for coming here today, Miss Wyatt, and I know all the work that you've been doing and even going to Sacramento and um we had the conversation and even all the little books that you're giving the

076children in Miami American that was great and it still keeps sticking with me uh after you uh showed me it. And I did like what you said is that ethnic studies do move at the speed of trust. And it is so right. And so, uh, I want to thank you and I want to see all the little kids in CO de Mayo even more out there. Um, and thank you for everything you do and I want to see more. >> Board President, can I just I just want to thank Wyatt for all of her work. I want to thank her for her courage and her perseverance through all of this. Um, you know, even on the days where she's doubting herself on things that are happening and work she's doing, she gets right back up

077and works for the kids and the community. I just want to tell you that we're very proud of you and grateful for everything you do. Thank you. >> I Miss Wyatt, I do have a question. Um [applause] I was kind of cut off. It's okay. [laughter] But um you said that you asked the kids, "What do you want to learn in or about ethnic studies?" What was probably the number one question? >> We we did that data today and analyzed it and the the top So there's a few ways to answer this. the the most common answers were actually around uh wars and refugee status which we believe we are going to place in seventh grade as that aligns with curriculum that we already have with long walk to water and ELA and also social

078studies standards so that'll be great alignment there was also cho history low riders was a really common theme um and there was a there was also placebased themes in and throughout their answers so some some of the students that we may not have really even realized were uh of Japanese heritage. There was a lot of voice around internment and we have Japan Town here. Um but local place-based things were also popping up. >> Okay, thank you. >> And I can share that data with anyone who is >> uh can you send it to me? >> Absolutely. >> Okay, thank you. >> Thanks. >> Um okay, thank you very much. >> [applause] >> So the next ones >> is 4.1. >> Sorry for cutting you off. >> No problem. >> I thought you were done. >>

079Hey, I don't mean to do it to anybody else. I don't take words. >> Okay. So, comments and communications. Is the uh teamsters in the room? Uh no teamsters. presentation. We don't usually take public comment. >> Okay. So, moving on. Moving on to California School Employees Association, CSEA. Miss Sharon says she couldn't come here tonight. Moving to number three, Alam Rock Educators Association area. Miss Sandra Ria. Good evening board president, trustees, superintendent, and members of the Alamrock community. Tonight, I have the privilege of introducing Miss Maria Martinez. Maria, [laughter] >> hey, pay attention. She's gonna ask you questions. As area's new vice president, >> Maria >> [applause] >> Maria is a dedicated educator, a tireless advocate, and someone who leads with both heart and clarity. We are grateful to have her stepping into this role

080at such a pivotal moment in Alamrock. And we know we will she will continue to champion the voices of educators, students, and families with strength and integrity. As we approach our Thanksgiving break, this is also a time to pause and count our blessings. In the midst of everything happening around us, we still have so much to be grateful for. Our students who show up with resilience and curiosity. Our educators and staff who bring educa energy, compassion, and commitment into our classrooms every single day. And our community which continues to believe in the power and promise of public education. But gratitude does not erase reality. And the reality is that we are only in the fourth month of school and a tremendous stress on both the staff and students is undeniable. This year has not been

081easy. With ongoing transition and the push to reimagine Alamrock, many of us are still finding our footing. And that is exactly why we cannot continue with business as usual. In moments of transformation, a district needs strong leadership, a clearly defined vision, and a plan that brings everyone together. Not a plan brought forward after decisions are made, but a plan created with teachers, classified staff, parents, and students at the table from the beginning. Educators show up day in and day out. We are the ones motivating students, reassuring families, carrying out the vision that this board sets. Yet too often, we are made to feel like an afterthought in the very decisions [laughter] that shape our classrooms and our schools. Throughout this time of transition, educators have given the district grace. We have adjusted. We have adapted.

082We have stepped up because that is what we do. But grace is not the same as silence and respect is not the same as being left out. We are looking to you, our board, to guide with stability and clarity. But we are also asking you to include us fully in this process. Use the expertise, the experience, the relationships of the people who bring your vision to life every single day. We are here. We are willing. and we want to be a part of building the future of Alam Rock, not just witnessing it from the sidelines. A few Saturdays ago, area sat in on the board session and we saw something important. We saw your dedication, your willingness to wrestle with big questions and your genuine desire to do what is in the best interest of

083everyone in this district. That gives us hope. It reminded us that despite our challenges, we share the same mission. So tonight, we ask you to lean into that commitment. Be the leaders this community elected you to be. Listen to your educators and staff. Work with us, not around us. And help us push Alam Rock into the next hundred years of excellence that we know is possible. Together with strong leadership, shared vision, and true collaboration, we can reimagine Alamrock into the district that not only meets the needs of our students today, but builds the foundations for generations to come. Thank you. [applause] Um, Alamrock Administrators Association, good luck going after that. [laughter] I'm gonna end it with a bang. >> Good evening, President Chavez, trustees, and superintendent Sandra Garcia. I'm excited to co-share um a few

084highlights from across all of our incredible school sites. At Hubard, their fifth grade leader uh leaders hosted a remarkable group of girls from the Hubard Media Arts Academy at the 2025 NWSL awards in San Jose. They even took the stage as a as official trophy presenters and met inspiring athletes. At Lindale, they had their amazing grand opening of the Positivity Palace, a new student store and leadership space. The palace recently celebrated 200 Lindell Lions who met their monthly attendance goal with certificates and a spin of the prize wheel. At Aptitude, we had an incredible turnout for our dito celebrations on nove on November 7th. Many community partners join us and we were grateful to welcome Peter Ort Ortiz, Trustee Kina Dealoa and Trusty Minfam. Tomorrow we are looking forward to our annual career on wheels

085for our TK3 grade students followed by our career fair for fourth and fifth grade students in our cafeteria. Painter is super excited to partner with the San Jose firefighters random acts of for spring and fire Joe collaboration that will bring engines, the sharks fire truck and donated books and sports gear to students. Painter is also preparing to send two classes to s to the San Jose earthquakes event on December 11th for achieving top three attendance in the district. They look forward to uh the winner showcase which is on December 9th. Good evening. I'm Kelsey White. I am the principal of Okala and I would like to share that Okala students showed tremendous spirit yesterday during our annual turkey trot organized by Coach Lewis and his team. Uh, Coach Lewis and his wife Bobby also generously

086donated gifts to several of the Okala families um along with the city peach peace project which provided 16 turkeys to um some of our Okala families. Uh, we also want to celebrate the Okala choir and their director, Miss Talton, for their outstanding performance this past weekend at the Santa Clara men's basketball game. Ryan celebrated Ruby Bridges Day with district staff reading to our first through third graders. This month, they are recognizing students who exemplified the character trait of respect as part of the student of the month program. Adelante had a successful Leando Vajo de lases event on November 14th. A huge thank you to their wonderful families and staff who made this possible. Wrestling season is off to a great start. They have a strong team and are bringing in medals in the top four.

087Thank you all for your continued support of our schools and the incredible opportunities we're able to provide for our students. >> [applause] >> Thank you. Uh, interim superintendent, Miss Sandra Garcia. >> Yes. Good evening, everyone. I would, um, my messages will be short tonight. I just want to welcome Dan Burns as our interim assistant superintendent of instructional services. Uh, we're very fortunate to have him on our team and I want to thank him for joining us. Um, I also just want to say um that, you know, during this season of giving and gratitude, I want to express my sincere appreciation to every person on the LMR team um for showing up every day to serve our students and our families. It's truly an honor to lead in a district with so much heart. I just

088want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Okay. Um so item 5.1 uh report and recommendations of ad hoc advisory subcommittee regarding the improvements to former renaissance at Fiser site for consolidation of one and two. Thank you Mr. Eric. >> Um I'd like to begin first I just want to give a little bit of background on this item before I turn it over to um Mr. Wasinger. So, um, at the October 23rd regular board meeting, the board voted to form a board ad hoc committee composed of two members of the board, two board members and the superintendent to research and provide recommendations regarding the consolidation of Adilante 1 and Adilante 2 at the former Fiser Middle School site. This action followed the October 9th special meeting during which the board received a presentation, held a discussion,

089and reviewed updates on bond and facilities projects, including the planned improvements needed at the Fiser site to accommodate Adilante students and programs in the 2026 2027 school year. During that meeting, the board noted that several planning, logistical, and budget issues still needed to be resolved. To help ensure clear direction, superintendent requested the appointment of an ad hoc committee that would allow board members to participate directly in discussions with consultants regarding budgeting and implementation. The role of the ad hoc committee was to gather and evaluate information on the most effective and prudent approach for merging the two Adalanta sites. This included consulting with experts and reviewing alternatives related to facility upgrades and project timelines for the Fiser site. The committee does not have independent decision-making authority. It was tasked with presenting its findings and recommendations to

090the full board by the December 18th meeting for further discussion, consideration, and any necessary action. Now, Eric will um share a presentation um on the three proposed plans. >> Thank you, trustees. Thank you, Superintendent. Um good evening. Um as expressed, Eric Wasner, senior executive of Bonds and MLT, this is the um giving knowledge of what our meeting was on on the 10th. On November 10th, we had a meeting and present. We had the board president, the board vice president, uh, Sandra Garcia, interim superintendent, Nathan Thelm, who's a consultant that works with us as an architect, and myself. So, the five of us had a meeting, kind of presenting all this information to the ad hoc committee, and then we kind of discussed it, and now we're reporting out what we discussed. Since that meeting, we

091keep working for forward. And so, there's some of the slides that have been a little changed from the first meeting, but we've dug a little deeper. And so I'll kind of go over that information with you um as we go forward. But um so in case you've seen the draft from the first time, this draft is just a little different but not much. So as we know the project goals is moving into Fiser uh site of course combining autoante one and autoante 2 some of the key factors is of the TK the class size is 20 to1 or 20 to2 because you're going to have a second adult there one teacher one um extra helper and then of course K through third is 24 to1 4 through 8 is 31 to one 31 to one

092for fourth through eighth graders um looking at this we took a lot of things to design allowing for some future growth on the campus of course provide additional parking space for TK drop off um which is always a concern and then of course creating a well-designed and inviting spaces for all those involved. So before I jump into these numbers, the one thing that we need to understand this whole process is that we have to come up with an idea to select drawings to submit to DSA. It's already November 20th. We're already late, right? So we need to get So DSA, the division of state architect is the architect for the architect that the state runs to verify all school buildings for schools, right? Our tech designs has to go to DSA for approval. Couple things

093that we do know. DSA is backed up. There was 200 bonds that passed November of 24 in the state of California. So, anybody that's in a school district that has money, which is a lot, they're submitting drawings to DSA. Second thing, the DSA Oakland is our office that we submit drawings to for this area. DSA Oakland is helping uh San Diego DSA with all the fire drawings from all the stuff that burned down down there. So, they're a little behind as well. So, DSA Oakland is helping, right? And then, of course, with Christmas, DSA shuts down for two or three weeks. And so, as we get drawings in now, we're trying to get them out January, February. The other critical part is that every school district in California is jamming to get projects into DSA

094because January one the code changes. So, we have a two-year cycle on the code. So, there's a lot of changes next year in the code, right? Right. Right now, we're looking at a parking lot for Okala and they're saying, "Well, you have to have car charging there because that's required now, right?" And so, little things that we didn't have this last year, we now have. So, we're trying to get ahead and most districts trying to get ahead. So, as we talk about these ideas, our number one goal is to get into DSA as fast as possible, right? And so, that's why I give the idea of where we're at. So, with our enrollment on growth, these are the numbers we currently have. Of course, one, you see the numbers across the board, K uh TK

