001Almost. Hello everybody. located here today. With that being said, I'm going to be showing you a style that is called the grass dance that comes from the Omaha people of Nebraska. It is a dance that is carried on to several different tribes. I'll be sharing hope. God. Bye-bye. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. [music] >> [applause] >> Thank you very much B. Kasier, a former student from Bona Grande High School for the excellent performance in honor of Native American Heritage Month. Thank you for coming. [applause] Now we can back to the regular thing. More no more exciting stuff. [laughter] >> Going to stand up. >> Yeah. >> You going to >> please stand for the pledge. >> Going to ask a student uh member to lead us in the pledge. >> Place your right hand over
002your heart. Ready? Begin. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all. >> Please remain standing for a moment of silence. We are saddened to hear the passion of the GCG students Pablo Escoba and Gabriel Gabriel Tina and retired teacher Michael Gria and retired bus driver and transportation dispatcher Francis Hedri. Pablo Escobar were a Pacifica high school life skills program students whose strength, kindness, and friendship touched everyone who knew him. Pablo faced enormous challenges in his life, including overcoming cancer twice and endured two kidneys transplant. Yet yet, he met every obstacle with courage and determination. Pablo loved learning and took great pride in his hard work and accomplishment. Some of his happiness school memories were made working
003in the Marina Cafe and cafeteria, participating in the unified PE and concert choir, and on field trips to place like not Berry Farm and a bowling alley. Outside of school, Pablo enjoy listening to his favorite bands on YouTube and playing games on his tablets. He has especially cherished time spent with his family, whether on a a party or cheering for his beloved Dodger and Raider. One of his most joyful moments were watching the Dodger win the World Series, a season he celebrated with pride and excitement. Pablo resilience inspire his classmate, teachers and all who had the privilege of being part in of his work will be greatly missed. Gabriel Pina was a ninth grade student am train special education school. He is remembered at a sweet and friendly student with a big heart. He delighted
004in connecting with others and although he was unable to speak, he had a speaking device and used it frequently to ask for hug and from those around him. Gabriel were full of determination and enthusiasm even though he was wheelchair bound and he he worked tirelessly to move around in the classroom independently. This day the Gabriel entered the classroom. He brought with him a joy and energy that changed the atmosphere instantly. His enthusiasm and affectionist spirits will be deeply missed by all that knew him. Michael Greer began [snorts] working for the district at assigned teachers at Gardenro High School in 1998. In 2003, he became a teacher on special assignment supporting science, professional development, and curriculum until 2004 when he returned to the classroom. This time at Rancho Alamidos High School, where he remained until his
005retirement in 2018. Mike were essential part of the science team at Rancho. He always brought joys and laughter to their meetings and was sometime something of a spirit leader leaning into a spirit weeks especially group custom for Harin welll like and by staff and by student alike. He is the reason for the whole department has green and yellow knee sock with the science emlazm down to the sign. Michael is survived by his husband of 27 years Dave Eden. He was a union representative, current treasurer for the retired teacher association, book a book club member, gamer, best friend, son, brother, uncle, great uncle and quietly philanthropist do many causes he felt passionate about and he is greatly missed. Francis Herris was beloved member of the transportation family. She began her journey with the district in 1990
006at a substitute bus driver and be dedicated over 15 years of service. Retired in 2006 as a transportation dispatch supervisor. Francis were known for her patient and deep care for her co-workers and driver. someone who truly had her heart in her work co colleagues and remember how considerate she was and how she was always willing to help. In retirement, Francis enjoyed being with her extended family, participated in her church community and gardening, cooking and reading. Her kindness touched many and she will be deeply missed. We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Pablo Escoba, Gabriel Pina, Michael Greer, and Francis Hoic. A moment of silence now begins. Moment of silence now ends. Please be seated. Thank you. We're going to begin our presentation uh for the meeting. Um yes, I want to
007invite assistant superintendent uh Jason Bvaka uh to present our employees of the month. Good evening board president Wyn, board of education trustees, Dr. Mafi, staff and community. I am pleased to recognize our November employees of the month. As you know, our district is filled with amazing employees, but these two definitely stand out. GGUSD's employee of the month program is designed to recognize employees who put others first, go above and beyond to make a difference in their role, carry out each day with a positive attitude and strong work ethic, and demonstrate innovation, leadership, and passion for their job. Our two employees of the month uh definitely have uh demonstrated this for sure. Our classified employee of the month is Christine Ditler Martin. Yes. [applause] Uh she's an instructional assistant too at Allen. Um Christine joined the
008district in 2012 and has served as an instructional assistant to supporting special education students at Monroe Northcut Peters K3 as well as Allen and presently serves there where she's been since 2019. Christine was nominated for this recognition by several staff members who said Christine really cares about each students academic and emotional well-being and that she goes above and beyond to meet each student where they are. She has a way of knowing what students need and is always there to support them in the kindest way without making students stand out or feel embarrassed. She is stealthy, moving from room to room to students without any interruptions. Uh I like that stealthy. Uh, one teacher shared that Christine helped support a student having a medical emergency, jumping into action with a calm demeanor and staying beyond the
009school day to make sure everything was taken care of. Christine is a wonderful asset to the Allen community and is loved and respected by staff and students alike. Congratulations, Christine. [applause] Our certificated employee of the month is Fun Taen and she's a teacher at McGarvin Intermediate. [applause] Tao joined the district in uh 2016 and serves as an algebra and Vietnamese teacher at McGarvin Intermediate. Tao was nominated for this recognition by two students who shared that she is an encouraging math teacher who does an amazing job elaborating on instruction to ensure student understanding. One student said she would go way out of her way to give students like me the opportunity to correct um their assignments. She always seems excuse me sees the good in students and believes all students can succeed if they try. Another
010student shared that her positive personality cheers students up because she is very very encouraging as students enter her classroom. The student went on to say that her personal story, [clears throat] excuse me, of overcoming adversity to become a teacher and now giving back to her own uh is really important to their parents as well. The student shared that on top of teaching math, she is also the National Junior Honors Society co-advisor and pentathlon coach, always planning events and supporting students in these programs. It's clear that Tao has a passion for teaching and is and is inspiring students to reach their full potential. Congratulations to Christine and Tao who join who are joined here by family, friends, and colleagues. I see a lot of fans too. Yes. [applause] Uh we're now going to show a quick
011video to spotlight so you can see the exemplary employees in action. After the video, we'll take some pictures as well with the board. [music] Thank you so much for nominating me for Garden Grove Unifi's classified employee of the month for November. [music] Here at Allen, I work closely with the students and TK [music] through 6th grade. I support all of our students in whatever ways they need, helping them stay engaged, breaking down [music] tasks so they feel more manageable, giving one-on-one attention, [music] and cheering them on along the way. My favorite part of the job is just working with kids, knowing that [music] I get to make a positive difference in their day and hopefully in their lives. They teach me just as [music] much as I teach them, and it's a privilege to be
012part of their growth. Being named classified employee of the month is an honor. It means that the work I do on a daily basis is [music] being noticed by others in a positive way, and that feels amazing. I'm grateful to work with such caring teachers [music] and staff who put their hearts into helping our students succeed. This really [music] is a team effort and I am so proud to be part of it. >> Congratulations Christine for this nomination and award. You truly deserve [music] it and I'm so happy for you. I met Christine for my first year of teaching and right away I knew she was someone extraordinary. [music] She has this beautiful gift for reaching every student she works with and she pours her whole heart into everything [music] she does. Christine isn't just
013someone who helps students, she advocates for them. She stands up for what they need. She believes in them when others might not. [music] And she gives countless hours to make sure every child feels supported, valued, and loved. Christine, [music] you make such a difference in the lives of so many, and we are so lucky to have you. Christine, congratulations on earning employee of the month. We are so proud of you and it is very welld deserved. Working with you brings to mind the quote, "Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much." You exemplify what it [music] means to elevate a classroom through collaboration and empathy. Our classroom is stronger, more supportive, [music] and more joyful because of you. You show up every single day in countless of ways, often quietly, [music]
014always intentionally. And those moments create a tremendous impact on our students [music] and our team. Thank you so much for going above and beyond for your professionalism on a daily basis, and for [music] being such an incredible teammate. Christine, you make a difference not just in what you do, but in how you do it with heart, [music] integrity, and genuine care. It's noticed and always appreciated. to be [music] recognized in a field of extraordinary um employees is an an honor of mine and I'm grateful and [music] thankful for the nomination to be the uh employee of the month in the [music] month of November. What gets me up in the morning every single day is the energy [music] and the faces of the kids that I get to interact with every single day. They are
015my inspiration. [music] They challenge the way I think about the everchanging world. They [music] inspire me um to be a better person and also teaching me how to [music] adapt to this new world every single day. Um I try my best to [music] encourage them to be a member of the community because I went to school in this community. I grew up in this community and to be able to come back and be a part of uh the Garden Grove community and serving the students who um you know was in my exact situation [music] years ago um is is a great honor. I always say I stand on the shoulders of of giants of teachers who've inspired me along the way. amazing Garden Grove teachers, colleagues who inspire [music] me to be better every single
016day and be the best that uh that I can be. And so at the end of the day, I'm just super thankful [music] to be recognized uh with this honor. And it's just not the work of myself alone, but my [music] students, my colleagues, and um the teachers, and the people who helped support me uh [music] along the way. Thank you. Congratulations, TA, for being the November certificated employee of the month. It's certainly an excellent [music] and welldeserved honor. We have a saying here at McGarvin that McGarvin als [music] [music] welcomes her students into class. uh she I is for improving every day and she encourages students to do [music] that and reflects on her own profession to be able to do that herself so that she's even better for her students. S is being
