JUHSD 5.13.2025 Regular Board Meeting

001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Uh, it's time to reconvene to regular session. Time is 7:03. Can I get a roll call? Here. Here. Here. Here. Vice President Walker here. President G here. All right. Can I get a motion to approve of the agenda, please? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I. All right. Can I get approval of the minutes for board meeting minutes on April 22nd, 2025? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I. All right. Moving on to number 10. Reporting out of closed session. The board of trustees reports that during close session, the board took action to initiate legal proceedings related to a due process matter under individuals with disabilities education act. The board by a vote of five eyes has directed legal counsel to proceed with a filing a due process

002complaint with the office administration of hearings against the parents of the student with the district. Due to confidentiality laws governing student records and special education matters, no further details regarding this action may be disclosed at this time. I'm moving on to recognitions and commendations. Employee of the year recognitions. Let me get to that real quick. All right. Bear with me here. All right. Uh, director of human resources, Dana Good evening everyone. Tonight it brings me tremendous joy to celebrate our employees of the year. Each year, staff nominate co-workers who they feel should be recognized as the certificated employee of the year or the Martha me educator of the year, the classified employee of the year or the Sue Cook classified employee of the year, and the administrator of the year, also known as the Mike

003Krilly administrator of the year. Continuing in the tradition that began in 2017 2018 school year, we are pleased to recognize certificated and classified employees of the year from each site as well as our administrator of the year. each of these employees. As I tallied up the nominations and who was the final winner, it genuinely brought a smile to my face as I thought about my interactions with each of the winners this year because they not only support our students, but they support other each other at their school community, at the larger district community, and the community at large. So, in our celebration this evening, um what we'll do is we'll play a video, a short video to announce all of the winners. Following the uh video, we'll invite winners who are present this evening up

004by school site to present them with their certificates and to take a picture with the board president. Uh our winners, once you receive your certificate, you may return to your seat. You don't have to stay standing up there. Um and then the board will share their comments. After board comments, we'll pause to take a full group picture and then we'll enjoy a short recess where we can celebrate some more. All right, Karine, do you have our video? [Music] Okay. [Music] Hey, [Music] Thank you, Karine, for your help. All right, are we ready to begin with the um presentation of our certificates? [Laughter] You're so quiet. I didn't even notice. Okay. Okay. Okay, beginning with Jefferson High School. Par Coronado and Denise Bibiano. Now on to Oceanana Jen Arsenega. Huh? Transitioning to Terteranova, Maya Lzowski. Michaela

005Christensen. right now. Thornton High School, Andy Solomon. Oh, we're gonna go. Yeah, you are both in the light. and Tracy Borsa. Um, now Westmore High School. Zarya Denigree. Now adult programs William Kalang and Twilight Ava. From Daily City Youth Health Center, we have Sahar Navidivid. And from the district office, we have Gina Fogerty. And last, but certainly not least, Danielle Sweeters. Just turn back. All right. Now I'm going to turn it back over to the board so that way you all have space for comments. There we go. Like to open it up to the board for comment. All right, I'll check it off. There you go. Thank you all of you and congratulations for such incredible work you've done for all of our students and for your colleagues and the care you have for the

006work that you do for our students and um much deserved and I I mean I I know just from having gone around and seen some of you at some of your sites knowing exactly the kind of work that you do. Um so just thank you. Yeah. Uh following up on that, seeing all the people uh come up to be congratulated uh is really humbling. Honestly, makes me miss high school. Kind of want to do it again just so I can have teachers like y'all. Um but without a doubt, you know, you make our district special and makes our job a little bit easier, right? To see that you guys are doing the work and you're being recognized for it. We recognize you. um whatever we can do to support you more have you make you

007see feel seen please don't hesitate to reach out um thank you for your service we really really appreciate it this is my 11th year on the board which I can't believe 18 more to go but um I I'm so glad we we have this program because it's a chance for your peers to recognize you and although we can't get to every classroom and meet everyone. Um, this just fills me with joy when I see your peers recognizing you and just everything that our school district has been through lately. I mean, over the last 11 years, right, at least, um, I know that our students have trusted people that they can always turn to. When my daughter and my son were in high school in in this district, they always had those trusted adults because, you

008know, they needed someone to turn to. And I want to recognize Denise Bibiano over here who um her daughter is one of my daughter's best friends and she used to be at your house every day after school. Um I mean, you're someone all the students trust. It's we rely so much on all of you and I know that you've changed lives and you're saving lives. That's how I look at all of you because that's what you do. Even if you don't even realize it, you are making a difference in students lives and one day they'll come back to you. You'll you don't even know that they'll say, "Hey, do you remember that day when you talked to me that really changed my life?" because it's that's what that's what you do. And like I also

009see Miss Coronado, you made a huge difference in my daughter's life during the pandemic. She was stuck at home for a whole whole year and you looked out for her. Her grandfather died. You looked out for her even though you weren't with her in person. And I'm forever grateful for that. So you all make such a huge difference in our students lives and in each other's lives. So, I'm just so grateful to you. Thank you. Congratulations everyone um for being recognized by your peers. It's it's truly special. Um I want to thank you all for everything that you do. I know uh the limited times that I get to go to a school, everyone's so nice to me and looks so happy to see me. And um you know high school space the space the

010high school is kind of dedicated to students. You know you got lockers and you got chairs and you got libraries and I feel like um those of you who work for the district in the high schools get this little limited space your desk or your walls or whatever and I walk into your classroom or whatever space you have and you're all like look at this. And I'm so happy that, you know, you're all so proud to show it to me. And, um, I'm glad you come here tonight, you know, into some of the space that I have here. Um, so we could all be together and just celebrate what you do and what we do it for, which is for the students. Um, so thank you for leading the community. How about that slideshow, though?

011That was pretty cool. They did a really good job with that. Um, everybody looked good up there. Um, huge shout out to you guys and congratulations for, you know, being recognized for what I consider a really big honor. Employee of the year is kind of a big deal. I think I I've always aspired to be employee of the year. I haven't got one yet, but maybe one of these days. Um, but I know that it feels good. I'm sure it feels good uh to be recognized for all your hard work and for everything that you put into it that you know I'm sure quite often is underappreciated and nobody really sees what goes on you know behind closed doors and how much work you guys put into things and you know how much sacrifice you

012guys you know really you know put out there you know as far as your families and the time and just everything that you guys do. I mean, I I having been on the board now for going on my third year and really seeing what goes into education and the people behind the scenes is it's just amazing and that that's just uh uh it's there's no words for what you guys do. So, thank you. Um and congratulations. I have so many thoughts in my head. So, first of all, um, thank you to Miss to Director Luhan for putting this together. And something that she said, um, rang so true to me when I see all of the people who won tonight. There's a thread, a common thread. You are people that when I walk into your

013schools, you sort of shine. You're people who are there greeting me but anybody the kids the parents your colleagues um you are you see we ask the kids do you feel seen heard and valued at school this is something that in these past few years we really are talking to our students to see and because that's what it's about like the humanity we are we are here with each other for the students and we're all humans and we all need to be seen each day and valued and you all do that every day for um for each other and for the students and for that um I'm very very grateful and I'm really happy that you are being honored um and I just want to congratulate you. Thank you for being part of JUHSD. Um,

014I just want to say congratulations to everybody who got this um for putting work hard work into students and schools. But I do want to give a big shout out to Miss Salman and Miss Tracy because these two were just, you know, my shoulders to lean on at school. They definitely make a difference every single day. And you could definitely see that they put effort into caring about their students and making school a comfortable environment. So, I just want to say thank you guys for all of that and congratulations to everyone once again. Thank you, Sophia. Um, and we were going to take a short recess for pictures, but I think I' I'd like to open it up to any of the um winners this year to get up and say something if you'd like.

