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HBCSD Special Board Meeting 6/23/2025

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Source
YouTube / Hermosa Beach City School District
Date
2025-06-24
Location
Los Angeles County, CA
Material
Transcript
Extent
2,527 words · about 15 min
Collected
2026-06-09

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001Uh, Dina, can you take the roll call, please? Just like that. Board member Bo Lemon Monica, present. Vice President Clerk Barrow, present. President Cole, present. Three present. Two absent. You have a quorum. Thank you, Dina. Um, we'll do any public comments um, regarding close session. Dina, do we have any comments online? None. We're online. Um, and I'm going to say we have no public comments from the audience to the board, but if someone mysteriously appears, they are members of the audience can address the board regarding close session items. Comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless weighed by a majority of all members of the board. All right, we will adjourn to close session. Hey. Uh, welcome welcome back everyone. We're going to call the meeting to order at 6:03. Um, Dina, can you

002take the roll call, please? Board member Bo L Monica. Vice President Clerk Barrow, present. President Cole, present. Three present, two absent. You have a quorum. Thank you. Can we rise for the flag salute, please? lifelong dream. Okay. All right. Um, can I get an approval of the agenda tonight? Move to approve. Thank you, Maggie. Can I get a second? I guess I'll second. Thank you, Kathy. All in favor? I. All right. Announcements. Dr. Wilds. Okay. Moving on. Public comment. Thank you. Um, members of the audience may address the board on any topic regardless of whether it is listed on the agenda. However, the board may not discuss issues raised that are not listed on the agenda. Topics not in the agenda that are brought to the board's attention may be investigated by the administration and

003a 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. just in case you wanted to have a soda. Do we have any public comments? Anybody online? Great. We'll move on. Thank you. Um any board member reports? I have nothing. I just wanted to uh let the board know we I represented us at the Manhattan Beach and Los Angeles County Junth event. That was on last Thursday. Uh Supervisor Holly Mitchell came. She was really pleased that we had her most speech present. In addition, there were several city council members there. Um, it was beautiful, beautiful event and they had many Marosta um current students and recent alums came and presented

004on behalf of it. So, really a beautiful uh celebration of the progress of racial equity in the beach cities and then so nice to have all the leadership there. Thank you for showing up, Maggie. Appreciate that. Um, did we have a social emotional wellness meeting at the very end of the school year or did that get cancelled? We did, but we only had one parent show up, so we pushed it till August. Yeah, good idea. All right, reports to the board and discussion 10.1, Dr. Wilds. Yes. So, we're going to pop it up. Um, we have a quick report tonight we want to share. So, as the school year winds down, it feels like there is a huge amount of um activities and events. So, we want to celebrate and just kind of share a

005few of them with the pictures. So, I'll pop that up in just a minute. Thanks, Dina. All right, so celebrating the final weeks of school. It was jam-packed. And this is one of our favorite pictures that we had got to capture. This is our third and eighth grade um book celebration. And I'll talk about that in just a minute. So, summary, at the end of the year, the last two, three weeks, it was every day. Boom, boom, boom, boom. It started. We had field days at Vue with our preschool and first graders. We had a field day at Vista with our second through fourth graders. We want to celebrate, talk about our concert and jazz band performances, including our spring sings. We had at Vista, we had a bike rodeo to um teach um students

006bike safety, which seems very timely considering all of the um junior lifeguards who are biking around uh the greater Hermosa area right now. We had our third and eighth grade book celebration. We also had two cultural assemblies. Um we had a Japanese and an India cultural assemblies at at Vist at Vista had Indian cultural assembly. Vue had a Japanese and then our middle school honor roll and breakfast and then just this all of these are made possible um with the help of HBF and HBTO. So our field days were so much fun. There's nothing like a good old tug-of-war uh to get you going. So, uh, Vue and, um, Vista, thank you so much for our parents who came out and volunteered with sack races, frisbee races, tugof-war. Um, kids really worked on teamwork was

007the focus of, uh, both schools. Um, field days, and it was just really, really joyful for have having kids get out and just move naturally and work together to um, accomplish goals. And then our concert in jazz bands and our spring sing performances were packed. And so we really cannot say enough about um Dr. Clemens. He was uh here just a few weeks ago with his um with his bands. Um but what he's been able to do in just a short period of time with his students is is really um commendable. And then um we had u Mr. Ra uh Mr. Ravi um has been subbing for us while Miss Kim has been out on leave and he did a tremendous job putting together um that we had um several parents after we went to

008the View, we went to the Vista and there were parents who came up and said, "I just didn't even know I needed this in my life right now." It was unbelievable. And so again, thank you to HBF for supporting both of those programs. He was a sub. Um he was great. First of all, we love having men in in our with our down with our with our littles. And you can see him um in that bottom picture. The best part was that his dad came to the view performance. It was so great. Um so our Vista bike rodeos and so this was also done through Safe Moves. We want to again thank PTO for for funding this where students were able to bring their bikes on site. Um Safe Moves set up a tremendous uh