017socially [music] aware and so she sees kids and helps kids uh if they're struggling with regard to their academics [music] and does a lot of things uh with regard to the school to support our initiatives, our programs and spends a lot of time after school with regard to those things for clubs and groups and homework support and E is being ethical which is doing the right thing and Mrs. Den certainly does [music] the right thing with taking her profession seriously and having a heart of gold to support students learn. Again, Tao, [music] congratulations for being the the certificated employee of the month. >> Congratulations, Miss Den for being the employee of [music] the month. For me personally, I think what makes Miss Den such a great teacher is because she's actually more than just a
018teacher. She's also a mentor and she makes learning fun and engaging. She helps her students out whenever they're having any trouble. And that's just why I think she's just overall [music] a great teacher. [applause] We're going to take a short recess to take a picture with the honory. We also want to invite Bach uh Garcia to stay and take a picture with us as well. One, two, three, Thank you. >> [applause] [applause] >> And we continue our break. Feel free to leave the room if you have some more exciting thing to do. >> Yeah. The rest are going to be very routine. She was my neighbor. >> Was my neighbor. >> Oh, yeah. >> For a long time. >> Well, she was younger, so I never noticed her. >> [laughter] >> No, no, no. Oh,
019really? >> Wow. >> We're going to be u uh resume our meeting today. Um we're going to continue our agenda. Uh next with the public comments and I may ask if anyone request to speak. >> Yes, we have three. >> Thank you. Uh we have requests from uh Mr. Lupe Lopez. Thank you. Good evening to every members of the board. But I'm going to speak from the heart. I'm a member in the residence homeowner in the city of Garden Grove. So, Mr. Nuin, we're really going to get excited tonight. We've been excited with the celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Um, members of the board, this is November. We celebrate Native American Heritage Month as a reminder of the existence of Native Americans. Native Americans have been existence from time and memorial. Native Americans have
020been the first people who have been the examples of public educ education. Mind you, Native Americans, Mr. Newin, and members of the board, is that has been a historical trauma. Native Americans have experienced something called boarding school where it was forced education, forced to change from being native into being a white person. And that is a history. It's a very sad history but as community and as parents we have changed that. We have changed that through movements such as American Indian movement. We've changed that through advocacy of parents. We've changed that because we've been giving the opportunity to come to public comments. And 10 years ago folks 10 years ago about that I came here with my children. Bach was just a young child and we made changes to say our Native American kids are
021not graduating from school. Our Native American kids are not graduating and going into college. Our Native American kids have the highest absentee rate, highest truency rate, highest um suspension rate. But we made that change because of this beautiful school board that said that we would apply for Indian education. We have a we applaud uh member Moneton, member Roco and as well with you uh member Mafi. It was those times if you can remember we applied for federal funding for Indian education. And what does that mean? That means that as American Indians within the Garden Grove Unified School District, we'll be given a a grant to make sure that every American Indian child would not be left behind. And you say, is that a privilege for American Indians? No, my friends, no. It is a political
022right. And what does that mean? It is agreement from government to government entities. And where has American Indians thrived today? We are thriving economically and visibly you can see it through our casinos. I see many of you there. Hey, but we are thriving for the fact that when an American Indian graduates by law, we as American Indian by race, we can wear a feather on our cap when we graduate and we walk down that way of our graduation. and also that our our American Indian people through the um American Indian feather alert that no one will be going missing anymore. >> So bad, but I do allow to speak. I do make an exception for you. Please continue your your statement. >> Thank you, Mr. Win. Thank you. Um and so by assembly member uh
023James Ramos um he advocates for American Indians and we want each and every one of you members of the board, you in the audience be an ally for American Indians because we're a small population but we are mighty population and we still exist. And thank you to Garden Grove Unified School District for your heart and your ally and your love. Thank you. blessings. [applause] >> Next question from Mr. Nicholas Dibs. members of the board, Dr. Mafy. Um, I'm Nicholas Dibs, as you know. Um, couple of things. First off, um I I have a number of items, but I'm going to start off with um uh back at the Garden Grove, uh city of Garden Grove had a had a meeting, a city council meeting back on May 27th, and an item came up from the
024public works director for a welder, a welding contract. And um uh there was a question by Mayor Cloffenstein which I thought was very important uh relating to welders and I'd like you to hear it >> to be impacted. >> This concludes staff's report and I'm available. Should you have any >> This is Bill Murray the public >> question for you. Why only one person bidding on this? I've noticed that now of the last two items. Uh is this is this a rarity? Is there a reason why more people aren't bidding on these projects? We have a lot of college graduates. We do not have a lot of trade graduates. >> Understood. >> Okay. So, that's Bill Murray responding to the mayor back on May 27th. So, [clears throat] I I started off running for school
025board back in 2016 because you cut the last two wood shops from the last two of the 10 intermediate schools. You've brought back trades to one of the high schools of the seven. But you need to do more. And this is an example of that. We have a shortage of skilled workers. I've been telling you that for over nine years. Yet, you've only brought back trades to one school, which is a high school, and you've ignored the 10 intermediates, which should have some sort of a uh rotating uh class on CTE. So on our CTE, not just the one you have now where they make robots, but the one where they're going to learn what we used to have, which is working with wood, metal, get some electrical, plumbing, whatever. Now, how does that Let's
026fast forward to recently. The district sent out a survey to the parents and I perhaps the students asking what are their suggestions for CTE. I've been asking that you you be more specific and send out another survey especially to the the senior class uh uh people or uh high school students asking them and intermediates would they like to have shop classes that is because a lot of the we haven't had these classes in the intermediate school for for for like over 10 years. So the question is you you send out a survey if they don't even know it used to exist they're not going to put it down on the survey. So, please ask them, would they like to see our trade class, skilled trade classes come back to the 10 intermediates or any of
027the intermediates and more of that in our high schools. I'm running out of time and I have another important comment, but it'll have to wait, I guess, for the next meeting. Thank you very much for for listening. >> Another request is from Jason Alvarado. Good evening, members of the board, administrators, and community members. [snorts] Thank you for the chance to speak tonight. I'm here because our first grade students are facing a situation that has become unsafe and is compromising their learning on a daily basis. In my child's classroom, there's a student with significant special needs. I want to emphasize that this child deserves understanding, compassion, and proper support. This is not about blaming him. This is about ensuring that every child, including him, is placed where they can be safe, supported, and successful. Right now,
028that is not happening. This student has frequent violent outbursts that often involve hitting, grabbing, or throwing objects. Even with supervision in the classroom and playground, other children are being put at risk. These are small children. They should not be afraid of being hurt in their own classroom or during their recess time. Beyond the physical danger, the learning environment is breaking down. Instruction is interrupted every time there is an outburst. Students are lo losing valuable learning time minutes at a time, multiple times a day. That adds up to hours of compromised education each week. Many students are becoming anxious, distracted, and fearful. This is impacting not only their academic progress, but their emotional well-being. And this situation isn't fair to the child who is struggling either. He clearly needs a classroom designed for students with higher
029levels of support, a place with specialized training, structure, and resources that can help him succeed rather than constantly being overwhelmed. Right now, we have a class that is unsafe in a child whose needs are not being met. That helps no one. And if this is happening at my child's school, I can only assume that it is happening at other schools in the district. I am asking the board to act urgently. Please evaluate the student's placement and move him to an environment where he can receive the specialized support he requires. And please ensure that the other children in the classroom are given back what they deserve and are legally entitled to a safe, stable, and effective learning environment where they can focus, learn, and grow without fear. Thank you. >> Mr. Avaro, can I I'm going
030to ask one of staff to kind of get more information the school and some information so we can follow up on that. Okay. Thank you very much. Can can one staff get any other request? Okay. Okay. Um, next item on the approval of the minute from the last meeting. Uh, we have the minute uh from the meeting last meeting on October 7, 2025. Any comment, correction? Hearing none, let's call for the vote. >> Student trustee Christy Gatichu. >> Yes. >> Trustee Dina Win. >> Yes. >> Trusty Walter Muno. >> Hi. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> I. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Abstain. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> I. Item three on the agenda is public hearings, presentation and report. First, we're going to begin with the public hearings. Uh we have the public hearings on the
031initial contract proposal from the supervisory unit. I'm going to open up the public hearing now. >> We have one comment submitted. >> Yes. That request is from Mr. Nicholas DeS. Yeah, I'd like I'd like to comment on on some things that should be included in the contract and I'm obviously the contract is between the district and the supervisory unit. Um, but as a member of the public, I'd like to ask that you include some language in the contract dealing with um not only this contract, but the contract for all administrators. And that is that we right now under board policy 3120 um if there's a complaint against an administrator whether he or she is the superintendent or at a lower level uh ultimately that complaint process goes to the superintendent and it says um on
032in the pol in the administrative regulation 3120.1 that the decision of the superintendent shall be final. Now I think in the supervisory contract there should be language something on the order of that there should be depending on who the administrator is and what level and so on but particularly at the director level and above uh but even for principal and above that that the board uh would have the option to bring in an independent investigator or or or an ethics officer but somebody who's independ dependent because the administrator should not be investigating themselves. You, the board, should have an independent lens on serious allegations that might be leveled against any administrator. And to depend only on your staff to investigate the staff is not right, especially when there's investigations needed at a high at high
