001Good evening. It's 5:00 p.m. and I'd like to call the June 25th, 2025 regular board of education meeting of the Inglewood Unified School District to order. And I would like to ask uh Dr. Danielle Goulsby to please come forward and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Dr. Goulsby. Bring back to my old elementary school principal days. 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. Dr. Goldby with verb and panache just like an elementary school principal. Thank you so much. We're now going to ask Miss Sombrano to call the role. Board President, Mrs. Margaret Turner Evans, present.
002Board Vice President Dr. Carlos McGee. Board member, Miss Joyce Randall, present. Board member, Mr. Brandon Myers, present. Board member, Mr. Ernesto Castillo, present. Dr. James Morris, present. Dr. Bernard Lucas, present. Dr. Brian Coffee, present. Mr. Rafael Guzman, present. Please be informed that Spanish language interpretation is available during this meeting. Thank you, Miss Sbrano. I hereby approve the agenda with one modification. Agenda item number eight, single plans for student achievement SPSA from the educational services agenda has been reissued, removing Highland and Morningside and adding Kelso and Inglewood High School to the agenda. Next on the agenda, we'll have a public hearing. At this time, members of the community who desire to address the county administrator and board of education may speak on any of the items listed on the public hearing section listed. Those items are
003sunshining of the Englewood Unified School District initial proposal for 2025-26 negotiating negotiations with Teamsters Local 986. Sunshining of the Englewood Unified School District initial proposal for 2526 negotiations with the Englewood Teachers Association. The public hearing is hereby open at 5:02 p.m. At this time, members of the community who wish to address the county administrator and governing board may speak on any item listed on the public hearing section. Each speaker will be allocated up to three minutes. Miss Embrano, do we have any public comment on the public hearing agenda items? No, we do not. Dr. Mars, thank you very much. The public hearing is closed at 5:03 p.m. Moving on to action items. Moving forward with action items specifically on the public hearing agenda. Board members, do you have any questions or comments on the public
004hearing items 6A through 6D? No comments. Thank you very much, board members. We're going to transition to reports and presentations. We have several presentations this evening. Our first presentation is from board of education member Ms. Joyce Randall who will provide an update on the strategic marketing communications and partnership committee. Mrs. Randall, good evening. Thank you so much for attending. Um, I'm going to provide you it was my intent. So, this report can be issued yet, but I'm going to start with what I have. It's not complete. I want to be an annual report of the year because this is the last report of this school year. So, everything needs to be included. And when we get to the page with names, there needs to be like three or four more pages with names because some
005people got left out. For instance, I'm looking right in Jordan Miles. He got left out. So, it's the names have to be included. Not because people want to hear their names, but because they they need they they need they deserve the recognition that for the work that they put in. I'm especially grateful for um I'm getting ahead of myself, but just because I'm looking at it for um Caroline Coleman Stadium. See, I've been here a real long time. It was it was sawdust. It looks good. It looks really good. Okay. So, this is the strategic uh marketing communications and partnership committee report for June the 25th. And I am quite honored to uh I'm yeah I am quite honored to give updates on this uh under the leadership of Miss Jessica Cha. Uh the committee
006continues to play a vital role in advancing the districtwide communication. Um we had a meeting on May 12th and we brought together diverse partners PTA teachers, school administrators, divisions and we all came together to discuss the strate strategic marketing of the district. uh following January 15th and the announcement of schools closures and consolidations, we launched a strategic plan basically to PR the district to say yes we we are closing schools but this is what we are doing uh to attract students to the Inglewood Unified School District. Several tours were um conducted with staff and students through the new campuses and the reimagining of how they were going to look and there was demonstrating the uh collaboration and coordinating across every division. On page four in the second half of the semester we launched targeted campaigns
007to highlight the relocation of Kelso. Now when this is published online, everywhere that it says click here, there will be pictures and documents showing what happened on that day. Otherwise, this would be almost like a 400page document. So, it's going to be um and that was Jessica's brilliance. That's going to be u when you open that up, it's going to be all kind of links in the report. School tours continue on page uh six. Englewood High School groundbreaking was yesterday. That picture is near the end and is very distorted because I have to work on it some more. But that was very exciting. Um, Englewood High School has been looking forward to being rebuilt. I came to Englewood when I was 19. I started working in Englewood six years into my career. I have grandkids
008now. So, that was very exciting to see the groundbreaking at Inglewood High School. I wished I could have been there. I couldn't get the gate open. I'm so sorry. It was an exciting time and and I I watched the news on the news last night. Uh it was just it was good. It was a good feeling to finally see groundbreaking at Inglewood High. on page seven everywhere that you see a Frank D parent in the others you see u example one example two example three I'm changing all those to put the name of the school we're school sites and I need time to do that um the report that was given to me was a very good report it was a good report but for me and what I wanted to to to to projecting
009imagery is the name of the school. The school has a principal. The school has leadership. The school has teachers. I want to project the name of the school for branding and school pride. And I need a little time to do that. So there's a flyer and a banner for Frank D parent school. When you click on it, you'll see the flyer and the banner for the testing sample marketing materials. You'll see alongside a flyer and um it's supposed to say banner and a banner. And for Kel school new uh campus location, there'll be a door sign and there'll be banners, a door hanger rather, and there'll be banners. So, as we work out in the community, the door hangers came from a meeting that was held at the school and the the actual idea came
010from the community. So, it's a lot of collaboration here. Uh page eight, our marketing outreach efforts continue to gain momentum in the next few months. will release these IUSD program mailers and they look so I don't want to take up time because it's really important to hear from the directors and the assistant superintendent but when you're able to click on this the fly for the uh IUCCT career guide it looks like Star Wars it's really like a projection to the future the it took um a lot of thought went into the the colors and it it's just really good when you when you when you're able when I'm able to be able to release this to the website. You're going to be very pleased with the PR campaign. Uh, click here for IUSD World of
011Opportunities Enrollment Guide. We want students to enroll in the district because we're excited about what we're doing. We're going to skip over to page 10. One of the most inspiring efforts is the Inglewood to DC fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $350,000 uh for the National Independence Day parade in Washington DC. We are especially grateful on page 11 to the England Education Foundation for their gen generous donation of $100,000. Folk often come to the board meeting and wonder what what's happening with this money? What are you doing with this money? All this money is spent on students in the Englewood Unified School District. The student district, the beautiful barriers that you see around uh with the students graduating from senior high school. I just just keep driving so I can look. I want to
012see them all. That's donated to us by the Englewood Education Foundation board member month. When people call me and sometimes I don't even see them, they'll tell me we're on the WOW boards. that brings excitement and branding in into our community. Dr. Mia is also responsible for uh bringing into the school district the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles to the district. In partnership with the YMCA, the district has hosted a series of community input sessions in May centered on the development of a new community center on the Kermit district office site. So, Inglewood is doing very innovative type things. thinking outside the box that are community oriented that the community can use and just not be in somebody's office with their name on the door. Uh we talked about the IUC graduates and the banners
013on page 13. We talked about the um oh no we did the class uh resurrection of the classes on June 4th city honors Morningside and Englewood and they were all they're right now online if you want there and you want to see them see the graduations they're all online now we're going to skip over from 17 and where you see pictures now pictures from the whole year going to be in this spot is going to be in this spot right So when you get over to page 28, we can have strategic marketing campaigns that are excellent, but if we don't have folk in strategic positions to move the needle on our test force, all we're doing is making a making a sign that looks Thank you. We can go to page 28. Page 28 starts
014the applause to folk who are in strategic positions who aren't going to make a change in the future. They're making a change right now. They're doing it right now in real time. I call her Dr. Lucas and her gang. They're doing it in real time right now. Dr. Josea James, uh, Dr. Coffee, Dr. Danielle Goulby are doing it in real time right now. It's like somebody who knows how to cook real good. Somebody else can fix it, but they can't cook good. It's a cake, but something's missing. With this group, nothing is missing. And I'm just so excited that we're going to take Big Mac by the horns and conquer it with this group. They are doing fantastic things within the school sites, organizing, bringing everybody together, rallying the troops, which are the teachers, getting
015folk motivated and excited that we can actually come out of receiverhip because nothing happens unless it happens in the classroom. It has to happen in the classroom. So that's where the motivation has to occur and we are doing it and I'm excited about that. Now it can happen in the classroom but if our money is not right and we don't know what to buy. We don't know where where money is to buy anything. I don't want to strike name and stuff but Raphael Guzman you a wizard. Thank you so much, Sad Bata, the fiscal services executive director. They have gone in and looked at this budget like nobody's business. And with a strategic mind and the intelligence of knowing financial numbers and fiscal responsibilities, they have gone Harry Potter. If we can do this, we
016can do that, we can do this. This is an exciting time for the Englewood Unified School District. And then on page 27, we have more names. And that's why I can't release I mean 29, I'm sorry. That's why I can't release it yet because this is just two pages. This is just two pages. Dr. Morrison has done a a a herculean job of pulling everybody together, motivating everybody. I promise you sometimes I get upset. They say, "No, six o'clock in the morning." He said he's at his desk. I keep him at his word. I call him at six o'clock in the morning. He answers the phone. He answers all of my questions. If I can't get everything out because I have to be at work myself at 7. I tell him, "I'mma call him back."
