001e e e right that was a beautiful audience members I love that all right 5.3 our closed session report the clerk of the Board of Trustees will report actions taken during close session 4.0 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent that concludes the report hey moving on to our student speakers so at this time we have our student speakers go first and our first speaker is Connor Joseph Hol please come on up to the and if I um said your name wrong please correct me welcome welcome hello oh good evening my name is Connor Hy I'm a student at Western High School a jarge c Cadet and also a split ups for the US Army Reserves a quick explanation of split ups for those who don't know uh split UPS is a
002junior who is on track to graduate and meets the requirements can enlist in branches that allow such as the US Army and the US Navy uh I enlisted in early April and complet completed basic training this past summer and I'm here to speak on one of the concerns I have at my high school Western's JTC program is in route to being informally removed from Western starting next semester for most students uh in JTC this is an Abrupt uh change in schedule with the only notice being given by our instructor not admin and as a matter of fact our admin is still deciding if JTC will remain next semester when we will not have an instructor next semester JTC cannot function without an instructor and nearly everything in our current classroom will be returned to the
003Army leaving us with nothing but maybe chairs and tables Jared I was homeschooled for around 5 years ending with my freshman year and due to many reasons I chose to go to Western my sophomore year and in the second semester of that year I joined jrtc JTC helped me relearn how to socialize develop my character and eventually gave me the confidence knowledge and determination to enlist in the Army my junior year and so far I've carried that experience and the experiences through basic training with me now and hearing that other students will not be able to go through jrtc to develop their character especially given that Western is merging with uh orangey Middle School uh it strikes me as just crazy um I'm sorry my script ended there um I'm blinking on what I wanted
004to say however I definitely want to draw attention to this thank you very much Conor I I just wanted to let you know you still had a couple minute did you have anything else to say no okay thank you very much David Elias marz welcome can I begin hi good evening I am Cadet major David morass the executive officer of Western jrtc I am here at the board today to express our growing concern over the situation at our program here at Western we have been forced into a situation where we have been blinded by what is going on with our jrc program we have repeatedly and repeatedly ask our principal about the future of our program yet we have been denied access to the truth or any answers we've asked a very simple question to
005our principal will our program continue next year with the consolidation of Western High School and orange view Junior High yet it seems the school and the district has utterly failed to inform us the students and the district has blown the situation way out of proportion the school has a very Infamous motto that they plaster everywhere unlimited you yet it seems that all the district seems to be doing is limiting me and dozens of students of their potential jrc is a path of a is a p part of a career pathway something that the district always emphasizes that we follow when choosing our electives although jedc does not force you to join our armed services it can prepare those who wish to help who wish to and help them in their pursuit of a career in
006the military with its removal there will not be a pathway for military service they also preach the values of the five seats everywhere like it's the most important knowledge in the world yet they fail to follow one of their own values communication how can their priorities be so Twisted that they can't even follow their own rules that is hypocrisy at its definition what kind of example is a district and a school setting for our students we have also given our principal the chance to explain to us or give us answers on why there's been such such a mystery on a simple question yet she has ignored us we had requested a meeting with her before arriving here at the board yet she has ignored us can I continue okay we know not all decisions are
007up to the principal but how can I feel heard if every time I try to talk to an authority figure we are stood up an excuse my principal tried claiming was your instructor found another job nothing I can do he left my instru RoR has not left he shows up every day still knowing what's going to happen yet continues to teach for the students he has found another job opportunity just in case the program shuts down but he has not left yet he has not turned his res resignation resignation he is not an arrest to leave at all my principal has also stated that our number in a program is low that the Army requires 100 people news update the minimum is 50 now which we clearly have we also have several other people interested
008in joining yet their counselors always refuse to do so because it apparently interferes with their schedule we're always recruiting for zero period I don't understand how that interferes is that all I have thank you for your time can continue did you have more to say I had a couple more yeah it's all right board it's all right yeah uh thank you for your kindness so back to where I was talking about if you're wondering what I'm talking about about our new in uh decrease in Cadets we are now going from 100 Cadets needed in our program to 50 and this is in the new National Defense author authorization Act of 2025 it has not been signed yet but it will be signed in the next school year and with the consolidation of Western High School
009and orange view we will more than uh we will hit our quota by well we her quota is what I'm trying to say now moving on to my last statement we believe that they may have attempted to ignore us in this futile attempt to let this Blow by but we will not be silenced we have the support of our teachers students and the community we come here to the board in order to seek change support and justice for our program and to prove that after all we the students have a vote thank you for your time [Applause] we really appreciate you all coming here and bringing this to our attention um at this time did you want to clarify anything or could you clarify anything well at this time no decision has been made to
010our understanding from what the principal has shared the teacher is still there and there's no resignation so there's been no discussion to close the program at the semester uh now if the teacher leaves then obviously he has to be replaced uh and from what I understand with HR we don't have just general Subs to cover jrtc we'd have to work through the Armed Forces uh in this case I think it's the Army U to find a replacement and whether that can be done or not um I don't know that would I don't know what the the availability of Subs to to serve in that role would look like um so that's the decision we'd have to make if in fact the the instructor leaves if he doesn't leave then the programs I would assume is
