001do you want to do that right here okay good evening it is about 606 p.m and the board is reconvening from closed session during closed session the board took action to reject claim number 23-0577 on a vote 7-0 and the board also took action for what did I say four to zero yes we did not increase the number of board members probably were in closed session the board also took action in closed session by a vote of four to zero to approve readmission of student number 66312 effective September 15 2022. welcome members of the public board members and staff and thank you for attending as noted in board by law 9324 this meeting is being video recorded and broadcast via a link in our on our website the recording and broadcast May capture images and
002sounds of those attending the meeting we'll begin tonight's meeting with student representative to the board Channing Headley leading Us in the Pledge of Allegiance followed by trustee Jones leading us in a moment of meditation trustee Pearson reading from the district vision and Ms Garcia will take role trustee Rollins is unable to attend tonight's meeting three days ago marked the 21st year since the devastating attacks on September 11 2001. in memory in honor of those who supported those that were lost I asked for a moment of silence thank you our vision how we gauge success our students are engaged self-directed learners they're exposed to different learning environments and pathways students aspire to expand their talents and Achieve Excellence they are good thinkers communicators and problem solvers we will now take role student representative Channing Headley trustee
003Jones here trustee Williams here trustee Pearson here trustee Williamson here trustees me I have a motion to approve agenda item 4.1 approval and or organization of the September 14 2022 meeting agenda so move Pearson second Jones Ms Garcia would you please take a vote trustee Jones yes trustee Williams yes trustee Pearson yes trustee Williamson yes motion passes four to zero we now move to Communications item 5.1 report by student representative to the board you're up foreign we also hosted our new student lunch last week welcoming any students who are new to the district with pizza in the ASB room we are now preparing for homecoming by organizing our Lancer Day Parade football game and dance chstv had their first live show on August 29th and after 21 years with Mr Green the program now welcomes
004Mr Kurt Conan as their new teacher our speech and debate participated in their first League competition this past weekend with 27 total teams debating they have recently been named the 18th speech and debate team in the nation our drama Department welcomed their new teacher Miss shook from aoms they finished their auditions for clue last week and they are now in the rehearsal process and Comedy Sports also just wrapped up their auditions and created a JV and varsity team girls volleyball kicked off their season recently participating in eight pre-season games and winning five of those boys water polo had their first game on August 25th and since then they've had five games and won two this Friday they are hosting Grossmont High School girls Golf and Tennis have also begun and the girls golf team will
005be competing against Sage Creek this Thursday moving on to schs Sage Creek will be conducting fire lockdown and evacuation drills this week as a part of a campus-wide safety initiative there will also be a water drive for use in potential emergency situations as part of Safety Week the PTSA is organizing an art exhibition on August 28th and the students are encouraged to submit original art pieces with the theme of show your voice they will also be holding Club Rush on September 19th where students have an opportunity to learn more about the various clubs and student associations that they have to offer offer Sage Creek would like to wish their girls golf team the best of luck as they take on Carlsbad on Thursday and a friendly rivalry game at The Crossings thank you thank you
006very much for that very comprehensive report that was great Dr Churchill will now turn it to you for the superintendent's report thank you so much and we are thrilled to welcome the first of our two new student board Representatives uh Channing us here tonight from Carlsbad High School and we greatly appreciate your attendance tonight thank you two quick items the first yesterday the California Department of Public Health announced that effective September 17th it's ending the covid-19 policies that required weekly covid-19 testing for unvaccinated individuals in high-risk workplaces and schools that was in place since August 2021 the health order that mandated unvaccinated School Employees and volunteers to undergo weekly covid-19 testing so as a result of yesterday's announcement because our practice is align with cdph unvaccinated employees and volunteers will no longer need to take
007weekly tests beginning on Saturday we do continue to receive free at home rapid antigen tests from the state so students and staff members can always pick up tests for home use at their discretion they can pick them up in their school offices for as long as the supplies are available the second item on the superintendent report this evening was going to be an infographic that I shared with you on the screen but due to some of our Tech difficulties this evening I'm just going to verbally represent what you would have seen and we'll share this out on our website and social media channels tomorrow typically I do a opening of schools report where we pull down a few key facts and figures from the first day of school which was August 24th 2022 this year
008on our very first day of school we had just over 11 100 students that is including our students in our preschool program students in our expanded TK program kindergarten through 12th grade and our adult transition students who receive special education services through their 22nd birthday uh we have just over 1100 high quality staff serving our over 11 000 students we were fortunate to hire 44 brand new teachers this year and we hired 26 new classified staff members as well um we are very fortunate to have the support of Community Partners the Carlsbad Educational Foundation reported an investment of 1.1 million dollars last school year to support music Steam and Innovation and we're greatly appreciative of that support our Carlsbad Unified Council of ptas are also very active even in a year with some disruptions last
009year they logged nearly 35 000 volunteer hours in our schools and we could not be more thankful for our our excellent parent volunteers and their support um our bond program and our facilities program continues to to move strongly forward we'll hear more about that this evening to date we've invested just over 82 million dollars in facilities upgrades through the measure HH Bond program uh since 2018 and we're very proud of that work this is all done despite the fact that we are the second lowest funded Unified School District in San Diego County the state of California funds schools uh in a variety of complicated ways but it turns out that districts like ours that do not have a high percentage of low-income students or homeless students Etc we receive less funding than districts that have
010students with greater needs so um we still had 96 percent of our graduates on time last year which we're very proud of 80 percent of those graduates were eligible for admission to the UC and CSU systems so so so we're very proud of that the last key data point is one that we share with all of the public schools in the city of Carlsbad as you're aware there are four public school districts with with school campuses within the boundaries of the city of Carlsbad about three quarters of the school age students in the city attend Carlsbad Unified Schools but there are several Encinitas Union School District elementary schools La Costa Canyon High School and a couple of San Marcos Unified School District elementary schools all together when when when you look at the school age
011population that attends Public School in Carlsbad there's a website called Niche that does ratings and rankings they rank the best college town in America and the best Beach town in America and those sorts of things well they've generated a list of cities with the best public schools in America and and I am proud to to share that Carlsbad California was ranked number two in the nation in terms of cities with the best public schools in America so something we should be very proud of I'm going to work our butts off to get to number one but in the meantime thank you for for the sport support and our parent and Community member support to do outstanding things for kids it was a great start to the school year thank you thank you very much for
012that report this is the time that members of the public have the opportunity to address the board on any non-agendized item that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board please keep in mind though that board meetings are business meetings that are conducted in public not Town Hall meetings where there is an ongoing discussion between the board members and the public as a school board we have a responsibility to ensure that the agendized business of the district is completed during the meeting we invite you to show support for a speaker by waving your fingers rather than by clapping or cheering in order to allow speakers to present their comments and ensure that we're and ensure that we're able to properly attend to the business of the board public comments will be limited to 20
013minutes we have received a total of 16 blue cards for non-agenda items that means each speaker will have one and a half minutes when I call your name please come to the podium state your name and indicate whether whether or not you live within boundaries of the school district you will have one and a half minutes and we so the timer is where oh so the timer is working now so you'll be able to to see the time remaining on the screen your mic will be muted once your time has expired I'm going to read three speakers at a time so you can be all lined up and ready we'll first hear from Shawna Hurst followed by Laura Pitts followed by Jennifer Zamora good evening Shawna Hurst Carlsbad Unified Council PTA president I just want
014to start off with we are off to a great start this year and we are excited to to announce that the cuc along with the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce is going to be holding a candidate School Board candidate Forum on October 4th at the Dove Library it's for all community members including parents we also have a lot of other fantastic things going our Carlsbad High School is hosting the cusd College and Career Fair on October 13th open to all Sage Creek is hosting a secrets of success on September 28th and it's open to all 8th graders across the district in any Sage Creek families aoms PTSA has a 100 percent teacher enrollment we have over at aom has AOE has already brought in over 25 000 in their annual giving campaign with an additional fifteen
015thousand dollars from businesses this year hope has got a great idea for their spirit wear their special education classes have designed a sock and it's part of the um we are all capable of great things and parents are and community members can purchase these socks and it will be on a crazy John John's crazy sock website so I just this is just a little glimpse of the amazing things that our ptas our communities and our parents everyone coming together is doing for the whole District thank you thank you good evening trustees I'm Laura Pitts the CEO at Carlsbad Educational Foundation first off Kids Care is busy we have 900 students in our Kids Care Program 400 of which are kindergarten students and then first through fifth grade we have 500 students we are running a
016wait list at most students as we at most schools that we've reached capacity and so we are heavily focused on recruitment to a meet the needs of the students that are on a waitlist as well as to start creating space for the upcoming elop students that will be joining us and I want to thank the district we've had really good success with cusd leadership sharing some of our recruitment needs and that strategy is working so we have multiple people starting next week so thank you we are also progressing with our after school middle school enrichment program that I shared last month our deadline to start the program or our projected deadline has been postponed just a bit we are hoping to start the program on October 17th an open enrollment in the next two weeks
017for families to enroll we also have after school enrichment programs running that are at 7 several of our elementary schools those started this week and we encourage families who are interested in getting their students involved in things like chess club and sports and art to enroll in our program and avoid the pickup line finally one of the things I am most excited to share is for the first time since 2022 we are 2020 we are back at ViaSat for Science Olympiad so students that are interested in joining will have an opportunity too in October thank you thank you good evening my name is Jennifer Zamora and I'm a parent of four boys that have attended Carlsbad Unified Schools in the last nine and a half years I am coming here today because I've watched numerous
018board meetings over the last three years and have stayed up until 1am listening to proposals budgets and tough decision making a special quote that comes to mind when I reflect reflect back on all the meetings and information that's been shared over those years is that one that comes from Mr Rogers when I was a boy I would say see scary things in the news my mother would say to me look for the helpers you will always find people who are helping our Educators teachers classified staff administrators and board members they are our helpers in our community many of them live in our community their children attend our schools let me repeat they are our helpers I know this because I have seen them in action I have seen Educators driving food and meals to families
019in our community I have seen them organized to be the homeless I have witnessed Educators volunteer their time tutoring or building relationships with families and attending sporting events or dance of competitions I have personally benefited from an amazing music teacher that taught my boys to play a Beatles favorite Blackbird during a pandemic on her own time I've seen our amazing social studies teachers spend countless hours planning and organizing events known as change makers that encourages our students to educate themselves on current topics and how it relates to our constitution there's much more I want to say thank you oh that's obnoxious uh that was thank you very much the next three speakers are Stephanie Wells Jennifer hamburger and Mike Barillo go ahead okay I was just waiting for the timer good evening my name is
020Stephanie Wells and I have two students in the district I'm here tonight to thank you for passing the secure store to Firearms resolution in May of 2021. first I'd like to thank trustee Rawlings for making the minute motion to get this on the agenda when she saw the urgency of this issue gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children let that sink in this issue is personal to me my mother was shot and injured by during a domestic violence fight by an unsecured gun growing up I never met another child like me now an estimated 3 million children in the U.S are exposed to shoot shootings per year witnessing shootings whether in schools communities or homes can have a devastating impact Dr Churchill I'd like to thank you for continuing to educate
