001Beressa Union School District is now called to order at 5:30. All f all well four board members are present. One will be coming in soon. Thank you. Let's see. Items to be discussed in close session. Student discipline or other confidential student matters. Education code sections 35146 it's sick 48912B and 490608 SEC and 20 USC section 1232G B conference with labor negotiators government code section 54957.6 Six agency designated negotiator Roxan Fuentes Ed and other members of the negotiating team. Employee organizations California School Employee Association, California Teachers Association of Beressa, Teamsters Local 150, Management C. Public employee discipline, dismissal, release, complaint, government code section 54957. Any public comments on close session items? None. In that case, we will now adjourn to close session. >> Yeah. >> No public comments. >> Okay. >> We will now adjourn to
002close session at 5:32 p.m. Thank you. Good evening everyone. The regular meeting of the board of trustees of the Beressa Union School District will now reconvene to open session. Trustee Oen, could you please read uh lead us in the flag salute? >> Uh yes, please stand and face the flag. >> All right, ready? Begin. I pledge 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, Trustee. Trusty, Trustee Brewer, could you please read the district vision statement? >> Thank you. Sure. Beressa Union School District provides all students the skills to become lifelong learners and successful 21st century global citizens. >> Thank you, Trusty Brewer. Trusty Shir Basan, could you please read the norms of
003the board of trustees? >> Certainly. The Burenian school district board of trustee 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 and stay on task. >> Thank you, Trust Nebasan. No action was taken during close session. Could I have the uh Could I have a motion, please, to adopt the agenda? >> Move to adopt. >> I'll second that. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Adopt. The agenda is adopted. Thank you very much. We don't have recommendation. >> Okay. We shall all go now to uh number seven which is public comments and consent calendar
004agenda items. Do we have any public comments? There's none. In that case, we shall continue on to let's see. >> Yeah. Is it eight? There is eight. Could I have a motion, please, to adopt the consent calendar? >> Move to adopt. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? None. Consent calendar has been adopted. Thank you very much. We shall now continue to 10, right? >> Nine. That's where it was. Nine. Okay. Nine. Do we have any comments from the public on non-aggenda items? Oh, yes we do. All right. Yes, we do. For sure we do. Thank you very much. Before I call on the speakers this evening, I would like to read the speaker conduct, please. Thank you. For all who wish to address
005the board during public comment period, speakers are requested to state your name, 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 the board president may wi may with board consent adjust the amount of time allowed for public input and or the time allotted for each speaker. Any such adjustment 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. That's board bylaw 9323. Speakers are reminded to communicate with respect, fairness, and courteousness to each other
006and 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. Thank you. Our first speaker is >> what's that? Oh, our first speaker is Eli. >> Is that it? >> Eli. OH. >> Hi everyone. My name is Eli and I'm from Sido and I'm here to say why teacher need better pay in my life. Some of the most important people have been my teachers. They've have taught me real life skills like calculating area and dividing numbers as well as introducing to to me many books that have taught me valuable math lessons. Teachers need money to improve the classroom. supplies like markers, pencils or whiteboards require money and right now some teachers are unable to buy these supplies for for
007the class. If they get better pay, if their pay is in key, they would be able to purchase necessary materials, therefore allowing more freedom to improve the quality of education and give experience to kids. Also, this will allow teachers to fund field trips and teach that will teach kids more about history and culture. These are the valuable experiences that can change a kid's life. In conclusion, giving teachers better pay will give them the ability to provide children better learning experiences during the the most important time in their life. Thank you very much, Eli, for your wonderful comments. You are very brave. Our next speaker is Joe Herman. Good evening trustees and BUD community and a special welcome to Trusty Brewer to your first full board meeting. My name is Joe Herman. I'm the president of
008the California Teachers Association of Beressa or CATAB and I am in my 30th year of teaching at Brookree Elementary School. CATAB came to management last spring with our goals for our current contract reopeners. Those goals included reducing the cost of health care, receiving a fair wage increase to address the cost of living in our county, addressing class size and prep time concerns for K kindergarten through third grade, creating manageable case loads for speech language pathologist, and ensuring that our SDC community has the resources that they need. Since April of 2025, CATAB has met to negotiate with management six times in an effort to find solutions to these concerns. Management has rejected the vast majority of CAB's proposals. Since we began negotiations, these problems have only gotten worse. CATAB members who cover their families on BUSD
009health insurance have been hit with health insurance premium increases of up to 117%. But management continues to reject our proposals on health care. On our current salary schedule, only 18% of steps can afford a fair market rent for a one-bedroom home in San Jose. In other words, 82% of steps on our salary schedule don't pay enough for educators to live where we work. But management has proposed a 0% pay increase. At every elementary school in our district, the number of students in at least one K3 class exceeds the maximum class size in our contract at Ruskin. This is true for 10 different classes, but management has rejected our proposals on class size. Approximately 40% of speech language pathologists are above their case loads when pending cases are included, but management rejects our proposals to improve
010SLP staffing. Our SLS SDC teachers struggle to deal with intense behavioral issues due to a lack of pareducator support. But management refuses to agree to put pareducator staffing in our contract. Last year, management over spent on outside contractors by $3.3 million. Only a repprioritization of BUSD's precious resources can address the concerns we have raised through bargaining. We have been told that the reason for rejecting rejecting many of our proposals is due to their cost. However, we have seen that management's multi-year projections have been off between four and 41%. Don't let the same old budget model deprive students and educators of the resources we need and deserve. CAB asks you, our B USD trustees, to direct administration to control health care cost, reduce class size and case loads, support sped students and staff, and improve salaries
011to address the cost of living in our region. >> Thank you, Mr. Herman. Our our next speaker is Christy Gurnie. >> Hi. Um, my name is Christy Gurnie. I am a third grade teacher at Brookree Elementary in my 29th year at Brookree. Uh the last time I was here at the last board meeting, I spoke about the costs of h family health insurance. And tonight, I want to tell you a bit about how that cost is affecting my family. So, as a result of the district not raising the cap on health benefits, my rates and my rates going up 57%, um my family made the decision to switch from the Kaiser 30 plan to the Kaiser 1000 deductible plan. The monthly premiums for this plan increased 117% in October from what they were previously, but
012the overall monthly cost is nearly the same as what we were paying for the Kaiser 30 plan. Um, and that's as long as we remain healthy. However, we are taking a gamble on this plan. If we have an accident or we need testing, we are on the hook for up to an extra $6,000. Um, last week my daughter, my 21-year-old daughter called me after feeling sick for days and wondering if she should go to urgent care and about how much it was going to have to cost her out of pocket. Of course, we told her um to go to the doctors um and that we would figure out the finances later. But it really it broke my heart. it still does. Um that we even have to worry about this that that my daughter can't
013go to the doctors because we don't know what it's going to cost us. Um basically this insurance plan has become one of um for catastrophic emergencies, not just covering basic health care. Um, and to add insult to injury of this, the deductible resets in January even though we just started on it in October. So, whatever we pay out of pocket now, we start over again on that $6,000 in January because it's based on the calendar year, not the school year or not not I don't know, whatever. Anyway, I am asking you to please do better for your working families. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Gern. The next speaker is Linda Simone. >> Good evening. My name is Linda Simone and I'm a first grade teacher at Brookree Elementary. I've been teaching in Beressa since
0141996 and I'm currently a member of CATAB's executive board. I attended last month's board meeting where you were tasked with appointing a new member to fill a vacant seat. One of the themes that emerged during the interviews of prospective members was equity with a question posed to the finalists to define equity and talk about its importance in relation to our district goals. I was heartened to hear that you value the value you place on equity and I'm hopeful that given this commitment you our board will direct management to look for creative solutions to fix an inequity that is occurring in our district. The inequity that I'm referring to is that approximately 30% of our educators are bearing an outsized financial burden for health care because they are enrolled in family medical plans not fully covered
015by the district. Those of us who have other means of providing health care benefits to our families do not have the same financial burden. For example, my husband works for a local school district that provides family health coverage at a very minimal cost. So, I don't need to pay for a family plan. Some of my colleagues, however, are the sole financial support for their family. And I see how challenging it is for them to pay an increasingly large amount for health care, especially as costs rise while our incomes remain stagnant. We are all struggling to live in this valley, one of the most expensive regions in the entire country. But our families are struggling the most of all. The district must take appropriate steps to keep our educators from leaving Beressa and moving to neighboring
