CUSD Board Meeting 10-22-25

001E pathway. And to wrap up the month, all elementary schools are are celebrating Red Ribbon Week. Student, parent, and teacher conferences are also taking place. And Aviara Oaks Middle and Cala Hills Middle are holding their week-long sixth grade camps. Thank you. We now move on to item 6.2. Uh CUC PTA president Please come to the podium and you have five minutes. Hi everybody. Uh let's see. Good evening to the school board and the cabinet. Want to start off with a special thank you to Dr. Norman for supporting PTA Day this week on October 21st. She emailed all the parents in the district encouraging PTA membership and talking about what a value our PTAs are to the district. So, thank you so much. Several PTAs have already seen new memberships come in since your email. And

002at CHE, they even turned PTA Day into a fun membership celebration, complete with coffee for new signups. We'd also like to thank Kimberly Fuentes and everyone at the district office who helped coordinate Red Ribbon Week materials and resources for all the schools. The communication this year and sharing of the resources has been fantastic. Several schools have planned fun Red Ribbon Week events with lots of student participation and school spirit. It's been wonderful to see students getting involved in the daily themes and showing enthusiasm across all grade levels. If you're not already following your local school's Instagram, I highly recommend it. You will literally feel the spirit lift off the screen. I also loved seeing Magnolia's plans. uh Magnolia PTA's plans for putting on a big BMX day for their families, but not just that, but

003also acknowledging what a staff load it is during a big day like that and they have gone above and beyond to support them with a staff lunchon. Very nice. Um also found out that today was unity day. Um, some of our schools including Pacrim Rim, AOE, AOM, and Magnolia recognized Unity Day by wearing orange and incorporating kindness crafts. October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and many campuses held activities that reinforced these values throughout the week. Our elementary school updates. Our elementary PTAs have been busy coordinating community building events for families, including Red Ribbon Week, free family movie nights, costume parades, monster mash events at Jefferson that has a full PTA board this year, and really strong parent involvement. We're really proud of them for growing themselves. All of these events build connection and school spirit

004for our youngest learners. Middle schools have joined in Red Ribbon Week and Unity Day celebrations, sharing their events, spirit day photos on social media. Valley is doing great with membership and restaurant nights. CHMS is doing a fun photo booth for Red Ribbon Week and gearing up for their biggest event this weekend, Halloween social. At the high school level, CHS PTSA partnered with CTE and the Carl'sb Fire Department for a first aid event. Sage PTSA is focusing on career training opportunities with CTA CTE for their families as well and a fall formal this weekend. All of these activities help strengthen school pride, foster connections among students, families, teachers, and community partners. And we're grateful for all the time, energy, and devotion our PTA volunteers put in for their schools, as well as all the families that

005come out for all the events and support their schools. Thank you. Thank you. Uh we now move on to item 6.3, report by CEO of the Carl'sb Ed Foundation. Please come to the podium and you will have five minutes to speak. >> Good evening. I'm Laura Pittz. I'm the CEO of Carlb Ed Foundation. I'm excited to give you updates on our teacher grant program. Our secondary teacher grants um our teacher grant recipients were notified last Friday. And I would like to highlight two of the grants that we have just funded. We are once again supporting the Genius Project. We've been longtime supporters of the Genius Project at Sage Creek High School and um that's another program that once again our board just felt this was a really good worthy program because it's such a good

006representation of the school and such a good way to bring the community into our school which we like to help with. Um we also are funding an additional grant request from Sage Creek High School's journalism program. Um this this fund this grant that we just funded will fulfill kind of the entire need to update their equipment. Um, we were able to purchase new laptops and cameras over the series of grants over the last few months. Um, and this ensures that these students will have the tools they need to run a competitive real world journalism program. In total, CF awarded 15 teacher grants totaling $50,000 to the secondary teachers. Um, we continued to receive an increasing number of grant requests and you know, unfortunately, we're not able to um fulfill all of them. And so we

007will share and have shared these um requests with the instructional services team just so that they're aware of what's being asked for um and the types of resources that teachers are seeking. We always want to help give teachers voice and feel like this is a good way to again connect us with the community and the teachers um with the district. Um moving on to a different topic but kind of same spirit. As I previously mentioned in other meetings, we have um contracted with a social media agency and today we um were able to go to Sage Creek to look at some of our teacher grants in action. And so we f we filmed a couple of short films and we also popped into a math class and last year we funded um math whiteboards in

008all of the math classes at Sage Creek High School. We also got similar requests and funded requests at Carl'sb High for their English department as well as one of the middle schools had us um also outfit their entire classrooms with whiteboards. And I walked into the math class. Um they knew we were coming kind of but we had we sort of showed up at a different time. But every single one of the students were standing up in small groups. The whole cl all the walls like there's probably maybe six or eight whiteboards in the classroom. They were all in small groups doing math which looked very different than it looked like when I was in high school. Um so I just thought it was really cool to see that. I know that that's a lot

009of the way that the the teachers are flipping classrooms and are asking for a lot of types of equipment like that so they can reach kids in different ways and I just thought that was awesome. Um, and so I wanted to encourage all of you if you're not following us on social and I know there's so many students here, you guys should also follow us on social media. We're making our way to all of the different schools and um, I wanted to give since he's here. Aaron Satilli has been just an amazing supporter of Carl Ed Foundation and he's most recent post that we just put out last Friday. He's starring in it. So if you love him, you should be following us on social and you should like and share that post. Um, because

010in all of your roles, you're obviously very connected with the community. if you would please follow us on social if you are active on Instagram or Facebook and help us get the message out especially as we're heading into November and December. This is a time where people are feeling a bit more generous. They're looking to comm um to contribute to their community. And the more that we can get people's attention to what we do, the more likely people are to give generously. When they're more likely to give generously, we can fulfill more district-wide and teacher grants. So, please help us. That's a really important way for parents to know what we are doing. And lastly, another way that families can help give back to the foundation is to consider us for their afterchool programs. We

011are launching our session two for our afterchool enrichment. We are running a lot of really cool programs. We've got chess, cooking, we're doing a broadcasting program before school actually at Magnolia and at Hope. And so we hope the community will consider us as we are the only after school provider that is really here specifically for Carl'sb Unified School District students. So have a great night. Thank you. We now move on to item 6.4 report by Launa President. Please. Oh, you're at the podium and you have five minutes. Thank you. Time is essential. Uh, good evening, board of trustees, cabinet, and members of the audience. I'm here today to provide you with an update on the upcoming negotiations for our classified employees. We submitted our sunshine letter to the district on October 7th, officially starting the

012negotiation process. In the spirit of collaboration, in my meetings with Dr. Norman, I've had the opportunity to speak candidly on behalf of our hardworking team and brought up topics that are truly impacting our members. While we all wish for a world where district operations are always smooth sailing, the reality is that the surface often doesn't portray the genuine challenges our employees are facing. They say sunlight is the best disinfectant and we hope that bringing some of our biggest challenges out into the light will help in identifying solutions. I'm very pleased to share an exciting metric of our team's engagement. During our negotiation survey, we received a total of 131 entries outlining areas of interest that our members want us to bring to the table. This is a massive increase from the 22 entries we received

013the same time last year. This surge in participation demonstrates our members enthusiasm and optimism for negotiations that reflect their needs and honor their dedication to serving the educational environment. We have confidence that this wonderful trifecta, the board of trustees, our cabinet and lyuna will work collectively to elevate our classified employees. Our goals are clear and crucial. Fair, equitable wages that actually support the basic necessities of living and raising a family in San Diego County. workable schedules that meet the needs of our communities while also ensuring employees can meet the financial needs of their families. Provisions to meet the safety needs of employees working in higher risk environments and affordable health insurance rates for every single classified employee. It is our genuine hope that the cabinet and the board of trustees share these critical goals as

014we cannot achieve them alone. We are asking for your active participation and genuine interest throughout this sensitive process. Your commitment is essential to ensuring that the vital staff who support our schools every day can thrive in CUSD. Thank you. >> Thank you. We now move on to item 6.5, report by the CUDA president. Uh please come to the podium. You have five minutes. Good evening, President Rawlings, trustees, superintendent Norman, cabinet, and community members. I will be brief. I'm Rachel Marina Wat Union President. It's been a busy fall. We've been so pleased to welcome dozens of new members with survival kits and celebrate 30 new permanent teachers, TOSAs, counselors, and SLPs in the district with delightful pencil name plates. Additionally, in just a week or two, Kudix is excited to be at the November Carl'sbad Street

015Fair um talking with community members and giving out free books to kiddos, including Spanish language books this time, suitable for our very littles, as well as early readers. We cordially invite you to come for a slap bracelet, a stress ball, or just to say hi. >> Thank you. And we now move on to item 6.6, superintendent's report. Dr. Norman, >> thank you. I have had a busy month and it has been so enjoyable. I've had the opportunity to deliver service pins and um I can't even tell you how exciting it is. I don't know who's more excited, me or the employee, because as soon as you hand out the pin, you start hearing about their life story. All of a sudden, they tell you where they've worked, who they've worked with, where their family member

016works. And so I love it because not only do you get to celebrate the service with the district, but you get to learn all about the wonderful things happening in the district and all the relationships that make Carl'sbad such a wonderful unique place. Um so far we've been to AOE poinsettia and pack rim. I have a busy week next week with going to Hope Magnolia Kelly and Valley Middle School. We're also giving out certificates to teachers who are obtaining permanent status. So that's also really exciting for teachers in the teacher world. I've also had the opportunity to go to the rising star breakfast at the Chamber of Commerce and um senior grubbies uh was the food and it was excellent this month. I'm going to just say I'm a big fan. Um so we celebrated

017students from Carlsbad High School, Sage Creek High School, Carl'sbad Village Academy and Carlsbad Seaside Academy and those will be going out on our Instagram um tonight or tomorrow. So very excited. Just a little plug for Instagram also following us. And I am still getting out to every site at least once a month. We have 15 sites. I try to go to at least once a month hit a site and do a walk looking at instruction, hearing about all of the great practices in place in our district. And we truly do have really gifted staff both in the certificated and classified realm. And I feel very fortunate to be a part of our organization. Thank you. We now move on to part seven, public comment for non-aggenda items. 7.1 public comment regarding non-aggenda agendaized topics that

018lie within the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the board. This is the time that members of the public have the opportunity to address the board on any non-aggendaized item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. How many blue cards have we received? >> We have a total of nine blue cards. >> Thank you. Um, in order to allow speakers to present their comments and ensure we are able to properly attend to the business of the board per board bylaw 9323, public comments will be limited to 20 minutes total. This means each speaker will have 2 minutes and 15 seconds. When I call your name, please come to the podium and state your name and indicate whether or not you live within the boundaries of the school district. The first speaker is

019Don Eds. >> Good evening. Uh, yes, I live in the district and I am a teacher in the district at Hope Elementary. A day in the life of all day kindergarten. Imagine that you and your spouse find a babysitter for your 5-year-old. When you arrive, you realize the babysitter is watching 20 other children. Do you drop your child off for six hours, expecting that person to keep your child safe, teach your child to read, write, and do math? Of course not. But when it's called kindergarten, suddenly we think it's different. Well, it's not. Not this. Not. Now, let's change the script. Imagine that you're babysitting those and responsible for those 22 children. Your job is to keep them safe, help them learn, create a joyful, hands-on, developmentally appropriate, enriching environment every single day. Now, add

020four children with extreme behavior needs, three multilingual learners, and three with speech delays. And that is not to mention all of the children that haven't been diagnosed yet. Now go back to your child. Do you drop them off? Are you expecting them to have their needs met? Unlikely. Let's stop calling this p person a babysitter. She's a kindergarten teacher and it's me. This is my classroom in the pilot. A highly trained, constantly evolving professional. But this year, I'm swimming in quicksand, spending countless hours trying to provide the same level of magic that I provided in the early bird laid out schedule. We have not been set up for success. We are underst staffed and underfunded. You chose convenience and cost over the best interests of children. Did you stop to consider that they're not safe?

