001order. It's June 17th and it's 6 o' and um we have nothing to report on um from close session and This meeting is being recorded for live streaming and archiving on the district YouTube channel. And um Miss Rice, would you like to lead us in the pledgece to the flag of the United States of America to the standice? Thank you. Um and we come to item number seven, approval of the agenda. Thank you. I will second that. All those in favor? I post. Thank you. Um and we come to our superintendent reports. Dr. Wright. Right. Good evening. I just want to wish everyone a happy summer. Um, hope you have an opportunity to take some time off and spend time with your loved ones, get your honeydew list done, and just really, um, relax and
002prepare for next year. I want to wish Janice Adams much success as she comes in as our interim superintendent, and I know Benishia Unifi is going to do some great things. I'm really looking forward to looking at the test scores and celebrating with you because um I know that everyone's worked very hard and um we're in an upward trajectory and um just looking forward to seeing the exciting things BUSD has to offer. Thanks. Thank you. Does anybody have anything? I do. Um, I wanted to say, um, this being our last meeting with Superintendent Wright, um, I just wanted to personally express my gratitude and respect for your work. Um, I've always appreciated your willingness, in fact, your encouragement to confront the uncomfortableness and advocate for conversations. I think you summed up the excellence of your
003work through your high school commencement speech. X does bark the spot, and you continue to help BUSD be the spot and left BUD in a better place. So, thank you. And the other um item I just wanted to share was that over the school year I've had the pleasure of attending at least one meeting of each school's parent teacher volunteer affiliation um with the exception of Robert Simple because of scheduling and Liberty High because Trusty Hurst shits on that with Rotary. Um, but I wanted to extend my sincere appreciation to all the parents, teachers, principles, volunteers, students, and staff within the BHS PTSA, BMS PTO, Joe Henderson PTG, Mary Farmer PTG, Matthew Turner PTG, and Robert Simple PTG. These volunteer affiliations provide our students with experiences that go beyond the classroom and school site and
004give our students a perspective that they might never encounter without the support of these groups. So, thank you to everyone who works so hard. The hard work people put into these group does not go unnoticed. Um, I would I would like to also um I've said my um uh congratulations and we will miss you Dr. Wright and thank you for everything that you have done. I would also like to give a shout out to Georgina Martinez. So, it we we have been um working so hard and when we get to 13A, you'll you'll hear more about it, but you know, in our super in in what are the next steps? What steps do you take to find a superintendent? What are we going to do? And Georgina has always been so present with her with
005her guidance, her graciousness, and just being the lovely person that you are. But I have to tell you that we appreciate you so much. You do so much for us and especially for me as I try and not flail it along. Um, and I I just want to sincerely thank you, Georgina. Thanks so much. And I also want to thank the board. We've had um in the last couple of months um we've been working diligently, lots of um lots of meetings. Uh so I want to thank the board and the two that aren't here as well, the whole board. I want to thank you guys as well for um uh dividing and conquering when we're doing research. Um so thank you very much. I really appreciate it. So we're now on to um comments from
006members of the public. All functions of the board meeting, including public comments, will take place in person. Members of the public may address the board at a regular meeting on any item within the board's jurisdiction. Speaker cards are available on the entrance table. Please note the item you wish to speak to and submit a card to the board secretary. The board president will call all the open session general comments during the public comment item. Comments for items on the agenda will be called during the specific item. Comments are limited to no more than three minutes per speaker. The board may limit the total time to 20 minutes per item with a timer displayed on the monitors. By law, no action may be taken on any item raised during the public comment periods and matters may
007be referred to staff for placement on a future agenda of the governing board. Please be reminded to keep your comments respectful as students may be watching the board meeting. Thank you. And now we come to item 11, approval of the consent calendar. Oh, do we have we don't have they are none. Okay, thank you. Um, background information on these items is provided to the board prior to the meeting. prior to the meeting. Common motion takes action without discussion on roll call votes unless discussion of items is requested by the board members. So do I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I move that we approve this consent calendar as written. I second. All those in favor? I. Nobody opposed. Thank you. I'd also like to acknowledge gifts to the district. Um, the Hefernon
008Foundation to Benicia High School cheer in the amount of uh $250. The Benicia Firefighters Association designated to Benicia High School cheer in the amount of $575. And to Valero, um, designated to Benicia High School baseball in the amount of $1,000. Thank you so very much for your gifts to our district. We appreciate them and we appreciate you for caring so much for our district. And then I'm going to I'm going to go back because it should have been a roll for that consent calendar and I made a mistake. I apologize. So let's do a a roll call for the consent calendar and then we're going to do a separate roll call for item F which is a resolution. So President Grizz, yes. Trustee Seda, yes. Simonasi. Yes. Thank you. Okay. And then we come to
009item I have my second roll call for item F. I'm sorry. Yes. Which is resolution I thought I was 25. And um we have the same motions but President Gre, Trusty Seda. Yes. And Trusty Manasi. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item 13. 13A. These are our action items. So um one of the most important things that we consider um as a board members is selecting our super our next superintendent. The board has taken great care in evaluating the right partner to guide this search process. After a thorough review and comparison, we've considered three well- reggarded firms. We considered Leadership Association, Hazard, Young AIA, and Associates, which is HYA, and the California Schoolboard Association, CSBA, Executive Search Services. Each of these firms has a strong reputation in the field and offers different approaches and strengths.