016districts in order to make ends meet. While I recognize that the district is also facing financial challenges, with a change in priorities, Beressa can provide relief for those dedicated for these dedicated educators and in so doing turn our stated values for equity into reality. Thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Simony. Our next speaker is >> Rosio Richards. Good evening, board members. My name is Rosio Richards and I'm the Teamsters's Local 150 labor representative for the hardworking classified employees here at Beressa. We're here tonight with one simple message. Respect and fair treatment must be part of our contract. The district says respect is too subjective, but there's already a board policy on civility and it talks about respect. So if respect is important enough for policy, it should be important enough for the people who
017keep this district running. Our members show up every single day. They feed students, clean classrooms, drive buses, and support every corner of this district with professionalism and pride. Yet too often they are not treated fairly or spoken to with respect. They are disregarded and made to feel invisible. That is not how you treat the people who make schools work. Policies are just words on paper. Contracts are enforcable. If the district truly values respect, then it's time to show it by putting it in writing. We're not asking for special treatment. We're asking for fair treatment. We're not asking for favors. We're asking for respect. Because respect isn't subjective. It's earned. It's deserved. and it's long overdue for the teamsters of Beressa. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Richards. Our next speaker is Connor Wilson. >> Hi,
018my name is Connor Wilson. I'm a grounds worker with Barrya Union School District. I'm also a teamsters 150 shop steward and part of the bargaining team. So, I don't know if you've seen every so of every few months there's another news headline, San Jose is the most expensive city in the US. A lot of our Teamsters members, we make even less than CAB does. We are making on somewhere around 50,000 a year for a lot of us. That does not go far after deductions. That's 3,500 a month for myself. The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in San Jose is $3,300 a month. In order to have a family with two bedrooms, you have $200 left over to live on in a month. We feel the cost of living crisis really hard. And I know
019everyone has dealt with inflation, but the people who have who already are paid the least really struggle. I have so many co-workers who work two jobs or who, like myself, very heavily factor in being able to continue doing the job we love as a reason not to have any growing family. We love what we do. It's such rewarding work. Working at a school district is amazing, but we want to be able to do it. We want to be able to live and work at a job that we know matters. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Our next speaker is William Diamond. Good evening. I'm William Diamond and uh at least until tonight I am a teacher at Noble School. Uh just by conservative estimates, the cost of living has increased 6%
020since the last time teachers got a pay raise. We've now moved our our proposal down to 3%. And as of tonight, so one way to look at this is we're be saying we're willing to take a pay cut and management is saying no, that's not enough of a pay cut. And so just another way to look at this is all the time that all of us and if you think this is all of us that was not correct are spending on this is time we're not coming up with really cool lessons or doing a lot of other stuff. We're spending all the time and energy on this instead of what we all wanted to do which was teach. So it's just a thing to keep in mind. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr.
021Diamond. That goes off. I think that concludes all of the speakers. Thank you for all of your comments. We shall continue with the meeting. Um, we are now on 10 reports and presentations. A September 24, 2025 district professional development presentation. Superintendent, please. Yes. Thank you, President Boak. Um, at this time, I'd like to invite our education services team who will provide a presentation on the recent professional development day that was held on September 24th, 2025. All right, we have evening Ortiz, director of curriculum instruction, who's going to be leading our presentation tonight on our PD day that we had back in September. >> Correct. Good evening, board members, cabinet. Um, we had our all day uh professional development day for Beressa back in September. Um, we have had great feedback, but just to give you
022a little bit of a highlight, the way the PD day was structured was in the morning there were choice sessions for all staff. >> Do we want to wait a second? >> It's only projecting on one. They're not getting on it. There we go. Perfect. Um, so the morning time we had choice sessions for all staff. It was kind of broken up into two options. You could either take an all morning option or you could take two about an hour and 15 minute options for uh uh staff to learn various things throughout our district. Um not just our district but also um a raft. We also had um a hike. We had some self-care things going on. So um with within the neighboring area of our district in the PM we had everybody at their
023site and they were working with their site administrators on um star assessments, fastbridge assessments um and we also had some differentiated time with our provider uh renaissance. Overall on a day uh for staff to catab and our csea folks uh to participate we had 372 participants. We had 38 total offerings covering topics uh across curricular areas, tech, self-care, well-being, student behavior and support and data. And we had seven sessions that actually reached capacity. All sessions uh had capacity of about 25 to 30 participants. Um an attendance overview. Again, we had the 372 participants in session one. We had three sessions that reached capacity while we had 11 that had attendance of five or less. So something for us to consider moving forward. In session two, we also saw two sessions at capacity with 10 of
024fewer or less. Our top five sessions were creating a chill out zone for our uh students, a calming corner in your classroom. We had attention and engagement, keeping students on task, 25 selections. We had supporting student behavior with 22 selections, drawing cartoons for anchor charts and posters with 19 selections. and supporting student motor development for our three to six year olds with 19 selections. And there are pictures right there highlighting three of those sessions. That's an overview of what our morning looked like for the all morning selection. The long bar that you see there, the outlier is uh that's people who decided to take two individual sessions. Um but for the morning time there was collaboration for our special education teams, ELD teams. Um we had our raft STEM projects. We had um uh mindfulness
025hike. We also had uh a second round of EL at the middle school time for them to get together and collaborate. Those are some of the uh just a few highlighted uh quotes from some of our staff. We had a lot of people tell us that they felt recharged, that it was a good day to get together and learn. Um, we really wanted to highlight those self-care pieces being the fact that we were coming back from that consolidation and kind of the craziness of moving into maybe a new school site, but also a new classroom. So, we wanted to make sure that we honored the fact that some teachers just needed a time to get together and talk and collaborate, but also um take care of themselves at the same time. That is our morning
026session one. All of the different offerings that we had and about the percentages. We really only had about two to three sessions that didn't have anybody sign up for. Um but out of the 38 offerings, we had a fairly good attendance at most. Some highlights that we had was participants were engaged in hands-on activities. There were a lot of um get your hands dirty and participate. There were very few sit and gets. Um we did have a lot of people and a lot of presentations highlighting the idea that there was um some real world relevance into what these uh sessions presented. Um we had big self-care success as I mentioned um and engaging and actionable training. Again that was our uh some highlights of the session one not the all day sessions but the two
027that were broken up. Um we had some very informative. It was great um to see how things were set up. So for example, the notebook session that we had was directly connected to our FOSS program and how kiddos can have their science notebook set up. Um but to also how to use that in nature. So we did a lot of nature walks during that session as well. And for morning session two, that's how kind broke down on it. Um again, I think at this session we only had two sessions that didn't have anybody sign up for it. The rest of them again we had a fairly good uh presentation. Session two highlights. Again, this was the morning time. Again, self-care was highlighted from our participants that they really appreciated that. Uh we had some practical
028applications. We had a lot of teachers present to their own peers. And so, a lot of teachers enjoyed being able to learn from their peers in what they can do to support their own classrooms. Um, and we had a lot I think another piece that was really highlighted was a lot of ideas for behavior support in our classrooms. And when I say behavior support, most of these sessions that talked about behavior support were gened. So, not necessarily force-fed, it was how our gened teachers can support students with maybe higher needs in their classrooms. And again, some uh quotes from our session too. So, taking all of that and and you know, always knowing that there's room for improvement and room to grow, we're looking at already getting started planning for our January professional development day
029that's coming up soon. It doesn't think seem like it, but with the breaks it is. Um, but some things that we do need to make sure that we highlight and correct for this next time to make it more meaningful for our teachers is making sure that we standardize our resources. One thing that was highlighted is the difference in tech at various school sites. So while one school site might have a really good tech support um or materials maybe with the consolidation and movement, other sites didn't have as much. So we had a lot of hey I want that. That's really cool. Um if you ever attend the Canvas session over at Noble, it definitely comes with a bill to the principal because they want the the crickets and they want the sublimation printers and things
