001Good evening. It's 5:00 p.m. and I would like to call the February 18th, 2026 regular board of education meeting of the Englewood Unified School District to order. I'd like to ask Dr. Danielle Goulsby to come forward. And Dr. Goulsby, if you would please lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Hi, good evening. Please stand. Put your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> You may be seated. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Goulsby. Next, Miss Embran, would you please call the role? >> For president, Dr. Carlos McGee, >> present. >> Board vice president, Mr. Brandon Myers, >> present. >> Board member, Mrs. Joyce
002Randall. Board member, Miss Margaret Turner Evans, >> present. >> Board member, Mr. Ernesto Castillo, >> student board member, Miss Amaya Hazard, >> present. >> Dr. James Morris, >> present. >> Dr. Bernat Lucas, >> present. >> Dr. Brian Coffee >> present. >> Mr. Rafael Guzman >> present. >> Thank you. Please be informed that Spanish language interpretation is available during this meeting. with no modifications. Moving on to report out of close section session action items. In closed session, the county administrator took action to uh and rejected the following claim. A skip claim 2514320. Also in close session, the county administrator approved the following settlements. O a case number 20250134. O a case number 2025100245. O a case number 20251 1 0560. O a case number 2025110011 and case SE 022025-2026 JB. We're now going to transition to
003reports and presentations. We have several presentations this evening and the first one, Dr. Bernardet Lucas, our assistant superintendent of educational services, will present LCAP reports. Uh the first presentation is the midyear LCAP report for the school district. The second presentation is the city honors midyear update to the local accountability plan. local count local accountability plan and the third presentation is Latihara's midyear update to the local control and accountability plan. Dr. Lucas, thank you so much Dr. Morris. Good evening to our board president, Dr. McGee, our esteemed board members, my cabinet mates, and our community. Um, tonight we're going to share the midcycle implementation update for the Inglewood Unified School District LCAP or local control and accountability plan. The LCAP is much more than a compliance document. There's our district strategic commitment to ensuring um excellent
004outcomes for our students, that we are stewards of our fiscal state, and that we ensure measurable improvement for every single student in the district. This update um reflects where we are right now in the implementation cycle, what the data is telling us and how we must intensify our efforts in order to meet our goals over the course of the LCAP cycle. It also represents a transparent assessment of where we stand not only our areas of strength strength and strengths and progress but also our areas of focus. Our LCAP priorities are grounded in three commitments. ensuring high quality standards, aligned instruction in every classroom, creating safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environments, and strengthening meaningful partnerships with families of the of Englewood. As a district serving a high percentage of unduplicated students, including our English learners, our
005students um from lowincome households and foster youth, we recognize our moral and legal obligation to ensure that these monies are spent um efficaciously. This mid-year review is intended to highlight our progress. As I mentioned before, identify trends that are emerging around our students achievement, attendance, and behavior data, surface areas requiring immediate attention and acceleration, and our next steps for improvement. We approach this with this plan with urgency and accountability. That's part of what this evening is about. While there are many areas of early progress, we are 100% committing committed to ensuring that our outcomes continue to progress along the lines um that our families, our parents would expect of us. I want to thank Dr. Morris, Dr. Coffee, Mr. Guzman, and their teams, all of our principles. Tonight, we have um site representation um from
006both of our charter dependent charters. I also want to thank our district colleagues, um, our ITA members, our Teamsters members, our IMA members, educational services, our parents, and our community members. A huge thank you, Dr. Goulby, would you start approaching now if you don't mind? A huge thank you to Dr. Goulby whose leadership, I say this every single time, and it's no less true every time she presents. The process that she stewards is exquisite in my opinion. She does an outstanding job leading us through this work. It is a team effort. I just acknowledged um all of our team members, but the way she stewards this process is both intentional and authentic and she is to be commended for it. With that, I'd like to transfer the mic to Dr. Goulby. Thank you. All right.
007Good evening. Now that uh all of the protocol and p pleasantries have been established um let's move on to the presentation. All right. Here's our wonderful cabinet and Dr. Morris and our wonderful school board. Um and today we're just going to go over um high level looking at our ratings where we are with the LCAP the matrix and um our expenditure progress. Um, as requested by the board, I make sure we uh include a glossery and not just for the board, but for the community to know what um we're referring to when we are going through these acronyms and saying these different um different uh uh labels for uh things within the LCAP. So you have a glossery there and also I just want to give an overview quickly on the uh dashboard. So in
008our uh for every school district in the state of California, they are um you're measured by our California dashboard, we are uh measured by indicators and these are indicators. Uh that's our English language arts, that's ELA, our math, our English language learners, um uh chronic aptism graduation rate, suspension rate, and our uh college and career. These are all of our subgroups and all of these subgroups are in the Ingle Unified School District. These are all of our students that are listed there and um our students are rated. The grade levels now the dashboard does not grade every student on everything. Um this is how the students are rated. So as you can see chronic absism only is for K8. The suspension rate is for all students. The EL progress is for all students. graduation rate
009is just um our eighth our 9th through our 12th grade. Our college and career is only 11th and 12th. Our ELA, math and science is only the um the testing grades and you see those listed there. So this just to give you just an overview of what um how the students are being um rated on the dashboard. Here is the rating for the dashboard starting from the lowest red all the way up to blue high high performance. So, let's um get some glows. We do have some uh bright spots that we want to share this evening. So, let's give it up for our schools that have um no reds, no low um indicators in any um in any area. So, that's Ben Q, City Honors, and Englewood continuation. So, let's um give that up to
010them. Um the next area um no um a school that has no uh uh schoolwide categories that um there are no reds and for the first time in in years um Inglewood Unified School District have no categories in the red. So let's give it up for our district. No categories um in the red city on um uh Sentinela and and Highland because this is from um last year's data. Uh there are no categories in the red. Now if we get down to school data, remember this is for 2020 uh of 2425. So it will include the schools that were um closed. Um these are the schools that move students at least um uh one indicator. Um and remember many of these students have moved on to the other schools so that those the scores followed
011them. So, let's give it up for all these schools that um had moved students at least one um uh level, which is a huge undertaking and move your subgroups at least one. And in most a lot of cases, we have them move too. So, let's give it up for those schools. And then this next one is um moving uh um uh moving subgroups at least one um area or more. And that is another feat in moving your subgroups along with moving your entire school. And these are the schools that were able to do that at least one or more categories. So let's give it up for them. Okay. Yes. Hello. These are glows. These are glows. Okay. All right. So the California the the IUSD's dashboard in comparison to California. We have it listed here.
012So, here's the California's um dashboard and then um we put um Engle Unified School District dashboard where we rank and we're not too far off. So, I'm um pleased with that. Um also within this package, you see the um comparison from 2024 to 2025. How you read this docu how you read this uh chart is in 2024, this is where um the um where we were rated and uh by by color by dashboard. And then in 2025 where we're rated by color and by dashboard and you can see um the trends that are there where we improved where we might have dipped and um please know that edge services is has examined this thoroughly and is working with the school sites um to um make sure we continue with a any positive trends and if
013any areas dipped we have a a plan in place to address those. Another area um is that's the the California dashboard is the federal is the states um measure. Um every student succeeds act is the federal measure and um in the federal measure you have if you need improvement there's three different levels of improvement. I'm happy to say and happy to report that none of our schools fell within any um areas where we need um improvement. we are in what we call no status meaning that we um have not been identified for any um uh school improvement. So that is great um on the federal level. So that this is the first time that the entire district has not been identified. Um as you can see we had two um this is huge. We had
014uh two schools last year and we went from two to none this um this past year. So we're hoping that we can keep that trend going and not have any students identified. I mean any schools identified. All right. So, getting to our goals. Um, everyone has in their in the packet. Our goal one looks at um optimal learning environment and these are the areas or these are the services um this uh of what we provide in in goal one and what we've what we monitor in goal one that is being um is being um implemented. And so on this next page, it it outlines our budget. So, out of all those services, this is where we are. This is what was budgeted. Where are we where did we fall as of um July of January
01530th? This is where we ended off on January 30th. And um where it has um implementation status that's based off of the amount of money that was spent on those items. So if we said that we were going to spend X dollars, where are we spending those dollars? Um did we spend it more or did we spend it um less? And so that's how you read this um document. And then um in the glossery, we um explain what the funding was for. GF is for general fund. SI um C is for supplemental concentration. And those are the main two um um funding sources that we use in the LCAP. You also might see some federal funding in there like title one, title two um and possibly title three. So this is where we fail in
016our um implementation of goal one. And for the most part, for the exception of one, we're um right at the the right point or have completed um implementation of these um particular items. So goal two focuses on our multi-ter system of supports. What does that include? That's our professional development. Those are um services that um support students, um tutoring, um additional um opportunities for students, CTE, um experiences for kids, um uh our instructional coaches, all of um all of these are supports that are in our multi-ter system of supports. And this is where we are in the um spending of all of those um activities. So under we have in this in this action um excuse me we have in this uh in this make sure these are all the actions. This is where we
017have um again where we budgeted our the amount of money we were spending for each of these actions and how we were supporting them. how much was spent as of January um 30th and um where we are in terms of implementation. And again um for the areas where um you see minimal listed um we as a team have gone through and and figured out okay how are we going to course correct and either are we eliminating this action or we going to reallocate the funds from this action to another action. So there has been discussion in terms of monitoring um what's happening with each one of these actions if we're not utilizing those resources. it can go to something else based off of our data. And speaking of data, here's the next one is our
018matrix. We do follow our data. Um this is our the main sources of data that we follow um is our SBback is our SBA, but until we get to our SBA for this school year, we look at what are our trends in terms of our um assessments that happen during the school year. So, our beginning of the year assessments, our middle of the year assessments, where are we, are we making any growth um and what's happening with that and all of that is listed um here. Um all right. Uh goal three is culture and climate. These are all of these services or supports that we have in in regards to our culture and climates which is including anything dealing with attendance counseling our parent engagement um our supports for PBIS or community lison our um
019student engagement um communication all of that is under uh culture and climate and these are the actions that are associated with culture and climate and again you can see listed where we started with our budget where are we now? um and uh the level of implementation in terms of finances and again um we have again anything that's minimal we're looking to see okay what's going on has it not been uh is the in this case because I'm looking at fine uh that is yeah so those are we're waiting for that to get paid out so those are actual individuals um that need to be paid out for their services and then the matrix um again is anything dealing with culture and climate So that's attendance, our our chronic activism rate, suspensions, graduation rates, um our
020any surveys with parents, all of that is listed under our our metrics. Goal four is special education and that's any any and all things dealing with um special education the um services um the practitioners who are supporting students um any of the um uh professional development that's all within the special education goal. And at was it last school year, we moved from the um goal one where we had special education listed in terms of the the um the staffing, we moved it to goal three. So everything is we're just concentrating all of the attention um anything dealing with special education within this goal. And um again, here are the expenditures. Now, this is mainly dealing with the um the federal portion of it though, the um IDA that we we get um different uh uh
