001um uh reconvene to um our open session. [Music] Um we we don't have anything to report from our closed session tonight. Um uh this meeting is being recorded for live streaming and achie um and archiving on the district YouTube channel at YouTube.com. What there there should have been a report out from student matter. Yes, student. Oh. Oh, that goes now. Yes. Sorry. Okay. So, I'll go back. So, um this was a close session item. Student discipline and other confidential matters. Education Code section 35146 and 48915B2. The board took action on a motion uh uh on a motion by trustee Zeta and seconded by Mark Meiselli to deny the par a parents request to resend the suspended expulsion for student number 22-014. Oh, thank you. Okay, so this ch this meeting is being recorded for live
002streaming and archiving on the district YouTube channel at youtube.com/benicia unified school district for your convenience. Um, we have the pledge of allegiance and Dr. Oick, would you like to lead us? To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. We um we come to nine uh I'm sorry seven approval of the agenda. Can I have a um a first and second now with Anyway, can I have a first and second to approve the agenda? I'll move that we approve the agenda. I'll second that. Yes. Do we pull? Okay. Is it the consent? Because it's the consent sal. Okay. So, um, our highlight tonight is, uh, Benicia Middle School, the Benicia Middle School Web, where
003everybody belongs program. Um, Principal Nelson, you guys hear me? Okay. Uh well, thank you so much board for having us here this evening. Uh my name is Mark Nelson. I'm the principal of uh Venicia Middle School and tonight we are highlighting our web program. And web stands for where everybody belongs and it's all about transitioning kids from elementary school into middle school. And we have two fabulous staff leaders who will tell you all about the program and they will introduce the web leaders who are going to present all the different things that they do. And I I just wanted to give a huge shout out to Saretta Tuttle and Angela Porter uh for all the hard work that they have done in really bringing in our web program. So um and and Lauren Slugo was
004really instrumental in in web for a long for a number of years as well and she retired last year and Setta and Angie have taken it over and they've done just an amazing job. So my heart goes out to them. So I will turn it over to them. Thank you so much for having us here tonight. Um I am Seretta Tuttles, science teacher at Benishia Middle School. I am Angie Porter. I am the lead campus supervisor and web coordinator at Venicia Middle School. And we are so lucky to call ourselves the coordinators for this program. Um in our training we learned uh this important thing and I think all of you can relate and it's you get back what you give. And so as coordinators, we are so lucky to be able to give and
005to see what it is that our students are able to do as a result. We have amazing eighth grade leaders who are here to present to you um their experiences with the web program. So without further ado, I would like to introduce we have Zoe Ta, we have Ka Silva, we have Dylan Fa, we have Parker Schoolie, and we also have Elijah Hayes. And all of them going to speak to you guys this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name is Zoe To and we are WEB. Web, which stands for where everybody belongs, is a middle school orientation and transition program where eighth grade leaders welcome incoming sixth graders. We web 8, we eighth grade leaders have given our time this year to help prepare sixth graders and act as role models. Web web
006leaders have become essential pillars of BMS where we provide a safe place for sixth graders with friendly faces and [Applause] support. Oh, it is My name is Ka Silva and throughout my experience as a web leader, it has been a very fun and challenging ride. Thanks to my teachers, Miss Angie and Miss Tuttle, I was able to overcome many things I thought I could never do. Some things I had really enjoyed during the web program was teaching the sixth graders lessons during their advisory and telling them how important the meaning of things really are and how much of how much of an effect that they could have on others. I really enjoyed hosting many fun games and events for them as well as making new friends. My advice to the future web leaders would be
007to always be yourself and never to be shy to push yourself out of your comfort zone because at the end of the day we are all humans who are still growing. Web is a way to bring others together despite their differences as a community. Thank you. [Applause] Hello, I am Dylan Fall. I'm a fellow web leader. I would like to start off by saying one thing I love about web is my connections with the sixth graders. As an eighth grader, I like to tell sixth graders what to do and how to help them succeed in in the middle school in their middle school career as a sixth grader. And one challenge I had at the beginning of web is how to speak in front of people such as this crowd right here. But as I
008got into web, I was also learning along with my sixth graders. And when I was learning was that I overcame my challenge of speaking in front of people such as this crowd today. So how I describe web is that not only is it helpful for the sixth graders that web leaders are teaching, it's also helpful for the leaders who are also giving the lessons out for the sixth graders. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, I'm Parker Skoolie. Um, I really like the web program because it makes me feel more connected to my school. Um, since as eighth graders, we do not have lunch with the sixth graders. They're a different group. Um, and it makes me feel like I know everybody on campus, even if I don't. Web has taught me how to be a teacher
009and a mentor to younger kids. And we recently started teaching life lessons in kids advisory classes. And this last lesson was on gossip and how bad it was and like how it can harm people. And the kids absolutely loved this lesson. We had them play a little game like telephone where they read a story and we had to see how they could answer questions at the end of it. I would describe web as a program that allows the younger kids, the sixth graders to have connections to us older kids, the eighth graders. And I remember how as a sixth grader, I used to look up to the eighth graders. And at that time, I didn't really have any connections with them, but it's such a cool feeling to know that there's sixth graders out there
010that are looking up to me and know that they can reach out and like ask for any help and any questions that they need. Thank you. [Applause] Uh I'm Elijah Haynes, a web leader at Benish Middle School. Uh my experience with web, it's been fun throughout the whole year being able to connect with the sixth graders in ways that uh I've never felt connection with other web leaders. I also like being a leader and not a follower and able to lead with like understanding as well. Thank you. [Applause] So that concludes the presentation. If you guys have any questions, I'm sure the kids would like to answer them or you have any questions for because they're leaders. I just would like to say to all you students and I can't see you all because you're
011behind the podium but um I just want to congratulate you first for taking the leadership role and secondly for doing a great job in front of all of us people and speaking on behalf of the program. So I just want to say thank you so much. Sure. Stand there. Perfect. Everybody [Applause] Thank you, Webs. You guys are wonderful. I know you do such a great job and you make other kids feel so comfortable. Thank you. And here we are to um uh 9A student reports. We have Victoria Blackman. Is it on now? Good evening. Oh, it's not here. President Grubs, fellow trustees, and cabinet members. Last week, Liberty High School held our spring open house, and we'd like to extend a big thank you to all the families who joined us. Guests had the opportunity
012to engage in a variety of activities designed to showcase our school and all that we offer. The evening wrapped up with a fun barbecue. This week, we wrapped up state testing. Great job to all the juniors. Yesterday, we went to Tahoe Palisades again with Ski Ducks program. We had 18 students go with several being their first time. Today, a group of our students had the opportunity to volunteer at Robert Simples AR, which is where I got this from assisted with workshops alongside the younger, making it a fun and creative experience for everyone. We hope to be invited back next year. Finally, we want to wish everyone a safe and restful spring break. On behalf of Liberty High School, thank you. Thank you. Good evening, President Grubs and fellow trustee members. Last week was Panther Passport