011going to continue throughout the year in terms of next year no decision has been made in terms of next year at this time okay any questions clarifying okay okay uh moving on to our uh public comments Open Session items Tanya bovich welcome thank you um good evening to the board and to the guests my name is Tanya bogdanovich I am recently retired public school teacher a parent a grandparent and a concerned Community member after attending the last month's board meeting a few stud students a retired language arts teacher and two parents were asking for the book gender queer to remain on the shelves of the auhsd libraries this prompted my search which led me to the capital resource Institute investigative teams show that the auhsd as to having pornographic X-rated books depicting highly explicit content
012that includes detailed and graphic depictions of sexual acts nudity and disturbing and violent scenes Kink SNM sexting instructions orgies masturbation instructions sex shops and where to purchase sex toys language about mental and physical pain inflicted on toddlers Youth and miners by their own parents and other adults in the lives of abused children there are 37 different titles and 17 more to come gender quer shows Graphics of oral and anal sex quotes which I will share with you I C and then this is one quote it says I can't wait to have your C in my mouth and then it gives a website where to purchas the sex toys the book push which has been on the shelves for more than 10 years is the most disgusting that I have ever seen I'm going to give
013you one quote because I can't bear to tell you the rest it's on every page it uses the most graphic language of a young child from the age of four to teenage years being physically raped by her parents both mother and father one of the quotes is disgusting it's all over the place he slaps my face he calls me names he pumps my P SS Y in and out over and over this then the next book The Bluest Eye talks about a pedophile and how he's feeling and thinking when he gets little toddler girls and gives them ice cream to lick while he abuses them sexually how disgusting is that the list goes on and on as stated in the district guidelines of the selection adoption and use of material under 6.1 prohibited materials material
014labeled as having RX nr17 adults only or the equivalent of are not to be used in any District school or classroom so I have uh handouts for each and every one of you this is my challenge to the superintendent the assistant superintendent all board members um you are welcome to look at all of the books and all of the sites that I found this information on here are some excerpts I'm warning you it's very graphic as well as um the lovely photos as well that our children are looking at thank [Applause] you uh good night everybody uh this is about the colonist AB there's a bill ab3 3074 so I wrote a poem and it goes like this are you guys ready for it colonist you did not allow chos and mexicos Chas natives swim
015in your pools here on Sycamore and Harbor Boulevard colonist you kill Native Americans on Thanksgiving day after we fed you turkey Chi wot we taught you how to live and survive Colin us you enslaved us BC before the African slaves colonists you did not allow us in your segregated schools like the Mendes case and Westminister Orange County California calasan colonist you ran you ran the Anaheim City in the 20s 30s and 40s the Klux Clan colonist you founded the mascot in the name of William cook a founder of the KKK Dragon colonist must be removed and abolished colonist you did not allow us but you led us and fled us with lies Little People's Park Cho riots they call it in the BOS of anahim anahim a German word colonist you shot Us in Thanksgiving
016Day in Massachusetts Bay we're going to see it again and again it gets locked into your head in Massachusetts remember that Enslaved the Chinese went to war with the Vietnamese and killed Islander Filipino Pinoy people indigenous peoples B Filipino Pino colonized them and now the colonist is a police state with the badge on the dress and undercover with drobes colonist you now are the CEOs were suits and ties Diablos mer belana bahana Yori Yankee the OC Vibe we are the stolen lands the colonist We spelled it backwards colonist you fell on the Anaheim colonist the red white and blue colonist and every white star that you have raped and stolen in the states of the colonist and all Native American trees that have not been honored but now Biden has finally put up the light
017thank you my white Ally our white Ally colonist listen carefully we're not Hispanic you're not my brown skin our brown skin color of the mother earth chocolate cacao colonist we are not nnan Cortez we're not hispanos we are not Latinos we're not Christopher Columbus that So-Cal discover mesika we are the Mexican indigenous Cho people that speak na Spanish and English Seattle Atlantic Chipotle wak wiconsin Cincinnati Atlanta or nowat not English or Spanish all the way to cuscatlan colonist you have deal with us now not Disney Mickey Mouse is a small world after all but your word will come down colonist Cho CH Pride worldwide for all the human race for all colors that been colonized and white man you are indigenous in Europe you have your ancestry like I once told my friend in laga
018Beach I know you want to learn how to make anadas it's okay but please you have to also find your roots in Europa colonist colonist colonist that's my time's up thank you so much let all Castillo all right Castillo all right good evening everybody um just wanted to well every time I come here there's always something being said and these young men fighting for uh to have something that you know their passion uh I'm going to change my subject that I wanted to talk about because my brother he was two years older played football for Anaheim and uh 17 years old he was going to the fire department and then he decided I want to join the service and my parents signed him up and he went uh eight two terms eight years and he
019went to Somalia and um but it made him a better man to come back and you know have a good life um I helped a young man that was having troubles uh at school and I mentored him and he joined the Navy he did six terms now he's retired has a nice home and everything did really good so um but this the situation for me here in our neighborhoods is um the SS I'm going to stay on that project SS I go to the uh police review board I'm actually the one that with an organization leader created that back in the 90s because we needed to have it here and um I stood Faithfully every time and went all the time by myself if I had to be there I was there to hear what
020we can do to help um So based on that my concern is was the SS were mentioned there so no I I know anybody here ever goes there to see that or communicates with the review board they're important plus you have here the school board and then you have um the outside police that are not involved with the SS and the police review board to understand that our goal as what I heard the Sor stay here and I loved them when they talked to me and saying we're here to help everybody we're not here to put labels on and then Here Comes new neutral ground excellent somebody else is coming in and you had your ambassadors and almost that's like military to me we could get something like that going like a military um because
021here's my main thing our kids look what we're having the smash and grabs and all these other gangs are kind of out the door it's all of a sudden it's every kid and they and they're out in the streets and and again I came from Parks I was the kid I went through what they went through H I didn't let it get me to me to to do anything bad except good but we are like saying we are uh indigenous people here that have had to go through a lot I went to ball I went to Lera and boy back in my time if some people here have been back in those 70s um it was pretty bad it was uh unaccepted to be have be uh an immigrant and I have to put that