021aotments of funding for IDA and it looks like it hasn't um been hasn't kicked in yet in terms of what uh they're looking to spend it on. However, all of our staffing and compliance pieces that is being fully implemented and the matrix, these are all of the matrix that we measure success on for special education. Um so all uh we look at all the students who take the SBback either they're taking the um the CA or the um which is the uh the test for our matzabir students or they're taking the um sback um um as our general ed students and um the uh co-curriculum use our mat students use a different curriculum in addition to our their current um the access they have access to our general ed curriculum but they also have a
022special curriculum to to ask that to meet them where their needs are. Um, we're looking at our uh we haven't have the for year two, our rates haven't been um submitted yet for uh some of these uh areas and so we'll have that at the end of the year, but um this gives you an idea of where we were in last year and what we're moving to for this year. Goal five, um um ELD. So, anything and everything dealing with our second language learners from our newcomers, which is a new um our newcomers and our long-term English language learners, which is a new uh group that's being um reviewed by the state. So, we've um added um a lot of supports for those two groups to make sure that um we're meeting um their needs
023and um and uh and um improving hope and to improve our indicators and making sure that they are getting all the supports from um in from not just from ELD but also all the curriculum areas. All right. Um expenditures, same thing here. These are all of our actions. you see where we started budget-wise, where we are um as of January 30th, and um the level of implementation um financially with the matrix looks at how are all of our English language learners performing on our assessments as um and they and they have two which is our CAS as well as um ELPAC. And then um you have listed here our reclassification rates and um we have another um as of right now we have another about another 50 students who are slated for reclassification for the
024spring. So that will help to improve our reclassification rates. And um last but not least in terms of our goals is our equity multiplier. And this only applies to three schools within our district. Um the um equity multiplier was set up by the um the state to support schools that had uh poor instability rates. Um if they have over 25% of the students did not start the school did not begin and end the school year at your school site, um you're considered to have um some challenges with stability. So, um those campuses receive um additional funding to um find ways of supporting those um supporting their students to encourage them to be to come to school um on a regular basis and stay on campus. And these are some of the services that these campuses
025um use. Um the schools for this past year who qualify for equity multiplier were um ing continuation and Woodworth Monroe. Um, and there'll be another um, the new listing has not been released yet. We we kind of have a a um, they gave us like a preliminary, but the official listing hasn't been um, released yet for the next uh, cohort of schools. And with those campuses, these are all the metrics. We look at their um, their test scores, attendance, uh, their um, chronic absenteeism, uh, behavior, and the stability rate. And that's all um listed there for each one of the campuses and how they've uh fared over the years in addition to their um cap scores and college and career um ratings. And then listed here are based off of the actions that were in
026that particular goal, where we started budget-wise, where we um are as of where we were as of January 30th, and the um the level of implementation. And then finally um our district received the um the learning recovery block grant. Now as of last year when um I reported to you in J in Janu in June we had uh completed we reported that we had completed the um the uh learning recovery block grant but right after we submitted our LCAP the um district received a new allocation from the state. And so, um, this is reporting out what we what with everything that has been spent up until this, um, up until this point from the last allocation to the new and what the, um, the funding was spent on. And that's it. All right. I try
027to make it as concise as possible with a lot of information. All right. Any questions? Dr. McE, would you like to have board member questions or comments on the district or wait until we've done all three and then hold until the end? >> Thank you, Dr. Guzman. Wonderful presentation. Um, just a few questions around the uh minimal areas. Um, and I know you mentioned that there were some um, you know, I guess meetings that you were having just to figure out what strategies were in place, but if we can go to I just just pull one out of the hat. Um, let's just take I guess um provide the accessibility for college prep tools and resources. Do we have any numbers indicating how many children uh or how many of our seniors are actually going
028to four-year universities? >> So, that's a great obviously a great question, Mr. Meyers. So, our counselors collect data for us in that area. When I first came to the district, I asked if there was a statewide system that helps us track um college metriculation. I was told no, but what we can do is provide that information through our counselors. Um, Miss Williams, is there anything you would like to add given that you were such a phenomenal counselor? >> It It's okay if the answer is no. We also have the national >> that's different than the state system which we don't have. So we'll get that we'll get more precise numbers to you. Is that okay? >> Thank you. Thank you. And that's just >> Yeah. No, no worries. And that's that's just in addition to
029the various uh minimal areas um that um seem to have no implementation. Um and before we cut those dollars, right, let's see, you know, what areas are lacking. Um so go ahead. >> Yeah, if I can, um further elaborate. So, um a lot of our college prep supports we get from the universities themselves. So, it doesn't necessarily cost us money. So, um, if they're going on to these college visits, it doesn't only thing it cost is like a bus and sometime the the universities send the bus. So, it might not be as um as costly as we may think and or andor these um what has been spent hasn't hit the books yet. So, this was as of January 30th. So, that also can be >> okay. So just take um maybe parent engagement, >>
030okay, >> is one because I know that was one of the minimal ones. >> Okay. >> Um do you know off the top of the head top of your head like some current strategies that you might have in place to engage the parents? >> Go back to >> you pulling my brain now. I'm going have to go through on um so those are that those are mainly positions. So people are in those position that's our community lison. >> So we the community lison are in place. So we would just need to see where where if it hasn't hit the books yet but that's a majority of that is our community lison and um we also have um there's another position in there as well. So we need to see >> goal five I think right?
031>> Yeah I'm looking at goal five that those I know exact those are commun. >> Okay. Okay. Mhm. >> Okay. All right. >> And I know they're working, so they're there. >> Okay. >> All right. No problem. Thank you so much. And I appreciate you um highlighting uh the schools that um have no red indicators. I I think that is such a pat on the back to to our uh first of all, you know, just the district staff here, but most of all uh our teachers who are on the ground level and our parents absolutely >> work with our children after hours. So, we appreciate you. Thank you. >> No, absolutely. There. Um I thank you for bringing up the parents. I do want to shout out the um LCAP um uh our educational partner
032committee. We have a great group of parents who come out faithfully and give us um wonderful feedback as well as community members who also come out and give us wonderful feedback. Um they were um we just recently had a meeting uh with community and parents on um for the survey and hearing them and getting their feedback on this. So, it is I I I do commend all the groups, all of our educational partner groups who give feedback on the LCAP because we listen in and we um make sure it's included. >> I just you said something about we don't have to spend much money on uh when the colleges come out, but when we take the kids on the college tours that comes from >> No, it comes out it does come out of here.
033We're spending money on it. >> Yeah. But that hasn't happened yet. So this is refer this is >> no this this this um is reflective of 2025 2026. So this is currently so um I I I think the big question would be by the time we come back in June has all of that hit the books. >> So then if we see if we're seeing a lot of minimal then then yeah there there's time to have a conversation. So, um, at this point, um, we're looking at the minimum and we're like, okay, if it's not if we're not utilizing it, if if if whatever you have planned is not happening, let's look at the the, um, data and see, okay, well, where else can we, um, uh, re repurpose those efforts to support like it
034came up um, and this has nothing to do with the LCAP, but with our federal funds. Um, once the new allocation for the federal funds came out, the schools are like, "Oh, we we can use more tutors. We can use this." That's the type of stuff that we want to hear. What's happening at the school sites? What do you think that can be of support to you? Because if it's if what was originally planned is not going to happen, we need to redouble our efforts and do something else. >> Dr. Lucas, >> I'm actually going to defer to Mr. Guzman. Thank you, Dr. >> Just another point there as uh Dr. Goulby was mentioning when we go towards the estimated actuals that looks at all your expenses through April. So, as she mentioned, right now
035we only have expenses through December and some in January really not all of January yet. So when we get to April, uh we start working on the estimated actuals. That's when we would know, hey, if for example on this item that you mentioned, the parent parental engagement, if it's still at 10,000, that would essentially then go towards a carryover and and to your point, right? You could identify we have X dollars of carryover, how should this be disseminated amongst the goals? And then you can go back and rep prioritize. So you don't lose the funds, they go towards the carryover. So that's when we kind of do that final. But this one is right now kind of midyear. where are you at kind of assessment >> and may I emphasize a point Dr. be made,
036Miss Evans, because your point is such a great one, too, is that we do use this process as a check and balance. So, we'll see. Okay, it's minimal right now. What hasn't this action been implemented? Is it because it's not happening until May? Is it because um the implementation hasn't rolled out in the way that we planned? And we then we we enter the equation and make the adjustment. Um so, I just want your question brought that out and I wanted to emphasize that that this process is intended to do just what you brought up. have us check ourselves. >> Thank you again, Dr. Goulsby, for an excellent presentation. We'll move on to the city honors midyear update to the local control accountability plan. >> I think I might be her security blanket for tonight.
037>> And let me indicate doc um Dr. Ari is ill today. So, Miss Williams, Melissa Williams, the assistant principal at City Honors is here to present the update to us. Miss Williams. >> Good evening, Dr. Morris, Dr. Lucas, Dr. McGee, cabinet members, board members, community partners. It's an honor to be here and uh I just uh it's an honor to uh represent City Honors this evening. So today's presentation we're going to review the LCAP goals um our services and supports uh our LCAP metrics and um our expenditures progress The California dashboard is really exciting to look at for city honors. As you can see, uh we have a lot of blue. We have green areas of green that went to blue. Um overall, you know, our suspension rate is at a minimum. Um our graduation
038rate is remaining in the 90th to 95th percentile and above. Um our college and career uh readiness, if you could see last year was in green, it has gone to blue. Um that we have um our A throughg completion rate is is a main reason why that went to blue. it was in the 96th percentile for last school year. And also I I just want to that college and career um to blue uh if you if you look at the other high schools, they went up as well. And part of that has to do with five years ago the board um changed our graduation requirements. And um if you go to other school districts, you don't see this, but in our school district, we have officially aligned 100% um our A throughG requirements with our
039graduation rates and um or with our graduation requirements. And now with the from last year was the first graduation class that had had to meet they had to have 100% of the A throughG requirements met. Um and that's why you're seeing this go up and it's going to continue in an upward trajectory. So that's exciting news. Uh and then um also for our ELA and math um we've we've and I have to preface this by saying you know we have a phenomenal leader who's who's sick and um her her Dr. Aria and the the teachers at City Honors. The one reason the main reason why you see an upper trajectory with ELA, they went up a lot. They went and it was the 79th 80th percentile. They went up. They went increased in math. It
040is because of teamwork, true collaboration and teamwork. This is a more detailed um view. You can look at our subgroups and you can see um well to Dr. Gouly's point, we are no red, which is great, but um we want blue, all blue. That's what we want. And you can see um for African-American students, we've gone our college career has gone from green to blue. Um the our our ELA, we're very proud of that, has gone from green to blue. And um and our socioeconomic and disadvantaged students, you also see um you see an upward trajectory as well. So, we're very proud of we're very proud of the CAST data and the hard work that went in last year. LCAP um goal one student support uh supports and services. Um again, it's a team effort.
