001Alrighty, it is 6 PM. We're calling this meeting to order. Uh, first order is this is roll call. >> Trusty when >> here >> trustee Shin Vasan is absent. Trusty Brewer here and Trusty Boak. All right. Four out of five trustees are here and we have quorum. And first order of business is closed session. We have student discipline conference with labor negotiators and public employee discipline dismissal release and complaint. And we will are there any public comments on close session items? Seeing none, we'll adjourn to close session. All righty, everyone. Good evening. It is 7:27 p.m. and we are reconvening to open session. And first up is the flag salute. Um, Trusty Win, would you like to do the flag salute? >> Yes. U please stand and face the flag. All right, ready? Begin. I
002pledge allegiance 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. And Trustee Brewer, would you like to read the district mission statement? Basa Union School District provides all students the skills to become lifelong learners and successful 21st century global citizens. >> Thank you. And trustee Boak, would you like to read the norms of the board of trustees? >> Yes, of course. The Beressa Union School District Board of Trustees agree to focus on the best interest of students at all times. Be respectful. Listen openly. Address problems and process, not persons. Keep each other informed. Maintain confidentiality. Work toward the future. Learn from the past. Equal participation from all members. Stay on task. Thank you
003so much for that. And there were no items um in needed in action for close session. And now can I get a motion to adopt the agenda? >> I'll move to adopt the agenda. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Seeing none, moving on to recognition ceremonial. There are isn't anything there. So now we're moving to the cons public comments on consent calendar items. I don't think I see any. Yeah. None. And now we're on to the consent calendar. Can I have a motion to adopt? >> I'll move to adopt the consent calendar. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> All right. So, now we have comments from the public on non-aggenda items. So, we would like to start first with the speaker conduct card. I'm going
004to read the rules. For all who wish to address the board during public comment periods, speakers are requested to state your name and affiliation for the record. Each speaker will be given three minutes to address the board, five minutes per organization, and a maximum of 20 minutes per topic. However, in exceptional circumstances, when necessary to ensure full opportunity for public input, the board president may with board consent adjust the amount of time allowed for public input and or the time allotted for each speaker. Any such adjustments shall be done equitably so as to allow a diversity of viewpoints. The president may also ask members of the public with the same viewpoint to select a few individuals to address the board on behalf of that viewpoint. Speakers are reminded to communicate with respect, fairness, and curiousness
005to each other and to all present. We ask that you not use the name of any district employee in your comments. The board welcomes orderly communication from the public. Okay. And with that being said, um we have uh Joe Herman. Good evening. My name is Joe Herman. I am the president of the California Teachers Association and Beressa. Good evening, cabinet. Good evening, trustees. Tonight, my comments are in regards to BUD management being able to afford CABB's medical benefits proposal. But first, let me say that healthy teachers make for better services to students and happier students. Um, so CAB was pleased to receive management's proposal of a 2% onschedule increase effective July 1st, 2025. However, this proposal did nothing to address the ongoing concerns that CABB members have about the cost of health care. Cost increases
006have led to our members dropping dependence and selecting lower quality coverage. Currently, 40% of CABB members spend between $4,200 and $18,500 on health care for their families or individual dependents. If health care rates increase by the same percentage as last year, next year 60% of CATAB members will have to pay out of pocket for their health care. This means that more and more CAB members will have to make the impossible choices our members have been faced with this year. The only solution is for management to agree to a contract that increases what management contributes for benefits and to cover a percentage of future increases. This is known as a floating cap. CAPB has proposed setting the floating cap at 90% of the Kaiser traditional 15 family rate. This is a reduction from our opening proposal
007of 95%. CAP estimates the annual cost of this increase in district contribution to be approximately the same as a 1% raise or about 48 $465,000. However, CAB's most recent proposal has this covered starting January 1st of 2026 for a cost this year of only 232,000, the cost of a 0.52% raise. The cost of management's last proposal was $800 $880,000 based on the based on management's own calculations. This means that both parties are only a half% away from settling this contract. CAP believes that BUD can afford the cost this year and the ongoing cost of affordable health care for educators. This year, BUSD is eligible for a discretionary block grant of $350 ADA, equivalent to nearly 1.9 million. In Governor Nuome's January budget proposal, he is increasing education funding funding for 2627 by 22 billion over
008this year. for BUSD. That means 8.1 million more in unrestricted and 3.4 million more in restricted funding. This is in addition to the 2.41% COLA to the LCSF funds. Management needs to include this revenue in their multi-year projections and share it with the trustees and CAB. All of this is more than enough to pay for CATAB's proposal and to ensure Beressa remains a district that can attract and retain the best educators for our students. Management representatives told CABB that the trustees had only authorized a 2% increase in payroll cost for these negotiations. Armed with this enlightening budgetary information, it's time that the district bargaining team receive the authority to pay for this proposal. Let's make Berasa Union School District the best. And it looks like I'm a little bit out of time. I don't know
009if I 15 I'll have to maybe I could have time to read. I have some valentines for you trustees from some of our members and it has a heart to fund health care for educators. So I have one of our members says health care is important to our family at a rate where I am not having to reduce my take-home pay. Please keep us in mind. Happy Valentine's Day. Please help my co-workers support their family medical cost. Love Barry as a teacher. I need health care for my family and I thank you. As educators, we find it increasingly difficult to balance our commitment to our students with a rising financial burden of providing health care for our families. ensure care for children includes teachers children. We have enough to pay for in this expensive area.
010So I'm going to hand these off to you and then my colleagues will come up and read some more of our cards. Appreciate your time. >> Thank you. Um next up is Linda Simony. Hi, I'm Linda Simone, Brook Tree teacher. I have more volunteer to share with you. Dear B USD trustees, have a heart. Please show love to our educators through real support, fair pay, health care, and the conditions they need to keep caring for students with hope. Respected district board members, thank you for considering better health care benefits for our teachers. Rising health care costs are breaking teachers hearts. Teachers who feel supported are better able to support our students in learning, making the whole school district a su successful community. I hope the district will take care of its teachers just like we
011take care of our students. Thank you. Dear trustees, happy Valentine's Day. Please have a heart and take care of the people who take care of the kids in this district. This is the only job I know of that gives pay cuts instead of raises. I am poorer with each year of service I provide. You are breaking my heart and my spirit. Health care keeps teachers healthy enough to teach our kids. We can't give our all if we are not at our best. We cannot be fully present and engaged if we are worried about affording health care for ourselves and our family members. Have a heart. Happy Valentine's Day. And BUSD trustees, thank you for working hard to find the money in the budget to give teachers the peace of mind that stable health care brings.
