001[Music] Can I get a roll call? Here. Trusty Cho here. Vice President Walker here. President Gagos here. Unless there are any changes, would someone like to make a motion to approve the agenda, please? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. All right. Can I make a can I get a motion to approve the minutes as presented, please? Yep. Motion to approve all minutes on items 4 A, B, C, and D. Second. All those in favor? I I. All right. Moving on to recognitions and commendations. Our employee of the year recognition, Miss Dana Luhan. Good evening everyone. This evening, it brings me immense pleasure uh to recognize Maryanne Paul as the Martha Meade Certificated Employee of the Year for Westmore High School. Maryanne started with us as a student teacher at Westmore in the spring
002of 1996 and by the fall of that same year, she started as a teacher with our district. She is deeply respected by her peers at Westmore and across the district. Whenever someone needs guidance with sports, coaches or athletics, every department in the district office has the exact same response, which is ask Maryanne. This honor, the honor bestowed upon Maryanne this evening is welld deserved. Many congratulations to you. Um Maryanne, at this time I'd love to welcome you up. You are invited to make comments if you'd like. You don't have to unless you want to. Um, it's more so also you can receive comments from our trustees. Yeah, you go here. [Music] You're the center of attention right now. Um, I just wanted to say thank you for this honor. Um, it was a surprise and
003a shock. um something I don't really need um expected I said but um I do want to thank the board and I want to thank the district office for hiring me back way back in 1996 and starting my career at Jefferson. So I thank uh Mr. Mlanahan then and then transferring over to Westmore in 99 under Dick Morosce um and then all the principles I've gone through. So I thank them all. Um, I do want to thank my college mentor, um, Fred Glosser, who actually got me into teaching PE. Um, so I would like to thank him. I'd also like to thank our department, um, our PE department, um, Anthony Matelli is here tonight to represent them. So, thank you very much. Lastly, I'd like to thank my family, especially my children. Um, two of
004my daughters are here and my son, I believe, is on video call. I'm not sure, but I'd like to thank them for putting up with me all these times and um especially when I am working long hours. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Open it up to the board for comment. Maryanne, congratulations and well timed so that you can individually receive this award. But well done. Thank you so much for your many many years of service as well. And this is a fantastic honor for you and we're very happy um that that you've received this award and especially you know also grateful for your colleagues to for recognizing you as well. Thanks. Thank you amazingly u for all you do and uh without a doubt I think those are the best um recognitions when
005you're not expecting it right. It means you didn't ask for it. your peers just saw that you were doing something outstanding and amazing. Um, you make our job up here and I always say that when you guys get recognized just a little bit easier, right? Cuz without you, we are failing. So, thank you for what you do. Uh, a couple careers ago in 1996, I was a brand new teacher, brand new math teacher, and uh, because of that, I commend you for sticking it out. Um, instead of running away like I did um, thanks for continuing to make the district special. Um, and congratulations. You said Mr. Mlanahan earlier and I was I was at Jeff in those early 90s and that name when you said that brought back a lot of memories pretty instantaneously.
006So thanks for that. But uh also thank you for you know everything that you've done and all your hard work through the years for the district for the kids. um you know it means a lot I think to us of course but also to the kids and the people that you've helped along the way and it's it's nice to be recognized like this and it's an honor for us to be able to recognize you like this and I know your kids are proud of you and the people around you that have supported you through the years are really proud of you and um it's just a cool way to be able to be recognized for all the hard work that you've done. So thank you. Appreciate that. Oh, sorry. It's my turn. Sorry. No, it's
007all good. Um, I just want to So, I always go last. So, you know, but um I really want to say Maryanne. Um, it it's when we said that people bring your name up and say, "Well, let's let's ask Maryanne or Mary." Honestly, you are the go-to. Like, you really are the person we know. Well, if we can we do this. Let's ask Maryanne. Um, you really do stand out. So, I'm so pleased that your peers have recognized you in this way. I will also say that I've only worked in the district for seven years now, but many times I will just be out in life and people will say, "Oh, Maryanne Paul, she I think you coached my niece in volleyball." you know, like there's so many connections to the world because you're very
008involved in your community, giving giving of your time and giving of yourself to others. Um, and so it's not infrequent that your name will come up and oh yeah, and Westmore, she works at Westmore. And um, you really represent Westmore in our district beautifully. You're the kind of person that we are so proud of out in the world. So, thank you so much. Thank you, Marian. All right, let's go. take a photo. Yeah. Should we take a quick photo? Yeah, we'll come down and take a picture with [Music] on the left side of the trying to get this right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that works. There's no no light on the forehead. Look at first. We can both That's fine. One. One second. All right. You guys are free to go if you'd like. It's going
009to be an exciting meeting. You may want to stay. Bye you guys. Bye bye. Thanks for coming. You too. You too. All right, moving on. Communications board report. Start with Andy. Wow, that was quick. Wasn't quite ready. Um, so today I had the chance to go to the budget workshop that was hosted by capital adviserss and CSBA over at the county office of ed. So it was good to really get a sense of where the budget California state budget and also the funding for education looks like uh coming after the coming out of the May revision and as well as what they're looking at for for next year. So numbers are, you know, they are what they are. It's the stuff that we've kind of seen, but it was good to sort of hear it
010from them very specifically. It also is one of those things that makes me grateful that we are a community funded district and that we are not LCF funded because the, you know, when I saw some of our colleagues in LCFF districts and you can kind of see their concerns with what the numbers look like separately. Um, you know, I' I've past couple of meetings I've mentioned assembly bill 1021, which is for an educator workforce housing bill in the assembly that will continue that will streamline this type of work even further. I've had the opportunity on two occasions to speak up in Sacramento on behalf of this bill uh representing CSBA who is a sponsor of the bill um where you know for example uh school districts that are looking to build uh to have up
011to 40 units per acre um and also would streamline uh squa or actually eliminate squa um requirements for infill developments on school district property. So a lot of really good things in the bill. Happy to say that just two days ago it asked the assembly overwhelmingly on a 62 to3 vote. So it's moving on to the Senate. So pretty happy to see that that's moving on. And then there's a second bill AB 1381 which would create a revolving loan fund for school districts that are interested in doing this type of work. And that also passed the assembly unanimously 790. So, pretty excited that uh some a couple of bills that can actually help school districts do the work that we've done um have gone on and and hopefully they will get through the Senate over
012the next couple of months. So, that's all I've got. Thank you, Andy. Hold on a second. I needed I just remembered also with all the rasp of graduations over the past two weeks. What's the matter with me? I had the opport I had the opportunity to attend five different ceremonies uh starting with the bridge program which was really very cool just to see the um the seven students such a tight cohort of of individuals who really just enjoyed being with each other and so grateful that all of them could graduate together. Um, and then that evening being able to attend the middle college ceremony, knowing that there were about 20 of our students who graduated with that group of 50 students and seeing how so many of them completed such a large number of college
013credits in addition to their high school diploma. Uh, then I was the next day I was at Teranova for their graduation. then Friday at Westmore and last week at Oceanana. So I think it's the most number of ceremonies I've done in any given time period, but I was really happy to attend all of them. Just it's fun to see the joy of the students um and the families and and knowing that we continue to make a difference in the lives of so many of these young people. Yeah, not trying to follow that. Um, not much to report. I did go to the Jefferson High School uh, graduation. So, my first uh, graduation within a school district being a board member. Um, was really kind of a deja vu um, to like when I was a
014student. So, it was kind of weird to be the person that's sitting up there now shaking hands. We had to be swapping positions shaking hands. Uh but it was just really really humbling to be there and have that experience and to see this like you know ambition and hope and excitement in this young young people that as a district have really set up for success in the future. So like I couldn't be more proud of all the work we're doing. So yeah, it's cool. Thank you Marty. I have nothing to report at this time. Thank you Sheret. Um, for myself, let's see. Well, uh, yeah, I did gra a bunch of graduations myself. I did three of them. Thornton, Westmore with Andy, and then I attended the ATP graduation the other day. And if you
015guys are looking for some happy tears and and some some good vibes and good feelings, that that is the place to be. Let me tell you, that was a really cool celebration. and um lots of laughs there and lots of smiles and some teary eyes. So that was that was fun. Other than that, just uh busy with life. So I'll turn it over to Miss Tony Prea. Thank you. I'm going to just sort of echo I kept saying I think I've been to about 10 graduations and I just wrote them down and it's it's only eight. Um but the last two weeks have been um it's just wonderful to attend our graduations. So I we started with Thornton, then it was bridge program for our newcomers. Um went to Skyline to our middle college to