022in there because all immigrants a Asian and Arab and Mexican and African-American people were uh mistreated and um there's so much to say so I want to start coming to give some history we I've been here I used to come here 25 years to come and speak here and uh get involved in the community and we used to bring a lot of things here some of you remember the organizations that used to come here and uh we even had the atic dancers out here but we protested against teachers that had done some you know things that uh un awful to want to you talk about but you know we got to have accountability and that's all I'm looking for and I don't want to come off negative I want to come off positive you know
023and so my last thinging was too I ended up at Gilbert here because of that stuff uh and Gilbert actually sent me at 17 years old to go to work full-time because I worked at 13 for the Ceda program and when I did that I ended up having to leave my high school laera because of the discrimination and I came here the principal here told me to quit school and and go to work appreciate your comments this education that's what we need thank you all right moving on to our uh 20242 first interim budget report Dr nen well good evening Madame President members of the board superintendent massuda members of the public and those watching online so tonight I'll be presenting the 2425 first interim report so do wanted to thank some of my staff
024uh Kieran org and Jo Kona for um helping put this together thank you so I would like to first um give some of the um news as what we're hearing right now from the the state level as well as some of the other um different things as we're hearing so the lao's office the Legislative andna Office um just released a report back um um last month um and basically the report is saying that um they were able to address the 2420 um five budget as well as the 2526 budget which included $5.5 billion of temporary revenues as well as7 billion withdrawal from the state's riging fund you know we know it's raining so they're able to W with do that that was great um and revenues are currently um is actually running ahead of the
025broader economy in California so in October um the Revenue um received was $1.1 billion higher um than what was projected and they were mostly due to the personal income tax so we're kind of seeing that there's kind of maybe you know a little light right at the end of the tunnel um so for some of the um the the bounce back um with the uh personal income tax and so but the revenue is improving um but there's also the cost is actually uh going up so overall they're feeling like it's a balanced budget for the 25 26 currently that's what they're looking at um but overall you know being in the L's office they're very very uh conservative right that's their role right to advise the governor as well but they're very conservative so there's
026thinking that the revenues U unlikely to grow enough uh fast enough to catch up with the high spending um growth at this point so spendings projected to grow 5.8% um from 2025 uh 26 and then it's higher than what's anticipated uh in the out years which is about 3.5% in the reason outlooks so what they're saying is at this point there's no capacity for new commitments from uh from the state at this point so that's their analysis um you know but as we were um attended some of the conferences recently we're hearing the revenues is doing a little better so we're hoping that that will be helpful for for our budget um for next year um and then yesterday the UCLA School of Anderson that just released their uh forecast um and so the biggest
027thing that people are still talking about is inflation right as you all know um the biggest topic that that was discussed yesterday was the tariffs so we um the latest numbers we're hearing is that uh tariffs will continue to boost inflation um they're looking at about a 3% increase uh for next year so if you can can just remember the last big number we've seen remember it was June of 2022 99.1% inflation right so this is I mean in my opinion much better than what we have seen so I think it's coming down so is actually going to be helpful overall um and they're forecasting uh uh 2.8% um you know outgoing for 2026 and out that so which is I mean I think the inflation needs to come down and so this is going
028the right direction we do believe but there's a lot of other factors as we um I'm going to talk about um but the fed's target is actually at 2% inflation and so you know but um they they're saying right now don't rely on feds to continue to cut rates they believe there's going to be another cut coming but after that I think it's probably unlikely that any more Cuts uh because we're so used to seeing those low rates right everybody was refinancing and doing all these different things that rate they're saying that that's probably not going to come back right anytime soon so that's what they're forecasting at this point but because of the rates are still relatively High um it's actually impacting the um housing market at this point so uh California housing market
029continued to be tight as existing single family home sale were at alltime low since 2004 um while the home price index continued to increase so that's why one one of the things where I'm going to be sharing that's one of the reasons why we're declining a faster rate in this area than compared to the rest of the state right they are moving out from our area and moving out of the state as well uh in terms of unemployment rate uh projected in California uh to be about 5.3% currently uh is looking at to increase to 5.5% in 2025 and then come down a little bit to about 5% in 2026 overall in the in the US um projections for nixir is at 4.3% so this is still relatively low um and then the national average
030has come down to about 4% in 2026 so California has always been a little bit higher than the national average um but we're hoping that you know the unemployment rate will continue to decline that's our goal um there a lot of risk with u budget we have obviously moving forward um political risk from the deficit uh trade deportation deportation and other political factors so the biggest thing about tariffs is we're looking at the 25% on all Goods um coming from Mexico and Canada that's the so those are the assumptions going into this budget already that's what um they're ant anticipating and then uh 10% additional from China at this point so they're very um Co cautious at this point with the inflation because these numbers um it's possible that it could go higher depending on
031addition teras that's going to come through right so we just want to kind of make sure that we are aware of that I think we're all aware that there's a lot of different things that's going to happen probably with the next six months and so we'll continue to track those numbers want to share some key indicators um so I just found this data recently so this is a data of what is the California overall enrollment student enrollment in k12 and the Orange County enrollment as you can see in the blue um sorry in the green are that uh that's a California en rment so last year at 23 24 year 5.8 million students okay but you can see it's gradually declining right and um so projecting out 10 years to 23 uh 20 33 34
