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3/10/25 Special Board Meeting - Duarte USD

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2025-03-11
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001test test e all right good evening Dy Community uh before we get started here I just wanted to have Miss Diaz make a quick comment yes I just going to translate into Spanish the message that we will have a translator in just few minutes so all right thank you very much board member Diaz all right uh the board has just returned from close session and in Clos session the board took action to approve the amendment to the February 13 2025 final settlement agreement and general release between parents and District in student versus dard Unified School District special education due process case o ah case number 0083 pursuant to which the district has agreed to fund and provide Educational Services to the student and the students parents have agreed to release claims against the district in

002exchange for Educational Services as specified in the agreement it was moved by board member Diaz and seconded by board member oen all right I will now call this board meeting to order at 6:36 p.m I'll do a quick roll call Board member Diaz here board member finle here board member hogin here board member hasso here board member Reyes here all right we'll go ahead and do our flag salute and I will take the honor to do that please rise and place your right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thank you we'll now move on to the adoption of the agenda do I

003have a motion to approve the adoption of the agenda move to adopt second motion by board member Rees second by board member Diaz any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I any against none all right uh we now have item number seven request to address the board do we have any individuals to request yes yes we have a card from Steve Hernandez did you want to speak on yes and um Steve Hernandez will come up to the Podium is that a no okay Steve Hernandez decided not okay thank you okay then we will now move on to our presentations so Dr hman would you mind getting those presentations kicked off absolutely good evening everybody thank you um uh tonight we have some presentations that are really critical reports that will help guide

004The District in making some really careful decisions to ensure wise fiscal responsibility and continued support of our educational programs over these years we've been facing an ongoing structural deficit and the Los Angeles County off Office of Education has expressed concerns about our efforts to address it so as part of our budget stabilization plan we have taken several actions including a thorough analysis of all spending and the use of restricted funds a fisal crisis management assistant team or fmat report a staffing study by school service serves of California and as you will hear tonight A demographic study and a refresh of our facility's master plan these reports provide valuable recommendations and insights to help us make informed decisions will that will keep the district financially stable not just for this year but for the future so

005without further Ado I'd like to invite Isa Hoya project manager for MGT impact Solutions he'll be making a presentation on the 10-year resident student population forecasts by grade level for each planning area attendance boundary and districtwide welcome sir thank you Dr Helman welcome everybody uh it's a pleasure being here tonight and as Dr Hillman uh mentioned I'm gonna go ahead and present the demographic study study findings that we completed for you guys so these this demographic forecast report is pertains to forecasting resident student population over the next 10 years from 2024 which is the base year which we based our study in through the year fall 2034 so on this slide what you'll see is the work that we accomplished as you may or may not know all of our studies are based on spatial

006specially based off GIS data that we use and it all starts with data setup pertaining to what um mapping student information that we collect so we identify where kids live and you'll be able to see uh a little more in more detail of of what uh what that shows there so we map all the student data that we need to make the analysis research any active residential developments projects which in this case um as you may already know there's very minimal that is due to impact any enrollment in the district and we analyzed overall demographic Dynamics for the district that includes birth rates birth rate data which helps us forecast residents uh kindergarten population which the incoming kindergarten classes um dictate what the uh class sizes for the um later grades are going to look

007like down the road and we'll show you how I'll show you how that impacts how the K class impacts or and has been impacting the class sizes on in the last couple years as well and with all these factors combined uh we developed the resident student population forecast um not only by districtwide but by attendance area as well um Elementary Middle Elementary tk8 and high school what you see here is a chart of our methodology so we take the historical and current student data file which we map and we're using the historical previous three years of student data which helps us enable us to calculate something called Mobility factors which identify the in andout migration patterns that have been occurring within the District boundary um different neighborhoods and that dictates as you'll see in the

008next couple slides within the next couple slides here what the in versus out migration patterns have been within wellestablished neighborhoods of the school district as kindergart and class cohorts graduate from first first to second and second to third um so on and so forth we also take a look as I mentioned um at the birth data which we'll see here in a minute and that dictates we take a look at the birth data which dictates the incoming kindergarten class five years later and to for us to be able to forecast the kind incoming K class as well as student yield factors if applicable again um these are applied to to planned residential development yield factors usually tend to show us based on samplings that we take off of um similar constructed units of how many

