HBCSD Regular Board Meeting 5/14/2025

001We're going to call the meeting to order at 503. Um, can I get a roll call? Dina, board member Van Landingham present on Zoom. Woo. Hi. Board member Bove Lmon Monica. Vice President Clerk Barrow present. President Cole present. You have a quorum. Thank you, Dina. Moving on to public comment and communication regarding close session items. And do we have anyone in the waiting room? Dina. Um, I'll just read the announcement. Public comments from the audience to the board for items on closed session. Members of the audience may address the board regarding closed session items. Comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless waved by a majority of all members of the board. Seeing no one here, we're going to just move that we don't have anyone to talk about public comment and we'll adjourn

002to close session. Clapping Hello. Is this working? It is working now. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hermosa Beach City School District's board meeting. Um, we are um happy to Sorry, do we need to take the roll call first? Okay, go ahead. Board member Van Landingham, present on Zoom. Board member Cluth, present. Board member Boove Lammon Monica, present. Vice President Clerk Barrow, present. President Cole, present. All present. Um, tonight, uh, the board voted in close session 50-0, um, to appoint, uh, two outstanding educational leaders to the principal positions for the 2025 2026 school year. Um, um, Dr. Jessica Go, want to make sure I get the name right. Gabriel has been appointed as the principal of Hermosa View Elementary School. Dr. Goel brings a wealth of experience as a program specialist and board certified behavior

003analyst in Roondo Beach Unified School District with deep expertise in special education, inclusive practices, and instructional leadership. A South Bay native and validictorian of West Torrance High School, Dr. Gabriel completed her undergraduate work in psychology from UCLA, her masters in early childhood special education room from Cal State Dominguez, and a doctorate in educational leadership from USC. She is a house divided herself. Um, Dr. Gabriel has demonstrated strong leadership in district-wide initiatives and professional development, and we are very excited to have her come be the principal at Hermosa View. And we'll um also be joined by Miss Grace Yang, who has been appointed as principal of Hermosa Vista Elementary School. Miss Yang also currently serves as a program specialist in Roondo Beach where she has led IE led IEP teams, supervised instructional staff, and supported literacy

004and behavior practices aligned with the science of reading. Also a California native, she earned her undergraduate degree, also from UCLA, her master's degree in education with a specialization in special ed from Claremont University and her admin credential from Cal State Domingus Hills. She is a certified trainer in the institute for multi-ensory education Orton Gileiam plus and high qual highly qualified through the knowledge and practice examination for effective reading instruction exam equipping her to lead instructional improvement in early literacy which is exactly what we would love and we are thrilled to have them both join us soon and look forward to their leadership and contributions to the city of uh Hermosa Beach school district and we want to thank Miss Overbeck for her dedicated work to both school communities over the past few years as well

005as Miss Scora and her support of Hermosa View as an interim principal this semester. Okay. So, we're very excited to have those two people join us. Um, moving on to um the flag salute. Please join us. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Dr. Wilds, before we go on, can you just briefly talk about the how the hiring committee works for um new principles? Absolutely. So, we want to thank HBEA um who worked to get us a very robust panel. So we had um classified representatives from both Vue and Vista. We had certificated teachers from both um Vue and Vista. We had thank you to PTO. We had two parents um

006as well as Miss Guck and myself. So that was for the first round um of the interviews. Um we had an extensive 12 questions that we asked the panelist. Um and then the um panelists kind of debriefed and then we invited back our top ca the top candidates um based on recommendations from the panel. And how many people did we have in our pool? We had 34 originally who applied for the position. We narrowed it down to 10. One received a job so they dropped off for the interview. So we had interviewed nine brought back four for a second round. Oh great. Thank you so much. Just wanted to share that with everyone. Um moving on to approval of the agenda. So moved. Thank you, Carol. Second. Thank you, Maggie. All in favor? Do we

007do we have to do roll call on that? Great. Moving on. Approve. Agenda approved. So, announcements. Uh, welcome to the Hermosa Valley Student Council. Coming on in. Here they come. A welcome. Hi, everyone. Hi. Yes, it's come on in. Oh, feel free. Go right ahead. Thank you so much. Yeah. Hi everyone. I'm Cordelia, Hermosa Valley student council president. We're excited to be here tonight and give you an update on what's been happening at Valley because it's been a busy few weeks. Hi, I'm Presley Clancy Simon, a student council repres representative. Our builder's club is holding a food drive for the homeless and we're asking students to bring in non-p perishable food and hygiene products to their home room teachers by May 30th. The class that brings in the most donations will win a sweet treat.

008A sweet treat. Hi, I'm Olive, Hermesa Valley student council representative. This Friday we're having a popsicle stand during sale during both lunches in the bowl. Popsicles are just $1 and the money raised will go to support for suicide prevention. Wow. Hello. Hello. I'm Luke. Uh I'm a student council representative. Uh our eighth grade graders are finalizing their third grade book projects. The books will be printed and bound and on June se they will read them to the third graders. Big thanks to Miss Kathy Barrow for starting this fun and meaningful tradition. You're welcome. Um, oh my gosh. Another one of our like beloved traditions at Hermosa Valley is the eighth grade legacy tiles and they're going to be displayed soon. So, we're really excited to see how they turn out. Hello, I'm Griffin. I'm the

009fundraising uh chair for student council. We've also started working on our memory boards and graduation speeches. And while they're excited about high school, they're enjoying every moment of their last month at Hi, I'm Lucy Olsen, seventh grade vice president at Hermosa Valley. Um, state testing started this week. Today was the final day for sixth and seventh grade students. Next week, fifth and eighth graders will take the science test. Good luck to everyone. Coming up, beach day spirit games on Wednesday, May 28th. Valley is super excited. Our concert band will be performing at the their spring concert on May 20th at 5:30 p.m. in the Valley NPR. The theme is the magic of music and imagination, and we hope to see you there. Both the concert and jazz band will also perform at the forum music

010festival on May 30th. Thank you to Dr. Clements for working with our jazz dur band during lunch. Good luck to all of our musicians. Hi, I'm Chloe Lucini, Herosa Valley student council dance representative. This week warm wraps up our spring sports season. Today the the girls flag football team played their last game against Paris. They won seven to zero. Tomorrow they play boys. The boys volleyball teams will finish their season with a home game against Dana. Good luck and big thank you to Coach Vasquez for an awesome sports season. Exciting news. Next week, Valley students can try out for the 2025 to 2026 cheer team. If you have school spirit, love to perform, and want to be part of a fun and spirited team, we encourage you to try out. Hi, I my name is

011Jonesy. I'm Herosa Valley's student council dance representative. Mandatory try out clinics will be held Monday, May 20th through Wednesday, May 22nd from 3 to 4 p.m. in Valley NPR. Students must sign up using the Google form link on the Valley Athletics website. We're also thrilled to welcome the California Redwoods, a professional field lacrossey team lacrosse team who will be offering free after school lacrosse clinics. All fifth through 8th grade students are invited to join on the Hermosa field on Monday, May 19th and Tuesday, May 20th from 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. These clinics are a great introduction to lacrosse and will include skills like passing, catching, cradling, and shooting all in a fun, supportive environment. No experience or equipment needed. Um, that's it from us. So, thank you for letting us share what's happening at Valley

012and we look forward to seeing you guys again next month. Thank you so much. Thank you. You guys are always the highlight of the meeting. So, don't don't So, great job. You guys did all did a great job presenting. We're excited to hear about the lacrosse. That's that's fun that they're going to come and do that for free. All right. Moving on to public comments. U members of the audience uh 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 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

013visitors shall not exceed three minutes per individual speaker unless waved by a majority of all members of the board. And just checking to see if we have anyone wanted to have public comment tonight. No written comments. I did get one comment, just a a neighborly comment from after the HBEFF um fundraiser the other night that just asked us to consider the fact that maybe we wanted to um rain in the noise after 10 p.m. It was a little loud in the neighborhood. Um so we appreciate the comment and we will share that with HBF. Um it was a very good time. the whole neighborhood probably had a really good time also, but and also we might want to consider expanding our who we tell in terms of if there's going to be event that that

014happens. So I know we we hit the close neighbors, but maybe to expand it to other concentric circles around the school. Um that is all I have from public comment. Um opening I'm going to open the hear public hearing um regarding the adoption of witten wisdom K through8 geodess K through 3 and foundations TK through three an English language arts program and we are taking any public comment on that thank you all the audience members tonight don't have anything to say about it but we'll we'll take that as a thumbs up we'll tell you more about the program in the meeting further so um we are we'll now move to 8.3 3. We're going to close the hearing um regarding the adoption of wit and wisdom K through8 geodess K through 3 and foundations TK

015through three the English language arts program. Do we need to take a motion? You take a vote. Thank you Kathy. Can I get a second? Second to close the public hearing action to just Thank you, Rachel. We'll take Rachel. All right, we'll move on to number nine, board member reports. Maggie, Rachel, I don't have anything for right now. The wellness meeting is tomorrow, I think. Yes, Carol, you can talk about round table. I'll talk I'll talk about it later. Okay. I I have nothing. Okay. Well, moving on. All right. Reports to the board and discussion. Um, we will welcome 10.1 measure HB, the general obligation bond first issuance overview, Mr. John Isim. Welcome to the welcome to the mic. Good evening. Good evening. And uh congratulations. A little belated from me, but this is the

016first time I've been in front of you since uh since the successful measure passed. Um, but what an incredible opportunity we have in front of you. Um, I've got a brief presentation that I want to kind of take you through and I'll go pretty quickly. I know we've got some new board members and some some more experienced or wiser board members that have gone through this before. Um, and then we've got a resolution that I'll touch on just briefly and and and discuss why it's in in information only. But just to take you you through this and the and the community through this. So, this is our first issuance. Uh, first slide here. Uh just by way of overview, of course, the voters I think quite comfortably passed measure HV. Oh, do I have the

017ability to f Oh, sorry. My last board meeting I had to say. Okay. And for those that can't read this, I apologize. The font's a little small, but I think it's still uh readable, but 62% of the voters gave us authorization to upgrade, renovate, and renew schools in the community, which is just again fantastic. Um, the ballot language, which you see there, I'm not going to read it, is is a guiding principle, but really what you're going to be governed by is the resolution calling the election and the detailed project list that was made part of that. As it relates to a bond sale, we have certain constraints, um, certain parameters by which a bond program is is organized. Uh, you can see them there. There's interest rates, there's actual assessed value, there's assessed value

018projections, there's the tax rate, and then there's term or how many years a bond program goes out. So, every community, every district that does a bond has the same constraints. LA Unified, gigantic tax base, the same tax rate that you have would produce a lot more in bond proceeds, right? Low interest rate gets you more money, high interest rates get you uh less less money. But we'll talk through about the 28.7 million and how we see this. This may be more than you want to know, but I figured I'd throw it on there because I think it's interesting for people to understand how bonds essentially work. So, starting in the bottom right hand corner, as a district, you receive money from investors and then you fix up your schools. Now going upwards and I'm going