012Thank you so much and happy Valentine's Day. >> Thank you. And our next speaker is Christy Gurnie. >> Hi, I'm Christy Gurnie, Brook Tree Teacher. I brought you the treats. Happy Valentine's Day. Um, it's homemade almond roa. Um, so I have a few more Valentine's to read. Honorable trustees, CATAB members, especially families at this time, need to be able to afford to take their children to the doctors and not have inferior medical plans that possibly break the bank if a medical emergency arises, have a heart, and demand that management approve CATAB benefits propo proposal. CATAB's proposal will save the district money in the long run, and help to recruit and retain teachers. Healthy teachers provide better services to students. Affordable health care is love. Settle now. Another um investing in health care for employees will
013attract new hires, retain good teachers, and keep up employee morale. This one uh hello trustees. It's important that you understand that I need health care covered in my benefits. Then I can focus on my work without personal concern. My colleagues also need coverage at the family level. It's important that the ba that their basic health needs are covered. It's important that my co-workers can show up to collaborate with me minus stress over their budget slashcare Brook teacher. And finally, I earn less than last year with the insurance hikes. Sole earner for a family of four San Jose resident B USD parents. Thank you for your comments. And now we're moving on to reports and presentations. We have the Alca midyear update and budget overview. Thank you. At this time, I'd like to invite Dr. McCreary,
014our assistant superintendent of ed services, who will share with you our midyear um update and budget review for our LCAP. All right. Thank you everyone. Tonight, uh, Mr. Thomas Carroll and I will be co-presenting the midyear LCAP update. So, our agenda for tonight is to review legislative requirements and um understand some opportunities for collaboration about the midyear LCAP. We'll be reviewing metrics, action items, services, and our midyear budgeted expenditures for each of our LCAP goals. Um then in the end we have a little information about differentiated assistance that we'll be receiving support from the Santa Clara County Office of Ed. Uh review some our stakeholder engagement opportunities and timelines for our current LCAP and answer any questions. So basically our LCAP midyear review is part of uh legislative law. So basically I just wanted to
015review with everybody our assembly bill 114 in 2023 section 124E states that uh at the meeting excuse me at a meeting of the school year the district must include all the following um tonight all available midyear outcome data related to metrics identified in the 2526 LCAP and the midyear available expenditure and implementation data on all action items. And so the purpose of um presenting this information is to give our educational partners an uh update on our LCAP actions outcomes and expenditures. Our team, our ED services team, works closely with the business services team to gather program implementation, look at assessment data, demographic data, fiscal calculations to give everybody a bird's eye view of where we are um throughout the halfyear point of the school year, excuse me. And another big piece is um trying to
016make the presentation easy to understand for stakeholders who are watching at home and other people in the audience so that we don't use a lot of uh education jargon and acronyms etc. So hopefully u if there's any questions along the way please let us know. So, um we do work with our financial um director and the business office to just give us uh an overview of what our projected um budget is for the 2526 school year when it comes to lo local control funding formula funds and how much money is coming in and how much we spend specifically um overall on the budget. So here you'll see the actual numbers at 91 thou 91 million excuse me 275 and what we've expended so far halfway through the school year is about $41 million. So we
017have about $44 million to go to spend specifically for the 2526 year on on all the action items that are listed in the LCAP. And so then this chart breaks down per goal. Um we have three goals of course for our LCAP. Our most significant goal is goal two. It's about student achievement. So that's where we spend the majority of our money. You'll see um about 47% of that budget has been expended. Goal number one um revolves around student wellness and support of the school sites. 52% of that um money is spent. And goal three is around family engagements. About 45% of that um budget is expended. And then just the contributing actions. At this point, we've spent 45% of the contributing actions. Uh specifically the items that are listed in our LCAP that help
018support our English language learners, our foster youth, our students who qualify for free and reduced lunch, and any unhoused students. And so we have to identify um within the budget and within the LCAP which of our action items are um specifically to help support these students and those are contributing actions. And I'm going to hand it over to Mr. Carol. He's going to talk a little bit about goal one and we'll hand it over to him. >> All right. Good evening. So goal one is to ensure a safe and productive learning environment that promotes the wellness and positive school culture for all students. So based on our data dashboard from last year, I know that we've already reviewed this, but um with the board, but we did see a decrease in our suspension rate um
019and then we also saw a decrease in our chronically absenteeism rate. So looking at some of the metrics we uh use to determine if we're being effective in our approach um include our attendance rates. So our baseline data shows that we were at 95.1% and as of right now this year we're at 98.04%. Our conic uh absenteeism rates again baseline was 16.2% 2% overall and as of right now this year we're at 6.96%. For our Hispanic students in chronic absenteeism um we're down from 34.7 to 15.68 and for African-American students we're down from 30.2% to 14.77%. So very significant gains in in those areas. We also look at our suspension rate. Um our baseline showed that we were at 1.6% 6% of students suspended and we are currently at 0.19% of our students suspended. Um,
020our Hispanic rate has dropped from 3.5 to 0.5, socioeconomically disadvantaged from 3.4 to 0.3, English language learners from 1.1 to 0.25, and our African-Americans have dropped from 10.5 to zero. And we currently have zero students who have been recommended for expulsion this year. I'll get into a little bit more of this on the next slide. So, this kind of just breaks down uh by ethnicity, how many students have been suspended within each demographic group. So, if we look at where we started in the 23 24 school year, again, we've seen a significant decrease overall. Um, and in every or in most categories, we've we've decreased. So from Asians as from last year to this year have decreased from 5 to one. Hispanic students from we've maintained eight students. Our Filipinos we've increased by one student.
