001and I don't like any of it. >> Okay, folks. Okay, sorry. >> Good evening, everyone. I would like to call to order the close session for the March 11th, 2026 HBC. Board of Education regular meeting. Natalie, can you please take the roll call? >> Board member Van Landingham, >> present. >> Board member Cole, >> present. >> Board member Bob Lam Monica is currently absent. Vice President Clerk Cluth, >> present. >> And President Barl, >> present. Uh, me public comments regarding Okay. Members of the audience may address the board regarding close session agenda items. Comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless waved by a majority of all members of the board. Natalie, do we have any in-person requests to address the board? >> We have none. >> With no comments, I'd like to adjourn
002to close session and we'll return at 6 p.m. for open session. fall asleep. >> I I could pause. Anybody before? >> Good evening everyone. Let's call to order the March 11th, 2026 regular meeting of the HBCSD school board. Natalie, could you please take the role? Board member Van Landingham >> present. >> Board member Cole >> present. >> Board member Bob Lam Monica. Vice President Clerk Clue >> present. >> And vice president Barrow >> present. Okay. Tonight in close session, the board received information and gave direction to staff. Additionally, the board took action to non reelect nine certificated teachers and one temporary classified employee. The roll call vote for each was as follows. Board member Van Landingham, yes. Board member Cole, yes. Board member Va Monica, yes. Vice President Clerk Clut, yes. And President Barrow, yes.
003Flax salute. If everyone would please rise and join us for the flag salute. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve tonight's agenda? >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Thank you, Maggie. And second, Rachel. Okay. We'll move on to I just did that. We'll move on to approval of plants agenda. Do I have a motion? Oh, we just did that. Okay, we will now move on to announcements. Herosa Valley Student Council. Yay. >> Hi everyone, I'm Kelsey Kettler, Valley Student Council member. Hi everyone, I am Blake Sprag, Valley Student Council member. Hi everyone, I'm Sienna Hill, Valley Student Council member. We are excited to begin here or we excited to be here tonight and and update you on what's been happening at Valley. Trimester 3 began this week on Monday, March 9th and we
004are getting ready for our spring sports season to begin. This will include track and field, girls flag football, boys volleyball, and the surfing team. Last night, Tuesday, March 10th, the famous Glenn Miller orchestra came to Hermosa Valley Herosa Beach Community Center. This served as a successful fundraiser fundraising event for our HBS band, who also got on who also got to go on stage and perform with the real Glenn Miller band members. We were able to sell over 366 tickets and students and student council sold concessions during the event. We had a great turnout from both from both the local herosa community and all over LA. Overall, it was a magical night of magical night of music and community. Read across America came to Valley last week and was a great success. Valley's Wednesday's Assemble featured
005special guest Daryl Evans, the Los Angeles Kings ice crew, Bailey the mascot, and Vox D the DJ who brought incredible energy and excitement to the crowd. Vox DJ provided the music as Bailey showed off his some impressive dance moves while Daryl shared an inspiring message about sportsmanship, cool setting, and self-belief and power of reading. Students were fully engaged and energized throughout the entire assembly. Leadership is beginning a new trimester with a new group of students who are excited to learn what it means to be a leader. Throughout the trimester, students will explore the traits that make strong leaders and develop skills they can use to positively impact their school and community. Our goal is to help students learn practical leadership tools and build confidence in using them every day. Spanish B. Secondyear Spanish students took
006their first formal oral exam last week. Everyone did an excellent job speaking in Spanish for an extended period of time. This week we have begun our unit on travel. We are learning a lot about airport vocabulary. Idea Lab 5 students are starting their final rotation of Jimu robots marble roller coaster and 3D printing. STEM 7 students are working on an app project game triviaformational using block coding and universal design for learning UDL principles. STEM 8. Students are completing a time-lapse photography video editing project. They have to take hundreds of photos and edit them to play chronologically to look like a video. There are rubric requirements [clears throat] for storyline, music, sound effects, and an aerial section that makes it look like they are flying by jumping and stacking photos. Yearbook groups are working on their
007new page assignments. As we approach the yearbook deadline, they are focusing on filling in missing photos, editing page designs, and editing texts. On Saturday, February 28th, our Hermosa Valley School Science Olympiad team competed in the 2026 Los Angeles Rio Hondo College Regional Tournament, Division B. Out of the 47 teams, HBS placed 13th overall after competing in 23 events and ranked eighth among all compet competing schools. HBS faced pub competition and while only the top six teams in each event earned medals and we did not win a medal this year. Our students earned the top 10 finishes in many of their individual events. Our math Olympiad team had their first math counts competition which was held f Friday February March 27th on North Grman and Elsa Gindo. They also competed against 14 schools from all over
008Los Angeles. This included team rounds and individual competitions. There were just over 122 students participating and we are proud to of the way our young mathematicians represented her. Mosa Valley for the first time. Their next competition will be for the month of LA E math field day. Thank you again for following all our student count for allowing our student council to share with you what is happening at Valley. We look forward to sharing more information with you next month. >> Yes. as always. You you guys are the highlight of our meetings every every single month and um because you're you're what we're all about, right? Okay. So, moving on to public comments. Members of the audience may address the board on any topic regardless of whether it is listed on the agenda. However, the board
009may not discuss issues raised that are not listed on the agenda. Topics not on the agenda that are brought to the board's attention may be investigated by the administration and a report made to the board either publicly or privately at a future meeting. Comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes per individual speaker unless waved by a majority of all members of the board. Natalie, do we have any requests to address the board? >> We have none. Okay. Seeing no more, I will close public comments and move on to board member reports. and Maggie. We'll start. Nen, Jen, Carol, Rachel. >> I just want to give a shout out to the many uh valley teachers and to the eighth grade class um who visited the Museum of Tolerance, the local Holocaust Museum today. Those students
010were um fantastic. Uh the dosent incredible. It's an incredible experience that our students are able to attend. Um and had to take three buses through a lot of 405 traffic to get down there. So, uh, it was only for the intrepid. Um, but I just so appreciate Mr. Hazard leading that leading that every year and his his stalwart crew. So, it was it was wonderful. So, thanks. >> Wonderful. Thanks. Um, we're moving on to reports to the board and discussion. Herosa Valley Athletics Update, Miss Bledsoe and Mr. Vasquez, >> you going left? >> Right here. >> You can stand together. Yeah, >> good evening board. Thank you so much for having us here tonight to talk about athletics. It feels like we're we're having an annual conversation about athletics, which I like because it keeps
011us accountable and make sure we're kid- centric. Um, and we can update you based on some of the questions that you had at our last meeting. So, thank you for having us here tonight, Coach V. >> Yeah. How you guys doing? Good. Good to see you guys. Break the ice a little bit, right? >> Okay. So today we're going to talk about these things. Uh we are going to talk a little bit about program highlights, some of the great things that happened this season. We have some student participation data for you to review. Uh talk a little bit about Valley Partnerships and then let you know what's coming up because there's always something coming up. >> Sweet. We were able to expand year this year. Oh, I'll stand right here. Uh we're able to expand
012cheer this year. I wanted to give a shout out. She doesn't like that tension, but Miss Krenshaw in the back. She's our cheer coach. She kind of killed She killed it. She came in uh halfway last year and just totally took the ball and went with it. She got she made our uniforms. I don't know if you could see them, but she made them by hand. She did all the work. She got all the girls like little bags and everything like that. So, she was incredible. This year, we're able to do all our football games. We did all our basketball games. They were at the Hilmersa Little League opening day. They're supposed to be at the um what is it? St. Patrick's Day parade. They're supposed to be at another event. Um but they just
013been killing it. And we have two girls that going to come share about cheer and their experience. I have um Colette Miller and Alina Kelly that are going to come share a little bit about cheer. [clears throat] >> Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. We are so excited to be here. >> My name is Alina. >> My name is Colette. This is both our first year on the squad. >> We love our team. We love the sport and we are very grateful to be a part of such a great group of girls that represent our school. >> I decided to try out for the cheer team because I wanted to be involved in school sports and support our school community. >> I also tried out for the cheer team because I
014wanted to be involved in school sports. Cheerleading is something I've always wanted to try and I finally had the chance to do it. >> We are so thankful for our coach, Coach Alyssa, for guiding our team and teaching us what it means to be a cheerleader. >> Throughout the year, we have participated in many events at the school and in our community. We have cheered at on our football and basketball's teams as they played surrounding middle schools. We have also participated in community events such as the peer-to-peer sketchers walk and the Hermosa Beach Little League opening day. >> We are also very excited to participate in the St. Patrick's Day parade this weekend. >> Being a part of this cheer team has helped us build school spirit and connect with our community. We have had
015such a great experience on this team and cannot wait for tryyouts in the spring. Thank you again for inviting us to speak and we appreciate your support. >> Go Dolphins. >> Yay. >> This has been something that we've really wanted to add for a long time. Again, born out of student voice and interest. So, we are so proud of the girls that we have on our team. Thank you so much for being here. >> Okay. All right. We're going to talk about the fall sports banquet, which was an inc Oh, go ahead. >> Yeah, it was an incredible thing. It was our first year that we did it this year. Uh we partnered with HVPTO. They came and uh sponsored us and kind of helped us with this event. We celebrated our athletes with this
016one. Uh if you were in the fall there, Miss I know Miss Van Lan was there. It was awesome. Uh time to celebrate our athletes. I had a lot of good parent feedback as well that came and said some positive things. Uh some a parent says like, "Oh, a parent at NBMS is kind of jealous that we got a banquet." So, it was cool to hear that, you know. Um but and we're having one tomorrow. So, if you guys are free, come by tomorrow. Tomorrow we're going to have one to celebrate our winter sports. Um, but this has been a fun thing. We uh had so many kids show show up uh for the banquet. We gave out certificates for all the students that participated. And then we had some special trophies for uh some
017award winners like MVP, offensive player of the year and things like that. And it was cool. We got some nice picture by Jen Faul. I don't I'm sure you guys are familiar with her. She took some really great pictures of the kids. So, it was a really really fun experience. I know a lot of the kids look forward to it. And I know we took like I think 145 for the fall and then we opened up the link for the winter link and it booked up already like to 165 quickly. So that means parents are really enjoying this whole uh banquet experience. So it was really fun. >> Cool. Any chance to celebrate our kids which feels really good. Um we're going to move on to transportation which is also um the theme I think
018tonight too is partnership. PTO has been an incredible partner for us, but this is one of the things that Coach Vasquez and I have been working on since his arrival here. The coordinating of parent rides to games has been something that's been a bit of a stress for us. So now we have buses thanks to PTO and $15,000 and um an opportunity to really grow with gradual release of responsibility there. So, we're working hard with our PTO chair for athletics, which is a new position that PTO brought about to increase our financial participation for parents so that PTO can kind of step away from this, but we're able to deliver the students to their away games safely on one bus uh and many of them home as well. So, they have a really good time
019as you can see in the images. Uh, and we feel a a sense of relief having them there. >> Now, we're going to talk about athletics communication. Where she at? She's in the back. Miss Eileen, thank you so much. She's in charge of all our communication. She does everything. I don't know if you guys see on Instagram, like I She'll bug me like, "What are the scores?" I'm like, "I'm sorry. I forgot to give them to you and here are the scores." And she posts them on Instagram. She puts them on our staff website. She does a lot of our parent contact. I'll like either write a script for her or she'll help me write the script and say, "Hey, we got to get this going." So, I know tomorrow she's going to be sending