017He says, "Okay." When I call him back, he answers his phone. This is an exciting time for Inglewood Unified School District. I am totally committed that we will get out of receiverhip and we'll be able to get local control and I will be one happy camper. So I'll be able to release this report so it's online uh within the next week and uh thank you for the opportunity to speak. Any questions? You asking any questions? I'm sorry. Oh, excellent. I love it when there's no questions. Ready? All right. Well, thank you so much, Miss Randall. That some of those transitions were pretty jazzy. That was uh that that kept our attention for sure. Um and next we'll have our next presentation. Dr. Bernardet Lucas, assistant superintendent of educational services and Mrs. Deborah Tate, director of
018community schools, will provide a brief presentation regarding status of the district's community schools grants. Good morning. Good morning. Good afternoon, Dr. Morris, board president Evans, our esteemed board members, cabinet mates, and the community. I'm extremely honored to introduce u Miss Tate. She's going to be giving a presentation on community schools, a very brief uh succinct, clear presentation. I'm very proud of the work that Miss Tate has done. I want to commend her for it. Thank you. Good evening, Dr. Morris, court president, Miss Evans, board members, and our cabinet and the wonderful Inglewood community. Um, my name is Debbie Tate. Uh, I am the director of community schools. My presentation tonight is going to give you a short update on where we are with community schools. Community School Initiative is a nationwide initiative. Our uh district
019uh received a grant, an implementation grant, and I'm just going to go through each one of the slides. During the implementation grant, the following schools are part of the grant which will move forward and to be considered as community schools. The grant is an implementation grant. It's a five-year grant and we have five years to implement um the community schools. So you have Kelso, Ben Q, Ingwood Continuation, Latihara, Oak Street, Centinella, and Woodworth, Monroe. Tony told me how to multitask with this clicker in my pages, so please bear with me. Um, what are community schools? Community school is addressing the whole child approach to education, integrating academics with health, social, emotional services, and community engagement, serving as neighborhood hubs for students and families, and a focus on equity, collaboration, and relationship building. Benefits to students,
020supporting student growth, and success, improving attendance, engagement, and academic performance. Access to physical and mental health services. Enrichment opportunities beyond the classroom. Safe and exclusive learning environment for all students. Benefits to families and communities. Empowering families. Strengthening communities. One-stop access to community services and support through the school hub of community schools. Family workshops. Leadership opportunities. voice in school decision making, strong school home communication and trust partnerships that connect and support our families. Where are we as we end year one of the implementation grant? First of all, we have established a district steering committee of all stakeholders. And when we talk about stakeholders, we're talking about students, staff, families, partnerships, all of the stakeholders that make us a great district. established community school site staff and site space to have a community school center at each
021one of the sites. Um we are supported with the Los Angeles County Office of Education as far as training. So we're doing ongoing training throughout the year on how to transform a school into a community school. So we have uh workshops monthly which staff will be attending through Los Angeles County Office. We have established our community school advisory committees at each one of the schools. One of the recommendations for the grant is to have an advisory committee established at each school which consists of all the uh stakeholder holders to oversee the implementation plan. Each school has an implementation plan that they must implement. Each school has developed and established a school site needs assessment which is one of the first things that they have to do uh post community school information. Each school has established
022on their web page a community school link which we will begin posting and updating our community on all the good things that are going on in our schools um that are community schools. Also, I wanted to note that Inglewood High School is a community school. They were also in cohort one. We are cohort three of um the grant distribution. And um the high schools, Inguid High School and Morningside High School are community schools under cohort one with the Los Angeles County Department of Education. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. I'll turn it over to Mrs. Evans if there are any board members questions or comments for Miss Tate. Board members, you can I'll back you. Thank you for your presentation. Um, Miss Tate, I just want to um inquire what are some of your challenges uh
023with different school sites kind of implementing this uh community school grant? You know, with this being the first year, I'm going to say the biggest challenge is getting people to talk to each other within the school with within an organization to get people to collaborate more with each other. When we talk about community school, we we talk about, you know, it's not just the teacher or the student, it's the teacher, the student, the counselor, the psychologist, the custodian, the clerical. It's everybody. And in order to be effective, everybody has to talk to each other. You know, if we're talking about one particular student, that student is seeing all these people all day long. So, in order to support that student, everybody needs to know about that student. And everybody may play a special part in
024addressing that child as a whole child. In the past, schools have always been focused on academics. And it it's it's not all academics anymore. A lot of social emotional, a lot of behavior, a lot of things. And it's like a domino effect because all of them all of them depend on each other. Thank you. My questions were answered. I was going to ask you, how do you navigate all the pillars and get everybody to work together? You answer this. Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, and and it's so weird because when I first started with the pillars, you know, because this was new to me this year, too. But subconsciously, our district, we've been doing these things. When we talk about um extended learning, which is one of the pillars, our afterchool program is awesome. When
025we talk about social emotional support for students besides academic social emotional behavior. All of these things, we have vendors, we have mental health vendors, we have counselors, we have training, we have these things in place already. When we talk about parent involvement, you know, we have our ELAC and we have our school site councils and we have opportunities for parent parent and communities to um collaborate with each other and partnerships. I created a list the other day. I know I shared with Dr. Lucas of all the partnerships we have within the district. So all of those are the pillars. So it's just a matter of just aligning and being knowledgeable of what a community school is and just putting all those components in place. So that goes back to my question is getting everybody to
026work together. Yes. Thank you very much. You you are the person to do it. Uh, Miss Tate, I was at uh Morningside a few months ago when we had uh the tours for the Englewood parents who were going to be going to uh Morningside next year and I went on a tour and I got to meet some of the people who were in charge of community school and it was like all of this is available to to parents and the students. I didn't know all of that was available just what you talked about now and I was just wondering, do parents actually take advantage of it? You know, they're there to let them know about programs that are available to them out in the in the city or whatever. Uh, how do you get that
027information out to them? I know you talk about the people who are on campus who work with the kids every day, but we've got to pull these parents in so that they know that all of this is available to them, to their kids, right? This year's focus has been mainly on establishing the foundation, you know, getting staff in place, getting a a place where parents can come to um developing um they call it a community school um closet. And what a community school closet or a school is is just a closet that's created where you have like clothing and perishable goods that parents need those type of supports, developing those. So this year has really just been putting those bricks together to make a foundation. So as far as outreach, we will begin getting to
028that point where we can outreach. We have put it on the school websites. Um but talking the language, you know, and I'm just going to say you have to talk the language to get it out there to people. You cannot not talk about it. So between the website, um school meetings, parent meetings, um parent square, um all those type of things, um having partnerships come in and talk to parents and really setting up parent meetings and parent trainings. And those are just some examples of how we're going to get it out to the community and the kids also. We've got to include the kids that their people the people are talking about. They need to be included in some of these conversations and they need to know that all of this is available to them.
029Yes. Because they might be suffering and not even know that it's on the campus and somebody is there who could give them the answers that they need. They just went into the room. Exactly. You know, and especially, you know, looking at our homeless students, looking at our foster students, you know, there's things, you know, a lot of times we don't know the needs of our families because they just don't come out and say those needs. But once you uh deep dive into different students situation, you'll be amazed of how we can support them only if we know. Well, I was very happy to know that we do have this on our campuses and thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you so much, Miss Tate, and thank you board members. Great great follow-up
030discussion. Our next presentation, Dr. Bernardet Lucas, assistant superintendent of educational services will present on Inglewood Unified School District local indicators which include the indicators for Englewood Unified School District Lihara and City Honors. Thank you again Dr. Morris. Good evening again everyone. We are going to start with the district um the whole district unified um followed by our two dependent charters our principles Dr. Sabar Wright and Miss Robbie Tate. I do want to preface this with um how important I think this presentation is to the greater um Inglewood community. This is where we get input from our different educational partners. Dr. Goulby will talk about the methodology around that. The headline I would like to give is that across our educational partners, we are hearing more and more that they are seeing the system throughout our
031district around the supports that we put in place for students. I think that's incredibly important and something all of us should be extremely proud of what it takes to put all of these pieces together so that they work in harmony and support of our students. Um toward that end and Dr. Goulby will speak to this in more detail. So will Dr. Ry and Miss Tate um we work very very very hard um to bring symphony to how all the different support systems and ed services work in support of the schools. So next year um well not next year we've been doing this for two years now almost three years. I hate to have such a serious face but this is serious business. Um how do we give differentiated support to each school? The schools are
032not all the same. They're different um with different needs and cultures and school communities. So how do we work together to make sure that each school gets the prescription they need to be the best school they can possibly be? From the English learner department to state and federal um all the way down to Dr. Josea's department. I can name them all to community schools to student support services. So with that said, I do want to hand the mic over to Dr. Goulby for putting all of this together so beautifully. The same will be said of Miss Tate and Dr. Rya. Thank you, Dr. Good evening, Dr. Morris, our school board members, and um community. Uh so tonight, I'm going to go over the local indicators for the Ingot Unified School District. All right. So, what
033are the local indicators? So, um every school district in the um state has an opportunity to use some of their local information and their local data to share with the community how um uh the school district is progressing. And what that looks like is in the form of either a survey that um there's like a a self uh grading tool that we can use and you can um gather information from that self survey from u your educational partners and your and um other folks that work in the district to help gather that information. You can also gather that information via your um your uh um our data, any of our school data and not necessarily data that the state draws down, but like our our um local um student data like their reading assessments that
034happen with by Ready or Dibbles um or um any other um culture and climate surveys. So any of the information that we do in house, this is an opportunity to share the results of that and share what has happened with the community. So that's basically what the local indicators are. All right. So all of this information also helps to um inform the LCAP because um the information is partnered with the California dashboard. And so um this is a place where we can um put all this information and and this is what's used to help us with our analysis of our LCAP. So um the um performance standards basically what we look at um annually how we are um performing as a district um we are taking this information uploading it to there's a state system
035where all this information is shared and all of this information goes into um the California dashboard. So when you see the California dashboard and you click on that little arrow that has the narratives that's basically what all this stuff is. And this information is also used in our LCAP survey. We take um a couple of the um questions that are within the self assessment and we add it to our um LCAP survey question and those um help um us to get the data from the community when we put out the surveys to our our students, our um our staff and our parents. So let's start with some of the ratings. So the first rating is um is uh basically like our basic services. Um how are we with providing our teachers? Um are are are
036we meeting the needs of getting our teachers? Are we doing um are we monitoring our culture and climate? Are we monitoring how we're providing um um courses of study to our students? And the answer to that is that it's met. we have met those requirements of making sure that we have um instructors or making sure we have me measures in place to monitor our culture and climate as well as um providing um students access to um courses of study. Um this is the ranking scale for the self-tool that we have. So it ranges from one to five. one u lowest high is a five going from starting out with implementation and then down to full implementation with sustainability. So what is full implementation with sustainability mean? It means that your your your program is in
037place. It's happening um throughout the district, not just in one or two places and um and we're able to um also include the monitoring and the and the um other pieces with it to make sure that our programs are working fully. All right. Okay. So, the first one is centered around uh the implementation of our our course uh subjects starting with our ELA, our um ELD, our English language development. And just a reminder, English language development is not an elective. It is core. We should be that should be offered to every student who qualifies for English language development. Um mathematics, our science and our social studies. And so this was the ratings for those areas. So for professional learning and for um teaching of the new standards um we rated um a four for the
038first um three subjects and a three for um science and social studies. For the um uh instructional materials alignment, we have a fours all the way through. And then for the implementation of the policies of the programs and delivering of support and delivering instruction, it's fours for the first three and and threes for the last two. Um next this is looking at some of our other subject areas. Looking at our CTE, health and um uh education um uh content standards and implementing those physical education um visual performing arts and our world languages. And these were the ratings for those sub implementation of those subject areas. And and one of the main reason why some of these are a little bit lower is because we if you go we go back the slide we've been focusing