010We carefully analyze the scope of the services, track record, stakeholder engagements, strategies, and most and very importantly, most importantly, timelines and cost associated with each proposal. The board really did feel um that we needed to move as quickly as possible and we have been doing that. um leadership associates emerged as the most as the most aligned with our priorities. Their timeline, if you've seen it, um it's attached to the um board agenda. It's it's aggressive but realistic. It's will allow us to maintain momentum while ensuring a thoughtful and inclusive process. Their cost structure is not only competitive, but it was much lower than than the other um search firms that we considered. And they're providing comprehensive services without exceeding our fiscal parameters. They worked with us three years ago and know our district and our
011community very well. their deep experience with districts like ours and ours and a hi and and they have a history of successful placement and it gives us confidence in their ability to attract high quality candidates. Is there anything that any of you would like to add? I would just like to add I think um this search firm is um great. I think that what they've proposed and outline um it like you said is realistic and I think that um them knowing our community is so helpful in a lot of ways. My my only addition that I just would like to say is that I would really um just encourage you know us as board members to be part of the community staff input process. um you know perhaps that's maybe one of us sitting on
012some you know conversations or two of us however that may be I just I think that um the board or board members understanding what our community and what our staff is also providing feedback also just helps um builds that rapport but also helps us with the knowledge what people are looking for well one of the things that is important is that um leadership and associates did community outreach just three years ago. So they're very um attuned and and those documents belong to us and so we have all that data. Um so that's kind of where that stands. So in the FA in phase one they have community staff input process. Is that just referring to phase like if we choose to do phase two or if we request to do phase two? I because so
013I know that that we had talked and it I know that we had talked with the firm about like them understanding what our community once maybe or they've done community. So one part of the community um outreach are surveys and so we have all that data from just a short time ago. So, they will not be doing um another survey, right? Okay. Okay. Okay. I just want to make sure that um Sher, do you have anything to add? Um the only thing I would like to add is I feel very confident in leadership and associates. Um they did a great job for us last time and they were um thoughtful and um detailed and just um was they were really easy to work with. They were really easy for Georgina Martinez to work with and
014they were easy when I was president to work with. So I I feel very confident that our board is in good hands and thank you. So after um discussion and reflection, I would like to um recommend that we approve the contract with leadership associates to conduct our superintendent search. This decision supports our commitment to a transparent, efficient, and community centered process and ultimately finding the right leader for our district's future. I move that we approve the superintendent search firm of leadership associates. Is that what it is? Okay. Okay. Thank you. And I second. I post. Thank you. So next we come to Um, Miss Egan, you are up. You're up for a while. It looks like. Good evening. Um, the first item that I have for you tonight is consideration and approval for tech districtwide
015clock and speaker upgrades to packet fusion. Um, so we've gone through a few roles, right, of tech and security upgrades. This next one replaces the clocks and bells and PA system. It provides security and safety in all of our classrooms. Um, this scope includes 10-year support for the system. This project was planned in measure C and funding. The pricing is government pre-negotiated for um allows us to get it the work done faster and the existing systems are past their livelihood. If approved tonight then it thank you um will assist to have this implemented starting this summer with completion by the end of the year. So staff recommendation is to approve the contract to packet fusion for installation of clocks and speaker upgrades for the amount of $455,41489. Sure. Um, I I know the dollar amount
016of 455,000 plus. Is that for all our sites? That's for all of our sites. Okay. Okay. That was my question. Thanks. One second. Or do I need to make a motion? Make a motion. I second a motion. And this is this has a resolution with it. So it's going to be a roll call. And I'll go ahead and start with Trusty Manasi. Yes. Trusty Seda. Yes. And President Gross. Yes. Thank you. I'm still here. Um, so the next item that we have before you is consideration and approval, possible approval to award the architectural contract to Hipster Yumachi Architects to proceed with construction documents for the Robert Simple Elementary School campus modernization on a time and materials basis with a cost not to exceed 488,640. So, we previously awarded HY, that's their acronym, um, a contract