021Not for one minute. I went from working with three students in small groups in my early bird model to six in my pilot. And now I'm trying to put fires out every day all day long to keep the classroom safe. A colleague once said to me, "Kindergarten is full day everywhere." Okay? But it shouldn't be that way in Carl'sbad because we have a program that is amazing. It is amazing and we still have it. And guess what? We have children here. Early birds and late owls. Yes. Were you part of it? Yes. It's an amazing program. I'm getting cut off. I'm not getting to read half of it, but I'm passionate. This is wrong. >> Thank you. Next speaker is Julie Leer. >> Hi there. My name is Julie Leer and I live within the

022district. I live a short ways from Aviara Oaks Elementary and Aviara Oaks Middle School. And I'm here to bring some of those issues with those two schools to your attention that you may not be aware of. We're having our neighborhood severely impacted by your schools. We have kids destroying property. They tore down a branch off of one of our pine trees last week. I saw three or four kids jumping on the SDG& box. It's six feet high. What if it breaks? I saw one kid with a giant shutter running up and down the slopes and up and down the street. Where he got where they got these items, I don't know. But they seem to be out of control. The parents are out of control. They're parking in front of homeowners driveways. They're making U-turns.

023They're making illegal three-point turns. They're driving up onto HOA slopes. Those are not city slopes. They're owned and maintained by our HOA. And our dudes go up. We pay an exorbitant amount of money every month to have all of that landscaping maintained. No one is supervising these kids. We're having these traffic issues with the parents. Um, FedEx is refusing to deliver to Flet Street and Mali in the afternoon because the parents are double parked all along those streets. The red curbing that you've put in, you had the city put in on the south end of Ambrosia has pushed all of the parking, all of the parents, all of the pickup into our neighborhoods. Kids have specific designated pickup points within our neighborhoods, our streets, our by our homes. I have little six-year-old kids walking what

024is it about three blocks from the school to my house sitting on the sidewalk waiting for their parents. I don't really think that's a safe situation. And by the way, there's a homeless person living in the white van that's parked across from Avier Oaks Middle School. Several people have seen him. Several people have called him in. He always comes back. So, just to let you know that's happening. We would like some short-term changes and some long-term changes and we'd really like to see the school board take the leadership on this. We would like to have the construction workers park offsite which would allow for the parents to pick up their kids without >> Thank you. Thank you. Sorry, time's up. >> Um and and you could you could send that into the into the board

025from there. Next speaker is Jolene Vano. Hi, I'm Jolene and I do live in the district and I'm here to ask for two requests. First, can you please fix the CHS scoreboard? Lots of people are complaining about it and our boys deserve better. Secondly, our girls also deserve better. Please fix your policy on allowing boys in girls bathrooms and locker rooms. I appreciate the time you've given me in our email exchanges and meetings. However, your explanations have fallen short. You still have not given me a clear answer to my question. On what legal basis are you resting your decision to continue supporting this policy? You are actively ignoring the Cordona decision. Beyond the legal argument, let's talk about the broader implications of this policy. When any man can now legally enter a female bathroom or

026locker room, what will keep a deviant man out? A headline from October 6th this year. Men charged with sex crimes in three states get in girls locker rooms by invoking gender identity. In Racine, Wisconsin, a man with a prior sex offender history for weeks, he used the women's locker room at the school district's pool. Despite multiple complaints from girls and women, he was eventually arrested for masturbating in the parking lot. A similar incident occurred in Virginia. 58-year-old man, again with prior sex offender history, repeatedly used the high school girls locker room during community pool hours. Complaints by women were again dismissed due to gender-inclusive policies. He was also arrested after masturbating in front of a mother and child in the locker room. I know of similar incidences in Berkeley and just last week my cousin

027in Fargo told me her story of encountering a man, a naked man in the female locker room at the YMCA. It is occurring everywhere and women everywhere are disturbed by this. We're done. We've had enough. This could easily happen at Sage or CHS, at a basketball game, a track meet, whenever the campus is open to public. You are inviting this. Do you know the most common lawbreaking sexual offenses are voyerism and exhibitionism? These are non-cont offenses and ones that are already difficult to prove, now even more so when your policy permits this. So, please consider what you are defending when you defend this policy. You are conditioning our girls to accept that this is normal. You are conditioning our girls to accept that if she encounters a man in a locker room staring at her

028or undressing, she shouldn't question it. In fact, she can't because of the policy. You have the ability to change this. You have the federal law behind you to back that change. Doing it nothing at this point is inexcusable. [Applause] Please use your hands. Please use your hands. >> Thank you. Next speaker is Shelley Freriedman. >> Thank you all. And it's Feldman. >> Thank you. >> No problem. Uh >> I was struggling with the reading your writing side. Go ahead. >> Fair enough. Uh I'm just following up on some of Julie's comments. I'm a resident across the street from Avara Oaks. My concern is not only the parking and and and so on. It's also the basically the closure of Ambrosia as a cross street, the only cross street between uh El Camino and Aviara Parkway.

029And so it's really a problem. The traffic is generally not insignificant, but now they've p painted lines on the street entering the lower level and it's imp it can take me 20 minutes to go half a block because parents are parking and waiting to turn. If it takes 10 minutes to turn, they'll just sit there and no one can go through. No police car, no fire engine. We've had a fire that was significant. If that happens again, God forbid, it's not a safe design. I just want to end by saying one thing. I've really appreciated everyone talking about community building and building community and working together and collaboration. All the right words. Nothing comes to us from the school board. There's no proof we have that you have instructed parents to be concerned about where

030they pick their kids up to students about how they behave on the streets. So, I like the idea of community. If you want to build community, you should build community with us, the people who live here. I've lived here for 25 years. It's never been so bad. And it's been so bad because the new construction has not kept us in the loop at all. And this is really problematic. It's setting up very bad relations between community and the school. And we're all very concerned about the school and we're pleased with how it's growing. But it's has to be done where information is shared appropriately and fairly. And at the moment I think there's unnecessary tension because you've done things and taken action without even telling us you're going to take it. Thank you. Next speaker

031is Damian De Rubio. Good evening. Uh my name is Damen Droio and I live in the district. Uh I'm here to address the sound system for the Carlsbad High School athletic field. Uh, I am head of production for Bellyup Entertainment. So, I manage production at the Bellup and The Sound Delmare. I'm also an audio engineer. And my daughter is a sophomore. She's a dancer on the Royals dance team. And I have another younger daughter currently in seventh grade. Uh, so let's start with the first game. Big deal. Months of rehearsals. Girls were up early for breakfast and braids. Uh, they had the pep rally at school. They get all done up, get their jerseys on, get out there on the field for the halftime show, and there's no music. It's silent. It's kind of sad.

032They had to perform like a silent mime troop. Uh, anticlimactic, right? Uh, I went up to the booth to see if I could help and just see what happened. And, uh, the gear was had a lock on it. It was locked up and it was unavailable to to use or even decipher what the problem was. Um, and I was told there were DB limits uh in the neighborhood and any questions needed to go through the athletic director. Um, move on to homecoming game. Same system failed while the Lancer dancers are out there. They were like frozen in pose for about a minute while they transferred the audio down to the loud crowd speakers which worked. Um, I've been coming to games now about 3 years and the poor sound quality is one of the first

033things that I noticed. Uh, the system sounds blown, sounds broken. Um, and when it does work, it's distorted. There's no low end. So, it sounds okay when the for the announcer, but as soon as you put music through it, it's very distorted and very poor quality. I personally went out and bought two speakers for the Royals team for $1,000. And there are speakers that they can just roll out there and they have no cords. So, um, at least they have sound for when they dance, but what about everybody else, right? Um, so it's kind of obvious that the system needs a tuneup. Whenever something whenever it goes bad, everyone looks at me because I'm an audio guy, but I I don't have any control. So, uh, but that's why they suggested I come here and

034speak to you guys. So, um, >> thank you. >> That's it. Okay. >> Thank you. Next speaker is, uh, Tyler Brown. >> Hello. My name is Tyler Brown. I am a resident. Uh, and I am the I'm on the board for the Carlsbad High School football team. I want to say thank you guys for all the work, sometimes thankless. The more I donate my time and try to help the kids in the school, uh, the more I realize the difficult aspects of it. Um, can't make everybody happy all the time. Um, what I have to say though is really important and I want to say to everybody that is what it feels like at the Carl'sbad Stadium right at the most important time. It cuts out. Um, and it it's heartbreaking because my son plays

035football. He he's not a dancer or a cheerleader, but for homecoming, he went to the locker room and all the cheerleaders had made these things for all the boys and just it's it's a really special event. So amazing to see the community there and it's kind of heartbreaking to see it just not come together. There are some other things like scoreboards and things like that. Um, I have done some work to procure some um, data, information, cost, things like that for the sound system um, that I'd be happy to share. I know there's a lot of parents just like you that would love to help with donations. I know it's not that simple. Um, but we would just love to work together with you um, to help make that a possibility. I know our football

036team is amazing, too. Um, the program brings in a lot of people, a lot of special people for dance and for cheerleading. And I think if we were able to step uh our stadium up a little bit, we would just continue to draw not only talented students, but family members and communities, and it would be great for everybody. Thanks for your time. >> Thank you, Dr. Norman. Could you follow up with that gentleman to see if there's some fundraising opportunities there as well? >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. Next speaker is um Emily McConnell. >> Good evening everyone. I'm Emily McConnell. I do live in the district. I have two high school students at CHS and I'm a substitute teacher. And um I just want to address an issue that I don't even know if this