032down to uh 5 point about 5.2 million uh students so that's a almost like a decrease of 600,000 students that's quite significant and so so um you can look at it's about a 10% increase at the state level so these are the projections that the state came out um that um that's available and and you look at the Orange County so they also do it by the county so you can see the um that's the uh yellow of the gold bar right there it's kind Orange um last year was at 437,000 students but as you can see each of the years going down um down to about 366,000 uh within 10 years so that's a drop of 7 70,000 students within Orange County so it's a 16% drop so just want to give us the
033the the Outlook because some of people are are we are we projecting continue to project the decline and so said let's we project usually five year five years out based on the numbers that we have right so we project that so this is the at the state level they're now these are the numbers that are released and I want to share that with the public so you can see what we're kind of facing with so this next slide here um the orange bar now is the Orange County and then the blue bar is um our numbers in our district and so we can see here last year we're at 27,1 195 um and moving 10 years right this is very very far away right 10 years um and the number will go down to about
03420,000 students right now I wanted to emphasize the first fiveyear number those are the numbers we use um the um data that we we have a software we use called Frontline compare compare that we use that number we project out we have different models and we pick some you know in the moderate um category those are the numbers and the the next five years for those I use the uh Orange County declining rates because we our data doesn't go that far out so I use the Orange County just to be conservative to being line with Orange County I Ed those data and project them out for the the last five years so I want to make sure that you understand that so that the drop that we are projecting a further drop in the beginning
035and then uh maybe will'll flatten out as Orange County that way so I just want to kind of share this data something we haven't shown this way I think I've shown the Orange County but we have not gone out 10 years so this is just the first shot and obviously um we're just getting the cowp pass data coming back and so once we have those data then we'll update this with a certified data as well so but as you can see o Orange County overall as a county we're dropping much faster the entire state right and so I I think as we can see these numbers it was very um it's good to have these numbers at least ready so that we can prepare what's coming and these are the average da attendance um you
036know uh what we have um some of these are the actuals the ones in blue and then the one um red is our our number moving forward uh we are still right now at about n 90% or so at attendance room right and so that's something that we really need to uh really pay attention I know that a lot of different people are working on that but um one of the things I learned at this last conference attended was looking at going to deeper and looking at the different groups now and so you know we sharing that with the rest of the group and really going to down to for example looking at The Chronic absenteeism because if you look at our overall um rate our kids are missing about 18 days of school they're
037missing 18 I mean on average missing 18 days of school after 180 days of school on average and that's a lot already at this point and so that's something we really really need to Target because that drives what we get we get paid based on kids attending not on kids enrolled in our district so make sure yeah thank you um this is the unduplicated people count so as you can see here um we're actually um going up a little bit to about 80 uh% for a current year and then moving up to about 8 82% or so in the out years so uh that does mean that probably um maybe more kids are maybe needing even more services um on our side right they the percentage keep going out that means their students are are
038maybe needing more support from this point for as well this is our stirs and Pur uh contribution um so this is the projections based on the current figures we have from um that's been released so you can see um it is still going up and then depending on the market returns at those uh pension boards this could also change as well as you can see the uh Pur especially they're able to change the rate uh pretty quickly as well and this is the Health and Welfare um how much we projected and so as you can see here current year uh looking at almost a $62 million in our expenditures um and then um the out years um in 20 in four years 207 28 going up to about 81 million at that time and so
039we do project it about um a 10% increase for Health and Welfare as well so those are some of the key indicators I'm now going to our um first inm uh budget numbers and some of the assumptions that we have so you can see here this is our current um um projection so you haven't see our our lcff that's a local control funding formula the cost of living adjustment current year is at 1.07% uh the out years is at 2.93 um I have heard from um some of the other uh fiscal people that that number could come down a little bit and so once we kind of hear what the governor's number will be in January we'll up definitely update that but the number I'm hearing is actually lower than the um number right now
040up there so we'll kind of see what the under numbers will be um after that as well and so this is our enrollment projections um moving forward um so you can see this enrollment and then looking at where we're declining um so nure projected to decline by about 1274 students and then about a thousand students uh the year after and then another 844 so uh we are continuing to decline and as we all know we do have the um Western um orange view consolidation that we are um working on and so that will um merge in um basically the end of this school year beginning of next school year and so we're working hard on getting them the facilities ready for that as well so just want to make sure that we do know that
041so that that will be um some of the different things that we're doing to uh to mitigate this declining enrollment as well um and we do um project right there are going to be some staffing associated with this um you know and so we are looking at some of the up number of people retiring and things like that so once we know um how many people will be retiring then we will be bringing those number in um by the second inur report so we'll be doing the update to the board in March and that time our goal would uh we would know already how many um the the Staffing will be uh retiring then we can uh put those um up here so we're not going to realize the savings until we have those specific
042folks okay so I want to make sure that that the board understands that so nothing has been reflected in these numbers yet correct so we do know that BAS based on uh the numbers as you can see in the budget report that we put uh 39 FTE decline in 2526 31 in 2627 and 26 and 27 28 our goal is we usually have about an average about 34 retirements uh you know in that those category and we're hopeful that we get that and we don't um we we are budget we're carrying that right now and so but we would know by um I think hopefully by January I'm some with the with how many people that could be retiring and then for sure in March we'll bring those numbers in thank you for the question
