001[Music] action hi everyone good evening and we're gonna call this meeting to order at 503 and Robin could you take the roll please and thank you for filling in for Dina board member van landingham present board member Reed gluth present vice president clerk Barrow present president Cole present there's four present um moving on to public comments from the audience uh to the board for items on the closed session uh members of the audience May address the board regarding closed session items uh comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless weigh by a majority of all board members I don't see anyone in the audience and I don't think we have anyone on Zoom or on yeah comment on Zoom this time thank you um all right so we will adjourn our close session or
002to close session e e e up the meeting's called to order at 6 06 so light out um in Clos session is a a readout from closed session um the board took action to non reelect five probationary teachers the roll call vote for each was as following board member van laham yes board member Reed cluth yes board member b l Monica yes board member Barrow yes and board member Cole yes um we're just going to take a minute before we get started and the Hermosa Beach City School District would like to take a moment to honor and remember Jack Burns who was a former board member um passed who passed away recently um Jack joined the board in 2009 and served until 2013 playing a pivotal role in guiding the district through a challenging Financial
003period he was um he had young uh younger children in the district at the time when he joined the board um his leadership dedication and unwavering commitment were instrumental improvs preserving the Integrity of our schools Jack LED with compassion passion and conviction and always striving to find solutions that in dured sorry ensured the district's stability we are deeply grateful for his service or sorry for his family's loss and Lasting contributions to our community and can we take roll call please Robin okay there we go there board member van landingham president board member Reed clu pres board member vola Monica pres vice president clerk Barrow pres president Cole presid all present thank you and can we please rise for the flag salute to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for
004which it stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for all I did a few of those things backwards but it's okay um can I get an approval for tonight's agenda so moved thank you Kathy and we're gonna move oh can I get a second sorry second thank you Carol and all in favor hi thank you everyone moving on to number seven we we adopted a new system here so sorry I'm used to reading out lots of things and now I'm like oh just 7.1 welcome to the board meeting Hermosa Valley student council we are always happy to have you here it is your turn it's on announcements come on [Laughter] [Applause] up hi my name is Elizabeth and I am the fifth grade representative for fifth and sixth student council I wanted to
005share a few things about what is is happening in fifth grade Friday we are headed to the California Science Center to watch an IMAX about blue the blue whales and explore and learn about all things that we have learned about in class chemical reactions food webs water cycles and more fifth grade is gearing up for our 17th of century American History Day on Wednesday March 26th this is a great day for students to understand how the colonial people lived learning about their culture through food making crafts dancing and even going to school in ideal lab classes are rotating through three different units robots marble roller coasters and 3D printing hi my name is anha I'm very student council at Valley Middle School and we are here to update you on what's Happening hi I'm Presley
006Clancy Simon last weekend the eth grade students attended Astro group it was a different Adventure as it was held over the weekend however the students came back with so much excitement there was snow on the ground and many memories were made thank you to everyone who worked hard to make it happen today the eighth graders went to Disneyland currently they are gearing up to head back to campus although it rained I'm sure the students still had a great experience with their friends our HOSA Valley Stu Science Olympiad team led by coaches Miss Shannon Mion and Miss spau had a great showing at regionals this past Saturday their team put their skill stem skill SKS to the test during the regional competition at Rio Hondo College competing in 23 different events against 43 middle schools from
007all across Los Angeles County they placed 11th overall congratulations to the HBS Science Olympiad team recruitment for next year's team will begin soon sixth seventh and eighth graders are welcome to participate trimester 2 ended last Friday and we started trimester 3 this week students who are participating in the trimester elective wheel received new classes on Monday and are really excited to start some new projects the fifth grade will also be attending a field trip to the California Science Center this Friday we hope they have a great trip spring sports are here this season TR for boys and girls track field Surf and cheer boys volleyball and girls flag football will begin soon make sure to check out the HBS HBS Athletics website for updates be excited exed for another season and good luck to our
008fellow Dolphins our HOSA Valley student council will host the Last Dance of the year next Friday March 21st from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the perosa Valley School gym the students have chosen the theme Hawaiian Paradise permission slips will go out by the end of this week everyone is excited for the dance and students are really looking forward to the DJ and the In-N-Out truck thank you again for allowing our student Council to share what is happening at Valley we look forward to sharing more information with you next month great job you guys a great um articulation all of you it's like so fun to hear you talk and be so comfortable in the microphone so great job um we're going to move on to public comments uh public comments from the audience to the
009board um members of the audience May address the board on any topic regardless of whether it is listed on the agenda whoever 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 visitors shall not exceed three minutes per speaker unless waved by a majority of all members of the board do we have any public comment tonight Robin I see new people in the audience but assuming you aren't here for public comment anybody on Zoom NOP no public comments okay everyone no one wants to talk tonight no J I think you're up just all right moving on
010to board member reports would you like to start Maggie I would I want to share with the board that I've been participating in the csba legislative advocacy week uh it's been today was the day two there is two more days of it and it's an opportunity to speak with uh state legislators both assembly and Senate um there are a series of bills that I been advocating on on behalf of prosa um obviously for prop 98 money and um Cola funding to make sure that uh school districts are put whole but then there is also a bill um extending the ability of school districts to uh have substitute teachers from 30 to 60 days and then also a 2019 bill um ab218 which uh had a statute of limitations uh increase for victims of childhood abuse
011and uh educating lawmakers on the con quences that bill is having for um both budget and administrative staff time for school districts um so these are really fun anyone is open to join these calls uh we've all been given the opportunity to hop on I encourage you the csba does have talking points if you're uh nervous to know what to talk about but um good opportunity to get in front of the legislators let them know about her most of each thank you for doing that mag Carol anything sure yeah can I can I share about going to the Sketchers okay so uh I was lucky enough to be able to go to the Sketchers and friendship Foundation celebration last week I think it was we went and um our our team this year knocked it
012out of the park they had a record-breaking year was am I allowed to say how much it is 100 it was 168 16699 269 sorry I don't know why I said 269 it was 269 ,000 which is 20 just over 20,000 more than last year which is amazing um I just want to say a big thank you to the community because it's it's all of our parents and our community that make that happen every year as well as our staff that promotes it and gets into it it doesn't happen without the staff being nicely competitive with their peers and then a really big thank you to Trisha skon and Joyce Raa who chaired that event and made it what as great as it was um it's the 16th year that that event has ran and
013the first year Hermosa brought in I think $6,500 so it's it's kind of amazing to see how far it's gone for all the whole Community since then and so kind of Sketchers to be such great supporters of the school districts in the South Bay it's an amazing give back so great job thank you Carol Kathy you've always they're going to like some new committees what's what what committee have you been to this so today as a matter of fact we were um on our third day of our English language arts adoption and which consists of teachers administrators AIDS and a trainer to die for she's so good but no I do I do really appreciate um Susan Wilds as our trainer for this I'm learning a lot as a teacher who taught for 20 years
014it's still I'm learning a ton of stuff so that's great um today we started looking at our first set of curriculum items from this one publisher and we have a criteria of non-negotiables that we're looking at and trying to grade them and then we have a couple more that we're going to be looking at and coming up with the best program curriculum for our students for each and every student to learn how to read and the science of reading and writing so I'm excited about that that's it Rachel any additional board reports no unfor I was uh working when we had the Los Angeles County School trustees association meeting but they're having another one next week I'll be able to attend over Zoom so I'll be able to catch up perfect thanks um all right