013Week. Um, and the week before that was March Madness. Students were able to create a team with their friends and compete against one one another. Um, for Panther Passport Week, each day was dedicated to a different country where we would celebrate um different heritage um and cultures from across the world. Each day was um each day had a different playlist and food from that country. Last weekend, the debate team went to um a tournament of champions and the captains competed. Um this week is leadership this week, leadership is working on planning events such as the winter rally, senior banquet, and prom. This is the last week for prom ticket sales, and senior bundle sales. All sales end Friday once school is over. Last night was the wind ensemble concert, and tomorrow is the last day
014of state testing for juniors. in the upcoming weeks. Next week is the uh next week is spring break and after that there will be signups for the Panther Bowl where the girls play a game of football and the guys can cheerlead. Leadership is also planning staff appreciation week which will be in the up um in the upcoming weeks. And this Saturday at 7 is also the last showing of this year's um school musical the Adams family. On behalf of Benanishia High School, thank you. Are we our superintendent reports will be um Dr. Leslie Beach. tonight. Yes, I have um some reports from Dr. Wright. Uh as you heard from our student uh members, we are uh beginning the CASP testing season. CASP is our statewide assessment. All students in grades three through eight and 11
015take the CASP assessment um in reading and mathematics to judge their proficiency in meeting those state standards. And also students in grades 5, eight, and 11 take the science assessment under that same program. and it's called CAST. Um and uh so those have started now at some schools and they'll run through May depending on uh there's a long window for that. Um additionally, last night we had our very first early learning night. It was a huge success. Uh lots of families came. I I'd say between 30 and 40 families showed up. Um I wanted to give a shout out to uh Mrs. is Erica Dudley, our director of early learning and afterchool and adult ed, and to Miss Stephanie Rice um from ed services for putting this evening together. Um we had uh folks from
016our county to speak. We had our fabulous prek, TK, and kindergarten teachers each had booths so parents could go up and ask questions as they were making decisions about what program their their children went to. We had a table for them to enroll students if they needed to do that either in our uh TK to 12 program or in the afterchool program or the preschool program. So lots of resources for families and it seemed like a a great success. Um uh we have some observances here in the month of April with uh World Autism Awareness Day on um April 2nd. Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd and Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day April 24th. And then finally, again, as you heard from our students, uh we have spring break starting next week and it
017does go through Monday the 21st. That's all I have. Nice. Um and we come to board reports. Does anybody have anything to report out? I do. You want to go first? It doesn't matter. you go first. Okay. So, I have a couple of things. Um I attended the labor management initiative um uh meeting this last month and um it it's such an interesting committee because there's a lot of um exchange of ideas and a lot of problem solving. So, we reviewed um the short-term independent study forms um to to alleviate some of the difficulties um with the form and we also uh um I'm sorry I'm kind of off tonight, but um we reviewed the the forms to alleviate some of the difficulties um with multiple notices and signatures. Um we also talked about inform
018K12 um that was also in part a part of that discussion IEP scheduling. We also examined as a committee the um second interim budget and enrollment. Um more to come on that and also this morning Mrs. Hersh and I attended the Matthew Turner semianual music uh musical which highlighted some of the things that that happened during the pandemic. It was hilarious. Um it really was, you know, you forget about, you know, um some of the things the kids would do like um being in class and yet you see their thumbs going, right? So anyway, it was really really it it was a very fun uh event. A big shout out to Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Wheeler, and Mrs. Moore for making it happen. And a huge shout out for those fourth and fifth grade students that
019participated in the musical. The amount of memorization and acting was so impressive. So way to go fourth, fifth graders, and the staff that worked tirelessly for many hours putting the musical together. And that's all I have. Great. Well, um, in addition to the Matthew Turner play this morning, I attended the high school Adams family production and it is hilarious. They have, I think this is the last weekend and I highly recommend going. It was very well done. There a very talented group of young adults. Um, and very fun. Take the family. Um, Trusty Manassie and I attended the Joe Henderson fifth grade debates and we we um which I found very persuasive and the students were uh as fifth graders they spoke very well in front of um a group a large group and they
020all dressed up in ties and sport coats and it it was great. They did a great job and thank you to the fifth grade teachers for putting that together. It was very well organized. Um, and last but not least, I attended a CAP meeting. So that's the community advisory panel with Valero. Um, I attended that meeting this week. This week's topic was about uh Valero's sustainability report, which is available on the CAP website, which I think is www.cap. Um, I gave it out the last meeting. I'm just totally blanking on it. Um, and I also wanted to say at those meetings, I'm there as a representative from the school district and there is a time for me to offer comments. So, if anybody has comments or questions or they want to know more about the
021refinery and the operations emergency protocols, you can use me as a resource and I will take those to the meetings and and um and raise any issues. So, I just wanted to put that out there as well. I um have two I guess two things. Um I had the opportunity to attend Fiesta's Prima Vera which was really great really a wonderful opportunity to celebrate um diversity in our community and then I participated as a parent um at both Joe Henderson and Benicia Middle School our facility upgrades um sort of open house. So want to thank um Roxanne for for talking to us. We had a handful of parents at Joe Henderson and sadly I was the only parent at the middle school one. Um but I'm glad that I was there and I'm glad that
022I um was able to get an updated um report of what's happening with our facility facilities and um what we're doing with measure with the bond. Anyone else? Okay. So we'll go on to um comments from members of the public. Mrs. Martinez. No. Okay. Do I need to read the um the little blurb if since we don't have anyone? So, members of the public may address the board at a regular meeting on any item within the board's jurisdiction. Speaker cards are available at 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 se open session general comments government code section uh.3 during the public comment item. Comments for item on the agenda will be called during the
023specific item. Comments are limited to no more than three minutes per speaker or the board may limit the total time to 20 minutes per item with the timer displayed on the monitors. By law, no action can be taken on any item raised during the public comment periods and matters may be referred to staff for placement on future agendas 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 go to the our um number 11, approval of the consent calendar. There are a couple of things that we're going to pull from the consent calendar. Um at number 110 through Q. Oh, I'm so sorry. Background information on these items is pro provided to the board prior to the meeting. A common
024motion takes act takes action without discussion on roll call vote unless discussion of items is requested by the board members. And so before we vote on that, we're going to pull 11 O through Q. Okay. Were we also going to pull M the governance handbook? I think that's on a different Let's see. No, it's here. Is it M? Okay. Yes. Let's pull M. Yes. We weren't pulling that. We weren't gonna pull that. Yeah, that's um that's L. So, okay. I feel that missing documents or L&M. Okay. So, do we need a motion? Oh, and then just on O through Q, um I'd like to pull those just to make sure that we follow the advertising and perhaps advertise through parent square and then we can for those bond committee positions and then we can bring
025them back once that process has been done. Do we need to vote on polling or no? Everybody's in agreement. Okay. So, um can I have a motion to approve uh to approve the consent calendar, please? I move that we approve the consent calendar having pulled LM O P and Q. I second. And what about the Oh, you said LM. Yeah, I did. And who was the second? All right. So, this is a roll call vote. Um, President Groves, yes. Trusty Hirs, yes. Trusty Seda, here too. Trusty Melli, yes. And Trusty Manos, yes. Thank you. And we also have some resolutions that need separate roll call votes on under the consent calendar. We're going to start with item H. And those will be with the same first and second just separate roll calls. So one second.