033level people. So, I've asked that before and I'd ask you to please adopt the policies that I've submitted, the policy I submitted for fair investigations so that this contract as well as contracts for your assistant superintendent and your superintendent include language that the board may at its option uh bring in an ethics officer or andor an independent investigator who has no ties to the district or to the employees involved regarding investigating. so that you, the board, have an independent lens on what what happened or what was alleged. And so [clears throat] I have copies here of what I submitted prior and I'd like to propose that you include that language in in this contract and it's to establish a fair and ethical investigation. So I'll provide the copies at the end of the meeting for
034all of you to have. Okay? And I appreciate your listening. It's important that we have ethics and fairness. Thank you. >> Any request to speak? >> There are none, but um Mr. Dibs, I would like to clarify as I have before. No, you don't need to come up that the um supervisory unit are not administrators. They're classified employees who supervise others. So, just for your remembrance, they're not it's not an administrative group. And as I shared with you you before, administrative reggg 3120.1 does um indicate that there are many times when we bring in independent investigators. >> I will send it to you again. >> Uh having no other request to speak, I close the public hearing now. Now next item of uh presentation. Uh we have the contract proposal from the GG the district
035to supervisory unit. Uh I'm going to invite assistant superintendent Jason Bvaka. Thank you. We'd like to open up uh negotiations with our supervisory unit and we'd like to open the following articles. Uh and as maintaining the current um terms and conditions of the 2425 agreement with our supervisory unit, we'd like to open article 9 leaves, article 10, health and welfare, article 11, wages, and we'll also discuss the calendar for the 2026 2027 school year. Thank you. >> Thank you. Now, come to funding. I'm going to invite the district staff to present the data >> right the data report uh so that everyone know many of us had a big ber here with we show all the data and the analysis from the presentation so it's going to be fun thing to go through >> yes
036>> thank you >> good evening board President Lanwin, board members, Dr. Mafy, staff and guests. My name is Melissa Sees, the director of evaluation and research, and it's my pleasure to present along with the team of our wonderful directors our annual data and instruction update for you this evening. The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of the various types of data used to inform our district programs, services, and professional development and its alignment to our three district goals. We will begin with district goal one. As you see displayed here, there are two consecutive years of ESPback ELA data for our district, the county, and the state. We've had growth from one year to the next, as has the county and the state, but we bypassed both the county and the state for
037the seventh consecutive year. This holds true for math as well. We had growth from 24 to 25. So did the county and so did the state, but we bypassed them as well for the sixth consecutive year. In regard to the core districts that we participate with, we outperformed them last year and nine consecutive years and this year again in English language arts. For math, we also outperformed the core districts for the seventh consecutive year. When we consider ourselves along among the top 10 performing large California districts, for the fifth year in a row, we have ranked fifth among all other large California districts. This is quite an accomplishment when you compare the four districts that bypass us. When you look at the percentage of unduplicated pupil count, ours is at 81% and the districts that
038are ahead of us have a much lower unduplic unduplicated pupil count. The California schools dashboard was just released last Friday and Garden Grove continues to show great growth. In chronic absenteeism, we maintained yellow. In suspension rate, we did decline from green to yellow. That was our only indicator that we declined. English learner progress, we improved from orange to green. And graduation rate, college and career, English language arts, and mathematics, we maintained green. We have a very diverse district and a large amount of English learners. As you can see, last year we had over 37,000 students enrolled and over 11,000 of those students were English learners, more than 30%. In addition to that, we have more than almost 63% of our students that were at one time classified as an English learner. Some of them are
039still current English learners and many of them have reclassified. All of our English learners take the LPAC on an annual basis and it is out of a four per level performance. Displayed on this graph are the most recent four years and as you can see our percentages of fours continue to increase and our percentages of one continue to decline. You can also see the amount of students that take this test each year continues to decline which shows that we are reclassifying our English learners. The seal of biiteracy is an award provided to our seniors on their high school diploma and it's awarded to students who show biiteracy in a second language. And in 2425 we recognized 606 seals and for the first time we recognized one student for American Sign Language. Since 2018-19 we've awarded
040over 4,000 SEALs. And now it is my pleasure to introduce Sandra Valencia, director of 712 instruction. >> Thank you, Melissa. The offices of instruction continue to use the adopted curriculum for both English and uh math. Um currently we are in our 11th year of implementation of our math curriculum and moving into our 10th year for our English language arts curriculum. If you recall last year um we shared that the state released their new framework for math and a second ago for framework for math that allowed us to move into an adoption cycle. We brought in our teachers um in 2025 to begin that adoption cycle and um this month the state released a new uh recommended list of publishers or textbooks to consider for that adoption cycle. Our teachers will come together in January and
041February of this year or this coming year, excuse me, to look at that recommended list and narrow it down to two publishers which we hope to pilot in 2728. We're currently waiting uh to hear from the state with regards to the English new framework that um is tenatively being planned is still sorry is tenatively um going to be released and if all goes as planned we hope to bring a council together in 2728 to start that process. We continues to focus um in instruction around differentiation and supporting um our students with a variety of different different interventions in the classroom. Therefore, progress monitoring continues to take place um throughout the year to identify where those supports are needed in particular with our special education students as well as our English learners. Continuing to support our
042students in the classroom is an is definitely something that obviously continues to happen and in creating an environment where students feel supported is one of our focuses. Our schools continue to analyze the data to helps identify where student gaps are to target the instruction to make sure that we are monitoring their progress. Supplemental intervention takes place throughout the year and that can take place with small groups or a variety of differentiation strategies in addition to using um a variety of different digital platforms like to um identify excuse me to address the gaps in both math and um English language arts. In addition to these um instructional supports, there continues to be a focus to um support our students during our afterchool programs which include our ELOs's that take place before and after school. And during
043our summer, we also offer our summer intervention programs and our summer bridge programs. We will continue to monitor our students and address the learning gaps and provide students with similar supports. And with that, I'd like to introduce Mel Matovich, our director of TK6 instruction. Thank you, Sandra. Um, we don't have a clicker. Sorry about that. So, um, one of the main focuses in the district is providing professional development to our amazing teachers that is high quality, datadriven, and researchbased. Um, we support our TK12 teachers in the content, instructional strategies, and student engagement strategies, and provide various opportunities for that PD such as super week. um when it's requested by admin at the school site. It can be districtbased subrelease days for teachers to work with TOSAs afterchool trainings um and TOAS also work with teachers
044at the site in co-planning and co-eing. So lots of opportunities to develop and then teacher leadership. We know our district um has its success in large part due to our amazing teachers. So we always seek to provide opportunities to build their leadership and some of those include TK6 grade level chair 712 department chairs TK12 site tech coordinators and our special education coordinators as well. And with that I'll introduce Trisha Chin, director of special education. >> Thank you Melanie. I'd like to share one of our biggest initiatives in special education the elementary level is inclusion. We're continue to working on our model um inclusion and our practices and why have we added additional um education specialists. We want to address the high academic and behavioral needs of our students. We also want to work on our
045students that are scheduling and this provides opportunity through the scheduling to maximize student learning in the least restrictive environment. It also helps us to um implement the IEPs effectively in an in um push in and pull out model um within the gened or outside the gened classroom and to maximize those supports. Um equitable access for all of our students. Um to optimize um staff that we have at the site and be able to utilize everybody there efficiently for our student needs and to um build collaboration amongst our team members, all of the multi-disiplinary team members to support our students. um and their specific individualized needs and also provide um meeting learn meaningful learning opportunities for all our students with extensive specialized um support that they need individually. What we've been doing to support our sites
046is we've had training um back in starting in April 2023 on student center scheduling. Uh we've had West End West Ed come in and do surveys and um collect data. Um then we've been on having ongoing support for our sites as directors of OSE. We've been going out meeting with the sites, collaborating, getting feedback, and then coming back and um continue to uh determine how we can best support sites uh with next steps. Um we've expanded to additional sites this year uh to um to add additional specialists and then we continue to work with Wested for next steps. And also we just actually started today. We had a workg group with the principles helping to lead also with their knowledge um to other principles on how they're it's been successful for them. So thank you
047for letting me share and I would like to introduce Eron Mara our other director of special ed. >> All right I'm going to give an update on our behavior department. Um our students still need support with behavior and so we are very excited. Um we published our first handbook for administrators. Um, and we are publishing a teacher handbook coming very soon. So, we've been very busy providing a lot of training for both gened and special education teachers uh both at school sites and here at the district office. We've been providing training for parents so they can implement those strategies and structures at home as well. We've been providing training for aids both in behavior and trauma informed practices as well. Um we are still providing school site support not just for special education students but