095through 8 and Autoonte 2. These are this is one of the slides that changed a little bit as we went through the numbers that we pre previously talked about on the 10th. When we ran these numbers, it rounded down instead of up. So if you had 4.4, you actually need five classrooms, not four, because we'd have enough kids to fill five, right? And so with that being said, the first meeting that we had, we showed 37 on the top number over on the right versus 43. So there's six additional classrooms from just rounding to having the the adequate classrooms. We have a plan for this but that's one of the changes just so we know if I you know if you seen the first draft this one is current so that's one of the changes

096here but basically we need four classrooms for TK we need five classrooms for K that's currently not at that site so we need nine classrooms to suffice the growth here for moving this over okay we do have five classrooms for first five for second and as we look through this I know As a as a master planner and design for DSA and architect, I look at what are we going to have next year, right? So, right now, we're going to be pretty good with five classrooms going to five because our kids who's here as a first grader now, we need five classrooms. Next year, we're still going to need five classrooms, right? And as we move forward, that's going to work out pretty well. Once we get to seventh and eighth, right, it starts the

097numbers here. If the numbers stay the same, we're going to have to add a classroom later, which we have space on the site for them already. But just to point that out that as we plan things, we're looking 5 years in advance. So, we're always ready for five years in advance. We don't want to react every year like, "Oh, I need two portables next year." That's not the way to do it because the price skyrockets. Okay, here's our current site location, right? So, we have each classroom marked as CR. We have LG classroom. So, we have a couple large classrooms. One's in the back right corner, one's over in the front left. Um, of course, we have We have science classrooms. We have art, music, Verizon classroom. There's three of those. And then of course

098the 33 classrooms. This is the top. So there's 40 classrooms there. Um and then we'll have we'll be adding the TK and the K to a different location over on the left hand side where it's green, the little tiny green line. That's where the location for the new development would be. Um looking at this, we've analyzed a lot of things, but we have the admin building up front. which has an art classroom attached to it, which used to be a teacher lounge from what I understand. And then in the middle of the bottom left corner, we have a PE and a and a little gym SL that was the wood shop and metal shop on this property in the back in the past. So the discussion is if we move the TK over to where

099the green is over on the left, you can't see yet. We actually would want to move the admin services to the PE or the gym side. Um, which we'd have to add a few offices and add a restroom there for the nurses station and that kind of stuff. But it would actually include it would make sense because now it's more of the center of the campus and it's next to the drop off for the TK and the parking lot, the additional parking lot. So, as we move forward, I'll you'll understand more of that, but this is kind of our current site, right? So here we are from 30,000 ft. What is what does it look like proposed site plan? Well, if we add nine classrooms and we extend the parking lot. So the parking lot

100currently where that number five is that is the uh wood shop metal shop currently. Let's say the cl the parking lot stays vertical right there. So, we'll be adding two more rows of parking, if not three more rows of parking, and have the drop off zone next to the TK in that corner. Um, so it' be closest point to get the little kids out and then into their classroom. That the area that's orange, the nine classrooms has each one of these classrooms will be designed with a bathroom inside each one for the TK and the kinder. There's also an adult restroom facility for men and women in the top left corner. So, if you see the little squiggly line there, that's what that is. and of course the playground structure in the center. This would

101all be fenced in so it's a secure safe site because we would be having sixth, seventh graders in the building to the right of that which is the uh locker room. And so we want to keep that secluded but yet their own comfortable space. They would be able to walk right down to number five which would be the new admin building um with that possibility. So I've laid these out multiple times where where did the first grade go? Where does second grade go? third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, and having that laid out um on the site. And so some of the projects that we'd have to do with this and I and as I present this one through eight on the right hand side are all options, but there's some that are needed, right?

102So one is of course the classrooms. We need to have the TK classrooms and the classrooms for the kinder. Next is the HVAC replacement. So, from what I'm understanding, the boiler system in this in this in this campus went out about two years ago, right? And it hasn't worked for two years. But when we had the middle middle children, they didn't make many complaints. So, it hadn't been fixed. Well, we can't move new kids in there at younger ages with no heat, right? So, we've already got pricing for that. And I've shared with the executive cabinet that it's much cheaper than the district has paid in the past of other districts, right, which has been great. So, we've already got that. Um, it would be two uh 2.325 million to replace all the heating and

103all the classrooms, heating and air conditioning. So, instead of going with a boiler system, each system and the B and the rest and the classrooms have AC, they just don't have heat because the entire campus is ran off of a boiler system, right? All the boilers are done. They're outdated. We don't use gas anymore. So, we have to change, right? So, we go with a new system. We actually take the guts out of that closet unit and put new guts in. Much cheaper and it stays in the same cabinet. So, the classrooms look the exact same. No extra ventilation, no extra duct work, just changing out the guts, which is pretty genius actually, right? Um, and so that's one thing that I can do now. I don't have to go to DSA for that, right?

104So these are some projects that I can do before we come out of DSA in February or March for the project for the actual buildings. The other thing is roofing replacement. So doing an audit on these roofs. The red roofs are 25 years old, right? We've had some problems with leaking and them and this and that. Before we put money into buildings, we want to re-roof them. Right? So I've got pricing and it's about 2.1 million to re-roof this whole campus. Now, ideally, we go with tar. Tar is the best water sealant, right? The good thing about this campus is there's no kids on it right now because if I were to go to a call and say, "I'm going to put tar on the roof," I'd be killed because I have students there, right?

105But the fact is there's no students, it's the perfect roofing material for the perfect scenario. So, that's something good. I'm always looking for good. I found something. Next thing we have marquee sign. Of course, marquee signs got to change all to, you know, signage. Um, so that's easy to do without DSA as well. Portable possible relocation of the admin. Walk in the site with our with our consultant architect looking. It's very doable, right? We don't need to have a bunch of space. It can be really four or five offices and a nurse's office. Very simple to do in one side. Not even use the whole building, just using one side of it. At this point, it's a security issue for me. I can actually go to the campus in the roundabout, go into the main

106office, check in, and walk out the back door and I'm on a secure campus. Currently, if you walk on the site, you walk over to the main office and there's ballards there that pretty much everybody can get through a ballard, right? And there's no fencing. So, it's not a secure campus right now, right? And so, ideally, moving the admin building makes a lot of sense for securing our campuses. As we talk about securing all of our campuses, I've met with most of the principles about fencing changes need, right? We we need to improve our security, right? This will be a big fix for this campus with that one change. Next thing, of course, is the uh additional playground and uh and field. Of course, we have the playground structure for one, which is the TKK.

107And then the playground structure six in the middle of the black top would be for our second, third, and fourth graders. Currently, we have eight different basketball courts. Um, which I don't really need eight basketball courts for elementary. I need I need for middle school some, but not all of them. So, locating where that would be on black top is easy to put playground because then you put the four and five inch rubber mat so it's soft, but you already have a paid for. If I put it on dirt, I got to actually build a base, right? So, there's some key items of saving some money by putting in the right location. Um, and of course, next thing, your campus fire lane. One of the things that may get triggered is our fire lane, and

108it's number seven in the top left corner. Basically, you take it off the front parking lot, run it through the grass, and take a right, go across the black top, and then out the back gate. And so, we have a fire lane throughout the campus. Currently, the fire lane's out front and then drive in the back and the tow truck or the the fire trucks do a hammerhead turn so they can get out and go out the same way. But with new classrooms, it's probably going to trigger um fire lane and safety. Often it'll trigger fire hydrants having to add new fire hydrants, which they're $150,000 a piece, and I had to add three at one school because of a little project, and it gets expensive really quick for underground water. So, um expanded parking

109lot and drop off. That's kind of a critical thing here. As we notice, most of our schools don't have enough parking. Um, and so that parking is going to help. It's not going to be the full answer. I'd like to add another little parking lot in the back. As I've shared um with cabinet before, add 40 50 parking spots in the back by the portal back there. So, having an idea that teachers come in the back fence, have our own parking lot, and then go to their staff room. So, so this is our proposed plan of an option. Now, we have figure out how we're going to get there, right? Any questions yet? >> Actually, I think I'm going to take public comment first and then we'll do trustes questions. Okay. So on these items

110um excuse me on these questions I'm going to give uh one minute so that that way they can um if they need more then we'll give them we'll consider but uh I don't see it going over a minute. >> Good evening. Do you even know what a two-way dual immersion program is and how it differs from a one-way model? I ask this not to provoke but to highlight the seriousness of the decisions being made right now without fully understanding our program structure. A two-way dual immersion model requires 50% native Spanish speakers and 50% English speakers. This intentional balance allows students to serve as language models for one another. Promoting biiteracy, academic achievement, and cultural competence. In contrast, a one-way program typically serves primarily Spanish speaking students. And right now, we are emitting anyone students without

111proper language screening. And we are not maintaining the 5050 ratio. If we continue this way, we are not functioning as a dual language program. >> I'm sorry. Do you have a comment or do you have a question? Because um >> comment. >> Okay. All right. >> Yeah. Um so currently both schools combined Adelante and Adelante 2 have like four over 14 14,420 linear space for parking. Some are painted um and then um others aren't versus Fiser's 645 ft of linear parking. Um, Adelante has areas where it's painted. Adelante one and uh, Adelante 2 has limited space. So, my comment is that we really need to rethink this merger because one, I'm the safety coordinator at Adilante One and I see what happens with lack of parking. And so, we need to keep our community safe.

112You already heard one community member say complain about their area. That's going to create more congestion, you know, and again, you need to rethink this whole situation. >> Hi, good afternoon. Good night. My name is Victoria Partida. I'm a parent at Adilante 2 and I just had a comment on the first slide when you're talking about maintaining student teacher ratios. Um, that's great that you have it. I know for my fourth grader, he currently has 22 students in his class. This is saying he's going to have 31 students. So that is very concerning to me as he's going to get into fifth grade next year. Another thing that I didn't see here which I'm very curious about is what about the other staff the cafeteria ladies the principles? My principal Mr. Cortez he he has

113to manage almost 5 435 something students right now. Um what how is that going to look like as these two schools combined? What about the psychologists? Are they going to come along as well? So I am start I mean the more I hear about this the more I get concerned and the more it makes me feel like I need to pull out my kid because he is not going to get the proper services that he needs the board. Um one of the things um that I see in the slide that was presented back in October that I don't see anymore is the potential drop off near the um the the marquee. And I think that's very important because um if you plan to have a thousand students coming um or 900, there needs to be

114way more drop off than than what there originally is. Um because that was one of the ideas was to have a a drop and go area because like I um Ra said uh Adelante one and two combined the area to just to do a drop off is way more than what's proposed at the Fiser site. You're talking about doubling the amount of students approximately doubling the amount of students and then reducing the drop off area by 50%. So that's going to be crazy. And trust me, even you're like, "Well, it's not that bad." But the thing is, you don't live in the area. You don't know what these neighbors are going through. So reconsider. >> Um I don't uh wish the job that you're doing, it's it's very difficult, but you can add as many

115classrooms as you as you can because it's very large. But the cap cafeteria will not be able to handle that. Absolutely not. Unless you double the cafeteria, there is it is already impossible um to to serve our current students. Second, drop off for for for middle school is different than drop off for uh elementary school. Our parents stop and and there is just not enough parking. It doesn't matter how what what you do. So this whole thing of merging because they're forcing you to do it is not the right thing and you probably know you're doing the job because they're telling you but would you do it? Would you recommend to merge them and then lose parents and then in future know that parents will not come to the school. It is too big. it

116is. And then so those are the three things we're making worse for our students and not going to serve them food. >> Thank you. Um any trustee comments? >> Go ahead. I know there's like another question. >> There's much more presentation to come. >> Okay. >> Sure. We'll wait. >> Okay. Thank you for the comments. We've thought about a lot of that. We do have a big turf area outside. You know, behind those passions, I could add a lot bigger parking lots. We have talked about the drop off in the front. It's just money, right? We're trying to see how effective we can get this done if we need to move in by August of next year. The whole goal for this presentation and these options is trying to get something to DSA so that