021our community of this resolution in your Communications your reminders are literally saving lives reminding parents of their responsibilities to secure their guns it shouldn't be a partisan issue but yet this only passed with a 4-1 vote with trustee piercing being the only no vote despite the data and letters sent by our students you still voted no this November I want to remind our community to put our children first when voting elect candidates who believe in gun sense that should be our top priority we need to ensure our electeds we'll vote Yes on policies that keep our children safe from gun violence thank you [Music] good evening trustees my name is Jen hemberger I'm a Carlsbad resident for the last 13 years I have two boys one in middle school and I have a high schooler
022as well I'm here tonight to thank you Dr Churchill and all the administration and teachers the helpers uh to that work really hard to integrate diversity into our curriculum diversity of thought in our classrooms is vitally important being exposed to multiple perspectives and differing viewpoints is how a person learns to see the big picture teaching students to question and debate topics respectfully allows them to develop critical thinking and communication skills that will serve them well beyond their Carlsbad classrooms I'm also here to urge the adults in our Carlsbad Community to demonstrate respect how to respectfully debate topics that are difficult this community is full of intelligent and truly good people let us remember that when we are dealing with each other so many of our teachers I have been the uh so many of our
023teachers have been trashed on social media or I even watched board members being yelled at during the last meeting let's be better than that and be teach our kids how to be good community members thank you so Mike barello in the district for 25 years to accommodate the time I've reduced my first part of my talk to a visualization So Close Your Eyes the captain is yelling intelligible orders the Helmsman steers but the rudder is disconnected the ship's circles Tighter and Tighter into a Whirlpool of despair until we have a District board and superintendent that can recognize and admit education in America is facing the serious threat of neo-marxist infiltration then I can't offer my vote of confidence to any of you we are in critical times and we need strong leadership we need leaders
024that have impeccable moral and ethical discernment and the courage to say no to the county Sacramento and Washington despite what their lawyers advise them to do and like Kelly said Monday we need leaders that will stick to the basics bring back civics so a really good book right now that's out the psychology of totalitarianism by Matthias Desmond he gives a clear picture of what's going on in America and the world today recommend this for everybody Matthias Desmond the psychology of totalitarianism thank you the next three speakers will be Chris Walter Katrina weidlick and Nikki Redden hi krisha lived here for a few years I'm a resident in Carlsbad as you welcome the new school year I'm advocating for prioritizing children's education and their well-being by advocating I mean to focus on core subjects reading math
025science Civics as opposed to political activism radical division biological confusion and sexual sexualization of children by well-being I mean to get rid of the alphabet soup of programs such as Dei to sel to lgbq plus whatever clubs which leads to division and confusion and have no place in a classroom every child is precious and unique regardless of the various identities that they are being encouraged to adapt rather than provide Unity forcing children to identify with a particular group is divisive demeaning and degrading each in the programs that corrupt our children let children have a childhood and retain their innocence thank you is it possible to have my son read first yes okay do you want to go ahead friendship has no borders we are all born in a different way how we look and what
026we say from different countries around the world all different genders boys and girls of many sizes and colors too the things we like and the things we do we're sure glad it works this way the world is so colorful every day if everyone were the same you see you wouldn't be you and I wouldn't be me thank you my daughter came home with this beautiful drawing my favorite part about it is that every child on this bus has a different skin tone a different hair color and even has brightly colored rainbow Wheels my husband and I have worked really hard to help my children understand their identity and celebrate all aspects of it from language to appearance my daughter loves coloring and my son loves reading I really encourage the district to continue to ensuring
027all diverse voices and communities are represented in the classroom that every child has every color that they need to represent themselves that they hear every story they need to see themselves thank you for ensuring that our district reflects the diversity of our families the diversity of our community and the diversity of our world thank you would you please state your name and if you look Katrina weidler teacher sages grad parent and Carlsbad resident thank you the next three will be Jolene lodger the person who is representing the Carlsbad equality Coalition and make sure you say your name and whether you live in the district JB Scranton and Scott Davison hi my name is Nikki Redden I am a Carlsbad alumni uh class of 2002 we have our 20-year reunion coming up um raised in District
028One BV PTA member um I have a first grader at Buena Vista the school I went to and a preschooler at Buena Vista and we have moved away and we are back and we are so proud to be back in the district that I got to be a part of um my son is in first grade and this week they talked about being a good Community member and part of being a good Community member is speaking up supporting our schools and being here to speak to all of you and thank you for the work that you're doing my daughter Paloma is in preschool she's a community Helper and in a diverse classroom with Miss Annette and it is incredible so thank you for having those kinds of programs in our schools I'm also working on
029my Master's in Multicultural education so I just wanted to quote something really quickly from a book that I would also recommend called Multicultural education our survival as a strong and Democratic Nation will be seriously imperiled if we do not help our students attain the knowledge and skills they need to function in a culturally diverse future society and world as Martin Luther King Jr stated so eloquently we will live together as brothers and sisters or we will die separate and apart as strangers so thank you to all the teachers the staff the principals they're incredible and if anyone went to any sick campus they would see that thank you good evening my name is Julianne Lodge I'm a parent in the district I have three boys one's a graduate and two are still enrolled in schools
030I just want to express my gratitude to all of you tonight I think you've done an amazing job over these last difficult years and I just want to thank you for keeping the ship steady and all your hard work I'm here tonight to push back against some of the recent calls by prior speakers to eliminate instruction about the struggles of marginalized people we would like you to hear other parent voices because we are here too and I represent not just myself but several families who are here in the audience and also at home we want our children to be empathetic compassionate kind and yes anti-racist we want our children to grow up to be the ones on the right side of history when circumstances demand their higher instincts for justice and fairness we want them
031to be critical thinkers who can look at issues from a variety of perspectives our children also need to be prepared to work in a diverse Workforce and not interact with co-workers based on stereotypes and misinformation and I'm going to skip a lot of what I was going to say we believe that it's time to update reading lists to reflect more diverse voices we feel that it's time to get ethnic studies curriculum rolled out and in fact infused throughout all subject areas we want equity and Justice in the classroom thank you one thank you for having me I'm Hannah Summerhill I'm with the Carlsbad equality Coalition and I live in Carlsbad the Carlsbad equality Coalition recently met with students from both Sage Creek and Carlsbad because we think it's really important to give students a voice
032at meetings like this and so many of them expressed that they wanted Carlsbad to feel like an inclusive place for them and inclusion and belonging means that students feel safe at school so that they can focus on learning and being young and enjoying their lives so I want to stand in support with the teachers and let them know that they should have the support of the school board to teach from a diverse point of view we need to protect them I know they're under so much pressure they already have such hard jobs and it's important for students to learn about and experience deib diversity Equity inclusion and belonging it's so important for students to learn about racism classism anti-Semitism ableism and the other isms that we all experience on some level if we don't we
033know somebody who does learning about that will mean that those who don't experience these isms will have more empathy and ease the burden on those who do thank you so much my nexter is uh go ahead [Music] uh my name is Scott Davison I'm a resident of Carlsbad I have a son at Sage Creek High School on Monday the district participated in a meeting with the city of Carlsbad to specifically discuss the city's state of emergency as it relates to bike and pedestrian safety although accidents involving bicycles have been increasing sharply for the past two years it is better late than never that the city decided to act anyone who has a child at cusd knows that the pickup and drop-off times at almost every campus is a chaotic mess of e-bikes flying through vehicular
034and pedestrian traffic uh what I did not hear at this meeting were any improvements discussed specifically with regard to any of our campuses what I can say is that there are dozens of very basic fixes that should be at the very least explored if not expedited uh given the state of emergency for example right outside these doors it's Sage Creek there is no actual School Zone on college or Canon despite having 50 mile per hour speed limits and 45 mile per hour speed limits on both those streets and if you watch the traffic during these times you would understand why there needs to be a school zone further up the hill at Calavera Hills Elementary Middle School the school zone does not even begin until after the primary intersection where the majority of students across
035the street to go to school at Tamarack South where there's been a crossing guard for years but apparently no school zone and third where the school zone does exist at Calavera there are no posted times for when they apply the lights flash arbitrarily including for all summer and are essentially ignored by almost all drivers simply because there are never any actual students present all right our next speakers will be JB Scranton Diane Nygaard Ali rendenberg and Augustine Dao may it please the board JB Scranton San Diego's number one sub I don't live in the district before I begin my substantive remarks I want to bring the board's attention to a federal decision down the city of Los Angeles this was a case involving free speech in a public meeting it arose when speakers before an
036LA City Council during public comment rejected and banned for violating what the government called quote rules of decorum specifically use of quote profanity and other harsh language end quote the test the court used was whether speech in question was can I emphasize actually disruptive actually disruptive of the public meeting and to quote the court directly the court concludes that using profanity and making these criticisms does not repeat not justify the removal or borrowing of an individual you can read this decision yourself at 28 Federal supplement third page 1019 Madam chair of this Auditorium is not your personal living room this is a public forum that must be respected by you you can't make up arbitrary rules about Free Speech especially when you don't like the speech especially if the speecher if the speaker is using
037profanity democracy is messy and democracy is ugly two subs points real quick one as promised you received two written demands for information don't it up like Rick Grove number two about our pay cut there's still been no accountability for cutting substitute pay for by 24 you for doing that good evening uh Diane Nygard representing preserve Calavera we're the largest Grassroots all volunteer conservation organization in coastal North County and I'm here tonight to ask for your help about 80 percent of the borders of this beautiful high school are part of the largest contiguous Natural Area left in coastal North County so when this high school was proposed we worked very hard to make sure it'd be a good neighbor to the plants and Wildlife that call us home initially your Consultants weren't too concerned about those
038issues and unfortunately we were one of three groups that sued the district over this project but after discussion we in the district signed a settlement agreement and the end result is this beautiful high school and the conditions that make sure that you be a good neighbor not just when it was built but forever we worked real closely with Cesar Morales and the initial staff to make sure that happened from the beginning and including wood was harvested from the Heritage Oak Tree in the parking lot to make shelves in the library here but there's several ongoing issues that we need to verify are still being done in accordance with that agreement making sure lights are turned off so they don't impact animals at night the loudspeakers don't go after 10 o'clock there's no intrusions in the
039buffer to the creek and there's a TDM program to reduce the number of single occupant cars come into the site whoops my time is almost up we've tried to have a compliance review meeting for some time we need your help to make that happen the plants and Wild [Applause] [Music] diversity equity and inclusion three basic human needs that have somehow become a political problem I grew up here in Carlsbad and I hope to raise my future kids here but I am worried I am concerned about the loud voices in the room taking away three basic words that have the power to educate our next Generations to be more diverse Equitable and inclusive since when are these words so scary since when is basic education about empathy something that has become a national issue plaguing our
040school board meetings across the country some of you might be thinking good parents raise their children to be kind empathetic and colorblind right but did you hear the issue with that did the idea of a colorblind Society while well-intentioned leaves people without the language to discuss race and examine their own bias it ignores the realities of systemic racism learning di would help students and teachers understand these Concepts Dei has always mattered but with the recent pandemic the racial injustices we have all witnessed on the news and the crippling effects of covet it's essential now my name is Ali vadenberg I'm the president of the Carlsbad equality Coalition and I want to thank custody for starting this initiative and I give my full support thank you do you reside in the district thank you hello my