017to do the schematic planning for the phase and we've gone through that planning and at the time that was awarded to them, we didn't have monies for the full buildout. And now with the approval of major C, we would like to have them proceed with the construction documents through DSA that will allow us to take the project and go bid it and build it. So the project scope consists of replacement of seven buildings, parking lot addition, playground upgrades, and overall campus modernization. We will watch as we get near bidding. And if we don't have enrollment that supports the number of buildings, we will not build that many. Um, so our approach is to keep looking holistically, but keeping it in our head that when we get ready to bid, if we're pulling some of those
018back, we can wait on them. you don't have to build the full amount at once. Um so staff recommendation is to proceed to allow HY to proceed on the Robert Simple Elementary School master plan um with the TNM basis of $488,640. Just to make sure I understand correctly, this is essentially um the architectural firm providing all of sort of the documents, the guidance to the construction company to then do the work, right? They make they draw the plans and the drawings. Yep. They submit them to DSA and then during construction they answer questions. Um, we have an inspector who oversees it, but the architect also has responsibilities that they have to sign off and close out with DSA, right? And that's part of the contract. Yes. And we have worked with HY for really quite
019a long time and we're grateful for their support. They've we've had really good support from them. Okay. Um, I'll move that we um approve the award to the architectural contract to Hibsner Hibser Yamucci Architects to proceed with the construction documents for the Robert Simple Elementary School campus modernization. I second. All those in favor? I oppose. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening um board president Grubs and esteemed members of the board. Thank you for this opportunity uh to present today. I'm here to seek your review and approval of a series of course outlines developed for adult ed program. According to the California Adult Education Office, um LEAs have to um provide um the board with their courses for approval um and on record with the California Department of Education. And so we have a few for
020your consideration today. These are courses that we we've done in the past as well. So nothing nothing new. Um the first course we are submitting for your approval is the apprenticeship math test prep class. Um this course is delivered online via Google Meet. It's taught by a credentialed math teacher um and it's designed for students who are interested in um applying for construction trades and unions um which typically typically require a math entrance exam as part of their application process. Um this course uh provides targeted instruction to help students build their math skills and along with test taking strategies and practice exams to increase their chances of passing the test. So that is our first course for your approval. All right. I make a a motion to approve course outline apprenticeship apprenticeship math. I will
021second. All those in favor? I oppose. Thank you. Second course is English as a second language, also known as ESL. This course is offered online and meets twice a week with a C certified instructor. Um it's also supplemented by an online um curriculum that students can access um independently on their own. And at the beginning of the course, students are assessed with um to determine their current level of English uh proficiency. And based on their assessment results, they're they receive structured support from their teacher to improve their understanding and communication and overall fluency in the English language. So that is our second course for your approval. All right. I make a motion to approve ESL course outline. I'll second. All those in favor? I approves [Laughter] and we come to item F. So there's a
022little tag team here with a overlap of um programming. So the third course for your consideration is our GED preparation course. This program is designed for students aiming to earn their GED diploma. Instruction is delivered um through an online platform covering the four core subjects, math, science, reasoning through language arts and social studies. Students receive weekly support from a teacher who is monitors their progress, offers supplemental activities or resources, and provides one-on-one guidance as needed. This is our third course for your consideration. I have one question and I probably should have asked it a little bit before, but they're all the same. Do we provide a laptop for these students to use to get online to do all of this? Laptops are provided when needed. Um, the adult ed program does have their own um
023bank of of book uh Chromebooks that they can check out. That's it. Okay. Thank you. See, I was paying attention here. Um, I'll make a motion that we um approve the GED course outline and I'll second. All those in favor? And item G. Okay, we have one last course for your consideration. It is the high school diploma course. Like the GED course, it delivers. It's delivered through an online platform and supported by a credentialed teacher. Students in this program are working to complete the remaining credits required for a high school diploma. The teacher assists test with test preparation, essay feedback, and regular check-ins to check-ins to review student progress and ensure they remain on track. I move that we um approve the high school diploma course outline. I'll second. All those in favor? I Thank