009kids are being generated from the different types of units in the district all of this combined again is what generates the resident population forecast for the district just to get a little more into detail with the data analysis and pertaining to the student file that we collect not only the current years filed but the previous three years as well we verif we collect the student data um basically Student Records with residential address information which we verify and then we're able to map so what you see in that second step there as an example of a screenshot of GIS data is the yellow dots represented by students and what you see there is all the students that are living within that neighborhood shown and so not only are we able to identify the current year students

010of where they live but also the previous threeyear students as well so we have record of that we're analyzing in andout migration patterns again and then um we're also breaking down the school district as you can see in um Step number three there study in the study area so neighborhood level polygons that we consider study areas so essentially not only are we identifying the number of students living Within These polygons but we're also applying all the factors to these polygons at which point an individual forecast for each of these neighborhood level polygons are created can I ask a question yeah on the geoc code though how do you how do you how do you find out those students because they're registered here in dor unified that's a great question and that's correct yes okay so

011the the kids that have been going to Catholic School their whole life they're not on here they're not on kids that are in private school are not on here exactly or who have left okay yeah this is these are these are resident student population forecast of students that live and attend school here um we're also tracking as you're going to see in the next couple slides the out of District population that enrolls in the district as well so yeah that's that's an important thing to make note of is forecast based on students that are enrolled in the district and live in The District boundary as well once we map the student data what you'll see here in this map is just the overall density of of the students it's just a little nice visual to

012see where the highest density of student population lives and you could see here in in the screenshot the red is the higher density while the blue is the the lower density you could see higher density towards the southwestern portion of the district like the neighborhood south of the Home Depot and the Walmart there is where the highest density of student population is and and another segment like just east of here or right around here as well as where there's some higher density as well north of the 210 so it's just a nice little graphic and visual to be able to see hey where the um where the kids are are living that are enrolled in the district now to get into the factors um one important uh metric here is is the burs and so

013we take a look at the burst to be able to dictate and forecast what the kindergarten class is going to look like and this and this information the birth information is collected from the California Department of Health statistics and not only we assume that the birth year of the student of the kid of the baby we're assuming that that baby is going to show up to kindergarten five years later so for example you see on that table the Blue Line represents this year's um incoming fall kindergarten class so this incoming fall kindergarten class of 2024 was born 5 years prior which was in 2019 um this data again is collected at the ZIP code level and in this case there was in within the district zip code of 910 10 there was 255 burs in

014the area and so at which point we compare the the this base Year's burst versus the the following year so 2020 2021 all the way through 2023 to where the um to where the latest set of birth data is available and we see hey have there's been any increases or decreases compared to that base year of 2019 and we apply that ba that rate of increase or decrease to help us dictate what the kindergarten class size will look like Additionally you could see on the far right of the table the resident cohort so anything above that blue that blue line is essentially your actual resident students living in the boundary in The District boundary and enrolled in the school it's total of 174 students above that you see the historic iCal student counts of kindergarteners

015living and attending the school districts along with the resident capture rate and what the resident capture rate shows is the percentage of burs 5 years prior that actually showed up to kindergarten five years later and what it shows it's it's hovered around the mid to high 60s in the previous 3 years um the latest capture rate being 68 and so if we assume that the kindergarten class is going to be um 68% of the births 5 years prior that's what gives you your forecasted kindergarten class moving forward yeah maybe you're sorry maybe you're going to cover this but the the under the birth rate the percent change for the years I guess for the Kinder year 2029 and onward um that that percent change what is that a percent of so the way that was

016was calculated is the pre is the average of the previous three years or three uh the average of the previous four years so that's that's essentially like our best estimate because the data for 2024 and onward wasn't ready yet at the time of study so that's what that percent change is is showing there and that that is so for example for the Kinder year 2029 that 85.1% that the assumption is it's going to be 85.1% of of the the 2024 Kinder year or is it the year that precedes it you could basically multiply that um so the base years's um the base years's kindergarten class is 174 if you see that number there MH if you multiply you you would just multiply that by 85.1 and that would give you the forecasted kindergarden class okay

017so great yeah thank you you're welcome looking at the raw at the at the raw birth data for the zip code you could see how in 2016 there's been there was 274 birs and that's been dropping steadily down all the way down to um 255 in 2019 and been dropping down to the most recent birth data showing is we show in this case is 2023 at 2011 births so so this trend is consistent with the rest most of California in the sense that there's a decline in burst and the decline in burst is heavily affecting the incoming kindergarten class five years later and so the kindergarten class are have been coming in at a smaller size and those smaller kindergarten class sizes dictate what the size of the higher grades will be moving onwards but