030like that. So, um, just having that standard across all school sites, making sure that we align our resources to ensure that the teachers get the most out of their day. Um, and again, addressing those tech gaps. Okay. And that's what I have. Again, our next PD is January 28th. I invite everyone to come out and take a look. Um, I'll let you know if we have our mindfulness hike again because that might be a good one to attend. We got some really good feedback on that. Um but again you know would love to extend the invitation for you all to come and and enjoy a day of learning. And with that if you have any questions >> questions from the board. >> Go ahead. >> Oh I was just going to say thank you so
031much for the presentation. It's amazing to see how many sessions there were and how high engagement you had. It's really creative to have multiple sessions and I'm really impressed that like you know some of the comments said one of the best PDs they've ever had in Beressa. So, I'm really happy that that's happening and um we're evolving the PD. So, thank you so much for your hard work on this. Definitely we'll take you up on the January 28th session. It sounds really exciting. I also love hiking so that'll be fun. Thank you. >> Hiking in winter in the middle of I don't know >> the layers. >> I want my I want to sit on my couch covered with my we had 372 participants total. Um this is as a percentage of uh what what
032percentage is that earned? >> I think there we had pretty much like 90% of our certificate and classified that participated that day. >> That's is it better than previous years that we've >> absolutely and I think one thing that really helped support this was the majority of the sessions were led by their peers. That was one thing when we were >> um sitting down with the PD committee. there's an actual PDCTA meeting or committee that we meet with and that's part of what the feedback was that they would like to hear from others that are doing some of the same work so they can learn from each other and not have somebody from the outside come in and tell them how to move things along. >> Yeah, I think that's that's key and thank you
033for for your hard work on that. I think peer-to-peer connections I think several places are going to peer-to-peer connections especially in the corporate world where I come from is uh we are uh you know sick of sick sick of hearing those uh standardized you know like one sizefits-all kind of a thing presentations doesn't work anymore you know peer-to-peer connections >> have more value you know you have real life experience people sharing what's going on their sites or in their classrooms uh and I think that reflects on the uh why we have you know higher participation. Um let's hope to hit that 100% participation mark >> especially with the nature hikes. >> So yeah thank you for your hard work. >> You're welcome. >> Any others? >> Thank you for thank you Miss Ortiz for that
034excellent excellent presentation. Thank you. >> We shall continue to reports and presentation. Let this is letter B, measure U, construction bond program update. Uh, superintendent, please. Thank you. And with this, I'd like to invite uh Dan Norris, our director of MOT, who will provide his first bond update report to the board. >> Well, good evening everybody. As you can see, it's a new face to the bond program presentation, but as a tribute to Mr. for Canistab. I grew a grow tea. >> I noticed that. >> And first and foremost, I just want to send a special thank you to Tony Kistab for all the work that he's done for the for the last five years, six years, seven years, five years, long time, >> nine years. He has done an amazing job and and uh
035even though he's in and out of the district, uh he's definitely missed. So, thank you very much. With that said, I'm going to give a brief overview, not brief, but an overview of the bond measure U for this last month. Um, so basically we're going to cover the project updates and the program schedule. So projects completed. We uh installed or replaced the PA systems at Majestic Way and Vincy Park. Uh IT management put those systems in and we've gotten very good feedback. Um we're down to the tail end of the PA replacements at at the 10 of our schools now. So um a lot better place than we were say five years ago. HVAC replacement is finally completed at the old district office. We were just waiting on a few walking pads for the roof
036and those have been in replaced. So that that's all complete. Project bids. So, right now we are we just bid the fire alarm for Northwood and it came in and Tony and I had a little conversation about the the dollar amount that was accepted, but 422,000 and that was actually I thought was on the expensive end was actually on the cheaper end compared to a middle school which is 8 900,000. Um so NG Construction got that that bid. Um the next one was for the security alarm replacement at Noble Northwood Sierra Mont and IT management got that one and uh so we we've been really happy with the the change in the the alarm system at our sites compared to the old system to the new. Um the cameras are interactive with the alarm panels
037and um so if we see motion or get a call, we can actually look and see on on the cameras and see what's going on. So it's a lot we're in a lot better place project out out to bid. So over at Vincy Park, we're we're doing some modernization over there. We're last year we were able to complete all the sighting which came out amazing painting and sighting. We had a little issue with this the painting, but I think we've worked through that. Um but now we're going to replace all the exterior um doors and and the frames around them, the windows, um which have definitely uh aged to say the least. Um so it'll be a really good thing to get those doors replaced and windows as well. Um as well as site improvements
038at Pedmont Middle, we are going to be doing some repaving over there. the whole playground. When I say playground, I mean their basketball court outside, their volleyball courts, all that uh black top will be replaced. Um I believe their seal the the front parking lot will be reseal coated and I think we're going to go as far as between the science wing and the art wing. Um all that's going to get um replaced the asphalt as well. Um progress projects in progress. So this is the big word, right? The comprehensive in infrastructure renewal and utility assessment. So basically we're talking about HVAC systems. Um the mechanical HVAC replacement at Toyon. It's still in progress. It's almost done. Um and then we're wrapping up solar at the district office Morell Pedmont Sier Lane View and Sherrywood.
039We're getting down to the tail end basically at the mercy of P Gen to get us connected. Um, we've finished or in process the the last um um items that uh punch list items that we needed to to take care of. Projects in progress. All right. So, back to PA system replacements. Noble, Northwood, and Sierramont. So, all new. We're replacing the old Bogen system with a 2025 state-of-the-art wireless amazing system um at those three sites. And then again, the last five of our um sites for security, Cherrywood, Land View, Northwood, Bincy, and Sierramont are be getting the last of the security. And then, you know, that's new motion sensors, door contacts, and alarm panels. Um, and also right now, um, out with the old and in with the new, noble front landscaping. We ripped out
040all that old jasmine or ju Jupiter Jupiter juniper. Oh my goodness. So yeah, so very happy about that leaving. Um, and we hope to make it as nice as Rusket. Uh, projects and design. So school kitchen assessments. So, we are looking to have um assessments done on our middle school kitchens. So, they're pretty out of date and we need to upgrade them. So, that's something that we're looking to do hopefully this coming summer. Uh the again the comprehensive infrastructure renewal and utility assessment uh again we're talking about HVAC systems. Um in in design is the mechanical system for Majestic and Somerdale. the remaining of our sister schools. So, it's going to be just like uh Brookry that was done over the last summer, but this time um well, we're hoping for a better outcome, a
041better timeline, get it done a little bit quicker. So, it leaves our our custodian staff and our main maintenance guys time to get in there and uh get the site prepared for the first site of school. So, measure you project. So currently we are demoing MOT finally finally finally. This is a kind of an already an outdated project or picture as the little house in the back is now gone. Um so we're really excited. I am really excited about this project. Uh I I believe that uh forever the MOT building was the oldest building in the district and and my old office I guess was the superintendent's office and our our boardroom was the our conference room. So a lot of memories in that building been there for 13 years and uh I'm I'm excited
042to see it go. We we've had a couple I have some stories to tell, but anyway, uh we've hit some setbacks with the water line, gas line, and uh data line, and we're we're working through that. We kind of are put on hold for the rest of the demolition, but again, we are working through that. So, that's a pretty close to updated picture, although the little house is gone. And so these are just the schedules right of everything I just talked about. So all the updates everything in bid project that are in the future and u that's what these are just in a construction timeline form. So any questions >> comments from the board? >> Go ahead. like the new look. >> I can finally take you seriously. >> I'm just kidding. So, thank you
043for the updates. It's uh it's very good. And thank you uh Tony for your for your service uh to the school district, especially working on those credits back to us. You know, that we we always appreciate those credits. Uh so, I hope you'll continue that tradition, bring back those >> bring those credits. So um the um the solar I just add just a academic question. So these solar uh projects that are going on specifically at Lane View and Cherrywood which we are I mean Toyon is not here. So yeah Lane and Cherrywood which we are not um utilizing anymore. I mean Cherrywood is part but anyway um the um they have these uh EV chargers charging port. So, what is the plan to how how how is it going to be used? Can anybody come
044in and plug in? >> I'll take that question because that'll be a future board discussion and decision that you'll need to make and so we'll share with you what some options are because there are options in terms of utilizing those chargers for for staff andor opening them up to the public. So we can share with you um what that looks like in other in other districts and what the price points are for that usage as well. >> Sorry to jump ahead on there but thank you but no thank you for the presentation. >> Any more comments from the board? >> Thank you so much for the presentation. Um awesome first job and also awesome new look as well. I I love the homage, you know. Hope you keep it up. No. Okay, that's okay too.