043and there's also with the consolidation we also know that there could be some positions as well but right now we're going to be working through that we need to make sure that you know and we have committed we still people that that the commitment will be that you know we'll find places for people to be at so that's one of the things that we have made we have said um to to the folks um at both sides as well and so um once we we know what th savings could be then we'll project for that as well but I think it was a little too premature to put that assumptions in the budget at this point Dr Nan yes with all of the housing that's going up around the surrounding area that does not impact
044our enrollment well we really hope to but unfortunately um with some of these developments we are not getting those students so a lot of these new um homes um we perfect example there's one area um it's by the Angel Stadium brand new area um 200 plus units we have 10 students between us and Anaheim elementary so I don't know where I mean I know people are moving in but I don't know do they not have kids this age or you know because we're High School District or are they just not having kids in those units that are coming through um and the rents are very very expensive I mean even a um you know two-bedroom house I mean sorry apartment in in Anaheim I believe like $2,800 $3,000 or more it's very very expensive and
045as I you know we also have some meetings with the cities some people are not moving out so people they're not selling their homes and so this is the thing our our interest rate was so low everybody refinance everybody locking their rate people are not going to move out for from a 2% 3% interest rate home and to go to another place and so that's the issue that we're seeing right now the mar the housing market they're not moving and so um unless we people that move out and then maybe young families moving in um or people having more kids right as you can see people are also having less kids and I think right now for example this would the kids this age right now are the kids that are born um that's coming
046through the system now they were born maybe 201 2011 and that was the recession remember that time and people were delaying having kids and I mean I know a lot of people I had my second child that time there was nobody in the hospital I was like maternity was really really light where versus my first one it was like lot tons of people in the hospital so but I I think yeah it's just very very expensive um there's it's very expensive to rent it's also very expensive to buy and then there's no um there's no Market either there's not there's not that many I mean laama right like U Mr O'Neal you can attest that there was not many houses for sale in in for example c laama yeah in fact the hospital closed is
047U it's U it's maternity they closed their maternity War yeah a couple years ago because they did nobody's coming in really see so so for example yeah so that that gives us good indication thank you for that comment that gives us an indication to to know what's happening because laama data is very helpful for us to project theud enrollment in that area because we do we do pull the the the those demographics as well well history is Shan we've had thousands of units being constructed in Anaheim and in Cyprus and we've gotten a handful of students so the new construction is not giving us students okay so so I think these a lot of different factors but I think valid points but thank you for the information on the hospital that's that's kind of disturbing
048for us yeah yeah that's not helping us disturbing for me too okay just didn't like that idea right right so economics so you see here this is our um the combined general fund um on the revenue side so for 2425 we're looking at $555 million of Revenue that we're bringing as you can see majority of it is the uh local control funding format lcff it's about 75% there and then um this is the um combined expenditures including transfers out um $557 million um that we are um spending and so just just be mindful we also still have some of the um some of the dollar from the co funding this is our last batch um we have some of the HVAC that we're working on and so there's still going to be expenditures in here
049as well and then as you can see here this is the combined U mono projection um so you can see here um wanted to U make sure you see uh this is the combin so the right now we're looking at a uh deficit spending for current year at about $7.9 million uh next year is about 27 million and 41 million and then $62 million and so uh but I do want to make sure that we turn into the next page which is the unrestricted because as I I'm telling you we have some of the carryover dollars that we have from the co money for the Esser for example that's the last batch of it can you explain to the audience the difference between restricted and unrestricted restricted yes happy to do that so unrestricted are
050money that has no strings attached they just come and we can choose to spend on any programs we have for example restricted program there's a lot of rules to it you have for example um Title One these are only for certain specific kids that earn them and you have to you have to track them all separately in a separate category and for example each school have their own um have their own funding and then we track them by the exact code that goes with it so every single dollar is tracked in the system and so a lot of them they have they have um the special uh strings attached to them okay okay so let me go here so I want to F I want us to focus on the unrestricted so because this gives
051a better true picture this is the unrestricted fund the restricted program have a lot of different things attached to it so it's it's it's a good picture but it's not like the true picture of where we are in in deficit spending as you can see here this year we're actually okay you know we're actually $27 million you know good for unri next year we're still good 1.1 million above right so not that no deficit spending in the first two years which is really good but third year $36.6 million deficit spending and then 60.8 million in 2728 and that's the reason why we have the budget stabilization committee we've been working at it um since we formed the committee we met um believe four times now at this point uh we came up with a lot
052of different options and we're going to continue to meet because there are different things that we are going to be addressing they went through the budget I'm going to tell you this they went the budget line by line like I mean very very detailed we went through all the expenditures with them unrestricted restricted we went through everything to make sure that everyone on committee understands what the differences are and so they've seen these num I mean they've seen the last set of numbers and then I'll be showing them these set of numbers as well um and together we're going to come up with Solutions there a lot of different things that we um been looking into and really begin to see what are some of the things that we can do so we do I
053mean there's um some folks are here but um I do want to thank all the people who are are on the committee we have two representative from each of of the um bargaining groups and you know we met last week we met this week there's a lot of different things we like to do and so I just want to make sure that people understand um that we are addressing the problem and the goal will be to make a recommendation to the board or what we can do in the future you mention you mentioned earlier about attendance what is 1% better attendance give us approx um we can calculate that I think we did the number um before Karen do you remember what that number would be two to three million do okay that's just 1%