021African-American continues to be zero. Two or more races we decreased by one student. White students decreased by Z or decreased by one student. And we've decreased by five students overall as of this point in the year. Sure. >> So, this part of our presentation, we have to look at all of our action items and come up with an idea as far as what's been implemented fully, what needs support or what hasn't been implemented. And so, we went through the majority of our action items specifically aligned to uh goal number one. And this is a list of all of the action items that we feel have been fully implemented. So we talk about our safe facilities. We talk about the work that we're doing with our multi-tered systems of support specifically with our DELT team and
022the support we're receiving from the collective impact solution trainings specifically to help support our DELT team. We also have um a lot of training around positive behavior intervention supports which also is led by our collective impact solution um trainer. Uh Mr. Carol has brought forward a program called Navigate 360 to help support some of our students at the middle school who have made some bad choices along the way. Instead of going straight to a suspension, we were having the students kind of learn a little bit more about potential issues that pop up in middle school like vaping and tagging for um gang related issues. So, um this has actually been a very uh uh forwardthinking approach to help support our students to educate them a little bit more. We have two board-certified behaviorists that work
023in our district, which is uh a little bit of a change. Recently, we added an additional person. So, that's been very helpful. We also have the Care Solace program that folks can call in and get some support with um a lot of the social emotional issues. This is also for our staff if necessary. We also um pass out uh bus uh VTA passes and some other specific things to help support students who need transportation to and from school. And you'll see the um budget here for goal number one. It says we've spent about 52,000 or excuse me 52% excuse me. Um other action items here that have been fully implemented our coordinator student services, Mr. Carol. We have an additional nurse. Our school psychologists, school social workers, and middle school councils are also funded specifically
024from goal number one. Um, we said that one or two action items are partially implemented and these are our social emotional learning curriculum. For middle school, it's upstream. For American or for elementary school, it's American Legacy. Uh we got feedback last year at our LCAP meetings that the American Legacy uh paper like kind of like a Scholastic News wasn't very effective. So we didn't order those again. We do have upstream um happening at the middle school and we did not renew our contract with Panorama Survey. Mr. Carol will talk about that in um goal number three. But the panorama survey that we used to pay out of um these fundings was um not renewed because each year the it was basically doubling the amount of money that they were actually asking us to purchase and
025so we figured we would go the route of the healthy kids surveys which is free. So that's what you'll see in goal number three. So, we just it's very a transparent uh process on which of our action items are fully being implemented, partially being implemented, and we did land on one that was not being implemented. And during our LCAP that we have to update each year, we write into our plan specifically, we heard from our stakeholders. This was something that we felt um could support our work. And so that we change from panorama survey to healthy kids survey. So that's part of the process that we go through um each year. I'm going to move forward to goal number two. I talked a little bit about this already, but it's improve student achievement for all
026students by providing common core state standards instruction and using technology and providing professional development for all staff. Here we have the California data dashboard again and this one's specifically for English language arts which is in the green category. You'll see mathematics overall in the green category. Our English learner progress is in the orange category and our science um scores which aren't counting this year are still in the green category. We'll point out one more time that you you'll see the cards on the bottom where the equity report and you'll see that we do have certain student groups that are not doing as well as our overall students. And that's just a reminder. This is going to pop back up when I mention differentiated assistance. So, we do have some student groups that are still struggling
027in English language arts and math. So for this um uh the metrics here that we're identifying is we have our teachers um do a lot of benchmark assessments. And so what we've identified here in yellow are our results for our elementary benchmark assessments for pre preschool through first grade. We it's called fastbridge. We have second through fifth grade students that are taking the star reading. you'll see um for the most part these are newer um benchmarks. So that there's still we're we're still kind of gauging where we're at at the beginning, middle, and end of the year and adjusting our numbers as we go throughout the school year. So, some of our percentages don't look like they're very high, but I think it's because we've also kind of scaled the test a little on the
028higher side. So, you'll see overall our students are at 40% at or above grade level with regards to the reading benchmark for elementary. And then it breaks down our um subgroups, socioeconomically disadvantaged at 21%, students with disabilities at 13.6%, 6%, African-American students at 31.5%, Hispanics 17%, and our English learners at 11%. So once again, it goes back to that overall um all students are doing pretty well, but some of our student groups need some extra support. At middle school, you'll see it's pretty similar data. 40% of our middle school students are at above at at or above grade level. Our socioeconomically disadvantaged students at 24%, students with disabilities at 11%. African-American students at 15%, Hispanic at 17%, and our English language learners at 3%. Next slide. Here is our math benchmarks. So, very similar. This
029is a new benchmark this year specifically for math that we haven't um done in the past. So these percentages are also on the lower end because we're just kind of assessing where our um percentages need to fall into. So for elementary, you'll see here about 50% of our students are at or above grade level at this time of year. 29% of our students for socioeconomically disadvantaged are doing well. Students with disabilities 16% African-American students 23% Hispanic 18% English learners at 30%. And then our sixth through eighth graders only 19% of our students are at or above grade level at this time of year. are socio-economically disadvantaged 15% students with disability at five, African-American at 11%, Hispanic at 6% and our English learners at 5%. So once again, um the baseline compared to where we're at
030midyear are two different tests and it's a different benchmark that we've g we've been given. So you'll see the discrepancy between our baseline and our midyear update because we've transitioned to these star math um assessments. So once again, these are all the things that we write up in our end of the year LCAP and we also look at um all the different variables that we've um asked our teachers to deliver this test. I think it was in um the middle part of January. Okay. And then we go back to our action items. So once again, we've listed the majority of our action items that are being fully implemented. Our basic instructional services. We have instructional coaches that are supporting um this action item. We have our SBRO early academic language contract seal that's supporting this
031our um LCAP goal number two. our ELD curriculum at the middle school, our AVID program at our middle schools. We're receiving more training through the Silicon Valley math initiative. We also have after school and summer classes with Silicon Valley Ed Foundation. We've spent about 46% of our budget when it comes to goal number two. Um, more items that were being fully implemented. We're planning already for our summer school programs. This is based on last year's summer school um programs that was in the 26 2526 school year. We have our mandarin immersion program. We have art teachers. We have one PE aid that is supported in this goal. Some technology support transitional kindergarten and illuminate which is now now called Renaissance which is our platform for our assessments. some of the action items that are being
032partially implemented this year. Um, mindful leaders project with Dr. Nikki. We're going to have a training actually next Thursday and Friday for about 15 of our staff members. This past year, we've only been able to offer one training session and not two. That's why it's partially implemented. We have AVID tutors and extra duty for AVID. Um, we only have, well, we had one AVID tutor. That tutor is now a district employee helping us in the assessments um, uh, department. And our extra duty is our AVID folks who, um, supervise each of the three school sites and our AVID district director. We um also have kind of stalled on some of our SVMI training which is Silicon Valley math initiative. Um so that I highlighted as partially implemented and then actions that aren't being implemented are