045and Tony, thank you always so much for your work to the district. You know, I I'm really always appreciate these presentations and you've done an incredible job and happy that you're able to see the first presentation that Dan is doing, too. You know, it's it's always cool to see the transition. So, just thank you for the amazing work and I'm also really excited to see the demolition. That was really cool to see the photos as well. Um, one thing that I wanted to ask about was actually about a project that isn't listed on here. I wanted to ask about um if we could do um all gender restroom signs for single use or single stall restrooms only specifically at our pods. When we passed the resolution um during LGBTQ um you know pride month that
046was mentioned in the resolution as a project that we would like to do and I think that it's important to uh put it on the timeline somewhere. you know, it's not, you know, I would like it sooner rather than later, but, you know, you can decide on how we do that. But, especially with the changes to um Title 9, you know, attacks on our, you know, trans community, I think it's really important that as a district we take that step despite the changes in policy. So, I just would would like to recommend that that we add it in somewhere, you know. So, >> yeah, sure. And I can speak a little bit to that. So, we we've talked about it and u we're implementing. We're currently having signs made and uh hope to get those
047bathrooms there >> very quickly. >> Thank you so much. I appreciate that. >> Any more comments? If none, thank you Dan for an excellent presentation. And Tony, I hope you graded him tonight. I hope he got a 10 if he was going to be rated. >> Oh, very good. Very good. Anton Tony, thank you for everything you've done for our school district. We truly appreciate it. Thank you. All right, we will continue with the meeting. That's item 11, superintendent's report. Madame Superintendent, please. >> Uh, thank you. I just have a few announcements. First, just anyone in our audience um both in person or uh out virtually that has um provided military service to our country. Just want to say thank you for their service and their dedication. We uh celebrated and honored them yesterday, but
048really important to give them our gratitude every day for what they've contributed to our our country. I also would like to remind all of our um teachers that may be listening in that we still have Beressa Art Festival grant opportunities available. So every year um our Beressa Art Festival raises funds that goes towards teacher scholarships that can be granted for special classroom projects, um technology materials, field trips. Um, it's a pretty broad opportunity and a good amount of funds. Um, I checked in with the chairperson this week and they've only received one application so far. So, just wanted to make sure we get the word out there and let our teachers know that there's some opportunity for something special that they might want to do in their classroom. Um, in addition, I just want to
049say congratulations to uh Somedale and Vincy Park community. their schools have made the California honor roll list through the education results partnership. So this is a business um group that looks at all of our um state uh assessments that are given year-toear. They look for trends on improved student achievement. I know two years ago I believe Vincy Park was recognized last year and now this year both of them again. So, just want to give our congratulations um to all of the staff and and the parents and communities there for um their continued hard work with their students. And then um also the board uh should have received a special invitation from the Majestic Way community for their annual multicultural event uh this Friday. So, it's from 5 to 8:00 p.m. I know it's one of
050our our favorites to attend each year. Um, the families just come out with so many wonderful dishes representing all of the diverse cultures that their school serves and there's wonderful performances from the students. So, if you have the opportunity to attend, we please encourage you to do so. And then I I know we just came back from a long weekend, but one more week and then we're out for another week uh for the Thanksgiving holiday and that'll begin on the 22nd. So, >> thank you very much. Any comments from the board regarding the comments from the superintendent? Nothing. We shall continue then. Thank you. Uh 12 comments, announcements from the board. Do we have any more announcements coming from the board? None. We shall continue. Um 15 review and action. A superintendent one board policy
0510440 district technology plan. Madame superintendent, please. It is recommended the board review and approve board policy 0440 district technology plan uh for a first reading. Um predominantly this policy update is to include um just an alignment of technology resources um updated goals and standards provided by the CDE which also now includes uh the arena of artificial intelligence. Thank you for that. Any comments? Comments from the board? If not, a motion, please, for approval. >> I will move to approve. >> Seconded. >> Thank you very much. It's been moved and seconded to approve the board policy 0440. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Thank you very much. Motion is approved. Next is board policy 1201 Beressa district advisory council. Superintendent please. It is recommended the board review and approve board policy 1201 Beressa
052district advisory council for first reading. Uh this policy is a minor change simply to reflect our new number of schools from 13 to 10. >> Thank you very much. Any comments from the board? If not, motion, please. >> Move to approve board policy 1201. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. All right. Motion is approved. Thank you. We shall go down to board bylaw 901, disclosure of confidential privilege information. Superintendent, please. It is recommended the board review and approve board bylaw 9011, disclosure of confidential privileged information for uh first reading. Um this is part of our board um bylaws and and expectations for confidential information that you receive during close session. >> Thank you very much. Any comments or motion from the board, please?
053>> I'll move to approve. >> I'll second it. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. >> Oppose. Motion is approved. We shall continue to be uh business services comprehensive school site safety plan review. Superintendent. >> It is recommended the board approve the comprehensive school site safety plans for each of our our schools in the district office. We do have a brief presentation for you. We welcome Dan Norris back. Good evening. All right, good evening everybody. I just wanted to go basically through the process and what's actually included in our school site safety plans for each of our sites. With that said, school site safety plans, the importance of school safety. School safety isn't just a talking point. It's a necessity for each child. Our children deserve it and deserve to feel
054safe and secure in their schools, free from fear and harm. A safe learning environment is essential for academic success and social emotional development and overall well-being. BUSD safety uh our commit commitment to safety. Beressa unit is committed to prov committed to providing a safe and secure learning environment for all students, staff and visitors. To achieve this goal, we have implemented a comprehensive comprehensive school safety plan that addresses a wide range of safety issues. Key components of our school safety plans include um I'm I'm sorry. Key components of our school safety plan. Each school site has a dedicated safety committee composed of key stakeholders including administrators, teachers, parents, classified staff, and community members. These committees play a crucial role in identifying potential risks, develop developing school site safety plans and implementing safety measures. Uh part of
055the school site safety plans there are mandatory signatures um from the principal a member of the school sites council a classified associate association representative so CSEA teachers association representative CAB parent representative law enforcement representative SJPD fire department SJFD and of course our district safety committee chair which is me regular safety assessments and drills. We conduct regular safety assessments and drills to identify potential vulnerabilities and to ensure that our staff and students know how to respond to emergencies. These drills include fire drills, earthquake drills, and lockdown drills. We collaborate with law enforcement and first responders to maintain a strong partnership with local law enforcement and fire department. Regular communication communication and collaboration with these agencies help us stay informed about potential threats and to develop effective responsive plans. We recognize the importance of mental health in
056promoting school safety. Our school district provides a variety of mental health services including carousel mental health Mondays and Friday health and balance security measures. We have implemented variety of security measures to protect our schools including controlled access points, security cameras and incorporated a guest check-in system. Uh emergency preparedness, we have developed a compre comprehensive emergency plans and incorporated ICS training to address a variety of potential threats including natural disasters, active shooter incidents, and medical emergencies. Parent and community engagement. We believe that a strong partnership between school and the community is essential for schools school safety. We encourage parents and community members to act be active and participate in our safety efforts. Recent updates to our safety plan. So, uh a new AB or a bill came out to um basically further enhance our let me
057go. Sorry, messed up. recent updates to our safety plans to further enhance school safety and to be in compliance with the latest government assembly bills. We have made recent updates to our safety plans, including immigration enforcement on campus policies and procedures. Now, I've actually talked to our school police liaison about this and I've asked him in San Jose, how many ICE officers have come on campus and the answer is zero. Um but to be prep per prepare prepared um we established plans and and procedures to notify if immigration enforcement is confirmed on school site campuses. Um individuals that would be notified are administrators, teachers, school support personnel, community member volunteers, parents, guardians, and pupils. And also to recap updates that were included last year, we put in enhanced campus security measures um which the policy
058outlines the procedures and ensures the safety and security of students, staff and visitors and includes regular security assessments and drills, collaboration of law enforcement and the next was medication um administration and health monitoring. Basically, this policy included procedures for the safe and effective administration of medical medications to students suffering from opioid overdose overdose conditions. And we've obviously put those um nasal sprays in all of our sites >> and gyms as well. Um also the last thing that was included was employee safety. This policy was added to ensure a safe and supportive work environment for all staff and has added adaptations for individuals with disabilities in accordance with the American Americans with DI disabilities act. This policy has also has procedures for reporting and addressing workplace violence and threats. So in conclusion on on behalf of
059the BSD safety committee, I'd like to present you with the school site safety plans for 2526 school year. and Miss Kim has those over there. >> Any comments or questions from the board? Go ahead. >> Quick question. So, especially with the immigration enforcement, you know, it's good to know that we don't we didn't have any uh ICE officers. >> Uh I know that the county I don't know if they already passed a resolution to uh to create ice free zones in the right and the city city did they pass it or they Okay. So, do you know do we know what zones they they designated or is it only for city- owned property or can they extend it to schools such as ours? Because do we have basically the question I'm asking is do we
060as a board have the authority to uh do the same thing that the city or the county does. >> The board can do a resolution but the new assembly bill captures schools. >> Okay. >> So, that is already an automatic. That's the new addition that's put into these safety plans. The um added language into the safety plan, uh the deadline is March 2026, but ours capture it now because we've already done that work with our training and everything. Um, but in terms of keeping ICE agents off of school campuses, it captures that they can only be in a public space. But then there's also a long listing of report of required documents they must they must have. So all of that um responsiveness has come into our training that we've done both internally here as
061well as through the county office who hired legal counsel to do training with all of our um administrators and our office teams. >> Right. Is that so it's they need to be they cannot be on campus is it at any time or >> they can come onto the front office because that is a public space >> but nowhere beyond that >> beyond that >> and that's during school hours >> and and even if they correct and even if they come onto that office space it's twofold we're also required to then notify our community that they came to the school office. So that way everyone is alerted of ICE agents uh being in the area. >> Okay. >> It's a sad sad thing that we have to even talk about this. It's crazy but thank you.