019to go in counterclockwise motion. The district property owners of course they enjoy improved school facilities and all of the things that does for their property values and neighborhoods etc etc. And in turn they're going to be making property tax payments every year. The county tax collector, they serve two purposes. One is to send the tax bills out and the other is to collect the money. And who do they give it to? They give it to the paying agent. The paying agent sends the county an invoice essentially and says this is how much you need to levy and then they take those tax collections and they give it to the DTC or depository trust company. They serve a simple purpose which is give the investors back their money and the investors of course they receive money

020back uh after having given it to the district. This process takes place every year. So every year it's the exact same exercise. Paying agent says what do we owe? sends it to the tax collector, sends it to the taxpayers, the money gets paid, etc., etc. Um, again, I feel bad because it's small font or I need glasses. So, the district's history and as it relates to assessed value, if you remember, one of the parameters we have here is our assessed value. Total assessed value on this table here 2425 is 10.67 billion. So, that's what we have to play with. we apply a tax rate towards 10.67 billion and every year we receive revenues from that. Uh each year going forward we we build in an assumption or an increase in what assessed values are going

021to be and that projection is built into the program. So with a similar tax rate every year, you're actually going to collect a little bit more money each and every year and we use that stream of projected revenues to generate a bond program. Uh currently the 2425 tax rate is $33.24. If you recall from the election, the idea is kind of an extension of the old bonds and we'll ultimately be levying a similar tax rate throughout the life of the program. In the short term, we won't be levy a whole lot of interest or taxes on it because we have to wait for the old bonds to be paid off. Okay, that's one of the things and and maybe I'll take well I'll I'll I'll keep going because I'll I'll get to the legal documents.

022So, what does that mean for this particular bond program? This is probably of most note uh for you guys and that is issuance schedule. Right now, we've got an issuance in 25 uh 27 and 28 and then 2930. Why the variation? Because what we don't know is what actual assessed value is going to be. We don't know what actual interest rates are going to be. While we know what the tax rate should be and we know what term we want to keep it at, uh those other variables keep us a little bit into the dark until we get more clarity. So every year what happens is we look at your assessed value. We see the growth. We come back and say, "Hey, good news. Uh we can issue X number of dollars. Do you need

023the money now or do you want to wait another year based on cash flow?" We believe that the district is going to accelerate this program because if you look in the fine print, the footnote there, we assume three and a half% AV growth projected going forward. That's not what we think it's going to be, but that's what we put into the model. And going back, look at your historical, this is the third column on on the right hand side, your 5.79%. Right? You haven't had three and a half% for a decade plus. So that just means we're going to get those dollars sooner, but we can't and don't want to necessarily assume it because if you're wrong, tax rate goes up. So that's why it's kind of a win-win in this in this regard. So

024you passed your bond. Now what just real briefly the the process that that happens from here is is three different exercises in selling bonds. There is the the legal parameters, which is what we've been working on and we'll continue to work on in the coming weeks. There's what we call preparing the bonds for sale which involves getting a bond rating and possible insurance. And then there's actually selling the bonds. So let's just talk very briefly about each of those. So legal documents generally you have the resolution uh authorizing the sale of general obligation bonds. What you have before you tonight is information item but it's really the resolution that we're going to be using at the subsequent board meeting. Why two looks at it? Okay. uh state law requires a district that is not selling

025what's called current interest bonds to have two discussions on the topic of a bond that's going to have capital appreciation bonds. Okay, so a capital appreciation bond best analogy is like the old uh war savings bonds, right? The United States government says, "Hey, I don't have any money to give you year-over-year, but if you give me $5,000 today, in five years I'll give you $6,000, or you give me $8,000, and in 10 years, I'll give you $10,000." Right? It's a scenario where you don't have available revenues to make annual payments. So you're going to accrete that interest over time and then where you do have the funds available you can then make those bond payments to the bond holders. Our limitation bad analogy I don't want to call it a war but our rationale for

026the reason we can't make current interest bonds payments every year is because of the tax rate extension concept. Right? We told voters we're not going to increase your taxes. We got another five years of those taxes being outstanding and those payments that are required and then what will happen is after five years things will open up and we'll have a lot more flexibility. So um under the the law as it relates again to this disclosure it really is to ensure that districts don't make a a decision that they're not aware of um that their understanding of the options. the reason why we don't do an allcurren interest bond structure, which in this case is it would require raising the taxes. Um, and so there's this disclosure. Uh, a couple of other just interesting nuances about

027capital appreciation bonds. There's nothing, you know, wrong about them. The district has done CABS before. A lot of districts have done it, but before this law came out in the last several years, uh, districts could go 40 years. Uh, and that became really expensive. You know, someone would say, well, if I don't see a penny for 40 years, you have to really give me a high interest rate. Uh, they have limits on repayment ratio, which is 4 to one is the max, meaning for for every dollar you borrow, only three could be in interest. We're nowhere near that, but that's another limitation. 25 years is now the term. Uh, and now and they also must be refundable. Back in the day, they were called nonallable or non-refundable. So if you got a 30-year or a

02835 or a 40-year cab, didn't matter if interest rates went down to zero or two, you could not refund that. That's not the case anymore. So what we commit to today is is going to be the most costefficient, but it also has an opportunity to be refunded uh in the future if interest rates allow. Okay. Uh the other documents that you'll see forthcoming uh will be things like the preliminary official statement, continuing disclosure certificate, bond purchase agreement, and the paying agent agreement. When you get those, remember what John said in May. He said there'll be some blanks, but don't worry about it. And that's because we won't have those blanks completed until we actually sell the bonds. So, as a board, when you adopt the resolution, you're saying, "Hey, the resolution is final, and I'm

029directing and deputizing my admin team and my finance team to complete things on behalf of the district. You don't need to come back to me for the 1%. The rest of these legal documents are 99% complete. Don't worry about coming back for authorization for the 1%. We're deputizing you. Go do that." Okay? So, when you see those documents, remember that's that uh that's what John said as far as don't worry about the blanks. They won't be complete until we price things. Okay. Ratings and insurance, prepping the bonds, the district's probably not going to get bond insurance. Um, and you think of insurance, oh well, wait a minute, insurance is good if something bad happens. Uh, in the history of California, you've never had geobs ever default. So, they're the safest things out there. Why? because

030it's an unlimited ad valorum tax pledge. Meaning the county says, "Well, I'll levy whatever tax I have to. An asteroid wipes out half of Hermosa. Oh, I'll just double the tax rate for the people that survived." Right? That's what an unlimited advorum tax pledge means. For context, if you were to imagine such a, you know, horrible, you know, event happening, uh, the tax rate would go from $33 per 100,000 to $66. That's it. Like if you literally lost half of all assessed value, five billion gets wiped away, the the solution is to double the tax to $66. So you get an idea of how safe and secure they are. The reason you would get insurance is because investors feel warm and fuzzy and sometimes paying for an insurance policy saves you more in lower interests

031than not. Now insurance for you or for other districts, you only get to go to a double A. Well, guess what? You're already at double A. That's your credit rating, double A. So, we'll be having uh the opportunity to get ratings back from the rating agencies and uh and then we'll ultimately get what I believe to be another double A double A rating. So, we get to kind of make our case, tell our story. Uh the method of sale, this is interesting. And again, it's a little bit more historic. Um but there's two different ways to sell bonds. One's competitive and one's negotiated. competitive. Think of it as an auction. All right, everybody. Herosa Beach, we're selling bonds. Lowest bid wins and those that are interested, those banks, those investors can put in a bid

032and the lowest bid wins. Negotiated sales says, "Hey, there's some extenduating circumstances. There's some other things out here. This is more complicated. The market's volatile. Um, I think we need to pick pre-select an underwriter and have that underwriter work with us over a period of time. We don't want to take chances and throw it out on an auction day and be stuck with whatever comes our way. Okay. This district's done it both ways. So, we've done negotiated sales in the past. We've done competitive sales in the past. We're recommending this go around to do negotiated sale primarily because the market has been volatile. You know, liberation day tariffs has kind of put a crimp in things. Um and and this is not the most straightforward structure. again with the inclusion of cabs and having a

033a more complicated wraparound structure and debt service. So finally, and I've covered most of this, this is the smallest of the fonts, so really do appre apologize on that, but this kind of breaks down the three different areas from the legal parameter establishment, which is really kind of almost the top half. you see in their conference call with rating agency and getting the ratings and when that exercise takes takes place you guys will take actual action June 4th the county will follow with their action and then we're looking to price on the 15th or 16th of July and then two weeks later you receive money in the bank so right now we're looking at end of July for the first round of funding in a in an amount of around $8 million. Yep. Go ahead.

034table specifically process or is this some larger financial? No, this is this is unique to you. Um LA County is is involved. Other counties sometimes don't get involved. So the inclusion of them, but nearly every district, you have to have the legal parameters and make sure these meet all the requirements of a tax exempt financing. You have to get the bonds rated, possibly insured, and then you have to of course price the bonds with a two-e close. Rachel had a question. Thank you so much and thank you for that terrific um overview. It was really illuminating. I had a quick question about the negotiated sale versus the competitive sale. I mean, is it possible or does it ever happen that folks that districts will go for competitive sale, the auction type to see what they

035can get? Because I would assume, and maybe this is about assumption, but I'm assuming going through an underwriter eats is going to cost us because we're going through yet another party to do work for us to finance the bond. Is so could you do both? Could you try competitive first and then go negotiate or is that just not done? Thank you. Yeah, it's it's not done. Um a competitive sale, you you do all of this work, it all gets teed up and then the big day happens and you say, "We're ready for all the bids." And if you get one bid, it has to be generally awarded. Um, that happened about two weeks ago. One district lump poke only got one bid and some underwriter just took a flyer on it and says, "Hey, I'll

036I'll buy it if I can get it for this much." Right? Um, more often than not, you'll get two, three, or four, five, or, you know, upwards of a dozen bids. So, we usually you're going to use our expertise to make that recommendation to say, "Hey, what's the cheapest way? what's the what's going to save the district the most money, be the best for the taxpayers, and that's what we we typically recommend. And keep this in mind, an underwriter is going to get paid regardless. And the negotiated, we we pre- uh negotiate their terms, so we know how much they're going to do it for, and we have an underwriter that is going to do it for very low. Um, but on a competitive sale, when they put in their bids, not only is it

037interest rates, but they put in their fees as well. So you you pay for an underwriter one way or another. In the negotiated, what we're saying is this is a little bit complicated. This is a little bit of a you know, I guess volatile interest rate environment. And I and our expectation is that we'll perform better doing negotiated this go around, but we can series B we can do a negotiated sale or competitive. So each time we sell bonds, we want to revisit it. No, thank you so much. And your point about the underwriters is going to get paid either way was um very convincing. Thank you. And do we want to be um if if the interest rates go down low enough, do we want to be flexible and jump quickly to sell a