018but also we have 68 % of those births attending school so the other percentage the 32 is here but not attending exactly yeah and that's what the trend show and and what we usually try to look for in that capture rate is whether or not like it's maintained relatively stable um and in this case it has at least in the last three years but that'll be a good metric to be able to like keep track of is hey like come fall 2025 like has that rate dropped or increased and and see what what the trends are um in that case as well so yeah it's 68% of those births even even even after accounting for the drop in in in births altoe what you see on this page here is a Mobility factors and the

019mobility factor is basically a calculation at the neighborhood level um within each of those study area polygons um and we're tracking the in andout migration patterns occurring within each of these neighborhood levels um within each of these polygons we consider call a study area and this basically tracks any we do this sampling or this study on any neighborhood that doesn't have any construction within the last five years so these are wellestablished neighborhoods of us tracking students as they transition from one grade to the next so we're basically looking at the kindergarten class cohort within each of those um using the the this year's student data and the previous three years of student data and we're tracking each each class cohort to see historically okay what is the kindergarten class is there a gain or decline

020in students as this cohort is is moving on from grades K to First 1 to second second to third so on and so forth so on the table and this data is summarized by the um by the Elementary attendance area level and and this addresses any movein and move outs from the district it also it also addresses any students that maybe they still living in the district but maybe might have gone a charter or private school um any kind of any kind of shifts like that is Capt essentially captured in that Mobility calculation and any number that you see in the table essentially is less than one is a decline or out migration um anything over one is in migration pattern and what what to look for here is the decline in the is in

021the yellow and the increases are in blue and you overall see that from grades four to five as a general Trend you see the um uh overall out migration pattern as kids are transitioning from grades four to five you could also notice that pattern occurring as kids are transitioning from grades 8 to 9 as well and from 10 to 11 it's when speaking in general terms and so yeah it's like as an example within the Beardsley Academy area a Mobility factor of K1 of 0.96 is basically a 4% drop of students as students are transitioning from K to one when talking in in overall um General Trends again we we did track residential development there wasn't that much significantly happening in the district um especially anything that yields high amount of students it's very low

022um it's multif family housing which usually tends to um in the area yield very low amount of students so with that said those that is a walkthrough of the factors and all those factors combined is what um generates the resident student population forecast which you see on this table here with the current column represented by 2024 so those are actual student counts in the district anything to the anything to the red anything to the left from 2021 to 2023 is actual historic counts of students living and enrolled in The District boundary anything to the right from 2025 to 2034 is the resident student population forecast of students living and enrolled in The District boundary and as you could see um in terms of Resident population for tk12 it's due to a decline down down from

023um 2445 tk12 students in 2024 down to 1,86 7 a lot of that is being dictated by the um anticip lower anticipated kindergarten class classes which are represented by the decline in burst and that's been an overall trend that's been occurring in the previous couple years as well as you could see in this example here in 2021 you had a class as high as 199 kindergarteners living and enrolled in The District boundary and that's dropped down to 174 in 2024 and and do to drop even further as as the years years go along you could also see that overall class- siiz distribution is is higher um with it from grades four through grades 12 more or less so you could see like class sizes in the 190s the 200s in many of these grades while

024those as those graduate out they're going to be replaced by lower class sizes within the early Elementary grades like by um replac by by class sizes such as 171 you could see grade three as of fall 2024 or 175 in grade 2 we also have the TK row and that's um we're forecasting TK um and we implemented the universal TK um roll out on here so you could see the effect of that and how that class is um due to stable out um in the next couple years here as full implementation comes into place overall tk8 there was an um enrollment and population of 1729 due to decline down to 1360 by 2034 and then in for grades 912 it's there was an total of 7606 and that's due to declin down to 506 so

025those are the trends for the resident student population forecast the further out you go on these forecast the more cloudy it becomes it's the first three to 3 to four years that are like the most precise it's it's I I highly recommend that this be Revisited regularly to be able to capture the latest trans so the apartments aren't included in this they they are not um there it was we took a sampling of recently built apartments in the area and they just don't generate enough students they're not generating enough students to make a significant impact on the forecast as an example um and you're saying that the new apartments yeah right because we have a lot of students in apartments yeah the new apartments and you but what I mean by new is like Apartments