020out uh hopefully tomorrow over the next day, we're going to be sending out information for uh spring sports. But, this has been a really good uh platform that we've had. I've had some parents say like, "Hey, uh, I really enjoy being able to go to the website because a lot of this on the website, it has like all the um addresses for the games. It has all our forms. It has information who our coaches are. I don't know if you guys had a chance, but we have like a little bio of all our coaches on there. So, it's been like a really fun website." So, shout out to Eileen. That's super helpful, man. She's like the whole mastermind behind that. >> Great. And then, Born from Communication, too. And from our conversation the last time
021we were here, we had a a request to add some detailed language surrounding parent participation in our athletics. We have a spirited group of parents who we love to show up at each of our games. Um, but it's also important for us that we set the norms for behavior and we want to make sure that when we're farming them out into the community that they're representing us and what we value here as well. So on our athletics form for 2526, we actually added an entire parent component code of conduct. [clears throat] So, thank you for that recommendation. If you look at the bullets on the lefth hand side, these are the things that we have asked parents to sign off on when they're committing to have their student participate in our athletics. We found that
022it just is something easy to point to uh should something come up. So, thank you for that. We're excited to have it. >> All right, we're going to look over our student participation. So, these are numbers from the fall and the winter. If you can see them on the slides, we had some really good numbers in a sense of like how many kids tried out. So for fall we had 195 students interested in sports. Uh but overall we had 71% of those kids make a team. Um cross country I know you see 46 out of 50. I know it's like a no cut but that was like some kids that just drop off that say like hey I actually don't have time for this anymore. Our surf team was great. Um fun fact last year
023our spurf team I uh I was talking to Yanni the other day and he says like dude I think like 90% of our surf team made their high school surf team. So that's like a big big thing for for our surf program that just started. Same with the winter. Winter's a little bit little bit uh bigger in the sense that there's only like one team for boys soccer and girls soccer and then two teams for boys basketball and girls basketball, but we still were able to put up um you know a bigger group of of players because you know we understand that kids are busy and so sometimes we need subs and things like that. So it worked out really really well. But yeah, we looked good in participation this year. We had for fall
024[snorts] 75 and then for winter 56%. So, now we're going to go into our fall sports and how we look, how it looked this year. I want to give a quick shout out to Miss Montoya because I had a baby, so I wasn't here for the fall season. So, she killed it as an acting ad during that time. Um, but we had cross country, we had three events. We had one at Chadwick, we had one that we hosted that is just getting better. I don't know if you guys had a chance to come out, but like PTO got the whole like start line, finish line, and we were able to do that. And then we have the one that we do at NBMS. Mr. Hazard also does a great job of like doing these fun
025runs for the kids on the weekends like hey if you want to come join us you know come join um it's optional and so he'll do like these runs at he calls it agony hill somewhere like in in palis um but yeah that was our fall sports we killed it in fall our boys football team did so well I think something one of the things that a parent told me was it was really cool to see the eighth grade uh boys and the flag football team kind of take the sixth graders underneath you know because this group of eighth grade students, a lot of their parents were like coaches and volunteers. Um, and so they're like, "Hey, we need to get some of the sixth graders in." And so it was really cool to see
026some of the eighth grade leadership under serve our sixth graders. You can see that picture right there. That's Anders, our eighth grade, and then that's uh Hrix Fenuse, our sixth grader. But you know, that's an awesome picture that we have those same players on the same team, right? Um, and then that's our surf team. Um, our basketball coaches are great. Our girls team went undefeated. They didn't lose a game. game. They beat everyone in the South Bay League. So, that was a fun fun thing. Yeah, they'll be here next month. They will be here. They were hopefully to come tonight, but we knew it was Kosa night, so we kind of pushed it for the next one. But, yeah, they'll be here next month to be celebrated. And then our boys soccer team, you know,
027we didn't start off too strong, but we finished strong. We beat NBMS. Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. It was a great game. Uh, they did amazing. Uh, our girls soccer team did amazing, too, with Miss Gonzalez. she was able to come out there and come out of retirement and help coach for uh uh the girls soccer team. So, so far winter was a success. >> Just to pop into um some of the feedback that I received from parents is the relationships that are made on these teams are for forever. So, they have these pictures, they have these memories. We see our boys in the left of that picture right there. But, they're having a good time. And I think when Coach Vasquez started, that was his goal. It's like let's teach kids the fundamentals
028but also let's let's teach them to have a good time in athletics. >> Okay, big data >> right here is our impact. So um in the fall winter the impact so total athletes participate in the fall winter were 218. So that's about 50% of our students almost like 48% of our students are doing some type of afterchool sport at our uh at Hermosa Valley. We have 19 coaches. We have 10 volunteer coaches. We have our head coach um who is like you know in charge that you know is charge of email contact and players and and you know conducting practices but we also have a lot of volunteer coaches that come out and say like hey I just want to give my time. I also want to help out you know some of the six
029you know sixth grade parents are coming out and helping out. I think that speaks a lot to the program in the sense that people want to be here you know they could be anywhere else but they're choosing to be you know with their kids and and giving them their best and they're not just getting like oh like just a random parent but people with experience. Um and so that's a really fun thing. So, our impact this uh this fall and winter was really really big and we participate in a lot of games this year. Um I think we added one more game in each season. So, that was a lot of fun to like play a team twice. So, that was a good good time. Um our community partnerships. I also want to ch chat
030about this. Uh we have a great partnership with HBY. Um I know Miss Bledo is working with them to get like uh basketball pads for our like outdoor basketball courts at our school, View and Vista. Um they've just been super helpful. Dan's been really cool about it. He also sponsored our our girls flag football jerseys last year and so that was like really nice of him to do that and he sent us an email like, "Hey, we want to partner with you guys. Let us know what you need." We had a parent on the boys soccer team step up and say, "Hey, I want to donate jerseys." And was able to get his uh, you know, the boys jerseys and the girls jerseys. Our basketball coaches were just so generous this year. Um, coach Adam
031Zan said, "Hey, I want to pay for the jerseys for the kids this year." Same thing with our girls team. They said, you know, Rocky was like, "Hey, I've been here three years. This is my little legacy to you guys. We played against uh American Martyrs this year for basketball. It was fun. We we beat them both team both boys and girls beat them. So they were they were really excited. We we had one game here and then we had one game at American Martyr. So that was a lot of fun too for for them. And then our cheer team, you know, we're just going out and doing more events like the Sketchers, the St. Patrick's Day and things like that. >> So what's next? We surveyed over 400 students in advisory. advisories allowed us
032this opportunity to get real student feedback on what what is of interest to them. And so really the qu we had the two main questions that we pulled were how could we improve our athletic program and what sports would you like to see added? These are real responses. So one was better equipment and one was additional sports offered. I'm going to let Nate in a second take the additional sports, but um better equipment is something that we can look at from a budgetary standpoint to see where my funds going as we begin to plan for the LCAP and as we begin to plan where we're going to allocate funding. Just taking a look to see how how do we better how do we best support uh our afterchool sports program simultaneously our PE program because
033there's some shared resources there that we could work to capitalize on. And then surprise surprise, the number one is esports that they want to see added, which I'm not sure you can. I mean, >> 100%. And you can't get like physically hurt in it, which I'm a big fan of. Um, so I think this is something that we'll um talk to Dr. Wilds about and explore. I know you have some context. Um, so kind of looking into that, as well as tennis, which actually was a bit of a surprise to us, but I'll let Nate speak on that. These are the other contenders. Dance team, pickle ball, which our neighbors would love. And then um baseball and uh we have a lot of students participating in HBL and opening day is happening this weekend. So
034there potentially is some kind of a partnership. I think our number one thing that we're managing with right now is time and field space, which is one of the reasons we only have one uh soccer, not an AB for both boys and girls. We are running out of daylight. We run out of field space. So, there are there are some things that we're contending with with regard to that, but Nate has some ideas for tennis. >> Yeah, I know we have local tennis courts right here. I'm not familiar with the area, but I know we have some right here. And I've talked to some of the kids and they say like, "Hey, you can rent those out." So, I was thinking like maybe, you know, maybe doing an inter mural thing for our school, whether
035it's like Valley versus Valley, just like, "Hey, come sign up, you know, 10, you know, 10 versus 10 winners bracket type of thing." Um, I also wanted to look at some options for lunch, you know, because we're bringing our capacity for after school sports cuz we already started at 3:30 and some of our games in like at 6:30. So, adding another game would be like really late. But adding offer opportunities for kids that are maybe not being um exposed to after school sports, maybe doing something during lunch, like a lunch club, whether it's like, hey, we do throw some pickle ball courts on the gym floor or outside or we do uh esports as a a lunch club to start off to say like, hey, maybe we'll start off as a lunch club and see
036how much interest we get in interest and we get in that. And then with tennis, I would love to get something like that going maybe next year. um something simple like hey we'll just do a little winners bracket and then maybe I can email some of the ads and say hey you know want to send your best too and we'll send our best too and we'll do a little match start off small and then we can work our way to maybe getting something going on for our school program >> we see that there are a lot of students that are interested in this so we want to hear the student voice and see what we can put into play no pun intended so additional what's on deck this uh all three of these uh images
037that you see on the right hand side were born from this body and we're excited to announce that we are um Allison and Nate are going on April 2nd to the Run LA84 PD. It's going to be really great to learn from local educators. It's also going to be an opportunity to talk about what PE what we can embed into PE sports people are doing different things and and then Nate and Allison will take it back to our staff and present at a staff meeting of what they came out with. Program expansion. We'll be working with Danica Brown, who runs our track and field, and Natt Hazard, our cross country, to talk about what are we going to do um with expanding opportunities out in the community. There are lots of programs that prepare students
038for the LA Marathon. Students Run LA is a fantastic organization that helps bring middle school students actually and train them up in a um very streamline, healthy, non-injurous way. So, I'm a big fan of that. But the um SRLA victory run, they're hosting a 5K in May 3rd at on May 3rd that we're going to be exploring to see how many of our students can work an entrylevel 5K before we put them in multiple digit number mile um [clears throat] runs. But we're just we're excited about the prospects of continuing our program out in the community. We're so proud of our kids. They've represented us incredibly well, not just with their athleticism, but with their team sports mentality and their positive outlook and their high grades, which are a requirement to participate in our in
039our sports um high grades and citizenship. So, um it's been a fantastic fall and winter season. We're excited to jump into spring. What questions do you have? >> Anybody have any comments? Maggie here. Oh, sorry. This way, Rachel. Um, kudos, hats off to the the program that you have evolved and Jessica giving you the lead, Coach Vasquez. I've been intimately involved with the inter mural program just as a mom with two boys and for the last I think it's four years straight and seeing how much the program has grown and been professionalized. Um the I know the bus is expensive. Thank you PTO. But the team camaraderie that the bus experience adds and as a parent stressing out I'm trying to come from downtown LA. I'm like they need rides. I said I'd be there
040to get them to the [laughter] God knows the other side of Palace Fair days. It's always Ridgerest. Um I'm like no not Ridgerest. Um so it's really been something a wonder to behold. Um, it's been just fantastic for the kids and again I kudos off to you having to try to figure out a million different places. Where's the game? When are the games now that one website >> Eileen I mean it's it's fantastic. There needs to be one-stop shopping and it really I mean it really has taken Hermoso Valley from the inter for the inter murals from here to here and you know the soccer team again we beat MBM. >> Yeah. So, I just want to say thank you just as and from a mom side watching this grow. It's been it's been fantastic.