038a portion? Yeah. I mean, if we can, it's timing the market is is is a bit of a fool's errand. Okay. You can pull things like Liberation Day. Wasn't that what it was called? Um Roondo was pricing that week. We pulled it, right? No, no. This things are too volatile, too crazy. So, we pulled them. Okay. Um, but we priced it the next week. So, you're think you're looking out for that all all the time? All the time. Yeah. Yeah. All the time. I have another question, but I'll let you Yeah. No, I just want to make sure I understood. So, if we had a blank lot, no nothing on there, it would not matter. We would not be able to ask for all $28.7 million upfront in the first series. Correct. it because we

039are trying to make sure that because we have a five-year weight kind of we want to make sure we're paying things back from our previous bond. Correct. Yeah. It's the it's the tax limits. It's not that you couldn't get that much money if you had an unlimited tax rate to apply. But we do have a limited tax rate. We're constrained. Yeah. Yes. By what we told voters. And so this is the most cost-effective. Keep the tax rate low. get a significant amount of funding, but it's going to take longer period of time. Yeah. I just think that's interesting for that. I think the public will want to understand like, hey, why aren't you doing all these things at one time? And so, there's multiple reasons. One is because of how we're going to get the

040money. And then, but also, it's just how things move on this on the site. And it is not a blank space. There is a logistical element. I and I'm not familiar enough with it, but most districts can't just take on $30 million and say, "Okay, school's canceled." Yeah. Unless it was a blank space. It was an open lot and we were building something brand new. Correct. Open lot. Yeah. Yep. Okay. And and and I will just leave this with you, too. You can always get more money and it's just at what cost? Districts right now are doing a lot of bridge loans, meaning hey, I want an advance, right, on that money from the future. give it to me now because the interest cost on that bridge loan is going to be a lot lower

041than the construction cost escalation that I'm expecting. Right. I think we need to be thinking about that. I think when we get to the discussion part, we should have a discussion about that. Yep. My question was just a clarification. So, we're selling this first lot or we're planning on it. If we do negotiate it this time, it doesn't tie us in to do that the next two times. we could, you know, you would take a look at it and see. Okay. Correct. And then I just wanted to acknowledge I think Paula in the room to make sure that we got a double A rating is it's I think it's a big deal, right? To have a big a good rating for and that's due to your work and the audits being clean, right? Yeah. I

042mean, absolutely. A+ good job. Double A. Um, all right. Any other questions? Thank you for the presentation. Um that this will be on the the website and available to the public too if anybody has interest in this particular area. It is interesting if you are interested in these items. All right, moving on. Thank you, John. Appreciate your time. Moving on, Mr. Alan Reeseling. Uh 10.2 measure HV project prioritization and next steps. This kind of is a good followup. Welcome. Perfect followup. Yeah. Hi, how are you? Can you Alan will you tell everyone a little bit who you are? Yes, absolutely. So, my name is Alan Rising and I work with the district advocates group uh here to support the district in program development so that we can begin to move all these projects forward and

043begin to bring these much needed improvements to our community. I myself have a long almost 40-year career in school facilities. I recently retired as the assistant superintendent of facilities and operations for Long Beach Unified School District. So, uh coming in to really help the team. And I do have to pause for a moment and say it's been a joy. Thank you. With your team. You have a fantastic team that's that's engaged and committed and it's been fantastic to work with these three ladies up here uh and and collaborate with them. So, thank you. I really appreciate that. Great. So, now we're going to talk about what I like to call the fun stuff, right? Like what are we going to do? So, we just got done talking about the money and we're going to talk

044a little bit about the project work that we're going to be doing and and how we're proposing to engage in this uh $28.7 million bond program. So to start uh to kind of lay the background, so we had a 2024 master plan update that really was done by SVA architects and really uh underscores the work that we're doing going forward. Really kind of laid out a game plan for where our needs were and and where those critical infrastructure improvements were needed. So everything that we're doing uh moving forward is really grounded in that plan that we, you know, did a community input component to it. We really looked at that very closely. Using that plan, we were uh able to go to the community and we received uh over 62% community support for a $28.7

045million bond program in November 2024. So, we should all be applauded for for making that happen to improve our schools for our communities. But, as we just heard, our bond proceeds that we will receive are limited. They are not where we just receive a $28 million check and then we're able to move forward with that. We have to be strategic in the way that we move forward with with the these dollars. Uh, as we just heard, we're going to have a $8 million uh bond sale in 2025. We're we're forecasting a $10 million bond sale in 2027 and another $10.7 million bond sale in 2029. So as we move forward really recognizing that we have some constraints that we have to work with within uh some of the challenges to quickly as we went into

046this that there are some challenges uh as we begin to look at the priorities that we have. We really have to work towards balancing what our most immediate needs are and balancing those against our available resources. Right? All of us, every one of us that are part of this community can probably talk about the needs that are at school sites and what some of those needs are, but we really have to take the time to really focus on what are those main priorities and how do we balance that across the resources that we get over time. Uh really a big one is forecasting cost escalations. We are in a very uh uncertain economic future. All you have to do is turn on channel 7 news and you hear about tariffs and you hear about all

047these cost escalations and all the uncertainty that's happening across our nation. All of those have impacts on our construction market. Not only in the availability of labor, which is a constant kind of challenge that we have in construction, but also in just availability of materials and what those materials may cost over time as we begin to forecast those. So there are some definite economic uncertainties that we just have to be aware of and make sure that we strategically adjust for those to ensure that we're we're accounting for those. uh we have to really look closely at our CL cash cash flow projections to make sure that we can effectively and efficiently execute those projects. That's kind of a a long way of saying we don't want to overcommit and underdel. We want to make sure

048that what we're able to tell the community we're going to do that we're able to do within the available resources that we have. We definitely don't want to overcommit. And lastly, really underscoring the whole thing is establishing those proper level of contingencies to account for those absolute unforeseens that will come. If you've ever done any work like homework, you know, uh, when you remodel your kitchen, there's a ton of unforeseen that's going to happen. Schools are no different. As we go into schools, we're going to find things that we didn't expect, and we're going to have to be ready to, uh, to, uh, address those as those come up. So, again, as we moved into this and working closely with uh, collaborating with school site leaders, with district leadership in the community, we looked at

049what our series one process would be. each each one of the series. Again, it's $8 million that we're forecasting to be able to sell in 2025. Right at the top is Hermosa Valley School. Really recognizing that that that school has not really in a material way been modernized and and uh receive some of the improvements that your other schools have have. So, we're looking at moving right into it with the uh addition of two new flexible science classrooms that that school needs as well as some performing arts uh centers, performing arts classrooms at Hermosa Valley School. Looking at Hermosa View School, uh that school is is uh really kind of increasing enrollment. So, we have to look at how do we uh optimize existing spaces. We focused on rooms 108 and 208 to be able

050to adapt those rooms to special education needs to help address some of those uh some of those uh enrollment challenges that are happening at that school site to be able to uh to improve that school and provide those additional spaces there. And then at the bottom during that first series uh is really doing a district-wide technology systems audit. uh we rec have to recognize that our school district needs to stay up with the 21st century learning and making sure that we're providing spaces and capacity for students to uh be uh a significant part of their future. And so making sure that we have the the best technology, the the best systems in place to help support that learning is is is very important. as we move into series two, which is going to be in

0512027, we're forecasting that we'll have about $10 million in proceeds. So that aforementioned district-wide technology infrastructure, we would now begin to make those those improvements at school sites. Uh looking at the core infrastructure, the switches, the devices, all of the pieces and parts that children use to help make sure the technology is uh is robust and and is uh is reliable in their classrooms. We'll also come back to Valley uh Herosa Valley School. Uh the administration building upgrades are in dire need of some improvements there as as you look at how it's kind of tucked away in a back corner and and needs to be brought more into the into the the front. Uh improvements, relocation of the front entry area for the school site so that we have a more receptive and warm welcome

052to the community. Uh dealing with some of those challenges with student drop off and traffic circle issues at the front of the school. Uh there are several HVAC system replacements that need to be completed at that school site. We're doing some this summer, but we we have to complete the rest of those HVAC improvements. And there's various different miscellaneous building systems and cosmetic improvements at the school site that need to be completed. So those would all be focused on the second series of bonds. Moving into the third series of bonds, we would look at go back to Hermosa Valley School. There's other outside the classroom improvements that we'd be looking at. So to continue to addressing the needs at that school site, we would look at the athletic field improvements, playground improvements, uh there's developing

053some underutilized space outside of the gym and locker room area. There's kind of an open air slash kind of partial open air area there that can be better utilized to help support the uh students and community's needs. And also looking at how we might be able to relocate the district offices to be uh better suited to support the community and provide opportunities for the community. And lastly, would uh we look at kind of overall energy improvements, really recognizing the district's commitment to sustainability, ensuring that we uh look at things like solar installation, which can have a double improvement to the district, not only uh lowering our ongoing operating costs, but also getting us off of uh dirty, you know, energy that comes from Southern California Edison and other sources. and also looking at HVAC improvements

054to help uh reduce our energy co energy costs and and be able to move forward with that sustainability program. So, uh progress. So, we have made some progress today tonight. You just heard about our series 1 bond uh program where where ISM adviserss came in and talked to us about that the the strategies for selling those bonds. So, that's a that's big progress. We're ready to move forward with that. Uh we've already approved our list of architectural services firms and those firms are ready to go and ready to start uh rolling up their sleeves and helping us to move these projects forward. We've approved our topographical and land surveying firms. A lot of folks don't really know what those are, but those are the folks that look at the the site topography and make sure

055that we're uh we have all that information to be able to design appropriate access areas for our school site for for folks with physical disabilities. Uh we're currently in the process and closing out on a solicitation of construction management services, materials inspection and testing services and project inspection services which will all be needed to help these projects move forward. Our next steps the stuff that we're working on currently uh again finalizing this major HV first series of bonds uh approval of the project list that we're presenting to you tonight uh and establishing what those initial priorities are going to be. uh soliciting the selection of our architectural firms. So we want to we want to have firms start working on this these projects right away so that we can begin to uh get those to

056the state uh division of state architects. The state can approve those to be able to to start executing those projects. We want to bring on our structure management firms that can start working closely with our architects and engineers and our and our contractors to help manage those projects moving forward. and also the communications program really making sure that we're communicating the successes of the program and the work that we're doing with our communities with both community ongoing newsletters and and uh website uh opportunities to ensure that we're communicating the successes of the program. So, with that, that's kind of a short synopsis of of what we've been doing, but I'm now I'm available for any questions you may have about what what the priority list or or what's what's next in our in our effort