062>> So >> thank you. Any more? Go ahead. >> I just have a question just around the policy that we'll be following. So if if someone does come into the office, is the policy to ask them to leave or have >> the policy is for the principal or whoever's in the front office to tell them they need to contact me. >> Okay. So it's just easier to divert them away from the school and to have them have to go to another entity like the district office to see the superintendent and then we'll go ahead and go through uh requesting all the required documents. our school sites. For me, my decision to do that was our school sites have enough on their plate. They don't also have to then memorize what does a warrant look like,
063what does a proper X, Y, and Z look like. That should come to us here at the district office. We'll get legal counsel assistance in reviewing all of that before, you know, we proceed further. >> And is the notification immediate? because I could see situations where and it hasn't happened here yet, but where they hang out outside the fence line or >> correct and so and we have that um uh we have emergency notification opportunity through our ICS system as well as through parent square now. Uh so we can get emergency alerts out and I've already worked with our communication um consultant. She's already crafted those messages for me so they're ready. >> Would it be a situation where if it's happening at the time that schools are being classes are being let out that
064we would keep students in or >> it would depend on the scenario um decision based on situation. Okay. >> Thanks. >> Any more comments? Go ahead. >> Yeah, I just want to say thank you so much for the presentation and it really was comprehensive. So, I really appreciate that. I was going to ask questions about ICE, but I really appreciate that that's already been thought through and you know, there was a situation where ICE could have come into the Bay Area literally a couple weeks ago. And so, I'm really happy that we were really thinking through the process and it's really important that to realize this is a reality that we're living in. And, you know, zero ICE agents have showed up to school sites, but one did show up to a child care facility
065in Chicago. And so, it's something that is top of mind for a lot of people. And so just thank you so much for the hard work. And um also what I would highly recommend to our community members um we do have an active rapid response network here in Santa Clara County. I'm personally a part of it and so it helps monitor if there is any ICE activity in our zip codes 95131 32 33 um even 95035 here in North County. So highly recommend community members to also join the rapid response network if this is something that they're worried about and concerned about. Thank you. >> Yeah. And on that note, just really important for everyone to be vigilant and to be able to to make those reports so we can share sightings widely so people
066can act accordingly. >> Okay. >> One more thing too. If school sites want um red cards or yellow cards as well, um Pacific Printing is giving out free red and yellow cards. So if our school sites want them, they're available and they have um translations in um Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish on both sides. and it just has your rights on it. So if you have it, an ICE officer shows up, you can just show it to them so you don't have to talk to them. So I also want to put that out there as well. >> That'll be great to get more. We did initial distribution uh but that was in the spring and at that time they were um limited. So they didn't give us as many as we wanted. So it'll be good to
067know that there's another resource. Let me know. I can get them for us. >> Yeah. >> Any more comments? If not, thank you. Thank you, Dan, for that >> excellent presentation. Which now I need a motion for approval. >> Move to approve. >> I'll second that. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. All right. A motion is approved. We shall continue on to human resources. >> One board policy 4030 nondiscrimination in employment. Superintendent please. It is recommended that the board review and approve board policy 4030 non-discrimination in employment for a first reading. And uh for this policy um again it reflects new new law in terms of discrimination includes discrimination not just because of one protected class under state law but also because of the com combination
068of two or more protected classes. Um there have also been several other court cases um as have been mentioned during our last board meeting in relation to title 9 categories and this policy also reflects that language change. >> Thank you very much. Any questions or comments? In that case, may I have a motion for approval? >> I'll move make a motion to review and approve board policy for 4030 first. I'll second it. >> Thank you very much. Has been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Thank you. Motion is approved. We shall continue on to board policy. Board policy 4033, lactation accommodation. Superintendent, please. It is recommended that the board review and approve board policy 4033, lactation accommodation, for a first reading. Um, and this one again also
069uh provides updated language regarding employer requirements in providing accommodations um for employees needing to have uh lactation um support. >> Thank you. Comments? If not, uh motion please. Move to review and approve board policy 4033. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. I. >> Oppose. None. In that case, motion is approved. We shall continue to board policy 4119.11 sexual harassment. Superintendent, please. Um, I just want to clarify for the board that this policy 4119, the next policy 4219, and the third policy 4319 all cover sexual harassment and are the exact same policy with um, you know, language changes uh, based on title 9 um, court decisions. The reason for the iteration is they um are uh intended for different groups of employees in the district. So 4100 series is for our
070certificated staff. 4,200 is for our classified staff and 4,300 is for our management. >> I see. Can we vote on all? >> You can do a block vote on all three. All right. Could I have a if no comments, could I have a motion, please? I make uh the motion to review and approve board policies 4119.11, 4219.11, and 4319.11. >> I'll second it. >> Thank you very much. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion is approved. Let's continue on. Thank you. D. Education Services Compliance and Improvement Monitoring for significant disproportionality plan and presentation for 2025. Superintendent, please. >> It is recommended the board approve the compliance and improvement monitoring for significant disproportionality plan for 2025. We do have a brief presentation regarding this plan iteration. So, we
071welcome back Miss Ortiz, our director of curriculum and instruction. >> Good evening again. Um, we have a presentation for our 2025 SIM plan. This is for our significant disproportionality. Um the outcomes from this presentation is to share BUSD data to outline the plan to share our measurable outcomes and related activities and to highlight the alignment for our systematic changes. Disproportionality it's complex um it exists in many forms and it's at various levels of the education system. It is a general education function. Um over representation of ethnically and linguistically diverse students in special education programs is the primary area of focus for most of our educational agencies. Um significant disproportionality. How do you how do you qualify as that? So um there is a set maximum risk ratio of a 3.0. Disproportionate means that a district
072exceeds the risk ratio in one or more indicator. to be significantly disproportionate. It means that we have exceeded that risk ratio for three consecutive years. Um when a district is in SIGDS, a CSA's plan must be written annually and 15% of our federal IDA funds uh must be set aside for the improvement of this work. So it's not new money. It's money that we already have but is reallocated. Um this is a snapshot of our last three years uh for our risk ratio of 3.0 or less. You can see that uh for the last three years 2122 22 23 and 2324 we exceeded the 3.0 mark uh in a great detail to dig a little deeper that is us going back to 2018 2019. So we have exceeded the 3.0 risk ratio for a number
073of years. Um, and then just to highlight in digging a little deeper, um, this is our Hispanic students being overly identified for specific learning disability. Um, we at some point decided that for students who needed this qualification, we would no longer identify them uh, for specific learning disability and we started identifying them for other health impairment. And as you can see, that didn't necessarily work because now we are um, above the risk ratio of 3.0 O for the last two years for Hispanics being overqualified for other health impairment. So our 2025 SIM plan for C uh Case um we are significantly disproportionate our Hispanic students are being overqualified for services within the eligibility of specific learning disability. >> Just can you go back to that last slide? Sure. I'm sorry to point this out, but
074uh like Miss Ortiz said, you see Hispanic uh over identification for other health impairment for two years in a row. If we also get tagged for this upcoming school year 2526 for three years in a row, we'll be having to write an additional plan just specifically to help support our Hispanic students and other health impairments. So, we would be writing two plans. >> And so, this isn't new to many districts in the neighborhood. they have multiple plans all being written and implemented in the same year. So we're hoping not to repeat in 2526 in order to not be disproportionate for other health impairments. So that's why we're having a lot of conversations with our principles and um school psychologists around this. Sorry to interrupt. >> No, that's okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. Um so
075again uh the 2025 plan what comes with that is we get 10 hours of technical assistance support provided by CDE. We gather and analyze updated data. We review our policies, practices and procedures. We have a root cause analysis and we identify our target population which Baressa calls our success scholars. We submit that plan to uh CDE for approval immediately following this meeting tomorrow morning. Probably not tonight. Um but it is due this Friday of November 14th. Um so in the process we I'm going to highlight two uh steps. Right now we are actually at step three which is the submission of our project. Um but to go back a little bit for better understanding at step two was our data and root cause analysis. This is in our new system edge of climber. All those
076little people are actually people sitting in our seats. So this is indicative of our actual population. These are our Hispanic students that were overqualified and were given the SLD qualifications. So if you see in 2023 we had 141 Hispanic students. Um in 2024 25 we had 151 and currently already this year we are at 116 students that are Hispanic with the SLD. We did have a small drop due to consolidation and moving out of the district and or we did have a goodsized chunk that promoted out of 8th grade but we are still sitting um as of about two weeks ago at 116 students. Um the other thing that we look at is chronic absenteeism. This is the comparison over the last four years. Um, so we're looking at also an ident identified indicator uh
077for our students of chronic absenteeism. And this will all make sense as we talk about what are our success scholars and how did we identify those students. At the time of the creation for this PowerPoint, um, we were at 8.17 chronic absenteeism, which was great because we are at that point and currently still less than where we were at this point last year. um wanted to highlight because of the fact that we are focusing on our Hispanic students, I wanted to highlight our chronic absenteeism for our Hispanic students at all of our school sites as well as the chronic absenteeism for our uh SLD specific learning disability students at all of the school sites as well. Um both again show that currently at this point in the school year we are below where we were
078for the previous three school years. Uh and then the last thing that we take a look at is our suspension rates. This is a comparison over the last four years. The two graphs to your right are his the top is the Hispanic students over the last four years and then the one at the bottom is our black and African-American students. Um and then the the highlighted one is the beriesa overall and you can see that currently we I believe are at five suspended students for this point in the school year. Um but again a very low number compared to the last three school years. policies, practices, and procedures review. Our um team from the state did a data dive and they did um a file dive. They took a look at a lot of our