041Uh there's collaboration with the support staff, the the um not just the teachers but also the the outside staff, our our SSPS's, our our community liaison, our counselors and um and we, you know, we all dream big together and we make sure those things happen. So this is year two of the Northern California trip that's going to happen in March. Um students are very excited about that. And then also it is year four of our HB.CU trip to Alabama. Uh this year we're going to Alabama and Georgia. Um these trips, they're just they're so phenomenal because the goal is, you know, the moment you step into high school, your grades count. And so to have have experiences like this, it gives kids incentives and the motivation to do well the moment they step foot on
042a high school campus. So, um I if you go to if your your child goes to City Honors, if they want to go to City Honors in the future, this is some of the cool things that they get to do and it's phenomenal. Um as far as our metrics, um most of our um our our metrics are it's you can see standard met standard met standard met. Uh we um our EL learners um we have a small percentage of English learners um at our school, but we've made it a goal this year. Uh we want to get a 100% of our students in a position to be reclassified. That is our goal. So, um it says increase by 20%, but I guess I'll elaborate. Well, I'll elaborate now. The the um we we have met
043with all of our EL families. We've had we had data chats with them. Um we um set goals with them. We created an English learner um academy on Saturdays where English learners come. Um uh Mrs. uh Patricia Somefield who is our SSPS uh and also a phenomenal teacher. She's just so gifted and uh she's just making that those Saturdays just meaningful for our our English learners. We are also periodically meeting up with the uh with uh uh parents and and then making sure that those um that our um you know English learner strategies those sedai strategies are integrated that integrated ELD is happening in all of our classes. We're constantly monitoring that. Uh as far as if you go down a little further um our A throughG requirements I already highlighted that but also it
044says on there you know it's really important that we are um increasing AP courses. We did add AP biology this year um which is really exciting. Uh we did have English um our AP English lang years ago and that was officially brought back. We have two sections of that this year. So that's very exciting. Uh we also have um you know many college classes to we have uh in partnership with El Camino College. We had English 1A in the fall. We had a kinesiology course. Uh we're having a first aid class about to start today. We had a sociology class start. Um these these courses are e easily are either preparing them for some sort of certification or they are completing their general education requirements in high school and it is phenomenal. Um I do
045want to one thing that we've started in partnership with El Camino um and with our LCAP expenditures that CTE pathway we did start this year and this has been a vision of the students and the leadership at city honors for many years Dr. Ry specifically uh is to start a cyber security pathway in partnership with El Camino. So, um I was at El Camino last night till 9:00 every Tuesday from 5 to um to 8. Our students are taking um their second um course in our cyber security pathway. And this one concludes at the end of the year. They'll be eligible for the it's called the A+ certification. Um and I was told by our Apple tech that that's one of the certifications that he has to have to even get a job in this
046in at an introductory job in this in that field. Uh and so it's very exciting and El Camino, you know, if our students do well, they are um actually paying for them to get they're giving them a voucher to take the state exam at the end of the year. >> Uh uh our expenditures um you can see here the first three are fully implemented and the partially implemented um it has to do with uh salaries, our learner, our English learner academy, so on and so forth. And it's midyear. So to Dr. Lucas and Dr. Guzman and Dr. Gby, you guys had mentioned that it's a checks and balances and you know that's why we you see partially and it's halfway through the year. Uh LCAP goal 2 uh this I hope everybody can stop by
047when we have our open house and and and peruse through our new uh media uh center. Um, we everyone knows we have a phenomenal new school on our campus, the Ivani Young Center and and and City Honors and Ivan and Young, they've collaborated and they have they're they've just built the new media center. It's it's it's just a phenomenal space um where we're going to have parent workshops, family engagement events. It's going to be um a student support hub where they can have study groups. you know, we really want to um that's that's really important for our college classes, our advanced placement classes, our honors classes. We want to build a space for students, you know, we're studying in groups and hanging out is cool. And this is going to happen here. Okay. Um here
048the surveys um the main thing is you know and this was I know Dr. Dr. had mentioned this at the end of the year at the LCAP. You know, it's an parent participation is an area of growth and communication and one and we are working on that and and through consistent postings on parent square. Um we also um there's Dr. Ry is sending out newsletters every single week to the parents. Uh we make sure that um our progress reports that we're not just sending out a physical report card. We are also students that receive, you know, a certain grade or below, they're receiving phone calls, they're receiving emails. Um, and then we, you know, we do develop, we do have student data chats with our students. That's been common practice at City Honors for about
049four or five years. And we are also including those, you know, the parent in that process. Uh th this side just speaks to our workshops, our community liaison and and um our school site um support specialist and again um your actual this you're going to do this in April and you'll see changes here and we're also discussing are we really going to use these funds and do they need to be moved and so on and so forth and and some of them we already have moved. This this right here if you look at all these highlights you can read through them. I know I'm have a little bit amount of time left but I do want you can see the success on the dashboard um that the takeaways we city honors does schoolwide cer claim
050evidence and reasoning um this is occurring in all subjects in all classrooms it is phenomenal and we just spent the last two um staff meetings where the teachers actually demoed a CER lesson and we just got to pick up on some of the amazing strategies they're using in the classrooms. We also have AVID strategies. Uh we have an advisory period for three days advisory for three days a week for 30 minutes. On Monday, we have mindfulness Mondays. On Wednesday, we have wellness Wednesdays where we're using Rethink Ed. And on Thursdays, we're doing we're doing we're inserting our AB our AVID strategies. Again, this is kind of a this is kind of an elaboration of what I spoke to before, but you do see an increase. Um we still have some work to do. our focus
051is really math. We we've um there has been there was an increase in our subgroups in math, but we have a long way to go and we're very mindful of that. And um and I'll talk further about that in a second. Um as far as these these expenditures, you'll see they're they're going to change. Um for math, for example, um we've added um uh additional professional um development for our math team. Also the um the district introduced us to um UCLA professional development alongside our curriculum specialists that are coming to the campus and they're really focus the focus is on student engagement and um differentiation for all learners and you you it's excellent PD and so we we have we actually switched around funds just to make sure that that continues. This is what I
052just talked about. And and then this is more about our wellness. Everybody knows at City Honors we're developing um well-rounded kids. We do have an attendance team. We focus we have monthly attendance attendance incentives. It's a very big deal at City Honors when you have um excellent attendance. It's you're constantly being rewarded and called out for um making the right choices and getting to school on time. And this breaks down our um again our dashboard and our expenditures. Um and again a lot of you here is the same thing with our uh staffing and our wellness and our attendance and all of that and our PD and these these are changing you should see change by June and thank you Thank Thank you so much, Miss Williams. Dr. McGee, >> Annayia, I think I'm leaving
053you out. You have your own uh process, so do you want to weigh in on it or do you want to wait and give your report as normal? Okay, Margaret, did you want to weigh in? Miss Williams, I just love your enthusiasm because I mean, you just pour your heart into >> those students at City Honors as you always have done. I just wanted to say thank you to you for that. >> Thank you. >> Well, Miss Williams knows she's I'm a fan favorite. I just have one question and it may not be something you can answer, but I'm looking at the budget under um supports and services primarily for our college trips. We invested $100,000 for 30 students to 10 schools in Northern California and we invested $90,000 for students going on an H.B.CU
054tour uh with 26 students. Um, do you have any intel on what that looks like, what the kids are getting at $100,000 going up north? >> Well, I know it's it's it's not just going to the universities. It's also um they it's college and career. They're going to LinkedIn. They're going to um you know, various universities. as far as like the cost of the breakdown of why 100,000, why this so much less. Um I I I honestly need to get back to you. I don't want to misspeak, but I will tell you that um you know, we it's a little different. We have for the H.B.CU tour, um we we get a certain amount and then we say, "Oh, no, we can't do that." Or, you know, there's discussions and the Northern California tour, it's
055similar, but it's it's with a different company. So that cost of a h 100,000 actually has come down to 100,000. So it was so um but I as far as the details of a breakdown you know of expenditures >> that that I if I can just add to that because I actually did a little research on this >> this California college tour is costs total cost is approximately $3,000 per student. The HBCU tour is about 4,000 person. >> About 3,600. >> Yeah. Well, yeah. 3,600 because it includes the airfare. But I want to be clear on this one in particular. >> We're we've met with the the vendor to say we need a breakdown of what exactly those costs are. So, the contract as it will be approved later this evening is a not to
056exceed cost. Mhm. >> Um and so we just need to make sure that the the costs are are for actual expenditures. >> Yeah. I I guess my curiosity, we're going across the country and we're going up north. You know, I just want it to make sense. you know, not that I don't think there's, you know, cost associated, but, you know, when you look at kids traveling to Alabama and Atlanta and then they're going up north to UC Berkeley, you know, you probably get a bus and go to all those places. You're not flying from Berkeley to Stanford because they're right there. So, it just it I it it just struck me as something I'm I'm curious. Yeah. Thank you, Melissa. And you sat fantastic 62 times. Not really, >> but your enthusiasm, like Margaret said,
057is infectuous. >> Shaking. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Williams. Just amazing, informative, and exactly as you heard, it's your your love for children that comes shining through. So, thank you. And now we will turn it over to Miss Robbie Tate for the Latihara presentation. You talk about enthusiasm. We're getting a night of enthusiasm. Miss Tate. >> Good evening, Dr. Morris, Madame Board President, Dr. McGee, board members, cabinet, staff, Inglewood community. Uh my name is Miss Robbie Tate and I am the principal at Latihara TK8 Academy of Excellence and today I will be presenting our midyear update for 2526 LCAP. Okay, as stated before, I'll be going over our LCAP goals. Uh I'll review services and supports, review the LCAP metrics and the expenditures uh progress. First things first, the dashboard. Um lots
058of hair has progressed tremendously in a short period of time. still some areas of growth, but I just want to just shout out prior we were and I'll show you another graph after this, but we were in red for chronic absenteeism and uh we've moved up uh to orange. So, our efforts are paying off. Um something that we are extremely proud of is um our suspension rate um was red. Sometimes you got to take a few steps back to move a lot of steps forward. And so we went from red to yellow and I'll speak more about that um throughout my presentation. Um our English language learners are in the red. However, I can say that I am proud that we are reclassifying them. So looking at the data, we have things in place to
059support them on their state test. Um and then we have excelled in our uh English language arts. Uh last year the district priority was literacy and so um we were very deliberate in making sure that um we moved that because we know if students can read then they can excel in every other uh subject. And then math we're in the yellow which is also uh progress. We were in the orange. So a lot of progress still much work to do but we're on the right path. This is another chart um just explains the dashboard more in detail. Um however, as you can see, the colors are lightening up for 2025. Um some areas of growth though we still need to we've improved in chronic absenteeism, but that's still an area of growth for us. Um
060and our English language learners. Uh like I stated before, we are reclassifying them and you'll see that. However, we need to make sure that they are successful on their benchmark tests and the state test. So, we have things in place and I will share um as I present and um our students with disabilities some progress in some areas but there is some um areas of growth. So, we're on our way. Um, something else we are proud of. I don't know if you all remember but Liy here was the only school in red and that was bothering us because we have high standards. Um, however, our hard work has paid off. We are no longer at TSI school. Um, we went up so we're at no status with everybody else. So very proud of that and
061that was based on our um suspension rate and our um attendance and so um that's a huge accomplishment according to the um every student succeed act. All right. Uh goal number one is just the optimal learning environment just basic needs um to run a school. So some supports um obviously we need teachers, a principal, assistant principal, um our student supervision assistants, custodians, office manager, um special education staff, um and then our core instructional materials. And thanks to the district, we have met um all these areas as far as our standards um instructional um materials um our Williams um facility safety cleanliness and um our fully credentialed teachers. So, thank you. All right. Everywhere that you see base, that's pretty much where the district supports. Um, so a lot of these, like it was stated before,
062these are things that are paid monthly. So most likely they'll be fully by the end of the year. And then where it says SNC, I am proud to say the monitoring of wraparound services um has really made a huge impact. As you can see, we're fully implementing that. Um that goes to our LEO coaches, our safety assistants, all the things and people who help us with our wraparound services and who help support students um with all the things academic, social, emotional um go to extremely proud of this because we are continuing to add different programs um to Latihara. So go to focuses on curriculum implementation and supports. Um we have uh solution tree um supplemental resources to support curriculum. Our sped curriculum and resources are college and career uh awareness. Again every classroom at Latihara
063is a college and all the students have already uh receive their college shirts. So, we have College Friday and every year when a student goes to a different class, they will receive a new college shirt because they'll be attending a new college. So, this really helps. It's so cute when you see our Grand Canyon four-year-olds. They already know about Grand Canyon. Next year, they'll be in Grahamlin, so they're they're super excited. You'll be amazed um how much a t-shirt and just talking about colleges can make a difference. And so, just making them aware of their options. Um, we have our hey tutors, we have UCLA tutors, we have our AVID implementation and I'm moving. It's a lot here we're doing. But the ongoing training of Amplified and Savas is made a huge difference. It's important
064that we empower our teachers and give them continuous training on their um expertise um because the better they become um the better they are for students. And so that's ongoing throughout the year, the training. And then we have our field trips, our technology integrated instruction, our STEM and digital technology, and our supports for our English learners. All right, looking at goals to metrics, um some things we're extremely proud of. If you look at year one, um at EDback, we were at 43%. Um but we have improved double digits and we have gone up to 55%. So over 50 of our students are proficient in ELA. And also u math, last year we were at 17% and we moved up all the way to 28%. Math is our focus this year and so we have our
065interventions in place. So I look forward to seeing um the growth in that area. We have our science data uh which is at 24% and I feel good about that because our teachers are meeting in PLC's across curriculums and so they're using strat strategies the students are using in ELA they're using them in math in history and science and so I think that's going to make a big difference. Um looking at our our dibbles, our beginning of the year, um we're at 60% and our middle of the year we've moved up to 65%. Um so a lot of growth and then um as you see at the bottom it shows our English language learners. Um the year before was four reclassified and then um 2024 2025 was seven and this year we set a goal
066that's higher. So, we're putting some things in place to um empower our English language learner families. Um our ELAC committee has grown and so um I feel confident we have after school tutoring and Saturday school with a specific teacher just for our English language learners. They're also provided with bilingual hey tutors has been very helpful. And we're monitoring our EL instruction very closely. Um, if you look at the beginning, I I don't know how I skipped over that, but it was a we recently had a PD that was extremely effective where the teachers actually engaged in um engaged in strategy supporting our students with disabilities and English learners. The they created sentence stems and sentence it was just a wonderful thing to see. We weren't just talking about it, we were doing it. And the
067next day, teachers actually had those sentence stems and frames up in their classroom using them. So, we don't just talk about it, we're we're actually making it happen. Uh, thanks to the team at Latihara. Okay. And so, our I Ready ELA the beginning of the year we were at 30% and then we moved up to 42%. Um, and then in math we were at 8% and we moved up to 18%. No, I didn't read that. Yeah. and then 22% and then we moved up to 32%. So, a lot of progress. So, we're actually looking at the data very closely um to see what's working and what's not working, but we are growing in all areas. We're not moving backwards, we're moving forwards. We are AVID certified and yeah, some of the data will be pres
068is not uh available yet, but will be presented in the next report. All right. Uh go to expenditures. So in the areas where you see um minimal, these are just areas where we used money for. We had two we have two grants. Um we had a educator effectiveness grant that had a deadline. So we need to spend that first. And then we have the learning recovery block grant. Um and then we have our title one. And so we were very strategic in uh using those funds first. Um, however, in these other areas, funds are being spent as we speak. So, I look forward to most of these categories being fully um implemented, but I am proud to say for our learning recovery grant, we've used over 50% and I'll speak to that um at the
069end. So, money is being spent. Um, but we have to be deliberate and intentional. um some of the grants that we have have deadlines and so we want to make sure we use that money first um before we use um other accounts. All right, goal three, culture and climate. I just want to speak to this picture first um because this is something that was mentioned at our last meeting, but we do have our radio broadcast with our sixth grade scholars. This was a opportunity where we um did a podcast speaking about our test scores and um just commending the district and it was a wonderful highlight for Latihara. Um some of our climate and culture I couldn't list them all on the slide but um we have our counselor, we have wraparound services in place
070um that not just help students but also some of the services help our parents too which is I think a wonderful thing. It's a team effort. uh our school clerk, safety assistance, our PBIS support, which has been huge. Um because our PBIS team has been very intentional with making sure that students have uh the support they need in all areas um social, emotional, um and behavior. But just things in place such as we have uh school mentors, uh we have middle school students mentoring um our elementary students. We have our mediation, student mediation, which has been amazing. Students, more students want to be a part of that. Students who once upon a time were a part of the trouble and now they're problem solvers. So, it's it's really cool to see um students asking to
071join the mediation team. Um like I said, different we have children's institute, different wraparound services that just have really been um extremely helpful. Something new that we added this year at our monthly uh attendance assemblies, student of the month and PBIS assembly, students actually role play uh the right way and the wrong way. So we have a focus every uh month. Um last month's focus was uh commitment. So students um did some roleplaying on what commitment looks like. We have our amazing wellness center and our wellness staff um which I'm extremely um proud of because they don't just provide wellness inside the wellness room, but they're actually on the yard um helping kids make connections with what they're learning in the wellness center and helping them apply it on the yard. So, that's been extremely
072helpful. And then we have our parent training workshops, conferences, and our other supports. uh goal three metrics. All right. So, as I stated before, we did move up on the dashboard with attendance. And so, um last year we were at 91% uh 91.3. This year, I mean, and then now we're at 92.16 and then last year for middle school we're at 93 and now we're at 94. We have an attendance team. We have a super attendance team. We have uh monthly assemblies. And then we also have addressed and identifi excuse me identified our chronically absent students. So they are part of something called the I'm here team. And so our media our mentors actually go check on these students throughout the day to just commend them and show joy on um them being at school.