057to bring these great improvements to to our community. Thank you, Ellen. Um, I'll start with Rachel. Um, thank you. I thought that was a wonderful overview. Um, I didn't know if we're going to talk, you know, I'll leave it to Susan about a possible playground. um uh movement within that within that timing timeline. But I thought that was terrific and I don't have any questions. Thank you. Yeah. So whatever input the board um wants to give and talk and discussions about um we had talked about obviously we you'll see kind of in series three where we just divorced the uh playground structure from the athletic field structure because um when we look at the two one is in a little bit more dire condition than the other one. the um and uh it kind of

058builds that very back part of Valley, but it's also connected to kind of a an older portable there that it's well past its lifespan. Go ahead, Maggie. I have some questions on a scope and timeline. So, with our bond sales in 25, 27, and 29, and this might have been a question for John Ism. Uh Alan, I'm apologies if you don't have the information on this one, but if I recall correctly from our last bond sales, we can only keep the money for so long before we have to spend it, right? So, I am a little worried in putting in phase one uh the classrooms um because construction takes time, right? So, like I think we're going to have to have the money to uh get everything launched, but knowing that construction at a minimum

059you're probably looking at two and a half years, I would think before souped nuts of like something, you know, like even if we went with a with um uh what do I have a modular type of construction, right? Which those can drop in six months and you can have them completed and hooked up. Uh there's still the ground prep that takes about three months at least prior to that. So, you're looking at nine months at a site besides all the architectural stuff. So, how how to think through any like physical piece with that close of a timeline of bond sales? Yeah, the the timeline you're referring to is an IRS timeline and it's a three-year expenditure plan to have in place. So, the the bond sales that that we make in 2025, we would need

060to have them expended and I'll say or have a have a close plan for expenditure there. It's not an absolute. There is some flexibility there, but it's a three-year timeline basically. Uh, and I'll just say with with an $8 million bond sale and considering the work that we're planning on doing, I I don't feel that there's going to be a problem with with expending those $8 million over those those three years, there's a lot of work that goes into and honestly some expenses that go into the development of the project with design work and and development. But uh we can easily once we start now be ready to start in the uh second half of 2026 to begin the project at at Hermosa Valley without too much difficulty. And when you say start the project

061like breaking ground because plans have been approved, we have to send them up to state. I remember last time we we do so so it's typically a year process from the time that we give the architect the the time to go until you're able to get those plans into the state and through the state. Now, super complicated plans like you're talking about a whole new school, those take quite a bit of time to get through the state. Smaller projects like what we're talking about here, those those we can get through the state, you know, relatively quickly. So, we could be in construction towards the the end of 2026, second half of 2026 at at Valley with these this type of work. And then you you put in another, you know, six to nine month construction

062window. So, it really it really I don't think it's a big issue right now to expend those dollars within three years. And one of the considerations too for those those science classrooms were kind of twofold. One is that we're looking at enrollment trends down in our K4 land as those start those trends start kind of coming through knowing we're going to need these classroom spaces. Um but also the position where these two um classrooms would be designed allows for the school to continue uninterrupted and so construction can use that side parking lot, be able to come in down that fire lane um and it doesn't disrupt um so it's a we're able to get going fairly quickly without making um teachers move but without dropping portables, those kinds of things. I have a couple more

063questions. Go ahead. Are those portables able to be reused? That might be a Silia. They're old. Sylvia taught in them. I know. I remember. Not to imply anything. Not that you're old. Just the portables are old in a bidding war off of portables at one point. The portables that the music room's using and a few of the others have seen their lifespan. Um, we can less. Yeah. So those portables we couldn't once once we break ground for those those portables are gone not to be reused during any other construction project during the lifetime of of measure HV. Yeah. So so those portables I I've actually walked those portables with with your staff. Uh the the main structure of the portables can most likely be reused, but it essentially amounts to having to completely rebuild the

064building from scratch. You know, so the structure the structural steel that's inside the building, you know, doesn't doesn't like the exterior finishes and other things. So, it is possible and and there is kind of a niche market out there of folks that will take those buildings and completely rebuild them. But quite honestly, you're most of the way into a new building anyways. So, if if you do need space, it's almost better off just getting a new building from manufacturers. And then when uh Susan, when your team was working with Allen on this, so there was obviously like a minimizing of construction flow. Can you just talk more about how you're thinking about how the space works on campus in terms of what is a easy piece that goes up in terms of Yeah. So, same

065thing. So, thinking about also thinking steps ahead, right? Um these two classrooms we felt would um get a fairly immediate impact on students. Um you know, when we started thinking through all of the different projects, we really wanted to pri prioritize what is most going to have the the closest impact on students, right? So, you know, there's things that involve staff, admin, building things, but really it's like let's what's going to impact students because we do know there are going to be things that are going to impact this priority list. So, as the wish list goes down, we want to put the things that um impact adults further down in the in the in the rank. Um some getting something that we felt like these classrooms would allow us to have a little bit more

066space to give us some breathing room as the enrollment trends start to come up. Um, again with minimizing the impact in the space, but also thinking ahead. So, the playground is in dire need. Um, it's very rusty. You know, I think it gives um Paula shivers every time we walk past it. Um, that is a fairly we think a fairly quick thing that could be done in a relatively short period of time. Again, not disrupting campus and learning. But to do that, there is a third portable there that's currently housing the band room. again, it makes the science ones look prestigious. Um, so knowing that that's going to have to go eventually. So, where do we re what classroom space do we relocate our our our band um program in? So, that's where we really

067really thinking about kind of setting us up so then we could move quickly on at least the playground structure um because we know how important that is to the community. And I guess my one sorry for taking over the questions. Thanks team. Um my my one concern with moving ahead on the playground piece is that we will have enough time with architects to really think through how open space looks on campus before we get to that. And so like if we're breaking ground and uh by 26, right, will our architects have enough time to get through community forums and everything else we need to think through? Well, I don't think they would just do one. I think we're going after a couple, right? as you know the way I'm thinking of community forums is like

068we're looking at who are the science classrooms that we're going for the community and really teachers and students right that's who we're really going after input for then as we start thinking about the next project they don't also have to be the same architects they could be two different you know we the board approved two architect firms um so we can think about projects separately like um Vista for example is tight so um the last remaining classroom is currently being used by an RSP teacher I've got I've got groups of kids coming through now where we need to take that back as a classroom space. That might be a totally we may split the projects just so that they can be moving a little bit faster. Um but I I see a series of of

069um I I don't want to have a project where we get input in 2025 but we're not building to 2027 28. I'd want several. So I hear that my my only concern is if we're going to put the playground in, right, we're going to have to have a pretty good understanding of what that space looks like by 26. Can you move playgrounds in any of these new types of playgrounds? Not not that probably not not cheaply. Yeah. So like my my only concern is the work we're going to do in 29 by putting playground here which I agree with doing. I just think everybody we need to think about planning happens then this year or not not the yeah bits and pieces of it but like the community space of how it is used. Yeah,

070we agree. And that's really one of the things that um why these two architecture firms um as is I ran reference checks and I'm calling people that they really do have an expertise in really going out and gathering and really not only just gathering input from the community and teachers and then using it. there were tangible examples of how they used teachers said x we did this right and they could clearly communicate when they weren't able to do something too which I thought was a really important aspect I can pass mine Carol covered it I I did have I just wanted to make sure I clarify what I think I hear you say and what I think I would love to see is um someone who's able to master plan like take our master plan

071and master plan. Basically, go to Valley and be like, "Okay, this is Valley. What are all the needs Valley you have? Um, we see there's science. We see there's these extra spaces." And just do one bigger overview. Um, not not peace meal all those things, but then we can peacemeal the construction part of it. And I I think that's the plan. I just want to clarify that's what you all are thinking the plan is. when we begin to engage with the chosen architect for the for the site. That's one of the initial things that they will do is kind of do an overall survey of the site and identify those items that uh we want to do uh in addition to those items that we're going to have to do that are going to be

072mandated from us by the state and then those things that maybe they've identified that we're not going to do at this time. And so they'll come up with a I'll call it a mini plan for the site that we engage with and we can engage with our community and others to decide what that is. uh there is a point where we are constrained with budget. Sure. So, you know, I would say you can spend most of your money at one site if you really wanted to. Right. And that's not the goal here, right? So, we will need to balance those available resources against what our what our primary goals are at those sites. But the architects once we get them engaged, that's exactly what they'll do during the initial uh schematic design phase of the

073project. Is that what you were asking for? So, yeah. So on so uh just to restate so once we have the schematics on this I think I'm okay with putting playground in phase one series one of this because of the urgent need for the playground as long as it doesn't hinder where an extra portable needs to go during construction or if it doesn't impede the future phases of the of it. Yeah, that's Yeah. And we we anticipate that if we did have to drop portables later on to do some of the the larger pieces of the construction, they would go in that lower um basketball court kind of area. I believe there's been portables there in the years years past. Thanks, Al. And then the other part I just want to confirm that we are

074bullet point six is a real is a priority I think for for I'll just speak for myself but um to get community and staff input on all these decisions and I I I just think they would appreciate that as yes so our goal is to once um the board has approved the we'll bring the priority list at the next board meeting um we'll share a draft but we'll bring one for formal approval by the board then our goal is to package that as well as bond information, what we've done to date in a kind of um uh district district communication that doesn't go just to our families. Ideally, we'd like something that hits mailboxes so that um and that in that would be save the dates for some of these input meetings. Right. Great. Thank

075you. Thanks, Helen. Sorry, one question on that. Yeah, go for it. Sorry. Would part of that communication be going out to staff too if they had input on it? Go everywhere. Great. Thank you. All right. Moving on. 10.3. The Herosa Valley Music and Band report. Miss Bontia. Should we Should we do an introduction? Was excitement. Hey. Hi. Welcome. Evening. Good evening. Welcome. Thanks for waiting. Yeah. Thank you for being patient. Thank you so much for being patient. Our our first guest had to make a second board meeting up in PB. No, they'll be racing down PC. Okay. Well, good evening. Um, thank you board members, Dr. Wild, students, and guests. It is a pleasure to be here tonight to showcase the Hermosa Valley band program. Jessica Bleso wishes she could be here, but her and

076her entire family are under the weather. Oh, so you get me. Great. Great. Thank you. Um, it is an honor to stand here with the ador Dr. Buddy Buddy Clemens, who has come out of retirement to be our new band director. He brings an immense passion and dedication to his role as our band director and has quickly become a beloved figure among students who appreciate his engaging teaching style and supportive nature. Dr. Clemens comes to Hermosa with over 40 years of experience in teaching. He's formerly worked at Walnut High School, Calpali Pomona, and University of Redlands. Besides teaching, he has been an associate conductor of the Crystal Cathedral Church and has won many awards like the top 25 Grammy teacher of the year. Um, at Valley we currently have two band programs. Our fifth grade