041name is Augustine Dao I'm a resident of Carlsbad and I'm a part of the Carlsbad equality Coalition and I want to applaud this cusd for creating a Dei initiative and offer my full support to Foster belonging amongst our students and teachers there's a lot of pain we don't know we're inflicting and the CEC has been working targeted to create a student committee and in the process have heard and worked with them recently a peer reported to the CEC and wanted us to share a few days ago a student was late and the teacher asked them why a student said that they walked to school and sometimes it takes them a while after hearing this the teacher said they should just buy an e-bike ignorant of the different Financial situations and circumstances at home the diversity
042of our student body I graduated Sage Creek this year after only two years in the district after for example observing virulent homophobia this is just our most recent example but diversity equity and inclusion is something that our district needs to astringently create and defend thank you thank you for being all of you for being here and for being respectful as we listen to the various comments we now move to item 7.1 no okay all right foreign thank you we now move to item 6.1 approval of the 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
043request for one or more specific items to be discussed and are removed this is the time for public comment have any blue cards been received there are no blue cards for this item all right I will be pulling item 6.2 and trustee Williams is pulling item 6.3 or any other items being pulled may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar with the exception of item 6.2 and 6.3 so moved Jones second Williams trustee Jones made the motion trustee Williams seconded the motion Ms Garcia please call for a vote trustee Jones yes trustee Williams yes trustee Pearson yes trustee Williamson yes motion passes four to zero thank you may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar item 6.2 meeting minutes for August 17 2022. SoMo Pearson second Jones trustee Pearson made the
044motion trustee Jones seconded the motion I pulled item 6.2 to make a correction to the meeting minutes the first sentence for item 6.1 in the minutes should reflect that I asked the board if anything should be pulled not trustee Williams Ms Garcia please call for a vote trustee Jones yes trustee Williams so I have a correction so are we approving it with the correction yes even though that that was not the motion the um to make okay to okay I'm going to amend the emotion to approve the consent calendar item 6.2 with the correction of the name of Williamson in place of Williams who seconded so moved and then and second person okay all right thank you um would you please call for a vote trustee Jones yes trustee Williams yes trustee Pearson yes trustee
045Williamson yes motion passes four to zero thank you may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar item 6.3 foreign second Jones a trustee Pearson made the motion trustee Jones seconded the motion trustee Williams would you like to address this yes I pulled item 6.3 from consent because I will be abstaining from voting on this item city of Carlsbad is listed on the AP warrant listing my company works for the city of Carlsbad while no material conflict of interest exists out of abundance of caution I will be abstaining to avoid the perception of a conflict of interest thank you any other discussion Ms Garcia would you please call for the vote trustee Jones yes trustee Williams abstain trustee Pearson yes trustee Williamson yes motion passes three in favor one abstention thank you now we
046move to Concentra to action and discussion items all right um item 7.1 2021 unaudited actuals financial report proposition 30 education protection account EPA expenditure report and resolution number 2223 adopting the Gan limit for 2022 and 2023. trustees this is a discussion action item Mr Dill thank you president Williamson the budget is a plan and we update you on that plan all throughout the year and then in September I come and tell you what really happened and uh the the one true thing is the unaudited actuals and so uh this is an update on where we ended last year uh Ms Araceli Salazar director of fiscal Services is here this evening and definitely want to give her credit for all of the work that goes behind this extensive report and keeping track of our budget throughout
047the year and sometimes working in two different fiscal years at once and leading a team of people who do that and and it's a it's a great deal of work and I I thank her for all of that work that I'm now going to take credit for um so uh in just talking in in big themes of how we ended the year from where we thought we would be back in May and June to after finally closing the books uh essentially we broke even this was a tread water year when you look at the entire general fund as you can see there's a a very slight deficit of of just over a quarter of a million dollars out of 145 million dollars in Revenue this is a fraction of a percent it's it's 0.2 percent
048um and so essentially as I said it was a break even Year and that is because of some slight changes in Revenue which I'll walk you through and also some of our usual and customary savings that we see when we close the books on the expenditure side at the end of the year so the board's familiar with uh with this chart just a look back at our history with uh 2122 being the second to last uh on the right there as you can see those those two bars are essentially even and that we uh and that we catch up uh in this fiscal year with the actions that we took at the um in updating you on the local control funding formula at the last board meeting where we're now projecting a surplus at this
049point for this year so um you know I would say the slight deficits a blip and we're back on track for this current fiscal year and our Outlook would would lead you to that same conclusion the I always like to just show quickly uh where the where the money comes from and how we spend it and uh the the uh the orange slice of the pie on the left on Revenue uh very is a little bit bigger proportionally and that's uh you know one-time dollars that came in that's the in-person instruction grant that was the Extended Learning opportunities Grant um but still the vast majority is local control funding formula uh with us still ending this uh last year and continuing into this year as a lcff district um and and not a basic Aid
050District but certainly property tax makes up about 95 of that lcff uh blue pie on the left on the right hand side our expenditures breakdown um people uh continue to be the largest expenditure at 82 percent which is normal uh it's normal in a good year it's been normal in bad years as well we we usually hover right at that 82 percent when all is is said and done Services Pi is a little bit bigger in this lab last year we had quite an uptick in services for students that we were unable to provide with our own staff and so we had to contract out in a number of special ed mental health arenas so breaking down the revenue you can see just a slight increase on the lcff and property tax we actually ended
051with with slight access in the educational protection account and that expenditure report is what you as part of this action that you'll be approving tonight so we had a little bit more than we normally would be entitled to under the local control funding formula but we're not basic Aid your only basic Aid or Community funded when property tax itself is in excess of your total local control funding formula entitlement so we had a blend of property tax and EPA is essentially what our lcff funding was uh this year with uh with not only the The increased Cola but also the augmentation to the lcff base Grant um we are solidly an lcff District in this year on federal you know we usually see some movement back and forth on on when we spend dollars is
052when we recognize those dollars often and so as we close the books those those things balance out and carry over into the next year same with State dollars I want to walk you through the the large negative on the local there uh which is a net but uh is a result of a of a essentially a write-off that we have to do on paper uh only and it came out to uh just a little over three quarters of a million dollars which reflects our share of the county treasury's investment losses we also in some years uh plus up in on our share of their gains in a year uh it is only on paper it does not actually affect the cash that we have on deposit in the County Treasury but essentially if uh if
053all school districts closed out shops and closed our shops and had a run on the treasury and took our money out they would say we don't have all of these funds available and and that's what that uh gain or loss represents uh however uh any dollar that we have on uh you know in the bank essentially is there for us able to be used so this is just something that we have to write the fair value of their gains or losses and so it would pure that our revenue is down it appear it also makes it appear as if our unrestricted fund balances down however when we get into this fiscal year we reverse that and we're kind of back on even par where the the the fund balance is even and matches what our
054cash would be on hand at the end of the year and we go through this exercise every year it was just sizable this year and so it really jumps out normally it's you know tens of thousands or you know a little bit plus or minus but it was quite a large adjustment on again on paper uh on uh expenditures it's uh in terms of uh people those first three lines uh with salaries and benefits uh that is a matter of positions that were vacant throughout the year and when uh we budget those for the entire year and we capture savings uh whenever we don't we are not fully staffed through the year that's certainly what happened in this last school year and while we did adjust down we had some additional savings by the time
055we closed out on books and supplies that's also typical uh that we see quite a bit of savings in those some of those are just carryover budgets that go year over year and if they're not fully spent in one year we have the savings this year they get rolled into the budget and you'll see those at first interim on Services we did see an increase from where we thought we would uh end the year and that was entirely in the special ed Arena as we were growing in the number of students um with who are identified as needing services on through special education That Grew throughout the year and we did increase the budget a number of times for non-public schools and non-public agencies and it it simply wasn't enough by the time we closed
056the books and so we did see a jump in services that offset our savings in other areas in the in the general fund so only one out of all of those categories did we go up and and that was it But ultimately uh just just under two million dollars in in savings across the general fund so fund balance uh breaking it down between unrestricted and restricted uh looking at where we thought we would be at estimated actuals where we actually landed um this is the breakdown you'll see that the uh the deficit on the on the unrestricted side is greater than the the Surplus that we have on the restricted um you know normally you would rather see it the other way around with uh you know level spending on the on the unrestricted side
057and spending those carryover amounts on the on the restricted uh the balances on the restricted side really are these uh large pots of one-time money that are carrying over into next year so those those will continue on uh on the unrestricted side uh the I just explained the write down that we had to do on paper that's in that net change as well as the increase in the contribution that we had to make to special education also comes from the unrestricted to contribute to the restricted side so that definitely had an impact in in making that more lopsided than I would prefer but you know in the end we essentially were flat across the entire general fund on special funds uh you know ASB is just something of note it's those are funds on on
058hand that we do report as part of our overall Financial reports but uh those are our funds controlled by the students and we just starting last year we started noting that in our reports so there you go there's our nice nice job ASB cafeteria fund uh also we had quite a large Surplus this last year and it was from a number of areas once again Staffing shortages led to savings also our cafeteria managers did a really good job of staying ahead of inflation and ordering early in stockpiling and so we had a quite a bit of savings on our uh our cost of our Goods but we're also growing in the participation in that program and so we're getting more and more reimbursement with a fund balance that large and a surplus that large in
059the cafeteria it's certainly going to be taking care of a lot of needs that they have to meet this new demand we need more equipment equipment that we have now is failing because it wasn't intended to to provide that much production so this is um certainly a a boon to the cafeteria funding that they have those dollars now available to reinvest back in the program to meet the demand that we have and so we'll continue to be monitoring that event that ideally this should be a break even account we have the Surplus this year and at some point we will level off in our in our participation and we'll know you know where we can um you know where where we can invest more on an ongoing basis but certainly this year we're going to
060be investing on a one-time basis using these access funds uh bond funds uh you can see the expenditures that 18 million that was what we spent uh from measure HH last year that negative Revenue again that's that same write down on paper it applies to uh fund 21. it was about two and a half million dollars for measure HH um that we had to uh show a negative on paper from the County Treasury um fair share losses however uh we would have shown a surplus with the action or we would have shown uh actual Revenue with the interest income that we did have so again that gets reversed this year and it doesn't affect the overall project funds that we have on hand developer fees the last column Community facilities District are Mella ruse dollars
061that 25 million is the certificates of our participation which were issued so that has come into that fund and is now part of that fund balance and is available for project funds which we'll be talking about in just a few minutes so next up uh you know we will uh we are heading into October which means that is when we uh certify our enrollment um that starts uh our analysis into our average daily attendance and uh you know it shows us if we were right on with our estimates on average daily attendance that we'll see throughout the year and we'll be reporting a number of uh updates to you in December when we bring you the first interim report which will be as of October 30th so we'll be adding in a one-time block grant