009number of different obstacles and safety learning stops. They learned about traffic safety. Um if they didn't have their bike, they got to learn about pedestrian pedestrian safety. Um and it was all hands-on and students got to engage in um these obstacles over and over again. Our third and eighth grade book celebration. Um this was such a great day. Um so, uh thank you for Miss Barrow for coming. Um it was a lot of work by our eighth grade teacher, uh Adriana Rangel. Um but to see the third graders and the eighth graders kind of sitting um shouldertosh shoulder elbow to elbow reading these books together um really um kind of brought the audience of who they're writing to to life. And then we had our India cultural assembly at Vista and it was such a

010vibrant celebration of the Indian culture. This was provided by our partners star education so we really want to thank them. This was no cost to us as a district but featured live performances by Bollywood dancers. They learned about history and custom customs and the music and then they also got to engage in kind of an interactive dancing and um um uh presenters then actually went into the classrooms to do some um interactive art lessons. And then our middle school breakfast, my favorite quote of this morning was Mr. Hart saying maybe he gives out too many A's because this room was packed. um which was so great celebrating students who have earned a 3.5 or higher in trimester 1 and or two. And again, a huge thank you this putting on a breakfast for 300 students

011is no uh easy feat. Um so we want to thank our parents um for for getting this room set up and also our maintenance crew because they went from having a performance in this exact multi-purpose room to less than eight hours later having this um uh this breakfast. So they worked really hard. And then finally, our eighth grade promotion um celebrating the milestone. So we promoted promoted nearly 160 eighth graders um on the field last week. Was that only last week? See, two weeks ago, two weeks ago seems longer. This is this is how we're our days are going together. Um, but our students, our student speakers, our musical performances, again, our band was a huge highlight. Um, and really happy for all of our eighth grade families that are moving on to Costa Rondo.

012So, those were our rush to the end of the year. Questions? Yeah. How did you do it? I didn't do I only had to show up and be pretty. How did the teachers do it would be a better question. You guys did an amazing job though and the staff did an amazing job and the support of all the families. So, thank you guys and thank you, Dina. I know you guys all run around are doing lots of things, wearing lots of hats and show up to lots of events. I mean, I showed up to half of them and I was like, "Woo, I'm tired." But you guys did a great job. So, thank you. I want to give a shout out to Miss Resca who had the culminating eighth grade scared for their lives. Yes,

013she did. They were so well behaved. Yeah, they did. They were coming in two by two. They were not playing with her. And Sylvia, thank you for bringing in Mr. Clemens. I think he's been a real a benefit to our school for sure. My turn. Okay. So, next anybody? Um 10.2 first reading uh board policies, administrative regulations, and ex exhibits. Uh Dr. Wilds. Yes. So, um in in accordance of making sure that all of our board policies, our administrative regulations, and our exhibits are up to date, um it's important that we review them periodically. And so, um, this is a quite a big packet. The majority of all of these, um, new board policies are they are from June. This is the June of 2024 packet. Um, all reflecting new legislation that went into effect.

014Um, so there either the language has changed in a board policy or two or it's actually citing um, new new law and legislation at the bottom. Thank you. And it sounds like Maggie might have a question. Yeah, I had a question off of the very first one. Uh 1113. Yep. Um I I was just trying to clarify like what is the uh I didn't understand why this policy exists. Um so 1113 this regulation was updated to add material relating to reporting cyber attacks. And so it's typically just the law way down at the bottom. Oh, down at the very Yeah. the very bottom of a board policy, it will cite new laws and new legislations. I don't think I have that one up in front of me. No, it's uh so there was several one

015that are on district and school websites, but this one specifically is like off of uh website content and design standards. Yeah. So there there are several laws that dictate what has to be on school sites websites. for example, like one of them that the LCAP has to be accessible within one click, right? So, um, and it so what it'll do every year and it's not an ex the exhibit is not an exhaustive list, but it just outlines and it's updated just about every year. If there's new new laws regarding cyber attacks, then we have to make sure our um website reflects all of these things. So, what we do um this is a board policy I will tell you. I don't know that I've it gets updated just about every year. Just about every June

016this one comes out. um then we can give the exhibit to Eileen and then she'll work and scrub our website to make sure we're in compliance. Makes sense. And then my second one was just a comment off of 4127 which is the temporary athletic team coaches and just I think it's a note to the public given in light what's happened with the school of dance and music and AYso Redondo Beach that you know our athletic teams are are vetted and there's a whole series of things that we put in place to make sure that we have great positive relationships between coaches and students. So, thank you. Absolutely. And this one in particular was adding the additional now external training um when the use of defiills by all of our coaches. That was it. Any questions?

017Kathy, did you want to look at No, thank No, I was going to Thank you, Maggie, for being so diligent. Okay. Well, you're going to move on to consent um on the Yeah. Can I get a motion? Approve consent. Thank you, Maggie. Second. Thank you, Kathy. Okay. All in favor? I I action items. Superintendent 12.1 uh adoption of the 2025 2026 LCAP local control and accountability plan. The annual updates. Miss Glack. Last board meeting. The LCAP was presented to the board along with annual updates, local indicators, and the budget overview for parents. It is recommended that the board approve the 2526 local control and accountability plan along with the annual updates. Any questions? Nope. None for me. Thank you for doing such a thorough job on it. We know we take that one every year.