077band includes all 142 students receiving band instruction 56 minutes weekly. And then our second program is our middle school band. This year, Dr. Dr. Clemens has brought new life and instruments to this band, including the tuba, bassoon, and obo to our middle schoolers. And then in this program, we are looking at getting our students prepared for high school for either option so they can join whichever band that they prefer. Um, he has also started our jazz band. um he has brought in guest speakers and artists and he also is bringing a technology component into our program with the smarts uh make music program. So it's helping students practice at home and it can help that buddy can go into it and look at it and help the students as well. Um, we would also like

078to take this time to thank you personally to the board HB HBF and HBPTO for making our band program what it is and for also believing in the importance of arts for our students. It's such an important part of all of our lives and as our students grow. We would also like to remind everyone again about our performance, our spring concert that's coming up this Tuesday at 5:30 at Valley. We'd love to see you all there. Um, we'd also like to share about some of the exciting future for the band program. Next year, we'll be offering two sections of middle school band. We'll have symposium band and advanced concert band. We will still also be keeping the fifth grade band. Dr. Clemens will also be bringing the tri and music honor society. So, it's the

079music sister organization of the National Honor Society to our students next year. All right. And without further ado, we will hear from our band. Hi, welcome. Yeah, tell us we're we're happy to have you. I guess I just pointed at you. Okay. Ready. I don't know what So, so these students are all volunteers. We have uh we don't have a class yet in uh for a jazz band. Um hopefully maybe one day, but in the meantime uh and we actually weren't able to have an after-school program because they're all busy doing after school programs already. So, but they're kind enough to give up some of their lunchtime and uh and I appreciate them coming down tonight because they all have uh homework that they're bugging me to get home to do. So, uh, but it

080seemed really, uh, appropriate that we have a jazz band at Hermosa Valley because, as you know, I would assume you know, but you know, Hermosa Beach itself is really one of the, uh, landmark cities when it comes to jazz because of Howard Ramsey's lighthouse that and I grew up in Hawthorne. I mean, I heard about it forever. When I was in college, we would, you know, pile in somebody's car and come all the way out from Redlands out here, you know, to hear our favorite jazz artists. And of course, if you go up and down the pier down towards the beach, you can see the little plaques that they have out there and all the great famous people that have have been there. And uh and I've been fortunate to work with several of those

081people. And so, one of the people that I knew a little bit was a guy named Henry Mancini. And he wrote a piece called Peter Gun. And so, that's what we're going to play tonight. So, ready? And don't hold back. Ready? All right. Here we Oh. Oh, let me hear the base. You can turn it up. Okay. Oh, yeah. We're good. Okay. Ready? One, two, one, two, three, and [Music] La. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] microphone. I had a classroom right next to where the band practiced for years and I've never heard anything as great as this. This is fantastic. You guys were great. Really, really true. Great job, you guys. I mean, Mr. Buddy, I'm just so we're so grateful that you're

082here to teach these these guys, too. I had really influential band teachers from fourth grade, Mr. McCullum, middle school, Mr. Nagel, Mr. High School, Mr. Parcel. They are people that stayed in my life the entire time. So you guys are super lucky that this this teacher is here with us. And so thank you and thank you guys for performing and just caring about music so much. So it's it's awesome. An honor for me to be here. And I have to say that um Sylvia and uh Jessica um when I talk to my friends and they say what do you you know they're all retired and so they said, "Dude, what are you doing?" And I said, "Well, you know," and I say, "Well, actually," and it ends up, you know, the they're very persuasive. And

083and because I kept saying, "No, I'm not interested." And I and they said, "Well, could you just come and look at the kids?" And I said, "Why would I do that?" But I said, "Okay." And I came and um they looked rather poor Lauren, the kids did, and I felt kind of bad about that. And then um the the persuasive part or the dirty pool part was that Sylvia had them all write me a letter uh personal letter about what you know their life and what music meant to them and how much they want to have a good program and everything. So um anyway, it's been uh wasn't anything I was counting on at this point in life, but it's been a a great thrill and these guys are uh I'm so proud of them.

084They're just really everywhere I go, I say what a um well behaved and conscientious and um serious they are about their music and everything and and it means a lot to them. So, uh anyway, it's just I appreciate being here and I'm looking forward to some great things happening next year and uh and the rest of this year, too. So, come to our concert. It's next Tuesday night. Definitely. We're we're thrilled. Thank you so much. Thank you guys for spending your time here with us tonight. Thank you, parents. That was that was awesome. Yeah. Thank you, Miss Mononttoya. Thank you. Okay. When you get to consent, you'll do motion and then you'll ask for the second and then you ask for No problem. Okay. All right. Moving on to uh superintendent report ELA adoption. Dr.

085Wilds. We forgot to ask him about the blue tuba. Did you see the blue tub? And the blue tuba is incredible. It's plastic and it sounds amazing. Um, okay. So, we're going to do one last pivot. So, thank you all so much. So tonight we bring to you our TK our kindergarten through 8th grade English language arts curriculum adoption recommendation. Am I flip me I don't think it reaches all the way from over here. All right. So we want to thank um our committee. We had a um very robust um committee. all of the teachers who gave up a number of days out of the classroom and we called them retreats because we really started right at 8 o'clock and we locked ourselves in till 3:30 every day. We also had classified staff. So, I

086want to thank um Tracy who's a pair of professionals, whether it's Heather Meyers, our school librarian. We had our administrators there, um Jessica, Sylvia, Hillary, and then we had parents involved um on the committee as well. And then we had a very special uh board member guest So our process so we started on February 1st was our first lockin retreat day and we spent the time building our expertise um on we came back on February 19th and we continued creating what we call the true north. What is the vision statement so that at the um end once we have fully implemented this adoption what did we want literacy to look like for each and every student in Herosa Beach um school district which I'll share with you in just a moment. Um then we wanted

087to make sure that we had a researchbased norming tool that everyone could use to um look at these curriculum curriculums utilizing and we spent the time norming because we wanted to practice on a um lesser high-quality curriculum so that we could just practice the what are we looking for? How are we how are we coding and scoring things? on March 12th and March 26th, we came together and we then started examining what we considered the top four curricular options using this IMAT tool. Um, and we you're going to see we came fairly quickly to a consensus throughout the process. Um, oftentimes teachers saying, "I'm seeing things. I'm looking for thing. I'm seeing some things. This looks good to me. Looks looks good." And I we kept saying just wait for it because when you see

088it, you're going to know what you're what you're looking at. Um, and I feel in and we did we had re people had reactions. Um, for the la over the last month we've had all of the materials available for public input um for public viewing. We shared them with our teachers, our classified staff as well as our parents. Um, and then tonight we're making a recommendation to you. So on our retreat day one, we came together with some norms and values because anytime you put stuff in front of teachers, oftentimes they're drawn to certain things and we wanted people to kind of shake their biases out. We initiated a vision for literacy instruction and we really spent some time digging deep into the reading wars because we needed people to divorce themselves from past practices

089and really think differently um about what the curriculum we wanted to bring forward. And we wanted to give everyone in this first meeting just a general overview of the what we consider best practices because the science of reading is starting to be um get a uh people think of science of reading is one thing and we wanted to make sure everyone really understood what it really was. Well, what the science of reading says are these four research-based practices. It is absolutely foundational skills. That means explicit systematic practice with reading foundational skills in those early grades. It doesn't mean in some classes it doesn't mean you know I like starting with the letter A but you like starting with the letter the sound S. It is explicit and everybody is kind of lock step arms together.

090Um it's giving students regular practice with highly complex text which is the biggest deviation from past practice where you had um this idea that we give kids root books on their just right reading level. research goes in the fall fl um flies in the face of that. What research says is all students regardless of their reading abilities are provided with regular experience and practice with highly complex text um and the academic language that is in there. Um knowledge building students um the the biggest indicator the difference between students who have um high reading abilities and low reading abilities is not necessarily always their decoding skills. It is their knowledge base. Students who have a high deep um background knowledge on a topic will always be able to comprehend at a higher rate. And then writing

091is integrated with the reading. Meaning when we think about um listening and speaking, you listen to something when you speak that's the output. Input output. Reading is the input but writing is the output. And they have to be integrated. They cannot be taught as separate subject subject areas. And that writing is grounded in evidence from the text. and it's throughout the lesson um every day in both literary and informational. This is the vision statement for highquality literacy instruction in HBCSD. And you're going to see this probably a thousand times over the next three years as we implement in HBCSD. Every student will experience rigorous evidence-based literacy instruction that is rooted in foundational skills, text complexity, and knowledge building opportunities. Through meaningful collaboration among educators, students, and families, each student will become a confident, capable, and

092critical reader, writer, and thinker who communicates effectively. HBCSD leaders will empower educators by providing sustained highquality multi-year professional development, ongoing instructional coaching, and resources aligned to rigorous standardsbased curricula. With a collective commitment to excellence and fidelity to curriculum implementation, HBCSD will meet the diverse learning needs of all students, preparing them to thrive academically and beyond. We word smith this about 57 times. Um, every word was sweated over 157. So on day two, we came back and we did a deeper dive in each of these four practices. So we did an overview and then we really went deep into all of them. This is actually an image um that we kept kind of coming back to. This is Scarsboro's rope. This is how students learn to read. Um as you'll notice when it starts out all

093the way on the left, everything is um not connected. Knowledge, vocabulary, sentences, connections, gist, and then you've got the green at the bottom, which is that decoding the sounds, the letters, and words. And as the students gain greater and greater automaticity, the rope starts twisting tighter and tighter. Um and so it becomes increasingly strategic and kids that reading becomes more automatic. Um and so this was deeply rooted in our vision statement. We were looking for curriculum that provide greater and greater opportunities for what we call the the rope twist. So on days three and four we finalized the vision statement and then we started applying the IMAT and we started actually sharing evidence and rationale. Not that things were pretty colored, colorful, those kinds of things. we were actually looking for evidence of those four

094um practices and then we honed our ability to rate. This is what we used. The instructional materials evaluation tool is actually a researchbased tool that was developed by the writers of the common core in order for you to implement um curriculum that meets the standards and meets the level of rigor. And we rated everything based on a three all the way down to a zero. We looked at um each of these curriculums. We looked at them individually through each non-negotiable. We looked at expeditary learning. We looked at CKLA which stands for core knowledge language arts but has been now purchased by amplify but it's still called CKLA amplify. We looked at Witten Wisdom by uh Grapeminds which is a knowledge building curriculum. So in addition to Witten Wisdom we looked at geodess. Geodess is a

095decodable that takes takes the knowledge that they're learning in a unit and pairs it with the foundational skills they're learning in foundations. Then we also looked at arts and letters. We had an overwhelming winner so we didn't have to go to a tiebreaker. Um but we want to talk just give a real brief overview about how Witten wisdom engages. Um this is where we uh the teachers really felt that this set it apart from from the others. Um, Witten Wisdom does not use a core textbook. It used many core texts. They use actual books, highquality, award-winning books from contemporary and established authors. And the term we used, we were looking for books that were worthy of study. So, if they're complex, you have to go back to them many times. They have to be worthy