015No, no pressure. We could skip it and go straight to pictures. Totally up to you guys. Just wanted to give somebody the opportunity, that's all. Okay. Hi. Um, my name is Zaryi Denri and I work at Westmore High School. I'm a campus supervisor and um, thank you Mr. Zo for naughty. Uh, I want to say I've been there for one year. Uh, it's been a it's been a great experience um, just not just being a campus supervisor, but I also uh, helped introduce a food market, a free food market at our school. uh thanks to a parent um at at our school and I'm a member as well in her miracle of giving and it started in August last year and um she decided to you know bring snacks the first week of school when

016school started which helps a lot of families and students to just like have something in their stomach or to eat because they're rushing school started everyone's you know a little bit unorganized at the moment So that happened and students and families were very happy. They were like, "Oh, what is this?" You know, even the staff were like, "Oh, where are these fresh fruits coming from?" So, um, and her name is Rose. Rose and Kirby, excuse me, are the ones that help, um, um, bring produce to our school to feed our families. and I'm able to contribute by distributing that in the excuse me the tea building. Um and so it's like a free market. It's free market for students and staff. And um it's introduced, you know, like learning about fruits and vegetables. Um and

017they ask a lot of questions. Why is it free? How is it free? What do we have to do to earn it? I'm like no, it's there. It's there as a snack, you know. Um, like today we had bananas. We're super grateful, you know, for everything that comes through, um, from Rose and Kirby. And, uh, yeah, I'm really happy to, uh, there's Rose. Hi, Rose. Thank you. Um, so yeah, I'm really happy and proud of that. Um, the school has accepted that and allowed me to be able to open that. Um, which helps students throughout the day, even athletes come in. do you have fruits? You know, and I'm like, "Wow." Yeah. You know, they they are choosing a healthier snack, you know, and sometimes they there'll be a little sugary snack, but it's mainly

018the apples. They love the apples and the tangerines. So, um yeah, and I'm really enjoying my time at Westmore. I've uh started with TDS uh 2008. Then I worked in adult transition. Awesome experience. went to Jefferson High School. Uh all those years I was a special education parah educator and I've grown and learned so much from many uh talented staff and teachers and um administrators. Um and now I'm a campus supervisor and I'm really enjoying helping more than just the classroom outside of the classroom. Thank you. Thank you for sharing. Thank you very much for your ab. So Polar Cornado Jefferson. So 30 years ago in June, I graduated from my credential program at Stanford and walked onto Jeff campus in August and have been there ever since. So if I do the math, this

019coming year will be my 30th anniversary there. So 30 years, a lot of good memories. um really great ones, really great moments. Um Mark Bashers in the back was my student teacher. I'm not going to do the math on that one. But even more special, um and I'm just going to point her out is Miss Jaff Jasmine Griffith over there who was my student. And there's Calvin Louie who teaches math this year, his first year, my student again. Jared Maher, my student teaching art. Um, Fabola Gutierrez, our psychologist, also one of my students. And then this year, uh, Favina Daria, who's working up at the front, my student. So, we had Sheila Patel work in counseling, also my student. We had Gil Pine, who wasn't my student, uh, who's also there. Marissa Whitten, also my

020student. So, um, I think Jeff is a very special place because nowhere else have I seen students become teachers. So, I don't know if the board was aware of that, but I wanted to make it aware of it tonight because this is what makes us a special place because we're just not teaching, but we're building a community in our district, and that's something I really love. So, I want to thank you for this opportunity, and I want to thank Miss Griffith over there for just being one of my wonderful proteges. And I'm going to go give her a hug. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. I think I have to say something too. Uh and just second what really you all have said and uh Coronado, thank you. Uh so I've did

021my student teaching at Jefferson in 2002 and I've been with this district ever since then. Uh so I and this year I'm taking a leave of absence. I don't know exactly how long this is going to be, but uh starting in June, it's going to be the first time that I don't work at Jefferson Union High School District in my entire adult life. So, I really need to say thank you to everybody in this whole community. Uh it really is a community really exactly what you said. Uh I've felt the love in this. I've worked in every school in the district. I've spent a lot of time with just about everybody in this district and I've just had the best time of my life really. So, thank you everybody. Thank you community. Thank you. I

022Gina Fogerty District Office. I just want to thank everybody for all the support that you've shown. I started in this district in 1997 as a parah and I think it was 22 years later that I went into the attendance office. When I was a parah I was never going to leave the classroom. It was so amazing to be a part of making a difference with the kids. And then I went into attendance and that was amazing. and I was never going to leave attendance because it's the best job ever. And then I came into the district office and it's and a new building and it's it's just been the best. It has been the best. Everybody that I work with and then my family that came supporting me and surprising me and then I come

023to another family at work and I just want to thank you for everything. Thank you. All right. Anybody else gonna brave the microphone? All right. If not, we'll take a short recess then uh for some pictures, break for cakes and coffee, and then we'll come back. Yeah. Oh, everybody that's going to take the picture, go against the yellow wall, [Laughter] please. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] as well. And at the end with the senior recognitions, you can tell these students just adore Miss Stewart and it was just beautiful to see. Um and yes, I did go to the annual youth summit by be the change youth coalition, our Oceanana students, um who who presented on wellness and sub substance use. It was very well attended and boy are these students prepared.

024They really they um they uh one of the panels that I uh got to see was on um anxiety and how to deal with it, recognize it and deal with it. And they really got students involved in that. And right after that, I went to Westmore to uh the celebration of the first cohort of our students in the future grads program. There are so many Jefferson and Westmore students. Um this is the program led by Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. Um these students started in that program when they were sophomores and so they all announced um where uh what their future college plans were. And many of our students were there and uh many from Jefferson and um also from Westmore. And then of course last night we celebrated um our student advisory

025council uh this year's council amazing group of students many will be returning and uh but of course you know it's a bittersweet moment when you have to say goodbye to the seniors um who went through being student trustees and some of them for three two to three years and uh now we have to say goodbye to them and and uh but it was really nice to see their growth and how much the program meant to them. And with that, I will pass this on. Uh, back on May 3rd, I saw trustees Lee Antahara and Superintendent Prea at the farewell to the Jefferson High School gym event. Um, which was pretty special. uh not particularly big and not overly officious, but uh a lot of fun hearing the memories um meeting the alumni uh seeing what

026was in the time capsule uh which preserved rather well um and just seeing kind of the joy of people who've been around this community for a long time. It was also uh a good time to talk about the things that are happening in the district. Um to express my pride on being on this board, uh to hear Trusty Lee talking to a member of the class of 66 who used to be a a small town mayor, uh and watching his gears turn as we were talking about teacher housing, which he never really heard about. and um staff housing, not teacher housing. Thank you. I appreciate it. Um and watching the wheels turn its head about, wow, I wonder if that would work somewhere else. Um and you know, getting to explain to him that it's

027kind of a thing right now and um just uh hearing Trusty Lee share the experience with them was pretty special. Um, it was, as someone who's not from around here, great to be at a place where people kind of expressed what Jefferson High School and the school district meant to them. Um, I also visited some schools yesterday with Superintendent Presto. We were at Tanova High School in the morning and Oceanana right after that. It's always a pleasure to be at the schools when school's in session when the students are around. Thank you, Sh. Uh let's see. A couple weeks ago, I was at the Daily City KMA Chamber of Commerce scholarship uh access to higher education award ceremony where um they awarded a bunch of our students and some other students um scholarships. So that

028was really cool to see to see that and be a part of that. Um earlier today um I was also part of our retirees celebration here at the district office which was really nice to be a part of as well. And yesterday I was also there for our student advisory uh end of the year celebration. And I think the highlight of that for me was actually listening to them speak to us on how impactful um being part of that committee has been for them and just how much it meant to them uh individually and as a student body. Um and I think it's just I think it's really cool that our school district does that for our students and uh look forward to more of that. So that's it for me. We'll let Miss Tony

029Prea have the the mic. Thank you. Um so I first want to say I the end of the year is filled with so many events. So many events at every school, school events, district events, county events. There's just events. Literally three piling up on each other every day probably. And and actually they're really fun to go to. I don't see it as like ah all this stuff and this year I got sick. I I wasn't able to go to as many of the events in the last two to three weeks that I typically would. So I want to really thank the school board trustees. I want to thank the administrators that show up that have consistently shown up for our students to acknowledge our students and to acknowledge our staff for all of the accomplishments

030of the year because it really makes a difference to people when we show up for them. So, but I did go to some um there's I want to mention I was not able to go to the Kent Awards, but we received some Kent Awards and I know that there were trustees who were there and administrators that went one trustee, pardon me. Okay. So, thank you Trusty Tahada for going. Um, and I also want um to say that it was, as Trusty Walker mentioned, the Jefferson goodbye was um not super formal and also really wonderful just to hear the memories that people shared and to get a feel. There were lots of people who I think graduated a long time ago and it obviously made meant a lot to them that we did that. So, that

031was really good. Um, I'm not sure if I mentioned it. I think it was after our last meeting that I went to the Terteranova musical that they pulled together in like record time in 6 weeks and it was one of the best musicals I've seen. It was fabulous. The singing was great. The the the um the stage, you know, I don't know what you call that, the props, I don't know, were great. It was great. Um, and so I was just really really impressed. Um, and then finally, I I say this all the time, one of my favorite parts of being uh a superintendent of Jefferson Union is our student trustees, our student advisory council. It is the most fulfilling part of my week. And we just had a really lovely final meeting last night.