073And then this this uh parent input this will come at the end. That data will be shown at the end. And then um in the areas where it says okay yeah where you see we've over spent um it's a good thing that we do this midyear update so we can see where we need to reallocate money. So in areas we thought we needed more money um we didn't and then in areas where we did need more money. So we will be moving that money around um and that will be so that will look a little different. All right. Our learning recovery uh block gr uh block grant uh the total grant amount is 97,82200 and is currently being utilized to support various academic and administrative initiatives. As of uh as of now we have spent
074over 50% knowing that we still have to June 2027. The grant funds are being used to pay for hate tutors. UCLA tutors. It also provides students with small groupoup instruction. We have lunchtime tutorials uh where our UCLA tutors actually tutor students during their lunchtime. In addition, funding um has supported our special education administrative services. I can say that Latihara is in full compliance with our overdue IEPs and that's something we're extremely proud of. Uh we have five my severe classes on our campus that we love so much and I'm just so grateful for the team. We have worked together to make sure that families are happy and to also make sure the students are meeting their goals, getting their services and um all the things that they need and so uh money has been spent
075towards that. The grant also funds our amazing guided coalition who actively looks at data weekly. This has been a huge part of our progress looking to see where we need to uh what's working and what's not working for kids. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Miss Tate. Dr. Miguel, I'll turn it over to you. Well, you were so amazing that we are all just speechless. So, continue to be an amazing educator for our scholars and we will continue to support every effort to make them even more amazing. Thank you for your presentation. >> Thank you. >> Thank Thank you, Miss Ch. And and actually that concludes our midyear LCAP presentation. Our next presentation this evening, uh Mr. Raphael Guzman, assistant superintendent of business services and chief business official will provide an update regarding cash
076flow and a brief update of what's happening with governor's budget. Mr. Guzman. >> Hi. Uh good evening, Dr. Morris, Dr. McGee, our vice president, Mr. Myers, our board members, uh cabinet, our public uh here today. Uh good evening. Uh we're here to talk today about the cash flow and the governor's budget update. So just so um for those of you that are not aware, um the governor really um gives school districts kind of some updates throughout the year about what the budget will look like. Usually the first kind of glimpse that we get at next year's budget is given in the January governor's budget. He then follows up with a what's called a May revise or a May revision. So in May he revises uh his statements and uh different programs after he gets some
077feedback from legislature or from the legislative analyst office and different things happen taxes start to come in revenues start to come in. So that's what happens and then finally somewhere in June uh they will eventually sign a budget right and so those are kind of the three points of time. This is kind of our first glimpse at what 2627 will look like in July of 2026, which is coming up very soon. So, the day before the governor released uh the budget, and I just want to say, by the way, uh these slides are from school services of California. Uh and they usually provide very good information on the uh governor's budget. Um, so essentially before he presented, he really went over the environmental resistance, the pre-K for all, the affordable housing, a lot of the
078things that he's uh earmarked as very big accomplishments in his tenure as governor of California. And this is really uh his final proposed budget. So he really wanted to kind of throw those themes out there. And uh along with those themes, there are a lot of innovative approaches, but there's also some concerns about budget. But that's really I would say na n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n nationwide that we're seeing these types of concerns. So the governor's budget and the economy, the US and California economies do continue to grow. Uh the GDP uh is preliminarily over 4%. The equity markets are
079at new all-time highs. If you were to have seen recently those equity markets maintain some all-time highs. We do see some slowing of inflation um and the consumer confidence is up slightly from the past. So those are some positive trends. However, there are some uncertainties uh that we are facing at a national level and a state level. For one, it's uh really that a lot of the gains that we're realizing in the stock market have to do with technology gains and specifically with AI and the market for AI. So, there's a lot of investment going on with artificial intelligence. And so, that's driving a lot of the um or at least some economists say that it's driving this uh the economy's uh trajectory currently. Uh but there are other uncertainties related to federal policy regarding
080immigration and foreign trade and the tariffs that you hear about like all of these things are impacting the economy. Um so in regards to California specifically uh 2627 the governor presented a a budget that is balanced. However, in 2728 we see a pretty large deficit of$22 billion uh and some shortfalls in in the following two years. So, however, the California tax collections are outpacing projections. So, that's a good sign. And with that kind of information, the governor, uh, has made some different assumptions here. And so uh as we can see really when it comes to the budget of education um most of the new funds that are being generated uh in the current in the new uh fiscal year for 2627 are really being uh targeted towards core education towards enrichment and then some towards
081reserves. Um so that's really where the new money is coming into uh those kinds of pots and a lot of it is going to reserves. Here's just an adjustment uh that we're seeing from the governor. Uh you see three bar graphs here. The one on the far left is the enacted budget. That's back in July that we saw that number. That was the projection for 2425. Then we saw the LAO or the legislative analyst office fiscal outlook followed by the governor's budget projection. So for 2425 and 2526 uh we could see how those numbers have changed and how the governor's budget um as you can see here uh let me see if I remember how to do this. Um I I guess this one doesn't have it. Um it doesn't have it right. Yeah. So
082the governor's budget you can see that it goes uh from 114.5 billion to 121.4 billion in the governor's budget. there was a pretty large increase in what the governor thinks is going to be generated in 2526. So, we're seeing this variation, but the legislative analyst office, which kind of backs a lot of these numbers, is saying no, we actually think it's going to be a little bit lower. So, what does that all mean? Really, when you look um we how are we going to be funded? There are some other factors that impact how school districts are funded. And really, it's u the main one that's impacting really all school districts in most school districts in California is declining enrollment. So, it's not just a I know Inglawwood is dealing with this um but it's almost
083statewide. There are some areas in the state where you're seeing some growth, but for the most part, declining enrollment is continuing to trend uh downwards for most districts and a lot of districts are now a growing number of districts are deficit spending. So, you're hearing a lot about reductions across a lot of districts uh that surround us. A lot of that has to do with large deficit spending. Just a quick reminder, deficit spending doesn't mean that you're uh you know that you have no more money. It just means you're spending more in the uh more currently your expenditures are larger than the money that you generated for that year. But if you have a reserve, then that that that offsets the deficit, right? So that's kind of how that works. A lot of school districts
084are deficit spending. Inglawwood is deficit spending as well in the current and two subsequent fiscal years. So that's something that we have to continue to keep an eye on and we will have to look and identify towards making reductions in the future. Um here you can see just a general graph of how we're funded uh by each grad span and through the LCFF or the local control funding formula funding factors. Um as you can see here the first line is 2526 the base grant. That means you know uh how much we're all funded through each student is funded through at the base. Then you see a cola adjustment that 2.41 41% the cost of living adjustment. Um that's your new 2627 base grant per ADA. So a TK to through three student would generate $10,53
085per student plus another,000. And then at the bottom there you'll see um the 20% supplemental and 65% concentration. We qualify for both of those. So that's why like we receive more than the in this case 11,595. We receive more than that per student. Um and then we also received some assumptions for the financial projection dart board. These are all really important for everyone to know how we actually build our budget. Um the top line is really the one that probably you want to pay the most attention to and that's Dakota in the future years. So uh I have broken out here um to the right you could see what the governor originally projected. And so in 2526 there was a projection of 2.3% cola followed by 3.02% 02% cola in 2627 and 3.42% cola in
0862829 uh sorry 2728 let's just say 2728 sorry um and when you look at the 2627 governor's budget which if you just received in that drops from 3.02 to 2.41 and then in 2728 it drops from 3.42 to 3.06. So that might not seem like a lot going from 3.02 to 2.41 41, but it actually is uh what this net effect is right now. We were doing some ballpark figures. It's going to cost the district over the next three years about $3 million. And that's with us not doing anything, right? Like if everything stays the same, our enrollment stays the same from what we projected at first interim back in December, right? We projected a certain number. If it all stays the same since the COLA was adjusted, that means that that figure goes down,
087the revenue figure that we estimated. So, we're estimating about $3 million when it's all said and done is where we where we think that's going to be at as we start to polish our budget up for second interim. So, you can see how COLA makes a difference for for how districts are funded. So, we really want to pay attention to that COLA, but that is an an external assumption factor. And this is why I always say budget the budget is a living document. You have to make adjustments as you see and as these things happen. At at at the first interim, we thought it was going to be 3.0 02 because that's what the governor told us back in July. Right now in 26 27 uh we're seeing that the governor said no you know
088what it's actually 2.41%. So we those adjustments happen and we have to be able to make adjustments as those adjustments happen in the future. Um so I'm going to speed up a little bit here but you can see how ad ADA and enrollment is trending in elementary districts and high school district and then unified districts. You can see how what those averages look like uh depending on which uh type of district you are. For unified in 2425 it hovered around 92.67%. So um another thing that the governor really wanted to emphasize uh or that's out there currently for us that applies to us is the attendance recovery program. Uh this is a new program that came into effect in 2526 and I want to thank our ed services department for uh really pursuing that and
089it's really offering our students something much more substantive than the traditional Saturday school model and so this will help us generate additional ADA uh for those students that are not able to attend school uh for a certain amount of time. So attendance is accumulated in hourly or daily increments. So it works in a in a different type of way to how Saturday school works. Um, however, it is something that we are piloting currently and I'm very thankful for for us doing that. And we are using the ELOP or the expanded learning opportunity program funds to supplement this and that is an allowable expense for attendance recovery. So, that's something that's that's slide here tells you um those funds can be used. So, we're working very closely with uh Miss Babin to make sure that we
090align uh and that we're offering this uh to our students. So that's another thing that not only helps us economically but it also helps towards u the educational outcomes that we want to see for our students. Enrollment is another thing. Again declining enrollment is just um statewide you can see here it continues to decline uh since 201819 the statewide enrollment has dropped by more than 6%. uh by this is a alarming number here uh but by 23 20 sorry 2034 to 2035 it is projected to decrease by 16.3%. That is an very it is a very large decrease in enrollment and this isn't even the district's numbers this is the state average of what is being anticipated for declining enrollment. So you can see how declining enrollment is a statewide issue. Um and and so
091there's advocacy for um just funding school districts at enrollment. The only thing with that is if you fund a school district just based off of enrollment, there are going to be some winners and there's going to be some uh uh losers in that kind of sequence. And so that's why it's really almost like very difficult to pitch that. Um but anyways, uh that's that's where we're seeing uh currently that those trends happening. As far as the federal level, um we can see uh we're following really really closely what's happening at the federal level and how that has an implication for public education. Um President Trump continues to pursue his uh campaign promise to close the US Department of Education. So that uh we saw some executive orders take place um and some shifting of TK12
092oversight responsibilities and functions and that may create new admin and compliance hurdles. One of the consequences that's not as severe but that you'll see tonight is that our audit is just being presented today. The reason for that is that the audit uh requirements and guidelines were not available yet because of changes happening at the federal level. So we had to extend and so did many other school districts. Um so we're starting to see some of that implication happening and and disseminating down to schools. However, uh some good news that we've heard is that the federal funding levels look to be uh they're still not specifically known, but they look to be uh at about what they were in the previous year. Um so that's something that we uh are are, you know, uh optimistic about.