037is exactly appropriate. I was told to speak to the school board. Um, I have a big concern about cell phone use at the high school and I'd like to suggest as an idea that Carlsbad High School, by the way, I don't know what the policy is at Sage, but that Carlsbad High School may adopt the same policy that Valley Middle School has and possibly some of the other middle schools. um they uh keep their phones turned off and put away for the entire school day except of course if there is an emergency they have access to them. And there's a lot of important reasons. There could be pages of this but short reasons are academic focus. Um the presence of a phone even if it's not being used reduces attention, memory, learning. Um moving on

038there's the mental health and social connection. Something I'm personally very concerned about with boys at the high school. They don't talk. Nobody talks. They're only looking at their phones and they have them before and after school during passing periods, lunch, brunch. And as a substitute teacher, I know that sometimes it's built into the day that in the two-hour class time that they get to have a break and have their phones during that break as well. Last thing, safety and exposure. um when they have their phones, they have unrestricted access to the phones. And I've recently learned about reports where students were watching footage of the Charlie Kirk assassination while at school and passing that around. It's a tragic example of how quickly harmful material can circulate and no student should be exposed to that or

039other very damaging things that they should not see during the middle of their school day. Um, so for focus, safety, emotional well-being, and so many other reasons, I ask for you to consider the health and well-being of our students. >> Thank you. Next speaker is Linda Daniels. [Music] >> Good evening, superintendent, trustees, and cabinet. I'm here again, your environmental activists. I'm a member of the San Diego Building Electrification Coalition, the school strategy committee, and I'm the Carlsbed representative for CEA on the community um advisory council. And uh I'm here to thank you and your staff for upgrading to Green Impact and to be sure that Dr. Nive received the Green Impact Cllingons that were sent out um to each school in the district office. I don't know if he got them or not. Oh, yes.

040Okay, good. I checked with um the CEO of the CEA, Greg Wade, and he stated that their promotional company told him that they had been sent. Yay. If you go on the clean energy website, the clean energyalliance.org, you'll see our shout out to CUSD. Okay? We're thanking you. Okay? So, it's right there on our website for upgrading to 100% clean energy for electricity. Thank you and your staff as this was very labor intensive. Your former CFO told me you have over 300 meters. So they had to call and have 300 meters changed in order to upgrade them to electricity. So it was not an easy task. Um each school does not just have one meter. A lot of people think there's one meter to school, but that's not true. Okay. Uh C US CUSD has

041made history. You um were already on track to make changes uh to change all of your lights to LEDs and to upgrade your electric appliances. Say they fail. But this has made a huge impact on our environment and I have to thank you and the San Diego Building Electrification thanks you and um the CEA thanks you. Uh in addition, I'm telling everybody in this room that there's a special program that you might not have heard about. It's called enrolling in the Peak Smart Savers program and you get a cheaper rate on your electricity and it's locked in for an entire year. So it doesn't change like SDG& every six months changes their rate you know so we haven't changed our rate all this year and we don't intend to at CA anyway thank you so

042much for everything and I appreciate all your support thank you next speaker is Hugh Ghart. Uh, I'm usually up here whining and uh, I just want to tell you great news. Thank you very much. I mean, I'm It's been a year coming by and I I was getting ready to work on the field again over at Sage and it was looking really bad two months ago and finally I said, "All right, screw it. I'll go do eight hours and weed and stuff." Put on all the gear. I go walking out there and I went, "Oh." As an OMG, the softball field was great. And it's not that hard, but it was just gorgeous baseball field. And I thought that got moved. The infield looks absolutely great. And uh and then yesterday I went by and

043because I'm going, who's doing this? How's this working? And then finally, I met the fabulous Joe and Fabian. How do you not like a guy named Fabian? I mean, that guy, I was just I wanted to hug the guy. And they're they look like the right guys. They're energetic. It's the project. They're into it. you know, you give personal responsibility for your home instead of shuffling everybody off to the different schools. There's no care. So, these guys have been absolutely terrific. They're telling me, I go, "What's they go, we're uh SM?" I go, "SMs? We're sports management facilities." I go, "That's awesome. I just love it." Uh they had they had great uh they were provided with proper equipment. That was great. I saw the trailer, the truck, the gator. I don't know where they're

044using the Gator one. That was terrific. That was great, too. Uh, and I just can't thank you enough. You guys always hear the bad news and finally it just really worked out for us. And I think this is going to be great for Carl'sb and Sage. Number two, the last two quickies. I'm not polyianish. We need the right mower for the infield. You can't use an outfielder mower on the infield or you've shot the the horse right there. You just you need the right one. It's got to be an 11 blader. It's got to be a triplex. It's got to be a greens mower. I can give you more information on that one. And the last one is on the golf cart saga. Uh, still isn't around. I mean, it's theft. He grabbed our mo

045he grabbed our golf cart four years ago, promising to refurbish it, and it isn't back. And then I found out he's told that story a couple more times about other golf carts. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> And moving on to consent calendar. All matters listed on the consent calendar are considered by the board to be routine and will be enacted by the board in one motion. There will be no discussion on these items prior to the time the board votes on the motion unless there is a board request for one or more specific items to be removed from the consent calendar for discussion. This is a time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? We do not have any blue cards. Uh no blue cards. One moment. May I have a motion to

046approve the consent calendar with the exception or Yeah. May I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? >> Motion. >> Second. Any discussion? Were there any items to be pulled? I should check. Okay, then. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty Cioce, >> yes. >> Trusty Burbath, >> yes. >> Trusty Emory, >> yes. >> Trusty Ward, >> yes. >> Trusty Rawlings, >> yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to part nine, presentations. Item 9.1, presentation, annual review, career pathways and career technical education, CTE three-year strategic plan, 2024 to 2027. Trustees, this is an information discussion item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Brian Brockett. >> Thank you, President Rawlings. Um, get settled here. Uh last October, the board of trustees approved a new

047iteration of the district's three-year career technical education and career pathway strategic plan. Uh the strategic plan helps guide the amazing work being done across the district from career awareness with our youngest students to industry aligned coursework, certifications, and internships at the high school level. It's my pleasure to introduce uh tonight uh director of secondary education Dr. Michael Ecker and career education specialist Nicole Morsch who are going to share with us tonight an annual update of progress on the strategic plan. Good evening see not everybody was here for the CTE presentation but it's going to be a good one. Uh so as Dr. uh Brockett uh first of all good evening President Rawlings trustees Dr. Norman uh it's a pleasure to be here tonight. Uh I'm joined tonight as Dr. Brock had shared with Nicole Morsh

048uh CUSD's uh CTE and career education specialist. Uh together we'll share an update on our career pathways and CTE three-year plan um that the board approved last year. Are you driving? Oh, you're amazing. Yeah. Um okay. The board uh uh first appro approved this strategic plan back in uh 2021 and it's a vision that has guided CUSD in creating thousands of meaningful opportunities for students to connect their interest with real world pathways and develop transferable marketable skills that lead to gainful employment. Our work in CTE and career ed began with a shift in culture from viewing career education as something for some students to recognizing it as an essential experience for all students in our district. Over the past three years, we've expanded our focus beyond career awareness and exploration into career preparation and specialized

049training. Through the tremendous efforts of CUSC staff and university partners and industry collaborators, we've seen remarkable growth in work-based learning. In fact, last year alone, students participated in in 7,000 more work-based learning experiences than back in 2021 with the most significant growth in exper in experiential learning including internships and certifications increasing almost 300 from almost through about 300 experiences in 2122 to over 3,000 last year. So, a great deal of this progress is thanks to Nicole Morris, uh, who has effectively served as our work-based learning coordinator among many of our other responsibilities. We have considered a work-based learning coordinator in our grant applications as this would help us continue to grow in this area, as well as considered work-based learning experiences that we do not yet offer, such as apprenticeships to add to our other

050career training opportunities in CUSD. When we re when reviewing the goals in our current three-year plan, you'll see that our focus remains providing relevant hands-on experiences that prepare students for life after high school. Importantly, this work begins well before 9th grade. We're intentionally building experiences that promote self-awareness and career awareness from the moment student join our family here in CUSD. Ultimately, we view career education as central to our mission and vision here in CUSD and deeply connected to our graduate profile that defines what it means to be a graduate of CUSD. So, as uh you can see, we're already making strong progress toward the action items outlined in the plan. And uh this board presentation includes an appendix that details each action item and its status. However, we would love to talk more in detail

051about each goal. And for this, I'll turn things over to Miss Morris, who will share more about the work happening with career education in CUSD. >> All right. So, as Dr. Eer mentioned, we do have six goals. Our first goal, marketing, outreach and recruitment, has been very successful and is a focus for us this year in 2025. Um, specifically in the social media arena. Um, trying to get our reach out to more people and more partners. Um, but we have seen in terms of completers and participants increases in both students who participate in a career pathway as well as students who complete. Um, you can see that since the beginning of our tracking in 2021, we have an 88% increase in completers and a 93% increase in participants. Um, we will see how that um

052those numbers continue to measure as our school population kind of settles a little bit, but we are very proud of the growth in both of those areas. Um, and something that was a distinct change, um, this year we had 16 completers at our Carlsbad Village Academy pathway, which we have never had completers there before because we didn't previously have a pathway there that was two or more classes. So, that was exciting to see those kids walking across the stage at graduation with their um, completer cords. Um, sorry, go ahead. We also are working to expand our um early college credit opportunities as well as improve the com the college and career offerings at the entire TK through 12 continuum. Our second goal is specific to college and career pathway development. So that establishes what is

053happening primarily at the secondary level. Um, I want to give a shout out to our secondary counselors both at the middle and the high school because they do incredible content with students where they push into classrooms as well as resources for parents and social media posts giving kids information about AP classes. And um, in fact, tomorrow night there will be a financial aid webinar for any kid that is currently in the application process and looking to apply to financial aid. Um, they also do in-class lessons on things like life after graduation and what does that look like for you? Um, and we're trying to expand this year a focus for us is employability skills training. Um, thanks to our partnership with PTSAs, we have been able to offer a lot of afterchool workshops and things

054like creating resumeumés, financial literacy, um, safety training, and that has really improved access for our students that whether they're in a pathway or not in a pathway, they can come to those workshops and get um, resources to help them in some of those things outside of school. Our goal three um is our career education development goal and that really focuses on our TK through 12 continuum which was developed in the first round or first phase of our three-year strategic plan. Um our continuum as Dr. Eer mentioned starts with learning about oneself and self-awareness at the early grades and as students get um to upper elementary we start to look at career exploration. what types of things could students connect their strengths and interests to that could be jobs. Um, when they get into the middle

055grades and then the high school years, we look at more opportunities for experiential learning. And I think that has been our biggest areas of growth has been in moving more from instructional kind of um informational experiences to more experiential learning. So kids are having those experiences and um going outside the walls of the classroom to learn about things that are options for them after high school. Um for goal three, career education. Um we saw some great things happening also in the K8 space. Um, we do pride ourselves on the fact that with incredible work from all of our K8 teachers, the students get access to a lot of experiential learning through science days and STEM days and career days, career fairs that are also supported by our elementary counselors. Um, and at the secondary level,