032And um as has been mentioned, you know, the students, we gave them a chance to speak and I think practically every student got up and said what an how much they they thanked us for giving them the opportunity. I really was like, "Thank you for stepping up and serving your community." Um but they have done a great job this year. they they're at meetings every other Monday night. I mean, it's it's a lot of time. Um, and I also just want to mention that many of our elected officials gave them certificates. So, thank you to Miss Johnson who reached out to those elected officials for us. And again, I was I didn't realize how much that meant to the students, but the students really were taken aback that they had all of these certificates from

033elected officials. So, I want to thank the elected officials for taking the time to do that for our students and acknowledging their service. And we've got a few more weeks of lots of fun events and then graduations. And I'm looking forward to a really great end of the year. Thanks. Can I make one more? Sure. I'm sorry. Um, it it just dawned on me. I feel really bad. I'm a Jeff grad and I didn't mention that I had been at the closing of the saying goodbye to the gym and opening of the time capsule when this time capsule in 1937 I was given the honor of being the one to open it and it meant so much to me to be able to do that. Um and I saw a lot of my old teachers

034and coaches there um other other alumni I haven't seen in years. um like 20 years and they were there and uh and I appreciate they said you look just the same and I go, "Well, thank you. They'll have to put me in a time capsule soon." But um but it it was really a really special thing and I'm glad that um we all went to that. Thanks, Rosie. All right, we're moving on to uh 12D AFT Local 1481 report. Miss Monica Casey. Oh, I'm sorry. I skipped something. Are there any board subcommittee reports? Yes. Okay, I do. Okay, go ahead, Mark. May 5th, we had a daily city youth health center advisory board meeting. Um, and the key highlights for that is we're still looking for some advis u advisor board advisory members. Um, and

035essentially people of high net worth cuz we're always looking for money. Uh, especially with everything that's going in government right now with grants potentially getting cut. Um, they're really thinking of a strategic and um, uh, intelligent ways to to keep raise funding. And also looking to still working on a rebranding. We've narrowed down to a few names and logos. That's still TBD, but that's some exciting news there. It will not be a mouthful anymore like it is now. That's it. Thank you, Marty. Anything else? All right. Now, Monica, you have the stage. Sorry about that. No, it's fine. Is this on? Okay. Um Monica Casey, uh AFT1481. Um, I just want to say that uh I'm really proud of our negotiations team and the work that we did. Um, I want to remind all of

036us that we have a lot more work to do. Um, the progress we make is often um shadow, you know, there's a shadow over it because of the progress that is made around us in San Monteo County especially. So, we want we still need to push push push. Um, I want to remind everyone that the negotiation our negotiations team um is wallto-wall and that means that we have representatives from all of our different um contracts and different areas. And it makes it a very robust team. And what we're trying to do is lift everyone. Um, and trying to get the most for everyone, but most people. Um, we do realize that we need to really lift up classified a little a little more a put a little extra ump there in the future. Um, as

037I've previously mentioned, we AFT1481 is a part of um, CFT's task force with many other union locals. Um, we're participating in EQS is what we're calling it, educators for quality schools. And we're trying to lift up all educators including classified as well as certificated. uh certificated can't do their jobs without classified. Um and our students need all of us. We need to lift all of us up. And the three vision statements are our students have fully staffed schools with highly paid and trade trained education workers. We want to bring back and instill pride and trust in our profession and all education workers. Furthermore, and all Californians have high quality, affordable and accessible healthc care benefits. So, those are the things that we're working on. Um and you will see similar ideas being worked on by

038CF uh CTA and there's a rally on Saturday in San Francisco. And so many of us will be joining our um UASF partners, union partners in the city for a rally and um a march. So if you want to join, you can look at our website. There's more information there. Thank you, Monica. Okay. Uh unless there are any changes, can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items, please? So, so moved. Second. All those in favor? I I Okay. And I don't believe there's any public comment. Correct. No, no comment. Okay. So, moving on to 16A1. Jefferson Union Sustainability Committee presentation and that's going to be Miss Tina Vanraport. Good evening, President Gyos, members of the board. It's my pleasure tonight to introduce a group of students who are part of an exciting

039new initiative for our district, the Jefferson Union Sustainability Committee. This group was created as a result of board action adding um a green school operations board policy last year. The committee is tasked with helping lead the way in building a more environmentally responsible and sustainable school community. And although the community committee is in its early stages, the students have already demonstrated impressive leadership, creativity, and commitment. I'm super proud to have worked with this committee this year. Um, I have been coordinating the committee and it's been incredibly rewarding. Uh the students and teachers on this committee have brought their passion and their ideas to life. Tonight will be their first time sharing their annual update with you. They're going to highlight the foundation that we've started to build and the progress they've made and the goals

040that they have for the year ahead. So if you could join me in welcoming Angel, Ava, Kelvin, Jasmine, and Josh to the podium. All right. Good evening everyone. My name is Calvin Chan. I am the student representative for Teranova High School and I'm also a junior. And next slide please. Uh here's our mission statement. We are students, staff, and community members from Jefferson Union High School District. We hope to make districtwide environmentally conscious changes. Um, hi, my name is Ava Litz and I'm also a student representative for Tteranova High School for the committee and I'm also a junior. So, here are a few highlights of our constitution. Um, so in 2023, the Student Eco Alliance petitioned for the school board to adopt the board policy 3510 or green school operations. In spring of 2024, the

041policy was passed in addition to the Jefferson Union High School District declaring a climate emergency. In winter of 2024, um, JUSC was formed, upholding the suggested strategies while coming up with innovative ways to incorporate environmental action in the district. We aim to bolster and enhance involvement of student participation in the implementation and evaluation of green initiatives in current practices. Oh, hello. Um, I'm Jasmine. I'm from Westmore. So this is more about the structure of our committee. So currently we have one adult and one student serving as a committee chair. They help lead our meetings and overall help us like um get things done. And from each school we have a representative. So we have one staff representative that is stipended and one or two student representatives. We also have our general community members which consists

042of students, staff and general members of the Jefferson Union High School District committee community. And um we also have our sub committees which are groups of community members that focus on one area for example like social media, community events and etc. Um hello my name is Josh. I'm a senior at Westmore High School and I'm also one of the student representatives for Westmore. So for the goals uh subcommittee uh we have analyzed and dissected board policy 3 3510 or at least in the process of and what we're doing is we're making smart goals out of these. So we're looking at stakeholders, we're looking at first efforts and steps and feasibility and these uh smart goals pertain to curriculum, campus culture and community. Hi. Um, I'm a member of the communication subcommittee. So, a few things

043that we've done in our time of meeting is we've created a Instagram account to share what we've been doing, our meetings, and um, sustainable information um, with our students. We've created flyers for the events team to really share the word about how students in the district can get involved as well as creating infographics for ideas to celebrate Earth Day both in their um community and in their schools. Um we posted that on the Instagram so it's accessible for um students to learn from. Um we also have the waste management subcommittee. So our subcommittee mainly focused on like what our school sites could improve with um proper disposal of waste. And from that um we saw that a lot of students didn't know how to properly disposal waste or there's a lot of like gray areas

044in which like they didn't really know how. So um we from that we derived some goals. So, our main goals for next year are to promote education on waste disposal, getting rid of all single bins, and implementing more tri bins um that splits compost, recycling, and um general garbage and also having waste audits done at each site and starting a year with clear education on how to properly dispose of waste. And we would like to do that by building off with having new um signs on our garbage bins and potential garbage monitors. Hello, my name is Angel and I'm a junior at Westmore High School. And over the past couple of months, the events subcommittee has discussed about district-wide fundraiser events and community cleanups along with the Chipotle fundraiser which was held on May 3rd.