054just 1% okay thank you so the formula is a little different now as well remember before it was you know current year prior year now it's a threeyear averaging so it's it's not as a clear as like before so 1% um and then this is the restricted size you can see here um and we do have some commitments um for uh at this time for the first inim um as you can see uh total is $157 million but you can see here um majority of the commitments we have is going to go to the declining enrollment the last item you'll see decline en rollment um for for Staffing to set aside so any money that we have we're gonna have we're going to set it aside for our future deficit spending and that's our goal
055okay this is a new requirement um we need to have a fiscal solvy statement um that in preparing for the first in budget that the board acknowledges its F fiduciary responsibility to maintain fiscal solvency for current and the next two years and so as you have shown I've shown you all the um figures that we have for that and based on the 2425 state budget act uh that independ is the in increases the ongoing cost uh that we do anticipate um a need to uh reduce $ 36.6 million in a budget in 2627 so it's not current year next uh next year but in 2627 and then we're not required to do a fourth year but we do that as a um as a standard in our district and $6.8 million in 2728 to maintain
056our fiscal solvency and as I did discuss we have the budget uh stabilization committee currently and we'll be working to make a recommendation to the board as well or some of the recommendations and as you can see here we have some of the fiscal commitments and book of it it's going to be on the declining rment so we want to make sure we set aside those dollars for the declining rment as well and I do want to point it out as we all know so we passed our bond measure Cas so thank you everyone for that support and a lot of communi supported us for that so thank you so much we do have about $24.6 million um in the pre fund funded projects so those S of money that we set aside in a
057separate fund um to do some of these projects so now the bond pass um but we we still need to establish a separate account and we also need to sell the bond first before we can transfer out these expenses so uh when we do that so our goal is in uh spring so probably April because we would like to receive the money by uh June before we close the fiscal year so then when we do that we will then um remove um transfer the expenses of those uh projects into the bond fund at that point so I want to make sure that so the 20 um 4.6 million is still right now here but once we take that away then we'll update the budget to reflect that as well Dr nean can you explain to
058the uh public that Bond dollars cannot be used for our general funds yes so there are a lot of restrictions and that's one of the things as well so we will have an application out to to to solicit for the citizens Bond oversight committee so that will be coming so please make sure that um we we'll obviously make an announcement when we do that but we also want to make sure there are very very strict requirements how Bond dollar can be spent okay so it cannot be spend for example like on for example on my salary or on like the staff Sal that's not for that only people working on the bond for example it's be on the projects and then there are requirements of having a Citizens B committee to oversee how the money
059are spent and they annually come to the board and report to the board of how the money are spent all the bond dollars are also audited by our external Auditors as well so that's very very critical people need to understand and bulk of the um dollars are I mean they're all audited at that point so and so we would uh we would um probably I think in January February we would have the application out and we would encourage people to apply for to be on the committee I know like initially is very exciting but we need people for many years to be on the committee as well so thank you thank you thank great question um the timeline so tonight we are taking um the board's going to take action to adopt the first insur
060report with a positive certification to ocde meaning that we are able to meet our financial obligations for current year and the next two years um and then in January uh about January 10th Governor will release um his proposal at that point and we'll be taking the second inm to the uh boore uh I believe it's March 6 it's pretty early this year but about March 6 and then we'll kind of see if there's any changes in the May Revis and then our goal will be to uh bring the budget to the board uh in June and so that's our timeline um so what's going to come and there's going to be a lot of obviously shifting as we you know s bonds as we also kind of realize some of the um possible retirement savings
061as well so we'll be the second inter room will be a good indicator of where we're going to be going at that point and that concludes my presentation I'm happy to answer any uh questions that you may have before we move on that yes that deserves of Applause thank you thank you a lot of work thank you uh to the entire team the financial team uh since we're on the subject of the bonds can you explain why it's very important that we have a positive certification on how that affects our credit rating and when we go to uh sell the bonds right great question so um and I'm gonna I'm very proud that we've got um upgraded in two crat ratings since I've been here so I'm very proud of that um I think it's
062also because we are very fiscally solvent were able to present um to um Moody and let them know that where we're at and part of it is your governance of the board as well as well as the the leadership within the team they literally they interview they look at R figure they ask a lot of very detailed questions they ask declining ran what are you doing to address your problem and going to tell you we're one of the like few districts that are really tackling this problem a lot of districts they don't want to touch it they have schools that are like 200 kids I know and I'm like no we already have a plan and we have a full committee that we started this three years ago right this is almost three years at
063this point that we started this process with the with the consolidation and so it is very important because that helps our taxpayers the better credit rating that we have it is cheaper to borrow right this is like your fical score right like the better that's how they they do that and so we're going to be getting better competitive rates when we go to the market as well thank you thank you R well you talked about just right now about declining enrollment what are our plans to address the chronic absenteeism so I think that's you know we would be um working with you know student services with ed services um Dr free would you like to I know it's Dr Free's been on it that's his task well I know you say I've been on it