016the to the middle college graduation. It was great to see that our middle college students graduated both at middle college and also at their high schools that they start out. Miss Bako is with us there too. Jefferson High School. I ran from Jefferson to Pteranova on the same afternoon. and then adult transition adult school and Westmore High School. And I really I really feel it's important for the superintendent to attend all of the graduations. So I do my best to do that. Um and each graduation has each school and each program has a different flavor and they're all really wonderful and I don't think I've cried so much in a long time. I I just such Oh, I left Oceanana off of the list actually. So, it was nine, not I knew it was near
01710. Um, but uh I I I honestly um each is very moving in different ways. There's, you know, musical performances, there's poetry readings, there's just everything you could ask for. and then speeches from students um that are really thoughtprovoking and um really awesome. And so I am very proud of our school district and I'm very proud of our students and the staff um who afford our students the opportunities that they have. So that's what I've been doing with most of my time for the last couple of weeks. Um, this week is the first week where students aren't here and usually I'm sort of shell shocked and decompressing the last, you know, these days, but actually I feel like really productive. We've had Miss Baka and I have done some planning um with along with Miss
018Robinson for curriculum and instruction next year, executive cabinet. We met today kind of rethinking some of the meeting structures we have. And so I feel like we're already sort of like, okay, 25 26. Um, so it's a good feeling. That's it for me. Thank you, Miss Prea. And thank you for making yourself so visible uh to all of our students and to all the staff at all the schools. I know it means a lot to them for you to be there and show face and celebrate with them. So, thank you for doing that. Thank you. Yeah. Um are there any board committee reports? Yes, yesterday we had um the Daily City Youth Health Center. We met actually met here yesterday the um our on-site meeting and main focus was just you know really kind of
019narrowing down now to the new name and brand of what the center is going to be called. So I'm happy to report that we've now down to three now. Um and then as has to go to a focus group with the students who are um going to be the actual consumers of this a lot of services provided here. So hopefully by the fall we should have a a name but then also using that as an opportunity to potentially um raise more awareness about the center, potentially raise more funding. So, as a nonprofit, they're always looking for more money. So, if you got deep pockets, donate taxfree, don't cost anything. Thank you, Marty. Um, moving on to 6D. I don't see Monica. Is anybody speaking on behalf of Monica tonight? No. All right. Then we'll be
020moving on then to let's see consent agenda items. Unless there's any items on the consent that need to be discussed or removed, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. All right. Moving on to item number nine, public comment. Is there any public comment tonight? All right. No public comment. Moving on to 10 A, education services. Let me get to that career technical education update and that's going to be Miss Karine Baka. Good evening, President Gyos. Good evening members of the board this evening. I would like to welcome um Christina Lewis and Denise Shrieve who will be presenting updates on the career technical education program. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to share updates and future plans for the career technical education department at JUHSD. Tonight,
021Christina and I'll walk you through the impact CTE is having across our district and outline where we're headed next. Oh, do we have the clicker? [Music] Okay, so let's start with the basics. Career Technical Education or CTE provides students with academic knowledge and technical skills to succeed in both college and career. These programs build lifelong learners and help students make real world connections in the classroom. What is a CTE pathway? A CTE pathway is a series of two or more related courses within an industry sector. These courses go beyond electives. They're strategically designed to build hands-on, practical, and industry aligned skills. Why should students participate? CTE pathways allow students to explore areas of interest, and prepare for the future. Pathway completers finish with a C or better, experience at least one semester of dual enrollment,
022and often complete internships or work-based learning, all while building career readiness. College Career Indicator. CTE completion directly supports the college career indicator on the California dashboard. For students to be marked prepared, they must meet criteria like dual enrollment, state assessments, or CTE pathway completion. So, our work here is essential to post-secary success. So, I'm going to talk to actually we're going to share this a little bit. Um, we're going to talk to you about the difference uh at school sites and the different pathways they offer and whether they're A through G compliant, they are dual enrolled, and how what industry certifications they have. So, we're going to start off with Jefferson. And how we've set this up is you can see all of the pathways that are offered at Jefferson. So, they have five pathways.
023performing arts, dance, digital arts, engineering, food service, hospitality, and health science um focused with patient care. Um all four of the courses are A through G. The only one that's not as health science patient care, but we'll be submitting that this month. And so anything in red is in progress or for the next school year. And then almost all of the courses at Jefferson are dual enrolled outside of hospitality and patient care. But um fingers crossed patient care will be dual enrolled in 2526. It's in progress right now with Kinyatta College. And um they all offer or will be offering a industry certification for students when they go through the um program. And I'd like to give a separate shout out to Miss Lewis because her work with dual enrollment and industry and finding industry
024certifications um is really what's made it happen this year. And she has connected to our teachers and our um mil our community colleges and done deep dive searches on the internet to find the right industry certification. So, I really want to applaud her because you will see all the red on these spreadsheets of things that are either in progress or happening next year and it's really thanks to her hard work. Thank you. Um over at Westmore, um we have residential commercial construction, business finance. Um we're going to be starting our capstone class over at Westmore. Um so it is our newest one over there. So we don't yet have um certifications. It's difficult to find them for finance. Um but we are going to be dual enrolling that next year. Uh fashion design is very
025successful. Um IT computer science we're also going to start dual enrolling uh with Skyline next year. Um automotive is already dual enrolled and digital arts will have its first capstone class next year. And that's another one we're trying. It might be uh dual enrolled next year. And we're working on certifications there as well. Um we're still looking at some to make sure that we have the right um expertise and experience that's going into them. Um our our computer science teachers are looking at AWS um Amazon certification and um fashion. We're still looking in there, but um we are going to be growing our certifications in digital arts. Going to be doing some PA, production assistant, behind the scenes film stuff there and also getting all of those uh courses A through G next year. May
026I ask a question for the for either the board or the viewing audience? Can you just explain to us you mentioned a couple times our capstone class? I I know I also know concentrator. Can you just explain that? Yeah, sure. Thank you. So um a couple slides ago when Christina mentioned that or Miss Luc mentioned that uh CTE pathway is two sequences. So the first year in a sequence is known as a concentrator course and the second year in the sequence is known as a capstone. And in order for a student to become a CTE completer, that's another terminology that is used. It's when a student has completed both years in the pathway. And that is what um the state of California looks at is when we report through cowpads, they're looking to see how
027many CTE completers we have. And you have to have a C minus or better to be considered a completer. And I keep going backwards. Um at Teranova High School, we have our four pathways. We have journalism, drama, theater production, and wood tech. Um, unfortunately we don't have and none of those courses are dual enrolled. It really has to do with our teachers don't meet the minimum qualifications to teach at the community college level. And um we are working with our community colleges to find maybe um a teacher on their level that can come and co-e and have that model, but it's really challenging to find that. So, we are in constant conversation with our community college district. Um, we have found certifications for our drama and theater production. There's a theater safety um certification and
028then our woodshot program already did it this year. They were our pilot program of the OSHA 10 and it was very successful there. students um once they completed it, they received a card that it's a lifetime OSHA 10 and so it students had a lot of pride once they completed it. So they stood with their little card and smiled and took a picture. So it was great. And um the only course there that is not UC A3G approved is the wood shop and it will be and they are um doing a slow transition over to the residential construction program that's currently at Westmore. So we're switching from a traditional wood shop to commercial residential construction. And over at Oceanana, uh we have culinary with our food service and hospitality pathway and we have a computer
029science over there. Both of those classes are dual enrolled. Um they're very successful. Uh they're growing every year as small as the school it is. Um and we're going to be expanding our surf serve safe um to include uh the manager's license and also the guest service gold. And again, we're still working on certification for computer science. Um, but we're happy at how much it's been growing over at Oceanana. So, now here comes the fun part. So, we're going to talk to you a little bit about our um funding. Career Tech Ed is heavily grant funded. We currently have nine grants that we are running ne this school year and next school year. Our primary grant funding comes from the California Technical Education Incentive Grant, otherwise known as CIG. It's from the state of California.