026So shall I shall I read them out? I'm gonna um do a roll call right now. I'm just putting the first and the second. Okay. President Rub. Yes. What are we doing for H or H I and uh J. So this is resolution 242529. All right. Each one separately. Yeah. Each each of them require a separate um 24 2529. President Grubs. Yes. Trusty Hirs. Yes. Trusty Seda. Yes. Trusty Melli. Yes. Trusty Manos. Yes. 2530. President Grubs, yes. Trusty Hirs, yes. Trusty Seda, yes. Trusty Melli, yes. And trusty Manas, yes. One of those 24 2531. I'm already ready to see it. We have to get to that item and record the votes. Okay. President Grebs, yes. Trusty Hirs, yes. Trusty Seda, yes. Trusty Miselli, yes. And Trusty Manos, yes. Thank um now we come to 12A.
027Dr. Oh, you are up. Good evening, Benish Unified School District Board of Trustees, President Grubs in the Executive Cabinet. Uh, this evening I'm presenting on current and projected student enrollment. All right. So, this is a picture of uh our enrollment um both currently and projected for next year. The left side of the slide shows enrollment as of March 31st per Aries. Aries is our student information system. The right side of this slide shows enrollment projections provided by the office managers at the elementary schools and registars at the middle school and high school or high schools. Um and these are updated every Friday this time of year so that we can um have a a pretty solid idea of what our current projected enrollment is. So considerations um enrollment numbers include students who are currently enrolled
028and on interd district transfers or IDAs 14.5% of our current enrollment are on interd district transfers. IDA application time frame is January 10th through May 15th. We are receiving new and renewal IDAs. IDAs need to be renewed as students transition from TK to kinder, fifth to sixth grade, and then 8th to 9th grade. Now, I want to share some uh assumptions in the reduction in our enrollment. The average age of Benicia residents is around 46 years old. Families with school-aged children uh have a high mobility rate out of the state of California. Average cost of a three-bedroom home in Benicia is $800,000. There is 0% annual growth from 2000 to 2021. The average change in growth uh 2000 to 2021 was 48%. in twice as many households have no children under the age of 18
029than children under 18. Uh the data with the um asterises near it, the source is Solano County, sorry, this is really small. Uh Solano County Solano County collaborative housing needs assessment draft July 2022. Thank you. Do you have any questions or comments? I have a question. I heard that um Valo Unified is either capping or has cut off the number of IDA applica new IDAs. Have do you know anything about that or so? Um if you visit the Valo City Unified School District and you search interd district transfer, it will take you to the page and there's a disclaimer that says they've sort of like reached their quota. Has that ever happened before? Is this a something new? It's not happened since I've been here in Benia. Okay. What are our IDAs? How many students
030do we have on IDAS? Currently, uh it's the number is 625. 14.5% of our total enrollment. We I'm sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. Um Go ahead, Mark. Let me get back to do we have a uh contract they sign an IDA sign saying I will do this I'll be you know like a behavior and academic and if they do not reach that can that be revoked yes so um when we accept IDAs we need to make sure that we have uh room for them uh not only in programs but within desks um there is a contract that is based on um academics, attendance and behavior. And we have a process set up with our office managers and administrators where if like an attendance letter goes out, we also send an IDA warning letter. If a student
031is suspended from school, an IDA warning letter also goes out. So that's documented throughout the year. And at this time of year, I'm working with each of the sites to see if there are any students that we would potentially revoke for one of those reasons. How often do students get revoked? Uh annually since I've been here say there's a percentage maybe 2%. It's very small. Um and one thing I will share uh because I'm also big on attendance is when I look at the district overall for chronic absenteeism, our district as a whole is about 9.1%. When I look at IDAS alone, it's 3.6%. They show up and they tend to act. My question was um I also heard that Vallejo may be not renewing some of the IDAs that are already here. Is that
032true? So my understanding around that is that Valo is now requiring any student on an IDA to reapply annually. So every year and that's because Valo, if a student in Valo wants to come over here, Valleo Unified has to release them from their district and we have to agree to tape. That's correct. So if Valleo says we're we're not going to release anybody else, then we won't have that influx of people. Um, I'm I also I'm also curious um to know I had a conversation with a city council member yesterday and you know there's a lot of talk about a new housing development going up um out by the industrial park. Yeah. I don't know how long it would take. I don't know. It it probably will take years and years and years and years.
