001Okay, good evening. It's 5:00 p.m. and I'd like to call the March 11th, 2026 regular Englewood Unified School District Board of Education meeting to order. And I would ask that folks in the audience and at the deas please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Put your right hand over your heart. Ready to begin. >> I aliance 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. >> Thank you so so much. Now we'll move on to roll call. Miss Sbrano, would you kindly call the role? >> Board President Dr. Carlos McGee, >> present. Board Vice President Mr. Brandon Myers, >> present. >> Board member, Miss Joyce Randall, >> present. >> Board member, Miss Margaret
002Turner Evans, >> present. >> Board member, Mr. Ernesto Castillo, >> present. >> Student board member Amaya Hazard. >> Dr. James Morris, >> present. >> Dr. Bernardet Lucas, >> present. >> Dr. Brian Coffee, >> present. >> Mr. Rafael Guzman, >> present. >> Thank you. Please be informed that Spanish language interpretation is available during this meeting. Thank you very much, Miss Embrano. Moving on to approval of the agenda. I approve the agenda with no modifications. Reporting out from close session. Moving on to the report out of close session actions. In close session this afternoon, the county administrator took action to approve the following settlement cases. OAH case number 20251053. OAH case number 2025120583. OAH case number 20251101 0275. Additionally, in closed session, the county administrator took action to reject a skip claim number 0710615. And now we'll
003transition to reports and presentations. We have a lot of celebrities and important folks in the audience this evening and I'm going to turn it over to our esteemed president Dr. Carlos McGee for the first presentation. Dr. McGee. Good evening everyone. Well, as you as you may know or you may not know, it is Women's History Month and women. And um since I've been in the board, which has been a little over 13 years, I've always um tried to look in our community and look within our school district and present them with an ICU award. So this evening we have three very very um people that absolutely deserve it. So this is just a little tribute to them. It says there are three lights in the month where we open its doors and it echoes women
004rise like the morning sun. I think of three lights study brilliant and unafraid. The first is a flame of courage. She walks through storms without announcing the thunder. Carrying strength and a quiet hands, teaching the world that resilience does not always roar roar and sometimes it just simply keeps going. The p person I would like to honor this evening is Miss Danielle Guzby. Miss Gusy, you were among the first people to encourage me to run for the Inglewood School Board. I still remember visiting Warren Lane when you were principal and learning that more than 89% of her students were in foster care. I remember asking myself, how is this possible? Where are the resources to support these families? What I soon discovered was something even more powerful. An exceptional leader who refused to allow circumstances
005to define her students future. You sought out resources. You built partnerships and you created opportunities that inspired our students to dream beyond their situation. You refused to let their dreams or aspirations go unfilled. Your leadership has always been rooted in courage, compassion, and determination for the students here in Inglewood. There is truly nothing you would not do to make their lives better. The ICU award celebrates exactly that, your unwavering commitment to bringing every role that you take on a journey and every position that you've held. You have elevated the standards of excellence. Your work ethics reflect a nononsense approach grounded in integrity, accountability, and the belief that when there is work to be done, you get it done. Anyone who knows you knows that you stand firmly on principles, business, integrity, and results. Today, we
006honor the impact that you continue to make in the lives of students, family, and our entire committee. community. We see your leadership, your sacrifice, your unwavering commitment to making Englewood better. And today, we proudly say we see you. The second flame is a lantern of wisdom. Her words fall gently like rain. Soft but powerful enough to grow a force of possibility. In her presence, doubt becomes smaller and hope remembers her name. Dr. Eugima Hosea. I have had the privilege of knowing you for over 20 years, watching you raise your children while simultaneously pouring your heart into the students and family here in Englewood. From the very first beginning, it was clear that you were an extraordinary leader. You showed an entire community what true dedication, resilience, and hard work looks like. Your commitment to excellence.
007You elevated test scores in every school you served. And you help students to rise above society's expectations. and you believe possibilities far beyond what they could see at the time. The state of California has recognized your expertise in STEM and your unwavering commitment to academic excellence. The schools that you've led and serve have been honored as California Distinguished Schools and National Blue Ribbon School programs. You are a powerful testament to your leadership, your vision, and your impact. This I see you award is truly fitting because I've seen you. I've seen the long hours, the sacrifice, the tears, and the strength it took for you to grow into a remarkable administrator and leader that you are today. During Women's History Month, we proudly honor you, not only for what you've done and what you've accomplished, but
008for the lives you continue to change, the doors that you continue to open, and the legacy that you continue to build. You are seen, you are valued, and today we celebrate you. Thank you. Sitting up here looking like Biola Davis. We can't have that. The third light. The third light is a spark of joy and fire. She shines with laughter that refuses shadows. She lifts others along the way as if the sky is her universe. Where she stand, lights multiply. These were three phenomenal women, three constellations in the sky. I honor their path, their voices, their brilliance. They cannot be dim. And as history continues to write itself, I promise this to recognize their glow, to speak their names with pride, and to keep supporting their light so it shines far beyond this month. Our
009third recipient is Kelly Hawkins Davis. For more than 20 years, Caroline Coleman field sat unused. Yet that field once held much like football games, track meets, assemblies, and graduations. It was a place where students in the Inglewood Unified School District built camaraderie, celebrated milestones, and formed f friendships that would last a lifetime. Today, this I see you award is pretended to you because of a phone call she made to me over 5 years ago. I remember it clearly. She simply said, "I have some money that I think you can use to restore Caroline Coleman Field." Without hesitation, I met with her to discuss what felt like a dream opportunity. Kelly, you pushed harder than anyone at the time to see the vision become reality. Your determination and belief in what that space could mean for
010the students and the community helped bring life back to a place that had been silent for far too long. I've known you since preschool days, and it's been a privilege to watch your journey from premed student to a true powerhouse in the business community. You make boss moves every day. And more importantly, you use every seat that you have at the table to create to create opportunities and open doors for undeserved community. Your leadership is intentional. Your impact is real and your commitment to making a difference never waivers. Today we proudly say we see you, we appreciate you and we salute you for your dedication in getting the job done. I would like all three recipients to come up. I'd like to also ask Miss Margaret um Turner Evans to come up. one of our
011board members. I asked Miss Evans to come up because first of all, this is women's month and she is a woman. But more importantly, I think the school has um the news has spread across all of Southern California that City Honors is now a California distinguished school. I recognize Miss Evans because things don't like that just don't happen in isolation. I can remember when we lost that dependent charter school and no other state trustee was willing to work and get our charter back. And Margaret got to work. She says, "I know someone that will take over the school and make a difference." And that was Marca. >> Marca Haskin. >> Haskin. I'm still gonna give her a cheer or something. Okay. >> But Margaret had worked with her at Palisades High as her assistant principal.
012It takes a lot of work when you lose a charter to get that charter back. And through her leadership and her friendship, we got it done. And to look at that school today and know that Marsha is no longer with us, but her footprints and her a handprints and DEA is all over that campus. She trained Dr. Hariah and she trained Melissa Williams. And when her job was done, she said, "They're ready." And it is evidence today that they were ready because in order to get ready, you got to stay ready. and to see that school turn around in less than five years. We are very proud, Margaret, that you took the initiative to bring Miss Haskins to this school district and today we see the results. So, I want to thank all of the
013recipients. If you want to say something for like two seconds, you can. I think I've taken up most of the time, but you're welcome to. Um, you shy? Yeah, >> girl. We got plenty of time. No, you want to say something, Kelly? >> Uh, thank you so much, Dr. McGee. Uh, thank you, Inglewood Unified School District, for allowing me to connect the clients that we represent and my firm to an important community that I've been able to benefit from. The connection between students education and athleticism is powerful. And we know that when youth are in sports, they are outcomes are greater and more positive as well as they become more collaborative and responsible citizens within our community. So, I just want to thank you for this opportunity to share some of the goodness that corporate
014America does have to offer and give back to the communities. And I want to thank my client Nike for allowing us to do that. Just really quickly, I would like to thank Dr. McGee. Thank you everyone for this honor. Um, I've spent my entire career in Englewood and I am uh just so grateful. I um do and have always felt that our children deserve the best. And I've worked hard to make sure You're going to make me cry. I worked hard to make sure that they got it. I also like to thank McGee for this Dr. McGee for this honor. And um I I agree with Dr. um Dr. Hosea. Uh I was a student here in the district from first grade to 12th grade. And then after returning from college, um I was hired
015by a wonderful principal at Warren Lane to be a teacher there. And so I started my career there and then went to Hudnol and now here at the district office. I say all that to say that I am born, raised and bred here in the district and it is very important for for me to see our district be successful. I believe our students deserve a world-class education. So everything that I do reflects that. Um my personal motto is I um uh like to give opportunities for students to thrive and shine and in everything I do I make sure that that happens. So um go sense there are signals that are here. I am a a Sentinel alumni. I'm alumni Ingua High. But um yes, just thank you for this opportunity. And I I don't do
016anything for the awards. I just do it because I want the kids to be to thrive and shine. >> Again, thank you again, Margaret. Um thank you. And I see Todd and the whole little clan out there. Uh Flo, they're my neighbors, but they're also um they belong to um Kelly. So, thank you guys for coming out. >> Oh, we gonna do another picture. Oh, wait a minute. You guys are very popular. The rest of the board wants a photo with you guys. They don't play. They don't play with me. Where my picture here? Let's get over here. Congratulations. >> Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Now, next on our agenda, when I said earlier we have so many celebrities in the house tonight, I'm
017going to turn it over to our esteemed assistant superintendent of educational services. And we have an opportunity to honor our amazing, amazing Inglewood High School basketball team. That's okay. Good evening everyone. Oh, that's so sad. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> Oh, that was so different. I'm going to ask Dr. Josea to join me. Um, she supervises high school athletics. I'm going to ask Mr. Bray to join. He's the AG for basketball. I'm going to ask Coach Crow to come up. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Good evening. >> Oh, you all are really into it now, right? >> Tonight we are Oh my goodness. On behalf of Dr. Morris, our board president, the board of education and cabinet. Good evening. Tonight we are proud to recognize the Inglewood High School United Varsity boys basketball team
018for an outstanding 2025 2026 year. Through dedication, discipline, and exceptional teamwork, these student athletes captured the Ocean League championship and competed with distinction in CIF postseason play, proudly representing Inglewood High School United and the entire Inglewood Unified School District community. All right. >> This season also brought national attention to the program when the Sentinels earned a thrilling 81 to 80 victory at the Hoop Yes. at the Hoopa Classic against Notre Dame West Haven High School. And here's the thing. The game was was highlighted by a clutch game w winning and won by David Connorly in the in the final seconds to secure the victory and a record setting 48 point performance from Jason Crow Jr. whose remarkable talent and leadership also earned him selection to the prestigious McDonald All-American game is one of the top
01924 players in the nation. >> As I believe everyone knows, this is one of the highest honors in high school basketball. Yeah, >> we would also like to recognize the leadership of the athletic director, Derek Heel, whose dedication to developing student athletes both on and off the court continues to elevate the program. On behalf of the district and the community of Inglewood, we congratulate the players, coaches, and families for remarkable and I want to emphasize the parents and the families. They deserve a huge round of applause for a remarkable season that has brought great pride to our schools and our city. And in so honoring, this proclamation will be handed to coach Jason Crow, senior. Whereas the Inglewood High School basketball team has demonstrated outstanding dedication, perseverance, and teamwork throughout the season as scholar athletes.