030And below you can see that it covers CTE sections at each site, a portion of Miss Lewis's um salary. It also covers CTE professional development, conferences, equipment, materials, all of those things. And then Perkins is our federal funding which yay we received last week that we are receiving it so it's there. Um and we usually we use those funds for field trips FBA which is our future business leaders of America organization for them to travel and go to conferences and um for the students to present that's students attending those conferences and our field trip transportations and our industry certifications um such as serve safe the OSHA 10 and then we have our strong workforce funds one round round Six is a consortium grant with the county office of education and that is funding our portfolio
031work and um our advisory boards. And then we at Jefferson Union also have a strong workforce grant that starts it's some started a little bit this spring but that just got us going with a platform that we're going to be using to track all our data. It really is being implemented next year and it's going to be along with CIG supporting what we are calling our industry experts. So we are going to be having industry experts come into our classrooms and support our teachers. So they will have another person in there to mentor students to provide feedbacks on projects to students and give real world um criteria into the classroom and feedback not only to the students but the teachers to make sure that we are meeting industry standards. And then we have our CCAP
032grants and our Golden State Pathway Programs grants. I'm going to put those two together because the goal of both of those um CCAP through our community colleges and Golden State Pathway is through the state of California, but they both are about work in dual enrollment and getting early college credits to our high school students. And so it focuses on marketing our video, creating marketing videos, dual enrollment classes, the work that goes into that and um making sure that our um course of studies are aligned to our community colleges. And then the materials if we need to supplement any materials to make sure that we are meeting the um criteria at the community college level. Okay. And oh, just one comment. Um, in total, we're managing over a million dollars in grant funding to ensure high
033quality, equitable programming across our sites. All right. This school year, our team organized 36 field trips, 23 guest speaker events, five work-based learning programs, and three campus career tours. Events like our path to success brought Jefferson Elementary School District 8th graders into our CTE programs. Next year we will be expanding this outreach to our middle schools in the Pacifica school district and investigating how we can include Beayshore and Brisbane districts as well. The next step events celebrated CTE completers preparing to transition to college or career. And so we want to take a look at the data or we want you guys to take a look at the data. We know the data. Um you will see here here's just an overview. We wanted to show it on a line graph for you. We have a
034table with the real numbers. But we just wanted to give you a line graph of our concentrator. Those first year students are the pink top line. And as you can see, we have steadily increased every year except for in 2223. And we were like, what happened that year? And we looked a little more and it was when a pathway at Westmore um went away for a year. And so we had a whole loss of concentrator students and then there was a decrease in one of our other pathways. So that was accounted for that drop, but then it just picked right back up. We added those back in. And if you look at the capstone classes, that green line, you can see that it is continually increased each year. So, we're very proud of that and
035um that the word is getting out there that it's not just about taking that one year graduation requirement that people are the students are interested in learning and wanting to take that second year. And then here's um a another bar graph that shows it by school campus. So Jefferson is blue, Wesmore is green, Tanova orange, and Oceanana red. And it um the biggest thing I want to explain is you can see at Westmore there's a large number of concentrator students in that first bar graph. And then if you go down to the capstone, they have a lower number than Jefferson. And that's because they have added this year business and um digital arts. So they only have concentrator students. Next year you'll see that shift and it'll go up. And then um Christina and I
036were surprised about the dual enrollment that both um Westar and Jefferson have the same amount of dual enrollment students. We thought Jefferson was going to have more. So that was nice to see cuz it's in years past primarily been Jefferson that's dual enrolled. So I'm really nice. It's it's good to see that it's shifting over to both schools now. And then Oceanana's on there as well. And then here it is in a table format. So you get the raw data and the real numbers. Um you can see since I didn't want to the last seven years that we've been collecting data, but here's the last born. You can see we've gone from 218 students completing our pathways to 356 this past year. So um a nice large jump. And that also is attributed to the
037fact that Westmore has expanded to a seven period day and that Jefferson's on the 4x4 schedule. It opens it up and allows students to complete the pathways. Um we also like to look at are our students with disabilities, students learning English or socioeconomically disadvantaged students enrolling in our second year. Are we supporting them enough in that first year program that they feel confident enough to enroll in the second year? And we've been working really hard on this. And you can see and if you look at our students learning English, how the it has steadily um increased, but this past year we saw a large jump. And I want to attribute that to all the work our teachers have been doing in this area. Um over the last three years we put a lot of supports
038in place for our students learning English and today we had a professional development for our teachers to focus on students with disabilities. So we can see that same jump and that category as well. And um if you look at socioeconomically disadvantaged we are hitting our mark. We we are definitely serving our students and our goal is always to serve all of our students in our classrooms. And lastly, this is just a bar graph of that um data so you can see it in a different format visually. Okay, I get the uh the fun stuff. Um so these are some of the amazing things that we have done this year. Um, we had students go to Berkeley, uh, San Francisco City College, Academy of Art, Kenyatta, and Skyline to see a bunch of different types of
039events and get hands-on activities. Um, our teachers and staff uh, participated in a few different professional developments, uh, including educating for careers. Joel Brooks, Dave Dissagard and I did a lot of work on electric vehicles and clean energy and trying to plan for the future of how to transition our diesel automotive classes over to EV. Um, and it is um quite a hurdle, but we are one foot over that hurdle and u it's been a very enlightening experience. And um what else have we done? We've done some amazing CTE field trips. Um, thanks in huge part to um, our CTE assistant, Karina Gomez, who does um, everything with the transporting all the or doing all the phone calls with the bus garage, calling these people, buying the tickets, arranging 200 kids uh, to get permission
040slips. So, um, we've done so many amazing field trips. I wish I had more pictures, but these are just some um Brightex Fabrics, American Medical Response where our students um learn got into the ambulances and got to do some uh basic life-saving skills, uh San Francisco MoMA, Bridgeg Good. Um we've done a lot of stuff with the electrical trade union this year, and really all of our pathways um did field trips this year, and all of our kids got to have some work-based learning experience. um our capstone kids those are or our students those are the ones who have completed their second year they are required to then present their skills and what they've learned uh to an audience so these are our students um this is pictures from Westmore and Jefferson oh no we
041have Teranova down there um and OSH does something a little different we're working with them to make it even bigger but here you can see our students showing off their skills, presenting to the public their resumes, their um examples, their artifacts, defending them, and it's really an amazing experience to see how they can take those two years of skills and present it and with such gusto. So, they did an amazing amazing job. And here's some more of that workbased learning. our FBLA um CTSO won an award. I'm not sure what the award was. Kent Awards. Oh, they won the Kent Awards. That's right. Along with Mission Fusion. Um we have some kids on Pi Ranch. They made that food from scratch. That was um all ingredients from the farm that they worked on. Um our
042journalism class uh puts out an amazing print newspaper. Um, culinary at Oceanana made some pies for sale. They made some chili crisp for sale. Um, Terteranova did a beautiful production of Mamma Mia. Uh, such great things that we're doing on all of our campuses. And there's some of that industry certification. That is the very first student to get the OSHA um certification. It is a 10-hour certification and he did it in one day cuz he really wanted it and he wanted to be first. So yes, we get took a picture of him. Um our um patient care classes do CPR and uh basic life-saving skills, culinary to safe serve, digital art is doing Adobe um Photoshop. And that's just a little taste. Um that list is going to grow even more next year with our
043certification. And is there more? Oh, yes. and our K14 partnerships. We work really really hard um to connect with the elementary schools and the community colleges and become one team so that we can streamline those skills uh and so that when they come in from junior high from middle school they they know what CTE is. They want to sign up for these classes and then when they leave our high schools they know what school to go to. they have those college credits and they can get right into the certificate or degree program that is right for them. And so here's some pictures of us at Skyline, some of our middle school kids, some of our industry partners, and our industry panels um that we do. Um from college visits and certification opportunities to field trips,