079documents and they did notice that um they took a look at 24 of our board policies uh that were reviewed for this plan. They all centered around behavior um special ed uh and some of our processes around um absenteeism. um of the reviewed some board policies were more than seven years old was a big highlight for them. Um they also took a look at the fact that the board policies that they were looking at were the ones that were adopted from 2018 to 2019. I'm sorry 2024. Um and for their big highlighter, their big indicator for us is that eight out of the 24 board policies and ARs that were reviewed need to be updated or developed. One of which did not have a board policy at all, but we do have an administrative regulation
080for it. So, we do need to address that. It's very small, but those are the seven that they have identified as um board policies andor administrative regulations that do need to be updated. So, uh, the root causes that we took a look at for our 2025, uh, SIM plan, the first is that there is a lack of consistent implementation and accountability specific to assessment practices for English learners, English language learners when addressing initial assessments for special education. So, really what that speaks to is, is it a disability or is it a language acquisition issue? Uh our second root cause is there is a lack of consistent implementation and accountability for the multi-tered system of support including targeted academic interventions, behavioral interventions, and English language development. Our third root cause is there's a lack of capacity
081to have the hard conversations around implicit bias with staff, which is manifested in a lack of understanding of the dynamics of race, culture, and disabilities for students, family, and community leaders that creates barriers for true parent and caregiver partnerships and student success. And our last root cause is there's a failure to understand and respond to Hispanic and African-American students behaviors with appropriate alternatives to suspension. So how did we pick our target students which again we call our success scholars? First and foremost we want to identify that the CESACE work is about making changes for the few that affect many. And that's going to make a lot of sense when we go over this. So, two years ago when we uh created our SIM plan, we highlighted or focused on two elementary school sites and one
082middle school site. When that plan was reviewed, when it was adopted and approved by the CDE, and then once we gathered all the data, we wanted to see some progress, but we weren't seeing enough. And of course, our risk ratio was not going down. So, last school year, we broadened that scope. We focused on every single school site in Beressa. So all 13 all 13 school sites, the 10 elementary and the three middle schools, they all had success scholars. They still do, but we were gathering data for all 13 school sites. And what we found is that we spread ourselves a bit too thin. It wasn't enough to make an effective change. So it was recommended by our uh technical adviserss from the state that we decide to focus down a little bit smaller. This
083year what we did is we are going to focus on three elementary school sites and one middle school site. The way we picked those sites is we took a look at who had the largest growth of our Hispanic population as well as who had the biggest ratio of specific learning or I shouldn't say specific learning sped students to gened students at their school sites. So really it was Noble and Northwood had the highest growth of um Hispanic population from last year to this year with consolidation. Somedale did as well. However, Summerdale has a lot of really good things in place already for support. So we wanted to highlight a school that needed some additional supports and that's where we brought in Majestic Way. For middle school, we're highlighting Sierramont for the fact that the um
084sped ratio to the gened ratio there is a higher ratio than the other two school sites. So for our specific learning disability being over identified with our chronic absenteeism and our over suspending, these three school sites are going to be the ones that we will highlight for our 2025 SIM plan. Again, all school sites have their success scholars. They're all, you know, working on that. They're all using the exact same things that we're doing. We're just making sure that we're giving a little extra attention to these school sites as well as collecting the data from them. Our target population, we have the two groups that are con consist of our success scholars. Our group A are our um essentially elementary school students. Um we have our Hispanic um we have our Hispanic, Latin, X, and
085uh black African-American students in second and third grade. Um so essentially beginning we were going to just highlight our second grade students and then we found that we didn't have enough to make a valid group. Um so what we did is we have included our third grade students which were our success scholars last year. So it allows us to continue to support and to continue to monitor their progress. These are students who are reading below benchmark in reading and they are also students have a high chronic absenteeism which means that they um have missed or are unexcused absences of at least 10% of our uh days enrolled in school. Um our group B are our middle school students. They are Hispanic Latinx and our black African-American students at Sierra Middle School. These students are going
086to be our seventh grade and our um eighth grade students that were success scholars last year. The way these students are identified is they have a high chronic absenteeism and they have had one or more behavior incident that is a major or a severe incident. So not a minor. This is something that would require us to document possibly even um use other means of correction with them rather than a suspension. So with that now we are at step three of our improvement plan. With step three we had to identify uh three measurable outcomes and we are looking at activities in which we are going to uh have at those four school sites that will hopefully help move the needle a bit for us with our risk ratio. Currently our measurable outcomes are measur measurable outcome
087number one is again I don't think I mentioned this but it is a two-year plan. So by September 2027, we will implement a tiered system of support and interventions in reading, writing, and ELD leading to a 10% yearly increase in the number of students reading at or above grade level. Our measurable outcome number two, again by September 2027, we uh Beressa will create classroom communities that are safe, caring, inclusive, and affirming and leading to a 20% yearly decrease in the number of Hispanics and African-American students who are being um suspended. I apologize for the way it downloaded. And measurable outcome number three, by September 2027, BUSD will build parent and caregiver partnerships that lead to an increase in parent and caregivers sense of connectedness to the school community. That was a big piece during our
088empathy interviews was a number of our families from our Hispanic population felt that they didn't belong feel a belonging to their school sites. They didn't necessarily see themselves on our school site campuses. So, they didn't necessarily have that connection to the school community. So, we want to work hard to make sure that we include the parents and families as well. for our measurable outcomes. For measurable outcome number one, we're looking at implei implementing the youth life phonics program for our success scholars. This is a program through the University of Florida. It's for kinder through 2 grade. And again, we'll include our third graders who were previous success scholars just to help build their foundational skills in uh their phonics um fluency so that this way we can help hopefully grow their reading. Um, we also
089want to review and refine the implementation of our student success process, which is the process we go through when looking at how we're going to address needs of students. Um, we are working very hard to make sure we're changing the the mind shift of our student success process no longer or should not lead to special education. that it leads to um interventions and activities that we can do to hopefully meet a student's needs and help support them and not get them to special ed. Um we're also going to look at continued training and support of our program reading tutors for a direct impact on our success scholars. And we want to apply consistent designated EL instruction and strategies for our success scholars that are our second language learners. For our measurable outcome number two, um
090we want to look at implementing a tiered system of behavior and emotional supports and interventions that focus on restorative practices. We want to make sure that we are um implementing a structured and routine walkthrough cycle using the TFI, which is the tiered fidelity inventory to identify and strengthen culturally responsive practices. But this also takes a very good look at what our tier one instruction looks like in all of our school sites. We also are looking at partnering with Dora Dome. She is an attorney that we have worked with before. Um, and she we're looking at having her do some training with our admin teams around our 504 systems and our systems for suspension. And finally, for our measurable outcome number three, um, we are looking at really beefing up that partnership and that uh, relationship
091that we have with our families and caregivers. We're looking at repurposing our community liaison to not be so schoolwide focused. We really want them to focus on our success scholars and their families. So looking at activities that would be a check-in checkout with those families as well as the students. Um making sure that they are working in tandem with their school site administrator to create family engagement opportunities as well as a family engagement um event one a year minimally to start um for this school year. Uh we are also looking at making sure that we have monthly workshops centered around and focused on supports that are of need for our success scholar families. So not necessarily something that we think that our success scholar families need, but we are looking at surveying them and finding
092out what is something that they need or something that they need more education around um or even just a partner, a thought partner around and making sure that we can work with bringing in supports to meet those needs rather than what we might think is an identified need. Um, all of this to say that it lands under our multi- systems uh of support. It is our MTSS model. This is what we are doing for students. We're trying to get in front of the eightball rather than behind it. So that this way we're making sure we're putting all of our effort to students uh building them up and supporting them before we are looking at that special education qualification which hopefully would bring down our risk ratio. And that is our SIM plan for 2025. Any
093questions? Questions from the board? Any comments? >> Go ahead. >> For the measuring, are we only measuring the scholars or are we measuring the whole school? >> We're only measuring the scholars. They are the ones who were uh identified. >> So the 20% decrease in suspensions, I mean, you're hoping for zero obviously with that that sample of students, but Right. Okay. But you're only looking at that group of people correct to have that decrease. >> Correct. So that's who we're gathering data around. However, whatever we are putting in place for those students, we're looking at those being policies and practices um even structures that we're doing for all of our students. >> Any more comments from the board? >> Yeah, thank you so much for a really wonderful presentation. I always look forward to seeing
094how we're doing on CSE. It's one of the areas that I'm always curious about how we're doing and it's something that I really care about, especially as we continue to overidentify our Hispanic and black students for this. Um, one of the measurable outcomes number two, I just had a quick question about what the tiered fidelity inventory looks like. Um, I'm just curious because I I read it. I was like, "Oh, I actually don't know." So, I'm curious what that looks like. >> So, that's actually a system that we use through our PBIS structure. Um, Tom Carroll, one of my colleagues, he uh kind of heads that up. But what it is is it's a it's a survey that you walk around school sites during your walkthroughs and you're surveying students. You're surveying your CSEA folks.