048for general but for general ed as well. And kind of newer this year as well we're providing support for secondary students for more motivation type strategies there. [clears throat] And I will be turning it over to Marvin Atkins. >> Thank you. Good evening Dr. Mafy and board. It is my pleasure tonight to talk a little bit about MTSS or multi-ter systems of support. It's really comes down to three key components. PBIS, positive behavior interventions and supports, SST, student support teams, and the process that we follow for that in RTI, response to intervention. When looking at our tiers of intervention, you really break it down into three categories. All, some, one. All is your universal supports that you have at your tier one. Your tier 2 supports are for some which are targeted towards certain groups
049of students working in smaller areas such as you have your check-ins, checkouts with students, your parent conferences, and then your one where you have individual counseling, risk assessments, SRO contacts with various students. Then I it is my pleasure tonight to talk a little bit about our McKenna Vento our stay or homeless youth. Right now last year we were able to identify 748 students and families who were identified homeless. This year due to the increased identification and the supports of our teams we were able to identify 1,285 students. Tier one supports are um supplying our families with basic necessities like food and clothing. Tier two is targeted supports such as mental health services and transportation. Tier three connection with external agencies for comprehensive assistance. Uh this approach has helped families get the support that they need
050especially in this time of need. Next, I'll talk a little bit about our Stop it app. Stopit is an anonymous reporting platform for students and parents to easily report safety concerns via mobile app, website or phone. This platform is available to our community 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I know. [laughter] Sorry. Uh, stop it. Empowers students and staff to keep students safe. See it, hear it, stop it approach. If someone sees or hears something concerning, they can report it anonymously to prevent harm. Last year, we had 1,098 reports through stop it. This year so far, we've had 177. As you can see, we have 46% bullying, 20% drugs or vaping, and 40% other serious concerns like self harm. This data highlights a wide range of issues students face and the importance of
051stop it in the in promoting safety and well-being for our students. Now, I'd like to return it back to Melissa. >> You're welcome. >> In alignment with our district goal two, we administer the strategic plan survey on an annual basis to all three of our stakeholder groups, students, parents, and staff. And you can see the amount of surveys completed by each of our stakeholder groups last year. These are the highlights from each of our stakeholder group, the sentiments that had the highest percentage of agree or strongly agree by both by parents, students, and staff. and the overall opportunities, the three questions that received the lowest percentage of agree and strongly agree. And you can see some of these are recurring from previous years. Even though they are improving in their um positive feedback, they are
052still recurring themes. And now I'm going to turn it over to Stephen Wyn, director of information technology. Thank you, Melissa. Our district uses Parent Square and the ARS parent portal to communicate and stay connected with our families and students. Parent Square allow us to deliver messages to parents and students through text messages, voice messages, email, and mobile app notification. It also gives our family control over how often they receive district messages. They can choose to instantly be notified or a daily digest. More importantly, messages can be delivered in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic, ensuring accessibility for all families. As shown on the slide, email remains the preferred method of communication for our parents. 74% prefer to receive email notification while 27 prefer text messaging and 34% prefer app notification. Parents are able to select multiple
053communication methods giving them the flexibility on how they want to be communicated. In terms of usage, we delivered over 950,000 messages, posted more than 43,000 updates, and sent 4,354 smart alerts, which are brief reminders such as school closure, early release, emergency notifications. The ARIS parent portal is another essential tool that help parents stay engaged in their child's academic progress. Accessible on the web through smart app or or the available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean through Aries. Parent can review class schedules, grades, attendance, and other important academic information and also perform online registration. Thanks to the dedication of our school in supporting families, our parent signup rate for ARIS portal has reached an impressive 99.76%. We are excited to see such strong family engagement in supporting students academic success. And back to Melissa. >> And
054finally, our district goal three. We have a lot to celebrate with our students as they round out their education with us and move on. As you can see, our our graduation rates continue to be highly competitive with the county and we bypass the state consistently. In regard to advanced placement assessments, in 2425, we administered more exams. We had a higher pass rate and a higher average score rate. This one is probably the most exciting. Dr. Muffy's doing a little dance. Our A throughG rate for 2425 was 65.1%, the highest it's ever been in history. So quite an accomplishment. We outperformed the county and the state. And that's been happening for a few years. But you can see we really had a marked increase in 2425 and we're hoping to continue that. When we follow our
055students when they leave us, this is an 8-year trajectory or pathway of students. And we have 82% of our graduates who start at a 4-year college and complete a four-year college. In regard to students who begin at a two-year college and transfer and complete a four-year college, that's 23% of our students. Both trajectories outperform the state. As I shared earlier, we follow our students once they leave us after high school to ensure that they not only enroll in college, but persist and continue to graduate. Approximately 86% of our graduates graduates enrolled in college for a first year and returned for a second year and 95% of those students who enrolled in a four-year returned to a college for their second year. So we have very high persistence rate and many of our stories of our
056graduates that come back and work for us in many capacities, avid tutors, CCMP college workers and eventually even come back as teachers. And as you know we have our proud collegebound seniors all out all across the community recognized for their achievements on the light pole banners. We couldn't end any other way except with a bragging slide. And we have a lot to be proud of here in Garden Grove. I think our biggest accomplishment was one last year where we had 10 elementary schools recognized as California distinguished schools. That is 23% of all of the distinguished schools in Orange County. And we only make up about 6 and a half% of the county. The only other district that had more California distinguished schools than us is LA USD and they're 10 times larger than us. That
057concludes our presentation for this evening and at this time we would like to open up to the board for any questions. I have one question. I noticed that the stop it uh program that we using I noticed that the number of incident this year is substantially lower than last year. Did anyone look into to see what happened if we got in since we got into the second year? >> We've had some conversations with our student groups. I think one of the things we saw last year was we saw more um minor episodes like I saw a lot of like pencil stealing in class which isn't quite you know what we wanted for the stop it or you know uh my friend's not my friend anymore and so we've had um more significant issues. So even
058though it's a smaller number, we also are comparing a partial year to a full year. And so we'll be looking at that those numbers at the end of the year and and comparing the types of incidents as well and provide that information to the board. >> I have uh three questions, but I'll just do one at a time to see if my colleagues have any other ones. um regarding this field of biiteracy and the slide that you had that had different categories of um folks that were receiving this uh award. Uh regarding the Korean um seal of bi literacy, I noticed that there was only one. Um I know that Korean the language is one of our largest speaking um groups in our district. I know it's gotten relatively smaller, but we do have a
059Korean community. I'm just curious as in one um you know, is there an an option for students to uh receive this? Um and you know, what's kind of hindering that? >> There is an option for students to receive it. I will say for a lot of our Korean-Americeing students um they're more likely to take Spanish um because they have the AP offerings at the two levels so that they can get the college credit. Um but we do allow all and I can get some more detailed information um for the board because for those courses, Korean does have an AP test that they can pass. Um but for Vietnamese for which there's not an AP, we have an alternate assessment and in the other languages for which there's not AP, we would have an alternate assessment.
060And so they can um they c they can pursue that. But most of our students Spanish is the most common language that students are taking because of the AP. And then as you saw also we have some um French and um other languages as well. >> Question. >> Go ahead. >> Yeah. Do you have a question? But I have a comment and I think I say pretty much the same thing every year. When I got here, our A to G rate was under 30%. Um, in fact, I think the first year I was here was it was closer to 25 than 30. And to see it now at 65.1, I there we we've acknowledged and we continue to acknowledge that not every child, not every 18year-old should go on to college. Um there are there
061are students who there will be better pathways for whether it's the trades, the military, or going straight into the workforce. But nobody should be limited by what we've done. And that was the case 30 years ago. Uh and and to see the rate now at 65%. I I've been saying since I got here, I don't want to see any student miss the opportunity to go to college because we didn't provide them what they needed to get that opportunity. After that, it's on them and on their families, but it shouldn't be it. We shouldn't be the cause if a child doesn't make it to college. And to see that rate now at 65% I just think is amazing. I I echo that and then this is very uh I follow this trend since I first came
062into the war and I saw that and the sisment uh shifts in the philosophy. I think Dr. Maui were very instrumental in that and it began with the placement from the counselor and then the different is before that I say what course what thing you want to take it's up to the student to take whatever they feel like it and then suddenly it changed that okay you can take this class don't worry if you get into trouble we'll be there to help you so they push it to their capacity so of course many student don't like it many parents worry about you know the children may go crazy but then we push them to to their to their capacity and I I attribute that pushing to the limit there uh to the philosophy that we
063engaged in over so many years and I know Dr. Maui talked about that be very early on when she was uh the director of instructional thing and she she saw that and and now we pursuing that. This is not surprise. I see another comment I want to ask is I want to add to this is that [snorts] you know over the years I know we perform we doing very well we doing spectacular in terms of academic performance but one thing I'm very proud of the fact that we we outperform the county consistently it's for people who understand I'm just a lay person I got to understand how it work is that we it it easy to outperform the state, but it's not that easy to outperform the the county because the o county is still