056we had over 3,000 reported um, guest speakers or career chats that we were able to capture when we collect metrics for from our career pathways. Um, also, as I said, we're our focus for us in is in that employability skills area. So with this with the partnership from PTSA and some of our other partners, we were able to capture 564 students that stayed after school to participate in some of those employability skills workshops. Um the work is um you know requires funding and a lot of that funding comes from a number of different braided funding grant sources. So we have um you can see there a list of some of the ways that we are able to support that work and the equipment upgrades that are needed for our students to get expert level um

057you know current highgrade technical access to the things that they need to explore careers. Um our Carl'sbad Foundation is also an integral part of that. So we include them on that list as well as our CUSD general fund because we've got incredible teachers that do this work. Well, five um is our high quality integrated curriculum and instruction goal. Um we not only are very informed by advisory boards that meet multiple times a year to help inform the work that's happening in our career pathways, but we also have the ability to send our teachers to teacher externships. So, as we see changes in the labor market, changes in our workforce, we're able to send teachers to training and opportunity where they can upskill their own practice. Um, the most recent one you see a picture there

058was in September where we were able to attend send quite a few of our teachers and staff to an AI um specialized uh college and career conference. Um, and that is work that they're now integrating into their curriculum. And as Dr. Ector me Dr. Ecker mentioned, one of our biggest celebrations is in the workbased learning area. Um, we did re reach our goal of 2% increase in student work-based learning experiences, topping out a little over 10,000 that we reported in 2025, which was up from 9,849 the year before. Um, but really that work speaks more to some specific areas that we targeted. Um you can see there's icons in the image there for a little dial. Um those are areas that we report on our um CCI, our college and career index. So we were

059able to double the CTE participants that completed internships. Um more than double we were able to more than double our um students that participated in skill competitions or some sort of um CTE related competition. And um in our students that have IEP's transition work-based learning space, we had 38 students that completed transition work-based learning as compared to 17 last year. This is a growing list of our industry partners who are an incredible part of the work that informs how we teach our students to be ready for whatever's next for them after high school. And um we continue to grow this list. Most recently, um this week we had students that were visiting the um recently opened biotechnology facility at Mira Costa College to meet with faculty and learn some newer DNA extraction techniques there. That

060was on Monday. And um on Tuesday, we had students out at the child development center that are doing their internships to become childcare workers. So those real world experiences um are much more I don't want to say more meaningful than working in the classroom but certainly augment and add on to the working that they're learning in the classroom. >> Any questions? >> Yeah. So with that we'll we'll open up to questions. >> Thank you. This is time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? We've received one blue card. >> Thank you. Uh speaker is Shauna Hurt. Those are those I'm one and done tonight, guys. >> But I can't not pass up an opportunity to talk about Nicole Morris. So am I CTE. Um and my love for this program. And I love

061that I'm involved with two PTAs and we're able to support. And I'm glad I just want to talk about how I love that the CTE is very flexible and we're willing to try new things. And that's what's so great about this program. And what's also great about this program is Nicole is amazing at sending an email every week with a million links and QR codes to a million documents that you can find anything you need to know about the district in one place in Nicole's emails. Like literally I found the open house or not the what do you not the open house >> school tours >> the school the tours yes the eighth grade tours and I hand I like texted out to several of my eighth grade neighbors who are currently out of district

062who want to come back to district for high school. So anyways I just um love the program and just you know at Sage we've already had two afterchool events. One was more directly they finagled um my husband Dr. rehearsed to come to speak on orthodontics and dentistry and it wasn't super well intended but it was the kids who came were there for over an hour asking questions and really engaged. Um so they were really interested in dentistry and my husband will I kind of had to cut him off because he would talk about forever how much dentistry is amazing and his love of his thing which is great because he's been doing it for 20 years. So um and I know we had a really successful um CPR at Carl'sbad High. So, I just love

063the program. Our kids need these experiences. I really love the financial literacy. I love that we have Jive at Sage that supports the program. I love that Nicole's really advocating for the new college and career fair that's going to have much more opportunity for all these additional schools for us to participate and to have those breakout sessions. I went to it last year and I just think it's going to be an amazing opportunity for our families at this to participate. So, if there's any a way I could support CTE, I'm all for it. Even if it is just going to Costco and picking up pizza or bringing snacks or um finding a little bit money on our PTA budgets to support it or just even attend the events and it's just a great way for

064our kids that just they it's really great to be books smart, but you really need to be street smart, too. And that's I saw several times. I wish I knew the actual source, but you know, they're saying like kids are having a hard time staying employed for more than six months. They're losing their jobs because they don't know how to get in there and actually do the work. And I feel like these type of things that we could put in our classrooms and in our educational experience, these will help our kids hopefully remain employed more than six months when they find a job because it's a lot of work to find a job, but you want I mean, I guess if it's horrible, it's okay if you leave in six months. But you know what

065I'm saying? It's good to be able to stay employed longer than that. So, I just want to say thank you and also to Veronica, shout out even though she's not here, but she has really helped behind the scenes as well. So, thank you. Thank you. Uh trustees, do you have any questions? >> Trusty Amry, >> I do. Um a lot of what we're seeing is from um the high school level. Uh which is fantastic. Um and I'm kind of just curious if you can um tell a little bit more about how are the students uh through all grade levels made aware of some of these opportunities? You know, if they're getting things, you know, like Bistown or any of that in fourth, fifth grade and so on. How is that is that connection being made?

066and how are some of those experiences being communicated out to students? >> Um, so it's really it's a looks a little bit different at the K8 level simply because the students don't have quite as much autonomy as do the high school students to select things like afterchool opportunities. Um, you know, we do have elective choices of course at the middle school level. So, we do offer career pathway electives at the middle school as well as just exploratory electives where they can do a wheel and try lots of things. Um, and at the elementary school, it's really built into the curriculum. I have to credit our TK through 5 teachers. They really do look at how their curriculum lends itself to things like going to the farm lab or the, you know, coastal roots or having

067an experience at the wild animal park that directly connects to their science, you know, animal units. Um, and so I think the conversation for us as we move into this next phase is about just building on the experiences that are already happening and making those more visible district-wide from school to school so that more people take advantage of them. Um, but the credit goes to our teachers at the site by sight level because they do a really good job of just connecting those experiential learning opportunities to whatever curricular things they're doing. I just want to add two two quick things. A shout out to Laura Pittz and her team at CEF. Two areas in particular that where um we've I think had a great impact at that K8 level is on the science days. Um

068we've made a concerted effort to ensure that there's there's career awareness in in the science and STEM fields built into those across the elementary room uh elementary schools. and uh Ashley Crawford, our our science TOSAsa here at the district, has done an amazing job helping guide that effort. Um in addition, CF has helped fund a grant to support uh Veronica McDermott's position, which uh was mentioned by Miss Hurst. Um she does college and career uh awareness uh in in several lanes. And one of the things when she came on board, it was sort of focused on on the high school level, but right away she was able to to slide down and help our uh middle schools, all of whom hosted career days last year and are going to continue to build upon that work

069as well. >> Question. Can I add to CF um the transportation costs that they have helped absorb for some of our students being able to go and visit college campuses at the middle school level. It is um cost prohibitive for us to get a thousand middle school students to college campuses because of the bus bus costs but because of CF's um grant and support they are able to get out and visit college campuses. >> Thank you Trusty Ward. Uh first I want to say thank you Dr. Ecker and Miss Marsh. Um that was a great presentation. Uh my question is um are you keeping track of these different I know you're you're partnered with IND different industry leaders um but how are you tracking kind of the longevity of these fields because as technology changes

070AI and all of that start um kind of coming out we know that there are some careers that will not exist in the future, right? So, we want to ensure that whatever career path our students are on that they have the opportunity to grow and be successful and um you know ensure that they have a really successful long career whatever pathway they take. Are you tracking that? Are you looking at that? Um what kind of research are you doing around that as we are looking at the different pathways for Carlsbad Unified? >> Um well for the purpose of seeing what the follow through is, we do give surveys at a regional level across San Diego region for what coursework and next step students choose after they leave us. So, we follow up with our CTE

071pathway students after they've graduated and email them to say, "Are you doing work within the pathway that you were in in high school? Are you still continuing on in that area and to what degree?" Um, you know, we don't get the the type of um robust data that we would like back because, you know, trying to follow up with them after is challenging, but we do get data that supports um students continuing on in those areas. But to answer your question about pathway longevity, um that is really guided by the state of California because they will only fund in terms of the grant funding that they provide to our district. They will only fund pathways in what they call a high priority sector. So when we ask for funding every year for these pathways, we

072have to show that the the sector that we're asking for money for has a livable wage in San Diego County where students can make enough money in specific jobs within that se sector to make a livable wage. And if they can't, then those are more difficult pathways to fund for us. So, we still of course look at things like student interest and, you know, the incredible teachers that we have, but we also factor in, okay, this might be an area where if we're going to have trouble funding it moving forward, um maybe we can look at how we can offer different activities in this pathway that do match with upand cominging priority sectors or maybe we can make small shifts to the coursework so that it is something that we can fund with the livable

073wage. So we really um our work is guided by the funding that we get from the state of California which is dictated by priority sectors. >> Is it a followup? Um I have a followup to that one. Thanks. Um when it comes to the what the state of California will fund, are they also looking at the skills that in certain areas that students are gaining even though that particular profession may not be highly desired? I I actually wanted to toot uh Nicole's horn here. She won't toot her own horn, but one of the huge things that we've worked on over the past few years is building out an employability skills curriculum. Uh that is uh to be our next kind of round of that as we roll it out is to make sure that all

074of our students in all of our pathways um get that complete curriculum. So they're building exactly what you're talking about is transferable employability skills and as was mentioned in the presentation then taking some of those key components and also getting those out to all students in the ways that were mentioned with uh after school workshops um and those types of opportunities um to really build up those pieces. One of the core things that we're going to add back to your question, Trusty Ward, is we're um adding in we just just submitted a grant to um to continue to build that curriculum out uh with uh adding AI components which will be transferable kind of AI skills both looking at the way they're used in AI is being used in specific industries, but also being able

075to do that across the board. So really the team stays current with that and and those that's one of the overarching pieces when we look at labor market information across the region it's it's time and time again there are yes there are specific industries but those employability skills pieces are are those core pieces that come up time and time again that we can really focus on to benefit all of our students. >> It's still followup. Sorry. Um and I you know Oh write it down. Please write down um uh and and the reason I'm asking about the funding from California and so that's why I want to kind of go back to that. that I truly appreciate that work that you're doing and I have to tell you I I I am on a career

076technical education task force with the state assembly and um they are um you know and when we talk about these things they they always talk about the careers in the area but then um when we talk about let's say theater or performing arts or broadcasting where maybe that's not a highly desirable um profession it you know it's student interest but also there's so many transferable skills so I so is the state of California when you say it depends on the funding. Are they funding the skills or are they funding the specific career that the actual classes would lead to? Is that is that the issue? Could that be a barrier that's happening with the funding? >> Um, well, I think going back to labor market information, I think it really connects to what type, you

077know, in each specific region, how many jobs are available, right? So we have certain sectors like construction for example which 10 years ago was not as robust and upand cominging as it is now in North County. Um at the time when we started this work in 2021 we had a um cabinetry and woodworking pathway. Um which was incredible and the kids loved it and the teacher was wonderful but it wasn't turnurning out students that were going to make a livable wage in cabinetry and woodworking. Um we had the opportunity with a teacher retiring and some funding to convert that to a construction pathway where they're learning in addition to woodworking um basic plumbing um some basic electrical and also skills for building a house like masonry and framing and such. So that put our students

078in a position where as summer interns they could be earning a lot of money working on construction sites and potentially going into that field because it was that's where the jobs were. So I don't know if I answered your question as much as yes it is job specific but again it's going to be somewhat variant. I think teaching the skills will be something that carries over no matter what job. So just to confirm, you were able to convert a more specific program that was in jeopardy of losing funding to something that could get funded correct based on the California funding. Perfect. That's what I wanted to know. >> I have a followup. >> Um follow up to that. Go ahead, Michelle. >> Sorry, Gretcha. >> Write it down, Trusty Verb. >> Yeah, sorry about that.