015moving on um reports to the board in discussion and we'll start with 10.1 the Hermosa Valley inter intermural athletic presentation do we do we have a good evening thank you for uh thank you boy for allowing us to be up here and share a little bit what's going on at Hermosa uh it's good to see you guys good to see your faces too so super exciting uh just wanted to quickly introduce we're going to talk about what we're doing here at Hermosa what we got going during fall what we did during the fall what we did during winter what's coming up in Spring and then just kind of what's hope for next year and what we're building on for this year so bit of a run-of show sorry bit of a run-of show for today
016um one of the things that I appreciate most is having this wonderful person stand beside me um who's really changed the face of promosa Athletics um but in terms of our core values and athletic goals um Nate came in and said we're doing a lot of things really well and then we're doing lot of things that we can grow where we can grow um and so I attribute a lot of those cor core values and athletic goals to what he's been able to do we're going to talk about athletic highlights some celebrations um a couple people who are new to our family and our team in sports and then what we see as the next steps for future for um our after school sports program all right these are our core values and athletic goals
017some of these already existed if you guys know Mr butcher he you know he come came up with some of these goals and then I added some these goals of Miss bled so we uh yeah came up with these uh the top priority for me like some of the things that I I really uh value is commitment to Excellence I think there's something special about doing things with Excellence you know not just doing things just to do things you know doing things well whether it's like practice games even how we conduct ourselves on the field uh just doing things with excellence and then even um personal growth um I say this like uh when I had my first introduction with some of the parents like it's not only about sports but it's also about like
018growing holistically as an individual like gain a responsibility hey I made a commitment I need to show up to practice like hey I'm not going to go I need to go tell the coach myself like I'm not going to go tell them for you um just all these things that you learn within Sports um those are like the two biggest things for me that I've been trying to really push on this year with our coaches and just our athletes oh yeah do sorry uh some of the highlights uh fall we we killed it during fall season I think you guys girls volleyball was here you guys recognize them we always like run the floor with volleyball uh cross oh that sorry sorry sorry sorry we do okay you know you know what I mean yeah
019yeah yeah yeah uh cross country we did we did well we had some first place winners uh Capri pierce the sixth grader she killed it uh she like absolutely demolished it she actually holds our record right now like Mr butcher has like a record of like all HBS students that used to like come here and we do like a track and field unit and she just broke the record for the fastest miles a sixth grader she's like six 620 something or 640 something so she is awesome uh boys and girls surf was really good it was kind of like a prep season for them as to get ready for their comp season and spring cheer was great uh winter season uh it's a rebuild year for us last year and we did really well uh
020last year we we struggled uh you know was just a lot of uh the other schools are just bigger than us so a lot of the competition a lot of the players that we can pull from is a little bit smaller man but this year we did really well like boys soccer won a few games I think girls soccer won this is their first year I think uh in like three years that they won like more than two games so that was like awesome to hear about and see that uh boys and and boys and girls basketball has been doing really really well uh the coaches for The Boys team has just awesome and the girls basketball was just one game uh shy of being the champions for the South Bay league but I think
021we got it next year I think we got it next year yeah so when you talk about impact I think it's important to always know where did from where did we come and where are we now um and I think all of us remember the time when Sports born a thing for a couple of years a lot of our students kind of lost a bit of their identity during that time so it's been so enriching to rebuild and see kids competitive play seeing them interacting with one another seeing parents on the sidelines but when we're talking about program impact and we look at the number of students that are impacted by this it's about 47% of our middle school students that are taking part in some form of athletic event um and I think as
022we continue to grow that Nate's doing a great job of getting students on teams supported by the board too initiatives of building out more clinics for maybe the the kids that are just playing for the very first time and want that exposure want that athletic exposure but when you're looking at the coaches that we have the total number of games and meets that this guy is organizing and um how many conversations that happen between athletic directors the impact is great it also does a lot for our school morale so kids asking like how do I keep this shirt can I get my people my friends to sign this shirt uh come come out and support me at the game so it just feels like we're really breeding that school spirit in Hermosa and rolling them
023up to two really wonderful athletic high schools it's important that we continue to grow and then also continue to make our programs great all right we wanted to kind of give a shout out to some of our uh athletes uh here is a spotlight on Lily I know you guys if you guys don't know who Lily is she's she's new to this school year uh to the school this year she's an eighth grader um she came to the school and she's a volleyball player and she's like I asked her to give me a quote because I was like hey how did it feel to be like you know kind of your first time here um not knowing anyone she's like I really actually enjoyed it I think volleyball gave me an outlet to make some
024social friends um and so it was really really cool to hear her say like hey you know like I found people that love volleyball just as much as I do and so she was able to make them Network and some friends fun fact about Lily uh if you guys know who her her uncle is Kiki vanway he used to play for the LA Clippers so that was I was like vanway vanway that sounds familiar she like yeah my uncle is a basketball player I was like ah okay okay but yeah so it was awesome to see Lily uh just uh play this year she's an incredible volleyball player and just to see her build some relationship with some of her friends there fact that we stay a lot in Hermosa oh these kids have been
025together since they came out of the womb right um but what it says is a student can come here be new find a thing and find her people uh and really make a mark on our school be celebrated and have people in a program which is wonderful yeah yeah I also wanted to invite anha who's just like a great person cuz she's in student council she's an athlete she played volleyball for us she wants to share a little bit about her experience with girls volleyball hi guys I just want to start off by giving a huge thanks to coach Basquez for putting together such an amazing volleyball program he's always been really enthusiastic about his role as the Athletics director at HBS and he's just really involved with the sports programs that we have um
026I loved being a part of our school's volleyball team it was a great way to get to know people that I really wouldn't have to talked to otherwise and I got to like just meet everyone so many different grades in Social Circles he had an amazing team as well as so many amazing coaches who are really supportive motivating and encourag us just to play to our best ability um not only did being part of the volleyball team allow me to meet new people it also developed my skills like team bonding being competitive while still being respectful playing as a unit putting like all of your effort in all of the time and playing a new position um one of the biggest benefits of playing School sports in general is they serve as a transition to
027like Club from summer season the transition especially for volleyball set kids apart from the ones that played for their school that U the transition especially for volleyball sets the kids that played for their school apart from the kids that didn't and it's a clear indication of their dedication and love for the SP thank you for sharing that aha she was great also if you guys don't mind board uh I have a letter that was written by one of the eighth graders uh he's celebrating at Disney with all his friends so I wanted to share um it's a really sweet letter um it says Dear School Board my time here at HS has been a really awesome experience although one of my favorite experience was HS Athletics my time on the HBS flag football team was
028an amazing experience where I had an outlet two emotions and where I made friends with kids across all grades in and out of HBS it's also a great community of coaches and players and overall I'm honored to play for the team representing our school and being part of a great group of people regardless of record best regards wle Wesley row uh I know and if you guys uh know Wesley you know he's had a rough start of the year but man it was cool to hear this and to hear him say hey like I'm glad I was able to be a part of the team and it was so cool to see just s flourish you know he was like his thing it was his thing there see that um we also no go ahead