041So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Carol, >> uh I I concur with everything that Rachel just said. I think that you guys have done a fantastic job and the program has evolved uh enormously since you stepped into this role. So, thank you for that and for everyone helping that along from Eileen to Jessica to um Allison. And uh I had one question but is anecdotally I don't expect an actual like a real an a percent answer. So 48% participation is awesome. Do you think a lot of kids do more than one sport or do they mostly do one? >> Yeah. You know I a lot of kids do do more than one sport. So like Jack plays almost all three seasons, you know, fall, winter, and spring. But I think the cool part
042about our school, we have like a lot of active kids. You know, like our cheer team, there's kids on the cheer team. They're on student council and then they'll go do volleyball as well. Um, so we do have a lot of kids that do participate throughout all the seasons. Yeah. So some some of the numbers would be double like hey they played in fall, spring and winter. Yeah. >> Good. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Question. Um, yeah. Thank you. We I just you guys do a great job and I love your enthusiasm when you come up and present and congratulations on your new baby. Um, a couple things you did you say that you guys have a contact with the esports because I know at other middle schools and um >> Paris and that they
043have >> they have a competition. It's like >> it's a company it's not cheap so trying to figure out budgeting. Um but it's it's an amazing event, >> right? >> Um and then just knowing that the Olympics are coming. Yeah. >> Just since our sixth graders will be eighth graders, right, the summer the Olympics happen or is that right? Am I right? >> Maybe 28. Yeah, they're going. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. Just something to like put in the like hopper over there in your minds of like how we can get people involved or thinking about the Olympics and what we could do to >> We actually have some ideas. I want to meet with Dr. Wilds before I present them to you publicly. But there's some things that um there are some companies that work
044with parolympians and also Olympians that come out to schools and do fantastic um uh assemblies and then work directly with PE teachers. So, we'll work together on that. That looks [clears throat] like >> we know women's flag football is going to be a really big event. It's going to be a big deal. So, I've got some connections there if we need >> and then FIFA's, you know, World Cup's coming. That's >> we just want to >> support whatever Maggie's ideas are for FIFA World Cup. She's got ideas. >> Maggie doesn't have any ideas. >> Maggie has lots of good ideas and I just want to encourage her to share those. And my last one was I my next like excitement would be I think in the gym would be a great place to start like
045a wall of fame or a hall of fame of Hermosa athletes that have become >> Did Mr. Butcher get to you before this for years >> but I am I am happy to be a supporter of that. I think interesting >> data from the moment he started working here on >> just send it my way. My daughter's on that journey. >> I think my daughter just a way to like inspire inspire kids along the way. >> That's a great idea and there's a wall for it. So yes, >> I love this. So don't take my questions as anything other than love for middle school athletics. Um uh 48% um when you look nationally there's higher percentages elsewhere. So, I'm just curious how we rank in terms of other surrounding districts off of the 48%. And
046then I'd also love to see a gender breakdown because we know that middle school girls become less likely to participate. And so, while we have girls volleyball and boys flag football, you know, and and I'm assuming cheer cross country surf or co-ed technically like love to see what the gender breakdowns look like. Also, to Jen's point on flag football, uh given the rise of girls flag football, um it looks like we had a lot of folks try out who couldn't make it. But is that a co-ed sport >> like it is at other schools? Well, we do have we have a boys flag football team and a girls flag football team at our school. >> Yes. >> Yeah, it's coming up. >> Oh, sorry, I missed that. >> Yeah, they're not in the same season.
047>> Got it. Yeah. Okay, cool. >> And our girls flag football team is beast. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Yeah. We have like a sixth grader who's like trying out for the USA team like for girls football. >> Yeah. Hall of Fame. [laughter] >> Future Hall of Famer. Uh so love to see just uh breakdowns off of the numbers off of that. And then getting into triyouts. I get field space and all of that, but if there's ways for that, we can in this town, in this community, if you can't play it in middle school, you will never ever ever >> make it on the coaster or union team. Like, there's not a chance that you're going to walk onto that varsity team if you haven't played it. >> So, it becomes an equity issue
048of them playing for club, right? So, we have a lot of kids. I know for volleyball, I think we've only had like non we've had less than a handful of non- club players who've ever made it onto our volleyball. >> And so, while I love that we have a winning record, and that's an important part of school spirit, I'd love to find a way that we have a non-traveling >> Yeah. >> team that can play, right? If it's sixth graders who just get a chance to hang out and then they grow into the eighth grade A team, great. Yeah, I know that uh Coach Kashi, she had like a trainers team. Like she had like she came like four girls and then she trained them and then said like, "Hey, you're technically on the team,
049but we would love to have you around." Um, and I know in the past we've offered clinics with coach Kashi, which was like a good, you know, startup for girls that never played volleyball or wanted some more experience and exposure. So maybe that's something we can look forward to doing as well. >> Clinics or non-travel teams? Um, I I know my son's experience at a different middle school. He's not playing on the travel team, but he's out there every day for practice, right? And so he gets to be part of a team. He still gets to build camaraderie. He still gets to show up in a practice jersey. And I think that is is also the kind of school spirit we want to build for kids who might not make a travel team. And that's
050going to be real life for high school as well. >> But if they don't try it on on in high school, Miss Bloodstone's heard this from me more than once. So I know this is old hat. Um continue to make a note >> and do my best. >> Well, I think it's really important. It's it's not I mean I know we're jo kind of being but I do think that social social play is really important at middle school. It's just the only time. I mean, it's it's it's a hard world out there in Roondo. I think >> I think be important to know we do have a lot of kids on club teams that don't participate in middle school because for whatever reason their club team don't encourage >> both, right? So, that might be
051some good numbers. There are kids who are right. So, play with us >> to help community. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Yeah. And I think the other piece too kind of taking it a bit away from athletics. We do a really good job of figuring out last year we did a survey. I think it was last year or the year before of who what things are you doing. So if our student isn't students are not involved in a in an athletic thing, they oftentimes have something else. At our last flag ceremony, we recognized our athletes and we also had our science Olympians stand up and our math Olympians stand up and there was a comment from the mom of like, I'm so happy that you had our mathletes stand up. And so I think, you know,
052there are kids that just won't ever won't come up to coach Vasquez and be like, "Put me on the team, coach." Um, but they are saying it hard to Miss Shannon, right? Put me on the team. >> But if we're also cutting 45% of kids, right, there's also a need that we could put in other places. >> Um, and then my other two questions are, can you tell me more about how boosters are working and uniforms >> like boosters >> because I know like surf >> supporters >> is a booster, right? Oh, >> so PTO hasn't gotten us any jerseys as of recently. A lot of the jerseys that I've gotten been like partnerships. So like HBYB helped us last year with the girls flag football. Um for the boys basketball teams or the basketball
053teams the coaches purchased those soccer team was apparent. So they haven't really helped us specifically with jerseys, but that is something that we're I asked them like, hey, maybe we can do some type of partnership where we can get jerseys. So they're all sponsored and so we rotate every three years so we're not having because I think the jerseys I had the girls or the boys basketball team had the jerseys since like 10 years ago. So we're trying to get some new stuff. So I had brought that up to them saying like hey can we do something? >> Your season gets a new >> No, as of right now I've been doing like three years. So I have been working my way. So my first year I got or not my first my second year
054last year I got girls volleyball new jerseys and then we got the HBY uh flag football jerseys. So now I was like okay we got to focus on basketball and soccer. So this year I finally was able to get some people um like the boys soccer team someone stepped up and said hey I'll sponsor them and so I was like great you know we asked around same thing with our coaches then so and then we got also cross country jerseys last year too from HBY so I'm trying to go like one year at a time like that and then every three years rotate um but I'm hoping to get maybe some partnership with PTO I know I brought it up last year at our last board meeting man there's a lot of resources that we
055can capitalize on so I'm trying to find as many as I can >> and so do any of the sports have boosters tied to them. >> We do not have a formal booster program. No. >> Are there so the only reason I'm asking is because I've seen like some sports specific uh namely sort that I have like people are wearing nonHBS stuff. So I'm just curious where that money is going fundraising. >> Yeah. No, Yanni was the one that he created. He got so excited so he created these custom sweaters for the kids. But we were talking about PTO. We met with Allison. Um Jen's been incredible. She's like, "Hey, what if we did some type of uh you know how we have merch for the HVS merch?" She goes, "What if we did something,
056but it's like general across all our sports?" So, like, "Hey, I made the HVS soccer team. You can go online and buy the HBS soccer team sweater or the basketball team." Um, and make them a little bit unique to their sport, so it's not all the same, but we are trying to look into something like that. We just haven't had the opportunity yet to bring in that. >> Yeah, >> uniforms are triggering. I grew up in the 90s where I had handme-down boys >> soccer and fine. >> The la Okay, my last sorry I took up a lot of air time up here. I know uh Ed Foundation's doing the golf classic uh next fall and so with that that just made me think what you're talking about in terms of a tournament like a
057tennis classic could be really cool and make it multi family. >> We have a lot of golfers. >> A lot of tennis, but like I know that's coming up and they're going to do a big launch for it. So it seems like there's got to be something we can do to support. >> Thank you all for your time. >> Yeah. >> Thank you board. >> All right. Okay. Well, thank you so much for everything. They've got it covered with the questions and I'm done. You go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay, continuing with reports. Uh BC's Health District update. Tom Beckley. A >> lot of energy in the room here. >> No kidding. >> So, we'll try to ramp it up as we talk about blue zones and some of
058the things that are happening at the health district. Um, no, we really appreciate our partnership with Hermosa. It's been going on for years. We're not able to do all the things we do without you. So, thank you for your partnership and we're going to share with you a little bit about some of the things that we have going on. I think as you know, my son uh went to Valley in the 8th grade and so um yes, teacher there. So, he's a uh he's a county sheriff now. So, they they grow up and so uh thank you for that. Thank you for his education and thank you for your partnership with the health district. So we're going to make this brief and then if you have questions we can go back and some of you
059have seen some of this in our tri- agency. I think that's a great thing that uh Hermosa does uh between the city and the school district and the health district. Uh that doesn't happen in all the cities but it happens in Hermosa and it's a great way for us to share information. [clears throat] So real quick just want to talk about some of the blue zones results. I think everybody knows that we're a certified blue zones community. That was something where we came together starting in 2010 between the city, the school district, health district, and we were selected uh as a place to see if blue zones could certify or genetically engineer a blue zone site. And so we were certified in 2016 and we have uh 10 years of experience as a certified blue
060zone site. So we just want to talk about some of those results real quick. So, our well-being score, this is a metric that uh Gallup uses uh nationally. And so, our score is 69.5 across the three cities. We'll show how it breaks down uh by each city. That's the highest score uh that we've ever received. Uh and it's and then the score in Manhattan Beach is the highest in the nation and Hermosa is right behind it as you'll see. Uh so, you can see um people uh have a lot of pride in their city. 79% are in agreement that the city or area is the perfect place for them. Uh proud of the community, 76%. Um so some of the things just to kind of watch for on the right hand side a little bit.