079This will be quick. Um, since you mentioned construction and we're talking about the skills, uh, within that career path, do you also offer because I've heard of homes being 3D printed now. So are we that is what like I'm wondering you know if we want to ensure that our students have that full career in that career pathway if they're in the construction pathway let's say are they also learning about learning how to 3D print homes not just the construction of the homes and you know masonry wood all that kind of stuff but um but also kind of the high tech type of development that might continue on later to ensure that if a student takes that pathway, they will have um a robust career in that industry. Um, I think any pathway you go to,

080whether it's CTE or even outside of that, whether it's English or science or math, our teachers because of the way we the the level of excellence in the district. I mean, they're constantly upskilling and augmenting their curriculum to reflect what the student needs are in 2025. Um, but I want to say in response to that, you know, the most surprising thing that I have encountered in my opportunity to go out into the workforce and meet with local employers like at Viasat or at Qualcomm or at Synergize, that's where we're going to be going in November. Um, and talk to them and say, "What do you want your employees to be able to do?" And many of these are very technically specific professions. None of them give me lists of skillbased quantifiable. They say we have

081a train the trainer model and we can teach the person to do the thing with the employees we currently have employed. What we need them to be able to do is show up to work on time. We need them to be able to work with different groups of people with different personalities. We have a lot of engineers and we move flexibly through groups of engineers. We need them to be able to follow through with a task to completion once they've started it. So the thing I think that's been very surprising for me, not to dodge your question because I think it's incredibly important, but that's not the feedback we're getting from employers is like skills we're getting that they need employability skills. >> Just for Beth. >> So I'm gonna ask a couple questions so

082no one cuts me off. Um, how often do we ask our students what they're interested in and what pathways are our students requesting or might be interested in which we still need funding for or need to build connections with partners? So every spring we give a regional survey that the data goes out to um it's to the region and then we give a Carl'sbad specific survey to our pathway participants and completers and we get approximately about 700 responses typically from students. Um they do that annually um and that informs our work for the following year. Right now the h last few years consistently business has been a high level of interest. They want expansion of business classes or entrepreneur classes. Um they've also had expressed an interest in culinary. Um although that's an area that's

083a little bit trickier because of the again the high priority sector. Um, and we have a lot of people expressing interest in usually it'll be in the other section instead of one of the check boxes because they'll say I want to learn how to live successfully on my own or like pay my car payment or you know it's more that like life skills. Um, I think with the integration in the coming years of a financial literacy component that will be something that will answer that need because we do have students asking for that. Am I forgetting you? Okay. >> Is that a followup? >> Yes. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> So, I think we conversed a little bit about a program that Oceanside has with Mira Costa >> that we don't have and can you

084explain how that works where some schools are able to access certain things, certain programs at Mira Costa that we can't and why >> is it are you speaking to the dual enrollment opportunities? Right. Okay. Mhm. >> So, um, we do offer dual- enrolled classes here in the district. Um, we've grown to 24 classes that students can take during the high school day with their high school teacher and get college credit. Um, but we are somewhat limited by geography. Um, we compare I think the reference you're using is um, Oceanside, which our superintendent can speak to as well because she has um, familiarity with their incredible programs, but they have the ability to have students of course walk across the street to Mira Costa College to take advantage of some of those dual enrollment opportunities. And

085um you know we of course also can offer online um opportunities as well but some stu and some students prefer those and some students prefer to take courses in person. So um we're somewhat constrained by the um master schedule by our students busy school day schedule because let's be honest um I I have two high school students and they are so over booked after school with sports and music and other such things. But um we would like to expand our offerings in terms of opportunities for students to take some of those courses while still in high school. >> Trusty Amry, >> sort of a follow up on that. Um you have here the 24 dual enrollment credit and um more through concurrent um enrollment. Do you know about how many students are taking advantage of

086those? >> Um for concurrent, I couldn't say because they can take those during the summer. um they can take them asynchronously. Um all of concurrent enrollment encompasses classes that students take at any institution outside of CUSD and then they request that that transcript be, you know, kind of added to their body of work when they're applying to college. Um so that I don't know. I could probably get you numbers on dual enrolled and articulated. Um but I would have to get back with you on that. We don't get the information um when they take those courses unless they self-provide. >> Correct. We do get the um information for articulated and dual enrollment um from some of our universities. I want to give a shout out to Mira Costa. They do an incredible job of giving

087us data and metrics. Um so that could be a rough estimate and I say rough estimate because we also articulate classes with Myar Palomar and are looking at a couple other new opportunities this year. So all told, I could give you an estimate. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And just to clarify, we do get concur. It's not it's not Miss Marsh's area. Uh but we do get concurrent enrollment data as well from Mira Costa. So we can we can pull kind of all of that together regarding early college credit. Yeah. Through Mira Costa. >> Okay. Okay. Curious. Thank you. >> Other questions? I have one. Um >> um you answered the first part of my question that I um asked um earlier today. Um so for those students that are following let's say a construction

088trades type pathway um you mentioned that you assist students with um with applications and that sort of things for college. Do you also um help those students that let's say are applying to an apprenticeship program. Um I was recently at an open house for IBW and NE um NEC. Um and one when I asked about what makes a good applicant, they were saying if they have experience in with construction or especially electrical and you know those types of things, but then also um you know having the ability to do a good interview and and fill out the application appropriately. So is there assistance for those students that are looking to go into the trades? >> Yes. Um I want to credit uh CVA and Seaside Academy specifically. They have um an excessive amount just incredible

089amount of people coming in um on a weekly basis. They have guest speakers from our trade schools, from our partners that are doing presentations to students and offering opportunities to come visit their facilities. Um, as well as a program that they actually have seniors across the board in their school do um, exit interviews where they provide what they call artifacts of learning, whether that be a resume or an elevator pitch um, that they have to share with their fellow seniors when they're leaving the program to provide them with better employment um, status or you know, opportunity. But um we as far as more broadly I can't speak to the individual things happening in classrooms. I know they are happening um but we have more of those that are offered online. Next week we will have

090a um webinar that's offered to students and parents called fasttrack your career. So, it's specifically targeting um we're having a speaker from Mira Costa Technology Careers Institute that's going to talk specifically about certificate programs in electric, drone, real estate, um phabbotomy, that kind of thing. And also ways that you can get what are called stackable credentials to get to a job a little bit faster. So, we're trying to target some of those other areas that are for students maybe not interested in going straight to college. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Just a word. >> Easy question. >> Um I can't remember but I know when uh like Carl'sb High had their college fair days. Do you do like a um is also what's included in that not just colleges but like different apprenticehips that

091they could or different organizations also invited to that as well? Okay. Easy. >> Other questions? Okay. Um, discussion, any discussion? >> Trustee, I saw Trusty Emry first. Go ahead. >> Um, I I think it's all fantastic. Um, and just seeing the the growth and the opportunities and the working, the collaboration. Um, one thing that I would like to kind of see going forward too, um, would be more that communication with the younger grades that they're getting those skills. They might, you know, we we sneak them in there really, um, slipperly slipperily. Is that even a word? Um, sometimes, but, you know, making that communication that these are good skills. This can help you later. And, you know, showing that end goal. Um, I think that might be really important uh, going forward so that they

092also when they get to high school, it's not like this is something new. this is something they've been, you know, working towards and trying on and now is kind of a time to to take a pick. Um, so that's something I personally would like to kind of have communicated out. >> Are you making a governance request? >> No, I'm not. >> Okay. >> No, just kind of a as a as a thinking. Um, yeah, just they're already doing it. Just, you know, can we, you know, communicate it as well. >> Thank you. Um, Trusty Verbeth, >> I just want to say thank you. Um, yes, I want to say a big thank you. Um, you know me, I've been a a huge proponent of this program forever and ever and ever. Um, and um, and

093I also want to thank my colleagues for um, prioritizing this program. I have to tell you, I brag a lot to my colleagues in other districts as well as um like I said, I'm on this um on a career technical education task force with um Assembly Burner and um we've really when I show folks what we're doing here in Carlsbad, they're just amazed and they just say this is, you know, the the continuum, especially the the TK through 12 continuum is something that um to my knowledge no other district has in San Diego County. So, I do think that we are um leaps and bounds and we have we can credit our incredible staff for um implementing the vision, but also I think the board continuing to prioritize this as a as a goal and

094and keep it um at top of mind. So, I I want to thank all of you for um continuing to prioritize it. Any other comments? Okay, we will move on then to item 10.1 uh discussion 2024 2025 unodudited actual budget update. >> I was wondering if Jessica >> Okay, why don't we take a five minute break so we can excuse students and get things signed and all that good stuff. Thanks. We're at uh the 2425 unad actual budget update. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. Are we back? Thank you. Um I will now hand it over to Dr. Nye. >> Uh thank you, President Rawlings, trustees and Dr. Norman. I'd first like to start off by saying I'm a little offended that all the students left and they didn't stick around for the riveting

095budget discussion that we're about to have, but I understand they have to get home and do homework probably. Uh tonight, I'd like to briefly walk you through two categories of updates related to our revised unodited unudited actual uh budget for the 2425 fiscal year. These updates were necessary to ensure accuracy, compliance, and alignment with the latest guidance from the county office of education. There's two changes that we made from when we brought you the unodudited actuals in September. And the first is dealing with restricted revenue. Uh during the review process, the county office of education with confirmation from our auditor identified that some of the restricted funds had been incorrectly reported as part of our ending fund balance. These funds are tied to expenditured driven programs, meaning that the revenue that we recognize uh must