093Now, the road ahead for the governor uh and the legislature, as you can see, there's two uh lines here. The Senate overview hearings that happen and then the assembly overview hearings that happen throughout time. So in February through May there's uh winter and spring subcommittee meetings and hearings that happen. After that uh there's other committees and decisions and eventually the legislative leaders negotiate with the governor for the final budget and then hopefully by June 30th the governor adopts a budget. So somewhere in between here uh really in May we'll have our May revise numbers. We'll come back to you and say hey cola got better or cola got worse. and then we'd have to adjust the budget pertaining to that. So, the may vision is the next step here. Um, and we hope that this
094will um kind of give you a little overview of what's happening uh at the state level as it pertains to school funding. Uh, now moving on to our specific area in regards to cash flow. Um, as you can see in the month of December, we ended with $129 million in cash and we project still to end at 114 million in cash in June. So we could see that our trends continue to be in the positive. Um and that's a really good number. But as we start spending down our reserves or we start deficit continue deficit spending, we're going to have to pay very close attention to cash flow because you know um not all your money comes in in a neat orderly fashion. It comes in through pockets and different areas of time. And so
095we have to make sure that we keep close eyes on how our cash flow is uh moving forward. Um, so that's something that we're we're very cognizant about. Um, as we continue to analyze how we're spending our money, here's a little bit of a more detailed breakdown that you could see kind of and on the previous it was just the totals. Here's more details. Um, and you can see kind of what those changes were from month to month. The if you were to really kind of nitpick and kind of see u the month of November to December, there was an increase in certificated salaries of from 3.4 million to 3.8 million. And that really had to do with our uh sub our certificated substitutes um and how uh the accounting periods kind of meshed in
096that time frame. So it was it wasn't that there was an additional amount of staff. it was really that the amount of uh the substitute pay for November was actually acred in December and so it ended up kind of uh you know creating that scenario where it kind of inflated the month of December but we're still projecting and trending in the right direction there for certificated salaries and so forth and so forth. Um, so that about does it. Again, cash is king. As we always say, we have to make sure that we continue to look at our cash and make sure that we are consistently, you know, monitoring where we are. But that concludes both the governor's budget uh update. Uh, I guess the takeaway from there is our cola is coming down unfortunately, so
097we have to make adjustments. Um, however, the economy is still performing well and we're hoping that that maintains. Um, so I turn it back to you Dr. Morris. Thank you. Thank thank you Mr. Guan for a comprehensive and thorough presentation. I think kind of the the now therefore from that presentation is budget development for school districts in California is complex and it's made even more complex because number one we're required to present a three-year balanced budget when we only know one year of revenue at a time. That makes it very very difficult for school districts. The second thing is the way the budget cycle works. We have to present our budget. We have to make important decisions about next year, but we don't really even know until June exactly how much money we're going to
098get. I think what we appreciate most is the comprehensiveness of your presentation and really an explanation of how it is. It's a complex process. I'll turn it over to Dr. McGee. >> Thank you. I think I see our board member Randolph has joined us. Um, did you want to weigh in on this? Uh, Miss Randolph. Well, maybe we'll come back to her. >> Okay. All right. I'll text her. Uh, okay. Margaret, >> I have a question. It's just something that came since I've heard all these presentations, not just for you, Raphael. Um, do we do any kind of um, presentations at our elementary schools outside of our area? Like I heard a school is closing today and they're going to be looking for schools. So naturally I said, "Well, come to Englewood, you know, but
099parents need to hear, you know, because we're not out in the area in the community. That's why they're at that school in the first place. They're at a private school. But now that private school is closing, so where are they going to go? So now they're scrambling looking for schools for next year. And when I suggested, you know, we'll come to Englewood. This, you know, we we have good schools in Englewood. And I'd like to see us go make these presentations like we've made, not everything that you've said tonight, but just to let parents know, let people know what we're doing and how we have improved. And you know, I I say it all the time. We need to advertise what we're doing more. People need to know that Englewood is growing. We're not the
100same Englewood that we were three, four years ago. We're not the Englewood that we were 10 years ago, but we are a good school to put your child in. So, I'd like to know if uh cabinet, if principles, if you know, whoever would be on this road show could do something like that and go to schools and and present our data to to these parents so that they can feel comfortable bringing their students to Englewood and they look at our test scores and look at how we've improved and all that. That's what they need to see. I always tell Dr. Lucas, I mean, you know, about closing the achievement gap. She's she's done this. So, we need to let everybody else know that we're doing this in Eaglewood. >> Well, we need a communications and
101a publicist. It's hard to keep putting that on the backs of staff, but I totally agree and we're going to do something about it. You know, God willing and the creek don't rise. We we going to do something about it. Uh Mr. um Miles. >> Sure. Thank you, President McGee. A wonderful presentation, Ralph. So to um Miss Evans point about increasing ADA, right? So that we are not and correct me if I'm wrong. If we're looking at the projected um total for February 2026, that's where that deficit starts. That's 7 million. Correct. >> Um well, the so with the cash flow, that's just showing the expenses. the deficit is really the the total uh you know when we look at the at the end of the year um and so uh yeah that's but however
102the month of February is a month where we have we're projecting more expenses than than revenues so we are spending more than in that month >> okay are there any um strategies in place to try to trim the fat immediately >> uh yes yes uh we're definitely definitely exploring like wide variety of strategies. One of them is to your point earlier this attendance recovery program. So, uh I think we're um one of the I would say I'm not sure that every district is doing that. This is a brand new program. Um, I know that we're probably one of the few in in LA County because we're having a hard time getting a code from from the county on how on on payment uh for uh for teachers that are doing the program. Um, and so
103that's that's something that I know we're working with HR on right now. Um, and so the fact that it's not available kind of tells us it's it's not it's newer. So that's one way is improving attendance. Uh, one of the things we're also doing is in regards to attendance, um, uh, one of the issues we had in the past was attendance not necessarily being submitted on time. And now we track that on a daily basis. So if a teacher or a principal doesn't submit their attendance on time for that day, um, we we follow up with an email and that's really kind of helping us to keep track of understanding where we are with with attendance. Um, and then we're also looking at every contract. Um, to Dr. McGee's earlier observation on one of those
104contracts. You know, that's one of the things we said, wait a minute, like we need to really understand why this is this amount and we need to start converting some of these contracts that are just a flat dollar amount to a not to exceed and you need to give me the receipts, right? Like as to why you're charging me a certain number. Um, and so that's I would say, you know, that would that's not a specific vendor. I'm not saying anything bad about any of our vendors, but that's like vendorwide. That's one of one of the things we're implementing. We're looking very closely at every contract. I know our services department is also doing that. They're saying no uh we need a breakdown. We need and that's something that wasn't always the case in the
105past. So, we are looking at that, but we're also looking at different options as far as staffing and optimizations there. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Guzman. I just had um a little question. I'm looking at the government the governor's budget and it's going to go down, you know, year after year. But what happens if we have all these kids come to our school? Will we have enough money to cover them? Where's the money going to come from? >> So, um, yes. So essentially if we have more students come to our district, our school district um yeah so we would be funded at a higher at a higher level because it would be p based upon the ADA percentage. Um so if we have more students it'll increase uh the number of our ADA and
106it would essentially be funded in in that sense by by the governor. So every year over year, so um so currently in 2526 we have a a set number here, right? Um for >> Mhm. >> Uh let me So So for example, when you look at high school currently, if you look at the where it says 2627 adjusted base grant, it says 13,000 per student per high school student. But if you go all the way to the top, the amount from this year 2526 is 12,000. So we add a cola to that of 2.41% and then add a gradespan adjustment. So that's how we get to 13. And so the go so what essentially we're seeing an increase in the per student funding there. And so based off of that number then the then we
107would be the district would be paid uh for the attendance of of the students that join. >> Okay. I I I think um I'm going to rephrase this question. If they don't have no money and we get all these kids, how they gonna pay any of that? That's my question. If if the federal government or the governor runs out of money and we end up with all these beautiful kids, I understand the formula and how ADA is paid. But, you know, I mean, this is wishful thinking, don't get me wrong, but I like to think that we have the possibility of doing something like this. And if the governor is running out of money, I'm just trying to figure out where that ADA is going to come from. Yeah, >> that was my question. Do
108they have like a little pile somewhere? >> Yes, thank you for that. Um, so let me go back to this slide here. Um so if you see the item in in reddish uh the reddish color there the governor has a they've estab so back in 2122 if you recall there was a you know we had co going on and a lot of things happened and then there was supposedly going to be a negative cola which is kind of what you're talking about that you know we're going to lose money and so what the state did was start a a rainy day fund for education. So the governor for the new money for the for 2627 um is taking some of that new money and putting it towards reserves to hopefully avoid that situation in the
109future. But to your point, I mean that's where we have to really make adjustments because yeah, it could happen where the governor says, "Sorry, we don't have the money and you guys are going to have to do a negative cola and that'll be that and then they'll pay us sometime in the future supposedly because they there's a guarantee, right? Um, so they have to meet that, but there's been instances where they say, "Okay, well, we'll we'll pay you that in another fiscal year." So, you're right, that's we have to keep a close eye on that. And it is a concern because at the federal level there there are concerns and at the state level there's the concern that all these extra funds that we're seeing are just being generated by a temporary boom of AI.