033But I just want to make sure that the district is keeping tabs on that because if that happens, I think there's like a thousand units. Um, and this could be a very this could take a very long time, but I just want to mention it because I know that we may be in the process of having to make some decisions about what to do in the face of the lower projections. Yeah. Well, I also think that Vallejo is as all districts are or most districts are suffering from declining enrollment. So, that's kind of why they're pulling back. That's why other districts are trying to be very creative in how we can handle that. I just wanted to say that one of the things we might want to consider at some point is to do a
034study session on enrollment as we look, you know, we're a couple hundred kids short of where we thought we would be for next year from where we are this year. So, it's something we might want to consider to really do a deep dive into what do we need to Dr. Beaton, question. Um, you had that early education uh thing yesterday, right? And it was TK also. So how many how many of the people that do you think were there for TK enrollment or kindergarten enrollment that have not already enrolled? We didn't get any new enrollments last night. We had a lot of people asking to check to make sure they had enrolled. Um you know the there are the families of our youngest some of our youngest. So they wanted to make sure that they
035had put in their enrollment but we didn't we didn't have any new enrollments yet. No. Yeah. a lot of people checking in a family with a three-year-old talking about how to do an IDA when their child is eligible for TK. Um, we're in the process of making a lot of decisions about facilities with the bond. In terms of our timeline, do you have a sense for um like maybe the next time we're going to talk about this because it seems like it could be fairly urgent or maybe not. I don't No, I think you're you're right and I think maybe we you we can decide if you want to do a study session because all of those things are very much aligned and linked, right? We want to make sure that we put our bond
036dollars where we need them, not expand if we don't need them. So maybe we can if if a study session is something that you're interested in, we can talk afterwards about setting a date. There is a date in May, I believe, that was sort of earmarked for one, May 29th maybe. Um, and it we could do then or we could set something else up. So, we can if that's something you're interested in, I'll pass that on to Dr. Wright. I'm interested. Talk me through what is that study session involve for an enrollment study session. I think we could do um a deeper dive into our data uh historical data. We could talk about if we are interested in doing a a demographer study to see what birth rates are coming, you know, what's happening in
037the city, get some real numbers. It's hard. We project as best we can based on our trends and based on uh the information that we have. We can talk about um what what we need to do in terms of new build you know new classrooms or where the if we need to make some adjustments there. Is that we meaning the collective us group here? Yes. Okay. You should say you no it's fine. No, it's we. But I didn't know what we meant. Um and and really determined because we've we've relied really for a lot of years on um having about 15% of our students from Valleo. And if that is truly going to change, then I think we have some real conversations to have. There was a survey that went out to parents about asking
038about feedback and rating um their their experience with BUSD. Did did you get um the results of that and what what were those? I did um uh oh there was one it was like one question my last yeah and it was like one to four um and I don't have the data right in front of me was very high people are very very satisfied with Benishia unified district well over 80% and I I'll bring that when I do our LCAP presentation because it's part of that thank you I was waiting till everybody else those assumptions that were using on the third slide. Are those ones we've been using in the past? Those same assumptions. I mean, I know it was based on a July 2022, but I guess the question I'm asking is how how
039close do our assumptions normally come to reality when you look back? That's a if I had a crystal ball. No, but yeah. Um I you know, it was put together. It was a study done by the county focused on trends uh here in Benia and so um I'm not sure who conducted the study but it is what we used as a source for those assumptions. Okay. There was nothing more current nothing that we could find at the moment really okay because that's old old might have been when we were doing okay. So Dr. And if we do a study session, um, will we have current data the data as far as enrollment and IDAS and all? Yes, we'd be able to share sort of where we are at that moment in time. If we wanted
040um current data on how many I mean really when we're looking at enrollment we're looking at our TK and kinders because that's when they come to us then typically they stay and that's the one that we're we sort of use our past projections of how many students we typically get. We haven't done a demographer study for many years. We had one done years and years ago 17. Yeah. It hasn't been that long and and I it's expensive. It's very expensive. We had to do it twice because we redistricted. We did areas. So, I would not be I don't want to do that. I I just don't want to spend that kind of money to do something that we're going to have to redo at the next 10-year thing for for moving forward. What does it
041run? Oh my gosh, I can't remember. Um, I know it was costly. I just remember it was costly. I don't remember the dollar amount, but I was surprised at how expensive it was. Usually about they could be about $10,000 initially because there there's a lot of um data that has to to run through um geographic. They're looking and and um determining who lives in houses, are people doubled up? um are have there been active births, you know, assigned to people who live within the city of Ania. Um so that there a lot of it is looking at expected children coming in. So it'll look at age zero, age one. Um so we can project, but they would need to completely redo it based on what we have now. Oh, I never mind. Go ahead. Oh,
042I was going to say, um, if that rose estates is built, if it is, it's not a sure thing yet, but if it is, I think they're going to have to do one then because all of our districts will probably change areas. Yeah, we would likely have to do one to um be in compliance with our developer fees and developer fees have kind of changed. Um, but yes, also for the trustee areas to bring it in. Um, a lot of new build depending upon the the cost of it, it could be like a 0 01 multiplier that they believe will be kids coming. It just depends on the marketing like who are they marketing to to move into the city. My other question is um you can correct me because I I'm not sure if
043I know this and remembering back towards when we did it the last two times. Um, they only survey a small majority, not I mean a smaller percentage of the households, not the full or no, maybe that was for the retirement thing. That might have been for the bond to see how people would vote. I knew I remembered something. I think if it's something that you wanted to consider, we would um we would determine the parameters for the contract and do a a request for proposals. So, possibly not using the same vendor that was used the last time. Um, looking more towards what some of our other districts around us, the the vendors they've used and the accuracy rates of of projections. Um, since there hasn't been housing increases, it's knowing whether or not there's movement,
044you know, do are people selling and new families moving in or is that stagnant? And I think that would really uh play into our rates, too. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Questions. Thanks, Dr. Oick. Okay, so now we come to um item 13, our action items. Um and Miss Dudley, so nice to see you. I'm ready. Good evening, President Grubs and members of the board. Um, thank you for this opportunity to speak with you tonight regarding our proposed rates for uh the CDU preschool and afterchool programs for the 2526 school year. Um, just so you know, we are committed to maintaining our high quality of care and enrichment for our families which they've come to expect from our programs while also we want to be responsible stewards of our resources. And so our overarching goal
045for the CDU is to um operate without generating a profit but also without drawing from the district's general fund for financial support. Um for several years um our pricing for both of our programs have remained unchanged. Um and during that same period um operating costs have steadily increased. Um the most significant factor to the operating costs come from staff salaries and benefits which have steadily increased among the years. And then um but to also remain competitive for our teachers who are very hardworking and um the dedication that they have to our team. We also want to ensure that we can also continue to attract qualified, caring professionals to our field um and to continue that program's success. So to determine this fair and reasonable rate adjustment, we use the cost of living analysis uh cola
046as a benchmark. Um this approach allowed us to align the rates with the inflationary pressures and rising costs while also maintaining that transparency and consistency in our methodology. Also, we also conducted a local market review where we examined the rates charged by private pay childcare providers in the Benicia area. Uh, as well as some other districts that are similar in size and offer similar programs. Um, and this comparative review affirmed that our proposed rates would be lower and accessible even with the planned adjustments. Um, we understand that an increase to cost will affect families and this recommendation is not made lightly. Um, but to preserve our quality of programming, um, ensure that our staff are compensated equitably and also maintain our costneutral standing with the district, um, this rate adjustment is both necessary and responsible.