117we can have an option move in by August 1. Right? That's that's the ultimate task. Is it possible? Maybe. Right. So, but the fact is I would I would want a bigger drop off and I would want a bigger parking lot. Right. There are some things that we definitely could improve. Okay, so first option is portable classrooms. Everybody's favorite, right? These portables, we call them permanence because they last forever. They do not, right? So the fact is in this drawing we have a picture of nine portables and then of course the adult restrooms. And one of the some of the situations of course is would be to install and refurbish nine portable classrooms and a staff restroom. Add restrooms in each classroom. Okay, that sounds pretty simple. It's not, right? The fact of the matter

118is um we do have classrooms available because we have them at empty sites right now, which is a positive, right? Because I don't have to buy them, but I have to take them apart, I have to move them, and then I have to refurbish them all, right? with this situation. The con is the ramps. The fact that these classrooms need to be 1350 for square feet versus a normal 960. So a normal classroom nor normal portable, there's two pieces. There's 1 2 3 4 A and 1 2 3 4 B. And when they make them, they bring them to a site and they put them together and that's 960 ft. One portable is 480, the other is 480. They put them together, you have 960. 960 is for a reason because you can have one

119door. Anything under 1,000 square feet, you get one door. When I add a third portable to this, a third piece of the puzzle, which is another 12 by 40, I'm now at 1440 ft, which is awesome because it's big enough for TK because I'm going to put a bathroom in that corner that's 12t x 12t or 10 foot by 10t and I still have my 1350 of classroom space. Makes total sense in one way. We have the portable. We need to fix them. And when I say fix them, you take off all the wall board on the inside, all the ceiling, all the carpet, put in new carpet, new wall board, new ceiling, waterproof the top, and then take care of all the dry rod on the outside, right? Times nine, which is doable because

120we know good contractors that bid this stuff all the time, right? Those have to go to DSA, though. DSA is not going to like putting three portables together because they have to question them. If it's an A and a B, they do it all the time. They're, you know, they've been PC before. We bought these in 1982. They're fantastic. Once you've gut them and put new stuff, they're fine because there's a there's a concrete cage around them, right? So, structurally, they're fine. All the stuff that we see that's bad and portable, that's all cosmetic, right? Pretty easy. Um, so that's one option. because they're at 1400 square f feet. I now need to put two doors, which is pretty easy except for egress. And I'm going to show you in the next slide, you could

121put one big walkway and then a ramp on the outside of it. So, it's just cosmetically not as pretty, right? If we're spending money to move into this school, I would rather be pretty than not, and I'd want to have it go to DSA faster, which would be our option two. But this is option one. portable classrooms possible maybe. Right? It depends on DSA. It's not about what we want. It's really what DSA is going to allow. Right? If we can get drawings to DSA before Christmas, they would probably come out in April. I could pick them up now. I can move them to the site, but I can't place them until DSA says so. I have to build foundations, right? The fact is on the grass is a bad place to put them because

122I have to go out there build rock 6 to 8 in deep. I got to have foundations built so these portables can sit on the foundation. Okay, the portable is still going to be in the air 3T because I have ramps. I have crawl spaces. So my next slide shows you what that looks like, right? So the top left corner would be a good example of a of a new portable, right? But I have two doors on this with two ramps. Okay, my drawing on the middle of the page there shows you if I put three of these together, put a bathroom in the top right corner, I have egress one and egress 2 comes out to our platform and then I have a ramp outside of that. That's doable. It really is. Right. Can

123I do it before August? I don't know. Right. So, the bottom picture there shows you a double wide, just a two-piece, right? which is very common, which most of the teachers in this district have seen or been in, and they thoroughly enjoy them. Right? One of the things about portables is they're 24 foot wide and they're 40 foot long. It's a bowling alley, right? Most teachers want a square classroom to teach in because it's a better way to facilitate education from what I'm told. I'm not an educator, right? I've just been in construction for 100 years, but I've heard it over and over again, right? Smart classrooms are better in teaching. So the three option, the left one, the center page looks good because it's more square, right? But that's our option. A portable classroom

124doable. It it is getting to DSA would be very challenging. Getting it out of DSA and moving them within the time frame is very challenging, right? Our goal in this presentation is to find the best program to move forward and have it done by August 1st. This is a challenge. Option two, modular classrooms. So, we have a we have been researching and there is a PC which is a pre-approved document for DSA, right? DSA has already approved this classroom from many other sites. It is a 1350 classroom square with the restroom already built in it. The advantages here, it's probably written. It's not reading it right. The advantages here is that it's on a permanent foundation which means it's it's great on slab so it's on the ground right I'm not going down a ramp

125every time I go inside outside right it's on ground so we pour concrete slab and we build the building it's already PC so DSA's already proved them right now do we have to go to DSA still we do because it's on a new new location the good news is when we go to DSA you have to have a geological study showing the ground good news is we already got a company who said they'd go out there next Tuesday and do our geo reports, right? Which is going to have to be accompanying any drawings we do, no matter what we choose today. You have to have geotech, right? Because we are in a flood zone. So they may make us build that pad up three or four feet, right? Depending on what they the report says

126because Alen Rock is in a flood zone. So every hundred years we're going to flood, they say in theory, right? We live in California so it doesn't happen. But They say it's possible. Um, so this is a permit building with a foundation. Um, so I'll show you some pictures of that next, but ideally we say, "Hey, move forward with this." We go to DSA next month. Before next month, we work with getting a design build company like you're going to see later with the different presentation. They design it. It's ready. They start building in February in their factory, right? They don't have DSA approval, let's say, till April. The fact is they already know they're approved because they've already done these over and over and so they will go ahead and build it. The thing

127the DSA will will red flag is the foundation. Do you need to have grade beams or does regular footings work because of the soil? The building doesn't matter. DSA won't pair. So we can still get that started and then as soon as they say, "Oh, it's grade beam." So we know what kind of foundation to put them on because of the soil. Right. That's the only trigger that we have to find out. And so that's the delay there. >> Can I ask you a quick question? >> Absolutely. >> Um what if you went with more in on the bedrock. Would that make a difference? >> No. It once we get the geo report, it's going to tell us what we can do. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, that's kind of an option. So,

128here's what it could look like, right? This is a modular building. These are actually K TK and K buildings. Uh this is another site up north. And um these classrooms are 1350. They have the playground structure. It's all enclosed. They have, you know, this is what's possible. And it'd be new building. It'd be something that hopefully the parents of one would enjoy their kids coming to. And we could probably build our program bigger, better by having nine new classrooms. That were the wow factor, right? And I could I could probably build this before August 1st this style. Right here's the inside. So it's vated ceiling, lots of bright LED lights. The, you know, we'd have carpet in ours. I kind of teased this picture because the kids are sitting on high chairs. I mean, they're

129all tall, right? Which is great for the middle school, but it's really not good for our TK kinder, but it's more of an obstacle course. Um, over on the right hand side, the You can't really you can't really see it, but there's a second door. So, this one, both doors come out the front and they're ground level, right? So, there's no there's no tripping hazards. There's no ramps. Being in maintenance forever, we will only fix the ramps about every other year, right? Those ramps go rotten quick. There's always skunks that get underneath those things, portables. So, this is a different solution with a better timeline. Then we have our third option which I shared with you in the one study session. Right? This is remodeling a couple of the classroom wings to be TK and

130K. Once you touch a building more than 40% it triggers a seismic retrofit for the entire building. Right? Having to add bathrooms to these classrooms is very expensive because it's all concrete. I just got a saw cut from here to my office and then back over to Sanders's office and well, you know, that's cheap. No, it's not. Right. news better on grass whether it's above ground as a portable or whether it's on grade they're both better than this option this option going to DSA and I shared with the board before this is a good option and we'll have it done by August of 27 not 26 right this option is a great option but we need another year that's all the slides I have but I'm here for questions Thank you so much. Thank you.

131I'm sure that was a lot of work. Uh not my area of expertise, but very detailed. Um and I know that the committee met and I'm sure turned over every leaf and looked at all the different things. Um I do have a list of questions and then as I was sitting here I'm like you know as a trustee I don't want to ever leave with you know I should have asked this or you know because when we make decisions they're impacting our children our teachers and future generations. So I'm trying to figure out which ones to start off with. So I guess and I'm just going to go down the list and then you know if you can answer them or even repeat them if you said it and I just didn't hear it. Um

132so the parking drop off I know that you know the prek through 8th grade um my guess would be certain timelines at different times to scatter the different number of students to then have the flow go through. Um, in regards to the parking spots, looking at the Lante one and looking at Adelante 2, does Fiser accommodate at least those total? >> On that current drawing, it does not. So, we need to add additional and I could because that fire lane would go past the classrooms over to the left hand side where we currently have a cricket field, right? We could add additional parking, right? And there's there's two extra acres there for that which we could adapt. Like I said, we're trying to look at budget. We're trying to look at what we need to

133move in. It would be very we need to have more parking right away. And like some of the sites, I'm adding gravel places because we don't have a plan to put an asphalt parking lots. Um but we will we will we are working on that. Um and we could add that to this and get pricing for it as well. The other thing is I I really did as I walked the site months ago, the drop off on the front really makes sense and I shared with the board that we can't have grass just school districts can't have grass in the front yards anymore as of January of 28th. Well, that means tomorrow, right? The fact is there's a new code coming down 2028 that public buildings can't have can't maintain grass in the fronts. You

134can do your fields. You can do soccer fields, football fields, baseball fields, but they're shutting down water on the front for government buildings. And so when I got here, we talked about, oh, let's make the campuses paint them all and add grass and bushes and make everything beautiful out front. There's no reason to spend the money now because in two years they're dead, right? So when I'm looking at these campuses, the same thing with Shephard, we need to put I've seen drawings of a a driveway there, right? get all the traffic off of Rough and Ready and make it on our campus, which makes way more sense, right? It just costs a little money, you know, a couple million dollars. So, as I'm looking at this site, I totally agree that would be awesome to

135have. There's only one PG box to miss. There's a couple things we have to get around. It's doable. >> Okay. And then the cost, I saw the the three different costs. >> Um, does that cost include the roofing and the heating? >> Does not. >> Okay. And I That's for me as I >> move towards my last question or >> I should refrain from that. So on on option three when the architect gave us that option that was built in right the roofing was built in the HVAC was built in right the fact that I don't need to go to DSA it's easier to do it without and faster. That's why I pulled it out of option one and two. Right? So those prices do not include the 2.1 or the numbers. Um in regards

136to the lunch, you know, having had a daughter in Netherlande and I remember it was like eat and go, eat and go. >> Um having helped, you know, as a parent, it's like okay, eat go, you know, next one's in already. Have we considered one if the numbers the total numbers that we're looking at of students, you know, that process of the lunch and the eating and and even the space available for them to sit and eat. >> So, we haven't on this site, we haven't gone through the the lunch or the breakfast set of it. What I've thought of is because there's two large outside canopies already there, adding two more, right, which is not in this price either. It's another addition. And also one of the things we've done historically in my other

137district is we had outside kioses. So you serve in this corner and this corner and this corner. So they don't all have to go to the cafeteria, right? They actually go here and they go here and you know and so you have the carts that they roll out, right? So so our CNS group would have to they're going to combine everybody, right? Because they still need them for that many kids. So they'd have people in those carts serving. Um so that's something we have to look at logistics, right? Um it's pretty easy. Um, but having a space to sit down and eat. Some could be outside under the por under the covers and we had a couple more shade covers. Um, with inclement weather, it's going to be a little challenge. Often with inclement weather,

138you can get those carts to the wings and they can eat inside the classroom with this pouring rain for two [snorts] days, but not ideal. Sure, build a big cafeteria. Another $5 million. And I think um well before I get to that comment and thought um I do want to honor uh our um eighth grade teacher and area Eboard 6 through 8th director um Elvia and some of these questions that I hadn't thought of um and I think these are more for the committee and maybe superintendent you can help um answer these. The first one how was the uh consult the team formed the committee form? to see to come up with these options. >> The consolidation team was formed with uh support from the principal principles. They were given a number of um members

139to um reach out to and that was um a community leazison uh three staff members ideally one from a TK from a primary and then one from the middle grades and one from the middle school. uh the school counselor, three parents, and then the principles themselves and the assistant principal. >> Okay. And that answers the rest of the questions. And I think last but not least, like I'm just looking at the costs and you know, looking at the costs that don't include HVAC and um roofing. Um, I know that when we decided as a board in December 2024 to consolidate, uh, we had a task given pretty much by our Santa Clair County Office of Education and we're we're overseeing the process and making sure that we made those decisions and we made tough decisions

140as a board and it was a unanimous vote and that was a part of it. Um, and I think being that the main point of making those hard decisions were to save money. um having the best interest of our children and staff and community which is tough um considering our our budget. I'm wondering because I as you're saying like I'm thinking Adelante one and Adelante two they both have HVAC correct >> correct >> I mean just maybe minimal cost and you know the bucket but a cost um and the roofing age >> roofing needs to be replaced >> needs to be at all of our sites. >> Okay. >> I'm just wondering like is it the best decision to move there? And I'm not, you know, I'm not one to go back on decisions, right?