110Um, so if that dissuades, then you know, to your point, well, these projections carry. So, so it's Yes, you're right. Yeah, because we're so used to losing students and losing ADA. I'm trying to look at it as we gonna get all these students and I don't want the little governor's office to run out of money and we can't pay for our little friends. So, just curious. So, I know that we have to keep our budget at a certain threshold as a reserve. So, thank you for sharing that. the uh governor, they also have a rainy day. >> Yes. >> Well, we going to take all their money. Okay. Thank you so much for your presentation this evening. >> Thank you, Dr. McGee. >> Thank you, board members. The final presentation this evening is our audit
111report, but we're having a little technology glitch with our auditor. So, I >> That's fine. I could I could >> You could do it. >> Yeah, I could do it. It's >> if >> Oh, awesome. Okay. So, Oscar, our auditor, was supposed to be available via technology, but we're going to have Mr. Guzman move ahead and present the audit report. >> Sure. Thank you. And if you could put the uh slide, please. Um so again, uh good good evening and and so we're going to be covering the 2425 financial audit report. Um as you know every school district uh has to have a audit done by a third party that looks at the statements that the district has generated in that it this audit is important because first of all it's required by ed code.
112Um it's independent. It's meaning that you know they're their own agency. It's not us auditing ourselves because right it's a it's an independent audit. It informs the board whether our statements are in accordance with GAAP or generally accepted accounting principles and it alerts administration if there's an internal control weakness. So for instance, the auditor will come in and say give me 20 invoices. They'll randomly check 20 invoices and if they see something that hey this shouldn't have gotten approved what happened or you're missing a source document here. Whatever the case is, they are able to identify if there's some sort of weakness in our systems. Um and however with this audit usually the due date is the December 15th of the following fiscal year. Uh essentially if if it's for 2425 it would be December
11315th of 2025 of 2025 but however we had a delay due to the compliance supplement and so we had to request an extension. What does that mean? So at the federal level, um there's some audit guidelines. We have we get federal money like you know title the title programs specifically uh for the most part and um so in order for them to audit that they have to follow their audit guideline and unfortunately that audit guideline was not available to them until later in December and so they were so we had to request an extension. Um so the testing uh was done in different phases. We had our first phase in spring of 2025 and um we looked at and the auditors looked at our attendance accounting and our ASB procedures. So they select random sites
114and this year they or 2425 audit they selected Frankie Parent Wooden Row Morningside City Honors Englewood Continuation High School and Latiha. It's it's a random selection. Um so they were able to select those. Um and for ASB, Morningside because in 2425 and uh city honors and ASB I know they have city of honors but city honors. Um so they also look at our internal controls to look at our cash receipts. They look at and by cash receipts it means things that we receive, revenues that we get, not just specifically only cash. Um they look at cash dispersements meaning the payments that go out and they look at payroll. So everything that we touch, whether it comes in, goes out, or we pay to employees, is audited by an independent auditor. And they also look at
115compliance. Are you in compliance with Title One? Are you in compli compliance with the National School Lunch Program? Are you in compliance with the Child and Adult Food Care Program? So they review these items with us. Um, and finally, they come back on phase two where they do their final test and they look at our unodudited actuals. If you recall, we presented to the board in September uh the unodudited actuals. The reason they're called unaudited actuals is because they haven't been audited, right? It kind of uh makes sense. And so the audited actuals is actually what you have in front of you in regards to the audit report. They make adjustments based off things that may have changed with compliance with regulations, any sort of finding, any sort of uh gap compliance items. Uh they
116they make those adjustments. So they look at different GAsby or governmental accounting standards board um items like Gatsby 68 which is pensions, Gatsby 75, OPED, GAPS 87 leases um or other Gatsby uh items. So they look at all of these to make sure that we're in compliance with governmental accounting standards board regulations as well. Um I'm happy to say that we received an unmodified audit opinion. That's the best opinion that you can get for your auditor. uh meaning that they have they that our books are in and then I'll just read verbatim what they say in our opinion the financial statements referred to above present fairly in all material respects the respective financial position of the governmental activities each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information so for so we that's really good news
117however we do have some findings that were identified finding 202501 through O2 and then we had some additional non-compliance material findings that we had uh as well for 05, 07, and 09. And so we'll be going over those here in a little bit. Um and so again, we had on the federal compliance side uh an unmodified opinion as well. Um so that shows you some of the findings that we had there as well. Um and uh in regards to the federal side and finally on the state side, we did have a qualified opinion which uh are presented fairly. Um, but we do have the classroom teacher salaries finding and the ELOP finding of which we'll go over here in a little bit. But that essentially is up to where the auditor would present. Um, and
118that's the information that he would disclose to you and it's all in your audit report. Um, now moving on to kind of our slides on the district side. Um, we we continue to see our audit findings go down from year after year. We're pretty much down to like around eight findings. uh technically it's 11 but six of them are partial. So when you do all that math it's really comes down to eight uh for 2425 and we expect that to be a lot less in 2526 uh probably half of that. We we are are going to have some findings that are not going to be eliminated for at least another five or 10 years like uh and then I'll go over what those are. But the first finding we had is regarding um well these
119are the findings that were eliminated actually in 2425. ASB fund findings that we had uh payroll overp payments findings human resources and uh risk management findings uh unduplicated local control funding formula people count findings all of these findings were eliminated oh sorry in 2425. So, we're happy to report that those are gone. And we made significant progress in all of these other findings which were all I mean some of one of these findings we were off by $500. Mind you, our budget is over hundred million and somehow we got a finding for 500. Okay. So, uh that still kind of irks me a little bit, but I I understand if Oscar's hearing why because it's it has to be exactly zero. Uh but anyways um we had a charter school ASB finding uh time accounting
120finding attendance accounting finding uh but they were very small. The attendance accounting one had to do with our annual ADA so it doesn't impact funds at all. Um the SARC there was a mismatch between what's being reported on the SARKC and what's being reported on the FIT. However, we've established some uh protocols to get rid of that issue. We did have a re partial repeat of the ELP finding having to do more with uh applications being filled out correctly and the homeless school transportation plan uh as well. And so we eliminated some of those uh partial findings in in 2425. >> But essentially uh for our next steps, we're going to submit a corrective action plan to LEO and ensure that we monitor and address all the findings uh that have been identified. and we're
121going to continue to make significant progress. Um, we've already made a lot of progress. Um, so we're happy to say that that's that's moving forward. Um, and finally, we'll continue to closely collaborate with our auditors. And I do want to wrap it up by saying, uh, thank you to our auditors. I I got to say they are they I really appreciate how they work with the district. Um, whenever we need to talk to them, they're available to us. We've had multiple meetings on some of the long-term findings the district has had. um and they're available to speak to us. And so I'm thankful for their fair and honest approach. Um and they're able to really help us uh identify how to continue to get better year after year. But I guess if I could sum
122it up, I would say, you know, it was a really good audit. It's an unmodified opinion. We have some findings that we have to work on. Um but other than that, I think we're in really good shape. So turn it back to you, Dr. Mars. >> Thank Thank you so much, Mr. Thank you, uh, Dr. McGee. >> Um, thank you, Mr. Guzman, um, for stepping in and really going over that report. I think it was necessary and it was well articulated. Uh, Mr. uh, Meyers, >> thank you, Mr. Guzman. I want to echo that. >> Well articulated. Great job as always. brief question for the uh final um finding I guess 425-0 for the home to school transportation plan. Can you um share what what were some of the kind of concerns with that? >>
123So that's the one that I was saying irked me. So, so um so there so when we have field trips um there is a transfer that has to happen because you know uh we use uh other funds we use our buses right and so we have to pay for the use of that bus and we have to account for it in another fund and so we we've moved uh thousands of dollars into the appropriate accounts because it doesn't all come from general funds sometimes it comes from ASB sometimes it's a donation sometimes it's some other resource that pays for it. And so in the final transaction, for whatever reason, when we did the journal entry and I think it had to do with we have a new system. So one of the lines got omitted
124and it was like $500 500. I think it was 576. Um and uh we said, "Hey, we transferred all the other hundreds of costs that we had throughout the year. Why are we being uh penalized for this five?" Not, it wasn't a penalty, by the way. uh it didn't have it's just a like one of those things where they say okay you have to make sure you get it to zero and so they noted hey this should have been charged to another account another function and because that didn't happen they they did it as a partial initially they had it as a finding I'm like that should not be a finding because you know um they said can you make it at least a partial and and because in in 2324 if you recall we
125had a finding where it disallowed all of our homeschool transportation money and so we corrected that. That wasn't the issue this year and I think that that might be why you're asking the question. Um but in 2425 no we we're good with that. Um it was just one final journal entry that missed one line and yeah that's but I understand their position that if it's not zero they have to site it. So um but yeah that's that's about it. >> Sure. >> Okay. Thank thank you so much Mr. Guzman. >> And next on the agenda we're going to move on. We have a public hearing at this time. Members of the community who wish to address the county administrator and board of education may speak on any item listed on the public hearing section. The
126items listed on the public hearing and section include notice of determination of the final EIR environmental impact report for the Inglewood High School reconstruction project. Final environmental impact report for the Inglewood High School reconstruction project. State Clearing House number 2025070682. And finally, the approval of resolution number 20-2025-2026 for the adoption of the final environmental impact report for the Englewood High School reconstruction project. The public hearing will be opened at 6:45 p.m. Members of the public who wish to speak about an item on the public hearing agenda must indicate the item number on the public comment card. Three minutes will be allotted to each speaker and a maximum of 30 minutes for public comments on the public hearing. If the public comment cards exceed 10 cards per section, the time allotted may be reduced to hear
127from 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 disrupts, disturbs, or impedes the orderly conduct of the meeting will be required to exit the meeting room. The guidelines for public comment are in accordance with board by bylaw 9323. The Brown Act does not allow members of the board, county administrator, or cabinet members to respond to public comments. Miss Embrano, would you please call public comment on the for public comments on the public hearing? >> Thank you, Mr. Guzman. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. I I am so sorry. Mr. Miles, do you have a quick comment on the introduction to the public hearing? >> I do. Yes. Thank you so much. Uh Dr. Morris, good
128evening members of the board, members of cabinet, members of the community. I just wanted to provide a a quick synopsis of as to why we're holding this public hearing. Uh so all of our facilities projects that are large enough to go to the state for review, you know, the division of a state architect or DSA, also require us to conduct an environmental assessment. And there's a range of of of scale that environmental assessment can entail. Uh the the larger projects are required to conduct what's called an environmental impact report or an EIR as they'll refer to it for the rest of the this uh this description. Uh most of our projects are able to qualify for what's called a categorical exemption. So it it doesn't trigger an EI to be um to be conducted. So
129our projects like at Oak Street or at Bennett Q or the child development center, those all qualified for those exemptions. The Inglewood High Reconstruction project though just based on its the sheer magnitude of the scope as well as elements of the project did require us to conduct a full EIR for this project. So this is a very in-depth report in terms of the impact that this project will have both during construction as well as the final pro project once the the school is back in use. So last February uh the board approved of environmental science uh science associates or ESA to be our SQA consultants. So SQA is the California environmental quality act. So they are the the consultant who actually wrote this final EIR that's in front of you this evening. Uh and this
130for the past year uh our district so Dr. Morris, Mr. Guzman and I have been working closely with ESA on this uh report that's in front of you this evening. This report uh assessed um several categories of this project including how this project will impact or may impact air quality, cultural resources, energy use, uh greenhouse gas emissions, noise and transportation. Uh back in December on on December 19th, we uh publish we published the draft EIR for public uh consumption. So once we published that, it started a 45day review period where the public could review and provide feedback to the district on either the scope of the project or the impacts that this project might have. So that that 45day period ended on the 3 of this month. Uh during that 45day period, we received comments
131from three outside agencies. the comments were all identified and uh addressed in the final EIR that you see in front of you this evening. So the next steps from here upon uh upon this uh public hearing being conducted uh and upon board approval of again the the final EIR the affiliated resolution that Dr. Morris had mentioned and then that notice of determination or NOD which is in essence an executive summary of the EIR the uh the district can then file those documents with the county and then we'll be one step closer uh to seeing an increase in in activity on site. So just wanted to provide that that quick update uh to you and at this point uh Dr. Morris. >> Thank you so much Mr. Miles. I'm going to turn it over to Miss
132Zbrano to call public speakers on the public hearing agenda items. Okay. Sorry, you have a lot of them. We have two public comments for public hearing. The first one is from Mr. John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on the public hearing item only. You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Thank you. Good evening to Dr. Morris, to the uh board, to the cabinet members, to the community. um environmental impact report. Although as was stated in the um prelude, it is a macro um undertaking because of the scope of the uh structure. However, I would request that that same intensity and that same meticulous um uh pinpointing be applied to all facilities um in Inglewood. we tend to be um you know engulfed in the mac the
133macro project and we put a lot of energy there. Um we um concentrate ourselves and we focus and make sure that all of our um eyes are dotted and our tees are crossed and that's chiefly because of the oversightes and the uh mandates that are met legally. Um, but when it comes to our own facilities, when it comes to the the ones that was mentioned that you do not have to have that report, we don't seem to have as much diligence. In my example, I've received the email today um that a member um filed five Williams complaint um at city honors. Uh city honors was again in the planning. um they had to move in the middle of uh what January or January to February so for rooms to be painted. So that doesn't show
134that same meticulous um planning. It doesn't show the same concern um in in those instances. That's not the only one. You know, we have HVAC uh complaints still. We still have uh today I got an email again from a member at uh Woodworth Monroe that had to was locked in the bathroom and luckily had her phone with her and um called one of her colleagues to be to be released. So we have a lot of things that we should be looking at environmentally and impactfully because we are impacted. Yes, we are. We're impacted by um the tendency to overlook um the things that happen on a daily basis that impact our members, that impact our staff, that makes it more arduous, that impact our students when they're in crowded areas and then are forced to
135endure. I mean, I can't see how people can be comfortable enough to do that and and and come before uh uh the community with uh large projects with um with outside entities, flags flying from them, with uh um all of the things that go into making sure these things are successful. We need to apply that same intensity and that same uh uh dedication to the daily things to make sure that our students and our staff and everyone has environments that's proper. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our second public comment is from Yarita Gonzalez. Miss Gonzalez, please come to the podium to address your public comment on the public hearing section. >> Oh, you want it for the agenda? Okay, that concludes our public comments for the public hearing. >> Well, thank thank you, Miss Embrano.