047So, I thank you all for your continued support of our early learning and extended care programs. Um, and if you have any questions, I I do have a question. How How long was the CDU program out during CO? Not long at all. I Not long at all. Yeah, we were back within three months. Okay. Yeah. I thought maybe it would have some correlation to it why we didn't raise the the question then about salary, but I guess not. Thanks. Okay. I I have a question too and this um is related to CDU. I had a member of the community reach out and tell me that there's a big wait list for CDU and so I was curious you know with the rate changes um I don't know if it's a staffing if we need more
048staff or you know what needs to happen to be able to serve the demand. Do you think that maybe changing the rates will I'm assuming it's tough to hire people. Maybe we can hire more people to expand our offering there. Um, yeah, absolutely. There's there's a a lot of dynamics that go into those kind of uh decisions. Um, and so definitely need for space and staffing is is a huge demand. Okay. So if if if there's a high demand for space and staffing, um what might be have you given any recommendations as to how to resolve that? Um there have been some conversations about uh shared spaces amongst the districts um classrooms and how to utilize more space than we already do to expand um especially with the increase in TK um and how to
049serve that population. Um and so there is there is conversations around how we could do that. As far as staffing is concerned, um you know, we want to hire qualified and um we want to qualified and and professionals who are, you know, dedicated to this profession and so we do have a high standard for that. Um but also it's it the applicants are far and few in between. So um some more hiring uh fairs or things like that would be needed. I have another question. Um, talk about the rates. Um, can you explain so that the public understands that the rates that are being shown are for people that come in that are like me, you, who, anybody in the neighborhood that wants to come and can get themselves into this program. But there's also
050uh benefit to those that are in certain groups of students that Can you explain that a little bit? Are you referring to our lowcost families who might qualify for other programs in the district? Okay. Um so we do have our expanded learning opportunities program. um students who qualify for free and reduced lunches um would qualify for that program as well as our foster and homeless youth and our English uh students deemed English language learners. Um and so one uh part of that that we noticed is that a lot of families since lunches are free right now are not filling out the free and reduced lunch form. And so that's very crucial to seeing if you qualify for that program. and and then you would have free care um after school. Okay, that was that was
051my that's what I was getting at. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any mother any other questions? I have one more question. Will the Sorry, I'm a little off tonight too. So the the road that we're taking with our upgraded facilities, will that help um with our weight list and with the need um are we going to be meeting the demand um as we make improvements to CDU? And um sounds like staff is definitely one of the components to not meet the demand or that we can't meet the demand and the space I believe with the proposed plans for construction aren't changing what our cap our size or capacity right now. I can jump in just to keep us moving while that's getting fixed. Um, so so staffing is one piece, space is another. So
052currently, you know, if we just take one elementary school in the afterchool program, they're using the multi-purpose room. The Erica has um a CDU space. They'll be outside, but there aren't lots of empty spaces. And so then it would be using some teachers classrooms where teachers are still prepping and doing things after school. And plus, if we think of the TK students, they leave at the they end their school day early, so there aren't empty spaces in the classroom. So there's a kind of a double-edged piece there that we're we're working on. We're trying to figure out some solutions for um have you guys considered just throwing this out there, but the libraries to use that space? Um, and I only say that because where I worked in Southern California, we did do that. Our
053libraries were being used as a source of space for these kids. And we could do that at the at in the uh when the older students get out, but those are used. Oh, sure. Of course. Of course. And we do at some sites. We do use the library at some sites. Maybe we can put that on our study session. Incorporate all of that. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you. Can I have a motion to um approve the um CDU program rate increases as presented? I move that we approve the child care fee schedule as presented. I'll second. All those in favor? I I Any opposed? Thank you all. Thank you. And Ms. Rice, you are up to talk about the screener. Thank you. Good evening, board cabinet, Miss Martinez. I'm Stephanie Rice, director of
054education services, and I am here tonight to share with you about a screener for reading difficulties and hopefully get your approval of the adoption of our recommendation for multitudes as our screener for BSD. Sorry. I'm going to share with you the why behind the screener, our timeline, approved screeners, screener recommendation, and if approved, our next steps. So, the state of California mandated through Senate Bill 114 that LEAs, us local education agencies, need to implement a screener for reading difficulties yearly for kindergarten, first and second grade each year. And you may remember, we brought this up a couple years ago that a screener was coming. Um the state referred to it as a dyslexia screener. Thankfully they have renamed it as a screener for reading difficulties because it's not a diagnostic or a diagnosis. We're not
055doctors. Um this is something that identifies possible risk for reading difficulties. Um and the purpose is to give districts another data point so that we can uh provide evidence-based early literacy targeted intervention support in hopes to correct that so that the reading difficulties doesn't continue. So, our timeline, July 2023, it was signed into law. And then December 30th, I like to say January more of this school year, uh, the screeners were released for us to review. And then for you as our board, you have until June 30th to adopt or approve um, a screener for our district so that we're ready to implement it for next school year. The months that I have up here are not set in stone. This is some things that have been discussed. Um, it won't be given right at
056the beginning of the school year because you want to give it when it is the appropriate time for when they've learned the materials of those foundational pieces. Such as for kindergarten, we really go deep in teaching our letters and sounds. um and they don't expect more mastery of that until the end of January. So we would be looking more at February to start doing the screeners. The four screeners that are approved uh by the state of California you see here. Um I worked with my ED services team. We attended several webinars through the county, through the state. Um we um took AMRA off the list and the rapid online assessment for reading or ROAR off the list pretty quickly. Um and then we brought forward MClass dibles 8 and multitudes to our intervention team representatives
057from each of our elementary sites to do a deeper dive into these assessments um before we made our recommendation. So, we landed with Multitudes. Multitudes is put out by uh UCSF. They did a five-year study with California students. It's available for all grades that were mandated to test. And if you look back at the previous slide, not all assessments are there yet. It also is available in English and in Spanish because we are required to assess students in their native language. they don't have enough language if there is an assessment available. So right now um they have worked on Spanish again not all of the assessments are there yet and they will then be working on the next languages that are the top languages in California that they'll be putting out next. Um all of
058them are digital. So this one's digital. The scores are available immediately. Um, it measures all of the foundational um, language development pieces as well as processing speed, auditory, short-term memory, visual spatial processing. All of these assessments measure this. That's how they made it to the list for the state of California. Um, what set this one apart was the deep research by UCSF. Um uh we also were looking into the one out by Stanford, but as you saw with ROAR, they don't have all three available and there is no Spanish. They're not there yet. And then this one is free. You saw cost attached to the others. So next steps if you approve multitudes then what will happen is um my department along with our intervention specialists at the elementary sites will work with um our
059special education department um our resource teachers from each site school sites and uh speech pathologists so that we can sit at the table and really dig into what the plan is going to as response and I'll share a little bit of that because we are really poised in a good position but more so than that is the communication to our teachers to our staff to our admin and then to our families. So we're required by the state of California to notify 15 days prior to the assessment explaining to families what this is. So, we want to make sure that our staff is wellversed in that so that they can answer questions. And then we provide that to families as well as their rights to opt out because this is an assessment that families could choose
060to opt out of. And then once the assessment is done within 45 days, that's by law, we as a district need to provide the assessment results to all families. And then uh students that are indicated as possible reading struggles or reading difficulties, we then have to provide a plan as a district. Now, I will share and I think you know you've heard this as I've presented um as we've adopted our ELA curriculum, we are in a very good position as a district from what we've already done to be able to respond. For example, uh we have about 90% of our our primary elementary teachers trained in the science of reading and we also have adopted curriculum kindergarten through 5th that is science of reading based. So our curriculum in the the gened classroom is already