064a very affluent uh county that still very less diverse and we put our kid to to tackle those two criteria. We beat them every day in every year. that that very that very important and that is the number and I really look to to see how far we outperform the the county that that a lot I credited a lot to the commitment from the staff to be doing a lot of we do so many pieces together so that we can get to that level that that we see today very consistent every year and I'm very proud of that that performing and Yes, thank you. Yeah, I also want to echo those same uh sentiments um seeing that graph, you know, keep going up and up and up and um I I think it's a a
065testament of where we are going as a district. Um and you know it's always great to see um all the hard work that's gone into it because um you know me as as a student um back in 2005 uh in Santiago High School that's when you started to see there was going to go towards an uphill uh trajectory. Um but you know even then um you know I had instances where um you know students like myself I'll speak for me specifically was told I should take four years of PE because any other subject would be too difficult for me to pass. Um I remember those kind of conversations were being had with students that look like me that lived in my community. Um and it's an it's definitely unfortunate. Um and this was only you
066know 20 years ago. um that that that happened. So, uh the way that we're changing the culture, we're seeing it with the statistics. Um and then when my uh siblings, my brother and sister attended to Santiago back in 1994, 1995, you know, we had uh not only uh discriminatory practices um in the school system, but also statewide with AB 187 uh when there was statewide targets towards our Latino community. Um but I think um as a district by having great leaders uh such as Dr. MafI, Dr. Sanchez of Santiago that spearheaded the cultural shift that was needed. Uh I think it's it's a testament and and kudos to uh President Nwin and and and Vice President Harden uh for you know helping enact that change. So kudos to you all. Uh back to the questions
067um regarding elementary sped inclusion student behaviors kind of that whole melting pot and kudos to the work that y'all do. It's not easy work. Um, that being said though, um, as as we heard from one of our speakers this morning, my question is, because I know you touched a little bit on training, training opportunities for our educators, um, I know, and correct me if I'm wrong, anybody, um, super week is an optional thing. It's not something that teachers have to go. So my question is um how can teachers access these trainings that can help them deal with the systemic approach of inclusion and there's situations how can they how can we ensure that they take these trainings if things like super week are not mandatory. So super week is not because it's outside of the
068contractual year, but we have launched and under um Steve Yun's um uh team. We've launched we just had our second series. So we identified all of the teachers, general education teachers in addition to continually training specialed teachers who had students that had a behavior plan. And so proactively starting in September, they had a series of training. They just finished the second round of it to review with the IBI team. and it's a release day. So that means people do attend when they're released to attend then it's a mandatory attendance versus if it's after school or if it's during super week then that's something that someone would choose to go to. And so we wanted to get on top of it by saying who are the folks like I might be a first grade teacher and
069it's September but I have a student that last year in kindergarten had a behavioral plan. So they're going to this series of three sessions. The first session was focusing on the strategies to use in the classroom. The second was understanding the psychology behind and what triggers the behaviors and then having those teachers work together in teams to develop plans. And then the final one will be the proact training that will be provided to teachers as well. And that's for our general education teachers. In addition, as the board authorized to the tune of about $8 million, we added additional um uh educational specialists to the elementary schools such that the average case load um is 12 to one now at elementary where it used to be 28 to1. and in most districts it remains 28 to1
070and then we also added an additional IBI team um intensive behavioral intervention and and so there's an additional IBIT member at each of the elementary school sites so those were all to support in addition this year we launched the spark program which is for students who would not be MS students candidates for the MS program but that had that for whom the general ed placement would not be the least restrictive environment to get additional supports this year we have um uh third through sixth graders in the program and next year we're going to be expanding to first and second grade. >> Thank you for sharing that. I think that's very good information for the community to have. So I'm glad I asked that. And then my last question um well not a question it's more
071of a comment and a kudos. Uh Marvin, do you mind coming up and just uh so I can have a visual of the Mckin Vento slide that you had uh with the numbers. Um, I think that's going to be the McKin Vento uh numbers. If you can have that a slide up just for a visual for me so I can see the the numbers and the board can just have a recap of that. So, Mckin Vento is definitely something that I'm very very passionate about. I remember having a meeting with Dr. Mafi maybe one year into my term on the board and we looked over um McKenna Vento numbers and it was well below the 748. there were some schools that were reporting one, two, three students where we knew that there was nowhere near
072that number. It should have been a lot higher. Um, and we've had, thanks to the support of the board, uh, just massive supports with our mental health support teams or all across the board. So, I want to just highlight the the the funds and the efforts that we put in as a board for mental health. This is this is it coming into fruition. This is not just something that we said, "Oh, yeah, we have millions of dollars. Let's just invent it invested in mental health and and and social work." These are our social workers that are working day in and day out that are identifying students. And just in that year alone, almost doubled the identification. And that didn't just happen by accident. That happened because we had our social workers specifically target our Mckin
073Vento students. So Marvin, kudos to you. Kudos to the team. Uh these students are the ones that need us the most. These are the ones that are going to get us from that 65% possibly up to the 70%. But we need to believe in them. We need to give them all the support we can. So kudos to the board for investing the time and the money to those kiddos. >> And and for the purpose of people who might be watching online who have no idea what McKini Vento is, >> can we get the >> and and actually I was going to address that. So, M Mc Mckina Vento was an act um that was designed to support um students who experienced homelessness. And homelessness is not defined simply as being out on the street, but
074also doubling and tripling up, living in temporary housing, living in a motel. And so, um one of the things that the the um office of student services did was to rename it. So, even though technically it's called Mckin Vento, we call it now the stay program. And we talk about homelessness and we talk about doubling and tripling up and being temporarily unhoused or housing with someone else in a different manner to reduce the stigma so that folks will self-identify and so that we can provide the needed supports and services. So Mckenni Ventoa is a is an acronym. It's two legislators over after whom it was named but it's addressing homelessness in a variety of formats. In some communities that looks like people living in their cars, which we may we do have some, but in
075our community it's more doubling and tripling up in in single apartments or small areas. >> And if uh folks are fans of Kobe Bryan, what I will use his famous quote is, "Job's not done. We can still do more." So, I want your guys' team to keep at it because the job's not done. We can we can do more. >> Thank you. >> I I have one more comment. I I really want to make which is I'm very astounded to see the number of accounting apparent accountant have account to the communication method uh for long time uh I working on this I always saw the excuse that parent don't have computer parent don't have internet at home parent don't have tech there all kind of excuse all kind of reason for them but now look
076at the rate of 99.76% we may as well declare that 100%. Because there will be some people who really refuse to use it. Even in my day job there's some client who don't use internet or phone or anything. I had to literally drive a car to bring the document from to sign there. Some people are just like that. So so that happened. So [clears throat] I'm I'm very impressed at the number of let's say 100% here that that's big volume of the commitment from the school side staff. I know every time new year when they visit the new student and then the school side had to roll out a car the computer to kind of line light them up help them train the parent and do all kind of things so they have account with
077that in place then that will help the stu the teacher and the staff to have the mean communication information to them once I open up that door the communication go to not only to the parent it can go to the uncle and grandparent and older brother and sister who help translate help communicate that message to the pen as well then you can see that that that magnifying the effectiveness of just one account so I'm very impressed that we have achieved that and I think we need to have some sort of ceremony to celebrate that kind of achievement all right that's all >> a question I just want to say [clears throat] thank you so much for your your report. Uh all of you putting this together and probably the thing that I'm going to address
078is like Walter and the rest the A to G rates. Um as a Latina and having been in in our system for a long time and I cut you beat Walter a lot of years in my experience in high school. Um, it was a counselor pretty much that determined whether or not you were college material based on I'm not sure quite because we only saw them a couple times a um a year of that and uh too many kids were overlooked. So I totally am on board with what we did initially to push push the you know the collegegoing culture the pathway to college at the expense of sometimes not not looking at anything else but there were too many kids overlooked um that had the potential that needed the support and what you guys
079did Dr. Mafy Dr. Dr. Sanchez and on other administrators in starting this movement was to change the mindset of administrators and teachers to believe in our kids to raise the bar for all kids and give them the support to get there. You also raise the bar and the expectations of students to believe in themselves. And I see that with my granddaughter. Uh she's an avid. She is not an straight A student, but she has in her mind, this is her sophomore year. Uh, freshman year went well because of all the supports that high schools have now for our freshmen. So much that it gave her the confidence to tackle uh an AP course this year, a zero period and um and do it with and and it's not easy. There are tears. There are tough
080days, but she wants to do it. She said, "I have to do this. I want to do this. I want to go to college." None of us said anything to her about that because we weren't sure. But it's it's made a humongous difference. And now we're looking at the rest of our kids with now that we have a great thing in place. We've made big systemic changes for kids to go to college. Now we're focusing on our kids who might want to go another direction with um focusing on our uh CTE programs and the pathways and we can only do that in small steps because we need to see what works, what doesn't work. It's a lot of money. It's a big investment. We have to find the teachers. We have to find the facilities