045Um some some of the sustainability committee's overall accomplishments were that the committee has met nine times since December. Um with the regular meetings being held on the second Thursday of each month during the school year. So watch out for information at the start of the next school year. Um we have developed partnerships and plan to make an annual presentation to the school board each spring. Um some of uh Sonteo County Office of Education Sustainability Climate Ready Schools awards um have standout leaders which are Mills High Mills and Westmore High School students um and Teranova High School and with and the $500 financial winner which is Jefferson Union High School District. Um, we'd like to share some acknowledgements that made our committee possible and as successful as it has been so far, especially starting with the

046board of education. Um, you really made it possible for us to um, take on this initiative, especially with the stipened position for staff. We aren't able to have this committee without adult facilitation. um the Sanonteo County Office of Education, which has um given awards promoting sustainability through our district and also playing a role in our meetings, as well as the Peninsula Clean Energy and Sonteo County Sustainability Department. Thank you. Thank you. Like to open up for comment. Yeah. Huh? You need a logo. Oh, is that your guys' logo? That's cool. Don't go anywhere. We're gonna open it up for for We're gonna open it up for comment, you guys. We might ask you questions. All right. F I I'll I'll kick it off. First first off, great excellent presentation. Thank you so much for the

047work you've put in. Um question for one or all of you. What's been the most exciting part of this um process so far this year and what are you looking forward to doing next year? I think it's been really exciting to the microphone. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Um I think it's been really exciting working with like-minded peers, not only in my school, but also across the district. It's really shown me how so many of us are committed to safe sustainability and working towards bettering our district. And for next year, I'm looking forward to um gaining more traction and really inviting more students to participate. Fantastic. Anyone else? Same questions. Um, this year I've enjoyed building the foundations of a system that will hopefully build the partnerships ready from both a student to school district

048level, a school district to community level and a school and a student to community level. These three parties, all these different partnerships that we've started to establish the relationship will hopefully create that change through policies, through culture, through campus that we could eventually make climate change and build a healthier community. Thank you. I have a question. Um, yeah, again, amazing presentation. Uh, and I think Tina, I want to apologize for missing the meeting. Um, one question I have is, and I'm guilty of this, is I I start out really well intended to sort out my trash, make sure the recycle goes in the right recycle bin, make sure organic goes into organic, right? Um, but I'm always bombarded with this question like how do you know is actually getting recycled? Is it is can you

049can I challenge you guys to really be able to go further in your research next time you come up to really tell the average consumer say hey when you recycle a bottle this is where it ends up when you recycle plastic this is where it ends up. I think informing the public of that would be at least for me I would really really like that. So not really a question but of a request but amazing presentation please. Yeah. So um I understand what you mean cuz um uh definitely I also had like like questions on like oh like what is done with our trash? Like does it all get tossed into like one bin? And um one of okay I kind of forgot his name but like one our um he's from like the bus

050garage but he told us that the way our trash is actually recycled is that let's say um they're looking at the recycling bin or like the compost bin and they lift it up and if there's like one piece of garbage that's like not supposed to be there then that's when they like throw the whole thing in like one like the like the black trash cans which is u we found that to actually be problem, which is why we really wanted to like push education next year to have like students and staff and like generally everybody on school campuses to be like aware on how they sort their garbage. That way that um when once the janitors do lift up the garbage um bags and they see, oh, there's no problem, then they can actually like

051compost it, they can actually like recycle it all. And um we want to do this mostly through like again like signs, but we also want to try to reach um others through like potentially school assemblies. Um I know Peninsula Clean Energy is currently offering um a $10,000 grant for um schools that are like willing to do like schoolwide assemblies on like um climate education. So that's like a great way to start. Thank you. Definitely learned something. Well, $10,000. That's a great carrot. Yeah. Amazing. Oh, amazing logo for one. Did you all collaborate on that? Yeah, it was one of our um communication subcommitteees designs. Wow. Amazing. And just a wonderful Yeah. Really a wonderful presentation. And I can tell all of you care so much about this and that you've been able to do so

052much in just nine meetings, which tells me that you're communicating with each other and you're doing work outside of the committee. So my my um what I have a few questions and one is have you noticed a difference in all of your research between how you can um take this initiative, how different it looks in in daily city schools and Pacifica schools because of the um the colle the like one uses recology, one uses republic. I think so. Have you looked into that and what have you noticed? Um so yeah um again like our committee just like actually we also just like got um educated on like the kind of like companies that like dispose of our garbage which is why like um we we wanted to like implement the trash audits to see like

053the differences between the different school sites because again like some school sites also might not have like like um as many like like tribe bins as other school sites. And um that's why we want really want to like see like the kind of bins that each school use and as well as like just like um the placement of the bins and also what trash actually gets disposed into like the bins. Yeah, that's great. That was my other question. It's like what is a trash audit? That's Thank you for answering that. And then you also mentioned maybe placing a garbage monitor. would that be the same uh like students would volunteer for that or um yeah so right now it's like mostly a possibility um we saw that a lot of like elementary school districts actually

054have this so basically these garbage monitors like kind of just like stand by voluntarily they like stand by the b bins to make sure like people who are like disposing their trash properly and if those people are like oh I don't know where this goes then they like let them know oh this goes in this bin and that goes in that bin and we're currently like trying to like see if like students are willing to volunteer at different school sites. Um when u my daughter was and my son were at Marjorie Tobias Elementary School in Daily City, they did that. And so this was a this was like a it wasn't just that it was a club. It was every student was interested in doing it. And those students, you know, they would go on

055to Westmore and Jefferson. Some went went on to other, you know, Oceanana and Teranova, but mostly the daily city schools and then they would find out that the schools didn't have the tri um but they were still trying to at least, you know, recycling go and recycling. So, I I really commend you on moving this forward. I'm looking forward to working with you. Thank you. Thank you so much for your presentation. Great job. Um, I have one. It's not even as strong as a suggestion. Uh, maybe it's a strategy. So, uh, again, thank you for everything you've done and I encourage you to amplify your voices. Um, and you've already talked about getting more students involved. Um, what I encourage you to do is get yourselves in front of bigger audiences. students of administrators, I

056don't know that there's a place right now for you to participate in things like orientation um or in uh ASB um I I don't know what it's called, but it's an opportunity for every club in ASB to present itself. But I hope you do get to do that kind of thing or that you come up with your own ways to be in front of large audiences because I think that your message can be simple and can be powerful like it is tonight and that a lot of people get to hear it. Um, and I wish you luck and thank you. Yeah, I think you kind of I don't you kind of mentioned it in in in your your recommendation. I Well, first of all, I'm sorry, but um I I've got Calvin, Ava, Jasmine, and

057Josh. I think I missed somebody. Who Who did I miss? Angel. Angel, I'm sorry. Hi, Angel. I just wanted to make sure I got your name. You guys did an amazing job on your presentation. Uh, I remember hearing about this when it first got presented to us and I was like, "This sounds really cool." You know, I wonder how it's going to go. And you guys, uh, sound like you mean business, you know, and you guys definitely got your boots on the ground and trying to figure this out. And, um, it's it's making our schools better, making our district better, it's making our communities better, and you guys are leading by example. So, keep grinding it out. uh keep working hard at it. Keep trying to recruit those students and talk to people about it.

058Um you got to get people comfortable with the idea that, you know, recycling and and taking care of your your communities is is what we need to be doing instead of just being carefree about it. So, um definitely spread the word. Um, so what what has been your guys's biggest challenge as far as is reaching out to your your constituents, your students at at other schools or in your own schools? Um I would say that we as a as obviously a new committee have um have already started communicating through principles and ASPs and flyers and that has been good. Um I think what we can improve on in the future is building that community. um not only from just getting the information out to them, but creating a community where um climate action and sustainability

059action and both personal habits and events are going to be in well attended and they want to come because they are engaged with climate action and sustainability efforts. because it is part of their community. I don't think this is something that could be achieved instantly, but is part of our wider broader community efforts in building with trust in uh trust in both uh climate change and us as a school district. Thanks, Calvin. If there's anything that you guys think that we could do to help out, just, you know, let us know. Yeah. Thank you. One more comment. I actually think uh especially for you folks that are graduating now and eventually going to be grad going to college and things like this. Climate change is an existential crisis. And I think this is a really

060good platform that you can build to not only take it on as a as a major but really find a problem that you can truly solve that then leads to entrepreneurship. Okay. So entrepreneurship find a problem solve for it and find a way to monetize it. All right. Awesome. Thanks Marty. So thank you. That was a great presentation and I'm very proud of you guys because you brought something to us and then you know made us listen really like you you your your voices were strong and the adults listened to the young people and then I want to really so thank you for stepping up because we our planet needs you. We all need you and I have frankly more faith in you than in us to change this. Um, I want to especially thank