026built within the last five years okay cuz there's going to be a thousand total coming up pretty soon and then another thousand projected uh within 3 to 5 years yeah and unless that stuff is like affordable completely like subsidized housing um it's not going to it's not going to generate too many students as an example uh if something I could think off the top of my head here and I'd have to take a look at the data again there's a apartment that was Sample luxury apartment building which is most of what is getting built nowadays um in the area 150 units generated like two kits TKA so not much of an impact there to me but you don't see that changing because there isn't much much of a choice out there anymore yeah so like

027my kids are are going to be stuck in that unless they're at home with me and my home becomes a multi-generational home yeah which has been happening here in Dori as well yeah it's it's not only in Dy it's been in a lot of areas California yeah and unless there's like more subsidized housing I think that's going to be the case moving forward as well unfortunately so yeah that that is a trend and not but that Trend can change let's hope it does right you know because I mean it looks like they're getting used to paying this $3,000 which I think is crazy a month right for me it is anyway yeah yeah let's hope it changes and we all we could do is use the latest trends of what's happening to this predict the

028future but yeah maybe hopefully if we come back next year or the following year and analyze this all over again maybe that could show something different hopefully but yeah the trends are what the trends are right now and that's that's the reality of housing right now in in in Southern California as well as Northern California as well like they area so yeah so looking at the top row here of students um when you're adding the students not included in the forecast that students that are enrolled this this category students represent students that live outside the District boundary and and are enrolled in the district so they're basically dist students living out of District boundary you could see there there's a High proportion of students that actually do attend uh Dy schools from outside the District

029boundary um the number being uh 5'11 um out of the total of 2956 total so that's uh that's a good percentage and you know what the programs that are offered here are are attracting students into the district from outside the District boundary for sure so you could see how that number you know that could that's totally under the school district control on to how many are are accepted or admitted into the school district system versus those that are not but we're um our best estimate at forecasting this is just taking the rate of change of the actual resident student population forecast um the rate of annual change and and applying that to the out of District population I'm sorry quick question so as of today I'm sorry as of today we have 511 students from

030outside of of Dy in our schools yeah and and I and and might might may I clarify that yeah as of today meaning this this this student file represents an enr a fall of 2024 enrollment snapshot date of early October so as of early October that's what the numbers were thank you you're welcome and so when you're adding this Cate the these category of students 2956 is due to drop down to 20 261 by tk2 these are just overall visuals bar graphs showing like the impact you could see the at the tk12 level historically speaking the previous three years there's been you could see there's been Decline and that decline is due to due to um keep going through 2034 same with the tk8 forecasts and the 912 forecast as well what you see in

031this map is a net change of of forecasted TKA students anything in the green is decline while anything in the orange and red is is slight growth for those areas and it's likely and the growth in those areas are just like positive immigration of students that might have not been enrolled in the district data is actually showing that they um there's more students being enrolled within those um study areas that you see here overall summary you could see here um base here 2024 tk8 of 1729 due to drop down to um due to drop down to 1360 um then this is strictly resident student population and then tk12 2445 down to 1867 by 2034 and here's just some key items in the analysis so projected decrease of 14% over the next 5 years and an

032overall 23% in the next 10 years tk12 combined uh again it's attributed to the declining birth in the area and not only in this area but in many other parts of I would say the majority of California and that dictates what the kindergarten class sizes look like five years down the road T overall 21% uh decline in tk8 over the next decade and and decreas decreases at the high school level um by 14% by 2029 and 29% over the next 10 years uh there are challenges retaining students from grades 8 to 9 due to the charter schools and again the district does attract students from outside the district it's a good proportion of of of of its enrollment and and again the development there's no there's no significant High yielding development at the moment that's

033due to impact the the district um with that I'll I thank you for this time and I'll open it up to questions all right uh board any questions for our presenter on um pish number three i s a number for preschool but I didn't hear anything about the numbers at preschool that that impact our enrollment or how how did that goes with this presentation yeah preschool is not really um it doesn't impact enrollment at much as much because preschool is completely um separate category of students that like are enrolled through special programs typically speaking so it's like a small proportion of what the potential kindergarten class could be um in the future I see okay and and that's probably for you Dr hman uh how many schools do we have preschool right now is verly