081and the money and and it's coming, but it's not going to happen overnight. But it's there and there's a lot of effort going into that. Um I went to uh Kathy Lad's chili cookoff and and car show uh not too long ago and um Kristen Garland who teaches uh automotive technology at Rancho was given a booth. He brought kids to showcase this the program they have in automotive technology at Rancho. So slowly but surely, we are getting out there to showcase what our district is doing and where it's going. And these kids brought these diaramas, a special project they did in class, and we're talking to students and to parents about what they did, about the program, about how it's impacted them. So, we're getting there. It took us this long to get the ADG
082rates up. It's going to take us a little while to get our CTE program up and running so that we've got something for everybody. So thank you. Need some details. >> Yes. >> For the stop it the elementary school is the reporting mainly by parents or students? >> We have a combination of um sometimes students do particularly upper grade. We really don't see like TK first graders first of all because they can't always necessarily type and they don't have a phone or a device like that. But we do have some parents. Usually the parents will call the school. Some of the students, particularly fifth and sixth graders, we've seen I look at it every week. So, we still have had a few of the like someone stole my favorite pencil type of thing. And then,
083you know, the school acts on those. So, when the stoppetic comes in, the school sees it um right away, but also um they alert us if there's something that's emergent. And that's what Marvin was referring to, the 2 a.m. calls that he gets because if it's something that's emerent, then he's going to get a call right away so we can call the PD or investigate with the student and do something immediately and not wait till the next day. >> Yeah, I noticed that the uh elementary have less reporting, but uh in numbers they have more students. So I was just thinking possibly because that age range they don't have as much um things to report. Usually they tend to resolve things within their classroom. Remember elementary students are with a single teacher all day who
084they know at a small school and you know and the behaviors do change. We're not seeing you know um some of the more sophisticated behaviors that we get complaints about with like high school age. >> Yeah. More soph um less sophisticated. Uh the second question I have is um for assistance for unaccompanied minors. What kind of assistant do we have for um for unaccompanied minors? This the an unaccompanied minor would have to have a guardian of some sort. And I can send you some follow-up information. That's not part of a our data now, but if some a student were to come or to be here, they would have to be in some sort of placement. They might be a foster youth, residential setting. They might be with a guardian. So, we have some board policies
085that govern that and I can send that out to you. >> Doesn't that does that mean sometimes the social services have to be involved? >> It depends on the context. Yes. >> Okay. And uh do they fall within the [snorts] McKini Vental Act? They they likely would if they're an unaccompanied minor, but I'd have to I can get you some more information um to discern. Some of them would be, some of them might not be. Okay. And just want to thank staff for a very thorough report. And this is the highlight of me sitting on the board. I love these reports because it tells me how well we're doing at the district. And I think um I would love to boast and take credit, but every time I want to, I can't do it. I
086I get very guilty because I know it's teamwork from staff, and I want to commend you for it. Um also, I wanted to also have another question. when you know we we're focusing on this as in general groups um but when we have like issue with individual parents do they fall in this category guidelines and do we treat them according to this policy as a group or sometimes we do need to take them out of context based on each situation. when we have a parent complaint. >> Yeah. >> So, when we have parent complaints, we always we have a whole process that we follow and um but it's always individualized to the needs of the parent. So, we have a conversation. If they call to the district office, we have protocols that we follow, following
087up with them. Sometimes a board member will bring a parent complaint to our attention. We'll follow up with them. We'll have a phone conversation. I'm planning the call. I was going to do it tonight, but it depends how late we go. uh to Miss Alvarado and I usually just touch bases after someone comes to the board. If someone calls or emails, we get back to them right away and we work with them to resolve the problem. >> Right. All right. I I want to remind the public that um you are always welcome to come to the board meetings and if you feel like you have reached all the people that you um um were directed to contact and still uh you don't think your situation has been resolved. The board is always open to you
088coming to the public session and speaking about your situation and we'll try to do the best that we could for you. Any other comment question? I want to thank the staff for present presentation. Not only that, you've done a lot of work to bring it all together today. And thank you women for coming for sharing your information [applause] and um there's more fun in the data by >> I understand they post it on a website somewhere, right? the data is >> not the B but the information that people the public can get that >> so we have more palatable um I've shared with you before like the LCAP charts and some of the the more easier to process charts without all of the small data correct and our annual report >> and also um Adam
089C report information. And now on >> item four, administration. I need a motion to item 4 A through E. I need a motion. >> I'll move item four. Second. >> Thank you. Item 4 A is to declare the the annual organizational um meeting. uh this year it will be on Tuesday December 9th 2025 at 700 p.m. That's where the four elected officer and other item uh annually. Item 4B is to approve the recommendation of the eight new uh community advisory committee voting member for the school year 2025 and 27 term. Um and those member uh include Diego Guerrera, Gamil, Gama, Hernandez, Ruby, Otus, Alisa Rodriguez, Rossi Sadiva, Teresa Kim, Yuri Lee, and Sarah H. Item 4 C's is to approve the memorandum of understanding with Anaheim Union High School District to provide u the the
090services for to attend the deaf and heart hearing program um with for the student from our district with the estimate cost to be around $53,316 for the school year 2025 and 26. Six. Item 4 D is also to approve the memorandum of understanding with the Santa Ana Unified School District also to provide uh services to our deaf and heart of hearing program for the student from our district with a cost of estimated cost of around 80,000 per students for the school year 2025 and 26. Item four is the to approve the uh recommendation for exposion of one student for the mandatory exposion for one year and any comment question on any of the item hearing none let's call for the vote student trustee Christy Gatichu >> yes on 4 A through D abstain on E
091>> thank you trusty Dina win >> yes >> trusty Trusty Walter Mun. >> Hi. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Yes. >> Item five is program instruction. We have 5 A and B. >> Walter. I move 5 A and B. >> Second. >> Thank you. Item 5A is to approve the representative to the call Perkins grant advisory board for the school year 2025 and 26 and the list of the approved representative is attached to the uh resolution. Item 5B to approve the number a number of our district event uh The first event is to approve four um JOTC cadet from Pacifica High School to attend the national JOTC sale academy uh in Fiddle Fiddle Cove, California on June 19 to 25 this year. Uh second
092event, it will allow 60 uh science club students from Jordan Intermediate School to attend the Catalina uh island uh marine uh institute science camp in in Catalina Island, California on February 20 to 22nd, 2026. The third event to allow 65 11th grade average students from Garden Grove High School to attend the AVID Northern California University visit at some number of campuses um in Northern California on February 21st and 24, 2026 board event to allow 90 11th grade average students from San Diego High School to attend the AVIT Northern California University visit at the number of campuses on Northern California on March 12 to 15, 2026. Fifth event to allow 23 varsity baseball team members from Pacific Pacifica High School to attend the 2026 Las Vegas Invitational Spring Baseball Tournament in Las Vegas on March 15
093to 19, 2026. uh sixth event to allow 45 11th grade average students from Linta High School to attend the AVID Northern University visit to visit a number of campuses in in Northern California uh on March 29 to April 1st, 2026. seven event to allow 45 anchor choir students from Pacifica High School to attend the fame soul choir national in Branson Missouri on April 9 to 126 any comment question hearing none let's call for the vote >> student trustee Christy Gatichu >> I trusty Dina win >> yes >> trustee Walter Mun Ton. >> Hi. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Yes. >> Item six and visits. We have long lists from 6 A to Z. >> Trusty Roco. Uh I move that we ex accept items
094A through Z, the whole alphabet. >> And a second. I'll second. [laughter] I still need help. You know that. Item five uh 6A is um to approve bid number 2419 uh to for the district to to approve the 35% price increase on item 75 from the school specialty LC for the bid number 2419 the project office and instructional supply uh at the warehouse uh 6B to approve to bid number 25005 uh to um contract for for bus transportation as needed from Lux Bus America Company uh to accept the bid from them uh number valid from November 19 to 25 to November 18 26. Item 6 C is to approve to allow the district to participate in the California multiple awards schedule with Kelly Spicer Inc. uh to purchase paper product and office supply valid from
095February 5th, 2024 to June 30th, 2030. Item 6D is to approve the completion of project at a number of uh school site and in the in list of tax. Item 6E to approve to authorize the district to participate in the state of Kentucky with the National Association of State Procurement official value point master agreement for the purchase of facility maintenance repair and operation and industrial supply for both school size and and district office as needed. Item 6F to approve the lease and lease back construction project for the alamitos intermediate schools uh awarded to Nef constructing Inc. Item 6G is to approve uh to authorize the district to use the Los Angeles County Office of Education bit number 23 uh SL24-1750 as a means to purchase standard school supply and equipment from Kelly Spicer Inc. effective
096September 1st, 2025 to August 31st, 2026. Item 6H is to authorize the district to participate in the stake of Oklahoma with the National Association of State Procurement Official Value Point Master Agreement number- 18-900 to the California participating addendum number 7-24-9 52-04 with Then number three supplement and number four for the purchase of professional grade tools and diagnostics equipment from IDSC holdings LLC DBA Snap-On industrial and a contract valid uh for the period from July 1st 2024 to October 11, 2026. Item 6 I is to authorize the district to use uh Balentia Job Linda Unified School District bid number 224-03 as a means to purchase janitorial supply from Grasby maintenance supply company uh for the period from September 12, to September 13, 2026. Item 6J is to gratify uh approving an informal bid number 25-179 uh
09725-1 140 25-158 and 25-161 to 25-166 under the California Uniform Public Construction Costant Act to CSI electrical construction contractor Inc., JL [snorts] Cop Inc., Mural for Schools, SCS Florence System, Taylor Tennis Court, Inc. and Wolverine Friends Company, Inc. Item six case it to approve the request to for 719 90 71.92% an average price increase on 12 item from Gold Star Foods to for the request for proposal bid number 2208 for the fresh produce uh for food services affecting November 11, 2025. Five. Item 6L is to approve authorize the use of uh tech ad tech JBA RFP 22-22/23-03 for the purchase of subscription to the notification system platform from parent square uh with the term condition in the request for uh proposal effective from May 1st 2024 to April 30th, 2029. Item 6 M is to