061uh, Deputy Superintendent Ben Raporst because this was a large undertaking and she's got a large job and this was, you know, um, a big undertaking to add on to her um, responsibility. So, I'm really grateful because and I love that you said you really enjoyed it and it was it was fulfilling and that makes me happy because you did a great job with it. I also really want to thank Julie Hillbornne from the Sanonteo County Office of Ed for being involved and for being here tonight. Um, I see teachers who are involved, Marlene. I'm really happy and thankful to the adults who, you know, and the and the young people said, "We really need adults to help us with this." And so, um, I think it did make a difference that we, um, made it

062a stipended position so that we were able to get more people, but more people than were stipened showed up, right? So, thank you to everybody involved. Um, I had a bunch of stuff I was going to say. Oh, I'm going to put a little um idea out there that the student advisory council, the student trustees are going to be recruiting. And so just last night we were starting um that the students are getting their um their information together and I think by the end of the week are going to be putting social media posts out and recruiting. But I don't want to minimize your role continue in your roles next year if you're if you're not graduating. Um but I encourage you if you're interested to perhaps become a student trustee. Um that's another way

063to amplify your voices. Um, and I also want to say that, you know, a lot of the things that you touched upon are things that I've been hearing that the adults haven't solved, right? That we've known this is I don't mean this to sound rude, but it's not it's not a new idea that there's not a good enough labeling on things. We know that. We keep trying to get better labeling and it keeps not really being enough. So, I'm really glad that you noticed that and saw we need better labeling on on and we need to train we need to teach people how to separate the trash because we also know that when the custodians come and there's, you know, uh landfill in the recycling bin, they don't take it out and then recycle. They

064just landfill everything. And so then all of our efforts are for not. So, I'm really pleased to hear some of your conclusions at the end of this first year. And so, you have, I think, some really great ideas on things to work on next year. And I'm just really grateful to you. Well done. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Preston. Oh, it's gone. Thank you, everybody. Okay, moving it along. uh go to 16 A2 which is uh SMCO green facilities data collection report recommendations and we'll let Miss Tina Van Rapors take it from there. Thank you. So um continuing our focus on sustainability I'm pleased to introduce Julie Hellborn from the Sanonteo County Office of Education. um from the beginning of our sustainability committee and even just thinking about it, she has been instrumental as has

065the rest of the San Monteo County team. Uh their guidance, resources, collaboration have really helped us in building a strong foundation. um this evening she'll be sharing with you some benchmark data that they have um compiled about our school district and they've already made this presentation to the sustainability committee and we've already started talking about what insights we have gathered from that and what could help us um in our next steps. So I'll turn it over. Thank you. All right. Thank you Tina. Um, good evening, uh, President Gyos, Superintendent Presa, all the members of the board, community, students. It's great to be here and I really appreciate that you all are having me here today. Um, I am the environmental literacy and sustainability coordinator at the Santo County Office of Education and we've been working

066with Jefferson School District in multiple capacities. It's perfect that we're having this presentation right after the sustainability committee because we're going to talk about some solutions and some of those things that you all said and by the way, great job as well. Um, some of the things that you all were talking about regarding solutions, they all do exist and so that's something that we can all take heart with. It's just a matter of putting them into practice. That's the part that the adults have a hard time with. we have them. We're just not putting them into practice. The students are putting a little bee in our bonnet to make sure that we do that. So, that was awesome you all and it's been a joy to work with you and I will continue to work

067with you. Okay. So, um we came into the district. It's been several months now since we collected this data. Uh we call it our green facilities data collection project. And this is the report for you all on the data that we collected. It's a collaboration with Peninsula Clean Energy, the Sanontto County Sustainability Department, and our office. Um, without those other agencies, we who funded all of this, we would not have been able to collect this data. So, we're very thankful for them. The purpose of it was for us to more effectively identify priorities for each district so that districts can be making good decisions to support the sustainability goals and mandates that you all have that we were talking about earlier. And so the areas where we came in and we collected some data are

068these that you see here. Um we're going to talk about all of them. Um, some of them are more feasible for your district than others and uh, some of them are also more important when it comes to reducing climate change than others. So, we'll talk about all of that. And if you want more description, there's a little link to a project description there. Uh, my program, the Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative, really focuses on what we call the four C's. Campus, curriculum, community, and culture. Tonight, we're going to talk about the campus. and the campus really is the foundation of all of it. We know that the curriculum, the culture, all of that is very hard for students to really have a good experience with if they are in facilities where they're not able to

069go to school because there's a flood or there are wildfires and the smoke is in the building or there's high heat days. so that we can have the best programs in the world, but students will not be able to learn if they're in facilities that are not climate resilient and serve as a lab for learning and that that are not disrupting their learning. And so the district has just done some really wonderful things already and we're going to talk about, you know, a few other things that could be done. So I wanted to just show you some site areas before we start because we're going to talk about all of these schools. So, you'll see here that we've kind of highlighted um one of the roofs at Jefferson High School. And we did that just

070to show that there are some rooftop heating units and also solar panels, which is great. And I'll talk about the rooftop heating units later, but I wanted to provide a visual for you. So, this is Jefferson. Um you'll also notice that there's not a lot of green uh except for the fields. Um, in other words, not a lot of tree canopy, which is something else that we will talk about a little bit later. And that's kind of true for many of the schools. Teranova has the most tree canopy, but um, that's an area that we'll talk about. Here we have Oceanana, and you can see the solar array on top of Oceanana, which again is fantastic. We have Teranova here, and this is an example of a rooftop unit. Again, I just wanted to provide

071a visual for you so that you can kind of keep that in your mind when we talk a little later about some of the things that we can do to improve. Um, Thornton is of course the smallest school and has the least amount of tree canopy there. Um, no solar panels at Thornton, but all of the other schools do have solar panels. And here is Westmore. And again, we enlarged that one building and kind of blew it up so that you could see some of those rooftop units um for when we talk about it a little bit later. Excuse me. So, one of the most important things that we did during this data collection was count the number of natural gas appliances um methane gas appliances is what they really are uh on the sidewalk.

072And the reason that we did that is that fossil fuel burning appliances are the second biggest contributor to climate change in Sanonteo County. The first one is transportation. Not surprisingly, buildings are the second one, and it comes from all of these things that you see here. The reason that you'll see some of these being highlighted is those are kind of what we call the lowhanging fruit. Boilers and furnaces are difficult, of course, to just change out. They're giant. They're, you know, deep in a building and much of the school is dependent on them. But when you have rooftop units and water heaters and ovens and stoves, those are a lot easier when it comes to infrastructure. So I wanted to highlight that, you know, those those are the things that are a little bit more

073lowhanging fruit. On this slide, we have the age of the gas consuming equipment. And uh for this district overnight, don't worry, it's okay. You are not alone at all in this. This is really just awareness building. And the thing that's really great about this is that it shows the um age of the gas consuming equipment and how old it is. And by doing that, you're able to see where can we make the changes first, right? So, we know that at Oceanana, Teranova, and Thornton, um those units have the highest percent of of units that are over 20 years old. So, this is really an opportunity. Everything that I present to you right now, please don't think that we're doing this because we want to shake a finger. You know, this has nothing to do with

074that. this is let's help the school districts gain some information because information helps with making decisions in the future. Right? So that was really the whole purpose of this is to be able to provide you with information. So please think of it that way. Um the let's see on this slide if there's anything else that I wanted to point out here. I think that that's the main thing. Um, you know, Wesmore and Jefferson are not too far behind either. So, you know, there's a lot of old equipment. This one has to do with solar. And this is really a win for Jefferson Union High School District because every school except for Thornton, which is the tiniest one, has solar panels. So, that's great. Um, in our county, all of the electricity that is provided to

075us comes from clean sources. And so you all are helping by having your own on-site solar. One thing that could be improved is having backup battery storage. Also, depending on if power outages are an issue here. In some districts, they're a big issue. In some districts, they're not so big of an issue. You have some on-site fuel generators as well. So, at some sites, if there is a power outage, then you've got some capacity to be able to um deal with that and keep the schools open. So, good job on the solar. Um, this one's about transportation. The district, we worked with Marcus Peppers on all of this. I should have mentioned him. He's been very helpful in all of this as well. Um, the fleet in Jefferson because of the hills and, you know,