034currently we have uh preschool programs at the um on the and stardy campus as well as at U Maxwell um we will be moving to Beardsley the Beardsley area um and preschool is a little bit different too because people who from out of the district enroll in our in our preschool programs as well okay because it's it's separate thank you thank you other questions or comments for um all right I I do have oh go ahead so it looks like we need to do our homework according to you we have students out there that live here and aren't attending our schools and quite a few you don't have that number when you did your study no and it's it's hard for you to find that number right yeah and and it is a study that

035we do but to be to be honest it is it is a study that we do it's based on estimate um censes numb so the censes is every 10 years as you could see but if you want the latest and greatest it's based on the American Community survey heavily based on the five-year American Community survey estimate so it is an estimate that we're comparing it to but that could give you a good metric more or less as that's the closest you'll get as to like what the enrollment is versus what the actual population is within each of these areas and we could potentially do it not only at the districtwide level but at an elementary down to the elementary granular level as well so our homework is to grow our schools yeah definitely thank you

036uh so I I have a I guess some comments and and questions so I guess first of all um it's kind of sobering to hear that um with with the housing that has been developed here we're not getting very many young families in here hopefully I mean maybe there's young couples that are going to have kids in the future maybe they I mean because they are new development so maybe they'll have kids I don't I don't know who all is living in those places but um you know it is I as as Mr Rey has alluded to um you know I I worry about my kids ever being able to afford a place to live in uh in this state and um you know so that is kind of a sobering statistic to look at

037and I do I do remember at the csba conference a couple years ago they there was a session that talked about LA County specifically um anticipating at least a 20% decline in birth rate uh over the next decade or so and um it it seems like your data seemed to support that uh happening in our city as well um one one I guess two two bright spots um that I'd like to have your thoughts on um is the I guess in combination with slide number I believe it's eight and nine um you know so we have a a capture rate most recently of of 68% um and so these these represent students that um are kindergarten age that are not coming into not en rolling in kindergarten in our district is that correct the 68%

038is actually the kids that are enrolled in the district oh sorry sorry so it would be the 32 that are are 32% are not um so it it seems at least and and correct me if I'm wrong um those individuals um were it's it's not like they came in tried our school and then said ah I don't like it I want to go somewhere else they just never enrolled period yeah that's that's correct okay cuz because if if we go down to then page nine um at least for for Beardsley and Maxwell um the place where I I would think there would be uh the biggest exit um which is going from grades 8 to nine um both of those schools are retaining 90% of their students are going into our high school now Royal

039Oaks and Valley View are laggards in this respect um you know not not not quite reaching 80% for those so um to to Mr reyes's point there there is some work that we can do especially at those schools to try and retain those students um but I think overall it's it is somewhat promising to see that of the students that do start at Dart even though it's not a number that we want um they're they're coming in and and and liking it for the most part um and I think that that is further supported by the fact that over 500 of our students that come here don't live here um which is um maybe a testament to our our programs um that we have to offer here yeah definitely and the kindergarten capture rate is

040you know we we try to look at because in depending on the district it may or may not like directly the ZIP code boundary may or may not directly align perfectly with a district boundary so what we're looking at here like is hey is the capture rate at least staying relatively stable and if it is then that that is a plus like it the district is is having its kids born there consistently at a consistent rate enroll in kindergarten five years later all right thank you very much any other oh miss the my question will be again going um back to the preschool program are those preschool um kids that we students that we have uh usually they they enroll in the uh pre or cake yes I can get you better I can get

041you precise data on that but typically they are pretty much rolling in and parents at four years old excuse me they now can attend TK so they that's why we're starting at SEC two years old to start them even sooner but we'll get that data for you thank you and I just had one question um on the same slide here so when we're looking at the 68% capture rate which leaves the what was it 32% I don't know if it was in the larger report or if it's something that could be analyzed could we see is there a way to find out the distribution of that 32 of the 32% of students who are not attend or not enrolling in kindergarten that would probably be doable at the Elementary attendance area level we're looking at

042the Census Data okay yeah that's the best that's the best that could be done okay because we have a a unique Community within our ZIP code which is Bradberry City and I'm just curious how many of those families I mean it's wildly affluent and families who have resources to spend upwards of $30,000 a year to send their kids wherever they want so um not that it needs to be done just curious if it's possible thank you you're welcome any other questions or comments board if I don't ask right now I will never ask add of those new uh new uh complex buildings that we have in the in the city you you mentioned that we have two students from one as an example that I as an example but do we have any idea how