06151% of Beach City's residents uh have concerns uh about incivility. Uh that's lower than the national average, but again something that we want to uh continue to keep an eye on. And then alcohol consumption is down slightly from a couple of years ago. Uh but our alcohol consumption in the three beach cities does run higher uh than the rest of the United States. Yes. Uh we do have it. Um I'd have to double check exactly what it is, but it it runs about 10% higher. Um so on the well-being score what we have is uh the US total and what we've been seeing with these scores is while uh the nation has been declining our well-being score has been increasing uh and so you can see that the total uh for us uh dark blue
062is most recent um decreased a little bit uh you can see our total went up to the 69.5 um so there's Manhattan Beach at the 71.6 6 and then Hermosa at at 70.2. Uh so very high well-being scores. Uh what we're seeing as far as improvements is in exercise, pride and community. Uh and then slight declines from 23 is uh cholesterol and then self assessment of physical health. So these are questions that that Gallup is asking across the nation. So these are things that our board uses to uh drive its health metrics and and its health priorities. Uh and so then we uh gear our programs and our partnerships with you to um try to turn these numbers uh around as we can. >> Can I ask a question? >> Sure. >> When you say
063declines since 2023 and one of them is cholesterol, is that actually saying cholesterol has gone up? >> Is that what that means? >> Yes, that's what that means. Correct. >> So real quick, um just want to, you know, everybody always asks you, I'm sure, you know, show me the money or what's the finances. So, we just want to talk real quickly about how the health district uh budgets, you know, we have about a $15 million budget. About a third of that comes from property tax. Uh what we're really showing on this slide is the uh the orange piece of the circle there on the left on the revenue. You can see that's money that we receive from our property, our assets. So, we use that money to then provide services and programs. Helps our partnerships
064with you. So, you can see on the revenue side, it's 4.1. And then if you look over on the expense side, you see the 2.8. And so we're netting about 1.3 million. When I came to the district nine years ago, we were netting about 3 million. And so what's happened since then is our buildings have gotten older. We're not having as much occupancy. Uh we had some people leave during the pandemic. And so when we're trying to figure out how we can continue services, continue our partnership, continue to contribute to the schools, we're we're facing declining revenue from our assets that we used to provide those services in the past. So that brings us to the campus and and what we're trying to do on the campus. You can see on the bottom there, um
065that's Al Cove. That's a rendering of Al Cove. I think everybody's familiar with Al Cove. It's a place where youth aged 12 to 25 can come and receive free mental health services or just come and hang out. It's a place where they can drop in. Lowers the stigma. Um we've had 16,000 visits, that's not individual kids, but 16,000 uh visits in the three plus years uh that it's been open and about 10% of those, so around 1,600 uh youth are entering service. uh and about I'd have to double check but I think about 10% is coming from Hermosa and so uh we're pleased with the impact that it's making. Um our board has uh decided to uh go ahead and build this building and so we're going to be breaking ground on that. It's going
066to be on the corner of Flaggler and Barrel um and we're going to break ground here in April and so the district is going to uh the health district is going to cover the difference between a state grant and the cost to build that building. So, I think if anybody hears anything tonight, if they hear blah blah blah blah blah, alcove, you know, if you know any youth aged 12 to 25, uh, they're having any kind of issue, just refer them to us. They can come in, they're going to see somebody, uh, that looks a lot more like them than me. You know, they're going to see uh, youth. And, uh, the way that we know that we're doing it right is when we toured my son, I toured him when he was 25 and
067he looked around and he said, "Wow, this this place is great. You didn't have anything to do with it, did you? And so that's really what all co is about. It's for youth by youth and it's working and it's starting to spread across the state. So the trick, and I'm going to go real quick through here, is what do we do with the rest of the campus? You can see those two office buildings up front. The one on the left has a longer term lease. The one on the right reverts back to the health district in 2030. And so what we're looking at doing is moving some of the programs that we have in the orange building such as the center for health and fitness into that building. And then you can just barely see
068the lot at the top of the slide there, that brown square. That's where Alco is going to go. And so the plan is to uh move those move everything out of that building uh by a year from now by March of 27. So all Cove will be in its new location. The Center for Health and Fitness will be over in that white office building up front. We call that the 510 Prospect Building. Uh and then we're working with a developer uh to redevelop what you see there in orange. So, lots of discussion of course over the last nine years. Um we started well before then. Again, we're trying to create a place there where people can come and be well. That's the vision of the master plan uh that the board has adopted. they adopted
069that a few years ago. Um, and so that's something that we're trying to uh bring to life and and we're now breaking ground this year on pieces of it. And the and the big piece we need to figure out is kind of what's going to go in the middle. And the reason why we need to get out of that building is because of seismic issues. You can see some of the other infrastructure issues that we have with that old building. It's been there since 1960. It's done a great job for over 60 years. uh it's now time to move forward. So, this is just some of the planning process that we've been working on uh over the years. Um I think the take-home message from this is that uh we are listening. Uh like you
070all, maybe we don't always do what everybody wants, but that doesn't mean that we're not listening. Uh and so that's something that we've been working on over the years is to address concerns from the neighbors. So, you can see some of the initial concepts pretty dense. Um, you know, then we heard back from the neighbors, hey, how about more open space? This is how we compare across um the different plans. We started out with 420 units uh of assisted living and memory care. That's what the need is. That that's what the market studies are saying. So, we said, "All right, let's start with a plan that has all of that in there." And then we're at a point now where uh the master plan we've adopted is 217 assisted living units. So we've dropped the
071number of units uh from what the need is. So this is the current master plan. Um you can see all cove is that square up at the top. Uh and then the orange is assisted living, independent living, green space in the middle. Uh and then the blue space is phase two where we had envisioned perhaps aquatics. Uh, we had thought that the Center for Health and Fitness, which is our older adult gym on the second floor, was going to need to leave and come back, but it's going to move to that little gray building on the bottom of the slide. And so, again, we're kind of adapting. Uh, this is just a a plan uh from one of the developers that we're talking with. I think in the next week or two, we're going to
072enter into uh a letter of intent with a developer. Uh we're speaking with two right now in detail. Uh this is uh one's sort of concept. You can see it's pretty close to the master plan that we had before. And what we're trying to do is set back from the edges. Uh have more of the development in the middle, be conscious of height. Those are things that we're hearing and construction time. Those are all things that we're hearing from the neighborhood. So this just gives you a sense of and again this would be a ground lease. gives you a sense of what we'd be looking at. And again, trying to really be sensitive to the neighborhood while still being able to provide health services and then provide revenue to the district. So, just kind of
073wrapping up here. So, some of the successes, we have a bike path. I don't know if you've ever been on that bike path at Diamond and Prospect around the time that school lets out from Roondo, but it's one of the busiest bike paths uh in the South Bay according to Rodondo Beach. And so we feel uh great that that uh it's been improved at least in Roondo. And so that's something that we're very proud of. Uh CHF we're going to be moving. Then also going into that office building on the corner uh is a program for all-inclusive care for the elderly. And so that's a place where older adults can come and have all their health needs met. So that's going in. And then then we have uh Old Cove going in. So what's next?
074We're going to be breaking ground with Al Cove in the Center for Health and Fitness this spring. We're going to have a developer uh on board in the next uh couple of weeks for the rest of the campus. Then they'll go through the process of approvals with the city of Roondo Beach. So, I wanted to keep that brief and answer any questions that you might have. >> We'll start with you this time, Maggie. >> Oh, no. Never mind. We'll start with >> Tom. Thanks again so much for your partnership and the partnership of of Beach City's Health District. Uh, first question. Um, a few years back, we had looked at seeing because we have such a younger population than the high schools and mobility is a bigger issue to get to Al Cove. We had
075talked about liaison or liaison offices within Hermosa. Is that still something that's being discussed? >> Yeah, love to do that. And I think we're we're doing some of the things. We're doing some of it like small like classes. Uh we're doing some of that at some of the facilities in the park. Uh the Quantis building uh and continuing to work with the city on that. But that would be a great partnership with the city because because you're asking for it in Hermosa, we can we can go to the city. As you know, we provide service uh to the whole South Bay and so they have to they have to come here, but in the case of Hermosa, since you're in the district, we can >> we can do satellite offices. >> That's encouraging to hear.