096actually be spent in the same year. So oftentimes you get grant money. Sometimes that grant money you can book in one year as revenue and spend it down over multiple years. Some of the restricted dollars that we get because of how we get it from the state or the federal government, we have to book it and record it as revenue and spend it in the same year. We had booked some of those dollars as revenue in the unodudited actual budget and we didn't have an offsetting expense. So the county said you need to go back and correct that as or you're going to have an audit finding. So we did we did do that. Um to remain compliant and avoid any audit findings, we reclassified about 1.6 million 1.56 million of unearned revenue. The correction

097reduced our general fund restricted ending balance. It does not result in that loss of funding though. I just want to just clarify that we're going to capture that funding in the 2526 school year, but we had to back it out of the 2425 uh school year unedudited actuals. Um so we will capture that during first interim that we bring you back the budget in December for restricted revenue. In the previous year, I'd like to point out that these types of corrections were allowed to be made at first interim. However, the county now requires that they be made before the approval of unudited actuals. And in fact, this happened uh to us last year. As a matter of fact, we had um unearned revenue in there, but we were allowed to bring that back all at

098one time during uh the December first interim. It's also important to note that the change will be reflected, like I said, during the 2526 budget year or uh when we bring the first interim back to you in December. uh when all the related carryover and acrruel entries are posted. The second adjustment has to do with um a an ADA revision. So average daily attendance revision. This had no impact on the overall budget at all, but it does impact several forms that we submitted and that you approved um in September. So in addition to the revenue correction, we also made updates to several state required forms. These revisions were all driven by a single factor, an update to our average daily attendance or ADA. At the time unedudited actuals were prepared. We used an estimated ADA

099from the LCFF calculator. However, the final P2 ADA report became available afterwards showing a slightly lower ADA. We reported uh 10,355.49 ADA and it should have reflected the 10,072.03. And because of that ADA is so foundational in many of the forms that we fill out, it impacted several forms that we had to go back and correct. So form A we did and we made that correction uh to the P2 ADA data. There's also a form called the ESMO and I'll I'll uh per our guidelines I'll tell you what that is. That's every student succeeds act maintenance of effort and it basically is saying that we're required to maintain a certain um budgetary commitment to all of our students year after year and that's our maintenance of effort there. There's also the GAN which is an

100appropriations limit or a calculation that we have to account for for the dollars that we receive in taxes. And there's a there's a specific limit that we have to set in regards to the GAN. But this is all driven based on that ADA reflection or that ADA adjustment that we did. And then the last one is regarding special education maintenance of effort and we made adjustments there based on the recalculated ADA as well. So again I want to emphasize that these updates did not impact the overall budget that I just described. The only one that did had to do with that restricted revenue. Um and uh uh they were technical corrections that were made to ensure consist consistency across all forms and compliance with federal and state requirements. So at this point in time, I'll

101turn it back over to President Rawlings for any questions and public comment. >> Thank you. This is time for public comment. Have we received any blue cards? >> We do not have any blue cards. >> Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? Just Beth, >> can you explain um real simply where the monies were returned to or were they returned? You said they were classified. >> Yeah, so they're they're actually taken out of the budget and they're filled out on another form. I don't know the number of that form, but it's in it's an unaccruels form that we will um document all the dollars, the restricted funds, the amount that was minused out of the budget and then once we close the 2425, then we'll put it back into the budget for the 2526

102and we'll bring that during first interim. So, we have a strict accounting of each one of those funds. um the acrruals that were there uh the amounts that were there and it'll just be budgeted into the next uh first interim budget that we provide. >> I have a followup. Do you have a followup too? >> Okay. >> Um uh as we and I want to thank you for spending so much time with me going through this because again I'd never seen this happen before where we back money out and then we're not putting it back in on the in the same at the same time. Um and so um a question I do have is um very late in the day before the meeting um I was advised that once this meeting's over and the

103unard actuals are approved that staff would be um entering that amount in Peopleoft. Is that correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. And then once that happens can that be shared with the board? >> Yes. I would imagine we could provide some type of spreadsheet showing that we did that. Yes. >> Okay. And then it would come back in December basically for approval that you did it, but at least we can see that it was done. Correct. >> Yes, we could do that. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Um, other questions, >> Trusty Beth? >> I just remember what I was going to ask. Um, so why did the county make the change this year? Do we know? >> I I I don't know. I would imagine. I think it's happening a little bit more frequently um with

104districts and I think they wanted cu districts eleas to make those adjustments uh during un audited actuals rather than wait till first interim but I don't know specifically I don't want to speak for the county and I didn't answer I didn't ask that question >> I had a couple questions >> other questions trusty word >> so the coding correction that we made is that something that we're going to be conscious up so we don't that doesn't happen for the next year or could that change again? >> I can tell you that I'm going to be very conscious of it moving forward. Yes. And so yes, we will look for that. Um and I know our director of uh um finance as well as we'll keep a keen on eye on it as well. So um

105I can't say that it will never happen again, but we certainly are going to look at it much more closely than than occurred this year. And then just question >> unless there's a follow up on that one. Trusty W. Go ahead. >> Um did that affect um any of our reserves or anything that we had to keep or any percentages since we had to take that from 2425 to >> Yeah, it it it affects our restricted reserves um but not on the unrestricted side. So the restricted reserves are things that we have a very specific purpose on what we can and cannot spend them on. >> Um and so um it will not have a large impact and it will be put back in in the 25 26 school year when we bring you uh

106first interim. So you'll see it reflected there. So it's not it it doesn't have a an impact on the unrestricted side. >> Okay. A question. >> It's not a follow. I know I don't have a followup, but I have a question. >> Perfect. Um, based on that, that that brings up an interesting point. Um, why if we have to receive the money and spend the money in the same year, why would it be in reserves? Why wouldn't it be in a in a part, you know, assigned to a particular program if it's meant to be for a particular program? Why would it be in reserves? >> Yeah. There there are times at when we receive the dollars. You know, I can give you an example of, you know, we may have received federal dollars late

107um and we didn't even have the opportunity to spend it in that year. So, we can't post it um post it as a reserve and then carry it over for the next year. That's a a great example. Depending on when we receive grants, as another example, if we receive the grant towards the end of a school year, we don't have time to even budget for that or or or spend that. And so we wouldn't we are not allowed to post that as a reserve and then carry it over into the following year and we don't have a chance to spend it if that makes sense. >> I think I I think I can clarify. You're using the term reserve. Do you mean revenue? Post it as revenue. >> Yes. Post it as revenue. >> So

108we can't post it as revenue because it is restricted. So it wouldn't be reserve. It would be you can't take it in as revenue. And you're correct because it's restricted. It wouldn't be reserve. Your reserves are always based on 3% of your expenditures and that's in your unrestricted. >> You you do have a carryover amount though. Yeah, you have a carryover amount from restricted dollars. Um that that is where that money goes. It technically goes into that carryover that goes to the next year and we're not allowed to carry over those specific um those specific dollars. >> And that's my point. So in the first interim or tomorrow when you when you take these dollars and recognize them as revenue then they wouldn't be assigned to to reserves would they wouldn't they be assigned to

109the particular program they're supposed to be spent on okay I'm sorry that was the part I wasn't understanding was also saying reserves instead of carryover >> got okay then that that's why I got confused carryover okay thank you um trusty word Trusty, >> can you speak to the reduction in ADA even though we're basic aid? >> Yeah, for 2425 we weren't and but we still have to calculate that every year. So, um it it just was um general ed ADA based on enrollment um and attendance obviously. And so when we captured or took a snapshot, it was um not the final ADA calculations. >> You always have to estimate P2 and P2 is the unknown and so sometimes P2 is off and so you have to make the adjustment. >> Follow up to that. Beth,

110>> thank you. Um, so what does ADA do for us now? >> Um, it doesn't have as large of impact because we are community funded at this point in time. Um, from an instructional side, it's important that kids are attending school and and um, but we aren't funded um, based on attendance anymore. We're funded based on um, local property taxes at this point in time. So, um, from a fiscal standpoint, it doesn't have nearly the impact as if you were an LCFF district. Was your question answered? >> Okay, no problem. >> I had another question. >> Trusty, where uh did the charter schools um the attendance in the charter schools, did that have any effect on the on this at all? No, not on this. >> Any other questions? Okay. Um, may I have a

111motion to approve the revised 2425 unod actual budget as modified? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Trusty Amory made the motion. Second by trustee COC. Discussion. I will say I had lots of concerns about this. This was originally in the consent calendar and I asked it to be pulled because I do think that it's important that we have transparency with our community and um with 1.5 million and change um moving out of the budget and not being recognized in the same meeting that made me very nervous. So, um, I will say that I and I truly appreciate the time that both of you spent with me to, you know, get me there. And I did work with the, you know, work with the county as well in order to feel comfortable in voting in favor.

112I was, I was planning on voting no because of my concerns, but I will be voting in favor of um, of the motion. So, I just wanted to explain that to everyone. Any other discussion? No. Okay. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. Trusty COC. >> Yes. >> Trusty Verbette, >> yes. >> Trusty Emory, >> yes. >> Trusty Ward, >> yes. >> Trusty Rawlings, >> yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to uh part 11, personnel services um 11.1 approval CUSD CUDA tenative agreement. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I now hand it over to Miss Megan Aras. >> Thank you. Um the district and Carlsbad Unified Teachers Association bargaining teams reached a tenative agreement shown in exhibit A on September 12th, 2025 and CUDA members ratified

113the tenative agreement on October 8th. And this included that all unit members will be provided a 2% increase to the salary schedule retroactive to July 1st, 2025. Adjustments to the compensation schedule for co-curricular activity stipens would be effective July 1st, 2026. and adjustments to non- salary compensation including extra hourly assignments would be effective the first of the month following board ratification of the tenative agreement. Exhibit B contains the AB1200 and 2656 which certifies that the district can meet its financial obligations under the proposed agreement in the current year as well as two years out. So, it is respectfully recommended that the board of trustees approve the CUSD CUDA tenative agreement dated September 12th, 2025, exhibit A and the accompanying AB12002756 financial disclosure exhibit B. Thank you. >> Thank you. This is the time for public

114comment and I have one blue card that I've received and that'll be Rachel Marino. Good evening, Rachel Marino, Keto Union President. I wanted to take a moment to thank both the district and the union bargaining teams for their time and dedication to working together for the common good of the district. Through the negotiated language in this tenative agreement, we were able to recognize multiple classifications of members, including our elementary ed specialists, CTE teachers, and SLPs. We've also made a lot of progress towards creating workspaces where teacher voices can make a difference for their students. This language will also help Crawler Unified recruit and retain the best educators for our schools. Um, this bargaining season has been one of the most challenging I've faced, complicated by an additional vote to change healthcare, which was implemented on

115timelines uh beyond the control of anybody in this room. While change is always difficult, changes at the start of a new school year uh or worse. Um the however the current economic landscape presents even greater challenges at a time when other districts are facing 11% plus increases to their healthcare costs. Our members passed a vote to reduce our increases, move to a larger network, and save money. I understand that open enrollment process is going well and we're on track for a smooth transition. So I'm hopeful we are past the worst. I'm happy to go into the remainder of the year having completed negotiations. Thank you. Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? >> Trusty Emory, >> I do. I believe I know the answer to this, but just to clarify on the exhibit B,

116um when you're having, you know, the three years out and you have the on schedule increase decreasing, is that because it is um you know going from the 2% to the for example the 1.96% to the 1.92%. Is that because of our um revenue and our funds increasing therefore that costs less or what what is the um difference in that change there? >> Yeah, it's compounding over the three years and that's you know the divisor is getting slightly larger each year and so that's why it's slightly less of a percentage um the two out years. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Other questions trust. Um, yes. I thought in previous the previous time we did this um that number eight was filled in. Can you explain why we're not seeing any data in seven and eight?