020And whereas the student athletes have represented Inglewood High School with pride, discipline, and exemplary sportsmanship both on and off the court. And whereas the team's commitment to excellence, hard work, and collaboration has led to significant achievements that bring honor and recognition to their school and their entire community. And whereas the coaching staff, school administrators, families, and supporters have provided encouragement and guidance that contributed to the team's success. And whereas the accomplishments of the Inglewood High School basketball team serve as a source of pride and inspiration for students, staff, and the Inglewood community. Now therefore be it proclaimed that the Inglewood Unified School District and the governing board proudly recognizes and congratulates the Inglewood High School basketball team for their outstanding achievements and wishes them continued success in future endeavors. Presented on this 11th day of
021March 2026 by the Inglewood Unified School District and the governing board signed Dr. James Morris County Administrator the IUSD governing board Dr. Carlos McGee, president trustee area 2. Mr. Brandon G. Meyers, vice president, trustee area 3. Joyce L. Randall, member trustee area 1. Margaret Evans, trustee area member trustee area 4. And Ernesto Castillo JD, trust trustee area 5. Could we please all congratulate as we hand this to Dr. Mr. I know I corrected myself. So, at this time, Coach Crow is going to call the varsity players up to receive their certificates and pictures. And I think they want a handshake from the board members and our county administrator. Do you all mind coming forward? >> Uh, can we go have them want to have them do a lap around >> right here? >> Yeah, I
022have I'll come have them come do a lap around. >> You guys go back. I'll have you do a lap around. >> They'll do a lap. I'll take this with me. Uh >> I would like to say a quick couple words if you guys don't mind. I don't want to take too much of your time, Dr. McGee. Uh but I want to say this, uh coming in here today and reading the vision of the board of education is to provide transformational leadership so that the Englewood Unified School District thrives. Right. I take that to heart and I I I really appreciate Dr. Gooby standing up because she's K through 12. I'm only uh 9th through 12, but I'm still a product of the transformation of leadership. Uh my father was my principal, right? So I
023had the opportunity Dr. But what I would like to say, I I would I also want to give thanks to the parents. Let's give them another round of applause. All right. And what I would what I would like to what I would like to say to what I would like to say to you guys is that uh the system works. It works. Okay. Okay. I we've been blessed to have great coaches >> to provide motivation. Okay. Motivation. Okay. I I'll name my coaches real quick. The Anthony Langston. Uh Gamble, my guy right here, Glenn McGawan, Dr. Kenneth Crow, Christopher Hamilton, Siobhan, Syana Players in the back. We have We have a lady on our staff, too. See, she's a real coach, too. Player and we're missing uh Coach Gomez. He works at another school supervisor
024uh their after school program, so he's not here. But we have we have that compartment. We have the uh we we have the uh motivation, right? And we have the parents. We partner with our parents and we and they provide the support. Give it up for them again. The support, right? Right. And what you guys allowing me to serve for you and what you guys have provided is the opportunity also as well. our athletic director over here, Coach Omar. Omar Gray, you guys provide the opportunity. So, thanks to thanks to the the system of having motivation, support, and opportunity, we've we've been able to achieve the success with your support. So, I'm very thankful. Okay. So, with no further ado, I'll call these young men forward. Okay. Um, Michael Gil, thank you. Look at that,
025man. We got too much. We got to decorate my house now. >> Everybody get one of these. >> Yes, >> man. Y'all so sweet. >> Look at this. Dare. Everybody get one. I thought that was mine. >> Michael Kil, you got to go shake hands. Go shake hands. And what I will say to you guys, I will say, I like to brag about this. We have 14 roster guys on our on our uh roster. 11 made the honor roll. So, give it up for that. All right. Out of at a public. >> Good. Christopher Hamilton Jr. is not here, but I'll have his father come up and accept on it. Yeah. Christopher Hamilton Senior, you since you're here. >> You You fill in. You fill in. You fill in for the for junior. Billian, Virginia.
026Bill, Virginia. >> All right, >> Kevin Singleton, come to the front, please. Kevin Singleton. >> Kevin Singleton. >> Got to shake hands. Yeah. Go shake everybody's hand right here. Come on. Go shake hands, brother. You got to win. Josiah Ricksiah Rick, >> right? Josiah's grandfather and his mother, Inglewood graduates. Right. 4 point plus student. 4 plus student. My boy Tyler Lacy. Where you at? >> Come on up here, young man. You look all right. Look at you. Look. All right. Check in. Tyler's mom. In Englewood High School graduate. Tyler's mom is a graduate as well. Uh, Matthew Gibbs Martinez, another four point plus senior. >> Mhm. >> Yeah, we leaving with something, baby. >> Getting out of here with something. >> Hold on. Mama's coming. >> There we go. I love it. I love it.
027I love it. Everybody, I want everybody Stand right here. Want to get a Stand up. Everybody stand to the side. Stand to the side. Okay. We're gonna take a picture uh over here before we go. Christopher Frasier. >> Christopher Frasier. Hi. Kaim White, >> Kaim's father and mother, Eaglewood graduates. >> What? >> Chip off the old block. David Connorly. >> Man, these boys bigger than me. They bigger than me. Jason Crow Jr. know this. too. >> Yeah. >> Good. Come on in here. We have Come on here, Miss >> Come here, Miss James' family. Kindergarten principal. >> She gave me the trust to put my son >> in Englewood School District. >> I said, "Let me see who this principal who going to be the principal if I send my son in this school." All
028right, that's all we have today. Okay, thank you. Thank you. I will uh can we please have all the players and the coaches come up and get a picture of our distinguished >> leadership here, please? We can get you guys family. >> All right. pressure. >> Hey, let's get organized in front. Told you in the back. >> Yeah, we're right. One, two, >> three. >> It says movie recording. >> This is a movie, mama. >> It's recording. Okay. >> One more. One more. All right. >> Hold on. >> Stay there. >> Can I get one with just coaches and players, please? >> Okay. Wait. No. Don't move. Don't move. >> Okay. Okay. I hope I got it. >> Okay. Let's get the districts first. Okay. >> Okay. >> You guys um like how they're see
029>> you're good there. >> We can't see you at all. I don't know if you want to be seen or not. >> All right. Ready, guys? >> Good. Everybody look at their mama. >> That's how you do it, right? >> Smile. That was great. about the cyber Oops. Turn on. >> Yep. Okay. I'm going to see if there are a board member comments following that presentation. I'm going to turn it over to Vice President Meyers >> or do you have any comments? >> That's okay. Sharp. >> Well, I'll start because I watched them play. I went to a couple of games. Sorry, it was just a couple, but the couple that I did attend, they were absolutely awesome. So, I want to thank you coaches for all that you poured into these students >> and
030thank you students for making us proud. >> Thank you, >> honorable Pet. You running all right doing a great job. Um, I I do want to add a comment just because as somebody who has wore a practice jersey for Englewood. Um, it it was a practice jersey, not not an official jersey cuz I didn't make the team, but that's what me and Michael Jordan have in common. We both got cut from our varsity team, but I don't think Mark I don't think Michael Jordan got cut from his JB team, too. But either way, I'm so honored to have worn that jersey. And I know that all our players and our coaches are so honored to wear that jersey cuz it says Englewood. And no matter what happens after this, Inglewood will forever stay with them.