076they've done a lot of research already about about fleets. There aren't any electric fleets. So, I would just say keep your eye on as the technology changes about whether that would be appropriate for Jefferson to look into in the future. On the school grounds, we looked at the garden beds. So, here's another win. Every school has garden beds. Almost every school has garden beds that are in use. We know that students getting outside is it's very, very important for their mental health, for their achievement. It helps them with their academics and so that's a great thing about all of the schools with the exception of Jefferson that there's gardens in use. Nature play equipment is really for younger so we don't worry about that one too much with high schools. Ular or sistns I'll talk

077about those a little bit later. Outdoor learning areas are related to areas where a teacher could take uh a group of students a class of students outside and have class outside one way or another. And then at the end there you can see the estimated tree canopy. So we did that just by looking at Google Earth and you can see that all of the school sites have some um potential for increasing the tree canopy which really helps especially on high heat days. Okay. So those are the data that we collected and uh I wanted to go into some recommendations some of which have to do with these agencies that you see at the bottom of the slide. Um they have funding and they have technical assistance that can help with some of these things. So

078the first thing to know is that the Bay Area Air District, they are they have created some new rules that are going to go into effect in 2027, 2029, and 2031 related to zero NOx, which is zero nitrous oxide. Basically, a gas burning appliance essentially is kind of what that means. So coming up pretty quickly, we will not be able to buy gas burning appliances in Sonato County. though that is something to begin to think about and plan for. When a water heater goes out, what tends to happen in districts is um we have to switch them out really quickly. So the maintenance staff will just switch like for like. Whoops. So what we're trying to encourage districts to do is to if a water heater goes out at this point, switch it out to

079electric rather than um methane gas because they're not going to be available anyway. So this one, this slide is just talking about uh just kind of what I talked about. So uh the lowhanging fruit, you know, replace the gas consuming units that are easiest first. So there are five water heaters, six ovens, and three stoves. Those could be much more easily changed out with your current infrastructure than trying to, you know, replace a giant boiler, for example. The rooftop units that I showed you in those pictures, those are another piece of lowhanging fruit because rooftop units can be switched out very easily. If they are gas burning right now, you can switch them out for a heat pump. And the great thing about it is that heat pumps can provide air conditioning as well as

080heating. Even though the name is heat pump, what it really means is it's shifting heat from place to place. So, if you want it to be cool, they can cool. if you want it to be hot, they can they can do that. And they run on electricity. So then you're complying with those rules that are coming into effect. So So that's a big lowh hanging fruit that I just wanted to encourage you about is replacing those rooftop units with heat pumps. Again, transportation. We're going to kind of skip over this one for now since this isn't really something that the um is feasible for the district at this moment, but you know, keep your eye on it for the future. heat island production. So when campuses have a lot of cement and not a lot

081of greenery, that is what increases that heat island effect. I know we're here in Daily City in Jefferson. I know where we are. It's foggy and you know it's not the hottest place like it is in the central valley. Um but that doesn't mean that uh there are you know not high heat days here. So green canopy can really um improve the cooling effect. And then rainwater resources, rain barrels and sistns. Those are places you can see there in the picture where we capture the water to be used in the landscaping. And that's great because we're in a droughtprone area. I'm going to talk just a little bit about some program recommendations because like I said, the the agencies have some really great programs. So the first one is San Hill County Energy Watch. They

082are able to provide incentives and identify potential funding sources for any energy efficiency project that your district has. There's a link here to resources and so that's a great resource. CEDA is for new construction and major remodels. So they give um uh free energy design assistance. They have financial incentives. And again, the sustainability department, they run all this stuff. So you don't have to like remember these things that I'm saying today. They can do all of this for you. And Laura Wong currently is the sustainability specialist. Then there's Peninsula Clean Energy. Peninsula Clean Energy, like I said, they're supplying all of us with 100% clean energy. It's either geothermal, hydroelectric, uh solar or wind. Solar and wind can, you know what? The sun goes down. So we have to have the hydro and the geothermal

083for those times when there's no sun and we don't have battery storage. So penisan energy is amazing that way and they can pro provide support to schools for all of these things. Electric vehicle charging stations if you want to put any of those in at any site electric fleets solar and battery systems um in the future. I'm seeing that one thing got left off my slide here which is it's my fault um building electrification. So they can support that as well and we can connect you with these people. So Peninsula Clean Energy, these are the people. Um, Philip runs the EV charging infrastructure and the electric fleets. We've got Peter who's in charge of the solar and storage. We've got Blake who takes care of building electrification. So there's a lot of people that are

084ready and waiting at Peninslean Energy who can help you with the funding and also um the technical assistance. Okay. So, this next couple of slides and I'm almost done is just talking about sustainability planning. So, um this one this is oops not this one this one. So, access to funding. Okay. So, my colleague Ron Soer he is the director of sustainable facilities and construction at the Santo County Office of Education. He's the only one in the state of California. No other county office of education has a Ron and we are very fortunate and districts are very fortunate because he can help you with all of this stuff. He's an architect. I'm an educator. So he knows what he's talking about when it comes to facilities. Um and because I'm an educator, this is the only

085slide that requires speaker notes for me. So from this is from Ron. So, energy service companies, this is a possibility for you all that could really provide a lot of energy savings. So, what they are is they are companies that SMCE is going to pre-qualify. They don't are not going to cost the district any money to do what they do. They look top to bottom at all the appliance in the district and see if there's a case to be made for replacing the methane gas appliances with electric. So, it's an opportunity to move to be more efficient um with all electric equipment with no upfront costs. And I'm not going to explain right now why there isn't any upfront costs, but um it had just has to do with the cost structure where the energy

086savings offsets. And so, it is like free money that's there for the taking. So, I just wanted you to know about that. And so did Ron. So, um, Proposition 2 also was the bond that we just passed and there still is, um, possibilities for getting money from that. The district does have to have a facilities master plan within the last 5 years. And this is our team. So, Ron was not able to be here tonight. And we also have Fanny Shay who um, assists with all of these programs as well. And we are all available at any point for you. And I again just want to thank all of you for allowing me to come today. That was awesome. Thank you, Julie. Um like to open it up to the board for any questions or

087or comments. Yeah, just a quick comment and I think this is probably more for um Deputy Superintendent Van Raporus. I think when we look at our facilities plan, we probably should be looking into some of our sustainability functions and features, you know, with whether it's uh remodeling of facilities or certainly looking at this equipment and if there's, you know, grant obviously grants and other net zero costs to us, we should definitely be looking into it. Thank you for this because this is really valuable data and I think this will certainly help inform the way I know I as a board member will look at upcoming facilities plans. Thank you. I think uh just to comment quickly on that there are a lot of things that we've been doing as a district and I think the

088county has you know been building their systems and programs at the same time. So, I think we're really at a key place where uh we're about to be able to coordinate all these efforts and and make a bigger impact. Like we've partnered with Climate Techch, you guys approved that um I want to say like six months ago and they are looking at our HBAC systems and seeing if they can find us grant money. So, I'm that's an example probably of one of those ESCOs that you will be having in the FE. I don't know. But um so they're in the process of helping us figure out if uh changing to heat pumps is something feasible through grant money. Um and then we've also partnered with commercial energy to uh stabilize our gas proc procurement prices

089as you know. As part of that, they also have been analyzing our PG& usage both in electrical and gas and um you know making recommendations and just helping us make sure we're getting the right rates from PG&E because I guess that's a thing that they can just change your rates and you don't realize it and then you ask them to change them back and they change them back. So anyway, so we we have been doing a lot of these things. We also have King Consulting that is helping us make sure that we're going to get some of that Prop 2 money. So, we have all these things kind of in the works and there are more resources that Julie has brought to us. So, um I think we will keep making good progress. Great. Thank

090you so much. Thank you for your presentation. It's quite an education and um I'm in I'm really excited about that free money. I don't know. Should call Ron now. Um, yeah, call Ron. That should just be a rally cry there. Um, but I it sounds like we're on I mean, you always take such good care of our district, Tina, Miss Miss Veneros. Um, and it sounds like um, you know, with the additional resources, we're we're going to be in a better place. Um because it just kills me that we had to get rid of those solar panels and that was like $300,000 right there that we had to give up right recently. So um but uh always looking for ways to um make our district better and um more sustainable definitely. now we've got these