117Uh I can't I can't re I didn't review the other uh AB 1200 so I don't know why they would have filled in seven and eight could be I yeah I don't know >> other question >> I would say that the county though has reviewed the document and approved it as written it not approved it but they've um conferred with our numbers and agreed that we are accurate at this point in time. Technically, they don't approve the document. >> Other questions? Trusty CSC. >> Um I don't see any discussion about class size reduction and the board had requested class size reduction be part of the discussion as it's been pretty much a universal request from parents, students, and classroom teachers. Yeah, class size reduction was not an article that was sunshined. Um, we sunshined back

118in April, May. I think our first bargaining session was in May of of last year to begin bargaining for this year. And, um, it was not an article that was opened up by either side, by the teachers or staff. Followup then to that. Is there anything in this contract that prevents us from reducing class sizes in the future without renegotiating compensation? >> Yeah, for this contract, um, it does allow two articles to be reopened each year in addition to salary and benefits articles that can be reopened each year. Um, so moving forward, if we wanted to reopen a class-siz article, it is a mandatory subject of bargaining. So it would be something that we would bargain. um salary would also be open each year. Um so we you know be looking at just the total

119funding available um because both have costs but um it could be something that we reopen um next year and the year after. >> Okay. So for my understanding and for the communities as we're going into basic aid and we're expecting to have more resources available and we've been promising forever that smaller class sizes are something all of us are striving to achieve. Um, is what you're saying that as we move into basic aid, we can't discuss reducing the ratio, teacher student ratio without also renegotiating teacher compensation because if we're reducing class size, why would that require a further discussion about uh income for teachers? >> Yeah. No, I was just saying it can be an article that's reopened since we can reopen any two articles um each of the years during this three-year contract. >>

120So, yes, both can be discussed. >> I I have a follow to that. Um lowering class sizes doesn't require negotiations, does it? I mean, the district could do it unilaterally without um involving the union at all if we wanted to lower class sizes. Correct. Isn't that within our discretion? Yeah, we always want to, you know, work with our union partners um anytime we're making, you know, changes like that, too. >> But it doesn't require negotiations or contract article or anything for us to make that decision. Correct. >> Yeah. We only have um one article right now that talks about our district-wide average. So, if it impacted that, we'd want to make sure that we look at that. Um but if it was another modification that didn't impact that article, that we weren't exceeding it. >>

121And that district-wide average is not a minimum, it's a maximum. Correct. >> It's a 31 districtwide average. >> But if it was below, let's say it was 31. Again, we It's a maximum, is it not? >> Yeah, it's a district-wide average. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. Trusty Emmer, did you have a follow? Okay. In discussion, maybe we could talk about it. Good. Thank you. >> Um, other questions. Um, may I have a motion to approve the CUSD uh CUDA tenative agreement dated September 12th, 2025, exhibit A and the accompanying AB12002756 financial disclosure exhibit B. >> So moved. >> Second. >> A motion from trustee Emory, a second from trusty war. Discussion. So what I was saying is is that um so in the contract it says that it's a maximum of a 32 average throughout

122the district but so the district could say we want our class sizes to be 25 and that we you know you could do it without any there doesn't have to be negotiations because that's a that's discretionary within within the contract language as well as within the um uh within the bargaining laws. So that's within the discretion of the district and does not need um does not require negotiations if you want to lower it. Now if you want to increase it and then the board would have to say we want those monies spent this way and it even could be a temporary like we've we did that during um uh like right after co we did the um the intervention teachers for instance well in some cases those lowered that lowered the ratio in the classroom

123at certain points that that was we did not require negotiations for that. So that's I just wanted to explain it because I you know because I I wanted to follow up with what you were saying compared to what what um Missarius was saying. >> I appreciate the clarification because I've had a lot of people ask about that and and it doesn't seem to make sense that that would be tied to this is the the current ratio but if we reduce the ratio that would seem to be a positive impact for all involved. So, right, because the contract language says specifically a maximum of 32 district-wide average is, you know, so anything under that, we're we're good. And again, I would support something like that, you know. So, I think we might have some uh interest

124there. Any other discussion? No. Okay. Miss Garcia, please call for vote. Trustee Cioce, >> yes. Trustee Rebecc. Trusty Ward, >> yes. Trusty Relings, >> yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to item 11.2, Leyuna, initial reopeners. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Miss Megan Aras. >> Thank you. The Labors International Union of North America, LANA local 777 and Carlb Unified School District previously negotiated a successor agreement which expired on June 30th, 2025 and allows for articles to be reopened uh each year. Lyona's reopeners include uh evaluations, transfers, hours and overtime, pay and allowances, employee expenses and materials, holidays, vacation, health and welfare benefits, and training and professional development. It is respectfully recommended that the board of trustees receive LAUNIS 202526

125reopeners for consideration. Thank you. >> Thank you. This is the time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? >> We do not have any blue cards. >> Thank you. Uh trustees, do you have any questions? No questions. I may have a motion for the board to receive Lyuna's 202526 reopeners for consideration. >> Motion second. >> Motion by Trusty Ward, second by Trusty Verbbeth. Any discussion? No discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty Cioce, >> yes. >> Trusty Verbbeth, >> yes. >> Trustee Emory, >> yes. Trusty Ward. >> Yes. >> Trusty Rawlings. Yes. Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to part 12, Instructional Services 12.1, approval resolution number 132526, Red Ribbon Week, October 27th through the 31st, 2025. Trustees, this is a discussion action item.

126I will now hand it over to Dr. Brian Brockett. >> Thank you, President Rawlings. Uh, as I believe trustees are aware, the purpose of Red Ribbon Week uh is to educate students, staff, and the community about making healthy choices. The Red Ribbon campaign provides opportunities for teachable moments, including discussions of acceptable standards of behavior, schoolwide activities, great appropriate events, and participation in community prevention programs to enhance student awareness uh and a commitment to a healthy substance-free lifestyles. The Red Ribbon uh week will be celebrated this year, October 27th through 31st, 2025. Uh staff members are encouraged to wear red ribbons, stickers, clothing, or wristbands as a visible reminder of support for healthy, hopeful, substancefree youth and a safe, caring, substancefree community. This year, each site will have various uh age appropriate activities for the Red

127Ribbon Week uh campaign, including students and staff from each of our schools being on hand at next Tuesday night's city council meeting to receive a proclamation from the council in support of Red Ribbon Week. Um following trustee questions and discussion, uh we request that the board adopt resolution number 132526 for Red Ribbon Week as shown in exhibit A. Thank you. >> Thank you. This is time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? >> We do not have any blue cards. >> Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? No questions. May I have a motion to adopt resolution number 132526 for red ribbon week exhibit A? So moved. >> I'll second. >> Trusty verbth made the motion. Second by trustee Seosi. Any discussion? No discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. Trusty

128Siosci, >> yes. >> Trusty Verbat, >> yes. >> Trusty Emory, >> yes. >> Trusty Ward, >> yes. >> Trusty Rawlings, >> yes. Motion passes five to zero. Thank you. We will now read the resolution aloud. I will start and then move um actually I'm going to ask um uh our superintendent to start and they they would be included and move around um uh with me next and then go around the room and then back around. Okay. Whereas Carlsbad Unified School District supports the goals of Red Ribbon Week to choose to live a healthy, productive, and substance-free lifestyle. And whereas it is imperative that community members launch prevention education efforts tied to the ideals of Red Ribbon Week. And >> whereas community coalitions across the across the country are sponsoring the California Red Ribbon Campaign in

129cooperation with the National Red Ribbon Campaign to offer citizens the opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to healthy lifestyles. And whereas the Red Ribbon Campaign will be celebrated in every community in America during Red Ribbon Celebration October 27th through the 20 excuse me through the 31st, 2025. And whereas business, government, law enforcement, schools, religious institutions, service organizations, youth, medical institutions, senior citizens, military, sports teams, and individuals will demonstrate their commitment to healthy lifestyles by wearing and displaying red ribbons and wristbands during this week-long campaign. And >> whereas the board of trustees of the Carlsbad Unified School District further commits its resources to ensure the success of the red ribbon campaign and therefore it be resolved that the Carlsbad Unified School District does hereby support October 27th through 31st, 2025 as Red Ribbon Celebration and encourages its

130students and staff to participate in healthy choices and school activities, making a visible statement that we are a firmly committed to a healthy community and be it further resolved that the Carlsbad Unified School District this 22nd day of October 2025 encourages students and staff to commit a substance-free community in which to live a healthy lifestyle. And thank you. And we now move on to part 13, board policies. Item 13.1, revision of board policy 1312.3, second reading. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Brian Brockett. >> Thank you, President Rings. Uh, board policy 1312.3, uniform complaint procedures was reviewed as a first reading at the September 10, 2025 meeting of the board of trustees. It is respectfully recommended that the board of trustees review the board policy 1312.3

131and approve as a second reading this evening. I'll hand it back to you, President Rolex. >> Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? Oh, I'm sorry. Um, this is the time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? Yes, I've received one. And it's Rachel Marina Watt. I apologize, guys. Talking a lot tonight. Um, also this may or may not be uh ruled out of order, so if it is, I will not be insulted. Um, if this has been a really long October, October is always the longest month of the year. It stretches from Labor Day all the way to Veterans Day. Um, punctuated by a whirlwind of candy and costumes that makes children go wild. Compounding this is the increase in behaviors across all grade levels. This is a phenomenon seen uh