043many students come from that building across the street from back Bank of America and Via esperansa building we can look and see if we can find that out for you I know that you've done some studies with that but looking at where our students are yeah we could we could look that up too yeah I I would appreciate that thank you great question any other items all right well thank you very much for presenting this and for answering our questions it's been really enlightening thank you thank you thank you I if I may move on to the next item yes that is just fine Dr Helman thank you I'd just like to now invite um our presentation of the district's facilities master plan refresh which kind of goes nicely with this demographic study is Jay

044this is Jay tile he is the studio principal from Little Architects he'll be making a presentation on the district's facility master plan refresh and you have it in front of you there and Mr tile has a presentation good evening sir good evening thank you Dr Helman so um what I'm going to present to you uh first of all is a refresh what does that mean um it's a refresh of the master plan that uh we prepared for you all in 2016 okay so as I go through uh this um presentation it's it's a few pages pulled out of a much greater document which I assume you probably have that uh I'm going to summarize and go through so I'm going to talk a little bit about Pro process I'm going to go through just one

045of the campuses as kind of a case study to show you what we covered in each of the campuses um I'm going to focus a lot on capacity of each of the campuses okay and then I have some closing remarks okay all right I'm sure you can read that all right so uh historical context that's what I was talking about uh so in 2015 uh we did the original contract to do the master plan uh and um and we completed that in 2016 and uh uh and there was some recommendations that came out of that not going to go through that so last fall uh we were contracted to do a refresh and over a four-month period we uh met with uh departments in the district we met with campus principles we walked each of

046the campuses to do an update to the facilities conditions assessment uh we looked at the uh data that was just presented from uh MGT and uh prepared our documents okay as part of effort looking at the conditions assessment and the needs assessment uh we put together some cost estimates which I'll show you one of and then with that I'm going to skip to GNA walk you through just the pages for uh Beardsley can you go back to the previous slide please absolutely so so this is projected cost of pairs needed is that what that is that's correct and I'll go into a little bit of detail on what that looks like uh using be le as a case study ready to move on okay all right so um Beardsley the format for Beardsley uh is

047the same for each of the school so I'm just going to kind of walk you through the format of it so each campus uh we have a page that uh gives some overview where's the campus within the district uh what's it look like from a Google Earth view what's the mission statement um some data uh about the campus in terms of acreage and parking uh and all of the buildings and their Square footages on the campus and and um I'm going to come back to this U as a capacity study but we've we looked at the the contracted class sizes the number of classrooms Etc uh looked at a recent enrollment history on that campus uh included some photographs uh of the campus in the larger document um and then uh meeting minutes from sessions

048that we had either with uh uh District departments Andor campus principles uh this is the uh kind of the master plan uh in the case of Beardsley um you see if you're uh familiar in detail with the campus uh there's a lot of changes that are about to take place with uh the construction work in terms of consolidating the orte preschool here and um adding some other classrooms throughout this is the uh the cost layout uh gives you the detail of what you're looking at so we identified um modernization costs uh for buildings um and then U we also included uh the cost of the uh construction work that's about to begin excuse me did you have any specific question so the total upgrades will be 31,2 77 that's what you're saying correct and and

049uh part of that's already under construction or about to begin construction with the contract that's been L anything else in I can answer on that yeah that you you have new building twostory what is that uh that's a that's a potential in order to get the uh U uh ultimate campus capacity and what what um because I was told at elementary school so it's not going to be used for elementary kids that you couldn't have a second story is that true or was I misguided well I I don't know who told you that so I don't want to say you're misguided uh but if you're uh grades three and above you can be in a second story you can have a second Story three and above yes okay okay all right so let me uh

050let me go back to the capacity uh for all right so I'm going to start with Beardsley and then I'm going to show you just the capacity study page for each of the other cap either campuses so we have here from the left hand side we're looking at uh uh preschool um we included special day class TK K through 8th grade um the second column from the left is your current uh contracted uh teacher student ratios uh and then the the next column working to the right is your current enrollment um in each grade level and then the next column has the number of classrooms and then the capacity so the important numbers I think to look at if you go to the bottom the current enrollment um at Beardsley um and again these are