136Having concluded the public hearing, the public hearing is closed at 6:54 p.m. And now we'll move on to item 8 C, approval of resolution 20/2025-2026 for the adoption of the final environmental impact report EIR for the Inglewood High School reconstruction project. And that is item number 8C. Item number 8 C is approved. And now we'll move on to public comments on agenda and non-aggenda items. I won't repeat the guidelines for public comment because we just uh have them. Uh I will say just remind the public that the Brown Act does not allow the county administrator cabinet members to respond to public comments. Uh Miss Simbrano, would you please call public comments on agenda and non-aggenda items? >> We're going to start with public comments on agenda items. The first public comment is from Chris Sims.
137Please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. >> Wow. Good evening everyone. I did not know. >> Sorry, you have three minutes. Hold on just a minute. >> You may begin. >> I thought I was going to be first, but good evening everyone. My name is Chris Sims. I am a entertainment producer, film, TV and live event and a daughter of Englewood. I was born at Daniel Freeman. That's what I said. Probably aging myself by saying that. Um but we're just coming really to thank you guys in particular um Vice President Meyers and Dr. Morris and Dr. Lucas and Dr. Goulby because we are bringing to Englewood something called Butter Fine Art Fair and it's a fine art festival and we have now thanks to you all a partnership with
138Englewood Unified School District. Um today we had our first um class project where we're going to be doing an art project with many students in the district. Also um Inglewood residents are 50% off and so you can come see the kids art. It will be on display at the fair. We have many artists from our community that are going to be a part of this and hopefully starting a long-standing um art relationship with Englewood Unified um for years to come. Thank you guys. Thank you. And our second public comment on agenda items is from Mr. 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 again. Um I would just like to um in looking over
139the agenda there are several items that I think um we're seeing here for the first time and you know I don't understand why that is when um I believe some of this could have been shared with us in terms of uh being a uh Englewood teachers association. However, um when we look at the overall uh functioning of some of these um presentations or items for approval, um it brings me back to the the cash flow and all of the um the uh questions uh chiefly by um board member Myers when he said, "Where are we trimming the fat?" Because we hear these terms all the time. We hear um deficit spending, deficit spending and we talk about budgets all the time and the question is you know a budget is a priority on how you
140spend your finances or how you manage them. So they that can be adjusted. So my question is if we hear we're deficit spending we're deficit spending what behaviors have we changed? That's the that's the bigger or larger question. What have we changed? How are we changing how we do uh business? Are we still in the uh mindset that we have masses amount of revenues coming in? Are we looking at alternatives? I mean really looking at alternatives and how to cut on one side and maybe get some more revenue streams or the other side or how are we conducting these? You know, this brings me back to um um we have ideas of how to better improve, but are they being listened to? And and honestly, I'm going to have to say no. They may be
141uh uh patronized or they may be, you know, heard, but are they being listened to? Because it seems like there's just a dogmatic view of um auster measures to move forward and are we moving forward? You know, we have agreements that that take place that don't follow processes. we have um uh business decisions that are being made that are not in the best interest of this district. And if we're talking financial, then then then be consistent with that. That's all I I ask and that's all anyone here asks. If you're going to cut, cut evenly. Cut across the board. If you're going to say um pull yourself up by the bootstraps, then make sure we have boots. So we're sitting here today with a lot of measures and spending still a lot of money on
142others things other than the essential function of the district which are the rank and file employees and the students. Let's get our priorities straight. Thank you. >> Thank you. We're now going to transition to public comments on non-aggenda items. Our first public comment is from Jesse Ramirez. Please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Good evening. My name is Jessirez and today I'm joined with the support of Hill, many students in the district and Patrick Cruz who is our student site, district, county, and state level representative. I am just one of the I'm not just one of the many concerned students at City Honors High School, but also a concerned member of the community. I have lived in Englewood for 17 years
143of my life. I've actually attended Hudnau and Croer uh before I made my way to City Honors. Um in light of ICE activity, I have made an effort to become more involved in my community. This includes producing care packages at Home Depot for day laborers, learning how to conduct rapid response, and various other activities throughout these past couple months. I do this work because I believe it is my responsibility to defend my community. And therefore, it is my duty to ensure that the district makes an effort to protect my community. As of recently, ICE has been targeting youth throughout the country. In this area alone, ICE has attended the target Hawthorne High School, Carson High School, and Dominguez High School. On top of that, they have also conducted raids close to Inglewood high schools. This
144includes Ole City Market on Uppervida and FUR and the Food for Lesson Century, both of which are relatively close to City Honors Inglewood United, respectively. With this in mind, this becomes clear that student safety is a justified concern. I'm aware today that you have addressed the issue of ICE coming onto schools with regulation 1445. However, to show more care for student safety, there should also be a plan for students leaving the school. ICE will not just stop at the front door. In fact, they'll likely wait outside of the school at the end of the day in order to target students. Having an ensured time and place to be in collecting people and hitting their quotas can almost guarantee ICE will soon be in the area, especially with the case of City Honors, as there is
145a courthouse right across the street which ICE agents are known to target. They're also known for staging in Hyde Park. Therefore, we must plan for how students can be protective while leaving campus, too. Again, I am all glad that you have begun to address the issue, but there is still more work to be done. Students are still at risk. As someone who has experience in patrolling and rapid response, I suggest the district do the following. Number one, teach staff how to spot and respond to ICE along with connecting them to local rapid response networks such as the community of self-defense coalition and South Bay. Number two, have security or staff patrol the perimeter right before or during the end of the school day. Number three, consider temporarily suspending the phone policy in order to allow
146students to obtain ICE whereabouts and communicate with loved ones. If necessary, I would love to work with the district in order to develop a more thorough policy and plan of action. Otherwise, thank you all for listening and that I hope you have a good day and take this into serious consideration. Thank you. >> Thank you. Our second public comment is from Marisa Alvarez. Miss Alvarez, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may be in. Hello everybody. Finally here. Um I can say I'm happy, you know, for our sped department. Um, we're at Benu right now and um, I could say things are flowing, things are going, things are moving, IEPS are being met, our children are going on field trips, our class sizes are
147maintaining a a a same number of uh, students with uh, the right amount of staffing. You know, um, things are things are flowing well. I could say, you know, we're still obviously missing some teachers. We we're getting good news that potentially new teachers are coming in. We're excited to see that for our children, for our middle schoolers. They haven't had a teacher all year. So, um, but just knowing that they still they still have the enough u support in the classroom, you know, our um it seems like our speech is still coming through, our OT's coming through, you know, a lot of things for our children, you know, that sometimes have been lacking throughout the years. It's coming through. And I'm happy to say as a parent that we are, well, at least I am
148happy. I am happy. I am a very involved parent and I I see it. So I want to thank you know whoever's behind all this. It could Phyllis Brown from Tony South even Dr. Lucas. Seeing Dr. Lucas out there you know supporting us has been amazing. You know I've been in I've been here for over 70 eight years. My my son's in seventh grade now. And just to see the support coming out for our children. It's beautiful. You know because our children matter. And just the fact that we're going on field trips now, you know, there are some kids have never been to the aquarium before. And to see the right support for these children out there, they can do things like this. And parents are happy, you know, so I just want to say
149thank you. And you know, we still have a lot of work to go, you know, and um but one step at a time. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. And our last public comment is from Yarita Gonzalez. Please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. >> Good evening. My name is Yita Gonzalez and I'm a resident in Englewood in Tracy area 3. I'm here to continue to voice my concerns around all the ongoing ICE raids and activity in Englewood. At the beginning of this year, on Tuesday, January 13th, several migrant workers were detained by ICE agents in Englewood, not far from some schools. Last summer, we shared that we were concerned that the fear from the ice rise in activity would impact attendance
150and enrollment of students in schools for this school year. This concern was confirmed when the LA Times published an article last November which released data showing a sharp alarming decline in in enrollment of about 200 newcomer students for this school year. A decline of approximately 50% of students in the Englewood High School District schools. These ongoing ice rates in Englewood and neighboring cities in the South Bay and LA counties since last summer are continuing to cause people to live in constant fear. Therefore, we urge you all to stand alongside immigrants in Englewood and continue to adopt policies like today's policy 1445, response to immigration enforcement to ensure that the district is in complying with this new state legislation that existing mandated protections are strengthened on how to respond to federal agencies and schools. This is
151one of many actions you all can take. So we ask that you continue to meet with community leaders to learn more from other actions that you can take to meet the needs right now like planning for the implementation of this policy 1445 and create funds to provide legal and safety net resources like other districts like L USD have done. We also want to urge you um to continue to work with the county and the state leaders to ensure that the immigrant community in Englewood can benefit from the resources and services that they're providing. Moreover, we urge you that you continue to meet with um with the mayor and the city council to all also take action given that they haven't taken action in this matter. Thank you. >> Thank you. That concludes our public comments
152for tonight. >> Thank you. >> I see Mr. Hughes. >> Yeah, we filled out one earlier. >> I have it for close session. You filled one out for close session? >> Do you want it for non-aggenda item? Can I switch it? >> Okay, I I'll switch it to non-aggend items. >> So, can you put three minutes? >> You may begin. >> Um, thank you. Um, I would just like to talk about some of the human um interactions that have taken place. Um, the previous speaker spoke about the advocacy that's taking place in special education and um we're definitely um moving in that uh direction of um putting the supports in and and all of the experiences that our all of our children need, the full spectrum. Um yesterday we um were at Hudno where um
153our adult transition program is and they were able to um open the garden there that was um supported by the um LA Rams and it's it was if you could see the children or the students, they're not they're not children. Um, if you could see the students light up, if you could see the impact, you know, that's what we're talking about when we say we have to treat each other and every one of us um with the highest expectations and in the line of those expectations, you know, we call for that in all areas. We have to maintain high expectations and I don't believe that um across the board we're maintaining that and that's for everyone. That's for the teacher. That's for uh the counselor. That's for the administrator. That's for uh the the maintenance
154worker. That's for the gardeners. That's for the plumber. That's for everyone. We have to maintain and expect a high expectation because of what is produced by that. We have children that do incredible things. Um and as it said, no one knows because we don't have a marketing pro program. I stated that 13 years ago. How are you going to keep uh students? How are you going to slow the um the hemorrhage of students if you're not um advertising? We have uh uh marquees all around this city, but I don't see our students on them. You know, I I need to see that. And so when we when we talk about u making an impact or making a difference, you make a difference by treating people with respect at all phases. It is not relegated by
155title. It is not relegated by educational level. is re relegated by being a human being and we have to maintain that and sometimes we can become uh desensitized uh to the the the pain that our our colleagues are going through and you should we should never ever be um in such a place where we say well we can't save everybody. Yes, we can. and we have and we continue to do it. And that the evidence is is right out there because um Miss Marissa's been through a lot, but she's right here. And she will tell you I she was my first uh parent when I was a program specialist. So, she's been she's been a trooper the whole time. So, we have to maintain that kind of dedication for all walks of life. Thank you.