044afterchool enrichment and capstone events, our programming is comprehensive. These experiences reinforce classroom learning and provide real exposure to career pathways thanks to our growing partnership with colleges and industries. We're almost done. And um the our second to last slide here is about what's in the future, what's for the next school year and what are we working on. And first we are going to look at increasing our access to CTE work experience. And one way we are going to be doing that is next year we are going to be piloting at both Westmore and Jefferson a CTE work experience class for students that want to go beyond the two years in a pathway. This will be their third year and they will be working directly with um industry partners and um creating studentled enterprises. So look
045for the website and um we also are expanding our dual enrollment classes. are we as we already mentioned and increasing participation in work-based learning. So those simulated work-based learning projects, student led enterprises and internships and just raising the number of students that will receive industry certifications. And we are focused on creating high quality high opportunity programming through CTE pathway. And that leads me to the next slide because it is definitely a team effort. And these are all of the people that are involved in CTE in our district from not just our educators in the classroom, but this year we had supports from PAR professionals, both bilingual and sped. We have Natalie Palma in the bus garage team who makes all of our field trips possible. And then, as Miss Lewis mentioned, we have Miss Gams
046up here at the district office who organizes all of our field trips and guest speakers. And I have and Miss Lewis is up here as well. And I just want to say that the CTE team here rocks and they are an amazing team and we wouldn't have the programs that we have and the success we have if it wasn't for all of us working together. Thank you. Thank you. Have to open it up for comment questions. Anybody? Sure. Wow. I know. I feel like every year I try to make it shorter, but we do so many things throughout the year. I don't want to miss anything. And I I mean, I'm just thinking about, you know, I'm in my 10th year on the board and to see what what we started with and to where
047we are today. And my mind is blown, right? I mean, you know, looking at the goals for next year, you know, we're talking about a year three beyond just the capstone, which is just mind-blowing in my, you know, in my opinion. Um, and then the certifications, the on it's just all of it. I I can't really kind of I can't find any more superlatives for tonight, but it makes me think about a conversation I had actually about a year ago. I was at at a dinner with um a lot of architecture firms and construction firms. This was an economic forum dinner hosted by the bank that all these firms use that my firm uses as well. And over the course of the dinner uh conversation came up with some of these construction firms how they
048were bemoning the loss of practical skills from high school students. And I was able to just sort of go well hold on a second here. in my other life when I'm not doing architecture finance. So I talked about my life on the board and be able to describe the work that our district has done and and their eyes just bugged out and they were very excited to hear that that not just our district but that many other districts were pursuing and doing similar sorts of things. So, I am really grateful to both of you for the work that you've done to lead this effort and then to be able to pull this incredible group of people together to um to really offer up some incredible learning opportunities for our students. So, thank you so much.
049Thank you. Um congratulations. Honestly, it's amazing. And then just just to hear you have to uh hurdle around 200 kids and keep everybody in check and nobody gets lost, right? And then get permission slips, just that in itself. I feel like you get more gray hair just from that alone, right? Um so thank you for all you do. Um really well informed. At least I learned a lot from I mean I I I read over this at home, but I understand some of them like I'm like I don't know what that actually means. So, here's my chance to ask questions more for my own education. Uh, what actually informs a CTE pathway? Like what what does what what does makes you guys uh decide to put something on this list versus not? Yeah, that's a
050great question. So, we try and look at labor market information and make sure that the pathways we're bringing in and starting are um pathways that are going to lead to careers with um livable wages, okay? And also a high number of openings because it's not just about a livable wage, it's making sure that there's job openings in that market. Um sometimes teacher availability and the teachers we have dictate what we offer but we do really make a conscious effort to look at that later labor market data as well. Brilliant. And then this is more of a comment than a question. Uh you guys are looking at AWS certification. Uh are you familiar with Microsoft Azir? So the yes Christina yeah so the competitor for AWS. So I would recommend you also look into them as
051well. And I know they are trying to just get out there and so they're just throwing free things at anybody that would take them. So look up Microsoft Azir. A Z U R E. They're pretty much a cloud service like AWS. Okay. Of course. Beware of free things. says, "That's how this all started." It was free things and begging my family to be on the advisory board, says the former software engineer. Um, thank you. Um, congratulations. This is fantastic. I I have a an kind of odd question. This is all like great news and I have this weird downer question. Um, is there no auto shop at Terteranova anywhere? There is an auto shop, but it is through Skyline College. Okay. Yeah, they have they have two sections, but it's run through Skyline College. Got
052it. Um, I went by there on back to school night, so I'm glad that's continuing. And now I do recall him saying he works at two places. Um, thank you. Mhm. First of all, thank you for an amazing presentation with all that good data in there. I know some of us are really data driven, so it's kind of nice to see Yeah, you guys thought, you know, had some foresight and put it all out there for us to see. And so, uh, thank you for that. Um, also coming from a bluecollar background, I grew up in the trades. You know, I didn't go to college. Um, they didn't have something like this when I was in school. So to kind of see you know all the effort that's going into this and to see that
053um you know the intentional effort to put into the equity part of it which is part of what our district is really trying to be intentional about is awesome. Um, and just keeping an eye on those little things like just, you know, the sped students and our English learner students and all that kind of stuff and bringing them up with everybody else with these programs. Um, it's awesome. It's really cool to see. Um, it's also really cool to see how how much hands-on these students are getting as well. I think that, you know, we, you know, we've kind of forced them into these classrooms to to get lectured and to kind of, you know, kind of just sit there and listen to the teachers teach, but when you bring them out into the world and
054show them how things work and let them touch things and feel things and let them be teammates with each other and work with each other, it's really teaching them, you know, these these skills that you guys are going after for for after high school. So, I think all of it's just great and I I love the program. I've always been a big fan of it since I've learned about it and awesome to see you guys all all your hard work and everybody's hard work that's been going into it and you guys leading the the charge on this. So I I I really appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Before jumping ahead, one one more thing actually actually with what Marty just shared with Microsoft, the other one I would suggest would be a
055cyber security certific certificate. That would be something else to look into as well. I think they might have those available for K12. That's a good suggestion in the life that we are in right now. Yes. Um I mostly want to just heap praise on you on your department on Miss Baka for starting like I remember I was around seven years ago when this was all like kind of being talked about and what pathways should we put where. It's really not a small feat to get a pathway going at a school and it is dependent upon kind of who's there, what the kids want at that school, who you can find and then you know so much goes into it. And um I also know from just working in education for a long time that you
056can have people who are really great people and do really great things and then when that person goes away and everything kind of falls apart. It didn't really matter that that person was so great. So you are all great and you totally matter. But I think more importantly, you have and are creating a system that will outlive you guys and that will be set up for the students. And it's just amazing. And then I also want to say um thank you for bringing up um President Gyos that you guys are really I'm I appreciate that you highlighted the work that you're doing to ensure that all students access these classes. And I did pop in today, happened to pop in on the training you were doing and I heard wonderful conversations happening. So the data
057doesn't lie like the kids are succeeding and it's not because of happen stance. It's because you've put effort onto it and so you and the teachers and the staff. So that's great. And then the final thing that I want to say is when um Miss Shrieve took on this new role this year of being our director of uh communication and housing, she wanted to retain CTE cuz she used to do what Miss Lewis did does. And because she's pretty terrific and we know she's quite capable, we said okay, you know, she's like, I'm just going to do the really high just the grants and stuff like that. She's doing more than that. I know because she meets with them quite regularly cuz I could see in her office, but she's doing everything, you know, to
058to uh exceeding expectations in all areas. So, um I want to thank you for caring about the program kind of your baby that you have, you know, um nurtured along and Christina for doing such a wonderful job. Um your whole department, it's clear that you're working really well together and that makes all the difference in the world. So, mostly I just want to heap lots of praise on you and thank you for for our students. Thank you. Can I jump in one more time? Yeah. I I missed the opportunity to say and I I don't like to miss these opportunities. Miss Preston reminded me of this. First, things like this don't happen by accident. Okay. And second, related to that, it's because you put all this love into making sure that this was a success.