062Revenue expenditures all of the carryover budgets that we captured from closing the books this year and uh in putting those revised beginning balances that you just saw a few moments ago with that I'm happy to entertain any questions thank you very much for that presentation are there any questions thank you um have we received any blue cards no there are no blue cards thank you um is there any are there any questions Ms Jones thank you Mr Dill thank you Miss arcelli and your team I appreciate the work you did it's quite an achievement to come in point to I think in my nine years here I started as a board member with um that chart looking like an alligator and to see it look like it does today I'm thrilled so thank you for
063the good work that we've done to shore up expenditures and be on budget and thank you to my fellow board members for making tough decisions and our partners in labor for meeting us in the middle I have a quick question about the the tax Treasurer write-off so I guess just from a communication standpoint I haven't heard this big of an amount before and so has their office indicated that it's just a matter of investment mixtures in their office and we won't you know they're fixing or riding the ship in this matter or yeah and it actually surprised me that it was that large because our County Treasurer's generally very conservative in their investment strategy and uh and so they this is why our investment returns are usually so low because we have such uh they
064have such a cautious investment strategy but I think it's just a matter of the volatility uh that they saw in the market over the last year but it's ultimately they also have a very long-term strategy as well so while there's a uh you know a temporary dip this year they are also thinking on the long term and um you know they I I know Mr McAllister and um and I know his philosophy to towards this and and it's nothing that I think raises the level of concern the the accounting exercise that we have to do with this reaches back to the Orange County bankruptcy and so um uh when when that treasury actually did go bankrupt uh and school districts were affected back then and so now this is just a matter of saying if
065this were to happen again this would be what you would be entitled to and so you need to write this down which again is why we every year we kind of reset that clock and it goes up or down but usually it's just very slightly as this was much larger than normal thank you any other questions all right um may I have a motion to approve the 2122 unaudited actuals financial report proposition 30 education protection account expenditure report and adopt resolution number 10 2223 which sets forth the 2021-22 and the 2223 Gan limit approach Appropriations so move Pearson second Jones trustee Pearson made the motion trustee Jones seconded the motion is there any discussion Ms Garcia please call for a vote student representative Headley yes trustee Jones yes trustee Williams yes trustee Pearson yes trustee
066Williamson yes motion passes four to zero thank you that will now move on to item 7.2 measure HH Bond program monthly update trustees this is an information discussion item Mr deal thank you and I am inviting up to the stage Ms Jessica Kimbrell who is our director of facilities planning and construction as you know she started with us on Valentine's Day of this year um but it already seems like she's been here much longer because she's done quite a bit of work for us and on our existing projects and kicking us off on the projects that are down the road we've made through Jessica's work and working with the The Architects our construction managers and also the site principals there have been a few changes that have been made along the way since you've seen
067some of the the site plans so we're going to walk you through that today I I will say to prepare yourself you know for some sticker shock in terms of budgets in that uh you know our budgets were estimated back in 2018 and even a year ago you know we weren't anticipating the amount of cost escalation that we're now seeing in the construction industry and so you know right now we have updated uh we have updated estimates on budgets but we won't actually know what budgets we actually never know what uh construction projects will cost us until we open bids or set a guaranteed maximum price on a lease lease back contract and and from there we have ways of adjusting uh you know through value engineering you know how we can bring budgets back
068in line with with our expectations so uh so I'll walk you through uh some of the changes here and and Ms kimbrella is here in case you actually ask ask me any actual tough questions and that I can't answer but actually in all kidding aside um she lives this every day and and has a wealth of information of what the thought process were was going into each one of these changes and and in many cases you know just uh despite the increase in our estimates we've looked at what the original uh plans would have cost us today and what they're looking like now and with the exception of one area where we added some scope um she's bringing those costs down so I'll give a quick update on the on the uh the financing uh
069where we are in the timeline and then speak about the remaining scope and design of uh five different schools so I'll start off with some good news and that is uh I did get some good news from uh Mr McAllister and that uh the tax rates for measure HH and prop P have been calculated and both of those are down uh from last year and so uh that is that is good news and we are well below the maximum estimated tax rates for both measure HH and proposition P um you know those are a matter of increased assessed valuation in our boundaries and also the financing plans that were put in place by the board and refinancing debt at lower interest rates have brought those costs down to taxpayers specifically with measure HH we ran
070the numbers um on where we thought we would be in 20 2018 in terms of the total estimated principle and interest for the the 265 million dollar Bond measure and over time it was estimated at 456 million and ending in 2053. by bringing some of that issuance forward and the board did that last March to authorize a larger series B during a time when interest rates were at historic lows that has an effect of and again this is estimated at this time because we haven't issued the second next two series but if we were to to stick with our plan today that would be a savings of almost 35 million dollars and we would end The Debt Service three years early so um that was all work um you know that was spearheaded by the
071Board of Trustees and wanting to make sure that that we were watching out for the taxpayers in our issuance of the debt so on uh the uh revised project fund estimate uh this is um probably a little I don't know if it's difficult to read or not from where from where you are but so far we've issued just over 180 million dollars in series A and B uh of that we have spent or encumbered uh almost 100 million dollars of that which means we still have uh 80 million dollars that's unencumbered for the remaining phase two projects so that's a combination of a phase that those are dollars that are available that we have not locked down with um with construction contractors uh and for the phase 2B projects um where we're at the very
072beginning stages of encumbering for design but we're a long way from construction so that's where that 80 million would be available out of series A and B for those phase two projects phase two and 2B we still have 87 million left to uh in authorization to issue I will say we have enough capacity in our assessed evaluation where we could issue that all right now if we had the if we had the staff and the ability to get that work done within three years so at any time we could actually issue all of the remaining funds we'll be looking at this in the spring uh in in our forward-looking planning for 2024 of what projects will be in the pipeline beginning that year as we as we are in the midst of phase two we'll
073be assessing phases three and four and what our capacity would be to get the work done and what the potential sizing would be and also what's the interest rate environment at that time so a lot of work on the financing side but we actually do have the capacity to issue that right now certificates of participation have definitely benefit us benefited us as we look at Cost escalation you know those funds can cover the increases that we're seeing in the budget estimates for the upcoming projects with some room to spare we also have some additional fund balances in the cfds we have some developer fees so just a little over 40 million dollars in other sources that would be available to us right now we do have some funding eligibility at the state I just note
074this at the bottom of a little over 2.4 million dollars I don't count State dollars until we actually have them I'm just noting that there they are there and I'll talk a little bit about the the hardship dollars for Aviara Oaks Elementary in a moment but we are on the list for Magnolia on the state list for Magnolia right now Jessica looked it up last week and we were on page 7 of 15 so we're at least above halfway there the governor issued more Bond yesterday from prop 51 and and the state is actually using general fund dollars to work through that project list on unfunded State projects right now so I'm hopeful that we'll we will see this in my lifetime projects by phase has not changed I just included this uh just as
075a reminder of what's in phase two that's phase two and 2B that was covered by the additional 30 million that the board authorized phases three and four we'll start thinking about that next spring as we start thinking of 2024 I'm talking calendar years now 2024 2025 2026. where are we right now number of projects uh have been completed in phase one uh still in progress at Jefferson Kelly hope and uh the project that we have to improve the HVAC at Carlsbad High we're in design and approval we'll talk about all those schools except for Calavera Hills that one is pretty straightforward and chugging along for a new steam classroom and then up next would be our design work for Pacific Rim Carlsbad Village Aviara Oaks and the design work for Cultural Arts Center uh I
076this slide came from Mr Grove today uh something he got from uh from our jpa and I decided to drop this in that just talks about uh the construction cost Trends um you can see some percentages there and these are are various sources that track uh construction costs so anywhere from 13 to 22 percent from those three sources um just in the last year and that's for all construction not just public works construction so um you know I think we are our experiencing even more of a of a shock so uh there's still some remaining work to be done at Hope and Kelly which we've updated the board uh in throughout the last year um with with hope we're still awaiting the storm water and grading permit uh and once we have that then we
077can move on to completing the lunch shelter and the blacktop area current estimate three million dollars which is a little bit higher than the two and a half that we already had in the budget for that remaining work so we're not too far off um and you know as we close up the initial phase we'll see what contingency is left that can cover that that cost escalation uh so we would be looking at uh finalizing this additional work which was not in the original uh plans but are required for us to do um and so that has never actually been awarded to any contractor uh we would be looking at doing a request for proposals for that work and tentatively in January February awarding the uh work for phase two uh similarly with Kelly uh
078while we're wrapping up a great deal of work there that we are still well we do have uh the storm water and grading permit there but we've not awarded that work and because of supply chain issues and just timing of when we got the permit versus how much we could get done over the summer we had to push that out into next year as part of the existing scope there are upgrades for the permanent classrooms in terms of sealing the lightings and low voltage the door and security controls playground updates all within the existing budget and so when I look at the savings that we will capture from phase one and not doing that work yet rolling it into phase two and adding the additional work for the storm water retention um we're we're right
079on track with a five and a half million um in in what we have you know previously asked estimated and that would be on the same timeline as as hope so looking in the spring to review proposals and to award those okay design reviews uh we'll walk you through this uh very quickly uh with Buena Vista you know if I were to summarize it in one sentence it's at the very top same number of classrooms different layout but there are some benefits to this new layout one will be able to provide more play Space on that middle tier next to the lunch area it also will keep kick balls and other things from slamming into the classrooms that we were planning on building there we will reorganize the uh the preschool and kindergarten complex to
080be a little bit more uh of its own shared space so that they actually could share play spaces and all of our littlest ones on campus will all be in in one area as opposed to two different tiers with two different play areas we're still doing the same Steam and teacher collaboration spaces and this also still provides the possibility that we could put a parking lot up at the top which is something the site would need but would not be part of this phase but we would have that ability to do it so this is what you saw uh back in August of in September of last year so you can see along the center these were where the new classrooms were going to be built this was going to be the G1 would be
081the steam lab and then over here was preschool and an area for a preschool play what we have now um and I wish I had a kind of a one-to-one uh map here but uh instead of having new classrooms along here and the steam lab here this is now field space I'm sorry okay you can't see my cursor okay so along the center where you saw the that line of vertical uh classrooms that's now field space thanks for telling me you couldn't see the cursor um when we cast this you can the um and all of those classrooms move into the upper tier including the steam lab we do an improvements on the path of travel from that center of the campus to that upper tier now there's that long walkway that goes towards the
082kindergarten now we would be looking to to adjust that so we would have a walkway that that goes straight down into the lunch area you can see near the bottom right where it says ntk N means new uh e means existing on this where it says TK that could be preschool that could be kindergarten so it's flexible in that if we have changes in our enrollment uh expansion of transitional kindergarten you know those classrooms could be used for all of those purposes rather than what we had before which really was preschool specific the play spaces then could be combined or at least adjacent to each other and so there could be an opportunities for shared play spaces since the the play equipment is for ages two to five uh usually and so they're able to
083to share let's see anything else that we want to mention on here steam lab yeah I want to walk through all of these and then I'm sure I'll I'll be ready to answer questions near the end uh this is the first budget slide that you see in the October uh 21 you can see we're at 8.6 if we were to price that same uh plan out today you'd see we were at just a little over 12 million um by doing this layout uh which uh is the exact same but provides the opportunities of uh better connection with the TK K and also more field space and play space available it's an additional six hundred thousand dollars and so our recommendation would be would be to move forward with this um this will be the first