064but I actually want to give credit where credit is Du I ring Alice and Conrad up um she is overseeing a lot of the work that's happening at our sites and she's been doing a fantastic job um with regular data reports for our staff but I'm gonna have her talk about the great work she's doing with Dr Hernandez I know Miss Bean's not here but um around at Chronic aesm in in attendance so turn over to Allison hi good evening thanks for having me so essentially um we look at Chronic absenteeism and one of the biggest pieces we're finding is really addressing the fact that um informing our families in the community what that means so any student who misses 10% excused or unexcused so really the important value of understanding that any missed instruction
065that first time instruction with our Educators is so vitally important and so it's important that the parent calls us in and tells us but it's also vitally important that they understand that even excused absences count as chronic absenteeism so we lose the funding and that's also a data metric that's used against us in the dashboard component so something to really look at um when we're looking and ultimately it imps our students because when they miss that instruction they miss that opportunity um to have that connection with our school and to be able to stay on track for graduation status and be connected social emotionally with all of our contact there so what else we're doing is I run our data metrics for our administrators I run it every two weeks for them and we're constantly
066overriding the data to look at our students who are chronically absent and we're looking at where our students our home visit callers that are going out our home visit teams from the school the regular contact and we're also looking at other things that are in the works for how we'll be able to track that data and those metrics as we move forward to see what interventions are working that we should be taking to scale especially at our Junior highs and our lower level nth and 10th grade to try to make sure we can capture them to keep them and then the other piece is looking um at some of the other sides of things so there's just things in the works that aren't out there yet but we are looking at those pieces to see
067what we can do so what what we should take to scale and what maybe we've been doing for a while that we should abandon and move forward in a more so M are are adaa is affected even by excuse absences as well then absolutely so anytime a student misses I I don't know if the public knows that do you know what I mean because they they don't hit the chronic absenteeism rate but the like if they have a doctor's appointment and we would consider that excuse but that's work against us in our Ada then so anytime a student is absent an all day absence it takes away the students attendance percentage which essentially equates to funding so it takes away we do not get paid if they are not in the seat for the day
068at some point during that day so if they come in after a doctor's appointment we will receive an apportionment of that if they do not come at all we lose the entire day for them and then how do we make up absences on by Saturday Academy so what we do is we have Saturday academy one to two times a month and that is open to all students whether they've been absent at all um or not but any student who does have a recoverable absence whether it is excused or unexcused we're able to recover that financially for the district on the backside on the attendance note U we have an attendance task force is that cor we initially had an attendance task force in the very beginning a lot of the practic that were uncovered through
069that process now miss Conrad is overseeing so um she's the one who's providing the data on a regular basis to our sites um there's a couple things that she did mention and she said some things that are in the works I think is what she's referring to is you know we have our digital report card I think I don't know like 96% of our families access report cards via the digital um process now via the traditional mailed home one and as a result we're able to put messages on those report cards and we know that they're widely viewed uh so we're looking at putting messages connected to their specific students around their attendance data so they're getting that awareness right away in terms of how often their student is missing and the impact um to
070their students so that's some of the things that that Allison and our team are are working on as well um so a a lot of things I know she talked about the Saturday Academy um the other piece that we talked about is the short-term independent study so um that's a newer concept that we've been really beginning to implement where when students um know that they're going to be missing for school for a very small period of time could be up to a I think a day one day um because we're heavily engaged with EC Cadence students have a way to continue doing their work even though they're absent we get up to I think 15 days is it per year 15 days 15 days per year that we can recover if a student makes up
071the work on the day they're absent they've notified us ahead of time that they're going to be absent then we have a we have to do an agreement form with them but then we're way we have a way to recover that and the student is not penalized academically because of the way that we did it so it's a short-term study process that we're working on uh to really build systemically across our school so whether they're out sick or that student says hey I need to go to town for a funeral or for a wedding we we have a way to to make up the time that's missed in the classroom and that's where Cadence is really important so the student doesn't feel like they're missing the beat at all along with the families we were
072able to systemize a lot of that through e Cadence and through our electronic forms process um so it's a lot cleaner so it's actually um much simpler for administrators to follow through on that just a little bit more on um you're talking about um chronic abs eism and I know we have people going out and talking to the parents talking to the students um I know money is important to the district obviously but money is not important to them okay so when we're talking to them we shouldn't even be talking about well if you're not here we're going to be losing money take that off the table they're not interested in hearing that because they're going to be begin to believe that all we're interested in is money we're not interested in the students and
073it's the students are the foremost important item we have there our customer so when we're going out to the home or we're talking on the phone we should be trying to determine why the student is not coming to school are we not fulfilling their interest now maybe at their site that they're attending we're not offering what they're interested in so they just blow it off we have a whole bunch of other schools in the district correct we should be looking to find out Dig Down find out what their interest is and how can we fulfill that interest and I think if we start honing on some of those issues we're going to start to see reaping some benefits and we do do that so when we do the home visits and when we're communicating with
074families we do ask those questions and we actually have found and I work very closely obviously with dror Hernandez's office and our transfers to get our students to a place where maybe it meets their need more whether it is mental health need or whether it is an academic need or whether it is an interest need so that is a big part of what we do okay the other thing I think it's really important to mention that's beautifully aligned to what you just said is you may recall leadership advance and we mentioned a few times the community of practice around Street data so one of the things that we've been doing with our principles and their site teams is building capacity around Street data and our Focus has been on attendance so in Street data ENT