039so much on ELA math and um and um EL um it's it's it was kind of like at the suffering of the others. So moving now that we have that those um those uh curriculums are are have been adopted, they're in place, now we can pay much more attention to some of those other areas. And then on the second one um on the engagement of teachers and administration in um professional development uh the we rank a four on the identifying u professional development for staffing but identifying professional learning needs of individual teachers and providing support for um teachers on um standards they have not mastered. Um we we're out of three. So um Dr. Lucas mentioned about the differentiated assistance um moving forward and and we also talked about in last board meeting about the
040continuous cycle of improvement that gives us an opportunity to bring up those two ratings for next year. Um this these next couple I'm really enthusiastic about because last year I was really feeling I was really kind of upset that we didn't have a higher marking but um unfortunately the school closures just made everybody mad so they messed up my ratings. But now, now the parents are kind of over that. They're like, "Okay, we're we're we're doing this now. We understand we're doing it." But but what I was happy about with our parents is that this year, I feel like they really were given some technical and holistic and like some real deep feedback on what they actually are seeing in our district and what they're seeing in terms of how we're moving um and where
041we started and where we are now. And so I really feel really felt really good about a lot of the feedback that I was hearing from our families. So on this one is in terms of building relationships between the school and families. Like Dr. Lucas mentioned, every um experience at every school site is different. So um for that last one, it didn't warn us of four because because of just that fact. Everyone's the implementation of how communication is happening throughout is different. However, what is the the systemness is that you can if we're in a room of 10 parents and if if I have eight parents telling me that they're seeing these consistent things on their campuses and it's all reflective of the the um systems that we have in place, that means it's in
042place. If you have two outliers, that means okay, now we got to go to those two schools and find out why it's not working. But if everyone is saying that yes, we have this, yes, we have that, and they're all saying it, that means it's out there and it's that it's in place. And so that's what I'm excited about that we're hearing a lot of consistency not just from our parents but even from the kids. Our kids are much more vocal. Um many of Dr. Morris and Dr. Lucas have been in our student advisories and they have they're very vocal and they let you know exactly what's happening on campus and they'll give you the name, the room number, all of that. And and so they um and we're seeing that consistency with the kids
043too. Um same thing here partner um um building partnerships for student outcomes and um that um has gone up as well. So I'm really excited about that that they and it's not just saying like oh everything's good. They're I'm getting concrete examples from our families. They can tell you what's happening when how and that is um phenomenal. That means that the things that we're doing is is working and it's getting better. We're not perfect. We have there's still differentiated systems that need to happen but it's getting better. And then lastly, um seeking um input for decision- making. Um we try to provide multiple opportunities. We have parent advisory groups for our um we have lot right now four district three different three district parent advisory groups on the um ed services side as well as
044three student advisory groups. So we have the elementary, middle, and high school and we meet monthly. So we're getting constant real-time feedback from our um students and our families. And um that's it. I'm really excited about what happened this year, how we're making these strides and and um I look forward to next year. I I want to see some fives. Y'all gotta hold us accountable. We want to see some fives. Okay. Any questions? Well, it sounds like we're doing what we need to do. Thank you, Dr. Goulby. I don't even have any questions because you answered them already. Anybody else? Mr. Meyers. Um Dr. Gby, I feel like you have the best job here because this this is like the fun part, right? This is you. No one could lie to the numbers. These are
045the straight from the parent, straight from the source. And I don't mean to disinish this at any way, but I I have an idea that I want to present to you, right? We have a lot of the same parents sometimes involved in these organizations, involving this committee. Some of them are here. Does it impact a little bit to have a consistent flow of parents coming to these events or do you wish you had more diversity in terms of other parents that usually don't show up to these type of uh or do these type of surveys? Well, actually we do have a diverse group of parents because not all the not all of the same parents do come to because we have different meetings. So, it's not necessarily there there are some parents who overlap, but
046there's also different parents who come as well. And it's not just the district parent advisory. Remember, we have communal aison at all the schools. They're doing functions, they're getting data. So, it's not just at the district advisory. We're we're we got a we got lines tapped in all over the district in terms of getting feedback. And then with the students, that's a whole another level. Um it's not just like the same five kids. For each student advisory, there's representatives for each grade level. Um from u for elementary, it's third through fifth grade because they can speak up for themselves. So, there's third through fifth grade. And it's not like just one kid per school. It's a it's a cohort of students per school. We meet via Zoom once a month. They're at their school sites
047and the kids are in the room and we're we're on camera with all of these students. Same thing with the middle school. It's a cohort of middle school kids per um uh campus um and as well as high school. So, we are hearing different voices because that is concern. You don't want to just hear the same voices, but we are getting different voices. We do um open ourselves up to to hearing from the parents. So, it's not just that. We're we're tapped in throughout. And then the PTA we have a line with PTA too. PTA they they give us update updates and feedback and we also use utilize them as a vehicle as well. So my followup question was going to be um how could we help but it seemed like we don't have that
048problem. So I I want to ask No, actually no. You I do need your help because um and especially when it comes to our um educational partner committee for the LCAP, we need more community folks. We have a very um it's a small cohort of community. When I mean community, I mean they don't they don't have no children in the district. They're just I'm I'm I'm I live on whatever and I want to see the school doing well. We have a small there is a committed group of of that of that that meets that criteria that come and they give us feedback and it's phenomenal because it helps us see things from a different perspective. Um so we do need more of of that. Um, I wouldn't mind if you guys popped in every now
049and then just to be a part of the conversation because that helps bring everything together. Yeah, Jesse, I think your question is so important. I usually don't do this, you know, I don't I don't answer when they're answering because she does such a beautiful job, but she's not going to say this. Over the last several years, Dr. Goulby has built up this coalition that speaks to your question. So I don't know four years ago before she started I would have been worried about what you just asked but she has built this systemic systematic way of bringing in the community and parents in a way that we have such a diverse representation. I do hope that you come to some of her meetings if you all have the opportunity because they really are amazing. So she
050has built this over time and it has paid off in ways that we don't have enough time to go in tonight. But I thought that was such a great question um and relevant to what she's been doing that I had to respond. Thank you. You have a question. I want to respond to last week I said I need to be able to come and see what's going on. So there's my opportunity right there. So let me know. Yeah. No, it's via Zoom and you just pop on in and join the conversation. Thank you. Any other questions you have? Yes. Thank you. Wonderful presentation by the way, Dr. Gby. Um so when I'm looking at the health education content standards which are two and the physical education model standards which is another two what strategies have
051been kind of brainstormed to try to in a sense collaborate these two because they do um in a sense like walk parallel together. I know one's physical. I know one's health. Yeah. I'm going shut up. Go ahead. You guys No, no. I was saying she I was pointing to see if she wanted to take it or not. But you guys know what I'm hitting at. So, I'm going to digress right there. Take it away. So, um there's there's twofold because um in ele in elementary there we don't necessarily have any P PE teachers. So, the challenge has been supporting our elementary teachers with the implementation of the standards and not just I'm out there playing kickball. Oh, we gonna dodgeball. They're actually doing implementing standards. One of the things that is in place because it
052is a federal um requirement is that elementary uh uh school uh age children first grade to sixth grade if they're in self-contained um have to do at least 200 minutes every 10 days. So we do have them log it so we can see okay are you implementing the minutes or you want but that that was a practice that just started and so the the other piece is how are we supporting them with um the support the support they need with implementing an actual the actual PE standards at the middle and high school it's not an issue because that's a part of their their their their um their curricula that's a part of their master schedule it's really at the elementaryaries where we have provide a lot of support and we have not spent a lot
053of time and attention on Okay, let's give some refreshers in PE implementation. We haven't done that. So that's why the rating was rating on that and then right. Thank you. So Dr. Goldsby, Miss Randle has a question for you. Actually, I'm speaking to how you were able to build your coalition because you're bringing parents to your ELAC meetings. You're bringing parents to schoolside council. You're bringing parents PTA. You're bringing parents to LCAP. You're bringing your parents together. And then as you bring these parents together, middle school, high school, you're letting know, I need you. The school district needs you. We need you to to to be in service for the kids. And they show up. So, we've had an opportunity now to build this coalition. So, now when you need your numbers, you get your
054numbers. So, I just want to compliment you on building this coalition and having this really strong report. And I know your two is going to zoom. It's going to all zoom and you will see plenty fibs. Congratulations. So, thank you. I believe is Dr. Ryan next. The city honors. No. Um um Latietta, Miss Robbie Tate, would you please come to the mic? Thank you, Miss Tate. Thank you. Good afternoon, Dr. Morris, board president, Miss Evans, board members, cabinet, and our amazing Inglewood community. My name is Miss Tate, and I'm the principal at Latihara uh TKAA Academy of Excellence. Um today I will be presenting um the 2024 2025 um local indicators for uh Latti Hera. Um Dr. Gooby did a wonderful job with uh with explaining on u what this presentation entails. So I'm just
055going to get to the good part. Um I will say uh which are the results. I will say this um this process of speaking to parents and teachers um is very informative and it really helps us on how we plan the upcoming school year. So we can see the strengths, we can see what's working, what's not working and what we need to do. So I'll start here um with the narrative rating um basic services. So it's met and not met. Um and I'm happy to say that uh Latihare has met um all of these categories with basic services um priority one school climate priority six and the course access to priority 7. Um as stated before these are the ratings um one through five um five being the end goal. U but like I said
056the process is extremely important and so uh we focus a lot on how we're going to get to the end goal. All right, ratings from a self-reflection survey tool. Um, priority. Um, as you can see in the area of professional learning for teaching and new standards, um, for language arts, we uh, rated ourselves a four. Um, English language development, a three, which I feel confident that will go up for sure. We had a new curriculum. However, uh we were very intentional with our um English language development this year and uh the curriculum that we're using and actually training teachers on the ELD program and making sure that all students that we identify all students that were English language learners in the classrooms and making sure they got that 45 minutes of EL instruction and it
057was monitored very closely. So that was helpful. Um, in math we gave ourselves um a four and um in science and history we gave ourselves a three. However, I do have to say that um science uh history and even health has been embedded in our ELA curriculum. So students are getting access um to these other areas. Um for instructional materials alignment u for ELA um we uh rated ourselves a four. uh for uh English language development of three, mathematics of four and science and history um three for implementation of policies programs to support delivery of instruction. Um as you can see from our ELA test scores um we rated ourselves a four. We were very intentional this year with um providing teachers with coach uh coaching um and training and our new amplified curriculum. um
058English language development uh we rated ourselves a three. Um in math we rated ourselves um a three. However, this year um at Liihira teachers will be receiving more training and coaching in our math curriculum SAS. They've asked for that um and so it will be a priority this upcoming school year. And uh we rated ourselves at three for science and social studies. for implementation of standards uh progress. Um I want to just say at uh our TKA schools are are a bit different from the high schools. So uh we don't have a career technical education. Um um so we rated ourselves a one. The health education content we rated ourselves a one. However, I do want to say because I remember from last year it was mentioned how important health is and it is um
059through our our seventh grade science teacher actually he showed me there are chapters on health. However, that's just for seventh grade. Um through their PE instruction they do um talk about health and since it's not a class at Liyhair we have been intentional with bringing forth schoolwride programs. So, for example, we had a hygiene assembly um thanks to um Dr. U. McGee. She um referred me to a dental company that actually came out, spoke to the students, parents, signed their kids up, and they got um a a free screening um and other uh resources um for um for hygiene. Um and so that was so so that was very helpful. However, um moving forward, we're going to bring more programs and opportunities um for students so they can learn more about health, whether it's in
060the classroom or outside the classroom. Uh I do want to say this year we had um our uh Inglewood Lynx chapter um who came and uh we've created a partnership with them and they have the Dr. Me program and the engineering program and this year 25 third fifth graders got to participate um in those workshops. So they learned about the human body. They met a real doctor. Um they did a whole engineering factory where they built things. So we are going to be incorporating health schoolwide as well as in the classrooms as much as possible. Visual and performing arts we rate ourselves a four. Um and world languages we rate ourselves a one. But like I said before, these are all great uh reflections on what we have to look forward to um and plan
061for and the engagement of teachers and administration in professional learning during the prior school year. Um we rated ourselves four. Like I said, we have been very intentional about um using our funds efficiently and making sure that teachers have the proper training um so they can do what's best for students um and kids. I mean do what's best for students with instruction and provide effective instruction. Parent engagement. So for building relationships between school and staff families overall we rated ourselves a four. Um I'm grateful for uh the district who really pushed uh parent square this year. Uh parents were trained. We had several workshops at Latti Hera. But this tool was actually very helpful in communicating with parents. Um also we had Google classroom. We have parent conferences. Um teachers get back to parents within