051phone numbers enrollment as you know can change dayto day but the current enrollment is 475 the capacity is 779 and that that is the capacity after these changes take place or before before thank you for asking that current capacity okay all right Maxwell so if we go down to the bottom current enrollment at Maxwell is 532 capacity at that campus today is 7:32 Royal Oaks the current capacity or excuse me the current enrollment is 8:30 and the capacity today is just over a th 2018 Valley View Academy that's pretty balanced current enrollment is 294 and current capacity is 312 at the high school uh we have a total enrollment of 733 and a capacity of 1,162 and at uh MIT current enrollment is 70 and capacity is 259 any questions on those okay so this

052kind of Dov tailes with uh uh the MGT uh study that you just heard I just at the bottom of this page I was kind of uh replicating their projections looking forward from toh 2026 out to 20134 and then uh kind of in conclusion noting a couple of important benchmarks uh again that you've you've heard just a few minutes ago that TK enrollment is projected decline from about students down to 1691 912 projected decline from 806 down to 571 and then you've talked a bit about the 68% capture rate I was just noting that um and something that you might consider I had promised to do this in 10 minutes so do you have any questions board any questions or comments I believe that more than questions I appreciate this information and I I believe

053that I have a lot to study on this because the numbers that reflects all this is um what I believe our staff and conjunction with um like like your your um um uh Consulting are working together to give us this information and based on this information we can see what the reality is it is a fact that we have a lot to read in here just the numbers that that show how many students should be at school and how many they are it is very it is a really tough for me to digest that and so I I just appreciate you and your staff and um the uh little div the the Consulting um it's going to take a lot of responsibility for us to read all this and have the facts because a lots

054of people believe in some rumors but when you have a document like this it shows that we have facts in here that doesn't mean that I don't have questions I have a lots of questions about this and so hopefully uh we can have a a study session on based on just on this information and I really appreciate um your efforts to bring this information to all of us I have a question for Dr hman uh you have uh the meeting minutes on here on this uh PowerPoint and you you show that the meeting was September 18 2024 is it I'm asking you because I'm going to ask you who who decided who the attendees would would be it was part of our process we work worked with our with our business office in terms of

055getting the folks together as a district team no because you know I there's there's not a lot of representation for all the schools you only have one one custodian from one school you know that's on here and um like I mean it would have been better if you had a couple parents on there as well you know you've got one principal there but I think it should there should have been a lot more people invited to that to that meeting to put to give their input thank you so um with so two two questions on that summary slide that you had for Beard s um so there's there's construction costs and then there's project costs that's the construction with a 25% multiplier so uh what what is the I guess the multiplier there for so

056construction costs would be what you would expect the price to be from say a general contractor okay okay so that's that's construction and then the project cost uh gets multiplied up for all of what we call soft costs that includes uh Architects fees uh agencies such as the state architect you'll have a full-time inspection uh company there'll be special tests uh there's a lot of what we call soft cost okay so so the the construction cost is the the I guess the the materials and the people doing the physical work and then the the project costs is all the inspections and things that go along with that that is correct okay all right and then with with all of these items that are listed here um these are all going to happen or could happen

057or what what percent of these are going into the actual project that is happening at Beardsley the uh for Beardsley it's the block of three items at the bottom of the page ah okay so they're they're the ones that are bolded around the bottom down correct gotcha or I guess in the Bold rectangle okay that is correct I see and then if you uh if you look at the other campuses there are no projects going on except for the relocation of MIT okay and so that that $25 million that's under there is not it is it is everything if we were to do everything recommended but the it's just the 9.7 million that is in that the bolded or I guess the 12.1 with the the project cost okay great thank you very much Jay

058yes oh can you explain um the pH the facilities master plan is more like a wish list and because you have the construction up there and what people said they wanted or would like to see doesn't mean that that's what we're going to do so the Beardsley project is based upon the move and nothing in addition to with high rises and things like that or additional classrooms other than the move and every other page like that the assessment is mainly a wish list so when they had these meetings these are the things that people said they wanted he put the cost there so we could know but we're not moving in any direction to do any of that because our capacity says more than half so we wouldn't need all those additional things the safety