095You're surveying, you know, not necessarily the teachers or the administrators and you're asking them questions on >> their knowledge and awareness of school policies, procedures, and things like that. Yeah. And so it's it's kind of monitoring how, you know, making sure everybody's on the same page at a school site. >> They're asking them like, "Do you know what the three Bs are, BC?" and they're asking them those specific questions. What are some things that you like to, you know, you receive your little um ticket, your reward tickets, and how many have you had? Have you cashed them in for anything? So, they're just asking them like kind of follow-up questions. And then, of course, there might be some that don't know what those threebs are, who haven't gotten a ticket. So, we ask some more
096questions specifically of those uh students and um classified staff. Have you given out the ticket? Who do you give the ticket to? Why would you do that? So, just a real quick like, you know, scan of the campus, probably an hour or so um that we schedule ahead of time. >> Yes, thank you so much. I actually did do that one year. So, I do remember actually doing that and talking to our students and um the second piece was that second piece of that was talking about strengthening culturally responsive practices. um how are those questions being asked? Like are in PBIS are we identifying items that might be cooler for someone of a specific descent and like what examples of that are we trying to do? >> I think even this morning we were at
097a um a meeting and I was interested hearing from Dr. Barnes at at Pedmont specifically. He asks the students and ASB are really, you know, in charge of trying to figure out what are the items that are going to be kind of like exciting for the kids and for them to be able to participate. So like for example, he was saying today like they were looking at, you know, purchasing some little softballs or little uh footballs with the logo of Peabon on it and then, you know, kind of pricing them. Okay, if it's $10, then we we need to get them, you know, 10 tickets. And so having those conversations specifically with the students, knowing what they feel is something that they would be interested in receiving after getting um the rewards when they get
098the tickets. So it's very um especially at the middle school because we tend to think as the students progress up through the grades they might not be as interested sometimes in receiving positive act or you know reinforcements for their positive behavior but they actually do appreciate it. So those are some of the conversations that we've been having. >> Yeah. Thank you so much. I actually visited their store a couple months ago. So I'm happy to see that it's growing and I we're asking students what they would like as well. >> You should go visit again. It's expanded. Oh, awesome. I just I just saw it actually two weeks ago and yes, they have quite a bit in there. >> Awesome. Thank you so much and thank you for the presentation. >> Yes. >> Okay. >>
099Any more comments? Thank you, Andrea. That was excellent presentation. Thank you. >> We shall continue. Oh, no, not yet. I need to I need a motion, please, for approval. >> I'll move to approve. >> I'll second that. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I oppose. Motion is approved. Let's go to bond program measure U implementation plan bond list revision number seven. Superintendent please. >> Thank you. Um it is recommended the board approve the measure U implementation plan bond list revision number seven and this presentation will be Tony's last presentation for us here at a board meeting. So, uh, definitely, um, just want to, you know, echo what everyone has said this evening, how much we appreciate his expertise over the years. Um, you know, I there's very few people
100that you can just call and know that you're going to get the exact answer that you need right when you need it. And that's uh Tony for me. And as I've been getting adjusted to his modified schedule, I know I tease when I call him and I say, "Tony, I know it's not Tuesday, but I have a question." And you know, and he he always picks up the phone and just um you know, the years of it comes with years of experience in the field and it's really hard to um replace that level of knowledge. Um but certainly our schools and our facilities are better for the expertise that Tony has brought to the table. So, thank you for all that. >> Thank you. I just to say I really enjoyed working here. Like I
101think I told you when you first got here, the reason I'm here is because it's a great place to work. >> Yeah, >> it really is. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. Measure you. So, every so often we actually have to update the bond list and that's what we're here to do today. The good thing is um well, part of the reason we're doing this today is we have three things. is we've closed a lot of projects. We've closed schools. So, in part of that, we're actually cancelling projects. So, we're going to save money. And um so, again, that's kind of what we're going to show here. And again, if you have questions, just ask. And I'll kind of go briefly over what I did so you guys understand. Um again, you can see there's
102an approved budget was the budget that was approved in June of 24. The proposed budget is today. And then the next column is just the difference, either the savings or the ads. So again, overall we've with everything that we did, we saved about $12 million. Okay, which is great. Okay. Um and and there's a lot of reasons for it. About $5 million is because of the school closures. So we're going to move cancel those projects, move those, and be able to do other things. Um again, we had savings on projects. We did restroom projects where originally we were going to replace all the floors. And one of the ideas we had is just basically clean them, restrip um strip them, and then re-wax them and do that. And we saved about $1.7 million across the
103district. >> Another one was the fire alarm projects. We bid them a certain way at certain times and again we saved $1.6 million. Um PA projects, we had budgeted in the beginning, we weren't sure if we were going to go digital or analog. We ended up going digital. we saved at least another 700,000. Okay, so again, we did a lot of things to save money. Um, one other thing we did is we also got the grant for the gym for 10 million. In the previous one, we hadn't bid the exterior windows yet, so we left that in there. And now that we know what that cost is, we were able to reduce that amount, which is about 1.2 out of the bond. Okay, so that's great. Um, so anyhow, so the items that have basically
104no numbers are the projects that we're going to try are proposing to add. And most of those projects are fencing for TK at Brookree and Somerdale. The reconfiguration of the pod classrooms, you know, change the openings at the sister schools, which again, we did one demo for one school this year. Um, add music storage at all the elementary schools. um relocating the portables one and two at Majestic so everything will line up and it'll open up the playground a lot more. Um add storage at all the portables similar to what we did at the pods where we put in basically two giant storage units for each one. We'll add that at each um portable because the portables really don't have any storage at all. Um, and then upgrading the fixtures at the TK restrooms at
105some of the schools because we weren't able to change out the actual fixtures last year and we're going to do that next summer. And basically, we're going to lower the fixture so it'll be easier for the kids to get on them. Um, replacing HVAC at Sierant. That was one of the projects we pulled out earlier and now we're going to put it back in because now we can afford to do that. Um, again, replacing some underground HVAC lines at Cherrywood. Um, exterior windows at Northwood, paving at playgrounds for Noble, Ruskin, and Vincy Park. Um, retrofit play structures at um, Noble and Somerdale and then actually add a new play structure at Brookree. And again, we can I can walk through each one of them if you want. Um, but again, it's typically the ones that
106don't have numbers. Um, again, some of them actually are incorporated the things we've already done. But again, one of the good things if we go all the way to the bottom, um, Oh, one more up. So, our contingency before was actually if we can go down just a little bit. There we go. Our contingency was about 600,000 before and now we're at about 4.3. So, that'll give us a good cush cushion moving forward for the next projects that we have to do. Um, again, are there questions about what what we've done or what we're going to do? How I came up with deciding what to do? Again, part of this was we did a matrix of priority 1, two, three, and four items and basically we took almost everything out of priority two and moved
107them forward. Um, and again, I did adjust that whole matrix so that we have a a better idea of where we need to go once we have more money to spend. Um, questions. >> So, >> go ahead. Uh so for the priority items um do you have a panel on who uh from the school sites uh to you know decide who what what what needs to be done now versus others like you did the school admin admin provide input to some of the projects or how do I'm just trying to trying to understand how the >> right so so that list was done a while ago to create the layers and now we just work off existing layers as well as based on feedback. We got a ton of feedback with consolidation. Yeah. >> So
108that's how some projects have come up here that weren't there even on the list before like TK restrooms and fencing for TK. That was all from current feedback that we've received from the sites um as they've made adjustments um with the new configurations. >> So it's a combination. >> Yeah. Mhm. >> So yeah, as as long as you know, we don't because we don't want someone to say that you know, we could have fixed something else that >> needed to be fixed instead of something. So as long as we have all these stakeholders input uh to make sure that we are on the we are addressing the the needs that are, >> you know, that that need to be fixed right now that needs to be upgraded right now um in the in the very
