001team. Um, and beyond our our compliance items that we cover during our DAC meetings, we really uplift the voice of our families by listening to what they want to topics to be discussed. So, we do a needs assessment and then when we do our planning meetings, our agenda planning meetings, they bring topics to us that are of interest to them. So, not only are we covering those required topics, which is compliance, but I'll give you a few examples of what we did in the last year. Um, in the at the beginning of the year in October, um, they thought that it was really important to talk about the safety of our students. And so we uh invited Aaron Renan who is the founder of the Joyful Child Foundation and she came to one of our
002DAC meetings and talked about safety with our teenagers and how we can talk to our children about safety inside and outside of the classroom. And so again that was brought forth because of the leadership of our DACA board. Another presentation that we also did among others is the know your rights presentations. um in light of everything that was happening in the fall with the elections and then in January um they thought it was important to bring somebody here to talk to our community about their rights and how to stay safe out in their community. So we invited a community partner to come in and talk to our families about you know what their rights are uh what their constitutional rights are and how to keep safe. And so again, these topics are brought forth because
003they're are, you know, of importance in our community. And so they really uplift the voice of our entire community. And I just want to applaud their leadership um because again, you know, that they're parent volunteers and they're really building the capacity in their leadership and you know, uh inviting more people to come and be a part of of this amazing committee that really um advocates for the success of English learners. And they're always asking questions. They're always making really good suggestions and you know it's really nice to see how confident they are to come to us and and suggest ideas. And so with that, I'm going to invite our vice president who is here representing our president um Julie Ramirez representing Nati this evening and she's going to share some recommendations um that were brought
004forth by the committee. So I'm going to go ahead and move over to those. Okay, Julie. >> Thank you. Um good evening board of trustees. Congratulations Dr. Free um new uh superintendent and for everyone in the room good evening. Um I'm here to read the um recommendations of the board to 202526. Uh we would like to continue building part parent leadership capacity continue to strength ELA at school sites. continue to provide leadership training for ELAC's parents, EL and PL administrations and EL ELP coordinators. Organized DAC elac collaboration with other parents groups and community organizations. engage in articulation with feeder du and elacs beginning at beginning begin attending da meetings for a feeder elementary districts and inviting elementary duct boards to come and join us for to the ahsd deal meetings continue to support continue supporting
005and understanding career preparedness system frameworks via parent learning walks and capstone portfolio interviews um invite guest speakers role models Sorry. Um, community members and former EL students to classrooms, school, and district events. Continue to provide training to parents and staff on mental health, social, emotional needs, and cultural competencies. Continue to create more awareness around the needs of our special students. Create a committee for parents of special education parents. EI community advisory committee CCA similar to DAC continue to build um teachers capacity with professional learning to increase the access the access and success of PL and EL students you want me to skip to that and then with that I'll thank you for your support in offering the new opportunities for my dear book. Thank you. >> Thank you. [Applause] So with that, that concludes our
006presentation. We are um happy to take any questions. Hopefully everything um you don't have questions. Um but we're here in case you do. >> Anybody have any questions? >> U Miss Fujimoto, I I just wanted to commend you uh for the work that you guys are doing and celebrate the 10-year anniversary that we have at the summer language academy. I know uh board president uh O'Neal and Trusty Guerrero and I were there to help celebrate that. And the other thing I have to commend you ladies on the board. You look like you all get along really well and you represent different schools in our district and I could see how passionate you are about that. So thank you for stepping up and being a part of this. And um I also know that the summer
007um well the language academy also continues in on our Saturday. Correct. That is correct. >> Can you share with us a little bit about that? >> Yes. Saturday language academy. Um it uh runs um the same time as our Saturday language academy. So we use uh similar um opportunities that we um begin in the summer. It's open for students who want to continue um developing their their language and uh uh building that linguistic repertoire um including opportunities for them to explore identity. And so um we have teachers from across the district who participate in that um welcome their students. And so it's just continuing the great work that's happening during the that begins in the summer and we continue it um throughout the school year. >> Right. And we have that special also partnership with
008Cal State Fullerton. >> That's correct. Correct. Yes. >> All right. >> Anybody else? >> I would just like to thank you. I so deeply appreciate what you all do and the needs that you fulfill. And when you work with our youth today, because I am so aware of how our district has changed, our community has changed and the needs are so much greater. And I think I get choked up just saying to myself then saying to you the sense of pride that these young people get from what you give them and I just from the bottom of my heart I just want to thank you. We can't do without you. >> Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I also want to echo uh that a lot of the um data that you highlighted a lot of
009the increase in graduation rates of our English language learners, E3G completion, more of our English language learners and the increase of state seal by literacy and then uh what trustee Hoshi mentioned celebrating 10 years um and continuing the growth of our dual language academy programs that couldn't have been done without your leadership and the DACA word leadership. Um you've been a part of that. So I just appreciate everything that you've done for our students and making us more successful. So thank you. >> Thank you so much. Yes. Thank you. I have a question. The the anticipated rate is that after summer school is is taken into consideration >> the projected numbers. >> Yes. >> Um after summer school in December. >> So in December we'll have official numbers which includes everything. Okay. >> Um so
010the projected numbers have that included in it but officially we'll probably know closer to December or some time in December. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Usually they're pretty close though. >> Okay. Yeah, appreciate. >> Okay, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, thank you. >> Um, I spoke to board president. We actually have certificates for our board on behalf of city council member Natalie Rubikava. So, I want to acknowledge our families on the DAC board. So, I'm going to say it here and then I'll come up and present you with the certificate on on her behalf. We have Gualupe Basave Yu Ramirez, [Applause] Jod Sanchez, Marcelina Hernandez, and last but certainly not least, Sophia Romero. [Music] Thank you all. [Applause] Item 8.2 is our 45day state budget revision and Dr. Nian will