031Even if they're not wearing a jersey, Englewood will always stay with them. So I I'm so happy to hear that all of them or most of them are honor students and they're going to do great things and they're going to follow their dreams and they're going to do it for Inglewood and they're going to do it and then come back to support us the same way. We've seen amazing individuals here that we honored that came back to Inglewood to make this community great as it is. So, we got each other. Uh, we are the city of champions and I don't think we could have it any other way. So, thank you for allowing us to pres to honor those amazing individuals, the coaches and um hope we do them justice as a board and as
032a district to meet their level of excellence. So, thank you everyone for being here and big shout out to the Ingwood High School basketball team. >> Thank you, Honorable Castillo. Uh once again I want to echo exactly what my uh colleagues shared about just our sentiments towards uh the success of our young men. Um two words that you know come into mind for me. Um one is value and the definition of value is a person's principle or standard of behavior and one's judgment of what is important in life. And the other is selflessness. Um concerned more with the need and wishes of others than one's own. And I think all of our coaches as well as our young men who graced that basketball floor all exemplified these two words to the fullest. Um, an additional
033point that some of you may not know and I'm glad they left, but uh, J Crow Jr., he just signed his um, NIL deal, okay? Which is, you know, his name and image and likeness deal with, uh, the Jordan brand. That's why I got my Jordans on. Okay. Okay. So, that's why I got my Jordans on today. Other than that, I'll never wear any sneakers here at the board meeting. Anyway, so and hence to these two words, value, selflessness. Value selflessness. A part of his NIL deal incorporating his selflessness. He said that he wanted his Englewood Unified basketball team to be supported for the next three years under the Jordan brand. >> That's what I'm talking about. >> So, um, when I tell you we have some amazing students, we have some amazing student athletes,
034but most importantly, we have some amazing staff, right? Some amazing staff that's there cultivating uh these talents and these gifts. So, I just want to take my hats off to all of these young men um and all of the individuals that have played in intricate parts into each and every one of their lives. And I just thank you so much. Here we go. Let's go. >> Miss Randall, do you have any comments? As a 12-year Inglewood High School teacher, I am just beaming with excitement for these young people, especially for the dynasty and the legacy of the Crow family. His father, Kenneth Crow, Dr. Ken Crow, was a principal of Inglewood High School, and he has certainly grown into a stellar young person and is achieving greatness on behalf of the city of Inglewood and
035Inglewood High School. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak. >> Thank you, Honorable Rand. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Myers. I just want to end with sincere appreciation to Mr. Bray, Dr. Josea, and of course, Dr. Lucas who said we have to make this happen, and they worked hard to make it special for the students. So, I just wanted to thank them. Our >> our next our next presentation this evening, I'm going to call on Vice President Meyers to give an upate update on the asset management advisory committee. >> Thank you, Dr. Morris and once again good evening community. Uh this evening I will be presenting on the asset management uh committee. Uh so the asset management committee was has uh currently held 27 meetings to date. I know some may
036say that's an awful lot of meetings, but you know, there's a lot of discussions and I uh want to take uh my hats off um to the chair uh Cheryl Matthews, who's done an amazing job at steering the committee um and such thoughtful discussions um which which allows our community to really have an in-depth look at what's happening uh with our assets. So, thank you so much. And you can give her a round of applause. She's in the pit. So, I'm pleased to report that all committee members remain active and engaged um and they are committed uh to their uh service and ongoing contribution. Um recently, we just had a resignation. Um Miss Deborah uh Tate um she resigned on February 5th. Um and we have found uh a replacement and I tell you a
037suitable replacement, Dr. Joanne Clifton. So, give her a round of applause. She's at the wave end of the building. So, hey girl, how are you? All right. Thank you for your service. Um, and I just want to say uh in in conclusion that the you know the next meeting will be held um tomorrow uh th excuse me, not excuse me, the next meeting will be held uh March 17th. Okay. Um and at the district office, excuse me, I'm reading my notes a bit scrambled. But I do want to um say finally when we look at our asset and our management committee um our true asset and I and I'll mimic it again is our children. Um so I I would definitely urge that our asset management committee uh really start um cultivating the questions that
038are asking how do we seek the best possible strategies to get out of receiverhip to pay back this state loan. um we don't want to make, you know, certain moves with our with our assets and we don't have a a clear plan. Um God doesn't make any more land and I'll stop right there. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Turn it over. >> Any questions from the board? Sorry. >> No, I just want to echo because I think like you said 27 meetings and those 27 meetings have been amazing meetings of dialogue, of discussion, and of involving the community. Uh, and I know I've made this point many times, but they have requested town halls to discuss this with the meetings. And that type of initiative we usually don't see from advisory committees
039in any capacity, school district or city council. So, I've seen them run this meeting better than some city councils have run their meetings. I've seen them run this meeting better than some school boards have run their meeting. And that should be acknowledged because they're doing it like we are for free and they're doing with their free time. Um, so I do want to give I'm a big fan of of Chairwoman Matthews and I'm a big fan as well as a vice chair as well, Will Perez. Those two uh engaged in a way that make me proud to know that we have the right folks in public service. Um, so thank you for your your sacrifices for being part of that committee. Uh, and I think it's most important currently because we do have a lot
040of assets that a lot of people are concerned about. Uh, everyone's concerned about our students education, but what gets the most headlines is definitely what's happening to the assets that we currently own. So, we want to make sure the community knows that we're doing everything possible to involve the community and to make sure we're making the right decisions. So, thank you uh, Honorable Meers for, uh, presenting that and for al also attending every meeting. I attend them online, but he's attended in person and that that means a lot. So, thank you. Thank you, Honorable Castillo. Back to you. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Myers. And our final presentation this evening, uh our our um assistant superintendent of business services, chief business official, Mr. Raphael Guzman, will present the second interim budget report and cash
041flow report. Mr. Guzman. >> Thank you, Dr. Morris. And uh good evening, Dr. McGee, Dr. Morris, uh Mr. Myers, our board members, as well as the public here today. Uh just uh and of course cabinet just want to thank you all for the opportunity to present regarding the 2526 second interim report. See if this works. All right, here we go. So, as you know, financial reporting is that we do in school districts is something that's cyclical and it's ever changing. And one of the important things that a school district always has to do uh if it wants to maintain uh you know fiscal prudence and solveny is to consistently update their assumptions and to ensure that you have your the best assumptions possible as time changes. One of the things that just recently changed was
042the cost of living allowance or the cola um at the state level. When we did the first interim report a few months ago and we presented to you, the coded percentage was different from the one that we're presenting today and it was actually a bit higher. So that means that our revenue is lower just based off of an external change uh that we don't control. But there are things that we do control and so we often have to make sure that we're looking at all of the different items that we can. So what is the second interim report? As you know, uh the second in a row report is an is governed by ED code section 42131 which we have to present a report on the actuals uh through January 31st, 2026 looking at all
043the things that have happened and transpired through January 31st and um do a certification of where we think the district is financially for the current and two subsequent fiscal years. As of now, I'm happy to say that the district is going to be re or that administration recommends a positive certification for England Unified School District for the current and two subsequent fiscal years. So, that's really good news. That's amazing news and a testament to the work of our board, of our community, of our cabinet, Dr. Morris, I mean everyone, ITA, uh, of course, our teamers. It's just been a a group effort in regards to being able to really get the district back on track financially. I did want to show some differences here in regards to assumptions. What are assumptions? Those those are basically
044how we're projecting out the future, right? Because we have to project out the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Um, so you can see that most of these numbers are uh relatively uh the same, but I do want to call your attention to and I wish I had this uh the clicker that shows, but you know in in the second column, the first row that says statutory cola, if you look at what we had at first interum, we had cola at 3.02%. Well, that has been lowered uh to 2.41%. based on what I'm hearing, you know, and different things that may actually go back up by the time they actually approve the budget for 2627, but since that's the number we got from the state, that's the number we have to use. Um, same thing
045for 2728, it went from 3.42% to 3.06%. As you can see there, so um, this is really important to understand and note because those changes impact the revenues. the COLA or the cost of living allowance is essentially how much the per student LCFF or local control funding formula goes up by every year. So, I just wanted to make sure that everyone saw that there was a a material change there that came um when we received the governor's budget. Here's just a a snapshot of how we do our enrollment projections. I'm not going to go over all of this, but you know, if you want to talk about it later, I'm happy to talk about, you know, uh, cohort survival mechanisms and all that, but this is what we do. Um, so you can see kind
046of how our enrollment projections are structured there for the district. But just so you kind of see here, um, what our assumptions are, you know, our enrollment at 5,973, we we're projecting that. Now, mind you, this is a projection based off of numbers that we understand today. My hope is that this does not become actual figures and that's something that I hope that we could all work on. Um so enrollment 5973 we're projecting that's going to go down to 5740 and by 2728 5580. Um so enrollments there's nothing that shows me that um I can flatline. I'm I'm hoping for the day where that number stays at least the same or starts to starts to go up. Um but because of that our ADA is also going down. What we are trying to project is