156>> Thank you. That concludes our public comments for tonight. >> Thank you so much, Miss Embrano. We're now going to move on to human resources items 10 A1 through 10 A12. Does the board have any questions on any of those items under human resources items 1 through 12? None. >> Thank you. 10A1 through 1012 are each approved. Moving on to educational services 10B1 through 10B14. I ask the board on educational services and division items 1 through 14. Do you have any questions that you'd like to put forth at this time? None. Thank you. 10 B1 through 10B14 are each approved. Moving on to business services. 10 C1 through 10 C8. They have their own. >> Thank you, Dr. McGee. 10 C1 through 10 C8 are each approved. Moving on to measure GGI and facilities item
15710D1 through 10D5. I ask the board at this time, do you have any questions for measure GG and facilities division items 1 through 5? Hearing none. Thank you. Thank you so much, Dr. McGee. 10D1 through 10D5. Under county administrator's office, we have 10 E1 through uh 10E5. I just want to make a comment on that and specifically to Mr. Ramirez and and Yarita and say I I appreciate your acknowledgement that we've updated our board policy on uh immigration. It's a huge step forward for this school district to be in compliance with the new law and actually make a commitment to have procedures and communication wi with parents. We appreciate your advocacy and I just wanted to acknowledge it and let you know we appreciate you're working with us and pushing us to have better systems
158in place. Uh with that, Dr. Mickey will uh consider 10E1 through 10E5. >> There are no comments. >> We have one comment. >> Thank you. There there is I I apologize Dr. McGee. There is one item that you'll have to uh handle which is the the vote and maybe that's what Vice Vice President Myers was going to >> have. >> No, I I just wanted to uh acknowledge the uh Hooplas organization for their amazing work. I'm a basketball. I thought I was a basketball player. Uh but the courts look amazing. It brings a lot of liveless and color to our uh campuses. So that's my comment >> and designed by students which is so awesome. Uh under the California School Board Association for 2026 delegate assembly election, we are mandated to um vote for um
159at least um six candidates. The candidates um at this particular time, I'm going to read off the incumbents and um you should have all received the supporting documents. So, if you are in agreement, uh we have John uh Canos, he's an incumbent. Esther Mahia is an incumbent. You have um Jamie Lopez is an incumbent. Um Alicia McDonald um is an incumbent and Phillips is an incumbent and uh Linda Solomon. If you'd like to keep those six um on, we can vote for them um together. Um and that will give us the six delegates to um um send to the governing board. Um yeah, you got it. >> One, two, three, four, five, six. Yeah. >> No, there are four other names. These are all the incumbents that served. >> Okay. Yes, we're going to go
160with the six incumbent delegates. >> Thank you so much, Dr. McGee. Miss Sbrano has those recorded. Um, and with that, 10E1 through 10E5 are approved. We'll move on to approval of the minutes of the board of education meeting from January 14th and the minutes of the board of education worktop study study session of January 28th. Seeing no questions or comments, they're each approved. and then we'll move on to student board member remarks. Oh, >> leave. >> Oh, thank you. I'm sorry. I I have a great co-chair, Miss Zano asked that we move on to board member remarks and then come back to student board member remarks. >> Okay. Okay, I have a remark and uh after my board members make their remarks, I will conclude with the uh board of education's remarks. So, >> you
161don't have no remarks, Margaret. Okay, Mr. Myers. >> I sure do. >> So, um I just want to first of all thank Jonathan and uh Chris for coming out. Community, please support Butter Education. I tell you this is going to be amazing event when we merge arts with our education. Um it's it's it's uh very rare when we have outside uh uh outside agencies well well agencies that are located outside of the state particularly um that see Inglewood and say you know what we want to come there and we want to invest in this black and brown commu community and introduce them or enhance um their art knowledge. So, I'm so appreciative to you guys for everything that you guys have done and just your generosity uh with us. But here's my spiel. Um I
162want everybody to know that Englewood Unified is on the rise. Um we uh well, our basketball team particularly is the only public education school district. Okay? Only. So, I want you guys to be proud of where your tax dollars are going. We were the only uh team represented in the basketball hall of fame >> there. We slapped this team around. I hate to say it like that because I'm on an education setting, but we did what we did. And I'm so um proud of those young men. Um not only the players, but the coaches, the way how they exhibited themselves in the form of leadership, in the form of modeling, amazing. Uh did you know that we have the number one scoring team in the nation? Did you know that? >> Yes. >> Okay. Compared
163to all these private schools, Catholic schools, that's where your tax dollars are going. So, pat you on the back. Did you know we have the number one fourth We have the number fourth with the We have the the number fourth player right in in in I'm I'm getting there. I'm getting there, John. The number fourth player in the country. Okay. John Crow Jr. Okay. And then we have the number one player in the state again. Okay. Uh did you know Inglewood United uh we are the Ocean League champs currently in the playoffs. We have a game on Friday uh in Orange County there. We're going to go down there, win, then come back here and win a championship. That's that's what we've been doing all year. So I want to celebrate those young men and
164say keep up the amazing work. I see you. We see you. We love you. We're celebrating you. Your whole city is behind you and we're going to make this thing happen. Uh two, I want to celebrate a young lady who is not our student, but she is uh a part of our Inglewood uh community. Her name is Daisy Horta. Uh she wrote a book. Uh the name of the book is The Cat Who Did Not Like to Read. This is a 7-year-old girl who wrote this book to inspire others to want to read. So, she does attend attend a charter school. Uh I'm not going to say which one cuz we ain't we ain't giving them props, okay? I'm just being being straight up, but she is our Inglewood baby and I want to celebrate
165her and her mom, uh, Betty. So, keep up the amazing work. And finally, uh, Black History Month, please, please, please recognize your heritage. Um, embrace, love on each other. That's what it's all about. Doc, could we close this meeting? Um, and I know we missed last time, but uh, in honor >> Jesse, >> No. uh Antonio Annaya. This is one of my neighbors um who uh transitioned on January 15, 2026. He attended BenQ as well as Morningside. Um and he was just a great gentleman. So if we can close in honor of him. Thank you. >> Thank you um Miss Evans and Mr. Meyers. Um, I really want to say thank you to our parent that I see all the time when it comes to our children that have special needs. So, for her to
166be here tonight and to just give honor to the amazing team that is working tirelessly trying to make a difference. So, the acknowledgement tonight, it means a lot. those those babies mean a lot to me. They don't have the same advantage often times and so it is up to us to give them every advantage and I'm going to just make the commitment we will continue to do better. We know that we have to improve, but we also know that those little people, big people, they have our support. So, thank you for being here and acknowledging the team that works around the clock to make it happen. In honor of Black History Month, I'm not going to get any blacker, just so you know, but we lost an icon. um this morning, the Reverend Jesse Jackson,
167and I just wanted to read a small smidgen of his bio. The life and legacy of Jesse Jackson strands a powerful testament to courage, faith, and unwavering commitment to justice. As a prominent leader in the American civil rights movement, he dedicated his life to uplifting the marginalized and giving voice to the voiceless. From marching alongside of Martin Luther King Jr. to founding the rainbow rainbow push coalition, Reverend Jackson worked has consistently centered on equality, economics and empowerment and human dignity. I am from Chicago. They were my neighbors for almost 5 years. They lived directly in back of us. So it hits personally. I was a delegate in 1988 when he ran for president. And so tonight we will close this meeting in honor of >> Antonio Annayiah and Reverend Jesse Jackson. Thank you all for
168being here this evening. >> And thank you. With that, Dr. McGee will recess to close session at 7:23 p.m. >> I don't know. She probably left with her food. That's how it works, right? I keep pushing for >> sure. We'll probably Thank you. >> Have a good one. Oh jeez. So sleepy. >> Good job. >> We on the rise, huh? >> There's a lot going on. >> Oh, yeah. >> You doing the most. >> Hello, Miss Evans. >> We're doing the most. Good. How are you? >> You good? Yeah. >> Okay. Sounds good. I like your make sure that they're comfortable. Yeah. Make sure that all our babies stay and our staff. It's been raining. It's not it's not like probably so much stuff. Oh no, darling. We doing a close session, but we're not
169done. >> Wait for my budget. Okay. the fuel. Oh man. I gota be here tomorrow for the breakfast. How long? How long? Yeah, she's not I'm downstairs doing what I'm doing. the last Okay. >> Um, so good evening members of Hold on. >> I'm sorry. >> Okay. Thank you very much. And now we'll have student board member report. Miss Amaya Hazard. Miss Hazard. >> Thank you, Dr. Morris. Good evening, members of the board, Dr. Morris, cabinet, and members of the community. As student board member, I continue to gather updates and highlights from schools across the district so I can stay connected to what students are really experiencing on each campus. Tonight, I'd like to share a few exciting high school highlights from February along with some themes that have stood out this month. February has
170so far been an energetic month across our schools. One of the biggest things students have been talking about is basketball. The IHS basketball team has made it into the round four of playoffs and it's been amazing to see how much school spirit and pride athletics has brought to our campuses. The excitement around these games has really brought students together. I would also like to highlight something really special that happened here in Englewood. Obviously, the all-star event was hosted in the city and our students were able to be a part of that experience in a meaningful way. Ingwood High School's band was invited to participate and it was such a proud moment for our campus. Even more exciting, the drum line was recognized in an unforgettable way. Each student was given a pair of Jordan fours.
171Moments like that really show students that their hard work and talent are really being seen and celebrated. February also included important activities to help strengthen connection for younger students. On February 12th, we held our eighth grade articulation event on at Ingwood Ingwood United High School where ASB students had the opportunity to welcome incoming freshmen and show them what high school life really looks like. We gave campus tours, introduced clubs and activities, and helped students get excited about becoming part of the school community. And it was really meaningful to be able to support that transition. At City Honors, however, students also kicked off their basketball tournament today, which is another great example of how involved, engaged, and engaged students have been. City Honors has also hosted the H.B.CU caravan on February 11th, which was a very
172inspiring opportunity for students across the district. It gave students, high school students, a chance to learn more about historically black colleges and universities and explore different pathways in a space that felt empowering and exciting. A couple students also got the opportunity to win onspot admissions and scholarships to select universities. Academics has also been a major highlight. The all IUSD science fair on February 2nd showcased so much student creativity and intelligence. Seeing students present in their ideas and projects was a reminder of how much talent exists across the district. And of course, February so far has been a month of celebration and reflection through Black History Month. Schools across IUSD have been recognizing student achievement as we are soon to have our honoral ceremonies and cultural events. Overall, February has shown how much energy, passion, and
173involvement students bring to their schools every day. Students want to feel supported, recognized, and celebrated. And I appreciate the board for continuing to listen to student voices and experiences. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you so much, Miss Hazard. And Miss Sbrano, would you do a quick roll call for us? >> Board President Dr. Carlos McGee, >> present. >> Board Vice President, Mr. Brandon Myers, >> present. >> Board member, Miss Joyce Randall. >> Board member, Miss Margaret Turner Evans, >> present. >> Board member, Mr. Ernesto Castillo, >> student board member, Miss Amaya Hazard, >> present. >> Dr. James Morris, >> present. >> Dr. Bernardell Lucas, >> present. >> Dr. Brian Coffee, >> present. >> Mr. Rafael Guzman, >> present. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Our next meeting is scheduled for March 4th, 2026
174and the meeting will stand adjourned at 7:40 p.m. >> Dr. Coffee, did you have the student Shaham Abram when you were at uh pay was Shaham Abram your student? >> You don't recall?