062um 48 hours. Otherwise they email me and I make sure it happens. But u we've been very intentional with communicating with parents so they feel a part and they know they are a part of their child's educational journey. We it's still an area of growth for us because we want to reach more parents every year. So we look at the tools that we're using and then we get input from parents on what's the best way to communicate with them. Building partnerships for student outcome in this area. We rated ourselves a three. As you know lot we are creating a new culture uh at our school. We are building relationships with parents um getting their input but also seeing what works well with their schedule. So this is a um there's a lot of growth in
063this area. I will say uh we talk to parents, we communicate with parents, but getting them to um come out is a area of growth for us. But like I said, our lock here is on the rise and we are building a new culture. And so I know that is going to um get parents more involved especially when they see that their input is um being put in place. Um so I'm looking forward um to these ratings uh going up because it is definitely a focus. Um I also want to say I'm looking forward to um our community schools. Uh I want to thank uh Miss Tate. We have a community schools representative on our campus who is um ex he's also Inglewood he went to Englewood schools but he is amazing shout out to
064Chris but he will be a big part in providing those resources that families need and once they know that the school can you know only help their kids but they can actually help them which will help their kids eventually they'll come out more so I'm looking forward to um and I'm grateful for the teachers that voted our school as a community schools because I know that building these partnerships with different um agencies in the community and getting parents the help they need that will also get them more involved um in our school. And that completes my report. Are there any questions? All right. And that's the you want to go. Thank you, Miss T. Um, I had a question about your health education content standards. Did you incorporate um the programming through our own in
065the wellness spaces in this? Um, and if so, do you see that growing with those programs and including that in terms of mental health and well-being as well? this year I don't think when the the teachers um gave a lot of input this year was our first year with um the wellness um so while the the wellness center is available classes go twice a week kids are still understanding the whole how wellness can help them and so what we put in place towards the end and I think that teachers in the community will see more is that not only do the students go into the wellness center um to learn about wellness but the wellness staff has come out to the schoolyard and that has made a huge difference that um happened towards the end
066of the year when I was just looking at data and and office referrals and I'm like I'm trying to measure how is our wellness center working so when you when we would speak to students individually they were able to speak to it but it wasn't showing a huge effect and difference on the school climate as far as office referrals and so I met with the wellness staff and I was happy that the students were um able to talk about it when we asked them, but I wanted the goal to be I don't want to have to ask students. I want students to talk about it. Students should be able to talk about wellness themselves through problem solving, mediation, and so that's when we had the staff actually use the wellness centers, but actually come out
067to the yard so they can make that connection between what they're learning in the wellness centers and how it can affect them on the school yard. Does that happen towards the end? So, I feel confident that that rating will go up, but we were looking at it as a whole like is it making a big difference on the school and we're headed in that direction and I appreciate your willingness to be creative with such a resource because we all know that our own is an amazing program. Um, and they're amazing folks that work for them. Yes. My next was not really a question, it's an offer. Uh, as you know, I I do the women's law mentorship program and I had students from all over the district. I haven't had a student from lots of
068air yet. You know what? I worked hard. I went to every class. I appreciate you. Um but what I think what and this is just reflecting. Um like I said, we're building a new culture at Liyhara. Um if you could come to our school and speak, I think that will go a long way. Uh we're changing the mindsets of our students. So when I did go to those um I believe it was eighth graders. when I went to those eighth grade classes and spoke to them, I know I had one young lady who was very interested, but told me she didn't have a ride, but that was after the fact. But a lot of the students, um, I'm going be honest, they didn't seem interested, but that's not because it's just because what they need
069to be exposed to, right? They need to learn more about it. And then, um, I think they will be more willing, right? Um, and then one more suggestion. Go ahead. If we can have those things during school, I think that would help, right? Because then more kids would have access. What I'm learning um in this position is that a lot of kids do want to be a part of things, but they have other things going on. So, the more we can provide during the school day will help expose them, change their mindset, and then they will show up to those uh workshops and events. Yeah. And I'm I'm glad we have this dialogue because we are looking for ways to improve and we have noticed, I think Dr. Ryan mentioned it, the past visits have
070helped a lot and I go with the actual woman law students from Lyola law so they see themselves already when they see them come and speak about the program so we could definitely arrange that and with our community schools leazison on and between our parent leazison on they can also once we speak to students reach out to their parents because sometimes their parents will make them come and then they'll see oh I did like this you know so uh that will help as well but I did try because you know yes that's I was going to show up okay just for myself. Um, but yeah, it's just getting, you know, just knowing the culture and knowing our students. Um, they just need to be exposed. They need to be exposed to more and they need
071to hear about it more and I think they will show more of an interest. So, I talk to them every day, right, about certain things. But, I think if someone new comes to talk to them about it, um, and then we reach out to families, I think that will help a lot. Let's do it. Okay. Sounds good. What's the plan, Mr. Myers? Did you have something? Sure. Okay. I was going to talk about the health. Okay. Health was moved from middle school to high school because a lot of students weren't getting it and weren't passing it in high school. So, don't beat yourself up about the health. It was moved. It help was a class in middle school, but it was moved to high school, but nothing was put there to replace it. But the
072questions are still there, and we're still held accountable at the middle school for making sure they understand about their bodies and themselves. So you are being creative outside the box having the wellness center come out into the uh the yard come come out into the school go out you know to to to speak health and wellness to the students because they no longer get it as a class. So that's the little piece that's missing. I love the fact that the teachers don't return the call within 48 hours. That's that's good. That's good. And things need to happen during the school day because you have a captive audience with the students. After school, they have after school programs going on. Their parents can be bring them back. They have another whole life after school. But if
073you can catch them during the school day with any programs you got, they will be successful. Congratulations. Thank you. Wonderful comments. Thank you so much. Great presentation. Uh I want to pick your brain real quick. Okay, I know we're going to get a one for the CTE. Okay. However, if you did have an opportunity to create an introductory pathway for our CTE in our high schools, what would it be at your TK through 8 school? Um, I need to think about that. I I got to get back to you on that. I want I want to be intentional with that. I need to look at uh data. I need to look at our school culture and I need to look at the options that we have that would work best for Latihara. So I will
074note it and we can talk about that next time. But that thank you for bringing that to my attention. Thank you Miss Tate. I hope the apple doesn't fall. [Music] Thank you so much. Question. Okay. No, that wasn't a question. That was just a compliment. Oh, okay. for both of you, Miss Tates. Uh the apple doesn't fall far from the tree and you're doing an amazing job. Thank you. And she's amazing and she's a trailblazer and I want to give her her flowers because she don't get them enough. But yes, yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Tate. Good evening, everyone. It's a pleasure to be back for the second Wednesday in a row. Um so good evening Dr. Morris um board members, cabinet members, and again like everyone said
075before me, our amazing community. U my name is Dr. Sabra. I am the principal of City Honors International Preparatory School. Um, I just want to say that all the presentations on the local indicators before me, I did all of the things and so I'm not going to spend too much time on the introductory pages. Oh, I have to control. I like when you control it. Okay, so the black one. Okay, so this is the local indicators presentation. We are going to skip this part because Dr. Goulsby did a great job. Um so again we'll start here. Um like um the amazing women before me, our school and and what they presented on our school also met um priorities 1, six, and seven. So I'll skip that. Okay. Okay. So, when we get into our priority
076tools, um for ELA, we ranked ourselves a three. Um because we're in a adoption year and so um I want to talk about that a little bit on the next slide. Um all the other areas were a four. EL we do something a little bit different. I talked about it um last week with our CER is for all of our students, but we really believe that our CR has helped reclassify many of our students. I just sent our our FET list out um two days ago. So, we're very proud of our students that are redesating and also going to four-year universities. Our math department will be um there are four now, but they're in in an adoption year um next year. So, we know that'll drop a little bit. Our uh NGSS has come up.
077Our instructional coach was well verssed in our science standard. So, that helped our science department. Um, we are also adding to our science department with our AP bio coming next year and social science is also a four. Okay, so I just talked about this. Um, this year we started study sync and um, so it's year one so it can't be a full implementation yet. Um, teachers are still going through PD and um, learning to work the program. Okay. Um, our CTE, I think I spoke about this a little bit last week as well. Uh, we are trying to expand our pathways. We know our students are getting the right credit that they should be getting and that's really really we want we were trying to be also intentional about that because they deserve to get
078the credit while they're taking the courses and it also means something for their careers, right? um our health education content standards. Um we are using our PE class for to implement health education also through the wellness space. So all of our students um are getting their health standards from both PE and wellness um and everything else. Our VAPO is a four. Our world languages I'm proud to say we host Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. So there are the four. Um and then on the other side, you can see the same scores as well. We talked I think I talked about this again. We want to make sure that our students are identified so that they can receive the credit that they deserve and also um if they'd like go to C certification. So, at City Honors,
079we're expanding. I'm so happy to say that our cyber security pathway is a two-year pathway. Um, and I actually want to participate it because our cyber security folks get paid a lot of money, more money than all than all of us. So, I'm really excited about that. And financial literacy as well. I want to bring that along and build that pathway. We already have arts, media, and entertainment, but we we're expanding that as well. If I'm talking too fast, let me know. Um, so this now we're turning to our parents. Um, and although our rankings are four, we know that we have a lot of work to do with our parents. We want to actually have all of our parents take the survey. So, we're just extracting from the survey responses that we received, but
080our idea is to have a QR code this year and so that the student and the parent have the QR code and they can it's easier for them instead of going online. Um, and with our community liaison, we want to incentivize the QR code, you know, the survey responses because the survey responses are not 100%. So, from what we received, um, we're in full implementation, but some of the things that we noticed from the surveys were um, parents did comment on positive relationships. So, I'm really happy about that. U, one parent said, I support with the school's expectations are 100%. So, our expectation is that everyone leaves City Honors going to a four-year, a trade school, um somewhere where, you know, they can um expand their post-secary um careers. Um multiple parents did express strong
081satisfaction with teacher care and communication. I'm always the one to say if a student has dropped below a C, please call the parent, please talk about tutoring. Um let's, you know, relationships are important. Um, so one of the parent engagement goals that we have, we do data tabs in the classroom. That's between teacher and student. We want to expand and we've been trying to do this for about a year, but it we have to calendar our dates. So we found that we have to be organized. So we want to bring in the families to have family data chats studentled. So the student is presenting their data to the to their parents. Um, and we believe that's how we can bring in our families. Our parents also indicated the need for more frequent counselor meetings. So
082they were very vocal about that and you'll see that in the next two slides. So our ratings here were 44 3 and four. I'm not going to read the slide to you. Um again one of the things we want to implement and focus on is relationships with our all of our families, not just some of our families or our sports families or four-year university families. We want to, you know, have a relationship with every single family. And so in the next slide, I wanted to kind of touch on some of the things that our parents did say. Counselors should meet more than just once in the beginning of the school year. I know that counselors meet more than once. All the parents don't know that. And sometimes counselors are just meeting with specific families, right?
083So, we definitely um I talked to my counselors about this and they want to start coffee with the counselor. So, that's one of the things we'll be implementing and calendar it out. The the other comment that really touched me because we had this before uh why doesn't the school have SAT prep years ago, we used to have SAT prep on Saturdays. So, that's something that I have to do homework on. We do provide the SAT, but we don't provide the prep. is not balanced. Um, so that's something again that I that's my job to look into that to see how we can pull in our students and provide SAT prep for our parents. Although SAT is not necessarily used um like it used to be um for colleges, UCLA, you know, all of the colleges,
084parents are still adamant about my child needs SAT prep. Um, what else do I want to say about this? I wanted to note some of the other things that parents commented on. We we have strong engagement with events that their students are performing at, but when it comes to other things, maybe it's um I don't know, back to school night is popular. When we get to spring, right, our spring back to school night, which we call open house, we notice that there's less family engagement. So, we're trying to figure out ways to increase that. And one of my ideas was having a career night where our families are involved, our parents are at the booth talking about their careers and on that same night do something where there's open house where the students are displaying.