141Like my word is my word and I keep my word. And if the end of the day is to save money for our district and make the best decision with our funds, you know, um, and and I don't want to just not consider the work that you've all done, right? because I'm just in this kind of middle space of like I'm sure you've all thought about this and had these hard conversations of like >> would we save money more money if we stayed where we're at again because when we make a decision we're impacting the next generation right we're impacting the budget and so I'm sure that if Santa Clara County saw a letter I'm just saying to say we made this decision on December 2024. This was how much we were going to save

142after looking at this. This is how much we're going to end up saving. If we don't do that, I'm sure they would be like, "It's okay." You know, I I we get it. Um and so I just I just want to put that out there because I don't want to leave this meeting without putting that question up. So, thank you for >> question the cost of would be paid out of bond funds. >> Correct. >> Right. So what well you know for the audience the issue bond funds are separate from uh unrestricted general fund. Right. So we're trying to save money in the unrestricted general fund using restricted dollars that cannot be used for general operations to you know to try to move forward. So basically it would not you know these so the count

143you know uh so thank you for the answer but I think that you know the county office of education would not take into account the use of bond fun because restricted dollars that cannot be used for any other purpose >> that's correct general obligation bonds are designed specifically for facilities um what's the uh pot of money What's what's in the amount? What's the amount in the pot? >> What's the balance? >> We Yeah. Like this doesn't Yeah. What are we spending on if we have like a bazillion dollars, right? Versus if we only had >> Can you give us the balance before and after? >> I [laughter] didn't think so. >> So, right now we have a balance of about $48 million in the bond. >> And this could take about half by the time

144we did everything for one site. Sorry, a followup question. Um I don't know if this I don't think this is an air question, but maybe it is. Um do we have other um uh you know projects in the pipeline >> drawing out? Yes. >> So So one of the things the district has a master plan that they had updated in 2022 and and I have Nathan with page turn working on schematics of what that looks like for all of our sites. Right. We have done an audit on the roofs. Most of the roofs are 25 years old in the district. Okay, they need to be replaced. It's really a deferred maintenance project that we can run through a deferred maintenance money, but you can only do a couple a year, right? Bond money, we could

145do more, right? The fact is, we have a lot of leaking roofs. Fortunately, since I came on board five months ago, most of our biggest problems for roof leaks are the sites that we closed. >> So, we're we made some good choices. except I have to make sure they're safe now so we don't ruin those properties. But that is those are the facts. Um but yes, we have we've done HVAC at a lot of places. We've done a lot of things. We need parking lots at six or seven sites, right? Because we consolidated, we have parking needs most places, right? And so those are on the project list of what we need to do in the next couple years, right? So there are other projects and every time I go talk to principles, I get

146a list >> and I just stop going and talking to them. >> I get this list. >> But the fact is there's a lot of need. The district needs a lot of love. The buildings are old, windows are old, right? There's just the sewer systems are old. We we we have, you know, we purchased two restroom trailers that are going to be here in a couple weeks and we're going to start remodeling restrooms at all the sites, right? Those are expensive. They're needed, right? We're we are the code's changing, but we haven't changed our restrooms since about six codes ago, maybe 20. So, there's there is a lot of expense that we have in the district. >> So, I got a couple questions. Um during our present GSA option two would be faster because um

147it's modular and DSA they've already had it DSA so they already seen it. We're just waiting for the geotech to on the foundation. So, one would be a longer DSA and three would be the longest. Two would be the shortest DSA type. >> Um, in the presentation that we had option one, >> it [clears throat] does help us if it was a double wide. >> So, adding the third one is going to make it challenging and so after our first meeting we started realizing we need 1350 and we could do it right and we so we started to run the numbers on that and that's why that number changed um on the front one because we TK and Kinder need to be bigger than 960 especially to put a bathroom in them now they're going

148to be like 900 ft right and so that was the change from the first meeting >> so um we have them we move them on site and then place Correct. >> And the one and the one question the one thing that I didn't bring up is if we move 27 portables, 27 halves from sites, we're leaving a lot of sites open that we may have to do something with because if we take one away now, it's a perfect residence for somebody else. We'd have to frame that wall in or do something. So there'd be some work to the abandoned units and the cosmetics of those sites where we pull those 27 from would also be >> jeopardy in that regard entrance. What is your ide? >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> Nathan, do you

149have a ballpark of what that may cost? U I'll show you the layout, but as far Because the way I would lay it out, >> um, >> are you looking at at the stage or you looking at what >> we're going to the first? Yeah. >> Okay. So, ideally, I would bring the road in on this first. Let's see where I can find it here. >> Number four. >> Number five, I think. >> So, there's two going to the white I would start it so that there's a little tiny white building to the right of that. That's the office. Okay. I would start there and come in off of the street and then I go all the way down to the parking lot and through the parking lot. Now, what I do that is I

150would add parking spaces the entire curb, right? So, your fence that's against the sidewalk would have cars parked against it, pulled in at a 30° angle, right? And then you have a 20 foot driveway going all the way in front of the current admin building. Right there above the four there's a P& transformer which we have to miss um because we're not moving that we can't afford to move it. >> Um >> so you're saying it's going to look like Linda Vistas. >> It would. >> Okay. Got it. >> That would be ideal. >> Yeah, that is ideal. >> What do you think? 4 million 4.5 million or 500,000 fire 600,000 for that drop off. >> Well, thank you for that information. Obvious >> Yep. Absolutely. >> I saw some of the comments from other

151folks. It's always been a school. So I I appreciate the feedback from the folks there that provided via social media that um they understand they're not ideal but I'm glad that they spoken to the concerns as here. Um, so thank you for that information. I do want to I I really appreciate the work that you've done exactly what I envisioned uh when the committee options can go ahead and take and ultimately decision forward. [laughter] >> Just don't break a leg. Um I do have a question. Is there any way possible that you can put up the Linda Vista site so people could see what it looks like? >> Sure. Can we >> so that they could see the parking the the in and out? >> Yes. >> To give people an idea of what >>

152we can. >> Okay. Thank you, >> President Chavez. While you're while they're looking for that, um is it okay if I share the recommendation from the committee? >> Sure. >> Okay. So, the the committee after meeting recommends either option one or option two. >> You went like this. >> Oh, is it option one or option two? [laughter] Sorry, I got to go back to school. you back to >> Kenn. >> Okay. Um uh so I'm ready. Go ahead. >> Yeah. >> Uh at this point, I'll go ahead and make a motion to move forward option one. I think that it allows money that we can invest in the entitan of these years. the fact that it'll be a brand new comfortable option. >> Do I have a second? >> Okay, >> I'm sorry. Did you

153want to add the parking lot? >> Yeah. Yes. >> Similar the the motion please Miss Mar to add the parking lot >> to add the drive-thru >> the drive. So move to option one and just add the >> addition of what is the proper language >> the addendum of the >> driveway. Yeah, drive through driveways >> drivethru and additional parking spaces and put please additional parking spaces. >> So be add the drivethru, right? >> I think he's going to amend the motion. One second. >> Amended it. Still making it. >> Okay. >> Um and No. >> Uh, there was already public comment taken. Please don't interrupt. Go ahead and make the motion. >> In addition, um, >> excuse me, please. We're we're trying to deliver here. >> Excuse me. Uh, >> I don't want to

154have to tell you again. In addition, um I want to close off the motion with um that in the spirit of full transparency so we make sure that uh everything is done properly and everybody is aware of how it took place. If um if we do not uh finish this project by the start of the next school year and we automatically reach out to Harvey Rose and have uh an audit of the project to ensure that they checked everything out and the reason why it was delayed. And so that is my motion. I'll go ahead and send it in writing uh so that you have the precise language. >> Okay. So, >> okay. Uh did you get second? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, all in favor of option one, uh we're going to vote. Please

155raise your hand. 5 Z motion passes unanimously. >> Thank you trustes. >> Thank you Eric. [clears throat] >> So the next item >> is Eric again. [laughter] >> So the next item is uh on section business services board discussion and or action. The board may take an action on this any of these items unless it is designated for information only. >> So we have three different proposals. >> Okay. You get to choose first. We have one representative from each options. >> Okay. Thank you. >> J is second. And the third one, we already know. [laughter] We already know. >> Um, good evening. Um, I'm here, um, I'm DQ Sakai with Dennis W Kelly. I'm here to talk to you guys today about the workforce housing project. As um you know a long time ago, the

156board decided to do this as a design build project. Therefore, we'll be going through procurement um according to education code 17250.60 which is for design build. We started out with a RFQ or request for qualifications and um we brought the shortlisted firms to the board and the board you know had confirmed them. We're now on to the next section which is um the request for proposals. Um and um there's the proposals have been submitted. They've been scored. Presentations have been made to the selection committee. We're here today to talk about um uh we're not here to award a contract because no contracts been negotiated yet. What we're doing is of the three firms who are presenting today um they're going to do their presentation. Then um the we're going to have a presentation about the

157and what went on in evaluating the proposals and then the recommendations can be made to the board. Then if you could um we're asking the board to confirm the recommendation or send it back to the committee with instructions. Um and then um so that if somebody is confirmed today, we can move forward with negotiating the contract. And if we move forward with negotiating the contract, the idea would be we come back with the contract in January. If we don't select somebody today, then that'll get pushed out a little bit more. So um I just wanted to do like the brief overview. We have other people here to do their presentations and show you what's been done and what's been provided and um and the presentation will go through the in-depth process that was gone through

158in order to do the scoring for those things questions. Okay? Thank you. PowerPoint. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Um, thank you everyone. We're the Cahill Pay Talk team. Um, thank you for having us and the opportunity. >> Okay. You want to sit in the front row? >> There we go. >> Or you you're welcome to hold up the building, whatever. [laughter] >> Um, okay. We're just gonna do quick uh brief uh introductions of our team. >> Sure. I'm Teresa Ballard. I'm principal at Pyuck Architects. Puck is a regional area firm. been in business 41 years. Um we are focused on partnerships and our partnership with Kahill is really important to us. We did our first modular project with them, our first design build project with them. We currently have under construction our first project

159literally on top of Bartel with Kill. Um I am an associate design build institute of America member and have gone through all that training and collaboration process is really fundamental to talk. Jamie, >> hi everyone. My name is Jamie Madumba. I'm an architect and project manager at Py Talk and I'm happy to be here to help present this project to you. And I will put it over to Herman. >> Hi, my name is Herman Hernandez. I'm a senior designer at Piarch Architects. Been with the firm for five years. Um, I love working in these type of projects as it uh helps me contribute to the or help me u help out the community to help me achieve my goals of becoming an architect. Thanks. >> Good evening. My name is Kathy Garrett. I'm a principal