033our walkthroughs with our new teacher center and we're not supporting Imagine Learning anymore. We're using that money to help support another um program called Freckle which is aligned to Renaissance. Our last goal, going to hand it back over to Mr. Carol. Goal number three, increasing parent and community involvement in education. So, some of the metrics that we're using to monitor this goal is uh the Panorama survey for parents and as Dr. Joe had mentioned, we did discontinue implementing that because of the California healthy kids survey. Uh the Panorama contract had exceeded $25,000 and due to getting a grant through Santa Clair County Office of Education's Tobacco Use and Prevention Education, uh we were able to get money to almost fully fund the California Healthy Kids Survey. Um, in addition to that, the Panorama survey, while
034it has some really nice graphs and charts, the California Healthy Kids Survey actually dives much deeper and helps us more specifically identify areas that we can better focus on and support our students. Um, our district English language advisory committee, DAC, um, continues to be in progress with four meetings per year, and we have parents from all sites that are invited. our parent education nights. Um we're not working as closely with the county office as we had in the past, but we do have a new schooling services coordinator who started this year who's been re reaching out to different um community- based organizations and the county for certain parent engagement opportunities. So that continues to be in progress as well. And then we do continue to send out two uh newsletters per month. So, just some
035background on the California Healthy Kids Survey. So, it's administered to students in grades five through eight in the fall and spring. Um, our fifth and sixth graders are required to opt in to take the survey, whereas our seventh and eighth graders have the opportunity to opt out of participation. Um, and as I mentioned earlier, it does provide a more comprehensive school climate and culture data to allow for identification of areas to focus. And because it's been many years since we've done that, the fall uh data that we have is going to be our baseline data moving forward. So getting into what our data kind of suggests. So for our fifth grade for school engagement and supports 80% of the students answered favorably to feeling connected to school 86 answered favorably for academic motivation. 72 believe
03672% believe that there are caring adult adults within the school and 76% um believe that their parent is involved in their schooling. For school safety, 87% of students feel safe at school and 92% feel safe on the way to or from school. And then for school disciplinary environment, 82% or 84% of our students feel like they understand the rules and 88% feel they're treated with respect at school. For our sixth grade, um 71% again feel the connectedness to school. 75% express academic motivation. 69% believe they're a caring adult. 66% believe their parent is involved in their schooling. And I think that speaks there's a significant difference there between fifth and sixth grade. And we traditionally do see that the parent involvement does drop off when the students get to middle school and oftentimes even more
037so when they get to high school. For school safety, 76% do report feeling safe at school. And this is worded oddly, but 26% of our students feel they have experienced harassment or bullying. Um, 75% of our students in sixth grade have life expressed life satisfaction and 17% expressed that they've experienced social emotional distress. Again, highlighting the need for our mental health, you know, care solace, our social workers and whatnot. For seventh grade, 67% feel connected to school. 72% feel academically motivated. 62% feel like there's caring adults. And 66% believe their parents are involved in school. 73% feel safe at school. 35% feel like they've experienced harassment or bullying. 75% feel they are satisfied with life. and 19% feel like they've experienced social or emotional distress. In our eighth grade, 61% connected to school, 64% academic
038motivation, 58% caring adults, 53% parent involvement in schooling, 62% feel safe at school, and 44% feel like they've experienced harassment or bullying. 70% feel like they are satisfied with life and 23% social emotional distress. So I found it quite interesting to see how these numbers change from fifth grade to 8th grade. Um and actually I went back to our panorama data and kind of drilled it down and these uh percentages actually align very closely to what we saw in the spring of last year. Um do you >> just a quick question do you know I know that um to get to these percentages there's a composite a variety of different questions that the students are asked um and I'm just wondering with the harassment and bullying piece as we see that number grow um to
0398th grade uh if there's any differentiation in the data regarding inschool harassment and bullying. versus like cyber bullying and incidents that occur via social media um and those you know th those incidents that we know occur with our especially with our middle schoolers. >> Yeah. So I believe with the um there there is a different I didn't this is just a few of the items to pull from it that I just wanted to highlight. there are ones that are specific for um cyber bullying. And then as you said, because it's a composite and there's several questions that make up, it'll also give us a percentage of how students answered for each question individually. So again, allowing us to drill down further. Um it's a pretty comprehensive report and it's a lot to digest. Uh but
040>> yeah, it's like 150 pages when when you get the report for each school site. So, um, and again with this being so new, we're also in the process of just figuring out how to read this report and but I, you don't have all the answers for you right this moment, but >> yeah, we have yeah, we have reviewed it with the principles and and many of them have reviewed with their staff and we're also currently we have a social emotional learning community of practice where we're looking at our processes within the district and curriculum and this has been shared the the full reports has been shared with that COP as well. >> Yeah. And I was just uh you know curious for a few reasons. One, just seeing the increase, but also because we
041have the cell phone policy um revision that we we will be doing and our middle schools have been piloting different measures on that. And um I know the legislature has been seeking feedback from all of the school districts regarding um any early signs of improvement that we're seeing limiting access to cell phone use during school time because uh bullying was a number one piece that the state found was of issue and trying to reduce uh those types of incidents during student learning time. >> Absolutely. We will be administering this again in in the March time frame. So it will be interesting to see with those changes how these numbers change. And back to Dr. Jill. >> All right. So once again, we're here um just highlighting our fully implemented action items, our translators, our additional
042support through our communicate contract, our parent square app, and our parent engagement workshops, child care materials have been fully implemented and 45% of our budget has been expended. So then um so that's basically our LCAP update. Some other little uh nuggets here as we move forward is our district has been identified for differentiated assistance for this current school year. We uh highlighted this I think when we talked through our data dashboard, but we got our official letter saying that special education is the uh student group that needs to basically reook at how we support our students. Um when it when we talk about our English language arts uh scores, our math scores, you can see both are in the red category. And unfortunately, you can see the number of students um are 81.7 points below
043standard in English language arts and over 104 points below standard in math. And the third indicator here is our students with disabilities and their chronic absenteeism rates. And so that is also in the red. And so basically because we have one indicator um with academics and one indicator for social emotional learning which is chronic absenteeism that triggers our differentiated assistance. And so we have a new person that is supporting us um on this front from the county office. I've been meeting with him for the last couple of months. We're going to have another meeting with him and our ED services team here at the end of this month to talk about how we can continue the work that we've started with um supporting our uh students who qualify for special education and how we can
044support them moving forward in um English language arts, math, and getting our students to school. And I think that's a big piece. If our students aren't at school or they're not coming to school because they feel unsafe or not good about school, they're going to have a hard time improving in their English language arts and math. And then um it goes along with uh this is just making sure that we're reaching out to stakeholders. So, I'll be making my rounds to the BDAC meeting, um, our DAC meeting, our principal meetings and LCAP committee meetings from March until May, basically presenting some of this information, asking for feedback. Uh, we also have a parent square survey that's going to be ready to roll out a lot earlier than April 2026. So, I think we're going to
045try to shoot for um late February, early March. Dr. Fuentes and I also enjoy going out to listen to the students tell us what they feel is doing, what's going well at their school sites and what needs to improve. And as Mr. Carol mentioned, um that second window for the California Healthy Kids Survey and uh just a little highlight about that too and Mr. Carol mentioned opting out and opting in for our students in fifth through 8th grade. That's something that we also have to look at is the number of students who actually took the Cal California Healthy Kids survey. So that's something that we're going to have to really look at for this um next iteration of the survey. Keep going the wrong way. And then we've completed our midyear LCAP review. We're continuing