059So, thank you. No, thank you. I'd like to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to not only have this position, but to be able to give back to the students and this community and my community. So, thank you. Yes, please. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. All right. Moving on. All right. Our next discussion item 10 A2 will be open to public hearing, but I'll first let Miss Karine Baka give us a quick summary before we do that. Of course. Hello again, President Gyos. Um, good evening members of the board. This evening, I will be presenting highlights from the 2526 local control and accountability plan. And this is year two of the three-year plan, so it's mostly updates. The full plan is attached in the board agenda as well as the executive summary. So
060our LCAP is the strategic roadmap for improving student outcomes built around eight state priorities. It reflects how we direct funding to meet student needs especially for English learners, students in fostered care, and those from lowincome backgrounds. Um, new in the 2025 LCAP is the specific identification for long-term English learners, which is defined as students that are still um, English learners after 7 years and they have not been reclassified as fluent. Furthermore, we have some carryover from the learning emergency block grant and because of that, we are required to add actions and metrics related to those funds. So JUHSD was allocated about 2.7 million and we have until um June 30th, 2028 to spend the full amount. We have spent about $1.4 million so far and there's still about 1.3 million to allocate. So in the
061next slides I'll be going over um the changes in the LCAP as well as actions and metrics funded by the learning recovery emergency block grant. So our LCAP goals remain the same from last year. We start with equity as our foundation, then focus on creating a positive school climate and supporting student wellness. We also emphasize strong teaching and learning along with college and career readiness. We also have goals to ensure success for our students learning English and students with disabilities. And the last goal focuses on making sure our schools run smoothly and effectively. So we've made it a priority to engage a wide range of voices in this process. Uh that includes students, families, teachers, staff, administrators, and community members. And one of the most powerful parts of this year's engagements was hearing directly from
062students. We had um about five students who attend our who attended our district advisory committee meeting and their feedback was really really helpful. um their voices help shape our priorities and it's clear that centering our um student experience gives us a better understanding of what's working and what needs to change. So goal one, we made a couple of important updates through our equity redesign work. We learned that African-American male students um feel disengaged, especially when they don't experience strong relationships with teachers or culturally responsive instruction. That's something that we're committed to addressing through our significant disproportionality plan. So to reduce disproportionality, our plan is to strengthen tier one instruction using universal design for learning and also hire staff to build strong supportive relationships with students through the learning recovery emergency block grant. We're continuing to
063fund our teacher on special assignment on diversity, equity, inclusion, and ethnic studies. And one key metric is how many staff participate in equity focused professional development, which is also one of the actions in our district's equity policy. Under goal two, we've made several key adjustments to strengthen student wellness and attendance support. First, we're hiring a clinical supervisor to lead and support our growing mental health team, particularly in meeting the needs of our students with IEPs. Um after reviewing our staffing structure, we decided to remove the attendance teacher on special assignment position. Um so that will um that ended this year. We're also focusing on improving outreach around the stop it app to make sure the students, families, and staff know how to access it and feel confident using it. This came up both in the
064student trustee report and during our district advisory committee meeting from the students. And then lastly, with the support of learning recovery funds, we'll continue to fund three full-time wellness counselors too or social workers. These positions are focused on serving um students who are unhoused, in foster care, or new immigrants. And we will be using um their attendance rate to measure the impact of their um of their support. Goal three, um we are continuing to strengthen teaching and learning. We're launching a new partnership with Lessoncast to provide professional development for universal design for learning, helping teachers design lessons that support all learners. We've also added a new requirement for incoming teachers. They will now participate in a two-day grading for equity kickoff to ensure alignment with our grading practices from the very start. And through the
065learning recovery funds, we're continuing to support our social science teacher on a um special assignment. And we are also continuing to administer our benchmark assessment to help track effectiveness. We will be looking at the correlation between our Renaissance benchmark assessments and the smarter balance scores. And in addition, we'll also be using the number of students who earn the state seal of civic engagement. Goal four focuses on making sure our students are truly ready for life after high school, whether it's college, career, or both. Um, we've expanded our workbased learning opportunities by promoting career pathways in the trades and offering a summer program that includes acceleration, enrichment, and credit recovery. We're also strengthening our CTE efforts as you heard from Miss Shre this evening um by hiring CTE um pathway experts who can mentor students and
066provide real world guidance. Another exciting addition is our partnership with calculus round table. Um this will bring um students after school um it's going to be housed at Jefferson High School but we will be inviting students from other schools and it is an afterchool STEM program um called the automobiles of the future um and this curriculum was developed with Ford Motor Company and they will explore um electric and autonomous vehicle And on the college side, we're providing more structured college application timeline and offering after hours dropin sessions so students have realtime support as they prepare their college applications. Goal five is about building targeted system to support our students learning English. So, we've added a 0.5 full-time equivalent employee in school counseling with sites that have 15% or more students learning English. So, that's at
067Jefferson High School and Westmore High School. We're also establishing a long-term English learner committee to help us better understand the academic, language, and social emotional needs of this group. And in addition, through the learning recovery funds, we are allocating.2 to FTE for a science teacher to support our bridge program which serves our newcomer students. Um the key metric that we'll be tracking here is the dropout rate for our multilingual learners or students learning English um to make sure that these efforts are really making a difference. Goal six focuses more on um building inclusive and supportive learning environments for our students with disabilities. We are continuing to strengthen co-eing by adding 2.4 FTE and setting clear expectations for how general education and special educations work together. We're partnering with West Ed to provide coaching for our
068co-teers and pair of professionals so that the support is consistent and effective across all classrooms. So in curriculum and instruction, we are piloting Stanford's online reading assessment to better identify and respond to student reading needs. We're also planning a um family engagement events to strengthen connections between home and school. And so this was asked by our parents who attended our um special education parent advisory committee where they would like um an event not only an event that is informational but also a chance to meet staff and just get to know one another. So we will be planning that for the 2526 school year. Um, and finally, we're doing a major redesign of our mental health program, more specifically our therapeutic day school program for our students with IEP. This includes hiring a therapist, our own
069therapist, um, providing them additional training. And finally, we are exploring how we can utilize medical billing so that we can sustain these services long term. And the last goal, goal seven is about maintaining the effectiveness of school operations. So we are transitioning to parent square to make communication more streamlined and consistent for families across all schools. To support this shift, we will be providing professional development to our staff and families. And through the learning recovery funds, we're continuing to fund paper.co, CO which gives access tutoring access to students 24/7. Um and we're also investing in professional development primarily focusing on the new math framework universal design for learning English language development. And to measure the effectiveness, um, we will be asking staff to complete some self assessments after the attendees professional developments to reflect on
070how they're going to apply what they've learned in the classrooms. and Jefferson Union High School District's total revenue for the year next year is 88,615,594 and 68,87710 come from the local control funding formula within the LCFF allocation approximately 3.43 43 is specifically generated based on the enrollment of high needs unduplicated pupils which are foster youth English learners and lowincome students. And for the 2526 school year, the district plans to spend about 94 million and of that about 78 million is aligned with actions and services outlined in the LCAP. So, this really reflects a comprehensive nature of the plan and it guides and supports the majority of our um district-wide initiatives. And finally, here is a summary of the actions and services funded out of the LCFF supplemental funds. LCFF funds are specifically intended to increase
071or improve services for the unduplicated pupils. These funds are provided in addition to the base funding to help address systemic inequities and close opportunity and achievement gaps. Ultimately, the goal of supplemental funding is to promote equity by ensuring that students who generate these funds receive meaningful and targeted support. So that's about 4.5 million planned expenditure. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Baka. Um, and at this time I'd like to open the public hearing up to comment from the public. And seeing has seeing there is no public comment, would the board like to comment on a closed public hearing? Yes, I do. Thank you, uh, Miss Backer for the presentation. Um, very informative. Um more of a question or comment on uh goal number two where the metric of measurement is attendance rate
072of students uh seen by the wellness center. I'm just I'm just a little bit hesitant to use that as a metric to really measure effectiveness. Um, I'm just curious if there's another tool that can be used to measure effectiveness, right? If there's kids are going there for mental health or whatever wellness purpose, is there another tool that can be implemented? Um, for example, the GAD 7 or the PHQ9, like one of those standardized wellness tools, per se, that can really give us a more objective impact of the program versus just attendance because I'm a little bit hesitant to just use as tenants as a metric because you know a kid could just be running away from something it doesn't necessarily mean that they are getting the full benefit of the program. Does that make sense?