029I just want to show quickly show some of the pictures that's Capri in the bottom left when she won first place at our it was at nbms and that's a volleyball team football team those some some cool uh surf pictures that actually our yearbook kids took of they went there they went in the morning and took those cool pictures um we also had the experience this year you know we're in La we were able to connect with uh this company called Playbook Sports and they invited us to go play at Sofi um so we did like a little fun intermal game we splitted the boys half and half and they played on the field and the girls were out there cheerleading and the parents went um so it was a really fun experience they went
030out there for like an hour and I mean you know who can say they get it they played on a on on a professional football team so that was really cool to to see that and be there for that so uh this is this particular quote is from one of our eighth graders Pierce Kerber so we kind of highlighted both ends of the spectrum Lily who's really new to us and Pierce who's one worn the shirt for the last three years here in Hermosa and kind of has a bit of a athletic Legacy in our town but I think what's great about about highlighting student athletes is they are so multi-dimensional so I think a lot of times our teachers and staff see like how well is somebody doing in in English or how well
031are they doing in in science and Pierce is killing it but also he is a great athlete and he's a great team member um and really shows leadership skills on the court and off so it's it's it's an honor to watch him play and then here's our winter sports highlighted um I think that an important thing for me personally is to Big shout out to our coaches these are our parents our people in community that are supporting not only their children but others uh they are helping build skills since we're a middle school team and I think coach feed does a really great job leading students on we're we're still growing let's focus on fundamentals let's learn how to play the rules correctly let's look on development um so I think our coaches helped to
032support that mission and we get people in front of kids that deserves deserve to be there and really want to be there um but also the camaraderie win or lose our kids are there for one another and I think that um that feels important to so many of them regardless of what's going on in life our coaches they're they're phenomenal this especially the winter coaches uh fall coaches are great too but these fall and winter have been uh fall and winter have been like uh coaches have been come uh this is our second year or third year and that makes a big difference like when we get some retention so like the girls basketball team you know for sixth grade last year was a really rough year but it was like their first year with
033Coach Rocky and Trisha you guys know Trisha she's just awesome and so like this year they like really progress same thing for boys uh girl soccer coach Juan came back for second year like really progressed the boys basketball team same thing like same coaches from last year so they really progressed so it's really cool to see like there's kind of a culture being built now between the kids and and and the players and yeah just the parents even appreciating the coaches you know I know the boys uh basketball want to go get some pizza I got a pizza party like a pizza spot over here and I know that the boy soccer team win a grab pizza so to see that stuff like yeah let's we're doing something right that was really cool to see
034that uh this is a familiar face we're seeing her all over town um but coach Alyssa crenchaw she goes by many titles she's also one of our TK teachers up at View and this is her second year in Hermosa uh but I think really highlights the important impact that our teacher coaches have just seeing her down at clarkfield for opening day with our cheer girls is wonderful there she is on her hat telling telling them what to do but her spirit is fire um the other thing that's new is a cheer team so this was really born out of student interest students are like why don't we have a cheer team and Coach B is like okay let me see let me l so he is he's advocating and lobbying and figuring out how we
035can be supportive of our students voices and I think that it's it was really cool to see them on the field we are working on kind of um skills and rebuilding and then we're going to be focusing on tryouts in the springtime for the the subsequent year also what's new big shout out for girls flag football that started as an idea and I remember Nate coming to me and saying we're going to play one team we're just going to play one team and then speaking of Catching Fire these are the schools that we will be playing in girls flag football so tryouts are happening really soon we're going to have a sports information meeting too for anybody that's interested in this particular sport it is all the rage so I've had many students come up
036to me when is the try out have we chosen a date for the try out I really want to participate um and I just love it's giving an opportunity for for our athletes our girl athletes to participate um at a competitive level against all the other schools as well so we'll play one game to each of these schools in our introductory year and then we'll figure out what that looks like building wise um as we as we grow all right where are we going to take this program so we started uh with lots of Big Dreams and we have added more to our list uh one of those things is Esports it is a pretty big deal all over South Bay I'm lucky to have Dr Wilds has helped to produce and and create a
037program in Redondo um coach Vasquez has lots of contacts with teachers that are running this particular program in a redond at a Redondo Middle School um so we're going to be able to get a really comprehensive overview of what we need in order to do this so we can propose these things to you and propose it to our parent organizations expansion of clinics I love the idea that our students who are not necessarily playing on a team or those that want that are playing on a team but want to expand their reach and grow their skills have an opportunity to to um engage in clinics and Coach V is going to talk to you about what we're what we're bringing on and then also the potential for some lunchtime practice sessions we have some Partnerships
038with great organizations in our community that want to give back for Z dollars um thought that was an important Point um to come to our school and spend some time with students during lunchtime I think this really engages kids in a time where you know they're playing sports but or or they're sitting and it organizes them with with active play um by playing by the roles opening spaces that wouldn't necessarily be open to them during this time you talk about partn yeah I'll talk about Partnerships so this is my second year as ad and something I'm I'm not from the South Bay but something I realized quickly is everyone has like a cool Network and it's kind of like really cool to see like especially last year when I came I saw like all the
039baseball kids jerseys were like some like Lombardi Constructor I was like what kind of baseball team is that but anyway I say that to say the Partnerships is really cool to see that and so that that was something I was trying to really work on this year um and so I've been really working uh hbb uh they're actually going to sponsor us we're going to get girls flag football jerseys and we're going to get um some track and field jerseys from them they're going to you know hook us up with that and we're going to put a little hbyb post a little uh you know uh patch on our shirt been working with the parents uh they've been really super helpful um the parents uh you know been supportive I know some of the parents
040have gotten gone out of their way to get the kids like t-shirts and things like that um her mosta baseball Little League obviously the cheerleading team went out there and did their thing and I hit up Mark mber and I said hey bro how'd you get all these free stuff you know so he kind of hooked me up with all these people that I can go so I got all this like list of local businesses that I'm going to go I on reach and be like hey do you do you want to sponsor us like do you want to sponsor our team like do you want to get a jersey and put your company on there you know we're a small City like why not represent all of us holistically like that you know and
041the American Martyrs uh I was able to hit uh talk to the ad uh Drew Watson and we couldn't get anything going during the winter because it was just such a busy season but we're going to try to do some voice volleyball and then next year we're going to try to do some uh football games for black football so we're working that out with uh with American Martyrs uh collaboration is key and Nate is a part of the South Bay Alliance all for ads where we're getting together on what are we going to agree with the rules what does this look like what's our code of conduct um what does our schedule look like how does that work for everybody so I think that partnership is going to continue and is really important for us
042we talk all the time Allison Montoya is here our assistant principal who works very closely with Nate on who's the admin that's covering this particular game and what does this look like and this this student in their grade check you know all of those things um couldn't do without our parents and I think when when Nate and I were building this presentation he was like absolutely not couldn't get to games without parents right so our parents are really uh just so incredibly important in addition many of them are are our coaches and then you you've been supportive of our program you've been open to us growing different things um and having I have an idea I know I've started sentences like that to you before um but I think I'm so appreciative of that support