024you. Well, thank you. Our graduation is tomorrow right here in the boardroom. Just one last little plug would like to be here. Thank you. Thank you. And we come to item H and Stephanie Rice. Welcome up. Good evening board, cabinet, and Benishia community. My name is Stephanie Rice. I'm director of education services and I do have uh seven curriculums that I will be presenting each individually uh to you tonight. Uh these are not new curriculum. These are updates. So I'm going to start with presenting our AP coursework and things have been updated through college board. So I wanted to bring it back to your attention as well as the curriculum that our teachers have curated. um they've written some curriculum and curated others um and they've updated throughout the years. So, we just wanted to
025bring it back forward to the board. So, the first uh curriculum that I have for your consideration and hopeful approval is for our AP biology course. It is from College Board and it's called AP Biology course and exam. What you'll see in the outlines is I did link for you all the curriculums um as well as an overview but the AP uh curriculum is from College Board. The kids access it through their College Board accounts. So it is digital can be printed as well. Um and it really prepares the students not only for learning the science standards but also in how to take the exam as uh the majority of our students signing up for our AP courses go on and take the exam so that they have the opportunity to earn college credit. Um
026do you have any questions for me in regard to the AP biology? Were there any significant changes? Nothing significant. um uh they'll update it over time depending on um how they um present the exam. So there was no uh big significant changes that the teachers brought forward. Okay. And there's not an additional charge when they update it? No, actually nothing that I'm presenting tonight will have additional charges for our district. Thank you. Go ahead. I don't have my agenda up. No, let's not fight about it. Give me a minute. It's H. Thank you. I make a motion to approve the adoption of curriculum for high school AP biology. I will second. All those in favor? I I thank Thank you. All right, my next curriculum is for our AP Chemistry. Again, it as uh consistent
027across um our science department, they're utilizing the College Board recommended curriculum, AP Chemistry course and exam. Again, it covers all of the standards under the umbrella of chemistry, but also that rigor of how to take the exam and to prepare them for the knowledge on the exam. and I have the um outline there for you. I have a question about sort of our chemistry labs space in the high school. Does that are are we up to date in terms of being able to sort of teach to the the new requirements or to these additional So we do use um so we do use some online digital um in addition to this um we use some um online additional um lab um virtual labs as well as the hands-on labs. So um yes, our uh science
028department regularly yearly um looks at what is needed. Um this is just the not the um science supplies per se. Um but as far as having things up to date and whatnot. Um I haven't heard otherwise. Um and they're always doing hands-on things when I'm present. So um good. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Thank you. I make a motion. Does anybody else have a motion? Okay. To approve the adoption of the curriculum for high school AP chemistry. I'll second. All those in favor? I. No one oppose. Thank you. My next curriculum um for your consideration and hopeful approval is for high school AP environmental science. And again, because it's an AP course, they're using the College Board AP environmental science course and exam. I'll make a Oh, any questions? I'll make a motion to um to
029approve the adoption of the curriculum for high school AP environmental science. I second. All those in favor? I This is my last AP course to bring forward. Um curriculum for approval. Um it is for AP Physics 1 and again it's from College Board AP Physics 1 course and exam. Again this prepares them not only for the standards but also to be able to pass the AP exam and get the college credit for a semester course. Any questions? I want to say that this is really great. I mean what a phenomenal opportunity to give our students. It's pretty amazing. And I'm impressed with the level that our students are because I did open some of these up and I was like I got like nervous just looking at them. I'm really proud of of them and
030for the staff, the teachers that teach it. Very impressive. Uh the science department works really tightly together. I will have one more course to bring forward to you in August because um one of our lead teachers was out on paternity leave um and he really still wanted to work through some of the things for you. Um so they just uh really um have a lot of respect in their work and what they put forth and yes our kids are very lucky. Um, I I will go ahead and make a motion for uh to approve the adoption of curriculum for high school AP physics one. I second. All those in favor? I thank you. So, switching gears a little bit. Um, the next curriculum is for a high school NGSS biology and again this is not
031new curriculum. So we brought forth to the board I believe in 2017 um after the NGSS standards were approved. We took our science teachers to several trainings. We partnered with Alama County who were kind of on the forefront uh worked with Don uh Don Oconor who uh worked with creating the NGSS standards and after going through different curriculums our teachers didn't feel like anything was really up to par. Um so we brought forth the curriculum that they curated um which were some lessons that they wrote themselves. Um a lot of it was things that they got out there right from the science community. But the key is for the NGSS standards is making sure we have crosscutting concepts. So it's connecting it to math ELA science disciplinary core ideas. So it's how they're applying it