076Um the second thing is I was a big fan of the bond um and uh the pool folks have been in my ear lately and so I unfortunately sent them on to you because I noticed that you have pool listed in a potential phase two, right? Um, just for reference, um, my son has been on a wait list to get on the beg pool swim team for six years now. So, any way that Hermosa can get access to a pool, because we can't just throw them in the ocean and expect them to swim, >> um, I'm all I'm all a supporter for. So, however we can help you make that a larger community access beyond the senior access is something I >> Yeah. What we envision is there'll be senior access with the assisted living
077and independent living where through the center for health and fitness they'll be able to do water aerobics and classes that would would not be a community pool but we have space on the campus uh for that in the future. And so that's something that we're open. We've studied it. Um, we have a it's five years old now, but we have a pretty in-depth school study >> except for Saturdays for like three hours. So, there there is a need. I know there's a lot of needs there, but there is a need. >> Yeah, that's something that we're happy to keep discussing. >> Thank you. >> Hi. Thank you for all the work you do for BC's health district and for us. I mean, you've been in the community for so long. So, thank you. Will you
078just walk me through I I know there was the bond and it didn't pass. And then how are we here? Like how do how are we affording how are you all affording to do this now? >> Yeah. So the bond did not pass and so let's just talk about Alco for instance because a big piece of the bond was for Alco. So we're value engineering that meaning we're shrinking the size. We're not u pursuing all of the environmental sustainability initiatives that we had with it and currently we don't have a connect. I could go back to that slide I suppose. Oh we can just use that one. So the square up at the top there is is Al Cove. Uh we don't have a connection from there up to the rest of the campus which
079we really want and that was part of the bond. So we're so we're doing less with less I guess is how I would put it. Uh in the case of Al Cove, um the other big piece of the bond was the open space and so that's the community commons in there. And so we're going to need to uh rely on a on a development partner and a public private partnership, right, >> to generate as much of that community space as we can. >> And when when they develop that, is that something that they develop for their own? You mean like could a pool be in something like that? >> Well, or a Yeah. What we what we'll probably most likely see uh is that the pool would be in the assisted living or independent living
080area and then we uh with the center of health and fitness would have the ability to do classes and bring people into it. Now, if there was additional space, which there is, it's a it's a large campus, which is one of the reasons why we've been urging Roondo to not limit our zoning and and this current city council has decided not to do that, and some of you supported us with that, and we appreciate that. So, we we have the capacity to do it in the future is how I would answer that. So, the way we're doing it is we're doing less in the case of Al Cove, there'll probably be less open space and we're going to be relying on the developer to help with that. And then uh we're negotiating with the developer
081to demolish the old hospital building which was another thing in the bond. >> So we're pulling it together. And then when we were working on the plan n years ago, getting that little building on the bottom of the slide there in 2030 felt like a a long time away. Well, it's not now. Uh and so we're able to move some of our services in there like the Center for Health and Fitness. Well, let us know how we can support. >> Yeah. No, you've done a lot and happy to do that. >> Continue to partner. >> A pool would be amazing. >> Yeah, I'm meeting with them tomorrow, as a matter of fact. So, thank you. >> Thank you for that great presentation. Uh, I just had one comment and Maggie brought up the partnership with
082with the schools and Al Cove and um it occurred to me that it might be nice down the road to have a partnership with the seniors facility as well and our students. I think that that's um would be beneficial for both of those sets of uh of both children and and aging elderly. Yeah, I'd love to figure out a way to partner up on that with that's really a vision for the campus is that intergenerational and we can be doing a lot more there. >> Great Rachel. >> Yeah, the my colleagues asked all the questions that I had. I just want to say thank you and I was really disappointed when the bond didn't pass. It felt really shortsighted by our by our community, but I love the fact that you're driving on. And is
083there a possibility for a future bond proposal? I mean, I know those take a tremendous amount of work. Yeah, it uh probably not [laughter] too soon. No. Um no, probably not because the threshold for uh us, the health district and the city is 2/3 as as opposed to 55% for you. And so the reason why we put the bond on that ballot was there was another state initiative that would have brought it down to 55%. And so we were really needing both. Um and so um probably not a bond, but we are doing a lot with charitable giving and and philanthropy. That's a whole area that Alli Stewart, who many of you know, has has started up. And so the community is responding there and we are getting gifts and some of the donations like
084you mentioned earlier for some of your sports programs. So we're we're seeing that and and substantial contributions. So we'll continue to do that. But yeah, we're we're pulling it together by um kind of downsizing what we had planned to do. We we did have to make reductions uh over the last year and we've had to reduce our contribution to uh the schools to you all. Uh but we feel like that's kind of evened out with our ability to do all cove because those funds were going for counseling services. So, but we'd love to get to a point where we could restore some of the services and contributions we've made. >> Great. Thank you so much for everything. >> Okay. Thank you. Right. Okay, moving on to district communications update. Miss Leven, >> good evening board.
085>> Good evening. My name is Eileen Levven. I'm the communications director for the district and I'm here tonight to speak to you about our communication transition um on our platform. I'm going to go ahead. Let me find my slide here. There we go. Okay. So, what is Parent Square? Parent Square is a unified communication uh platform that is designed specifically for TK and K uh districts. It allows our district and our school and classroom communications to occur within one system. [clears throat] Messages can be delivered through email, through apps, through text and phone for any urgent alerts. It also supports two-way communication and automated language translation. Importantly, it integrates directly with our power school. So, contact information stays updated automatically which syncs every e evening. Next. Okay. So, why are we transitioning? So currently we
086are on constant contact which primarily only does email communication for our principal uh newsletters, their staff newsletters, our waveatch that we deliver every week. While it works well for those types of communications, it does require manual list management. Whereas parent square as I mentioned earlier syncs every night. So we have that one thing that's verified where everybody so if you came to school um you're new to the school on a Tuesday that evening we can get that you know emailed to you. It does. We all search transition because it does not support texting, alerts, and two-way communication. What our communication system needs, we need a platform that connects directly to our student information system, which in this case is powers school. This ensures that student rosters and contact rosters uh information are updated automatically and
087also reduces manual uh data management. Additionally, we need a system that supports both everyday communication and urgent notifications while providing consistent experience for our families and staff. Crisis and emergency communication. This is a big one for us. Parent Square is going to give us the opportunity to provide that immediate multi-channel delivery of information. Again, email, text, app, and phone. >> [snorts] >> It is also rolebased permissions for authorization for emergency messaging and it will help us during a crisis for speed and accuracy and reach which are all supported by parent square. So what will change beginning in the summer of this summer 2026 parent squares is going to replace constant contact and our district and school communications is going to change to only one platform. Our contacts will be synced directly from P school to
088the system and our district and school and classroom messaging will follow the defi defined communication guidelines and I also wanted to say to say on that as well is it will increase our statistical information on parent engagement which is really great fantastic information that I don't get with constant contact inflammation strategy. So, we're going to make this big switch. How are we going to do that? And I've laid out how we're going to start it in the spring and move into summer and to mid um to mid to mid to late summer. It's going to occur over this time. And we're first going to start to configure the P school integration and establish our communication roles and our templates. And then in early summer, we're going to train our district leaders and our principles, any
089key office staff members. And then later in the summer, we're going to activate our family accounts and we're going to make sure that all of that gets tested before we go live. But we also don't want a break in communications because we are also communicating a lot with our families over summer. Staff and family support. Staff is going to receive training as well and there we're going to give them some clear communication um guidelines on how to do that. as well as our families. They get to choose how would you like to get your your information because we know everybody likes it differently. So, they get to choose. Um, school offices will be assisting families and updating their contact information as needed. And our goal is to have a very smooth transition with uninterrupted communication.
090And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have this evening. Um I have one question just more a logistics thing. So would parents be using this to get to use for powers school or would powers school still be its own thing the powers school integration? >> Yeah. So P school is it so it's not a two-way integration. So, um, whenever you have a student information system, you don't ever want, and Cassandra, correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't ever want information from the outside writing back into the student information. We only want it going out, right? So, Parent Square has an add-on. And so, what it does is it pulls most recent email, email, phone numbers, those kinds of things on a nightly basis, on a nightly upload. Yeah. So parents will still
091have to go into parent square or sorry into powers school to update their contacts. >> Um and then this will be um they can have they can download an app or if they don't want the app they can still get things like text messaging, emails and all that >> and messages all live in the app and in the parent square in the in the parent square account. So they say, "Oh, I didn't read that email that came out a week ago." They can go in and see it with the date. Um it also has uh daily um attendance reporting. So if Corey wasn't in school that particular day by we can set it up by 12 1:00 2:00 we can send an email that says hey just reminder Corey wasn't in school today you know
092make sure you call the office and clear your attendance >> and then when she comes in it's updated in P school and that would sync overnight to parent square. Yes I got that right. Okay. >> Yeah. Um, it also for us the most important piece is that if something happens, we don't want a teacher ti a principal tied to their office and a laptop to send out messaging. This allows the messages to already be pre-programmed, templated. I don't even know if that's a word. Templated. Um, and then when they're out >> managing the crisis, they have the ability to communicate. What we know in 2026 is the majority of our parents are not tied to an email, but they are tied to a phone with a text message. So we can get something out very
093very quickly. >> Okay. Thank you. Great, Jen. Yeah. Can you just um tell me and Susan, you may be the person to answer this, but so just since I've done both high schools, >> is it more of a redo system that we're going to or is it like Costa >> is Costa have parent square too? >> No, Costa just like a peach tree or something? It's >> that's different. >> That's completely different. That like for community flyers. >> Yeah, that's un that's unhelpful also. Yeah. Well, parent Red Roondo did adopt Parent Square. Um I want to say I'm I'm looking at Sandra maybe a year or two years ago. It was um however, it's one of the largest parent communication tools in the United States. It's the gold. It's the gold standard when we looked
094at all the different sources because what we can also do is we can deliver um uh confidential information. CAST scores can go through here, report cards can go through here. So, it's a single kind of onetop. It also allows, you know, teachers can set up um field trip permission forms would be done right in here. Um donations for field trips can be done through this platform. So we don't want teachers collecting cash, right? Those kinds of things can all be done through this system. >> And do we have a an agreement with them when we buy this? Will they train >> Yes. >> all of us on that? I mean, all these, you know. >> Yeah. Okay. >> They have a really extensive library as well that to access. Um, I've used it as a
095as a parent too and it just was really helpful. Like if I don't have time to read an email, I know I can always go back in and find whatever I need to find. >> Yeah, my experience is Roondo has something that feels a little more like up to date and Costa is just a little further behind like feels antiquated to be honest. But >> yeah, >> so I appreciate if that we're moving. That's >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And then will will things like your all the all the stuff online or um any newsletters is that something you have to actually upload and or is that going to be a lot of work for you? >> So what it's going to do it unfortunately parent uh square doesn't have like the graphics and stuff are
096different. They're more limited but what you get out of it is so much more. And so um I'll be able this is it's just working with a new system. >> Okay. >> And yeah. >> And you're up to the challenge. I'm up to the challenge. >> Yeah. And and the >> our infographics are great. >> Yes. And the and the staff time to be like, um, oh, we have a new staff member or we you know what? Right now, uh, at least once a month Vickiy's having to stop and do a download from P school and do a manual upload. So, you're just you may not always be catching a most up-to-date emails or most, you know, parent goes in and changes a phone number. Um, and again, this allows people to go in and
097say, "This is how I want the information delivered to me." Right. >> Yeah. >> So, >> great. >> Good, Maggie. >> Nothing. Is that a No. >> Thank you, Eileen. As usual, you are awesome. >> Have a great night. >> Okay. >> And now the one we've all been waiting for. >> So, I'm I'm with baited breath. I announce second interim budget report. Miss Hall. >> Thank you, board president. Um, I have the second interim report, a quick update for you all this evening. In summary, we'll wait for the slide to get ready. Thank you guys. No problem. Okay. In summary, um, in the second interim, uh, in January, we were able to finalize the negotiated settlement with HBA. um we settled on 1.75 and a $250 increase to benefits starting in January of 2027.