098approve the agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Anthem ASO for the medical claims processing network access and utilization management services for the district cell insure health plan from January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2028. Item six and it to approve the renewal of agreement with uh Eco administrative services for administration of the district section 125 flexible benefit plan on dependent care medical care and reimbursement for two years effective January 1st 2026 to December 31st 2027. Item 6A to approve or renewal of agreement with Eco uh administrative services to serve at a district corporate administrator from January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2027. Item 6P is to approve the renewal of agreement with the Bowwin group for consultant services to include the legal and actuary advisement benefit plan design funding analysis and compliance review effective January
0991st 2026 to December 31st 2026. Item six Q is to approve the renewal of agreement with Guardian Life Insurance Company of America to provide group dental care plan administrative services only and network from January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026. Item six R is to approve the renewal agreement with Metife for the life and accident the death and that insurance uh coverage for the eligible employees for the continued rate of uh 01 136 per uh 1,000 effective January 1st 2026 to December 31st 2028. Item S is to approve the renewal of agreement with Anthem Blue Cross for medical plan processing network access and utilitation management services of a district minimum premium XMO plan from January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2026. Item 16 is to approve the renewal of agreement uh for three year with
100CVS caremark slac for the pharmacy benefit management and clinical pharmacy management services from January 1st 2026 to December 31st 2027. Item 6 U is to approve the renewal of agreement to stop loss insurance with Reliar Velia Star Life Insurance Company DBA Voyer Financial and Stout Partner Group effective January 1st 206 to December 31st 2026. Item 6B is to approve the renewal of agreement with vision service plan to provide group vision care plan administrative services only for the period from January 1st, 2026 to December 31st, 2027. Item 6D to approve the disposal of obsolete and surplus equipment and supply as specified in the list attached to the motion. at item 6 x is to reject the claim uh from day bena floor for the alleged um property damage sustained on October 6, and item 6G is
101to approve the purchase. Did I miss anything? All right. Item six Y is to approve the William settlement legislation annual report uh for the school year 2024 and uh by the or county superintendent of schools. Uh again we have no claim reported. Item 6 G to approve the purchase order and check for the total amount of 83,67,3793 and we ran out of the alphabet, [laughter] right? That's the end of it, >> right? Okay. >> So, any comment question? still have your voice. >> All right. Okay. I do have one question. That's a number of item. This is a recurrent. This ongoing with a price increase. I know uh I know you uh Mr. fan assistant superintendent has explained assume me this is normal but I see all the vendor going out for the a price
102increase of 35% and now average of 71% and some increase 115% it on food item is any explanation is there I know you have explained before that's why it happened that's how the contract written We can't get any cheaper out there. But I get very nervous because we have set up a budget thing and then they come in and ask for the pricing with that often and that recurrent. Is there something we can look into that we can do something about that? >> There's there is not unfortunately. Now, specifically with the lettuce products, we have crop issues as you saw. And that was probably the most extreme. And you might imagine what that might be related to in terms of of crops and some of the things that are happening in our fields. Um, but
103we when we do have price increases, we still do look to see if there are any other vendors. and when everybody's um prices are raised, what we can do is we can get um a little bit more information for the board in terms of the different types of vendors that we have and some of the reasons in each of those respective areas. So like food and agriculture we know that that's been affected by the current immigration enforcement but some of the other areas we'll work on that uh Miss Fan and I >> and when this happen do we need to revisit our budget re revisit how thing are going and with all this thing going on >> we are always looking at our budget and and that's why we are very fiscally conservative in terms
104of our expenditures. question. Okay, having none. Just call for the vote. >> Student trustee Christy Getu. >> Hi. >> Trusty Dina Win. >> Yes. >> Trusty Walter Mun. >> Hi. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenwin. >> Hi. >> Item seven is on personnel. We have u item 7 A and B. I want to report that we have under it atem C we had a close session earlier to discuss uh employee discipline and dismissal with the superintendent and assistant superintendent Jason Bvaka and we also had a confident u on the same uh issue with the labor negotiation and I want to say that there's no action to report out right okay so Now I need a motion for 7 A and B. Move 7 A and B.
105>> Second the motion. >> Thank you. Item 7 A to approve the report on C certificate personnel report. Uh 7B report uh approve the report on classified personnel report. Any question? Every none. Let's call for the vote. Student trustee Christy Gatichu >> abstain. >> Trustee Dina W. >> Yes. >> Trusty Walter Winington. >> Hi. >> Trusty Terry Roco. >> Hi. >> Trusty Bob Harden. >> Hi. >> Chairperson Lenw. >> Hi. >> Uh going down to the last item closing. Uh we going to begin our discussion. Begin with the student member. Uh M get Ka Chu. >> Thank you. Moving deeper into the fall season. It's been amazing to see the spirit across our campuses continue to grow. From exciting CIF games to creating Halloween events, students have really shown what community looks like. At the
106same time, our ongoing food and donation drives highlight how that same school spirit can make a real difference beyond our campuses. In addition to this, the student senate has been working closely with our administration to form subcommittees that bring in student voices from all backgrounds to better our school demographics experiences. With this, we're committed to make sure students help shape meaningful envir improvements at our schools while continuing to promote the awareness of the Stop it app as a resource for safety and support for students who need it. As we head into our weekl long Thanksgiving break, I hope everyone finds time to rest and recharge for the new winter season and I'm excited to see the progress continue when we return. Thank you. >> Thank you, uh, Trustee Dan. Yes, thank you Christie for the
107update and the subdivision of the student government is a really good idea. Um I have nothing further to say except I wish our staff a good night so that tomorrow they can start our next annual report. [laughter] >> Hi Metan. >> Yes. Uh good evening. Um obviously since uh you know it's been a while since our last uh board meeting. I have a laundry list of events and community events, school events I've attended, but I won't go into all of them. Just know that during the Halloween season, a lot of trunk or treats. I attended a lot of trunk or treats at various elementary schools. Um, and let me just tell you, this year's theme was K-pop demon hunters for sure. So, if you all know, that's very popular right now. Uh, so I attended
108a lot of those. Had a had a blast. Um some of our community members um uh hosted a diuertos a steel craft. Um some of our our parents I know uh Terry was in attendance. It was overall a really great time. So kudos to the knitting committee um and all those who made that uh free event uh possible. Um, I do want to mention and highlight uh the wonderful performance that we had uh this uh evening to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. And um you know, although Lupe, you know, gave myself a shout out and Terry, I I do want to just uh really give a kudos to to Terry and Dr. Sanchez for for really, you know, meeting with with uh Lupa and and the family and and really trying to get a grasp
109of how we could support. So, kudos to to you two for really uh spearheading uh that. Um in a couple of days, I think weeks, uh the the majority of the board will be on its way to Sacramento for the California School Boards Association conference. That's a once a year conference that the board takes uh to go and advocate uh for our students at the state level. Get to meet with other trustees from not just the county of Orange, but also throughout the state. Get to meet uh districts from the rural parts of the town to the larger cities, the urban, the core, everybody. So, it's going to be a really great time. And I also mentioned that this is also a great time for the board to really get to u spend time with
110each other outside of just what you see here. Um you know so it really creates that team uh you know vibe and and I look forward to it every year and just a reminder for community that uh the work that we do does not just stop here at the dis. We go out there and we do a lot of work for the community. Um, so I'm looking forward um to that. Looking forward to more holiday festivities. As uh Trustina Win mentioned, we have uh a Thanksgiving break to look forward to. After that, we have the holidays coming up with Christmas and New Year's. Uh I'm happy to report that I'm going to be doing my ninth annual Pokemon giveaway uh this year. Every year since I've been on the board, I've done a Pokemon Christmas
111giveaway. And it's grown from the very first one to where we only had 10 students um to now this year will be my first year doing two schools uh servicing 40 students in total of Pokemon funds. Uh and I want to give a shout out and a kudos to those that will make it possible this year. Boys and girls of the Garden Grove, the Garden Grove Police Officers Association, council members Ariana and Maton as along with President Lun will be joining me as well, one of those. So, I'm really looking forward to it and I hope everybody has a great uh Thanksgiving break to get to reset and spend time with their family and loved ones. Thank you. >> Thank you. And Trusty Roco. >> Yes. Um, as Walter said, I think it's [clears throat]
112been what, six weeks or more since our last board meeting. There have been a lot of events, but I crossed a lot of them out so I could focus on the most important because I don't want to keep you here all night. But, uh, first of all, congratulations to our employees of the month. Uh, I thank them for their commitment and for being such an inspiration to others. Also congratulations are in order to Kate Sedum from Patton, Christine Cordair, from Rosita and Suzanne Russo at McGarvin who were celebrated as semi-finalists of the annual OCDE teacher of the year um pres awards that are given at the Disneyland Hotel. So we've got some top-notch people in our district for sure. Then as Walter said, there was a lot of community events. Um I was at the
113Dia de los Muertos. It was the first time in Garden Grove there's been a cultural event for Dia de los Muertos uh and it was predominantly supported by our parent leaders and so um I'm very proud of them and it was well attended. There was music, there was culture, there was uh community feel for sure and uh looking forward to next year's hoping it becomes an annual event. Um also attended the Boys and Girls Club uh toasting great futures. I think Walter was there and Len and uh grateful for the partnership that we've had over the years with the Boys and Girls Club um because they've provided our afterchool programs, our enrichment programs, and um our summer programs as well for countless kids in our district over all these years. Uh there I just wanted