160with MIGPGA. We are the landscape architect on the team. Delighted to be here. Um, my firm's worked with talk for more than 35 years and have completed more than 35 projects. Similarly with Cahill from several decades. So really it's the cohesion of the team that um part of what we bring >> and uh to start with the construction team Kahill contractors um my name is Arash Barren principal in charge um just want to you know state the importance of workforce housing and part of our mission and our uh objectives and uh providing that um housing for the for the teachers and ensuring the success of the future generation. ations. Um, turn it over to Matt. >> I'm Matt Denig. Been with Cahill for 18 years. Um, part of my role here, uh, with this team

161is to kind of be the leazison between the design team and the construction team and kind of shepherd that through an entire process from reconstruction all the way through construction. So, turn it over to >> uh, good evening everybody. Uh, my name is Terry Shod. I'm a field superintendent. Uh I have 40 years in the carpenters union. Um I've been with Cahill for 20 years. Uh the last three projects I've completed have been uh housing, student housing, teacher housing. Um and uh we look forward to working with you on this project. >> Thanks Siri. So we're just uh briefly going to talk about our two firms. Um starting with Cahill. Uh fourth generation family-owned business, been been around for over 100 years. Um, our core values are uh very much in line with uh what

162we think it's going to take to deliver this project successfully. And um over to Teresa to talk a little bit about fire. >> Sorry for all this musical chairs. Told to give [laughter] the same presentation you had before. So see I like this. [laughter] >> We're keeping it fresh. >> Yeah. >> So, Pay Talk, our our roots are in originally in um affordable housing and specifically for underserved communities and um community based design of affordable housing. And that has broadened into all kinds of housing, but deeply rooted in collaboration and engagement and partnership in order to um in order to ensure that we're designing what the community, what the future residents, what the neighbors need and not what a developer needs. Um so our what we're going to get into in this presentation uh focusing

163mainly on kind of three items which we think uh we feel as differentiators uh for our team and uh first one being partnership and transparency um kind of rooted in our uh values that we just talked about. uh second community centered design um and then third delivering on the district goals and then after that we can open it up to questions and answers um and um so starting off with the first part of that partnership and transparency I'm going to turn it over to Matt talk about that >> so one of the things uh that was in the first slide there kind of talking about core values andor pillars for my talk is really the culture of collabation So that is something that our two teams who've been working together have um and that is

164something that we think that with the district and all the stakeholders for the district um is going to be one of the most important parts of this project is being able to uh collaboratively work together to find out exactly what your needs are um and all the needs of the future residents also the community school. Uh yes, as as Matt said, um we we're a very collaborative team. Um we've done a number of projects together. Uh the one most recent for me was uh working with Cheney and Perino uh at Stanford uh two buildings uh renovations for uh student housing. If you've never worked on Stanford campus, um it can be very challenging. Uh there's a lot of activity, uh a lot of students. Um safety is is a big core value of ours. Uh

165making sure that um all the students and neighboring neighbors are safe. Um I'll turn it over to Jane. >> Thanks, Terry. Um you know, that was a great experience working Stanford and Black Welder and Quillin. That was one of our first um design build projects that we delivered really competently and efficiently and we had a really great time. I think we I have personally been a part manager on Anora Place. Terminino also worked on that and that was and also Commun 23 along with Chinatown Bar Station. They were uh the typical design bid build um project that we also have worked with Kahol. We have a lot of in-depth um expertise together that we've been developing um over our projects over the past 10, 20 years. >> And kind of just talk about some of

166the relevant workforce housing. Um, in addition to the coliseum uh connections project that was on the previous slide, here are just a few of the other uh teacher housing workforce housing projects that we've completed recently. All right. So, uh, kind of moving into, uh, method and strategic plan. We've got a couple of the the stages of development up here on the stage. We've got great project development. When we move into detailed design, project implement implementation, and then also into construction. And one of the important ones I'd like to point out in the very first part of that is design validation. So, Up until this point through this process, we've been pretty much working in a silo. We we had some information what the the needs of the community were, what we were looking for, and

167we put a design together and priced it and tried to come up with something there. One of the first things that our team and your team to be a collaborative team is going to have to sit down and look at that project and that design to make sure that that's meeting your goals. And that's really kind of going to be The very first step in in the partnership is is trying to figure out what your needs are. To date, we've been doing our own thing, trying to figure out and come up with good ideas or solutions, things that will add value to the project, but that's going to be a very important part moving forward start off. >> So, if the design actually evolves, we as architects are responsible for outlining the specifications and drawings

168and working with the GC to acquire any long items. and also set the GMP set. >> Okay. Uh I'm going to talk a little bit about how the proposal that we put together differs from the original concept design that was presented to us in the RFP and and why we proposed a design that that isn't um isn't identical to the one in the RFP. The reason for that is we're a design build And that's what you look for in a design build partnership. You want to identify, you want to identify what are your minimum needs, where are their efficiencies and then how can you take advantage of those efficiencies to gain additional value. So working in a vacuum, not having yet the third member of our design build partnership being the school district, we studied

169the original concept specifications to try to understand what are your priorities and we studied the concept design to try to understand where do we have questions, where do we think there might be room for efficiencies, room to gain additional value and and we try to start a dialogue with you through a design that asks questions. One of the questions that we had in looking at this is um what can we do about the freeway and the proximity of the freeway noise and air pollution that might affect this site? Um another question that we ask ourselves is what can we do to improve safety for children and pedestrians um and limit how much car versus pedestrian conflicts there might be. Um, another question was about the simplicity of the structure. We have apartments that are stacked

170on top of open garages and that immediately presents conflicts between needing steel for structure, needing to route plumbing, you know, around parked cars. Um, how can we gain some efficiency there? What can we do to enh to enhance the open space? Right now there there are kind of two courtyards in a T-shape. They're exactly the same as each other. There's no hierarchy of here is a place to sit and rest quietly or here is a place to gather and have a party. How can we create a little more um kind of um hierarchy in the open spaces, create some amenity for people? How can we also um break this down into smaller clusters so it feels more intimate and like um neighborhoods grouped together? So, uh, go to the next slide. Thanks. Okay. So, here

171is a a view of what it would be like in the courtyard that we're proposing. Um, the parking garages have been pushed out to the perimeter along the freeway. So, they are physically a barrier between the freeway on-ramp and the the open space, the open windows. There's less noise, there's less particulates. Um, we have we have no longer have the backing issue with the structure. We have more units that are on the ground with their front doors looking out onto the lovely courtyard as opposed to um you know looking 20 ft away into their neighbors living room windows or being up on an upper level and having to climb over a garage to get home. Um let me see. Uh go to the next slide, please. Thanks. Okay, so then this is looking at the

172community building. We decided since we're gaining these advantages in our stacking in our structure, what can we do to then add value back in? So there are ways that our value that our proposed um design delivers more than what you ask for. Um and so that is in a larger community building. It has a big party room that folks can uh reserve for if they're going to have a big birthday party or if they're going to have a yoga class. Um and There are also ways that we can see that we could still achieve more efficiencies and more savings that we didn't yet start to propose. I mean, I will be honest and say the unit sizes in the conceptual design, they were very generous. And we do housing all over the Bay Area and

173we do market rate high-end housing and we do affordable lowincome housing and those were some generous unit sizes and I think you could achieve savings there. Um, material specifications. They are they are maybe nicer than what we see in in a typical new housing development in the Bay Area. Quality housing development, mind you. Um there is there is private o outdoor space for every single unit and that is that is also an area where you could achieve savings and perhaps by creating more amenity in terms of a variety of outdoor spaces, a community building, um a safer pedestrian experience coming from your car. Perhaps it's okay to then scale back on what the actual units themselves are providing because people are living in a neighborhood that provides a level of amenity, a nicer view, a

174nicer air quality for them. Um, I will hand the mic over to Kathy to talk more about the site plan. Just building a little bit on what Teresa was just talking about, we were seeking uh opportunities from your site plan and seeing if there were ways that we could really create more meaningful open spaces um and you know placemaking and recreation and increased play value in the park area. So to do that uh looking first of all uh as as Theresa mentioned pulling the parking uh reducing the number of car conflicts with pedestrians and most particularly with children. You'll notice now that there's no road between the apartments in the park. So anyone who's using the park of any age is not having to cross a road. So there's not only one space for the

175open space in terms of square footage but also that safety aspect. We also looked at the central courtyard and in this site plan you can see the community room on the left uh and the apartments um on the top right and bottom. Uh and they surround a central courtyard which has a hierarchy of open spaces. There's adjacent to the community room there's a plaza space where it'd be a great place to gather with a big group perhaps as a celebration, a graduation or or a birthday. Um and there are also spaces within this within this same central courtyard uh where you can meet with many smaller groups uh groups of family size or even individuals. the the space is anchored by the central tree that's ultimately going to be the big tree that will provide

176shade um in the central courtyard. A real focus to that space as well as um trellis uh covered areas to provide shade and some lawn area for playing or rolling on and also sitting on. As we move to um thinking about that central courtyard, the range of uses, outdoor dining, uh of course the focus with the shade under the big tree, um and seating for a range of different groups of of people. Um but they have clear relationships with the community room and clear circulation paths. And in fact, in this site plan, you can see uh the circulation within the courtyard, but how it connects also particularly to the park. And looking more at the park, one of the things we were looking to do was really uh bolster the relationship not only with this

177um workforce housing, teacher housing, but with the school itself, our immediate neighbor. And so the park could be used by both the school and also by the residents uh and the neighborhood as a whole. Um some of the uses there are um an informal outdoor classroom, play spaces for children uh toddlers to 5-year-olds, and also for bigger kids, 5 to 12 year olds. There's for picnicking, gathering, and the shaded spaces. You can see the clear connection with the housing, but also there's a good connection to the neighborhood and uh the school immediately adjacent. Um we also looked at, you know, bigger kids, a teenage hangout, put space for the hammock hangout. Uh and then on the right, giving a little bit of a buffet to the edge of the park as it meets uh the

178neighborhood. Um there's a a dog run and of course within the park plenty of plenty of places to gather and sit with that. >> Thanks Kathy. Um so next lastly we're going to talk about delivery on um district goals. Um so we um put not to exceed uh pricing together for the design build delivery uh for both um the alternate uh design that we just um walk through uh which is the first number and that uh one thing just to point out there that that plan also includes 80 units versus the 78 residential units that um was in the baseline plan. And um secondly, we um we put a separate not to exceed price together, which is about $800,000 more for the original baseline um estimate that was provided to us. Um, so we found

179that the version that uh we proposed um is just it's more efficient in terms of the stacking of the the layout and uh having the garages separated and it simplifies the exterior facades and that helps bring some of the uh the cost down. Um but in terms of meeting your goals again what we put together is a not to exceed. We would look to if selected look to work with the district to um work to the budget. We we understand that the budget is a lower number and uh work to that direction based on input from what is actual requirements versus what is a wish list item and look for those opportunities some of which Teresa mentioned to bring the cost down and um look at value engineering. Um we've also put together a life

180cycle cost analysis that we provided separately. um which despite the fact that we wouldn't be involved in the operation of maintenance of building that would inform some of the detailed design to ensure that we deliver on the project that long-term delivers uh the best product for the district. Take it over to Terry to talk. >> All right. So, just a kind of a this is a very simplified schedule and just it's really meant to point out kind of the preconstruction and construction. We're always talking about construction and how long it takes and the delays that can happen and everything. And in this you'll kind of see that the preconstruction portion of this is actually longer than the construction. There is a lot of uh information that is going to be happening in that reconstruction period