073Yes. So um internally they are measuring that for um some of our students but with this metric it's also for our um newcomer immigrant students. So the intent of the wellness counselor too and social workers is to really provide support for our newcomer English learners um our foster youth and our unhoused students. So our wellness team decided that as a start they really would like if they are meeting with the students and if they're being effective then we're hoping that their attendance rate would increase and they would show up to school. Um we're not there yet with you know the different ways of measuring like what you had said but is something that we can look into. Oh so this is attendance of school not attendance at the wellness center. Attendance of school. I see
074school attendance so that they show up in school. Okay thank you for that clarification. Um and then goal number five that the metric uh was also dropout rate of multi-ingual learners. Is that drop out from the class itself or drop out from high school? Drop out from high school. Okay. And it's um one of the required metrics from the state of California. Got it. [Music] Um, I guess what I'm really also want to understand a little bit is if we're trying to get them to learn English and be proficient in English, shouldn't we just measure them on just English proficiency versus dropping out of high school as an effectiveness at a program? Yes. So, that is one of the metrics. Um, so we have lots and lots of metrics and that is one of them.
075However, we need to identify um a metric that is that could be tied in with a learning recovery emergency block grant and we are hoping that you know if we f if we fund staffing for this they will provide a support for the students and that they will um stay at school and not drop out. But if you look at the um executive summary under goal five, there's probably about 15 metrics or so and one of them is um measuring their English fluency. Okay. Thank this is just revisions. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody else? Yeah. Yeah. Couple quick questions. One is how I didn't catch. How much is our learning recovery emergency block grant? About 2.7 million. Okay. And we have until 2028 to spend it all. Is that Yes. Okay. And then the other thing is
076just just noting on the expenditures of the supplementals. So we're expend we intend to spend 4.558 million, but what we're actually generating is about 3.43 43 million. So the DAP is covered by general fund. Is that what it is? Okay. Another funds. Okay. Thanks to Miss Banner reports. Aha. The truth comes out. Tina said yes. Okay. All right. That's that's helpful. Thank you. That's really all all I have. I'm I'm just I was really grateful that you do did incorporate the feedback from the student trustees, especially particularly with the stop it info. I noticed that pretty immediately, so that was nice to see. Um, and I know you covered so much of this with us during our budget work study as well, so there aren't any real surprises. So, again, thank you for the incredible
077work. And I guess the real my other question would be I know we're funding a lot of the mental wellness through the LRBG. So how would um three Yeah, three FT I think we have 11.6 districtwide. Oh, okay. So they're not all Okay. They're not all. So um they're either funded through supplemental the LCFF supplemental. Okay. Um and then the 3FT is from the learning recovery emergency block grant. And before this year, they were actually funded out of the MHSSA grant, the mental health. Right. That was a that was a three that was a three-year grant as I recall. Right. Yes. And so it expired and so we wanted to continue the service. And so the learning block picked it up and we're I'm really hoping that we can start building medical so that we
078can have like a you know more of a a long-term that would be brilliant funding stream. Yeah. Okay, that's fantastic. All right, thank you so much. I have a question. I think I only have one. Uh, first of all, thank you again uh for providing this for us. It makes a lot of things easier to understand. Um, I guess it's number seven here. Uh in the inset it says uh something here. I sorry let me get my words. You mentioned the math framework and I thought you might have said something about a new math framework. Is that right? There's a new math framework and um the beginning of next year there will be a math presentation and a math update on where we are with the math framework and it will it be implemented starting
079in 2526. They are going to pilot and explore um instructional materials the following year um and they're just piloting. So we probably will not adopt until the following year 26 27. Thank you. I don't have any questions, but I do want to thank you guys for the presentation. Uh I just like the fact that we go through these goals and and it just kind of highlights what we've been working on for past couple years and really kind of drill down on it. and you did an amazing job at kind of, you know, putting it together in this presentation for us to see with with the goals, with the strategies and how you're going to measure them and all the things that we've been asking for. So, it's really it's really cool to see that work
080in progress like this. So, thank you for doing that and um yeah, just looking forward to see how this rolls out. It's really cool work. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to also um as Trusty Lee referred or referenced, thank you also for the study session because you know to the casual observer this is a sort of highlevel brief report, beautiful and comprehensive but brief and really the board spent several hours with you last month or so going really over the the LCAP in detail. you working with the district advisory committee. So, there's a lot of work that goes into this and there's a lot of understanding that that you are able to share with the board members so that they can they're able to um you know understand your presentation tonight. So, thank
081you for all the time and effort you put into that. Thank you. All right. All right. We're moving on to uh where we at? item 10 B1 which is another public hearing item uh on the budget 2025 2026 and first we'll turn this over to Miss Tina Van Raphst. Thank you President Gyos. Tonight I present to you the proposed budget for the 2526 school year. Uh this will be a public hearing and it will come back for adoption at the June 17th board meeting. There are no major changes since the draft budget was presented to the board during the work study in April, but I would like to point out some key components. Uh while the state has not finalized the budget, the governor has released his proposed budget which shows that the state revenue
082continues to lag while inflation remains steady. This proposed budget from the governor provides a cost of living increase to the local control funding formula. Um, and it continues investments in career tech ed and universal meals, but it also includes a withdrawal from the state's rainy day fund to cover these costs. Our funding comes in four buckets. Uh, first the LCFF bucket, which is really for us our local tax revenue because we remain in community funded status. Although, as Trusty Lee mentioned, it's important for us to understand the LCFF impact to our surrounding districts. Um, they will be receiving a 2.3% increase this year based on the the governor's proposed budget. And, um, based on the information from the county assessor's office, I am projecting that our tax revenue will increase by about 5%. This results
083in a gap between our projected revenue and what we would have received under the LCFF formula of about 27%. So, as we've discussed in the past, this is the funding that is kind of at risk and why it's so important that we keep a healthy reserve. The federal funding uh is projected to remain flat for the coming year. This funding is uncertain due to political factors. So, I think it's important to know that if we lose our federal federal funding, JUHSD would be able to continue all of our services temporarily, but if the funding were not reinstated within a year or so, we would need to make cuts. The other state funding um is due to remain flat. uh even though it will be receiving small increases, those will be offset by our declining enrollment.