075essentially is taking the satellite data so if we know we have x% of students who are missing school um from as chronically absent the street data aspect humanizes that data so now it's drilling down to individual students where rather than speaking to every single student who misses we we get a sampling students who are missing and we really take the time to do these empathy interviews and focus interviews with them and their families to learn in terms of What Not Just why they're missing but what is it that might might be of interest that gets them back to school and so as the schools are engaged in this process they're learning a lot about the students and that is actually more powerful and informing a lot of the decisions that we make or the programs
076that we put into place because the students and families are telling us directly what will work to get me more in school or what what I need that's going to help me be more readily engaged in classrooms whether it's um specific programs or if it's instructional practices there's a lot of things that we're learning from our students and families as it relates to attendance that better informs our work as opposed to just looking at bigger data trends that tell us how many students are missing or not missing this actually tells us more why they're missing and how we can be better at addressing those needs I think those wi are more important and as we look at the data and the trends and we start to look at our percentages if we don't see that
077percentage start to in increase we need to step back and say why what are we not doing right we need to take another look at it different perspective so let's keep our our finger on the pulse absolutely I just also I just want to interject that this is not a Anaheim Union High School District problem this is a chronic problem across the state across the the nation and so um it's really um you know not to excuse you know us as we are doing the Deep dive and we are doing those things um uh I work uh with Anaheim elementary school district district and I uh used to go out and visit uh homes a lot of the issues are issues that you know we're trying to address in the school um you know we
078can't fix everything but we're doing a really great job to um you know with our social workers with our you know safe schools making sure that everyone feels good coming in with our drivers um you know we're not about you know a a number a test score you know we are really looking at our students as as human beings and how we want to help them learn and grow in a career that they so choose and so um I I think that um we're our district really again you know I say this all the time when we go out to conventions and we see what other districts are doing we're Far and Away doing um so much better thank you thank you further questions uh Nancy I just wanted to uh to reiterate on your
079um UCLA forecast uh those are not n Dr Nan's forecast no I did not go to UCLA so um I guess they called me the sister school I went to the sister School of UCLA oh that's what I heard but I love um watching their webinar it was just very you know I'm such a ner in that way I'm like a numbers ner but um it was just yeah so those are all the numbers from from that report that from the webinar I attended but I think they they really dig down into like the data within California and all that and I think it's very helpful to know what's kind of what what's coming right at least having the anticipation what's coming I think will help us as well so okay and as a delegate
080for uh the organization uh that's really what we talked about a lot about about all of us advocating for um you know doing away with the Ada uh and and uh basing it on enrollment so that's going to be uh again a a top of the ticket item that we're we're talking about with our uh legislators perfect I think that's a great yeah that's a great way because we staff based on enrollment not based on attendance and I think people really need to understand where we're coming from until that changes we need everybody here all right Dr nen I'd like to acknowledge you and your team and your hard work for getting this report together so I see a a couple of your members out there from your team Mr Carmona and miss or so
081thank you very much and speaking of acknowledgement we have Dr Leia Holstrom in the audience there from Roop let's give her a round of applause [Applause] thank you all right moving on to item nine resolution number 2024 sl25 db- 07 adjustments to income and expenditures general fund resolution number 2024-25 sl-25 db-8 adjustments to income expenditures various funds and the 20242 first interim report roll call vote vote action item no moved second moved in second Mr hosi I Mr O'Neal I miss Guero I and I vote I and uh advance planning future meeting dates uh the annual organization meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held next Thursday December 19th congratulations to Mr hosi and Mr O'Neal for your election and congratulations on winning the board I mean the bond um that deserves a round
082of applause any suggested um agenda items I don't have any uh suggestion for items but I just want to say before we leave is I was on in rodc when I was in high school and I don't did you attend the the military ball yes I was the one that got up and spoke oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah I was talking to my neighbor no that's okay um I I understand the importance of of DRC in the schools and so uh I will work trying to uh voice my opinion and in support of jrtc seeing how we can I don't like to use the word manipulate but manipulate the the numbers system whatever we can do to try to keep it in the school you know we if the if the students aren't there
083we can't support a small class uh but if the instructor's not there maybe we can do something in in Search and figure out some way to to rectify that so but just want to let you I know number of you left this evening but tell your your uh comrades there that that left that the board is in support of of the program and we do what we can okay yes third and uh before we adjourn I think it's appropriate that we adjourn this meeting um in honor of uh Dr John dalum people know who he is just want to mention uh go ahead Dr D uh former principal in the district uh he was a principal when my sons were in Kennedy High School but he he was a principal in other schools also uh
084he was a wonderful educator and everybody that uh worked with him and for him really loved him and he passed away what about three weeks ago and uh he was a a world traveler he he climbed I don't know how many highest peaks in the world all of them all all of them I I guess he hit all of them but he was you would never know it just by looking at him and talking to him but he was a real Adventure so I think if you go on Facebook there's a picture of him he was also a veteran of the Vietnam War High highly decorated yes and uh wrestling coach coach pardon me Hall of Fame Wrestling Hall of Fame wrestling coach he has a great following he will be greatly missed and uh
085what I was saying is I think there's he's on Mount Everest I think looking down if you look at Facebook it's just amazing individual yeah so may I have a motion so move second all in favor hi good night every everyone thank you