018We can on you. Yep. Um, no questions for me either. So, uh, can I get a motion? Thank you, Maggie. Second. Thank you, Kathy. All in favor? Moving on to 12.2 adoption of the 2025 2026 LCAP for uh funding formula. Sorry, local control funding formula budget. Miss Montablo. Thank you. It is recommended that the 2526 local control funding formula be approved. Any questions? Yeah. No. Nope. No. Me neither. Okay, we're going to I'll take a motion. I'll move it. Thank you, Kathy. Second. Thank you, Maggie. All in favor? All right. 12.3 approval of pre-qualified construction inspection services firm. Miss Montablo. Thank you. The district received a total of seven statements of qualifications. Um the list of pre-qualified construction inspection services firms are BPI inspection services, Nolan Construction Services, and Pringle Group. It is recommended that

019the use of the pre-qualified construction inspection services firms be approved. And are these all construction services companies that uh DAG has used as well? Have you guys used? Yes, these. Okay, great. And we've used Pringle. We've used Pringle sounded familiar, right? We have like Okay. Um All right. Any other questions? All right. Can I take a motion? I'll take a move. Take a move. You take a move. Okay. Go, Kathy. Thank you, Maggie. All in favor? I moving on to 12.4 approval of pre-qualified material testing and inspection services. Miss Montablo. Great. Um the district received a total of eight standard statements of qualifications. The list of pre-qualified construction inspection services firms are Geo Advantic, Corey Engineering. The recommendation is that we approve the pre-qualified construction services as um presented and the district has used Corey

020Engineering. I was going to say they sounded familiar to you. Any questions? None from me. No, me neither. Um all in favor? Oh, sorry. Can I get a motion? So moved. Thank you. Thank you, Maggie. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Moving on. 12.5 appro approval of pre-qualified construction management services firm. Miss Wild St. Wild. So, construction management firms are really integral to school construction projects. And so, they work to protect the district's interests while overseeing and bridging the entire life cycle of the project from initial planning to design through construction and final closeout. Um, they're the bridge between the architect and the actual contractors. Um, but work on our behalf. um they're ensuring that the projects are completed on time, within budget, and in compliance with all regulations. The district received 11 statements of qualifications.

021We then narrowed it. Um our team reviewed all 11. We then selected four as finalist and conducted interviews and we unanimously selected Kitell CM Incorporated. Next steps will be to um bring forth a negotiated contract that the board will then approve. Staff recommends you approve the selection of Kitell as the pre-qualified construction management services firm for measure HV. Great. Any questions, Maggie? Kathy, none for me. No, thank you for doing all those interviews. Thank you. Uh, I'll take them. Sorry. We motioned and uh, all in favor? Second. Oh, thank you, Maggie. Kathy, all in favor? I uh 126 master contract non-public non- secret uh sectarian school agency services from San Diego Children's Center. Miss Cluck, it is recommended that the master contract with the San Diego Center for Children for Nonpublic Non Secretarian School Agency

022Services be approved. Thank you. Thank you for um organizing that too. Um can I get a Anyone have questions? No questions for me. No questions here. Thank you, Maggie. And second. Thank you, Kathy. All in favor? I I uh 12.6 passes. Uh 12.7 internship agreement with uh UMass Global. Yes. So this agreement allows for the placement of graduate student interns in their area credential. This was usually highly important especially in impacted areas such as special education sometimes signal subjects. They perform all the duties related to the position while under the supervision of a credential professional throughout their placement. This agreement works to support the district's relationship with MU University programs and recruiting efforts. Staff recommends you approve this agreement. Anybody have any questions? Yeah. Tell me is this University of Massachusetts Global? Obviously, they have

023a campus here or there's like how how do they people take classes online? This one is online, but it's linked to the to UMass Amherst and they have to take they have to do their internship. They have to do it's basically this intern. Think of it is they'll do their student teaching with us while they're working concurrently and their student teaching will will be able to be how does it work with California and reciprocity and all that. They get an intern credential from California. Yes. So they've taken the they've this particular these PE folks have taken all of their coursework. The only thing they haven't done is done their placement, their student teaching. Um and so they'll do that with us concurrently while they're working. Great. Yep. Great. Um can I get a motion to

024approve? Thank you, Maggie. Second. Thank you, Kathy. All in favor? I I moving on. Board member roundt. Anything we want to chitchat about? Maggie. Um, no, just making note that I'm going to be absent for the August meeting. So, nothing else have to leave the majority there. Okay. Thank you for letting us know ahead of time. I I I um don't have anything around. Yeah. Well, have a safe summer, everyone. and we will see you in a couple weeks. All right. Um let's uh adjourn our meeting at Motion to Thank you. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you, Kathy. The meeting has been adjourned at uh

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