091new roles coming um you know we need to I think we need to be proactive and it sounds like we are but we're we're on track but I really appreciate this presentation thank you very much for sure I just want to say yeah the district definitely is on track and some of this data is a little bit old because we collected it about a year ago now yeah and so there have been some really great things that Miss Rand Horst is um spearheading and um Superintendent Prea and other staff and you know Marcus Peppers. So definitely good things have been happening that they are more aware of that I wasn't necessarily for this presentation. So yeah, so I commend and that's why our office we do have a partnership with Peninsula Clean Energy to provide

092these awards and that's why um actually I think last year you received a $500 award as well for for something different from the staff housing um and this year the award was for um another kind of building electrification. So yeah, things are happening that are really good. So just keep it up. Yeah. Uh, thank you so much. I don't know if there's going to be new data about the our district, but I kind of wonder to myself what the district office and the adult school buildings look like, you know, taking the same kind of measurements. Maybe we'll find out one day. Um, so I I will just say that that's actually the award we got last year was for these buildings because they're 100% electric. Oh, yes. Right. Right. Right. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,

093um, so that's one thing is that these two buildings are 100% electric and they both have solar panels that we own as opposed to why we had to pay for those other ones because we did not own them. That was part of a um anou type agreement. So, you're telling me these two buildings are 100% electric? Boogie woogie woogie. Yep. I believe they're also both lead certified. Yeah. The reason that the electric is so good is that peninsolan energy, like I said before, is providing us with 100% clean energy. So there's no fossil fuels that are being burned. And that's where the big increases in climate change come from. So just by having the lights on right now, you are not contributing to climate change. So that's a win that your community should know about.

094It's really good. Thank you. Okay, Julie, I was geeking out during your presentation because this is this is my Yeah, I'm a Union HBAC sheet metal guy and this is what I do. So, I was looking at all your presentation. I'm like, "Yep, yep, yeah, that's about it." So, anyways, yeah, great stuff. Um, the presentation obviously makes us very aware of what our needs are. Um, and I think that you did a great job at as you were going through it, I was having questions, but you were answering them as you were going. So, you were providing solutions and and places for us to go for help and and that's great. I mean, it's a great starting point, even if it is a little bit outdated. We obviously know that we're on top of it,

095it sounds like, over here. So, for sure, we're just headed in the right direction. That's what I think. I think we're all, you know, we're heading in the right direction. Yeah. No, I mean, we're I'm I'm seeing it, you know, from my workspace, too, how it's changing. So, and this is pretty spot on. Um, so thank you for that and I'm looking forward to seeing what we're doing and if you guys need anybody to consult with, you know, you could just holler at me. Um, thank you though again. I appreciate it. Sure. Just thank you. I mean I Yeah, I' I've seen the presentation. I'm grateful for your partnership and Ron and I'm proud that we are as as Tina said like we're in the right direction. We're moving in the right direction. So I'm

096I'm grateful. Yeah. Thank you. Absolutely. Awesome. Thanks, Julie. I think we're all good. Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate it. All right. Moving on to business. Okay. 16A3 is deputy super Oh, this is food services department update with deputy superintendent of businesses Tina Van Raporus and our director of food services Danielle Sweders. Hi. Hi. I just want to say that um before Danielle gets started um how proud I am uh to work with her and her team who all these uh beautiful people will need to be up at like 6:00 a.m. tomorrow to get the food ready for our kids. So, this is really a testament that they're here tonight. Um under Danielle's leadership, the food service department has continued to provide nutritious, safe, and appealing meals to students across the district. Her commitment to quality, efficiency, and

097innovation ensures that we not only meet the nutritional needs of our students, but also make sure that they have the support and ability to learn and thrive in our schools. And this is her annual update um of the food service program. Take it away, administrator of the year. Yeah. Thank you. All right. And as uh you had dinner tonight, you enjoyed it. That was definitely just an example of what the students get every single day. And lucky students. Yes. From this lovely staff right here. Yes. Okay. Our agenda tonight is the program highlights, the fiscal update, program goals, and questions and discussions if you have any. Pictured is our student worker at Teranova um serving from our new oatmeal bar. His name is Tyler. Program highlights. Um here we have two employees and you can

098see behind them the fresh delivery of bread. Okay. Uh the graband go bars. So that is somewhat new. We started it last year at um Jefferson and we have the grab-and-go bars at Jefferson and Westmore filled with fresh produce, healthy snacks for students that don't want to wait in line, are still hungry or want to grab something for their afterchool activities. Um the other food bars that we have at Teranova and Oceanana, we now have salad bars and oatmeal bars. Teranova salad bar is taco themed and Oceanana generally has taco themed salad bars Tuesday, Thursday and more classic salad bar on the other days. New items. Each kitchen has been given training and support to begin trying new menu items that might be popular with their students. Examples are the Reubins, which you had tonight

099on rye with sauerkraut and the shakuterie snack platters which you also enjoyed today. All right, presentation. And you enjoyed one of the other potato, right? One with the pineapple, the hikima, and the cucumber. Make him. We had that. So that's that's a new one this year. Yeah. Uh signage. This is snack bar at Oceanana. All right, other highlights, uh, fast lines because we know the students don't want to, you know, we don't want to take their time up. We want them to enjoy a meal, but still have free time for themselves. So, most days, most lines are resolved within 10 minutes of the lunch period, leaving plenty of time for students to eat and socialize. Good morale, less turnover. Staff are staying in their jobs longer, and vacant positions are filled quickly. Improvements have been

100more training and support for workers and more autonomy for the school sites. Sustainability, less waste. Uh we are transitioning to compostable packaging. Utensils for the most items. Kitchens are fully outfitted with the tri bins and staff has been trained on sustainable practices. All right. Um here are some slides um showing um the freshness of the food and scratch cooking and the good morale and the cleanliness. Yeah. Uh this is the grabandgo bar at Westmore that we opened up this year. And also in one of the weekly recaps I had mentioned that I also am putting up the nutrition posters. So students while they're either in line or grabbing something learn all about what is good for their bodies and like why we really promote the healthy food and why it's good for them. I'm going

101to talk really briefly about the fiscal update. I'm just going to tell you if you um so the orange bars are how much money um we spent the expenditures and then the yellow bar just says whether that was a surplus or a deficit. So I didn't put the the revenue I just showed you. Uh so in 1516 we spent $1.1 million and that caused a $156,000 deficit. So that means that the revenue was 156,000 less than the expenditures. Historically our program has always run at a deficit until universal meals started in 21-22. Um that year we had a pretty much break even program. Last year our program made a a significant amount of money. I think over 200 almost $300,000. And so, um, I encourage Danielle to ensure that the, um, meals that we're serving

102our kids, like try some higher quality products if we need to, maybe get a little more staff. Like we, our goal is really to run a break even program. We, we want it, we want to spend as much money on making it um, a good program without having any contribution from the general fund. So last year uh we h came really close to that break even um with just a $61,000 deficit which was easily covered by the previous year's surplus. And this year we're on track to um have a break even program. And as you can see, the amount we're expending each year is going up because of uh just inflation, but also because of improvements we're making to the program. Program goals. Our lovely Oceanana staff right there. Um increase student input. Um, we

103have QR codes that have been posted in the cafeterias and code lines for students to uh go to a Google form sheet to give their input. Um, student input is provided mostly anecdotedly and monitored which meals are in high demand. Um, exploring new items with grant funds. We've been able to purchase upgraded restaurant style equipment. You may have seen that in a lot of my weekly recaps. Um, staff would benefit from more training and support using these tools to provide more items that are cooked from scratch. Improved signage and information. Menus are handwritten or typed and posted each day. We have improved school website menus to reflect each school's unique menu. We plan to upgrade the to electronic signage and make sure students have access to the current days and next days menus. Um, it

104has been updated already on our website so that students can go on the website and see what's for today. And then we plan to get the digital signage inside the cafeterias over the summer. Oh, we're in the All right. And that concludes the presentation. This is the Westmore staff. All right. Thank you very much. Any questions? comments. Just comments really. Um, thank you. Uh, food was fantastic. Tonight's dinner was great. In fact, President Datos will tell you when I first walked up upstairs, I literally could not make a decision on what to do. I had decision paralysis because everything looked so so good. The other thing was after I'd looked at the uh presentation over the weekend, I happened to show my son who class of 2019 and uh and also happens to be subbing