132across the state and even countrywide. School safety is most often spoken in terms of students. How safe do they feel on campuses? As a pre previous Kelvin scores indicate, our students feel relatively safe on campus. I believe the numbers were about 80% though I haven't seen the new ones. Um, however, no one is currently taking the pulse of our teachers and they are reporting feeling less safe than ever. They report permissive or lacks discipline from some principles when no injury occurs or when students do assault educators, the follow-up is inconsistent, leaving educators feeling a drift and unsupported. Many of our education specialist specialists are assaulted so often they only consider making a report when blood is drawn and they need to see a healthcare provider. Make no mistake, these incidents are not limited to students

133with higher needs or specific school sites. They're happening at every level, every school from PK to high school. Our educators need a comprehensive procedure that every administrator is trained on to support them through the process of reporting, working with them to get medical help if needed, and explaining clearly the next steps or what to expect. If an issue reaches the district, those there are swift to respond in all the right ways. But there are incences incidents that are not being reported or recorded correctly. At the end of last year during the school safety meeting, uh there were only 16 reported incidents of violence. When I shared this with my site leaders, there was stunned amazement followed by incredulous laughter. What is clear to me is that not all administrators know what to do or how

134to respond when faced with egregious student behavior. We need to do better by our teachers. We may not be able to change student behavior, but we can take it seriously. Just as students deserve to be feel seen, welcome, valued, and protected, so too do our educators. Thank you. >> Thank you. And can you follow up with um as it relates to this policy with um Miss Marina? >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Okay, trustees. Now, are there any questions? >> Okay. Um may I have a motion to approve board policy 1312.3 and approve as a second reading? >> So moved. >> I'll second. Um that's motion by Trusty Emmery, second by um Trusty Rawlings. Uh discussion, >> no discussion. Uh Miss Garcia, please call for vote. >> Trusty COC? >> Yes. >> Trusty Verbat? >>

135Yes. >> Trusty Emory? >> Yes. >> Trusty Warick? >> Yes. >> Trusty Rawlings? >> Yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to item 13.2, revision of board policy 3311, first reading. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Robin. >> Thank you, President Rawlings, trustees, Dr. Norman. Uh, this aligns with the bidding procedures with legal requirements. The policy now states that bidding procedures must be established in accordance with and meet the requirements for procedures specified in law, including government code 54202 and applicable sections of the public contract code. Turn it back to President Rawlings if you have any questions. Thank you. This is the time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? We do not have any blue cards.

136Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? No questions. Um, I will make a motion to approve board policy 3311 and approve it as a second reading and bypass the I'm sorry, first reading and bypass the second reading. Do I have a second? I'll >> second. >> Just Emory second it. Any discussion? No discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty COC, >> yes. >> Trusty Verbette, >> yes. >> Trusty Emory, >> yes. >> Trusty Ward, >> yes. Trusty Rawlings, >> yes. Motion passes 5 to zero. Thank you. We now move on to item 13.3, revision of board policy 3311.1 as a first reading. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Robnet. >> Thank you again. Uh there's only one uh change to this board

137policy. The policy now explicitly authorizes the board to declare that a public construction project can be more economically performed by the district employees after the first round of bids, informal or formal, under the uniform public construction cost accounting act, um are all rejected. So when you have a rejection, you have the authority then to um declare that uh can be performed by the district employees. >> Thank you. This is time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? >> We do not have any blue cards. >> Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? Trusty Amry, um as it stands for most of these projects, are these um ones that our staff would be able to handle should those come up? Yeah, it just depends on the project and um oftentimes if our staff

138can handle it internally, it wouldn't go out for bid in the first place. Correct. >> That would that was Thank you for the clarification. >> Any other questions? Just for >> Is there a dollar amount that's affiliated with this? >> I don't believe there's a specific dollar amount that's specified in this, but let me check. No, I don't see a a dollar amount. Any other questions? I'll make a motion to approve board policy 3311.1 and approve as a first reading and bypass the second reading. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Uh I made the motion and trustee COC made the second. Uh discussion. No discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty COC? >> Yes. >> Trusty Verbat? >> Yes. >> Trusty Emory? >> Yes. Trusty Ward. >> Yes. >> Trusty Rawlings. >>

139Yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to item 13.4 revision of board policy 3312 first reading. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Rob Knight. >> This policy update. >> Sorry. >> No, that's okay. that this policy update expands the governing governing board's role in ensuring all contracts must comply with legal standards and promotes transparency by making contracts public records regardless of confidentiality clauses. It introduces new requirements for private labor compliance entities to invoid conflicts of interest and strengthens guidelines around contracts for non-nutritional foods, electronic services, and student data privacy. At this point in time, I'll turn it back over to President Rawlings. >> Thank you. And we have any uh this is the time for public comment. Have any

140blue cards been received? >> There are no blue cards. And with no blue cards, trustes, do you have any questions? No questions. Um, may I have or I will make a motion to approve board policy 3312 and approve as a first reading and bypass the second reading. >> Uh, second. >> Have a second by trustee Emory. And discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty COC, >> yes. >> Trusty Burbath, >> yes. >> Trusty Emory, >> yes. >> Trusty Ward, >> yes. >> Trusty Rollings, >> yes. Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to item 13.5, revision of board policy 4158, 4258, and 4358. Uh, first reading trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Miss Megan Aras. >> Thank you. uh

141board policies 4158, 4258, and 4358 um deal with employee security and they've been updated based on the recommendations from CSBA to include material which authorizes collective bargaining representative to seek a temporary restraining order on behalf of a district employee who has been subject to harassment, unlawful violence, or a credible threat of violence in the workplace. So, it's uh recommended that the board of trustees um review board policies 4158, 4258, and 4358 and approve as a first reading. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh this is the time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? We do not have any blue cards. Trustees, do you have any questions? Trusty Emry >> one. Just for clarification, is this for employee to employee or could it be also community members to employee and so on? >> Yeah,

142it can cover anything. It can cover a student to employee any anything but they can actually get a temporary restraining order on behalf >> any any circumstance. Okay. Thank you. >> So with that >> any other questions trust CC >> on that does that address what Miss Marino A was bringing to our attention. >> She spoke to uniform complaint procedures. Um so that was a different policy >> abuse. She was bringing abuse of teachers by students. It sounded like >> mostly, but would that be covered by this? >> Um, that would be a question for um >> Hi. Yes. >> Yeah, that would be a situation where this could um play a part. >> Perfect. >> Any other questions? Other questions? Uh I'll make a motion to approve board policies 4158, 4258, and 4358 and

143approve as a first reading and bypass the second reading. Motion. >> I already made the motion for the second. >> Second. >> Sorry. >> Miss Ward made the or trusty Ward made the second. Discussion. No discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty COC. >> Yes. >> Trusty Verbat. >> Yes. >> Trusty Emory. >> Yes. >> Trusty Ward. >> Yes. >> Trusty Rawlings. >> Yes. Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. Uh we move on to uh 13.6 revision of board policy 5125. Uh first reading. Trustees. This is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Brian Brackett. >> Thank you, President Rawlings. Uh, board policy 5125, student records, has been updated based on recommendations from CSBA. Uh, the policy now includes stronger protections for student data, including

144new rules for handling and deleting records upon request, especially for students no longer enrolled. It also incorporates updated guidance from the California Attorney General on how schools should respond to immigration enforcement. The policy expands who is responsible for protecting student records, requiring all district employees, not just administrators, to follow confidentiality rules. And it also includes new cyber security measures, uh, requiring staff training, stronger data protection protocols, especially related to technology and AI and mandatory reporting of large-scale cyber attacks to state authorities. With that, I respectfully recommend that the board of trustees review the policy and approve. >> Thank you. This is the time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? >> There are no blue cards. >> Thank you. Trustes, do you have any questions? Trusty Henry. >> Um, with the updated in

145the um uh sorry with the privacy of the you know online services and whatnot, is that going to impact any of our programs that we currently have running or do they already follow a more stringent guideline? >> Yeah. No, we are we already have a process uh that that we put through we vet all of the programs that we use for data data security that they meet uh the appropriate data security protocols. Um so I went through that because I had the same question uh with uh director Allen um who walked me through the process. We so we run those through a database that that tells us whether they have signed off on the appropriate security protocols. Um, so we feel we feel uh very good about the the data security of the programs that

146we bring on board. >> Any other questions? No other questions? Um, I will make a motion to approve board policy 5125 and approve it as a first reading and bypass the second reading. Have a second. >> Second. >> Trusty Verbth with the second. Discussion. No discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for a vote. >> Trusty COC. >> Yes. Trusty Verbath, >> yes. >> Trusty Emmery, >> yes. Trusty Ward, >> yes. >> Trusty Rawlings, >> yes. >> Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. We now move on to item 13.7, revision of board policy 5125.1, first reading. Trustees, this is a discussion action item. I will now hand it over to Dr. Brian Pucket. >> Thank you, President Rawlings. again related to student records. This is uh board policy 5125.1 release of directory information which has

147also been updated by CSBA um to include that students directory information may only be included in the minutes of governing boards meeting in accordance with board bylaw 9234 minutes and recordings which I think is probably an obscure use uh application of this policy. Uh more commonly uh the policy has been updated to delete options regarding access to directory information to employers, colleges, military recruiters and instead provide that those uh those uh users uh have access to that information unless a student uh a student if the student is 18 or the parent has uh specified that that information not be released. That is a part of our annual notifications and selections that uh parents make upon registration each year. Um, with that, I'll hand it back to President MS. >> Thank you. And this is the

148time for public comment. Have any blue cards been received? >> We do not have any blue cards. >> Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions? No questions. U, I will make a motion to approve board policy 5125.1 and approve as a first reading and bypass the second reading. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Trusty Ward made the second. Discussion. Discussion. Miss Garcia, please call for vote. Trusty COC. >> Yes. >> Trusty Verbat. Yes. >> Trusty Emmery. >> Yes. >> Trusty Ward. >> Yes. >> Trusty Rawlings. >> Yes. Motion passes 5 to zero. >> Thank you. And the next three have been pulled from the this agenda. And okay. And then we move on to um part 14 communications uh 14.1 governance team reports. This is the time for trustees to provide a

149brief report if they've attended a committee meetings where they represented the district. Are there any governance team reports? None. Okay. We move on to 14.2. Trustee requests for information from staff. Trustees, are there any requests for information from staff that have already been discussed with the superintendent and have been recommended to bring to the board? There's none. Uh, thank you. And we move on to 14.3. Trustee request for direction to staff as reflected in the current board agenda. Section 14.3 has been updated for previous board meeting agendas. This section now provides trustees with an opportunity to make requests for direction to staff during the meeting. In alignment with board bylaw 9322, any requests for future agenda items must be submitted in writing to the superintendent. These requests will be reviewed and considered through standard agenda

150planning process. At this time, do trustees have requests for direction to staff? Yep. And we will move on. And it is 8:20 and the regular meeting is now adjourned. Our regular meeting will take place at uh November 19th, 2025 at 6 p.m.