043I know neate is as well so we're just excited to continue to build a really great program for kids share about clinics uh this past week or yeah last week we had a a lacrosse out there South Bay lacrosse Dr Wilds had a chance to come out there and I was been connected with them and they're going to start doing a they want to do a clinic for us so three-day clinic for us uh we're hoping to try for the end of this year but I know there's some things I got to figure out first but if not for sure next year they also want to do lunch clubs that they're one of the people that said hey I want to come once a week or twice a month uh to do a lunch club
044for lacrosse uh basketball uh one of the coaches says like hey next year I want to do like a little clinic beforehand before the season starts so I can get some more attention you know bring some more interest you know kind of get the kids to sharpen the skill and then this is our second year doing volleyball clinics and we're going to continue to do that moving forward as well so we have some fun stuff coming up excited we're excited about girls flag football coming soon we have one commitment from coach Rocky who is our basketball coach and then another coach who we're hitting up who has yet to be named but we'll be reaching out and hopefully we'll be texting us back soon um and that's it but I do want to say on
045this slide this is another yearbook photo from our one of our students that um apparently Ann ones are back they I wore them in elementary school so here we are any questions board any questions yeah um first of all I want to say thank you I mean as a parent who's seen this program grow it's just been um phenomenal and it's about so much more than Athletics and just their physical fitness which is great too but it's about their camaraderie Leadership Learning respect for the rules which I like to push the boundaries and I mean and the collaboration getting to know kids from other grades wow it's off the charts and I've seen eighth graders act better because there's a sixth grader there and I'm like yes um but I just want to say coach
046Vasquez thank you and thank you principal bledo it's been just a wonderful wonderful program to watch grow I do have a question about the about funding so I think it's for every single team that a student joins it's a requested $150 is that correct um I don't know how many I mean we don't say no to a child to play if they if their parents don't okay good um is there a way to get that get that down well would yeah so Athletics obviously can be expensive especially if you there's travel or their buses involved in which we've seen an in an uptick um a bus just to get from here to Adams Middle School can cost about $750 um so it's fairly pricey um in the state of California you're allowed to have there's
047certain allowable fees and uh requested donations for for athletics transportation is one of them um but we really want to thank the the hpto they are huge sponsors making sure for funding our coaches funding our um uh stiens our UNIF gra so much of that um is really the the PTO um we couldn't really couldn't run it without them without their support something that we will continue to look at is transportation is on a discussion topic for us um not ready for that now but I think that um in the preparation of this Nate and I have talked about potential funding opportunities and going out and hustling for money uh and that is that's something the building of Partnerships with local leaders like HBL or hbb is GNA afford US an opportunity to do things
048like have the students keep their jerseys that's something that they really want so I think as we continue to grow those um money building opportunities we can look to a better program oh that's fantastic thank you I wasn't I'm not complaining about those fees it's far less than what we pay for club and everything else it's it's very minimal but I would just love to see I want I want there to be more funding for this I just don't want to have to pay for my person but I was just wondering about separate funding lines for this so thank you PTO for what you do so and thank you and every kid who wants to play get they do then you have to try out oh yeah financially I was like I'm not sure that's
049the case financially go ahead mag thank you to both of you so much this is one of my favorite things um I loved seeing the presentation loved hearing the updates on everything I would love to get more data that we could talk about what weight lists look like hearing that 47% of our students are participating is amazing I'd love for the board to be able to consider like what is the actual scope of Universe of students who want to participate it is like a fundamental belief to me that if you don't get to play in Middle School considering this ecosystem of the South Bay you will never get a chance to play that sport so like if we can't offer it in middle school we are really failing kids who will never make the coost
050to soccer team football team volleyball team Swim Team Water Polo team lacrosse team right like they just won't have that opportunity because of the caliber of folks who have uncles who play for the Clippers um so one love to get the weight List information two would also love to little learn a little bit more about leagues and competition in just general like to go back to the compet uh Transportation piece uh so if we could get a board update I guess Dr Wilder me of just learning more more about the data on that absolutely um something else to think about this was uh I learned early on uh in fifth grade that I didn't want to play basketball um because I had the opportunity to play on a fifth grade team right so like I
051think if we can think about for the board being able to opportunities to play athletics at a long a younger time period I know it's an administrative hurdle but other schools are doing it I know martyr is starting flag football in fourth grade right they're doing basketball and starting in fourth grade right that might be too young for us but fifth grade because they're already on the Valley School campus might be an opportunity that we can think about and then building that pipeline for kids just to try things on early I learned really quickly I hate basketball and volleyball and water polo by virtue of having those opportunities early on allowed me to play college soccer got the other stuff out of the way um the other pieces I had were if we're looking for
052colleges with Esports Partnerships to come and do mentoring that's a really easy connection to make yeah um yes and and so many of our um our neighboring um tech companies are dying to but we're also I I may have the slight connection into the to the Esports realm but there are so many um developers in this area between Activision Blizzard EA Sports that are just dying to come in and and every university has picked it up as a sport absolutely yeah um full ride division one yeah it's incredible don't underestimate me tell my son um two last things one um it would be interesting coach Vasquez for you to see if in the future not a near-term thing but in the future if students run La as a partnership for our middle school kids who
053want to run the marathon we already have run club we already have cross country and track and they are a phenomenal Los Angeles County organiz gation that does the work and it would be neat to be part of this larger ecosystem of students who do that M and then la84 given that the Olympics around the corner La la84 uh la84 is the name of the organization that we should be a part of uh the Los Angeles 84 Olympics um were the only Olympics that made money uh they took that money and put into a foundation that Foundation is just transformative for Youth Sports across Los Angeles County it provided me with coaching certificates like they do professional development for adults but they also provide clinics for kids and resources for kids lastly if we ever
054have gym space Sorry my favorite topic it's my favorite topic uh if we ever have gym space uh especially for lunchtime clinics footall is becoming like the rage everywhere right so if we have open gym it's an easy setup it's just a slightly harder ball in putting some you know blocks up in the gym and then we could put four on four tournaments I love it I just wrote I can read my notes um so I will be sure to and happy to follow up I can talk about this also I think the only thing that I would say um in terms of growing uh leagues in competition fifth grade or more that want to play is um it would likely have to be an intramural system because one of the things that we struggle
055with is getting another team that has another b or another C team and so that scheduling piece or if they don't have that support then it would be using against us which is also something that we have talked about um but broadening that that is can be a challenge for scheduling not a know but definitely but I know the Catholic schools are doing it right so there are there are teams out there that are doing so I'm just saying it'd be interesting to get the data and then have a conversation in the future on budget and capacity totally I great Carol um well I just I want to say a a huge thank you to coach Vasquez for how far you've taken this program in two years I know that a year ago in in
056your first year it's I mean it's not night and day but it's you know it's it's pretty monumental so thank you for that and uh I know from being on campus and how the kids are calling your name when you walk by and walking by to to say hi to you that they think a lot of you so um so congrats on that um I also think it says a lot that they want to keep the jerseys because having two kids that you know things end up in the corner or wherever when they want to keep something it says a lot about the program they're involved in so I think that that's a big deal um the other thing I wanted to say is you know as a parent and obviously I did my own