061ready for that targeted instruction. And then our tier 2 and tier three both use uh different versions or levels of Orton Gillingham um materials and that's also an approved uh curriculum for supporting reading difficulties and also uh supporting dyslexia. I won't go into what I put on frequently asked questions other than again this is an assessment that is diagnosing students with dyslexia or a developmental language disorder and that's what we'll need to do in our next steps of really teasing out to have our families and our BSD community understand that this is a screener to add one more data point to what we already do um and that but it's not a diagnosis or something that should just flag a student to then be tested for special education. It really is meant to be early
062support. That's why we're doing it in kindergarten, first and second grade, so we can really provide tier one and tier 2 supports for those foundational pieces. So that's the end of my presentation. Um do you have any questions? I have some questions. Yes. So I understand that this is not a diagnostic that you do need medical um opinion on that. I do however sort of want to just talk a little bit through the um those students that I will say will test and that probably do have dyslexia. And so how are we ensuring that that communication is discussed with our families to not sort of push it to the side and be like, "Oh, we're just doing reading intervention. This is what we're doing. We're pushing. We're pushing." instead of really talking through with the
063family about what options are, what our what our families can do to ensure that they are getting the support and the help and the students getting the support that they need as well. Thank you for that. So that will be a part of our next steps discussion. So that's why I'm partnering with the departments that I shared to really hone in on what our communication is. Now, as a district, we don't diagnose dyslexia, but we will share all of the results from this screener, as well as, as you saw, we don't test right in the beginning of the year. But we are going to keep in place um we use dibbles as one of our progress monitoring pieces. So, we'll be assessing kids at the beginning of the year and providing support before they take
064this screener. We're not waiting. Um, we also communicate with families when students qualify for intervention, but it will come down to really what this communication is. Now, we do have advisement from the state um, also from the different screeners, different pieces, but I really want to have the lenses of our experts in the district as well as far as what what are some questions that are going to come up? um you know how will this communication happen and that's a bigger discussion once we land on what the screener is so we can dig into that and when will the teachers start to be be trained sort of so it won't be our classroom teachers giving it what we do in our district is we bring in a team of typically it's our retired teachers that
065return that we'll train to assess because it is one-on-one and it's 8 to 10 minutes for the assessment and if they um score in a certain range you have to give them the additional assessment which is another say 8 minutes. So that's why we bring in a a team. So it's not pulling the teacher for that. Um but what we would look at is if this is approved if this is approved tonight um my plan will be to uh get our um intervention specialists in a training this year so they have that lens um along with my team so that we can ask all the questions etc. But then we will have time to do a full training again with the testers at the beginning of the year because we're not testing it out of
066the gate. And with that then is utilizing our intervention specialists to then be able to not train our teachers in the classroom to administer it, but for them to have a clear understanding of what all the components are so that when we're sharing the data, they know what the data means and they can actually utilize it within their tier one because they will have to identify what they're doing as well to provide support for the students such as small group within say our open court intervention. piece. So, um I have a question. So, I see that that particular program that you're looking at is got zero cost, correct? How long has that program been um around? This was just developed for this. The others are that in the same boat. Okay. Um, with this it'll
067always be zero dollars from what they have said because it was developed through UCSF through a grant and for this um the others have costs for the screener and then you see an additional cost for um extra supplemental support etc. And but the cost then that would come from this would be having a retired teacher. Yes. So there is going to be some kind of a cost. Correct. Correct. So with whatever we choose, there will be a cost to pay for people to either come in or if we did it in a different way and we trained our classroom teachers, it would be covering subs so that they could assess. Okay. Yes. Would the intervention teachers not be able to do that or the they'll do it too. It just we we know the time
068it takes for dibbles. Um and if we only use them to do the assessment then we would miss a lot of intervention time. So that's why we bring in a team because it takes a long time. And you said something about the team um and you mentioned our psychologists. If we're not doing any medical assessment of these students, why would the psychologist be there as a lens on the communication piece? So if after doing so back to your question as well, this all of these screeners are meant to be proactive. So we're going to provide tier one support. they may qualify right out of the gate for tier two support or it might just be tier one for x amount of time and we're not seeing enough growth then we would provide tier two and
069then after usually we do a session and re-evaluate six weeks etc. If they're not over time making growth, we then try a different strategy. And then if that's not working, that's when we would bring them forward to a student study team and discuss next steps, whether it is a different type of intervention, whether it's then looking into further assessment. So we'll have different processes, but this back to the psychologist, it's just kind of bringing all the lenses to the table. This again is not a a pass to special education, but we want to have those lenses at the table just to think of all the things that may come up that we want to make sure are clear in our communication. to point out also that the here again is another regulation that has been
070passed where we as a district have to take on the responsibility of doing the job and paying for the extra teachers and we're not getting any funding for it. So this is not the the only thing that we do that for. Correct. Now, there is funding, but right now, so we would get as a district, I think it's about $18,000, but they haven't teased out like right now, I believe it's one time. Um, and it's just for training. So, that will be good for us to use when we train our teachers either if it's outside of the day and or for the team that we're bringing in. But again, to jump to an assessment that costs money, yes, we have the money this year, but we don't there's no indication that we'll get it further
071out. Yeah. I I have a a couple of questions. Um, so the t I'm concerned about the timeline because it's test within 45 days, but it's two weeks as well. Um so the parents you notify them two weeks before the assessment and then within 45 days um they get the results. They get the results. So that's about 60 days, right? So So that's probably close to half the school year. Well, the 15 days we legally have to notify them 15 days prior so that they know their rights to opt out. that's what that is for. So our plan though is to communicate with families earlier. Um so that doesn't have to wait or whether we identify it letting them know when that assessment we always let them know when assessments are going on but also
072like possibly letting them know at the beginning of the year, right? This is a different shift. Here's the information then legally 15 days prior. We're not planning to wait 45 days to notify them of results. That's just per the state of California. But what we will be doing is most likely and we'll see. We've never given this assessment, but looking at all the components, it's very similar to dibbles. Most likely we would have identified the students through our dibbles and we probably will be serving them. Um it it'll be interesting to see if this picks up anybody else and what that tells us. Um but it will be we will be running interventions. So whether or not they are able to then just start within the middle of a group or notifying a parent that
073they would then start the next session, that's something we'll have to kind of tease out in the that's kind of the next step process of what that protocol will be. Um and that we don't have that all teased out um as this you know came through as I say January but December 30th but that's the piece that I would like the team to kind of discuss. And this is a digital program. Yes, it's two computers, the tester, the student, uh one-on-one. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. Are there any Oh, sorry. Uh so I think UCSF is great. It's a reputable university medical center. Um and also, you know, with the lens of the dyslexia, I guess I I don't want to shy away from that word. Um, and I do want to make sure that
074we are saying that this is what this bill was put into place for. Um, it was to test dyslexia was, but the state changed it from dyslexia to just diagnosing reading screeners, right? With the intention that we do some early intervention and if it's not working and we're monitoring, then we start having those conversations about what's next. But we don't jump right there before we try to do some intervention. And I hear you on that and it's and that will be the team sitting at the table also discussing that communication piece because we don't want it to be a trigger f for families to feel like this and here people are being diagnosed with dyslex 10 12 weeks before we're getting back to families to be like let's talk about what the next plans are.