085Okay. Um, next set of questions. Question three was about decision making. Again, we need to pull from a larger pool of parents to get more accurate data. That's my opinion, but from what we did get, um, the ratings were a four. Also, I don't know if all parents understand the ratings. So, we want to have meetings so that we go over the survey tool before they take it. I think that's important as well. Um some of the examples that our parents um participate in some of the groups ELAC SSC DAC um are school events um about 60% of the school maybe 70 um the the students are sports students um they're also involved parents come to our college fairs some of our students are involved in gate not many at the high school level um
086for whatever reason um parents do come to our conferences for sped said, um, if you look to the next slide where it says awareness gaps, some parents are unaware of volunteer opportunities, which means that we need to do a better job about advertising the ways in which they can get involved. Some barriers that were noted, my work hours, again, I think last week I said many of the parents are working two and three jobs at different times and they just can't make it. Um, we have single parent challenges. We have activities are done on weekdays in the morning. We try not to do mornings. Um, I believe ELAC meetings where we had city honors encroic [Music] transportation is a barrier. Um, so we're trying and that's why you see the equal sign. Like it's those
087are the things that we need to work on. some of the things um that we plan to do and I think I just mentioned them. Um we want to communicate better. So we have to figure out a better way. We're using parent square. We're using the website. We're using email. We're using sending things home with the child, but we have to figure out something better. What that is, I don't know yet. Um we have to be flexible in our scheduling. we have to consider transportation support and just see what the parents can do and cannot do and what needs to be hybrid and online. Um and also we just want to make sure that our parents feel welcome to participate. That's really the main thing. Um thank you for listening. Any questions? Any questions from
088the board? I think you're doing a fabulous job. As we noted after graduation, all of the students who graduated from City Honors this past year were all on the honor roll and you're just staying true to your name of City Honors and I was bragging about you at a party I went to the other day. Somebody was talking about they wanted their child to go to to City Honors. I said that's the place to be. If you want your ch your child to excel, see if you can get that child into City Honors. So, thank you very much for all that you're doing at City Honors. Again, you're doing a a really good job. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I was impressed by all the students being on honor road as
089well. Not all of them. The majority, not all of them. Others wanted to be. Yes. Um, if you showcase your students, parents will come. Their parent turnout will increase. Um, I heard you too. But if you showcase the students, have them do anything, the parents will show up to see their kids. But you're doing a fantastic job. Thank you. Great presentation. I want to acknowledge too because um I was just talking to my colleague and I'm like, "Okay, what well what's your radius, you know, for the school?" And it's like it's all over the city plus some. So um I get it. thinking outside the box for transportation, trying to resolve those social toxicities that exist beyond the normal school day. I take my hats off to you. So, let us know how we can
090help and support and advocate for you. I will. Great job. Thank you. I I don't I got to say something now. Okay. I got to say something now. Everyone I don't know if I said this publicly, but you know, when I was a City Honor student and I went to college and I went out, no one really knew who what City Honors was. Right. Now, as a board member, when I talk about our school, City Honors, people know what City Honors is all about. And I think that's a big credit to your leadership and your time at City Honor. So, thank you for for putting us on the map. Thank you. If I can say, it's like the most rewarding thing to say that I have a student that's on our board. That makes me
091like so proud. So, thank you. [Applause] I want to just end by expressing deep appreciation to Dr. Goldby, to Miss Tate, and Dr. Aria. Uh Dr. Lucas said something very wise in her introduction, and she talked about each school is different and unique. Prior to that, Miss Tate talked about we have to know each student. Each student is unique. And I think that's what we saw. Uh, I just want to mention really our our staff is sometimes much more critical of themselves when we ask them to self-reflect. And I think that's a tribute to the high standards that each of these leaders holds. Not only for themselves, but for the teachers at their school, the students at their school. It's about having high standards. And sometimes when your standards are high, guess what? You're always
092looking for ways to improve. And so I just want to compliment Dr. Goulby, Miss Tate, and Dr. Aria because I think we saw the thread that went through all the presentations. We're doing some things really well. We're committed to continuing to do better. So with that, I thank each of you. And our final presentation, you're going to see that say Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Randy. You're you're you're right. two Miss Tates, Miss Miss Tate and Miss Tate. Absolutely. And and they both have high standards with with that. You'll see that same thread through our next presentation because uh uh Mr. Guzman has high standards for what we're doing with school facilities. And so that will be our final presentation this evening. Just an update on what's happening with facilities and We made some tough decisions.
093We closed some schools. But guess what? The schools that are open are going to be schools that really honor the value of the students and community that we serve. Mr. Buzzman. Thank you, Dr. Morris. And we actually have this one and then the the the budget is after. So, we have two. Uh so, we'll go ahead and get started. Well, uh good evening, uh Dr. Morris, uh, board president, Miss Margaret Turner Evans, and all of our board, our cabinet, our community. Good evening. Thank you all for being here today. We wanted to just give a quick update on our bond measure I program. So, as you know, we have we had Measure GG. This will most likely be that last year that you see financials from Measure GG because we've essentially exhausted it. So, now
094we're moving on to Measure I and starting to spend some of those funds down. We wanted to kind of give an idea of of where we are. So, just quickly, measure I, as you know, was approved by voters back in November of 2020. Um, and it was approved with a very high approval rating, 80%. So, that just shows the community really felt that there was a strategic need for investing in our schools. It was a $240 million uh bond. And so, we had our first issuance of $75 million back in 2021. Uh we actually did uh sell the last issuance uh back in April 10th of uh this year. The remaining $165 million is now in our books. It's now sitting in in our uh in the treasur's office. So we have those funds. Um
095one thing about this I want to say is our there's two two great things with the sale. Number one, our credit rating went up. And that's it's it's really great because now instead of being in the B category, we went to the A category. And that has a lot to do with just the trust in our board, in our county administrator, and our district leadership. It had a lot to do when we look back at what Moody's rated us at and what Fitch rated us at. They trust where we're going. They trust our financials. They trust our leadership. Um and so they increased our rating from from B to A. So that's that that really helped increase our traffic. So much so that we had about $2.2 2 billion dollars of orders. That's how much
096interest was out there to be part of Englewood Unified in a sense in regards to investing. More than $2.2 billion were sold uh were uh interested in our in our bond. It would have been great if we could commission to, you know, but that's not the case. We we're only limited to 240 uh to the 240 million total. So, we were able, as you can see here, here's some of the trends of what that looked like. Uh but we really were uh blessed to be able to issue the entirety of that. And so what have we actually spent? So we have the money for measure I. Now what have we spent? We've only spent about $13 million so far. Uh but all of the funds have been accounted for. Um so it's just and that's
097what we're going to be presenting here in the next couple of slides. We have uh quite a few different projects here that we'd like to go over. We put it in order of uh when we believe those projects will be completed. Uh so the first one is Kelso school. As you can see there, here's some of the things that will happen at Kelso School. We have some modernized classrooms. We have new furniture, uh a new synthetic turf field, a new digital marquee, sitewide asphalt replacement, new parking area, new basketball courts, ADA and exterior upgrades. All of this will be done by August of 2025. We're really excited. There's some pictures there. I really like this view actually because it shows the field. This is going to be great. The Clippers are doing our basketball courts
098there. Um and just the rest of the campus if you've already toured it. It looks amazing. Uh we're really excited about what that has uh been and uh we're thankful for the team that has really helped in getting all of this moving. Uh districtwide we are doing different things uh as far as school consolidations. Sentinella is getting a very very uh large refresh. Uh buildings A and B are getting new windows. We're doing roof repairs all around Sentinela to make sure it's ready for the increased number of students. Um we're also doing a uh a whole renovation of the furniture at Centanella. Uh parking lot, asphalt, and other exterior work is happening there as well. You're going to have new flooring, new interior painting. Um this is really great uh because our students will be
099essentially moving into brand new floors, uh brand new furniture all over the campus. So that's that's really good. Morning sight's temporary classrooms are also being refurbished to make sure they're ready for our students coming in. Uh we're also doing some security improvements uh to the site as well as uh play areas and infrastructure upgrades. All of this will be completed in the summer of 2025, which means this summer will be done with all of these. So when students come back to Sentinella, they'll come back to a new uh classroom that looks brand new with furniture and all a bunch of different types of items as well. uh we're able to do all of this uh because of the really having consolidated schools allows us to target funds to the schools that remain. Had we had
100to upgrade all of our schools, we wouldn't have the money. There's, as you can see, just just some of these upgrades of what they cost, it's it's the money isn't there. However, by having less schools, you're able to fund more money uh and I'm sorry, so you're able to fund more initiatives per the schools that remain. In this case, CDC, we're doing reconstruction there. About eight new classrooms, a multi-purpose room, an admin room, playground area, a new parking lot drop off as well. Uh that is going to start construction this summer. So, look at all we're doing this summer. We we're doing uh some upgrades at Morningtown. We're doing upgrades at Sentinella. We're doing upgrades at Kelso. We're doing upgrades at the CDC. Uh actually, CDC is a brand new reconstruction. So, summer of 2025,
101we expect to be completed with construction summer of 2026. So our our babies are moving in there in 2627. We're really excited about that. Uh DSA approval. We received the DSA approval for it. We've selected the contractor. That's the Nazarian group. So we're excited about that as well. Here's the layout of what that campus is going to look like. Uh it's it looks it looks really beautiful and it's going to have a lot of different play areas for our students and uh age appropriate classrooms as well as just as we mentioned before the administration area, playground areas and of course a multi-purpose room for our students. So Bennett Q is also we're having a new classroom building there. Uh construction of six new classrooms. There's also going to be a maker space which is a
102larger area as well that students could could work under. Uh we'll have some restroom storage, landscaping upgrades around uh the campus and of course we'll be removing those other portable classrooms so that we have actual classrooms that are there permanently. That construction also starts this summer. So here's another one that we're starting this summer. Um and we expect we expect that to be completed by the summer of 2026. So by the summer of 2076, we're going to have a lot of uh different construction projects completed. But you can see there kind of a a view of what that will essentially look like. Um, Oak Street, Oak Street's also getting some uh renovations in regards to a TKK campus construction, our nerdy childhood center. Uh, there'll be 10 new classrooms, a playground areas, shade structure, new
103field areas, as well as the removal of portables. Uh, so you could see kind of the design down here. And I'll show a bigger picture here in a little bit, but we will start construction. and we anticipate to start that in the summer of 2026 and be done by the summer of 2027. So, that one's a little bit later on. Um here is how it will look. Um here is uh the area that's kind of closer to the freeway there. Uh but you can see the the classrooms that'll be the shade structure, the different classrooms and different play areas here. There's an entrance over here for uh you know for drop off as well. Um, and what the nice thing is currently over here we have the portable classrooms. Um, those will be gone and
104we'll have a a really nice turf field that's uh a appropriate for our kids to use. So when this comes in, it's going to look really really nice. And right now cuz because if you go and drive by there, it just looks like a piece of green grass right there. Like what's going on there? Well, this is what's going to happen there. It's it's a strategic use of that property and it is going to look fantastic. Like I said, it's a $14 million project. It'll be done by the summer of 2027 is what we're hoping. Um, and finally, Englewood High School reconstruction project for the for Englewood High School. We have actually the architect here. If they could please stand uh from practice, they want to acknowledge their work. Um, they've done fantastic work at
105our uh to design all of this. So, we're very happy that they're here today. Uh, and uh, so we'll go ahead and talk about that. So we have two new CTE pathway building, student commons, an admin building, cafeteria, NPR. The landscape and the heartscape will be completely changed. Everything will essentially be touched at that high school. Uh we anticipate construction to start this month. We broke ground. Thank you to everyone that was able to attend the groundbreaking ceremony. That was fantastic. I appreciate you you being there. we broke ground and we anticipate uh the construction the demolition portion starting later in the year and construction starting next year uh in regards to uh all of all of those items. Um so as far as when it will be complete, end of 2027, we're hoping that