046to have conversations with our county office team and that's with our ED services team and the business team that work um with us in collaboration. We'll bring back all of our results to a study session at a board meeting in June. That'll be June 17th. And the following week, we'll be bringing the final LCAP for board approval um on June 24th. And that is the end of our midyear LCAP questions, concerns. >> Thank you. Does anyone have any questions? >> Awesome. >> I have a few. Um I tried to highlight them as we went so I could remember. It was quite a presentation. Um, for LCAP goal one, I think we should recognize the improvements. Like our attendance rates are going up, chronic absenteeism is going down. Um, love seeing that. I think that everything's
047going in the right direction. So, we should one recognize we start with the positive, which I think is great. >> Absolutely. >> The numbers we're seeing at the end, I think we're all a little bit like, oh my gosh. >> Um, >> so this also has a lot to do with this gentleman standing next to me, too. Thank you. >> Because he's really working collaboratively with our school sites, talking with students, talking with um our assistant principles to try to really get those suspension rates down. And I think a lot of positive behavior intervention supports have also been a huge factor in our chronic absenteeism rate and our attendance rates improving. So, a lot of those um action items are under Mr. Carol's uh viewpoint. and vantage point. So, we appreciate all the work he
048does there. >> Thank you. I think um just one observation and maybe this goes into input for for next year is you know these are very like lagging indicators, right? They they're like there's a problem or things are going well based on what we've done in the past. So, >> um it's it's hard to address after. So I was thinking it might be nice to see some metrics that um measure the great things you are doing that are actually boosting this. So like some way to measure >> um I mean we do Yeah, I think you do it. I just don't think it's in here. >> PBIS we do issue number of students receiving them students using >> care solist not necessarily like details but the utilization rates could offer us insights into >> oh
049there's an uptake on this that's probably going to lead to these numbers looking better. So, just some ideas on measures that would help us see like >> things are working or that that they're take being taken advantage of. >> Um, for LCAP 2, actually, we can keep going. That one was just I did have a actually can you go to it really quick with the numbers? Jay's not here, so I get to be Jay today. Um, I had a question. Are some of the percentages we're seeing here as low because it's midyear and they would go up because we're like measuring they're not at grade level because they haven't >> January. So these test scores specifically are endofyear tests. So we don't expect 100% of our students to do well because it's measuring the end
050of the year results. So at the begin or at the middle of the school year, 40% of our students are already at or above grade level is actually a positive thing. >> Okay. >> So if I'm explaining that correctly, does that make sense? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> And in addition to that, you mentioned a switch in assessment tools. Yeah. So, that's another >> that's a big difference because of how we were assessing our students using data that didn't align with uh Renaissance. And so, we're using a lot of the Renaissance platform and all of the different components of it to help really tease out how to support some of these student groups. >> Okay. Um, and then for goal number three, it was similar to what I said like utilization of of care solless
051might help us. I just kind of want curious like we are doing it feels like we're doing a lot like there's a lot of investment. There's a lot of actions um across the board like with all of our goals. Um, >> so these are highlights. Also, we have lot of things our LCAP's over 150 some odd pages, >> right? Yeah. So, some of the action items specifically that you're mentioning, we just didn't put into the presentation. >> No, you did. Those are the ones I noticed I think are great. >> Um, I was curious about with the the survey and the numbers around harassment and bullying that you saw all of our eyes get big. Is there and you may not have it but I'm just curious like are we seeing that same percentage across
052all middleles like sixth seventh eighth like that like for every school the numbers about the same or the percentage or are we able to maybe zero in and do some interventions with the schools that are maybe higher impacted? >> Yeah, most of the schools are pretty well aligned actually. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And also what I'm not clear on to be quite honest is is that 44% is that are they saying that they have experienced that this year or is that since they've been in middle school or in school in general, >> right? >> You know, so that's something I can look further into. >> And going back to how the questions are asked too. So, we talked about how even when we're reading it, experienced harassment or bullying, they might think of it as
053not receive, you know, so it and it's one of those uh surveys that the teacher just says, "Go ahead and take the survey." They don't go through each section. So, some of our middle school kids in seventh and eighth grade done. So, so those are also I think we get a lot more feedback when we actually talk with students sometimes one-on-one, have little small groupoup interactions, hear how they feel school is going. So, we definitely, like I said, are experienced kind of like this new California healthy kids data that we haven't given in a while. So, um, we'll definitely look at this in a couple of months to see if any of our percentages have changed dramatically based on how it was given in the fall. >> Great. Thank you. >> I actually have a
054few questions as well. Thank you so much for the presentation. I always really like hearing about how we're doing on our LCAP. And I also just wanted to highlight goal number one. Um truly it's amazing to see these numbers because you know when we started with the work with PBIS MTSS um you know integrating um positive behavior and making sure that we have multi-tered systems of support for our students it really shows that it works like this is something that you know I'm always looking at and making sure that our students are getting that kind of care and like the positive environment that the school site can provide to them and this is the result of that work. So, thank you, Mr. Carroll, for doing an incredible job and really pushing all of our school
055sites to really reduce the amount of suspensions that we're seeing, not seeing any expulsions, which is amazing. I, you know, that's my least favorite thing about, you know, being on the school board. And so, it's really impressive that we were able to see this progress. And I'm really um happy that we're um through the end of the line for a PBS training. And I really hope that we continue on um making sure that our teachers, everyone at the school site is really continuing on using um these practices that they've learned. So I just wanted to say thank you. This is amazing and I'm really excited for it. And and also I also had other questions too. Um I wanted to uh actually jump to goal number three really quickly. I wanted to ask about um
056parent education. I did notice there was a piece in there that you talk about um child care in one of the parent education nights. I I'm just curious like what that kind of looks like. Like is it like a workshop that they're talking to? Do you talk to like the different child care providers in the district? Like I'm just curious like what that kind of engagement looks like. >> Yeah. So, so when we offer in-person um trainings, most of our trainings have been virtual just because it seems like we can get more people to attend that way. But when we do offer in-person trainings, um, we will reach out to some of our par educators typically and we'll pay them an hourly rate to provide child care and oftentimes food too. >> Oh, awesome. Okay,
057that's cool. And I also wanted to ask too, um, with the surveys that we're sending out to our students, um, can you reexlain the opt-in opt out for me again? I just wanted to make sure that I understand that, um, fully because I I'm trying to understand like how many students are taking these and what that picture looks like. Yeah, >> sure. So, for our fifth and sixth graders, um, parents have to sign a consent form to allow their children to take the survey, which is something that we saw, I think, inhibit the total participation rate, which as Dr. Joe had mentioned, um, we're going to re-evaluate how that looks when we readminister in the in the spring. >> To collect them all from every student, and we didn't get them all from every student,
058>> right? Right. And then with our seventh and eighth graders, we notify families that we're doing the survey. And if the families do not want to participate, they can let us know and they can fill out the form to and and I think that's due to how questions are worded >> for the seventh because that it's a 7th through 12th grade survey, you know, so it does get lot a lot more into um LGBTQ and different other types of drugs, drug experiences and whatnot, which is not necessarily involved in the fifth six survey. Mhm. And I'm curious too for the um bullying and harassment. I was concerned like with the increase as the grade levels go on, is that common like among all schools, not just Beressa? Is that Yeah. >> Yeah. >> And I