181with our team with talk and with the district. And that's actually one of the most important times because there's a lot more opportunity for things to get pushed out, things to happen. So, it's really important to not just focus on the construction timelines, but also all of the decision-making timelines and things that have to happen in order for construction to start. >> [clears throat] >> I I just want to briefly uh touch on um how important it is uh for us to have uh good neighbor relationships. Um there's uh a lot of construction goes on. Um a lot of concrete trucks, a lot of concrete pumps, um a lot of heavy equipment. And we like to work with the neighbors. um because uh we've found out in the past that it it's very important to

182keep them in the loop of what's happening. Um as far as the schedule goes, um we'd like to uh make sure that we have parking uh for our workers uh so that we don't um invade uh the neighborhoods and things like that. If we have to get parking off site, uh we can uh transport people in vans to keep the uh the uh traffic down to a minimum. >> That's the uh end of our presentation. So open to questions. Thank you. >> Thanks so much. Where is he? It's not right. Oh, is that Jesus? The longest single Okay. >> Oh, there's more. [laughter and clears throat] Thank you everybody for uh taking the time to have us here today. We're uh extremely excited about this project and honored to have the opportunity to present our

183uh presentation. So uh our design team proposes team is J Fitz Morris as the general contractor and HK architects as the architect. Um during this presentation our agenda we're going to be going over our team our company histories, our experience, our proposal summary which includes our method and strategic plan, our design proposal, our schedule, our price proposal and our life cycle costs. So, starting with introductions, um, I'll introduce myself. My name is Keon AI. I'm vice president and project executive at JH Fitz Morris. >> Hi, I'm Paul McKel, principal of HKIT Architects. >> I'm Graham Booth. I'm a senior project manager at HKIT Architects. >> My name is Mo Kimi. I'm president of So, first we'd like to share uh some slides of JHF's history. Uh we were established in the late 1800s and incorporated

184in 1922 as a general contractor. Uh photo on the top left is the founder of JHF. He's pictured third from the right. Uh this top middle photo is Bank of Italy which JHF worked on in 1928 which is now known as Bank of America. Um top right corner is uh UC Berkeley project in 1929. Um JHF Morris had done a lot of projects uh throughout the UC Berkeley campus at that time. And then the bottom left corner is uh JHF's uh company lunch in 1943. And the bottom middle picture is JHF Christmas dinner in 1944. And then the bottom right corner is uh first concrete mix truck with the founder of the company John Herbert Fitz Morris. um standing for JH and uh some additional uh photos of the of our company history. Top left

185corner is the Boy Scouts amphitheater which Shitz Morris worked on. Um the photos in the center are concrete stamps that are still found today on the sidewalks of Oakland and Berkeley. Um and then the bottom right uh photo is a photo from 1962 with the JHF team. um working on some of the infrastructure and site work near the Oakland Coliseum. >> Um let's just say a few words about HKIT Architects. We're an Oakland based firm. We were founded actually in Richmond 1948. Um I'm the the fourth generation of leadership of the firm. Uh we have a 60 person office and a bulk of our work is multif family housing. We've done work with uh uh market rate nonprofit developers all over the Bay Area. Um in addition to housing, we also do school work. Um

186we do quite a bit of work with K- through2 school districts and um so we have an understanding of how school districts function and their their culture and uh we're really excited to be able to work on a project like this where we're providing workforce housing for a district. Okay. And then so so I guess I wasn't speaking into the mic. Sorry. So uh going into the project team and our uh our our setup, our team principles and quality management we already introduced which is Mohakei and uh Paul and our design build core management team is myself and Graham who's also here. Um architectural design team is going to be HKIT architects. Um pre-construction and construction team will be our senior project manager Adele and our pre-construction manager Kai. And then our engineers and consultants

187will be um ZFA structural engineers, Emerald Emerald City engineers for MEP, Lucken Associates for Civil Engineering, and Fogline Studio for as a landscape architect. And now uh moving on to shared experience. Uh these are JHF and HKIT has been work has worked with each other for over 25 years on various multifamily and workforce housing projects. Here are some few examples being Riviera family apartments in Walnut Creek. Um Alama housing uh north housing in Alamita, Grayson Street Apartments in Berkeley, and Giant Road family housing in San Pablo. Uh the first project here is North Housing Block A PSH1 um in senior housing. This consisted of 45 units of permanent supportive housing and 64 units of affordable senior housing. We actually just got our CFO about a month and a half ago. And the owner of this

188project was uh developer was Alama Housing Authority and the architect was HKIT Architects. Uh then we have Dere's place 102 units of affordable multifamily housing located in Militus. Uh the developer on this project was Midpen and the architect was also HK. And then we have uh Estherbrook Senior Housing 51 units of affordable senior housing located in San Leandro, California. The developer uh was Eden Housing and the architect was HK. So uh we've discussed the history of JHF Inc. Incorporated since 19 1922 and over the past 30 years our primary focus has been multifamily workforce housing um constructed many units um over the past 30 years and we'll go over some recent examples. 705 Camonte was a design build project uh teacher faculty housing consisting of 122 units. was actually the first workforce housing project in

189the nation. It was completed about four years ago and this project was located in Daly City is located in Daily City. The owner uh is Jefferson Unified School District and the architect of record which was our design build partner was SVA Architects. Uh next project that we completed about a year and a half ago is uh called Kasa Suenos which is 181 units of affordable multif family housing located in Oakland. Uh the developer on this project was Bridge Housing and Unity Council and the architect of record was SVA Architects. All right. So, um we we've shown lots of buildings that we worked on together over the years and uh HKT and Fitz Morris, we have a really strong connection. I think we have a a shared culture where we're all we're both uh backgrounds in

190architecture and we're really focused on community building. And I wanted to bring up this slide. We've shown a lot of big buildings and really we're thinking about the scale of your project. So, we thought we'd show some projects that were more comparable to what you're considering for the site. And I I think the other thing to point out with these images too is you'll see there's not really any particular style. Um we are not going to come in and say this is the style you're going to take it or leave it. Um we believe we want to come to the community and listen, find out where what's important to you, what styles you like and work towards that. So, our goal is to really uh build the buildings that look like they've always been there,

191buildings that they belong there, and buildings that are loved by people who live there. Um, and so we've done this uh time and time again uh from cities as diverse as Napa, Emeryville, Santa Clara, Richmond. Um we come to each site um really to listen and learn and to provide what the community needs. Um so to speak about our method, our method is really about listening and that's both within working with your internal team and then whatever project outreach uh you guys want to do. Um, and really about documenting your wants and needs and working with our partners uh on the build side to uh basically work the evolve the project along so we're within your target budget and your target schedule. And it's about being uh flexible and being able to uh deal with

192unforeseen conditions as they're coming along just to keep everything uh so we deliver on the day we're saying we're delivering. Um so to touch base on pre-construction services um that we provide as a team some of the pre-construction services that we um provide include um providing quality assurance and quality control of the design drawings with constructibility feedback um attending weekly OAC meetings with the design team and design consultants preparing pre-construction schedule with high priority uh list items and conditions of approval matrix uh providing budget estimates as needed um as the drawings develop. and uh preparing detailed uh scope sheets to make sure that subcontractors are providing accurate uniform pricing and are not missing anything within their pricing. Um and then also we prepare 3D models to better understand site conditions. Um this helps us assess

193the project site and also helps us communicate with our subcontractors to make sure that they're looking at everything holistically and not missing anything so there's no scope gaps during the course of construction. Um, an example of this is a project that we were recently uh awarded um in Marin-S San Quinton area. Um, it's Oakhill Apartments. It was a complicated site on a hillside and from looking at the drawings, we were unable to understand the true topography of the site and the amount of earthwork and shoring um that had to take place for the for the for this for the building. So essentially what we did is our team of in-house architects created three these 3D models and presented to subcontractors and had Zoom meetings with them to clearly illustrate with them what we're looking for

194in terms of pricing to make sure that they submit a complete package to us. And then during the con uh construction phase um there's coordination meetings identifying conflicts um coordinating with outside agencies quality control and quality assurance assurance RFIs um minimizing change orders on all of our projects for the last four years um our change orders have been under 2% of the GMP. So we really strive to make sure that we limit change orders as much as possible. I'm going to talk a minute about design proposal. Um, as I mentioned before, our our process typically starts with conversations with the community. So, in this case, we're we're working a bit in isolation. So, this is really um just to give you an example of how we would approach a project, how we would analyze a

195project, what we might take under consideration. Um, and we appreciate the design work that's gone in so far uh to the basis design. I think there's definitely some um some positive uh moves that are made here in this design. Um but we do have some suggestions, ways to improve upon the base design that we think will make it a stronger um community and also while having a similar appearance and layout. Um we without going too far into the weeds, we looked at streamlining the circulation uh to stack this the units a little bit differently uh eliminate half of the stairwells that were in the original design. Uh we also eliminated the freestanding community building and we moved that inside one of the main buildings uh which is much more efficient to have that as a

196room inside a building instead of its own freestanding structure. Uh we also looked at u uh massaging the facade a little bit, making sure we have the right size windows and doors to save some money. And uh we spent some time thinking about how we can incorporate our mechanical systems into the project and um work out a design that would include some rooftop space like we have in these buildings here. Um so we can get some of the condensers and equipment off the ground and out of sight and on the on the roof. Um we spent some time looking at the landscaping as well and right sizing some of the amenities there to save cost. Um so in summary um what we've sent pricing for this modified option is basically this scheme as it's been

197um uh amended by us and our team. We did decide to spend time developing a second design that was a complete departure from this. Um again not to say that this is right or wrong but we wanted to show you kind of an example of how we approach a project and how we think. Um, one of the disadvantages of this scheme, um, in our opinion was the the prominence of the garages. As you come into the site, you're you're coming straight into a number of parking garages and private garages kind of make the perimeter of the entire site. We thought it would be um, preferable to have those garages more tucked away. Um, so in our uh alternate layout, we looked at moving the garages more internally and taking them sort of more out of

198sight to the back of the project to the freeway side and also create an interior parking court um possibly with like a a grass type paving. And our approach was to um the original scheme had one T-shaped courtyard. We thought it would be good to have two separate courtyards. Um given the size of the development um that gives sort of nice comfortable um to these two communities of 30 units each and the two courtyards allow us to do different amenities in each. So one could be an active courtyard, one could be more focused on uh child play uses, one could be focused more on the adults. Um, so these two courtyards are connected to each other and they're also connected to the park uh with a special paving system that uh that connects all these

199spaces. We put the community room in the front and center uh as you come into the development uh as shown in that orange piece there. Uh this is a a concept rendering that envisions the layout that I just showed you. Um and keeping the same style as the um the basis design. Um again, we we would normally start with a conversation to get a sense of aesthetic and where the district wants to go. So we just put this here as an example um as what that could look like. Um, we also explored some other styles, um, just for fun, this more modern style to see what that would look like. But the point is is we can we can dress this building. We can give it whatever character we want. Um, but we would really

200start with a discussion and and what the preferences are of the district. Um, >> you what? >> Just wanted to make sure. >> Yeah. >> Sure. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, in that case, we would definitely want to go in the more traditional direction. Um, so yeah, you can do that as well. Um, I'm going to turn it over to the schedule and I'm going to talk about the schedule. Our schedule is uh I think in in practical terms, we're looking at um [clears throat and snorts] and a lot of this depends on the city and their their turnaround times for review, but we're looking at nine to 10 months for our pre-esign process and permitting. And then uh a 18 to two year construction period. 18 months. 18 month construction period. Can you say that

201again? >> Yeah. 9 to 10 months of of design, permitting, plan check, and then 18 months construction. >> You said 18 to two years. >> The overall construction design build process is going to request was for three years depending on how long it's going to take for the design and approval and permitting process which we anticipating 9 to 12 months based on age kid experience of working uh with the city of San Jose. Uh the uh the construction duration is somewhere between 18 to 20 months. A lot of it is going to be part of the infrastructure, the sanitary sewer, storm sewer, power and distribution, that sort of thing. Uh the next slide here of cost proposals that we've already presented to the board uh into part of the response. We're pretty much all the