047increases in in our ADA percentage um throughout the future years. Um so that's something important to note. Um however our actual enrollment projection um as you can see when you couple that with the lower ADA that one two three fourth row that says LCFF revenue first interim that's the revenue we were projecting back in December but now you could see the difference of uh the cola impact when we were projecting at second interim. So you could see that the LCF revenues are lower by those amounts there on the in red. Um, so that's just an example of how a change in cola can impact your revenues. Um, so that's why, as I mentioned earlier, we have to do uh, you know, every month we need to make sure we're checking in on these assumptions, that
048we're making sure that everything is running smoothly. Um, and that we make adjustments as time goes on. Uh, LCAP. So, we uh, projected all of the LCAP. All LCAP expenditures are now fully projected um, for this year. Um, we have some carryover funds from last year that are also projected in there. As we get closer to the estimated actuals, we will be able to see if there may be potentially some savings that will then result in carryover for for LCAP dollars for the future year which could result in other adjustments. So, that's what I'm saying like this is cyclical numbers will change and we just have to make sure that we're able to understand why and make the appropriate adjustments with time. Um so major changes again the LCAP uh is fully budgeted. Um we
049performed an analysis of the LCAP making sure that all of those numbers are correct. We also updated our enrollment and ADA estimates and the COLA percentages which you saw in uh here in the previous slides. We reduced some vacancy assumptions since we're now in January. I'm sorry in March you know we were able to look at the actuals through January. So some of those vacancies that we were projecting um we were able to lower those um not fully but we were able to lower a lot of those and then in our multi-year projections we added that whatever we lower we added it back where we didn't make any reduction. Um so we had to you know kind of do that kind of um work in regards to budgeting. We also update our categorical funds and
050onetime dollars. There were some onetime dollars that came in um that are new. So, we wanted to make sure that we updated those and we conducted a detailed line by line budget review. And at this time, I do want to say thank you to Mr. Sedat Va who's here today uh who's doing an amazing job by the way. He's the best executive director of fiscal in the state in the country. He's great. And uh we have Issa Sodto as well here today who is amazing budget manager. Um and of course I got to give a shout out to Dr. Goulby who works with us tremendously with the OKAP. So thank you and Mr. Teta Strike who also does a lot of that work. So you know we all kind of work together to really look
051at all of this and see how we can make this puzzle work. Um you know and so I know this is a little bit hard to see. Uh if you have a paper copy it'll probably be easier but this is where we detail what adjustments happened uh throughout the first interim to the second interim. Uh the major adjustments that we have on the revenue side is about $123,000 less in revenue. That mainly has to do with the lowering of the COLA and and lower um enrollment ADA projections as well as slightly lower unduplicated pupil count projections. Um so that's we're making that adjustment there. In regards to certificated salaries, we revised that projection upward about by about $100,000. uh mainly because we're shifting some items around when it pertains to um LCAP dollars and SNC
052dollars. Um classified salaries went down uh slightly by about 160,000. Uh that's again us reducing vacancies that we're hoping we're going to fill and I got to say we're really excited that we're on the cusp of filling some of those other vacancies that have been very hard to to fill throughout the years. benefits are uh going down and that's mainly because uh uh the the the the increase to the certificated side had more to do with extra extra duty hours that impacts the way that the benefits are paid. So it's a little bit lower for extra duty. Um so we adjusted for that as well as adjusting for the vacancies. Um we did increase books and supplies um as we've shifted around items for mainly for uh supplemental concentration dollars as well as some other
053items that came in. um services and other supplies went up slightly. We noticed some increases in some of our utilities and so we had to account for some of that as well. So all in all it was about a $300,000 increase on our unrestricted side. Um we did also have a bit of an increase in our contributions. Um our transportation costs have gone up. Um, one of the reasons for that is fuel fuel costs have also risen as well as um we really um have to contract some of these services because we don't have uh the the the drivers. We are hiring drivers. I think we just hired two I want to say right over the past two weeks. So, we're really excited about that. So, this is the whole this is, you know, if
054I could just say real quickly that's going to be the key for for us to really eliminate deficit spending. We need to bring internally the services that we have external. That's that's the key. I mean it's and so like for instance with transportation if we had the bus drivers to drive the buses that we have we wouldn't have to pay more towards our contribution towards transportation services because we'd have the staff and you know our own you know when we're paying out we're paying almost you know sometimes 1.5 or twice as much uh we could have paid our employees. Um so you know it's really about building and bringing those services back inhouse and that will really help towards uh really figuring out the issues we've had in the past historically and currently. Um so
055that's really the the tool that's that's what we need to do. Um and uh we are working towards that. Um and so so those are on the restricted side. You're going to see a couple of increases there on certificated salaries about 750,000 um classified about 62,000 employee benefits went up because it it's associated to the increases there. That has to do with just us projecting some of the uh one-time funds that came in just recently. Um so we had to account for those. So all in all, when it's all said and done on the unrestricted side of the house, our ending fund balance is now 69.4 4 million. On the restricted side, it's 39.1 million for a total that you see there um on the screen of 108.5, which is about a million dollars less
056than what we had projected at at the first interim report. However, I will say this, I I don't think that's actually going to be the exact number based off based off of what I've seen in February, in the month of February and what I've seen thus far in the month of March. I think that number is probably going to go back to about 109. That's just my that's what I think. Um but we'll know a little bit more when we come back to you in June for the estimated actuals and adopted budget. Here's just a a simple cash flow. Um and uh just wanted to kind of show that like as you can see the important thing is the last line ending cash balance. You can see that we are positive in cash throughout all
057these uh months. So that's a really good thing for us. However, it's important that we uh keep close a close eye on that because in the second year, you can see how that cash balance is starting to to deteriorate um as time goes on. So, it's important that we continue to monitor our cash flow projections. Here's just a a quick summary of our multi-year projection. Uh if you look at the first kind of block of columns here, 2526, the first interim we were projecting to end at 70.1. Second interim is now 69.4. This is on the unrestricted side of the house by the way. Um on in regards to next year for the multi-year, we're actually going we're going to end higher at 52.1 and then the third out year we're projecting to end at
05830. So how did that happen? Right? Um so uh I'm going to go over just first the assumptions that we've had uh for second interim. So you can see on the screen we look at all sorts of different categories and factors when we're looking at projections. Um the way that we were able to kind of address some of the deficit um is through reductions and through the fiscal stabilization plan. And as you can see, we have um some reductions to uh certificate positions due to declining enrollment uh and just natural attrition. Uh meaning you have less students. Um so that means you'll have less staff. Um and so we have to reduce accordingly. Same thing with on the classified side. And then on the management side about uh o over half a million dollars in
059reductions there uh and then benefits the associated and then we had some reductions to SNC that have to do more with carryover. That number will most like I I'm pretty sure is going to be less because I think we're going to have some carryover, but we we're looking at that and we're evaluating as time goes on. We just want to make sure we don't underbudget. Um so as you can see the total reductions um it was about 6.7 million that we were able to identify for the fiscal stabilization plan which is great great news in regards to what we need to do towards addressing the deficit. As you can see the item in red here is this is what it would have looked like in regards to deficit spending if we didn't make any reductions.
060we'd be negative. We'd be deficit spending by $24 million next year and then the year after that 28 with the reductions that we did in the multi-year projection. We're actually at 17 uh million in deficit spending next year and then it's going to 22 instead of 28 if we continue the plan that I've been talking about of reducing $5 million each fiscal year. And that number can change depending on how the factors of the economy are. Um, if we look at that, if we address another 5 million in 2728, look at the deficit. It goes down to 17.1. Now, I want to show you this in a kind of more descriptive way. And if you could draw the attention here to to the screen, you have three scenarios. Scenario A would have been if we
061made no reductions. Okay, so I want that to be clear. If we made no deductions in 2627, you can see that our ending balance, the last line there in 2728 would have been $16.4 million. If you look at the deficit spending, it would be it's 28.9. Now, just again to clarify for everyone, if you're seeing these numbers for the first time, deficit spending is just simply a term for are you spending more than you're bringing in in a a specific fiscal year. So, if your revenues are more than your expenses, you uh you're not deficit spending. If your expenses are more than your revenues, you're deficit spending. There are times when districts have to deficit spend, like if you get onetime dollars and for five years, you're going to eventually deficit spend because you have
062to spend the money down that you got all up front. So, that's normal. Or when you have large reserves, you have to you can't maintain reserves that large um you know, per edits and things of that nature. So, you have to make adjustments. Now in this case um if we made no reductions and we kept that deficit spending and we added 28.29 to this scenario and just said okay let's say the deficit spending stayed the same in 2829 you would be in the negative. So so that's the scary part of us not making and addressing the deficit spending. Scenario B is your multi-year projection that we have today in the budget that's that's uh being moved forward for approval. That has reductions of 6.7 million in 2627. But that reduction compounds because once you eliminate
063that, it stays as a reduction. As long as you don't bring it back, it stays as a reduction. And so look at what that does. How that changes the scenario. If we look at 2728, now your ending balance is 30 million. It was 16.4 in the other one, but if you think about it, 6.7 plus 6.7, that's adding up essentially you'll get to 30 million. Um, and you still have deficit spending, but now it's 22 million. It's not 28. So, see how that's see what that's doing? When you're reducing, you're chipping away at it. You still, if we were to carry those two numbers over one more year and didn't make reductions and the deficit spending stayed around the same, you'd still be able to survive one more year in 2829 and stay positive, right?