032and then also the science and engineering practices and we have that um the board approved the NGSS um uh integrated uh model and that is where the earth science through line goes through all of our science curriculum um to show the connections and um why I'm bringing this forward is they've they've updated their curriculum and um we reflected on what they did and we just wanted to bring it together with scope and sequence, a very kind of um easy way for if we have new staff come in to be able to follow. So, we wanted to bring it forth to you as well as our community to show the work that our students will be doing. So, again, this is for NGSS biology. Um any questions? You know, I think it's great that the teachers
033and staff sort of like took it from themselves to evaluating like that's commendable. Um I'll move that we approve the adoption of curriculum for high school NGSS biology. Second. All those in favor? I post. Thank you. Thank you. And the next curriculum uh follows the same thing I just shared. This one though is for our integrated nine science. Um usually offered to our ninth grade students. Again, this was curriculum curated by our our teachers and we just wanted to bring forth the updated version to you. Any questions? Is it called integrated n just because it's nth grade? Integrated nine, it was NGSS physics. We brought that back a year I think last year for your approval to change the name and update the course because people were getting confused. it was NGSS physics of the
034universe and um people thought they were getting credit as like a physics course at the college level. So there was just too much confusion. Um so we went back and and uh retitled it and and tweaked it a little bit. Yeah. I need a motion to approve the adoption of curriculum for high school integrated nine science. All those in favor? Hi. One of those. Thank you. Thank you. And my last curriculum tonight is for our high school physiology course. Again, the um our high school teachers curated and wrote some of their curriculum. Um this is um an elective science course that students can choose to take. Um and they have some really interesting um updates and hands-on labs. You got to check those out. Um, do you have any questions? And I'm glad I'm not
035in high school right now. Um, pretty amazing. Um, I would like to make I would like to move that we approve the adoption of curriculum for high school physiology. Second. All those in favor? I think thank you. Before you leave, Stephanie, I have I just have one question. wondering when the elementary schools will have updated science curriculum. So we brought forth to you I believe it was last year for the approval of mystery science science and the teachers have asked that we keep that for this time being one because it provides hands-on for all students. Two because a large focus for elementary um is our our reading and our math curriculum so then they can get to the science and social studies. Um we acknowledge that it's all very important but the majority of the
036day really highlights the ELA and the math. Um but I will say um you know we are monitoring uh we did pilot this year the um NWA for science. Um we do it for LA and math as well as uh our CAST scores are embargoed right now but we're looking at those. Um and then we did send a high school science teacher and a middle school science teacher to um a regional training um with our county and they were doing some work on again looking at the science program across the district in GSS. Dr. Bson and I were just up at the high school and we ran into the high school science teacher that was really excited and she was like, "Miss Rice, you're going to be doing work with us because we're going to
037not only have high school and middle school, but we're going to bring in some elementary reps and start the work." So, that work is coming. But happy to hear it. Yeah, I know you are. And I love that. Right. There it is. Thank you. Thank you. So then we come to um item O and Dr. Wright. Okay. U before you you will find CSBA's uh recommended policy changes for March 2025. The committee had an opportunity to meet at the end of May. We brought them forward for first review at the June 12th um governing board meeting and we're bringing them forward today. Uh these policy changes are minor edits recommended by CSBA and they also reflect changes in state law. Um I would just like to just ask and talk through with you um in
038regards to policy 5131.6 alcohol and other drugs and policy 5131.8 mobile communication devices. I think it would be really um great for us to talk through those policies and maybe do a board study session and implementation for those know those um particularly around the mobile communication devices. I know there's a lot of conversations about that. I think it would be good for us to talk through those. I think that's excellent suggestion. I mean we can take that back and schedule some time where we can do a study session and have some more discussion around it. I know that there are some school districts um you know around around the Bay Area that are really delving deep into these policies and making some significant changes and it'd be a great conversation for this community as well.