202three uh different schemes could be delivered almost at the same price range. I think our price range is about $56 million design build package. I can't see that far. So I don't I don't exactly know all the numbers but you all have that cost estimate in front of you. [laughter] >> What's that? >> That's all. So, so yeah, I mean that kind of touches bas on the various price proposals and uh life cycle cost on that. >> Yeah, I mean again as we get into this we're going to really want to revisit the program. Um you know the current design has a lot of parking and a lot of private garages. You know, so one thing we talked about was evaluating, well, if there's a need for storage, but not necessarily a private garage, maybe

203we can provide storage rooms instead of garages. So, there may be some creative ways we can save some money and still provide the same uh services and amenities to the residents. um in terms of the work we've done together and it's smart as we've worked for years and years together and what we our our process typically is very involved from schematic design all the way through construction. We don't we don't start working together you know a month before construction. So we're really used to this process of uh collaborating and looking at various systems. So, in terms of life cycle costs, um because the district is going to own this property and over the long term, um we're going to look hard at several systems that um we have options for. So, mechanical systems, for instance,

204we have two or three different options for heating and cooling units. Um so, we can look at that not only in terms of first cost, but how is it going to how's it going to pay out over 10 years, 20 years. Um, so for things like mechanical systems, lighting, um, you know, what roofing, if we end up with a tile roof or whatever else, we want to look at, you know, what is the warranty period? Is this a 20-year roof? Is it a 50-year roof? Um, so you can get a sense of like where you're going to have value and maybe some of the first cost goes up a bit, but it's going to over long term you have savings with better better finishes. Um, so that's in short what we're going to be doing

205as part of our our vetting of this process in the early schematic phase. And also I wanted to chime in on the u idea of having individual garages. Uh we actually explored that on some other projects that we have garages. Garages are typically used for storage rooms and people still park outside. So uh on a project that we worked together uh every unit had a designated uh storage room. storage room that's so many square feet, 200 square feet or somewhat that is specifically for that tenant. Uh and that is a lot more usable for uh for the tenant himself. Apartment buildings typically don't have individual car garages. They're you know basically the wear and tear of the equipment and the garage doors and the remotes loss and people keep coming to having to exchange remotes

206and that sort of thing upgraded. So in our opinion if it's it's not a highly desirable element of the design of the project of the project we could have substantial cost saving providing storage room and having all onsite carport parking and carports are going to be all with solar panels. So all the build The four buildings could actually be supported by solar panels. Get eliminate the garages, put individual storage room. Entire perimeter is going to be covered with carports that are solar panels and basically make it friendly solar friendly the entire project. So it's something that's something that we could explore. It actually did some studies that we were that we should we're limited to what's what was presented before and not to add any more material for this uh this presentation. That pretty much

207concludes our presentation. If there's any questions again, thank you all so much for taking the time to listen to our presentation. >> Anybody any trustees have any questions? Thank you very much. >> Thank you. accessories. >> Oh, I thought we got to keep the little toy house. [laughter] >> Okay. You got it. >> Okay, you heard that. >> Oh, you're going the extra mile. >> Thank you. Oh, [laughter] That's your paper weight. You want a paper weight? >> You know what? I like that you can put like this your book and just turn it for you. You know, this is a Are they different? >> Are those two different designs? >> No, this is this is >> Oh, wow. >> Yeah. Layers and layers of laminated. >> Okay. All right. We're ready. >> All right.

208>> Wait for >> No. They don't wait for me. So, go. We're ready. >> I like your style. >> Let's get the show on the road. Come on. >> All right. Well, good evening, Board of Trustees. Everybody hear me? Okay. >> Yes. >> Um, Superintendent Garcia, uh, district staff, and also the Alam Rock community. My name is Keith Craw. I'm uh presenting to you tonight the uh core builders Steyberg Heart team. Um, and we're pleased to present our solution for the Alamrock Workforce Housing Project. Uh you're going to hear us continue to say through this this um presentation that we're going to be providing uh the most desirable rentable uh units. We're going to be the most safe and resilient longlasting structure and it's going to be delivered by a local team, folks who live

209right here and work in San Jose for many, many years. As I mentioned, we we've got a placemat in front of you. Uh since we're short on time, we'll stay away from introductions and just let you use that. Um, and so one thing we added we thought was fun was, uh, we've all had a teacher or an education moment that meant something to us. So, we put that quote on there. We thought it would be a nice way to connect. Um, I'm the president of Core Builders. I've dedicated my career to both uh, housing and K through 12 BSA uh, construction. I actually was a project manager back in the measure G days back here about 10 years ago and worked on the Linda Vista and Lindale sites as a PM. So, we did some

210some HVAC. >> Yeah. >> Hopefully that's a good thing, not a bad thing. [laughter] >> I don't know. >> Yeah. >> No, no, no. I'm sorry. >> To be determined. To be determined. >> Stay tuned. >> Go ahead. >> All right. So, um, you know, I'm using the term and I uniquely qualified our team. Um, because like Allen Rock, we're actually core is actually an owner ourselves. We're we've been a developer in San Jose and builder in San Jose for many many decades. So we know the the toughness and what it takes to finance these projects, conceptualize them, entitle them, permit, build, and then actually where we think we can bring a lot of value is we we own these these buildings that function for decades to come. So we know the maintenance that's involved,

211how to keep them rented and filled. So we think we can offer a lot of that experience into this. We think that's unique to our team. Something else is just in the past two years, we've done six SB35 projects, which is the legislation engine that streamlines the entitlement process for these types of projects. Now, I'm going to pass this on to a longtime colleague of mine, Katya Mlan, who uh was who's the project architect. >> My name is Katya Mlan. I'm a partner with Steinberg Architects. And that long-term friendship with Keith has spanned over 15 years. But what that really translates is that we have a design build team that has worked together. The projects that are at the bottom are some examples of things that we have done together. The two on the left

212and that's important because there are no lessons learned. We know each other. We know how to work to budget. We know how to achieve a schedule together and work together in a collaborative process. We have done again approximately 255 homes delivered in two years. And this is actually this team working as you know not we're not just a marketing team where actually the people that work on the projects. Um Keith mentioned but we actually have a lot of experience in education as well. So we understand K12 districts, the importance of projects that have low maintenance that you can, you know, maintain over time and that have provide a quality to either the students or your faculty or your staff. We also have about 150 residential projects in title in San Jose. What that means is

213that this team knows Chu in the building department, Chris Burton in the planning department, Ruth Quetto Vanu, you know, I went to school with hers. What that means is that we actually can accelerate the schedule and be predictable on those uncertainties that happen through the entitlements that are quite normal. But we have that experience in San Jose in residential projects. And we also have more than 300 units of workforce housing having worked with nine school districts in different capacities, but built projects with LA USD, San Jose USD, San Jose Unified, and Morgan Hill Unified. And that also brings us some lessons learned. Um, next >> I do. >> Yes. And what sets us apart is that we are 15 minutes away from your district from the site. And what it's on the board is all

214the residential projects that Steinberhard and Coverters have done in San Jose. What this means is that we're 15 minutes away depending if you take East Santa Clara or if you take the freeway. But um what it means is that you have a team here doing the design that we can have design meetings as needed that we can actually you know also respond quite quickly during construction but also at the end we have a warranty team that is 15 minutes away from the project. Next, you want to >> So, I'm going to talk about sort of our our methodology in this and then I'm going to get off the podium here and let the team highlight the rest of the team here. So, um as you can tell, we're passionate about one by how many accessories

215are brought about housing and education construction. This this project in particular being here in our backyard. Um, but at that time, uh, last January when this came out, unfortunately, the there were the fires down in Southern California, which was tough because many of us knew folks who lost their homes. And I I was going through something with a friend of mine who ended up losing his home to the fires. And it it just made me think, wow, we're in January, we're in the rainy season, and these fires are still occurring. And it just made me say, hey, in construction, we need to involve with this or evolve with our environment here in California and think about this as we create new residential housing. And you know, doing the traditional method of wood framing, you know,

216like it small wood frame members and just all those kinds of things that are highly combustible just seems like we need to think about something different. And if you look at the quote, my quote on there from my teacher was, you know, every single problem has multiple solutions. So I really wanted to focus this team here and assemble a team that would actually think about it a little bit differently and pile prasad our design manager is going to come up and talk about our solution. >> Thank you so much. Hello everybody. My name is Kyle and I will be the design manager working with the district and tangle throughout the design process. I'm very excited to take this further and explain the solution that we have chosen for Rock workforce housing. This addresses the heightened

217fire challenges that Keith just spoke about which is so real in California. What we are achieving through this process is a very unique solution for all the district staff members to call home. Now a few of you have seen the sample which is in front of Linda. That is a sample of the mass timber frame which we are proposing to use for construction. Um and if you can see it's a engineered product and lends itself with a far better dimensional stability. Now uh traditionally we're all familiar that a project like this maybe would have been uh formed with walls which are made of wood studs like that bottom right corner of photo that we have and the ceilings are made of joist. What we are proposing in this solution um the floor is made of

218mass timber and the walls are made of pre-engineered light gauge metal studs. The floor could be as big as 12 ft by 48 ft uh panels. What that lends towards is a very expedited schedule which my team member is going to follow up on which has helped us expedite the schedule and shave off a good two months from the construction. Now uh of course there are many benefits for using this master timber solution. Some of them like it has enhanced mold pest resistance. Fire resistance is definitely one which takes us back to the very reason why we chose this solution. There's this whole le new level of sustainability in the project. And another benefit like I would like to highlight before I hand it over to Katya again who will dive deeper into the design

219solution is what this mass timber adds is the ceiling inside the homes are exposed. That adds a lot of warmth and character as opposed to just a drywall sopet and that is going to be gorgeous for uh whoever is living in the home. So thank you As the architect, I'm in charge of talking about design and I love baseball and there, you know, if you remember the movie, if you build it, they will come. But if you have to build it with intention, you actually have to understand that this is a project that will help the district retain and recruit new staff members. And it needs to be a development that provides that community feeling and that belonging that will attract those residents, those future teachers or stay in those teachers that you already have

220or the staff members. Next, so I'll talk about those exposed ceilings and the units, but units are more than just walls and windows. Units are actually homes and that's where life unfolds every day. And that's what we wanted to emphasize, you know, in our design. >> We have a nice distribution of equity, you know, different type of units. We have board meetings. Last year we wanted to have some emphasis on having two bedrooms. So we have provided some additional two bedrooms. We have light ventilate cross ventilation that is actually providing not just a sustainable project but a project that provides well and then talking about the community as a whole. We are designing a complex that actually takes into consideration wellness and we also heard that coverity that you saw as a So that's why

221we actually have a lot of the covered parking spaces. Something that we're adding to the project is a community garden that was not the original. We feel that it's an area where people can just come together and actually building oriented close to the park. We actually have already connected with who is a local artist. She's a teacher and we that it would be a perfect area for commission to do a mural and actually showcase the project from the rest and two key important items um that are deviation from the original design. First is we actually push the project away from succeeding and that is to help with noise. That way is more oriented and directed connection to the car and it also helps the pedestrian connectivity of the residential community and lastly this is a

222community oriented design for all. So we are signators and guidelines for un for me. >> Hi, my name is Johnston. I'm the chief experience officer for Bridge Foundation and I'm standing in for our founder tonight because she could make it but we can't how excited we are as a foundation to be part of this project and to be working with you here in Alen. I don't know if you're familiar with Magical Bridge Foundation. We started in Palo Alto. We build awardwinning inclusive playgrounds that consider all ages and all abilities. Um our work has been featured in Smithsonian. We've gone to the world been featured in the World Economic Forum. We've done great things. But what we're really excited is investing in our community. We do a lot of community um uh community work here. Our