064and that's that's what you could do. Um and and you would still be okay in 2829, but at some point you're going to have to make the reduction. Now, scenario C is what we're hoping to do for the adopted budget. Okay? Um so when we come back in June, if we were to identify $5 million of additional reductions in 2728, look at that last number now. Instead of the ending balance being 30 million, it's now 34. But look at the deficit spending. it goes from 22 down to 17.7. So now if those numbers hold essentially you have about two years where like you can kind of survive in that trend. So if you continue to do this right what's what's happening is you cut expenses. If you cut those expenses your reserve goes up by
065the amount that you cut but your deficit spending also goes down. And what we eventually want to find is that medium where we essentially meet in the middle and you curb your deficit spending and you keep your reserve. So this is where we are as a district. We're in scenario B. We've identified the cuts, but we really have to look at more reductions in the future if we want to stay fiscally solvent. Now mind you, these are numbers on a page right now. um it could change dramatically if something happens in the economy. The war that's going on now that could have an impact on how the economy is and all of these things could impact uh these numbers. But as of where we stand today, um we are in a in in in good
066shape. We have a reserve for the current year and the two subsequent years, but we have to continue to address the deficit spending. If we could get to scenario C where we find $5 million more in cuts in 2728, we will be in a in much better shape. And if we continue that trend, we will continue to be successful there. So, um, just wanted to kind of put that in perspective so everyone can see kind of where we are. We're in we're in a good spot with the reductions that we've identified, but we have to do more reductions as time goes on. So, the reserve is there. It's where we need to be. So anyways, uh to kind of get to the end here, the next steps, we're going to bring the approval of the
067estimated actuals and budget adoption to June 25th's board meeting. We'll have a public hearing. Before that, of course, um we want to make sure to monitor and update the fiscal stabilization plan to ensure long-term solveny, continue to monitor enrollment projections, and develop a plan to increase ADA in future years, and identify additional reductions in preparation of the budget and the new fiscal stabilization plan. Um what I will say one more thing about this previous slide right now I'm only talking about reductions if we can add revenues. So on the other side that does the same impact. It also reduces your deficit spending. How can you add revenues? Well there's a lot of different things that we can do. Increasing ADA is probably the most important one. Um but you also have a couple of things
068that the asset management committee is looking at. Right. Um to uh Mr. Myers's earlier point, when you sell land, it's gone, right? And it's a one-time thing. When you lease something, that lease revenue continues to come in. When you sell a district property for the usually that has to go towards facilities by EDC code. When you lease a property, depending on the type of lease, it could go towards general fund unrestricted purposes. That would include certificated and classified salaries. So there's opportunities to look at these things and look for revenue generating opportunities that can help this picture right here get better. And if you know you could add more to the top to the revenue or and that could reduce the amount of reductions you do or you do both to get to that plane
069level that you need to get to. So um again cash flow we just wanted to kind of show you the cash flow as of now and we've kind of already shown this but we wanted to show you based off of the the uh uh where we are today atund. So, as of the end of January, we ended at about 150.5 million in cash. And that is about it. So, I will turn it over back to you, Dr. Morris. Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Guzman. I'm going to turn it over to the board president, Dr. McGee. >> I'll start with you, Miss Evans, since we're still in uh Women's History Month. Um, do you have any comments? >> Um, good report. Uh Mr. Guzman, you say we need
070to to keep us from being have having deficit spending, we have to make some reductions. Is that in personnel or or >> Well, it it like I said there's there's two kind of sides to to that, right? The first is can you bring in more revenue that addresses deficit spending and the other one can you can you reduce expenses and that has to be around right off it could be in salaries it could be in services um but if you look at kind of our budget let me see if I could go to this screen here um look at the amount we have in services for this year 28.3 million in in just services that's almost almost matches how much we have in certificated salaries that that that could be one that's probably the best
071area to really find a way to >> bring some of that money from services to certificated salaries >> and you're going to save money by doing that. That's that's really what it is. >> Well, it looks like one washes the other one. But if we get more students, that's the bottom line. >> That that would be very helpful because that increases your revenues. >> Yes. Okay. That's what I'm trying to figure out. If we get more students, we have more money to do everything we need to do and we could increase salaries without cutting uh personnel because we have a lot of positions that are not filled. So that's where you saving some saving some revenues now because we have positions that we haven't filled, right? >> Yes. So we did project vacancies um you
072know and if those those vacancies were filled um in you know that we if we hadn't if we had filled those vacancies our ending fund balance would be lower. So yeah, it's it is, but that's we don't want to have vacancies, right? We we'd prefer to, you know, fully staff and reduce on the services side because it's it's more it's better for our internal morale as a as a district to have services done by our employees, right, versus external >> outside. Yeah, I got it. >> Thank you very much. I understand now. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Evans. Um, I'd like to see if our other estine woman of the month, Miss Randall, if you have any comments. >> You're still there, girl. >> You know exactly how I feel about. >> Yes, we do.
073>> Over here. >> I know it's ridiculated. Thank you so much for all you bring to the unified school district. Thank you, Mr. Randles. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Uh Mr. uh Castile. >> Thank you, Madam Board President. Uh I I want to give a lot of kudos and flowers to you and your team uh who are also present here today. I know you have a heck of a pizza party planned for them for all their hard work that they've done. Maybe I'll get some ice cream for them too if you find it in the budget. And you're the person to do that. You're the budget guy. So, I really want to give my heads off because I think the theme that I I really felt today was that we don't lack in
074talent of our educational staff, of our leadership, of our scholars. Really, we had the talent. We have everything to be a successful district. The only reason why we're in receiverhip was because we were never able to get our numbers together. We were never able to make the budget make sense. And that's why the receiverhip happened and that's why the um questionable leadership that was appointed to by the state happened. and that's why we lost a lot of students and including the peripherilation of of charter schools in our community um and the declining birth rate. But the big reason is the financials. We haven't been able to really get a hold of that and I think we did now. I think we have now according to this presentation. So it really shows that Englewood is primed
075to really make a big jump and when that big jump happens I think that's when the students will start coming. Um, I think that's when we'll start seeing our EDAs and enrollment increase. And when we start seeing that, we'll start seeing some of these vacancies be filled. So, we won't have to worry about contractors that are might cost more than just paying someone who's willing to work here for the next 30 or 40 years like many of us have committed to. That is what makes Inglewood great. So, I'm really excited that we finally got this under control. Uh, so it's a big kudos to you and your team and your leadership and we're going to make sure that this time we get it right and we make sure Inglewood Unified is as great as it's
076meant to be. Uh, so thank you for that. Uh, I have one question though. It's more of a question for the state, but if you could clarify, that'd be great. I I just wonder if there's a reason why the COLA, this is on the second intra multi-year projection assumptions. I want to know if there was a reason why the state categorical COLA and the special education COLA are identical. >> Um, yeah. So typically for the past um I want to say three or four years I've seen that exactly be identical. Um there's been some years where there they've considered to not do cola for special education. Um u but this year that's the assumptions those are the assumptions that we received. Uh but there have been years where that that has been on on the
077chopping block and we're so thankful for all the advocates for special education that make sure that we at least get the same cola uh that the state is giving to the other programs. >> Thank you. Just because I understand when it makes sense for us to see that special ed should be considered um to be impacted by the fact that the spending is impacted for our special ed students. So I was wondering why it was the same thing. Um but beyond that, I don't have any more additional questions. Great report. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, >> Mr. Myers. >> Thank you, Madam President. Wonderful presentation as always. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Uh scratches my brain. I have I have a question for you, though. Um this this is just an inquiry. Um I
078was looking at the projected uh enrollment uh revisions and it was projected that we would have 5,67 students this year. We've exceeded that but with an 880 difference at 5,947. So I'm mentioning that is uh true because there's a there's much discussion as to how do we brace for the storm, right? But I I don't hear anything about um how do we in a sense manage through the storm and then foresee past the storm, right? As far as increasing ADA enrollment. So when I look at these projections, I I'll get nervous, right? But then when I look at the actual numbers that are in our schools, we actually exceed that. And I and I see if it was maybe about uh 40 40 students, 30 30 students, but that's a like student population difference. And
079so I'm just thinking that how I guess how incorrect when I'm looking at 26 27 27 28 you know as it goes down to 4,000 is like >> yeah uh I'm sorry Mr. May thank you for that clarification. Um so this slide here Yes sir >> is just the district portion of the ADA. So this one here shows ADA for an enrollment for the district city honors and Latia. >> Okay. So, um, but we show this one just to kind of show everyone how we factor the districts. Uh, for Latia and City Honors, it's slightly different because they get funded differently when it comes to ADA, but because they're all dependent charters, we rolled we roll everybody up together and that's how we get to that number. >> Okay, so that's what I was hoping.