098Those figures are included in the multi-year projection, the current year and the two years out. So, you're seeing real numbers for those. Okay. Um changes to revenue and expenditures. Um revenue unfortunately has decreased um going into the second interim report and expenditures have increased due to several reasons. We've had some settlements. Um we've had increased staff for um increased staffing for uh teachers that are out on leave of absences that have been updated and included in the um current year projection. But Hermosa continues to have a strong um projected revenue reserve balance of about 21%. Next slide. Here's our famous pie chart that we all love. 80% of our um revenue continues to go to salaries to support um our staff. Next slide. Some key numbers in our multi-year projection. um conservative enrollment numbers for
099all three years. Um moving forward in in January 2026, our current year enrollment did increase to 1451. So we might see a slight increase in revenue at the end when we do our P3 and annual reporting, but it depends on how many students come to to school. Our average daily attendance dictates what we get. If kids are not in school for a day, we don't get paid. Um January 2026, the next two but uh bullets are in regards to the governor's budget. In the multi-year projection, he has reduced projections for the cost of living increase in all three years. Um so that is affecting our um LCFF funding moving forward. Um the governor's budget also, this is encouraging, does propose to increase special ed funding, um potentially another student support block grant on the table
100and more funding for the learning recovery block grant. He's going to give it back to us. So, we don't know exactly what those numbers are yet. Um we're looking forward to the May revise, which is about I think it's May 21st. Um and then again, that's just a That's just a proposal. You know, they don't adopt their budget until June 30th. And we we're going to adopt our budget third week of June. So, it'll be a it'll be a dance that we're going to do to make sure that we get everything in. Next slide. Um, looking at the multi-year projections, we're remaining physically solvent for the current year and the two subsequent years. Um, we're going to continue to monitor expenditures until the end of the year. Um, we're going to be prudent and cut
101costs where we don't think need things. We can wait till the following year or or we just move the program in another another direction. Um, this year we will be required to expend some of the one-time dollars that are um expiring in June, which is um effective educators the arts and music discretionary block grant, learning recovery block grant. Uh when you look at the reserve for all three years, we currently are remaining very physically solvent with a strong reserve. Next slide. And do we have any questions? >> We're going to start with Maggie, I guess. Um, I I've been playing around with looking at the governor's budget and it looks like the billion dollars that he's putting into community schools is is going to stay like at a billion dollars and priority goes to schools
102that or districts that have over a 50% unduplicated count. So, I know we're we're not uh in a priority category, but they're also talking about making this a permanent grant going forward off of this. And given that Hermosa has had an approach to whole child, I'm wondering if it makes sense for us to think in a future budget about um Beach City's health district does many of these supports that wrap around for whole child, but I'm just cur this has nothing to do with your report. This is purely about budget brainstorm. >> Yeah. Um, but if there are possibilities for us to think about how some of the other whole child supports we do with mental health, parental outreach, um, and any of those other services might make us eligible for some part of this
103state funding going forward to help. >> It's really hard. We're just the losers. I mean, we are just the losers in the budget game. Um, grant you've been trying to explore different grants and every time you click on one, you you do the deep dive, we're just not the category they're looking to fund. And it's um frustrating and I think that's really why we so much appreciate the support of uh HBEF. Yeah. >> I mean and PTO. I mean PTO right now is on target to raise, you know, $100,000 just to do Dolphin Dash, right? Like the things like we heard tonight are only possible through HBF and and PTO. And I think um that's, you know, it's it's really a gift to our community because in these governor's budgets and the three of us
104look at each other, we do not come out um but also knowing there's such a surplus of money in other districts. >> Yeah. We're way below the 55% unduplicated population at 7%. >> And so yeah. >> Yeah. We're never going to be eligible. And even when they have the grants, like Dr. Wild said, um, if you don't have a certain percentage, they won't even look at your application. >> All right. Thanks. >> Thank you for your work. >> Yep. >> You're welcome. >> Yeah. >> Where does that Prop 98 come in? Because that doesn't depend. It's not contingent on on duplicated students, right? Well, we're we're watching the governor's budget with baited breath because we uh every indication is that there's going to be some deferrals again from Prop 98. So, that that's a great
105questions. If we only had an an attorney on this panel, um great question. Unfortunately, the law allows um the governor to to defer and there's nothing in the law that Yeah. and and the deferrals can be paid back $1 a year. Like there's nothing in the law that um that dictates how when that has to be shored up. So we're very hopeful. The um legislative analyst office is coming back a little bit more um optimistic. The governor's budget we were very concerned with. The governor's budget is really based on revenue, predicted revenues coming through AI in Silicon Valley, which the legislative analyst office is like, that's too risky for us to look at. But the revenues coming back in are looking good. Um, but again, it's looking good with one-time funds. One-time funds are very
106difficult. They're great for buying things like curriculum, but they're not. You can't use them on people who are ongoing. um and things like raises, you know, um and the cola is really small and what we know is the cola is not really the cola, you know, because you gota you take the ADA off of it. So, >> right. >> And also, just to reiterate, we do have a a yearly deferral. It's a budget game that they play. It's a shell game. So, at the end of the year, they take our last aortionment and they don't pay it. They hold it and then they pay us in in July. So we're shorted revenue and then we get it in July. But even due to that, we still have a positive cash flow. You can look at
107the cash flow in the second interim report. We're very solid. We'll we'll be able to meet all our financial obligations. >> I had a little bit. >> Yeah. Our favorite quote from the incoming um president of school services was that the governor, what did she say? The governor is using Prop 98 as his personal credit card. >> That was Yeah. Zero or zero balance personal credit card. Yeah. But going back to the to ADA and knowing that enrollment is >> our decline in revenue, it's only partially due to enrollment, but it's it's primarily these other things. >> It's primarily, you know, developer fees, you know, we can't developer fees. We're just basically making a prediction, right? Depending on whether facility use, dollar amounts that come in. Um, and then there are other things, um, settlements,
108personnel settlements, special education settlements, those kinds of things are are unpredictable. But going back to that ADA and since Eileen just briefed about our new new communications platform and I know a lot of times if your kid's sick, I don't want them at school because they're going to get other kids sick. However, >> every time I go to Mira Costa and have to clear an attendance for my sophomore, there's a little note there that says consider a donation because, you know, our school loses this number of funds. I would love every single schoolboard meeting every month for us to report out on how much money did we lose this past month because of attendance >> and for some calculation. Yeah. >> And then that and then another message that every time I we because I
109don't remember clearing Jackson's absences, but >> there are a lot of parents that don't understand this and I didn't understand this until I ran for school board. I heard it, but it didn't sink in. >> And I have I'll be honest, I have mixed feelings about asking people to pay for their child's absences because there it does go a little down the road of, well, we'll just take our vacation. Can I cut you a check? I really need them in the seat, right? >> Other things besides money. >> Yeah. I mean it's it's one of the number one things we hear from our teachers. We're right now engaging and this kind of goes a little into my report but right now we're engaging in some really uh meaningful coaching with our teachers in Whit Wisdom.
110We have coaches coming in what are the mo the most challen the biggest challenge our teachers are facing right now is if a student was absent what we saw today when we walk vista you can't make that up at home right you know that kind of speaking and listening. So, what we always say to families, we yes, if they're sick, fever, vomiting, stay home. However, let's let's plan the vacations around the 190 sick five days that you're not in school, right? Because we can't um we don't really don't we do want people to feel the imp financial impact, but we also don't want them to think it's okay to write a check to be absent. >> And maybe that's right. I don't know what the problem I don't know how deep of a problem we
111have with absences that are kind of voluntary absences. Is there a way to find that out? >> We track it. But we actually um uh >> the type that you know they're not sick, we can figure that out. >> We can pull it's an easy report and even I think some parents um think well if I if I called in the absence it'll be okay. Well, we still don't get paid. It's it's but but in the seat, >> right? And if you have a partial day, if your child has a dentist appointment, eye doctor, a checkup at the doctor's by all means take them. But bring them to school either before or after that appointment and we'll still get paid for the day. I just I said one thing. >> Yeah. >> So, I mean,
112we can send out information or just make a public service about there. We did a video at one point about >> Yeah, we did a video. >> It just might not hurt us to >> Yeah. >> continuously try to educate families on that because I agree, Rachel. It is a It's very confusing as a parent. I've been a principal before and I was like, I mean, I would send letters out to families that were like, "You missed, you know, 15 days and this is how much it cost us. Did you know that?" just so they're aware >> even you know sometimes the the real one that hits people and teachers too is that um you know yes we have 1451 student that one really matters >> but I don't get money for four1 students we
113get money for 1374 but I still have to provide a teacher for 1451 so >> even that I feel like is like really great information the I mean we understand it because we live in this world >> when you're just trying to be like >> my kid doesn't feel good today or I need to go and >> I want to take this extra day to see the grandparents or something. >> No, go I know. But they just don't like we could maybe do a question and answer frequently asked questions things you might be thinking. >> We pushed it out in the January because we were like new year new reservations but yeah we we need to just keep hitting it more like come to school come to school >> because it's a rude awakening at
114Mira Costa now with the absences. Yeah, >> because unless you have it unless >> they just changed that two years ago. So they they had a similar problem. Well, problem being like 96% or whatever it was. >> Um and so they rolled out a new system two years ago when our younger daughter started, but um >> Yeah. You don't get full >> if like if you're gone that day or you don't come back, you don't get full credit unless you get a doctor's note a note. >> So it's stressful. >> It's Yes. >> Yeah. and all these people that are living in this world are not. >> They also though before they before they rolled that out two years ago, they did have um the financial cost associated with it. And I'm going to get
115the number completely wrong because it wasn't mine to remember. >> $69 a day. >> Well, I was going to say it was like half a million dollars that they lost as a high school for absences. >> I will tell you our middle school is not our attendance problem. Our TK's, it's our littles. The TK and K have the worst attendance in the district. Um I think it's just this idea of oh it's not important we'll take off. So there are um we we were I was meeting with Dr. G just last week and we were talking like how do we really hit it hard? Um but they are our worst offenders. Yeah. >> Pay attention TK parents >> come to school to school. I think just explaining to them that as you get to middle
116school that it does, you know, it it is like a, you know, you aren't get you aren't getting the full funding because of these absences. And they just don't understand how it's collectively affecting the >> We also tell parents it's anxiety producing. It's like going into a really important meeting and you're 20 minutes late. Like that's how it feels when you've missed a day of school. Like really important things happened and you weren't there for it. So um we can that's it can contribute to some of the mental health issues. Thanks Paula for always making things understandable for me in particular. >> You're welcome. >> All right, superintendent report. Dr. WZ >> just that you know we've spoken a couple things. Glenn Miller was amazing last night. We had the we had a really great
117time. I do want to highlight though, there was a uh um alto saxoponist all the way on the left and um that little boy was a one of my fifth graders um when I was a school principal and he was like a rock star and he walked in, kids were getting his autographed and he got to like come home. So I I'm so so proud of that little Aiden Sears. But um and also enrollment is open so we'll move on. Hey, just the move. I thought you were asking her to give you the slideshow. Okay, now we'll move on to consent. Do I have a motion to approve the items on the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Thanks, Jen. Second. >> Second. Thanks, Carol. All in favor? >> I. So moved. So moving on
118to action items. Item 12.1 tenative agreement between Hermosa Beach Educators Association and Hermosa Beach City School District of revised certificated bargaining agreement language. Dr. Wilds. >> Absolutely. So tonight we bring to you the certificated tenative agreement between the Herosa Beach City School District and the Mosa Beach Educators Association. This also includes assembly the assembly bill uh 1200 report that outlines what the financial impact of what this tenative agreement um would does to our and you'll see it you saw it in um Paula's um report. Um I want to take a moment and really thank our association. If you read the news right now there's lots of um not great relationships um all up and down the state. Um and so we just really really want to thank um thank the HBEA, thank the team, thank
119their um the union that ratified. This agreement includes revisions to uh contract language as well as a 1.75 on schedule increase and $250 increase to the health and welfare cap. Agreement was reached. This was ratified by the union by the association and staff recommend you approve this agreement. Okay. >> Thank you. Any questions or discussion? Starting with Rachel. I'm just uh thrilled that we had a strong superintendent to lead us through a wonderful well to reach a wonderful agreement that takes care of our our terrific teachers. >> Yeah. >> Uh no questions. Thank you. >> I just second what Rachel said. I agree and thank you for the people who are working on this to get it done and make it happen. And I'm glad we can, you know, support what we can with in
120a budget crisis situation. So I'm glad we can we can do something. Maggie. Okay. Do I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Rachel. Second. Jen. Jen. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. >> Item 12.2 tent of agreement between Herosa Beach Educators Association and Herosa Beach City School District of revised classified bargaining agreement language. Dr. Wild. >> So now this is the classified um version. So in just a reminder for the vote for the millions of people watching this online um we have uh a single bargaining unit that bargains both. So this is for the certificate this is for now for classified again also includes the assembly bill um 1200 report um it includes revisions to contract language again 1.75 on schedule increase 250 increase to health and welfare cap welfare cap agreement was
121reached and ratified staff recommend you approve this agreement. Any questions or comments from the team here? Good. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve, >> Carol. Second. >> Second, >> Jen. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Item 12.3, nominating ballot for CSBA delegate assembly. Dr. Wilds. >> Yes. So this is um this item is an opportunity for the board to discuss and then you would direct staff to submit your ballot to the CSB for the CSBA delegate assembly on your behalf. Um the board can select up to six candidates for the nomination. This um important to note this ballot has been revised twice um and so the one before you tonight is the most recent with six candidates. All right. Any questions or comments from our team here? Okay. Yeah.