223playgrounds, like I said, they are parks really um they're designed for inclusion. And when you design for inclusion, everyone comes. So, they really become a place um and this has really been proven in our projects. We have over 11 of them here in the Bay Area. Uh where people just come together, people tend to stay longer. Actually, we know for a fact that stays on, they talk more, they have more conversations, a real community is built along with our designs. We uh do programming. We work a lot with local schools. We would love to work with the school here. Um so that's a big part of what we do. We have a program called Time by Design. Um so there's usually a stage in our playground. There's community areas and we help with the programming

224to really bring the area to life. So, my name is heard today. What my colleagues have mentioned before is that we what it takes to operate a project and that we believe that we can understand how we build projects with 35 and 330 to make sure that we can navigate those seamlessly documents officials that we understand all the various need to get a project to the start of construction. And then also last but not least, the construction. We're touting a construction timeline of 16 months. And the reason that's possible due to the efficiency also minimizes our footprint to the campus. construction that looks like a partage our prestruction contract and understand what is your schedule. So we have items being And last but not least, the really special part about this design we have is

225that we're able to provide youual direction. Now moving on to what we're not here to say we're part of San Jose supporting our future generations. We work very closely together. Construction. Our good Transparency. $1.7 million. You can expect analysis based through the process. So in closing what I started with highly desire that people want the safest most structure in terms of fire resistance. So we've been talking to your ideas. I just maybe I'm missing it. A certain amount for the original design were very Thank you. >> 228 units total 22 one bedroom 48 two bedrooms and eight bedrooms. What's it ei. 4 in or 5 in. So tell me by 48. Instead of laying out joist on the side, you're basically bringing Imagine four times the size of the firewood. So that expedites the whole

226process. The walls are prefabricated. They are light gauge metal studs. So the fact that the whole wall comes preabricated again instead of bringing in studs and the traditional process is called stick framing. So you actually put the studs together on the side. So we're eliminating that. Yes. And even from a resistance that's why the insurance cost is considerably lower. One of the bigger risks in housing is wateraus gets completely eliminated by the system. I know I know she's a beautiful mother city. Is that a cost also that is included thinking about the community that local artist of the team with her a couple of times and she's excited to be working. She actually did a little design. enhanced the materials materials are you would normally see them as many decks but because we're looking at

227this Start again two bedrooms. That's what our experience tell us that works best for workforce housing. Um because typically a young family even if it's just one single staff member teacher that second bedrooms. So that's the person I'm going to go a little bit by pushing away from 680 you actually have less less noise in the unitity you actually see the ground floor that's So every single unit actually visual access to an open space. So that's another one of the Kelsey guidelines that I mentioned universal design and I truly believe in supplement but I truly believe park is a huge area actually that you to do, you know, to do a rendering. So, we had to put something there. But it's a great opportunity to actually work with a community to design something that belongs.

228And that's what and our team would work towards, you know, with you to figure it out. What does it really mean to be another one of that connection to the nature and there's a creek on the top of the probably could use some love and some connection. So, we're hoping that we have a hoping that that connection and bringing that bringing nature back to the community. >> Oh, yes. And all the two bedrooms have two baths. And you may think, oh, whatever. It is a big deal and we tried to be economical in the design in order to the budget but we definitely feel that it's a huge return on inve And so let me ask you this. Which window is measured by the entire test for noise? test. So we actually have 29 correct

229mem the noise transition. is not top of the class but it's definitely an STC rating that is meeting code and it's what we do most of our approaches again from 680 also helps Yes, >> that's a 3D model. And the reason why we wanted to show that is you can actually start there's cross ventilation and those corridors can be they're not going to be just walls and you don't you don't know what's happening hopefully there's some quality also happening around the connectors those with those so yes I don't think that you see the bathroom on the right hand side maybe you do but yes so it's on the left hand side you can see the kitchen and the living room and then you see the bathroom and the bedroom on the right The entrance is

230actually through those through that corridor. That would be that would be >> I'm going to show you cut the building open that's what you would see inside. >> Yes, there's there are mechanical units but we also provided a window once you enter the door you know to the right hand side you know you will see it probably it's better to see it on that 3D model you know that that we provide for the units there's a window there next to the kitchen and then balcony. The balcony on that side as well. >> I was looking for the AC. >> Okay. Yeah, I got it. >> So that ventilation is key because yes, you still have But you know there is actually nice days in San Jose that you don't need air condition on just the

231ability to open your window in the kitchen you know your sliding door you know for the balconies it's a great ability to just provide that ventilation there's heating and cooling >> but you know I just wanted to make sure >> when I read when you're reading several as you progress. We're going to take this. >> Yes. Sorry. [laughter] >> Yes. Is this We're going to take public comment right now. Is there anybody or two? I'm hoping that this is the right time for this because we are talking about public housing and being one that was on the committee like I enjoyed seeing the different but again I wanted to bring to the attention that we're moving forward with a process on a parcel of land that limits what we can do and you're going to

232be disturbing a middle school and you're going to have educators living on a middle school campus. Now that we have some surplus properties, I would ask maybe putting this on a break for just a little bit to see if therefore the site. I know that we're looking to lease property as well, but instead of just steamrolling with this, if we could take a step back and see what is in the best interest for the long I guess we're ready for that. I know. I know. I just said I was ask Oh, they have to listen to this. >> Yeah. I'll ask >> we choose a team today but not >> I don't know if that's a question to do that. So something My name is Reiterating some information. project. How did we get to tonight's

233milestone? Well, as you may remember in December 24 this year is July. at the beginning of October early presentations and interviews. Following that, all teams were asked to respond to a proposal number one with the goals of final questions on the proposals with the opportunity for their best final offer. And lastly, the evaluation based criterion maximum score each category are price to submit proposed changes to the terms that was provided. You may notice Maximum score was 375 points and we're showing here contract. some highlights. Some of the main strengths of the top is identifying projects. As the teams were asked to present based on their design services for both the original designing The bottom table shows that we're not present. both were approximately. So regarding schedule is the proposed timeline of the proposal construction based

234on this construction with project. So tonight staff would like to present to the board the recommendation resulting from the evaluation process. The recommendations proceed with negotiations build overall the district for the project and next steps we've obtained that we're going to promote contract negotiations with the goal of obtaining contract. I don't have any questions. I was going to make a motion motion for purposes of discussion. We have Well, there's things changing. educ So again, I mean there's a lot of things that comes up in order from sometimes. Well, I don't know. I can't tell you what I said. science. I appreciate represent very was very investment very entire. And so I'm concerned out there. I think just by asking that question is I think that projects as far as momentum that's changed this district. What

235I did want to think one of the things you know I don't think I don't know I'm not talking without being appreciate your perspective. I just Make sure that we bring in the process so that people at the very least process. That's the choice. That's the way very I just have a couple comments already having been a co-chair and sitting with uh vice and listening to the entire group including area sat with us. We spent a lot of time yes and at the time we didn't have schools shut down. So I think I'm in agreement as I mentioned earlier the decisions we make will impact not just our staff in our school district in the now but for future generations and we want to make sure that this investment one that our teachers want to

236live there, right? So, I think if teachers say we are not moving in there, then that's something to take in consideration if we're building workforce housing. Um, and I I really enjoy all three presentations who said they're going to take in the community, right, and I I was saying, you know, met again. We brought the committee together and we decided differently. Uh because I do I want to make sure that we honor those who spent the time and sat and made that decision um that we take in consideration, right? That that it's not the board saying, "Oh, we're just going to change that and we're not going to listen to the stakeholders that got together." Um but if it's something that you know as a community as Alen Brock we decide we're going to move

237in a different direction. Um and that that's majority that as a board we're hopefully supporting that. Um so I think just more leaving that at a point where it could be or we could just continue to where we're at now um is important. You know, again, we do make decisions based on those that we're serving and in this case it's the staff there and so I'm open right that won't be a part of the motion that I'll make but just in the spirit of being disagreeing without being disagreeable. I'm sorry if I misunderstood. I just thought I heard you say something about bringing jobs. So when I said you know what I really interested Is that Yeah, I would assume that was a October. That's not going to happen. Amazing. There is one instruction. questions.

238The administration I'm sorry. eventually district. And so what happened was And that's how it heard the comments. And so prior to doing So I have a question. My question is for the permitting process. Has a city or any have they got out already site to do any of the meeting process. I wanted to context figure out What can be done? The cost of the reports. I think 50,000 or soc thumbs up forward. What was that process? Can I ask you a question? Can you elaborate on that more so that way? >> Sure. You have properties next to you. That was one of my first concerns when I got here. Perfection. So motion to authorize staff to enter into contract negotiations with core builders in Which contract shall be subject to board approval at a subsequent

239You want to make it look I can't find more time. Okay. All right. All in favor of that amendment. motion with the amendment. So, it's two. Okay. because it was before somebody just We're told that the recommendation we don't accept this recommendation to you. I have a question. I guess there's no motion on the floor. Is there information that I'm missing uh that I didn't get because clearly, you know, obviously everyone was great, but clearly there was a process and uh you know, we have the the results of that process. I trust and I honor the work of our staff and the work of that committee or whatever it's called group that got together to do this work. So, I'm just wondering if there's information that was I mean, she talked about a wrench. I

240just want to make sure that at the end when I'm voting that I have all my to negotiations with one of the parties to do that instruction I'm not focused on Then I made another motion to go with the recommendation of just builders and temporary parts without any amendments, but that wasn't taken on. So I'm just wondering if there's additional information that I find. Oh, I mean, >> oh, they don't want me to make the motion. We have a motion in a second. All in favor of Okay. Still waiting. It's three. Excuse me. Let's put it >> because it's already fine. >> You're going to change your vote. Yeah. >> Okay. So moving on to the bond facility. Okay. 6.2 resolution authorizing technology procurement section 118.2. I have a motion. Do I have a second?

241>> Okay. Any public comment on this item 6.2 No comment. Any trusty comment on this? All in favor, please raise your hand. Motion passes. I have a motion and a second. Thank you very much. >> I just want to thank all of those that applied to the citizens oversight committee. Uh I know it's a lot of work and um I know that we have some members that have been there for years including Alison and a couple others. So, just want to thank them for applying and hopefully if pass today for their time of serving on this overight committee. chair vice chair former especially I have a couple questions. I know that I asked while I was reviewing the board. I'm just wondering if we got any response to the questions regarding Ryan as a vendor

242and if that would be any conflicts and then also we got an updated signature from Matt. Yes, we're currently speaking attorney. >> Oh, good. I thought it was two years. So, Thank you. material. I know that we need to build this. Thank you for stepping up. Second second. Is there no further comments? members of First, second. second. All right, I got a motion. Remember trusting. indigenous pride. Yes. So I want to help supporting John's class history. Roberts. Thank you. Heartless and the beautiful altars that were set up by the community there. And also just shout out to our national our students who went and gave the trophies at the National Women's Soccer League event yesterday. It was like great. Like I don't know that I've been to an event like that. It was live by

243ESPN. I mean it was a real deal. There was a instead of a red carpet, it was a blue carpet and the girls got to go through the blue carpet and be interviewed and took pictures. Um it was just I was very proud to sit there and be there yesterday. So shout out to all the girls. And then Bossi, I know we've had a great collaboration with them. they've really taken the time to invest in our uh students and that's a Bay Area women's sports initiative. Um so just proud of our partnership and the work. I know they asked for the girls and Sandra and staff were on it and made it happen. So um good job again very very very proud um to have the partnership and looking forward to many more events. Thank

244you. items in close session. Number two, conference with property negotiated mitigation. potential case and then conference investigative findings comments. Hello All right. Close. That's it. Antonio 11:36 Did I say we need to report? >> Yes. Thank you. Item 13.3 motion by unanimous vote and instru instru