080Yeah. Okay, >> this one here is just district. >> So, it does not include Latia and city honors. Okay. >> So, my apologies. I I should >> No worries. No worries. Um, so then moving on, I'm looking at the deficit spending, and I know you did address it. We're looking at 25 million. Um, I believe for this year, 25 26 26 27 looking at 32. Um, and you know, we we go back and forth about this all day long. And I'm so happy that you mentioned services because we all know, I mean, doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where that excess amount of money is going. So, thank you for that. Um, sharing that. Are there any strategies to try to target maybe the reduction of consultants? Uh because I know that's a part
081of services and things of that. So, how can we start uh really targeting? And I and I I I'm I'm just thinking maybe the 5 million a year is is not is not as aggressive enough as we may need to go when I'm looking at 32 million or 34 million in deficits and then prior to that 25 million. I think 5 million is too slow. I think we really got to start cutting yesterday because we can't foresee what's happening down the line like you said with the country and just our economy. So, I think just to actually have the the the wherewithal right now to say, you know what, this is this is a no-go. We we got to stop. I mean, I I'll digress right there, but yeah. >> No, I think I think
082that's a really important point. Um and I agree with you. Um, one of the things that we're doing, at least on the classified side, um, we recognize that issue, uh, we're flying, um, lead positions for lead electrician, lead plumber, and lead a lead person for some of our other trades. The reason we're doing that is because then we can actually pay that position a little more, you know, um, and then we could attract more. Our our issue is not only in regards to a lot of the services, but our pay. So, if we paid more, you know, we were a we would have be able to attract more. Um, and so that's what we are doing like kind of working with teamsters right now on how we can do that. And we've already I think
083hired in process of hiring one HVAC technician right now. So we're really happy about that. But to your point, we need to definitely accelerate. And if we could do more than five, that's even better. Yes. Uh, >> thank you. And thank you for that clarification because I was going to bring that up that one of the reasons why so many of these um consultant uh positions are filled is because um when you look at what we're playing a bus driver and what a bus driver can go to another school district or an independent company and make it just does not make sense. So, I I really appreciate having a strategy that we can attract more people um in certain um uh consultant positions or um you know, just servicing things out by just having a
084strategy where we can pay them more. You know, that's that's the bottom line here. You know, we the only ones work for free, just so you know. Thank you so much, Mr. Guzman. I always appreciate your reports. Thank you, Dr. McKe. Thank you. >> Thank you, board members, for your questions and thank you, Mr. Guzman. We're going to move on on our agenda to public comments on agenda and non-aggendaized items. This is an opportunity for the public to address the county administrator and board of education on agendaized and non-aggendaized items. A public comment card must be completed and submitted to the safety assistant at the back of the meeting room prior to the commencement of the public comment period. Members of the public who wish to speak on an item on the posted agenda must
085indicate the item number on the public comment card. Three minutes will be allotted to 30 minutes will be allotted to speakers on agendaized and non-aggendaized items. three minutes for each speaker. If the public comment cards exceed 10, time may be reduced to hear from more speakers. Speech or conduct that is disruptive, defamatory, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting is not allowed at the discretion of the presiding officer. Anyone who disturbs, disrupts, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting will be required to exit the meeting. Guidelines for public comment are in accordance with board bylaw 9323. The Brown Act does not allow the county administrator or cabinet members or board of education members to respond to public comments. Miss Zbrano, we'll turn it over to you for public comments on agenda and non-aggendaized
086items. >> Thank you, Dr. Mars. We're going to start with public comments on agenda items. We have two public comments for agenda items. The first public comment is from John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Uh thank you Dr. Morris, to the cabinet, uh to the board, and to the assembled community. Um we just heard a presentation regarding um our financial uh current financial u projections and um when we look at these numbers you know our hope is uh for an action plan um I guess to board members uh Meyer's point is we can't continue to just move through projection after projection. um without just what's required um anywhere in business you know you have to take
087risks um to get reward I think that's a principle usually in business um we are in a precarious situation being under receiverhip 13 years um we were taking over four um cash flow um deficits and cash flow um structurally uh when we continue to hear deficit spending is built into the projection um without and and our only revenue generating source is ADA. That's our primary revenue generating source but it doesn't have to be our only um revenue generate generating for uh we need to look at other ways to do that. Now you can do two things as was stated. You can cut cost but you can only cut so much. Um that's what we've done to put ourselves in this position where we can't attract uh um people to fulfill positions and we don't have
088a competitive salary and then in turn we can't even hold on to teachers. So that is reality and how have we altered our approach to that and I don't see it. I see us continue to cookie cut. I can I see us to continue to put us in the same formula and that simply is not going to work. When we talk about the reduction in ADA, that's because of student enrollment decreasing and that has increased um over the 13 years at an alarming rate and we have yet to understand that the conditions have to be attractive. So it's more than just um looking at these numbers. It is what are we putting out? How are we marketing? And how are we offering? What are we offering to the community to come? We have to have
089safety. We have to have uh clean schools. We have to have a strong curriculum. We have to have a pleasant environment. We have to have all those things. And those things sometimes are not going to be fiscally prudent, but they're necessary if we're serious about trying to turn the district around. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our second public comment is from Diane Sbrano. Miss Sombrano, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Thank you. First of all, um I made my living in accounting and you don't wait to cut if you don't have money. No business in America would survive that way. You don't inflate projections. You're realistic in your projections. And the very first 15 days you don't make them, you
090make a change. So that we're sitting here and projecting out 2829. Uh-uh. That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy to say we'd rather have a lease when we lease for zero dollars. Hello. I'm not sure who was dazzled by the cute little babe that must have made that presentation. But here's the deal. You don't give our property away for free. It isn't yours. If that's what you do in your daily lives, I'd like your cars. In fact, I'd love be happy to move into your homes. These are not individual properties. You should not be doing that with communities properties. We still owe them as much as we are disregarded, as much as you pretend we don't exist and we don't matter. That's crazy. Absolutely crazy. That's how we got right where we are today. And since it
091is an agenda item, I'm going to read uh item eight. There's something on there about what is it? Just the generic authorization to sell or dispose of property. According to Brown addict says agenda items must have enough detail to give the public a reasonable idea of what will actually be discussed and acted upon without guessing. What property? How much? This is inadequate. This is not appropriate. What you did December absolutely wrong. By the way, since I'm going with that December issue, how on earth do we make an agreement with the richest highlight richest former professional athlete for no dollars? Are you telling us we're not worth the plug? Nickel. Thank you. We're going to move to public comments on non-aggenda items. Our first public comment is from Reginald Blub. Please come to the podium to
092address your public comments on non-aggenda items. >> You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Thank you, Father God. Lord Jesus, I pray that my words um speak truth and inspire action. I have a difficulty speaking something. I got to say that to relax myself. But I I thoroughly believe that. Some of you guys know me um from supporting the basketball team. But those who don't know me, I'm a math teacher. And I personally volunteer to make sure those athletes all stayed academically ready for that game that they're prepared to face the challenges. But what I learned from Coach Crow, and I hope you see this later, is how to be a master teacher. Now, he's a basketball coach and math and I'm a math teacher. But what I saw him do, we can teach
093the curriculum, but we cannot teach confidence. That's a difficult assignment. And that's something that you have to show the kids that you believe in them for them to believe in themselves. But I'm here tonight to say thank you. Thank you for the CTE program. We participated at Knosbury Farm. It was an opportunity for our kids to compete against other students and they they saw success in themselves. They took some awards. They won third place. And what's amazing is that they did it in a minimum the smallest amount of time. They only had 10 days to put together a program as opposed to other students who had months to prepare. Um, I'm also proud of the exposure to animatronics and I hope that we can continue CTE program. We talk about attracting ADA dollars and talk
094to the kids. They'll tell you what makes us great. They'll tell you what they want to improve our situation. And another thing came to my mind, invest in our invest in our in our personal we have. I was laid off a riff notice. I went back to school and learned HVAC. I went back to school and learned solar technology at LA Trade Tech. we can partner with them. Accounting, why don't we have accounting here at the school for teach the kids how to get jobs? That's going to attract what we looking for. But I want to say thank you. And the kids are looking forward for a future presentation. They want to bring in their work to showcase what they did, their awards. They set off rockets. They had no idea about rocketry. Um the
095the scholarships and the jobs they're looking forward to, the opportunity, but what they learned most was to believe in themselves and their confidence. And I encourage all of you. I encourage all of you come to the campus and talk to the students. They'll tell you what we need. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our second public comment is from Cheryl Matthews. Mrs. Matthews, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. >> You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Good evening. Uh Dr. Morris, our board, our uh cabinet, the community at large. I had something else in mind just to come up and say, but um sitting here today, I just really think that Coach Crow's words, his words about motivation, support, and opportunity struck a chord within me. It made
096me think about from the um chair that I I sit the committee of uh the asset management committee. It made me think about coming up with strategies and a vision um for the properties that we've sold that we didn't have anything to do with but and and properties that we uh have the opportunity to lease. I kind of like to call for and look for a budget that shows a breakdown as to how this affects the receiverhip. We never single that out and do anything that shows this is where we started. This is how we've paid into it. This is how we're paying it down and by this date it will be done. We don't have that. We need to be able to come up with some ideology and as they were others have said
097we need to figure out some ways to bring more funds. We have a opportunity for partnerships, sponsorships, all kinds of people coming into this this community, but not being vested in what we have going on here at this school district. So, this is the time for us to be strategic, be visionaries, and utilize what we have as leverage to get what we need. And that is to get us out of receiverhip so that our board controls what happens within our district. Our community voices are heard. Our children are heard and they're the beneficiaries of our efforts. That's the legacy. That's the legacy. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Our third public comment is from John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes.