039Great. Thank you. So now we come to do it. Yeah. Sorry. That's okay. I move that we approve the California School Board Association board policy updates for March 2025. I'll second. All those in favor? I no one opposed. Thank you. Now it's Dr. Beaton account local control and accountability. It is with uh good evening board. Um, it is with uh great pleasure that I bring uh forth to you our 202526 local control accountability plan. At our last meeting, I walked through all of the different components. I've attached the um entire LCAP for you. And so, as part of the processes, we had a public hearing last week. Tonight, I bring it to you for your approval. And then I send it off to the county office of education who has to approve it. I'll do
040that sometime mid July. and then it'll go off to the state for final approval. There any questions? No questions. Unfortunately, I wasn't here last week, but I did look through or listen and watch the video. So, great job and um you're doing really it's really great. Um, I did just want to just suggest um in case you're thinking about um parent workshops or um some workshops to to implement for the next school year. um perhaps talking um maybe in August or before the you know right when the school year um starts about linewise and the linewise contract that we did. Um you know so talking about the safeguards that BUSD is is um doing and what parents can partner um with us and with the schools and with teachers on and ensuring that you know
041um we're utilizing um the program as best as we can. Um and then the other suggestion I had um that might be advantageous for us to consider um for parents is also um volunteering for BUSD just in regards to you know the how-tos and how we do it and you know um what what the district does, what the school sites do and how we can just encourage our our community um to volunteer. Thank you. Yeah. I also want to say one more thing. I'm sorry because I wasn't here last week. Um I thought it was really great. I wanted to compliment sort of the increases in all the areas we were supposed to increase in and all the areas that we were decreased and all the areas we decreased in. So um great work. That's
042a good that's all I want to say. And parents were involved in in this this process. So yeah. Okay. Um, any other any I I'll I'll move that we um adopt the um 2025 2026 local control and accountability plan. I second. All those in favor? I I thank you. So, similar to the LCAP, uh the public hearing for the budget was Last Thursday, June 12th, we didn't receive any public input uh to the budget that needed to be incorporated. Neither did the LCAP. Um you did your first part, which was approving the LCAP, which then allows um you to for consideration to approve the budget that we need to have in place by June 30th. I'll just say again, I wasn't here, but I did watch your presentation. Great job. I always appreciate you being
043very thorough and very precise about the numbers. It's really helpful. um because the data the numbers don't lie at the end of the day. So, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. I'll second. All those in favor. No one opposed. Thank you. Good evening, President Grubs, board trustees, Superintendent Wright, and the Venicia Unified Community. Uh, this MOU is returning for a revote since we have since received clarification regarding the proper protocol for this item. Second. All those in favor. Thank you. Yes. Good evening again. Um actually the next three items up for board appro consideration and approval are in reference to um partnerships that we've formed with these three universities um particularly around either supporting school psychologists who are in training or uh school counselors or teachers who are in training. So each of
044these one with Cal State East Bay um one with National University and one with California Baptist University. So that's what each of these are for. Yeah, those separate items, but she only has to explain them once now. So, I'll move that we approve the memorandum of understanding with California State University East Bay. I'll second. All those in favor? I move that we approve the memor memorandum of understanding to with National University. I'll second. computer to keep up with us. Okay. All those in favor? I. No one opposes. [Music] Second. All those in favor. No one. Thank you. Everyone.