057I did not play college soccer but you know you have your sports stuff um people always talk about the lessons in sports and and I think that I understood that but I didn't really understand that till I had my own kids doing sports and uh it's it's a lot of what Rachel said but it's also a lot about commitment that you talk to them learning commitment and and learning how to be a good winner and a and learning how to handle loss is I mean that's a huge life lesson so um thank you for giving them all the opportunities to do that in a safe place uh and that's all I that's all I had but I am my head is swirling about maybe partnership stuff so I'll see I'll see what we can come
058up with yeah Cathy I think my peers said everything I mean we got some good coverage of all the events but I'm a I'm a big Sports afficionado and supporter so I'm happy that we have you guys to continue it with Hermosa Valley School of kids my kids went to Hermosa Valley and they played Sports so and then they went on to Major no not really I'm just kidding College well I did have a daughter who played in college but soccer and butcher says he's still she's still his favorite just saying I'm just kidding that on the record get that on the record on on the record for thanks oh I have a Qui yeah sorry it's my also my favorite topic um no first of all thank you guys um it is is a
059pleasure I love coming whenever I come to school and I see you out on the field I'm always like hey and you're always like hey it's it's nice nice to be I mean kids recognize you adults recognize you I think they really appreciate you and um so really thankful for all that you're doing um I think one of the things that I would just ask is since you are such a great role model for kids I think you also would be a really great role model for parents in the audience and if Hermosa wants to be known as like an exceptional place maybe that's just something to think about how we train parents at events and the voice coming from you might be a really great voice because yeah no I just think that's something
060that that that could be a next step for us yeah that's I thing I want to do next year is have like a mandatory parent meeting you know yeah just like how do you act as parents because as parents we can all get a little crazy here maybe some maybe some signage reminders signage reminders all sorts of things but I think coming from you parents would actually like you know they see kids respecting you and they want to they don't want to get under your you know they want to be on your bright side so use use to your powering by right on theel that you they V for it with their Fe yeah I also agree with Maggie I think having a a way that kids can participate in Social Sports because this this
061neighborhood and this area is so competitive when you get to the high school there's just no CH like you kind of it's very defeating for many kids and so to give them the opportunity to play I don't know if we have things like pickle ball at lunch or those kind I I thought at at Vista we do but I don't know when we get over to Valley if there's other places and ways that we can you know get I'm just asking if you need support for things make sure that you are I think you have a board that's very supportive of physical activity and um happy to if you guys have dreams or other things you want to do keep keep keep them coming because we're interested and then I'm not sure if there's ever
062a need to collaborate with the city with the gym over here during the day you know if we can expand things or I I don't know if that's a field trip or not but that you know it is a resource and I'm not sure how used it is during the day um and then the other thing would be is I know in the high school when you get there there are a lot of other sport opportunities or athletic opportunities or flag opportunities you just there's a lot of opportun and you get there as a freshman and you're like oh I wish I would have learned how to do that I didn't know there was wrestling I didn't know there was wrestling I didn't know there was um Vuitton or flag or you know so maybe
063there's other things that we're just I would encourage us to keep looking at the high schools um you know what they're doing and they have like National Championship cheerleading at both the schools so it's like these these there's no joke here um that was all um I had to say and one last thing yes I just want to I had forgotten about this but what you mentioned um president Cole uh brought uh brought it to mind was that we did have an a incident at one at a a winter sport um some parents got a little crazy I mean the roughs were terrible granted um but we had some parents that were embarrassing and the game had to head to finish and Coach Vasa sent out just a really mature perfectly pitched email to the
064parents to say come on we're better than this and I just thought it was so well done so I want to highlight that and and to to double down and please and thank and thank you for that and to encourage that parent meeting because I think it's something that all parents need to remember because we all get into it so use your power yeah all right that's it guys so much I also want to just give quick shout out to principal blo Alison Montoya and uh Jason butcher man they've been super supportive it's my second year and they've been great and you guys have been super supportive too like I was I always getting nervous but I'm like oh they're was so nice to me so I but yeah I just appreciate you guys guys
065too thank you so much for your time well I think that that exceeded our eight minute rule but I think we'll be okay yeah we appreciate you guys being here all right moving on 10.2 second interim budget report Miss mono good evening I'm here tonight to present the second interim um update which is the second interim is the financial period from July 1 to January 31st so it's the first six months of school um and then the projections until the close our summary here um projected reduction in um deficit spending the district is projecting a reduction of a $113,000 in deficit spending which helps us move towards a more balanced budget um projected increase in Revenue Reserve balance due to the deficit decrease in deficit so we'll be increasing the Reserve balance by $31,000 which
066is fantastic when we look at our famous pie chart here that everyone loves 80% or more of our expenditures are on Staffing and personnel which takes a large chunk out of our budget second interim changes and key numbers the summary shows the immediate and long-term effects of changes on the budget the combination of the increased enrollment and future increases in Cola could provide more funding in the out years which is in very important to keep getting our budget balanced and also just to highlight we did have a slight increase in enrollment um since January we're at 1419 right now so we we have that has when we look at our multi-year projections we're in the progress section in the green like I mentioned we have increased Revenue decreased expenditures and an increase in the reserve
067so we'll be closing with a strong reserve of at the end of the year looking at projection for 2526 we're basing our revenue on increased enrollment and and increased average daily attendance um which is bringing us also closer to a balanced budget but we also still have a very strong Reserve moving into 26 27 the predication again we have projected enrollment growth and increase in average daily attendance which you can see has brought us to a balanced budget and again still a very strong Reserve at 23% and that's our first interim update do I have any questions any questions Carol Kathy Maggie Rachel nope thanks Paula thanks Paula all right moving on 10.3 superintendent report Dr Wilds spoiler thank you all so I have a short report tonight and originally was only just going to
068talk but then last week we had the most fun and I thought you needed to experience it so I've done this for a very long time I've been in education we have re Across America week every week but then there was re Across America week in Hermosa Beach I've never seen anything like it I mean there are C celebrities we've got Sports I I I couldn't even quantify um and so I wanted to kind of share a little bit um about our experience last week so last week uh we participated in the National Education Association read Across America week all week long Monday through Friday um this annual event is just really about celebrating books and it's celebrate about celebrating um uh sharing the love of of books together we had guest readers we had
069crazy engaging activities um Team exciting school spirit classroom Spirit um and I just want to really kind of shout out kind of uh Jessica Jacobs who's in this picture um hopefully you recognize um her partner next to her um and she put this entire thing together from scheduling and different guest readers and letting us know where to go and I got to be a guest reader in a kinder Garden classroom and um there was a good e bag I I can't even begin to to tell you um put it together so let's take a little bit of a look um they she welcomed a wide variety of guest readers she had authors she had voiceover actors she had local celebrities um Chief learon is a favorite I'm just it's hard to compete with him when