098You may begin. >> Thank you. in tribute tribute to um women's uh month which is every month actually but I mean we'll deal with the western concept um there was a young uh student by the name of Alice Ball um who actually um was such a stellar student at 23 she found um a practical cure for leprosy but by the time she turned 24. Um she had passed under mysterious circumstances at her uh at the laboratory where she worked. She was the first um black woman to graduate from the University of Hawaii. Um very very astute. Uh but it was under mysterious circumstances. to fast forward, her um her professor took credit for her work, assigned his name to it as his method, and it took 90 years to uncover that truth when they found
099her notes um in her lab work. For 90 years, he took credit for that work. I say that because um as a foundation for we have to be genuine in where we give credit. We have to be genuine in and looking at the experts that we have as I always say right here right here in Inglewood. Mr. Love is one right here in Inglewood. Miss Euck who who again just slams the science uh project. She's one right here in Englewood. We have out excelled all over this uh county but we're not recognizing our genius because we continue to go outside for answers that are inside. We are here I keep emphasizing it but for some reason we're not being believed and we show the excellence every day. Having said that, looking at this um uh
100culture of confidence that was spoke about earlier and and how do you instill that is really by modeling that example. You stand up. You don't bow down. You stand on your feet. You don't live on your knees. You make demands in front of people where they can be seen and heard. you model for young people and they respond and take it to another level. Um I I was at the high school when Jason C when uh um Jason Crow senior was a senior. His father was my principal. his son I coached against when we were in the elementary school league and he was at Latihare and I identified him at that point and told them both that he's going to be exceptional and he is because he modeled sacrifice and selfishness. Thank you. Thank you.
101Our fourth public comment is from Mario Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Good evening everyone. Good evening community. I um give you guys a copy of a letter. Um I want to speak on all these wonderful things that you guys have done for our school, for our district through the last 15 years, but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. um um I'm mentioning in those areas in writing um where we continually um misunderstand that Figma reports and I emphasize that area in my letter because through the 14 reports that I have read it always come back to spending overspending and we still continue overspending. spending and we don't see no results. ADA
102continues to go down as uh projections said I think by the projections right now this the district will be closed by now right but that's what the projection says about what 78 years ago and we still here resilience it's open to our community serving the children they here my children um I feel that we have to um find a balance between those agencies that come and support us because sometimes they come to support us with no knowledge of what they even they're doing. Um, in my understanding, they're ready to go. Now, I'm not saying they all like that. There's some great agencies out there to support and services. Um, but now you see where the money is going. Instead of investing in our uh wonderful employees here, promote them. Uh we decided to go and
103invest in companies. They by the time they go, they take all their knowledge and we here doing double, triple, quadruple jobs. Um like I said, we have to find a balance. uh does books sp I I don't want to come and do numbers because I can really project the 11 to 14 years projection on where the misspending funings have been done and what I say is mis spend because like people come in here spend like is their pocket they just spend here here here here dollars everywhere but they don't go to our children and it hasn't been to the last past five years that we actually have seen really growth academically investing in our children. I seen it grow. I want to thank because like you know our school won the champ uh on fourth
104and fifth grade of mathematics and I know I saw that champ over there. He won the high school. I really love those things. I never seen the kids so excited. I went as a parent. I'm remember I'm a partner as a parent when I came in and help out. Um I never see myself as an employee. Always a parent. Thank you. Thank you. And our last public comment is from Diane Sbrano. Miss Sbrano, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Okay. A comment was made a little while ago. The reason people left the district was about our financial situation. And most of the people in our community don't really pay attention to that. They want to know if their kids are doing
105well. All you have to do is go on US News and World Report and say, "Dog on if I already have to get up early in the morning, get dressed to take my kid clear across town and get them dressed, why on earth would I go to a school district that still is showing 1% literacy in mathematics? I'm already dressed. let me turn around and go the other way and go to a school where we actually can expect our child to learn something. The sad thing is when these kids get out of this school district, I don't give a rip how pretty the graduation ceremony is. Thank God we're not paying like we used to the truckload for the forum for the two-hour event because you know what? It's not how grand that two-hour event
106is. It's what they got the other 13 or 14 now years that matters. And if they're illprepared, there's um I went to go look it up. I thought it was a girl. Surprise, surprise. There's about four or five high school students that are now suing their school districts because they got inadequate educations. I hope a lot of our parents don't really come back and do that, even though it would probably only take one for you all to figure out. Education is the reason we're here. And to assume that this community's members don't have brain cells and skill sets and talents and abilities and not listen to them or not include them with that which they are trusted to make decisions about. What an insult to the acid committee. An absolute and complete insult. Trust me,
107many of them worked in jobs that didn't have those gosh, I'm guaranteed a forever job. If they acted the way some people who've made decisions in this room did, they'd have been gone by next payroll period. It's time you figure out the people this community do have brains, skills, talents. They volunteer. And to kick them to the curb and pretend they don't matter, they may very soon do that to someone here. Thank you. Um the last public comment is from Tariq Clark. Mr. Clark, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. >> You have three minutes. You may begin. >> I'm here today because decisions shapes lives. I want to say good evening to the board members and my beautiful Inglewood community. My name is Tariq Clark and I'm standing
108here before you today because I'm someone who understands how powerful decisions can be in the shaping of a young person's future. I spent 25 years of my life in prison learning lessons about responsibility, consequences, and the weight of choices. The difference between where I'm at and where your students are today is about three decisions. Planning, preparation, and performance. The truth is, many young people made lifealtering decisions without fully understanding the long-term impact those moments can have on their lives. During the years I spent reflecting on my own journey, I realized something important. Most young people are not given the opportunity to truly see the consequences of their choices before they make a decision. That's why I'm here today. Through the made new re realities, students are able to step into immersive experiences that place them
109inside real life decision makingaking moments. Instead of simply being told what can happen, they are able to experience the emotional, social, and personal impact of choices that they'll make in a safe environment. It's not about punishment. It's not about fear. It's about awareness. When young people are able to see life from a different perspectives, sometimes even the perspective of someone affected by a decision, something powerful happens. Their understanding grows, their empathy grows, and their ability to pause and think before making a decision becomes stronger. My mission is to help young people recognize their value, understand the power of their choices, and see possibilities for their futures that they may not yet see for themselves. I would welcome the opportunity to partner with this district and bring this experience to the students of Inglewood, which is
110also my hometown and where I was born and raised at. And I close with this. I already paid 25 years to learn these lessons. My hope is that the students in your schools won't have to pay the same price to learn them also. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. That concludes our public comments for tonight. Thank Thank you so much, Miss Sbrano. We're now going to move on to approval of action items. Uh board members, uh any questions or comments on human resources division 9A1 through 987? Dr. McGee, >> are there any um questions? >> None. >> Thank you. 9A1 through 9A7 are each approved. Moving on to educational services 9B1 through 9B11. >> I want to make a comment on um item five. Um I recall this this young man uh did
111a presentation for this Blackar youth lacrosse and I'm so happy to see that the district has really taken heed to what this young man has uh presented to us and um got the contract going. And I also want to recognize item 10 um from Mr. Clark who just uh shared uh the made new foundation. I know we jumped through hoops and hurdles, but we got you guys back at BenQ and just thank you for all your support. You guys are doing an amazing work with conflict resolution. Thank you and keep pushing. I got you back. >> Are there any more comments on um our educational um um service division hearing? None. 9B1 through 9B11 are each approved. Moving on to business services 9 C1 through 9 C11. I ask the board, do you have any
112questions on the business services division? >> 9C1 through 9 C11 are each approved. Moving on to measure I and facilities 9D1 through 94. >> Are there any questions on the measures and facility division? >> No. Yes, I have an uh want to say thank you, Mr. Guzman. Item three, thank you so much. Uh that's that's with the eyes zero eyes for weapon detection. So, thank you for really thinking forward about this security system for our for our uh campuses. Thank you. >> Thank you. 9D1 through 9D4 each approved. Moving on to county administrators one item 9E1. Are there any questions on the county administration's division hearing? None. >> 9E1 is approved. Moving on to approval of the minutes of the board meeting held on March 4th, 2026. Minutes of the March. >> Are there any
113um questions or suggestions, comments? >> None. >> Thank you very much, President McGee. The minutes of the n March 4th, 2026 meeting are approved. And moving on to board president, turn it over to you for board member remarks. I'm going to start with Miss Randolph. Do you have any questions um or comments this evening? Okay. Maybe she'll come back. Uh Mr. Um, Castile, >> um, you know, I'm just feeling very prideful, very prideful. I'm just so proud to be from Englewood. I mean, it's just an amazing night. We celebrate some amazing individuals. We talked about some amazing stuff that this district is doing. We heard from some amazing staff. Um, and we're going to get through what we need to get through. Um, Mr. Love, I'm a big fan of yours. Uh, I'm really grateful