109near future than than later. Uh that'll be that'll be great. So thank you for working on that. uh from a financial point of view uh so we have issued all all the bonds the entire geo bond has been issued correct and the spend down ratios have been tracked well we are spending down properly so we don't need to worry about audits and things like that correct so >> okay >> and and remember we do have I think there's $15 million left that there is no time limit on how we spend the bond on a time it was just the first what we did 17 so it was 81 1 million that actually had a timeline. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. >> Any more questions? Any more comments? >> Thank you, Tony. >> Oh, one more
110question. Um, I noticed all of the sites have I had it right here and then I lost it. The transformer replacement. >> Yes, that was originally part of the That was actually to save um money. That was part of the >> Is that a priority too that got moved up? No, that was part of the energy project we did previously. Um I think we approved that. That was the No, I can't think of what it's called. >> They don't have a code next to it, so I assume they're new. >> And that I'm sorry, that was just one we hadn't assigned yet because >> we just hadn't updated because of time, but we actually that was approved in July. >> I think right after we did this list in July of 24. It was part
111of the energy comprehensive utilities. >> Oh, that's what it was part of because that was part of all the solar projects and the HVAC projects. That was what that was part >> looking at LED lighting. >> Yeah. And the LED lighting and it was basically to reduce energy consumption throughout the district. >> Are are we doing any I know one of the challenges all of our schools face is like circuits. Like I know like when we do events or like if you're pulling like we had a the example in the kitchen at Noble we're using the multi we're running a kettle and every time we hit that thing it blew the whole thing and Miss Ortiz has to go around and like flip the breaker like I know all the schools are kind of dealing
112with outdated electrical pole like they're all on the same circuit and >> does anything in our priority list address that? Now, we do look at things when we're doing like again, one of the things we're going to do is we're going to do renovations to all of the kitchens throughout the district in the future. And that's one of the things they can look at is how much energy are we actually drawing and hopefully it'll actually draw less because we'll have less equipment in there or more efficient equipment, those types of things. >> Okay. Thanks. >> So, that's just do have did you have more questions or >> I said thank you. That brings up an interesting point because um you know I'm thinking about power failures. You know there's probably a very specific sub panel
113um you know breaker tripping issue but thinking about power failures with grid reliability with the PG& and stuff like that. Is there any room for adding uh you know battery you know battery storage through solar panel >> just not for the entire school side. I want to envision um having you know putting capacity uh for the entire school side but for critical functions um you know for office functions or you know specific um u heating you know cooling functions or getting the keeping the fan on or having the refrigeration going on. Um is there any scope of you know squeezing those kind of um uh you know projects in there >> when we actually did the energy project that was kind of one of the things we looked at and again the technology batteries isn't
114quite affordable yet to do all those things and that's kind of why we waited to do some of those things. Um again at the I think one of the things we did add is during a power outage I know the phones will work. That's one of the things we added so we make sure that all that communication would work. Um but yeah, the only thing we have is a backup generator for basically the um it was for the >> data center >> which again when we moved it to Pedmont we actually created its own so we didn't have to move it anymore. >> That was the biggest thing. So hopefully the the costs uh come down, you know, keep coming down some >> and that could also be a project for a future bond >>
115um because uh we're making good headway with the current um dollars that we have, but we probably should consider um what those additional priority projects would be for potentially a bond in 2028. So the reason that you know I was thinking about it is because um PG& is you know notoriously unpredictable and they they you know somebody in their boardroom sneezes and they shut off the power and then you know just the wind blows they shut off the power. It just it's crazy. I mean it's very frustrating at times and especially for schools uh not having power in the you know in the middle of whatever winter or summer whatever the case may be. >> Uh it's a learning loss for the students. We had to send them back home. um things like that. uh
116we we have in this in our area uh good good things happening but also it uh my concern is it puts pressure on the grid again we have uh AI data centers are going that are going up uh you know that consume a lot a lot of energy that you won't even believe uh that's definitely going to put a strain on the grid um and I'm just thinking you know in a broad sense for not just for our school district for all school districts uh in that in in this area in the county it's going to be challenge to draw that you know continuous power and you know I just want don't want to keep getting those power outages and you know having to you know constantly keeping keep on sending the kids back home
117uh it's very frustrating so which is why I thought uh you know this something that we may want to think about maybe uh try to find some at least for you know simple affordable able uh systems that powers some part of the uh of the school sites uh will be great is is the reason I was thinking about those things. >> Yeah, I'm supportive of that too. Do we know in which priority bucket the battery is in? Is it in priority three or four? Yeah, I know. I'd have to go back and look because I don't even know honestly if we put it in that at the time when we did this just because we knew it was so expensive that we wouldn't there were so many other things to do >> that but again
118in the future we can look at >> you know >> yeah I don't think it was even on the initial original list and a lot of that also it was expense but also compat the reason it's expensive is compatibility with the existing system you have to change it out >> and so that's where it gets more expensive >> but And when we have a blackout days for our students, that's lost $88 too, isn't it? >> So on those kinds of emergencies, we actually do a J13 form, depending on when it occurs. We've been very fortunate, at least in the time I've been here, we've only had one >> where it happened before the school day started. If the school day has started and been in session for half an hour, we're good for our ADA
119for the day. It's when it occurs it's it's when it occurs prior to school starting, but even then we can submit a waiver to the state um regarding the emergency to see if we qualify. >> Yeah. I I mean with that being said, I would u move to approve this, but I also would like to include that the battery and also the school bathroom single use signs be added to the priority list for something to look at or like next year, you know, priority three or four just to like cost it out because it's important especially as we um have more severe weather patterns. Um the reality is like, you know, we're probably going to have more blackouts. So, I would like to make that motion to include both those items. >> All right, a
120motion has been made. Do I get a second? >> A second. >> Okay. Thank you, Tony, very much for everything. >> Thank you. >> Yes. I know. That's why I wanted to say thank you first before he leaves. Thank you. Uh it's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion is approved. Let's continue to NG Construction, Inc. Change order number one for the fire alarm replacement at Vincy Park Elementary School. Um, superintendent, please. It is recommended the board approve the NG Construction Inc. change order number one and this is for an additional charge of $30,924. Thank you. Comments from the board. If no comments, could I have a motion, please? >> Move to approve the change order. >> I'll second. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say
121I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion is approved. Let's continue to three. Pinguo or is it Pingello? Ping Pinguo Construction Inc. change order number one for the window replacement at Piedmont Middle School. Superintendent, please. >> It is recommended the board approve change order number one. This is a credit for $174,571. >> Okay. Um, could I have a motion? >> Move to approve before they change their mind. >> I'll second that. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion is approved. Continue to four. Satellite painting inc. Change order number one for the exterior painting at Vincy Park Elementary School. Superintendent, >> it is recommended the board approve the satellite painting, Inc. change order number one. This is a credit for $8,816. That's good, too. Any comments from the board?
122>> Move to approve the change order. >> It's been moved. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Motion is approved. All right, let's continue. 16. Request for staff followup. Are there any any comments regarding this? None. How about items for f future agendas? Anybody in that case? Could I have a motion please for adjournment? >> Move to adjourn. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion is approved. We will adjourn at 9:15