059think the the other thing too, um as we get more familiar with the healthy healthy kids data, um I've utilized this this assessment has been around for many many years, >> so I'm familiar with it. Um, but it does have a good range of questions to see to what degree also the students are experiencing those incidents which is why I was asking about the cyber bullying additions and things like that. Um, because this data also is really helpful to us in terms of our um our well-being resources, our counseling resources, all of those things that we offer. I know you mentioned um Trusty Brewer like Care Solace. I was just pulling up our report because we receive monthly reports on that data utilization for that service and just to share with you just for our
060students this year up to this point there have already been over uh almost 1,200 outreaches and that's that's all you know Kerasalis is for folks to do outreach on their own that doesn't include all the in-person contacts our social workers and counselors are having with students on top of this outreach. Um but it it shares with us, you know, um how many cases come out of those initial questions that families might reach out or students might reach out for support that they need. Um but it also shares with us what's that number one reason that um students, families or staff are reaching out for support. And for our students, the number one reason is anxiety related issues. On that note too, I would like to say we also work with we have a grant through
061a organization called Daybreak Health which does taotherapy. Um so that's another resource that we're referring students to and then through Santa Clair County Behavioral Health. We're partnered with a organization called HealthRight 360 who provides us with basically mental health support at Noble, Vincy Park, um Summerdale, Piedmont, and Morill. >> Yeah, I I hope I didn't come across negative. I actually think when we see utiliz utilization rates go up, it's a positive. I really love how we've been normalizing it. It's out. It's in almost every newsletter. It's always front and center and um that's the only way you can get people if they see it enough times they're like, "Oh, it's normal. I'm going to call for my kid. We're going to figure this out." So, I think when we see even though we're hearing anxiety,
062I mean, the fact that they're utilizing it means they're accessing resources they need, which should help in the long run, especially those of us adults that don't access stuff that we probably should. So, it's teaching them early that this is okay. So, I think that's a positive. and and hearing 1,200 cases, you kind of go, "Ah, but then it's also >> outreaches." >> 1200 outreaches. Um, that's a good thing. That's really good to hear. >> Thank you. And I also wanted to say for goal number two, I'm I'm always really um happy to see that we're investing in academic programs, especially like after school, SBMI, Silicon Valley Ed Foundation. It's really awesome to see always the supplemental um assistance that we're giving our students. And one last question I did have on the differentiated assistance
063piece. I wanted to ask if we're getting any supplemental funding for that or does that come out of our general fund? Oh, it come Okay. >> So, the only I mean there's no additional money, but we do receive uh training from the county office of ed and so that is free. Okay. >> We take our team over there at least three times a year. We brainstorm ideas, bring things back, and we have a very good relationship with our uh folks over there that offer up potential um free training to come over and we connect with a lot of uh the programs over there, which I think is very helpful. even um some of our school sites connect with the county office and are receiving some very specific uh training this school year um on phonics
064and some other programs that we've identified some great partners >> and former people that used to work here are over there reaching out to us. So that's really great. >> Okay, that's awesome. I'm really happy that you're utilizing the relationship with Santa Clara County office a bit and hopefully getting a nice walk too just to walk over there. >> Always daily. Any other last questions? All right. Thank you so much for the presentation. >> Thank you. >> All righty. So, next up we have the measure U construction bond program update. Thank you. And with that, we'll invite uh Dan Norris, our director of to provide uh your monthly update on the work that's been done across the district in terms of facilities and our bond program. >> Good evening everybody. All right. So, yes, I'm
065here to present the Measure U bond update for the month of February. And as you could see in our initial uh slide, we have AT&T on board. And I want to send out a special uh thank you and and a shout out to our director of technology who has taken the lead on working with AT&T to get our main fiber run um installed. Um so thanks again Matt did a great job on that. Um and there's the truck there. It almost looks like it's trying to pull down that that uh that pole. But it's actually not. If you if you look on the end there, that's the whole role of our new fiber that uh basically supplies our internet for the district. Um and it went in and I have other pictures towards the end
066of the uh the presentation to show you actually the route and the raceway that u was was done. So again, this is the measure view project updates and schedule as well as some updates from some um items that were brought up um in the last the last meeting that I'll touch on. So we got projects and designs. Um as you can tell that I've updated this a little bit, added some more items. Um, and I don't know why I keep saying um, but um, school kitchen assessments. We've got some some traction on that. Uh, we put out some um surveys to our director of food service to kind of fill out what her needs are for these kitchens. And uh so in design our architects and can put something together and for a hopeful start
067of the summer of 2627. And then uh the next one is the portable one and P1 and P2 relocation at Majestic Way. That will be happening over this summer. That's in design with the architects. And um fire alarms at Sieront Ruskin again that is in design. They should be starting that this fairly soon. Uh exterior window replacement at Northwood Elementary, that's going to be happening over the 26 277 summer. And uh the roofing at Ruskin, K1, K2, that's going to happen this summer. Uh classroom opening reconfiguration. So this is we did a trial last last summer at Majestic Way and we re re uh developed the entry to one of the pods and it we got really good feedback. It's really helped the noise level and to kind of block off the classrooms from each
068other. And that we've picked actually the the new pod classrooms that will be u Brookree pod or pods B4 and C9. Um classrooms um at Majestic Way is C9 because we already did one there last summer. And then at Somerdale it's C9 and E15. So those are the main classrooms. It's a group of three. It's a podum which the entrances will get changed. And again the comprehensive infrastructure renewal and utility assessment mechanical systems those are in design and those will be um happening those projects will be happening over this coming summer. M at Majestic in Somerdale projects out to bid is we have the fencing at Somerdale and I actually have a picture in the picture uh section to show you where that fence is going to be located. I'm really excited because it's kind
069of we're utilizing a space that we haven't utilized before. It's kind of the beginning in the front of school and it's a a good area. It's shaded and should be a great place for the kiddos. Now I have the TK playground structure at Brookree on here. That's actually thank you Dr. Fes for ratifying that project. Um and the reason why we did that is so we could get it ordered and so we could get it installed over the April break is our goal for that. um because we know that we have to have summer school at at Brookree this year and uh we wanted to get that project done so kids could take advantage of that playground and uh we wouldn't have any construction um bothering the summer school projects in progress. All right, so
070the warehouse project that's going to be going for a while, but again we have the AT&T cut over tenatively scheduled for the 17th. So, I confirmed today with AT&T this is rain or shine. Oh, sorry. This is rain or shine. Um, so by the end of the day, 18th, we should uh be able to continue demoing the building. Um, and then the Northwood fire alarm replacement that's in progress. A lot of the uh sensors and one of the panels have already been installed and uh the PA system, the public address system replacement at Noble and Siermont are are also in progress. Continuing with the projects in progress, security at the remaining five sites will continue. Um I believe they're at Vincy Park right now. Um and then they'll go to Sierramont and Ruskin. Um and
071then Cherrywood and Lane View at the probably at the end of the project. And as far as the the the second part of the comprehensive infrastructure renewal and utility assessment, the solar part the piece to that. So, we've got some news, some some traction from P Gen. The district office interconnection will be happen April 3rd. And then the the second part of that is next week um over the break, P Geny will be shutting down power at Sierant. We'll be installing a new breaker and we'll u complete that interconnection with P& for the Summerdale or excuse me Sieront Solar and the final piece is the project's completed the security replacement at Brookree. All right, so off to the pictures. So, as you can see, the black new asphalt that goes straight across to the kitchen,
072and you can see the new conduit that runs over, that's where the new fiber is running. That's the new raceway, temporary raceway until the MOT warehouse building is is built. Here we have the outline. It's in the red color, but that's where the new fence at Summerdale will take or will be installed. So, that area is kind of towards the street. It's it's shaded by the nice trees. Um, we've just utilized it for lawn. Over the 13 years that I've been here, it's nothing's ever been there. So, to have a nice extension to the playground for the TK in kindergarteners, they I think they'll just love it. Um, so it'll go the large trees or basically where the red red outline is. So, a question that was asked last board meeting about the Vincy Park