084time I say that Jessica and I have met with all of the principals and have reviewed this and each one of these that I'll walk you through the principles were very pleased at what they saw they recognized that this is solving problems uh and making better use of the space and so for those reasons we would recommend moving forward with with this option the Aviara Oaks [Music] we've done lots of work on traffic flow and drop off and there's been many many different iterations of that we finally have one that we think works the best for for both traffic on the street and traffic on the campus as it flows into Aviara Oaks Middle School and we know that that is uh that was one of the top priorities there building 800 uh we had
085originally planned on having custom modular classrooms um as we look at the the type and size of building that we would be putting in there it is now less expensive to put in a permanent building than these custom modulars in that configuration it's it's the more you get away from just a standard portable that you drop the more customization the costs start to to add up and so not only is it less expensive in this case to put in a permanent building but because of the condition of the current Portables this is where we qualify for what's called State hardship funding and uh and so we have about a million and a half dollars that we believe we would qualify for and in hardship grants you're at the top of the list and so we
086actually might see those dollars from the state to backfill part of the project cost for rvr Oaks Elementary before we would see the dollars of eventually coming in for Magnolia for example so again this is what the what the board saw back in in September of last year and essentially what we uh we we did a lot of work this was the one that was the the 33 million dollar plan when we were trying to get down to 23 million we eventually did get down to 23. uh what we have now uh is with the same number of classrooms that were originally scoped the green uh up at the top would be the new 800s building which would be uh the one that we would qualify for the additional State funding the green at the
087bottom would be the those would-be Portables right now they are a relocatable classrooms they would be planned on being relocatable For the Kids Care some classrooms and also special education yes the yellow areas really no change it's the same level of interior modernization that we spoke about earlier the orange off to the left which is the kindergarten same level of interior Renovations that we were talking about doing in kindergarten so really the only changes you know some movement on the 900s and getting better value on the 800s now this is where I wish you could see my cursor because I'll walk you through the parking lot you see that lot down at the the middle of the screen that feeds into so this would be a dedicated uh preschool and Kids Care uh and kindergarten
088drop-off area so uh the smallest children could be let off right at the entry next to where those classrooms exist um and and also for after school programs so that that feeds uh those those groups of kids down into their own parking lot um the uh traditional entrance that goes up to Aviara Oaks middle and I know you all know what I'm I'm speaking of uh actually would have a lane on the left which would be a kind of an express route express lane up to the Middle School while two middle and right lanes would be the drop-off areas for the elementary school and you can see how that feeds and directs towards the um towards the elementary school and so you would have to drop off lanes for the elementary with the Middle School
089parents not getting caught up in that traffic if they come at the wrong time budget wise uh again uh the we eventually got this down to 21 million dollars uh last year if we were to look at that same option today it would be 34 um through the improvements that Jessica's worked with the Architects on that would be at 28 today and so a better option at a lower cost and again we think that the and and also brings in additional revenue from the state so that would offset some of that cost increase that we're seeing you know ultimately when I'm speaking about all of these budget options you know we don't know what next spring will look like if uh if there's a slower starts on construction uh if there's you know more inflation
090or a recession that's typically a good bidding environment for us I've benefited from that in the past I'm not saying I'm rooting for that but just as an example a different economic environment could actually bring these costs back down okay uh Valley Middle School our our last one to to speak about um once again continuing the the theme of of campus-wide modernization um updating the the steam lab as as we've spoken about um but and create moving special education out of the administration building to create its own space um and the the new layouts provide opportunities for more instructional support and and group learning spaces in the existing classroom building so we've we've reinvested savings back into that modern the modernization of the classrooms but we've also added some uh some additional work in the
091administration office which is kind of a domino effect of pulling special education out of that that space we now have the opportunity to do some remodeling in in that space which also will um will improve the security of the campus through a reconfiguration so again this was uh this was last fall as I walk you through um if as you see the um the let's see what do we call them the pods no not the pods Villages thank you thank you I I blanked on that for just a moment as you see the the two middle Villages there um you know still light modernization in the classrooms but in those interior spaces um we're able to do move walls around and create opportunities for pull out spaces for small group instruction for one-on-one individualized support
092for students often schools are missing that and those center spaces through some different configuration which really aren't being used effectively right now we would be able to create kind of small group and office type spaces you know School psychologists and others often don't have space to work in we would be able to do that in the the one next to the library and the and the MU where you see that green box that's where we would move the special education program to to be more Central to the campus and that would be a slightly different configuration that we would have a sensory room an observation area a conference room for IEPs so that would take the place of what we're doing in the other classroom buildings and creating those other small group instruction spaces we
093would dedicate more space towards special education purposes in that room the the HVAC and the MU that's the cross hatched area that's something that that we're looking at accelerating that into a first increment on this project so we actually can get that work done before we get down the road with these uh this other work that we're waiting for for DSA in terms of uh the top with the the at the admin building the reason why it says heavy modernization is because we would be uh moving some walls around and uh again creating uh more of a reception area um that has sort of a front of house and back of house area so guests can come into our visitors would come into one area but they would only be able to enter the campus
094if buzzed in through where they could go through whereas right now it's kind of a straight pass-through from the front door to the back door of the administration building and so we're taking the opportunity of these special education spaces to reconfigure the the office spaces and the the entryway for the campus um that's really about all I would want to say about Valley that's the that is the difference and we really didn't contemplate last fall what we would do when we pulled the special education classrooms out of the admin building so this is the those re that reconfiguration is an addition in scope we would still have the opportunity to evaluate that and you know potentially value engineer that um as we get down the as we get down the line so this is the
095one where it has grown because we've actually added some more work to it but it is all in that area so finally heading into 2023 as I said we have a number of projects in Phase 2B that we will begin defining the the scope for in working with our Architects and also as we enter into 2023 we're going to start thinking about phases three and four as I mentioned earlier as we head into the early spring we will be doing uh requests for proposals for Professional Services such as Architects and construction managers so just refreshing that and updating from the rfps that we did at the beginning of phase one going back out again and evaluating the various construction and other professionals to be in our pool of uh of folks for phase two moving
096forward so with that I'm certain there are questions I have any blue cards been received on this item there are no blue cards for this item all right they will go to questions four I'm trying to think what slide it was the state eligibility um for AOE and Magnolia is that for past projects or future projects uh both so with Magnolia it's for the the project that we just completed uh we applied for those dollars at the beginning of the project and we're in line uh and it's a matter of when they get down to us when we will be funded so that is eligible we will get it at some point but as I mentioned I don't count the State dollars until we actually have them the hardship dollars that's a new development through
097how we were able to look at the 800s building and so not only doing it at a lower cost but we have to do a permanent building to qualify for that funding so it's kind of a win-win lower cost and state eligibility with a high priority to receive it okay and that have another question based on that so is that for every project bait on all the future current projects that you list here AOE BB and and Valley do they also are eligible for the hardship uh no it really has to do with the condition and age of the existing uh relocatables that are there okay and so you know and so as you know as a point you know we do evaluate uh all of our eligibility on every project to try and maximize
098any state eligibility that we would have so we're always looking for ways of how could we get this to qualify and we have very little in terms of modernization Eligibility left because we've done some work in the past and um and so there's not a whole lot out there so this was a nice surprise on this so are we able to look for example the work we did on the Kelly portable stand and submit for that or you can't do it looking back uh yeah those were yeah yeah that that work was an interior modernization um and I think we drew down on those dollars in the past and it also has to tie with um uh ties into enrollment growth as well so there's a number of different factors of and it's a school
099by school this is why we have Consultants to to look at at how to maximize those but um but I know that we have very little while we're on this slide uh the other sources of revenue does that include interest income uh I didn't include that in here uh I do these are the existing fund balances so um in years past our interest income was so low that it wasn't worth guessing what it would be in the future and so I usually just update this once a year looking back what did we earn last year that comes into the new fund balance um and yeah and that's why I have a big round number for the cfds because the treasury thing was throwing me as I was trying to put this slide together like a
100couple hundred thousand dollars um you know for for measure HH it was about 800 000 last year um and you know that was with a hundred million dollars on hand okay yeah Miss Johnson thank you Mr doe uh quickly on the bvtk expansion remind me again I know that there was a promise of funding made available for the TK expansion will we qualify for any of that for this work that's a good question that there was not a lot of money in if this would be um at BV it would be modular and also this is really uh uh preschool oh and modulars didn't count yes for the state if you're using State dollars you couldn't use modulars yeah thank you um with with the inflation data that came out yesterday and the the bets
101are that the fed's going to raise the in interest rate at least one percent by the end of the year and at least four percent next year that's going to impact the cost to our community as far as the the bonds have are we going to have Tim Carty at some point re-looking at that I know right now we're well within our range right but if interest rates are increased as much as some people anticipate when would be we'd be issuing the next bonds and if so would that be a part of the evaluation yes we anytime we're starting the process of a new issuance we're always looking out at okay when when do we hit the market and where do we think interest rates will be at that time right now uh the earliest
102we would go out is 2024 so way too early to to guess what that will be um and and that's also when we will be looking at do we still have two more series or do we have one series based off of are we getting a good deal or do we wait and see and thank you and that's helpful and then just to confirm the numbers that you're presenting tonight are not current costs so when current costs I mean they have not been updated to reflect current cost script yes they have so it's it's it's current budget with uh escalation built in for when we would begin the project so you know every month costs have been going up and so um our cost estimators that we work with they build in that factor to
103say okay if you're going to start in July or June this is where we believe you will be you know contractors themselves are very reluctant to give prices right now uh because they don't know where they'll be but the professional estimators are staying on top and and they unfortunately they've had to keep raising that amount um in their cost escalation estimation so both hard costs and soft costs have been increased based on uh when we think when they say that uh correct when construction would be beginning correct okay thank you um Mr Pearson is there any scenario where some of the projects within a phase could be moved up So within within the existing phase two you know we've got our work cut out for us for the for what's in design and what we're
104preparing for in this this next in this next summer we really haven't gone too far on say um the the Poinsettia or sorry the the Pacific Rim modernization um the we're just starting the process of the CAC but that is really just design review that is in construction work that's going to cost what it costs to define the scope um you know really I don't think we can we can move any faster on phase 2B I think it would the schedule we have is probably the most aggressive we could be right now um the real question will be when we get into phase three are we looking at just phase three or phase three and four or both yeah I mean yeah and that'll be something that we'll be thinking about in 2023 for 2024.