096of you going back to them many times. Um, the uh lesson planning within Witten Wisdom um are highly rigorous learning tasks. They're designed on the core principles of the universal design for learning. multi-ensoring approaches um with low floor and high ceiling tasks. So all t all modules within wit and wisdom start with what's called an essential question. There is no answer. Kids can study these for as long as they want. Um but here's just some examples. All the units are rooted in history and social science. Host social science, history, social science or science. Um for example, what makes the world fascinating? How do books change lives? Why do people explore the sea? What is an artist? How does change impact people in nature? My favorite, what makes a great heart literally and figuratively? Why is

097it important to see both sides of the story? And how can sports influence individuals and societies? To give you a little kind of peak, this is 8th grade module one. What is the power of storytelling? just gives a little overview of the module. Basketball and family, teamwork and superstar moves, split-second c decisions and their reverberating effects. Those are the focus of the contemporary novel Inverse: The Crossover byWami Alexander. They're also the lifeblood of the twin brothers Josh and Jordan Bell, who are on the brink of maturity, figuring out their paths, passion, and game plans. They're also the subjects of Josh's energetic freestyle poems, poems that convey the novel's ultimate subject, the power and poetics and power of storytelling. And then kind of this is a this is a unit that really is um embedded into

098this idea of narrative writing, but narrative writing through expressing your own self. And that's really a a engaging topic for eighth graders. Give you a little bit more of the overview. I'm not going to read this, but we wanted to make it available. But I wanted to end with the end of module tasks. So when we talk about rigor for their end of module task, students apply their knowledge of contemporary poetry to their contemporary experience. Diver devising their own narrative in verse they work deeply with form and craft to make meaning of an important experience creating a story by capturing essential moments with poetic precision and pacing. Framed with an explanatory cover, students end of module task communicates an understanding of their sense of self and the power of storytelling. Let me give a couple

099more um examples. This is an end of module task from second grade task. Write an informative paragraph to explain your answer to the questions. How was one legendary person different from real life pioneers? Um students choose Johnny Apples Seed or John Henry that they would have studied both within the model module and they have contrast that person's legendary life with the lives of real pioneers that they studied throughout the module. They have to support their response with evidence from the following texts. Journey of a pioneer and the story of Johnny Apples Seed. they'll share this paragraph with every end of module has a real life purpose for the task. Who are you going to be reading this to? Um and then um there's always a series of checklists. This is another one. This is fifth

100grade. Imagine you're lost in the mountain. Write a story about your survival. Follow the steps of the acronym escape to plan out your story. So, sorry, I went too way too fast. So, curriculum preview for stakeholders. We've been notifying parents, guardians in the community to come visit us. Um, we engaged in price negotiations um and making sure that we could afford our goal was to do an 8-year adoption so that we're not doing this again in a few years. And we're making tonight the final recommendation to the board. After tonight, then we could execute paying for it and we start taking delivery of all the materials. And then our goal is to give teachers inperson professional development um so that we can be in in implementation in 2526. Um also of note it's important that

101we have a roadmap for teachers of what the first three years is going to look like. So this is just a draft. Um but that we're going to start working with our teachers so that they understand the expectations. Um this is a big lift for teachers and we want to make sure that they are supported and they understand the type of professional development and support they'll get over the course of the next three years. questions. Go ahead, Maggie. It was fast. Uh, thank you so much to the team for doing this. I I know it was immense. Susan, I'm just thinking back to your final interview with the with the board team and like how you were were showing us, you know, your vision on this way back when. So, here we are a year

102later and I'm really excited we're doing this. My question is off of the uh books that are introduced to the student. Are those uh prescribed by the publisher company or is there like an adoption that happens every year? Do they look at text as it No, the Yeah, the modules um are designed like for example, what makes a great heart literally and figuratively. Um in that there are core texts that the lessons are all around. They are um theformational about the circulatory system paired with love that dog, right, which is a is a book of pros. Um, and then then there's a series of there's art, there's music, there's poetry, um, there's supplemental that all come together. So, I I think to flip the question is uh does the do the text I mean I'm

103still reading books that I love when I was in elementary school, but do the texts get dated in any way like are are there is there an openness by the publisher? Do we have any insight of like next year's Calcott winner becomes a new Yeah. No, it would they would um Great Minds has developed these. These will stay. Uh, and again, they're all, you know, Giant Squid, Patricia Palco, these are um beloved books. Um, they would go off with a new a like any publishing company, they will have like a next version if they wanted to to do that. Um, but we don't anticipate they'll make any changes. Yeah, Rachel. Thank you. Um, Dr. Dr. Wilds, I just want to say hats off for an incredible job at just the systematic, comprehensive, evidence-based approach you

104took to ensuring that a collaborative approach that everyone affected by this. I mean, all of our teachers and our leaders um and our staff um were part of the process of of choosing this new curriculum was I mean, it it blew me away what you what you've done here and I'm incredibly excited to to to see it happening. And selfishly, I was wondering in eighth grade, am I going to see for next year for my eighth grader him um um engaging in that in that that end of module task? Um thank you. You sure are. He will be reading he will be reading crossover and he will be engaging in poetic uh uh storytelling. Oh, that's fantastic. I can't wait. Thank you so much. Congratulations and thank you for the whole team that worked with

105you on this. Carol question and a comment. So, I love that the essential questions in here are um are disc like sort of discussion based and and they could go a lot of different ways, not not what I'm used to maybe from seeing my kids fill out on on forms of when what did Mary say when XYZ happened? Um and point and tell me where in the text that was. So, I think that's amazing. Um, are the books still on display if people wanted to come look at Valley? They are in my office, in our office, um, in room 14. Um, and then probably within a week or so, what I'll do is I will send them out to the school sites. The teachers are jonesing to get their hands on them. Just in case

106someone's listening and and was like, "Oh, I want to check that out." Absolutely. Um, okay, great. And I'm happy to see that development already starts in August. That's fine. It does. Yeah. The core tenant will is of this curriculum is also um core practice is Socratic seminar. So to watch a group of first graders engage in Socratic seminar will take your breath away. Kathy. Yeah, I I was very happy to be part of it and I think we came up with the right program, the right curriculum and I learned a ton from you in particular and from science of reading and I'm I wish I was still teaching some tiny little bit of me still wish I was teaching but I'm excited for the future of our school and our students doing Socratic seminars in

107first grade. They're going to be running running the world, ruling the world, changing the world. Yeah. I love what a big deal this is because I feel like it's a 20-year shift. It's like it goes, you know, things really change, you know, shift in education, especially with reading. Um, you know, where we were with Lucy Caukins to where we are now with science of reading. I think it's it's exciting. Um, I want a couple things. I was going to uh it's it is a big big adoption moneywise. So, I just want us all to just like make sure we're I'm really on board, but it's um I just I'm excited about the new principles that know how to implement this program potentially. They're they're going to get guidance from from the two of you, guidance

108um from great professional development people. So, it's um you know, when you spend close to half a million dollars on a a language arts curriculum, we want to all hold hands and make sure we're all rowing in the same direction. So, we're all doing it. I want to thank Paula because we got you'll see we got a little creative. We have some leftover different onetime pots of money that we're clearing out too. The general fund A++ you're like triple A+es today Paula. Um the other thing I was going to just say is I would think it might be really great for teachers and parents and students to have a reading list before they go into summer if they want to get a like front frontload some of the knowledge in some of these books. I

109find that my secret way of connecting with my kids sometimes is by reading the books that they're reading in English class whether it was from middle school or grade school or did Battle of the Books with them. So I could have at least a academic conversation with them in a car ride home. So absolutely one of the things too that we loved about this curriculum is that there is a parent letter that goes home before every module that lists all of the books. Hey, here are the all the books. Here are all the pieces of text. Here's all the supplementary text that are going to be read. here's even the art that's be your child's going to be reading. But what it also does, it says, "Hey, if you're going to the library, look for

110these additional books that kind of can help broaden." Um, it also will have things like if you're home talking, here's some qu types of questioning that you can do that kind of help really reinforce some of the um, uh, what we call content stages in Whiten Wisdom. And then it also even has field trips parents can take like right you know think about doing this this and this as a family to really extend that like hands-on knowledge. I think we just should also just acknowledge in our comprehensive plan and when we came together last week and all the survey data that we got a lot of the like feedback that we got from families and from teachers was rigor and students rigor rigor rigor how are we going to increase it um and language having

111a comprehensive program. So, I really feel proud of us for like kind of answering that call and listening to what people really are wanting and um get ready everyone. We're we're moving in that direction. So, careful what you ask for. Yes. Welcome. And it's well worth the investment. It whatever the cost. So, when you're when you're wondering what to ask your kid on the way home from school, read the crossover and then have a conversation with them. Even if you're a kindergarten parent or read anything elsewami Alexander, he's a he's an amazingly prolific author. Even if you're like an eighth grade parent, read some of the the, you know, the books, the the picture books. It's like there's just a lot of information in there that you can dep reading book. They don't want to

112have to everybody open up to page whatever and they want books. They want things in their hands. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Thank you, Kathy, for being on that committee. I was excited to It's a great spot for you. Y Okay. Um, moving on to cons the consent agenda. Um, I hope everyone got a chance. There's a lot packed in that consent agenda, mainly renewal agreements for the most part. Um, anyone have any questions on the consent agenda or do I have a motion? I move to approve the consent. Thank you, Maggie. Do I have a second? I second. Thank you, Rachel. Um, so we will do a roll call on this one. Um, all in favor, uh, Dina, will you do the roll call for us? Board member Van Landingham. Um I approve. I board

113member Cluth I. Board member Boove Lam Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you so much. Dina. Moving on to action items number 12.1 resolution 20.20 20 2425 small school districts association resolution regarding Senate Bill 1315. Dr. Wilds. Yes, this is a great one. So, this is a resolution um put forth by the small school district association to which we are a part and they provide us a tremendous amount of resources. Um but our goal here is to with this resolution is to urge the California Department of Education to fully comply with Senate Bill 1315. This was a fairly new legislation that requires the California Department of Education to actually put together a report of the number and the types of basically reports that um are

114required by school districts to submit on an annual basis. Um that includes and what we saw particularly during COVID with all of the one-time funds, there were a tremendous increase in the amount of plans you had to put together, plans to bring to the board, but also report annual reporting. Um it's a burden on all school districts, but when you are a small school district, you are literally looking right now at the people who have to do all of these reporting. Um and we believe that the CDE has left off a number of key reports that really do suck time away from staff and away from being able to support students. Um so that we ask that you adopt this resolution and allow us to send it up to the state. Basically, it's just saying