084For local funds, uh there will be an increase due to the passage of measure Z. Thank you to our community. Next, um here are some of the assumptions that I used when developing the budget. As you can see, we're projecting declining enrollment, but um it is leveling off and ste steadily improving tax revenue. And most of the other components remain fairly steady. Uh the proposed budget does include um a 4% salary increase that was approved at our last board meeting as well as an increase to health benefits and it also includes um implementation of our strategic reserve board policy. So, we are projecting to contribute $300,000 to fund 17 um this coming year and the year after to get to our goal of having 2% in fund 17. [Music] With all of these assumptions, including
085the continued debt service payment for our ceremony del Rey project, you can see that we project deficit spending to continue. So this chart shows our revenues and our expenditures and uh and the part where it says excess/deicit, they are all deficits. So we are continuing a deficit. However, you can see that our reserves are still healthy and above the minimum. So here you can see for the current year we are projecting to end the year with over 18% in reserves and end the budget year with over nearly 14% reserves with the addition of another um one and a half% in fund 17. So, the next steps will be for to hold a public hearing tonight and then come back for adoption at our next meeting. As we discussed before, um this will be um we
086always have multiple times that we touch the budget throughout the year. So we will have a first interim report in November uh second interim in March and the cycle continues. Any questions that it does? No. But at this time I'd like to open public hearing for comment. Seeing as there's no comment like to close public hearing. Uh would the board like to comment or have any questions? Sure. Um, thank you, Miss Vanropurst, for the um for the details. I mean, I I think the I think we all have in the back of our minds just the general concern about what the federal funding will look like, but I'm also grateful that we are in California and that the state continues to fight on behalf of all the districts in California with its collective middle finger.
087um which is rather amusing to watch when we see the when we read the letters that are coming from the California Department of Education. Um that said, it does it's it's um it is a certainly a concern that we have to just keep in the back of our minds and and you know and I'm grateful that we continue to do the that Ms. Van Ral in particular is is able to uh keep us on this footing and give the details that she does. Um I'm we went into so much detail at the at the study session so I don't have any real specific questions but I'm I'm again just grateful to you for all the work that you've done. So thank you. Thank you for all you do. Am I allowed to share the story
088you talked about yesterday? Sure. I'm really glad you didn't you didn't drop out of college. Thank you so Yeah. You make this um looking at numbers not so intimidating. Um generally not at somebody that you know gets excited to look at numbers but you break it down in such a way that it just it makes sense. So thank you. That's all. Thank you. I um occasionally talk to community members um mostly people who are youth parent youth soccer parents um but sometimes we talk about other things uh people don't really understand what board members do and uh for that matter my son doesn't know what board board members do he asked me questions I said I don't know he says well I thought you were on the school board and so what I tell him
089is um Well, there's uh this thing called an executive cabinet and they really do all the work and they have all the knowledge. Um, you know, I have uh I'm I'm kind of like a voltron lion. I don't have any any power until we combine and um and Jerome forms the head. Um, so one thing I can do, um, is I go to budget study sessions and I come to these meetings and I listen to what you say and I read these these charts and and I walk away and people say, "Hey, you know, I hear this is going to happen." And I say, "Well, where'd you hear that?" And and they never have a great resource, but they're kind of like, "Well, what do you know otherwise?" and I go, I know that, you
090know, there's this report or that report that you could easily access that tells you otherwise. And so, um, it's it's good to have that knowledge and kind of pass it on. Hey, hey, you could you can look at this. Um, but I think maybe more than anything else, it's good to know, you know, when we approve expenditures and, you know, think about things we want to do that we know where we're starting from or or sorry, where we, you know, where we're starting from, how we got there, whole different story. But, um, and so that's a long-winded way of me saying thank you for for allowing us the ability to support the district. Thank you. Uh if I may just one more. Oh, go for it. Um I'm really kind of blown away that we
091are at 127% of base funding. I think that's I don't know that I would have ever thought we would be in this position and yet you know I have to think about the the districts to the south of us which we just will never meet that number but it's mind-blowing that we are at that number. The other thing that just a a comment with regards you mentioned it uh related to the debt repayment of 287,524 and that's just sort of a craw in my side you know knowing that we could have had things done a little differently during the approval process with a particular city that shall remain nameless. Um if that if the approval should have come a lot sooner, we might have been able to perhaps had a net zero impact on that.
092But in fact, the fact that we are going to make that payment without any income coming from that property is really just uh testimony to so many different folks um derailing or attempting to derail the good work that we were trying to do with that property. So, I just thought it I'd say it publicly. Thank you, Andy. Um, this is a lot. This is a really a lot to keep track of, you know, a lot of numbers, a lot of different pots that we're pulling from and ways that we're trying to spend it efficiently and effectively and all that good stuff. and it's it's a lot to take in and and like always you make it really easy to understand and palatable and um not so hard to look at. So, thank you for that.
093Um cuz I I do know that that there are some districts and places that aren't this well put together. And I can't even imagine what that would be like to try to have to manage all the different things that we do as a district without having our stuff together like this. So, thank you for making that simple and and easy for everybody to to understand. I as far as the deficit spending, I I to me that I mean just being in a deficit for the next couple years going out. I mean, I guess the the question that everybody would probably want to know is how how do you stop that? like where where do we where does how do we stop that bleeding and I'm sure you probably don't have the answer right now but
094I mean looking forward I mean obviously continued deficit spending is going to catch up to us at some point no I think that's a very good point and I'm glad you brought it up because it is something that the board will need to address if something in state funding doesn't change. So, you know, um we could see a change in the way schools are funded. Uh we could see a dramatic increase to the LCFF formula. We could see our property values change dramatically one way or another. Like, so that is part of why uh the future is so uncertain. Um so we don't know for sure that these deficits will materialize but as we start reaching you know the third year out um probably even a year before that you're going to want like we'll
095have to have conversations about potentially u making cuts. That's really the only way to get rid of a deficit. If your revenue doesn't increase you have to make cuts. And so what we talked about, you know, with the um the mental health support that students are receiving and being able to continue that with grant funds, when those grant funds disappear, if we are still deficit spending, it won't be likely that we'll be able to take that on. Um so we we may have some tough discussions and tough dis decisions in I would say you know by the time we get to that third year out 27 28 um we'll have to be already having those discussions you add yes I I want to just add to it when Miss Van Rapor says the board will
096have to like we talk about we talk about this quite a bit you know in executive cabinet about what we are you know like people always say your budget sort of shows your values, right? And so the decisions that we're that that we make and that we bring to you and discuss with you and that we all make um we are prioritizing the expenditures that we have right now and we think that we have enough and and I trust Miss Van Rampor implicitly and that means a lot because because I talk to her as the superintendent like it you know uh the buck kind of stops with me you know if if if we're uh making bad decisions and we know that we've got some lead time. And so we already are looking ahead like
097okay what are some places that we might be able to take in funds differently as we reference you know um taking in you know using medical billing for wellness counselors etc. So we are already thinking about some of those things and thinking about ways that we can you know make reductions in the out years without affecting program. Um so it's not just oh we'll wait and see what happens. Um but we do feel like we're making good choices right now that this this is the the best way to spend our funds. And if no, if you look historically, there are years when there's deficits and years when there is surplus. And it it es and flows and a lot of that actually has to do with the state as well. Like right now, the state
098is in a down cycle. They've been deficit spending themselves or going into their rainy day fund for now two years in a row. But in years where they don't have that situation, we that that column that is other state, it can get much higher. Um, and they give us those. Sometimes the money comes with strings like it has to be used for CTE or it has to be used for teacher salaries or something, but usually they're flexible enough that they can offset a lot of what's going on. So that's a a possibility as well. So it's it's really as I write that the board will have to keep a close eye on it. Like that is just the message is that we have to have this discussion every time we talk budget is like is