073um window replacement details. So, this is basically a sketch of or a drawing of what that's going to entail. Um the double in or the insulated composite panels those will take part place of the actual windows that have been painted over over the day over the years um and aren't usually utilized as windows anymore. So, those will be uh insulated composite panels and then above that, those will be new windows that clear windows on top that will let a lot of the new light or the daylight in as well as a concrete curb that a brand new concrete curb that this basic storefront will sit on. So, I believe um Mr. Shinasan's question was if are we using double pane insulated windows and and the question is absolutely everything is state-of-the-art new technology or not
074new technology but energy efficient technology um so hopefully that answers his question and I'll email that as well to him. The next one was the bumper blocks at Noble. U there they are. I think we replaced 24 bumper blocks, not only on the street side, but on the school side, the other the side of the parking lot. And again, Mr. Shina, there's there was uh the speed bumps that all got painted at Somerdale to prevent tripping hazards. So that those two items uh were through at throughot, not the budget or not the bond. So, I just want to make sure that that that's clear that that wasn't a bond project. Um, again, here is our key for the schedule. Um, and I am learning to actually do these now. And, uh, in the next board
075meetings to come, I'm sure I can we'll be able to explain a little bit more on them. But as you can see the the center line it moves at every every um every board meeting and basically those are progress bars in different colors and those will be the next two three slides questions. >> Thank you so much for the presentation and thank you for showing the photos of the speed bumps as well. I am sub I have been subject to tripping as well. So we I can speak on trust's behalf that we're really happy that they're there. So thank you. But there are there any questions from the board? >> All right. All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> All right. And we have our superintendence report. Dr. >> Thank you. Uh
076just a few highlights. uh from this month. Uh first just want to share what a um wonderful opportunity our middle school students had to be able to be a part of the Super Bowl opening night down in the San Jose Convention Center. I really appreciate the city of San Jose as well as all those involved in coordinating that event um and East Side Education Foundation who actually did the coordination of our students to be able to prioritize um not just students for Beressa but 800 um spots for that event to go to students in the city of San Jose. So I thought that was very um thoughtful that you know they they took that moment to think about how can we uh give access to our students in our city in this you know once
077in a-lifetime type event. Uh and in addition to that I also thought you know um uh that gave our students an opportunity to see the teams to see the mascots all the spirit uh that both teams brought to the excitement of Super Bowl week. But the city also incorporated students on the stage which I thought was incredible. Um, flag football is an emerging sport in our local high schools and they had flag football local high school athletes on the stage as they brought out both teams. So, uh, they were very intentional in including students, um, giving us a very dedicated space for us to supervise the students, which we also appreciated, but it was a great way for us to get into the spirit of all of the local Super Bowl events that were happening
078across um, the bay. And I know our middle schoolers felt really special. they definitely felt that VIP status of being involved um in that event and had a great time with all the different folks that they were able to see there. Um in addition, I wanted to remind our community and our families that we're um open for enrollment. So if anyone has a TK student out there or a kindergartenner, they're looking to move into the Beressa neighborhood, they want to know about our process to please give us a call, look online. all the information is there and so um we're already seeing a good trickling of of students coming in for TK. So, you know, we welcome more to come. Um in addition uh today I I want to just um wish everyone I was
079reminded today it's our Lunar New Year celebration period and so I had the opportunity to go to Ruskin and again I've always said how talented our Beressa students are and they had a very special assembly um that was hosted for for the Ruskin School. Um but almost the vast majority of the performances, the dancing, um giving the history of the event, uh were done by both Ruskin and Sierrammont students that have been involved in our dual immersion program. So it was really nicely done. I want to thank them for coordinating that and kicking off that celebration period for our community. And then finally, just a reminder that next week we do have our President's Week holiday and so our schools will be closed for the week. Our district office will be open though on Wednesday
080through Friday. Thank you. >> Thank you so much for that. And are there any comments and announcements from the board? No. Okay. I just have a couple. Um, two Fridays ago, myself with uh over a dozen other schoolboard trustees um held a press conference and rally in support of our students and our um educators against any sort of ICE activity around our schools. I just want to remind the public that ICE is not welcome on any of our school sites. We have immigration resources and information on our website and we also distributed uh red cards to all of our school sites as well. And if you see something, say something. the Santa Clara County uh rapid response network is highly active in Santa Clara County and we're really grateful for their activity and so we
081just want to put that resource out there. And we also have um one of our um school or Batina Strickland is being honored this Saturday I believe for uh Black History Month from Assembly Member Alex Lee. And so congratulations to her and we will be there in support. So yeah, thank you so much. All right. So, next up we have nothing for review and discussion, no public hearings, and we have review and action. Um, superintendent 2026 CSBA region 20 delegate assembly election. Thank you. Um, at this time it's recommended that the board select no more than four representatives for the CSBA Delegate Assembly for Region 20 representing Santa Clara County. As you can see on the listing there, there are five candidates that have officially submitted their name for selection and consideration. There was also
082one candidate that did an email outreach um requesting that boards consider them as a writein, but that is optional for you to do. Um the individuals there with the asterisk next to their name are currently in that position. So you see that there are three individuals and we're just looking for the board to come to consensus on four and we will submit um those uh delegate votes on your behalf. Thank you. So to our board, do we feel strongly about any four candidates? Um I've got four um that just want to present it to the board. Um what I would like to see is that I don't see too many of our east side trustees um as one of the candidates. I only see one which is um a trustee from Mount Pleasant and um
083I would like to see representatives who live in our on our side in our side of San Jose because I notice many of these are mainly on the west side >> and um that's a concern to me because I would like to make sure that whoever is representing our own side of San Jose is that they live here and they know our students. Yeah. So, but anyway, here are my choice here. Um, and whether you like it or whether you agree or not, it's really just my own opinion. Um, from the one from Mount Pleasant, um, William Derek Grassy specifically to represent our side of San Jose and, um, Jodi Mirhead. I have known her for many, many years. And Isabelle Jubis, I guess that's how you pronounce her name, from Sunnyville School District. And
084uh Jessica Spicer, who is um from the county office of Ed. And those are my four. >> Unless someone else has >> selections. >> Yeah. I also want to say I am supportive of those selections as well. I know those four individuals and they're all they all would be great. I I also support those four and I appreciate you bringing up the east side of San Jose representation. So, um something to consider for next year though. >> Yes, remember it's always an open opportunity to all of you as well. um you know and it's actually these delegates um really are your voice to the larger uh CSBA association you know they will be voting on various advocacy funding efforts uh on your behalf so if that's something that you do have potential future interest in
085you know um it really is a very uh critical role >> we we're like wink wink for next year. Okay. Well, I think we have consensus for um Trustee Grassy, Trustee Jubis Flame, Trustee Mirrorhead, and Trustee Spiser for our vote. >> So, you take a um I'll take uh Trusty Boak as motioning those four. Do we have a second? >> I'll second it. >> All those in favor? >> I I Any oppose? Seeing none, Great. So, now we're on to board policy 450, comprehensive safety plan. Yes. Thank you. It is recommended the board review and adopt board policy 0450 comprehensive safety plan for first reading waving the second reading due to the CDE mandate for districts to revise and upload uh this uh policy revision by March 1, 2026. And so what this does is