011make a presentation here. >> Yes. So hopefully uh will be a short presentation to give you an update of um what was adopted um when the governor signed the budget on June 27th. So um by law we have to have within 45 days um we have to bring um to the public available what was enacted um from the governor. And so there's no u standardized accounting code structure or any version that we need to present. Um, but some of the revisions we do want to consider are the additional revenues or any changes in in expenditures. And so we do have the student support and professional development discretionary block grant as well as a learning recovery emergency block grant. And before I give some of the updates, I just want to give you some of the
012highlights of what's happening as well as we're hearing a lot about what's happening in California, what's happened in the federal level as well, right? I think things to give some context what's happening in our nation. So overall in California, the uh labor market continues to be um pretty tight where the unemployment is about 5.3%. We're actually the highest in the nation tied with Nevada at 5.3% currently. The national average currently is at 4.2%. The unemployment is projected to peak to about 6.1% in California in 2026 quarter 1. And so um that's not the trend we're looking for, but just want to make sure that we do see there is um likeliness of a downturn in the labor market. And obviously federal immigration policy is constraining the labor supply. That is u one of the u
013concerns that we do have. Inflation uh continues to be projected at a peak of about 4.2% by the end of 2025. So we are seeing that. And with housing, um, we have deportation, the high interest rate, the tariffs on the materials, as well as the rebuilding of the LA County wildfires that is expected to constraint uh, the housing overall supply. And so with the deportation and all the different things happening right now, one of our biggest concern our district was the enrollment. And so we just got the numbers from yesterday, our first day of school, as well as uh today as well. And so we projected um really early on that our enrollment uh would decline to about 24,800. This was back when we were doing the staffing. Um we projected about 1,300 student decline
014from prior year. And we I've been talking about this number for almost a year now, right? So we projected this number back in last November. Um and so day one um school we had about 24,437 students that came. So this is about 431 students less than what we projected. Okay. So 431 less than what we projected. So that was on day one. So this is 1300 plus the 431 that we're now down. Day two which was today we are um uh our numbers about 24,500. So this is still 340 students less than we projected. Now remember we've been talking about this a long long time. We projected possibly even a decline up to 500. So it's not as bad as what we thought but we knew that coming in that this could be a problem.
015Um we all there are also um the concern about the different uh calendar as well with the feeder. So, we're hoping in a couple more uh days that the number would bounce and as you know we track our warm body counts for about three weeks about 15 days. So, that would really help us to see where the numbers would be at. So, these are just the preliminary numbers we're getting right now. I just wanted to share that half the press with uh with everybody in the public as well. The three big taxes within California, this is how the state um is funded. So you have the personal income tax, you have the corporate tax as well as the sales and uh use tax. So the personal income tax right now is projected to remain relatively
016flat. But one of the biggest concern that we're we know is the LA County taxpayer. They have until October this year to file their um personal income tax. So that is going to be very challenging since we already started our fiscal year, right? state and us, we already started July 1st. We would not even know these taxes were due quote unquote back in April, but now they're not due until October because of the wildfires. And LA County alone comprised of 21.2% of the state's uh personal income tax assessment. So they're are huge about 20% of the entire state's personal income tax. So I think this is something that once we know in October and those numbers remember they don't get released until about November or even a bit later then the state would be releasing
017those numbers. So that is going to be um a concern um for everyone and the other issue that we see right now is the corporate tax the projections um from um the budget from the from the budget that was being enacted is the corporate tax would also be declining as well. So it's a pretty significant decline and that is something we are continuing to watch at this point regarding to the federal education funding in context. So you all have seen we um the withholding of the 2025 federal dollars right that was announced back on June 30th and finally it was announced that um funding was going to be released as of um July 31st. So that's that's really really good news to hear. So when the federal and this is something I do want to
018um explain. So when the when the federal government says the 26 budget year that is our fiscal year 2627. So we're always in the rear of the federal government. So when they said 26 and remember these um were some of the things already being proposed for 2026 title one program and special ed will be maintained but other cuts are being eliminated and then some of them being consolidated into a block grant. Okay. So that was proposed already for the 26 budget. what was being withheld was the federal budget year which is our fiscal year 2526. Okay. And then now I'm going to share with you what was being projected um being withheld for our district. This is our the um grant award that um we projected to get. The first one is title two part
019A supporting effective education uh instruction 962,000. Next one is a title four student support and academic enrichment grants 581,000. Title three immigrant education program 95,000 and then the title three English learner student program 774,000 totals to about $2.4 million. So that those dollar amount those when they announced the frozen the fund the the funds were being withheld is that number and that is about 11.7% of our total federal revenues. Okay. So our total federal re revenue is about $20.6 million. Right? So when we are hearing the number federal revenues being withheld do not be alarmed. It's about 2.4 million for our district. Right? So sometimes you hear these numbers you're like how much money is being withheld. So we want to make sure that we share that here. So and so it's about it's about
02011.7% of our total federal revenue. In terms of total budget it's about a little bit less under four uh 4% of our total budget. It's about 3.88%. Okay. So what it's important to note what are possibly being uh reduced for next fiscal year. Right? As you can see, the 26th year, there's some of them that could possibly be reduced. So, these are the possible some of the programs that could be um eliminated or being reduced at that point. And so, we'll continue to monitor what some of these are. But, at least right now, these funds are being released as we speak on u after July 31st. Regarding the um state portion, um we are getting