106that'll be complete then and that our students will be able to move in there in 2028. This is the biggest portion of the budget. It's $232 million so far. I usually say it's rounded up to 240 million when you look at everything else, but here's just a quick view of what the buildings look like. Uh, and I'm again so thankful for our architects and getting this together for us so that we could show it to you today. So, building one is the main campus entrance where you'll have the admin offices, uh, health center, 19 classrooms. Building two, you'll have the MPR kitchen and, uh, that's where our students will eat and a shaded outdoor area. Building 3A is one section of that building is going to have general science labs, chemistry labs, state-of-the-art by the
107way, not it's going to be beautiful laboratories for our students. Uh it's going to have some work rooms, art work. Um when we look at building 3B that'll have that second part of that building, it'll have the 12 classrooms, a teacher workroom, uh and of course flexible student collaboration areas. We're really excited about the the flexible collaboration areas where they can collaborate outside of just in being inside the classroom. Building four will have the ASB room, the dream center, career center, JOTC's room, and the student store. Building five is going to have the uh physical therapy and sports medicine, patient care uh classrooms, um an anatomy lab, engineering computer lab, robotics arena that's going to look. By the way, we're really excited about how robotics room is going to look with uh the different things
108that we're doing there. And uh building six is going to have our band, choir, and orchestra uh that exits right to the field. So it so it's really strategically placed there. Uh an esports uh room, graphic media room, animation lab. So there's a what you're starting to see here is there's a lot of intentional design and I again I thank our architects for really being thoughtful of what we need. It's not just about building a classroom. It's about building something that our students can use. Uh you know Miss Randall when you were presenting you said it has to happen in the classroom. Well if they don't have a animation lab to make it happen how is it going to happen? And that's what we're doing. We're building a facility that is conducive to our students
109achieving success and being intentional about them reaching their career pathway and being able to be successful in the future. That's what we want to do. So that's that last building there, building six. So we're really excited about that. Uh we continue to do community outreach through our CBOC, our facilities advisory committee. We continue to meet with them. So that's how we're continuing that community outreach that the facilities advisory committee is a new committee that we started. Our first meeting was uh May 14th and we have another one on August uh 14th as well. Next steps well continue our construction activities for active projects. Receive approvals from DSA. Continue to hold meetings with our CBOC and our facilities advisory committee. Hold community events for milestones like groundbreings. We'll have a couple more groundbreings and a ribbon
110cutting here. So, we'll make sure to invite all of you to that and continue to provide the board and community with regular updates on individual projects and the program as a whole. So, again, I want to thank you uh I want to thank our architects for being here today. Also, Mr. Noah Castro from Cordova for his support. And we also have Mr. Amin Salari here from Founder Salari who's going to be helping us with a lot of the program management. As you can see, this is a lot to do, but we have the right team to do it and we're really excited about our next steps. And I'll turn it back over to you, Dr. Mars. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. and thank you for speeding through that. It was a lot of
111information, but talking about what's on the horizon, Miss Evans, I'm going to turn it over to you for questions or comments. Well, I just I don't know if I'm the only one in the room who's not aware, but you say we're redoing modernizing Kelso. I thought Kelso was moving. Yeah. So the name uh so Warren Lane's campus is now called uh Kelso for now for that for that year as eventually it's going to have its its long longevity name right eventually. But that's why we're referring to it to try to avoid the confusion. Okay. So the kids will be at Warren Lane. Yes. And it'll be called KSO. So if I go back there we already have if you were to drive over there uh you would see the uh because I didn't see any
112street names on this picture. It has this uh marquee now up there. Um where it says Kelso school. So we have the marquee uh and then I think at Warren Lane. Yes. Correct. They're coming back to Kelo once the modernization is over. No, no, that's that's where it will stay. They're going to be over at Warren Lane. Okay. I just So all of this here that you're seeing, this is the Warren Lane campus, but it's now being called council for this year. And then as time goes on, there'll be a there'll be a community collaboration to define the name. So there will not be a Warren Lane campus anymore. It's all going to be Kelso. Yes. Everybody is going to be Kel. Correct. If I can just add because I think the more we overcommunicate
113about this, Miss Fountain, the principal of the school that was formerly Warren Lane, that was formerly Daniel Freeman, she knows one of her charges this year is to put together once you have the school and the students there to put together a committee of community members because there are some folks who want to advocate for returning the name to Daniel Freeman. There are some folks who want to keep it kelso. There's some folks who may want it to be Warren Lane, but that really is the community has to come together and then they'll come to the board with a recommendation to call the school, Daniel Freeman, Warren Lane, Kelso or something else. And so, Miss Fountain knows her charge is once they're established there, bring folks together to make that decision. I appreciate you're asking
114that question because almost on a daily basis somebody from the community will email me and say why why is that sign out front say Kelso and why is this not called Warren Lane and why is it not called Daniel Freeman. So and Dr. Morris, one more thing with that is the reason why we have to call it something is because it it has to have a CDS code, right? That CDS code is currently going to be the council CDS code is is moving down there. Once this happens as community outreach and all of that, the name will be decided and that will be the name ongoing. But for now, we have to refer to it as as as that because the CDS code is moving down there. Thank you. Okay. That is exactly correct. In
115my report, I glossed over it by seeing per district guidelines. Uh the same thing happened with woodwork monro. Um we haven't done that process yet, but we we're we are we're happy with it for right now and we're living with it for right now, but we haven't done that process. So the community is supposed to be involved and then once the community um comes together with the name that they want for the community then they'll come back with the board recommendation and that was my little blurb per district guidelines. Thank you. Thank you. Um yesterday was my first groundbreaking ceremony and I I enjoyed it very much. So please do invite me to the next ones. Um the CDC, right? I I always got to highlight the CDC has done wonders in that building. The
116programming, you know, Dr. Clifton and her and those kids just so amazing. I'm just so grateful that they're going to have the opportunity to have that beautiful building. Um they're just an amazing organization, amazing program, and she always deserves her flowers when we say those three letters, CDC. Um and I want to thank you, Mr. Guzman, and and Mr. Miles and and all this because you have changed the narrative of the conversations I have with the community. For the past two years, it's been a lot about the school closures. And the cursing and the blessing of being a hometown kid is that I could go to a wedding. I could go to a baptism and it turns into a town hall because everybody in my family has gone to these schools and everybody I know
117growing up has gone to these schools. But now the conversations about the new school that we're building and all these new exciting things that's happening now and all the cool things they're seeing on the news. They saw me in the news last night. Everyone's excited. You know, I was had a trouble with dirt and everyone excited about the new Englewood at High School. like it's changing the narrative of what Engle is really going to do and why we're doing it. Why went through those tough years and past couple years. So, thank you for changing the narrative. Thank you for allowing us to really focus on the positive and focus on the future of Engle Unified is going to be a beautiful within and with with you know, not just the building but also our programming
118and it's going to be a great couple years with all these ribbon cutings showing the community what all these sacrifices were about. Thank you. And thank you. Uh it's really been a team effort with our facilities team working hard, our PDOVA team, our founder Solari team, but also I got to give it up to our uh educational services because they collaborate a lot in making sure these things are designed the right way because you know that's that's really important and of course our ITA membership for their input on how this should look and of course our teamsters as well. I mean it's really a group effort. Our parents had input, community had input. Uh, and so we're really excited about the product of what this is. And thank you to the voters for voting for
119that bond. They voted for that because they believe that we could turn things around and they're willing to uh use that bond to show how much they believe in our district. So, thank you to the voters. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Guzman. Wonderful presentation. Um, I'm not going to be long. I just want to say, you know, facilities and management, that's that's my area. Um, I'm so excited because pretty much all of these facilities that we've seen today are over 50 years old and it's about time. And so again, I want to uh just echo what my colleague said. Thank you to the Englewood voters for believing in our children, believing in our future, and also believing in this district that we're coming back and we're coming back strong. Um, I don't want to mention
120any other school districts, but I know one of our school districts east of us just opened up their high school and I've been bragging to their uh board members saying our high school is going to be a lot better. I promise you because because our Englewood city is involved and we've got the best city on this side of the Mississippi. So, great job, Ralph. Keep it up. Thank you. Thank you. No, they appreciate that. I know we have a lot to prove to our community and this is I think a step in the right direction as these projects get done. It's it's it's a proof it's proof that we are doing the right thing with the resources that we have. Thank you. Yes. I was asking one question but I have uh I often say
121our city is Wakanda. Why can't our school district be Wakanda? Um our city is just like sports entertainment complex, sports entertainment education complex. changing the narrative so that folk come here and bring their children for education. But that's only going to happen when we move our numbers. And I believe that uh Dr. Lucas with her sword over there, uh Star Wars sword and Star Wars team will make that happen. Um yes. So, our school district just I'm very excited the voters did uh the voters have always supported the school district. I don't think there's ever been a bond that went to the voters that the voters didn't vote in favor of the school district and building up the resources and building up the buildings of retrofitting whatever the voters have been asked to do. They've
122done it and now we're going to deliver. So, that makes me happy. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. And also about the groundbreaking yesterday. Um I brought a shovel home and I wanted to thank whoever was responsible for the gifts that we received. That was a Cordova. Cordova. My friend I showed it to him and he was just how beautiful this I think we put this over the fireplace. I'm thinking a shovel you know he was really excited about that shovel. So thank you. Thank you Cordova for the shovel that you gave us yesterday. wasn't there, but I wore my shovel. You didn't get a shovel. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, I I feel bad because I incorrectly uh in introduced the penultimate presentation. Now, we are to the final
123presentation, Mr. Guzman, budget presentation this evening. Thank you, uh, Dr. Morrison. I appreciate that. And um this will be quick because we have already reviewed the uh thank you the budget presentation. So if you want to just 787 see it there you go. Uh we've already reviewed this so I'm going to go straight to the actual numbers. We we had our public hearing on this. So we talked about our key terms already. We've talked about at our public hearing the financial reporting cycle how this is something we have to do per ED code. We did talk about the the legal requirements that we have to post. We had the public hearing already. This is now the meeting where we're adopting the budget after the OKAP is adopted. We will have a 45day budget revision. The
124the budget was just signed today from the governor uh from my understanding. So, and there are changes. So, we'll have to incorporate those changes into the budget. We have incorporated our LCAP assumptions. And again, I want to thank Dr. Goulby and and uh Mr. Ta as well for their work in getting this LCAP done. It was a monumental task. Uh and I just want to thank them very much. Thank you. Um and uh so that has been incorporated into the budget. We did review our cash flow as you can see at the end of the day here. Uh we are ending our cash with 134 million in the end of the year is what we're anticipating. Um so that's a good thing for the district. Uh we are showing this declining enrollment. We do think
125this could turn around, but for now we have to show what we know and and that's what we know. Um, I do think with these these different facilities being renovated, the test scores going up, um, that's going to impact this trend line. But right now, we have to assume for what we know. We use the school services assumptions. Um, and again, I'm going a little bit quicker because we've already reviewed these. I don't want to repeat myself. These are the major assumptions that we've used for building our budget. I think the probably the highlight of all of these assumptions is that the health and welfare is going up. We're anticipating 8% each year. So that's something that comes straight from the unrestricted funds and so we have to really uh account for those types of