070he goes into a classroom um the rest of his offices are also great but quite frankly I don't know that they can keep up with his um his voices um we had the Librarians we had um various authors we had the LA LA Kings and we had the mascots we had lifeguards um you name it and each classroom got their own kind of individual experience so staff and students got into uh the dress up as well Monday was books can be silly so kids wee their silliest hair cozy up with a book they wore comfy clothes and pajamas um Miss Gluck was lucky enough to be at a school site that day she got her pajamas I did not get any pajamas but next year I'm going to plan better mismatch clothes silly hats and
071the kids were just so excited um about this day and even the staff so again I words cannot even um form how grateful we are but Jessica Jacobs did just an amazing job um with this week so we want to we want to thank her and then I also just want to remind everybody that our the um hbcsd strategic plan survey is out it's live um we sent another email just Standalone out today and um we want to thank um all of our families our staff our and our students will be Tak taking in in a few weeks who are just going to give us feedback um and so we appreciate them taking the time to do that that's it for me I'm gonna move on thank you Susan seems like it was a fantastic
072week I'm sorry I couldn't be there the last three days I was out of town um going on to 104 first reading uh board policies administrative regulations and Exhibits Dr WS the most exciting topic of the day um so in a in a ordance with California Education Code we PR periodically um approxim at least four times a year um review all of the newest board policies and regulations to keep um us aligned with new California Education Code um so the set before you tonight is out for a first reading um and we will bring them back at the next meeting for approval thank you for um recording on there who's reviewed them and it's just helpful to know that like oh okay a trusted human has reviewed these and this is what they think any
073questions concerns okay um we'll move on to the consent agenda can I get an approval of the consent agenda so move thank you Maggie second thank you Rachel all in favor I I all right moving on to just making sure first 11 is part of that okay action items superintendent letter of understanding an Lou with the South Bay Parkland conserv Dr Wilds or is this Maggie's Maggie I'll start and then I'm going to pass it over to Maggie if you don't mind no problem so the South Bay Parkland conserv is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and restoring Open Spaces Wetlands Parklands in California South Bay through Community projects they enhance habitats promote Environmental Education and advocate for sustainable Land Management this agreement will designate the Hermosa Valley School Hillside restoration project to become officially recognized
074as a South Bay Parkland conserv project the board recognizes the dedication and commitment of Suzanne Evans Community member for bringing this partner to fruition so I ask before we uh take a vote on this item I want to um pass it over to Maggie and if she can share a message from Miss Evans and before I do that I'd love to welcome a neighbor and champion of the sandun Chie tario you've been there hand inand and and keeping track of everything that happens when Suzanne's not here in addition to keeping Suzanne on track when she's here so thank you for thank you us thank you for being here and thank you for all the work you've done in organizing the students um so this is a letter um uh from March 12th and it's from
075Suzanne Evans dear honored superintendent Dr wild and honored Schoolboard members unfortunately I cannot be present today for theou signing between the hbcsd and the bpc South Bay Parkland Conservancy I am Suzanne Heavens Suzanne Evans project head for the Hermosa Valley sandun restoration HV ssdr 2014 through 2025 the Hermosa Valley sandun restoration is the reason for this mou in collaboration for the past four years I have observed how the South Bay Parkland Conservancy has evolved in the South Bay and is now in Hermosa Beach with their Green Belt native plantings I have Incorporated what various groups are doing in the well-being of the HS sandun restoration and by meeting their members and ackn leging their doings the sbpc has now acknowledged that the hvs sandun restoration and would like us to join their Coalition for creating
076more native habitat in the South Bay with today's signing of theou with the sbpc positive steps will take place the continuation of involving HB students with Native plantings creating a better student teacher educational structure and to receive support with our special back sandune native habitat maintenance when required all of these meanss are very important for the future of HS sand restoration many special individuals on the board who uh to to make what has come about in the last 15 years happen you all know who you are thank you many uh special thanks to the South Bay Parkland Conservancy president miss AA Chan Fu and the hbcsd superintendent Dr Wilds for teaming together to make this native collaboration happen sincerely Suzanne Evans thank you Maggie thank you thank you thank you Jackie for being here and
077it's a great program for our kids so we're really fortunate that she's been so dedicated to that for well and I think just as a note I'm really excited for this to happen and thank you to everybody involved the task on any one individual is really great so to have a larger Coalition that is established being able to help support their efforts um I I think just adds a lot of um really helpful uh Coalition building for for all involved so what will happen with this it's a great question so once we agree um you once the board approves this letter um AA chenu who interest inter inly enough I was her children's principal down at alist elementary school so she and I have actually had a relationship for a very long time and so
078she and I will will touch base and talk and set through next steps but potentially they could bring other people volunteers here to help part of their recognized project that's fantastic okay so do we need to take a a vote this was just a report this is an action item an action sorry my bad yep yeah the recommendation is that we um I moved to a approve this letter of understanding second thank you Kathy thank you Maggie for motioning and Kathy for seconding um all in favor I I great that's that's an easy one moving on memorandum of understanded Leo Miss G it is recommended that the board approve the memor memorandum of understanding from the Los Angeles County Office of Education for the children and youth Behavioral Health Initiative capacity grants to be ratified
079thank you miss clck any questions can I get a motion I moved thank you Maggie can I get a second I'll second thank you Carol all in favor I I all good moving on 12.3 comprehensive school safety plan Miss Gluck in accordance with California Ed code the district does update um the safety plan annually um we have met um with the um we've received I'm sorry feedback with the police department uh School site Council the lcap commit and reviewed the plan as well as with the city so it is recommended that the board ratify the comprehensive school safety plan which was effective March 1 does anyone have any questions Maggie do you have a question I do have a question um we were able to postco do a pretty comprehensive uh safety audit and I'm
080curious if if um there is legislative guidance that makes us do that every five years or 10 years or if it's just good practice and if so what is our practice it's just good practice so the the the CDE does put forth every year new legislation in that comprehensive so thank you for Miss Gluck she reads every word um it's just a good practice right to really kind of take an audit of the schools and kind of look at where your weak points could possibly be but also the work that m does with the police department so when I it's not just a kind of a rubber stamp she gets line by Lineum feedback from the police department who were able to kind of give her some additional guidance as well as City Emergency Management
081there's also the section um that was new to the plan that included the learning continuity plan which would um involve if there is um a shutdown of schools what we would do and what um actions we would take to ensure our students are educated properly we were talking at one point about just reviewing um things for the priorities for the bond and coming up next week and possibly we had um school safety priorities also yeah that we you know I know we've been talking about that all but there there was like a comprehensive list from a person that came out and did things at one point so um maybe that's another thing that and a lot of a lot of the work from that from that plan was um done lighting safety those kinds of
082things okay do we have a motion to approve so moved the hbcsd comprehensive school safety plan thank you Kathy thank you Maggie um all in favor I I Robin are we going slow enough for you or sometimes we might be going too fast um moving on to business uh 12.4 uh the 2024 2025 second interm report Miss montao thank you the District budget is assumptions have changed from the board meeting that uh a budget that was adopted on June 24th staff is bringing a revised budget reflecting a more accurate accounting of expected dat dollars for the current fiscal year recommendation that the second interim report for the 2425 fiscal year be approved and certified and the district will be able to meet its Financial Obligations for the remainder of this fiscal year and two subsequent
083years that's great news um anyone have any questions nope thank you Paula for all the work you do on these um okay can I get a motion please I still move thank you Rachel second thank you Carol all in favor I I I moving on to 12.5 the 2024 second 2025 second interim budget revisions Miss mono but since the budget assumptions have changed there's a revised St file that will need to go into the official file and it is a recommendation that the board approve the second interim Rie Visions um to be added to our DB file okay any questions seems like okay me neither and can I get a motion it's all moved thank you Kathy thank you and all in favor I thank you uh moving on to 12.6 the approval of the