075So, I just want to make sure that we are really if someone tests for tier 2, that's more along the So, if someone is if a student is testing for tier 2, we really are making sure we're getting in there and we're giving the support to the state. Oh, 100%. Yes. No, I hear you on that. Yes. And and again, the 45 days is mandated by the state. Um but that's not we're we're much more Yes. Yeah. We're much more responsive with that. And like I said, this is one measure. We're also going to continue to use our dibbles as progress monitoring, talking with the team. We didn't want to take what else we've been doing off the table. We wanted to bring in only one variable to really see what that's giving us before
076just making other changes. Great. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Wright. Can um I have a motion to go ahead. I'll I'll move that we approve the adoption of the recommended screener multitudes. I second. I thank you. Thank you. And now we come to uh 13C consideration and approval for adoption of [Music] BPAR125 and 3515 uh.5 Dr. Beats. Thank you. Um so this was a policy that we had pulled before we revised uh based on some feedback to reflect our current practice. So district office and uh principles would discuss and then the superintendent would make the determination around uh convicted sex offenders and if they were allowed to enter campus or not. So that's what this policy we brought back uh reflecting that practice. I'll make a motion that we approve adoption
077of BPA 20250 and 3515.5. I'll second that. I item 13D, consideration and approval of resolution number 24-25-27 for the 202526 constitutional advance for the Benishia Unified School District. And that's Miss Bington. So before you this is something that we do annually. It's something that we are um graciously afforded in our county to be able to receive 85% of our taxes upfront on July 1st. Um basically the county treasurer is cash flowing that. And what that does allow is that um as our aortionments come in from the state they come in monthly. Um taxes don't come in until December and April. And sometimes we could have cash flow issues. So we don't have that by taking um this forward and so annually we ask for approval to do so has to have a resolution and then
078when taxes are collected in December and April the funds are recaptured by the county treasurer. Any questions? This is no interest. It doesn't hurt us in any way. Does not hurt us. It actually is very beneficial. If this was not something that our county had and we had cash flow concerns, we'd actually have to do um we'd have to temporarily borrow from other funds we have and there are, you know, regulations we're allowed to do that or we'd have to actually go on the outside and basically get a loan that we then have to pay back and incur costs from the district. So, we are very um this this is great within Solano County and we're very appreciative of our county treasurer. Thanks. I have a motion, please. Resolution. I'll second. This is a resolution.
079So, we'll do a rolly hir. Yes. SA. Yes. Yes. Yes, President Grubs. Yes. Okay. Miss Egan, you're up here for a while. Um, so welcome. Thank you. Um we will start tonight with we are on number E which is consideration and possible approval of the vacation of the Robert Simple Elementary School waterline easement to the city. Um what this does when we moved the three buildings from the middle school to Robert Simple the location that the buildings are placed had a prior water line that was a city water line underneath it. Before we sat the buildings, we moved the water line and there was an agreement with the city. So we the portion of the water line that is on district property only serves the district and so we own that piece of the pipe
080now and the city no longer this abandons their easement under our buildings. So staff recommendation is yes please remove the city easement off of our property. Do we know the age of that pipe? So the pipe was removed the old pipe. Oh, it was all removed. Yes, it was all removed. I apologize. That's all right. Any other questions? And I have a motion. I move that we approve the vacation of the Robert Simple Elementary School waterline easement to the city of Benia. And I will second. All those in favor? I opposed. Great. Our next item is consideration and possible approval of the Benicia High School and the Benicia Middle School Fields restroom modular building purchase. So this would be uh awarding the contract to American modular systems in the amount of 1 million $3,500. So
081this is the buildings, the restroom buildings and they have concession stand and storage space IDF that will support our new fields at the high school and also the middle school. Are there any question? Mrs. Bond. Mrs. Bond. Any questions? I have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the Benanishia High School and Benishia Middle School Fields restroom module building purchase. I'll second those in favor. I oppose. Great. Thank you. And our next item is consideration and possible approval of the Robert Simple Elementary School roofing and restroom upgrades project. So, this project consists of new um standing seam metal roofing on the Robert Simple admin building and then the restrooms that are located in the back that but the the student restrooms that both um the boys and girls but the restroom would be fully
082upgraded and one of the staff restrooms would be upgraded. Um this is a priority one on our bond list. Staff recommendation is to approve the award of the contract for the Robert Simple roofing and restroom upgrades project to the low bidder which is Bobo Construction in the amount of $1,556,000. Can you explain what um upgrade looks like for the bathrooms? Um sure. New tile, new fixtures, new partitions, upgraded flooring. Pretty much it's going to look like a new bathroom. it's in the existing space. Um, there are some ADA upgrades which are I mean the general population won't know them. It's like maybe it used to be 18 inches from the center line of toilet to the wall and now it's maybe before it was 20 so they have to move that over a little bit
083to be in compliance with current code. But so there are some minor modifications um to fixure locations and stuff like that. Um, our sinks, we have been trying to, we have new sinks. It's similar to what we have at um, Joe Henderson, but they're trough sinks so that you have less water that gets spilled out onto the floors. We've worked really hard to get these soap dispensers and hand dryers over the sinks, so less mess, longer duration. Um, and just, uh, if you think of the Joe Henderson restrooms that we just did, similar. Our goal when we do these is to do it right, make it look good so it lasts a long time, but also with consideration to expense obviously, but we want long-standing materials. I have a question being that our budget is
084what our budget is and I this is bond money. This is bond, correct? Okay. Um because I was wondering even I mean there might be other projects that come up that the bond money could be used for. Um, and I'm wondering if I the roof definitely I I totally agree with the roof having to be fixed, but I don't know if I'm on board with the bathrooms, with the restrooms if it if they're in working condition of putting money into that where we might need that bond money for something else. The restrooms were identified in our master plan and in the meetings and the walks with everyone as a goal and a priority that we want to be upgraded. the tile in there is really pretty old. Uh it's it it really is in need