126uh increases. Uh this is a little bit different here. So I'm going to stop uh this is where I take most of my time here. Um estimated actuals when we compare it to the second interim. So we did our revenues were pretty much in the ballpark. They were about $2 million higher. When you look second interum is 116 million. We were at 118. The 2 million has to do with interest. we received a lot more interest monies uh than we were anticipating to get them, but we had to make sure that we didn't account for them until we actually received them. So, that's really why you saw an increase into the other local revenues had to do with the interest income coming in at a higher rate. Um the differences in salaries are are pretty
127uh marginal and it has more to do with increases to our LCAP where we just where we were actually able to spend some of the some of the funds. So while they the increased here, what it did was it decreased the carryover for LCAP. So it really kind of just it it would have been spent next year but they spent some of that this year. Uh so that's that's really good. And so that's why you're seeing that increase in regards to uh the comparison between the second interim and the estimated actuals. Um I I just wanted to show that these slides since the budget is done. Um and again we anticipate that our unrestricted side I always point to that not to that side of the house because that's where our reserves live is 70.5
128million is what we anticipated to end 2425 fiscal year 20 24 2025 when it comes to 2526 you'll see some differences there and I kind of spoke about this at the public hearing but the big one is this $3.3 million decrease in our revenue for LCFF that has to do with the fact that and I'll say it again you know we we were because of the CO uh relief the CO ADA relief that the governor had issued that last year expired. So now we're living within our actual ADA averages. Um so that's why you're seeing that big drop in revenue. It has to do with that kind of going away. And you're seeing that if you look at really any district out there in the state of California that's uh that that gets funded through
129through state through this type of funding um that you'll see that type of u change. Um we are seeing a drop in other local revenue mo mainly having to do with uh just interest income coming down. Interest income is a little bit hard to pin down because you make assumptions in your budget that you're going to be spending funds. So if it's you know it has to kind of match what your assumptions are. So uh interest income we anticipate that actually going down as our reserves are going down as well. So if you have less money you'll have less interest. Um overall, uh we're seeing some decreases in certificated and classified salaries, but you're seeing an increase in in employee benefits. And you may ask yourself, well, why are why is the benefits going up
130and salaries are going down? That has to do with the the fact that we issued a SER uh supplemental retirement plan. So, because the retirement plan, we have to pay for that. And so, uh the line that we have to use to pay for the retirement plan is our 3000 line, which is the employee benefits line. That's this line right here. So that's why you're seeing that go up because we have to we have to account for that payment for the uh for the SER. You you're seeing a big drop here in services 3.5 million that has to do with uh less carryover from from for the LCAP and more targeted use of the LCAP in other areas of the budget whether it's certificated or classified salaries. So it's combination of those things. All in
131all uh we're seeing that our ending balance is now uh 54 million. So we are deficit spending when we compare you know uh because of just the lower amount of revenues that we received and uh the expiration of things like er dollars and things of that nature. Uh as we look at our unrestricted reserve we we already saw the proposed budget here. Um and again the $54 million uh ending fund balance for the unrestricted side. When we look at the reserves on the unrestricted you can see here how there is something that we have to do about our budget. uh we are okay this year and the next two years but that reserve is going down as you can see we we start in 2526 we'll end at 54.1 then it'll drop to 33.7 and
132then it'll drop to 7.6 If this continues another year, we're going to be in in trouble. And in 28, 28, 29, which I know it's a long time from now, but we have to start making choices now to address, you know, the structural deficits that we have. You know, this is what good districts do. You you start you you look out in the future and you say, "Okay, what do we do now so that we don't have to do major reductions like all at once, right?" So, we have some time and that's done through the fiscal stabilization plan. I did talk to the budget advisory committee on uh last Friday and we are that's one of the tasks that we're putting together is looking at what ideas we have to address the deficit spending and
133again three years from now a lot of things could happen. The economy could go up and uh do well and the governor gives more money to schools which lowers that which increases our reserves, right? Or the opposite could happen. The economy goes down and now we have to cut even more. So, that's something that we have to really look out for and that's why we look at multi-year projections. So with that said um we have to combine there um we do have the fiscal stabilization plan but as you can see it's super thin. The only thing we put in here is just assumptions that we know are through that we're thinking are through attrition. So this is the document that has to be increased um and we have to identify um what what other items
134we could do. So next steps just again as I said at the public hearing we will have a different budget at the 45day revision because of the changes that the governor signed today. Um also at first interim as our students settle into the school sites we'll have a much clearer picture of where everything is at and then from there we'll have to make even more adjustments to the budget at the first interim report. So the first interim report is going to be very important. Uh we have a lot of priorities here uh for the district and one of them again as we've said before is uh finding ways to reduce the structural deficit but also to increase certificated and classified salaries. That is a major uh important area for us and we're going to do
135everything we can to find ways to increase salaries and at the same time to decrease that structural deficit and target the and position ourselves to be good in those out years. So we have time to address it. Uh but we have to address it then that's that's the thing that we have to do. Um so with that said uh we will focus on the year in closing now uh closing the books and of course updating the fiscal stabilization plan through meetings with our budget advisory committee which we invite anyone from the public if you'd like to attend those meetings uh please do so. We're happy to share and and take in ideas. And that's about it. Thank you so much and I'll turn it back over to you Dr. Morris. Thank you very much. Thank
136you, Mrs. Evans. Questions or comments from the board. I know this is um some of the same material we covered in the public hearing, but we are at that point of adopting the budget. So, this is like if you have questions or comments, this is the time. Any questions or comments? Do you have comments? Okay, Mr. Myers. Mr. Guzman, I want to say thank you so much um for not implementing one-time dollars for continuous expenses. You know, like I know there's plenty of districts that took that COVID money and started to utilize it for probably teacher salaries and things of that matter and now we have today upset teachers because they won't be able to fund those those salaries. So, I'm I'm I I appreciate you thinking outside the box years ago, right, when we
137had all these monies coming in and, you know, had that foresight to know that these monies would run out eventually. And so, I know now when we're looking at the deficit spending aspect, um the fiscal stabilization plan, are you are you indicating for the years 2526 we need to decrease an amount of 16 million? No, no, no. So that's what what the budget is showing right now that we are uh if we don't do anything about that our reserve will drop by that number. So it'll go from 54 minus the 16 essentially it'll drop to the uh 33 that you see in 2627. There's some other factors in there but it essentially drops to the 33 and then if we don't do anything the year after that then it drops to 7.6. And so it's
138this is now when we want to start addressing that deficit spending. So do you have a uh you may not do you have a figure in mind that we need to kind of stay I have a figure in mind but I'd rather not share it until I know what happens in August. Uh when I when I see kind of everything settled in August I think we'll have a much clearer picture of what we look like as a district moving forward with our enrollment and the number of schools that we'll have now. we'll have a because you know it'll actually be completely implemented. So now we'll have to really look and see what that's going to feel like. Um and so that's what I'm saying at first interim we'll have a a different sense and then
139it also will be impacted by how we look at those the the increased uh salaries that we're hoping to to do as well. Thank you Mr. Guzman. Thank you for an excellent report, for looking at everything, dotting all eyes, crossing all tees. Um, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. uh knowing that we have to decrease deficit spending, that we do need to increase certificated salaries. But just like you were very creative in pointing out that if we stop outsourcing some of our services and just increase uh services to staff we already have, we could make uh uh uh positive income over here. I I'm not a finance person, but I know how to balance a checkbook. and you went in and you're balancing the checkbook. So, thank you so much. Thank you. It's truly a
140team effort. Mr. Bata, Miss Sto, they they've been instrumental and the entire fiscal team and you're absolutely right. Uh those ideas have been talked about in the district for a very long time with like Mr. Hughes is always talking about that and and everybody else talks about it and now I feel it's the time to actually do it. Yeah, it should have. Mr. Gman, we've been talking about all the schools that we have now. I haven't heard anybody talk about Ivy and Young and increasing enrollment with students coming in for that. I guess Dr. Aria, you could tell us something about that. How many students have applied or what's happening with that? Are we opening in the fall of Ivan and Young? Oh, I was just going to say in about two weeks you're going
141to actually see the marquee sign change. I don't know if anybody's gone by and noticed, but Croer Middle School letters are gone and the marquee sign for Ivine and Young that is opening in August is uh the marquee sign is going up. Dr. Mariah has a meeting with some of the parents and the incoming families. And you're right, that is one way that we're going to build enrollment in the district by offering attractive programs that families want. And we've got the right leader doing it. Okay. Thank you. All right. With that, we thank you so much, Mr. Buzzman. Thank you. Um, and now we'll move on to public comments. We're now going to move on to public comment portion of the agenda on comments on agendaized and non-aggendaized items. This is an opportunity for the
142public to address the county administrator and board of education. A public comment card must be completed and submitted to the safety assistant stationed at the entrance to the meeting room before the beginning of the public comment period. Members of the public who wish to speak on an item on the posted 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 agenda items and 30 minutes for public comments on non-aggendaized items. If public comment cards exceed 10, the time allotted may be reduced to hear from more speakers 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 guidelines for public
143comment or in accordance with board by bylaw 9323. Just a reminder that the Brown Act does not allow the board of education, county administrator, or cabinet members to respond to public comments. Missado will turn it over to you for um facilitating public comment period. Thank you, Dr. Mars. We're starting with public comments on non-aggenda items. The first public comment is from Miss Diane Sbrano. Miss Sbrano, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Good evening. With non-aggenda items, I heard so many comments that just kind of made me I had a truckload of students, not from any of our schools, come to the Adobe to learn about the history of this community. Here's a news flash. Most of you haven't shown up there
144either. And maybe if you did, you would learn why the names of Daniel Freeman, the founder of our community, third person, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. I don't have enough time to go on. He in and of himself is worth 45 minutes. You wouldn't have water today if it was not for Warren Lane. And you would not have electricity if it was not for Bill Gelso. And yet we throw their names out the doors if they don't matter for Squat. Clyde Woodworth served this community for 35 years. The founding originating attorney for the city of Englewood and seven other cities all at the same time. And yet it's kind of like everybody thinks nobody from yesterday year was worth a plug nickel. Let's erase them and move on because they're old and they don't matter
145and somebody doesn't remember them. You're about ready to tear down a WPA building. I have had five phone calls in the last month about our WPA buildings, Works Progress Administration during the FDR thing. All of them were significant, important, and were the very things that kept people in our community working. when there were no jobs. And yet somehow we tend to say, "Well, I didn't know anybody then. Let's throw that out." As I look at where some of you live, there's only three places in this city that your house isn't more than 50 years old. Should we start the bulldozers for that? Now, I remember when uh what's her name? Gilfoil said that about a certain community. Her house was older. Boy, did see the letter she wrote when her house was up for resoning.
146Kind of a change of heart when it impacts you, isn't it? Every student should get a good education. And you see, the thing is, I've heard all of this before. There's probably only five people in this room, if we count, that have been here through Measure K. And all of the waste, the fraud, the misuse that led us to this. Do you know that 131 million was told to us that it would modernize every single Bloomman school in this district right down to brand new bells. How did we get to the point that we let people throw that money around till just a few years later we needed another truckload of money, another matching funds, more LAX money, more more and more money, money and money. And yet this whole time someone mentioned the dashboard.