115um hey, we we we think you're asking too much from us. And in addition to asking too much from us, you forgot to mention that there was like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine other reports that you didn't even think about, right? That you know in this Yes. kind of cavalier maybe request. The LCAP plan in in and of itself is hundreds of hours worth of work. Um the same thing with the SIPAS, the ELOP plan. All of these things require hours of staff um time and work to submit. And what's our hopeful outcome out of this? If we we just want it included in the report so that they're so that lawmakers when they look at this are actually looking at the totality um of what admin really administrative staff are

116being asked to do. Like I said in a larger district like Torrance, they have someone whose only job is to do the LCAP. Sylvia has still has to do the exact same report. Um might look at Sylvia because she's triggered by the LCAP right now. Um, you know, same thing with like uh the consolidated application for federal funding. Most districts have a person just for that one. Small school districts. Your PE the same report has to be submitted but just a lot less people. And so what what are we asking of [Music] them? What what would we want a lot to change? How would we want the law to change? We we don't want the law to change. We just want them to comply with it and put all of these into their final report

117to lawmakers. Okay, that's it. Okay. Can I get a motion? Any other questions? Sorry. Questions? Move to approve. Thanks, Maggie. Motion. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you, Carol. All in favor? Can I do I need to do roll call on that one? Okay, go ahead. Roll call Dina. Board member Van Landingham. I. Board member Cluth. I. Board member Bove Lammon Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. Hi. President Cole I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you. Dina number 12.2 um adoption of witten wisdom the K8 Geodess K3 foundations TK through3 as the English language arts curriculum. Yes. As shared in the presentation earlier. This is an action item to now formally adopt and give us the green light to purchase the Wit and Wisdom curriculum in grades K through eight. Geodess in grades

118K through three. We've already purchased foundations and that's something we've already we've already done, but it never got taken to the board as a formal adoption. So, um we want to bring it forward so that all three are part of our legal compliance. Um this is an eight-year adoption and staff recommend you approve this action item. Can I get a motion? Motion to approve. Thank you, Carol. I a second. Thank you, Kathy. All in favor, Dina, would you do the roll call? Member van Landingham. Hi. Member Cluth. Hi. Member Bo Le Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole. Hi. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Dina. Business 12.3. The consultant service agreement for project management. Dr. Wilds. Yes. So, this is a limited consulting agreement um to secure services of a construction

119project manager to support our few remaining um measure S projects. So, we've got HVAC um uh replacement um for about 10 units at Valley. Um the current repairs that we want to do this summer on the View HBAC system as well as the Vista Turf project. This agreement is a not to exceed amount and ours will only be utilized as needed for those individual projects. Staff recommend you approve this agreement. Anybody have any questions? No. Okay. Can I get a motion? Uh thank you, Kathy. And I'll take the second from Rachel. Um, Dina, can you do the roll call, please? Member Van Landingham, I. Member Cluth, I. Member Bo Monica, hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow, I. President Cole, I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Dina. 12.4 agreement. Hermosa Valley HVAC Installation Services with

120Retrofit Technology LLC. Miss Montablo. Thank you. Uh, the Hermosa Beach City School District is compi committed to maintaining safe and effective learning environments. To support this goal, the district identified the need to replace 10 units um aging HVAC units. Seven firms submitted sealed bids and did a public bidding on April 23rd. Following a thorough review, Retrofit Technology LLC was identified as had submitted the lowest bid and most responsive. A notice of intent was in issued on April 24th. The recommendation is that the agreement for the Hermosa Valley HVAC installation of retrofit technology be approved. Anybody have any questions? I I have one, but you have any questions? I don't. Rachel, you have any questions? No, ma'am. And just to confirm, this is the company that's going to take all the the units and put them

121to make them all work together like No, this is the units that we're placing at um Hermosa. We bought the units early because we knew there would be a lag time. Y so we separated the buying of the units and this is just the service to install those 10 units this summer. They are installation on um locations at valley. We do not believe where roofing roof lines would be impacted by future construction. Okay. And they will work with our current system. Yes. Yes. Yes. And that was a big deal. Yeah. Yes. They're like for like for like. Okay. All right. Uh can I get a motion, please? So moved. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Uh Maggie and then Kathy. Can I get a roll call, please? Dina, member Van Landingham. I. Member Cluth. I. Member

122Bo Lam Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole. I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. All right. Moving on to 12.5. The purchase of the Heartland solution software and hardware. Miss Montablo. Thank you. We're really excited about this purchase um to move away from Meal Magic. Um, Heartland provides uh a robust system. The system provides uh managed meal applications, ensures compliance with state guidelines, provides a userfriendly point of sale. Um, so we're really looking forward to implementing this system and having it up and running by July 1st. Uh, the recommendation and the agreement for the Hermosa uh heartland is recommended and this is coming from a kit grant. So, I wrote a kink grant two years ago and got $125,000. So, that's will what we'll be paying for it. Well, that's exciting. Thank you.

123Yeah, you're at 4 A's today. Almost super straight A's tonight. But um can I just ask a question about are we getting this up and running just in case we lose any federal funding for um meals? Yes, it has both applications. So it has a free and reduced side and it also will have a point of sale that will can integrate with power school and my school bucks. Okay. So potentially we don't know yet for sure. We yeah I mean it varies every day whether we would have currently we've had a free lunch program. Everyone's been on free lunch. Doesn't matter what your econ economic status is. But moving forward if we had to pivot this software allows us to pivot in a day. Okay. And parents should know that if we had to pivot

124potentially then if they were going to get lunch at school they would now have to pay for it potentially. Potentially. Okay. Unless they qualify. Exactly. Yeah. Go ahead, Carol. Uh my question was just does this take the place of eunds or e you know we haven't been using e funds since co. So there's no payment system anymore using right and I guess I'm thinking of that more for what they were using for science camp. They were still using e funds. You would still continue to do that. Correct. Okay. This is just for food. Yes. All right. Can I get a motion? I had a question. Sorry. Go ahead, Rachel. Sorry. Um I should have asked this before, but I was just wondering the Meal Magic have um the gluten-free options, allergyfriendly options that that uh

125um that that come as part of their their their meals. So, if they want a gluten-free option or they require a special diet, there is a form that they have to fill out. That form has to be turned into the district and then we turn it into our provider, Torrance Unified, and we'll be renewing their contract tonight or we already did. Um, so it it's a process. We don't automatically serve the a restricted diet or gluten-free. They have to submit a doctor's note. And once they've submitted that, like the folks that we know that are diagnosed as celiac, it would be it's not that it's it's just the process has to be followed. It's not that there's a chance it could be rejected. Not typically, no. We've had um we don't have any students on

126special diets this year. We have in the last two years, though. So, a specific meal comes to the school with their name on it. It's kept away. You know, it's separated from all the other meals in the refrigerator. And to be honest, I don't think a lot of folks know that. As you know, my son does have celiac disease and we pack his lunch. Well, I have to admit my husband packs his lunch every single day because I didn't think we had the option to even request something for him at school and that's bad on us for not for not asking. But that's wonderful to know. Um and if we could help maybe when we transition and and again remind parents that that that does exist. So, thank you for that. Yeah, you're welcome. Yeah,

127thank you. Um okay, can I get a motion? Thanks for asking that question, Rachel. And I'll motion to pass. Thank you, Rachel. One second. Thank you, Carol. Um, Dina, could you do the roll call, please? Member Van Landingham, I. Member Clue, I. Member Bove Lam Monica. Vice President Clerk Barrow, I. President Cole, I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. All right. Um, we got a few more here. Uh, consultant agreement for special ed services, Miss Glack. 12.6. The district has identified the need to conduct an assessment for a student requiring a specialized evaluation. It must be done by a licensed aiologist. We do not have a licensed aiologist on staff. So, it is recommended that the board approve the agreement um for the consultant to do the assessment. Thank you. Anyone have any questions? All right.

128Can I get a motion? Thank you, Maggie. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you, Kathy. Dina. Member Van Landingham. I. Member Clue. Hi. Member Pov Lam Monica. Vice President Clerk Barrow I. President Cole I. Five five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you. 12.7 purchase of technology equipment 200 Chromebooks through the California multiple award schedule contract number 3-24-051014. Uh Mr. Hernandez. Good evening board. It's recommended that the board of education approved the CAMS purchase of 200 Chromebooks. The Hermosa School District continues to prioritize student access to technology to support the infrastructure programs, digital learning, and state testing requirements. Um, to maintain the 1:1 device ratio in the middle schools, um, we want to replace the equipment. The district is proposing 200 ASUS Chromebooks. There any questions, Rachel? Um, so do we insure each of those

129or do parents take on an insurance responsibility for each individual Chromebook? We are building that into our student store and that will be a funding that they can donate Rachel has not been a practice in the past, but we would like to implement that for for the 25 26 school year to allow parents to take insurance. That's terrific. Thank you. I saw they were doing that redo. So that's Yeah. So these Chromebooks would come in be distributed to sixth grade is the first grade where the Chromebooks travel back and forth. They would come in for our sixth grade students. Um and then the students would retain these Chromebooks through sixth, seventh, and eighth. Go ahead, Maggie. How does how does that work if a family wasn't able to enforce? They don't have to have it.

130It's Chromebooks fall especially when you have like the the way technology is now Chromebooks and technology fall and you're like Williams act. we're going to provide the Chromebook regardless. Um, that being said, if a student, I don't know, takes a paper clip and jams it into a Chromebook and sets it on fire, the insurance would cover that if they had insurance. If not, they would be build for the total cost of the Chromebook. The insurance would cover intentional destruction of the Chromebook. Wow, it can. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Thank you. I don't recommend it though. Other things come with intentional destruction, right, Carol? No, I'm good. Thank you. I'm good. I did have a question just about our process in terms of um making sure we just have a schedule and like a do we have

131a I guess I had always thought we had had a schedule. So I I'm surprised we don't have a schedule. So or I just I'm not sure when we actually renew Chromebooks. Yeah. Um and then because I thought we did Mhm. And then and CO was about the last purchase. I I believe Aaron was the last per the last big purchase was during CO. Yes. Okay. That was the last big purchase. And then and then at least my two kids have Chromebooks that have seem to have identification. Yeah. Things that they it's just all like a process when you go to like uh when they go to school to register. They get their Chromebook, they check it out. Like is that what our plan? That's our plan. So our plan is that in the that

132the Chromebooks, the um charging cords, the headphones, all those things would be barcoded and entered into the flet system um which is just like a library system. Students come to and then as opposed to us chasing these down, they'd be checked out the library. If student needs a new um I lost my charger, then we can f we can find for it. Okay. So that's our plan moving forward. Yes. Great question. Yeah. Go ahead, Carol. Uh, I just wanted to sort of ask a follow-up question after the insurance will cover various things if it's on purpose or not. We still would have we still obviously have an acceptable use policy that parents and kids sign. So, insurance doesn't take the place of that. They do not. And and there is clear California education code around