084state of California's California California multiple award systems schedule CMAs uh contract number 4 - 2-10-10 72 from Russell Sigler Incorporated for the purchase of carrier HVAC systems for hermosa Valley School Miss montavo thank you um the Cass program is a program that allows districts to move more quickly it's a delivery method um it requires one bid and we're asking for authorization to use this program to install HVAC units at Hermosa Valley School necessary and we're looking at 24 HVAC units actually it's 10 units at this 10 units at this time okay title so title important to note we're separating the purchase of the equipment from the labor the labor has to be bid um through a bid process this allows us just to purchase the units um we trying to be very mindful of that
085there is going to be at least probably a 17we delay when you order them so we want to be able to order the units separate so we've kind of separated those to entities so we're going to we want to buy the units so that they're here um while we do the bid process to bid the labor to install them do we have places to store these units they'll store them um well once they come in again it's about a 17 weekish lead time but um they will store offsite they won't store onsite oh okay okay any questions I think it's a smart way to use to to kind of circumvent this one um okay uh can make a motion please thank you I'll make a motion to approve second thank you Rachel all in favor
086I great um motion passes 12.7 Hermosa Valley Schools HVAC replacement project approval of proposal from of The Proposal from Russell Sigler Incorporated for the purchase of carrier HVAC systems through the state of California's multiple award system schedule Cass contract number is it the same thing is this just it's just mentioning the contract number again oh contract 4- 21-10 d107 to why do we have to have both yeah what's the difference so the first time you have to allow us to use Cass and then the second one you're approving the actual contract of using the with the vendor confusing it's very it's very confusing get paid the big bucks for you guys big yes you can engage in Cass and then the next and then once you say yes then here comes the next item now
087we want to do it and here's the contract got it so Sigler will will be Furnishing the units for us so it'll be a owner furnish project so it we're buying the um units direct from Sigler they'll like Susan said they'll be stored offside until we're ready the lead time is about 17 weeks for the largest unit um we're hoping for installation late June or July so we'll be ready for the fall in August um it includes a a warranty on the largest unit um additional work that they have to do on the roof and that that kind of stuff as well so the recommendation that the purchase of the HVAC units for the California commercial Russell Sigler for the Hermosa Valley HVAC replacement project through the state of California Cass program contract 4-21 d10
0881072 be approved any questions I I did have one question on this so go for it so just clarify for me the Sigler would not necessarily be the person putting or the company putting them in they're just they make they they're the manufacturer so we're buying direct from the manufacturer sometimes when you buy things like a on personal property if like I bought my dishwasher I'm responsible for my dishwasher not and but so if I inst have a plumber come in to install my dishwasher then the plum and something's wrong with the dishwasher Plummer takes no responsibility well it'll be a shared liability between the installer that we bid the project out to that wins the award that we'll bring next month and the furnisher of the unit so it'll be a shared responsibility you're
089right if you had gone to the same vendor then it would be one person you have to go to but in this instance we felt that it was more important to get our order in so that we have functioning units for when school starts and so if for some reason there is a nonfunctioning unit we have a warranty that we as the district would have to go and ask them about we have a warranty with Sigler directly our HVAC uh supp not a supplier but our person our person who would put it in installer is not responsible for that correct okay it's very much needed yeah yeah it's more just like like that can be expensive if we have to the liability we want to note this is not um there are many more HVAC
090units could that could use some love and could use some support but this is for to replace the units on um buildings that we do not plan to over we we don't plan to change roof lines so that we we wouldn't have to install them and take them down right so we've kind of split the project yeah that's a question about the bond what's interaction we're going to buy all these brand new air conditioning units and then have to buy new ones or these not going to be usable yeah so these have been specifically source to the buildings that for example the gym right so the these are these are um on locations um kind of where the district offices those kind of um David Hart's roomors not areas that would be impacted by the
091bond great thank you for all that do I have a motion I motion to approve item 12.7 thank you I have a second I'll second thank you Carol Rachel was the initial one all in favor hi moving on to 12.8 uh the contract for Consulting Services Energy Management Services for hermosa View School heating ventilation and air conditioning air systems HVAC the Hermosa Beach City School District seeks to engag um Richard Heath and Associates RHA for Consulting related to the evaluating of the VFR or variable refrigerant flow system at um Heros View School RHA has an extensive experience in this area of Management Systems syst systems assessments and Consulting for school districts and other public agencies and actually today we had a a meeting on campus was all hands on deck meeting we had Sigler carrier
092control works dag and RHA came as a courtesy to us since we were bringing this um to the board this evening for approval it was a very productive meeting we made a lot of steps forward so looking forward to working with them and and getting this HVAC situation under control at view right thank you so much um any questions okay uh can I get a motion so I moved thank you Kathy can I get a second thanks Rachel move uh all in favor hi hi moving on Personnel uh 12.9 of the approval of the revised certified administrative salary schedule Dr Ry yes so this is a revision of the current certificated administrative salary schedule the revision Visions include the elimination of outdated positions that we haven't had in a very long time um um as
093well as um just outdated positions people have since moved on to different positions and we don't want something on a schedule that doesn't actually exist um in addition we've um we're proposing to eliminate the first two step the first two columns of the salary schedule um and keep columns three through 7 so take it from a seven column down to A5 and that is to a better align our first step with our local Neighbors in terms to be competitive our higher when we did an analysis of all surrounding districts our higher steps three through seven look very competitive but steps one or columns one and two were significantly under so we when we we wanted to um bring ourselves in in alignment there is uh no changes to salary we've just eliminated those first two
094columns staff recommend you approve this revision thank you anybody have any questions all right I'll take a motion so moved thanks Kathy second thanks Rachel and all in favor I I uh 12 Tash sorry 12 10 the memorandum of understanding with El Camino Community College El Camino is seeking to enter into anou with the district to provide fieldwork experience and opportunities um for students enrolled in their Early Childhood Program specifically preschool and TK so it's recommended that you approve um theou with El Camino College in the district to support the preparation of Professionals for student fi work um experience in early childhood education great any questions actually I had one how many um student teachers do we normally May would we have on campus or any of our campuses depends on the given year um
095it it really depends um anywhere in the fall I think we had just one um it just it depends on on a given year same thing when I before when I was in Redondo some years we would have several and some and others it would be less it just seems I just I mean I know that it requires additional supervisory work by on by our teachers which is you know a resource strain but I also think done well it can bring such incredible energy and bring us some great benefits as well it is it's it's a try before you buy kind of scenario yes and especially for us um with the Early Childhood credential um not only preschool but transitional kindergarten teachers have to have a very specialized credential in the state of California we
096you have to be multiple subject and then have additional work in early childhood so it's what we call a rainbow unicorn um so we want to make sure that we have lots of rainbow unicorns right lots of them that's good especially in TK heard of Y heard of them she has a question um just for clarity sake Early Childhood that's TK and Kinder or is that TK to one what grades it's TK it's really more around the age right so that that three and four years old um is the way the state of California looks at that particular credential kindergarten is a is a separate so there's there's the multiple subject for example I'm a multiple subject teacher I'm K8 or k6 um versus but if I wanted to be a TK teacher I would