114to bring your attention to um I've attended a fundraiser and dinner uh dance hosted by a group called the Brown Descents. They're a car club and a 401k I think is it called uh to raise funds. These funds have been raised uh over the years. I don't know how many years. I'm just finding out about them for our students. They give scholarships at various high schools, Rancho in particular and Pacifica because all of most of these um fellas from the Park Club are from that area. Um but they've branched out. I think they also give scholarships to Garden Grove High School and I'm not sure if Santiago was one or going to be one. um they did food drives over the summer um for families in our district and um they from that have adopted
115uh I think eight to 10 families at Wakeum on a whole year basis and they're gearing up now to provide lots for those families for the holidays. So, um I just wanted to get their name out there for you to know that they're very uh they've been very generous and with their time and efforts for our families. Um lots of school events attended the Bulsa Vietnamese culture night that was hosted by the VSA group and uh it was all studentled, student run, student organized. I think L was there with with me and uh they had performances, they had uh dance, music and theater and they did a great job of of showcasing their culture. There were various um events celebrating fall, celebrating uh uh community and and festivities for fall. Um at Pacifica, I think
116Lawrence had a trunk or treat uh that I went to. Um I did attend hair for the first time. They I guess they've done this before. They had a PBIS fall festival and it was very well attended and the students were very engaged. It was like any other high school. I know the secret though. The kids were given tickets for their participation in the activities and that got them booed. Uh and they were very they they didn't look like they were being forced. they were. It was a good way to give them incentive to take that step that they might not normally take socially for some of our kids in high school in general, but especially at a continuation school. So, it was an awesome event. I got to judge a costume contest, so it
117was a lot of fun. Glad to see those kind of activities at all our schools. Um, let's see. Uh, I attended the parenting in a digital world at Bulsa where we had our uh, own cyber safety cop Clayton who shared information on online safety and some of the dangers um, of online interactions and just how to keep your kids safe. He's also authored a couple of books um, par in the digital world and screen time standoff is is his latest. I just kind of perused through that and it gives amazing strategies for maintaining effective communication with your kids and building trust so that you can have those conversations and establish those boundaries for your kids when it comes to screen time and um just uh just I think it's going to be a big help
118for parents and grandparents. uh anyway as we try to navigate you know parenthood grandparenthood in this world of technology. So, uh also attended our American Indian uh program that was hosted um by an indigenous uh I mean our American Indian program hosted an indigenous um day family ind Indian day event at Patton and it included um storytelling uh by Jack Jackie Nunes. She comes pretty much pretty regularly. She's amazing at storytelling and sharing bits of culture and wisdom and has just a very aura about her. Uh it's very um very grounded, very zen and um sharing that with the kids and with with adult participants as well. And so I just want to give kudos to Tanya Vina who helped to coordinate this event and uh and for always al validating and working so collaboratively
119with our um American Indian families. And lastly, uh just want to say we attended the um PLA, the parent leadership academy, um where all our schools were representative represented by principal and parent leaders, which is awesome to see. The it was at the Garden Grove Community Center. The room was packed and it was led by Dr. MafI and our um uh uh district administrators or cabinet um where they focused on why parent in engagement or family engagement is so important and uh looked at Dr. Joyce Epstein's framework for the six uh types of parent parent engagement or involvement um which are very important for me. That was the book I read before I started working in parent and community outreach and looked worked uh with our administrators at the time at how our district could
120incorporate all of these steps because it wasn't just about teaching parents what we wanted them to do to support their kids. But it was about parenting and supporting parents especially parents from immigrant families who were um raised in in another culture in another t generation um who didn't have the language to navigate the American culture or American language um how important it was for us as a district to communicate and this is when we started to do the translation interpretation we got the headsets so we moved in a really good direction volunteering welcoming our parents, making them feel welcome to our schools and utilizing them as a resource uh for supporting our kids. Uh learning at home, teaching our parents what they can do at home in their language uh with simple things that would
121support their kids at school. of course coming to school and learning what we were teaching kids in the classroom, but there's a lot of parents who can't come, but they can do a lot at home and decision making and that has grown just leaps and bounds uh since that time. And we have parent leaders who are now like leaders in the community. They've gone beyond the district and gone into the community as well as um the sixth one was collaborating with community. And so I've seen our district grow and utilize this as their basis for our parent policy. Now we want our schools all to be doing the same things. And so that was I think the premise of this. So as they sat at the tables, principles and teach and parents looking at this
122and looking at how their schools individually um what are they doing? What are their their strengths? You know, uh where do they want to go? How do they want to add? And now you're you're not going to do this all in one year because it took us several years, but for them to take a look and see what are we already doing and what is the next step to getting toward where we want to be. and uh I think it was a very successful um PLA and I'm looking forward to what we do next. Thank you. >> Vice President Harden, >> uh just a just a few highlights from over the last few weeks and I've been dealing with some personal health issues. So, I haven't I've probably missed more events that I wanted to
123attend than than actually attended, but I did get out for a few. Um, trunk or treat at Monroe was a highlight. Was a highlight for two reasons. One, there's a group of parents there that make just a killer pot of pizzole. Um, and I'm there whenever there's an event at Monroe, and he knows, he watched me eat it. Um, the second is in 30 years, I don't think I've ever been to an event where there were that many kids and parents. I I I thought I was going to create a stampede when I gave up my spot in the parking lot uh for parents that were still arriving. Uh, and I wish I could have stayed a little longer, but I had homecoming in Los that night. But the the way that the staff and
124the PTA have driven parent engagement on Monroe is pretty amazing. Uh I wish we could put it in a bottle and ship it to every other school in the district because it it is truly amazing. And Walter, as a parent there, you you know that's true. Um, second, um, you know, every spring at Linta's open house, I talk to Michelle Rose, and every year at open house, I ask her, "What's next year's volleyball team look like?" And every year she gives me a Saab story about all of her seniors are graduating and and it's going to be a young team and I'm not sure how we're going to do. And every year I wind up going and watching her team in the CIF playoffs. Uh including this year which was a which is a very
125young group. Um only a couple of seniors on that team so they're going to be good for a while. Uh and maybe her best coaching job. uh in the years that I've been watching them because she's working with a very young group who she's still teaching a lot of fundamentals to. You can see it just watching her as a coach over the years. What she's talking to kids about this year is a little different from what she was talking to them about last year or two years ago. Um it's because the kids aren't as advanced in their skills and in their understanding of the game. Um but just it's been fun to watch that group. It was fun to watch that group this year. Um, these kids had absolutely no quit in them and every
126every match I saw them in, they were behind and I saw them come from behind and win three times. Um, before they finally got knocked out of the semifinals. Uh, then I also got out to see the Los Amigos uh, boys water polo team play. um which is fun and it's a a group of kids that that work really hard. Um I brought a couple of props tonight. Um one is a ticket from the first musical performance in that beautiful performing arts center at Lita High School. Um it's it's the first musical play that's been performed there. The last time they did one, it was in a portable apparently. Uh they did Frozen Jr. last week and it was a lot of fun. Uh, and you can tell the kids had a lot of fun
127doing it. I think Walter was there the Friday night show. I L and I were both there on Friday afternoon. Uh, there's some talented kids in that group. Uh, and then I have one more prop in my bag. On Sunday, I was at Barnes & Noble and I just happened to run into this teacher. Well, I didn't happen to run into her. It's because Abby told me she was going to be there. Um, Amanda Perah is a teacher at Lita High School who is is publishing a sixbook series. It's a it's teen fiction. Uh the series is called Desert of Dreams. Uh this book is called Dare to Dream and I have assigned first edition. [laughter] >> Wow. Uh, one more thing, good luck to Pacifica High School this Friday night in the CIF semi-finals
128in football. Thanks. >> I thank you very much. Uh, first of all, I want to thank uh, trustee what Metan for inviting me to the Pokemon giveaway. That will remind me of good old Pokemon time with Andrew. So, I'm looking forward to that. Um I attend a number of event but one thing really stood out to me was uh the opening of the preschool uh program at Enders and with that uh I don't know if people know that the preschool program is very uh very valuable. I mean I could see with my own eye the curriculum and how the student behave how the teacher care for the student all kind of them there but I'm looking back um I remember that time when when Andrew going to the preschool type of kindergarten type of thing
129I was struggling looking for the program and I will uh do the quality the program there and I could see uh around me uh many parents were very stressful to pay for it but we didn't need to they couldn't uh but then now looking at this program we now provide a good uh program free of charge for many student and just a science scale for some uh uh from parent then I would jump into it if we have a chance to take the preschool uh program from our school district. Consider the the program, the curriculum, the facility, the quiet caliber of our instructors. I want to shout out to the preschool staff for center program not only at Ender, but I think they did a skylock too, right? Uh that that sim that skylock they
130had a program there. I really uh just commend them for put up a very strong program for that. And also we now on November we now look to the Thanksgiving. Uh we now all get ready for the Thanksgiving season. Um I'm looking uh forward to that season with with many activity from our school district especially the feast from Bell Intermediate. uh so that it will be a fun thing to look forward to. With that, I want to thank uh everyone to be uh staff for putting up uh carrying a heavy load uh for the district for our kid. I'm very thankful for that and and I look thank you very much. Uh the Mr. Minan said the work is never done. So uh we are continuing to to work on our uh fantastic achievement and
131thank you. uh without if I don't see you again, I will say happy Thanksgiving. Get ready for that and we after that we get ready for holiday. Uh and I'm going to announce the next meeting uh one after this will be on December 9th uh will be begin with a go session at at 5:00 pm and the third session to follow it and the one after that will be the year after like January 20th January 28 to 2026 that also begin at 5:00 pm with a close uh session and and the study session to follow.