105only because of the cost escalations yes and where you know we're going to run out of money so I mean I was just looking at all the which you did a really great comparison but the percentages that now those projects cost have an impact to the issuance so I'm just in that's why I'm bringing that up yeah we're we're fortunate that we had the ability to issue the certificates of participation because that's giving me great relief on the cost escalation for phase two um you know we're we're really looking at using you know all of those dollars in phase two and phase 2B it does raise concern about three and four but really that work is not that complex that we have in three and four and so with the remaining 87 million dollars you
106know we we'll see what we can do at that point with 87 million but it's not really extensive complex work in phases three and four Ms Williams I noticed there's I I does that mean it's being moved which district office I don't know if there's anything else uh you know we're we're still reviewing that wall because it is in bad condition um and at some point we do need to replace that um so yes we are still looking at doing that if not if they're not further questions is there any discussion oh oh okay all right go ahead sorry okay so for for let me go down to BB the tunnel's not included yes the tunnels included is just it is included in the scope of work in terms of blocking it off the same
107way that we had previously discussed right it is okay it just wasn't highlighted okay correct and then the the building G1 and G2 is staying put or is it because it's not even included in the photo the G1 and G2 are moved to the upper level so now it's that upper level that's going across correct all right and then with the new parking lot that's potential future phase uh that would not be included this is just illustrating that we would have the ability to do that and that's why I think we even put on this slide potential future phase parking lot to make it clear that we're not including that in this budget okay so it's not even not even uh I just want because I just want to make sure that it's not it's
108there but it's not going to be there's no pre-work on that at a minimum if you see that there's the dash kind of figure yes if that's the fire lane that work will have to be done and that will be asphalt but as far as the remainder of the parking lot okay that's not currently correct for it with asphalt but not a parking lot yeah and we may have to grade that entire pad so everything would be ready and we may go out and look at a price to do this but it would be a separate consideration the reason why I'm asking is are we going to be working with the city for traffic mitigation all that yes prior to this project yes yes okay yes we already have been talking to their Traffic Engineers
109since that would be a new driveway okay [Music] yes I just I I saw both of them I wasn't very clear in terms of because I See kindergarten at 400 which is at the very corner but then you're staying in the parking lot down below is where they're going to be dropped off but that's a big jump for a little for a little guy so I'm trying to understand sure one of the biggest reasons for having separate parking lot is it is a CDE California Department of Education recommendation that kindergarten have its own separate drop-off and pick up so he's leading the littles into that lower parking lot gives them more time to get in and out with the seat belts and their in their carriers so that's that's why there's that connection there okay
110because it's still a long walkway it's still it's it's still a bit of a ways but really they recommend having a separate parking lot okay so can I could you walk me through and I just know AOE parking lot and aom are huge because I don't see how if you're going to the kindergarten and or you're going to the upper lot there's going to be a traffic jam right there with people coming out of the kindergarten so could you walk me through if I'm a kindergarten parent do I have to go all the way around to the very top yes so I'm going to the bottom parking lot and going to the upper parking lot just to kind of move out yes and if I'm an elementary parent I'm going to the kindergarten area because
111there's a curve right there there's a triangle so the the triangle does one of two things so it splits traffic right there right so we're widening the driveway so that we have the more capacity to get cars in Kinder would go immediately to the right the elementary would go in the middle so they could get up to the drop off and pick up by the building 400 and then middle schoolers would be up on the left to go straight on the straightaway could you go up to the screen and just walk us through just so that it was with your finger Trace in kindergarten they come around think all the way up all the way up and then come all the way down okay probably on the far left hand probably far left hand lane
112okay to get through so just as everybody's still going all the way through campus that's still going to continue they're still going to go up right all the way up way up okay and then come all the way down okay you could go all the way through and then look around like you can park in here or they could utilize this Lane so that they can do the drop off and pick up and get it back Middle School then when utilize this third lane to have a straight through all the way to the upper lot so you're saying everybody from AOE through aom is has one entrance as they currently do they currently have okay I've I've seen people come up from the top they stopped doing that okay okay so there's three and one
113entrance for every single one my wife in the driveway approach it's our goal to be able to maximize that space okay and we're putting Lanes or some type to show this is kindergarten this is Elementary this is Middle School okay some type of description or science it comes it becomes an educational component to drop off and pick up okay and between videos and Outreach and communication uh we we feel that we should be able to can I we make sure there are signs because there's grandparents that come they don't know you know I just want to make sure that it's very well their signage at the entrance okay especially at the beginning the complaints any further questions are set up I do for steam lab wasn't clear as to where I remember it's one of
114someone yeah it's in the the 500s 300 okay 500 300 it's art music and steam that's that's just interior remodeling okay so it's there just to make sure it's included okay that's good for it that's it and then Valley I didn't see where this the Special Ed I know you talked about it but I didn't see where it was at you're talking about Valley Valley where they're moving out from at the admin office and do they have a dedicated restroom yes that's strictly for them okay with all those needs yes yes purpose-built special education classrooms perfect thank you any discussion oh Ms Jones is this question okay so uh just to dovetail on trustee Williams questions related to the traffic flow so uh I had a question down about these new plans um have they
115been reviewed with CPD as well as the Traffic Engineers to make sure that you know in the case of an evacuation by everything that they're considering the new flow actually right now I am working on coordinating a meeting with the traffic department to review Jefferson AOE and Buena Vista okay so we're currently working through that and if those plans change that'll come back to us so that we can hear it yes knowing that this is a big Hot Topic yes we would we would let you know right thank you but but remember the purpose was to make sure that more cars could flow through more efficiently and this was probably we probably talked about this more than anything else um because the buildings kind of worked their way through but there are lots of different
116thoughts on on traffic and ultimately this was the one that provided the most flow [Music] how is that flow because I see I see a pathway like this but then I so I don't know what that is a great question that is a great question and something that we are still working on one of the things that we would like to see is parallel to that is an e-bike Lane that goes through the same way so we that is something that we still are exploring because we know the volume at this campus is is very great um I didn't see it mentioned in the slides has for aoe's construction has the number of classrooms stayed the same as when we saw because it wasn't stated okay yes thank you any discussion I guess any discussion
117yes I'll start with Ms Williams could a request that we see what the new plan for the bikes are once it's updated or revised I would assume that that would come in that show we wouldn't even need to request that um any discussion okay let's move on to the next item which is a break we will um it is 7 49 and we will return it eight o'clock all right let's hope that just oh foreign looks like that foreign okay all right we are now back in session we now move to item 7.3 2021-22 lcap updated results Dr Nye good evening president Williamson trustees and Dr Churchill tonight staff's happy to present our success indicator progress and an update regarding unreported data on the alcat for the 2021-22 school year as you recall this is
118part of our continuous Improvement cycle and in June staff brought to you a summary of progress of our 2021-22 goals and success indicators however we're not able to present certain data because it's not available at that time so this is the portion where we're bringing back all the data and showing you a complete scorecard for the 2021-22 school year the first thing uh one of the first goals is around s back and S back is our standardized test scores that we use for English language arts and also science you'll see there the results for ELA Math and Science and the targets we did not heat it excuse me we did not hit our Targets in regards to English language arts or in math but we did hit our Target in science for last year it's
119important to note that we are still well above County averages you'll see a 20 percent higher meeting or exceeding targets for ELA 21 percent higher in math and then significantly higher in in science as well s back has taken for every student in grades three through eight as well as grade 11 in high school science is grade 11 and 12 and also grades five and eight so here's a complete scorecard for goal number one you'll see there that we did not meet our two goals as it relates to our interim assessments for growth over time in ela or math but we did meet our proficiency goals for our interim Assessments in both math and Ela we also met our a to G requirements uh for the graduating class of 2022 that was at an 80
120rate so 80 percent of the students who graduated last year met very rigorous UC CSU standards that puts us in High company not just in the county but also in the state we did meet our Target as it relates to percentage of students enrolled in at least one Advanced honors or community college class at 80.4 percent the S back data I mentioned before we did not meet the two Targets for ELA or math but we did meet that in science and then the state has still not uh published a dashboard we anticipate they're going to publish a dashboard around December and at that point in time we may get some baseline data as it relates to the College and Career inventory or or indicator so that will will update that when we have that data
121available so just a complete scorecard uh to sum up the entire year we met five out of the nine success indicators in goal number one all the success indicators in goal number two as well as goal number three for a total of 12 out of the 16 success indicators or 75 percent historically uh that's a very high attainment rate for us as a district so just wanted to point that out some of the other College and Career indicators that we like to report on I mentioned before the CSU UC eligibility was at 80 percent you'll see there San Diego County and California were well above County averages as well as state averages there graduation cohort rate is at 96 percent San Diego county is at about 90 percent California is at 91. college going rate
122we get this from National Clearinghouse this is for the graduates of 2021 now 2022 we'll have that data a little later this year but roughly 78 percent 78 of our students attended College uh directly after high school for the graduating class of 2021 you're considered a college-going culture if you're at 70 or above so that's a very high percentage you'll see there the national average and then Clearinghouse also gives us information about persistence rates so this is the percentage of students who return for their sophomore year in college after they've attended their freshman year and part of this tells us if we're doing a good job preparing students to be prepared for college if they're returning their sophomore year that's a good sign so we're at 90 percent of the students persisting for the graduating
123class of 2020 that returned their sophomore year in 2021. there's also something called an AP Equity rate this is the percentage of students for the graduating class of 2022 that took and passed at least one AP exam in their High School career so we're at 44 percent you'll see State and U.S averages we continue to maintain a much higher rate AP pass rates I indicated before is at about 81 percent pathway participation for the last year's total number of 9 through 12th graders was at 63 percent and we've managed to increase AP participation for the past 10 years uh roughly at 54 percent some of the summer school data we have expanded summer school over the past couple years this gives you just a snapshot of enrollment we will be providing you an update on