122>> Uh the the person that we the person I received an email from was Andrew Lackman and so he did not make the ballot. Correct. >> Right. Correct. He was on but then he was I believe he was off on the revised ballot. >> Thanks. Appreciate that. >> Um And so can we could do write in candidates though if we wanted >> I believe so. Yeah. >> Uh so so just or can I do discussion board president? >> Sure. >> Yes you may. >> Um so we received emails from Culver City and previously um uh our CSBA um delegation has been primarily on the east side of Los Angeles. And although we are all one LA county set of schools, there are differences in populations and cities. Um, and so with the delegation usually located
123in Downey, Norwok where they will have multiple delegates from those regions, the South Bay region as a whole usually gets excluded. We've made some growth in that. I was a delegate for two terms. Uh, Santa Monica has a delegate on here, Alicia Mñano. Um, and Phillips is a longtime um, CSBA person. She's she's probably been one of the longest. I think she started serving 1983. Um, committed >> kind of wow kind of wow from >> um, but what I think it might be worth our while uh, just in order to get our voices heard from the west side is there is uh, we can do ride in. Um, and so I I would recommend that we do a ride in for Andrew Lackman. He reached out for us. I think he reached out to everybody
124>> um, on the board. He's a former legislative director for Tedloo um and so knows this area very well for being a rep here. So I would suggest that if if we were to play around with these things um I don't know if we just want to go do you want me to like set up a some names to recommend? >> I think that would help me because I know that you're in the know. >> Um >> I mean how are we doing this for this agenda >> just like this? I'd like to propose that we um if everyone's okay with just going with Maggie's suggestion on these. I'm I'm comfortable with going with Maggie's suggestion. >> Uh well, so the the one I have on here is just a one person um update. And
125so that's Andrew. Um and then with that, I would remove one of the the Downey folks um just because they've been on. So I I would remove Linda since she's been I think one of the the longest serving um folks on there as well. and that just gives us more of a chance to to move the delegate piece around. So that's my recommendation or but open to hear other people's perspectives on it. >> I don't have enough information to weigh in, but I like I know that you're in the know. So I would I I go with what Jen said that I'll go with your recommendation unless someone else But I may I don't know how to approve this on the agenda. >> You don't you just direct staff. >> You direct staff. >> Direct
126staff. >> Okay. So there's a I don't know if anybody else got so Maggie. Yeah. So the proposal would be to drop Linda and and write do a provision for a writing candidate name and I just forgot his name. >> Andrew Aman. >> What do we think? >> Or if people want to keep Linda and drop the other um >> we don't have to vote as a board. We can vote individually. Correct. >> No, it's a board. >> It's one vote. You get one vote. >> One vote. Oh >> the one red. I defer to to Maggie's expertise because I don't know these folks and I like your rationale. >> I like it too. >> Cool. >> Okay. So, um what we're saying is we're approving this based on Maggie's suggestion. So, I move that
127the Hermosa Beach School Board um uh submit a ballot for the CSBA delegate assembly with a ride in candidate for Andrew Lackman and not vote for uh Downey Rep. Linda Solomon Sana. >> Okay. Who who wants to second that motion? >> I'll second it. >> Okay. Second. All in favor? >> I Okay, good. So moved. Item 12.4 for 202526 second interim report. Miss Montavo, >> thank you. Um, it is recommended that the board approve the 2526 second interim report. >> Okay. Questions or discussion around the stable? >> Nope. Nope. Nope. Maggie, >> are you busy? Second interim report. Do you have any questions or discussion? Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve? Motion to approve. >> Hey, Carol. Second, Rachel. Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> Good. Item 12.5, fiscal year
128202526 interim revisions. Miss Montalo. >> Thank you. This is a procedural. Um once you approve this, the revisions will be put into the best system and the finances will be updated to reflect um what's in this report. So the recommendation is that the board would um approve the budget revisions. Oh. Um, do we have any questions or discussions? Nope. Can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Thanks, Jen. >> Second, Carol. All in favor? >> I. Item 12.6, approval of agreement for purchase and sale of two reloc relocatable classroom buildings from Long Beach Unified School District. Miss Montalvo. >> Thank you. Um, Long Beach Uni Unified School District is the current owner of two relocatable classrooms located at Minigant Elementary School. The purchase price for these two relocatables buildings is $2. >> $1 per
129building. >> Okay. >> Um, the funds to uh pay for this project are fund 40. Um, refer refurbishment, transportation, installation are addressed under a separate board item. So, this is just strictly to purchase them from Long Beach Unified. >> I think I have $2 in my pocket. Any anybody anybody um want to question our discussion? >> Could be the Kathy Burroughs. Um yes, we put a naming right on it. >> Right. Kathy Barrow. >> Barrow. >> Yeah. >> Which one is fund 40? >> Uh capital projects. >> Okay. Um no discussion questions. Okay. Um can I get a motion? So moved. Exten second. >> Second, Carol. And all in favor? >> I I item 12.7 approved piggyback contract for relocatable classroom buildings. Miss Bonalo. >> Thank you. On November 8th, 2021, Hisperia Unified award was
130awarded a bid number 22-001 for portable classroom buildings to Silver Creek Industries. Uh, Hermosa Beach Unified School District in coordination with its program has vetted their bid process. The um it was the contract was publicly advertised. It was awarded to the most responsive bidder. We're doing our due diligence here to make sure that their piggyback contract is not going to get us in trouble, right? That they've done their due diligence. The contact uh permits cooperative allow other public agencies to use their piggyback contract. and that's what we're going to do. Um, pricing schedule and unit pricings remain available. So, the recommendation is that the board approve the use of the piggyback contract with Silver Creek Industries under the Hisperia Unified School District bid number 22-00001 for the purchase, refurbishment, transportation, and installation of the relocatable
131classrooms as needed by the district at Hermos View School. >> Awesome. questions, comments, anybody looking around. Can I get a motion to approve this? >> So moved. >> Thanks, Jen. >> Second. >> Thanks, Carol. All in favor? I I. Item 12.8, approval of agreement with Silver Creek Industries LLC for refurbishment, transportation, and installation of two relocatable classroom buildings at Hermos View Elementary School. Dr. Wilds. >> Yes. Thank you. So, I just want to say 12.6, 12.7, 12.8. Thank you to this man sitting in this audience for two hours >> because let me tell you who could not have figured this out by herself is your superintendent right that's this would not have been uh my my this was not something I would able to do by myself so 12.8 ated an agreement for this refurbishment,
132relocation, delivery, and installation of the two existing 24x40 relocatable classrooms at Vue. And important to note um that these would provide additional learning spaces for our special education programs that who are currently now in spaces that um shouldn't >> small >> adequately give enough space. It's nice way to say that as well as being able to use to give a little more breathing room to start after school in our ELOP programming. staff recommend you approve this agreement. >> All right. Any questions, comments? >> Very nice. Can I get a motion? So moved. >> Thanks, Jen. >> Second. >> Thanks, Maggie. All in favor? >> I Okay. 12.9 Hometoschool transportation plan re renewal. Miss Gluck and Miss Montabo. >> I'm gonna take that one. Um, so this is an annual transportation plan. The plan must be
133adopted by the school district every year by April 1. It's a procedural um ID Bailey will make sure that we have this plan in place when they do our audit. >> Any questions? >> The recommend Oh, sorry. I should recommend recommend approval. >> Okay, great. Anybody have any questions upon this recommendation? >> Okay. Can I get a motion? >> Thank you, Rachel. Second. >> Second. >> Carol, all in you said it first. All in all in favor? I I I Okay. 12.10. Adopt resolution number 12 2526 of the board of education of the Hermosa Beach City School District. Approved the form of a preliminary official statement in connection with the issuance of 2026 general obligation refunding bonds and certain acts in connection therewith. Miss Monttoble. >> Thank you. Um as you remember at last meeting
134John is from Urban Advisors was here as well as Lawrence Chim. Um they uh the resolution presented with items approves the form of the preliminary official statement or POSOS for the bonds. Um the recommendation is that the board approve the preliminary official statement and resolution in connection with the 2026 bond for refinancing to save taxpayers money. >> Okay. >> And sir, can I just add one more thing? Just important to note with this resolution is that we'll be working with our fiduciary partners to monitor the current interest rates. So that will be something we'll be watching very closely that will impact us. >> Awesome. >> And we have our bond call rating call on Thursday. >> Big deal. All right. Any further questions, comments? Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? >> Motion to
135approve. Thanks, Carol. >> Second. Thanks, Jen. >> Got off my >> um all in favor. I >> I Okay. Item 12.11, purchase of teacher and staff laptops through the California multiple award schedule CMASS contract 324051014. Miss Arasco. >> Hi, good evening board. Um so these 50 laptops are no longer updatable. They're on Windows 10 and as you know they pose a security risk. So therefore um we are needing to replace these machines and so the staff recommends that the board approve. >> Okay, cool. Any comments, questions? I just had a I'm not sure the size of these laptops, but Susan walks around with a laptop that is way too big for [laughter] for her world. >> You give the superintendent the last one. We I'll take the worst one. >> I mean, we're hoping that
136these new ones areable. >> They're smaller than a car. >> Wait, they're they're smaller than a car. >> Good lord. Thank you for doing that. You're roll. >> Okay. Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. >> Okay, Rachel. And a second by Maggie. >> That was me. >> That was you, Jen. Sorry, you you threw your voice over there. >> It was a correspondent. Okay. Um, all in favor? >> I 12.12 purchase of technology equipment 500 Chromebooks through the California Multi Multiple Awards Schedule CMS contract 324051014. Miss Rosco. >> Yes, thank you. Um, so these 500 Chromebooks will uh allow us to continue the one-to-one program for the students. A lot of these are outdated and they can no longer be used for um state testing and so it poses a risk for
137us to meet that requirement and therefore um staff recommends that you approve this purchase. >> Great questions, comments. >> How soon will we get those? >> As soon as we put that PO in in a month, we will have them here. So before the new school year >> and you'll be able to like >> in time for testing. you'll be able to, I guess, log them up. >> Yeah, they won't be in time for testing. So, we're working with staff um uh our admin to make sure that all of their classes are covered for testing. We may have some tests and take turns with the they don't have to have their one Chromebook can be used for multiple students. Um >> you have to use the Chromebook for the test. >> You do have your