099it time to consider cuts yet? And I don't think it is quite yet, but let's look at it again in the fall. Yeah. No, I agree. Uh because we all know how fast time creeps up on us, so you got to really stay on top of that. And I think we all know that we need every penny that we have. I mean, it's not like we're just rolling in dough. I mean, it's we're using it to the best of our ability, right? So, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Question. So do so with that do you anticipate maybe convening a budget committee next year sometime because that would be two years be okay. Yeah because you know even though I'm saying that we'll need to talk about it in 2728 for cuts that might
100be in 2829 according to this in 2728 we still have a 4% reserve plus the 2% in in fund 17. So it's to me we'll have to you know watch it along the way but maybe um 25 26 or maybe 26 27 would be usually I've been doing the budget committees every 3 years. Okay so 26 27 that would be 26 27. All right that makes sense. All right moving on. Uh we're going to next item is another public hearing item. Um, and it is on our 2025 2026 reserves in excess of state minimum level. We'll turn it right back over to Miss Tina Van Wrap. Thank you. The next item allows a chance for the public to provide comments on the district reserve levels. The minimum reserve allowable for our district is 3%. And
101as we've just discussed a lot, um, we currently have reserves in excess of that minimum. It's not an action item, but it is a required public hearing. All right. At this point, we'll open it up to public hearing for for comment. Seeing as there's no comment, we'll close public hearing. We'll move on. Um item 11 A, approval of tenative agreement with Teamsters Local 8 uh 56. And this will be for our director of human resources, Miss Dana Lupon. Good evening everyone. The item before you is a tenative agreement with the district and lo uh teamsters local 856 which includes some small language updates which is basically the addition of a new position to the contract. So it's a represented employee um updates to the benefits and the salary schedule. The salary schedule increase is equal
102to the amount provided to aft 1481 and other members who or other employees who were approved last meeting. Thank you, Dana. Um, is there a motion to approve the tenative agreement company salary schedule? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I All right. 11 A2 job description career technical education assistant. Miss Dan Lewan. Thank you. This is a new job description. Um, this position would be uh paid for out of CTE grant funds. Uh, this position mirrors the Prop 28 positions that we created. Uh the career technical education assistant would be ideally for someone who probably recently graduated high school, completed a CTE pathway um and completed a capstone project and has expressed interest in supporting our schools while continuing their college or after school after high school plans. Thank you. Uh can I
103get a motion to approve the job description as presented? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. All right. Number three is a job description for career technical education associate. Miss Duh Hunt. Thank you again. So this position is also a new position. Uh this position would also be funded by CTE grant funds. The associate position is like a range 42. So it's recruiting someone who has some more industry experience but is not the full-on range 71 expert level. So, it's someone who's been in the field some and can helps and wants to support students, but they're they're not at the expert level position. Got it. Thank you. Uh, can I get a motion to approve the job description as presented? So, moved. Second. All those in favor? I. I. Thank you. Uh, number four,
104job description for mental health counselor clinical supervisor, Miss Duhan. Thank you. This is a job description update. We previously had this job description, but it didn't actually have clinical supervision, which is an essential uh function of this position. Clinical supervision provides us the opportunity or us as a district to provide supervision hours for those who are trying to earn lensure and maintain lensure. So this the update in adds that. Thank you. Motion to approve job description as presented. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. All right. At number five, assistant technology and augmentative and alternative communication specialist. That's a mouthful, Miss Data Luhan. Thank you. Well done on reading that job title. Um, so recently the board approved the assistive technology specialist. And in posting for the position, we realized we left off all
105of the augmented and alternative communication devices and that would be pretty important to include. So we went back, revised the job description and included that essential duty. Thank you. Motion to approve the updated job description as moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Number six, variable term waiver. Do you want to just take all three at once? Sure. Six, seven, and eight. Uh, Miss Dwan, thank you. So the variable term waiverss for Sarah English Shiao um Leong and Kellyanne Callahan wave the credential requirement for one a period of one year. It would be next school year to provide them each time to complete the credential requirements. Each of them have their own unique plan that we've worked on with human resources and an agreement in place to ensure that they meet the credential requirements by
106the end of the next school year. Thank you. Uh motion to approve the variable term waivers 6, seven, and eight as presented. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. Thank you. All right. Um 11B1, the Vance Brown Incorporated contract amendment number one. Miss Vina Tina Van Raphor. Sorry. Thank you, President Gos. Tonight I'm excited to bring this item for board approval. It marks the next step in constructing a new gym and pool for Jefferson High School. As you likely recall, back in August, the board officially selected Vance Brown as the builder for this project. And tonight, we ask you to approve the first 32.7 million, which will cover the first two phases. In case you have any questions with um with us tonight are our director of construction, Stephanie Phillips, and Mr. Tim Stit
107from Vance and Brown or sorry Vance Brown not Vance and Brown. They don't have a presentation just they're they're just here for questions. Are there any questions? Yeah, just just curious what are the first two phases of work that are going to be done by the first 32.7 million. Uh that will be demo and well abatement demo shoring and then some other things that were uh procured that are uh uh long you know long lead items things that will uh help us uh hopefully mitigate any tariffs and uh things like uh the the MEPs and the uh which is mechanical, electrical, plumbing sprinkler and elevator. Yeah. What's shoring? Uh, since you brought it up. Yeah. So, we have to dig down in some cases for the basement and to keep the walls from caving in
108or the dirt from caving in, we have to shore it first before we excavate. Okay. What's the time frame for the phase one and two? Correct. One. Phase one. Uh, summer and fall. Okay. Are you guys expecting any long lead issues with anything you're seeing currently? I know I kind of deal with this stuff, too. So, yeah. So, that's um as Stephanie mentioned, that's why we um we're buying out the mechanic, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection now, as well as the elevator. Um the next step will be buying out the steel uh just to ensure that when it comes time, we'll be ready for it and it'll arrive on time. Now, um, since you are buying all the equipment out early on some of this stuff, especially the MEP, are there going to be any
109issues with warranties and stuff like that running out before we get to commissioning and all that kind of thing? No, most of those warranties are um, once we start turning stuff on. Um, and so it'll be a normal process in terms of buying it out, but we're trying to lock in the pricing now, right, with those vendors. And a lot of them are already the suppliers are saying, okay, this includes 20% tariff inflation. And that's just what all the suppliers are doing on the electrical side right now. Yeah, we're seeing Yeah. So, it's it's locking that in so it doesn't go even higher. Right. Right. All right. Well, any other questions? Yeah, that was a happy note. It's it's it's happening everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Move to approve the Vance Brown contract amendment number
110one. Second. All those in favor? All right. Hi. All right, let's get started. Hi. Good luck. Thank you for being here. Thank you guys. Yeah, for hanging in. Yeah. Okay. Um 11B2, approval of resolution 2024 2022 Education Protection Account, Miss Tina Van Raphorst. Thank you. I would like to recommend the approval of this resolution which acknowledges the district will spend Prop 30 educational protection account funds on teacher salaries in accordance with the legislation. All right. Any questions? No. Motion to approve resolution 202425/21. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I 11 B3 budgetary increases and transfers at year-end resolution number 202024-2025/22 is Tina Van Raporst. Thank you. As we close the books on the 2425 school year, there may be expenditures that could exceed what was budgeted in each individual line item. Um so
111this resolution will allow the county superintendent to adjust our budget to cover these expenditures. Thank you. Any questions? Uh, can I get a motion to adopt and propose a resolution that will allow county superintendent to offset the over expenditures? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. I. All right. Item 11B4 is a public hearing and action item. But first, we'll turn it over to Miss Tina Van Rapors for the resolution of fiscal year 2025 20226. Thank you. For my last item tonight, following a public hearing, I would like to recommend that the board approve this this proposed resolution allowing the continuation of the maintenance assessment district that generates about $350,000 annually. Thank you. I'd like to open up public hearing for comment. Seeing as there's no public for comment, like to close a public
112hearing. Can I get a motion to approve? Just a quick question. Where what's our balance or where where do we find the do we spend this? Does this money just go into general fund or does it or is it in a specific fund? It it goes into our maintenance um and operations fund. So in as part of the general fund. Yes. Okay. So it's spent every year. It's not like it's not like we're building up a balance. Maintenance and operations. Yep. Okay. Great. Thank you. Move to approve. Second. All those in favor? I unless there are any considerations of future agenda items, I'd like a motion to adjurnn, please. So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I got a lot of practice with that public hearing stuff, too. [Music]