124academic growth for students that were participating in the summer cohort what we're going to be doing is taking a snapshot of where they were in the spring of last year versus our fall administration of the star exam those are the interim assessments for English language there to math and we'll give you information on how the students specifically that participated in summer school grew over that time hopefully grew over that time so we'll be presenting that in a future update this just gives you an idea of how many students enrolled though we do ask families exactly why they're enrolling roughly 102 families indicated that they're being referred by either a teacher or a principal several other responses had to do with concerns around progress whether that be English language arts progress or reading progress or math
125progress you'll see there and as well we did ask exit surveys as well whether or not they enjoyed the experience and you'll see that uh overall the for the 24 respondents that we had it was a it was a good experience same thing would they recommend again a very high percentage of green and strongly agreeing and then at the high school level we Monitor and track Credit Recovery High School is a little bit different than the middle school and the elementary school where they can get at the elementary and middle school advancement they're getting to enrich certain skills at the high school level it really is making up credits for being behind in credits or failing a class um so in this case you'll see the number of students that participated in both sessions the
126total number of classes that were completed and the total number of credits and you'll see the top two classes had to do with math so geometry and Algebra 1 which tend to be um a throughway where we have a number of high D's and F's so that makes sense and then you'll see the rankings Beyond there so as far as the action plan I I do want to just highlight a couple of things here and then I have Dr Brockett who's joined us director director Brockett and director absit I've been told we talk a lot of times in education speak and we have acronyms so they're going to give you some real world examples of action plans uh in general and how how that would look for specific students that are struggling not just at
127the elementary school but the middle school and the high school I'm going to give you kind of a top level view of some action plan and and services that we're working with principals on and as well as school sites and I'll just highlight the first couple that are on the screen here we we are going to take a much deeper dive and an analysis at each of our school sites we're meeting with principals tomorrow we've created data files for each of the sites where they have everything from pivot tables that they can look at so those are how students performed the last time they took the S back versus how they performed this year and matching those cohorts over time uh and everything from uh grade level information to specific teacher information and we will
128sit down and go over each principal's action plan and reflection of their 2021-22 school year so they'll be asking to reflect on why they met the goals that they met and why they didn't meet the goals that they met and to create some sort of reflection as to you why they think that is and then Dr Churchill and I meet with each of them to go over goal setting for the 2022-23 school year in which they'll be reflecting on an action plan of how they're going to meet goals for the specific year so they'll set targets that they meet with their staffs with and those targets will be around English language arts math and science of course and then they'll have a behavioral Target as well so social emotional learning for each of our principles
129the other thing that each School site is doing uh every year but for the past couple years is developing what we call a multi-tiered system of support which is also called mtss there's our acronym and really this is creating a watch list for students and so students that are struggling whether it be with attendance whether it be with grades whether it be social emotionally they're struggling each site is um selecting students to be on a watch list if you will and then implementing interventions specific to those students needs and we're working with them the sites to refine those interventions each year and they're turning in exactly what those look like the plans as well as their student watch list to us hopefully in the next couple weeks so we're refining that process as well so
130I'm going to turn it over to director absit I'm going to skip over these last two and ask her to really um take a student level and and kind of walk us through what it could potentially look like I would want to caution you just quickly that interventions look different at every School site that we're at and watch lists are created a little bit different from site to site but this is a good example I think of a Fourth Grade Student that she's going to walk you through all right thank you so the the case study that we're looking at is a currently a fourth grade student that's at Calavera Hills Elementary the student recently entered the Foster Youth System due to some trauma in in the home life a low-income student did not attend
131kindergarten so last year as they were looking all of their students and their their progress the student was identified and put on their watch list as as Dr Dre mentioned so attendance had been poor over the the past several years attendance during remote learning or distance learning was sporadic there were academic gaps she entered third grade last year at about the kindergarten level in in reading so several years behind again those those gaps in a lot of social emotional issues anxiety crying refusing to go to class so really just not you know wanting to be at school so they immediately you know put some interventions into place in the classroom including like small group instruction action to kind of double dose use some of our online learning programs like Smarty Ants and Achieve 3000 Freckle
132all of those partnered her with a peer model so that there was somebody that she was seated by and then also did some pull-out intervention with their intervention teacher so specifically targeting some reading support they also had her go to summer school happen later but she did go to summer school and then Calavera does have a mentor through the pass America course program so they partnered her with with that person to talk about attendance concerns to talk about just her issues with friends having friends and just that anxiety and then also with that elementary counselor position that we added last year was able to check in with that that counselor so looking at sort of the end of the year results as as well as beginning of the year so the S back results she
133was at level two you know not quite at grade level yet but remember this kid entered as a kindergartener and ended you know the end of third grade kind of approaching and just not quite where she needed to be but had made a lot of progress um in the spring on her star assessment the Renaissance assessment she was in that high growth category so again you know not quite where she needed to be grade level wise but like was making a lot of growth academically the most recent Star that she just took she's one year behind so still behind but not as much so definitely some of those interventions of work she's caught up attendance first semester last year because again the attendance was a concern she had probably 30 days of absences on the
134second semester as they had started to put these interventions in she was only had three unexcused absences so attendance immediately took a turn for the better she did attend summer school with a hundred percent attendance and so far this year knock on wood she's been at school every day they also have noticed that she's got friends now that you know she seems really content and happy to be at school so you know again some positive changes that way they're continuing those interventions with the intervention teacher the the online programs the supports that are in the classroom they still do have the past Americorps program as well as a counselor this year so some of those interventions will be continued so definitely one of the success stories you know as Dr and I said you know
135supports and and interventions are targeted to meet those individual needs of of each of the students and every school does have different supports and and systems in place and that's something we're really working on with with the principles of identifying what are those things that you can provide for students within the classroom as well as those additional supports with that I'm turning it over to Dr Brock Dr brockett's going to walk us through a middle school example as well as a high school yeah and to expand on that I think it's right you know Dr nice mentioned that things look different from site to site things look different from student to student right there is no perfect one-size-fits-all answer to any of this so you know I reached out to principal flowers and and you
136heard at the June board meeting a little bit about her uh about their mtss process over at uh Javier Oaks and I said hey give me an example of a student who um you know a success story coming through that mtss process and she shared about a seventh grade student uh who last year in sixth grade had some concerns raised regarding off task behavior and work completion student also happens to be limited English proficient showing strength in many areas in the lpac testing but really showing a need for additional reading supports that student did take reading support the read 180 class over there in addition doing the Achieve 3000 reading program which you heard about also in the June meeting the student entered into their SST monitoring system there and so they try they tried
137with this student multiple interventions uh without success and and the student escalated to a point where there was special education assessment what came out of that assessment was the student did not qualify for special education services that's not a bad thing in many cases that's that's a good thing that's one more of those intervention steps and we say okay go back to the drawing board and say what do we what do we need so they put that student back in the SST process and eventually found some strategies that were effective for this student work reduction working with teachers a weekly email to parents including some positive feedback that they could follow through on at home including some challenges you know that were ongoing with the student and then they they went to a point where
138they had a daily check-in sheet with this student which is a little more intensive with that student going around on a daily basis counselors checked in weekly with this student and and all of these pieces together this student went from semester one with a 1.0 grade point average to a 2.4 grade point average second semester so academic impact was positive but they did have some ongoing behavioral concerns through the end of the year so this student is is back on that watch list this year that they that they use on an ongoing basis there so he's still on their radar and and and somebody that they're continuing to pay attention to but who has seen some real positive impact and growth on the academic front going into seventh grade at the high school level you
139know I wanted to highlight uh the way in which our schools work together uh and and how students when they transition from one school to the next uh are identified and supported so I I went and dug in and wanted to find a student uh who is right now at Carlsbad High School in both uh intensive math intervention in the algebra 1A course which is the the the kind of slowed down broken down algebra one course we know that's a real sticking point for students who struggle academically is getting through that year of algebra um so what CHS has done this year has broken that out into a two-year sequence of algebra 1A and 1B still allows a student to complete the entire a through G sequence but the hope is that they can really
140dig into some of those gaps uh in the ninth grade year and 10th grade to really reinforce that algebra piece set them up for success in algebra 2. and also the a student who at the same time was in Lancer success which is that ninth grade success course that CHS has offered for the past several years so this student that I found you know that was in those two programs um I I pulled out it's a student who's been in cusdu over many years um uh is a socioeconomically disadvantaged students so some some economic struggles and housing instability struggles at home um this she had had an f and a d plus in math eight and had been in math support in middle school as well but had some attendance issues some social emotional issues
141that really impacted the progress there when I reached out to her Middle School principal to talk a little little bit about the situation also had failed some other uh some other core classes the the the middle school had had repeated contact with teachers counselors parents Student Admin they had they had really tried to build a cocoon around this student of support and again you know with with some mixed levels of success using you know we hear a lot about the data you know the the data pieces that that were identified with this student the star test she had fallen into the sixth percentile the mdtp with his which is our math Readiness class she'd been in the 29th percentile which is or 29 which is below what we would consider algebra Readiness that's where the