138own personal laptop. >> No, it has to be on a secure browser. Um and so that's part of the the issue. Some we have Chromebooks that are well past their end of life and so they won't update. So, um, but we want to put the chrome this purchase in for the Chromebooks so that, um, uh, Sandra and her team can work this summer and getting them, um, uh, inventoried and out to students. Um, but we also know that there's a there's a lag time, tariffs, state of the world that are making these run a little slower. >> Okay, cool. Questions, comments? Okay, can I get a motion to approve? >> Thanks, Carol. Thanks, Rachel. And all in favor? >> I 12.13. Approval of purchasing agreement for Parent Square communication platform. Mr. Rosco. >> Yes. So,
139this is what Eileen the Parent Square um communication where it would be your one-stop shop where parents can receive flyers or events or urgent um communications. Um it can also do um critical absentee. There's a feature in there that you can pull a report and see if the students have been absent for x number of days and then you can bring the parent in and try to, you know, cater to those students and try to figure out why they've been absent. And so that's a good feature. Also, they have uh a feature for paying um like for for student uniforms, for dances, for concerts. You can probably even use it for Chromebook fees. So, it's one platform. they don't have to go through multiple platforms to get what they need. So staff um is requesting
140to approve this. The board approved this purchase. >> I don't think we have put because we asked questions. Um can I get a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Thanks, Carol. Second. >> Second. >> Thanks, Jen. All in favor? >> I concludes the action items portion of the agenda. We will now move on to the board member roundt. Bye. Thank you. Okay, starting with you, Rachel. Board member round table. You don't have to. >> I think I'm going to pass. I was going to bring up an issue, but save it for next time. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> You feel No, I feel like I have to say something. >> No, you don't have to. >> Um, >> do you have anything? >> I Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. So, just Kathy gave me a teacher
141look and I felt like I had to say something. >> I do have that look. Hey, >> what I did want to bring up is that I had the pleasure of um going to Beach City's had an event. Uh I think this was last weekend, could have been the weekend before. It's a bit of a blur. And uh I had the privilege of seeing our own superintendent on a pan panel with um some other uh two or three other people, I think two other people from Red Roondo talk about leadership and uh what that means to young uh students and um obviously she she made us all look really good and um as usual. Yeah. So it was it was really nice to see. It was really nice to see a full house. I think
142they had something like a hundred students from all over LA County show up. So, very cool event. What was it for? >> Um, student leadership. Yeah. >> Oh, I went to that last year. >> Okay. myself, Jane Deal, um, interestingly enough, Jane Deal, who's now on the B City Health District board, was um, she was on the board that hired me first as a principal. So, it was like a little like walk down memory lane. Um, and all the students came and it was kind of like a um, we were just like the first 20 minutes and then the rest of the day they were all engaged in different leadership breakout. Um, they had like purpose workshops and mindfulness workshop. It was really cool. >> It was through Beach City Health. >> Beach City's Health
143District. That's awesome. >> Hey, Jen, round table. >> No, I was just thinking just since the state of the world is a little crazy right now, I'm I'm sure that we're getting students coming to school having whether it's being, you know, having watched the news or just being nervous about things. Um, and just hopefully that we're able to give our staff um support and maybe through >> the committee that Carol is sitting on. I'm not sure what the what we're able to do. We got some really amazing resources from LA County um that we that um Miss Bledsoe and principles were able to push out to their teachers more so geared for like middle school and high school age, but how to have respectful lead respectful conversations about political order events. So, we really thank
144them for being able to provide those resources to us. >> Great. Will you just um send us that in your Friday? >> Yep. because because I'm sitting on or I'm attending well we are we Susan and I are both attending the South Bay United Against Hate committee. I'm not quite sure yet what the committee is can do can do um other than meet and I'm I'm asking because it doesn't seem like there's a budget and so and so I'm I I it's a it's talking about things but I'm not sure I'm I'm I would like to encourage the group to find budget numbers within their organizations or whatever represented of they they represent to bring things to the table to be able to then do something if they want to do because it I'm not
145finding that there's a lot to there's a lot of talking I'd like to find us a way to do things >> have a purpose right >> yeah it just seems I'm not sure what what it is yet but but I feel like it's going to flow into some of the things in the world that are happening >> thanks Maggie apologies folks I got four things for Please not. >> We can count on that. Yeah, that's good. >> Working at home all day. I was by myself in the corner. >> Um, first of all, thank you to Leadership Hermosa for inviting the board to come uh with its upcoming um leadership class. I know Dr. Wilds is going to go. I can't go. It's a great experience. Board member Carol's gonna >> because it's really fun
146to >> Jen, you're able to go. Jen's going to >> go. >> You're gonna go too. Caroline, I was >> um the second thing is uh just a general note for people that there's a primary coming up in June and we have both our assembly and state candidates running and they know very little about education. So to get out and educate them on our issues and so I also encourage everybody up here on the day like go out and there's forums being held. There was one last week in Hermosa Beach. Um the general response is what would you do for South Bay uh school districts to improve uh education was bring in more money. Um so they they don't understand how school finances which is terrifying considering that's you know the majority of the state
147budget. So go and ask good questions and make relationships so we can push our issues as as one of the smallest school districts in the state. Uh the third piece is this is um uh Rachel, I'm presenting at LAXA on Monday night in Pasadena. Uh so I can be the delegate person. I'm doing that in my other capacity um on teacher planning time. So uh happy to go and represent if you don't want to make the drive out to Pasadena, >> however you like. Um if anybody wants to zoom in though, I just think this work is so exciting. And so we're bringing out research where we've doubled planning time uh in another district uh for teachers and the results of that were um increased teacher retention by up to six% on some of our
148campus uh ELA and math growth uh up to 21% in some of our academic gains and these are already incredibly high performing schools and uh chronic absenteeism dropped by 6% uh in some of our places. So >> can you share where you're doing this because this is what you sent us. Great. >> Yeah. So this this webinar there's going to be another webinar that we're hosting in May during teacher appreciation month but the one for LAXA will be Monday night and it is available on Zoom. >> Monday night at what time >> you're going to send you send the details so then we can and is it going to be recorded as well? >> I have no idea what it is. >> Are you allowing it to be recorded? >> But but you're okay if
149it's recorded. >> Okay. >> Tracy Zerniki is can probably answer the question. I don't believe they typically record them. Yeah. I think >> I there will be sessions. >> It's incredible. >> Um and then the last piece is in the Friday update there was the green uh healthy schools resolution that um Carol has been uh uh shephering. And so if people can >> it's like a little dog. >> Um I'm the dog at that. Um so if people get a chance to look at it so we can have a real substantive conversation. um and take action on it in April. That'd be great. >> I do think it's I did look at it and I did have some com questions and I didn't know who to who do I shepher. >> You can send just
150all the comments to Carol. Um or you can send them to me. Yeah. And we can make >> I thought you were joking. >> No, no, I'm serious. >> Send everything together. >> She's she's the main editor, >> but I'm happy to go in and make a comment on the on the doc. I try not to mess with the original copy of the doc. Um but it will be a discussion item in the April meeting. the thing for that if you haven't read it yet to just when you look through it to think about some things might be better to not put in writing to to like because if you do put them in I mean they may be good thinking things but maybe not writing things and I say that because then you're kind
151of locked in >> um to certain things and then I feel like we learned some things when we had that equity and inclusion committee and I just was a little wondering about how it was set up in terms of it the wording behind it so I was just >> already Those are things to think about. And then um >> just you know new it talks a lot about tree growth tree canopies and and and shade and all those things and um which I'm super supportive of but trees do take a long time to grow if you're by them in certain stages. So when we've been talking with our ar the architects about you know redoing things just making sure we're >> cornering off money to buy big trees not small puny trees faster so that
152grow faster because there is an issue with the trees in front of valley >> if we do make changes there that the trees are have some ailments. So, um, those are just things when you guys are reading the when you when everyone is reading the information to just keep in mind because and because I also think it's a >> it's a heat question also and you know what's what resources we put towards >> aid. All right. So, I'm last. >> Yes, you may. um that Maggie said. So for that LAX meeting, does anyone because I can send you the email because we can all register and go. It can either go and I do see now because it was in tiny little print at the very bottom that alternative school schedules presented by Maggie Pov.
153Hello, Monica. Um [laughter] well, that's what they have you on. So which is why wouldn't you >> So you're going to send that to us. >> Um so it's from 5:30 to 6 is the mixer and then at 6 o'clock, but it's out it is out in Pasadena. It's a hike, but you can register and attend via Zoom. So, I'll just share with everybody. >> Thank you. >> All right. Just real quickly, um I had the honor of being a reader in kindergarten. First of all, Dr. Dr. Wilds was also a reader for the ReadAcross America and I got to read in Audrey Erin's class and she happened to have been my former student. A >> it was very, very cool. And the kids, it cracked me up and they were very, very fun. Um
154it really made me realize that I taught the right age. Eighth Eighth grade, eighth grade was my jam. But um their comments were hysterical and they and they let it was it was and thank you very much to Jessica Jacobs for running this whole program and all her efforts that it was it was wellrun. As I was walking in, two police officers were walking out and we they were so excited and they were sharing their stories. So it was it was awesome. Okay, calendar. April 1st, HBC is there's our next schoolboard meeting. April 6th through 10th is spring break. May 4th through 22nd is a CASP testing for grades 3 through 8. May 9th, HBF presents Hearts of Hermosa. And that's it for this evening. Do I have a motion to adjurnn this meeting? >>
155Motion to adjurnn. >> Thank you, Carol. Second. Thank you, Rachel. All right. Um, favor I.