114that every time I've come to Ingwood High to visit, if it's either Dr. Collins or Dr. Lucas, they make sure I come to your class because you're doing something special there. So, I really appreciate you coming here is excited to see you in your element. Uh, you spoke some real truthful words and I just feel more I feel improved as a board member just hearing you today. So, thank you for being here. Uh, I feel improved hearing the words of of Crow, Coach Crow. Uh, that's the recipe it's going to require for us. You know, I know the private partnerships are exciting and I know it's a big part of how we're going to get back together. But the recipes within us. We got each other. The community is going to get each other. We're
115all going to be involved. Our parents, the ones who drop the kids off and pick up the kids, the staff that takes care of them, even you know, the lunch people, we have the recipes to make this a successful district and we're going to make it happen. So, I really appreciate each one of you who will make this an amazing district. I'm so proud to call my own and I know everyone here shares that sentiment. So, I'm just I'll just leave it in a positive note that I'm proudful to be I'm proud to be from Englewood and I'm a proud Englewood Unified alumni. >> Miss Evans, would you like to share a comment this evening? >> Well, I didn't have much, but I will share. First of all, thank you for your women's history presentation
116to our fabulous administrators who make the ball keep rolling. Uh, and thank you for even acknowledging me for bringing in someone to help City Honors do what they did. And um, it wasn't just, you know, because I knew her, but she I knew who she was and what she could do and and she came in and did it. But, uh, I'm missing my student board member. She hasn't been here for the last two meetings. And the last meeting that she was here, we met out on the steps as I was leaving and she was crying and I'm really concerned about her why she's not here. Um, I guess I'll just have to call her and find out myself why she's not here. >> She rang. >> Okay. >> She's still a student, so >> I
117just want to make sure that she's okay. I'm concerned about her, but I will find out. In fact, I'll call her tonight. But, uh, thank you everyone. I'm I was really inspired by tonight's board meeting. As I said earlier, I've watched those kids play basketball. I have a nephew nephew who plays on another team out south somewhere. I went to his game after I had watched the Englewood game and I thought, "Oh my goodness, Englewood ran rings around that team." I was just like, "What are these students doing? They need to come and watch our team." But I mean those our kids our kids were amazing. the games that I did see and thank you Brandon for letting me know to go to a game and I went and they are just amazing. Thank you
118to the coaches and as I said all of those men who have poured into those kids and you can tell they have really poured into them and most of them are seniors I think who were honored tonight weren't they? They weren't. Well, I know Jason Crow's a senior and he'll be going off to college somewhere and continuing with his prowess somewhere else. But I just want to thank because this as my board member says, we have or John Hughes said tonight, we have talent in this district and we have people in this district who can help grow these kids and and make them all better people. So, I just thank you for honoring the ones that we did honor. And we need to honor more of our teachers. And that could inspire even more to
119do better, I think, if we do that. And we we pick out teachers who are doing great jobs. Our math teacher here, people like that. We need to honor them and inspire them to do even more than they do. But thank you very much. >> Thank you, Miss Evans. Um, Miss Randall, are you back? Okay, then we'll move to uh Mr. Meyers at this time. >> Thank you, Madam President. All right, so um just to recap of my uh I guess month and a half. Um you know, of course, my black history uh uh celebrations carried over to March, which is which is okay. But uh back in February, um I want to take my hats off to Mrs. Crump over there at Inglewood United for putting on an amazing fashion show. I tell you,
120this thing had me in tears. It had me in tears to see the the the uh the periods um that were uh exhibited and each fashion design was design was was created by our students. So, Honorable Castillo, yes, we got it already here. Yes. Um I also attended Ben's middle school uh black history program uh which occurred yesterday and it was phenomenal. I just want to take my hats off to all the participants that came by and uh poured into our youth which is very helpful. I did see uh our student board representative there uh yesterday and she was controlling that Englewood band as she always does. So I take my hats off to them and then aha I read across America and I went to your school Ernesto. All right. So I went to
121Oak Street. Thank you so much for having me. I went to Ben Q and thank you to my lovely wife for uh picking up I guess my load with the CDC and reading to the babies. I had some emergency meetings so I was not able to attend. Uh I I I I do want to cross over um to our our young men but I want uh I want to hush up and let a video uh to be shown briefly with this spirit. That's what we do. So that's just a little back uh story about that. That's in Springfield, Massachusetts after these young men went and trounced on Nordane. Okay. as we're the only public education school that was represented in this tournament. And this is the basketball hall of fame, y'all. >> Yeah. >> So,
122this is important. This is the name. This is where all the all the top athletes come. And and I'll tell you, each one of these athletes that play in these games have represented NBA teams in the future. And that's exactly where our young men are headed, to the pros. Uh here's another uh picture that I just want to highlight. Uh, and this is a bit uh kind of pivoting to showing how this coach Crow has done an amazing job with bringing our community together. And as you see that picture, you have Inglewood and you have Morning Side players, taking it together all in front of the United celebrating one of our previous coaches. So, I just want to take my hats off to such an amazing job this year, uh, with creating visibility for our
123young men, for our district. Um, their sacrifice, it's just, it's just speechless from what they offered to our district. So, I'll digress right there and thank you so much. Have a good evening. >> Thank you, Mr. Myers. Thank you, Miss Evans. Thank you, Miss >> Say One more thing. One more. Thank you. Um I was at Oak Street Oak Street as well this week. It was read across America and I did go to Oak Street this week to read to four classrooms of students and it was it was so I mean they were just so attentive and they sat there and listened and asked me questions. It was a really good experience for me to do that. I went to that school because I was asked to come there. Uh, but when I look at
124the kids in in our school district and it the book that I brought was a black book and I think I had two black kids in all the four classes that I read to, but it was still they were still so attentive and inspired by the book that I read because it was a book that was written by a black person about a black person and they still they just accepted what I was reading to them and they really got something out of it. I was really proud to to read to those four Mexican too. >> Yeah, she is. >> Yeah, she was born and raised in Mexico. >> Oh, I thought she was from Africa. >> Okay. All right. But I just wanted to make sure that that I that I did say that
125I did go and participate in that and it was one other thing. I can't think of what it was, but that's okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome, Miss Evans. I'll start over. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know. I know. I want to thank you for I was I was invited to the Kaiser um >> well what is it though >> the sports science >> the sports center that they have in Englewood now for students our students can go to Kaiser over at Into Dome >> our any of our teams are invited to come and you know go to their wellness center and it's not just if they're injured or whatever but it's a sports medicine center and I just want to let you know that if you as a public uh person want to
126go to the wellness center and you've had Kaiser, you don't have to go all the way across town. You can go right here to into a dome and go to their gym. So, thank you. I brought m uh Dr. Mars a gift that they gave me and I gave it to Dr. Mars. So, he can go to the gym if he wants to go and do what he wants to do at Kaiser. But I just want you to know that we have Kaiser in our neighborhood now. Thank you. That's what it was. M madam board president I it was my school so I I have to say I also read for Oak Street and I read for pain. Um and if I may I think it's okay for me to share this. Uh I read
127the junior novelization of a movie that's coming out soon called oh it came out this weekend called Hoppers. >> It's a Disney Pixar movie. It's a really good movie. So I read the junior noveliz junior novelization to the class. I stopped at a good point a nice little cliffhanger. I closed the book and I said I could finish this book or I could just take you to watch the movie. So in two weeks I'm gonna take 300 students of my district to watch Hoppers at Synopous Luxury Cinema. So I'm very excited about that and thank you Synopoulos for your generous uh donation to our our students. >> It was a great way to cap reading across America. So thank you for coming to my school and reading as well. >> Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna
128try this again. I want to thank you Mr. Castile. I want to thank you Miss Evans. I want to thank you, Mr. uh Meyers. I too went to uh parent and read to probably 10 or 12 classrooms because I didn't realize I was the only reader that day. Um and I read my books as a published author. So, they totally enjoyed me. Just so you know. They also over at Parent Today started their golf program. Um, it's a golf program just for our little girls, but they were killing it today. So, I'm hoping that it inspires them. Oftentimes when we look at sports, we look at the traditional sports, but golf is another sport that I thoroughly enjoy and it is a way for young people to really understand the discipline of the game. But
129more importantly, if you do well, it's really a nice ticket to to college. So, I was excited about that. And I just really want to commend this board for their enthusiasm, their love for their community, the love for our schools. I don't think anybody on this board takes um being a school board member lightly, and it shows and it shows up. So, I just want to continue to say thank you and to continue to encourage each and every one of us to do what we can when we can. And so, with that being said, I'm going to turn this meeting over at 7:06 to um Dr. Morris. >> Thank you so much, Dr. M. I will I will keep it very brief. I think we've seen a couple of common themes this evening and it
130is about community and building one another up and the way we talk about our community and we talk about our schools is important and I think it the things that we heard this evening the highlights that we heard the inspiration we saw from what our students are actually doing I think is what helps us to continue to move forward. I do I know it's been mentioned previously, but I do want to acknowledge yesterday afternoon Dr. Josea, Dr. Lucas and I had the opportunity to call Dr. Aria and let her know about the California Distinguished School status. Dr. Aria is cool, calm, and professional 100% of the time. But she screamed so loud on that phone that the three of us had to jump because it was the excitement of knowing it wasn't Dr. Mariah, it
131was the team. It was the teachers. It was the classified staff at City Honors coming together and making something special happened for students that resulted in recognition that they are doing something amazing and something right. And I just wanted to acknowledge it was a very important moment for I think Dr. Dr. Lucas shared my emotions because we were both super excited to share the news. I wanted to mention that. And I'll just close by saying our next school board meeting is scheduled for April the 8th, 2026. And the meeting will stand adjourned. Dr. McGee, you'll be proud of me. One minute at 7:07 p.m. Have a good evening.