142algebra 1A identification comes in did not meet standards on the cast test in math but nearly met the standard in Casp Ela which was actually growth for this student so we were seeing some positive areas some areas of need so in that communication like I said between Middle School and High School the counseling teams talk to each other the administrative teams talk to each other about placements of students and this student was identified for both of those interventions the alge 1A class as well as the Lancer success parents are then notified of those placements they do have the opportunity to opt out obviously we're trying to counsel students and parents into classes that we think are going to be most beneficial for those students this student did stay in those two areas and and early
143in the year here what we're seeing with the student is positive attendance strong grades early on and this student will have contact with academic support counselor which is a new addition at Carlsbad High School as well her regular counselor access to math lab and other supports in addition to those specific interventions that uh that she has enrolled in in terms of classes so uh you know work in progress certainly and that transition from middle school to high school is challenging but there are a lot of those pieces in place for a student who may need them to catch that transition and hopefully make a strong one moving forward all right and thank you guys both uh that was excellent uh in regards to goal number two we just want to say that we've met these
144goals in these areas but as both uh director opposite and director Brockett had highlighted we do have a number of students that we know that aren't achieving at levels that we need them to achieve grade level they're not making progress at the same rate as potentially other students so part of what we're doing in regards to our strategic plan is taking a closer look at what populations of students what subgroups of students that achievement Gap is growing for and how do we you know identify who those are and then strategies to get after closing that Gap so just to start off we wanted to give you a little bit more of a snapshot of uh enrollment as to who we are as far as the 2021-22 school years Dr Churchill mentioned we're just over about
14511 000 students um this was last year at uh the snapshot in time roughly 15 of those students are students with special needs so students on an IEP about five percent of those students are English language learners and uh about five percent also our students that are redesignated so that gives you the spectrum of English language Learners learning the language of English for the first time and students that have been redesignated fluent English proficient at 5.8 percent socioeconomically we're at about 28 of our students which are socioeconomically disadvantaged and there's a lot of different uh criteria that can make a student socioeconomically disadvantaged but I think to some that's uh you know uh somewhat surprising number for Carlsbad but it is it is a number that um uh that is a very real number here
146in Carlsbad 63 students uh are homeless and then when you look at races and cultures white being the predominant at 56 percent Hispanic or latinx at 27 multi-racial at 10 percent Asian at 5 black African-American at about one percent so it gives you a breakdown of um who our students are so one of the things that we look at every year but we wanted to just highlight is where our students are as it retains as it relates to that achievement Gap and this is s back scores so this is on the English language arts summative s back you'll see along the far left hand side you'll see the column that includes all of our students so I mentioned before that roughly 73 percent are meeting or exceeding standards in English language arts and then it's
147broken up by subgroups so you'll see black African-American roughly at 44 percent uh Hispanic Latino which is a very large subgroup population at 55 percent socioeconomically disadvantaged students at 61 percent English language Learners at 16 and students with disabilities at 36 percent you'll see a similar Gap that exists as it relates to math so I think this is an illuminate report and somehow they get 35 percent plus 25 percent equals 61 percent but uh I my math tells me that 60 so I think they're doing a little rounding up there for all students but you'll see again similar gaps there and what we point out here is that while we are still a very high performing district for overall students there are areas that we can certainly look at and strategies that we can look
148at to try to lift up other students that aren't performing at the overall student performance level another thing that we looked at is graduation rates and so I mentioned before that we're at a 96 percent cohort graduation rate for the class of 2022. and when you look at this and my first glance at this was hey this is pretty good you know Hispanic rates are just slightly below that graduating at 93 black African-American students at 92 percent and socioeconomically disadvantaged students at 93 percent special education students we we do see a little bit of a gap there so that may be something that we need to address but one of the things that this board has um has task staff to do is starting with a graduating class of 2016 ensure that students are trying
149to meet as much as possible UC and CSU eligibility requirements so you'll see that there's a much larger Gap that presents itself there at first glance you'll say well if we've aligned our our graduation requirements with UC and CSU requirements why aren't these closer together or closer to 100 percent there is still the ability for families to opt into a alternative graduation plan and so what we're seeing is disproportionately a little bit on students Hispanic students black African-American students that's a low number socioeconomically disadvantaged students in special education students opting for that alternative grad plan now part of what we can do in a in a three-year strategic plan is to dig in why why is that the case is it is it an educational piece that we need to educate more parents about in
150regards to the importance of UC CSU eligibility is it for other reasons a disproportionate amount these students are entering the military or vocational or trade school so we can start to dive in in a three-year strategic plan as to what what are the what are the causes of this disparity and and try to figure out uh ways in which we can address that Gap so we did just highlight again graduation rate UC CSU eligibility rate AP pass rates honors AP Community College as well as career pathways on this one slide as well action plans again we're going to continue to focus on professional development our subject area lead leadership team meetings our grade level meetings we are going through right now and ngss aligns science material evaluation it's been a while uh you know we've
151adopted new standards in science and our science teachers have embarked in really what's become a two-year process to adopt some new materials as it relates to science it's taken a little bit longer than we thought uh in regards to goal number three you'll see that we met all three of these success indicators as well and some action steps around those success indicators so part of what we do is update you on the overall goals and success indicators for 2021-22 the other part of our continuous Improvement cycle is that staff looks at those and potentially makes some changes or recommendations for changes for our current 2223 lcap goals and success indicators and so these are the changes that staff is recommending based on the information that we have we're recommending uh s back and Ela math
152targets increase to two percent um instead of the one percent Target that we had set out at the end of last year we also this was a suggestion we have added or proposed the ad the underlying text to the goal align student learning to state adopted standards supported by materials instruction and technology in a fiscally sound safe and clean environment so we recommend adding that and then the third one is to remove the success indicator regarding cusd diversity Equity inclusion plan and bring this strategic plan back with our other strategic plans so it puts us more in alignment with what we do currently with our technology three-year strategic plan as well as our Career Technical education plan as well so I want to reiterate this doesn't stop the work of doing the Strategic plan in
153actuality we're we're mired in that work right now we're committed to doing that work this just puts us more in line with what we've already done with our other strategic plans our technology plan and our CTE plan we would still update the board regularly on the progress of those plans as we do now we bring back an annual report for technology as well as CTE we do the same for the Deni strategic plan as well so with that we're happy to uh answer any questions that you have and all and as well listen to any um modifications or changes for the 2022-23 school year oh I'm sorry I had one more item uh this was a request that we uh include what the actual targets are rather than a percentage increase so this slide just
154shows you the actual targets uh assuming that we adjust the targets to two percent for example of the S back and the modifications there the other thing I would point out here is it's two percent of the actual number it's not two percent of a hundred percent so two percent of 73 actually is an increase of 1.4 percent so seventy four point four percent just for clarity and now um I'll stop there thank you very much Dr Nye and our for our two directors we appreciate your being here tonight uh this is the time for public comment we have received one card have any additional cards been received no additional cards all right uh Scott Davidson you may now address us make sure that you tell us your name and if you lived in the
155district and you have three minutes foreign will raise his hand when you have okay let's cut the mic off it's fine I'm used to it uh hi my name is Scott Davison I reside in the district I have a son at Sage Creek uh tonight we're being presented with updated goals and success indicators which essentially show only half of the picture of what's happening at Carlsbad Unified while the superintendent's report paints a Rosy picture of High graduation rates enrollment and even a phenomenal ranking from Niche the quote unquote Yelp of school reviews the actual numbers which are presented in a way to obscure the consequences of the school closures and other arbitrary pandemic restrictions over the past few years are in stark contrast to what we hear from the district the first and most obvious
156point is that we failed to hit our primary goals for improving Proficiency in both English language arts and math which was a minuscule two percent Improvement worse the table completely leaves out the significant drop in both these metrics that occurred from 2019 to 2022 when we decided not to bother testing students so we could ignore how poorly they were doing while stuck at home for over a year what is apparent when taking a hard look at the numbers is a school district which is declining in almost every measurable category when only the 2021 to 2022 numbers are compared graduation rate actually went down goal was missed a through G rate actually went down missed college readiness way down College admissions down what else is down buried in the 70 page parents lcap report from last
157month on page 17 was some disheartening results of the polls given to parents students and teachers confidence in all but two metrics went down that's what the ones went up and safety and cleanliness but over the past three years including College and Career Readiness down career employment opportunities down making students into critical thinkers down and even opportunities for Teacher development way down and of course it's no secret what's really down which is enrollment there were 11 631 students enrolled at the start of the 2017 school year but tonight we're reporting eleven thousand so I appreciate the district's efforts and desire to pretend that Carlsbad is the second best public school system in the U.S regardless of whether it was based on a few hundred Yelp reviews or from a questionable company which profits from these
158rankings we do need to message that our district is committed to Excellence unfortunately the actual numbers show the opposite the sooner we acknowledge the numbers that are staring Us in the face the sooner we can actually come up with some solutions to help our students at cusd get back on track after the horrendous mistakes of the past few years thank you staff do you have a new response okay all right uh board do you have any questions Ms Jones and then Mr Pearson thank you and thank you um Dr Nye director opposite and um director of rocket uh thank you all for being here tonight I have a quick question from a high level um because s back has come back uh based on staff's assessment of our results do we feel that the star
159results were as predictive for us back as we had thought yeah we had some conversations with uh star folks I do think anywhere from a 10 to 15 percent variance on that predictor rate is probably pretty good so we do think uh in many occasions the star uh was a good predictor I would also mention that the star is given you