059things yes we can work on but additional buildings no I couldn't say it any better perfect he taught me well thank you very much Miss B I appreciate that uh all right any other comments or questions from the board all right one really quick just kind of building off both of your questions could we say that these um provide not just a wish list but also an opportunity for us to set priorities in terms of where we would focus our attention when we do have um the funds available absolutely okay thank you excellent all right well thank you very much we appreciate uh you putting this together and uh presenting it and answering some questions we appreciate it very much my pleasure thank you all right board so those were our two presentations just get

060back to my agenda here all right so um I believe now we can move on to agenda item number nine um which which is the consideration of the Waldorf school's request to lease the andrw dardy campus that's number number 10 okay sorry on mine it's it is nine on mine so thank you it is it is number 10 on here um I do know my numbers I promise all right so um the nice um we um at just to to give a little bit of history on this there was a a petition put forth uh from the Waldorf School in Pasadena to request to use uh our our currently vacant campus at Andrew stardy um as a result of their school uh sustaining complete and total uh I guess destruction uh during the fires in

061Eaton or in up in Altadena and so um we have uh you know we we investigated it looked into it and had a discussion about it in Clos session uh today um so we are now uh here to go ahead and uh entertain any motions with regards to this um and then possibly have some discussion as well um so uh I will go ahead um I'll make a motion um that um based on what we have heard from legal that we deny the request for the waldor school uh and direct our superintendent Dr hman and her team to communicate this decision to uh to the school and to the requesting party so do I have a motion for that second the motion sorry I I was moving thank you and and MZ was seconding um

062so any discussion on that just for um Just for information and to be on the record uh can you say can you mention a fact why we're not able to do this so is that is that directed towards Dr Helman or uh or whoever she would like to direct that question to thank you um our legal councel serine abrahamian is here to answer any questions to help with Guidance with this conversation Serene thank you for being here tonight and I think she might be able to answer that question thank you Dr Helman thank you board members for having me tonight um and to address the question there are two overarching issues so one is under the Education Code section 17527 at SEC which is what we would rely on to enter into the type of

063lease Arrangement that's uh that the private school is seeking here um it's specifically uh prevents districts from entering into short-term lease agreements with uh a private school that's a K12 which is what this entity is this entity does offer a a nursery program uh but that doesn't take it out of the restricted uh provision of that statute and then secondly the district's property as the board is aware and I think the community has been following along is under an exclusive negotiating agreement with the Crestfield town homes and it's for the longer term potential long-term development of the property the what the exclusive negotiating agreement covers is the due diligence and entitlement periods for the developer to do their leg work and then submit what's called a site plan to the city for consideration the stage

064of the process that the developer is in right now for the long-term development of the project is the entitlement period so in other words they have submitted a site plan for the development to the city and the city is considering that including the environmental potential environmental impact and zone change and general plan Amendment requests so that is in process and would restrict the district's ability to consider the proposal of the private school thank you other discussion board all right yes oh Mr re um I'm glad you put it on the agenda I'm just sorry it took so long uh we're making those people wait for an answer I think that was bad taste no I know it was um but on a happy note okay they uh were able to acquire a site in Glendale

065which she just sent this to me um earlier today uh and and um so they're going to be fine for the rest of the year anyway so she said say thank you for the consideration thank you for sharing that Mr Reyes we appreciate it uh all right so if there's no more discussion uh we can go ahead and vote on the matter uh all those in favor of the motion say I I hi against to decline yes to decline to deny the requests that's correct so I believe that's 5 yes no objections all right motion carries then all right we can now move on to uh item number 11 which is just to receive for information the uh 10-year resident student population forecast report that was presented by MGT um and then also item number

06612 which is the to receive for information the facility's master plan refresh could I get a hard copy of that please Dr hman it's in here the 220 some pages I'll get theend this is the yeah the whole the whole thing the whole enchilada no I know it is but I I'd like a hard copy please we'll get that all right uh so we'll now move on to item number 13 which is adjournment and we would like to adjourn in memory of our friend and colleague uh Dr Shauna Dinkins who was the deputy superintendent for the Lynnwood Unified School District um as well as uh adjourning in the memory of Melba Mage I hope I'm saying that right who was the mother of a Beardsley teacher uh Ronda wood Krauss so we'd like to adjourn

067in in their memory and in their honor so do I have a motion motion by board member Diaz second second by board member Reyes any discussion seeing none all those in favor say I I any against none motion carries thank you very much board and Community thank you Mr President

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