147I looked it up. You probably should. Most of our schools are red. Thank you. Our second public comment is from John Hughes. Mr. Hughes, please come to the podium to address your public comments on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Uh thank you to uh everyone assembled. um non-aggenda. I guess I'll start with the um ceremony from yesterday, the um uh groundbreaking. uh and you know I'm going to I'm going to move it in another direction because although we are all excited about the plans um I wanted more incorporation more unity um because we are closing a school and I didn't see that school represented and uh that bothered me because we had a band we had um cheerleaders but I didn't see what the students led with which was uh Inglewood
148Unified or Inglewood Unity or I didn't see it. I see it on paper but I didn't see it in practice. And we have to do that. Um as the speaker before me said, you can't erase history. Um and you got to be sensitive to people's um um feelings about what is occurring. And it's good to project and move forward, but at the same time, you have to always make sure that you're you're um sensitive and coddling those who may be feeling a little sentimental about what's occurring and a little ignored about what is progressing. Um I think that um I looked and I didn't see I didn't see any I would have liked to seen like dual cheerleaders there or some other of those band members included. I would have loved to have seen that
149to show that they're they're not feeling um neglected or or in any way like they don't fit in. And I didn't see it. And as leaders, we have to make sure that occurs. I think um it's really necessary that moving forward that we have that type of vision um with um with all of our students in mind. Um, right now it just it's just uh it just seems to be something that we overlook, but I don't think that we we we will in the future. At least that's my hope. Um, secondly, I would love to have seen um the the um the commitment from the city. I heard it in words, but I didn't see it in dollars. I heard the the the wonderful um um speech, but you know, we have tax deferred for
15010 years on these stadiums that that this school district could use. We have we have a lot of systems that we need to lobby for instead of just always being ceremonial. I'm a practical person. I love ceremony. I'm good at it. But more importantly, I'm practical about where are those dollars because our students need it. And if we don't invest, we'll have a school. but the students won't be there to fill it. Thank you. Thank you. Our third public comment is from Fidelia Larach. Miss Fidelia, please come to the podium to address your public comment on non-aggenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Thank you. Um I'm going to try to summarize a year in three minutes. Uh I was here in August when I was asking you to how can we start
151school without a security guard, without a crossing guard. We did not have one. But we made it through the year. We did. Uh I think our school has really thrived on everything that we have accomplished so far. We have uh our grades are gotten much much better. Our attendance is at the highest. Our principal works uh the hours that I think uh two three people need to do every year to succeed. But um one of the things that I heard today was the committees that most of our parents visit all the committees. However, it is in a way that is true. We bring news from other parents from our schools and also I am not afraid to go and speak. If I don't like what I hear, I would say no. It has not been
152implemented. It's not that I go to the meetings to make sure that I I say okay yes it's fine because those kind of meetings I I don't have the time for those to me is if I'm coming here I'm going to let you how I feel. Let you know how I feel and where things I they don't work. I was invited to attend a data summit by my principal which I enjoy. I love the way to see how the principles work. how the entire thing is put together and I had a comment to say we had one on a Saturday which it was beautiful it was everybody was present everybody was there during the school year all the principles are there only because they need to be but they are worried about what they left
153at the schools so they are simultaneously here and there and I I'm glad that I I'm able to go out and share that with Dr. Lucas with Dr. Why? Because they give me that opening to say I'm here to listen and that's what I'm here to speak. I do want to say that our school needs a wellness center. I the wellness center I hear at Monroe, I hear here and there. I'm jealous of that and I come and I tell you that I need one at Bennett Q. Um I also would love to see our board visit our schools. Not just come for the events and the pictures. The pictures are good. You know, when we have the events, everybody comes because there's pictures to publish. No, come on a regular day with your hands
154get your hands dirty. Be there. Mr. Miles comes when we have to do planting and and he's he's part of our board with us. But I want to see Miss Rand. I want to see Aness comes sometimes. Miss Evans, I want to see my board at my school. Big Matt will be gone. We be coming back to local control. So, let's show our faces are our schools. Um monies. That's not my problem. That's their problem. You look for the money. We come and tell you what we need at our schools. The education department will tell you what we need. The money is your responsibility. Look for it. The money did not leave this this planet. It's here. So, we need to address that with ourselves. Um, at our school, we have outgrown our space. Our
155cafeteria cannot hold even the assembly to do the per grade award ceremony to say, you know, to recognize our students. Our parents had to stand outside and not very happy. So, we need to look into something for that. um the safety of our schools. Please address that. Thank you so much. Thank you. We're now going to move to public comments on agenda items. The first public comment is from Miss Diane Sbrano. Miss Sbrano, please come to the podium to address your public comments on agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. Okay. I'm going to go very quickly and try to make it so that you can still hear me. But um when I look at this agenda, there's no dollars and cents. Why is it I don't know when I look at item
156uh oh I don't know pick one six under educational services I have no idea how much you're spending I should be able to look at it on this piece of paper and know that until this administration we could there are several items with the exact same wording let's see look at items number 39 and 40 41 then down below on 45 46 I should be able to identify the difference between those on here and then I'm going to go back to because it was part of the budget comment. I would hope that we don't just keep on paying down the minimum to the state, but that we pay any and everything extra that we possibly can because the goal should not to eternally stay with the state advisor, but have local control where these people's
157that we elected actually have a say as opposed to the privilege of being able to talk but you don't get to vote. We put them here. We elected them here hoping that they might have a say. At least that's what we are supposed to believe. And we need to work our absolute most to pay down what we can pay down as quickly as we can pay it down. And then in here, I guess one of the things that always amuses me, and I've said it, I know some who've been here forever get sick and tired of me saying, "How many times do we have to change the blooming furniture? I get sick and tired of watching furniture, which is public property, being thrown in dust, dumpsters, left out to rot. You want to give kids
158everything new. Well, that might be great if you have the best budget on the planet, and you're always getting a new job that's higher and higher salary. But at some point, public property is public property, and we shouldn't throw it out every 10 minutes. And if it no longer meets the need, then we should find a way to utilize that somewhere else. Whether that's providing an auction or giving it to a worthy cause or assist city or some school district somewhere that doesn't have the funds. I'm sure there's plenty of places that could actually use some of these marginally used pieces of furniture. I know in the district office it used to be a joke that we saw every new type of furniture come through. I've seen the cherry. I've seen the wood. I've seen
159the putty. I've seen the black. I've seen every kind of desk on the planet. Well, our children have nothing. Now it seems like we're just throwing them away because we don't like this color. And that's not right. It's still public money. Thank you. And I have to say point of information, every single item on the agenda has a fiscal impact statement. If you look at the agenda, every single item we don't hide anything. It is there and it is public. Miss Abrano, please continue. Thank you. Second public comment 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. Um I did ask how that agenda got changed way uh a while ago and understanding that that that is true
160about the uh in dollar but it it's not as it was where we could trace uh sources and and particular line items. So it's not as it was um in terms of measure I um the presentation. Yes. And the bond was for 240 million for 16 16 yeah 16 schools at the time. But that's not what is happening with that. Um you know we repurpose we close schools and we talk about right sizing which is all fine but that's not what was presented to the voters at the time. It was presented for 16 schools and the concentration is basically for one school now. So that is different to the voters. Um so when you come to the community now they're going to look at this and say wait a minute that means we must have
161another bond measure coming down the line again because all of the money is no longer there. So that is coming and they they are aware of what what was said before. Um in terms of the um uh salaries that were spoken about you know we need to increase everything starts in the classroom. marketing should start in the classroom. Um, if we're doing well in terms of our education, in terms of our uh test scores and growth, that's what people are going to look at first. And if that is doing well, and that's the majority of your students, regardless of your athletic program, your music program, your CTE program, and all the other bells and whistles, the core is what uh uh uh parents are going to look at. They're going to look at that data.
162They're going to look at that information and say, "What are we doing? How are you educating our students?" So that's where the marketing starts. So they're going to ask the question, um, can I trust IUSD2? And we have to fill in that blank. So if what we're filling that blank is has to be genuine, has to be, um, absolutely verifiable. And so for us to do that, that means everybody has to roll up their sleeves and and go to work. We have to. And so when I hear about right sizing, I'm looking at the um the number of consultants we have in this district. right size. Start there. Start there with the right sizing. When you talk about so-called deficit spending, it's because you have the same template, the same model in place that we
163have less students now even and for me it's about a third of the students when when uh when we begin uh receiverhip yet we have expanded our consultants and expanded that uh structure and it's topheavy. So if you're going to right size and you're going to talk about budgeting and we're going to talk about so-called deficit spitting because I say so-called you haven't changed that model. So we can do that. It's easy. We do not need that many uh consultants to do the same job for less students. Thank you. [Music] Thank you. And our last public comment is from Mario Sanchez. Mr. Sanchez, please come to the podium to address your public comments and agenda items. You have three minutes. You may begin. U thank you um board community representative here. Wow, it was heavy
164because I was going to say all the stuff that they were saying but now I'm short. All right. Uh but I do want to bring a couple of items. Um uh our community was right and that's why I was speaking two items on the beat number 27 and 34. these two agencies um have served our community already and for what I see I don't want I don't want to come in criticized but professional service doesn't mean sitting down looking at our kids doing nothing if that's the professional services that we getting and we're vocal during our meetings as a parent we have mentioned this and they here again uh get a half a million contract in There again item 27 and item 34. All right, half a million multiply times that we have all consultants
165here, right? Because they're do professional service to our kids. But if you come and sit down just watching my kit, is that really a professional develop professional service that you give to our kids for that type of money? Who's monitoring that? What is the m How was me? How was even been? Did they came and did the presentation and they offer you something and now are you following seeing what they're doing with our kids? Because at the end of the day offering you something and they didn't do it. What are you telling our community? That's about it. I want to thank you very much for giving me the time to speak after. Thank you. That concludes our public comments for tonight. Thank you very much, Miss Sabbrano. We're going to move on to action items.
166We're now going to move for the approval of human resources division 9A1 through 97. Mrs. Evans, any comments? No comments. 9A1 through 9A7 are each approved. We'll move on to Educational Services Division 9B1 through 9B65. And I do want to point out on educational services there are about 30 items that are contract amendments. And the reason we're doing contract amendments on those 30 items is there's new um legal language and the amendment had to be amended so that the um provider of those services would notify us of any incident that happened in the in the program. And so you'll see about 30 no cost items and it's a legal compliance issue that we're doing those amendments. Turn it back to you, Mrs. Evans. Comments. Members of the public, I want you to know that we're
167not just going through here saying no comments, but we've already had an opportunity to make comments so not to hold you up. That's why we're just going through this with no comments tonight. We've already commented. Thank you. 9B1 through 9B65 are each approved. We'll move on to business services division. 9C1 through 9 C11. No comments. 9C1 through 9C11 are each approved. Moving on to measure GGI and facilities 9D1 through 9D3. No comments. 9D1 through 9D3 are each approved. County Administrators Division 9E1 through 9E3 91 through 9E3 are each approved. Moving on to board member remarks. I'll turn it back to President Evans. Board members, do we have any comments for tonight? Any? No. Mr. Castile? Uh, just want to make sure I I publicly thank all the volunteers that have been helping me out at
168the Oak Street Garden for the past couple weeks. I just came from the garden today. That's why I'm a little red and my hair's a little messy. Um, but that's it was it's been a good couple weeks. I know we're going to make that garden look beautiful when the parents come back. When they come back, we're going to be sure that they're going to have all the fruits. There's grapes growing, there's mangoes growing, there's passion fruit growing, and today I I was able to witness um our sped students go outside and get a chance to enjoy it and they're very hands-on and they really enjoy the garden. So, the volunteers are making wonders happen there. Um we had a local business, Lalos, uh who donated uh soil, donated supplies, and donated their time to support
169too. So, it just makes my heart warm. Um and I just want to again emphasize our schools are safe spaces. There's a lot still going on and I want to make sure our parents know that they need any help during this tough time. I'm I'm in contact with a lot of organizations. If you need help, you know, any anything you need help during this tough time, please reach out. And for any volunteers that need help or want to help, uh please reach out because we need some volunteers to help out with grocery deliveries and and so forth. So, just want to make sure everyone's aware of that. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll I'll keep my remarks this evening brief to one item. And I just want to offer huge hats off especially since
170uh Dr. Collins is here. Western Association of Schools and Colleges does school accreditation and the best accredititation term you can get is a six-year WASK term. We received the letter today. Hats off to Dr. Collins and the team at Inglewood High School. Six-year accreditation. Thank you so so much. And of course, I do want to mention one additional comment. Our um Englewood uh high school marching band will be in the National Independence Day parade on July 4th. Um if you look at the National Independence Day website, they don't provide access to the parade online until an hour after the parade has ended. We do have a parent volunteer from the um parade. Our technology department is going to work with us. We're going to have a link on our website and so we'll have a
171live view of our students all the way throughout the parade. So you won't have to watch 50 other states to get to Anglewood. You'll be able to see our students from start to finish. So that'll be pretty exciting to be able to watch that live. Our next board meeting is scheduled for August 6, 2025, and the meeting will stand adjourned at 7:19 p.m. Thank you. Happy 4th of July, everybody. We won't