133destroying school property. Great. Um, all right. So, can I get a motion? So moved. Thank you, Kathy. Second. Thank you, Maggie. All in favor? I I Sorry, we have to do the roll call, ladies. Why are we doing member Van Landingham? I'm sorry. I Member Cli. Member Bo Lam Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole. Hi. Five yes votes. Motion passes. All right. Moving on to 12.8. Renewal of Palo Alto Network security subscription. Mr. Hernandez. Yes. recommended to the board to approve the renewal of our Palo Alto security subscription. The Hermosa Beach City School District utilizes Palo Alto as our as a part of our network cyber security and um infrastructure to ensure the secure and reliable operation of digital systems across our district. All right, any questions? Any questions? No, not for

134me. Rachel, no. No, no question. I just had a again just a little quick question. Um, so I know we had like a fishing incident this week, correct? And so how does how does this Palo Alto network if we've already if we've had them, how does it prevent that or how should it prevent that? Correct. Um, so with pushing emails in this particular case, it was a human, what would you call it? Um, originated. So a person has to physically type in their credentials into somewhere either an email, a website on networks that are not necessarily regulated by Palo Alto because it's outside of our network like home networks like coffee shops. Wherever there's Wi-Fi that's not our Wi-Fi, we don't have the ability to protect that with the Palo Alto network. It it um

135protects all our internal infrastructure such as our servers, our students information, our financial information. It's a fence around Hermosa Beach it um school district. So if a staff member takes their computer home or uses their anywhere outside of the fencing fenced area, correct? Then this does not work. Correct. So what do we do in that case? So yeah, a couple things. one, we can increase our dual factor two-factor authentication, right? Which that is in place. Yes. Yeah. So, if you're you're logging onto a network that is not a Hermosa, forcing a second factor authentication, that could be one thing. Okay. Um, we also talked about doing a more frequent, for lack of a better term, the great C the great um password reset. Re passwords need to be reset in a much more frequent manner.

136um which is can be a little bit of a pain, but we can do a forced reset where we push out districtwide um that can be something that we can that we'll be putting into place as well. Okay, Dr. Wild, I was just going to just to jump in on that. I know just at my um academic institution, we have even though the training is painful, we've got periodic training, we have to update our emails, but the training is a reminder of of you know what how to identify what is a fish or the fish and what not to do. And I think those are they're important as as painful as they can be to have to do them, but we're we're denied access to our network if we don't get the training done on

137time. So, it's it's been able to um improve the security of our network. Yeah. And Mr. uh Mr. Dr. Hernandez and um and Jorge went they went out the beginning of the year and delivered that training to the beginning of every to every directly to every staff at the three school sites which I do believe helped people not because we got you know immediate emails from folks saying hey Paula why are you sending me a docu sign right those kinds of things so um they were able to recognize it those are good suggestions Rachel I I think I mean you know we all know the future we're in which is this is going to happen this happens every day to body in our little network here. So, we we probably have to beef this part

138up. Yes. Especially when everybody it can happen so quickly. Um, okay. So, I guess we need an approval. Motion to approve. Thank you. Can I get a second? Second, Maggie. Thank you, Maggie. So, we got Rachel. Maggie. Uh, can you do the roll call Dino? Member Van Landingham. I. Member Cluth. Hi. Member Bo Lam Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I President Cole I five yes votes motion passes great thank you Dina 12.9 classified employment transaction for new position and revised classified salary schedule for TK instructional aids Dr. Wilds. Yes. So the next three items are what we call HR cleanup. So this is this action is an HR cleanup to ensure we have job descriptions for our transitional kindergarten classroom aids. Um, this is a position that differs from special education para educators because

139they're serving the whole classroom versus a single um, student within the special education program. Um, staff recommend you approve this description um, as well as its line and inclusion in the formal salary schedule. Anyone have questions about that? Good to clean up. Thank you. Thank you for cleaning it up. I thank you for noticing and thank you for cleaning it up. All Silia, thank you. You get an A tonight, too. A lot of A's. Triple A's. Um Rachel, any questions? No, ma'am. All right. Can we get a motion? Move to approve. Thank you. Second. Thank you. I'll take Kathy. Maggie. Kathy. And then um Dina, board member Van Landingham. I. Board member Cluth. Hi. Board member Bo Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole. I. Five. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Moving on

140to 1210 12. Yes. So, also HR cleanup, we had an error on the salary schedule for our food service supervisor position. Um, the the salary was was wrong. Um, so we're rectifying it here tonight. Staff recommends you approve this schedule. I'm really happy to do that. Um, can I get a Anyone have a question? No question, but I'll move to Thank you, Kathy. Second. Thank you, Maggie. I know you're gonna say it. All in favor, Dina. Member Van Landingham. I. Member Cluth. I. Member BL Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole. I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you. And the last one tonight. Yeah. So, the final piece of HR cleanup tonight involves classified positions. So, California Ed Code 45103 requires that job descriptions are created and made available for every position

141that you have with within the classified service. Um, and so these uh three positions. Oh, I I apologize. Uh, Dina, we need to amend this one, correct? Oh, yeah. I have the amendment. Sorry. It's my bad. Um, so I should say sorry. It's item actually it's called item 211. It's the approval of revised classified and management confidential job descriptions. Yes. Proced. Okay. Go. So, this item um when it got printed in, um board docs includes the TK position, but we already approved that. So, what we're looking what we're asking is to amend this um item to just be the three directors. Got it. So, do we need a motion? Yep. I see that right here. Yep. I make a motion to amend the the action item 1211 to exclude the TK job description and to

142approve only the management confidential job description. To approve only the management job description. Thank you. Pretty good not looking. Was you almost verbatim? Can I Thank you, Carol Dina. Thank you for cleaning these up also. Great to Member Van Landingham. I member Cluth I. Member Bove Lam Monica. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I President Cole I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Okay. But now we have to move to vote on an amended 1211 which includes the adoption of the revised job description. Do I need to do that part or is this Was this enough? I did it. No, we have to now make a motion on this one. I think we now have to make I have a question. Yes. Um my question off of this one is for the And thank you for doing the

143cleanup. Um off of the job description for director of communications. Yep. Um given the amount of uh skills and knowledge that we require for that, I was surprised we don't have a minimum um experience level in that. Just curious how you thought. So that that particular job description was um uh was brought to the board but as a different title. So that one we brought forth back forth tonight with the amended title when her title when you all voted on the title changes last spring um that's what we amended that for. Got it. Yeah. So if we typically what will um happen like if something happened and we needed a new director of communications we will always when a good HR practice is to review job descriptions and make make changes. Okay. Yeah. Yep. The

144other two we just didn't have any at all. Right. I move to approve the amended uh uh 12.11 action item. Second. Can you do the roll call? Member Van Landingham. Hi. Member Clue. I member Bet Lmon Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. I. President Cole. I. Five yes votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Dina. We'll go to board member roundt. Carol and Maggie. I know you guys had stuff you wanted to chat about. Yeah. Uh well, I'll start with most recent with Hearts of Hermosa on Saturday, which was fun. I want to say thank you to Dr. Wilds for finding a way to let HBF have that event on campus. They've been trying to do that, I know, for years. And I think it made a huge uh difference just to the spirit and how excited

145people were to be there. And I think there was more staff there than I recall seeing in the past. So, thank you for that. And then obviously a massive thanks to everyone at HBF who did all the heavy lifting to make that event happen this year and um make it such a success and so much fun. So that was great. Super fun. Um and then at the end of April, uh I was lucky enough to go to a CSBA conference coast to coast in DC for 4 days, three days, four days, whatever. I took a red eye, so felt like five days, but it was three days, I think. Um, but it was really great to be able to go. I'm very appreciative for being able to to go and meet with other districts, uh,

146hear from federal lawmakers on what they're working on, be able to engage with a lot of those people. And I'm also uh really thankful that Maggie was there because it made a huge difference to me to be able to do that with you because I think that uh your experience and expertise made that a very different um event than it would have been without you. So, thank you for that. Yeah. Just to add off of that for details for the group, we heard from um Senator Adam Schiff, new California's new senator. We heard from Representative uh Kevin Kylie. He's over the congressional third district. uh and chair of the House Education Committee. Um so interesting that he's a teacher from Los Angeles, the Teacher for America, family of educators, and now in Congress. So nice

147to have a teacher's voice up there, even if it's a diverse set of views. And then we also heard from uh our representative Ted Lou. And then we met uh Carol and I met along with Santa Monica and Beverly Hills um uh school board members with uh Tedl staff and were able to uplift um our concerns um specifically off the committees he's on uh where we thought he'd have the most direct voice off of technology, cyber security, -ate and AI. Great. Thank you. Super fun. Glad you guys went. Good representation. I had another uh Yeah, feel free. Go ahead. Um, I was just thinking I couldn't find the governance calendar um in my files, but we should have a a a report out of when the technology thing happens. So, I know it does happen

148on a schedule. Jen and I were like muttering over here of when when that happens. So, I was hoping we could come back with that information of when our next text tech um presentation is. I'm going to just build off that too is that um I just am I know we went to that AI conference and would love to know kind of what our I just can't remember what our next steps are on that answer tonight. Yeah, we'll make it part of the presentation especially because it's happening and rapid rapid happen rapidly happening. Yeah. If anybody have anything else? Rachel, you have anything? Um, I just want to piggyback off of what Carol said. Hearts of Hermosa, um, was outstanding. It was, I mean, the tangible difference in quality, um, fun, um, support from the

149community by having it, you know, showcasing and showing off our schools was just was off the charts. Um, and the hard work of so so many people. Um, and you just, I mean, I had, you know, just the privilege of being over at Resin. I'm going to thank Raphael McMasters for showcasing our students art at resin the night before which was part of it. There's so many moving parts to Hearts of Hermosa outside of just actually physically putting it um putting it up and getting the sponsorships etc. It was um now that I'm seeing everything that goes beyond behind the scenes, I'm just amazed it gets done and gets done to such quality. So, a huge huge thank you. Um and I really hope we get to have it again there there next year, but

150maybe a little quieter after 10. It was an incredible night. I agree. And the art was like just so incredible, so beautiful. Everyone kept saying how they felt like it was like top-notch art, especially great theme. I think people really rallied behind the theme. And thank you to the dads. Was it her most dads? They called the dads. What's the country band that played? I think it's called the dads. Something dads. Something dads. But anyway, they were awesome. Amazing. Yeah. Very good. We appreciate it and all the hard work. Um on that, make a motion to close. Thank you, Maggie. Anyone second? Thank you, Carol. I'll second. Thank you, Carol. And um Dina, board member Van Landingham. Hi, board member Cl. Hi. Board member Bet L Monica. Hi. Vice President Clerk Barrow. Hi. Vice President

151Cole, I'm sorry, President Cole. I And I'm excited to have the new principles getting started with us. So, here we go. Thank you. Good night, everybody. Night.