085of improving. It will be a uh so if if we're when we're talking about all of the things on the bond list, those restrooms are always going to be used. They're always going to be in demand. They're not going away. So yeah, I'm and we can for this project for me to break it out. I don't have the bids line by line separating out those two items. it would mean pulling it and missing our summer construction window. If it's really your point, I don't your choice. I don't want to negate it, but what I would say is that I would recommend if there's concern around it that we go ahead and do this. We've done some restrooms at other um schools and if we want to return to the concept and the need that before
086we do it district-wide across all of our restrooms, maybe we come back and reconsider it. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? Can I have a motion? I move that we approve the Robert Simple Elementary roofing and restroom upgrades project. I'll second. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? Thank. All right. Thank you. Thank you. And Dr. Jennings, you are up now. Um, good evening, President Grubs and board trustees. Tonight, I believe this is the item that is up is for the consideration and um possible um it's oh the the sunshine. So, uh BTA, this is this is you. So, come on up. So sorry. Um tonight I'm presenting alongside um our collective bargaining partners. We have Benishia teachers association um president Arianne Whiting who's here and the bargaining chair Lisa Dellorfus who will present
087their reopeners. So thank you. Go ahead. Good evening. Um, so the Benicia Teachers Association hereby submits the following initial proposal for reopener bargaining with the Benicia Unified School District. All terms and conditions of this current BTAB USD collective bargaining agreement will remain unchanged with the exception of agreements that are reached on the following articles. BTA believes in maintaining stellar achievement as one of the highest performing districts districts in California. Therefore, BTA is opening article 2 wages and BTA believes in continuing to cultivate a system of social, emotional, and physical wellness for employees so that they can continually improve practice. Therefore, BTA is opening article 5 health and welfare. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, Chairperson Dellorphus, we are um we appreciate the partnership that we have with BTA. Um, this
088action item that's up for your approval is our B USD proposal which aligns with the proposal that Lisa just um presented um with the addition of an additional article article 3 which is ours that we would um are also um wanting to open. So the request is for your approval of the B USD proposal for reopeners. Thank you. Are there any questions? I move that we approve the sunshine between BTA and B USD for 2526. All uh second. All those in favor? I post. Yeah. And Dr. Jennings consideration and approval um initial sunshine of the California school uh bargaining agreement with CSEA. Well, good evening again. Um, uh, the CSEA president of chapter, uh, 1096 is not able to be here tonight. That's Cindy Crane. Um, but we have mutually agreed on to open the
089same articles. Um, their article 9, which is pay and allowances, article 10, health and welfare, and article 14, um, leaves. Additionally, we have agreed to open article 22, layoffs and reemployment. Um, that article in particular is to align with current law. our current collective bargaining agreement um doesn't align with current labor laws. So, we need to correct that. And we are asking for your approval of these collective bargaining agreement negotiation openers. And I move to a uh approve the Sunshine of California School Employees Association, CSEA, bargaining agreement between the CSC CEA chapter number 1096 and Benia Unified School District for the 2526 school year. Second that. All those in favor. Any oppos? Thank you. And we come to um 13K. Dr. Jennings yet again. Um oh Jay, sorry. Consideration approval of um of theou with
090Contraostross County Office of Education. Um well, thank you. Good evening again. This umou is to uh fund our new teachers who are working to clear the credentials. It's our effort to to um attract and retain the best and the brightest and by providing them the c to cover the cost of induction is a wonderful benefit that we offer our new teachers and not every district does that but we do and it really does help us attract and and keep the best and the brightest. So uh this is the agreement with the Contraosta office of education that runs our teacher induction program. Wonderful. Any questions? I have a question. How many are teachers are we anticipating will utilize this program? This year we have approximately 13. Next year we're looking at nine. What we look at
091are the number of teachers who are in their it's a two-year program. So they h um so we right now we have about nine or about seven teachers who are in their first year who will then have their second year and then looking at p you know our potential hiring. It's not going to be huge this upcoming year. So just maybe a few more. So we're thinking about 10 will be our budget for that. And do these funds come from general our general fund to pay for this? We've been fortunate to have educator effectiveness funds that have covered the cost for induction. Um, previously you guys approved the induction cost for administrators who also go through a similar two years of coaching and support and mentoring that they receive. And so we also cover that
092cost for our admin as well as our our new teachers. Thank you. I'll move that we approve the memoou. Second. Go for it. I'll second. All those in favor? I any oppose? And now we're at K. Um and it's still Dr. Jennings. Well, thank you again. Uh thisou is to uh with Alliant University to provide um u mental health interns in our schools. And so it's the it details the responsibilities that the district has as well as the university to ensure that they're properly supervised by one of our amazing uh school psychologists. Thank you. I think it's a really good thing. Um may I have a a motion? Um I'd like to um motion I'd like to make a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with Alliant University. Excuse me. I'll second. All those
093in favor? I I And we've come to the last Dr. Jennings. Thank you again. Um this is um I appreciate your approval of this memorandum of understanding with our uh CSCU cea uh local um chapter. Uh one of our uh job descriptions needed some clarification. we had to and under the educational respons educational requirements it had or for uh components but they actually are required for the job. So we just worked with our our CSEA and they agreed to to make that change in the job description. We usually have to meet and confer with them regarding those kinds of changes. So we did that and they have um signed on on with this MLOU and it's just waiting your approval. Oh thank you. Does anyone have any questions? May I have a motion? I'll move
094that we approve the memorandum of understanding between CSEA and the Benicia Unified School District and revised child development assistant job description. I'll second. All those in favor? I come to the end of our meeting. Our next regular board meeting is Thursday, May 1st. And thank you. Have a wonderful night and have a wonderful spring vacation.