086this incorporates two things. There have been two new laws um that are requiring school districts. One to include in the safety plan all of our training and regulations around um child safety, you know, our mandated reporting requirements um and those and things of that nature. And so that is now a component to this. The second piece is everything related to immigration enforcement on site and what our procedures and pro protocols are for that. That also has been added to the comprehensive safety plan requirement. Do >> I have a motion to approve? >> I'll move to approve the comprehensive safety plan through a first reading and waving the second reading. >> I'll second it. All those in favor? I >> I. >> Any oppose? Okay. Motion carries. All right. Next up is board policy 1340, access
087to district records. It is recommended the board review and adopt board policy 1340, access to district records for first reading, waving the second reading again due to CDE mandate. um that this be uh revised and uploaded to our website uh policy access by March 1st, 2026. And um for this one uh this is also uh in relation to recent changes uh protecting student information as a result of immigration law change. >> A motion. I'll move to adopt this board part policy uh pertaining to access to district records through a first reading and waving the second reading. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> I. Any opposed? Seeing none, the motion passes. And next up is um new board policy 1445, response to immigration enforcement. It is recommended the board review and adopt the
088new board policy 1445 response to immigration enforcement for first reading waving the second reading again due to the CDE mandate uh that this be revised by March 1, 2026. So, if you recall, and I'm just going to do a little backwards mapping here, last board session, we did um an update for our our existing immigration policy. So, that policy was again in this consent agenda now to be deleted because with the new law, it is completely transformed that board policy. And so this is a new policy that is replacing the immigration policy that we had before. Um, so it has a new code of 1445 and has all the mandates now that have been approved through California state legislation that talks about um what you referenced uh board president H earlier about uh no access
089on sites, our notification requirements to staff and families if ICE were to report to a site. um the confidentiality of student information and what our procedures are in responding to all of those um actions. >> Thank you. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to adopt this new board policy pertaining to uh response to immigration enforcement for first reading and also waving the second reading. >> I'll second. All those in favor? >> I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you. And next up, business services um urban volleyball athletic club licensing agreement to provide an athletic program for the Beressa community. Is recommended the board approve uh this fivemonth facility use license agreement with the urban uh volleyball athletic club to be able to provide their services at the BYC. So, um, this group has already been
090utilizing the BYC, but that was under our joint use agreement with the city. Now that thatou has been terminated and the BYC is now full ownership of the district, we had to adjust their contract of use to be uh, under our district um, rules and rental fees. >> Okay, sounds >> Thank you. And is there a motion? I'll move to approve uh this agreement with the Urban Volleyball Athletic Club. >> I second. All those in favor? I. Any oppose? All right, that passes. Next up, we have um human resources C1 um resolution for Abraham Lincoln's birthday. It is recommended that the board adopt this resolution declaring February 16, 2027 as Abraham Lincoln's holiday observance. There >> a motion. >> I'll move to adopt resolution 25-10. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Oh, I'm
091sorry. Roll call. I apologize. >> Roll call. >> Yes. President H. >> I. >> Trusty Nuin. >> I. >> Trusty Brewer. >> Hi. Trusty Boak I. >> All right, resolution passes. Thank you. And next up is resolution C2, criteria for determining seniority for certified employ certificated employees. It is recommended the board adopt resolution 2511, criteria for determining seniority for certificated employees with the same date of first paid service. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to adopt resolution 25-11. >> Second. And it's a roll call. >> Yes. President H. >> I. >> Trusty Nuin. >> I. >> Trusty Brewer. >> I. >> Trusty Boek. >> I. >> All right. And resolution passes. And the next resolution is to eliminate or reduce the number of certificated employees. It is recommended the board adopt resolution 2513 as
092listed to eliminate or reduce the number of certificated employees. >> Is there a motion? >> I'll move to adopt resolution 25-13. >> I'll second that. And it's a roll call. President Hal. >> Hi, >> Trusty Nuin. >> I >> trusty Brewer. >> I trusty Boak. >> I also just want to say a quick comment too. Um it was really difficult for us um to have these discussions on eliminating and reducing the number of employees for this. um we're having a lot of difficult conversations right now and you know our budget is very tight and so that's why you're seeing these um resolutions start coming to our schoolboard meetings and so this is one of those um things that we need to be mindful of and keep in the back of our heads. Okay. >> All
093right. Next is um resolution 2512 establishing criteria for determining the order of seniority for classified employees. It is recommended the board adopt resolution 2512 establishing criteria for determining seniority for classified employees with the same date of first paid service. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to adopt resolution 25-2. >> Second and roll call. >> President Hal I. >> Trusty Nuin >> I. >> Trustee Brewer I. Trusty Boak I. >> And resolution passes. The next resolution is 2514 to decrease the number of classified employees due to lack of work. Um is there a motion? >> Uh before Yes. Before we do that, it it is recommended that the board adopt this resolution, but we have had to make one correction. Um Mr. Cabrera, if you can please share. There is one additional um position that
094has been added to the listing uh that was a change from Friday's posting. The addendum to the resolution is that we are adding a reduction of of a 093 of a noon duty supervisor at Vincy Park Elementary. >> Thank you. And is there a motion? I'll move to adopt resolution 25-14 with the following amendment uh as stated by uh Mr. Cber. >> I'll second that. Okay. Roll call. >> Yes. President Hal. >> I. Trusty Nuin. >> I. >> Trusty Brewer. >> I. >> Trusty Boak. >> I. >> Thank you. Next up is D1. School accountability report cards for the 2024 2025 school year. It is recommended the board approve the 2425 school accountability report cards for all various Union School District schools. This will include our three consolidates consolidated schools because we report a year
095behind um and have to post these uh per state law on our website. >> Thank you. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to approve all these uh school accountability report cards. Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? All right. Passes. All right. Next up is title one part A schoolwide program waiver for Brookree, Majestic Way, Noble, Somerdale, and Bincy Park elementary schools and Marill and Pedmont Middle Schools. It is recommended the the board approve this Title One Part A schoolwide waiver. If you recall, um, for schools to be eligible to receive Title One funds, uh, they need to have 40% or higher of their students qualify for free and reduced lunch. If they're below that threshold, but above 25%, we have the opportunity to apply for a waiver to the
096state so that they can access Title One funds for students of need. Um this year with this waiver we are adding two additional schools to this listing which is Majestic Way and Noble based on um the new configuration that they have of students that they serve. >> Thank you so much. Is there a motion or discussion? >> I'll move to approve these title one waiverss for uh the listed schools. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. Any oppose? All right. Great. Next up is D3, board policy 5125, student records. Yes. So, um, all of these three policies are related. Um, it is recommended the board review and adopt each policy for first reading, waving the second reading due to again CDE mandate for districts to revise and upload to the CDE website. um
097affected by the amendments um to ED code 234.7 by March 1, 2026. Again, this is protecting student privacy and confidentiality of their information. Um that's all been related to the recent immigration legislation. >> Thank you. Is there a motion? >> I'll move to approve board policy 5125 for first reading. Waving the second reading. >> Second. All those in favor? I >> any opposed? None. Great. >> Next up is board policy 5125.1, release of directory information. Again, it is recommended that the board approve board policy 5121, release of directory information. >> I'll also move to adopt uh this board policy for first reading and also waving the second reading. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I. And finally, um, D5, exhibit 5125.1, release of directory information. It is recommended the board review and adopt this
098exhibit um as information of first reading, waving the second reading to meet our March 1st deadline. >> Your motion. >> I will move to adopt this uh exhibit. and for first reading and waving the second reading. >> I'll second. >> All those in favor? >> I Okay, awesome. Are there any requests for staff followup? Any items for future agendas? All right. Is there a motion for adjournment? >> I'll second. >> All those in favor? >> I I >> All right. Meeting is adjourned at 9:02 p.m. There you go.