097have to go back and engage in a program such as this to add May addon of ECE credential okay thank you great um can I get a motion some thank you Rachel can I get a second second thank you Maggie all in favor hi moving on to 1211 the resolution number 18 colon 2425 layoff of employees requiring a Child Development permit for lack of work Andor funds pursuant to Education Code section 8303 Dr Wilds yes so this is resolution 18 colon 2425 which pertains to the layoff of employees requiring a Child Development permit due to lack of work or lack of funds in accordance with Education Code section 8303 so as we navigate the financial and operational challenges of the district every year we have to look at budgets and we have to look at
098enrollments um it's become necessary to evaluate and adjust Staffing levels to align with current funding and program needs the positions identified in this resolution are affected by the lack of funds making these difficult decisions is pretty unavoidable we recognize the dedication and contributions of the the employees impacted by this resolution and we deeply appreciate their service to our students and families and while these decisions are never easy they're always made with the long-term stability kind of needs of the district moving forward so as this time we seek the board's consideration and approval of this resolution which formally authorizes the necessary adjustments in accordance with state law anybody have any questions I just have a comment and that's really this is the first vote I've taken that I feel kind of icky about because I know
099it's impacting you know real people in a in a in a in a negative way but it's for the long-term good of our district but I want to reiterate what dror wild said and that's we we know we see the people that are that this is affecting and we appreciate everything you've done for our district thank you girl Kathy Maggie good thank you just piggy back yes I agree with you um but can I get a motion so moved thank you Kathy thank you Rachel all in favor I I um moving on to board member Roundtable anybody have anything they want to add today oh go ahead Maggie a party over here um one um um all the different award submission periods are coming up so knowing that we've been successful in going for distinctions
100and golden Bells um if we want to form a committee to start Drafting and thinking through some of our practices to to offer them up um I want to say it's it's a May deadline for that so you know last year budget at a glance which is amazing um and is a distinction Award with along with our Equity committee another Golden Bell Award winner um I just think we have some really great things to offer up the larger um School District ecosystem on on how we do things because we do it really well here and so if we want to think about something we want to offer up even if it's just a table talk we should do that do you have anything in mind I don't well maybe Susan might have a good perspective
101because she's new so she might be like oh so we just want to start a conversation on it reading you do read Across America better than anybody else Across America you know I I will tell you it's not common for uh board members to necessarily always sit in curriculum adoptions and sit alongside teachers and evaluating curriculum so maybe that's something that you might want to highlight Kathy bar future president uh the other okay go ahead the other thing I had is just given my comments earlier on the different bills that are swirling out there I don't know if it makes sense to put together a framework on how we think about adopting certain things we've never done it before we just kind of talk about it um I'm happy to to put together a draft
102on what makes sense based off of mission Mission Vision demographics and see if that just provides some sort of like talking framework for us to think through if there are bills we want to support usually it's been kind of really easy things uh budget budget impacts to small districts and whatnot but if there are other things and if the board had the appetite to look at some of these bills and write letters of support um there's a process to do that um and just open to hearing the board I am interested in that personally because I just think it's interesting to know all the different legislation and how it works because I think if you are interested in being activate your um your Civic voice that is one way to do that especially in light
103of you know Department of Education being reduced or other thing you know changes in our politics or changes in administration if you want to have a voice policy and government and getting involved in this this level of of it is very impactful for your communities so I'm interested in that Dr Wilds I can work with you to see what makes sense I just know there's all the bills are getting aded in the next six weeks and so they just came out of they're going to go through committee and many of them through csba already letters that you can take and customize and then my third thing was for the board is I know I've been hit up one of our neighbors several times about um about solar and I was just curious who else on
104the board has been getting emails um uh offering up uh auditing for from uh Robert fortado on the work he's doing with the county just a conversation he's brought to my attention several times that um the work he does offers grants to do this and Dr Wilds I know he's talked to you on it he's also Sumit with um Brett mcfaden and that can be part of too early on in the process it's a little too early on in the process you could provide more context because I don't understand solar yep and we will I'll actually talk to Brett and make sure that we talk about that on Tuesday night's Workshop else that was it any anything else no anything else on table well there's going to be a lot of things coming out and
105days to come and Po in in the Department of Education I think in Hermosa we're going to just keep doing our very best to serve our students and we're not you know terribly impacted by federal um money in Hermosa um it and maybe Dr Wilds you can just talk a bit about that yeah so our our our budget is primarily base funding so we get very very little the federal funding that we get comes through Child Nutrition Universal meals program we get a little tiny little bit of title 2 money I want to say it's $330,000 so nothing that is that's lifechanging um we get some mental health dollars again not a whole lot yeah so nothing that would necessarily overly impact um but um monies that come for like for special education idea um
106that's law so that comes down to the state state funnels comes through our our Southwest Salpa um to support our students so we're going to continue doing what we're doing right yeah each and every I just think as parents you know concerned out there if especially if you had a student that has an IEP or in special ed or um or students in other communities and I just think it's you know we just have to we're looking out for our students first first of all and then sorry and second of all as students in the state of or in the County of Los Angeles it's just going to be very impactful so we'll keep our eyes on it and keep people informed but if parents or families or teachers have questions feel free to reach
107out we we'll do our best to answer what we can yeah anything else if not um take a make sure we take a look at the calendar next week Tuesday we also have a a board workshop on priorities for the bond I would like to just I meant to say to um Nate is that I'm sure just being out there on the field all the time um he might have some good ideas that are you know things that he hears students want or spaces that he needs you know for students or for equipment that we want to make sure we're thinking about when we're building you got it I have a question where is our meeting next Tuesday in the valley fourth it's in Hermosa Valley room four yeah we're going to be in the
108room and just feel The Vibes of the bond and then room four is over by the uh main office it's where we had our governance Workshop yeah it's an empty it's an empty classroom slash future admin building so and then the on Friday four of the architectural firms are coming in to be interviewed so we will work through that process it's from like 7:30 in the morning till 2: in the afternoon I'm sitting on that meeting you all have received the rubric for that so if you have any special if you if you want to take a look at who the people are and you have an opinion feel free to fin just I'll put it in a Friday update rece you'll get the you'll get you have the the rubric we use to evaluate
109all of the uh um proposals and then we've narrowed it down from 9 to four which is nine is a massive number I would have been happy with five or four but we got nine um and I'll I'll share the interview questions with you as well sorry last thing before it is St Patrick's Day on Monday but St Patrick's Day parade is on Saturday do we have any more information that we want to share 11 o'clock so we got confirmation um that um Mr pek is going to be one of the drivers my driver so miss miss Gluck has uh generously offered to ride in a vehicle with me because nobody needs to see the superintendent by herself in a car um but we're going to yeah we're wait no I am actually doing something
110else very civic-minded but not that yeah maybe see if Student Government wants to come oh that's a good idea yeah get your student body government yeah pres there perfect uh I have learned that Miss Glu at one point worked at Disneyland so I've learned that she has perfected her wave so yes she's a you didn't walking with her in the bond measure people are much more excited to see her than they are me so you does know everyone well thank you for going this Saturday and you can let your husband know I'm doing something else yeah yeah he's upset with me too yeah okay so can I get a motion to um adjourn thank you second uh Rachel and then Maggie all in favor done