105here currently. And he when I showed him some of the photos, his eyes just went big and and he was just kind of blown away because he doesn't remember food like this back in 2019. It wasn't. So So just really fabulous work. Just really fabulous work. And you know, the other thing is when we first started having student trustees, the number one complaint was food. We haven't heard anything about food from the student trustees in a really long time. So that's really credit to you and your team. So thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah. Delicious food today. Um I'm a big believer in, you know, if if the stomach is full, then the brain could work, right? because you're supplying it glucose and it's it's happy, it's excited. Um, and I'm really impressed with your your

106innovations and being more efficient. And I think people underestimate that little extra 5 minutes that kids have to just banter with each other, rub rub elbows with each other and socialize, right? And so in that spirit of like, you know, digitizing your menu so they can look at things ahead of time, are you considering giving them the ability to like pre-order so they can just like they just show up and like, you know, you have your order ready, order for blah blah blah. You just pick and go and then they give more time with each other. I'm not sure if you've thought about that and what that would entail cost. That's where Miss Rob Horst and you two debate about just comments. But thank you your amazing work. Thank you for all you do. Really

107appreciate you all. Amazing. I'm just like, oh my gosh, we went through, you know, when the students would they brought the school lunch to our board meeting and showed us what they were eating, actually not eating, refusing to eat, but they said, "This is what we are served." And then our student trustees, it was always about food. It was always about food. And then we went through the whole Chartwells era. Um, and to to know that you're actually making food again. Actually making food. It's um, you know, my my daughter, she graduated in 2022 from Jeff and she she never got the school lunch because part of it was the lines were too long. She didn't like what was served and she always had like a club thing going on at lunchtime and the lines

108were too long. Now you've cut the lines down at 10 minutes and it's not just time for them to socialize but they can get to their meeting and have a good lunch. Mhm. Um because that was always like the complaint. How you cut it down to 10 minutes? Um how is that possible? It's just the way that we have everything ready for them. the way that we let them grab their own milks and the way that we put all the fruit baskets up above for them to pick for themselves. Um, so it was really looking it from the outside and walking through the kitchen and pretending you're a student instead of standing on the kitchen side as an employee. It was having to do walkthroughs of like, well, how will we make this quicker? and

109all the fruits and vegetables, the carrots and the apples, the bananas. Making that accessible for them to grab on their own just cuts down the time if you have hundreds, literally hundreds of students, so it's not one employee, right? Chocolate or white? Chocolate or white? Which one? It's you just leave it there and let them help themselves. Oh, great. And then the QR codes, have they been giving a lot of input? It's not up and down. Yeah, it's up and down. Yeah, but they clearly have you can tell what their favorites are because of what they're taking. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, great. And then you're serving breakfast as well. Yep. And then we started this year as well where on collab days was only lunch, so we serve breakfast before school. Oh. So they have access

110to two meals every single day. That's great because I know some of Yeah. Some of the students this is the their best meals are at school. Yeah. Thank you again. Thank you so much again for everything you do for our students and I will be visiting the schools next year for lunch. Thank you. Uh thank you for your presentation. Thanks everyone for coming out and for sticking around. I appreciate it. Uh thank you for your work. Um, I visited Oceanana during lunch yesterday and uh I really like the snack bar. You know, it just looked clean and orderly and uh that peanut butter and jelly sandwich looked fantastic. Um, uh, I had to pull something up here because, um, I used to be a teacher. I didn't pay too much attention to some of those

111education classes. They're talking about the hierarchy of needs um and how um psychologically uh psychological needs are first and I think Marty talked about that a little bit. Uh so thank you for meeting those for our students and thank you for anticipating their needs. Um I don't know I keep talking about this. My first my first action as a board member was going to uh the board member conference and the opening speaker talked about how paraphrasing kind of the biggest force in educating students is to be able to love them. And I think that this is a perfect example and or at least for me to say out of my mouth. I think that probably we get perfect examples every time someone comes and presents to us. Uh so thank you for that for being

112able to love our students enough to to satisfy these needs. I have only one question. Uh so if by some magic the next time you show up for work the stoves are electric, is that a problem? No. No, just curious. Yeah, it would not be a problem. I I actually noticed that in one of the photos you showed, there was a propane uh that you would I'm like, what happens to that item on the menu? That is a handheld. The same that restaurants use to make creme brulee. Yes. Say, were you making creme brulee? What? That was our apples brulee at Oceanana where the apples were caramelized on top of cinnamon raisin bread. You realize you're going to have to bring that for a future board meeting dinner. Just saying. You can't say that without

113bringing it to us. I know. It's fantastic. Thank you very much. Good name. All right. Oh, man. That was a great presentation. Um, looking at all that food definitely made me hungry. Um, the presentation of the food that that's I think that's one of those things that just it it brings the students in, right? When they see something that looks good, the colors, the way you pair it together, the way it's presented, it just it's palatable, right? It looks fun. Um, and I know that in our in our society, our our our kids like to take pictures of their food and post them on the, you know, their social media and stuff. So, that food's really important to us, I think, as a society in general. So, and it's it's real it's more important to

114to kids to kids that are trying to learn and have energy for the day and get through just get through school and and like Rosie said, you know, some kids this is where they get their their best meals. And for us to be able to provide meals like like you guys are all providing for our kids is really amazing. It's really amazing. It's so cool to see. And I'm really proud to be part of something like this. And I just want to thank all you guys for all your hard work. I know it's not easy, but when the morale is good, it is fun. And I know cooking can be a pleasure if you're doing it with people that you're having fun doing it with. And you're seeing the smiles on the kids' faces. That's

115enjoyable. You get something out of that. So, um, thank you for all of it. You know, I really appreciate it and look forward to seeing what's to come. I appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome. I hear from my I don't mention my own child much in board meetings because he doesn't like it. But um I will say after making his lunch for every day of his school life until high school, I was like, "Listen, you got to start eating lunch at school. I'm done. I'm tapped out." And um initially he was like, "I don't want to eat a school lunch." and he happily eats the school lunch. And I will say he happens well I so I will say Penny thank you. He he I will say I've mentioned things and then all of a

116sudden they arrive in the Oceanana cafeteria. So thank you. But it's not just at Oceanana. Like I go to I pop in every once in a while to all of the cafeterias and honest to goodness I would happily eat anything in the cafeterias. I go I oftenimes I'm at Jefferson and there's kids outside walking not eating and I'm like why are you not eating? There's great food in there and increasingly students, you know, the the um I don't know the the number of students who are eating at school just keeps increasing and that's really a credit to you who are making the food for them who it it is more than it it like tonight's um dinner that you provided wasn't something special. That's what the kids get on a regular basis. It's really tasty

117and um stuff that they'd want to eat. It's not just pizza slices or you know things like that that you know, of course they like pizza slices too, but um nutritious and attractive and high quality. And um I'm just so grateful because what Rosie was talking about at student advisory like honestly every single year that's all we would hear about was the lunches and we don't hear that. And if anybody ever complains, I'm like, "Listen, go try it and then you come back and tell me." So, it's the quality is just exponentially better than it's been in years. And so, just thank you so much and thank you Danielle because your leadership has made this happen. So, thank you. My pleasure. All right. I will um add um we did have our administrative review with

118California Department of Education this year. It's once every five years and our auditor did tell us that it was one of the nicest districts she has ever reviewed. I know. Thank you for that. That kind of you ladies get home safe tonight. Thank you for staying so late. Thank you for staying so late. Okay, we are moving along. Uh we're going to move on to 17 A1, which is our approval renewal of Oceanana's high school's alternative school of choice waiver. And we're going to turn it over to our deputy superintendent educational services, Miss Karine Baka. Good evening, President Goss. Good evening, members of the board. Presented for your approval is the renewal of Oceanana High School's instructional minutes waiver. The waiver requests that Oceanana High School continue to maintain the previously approved reduction of required

119minutes that has happened since 1991. Um, this waiver reduces the required instructional minutes by 4560 minutes per school year, which is approximately 25 minutes per day. The reduction will allow um time for staff collaboration and planning as well as for students to complete their community service hours um requirements. If approved, the waiver will be effective for two years starting in the 2526 school year. Thank you, Miss Baka. Are there any comments or questions? No. Move to approve. Second. All those in favor? I Okay. 17 A2, approval of board policy 6146.1, high school graduation requirements. Deputy Superintendent of Educational Services, Miss Karimbaka. Hello again. Before you is the proposed updates or high school graduation requirements effective with the class of 2031. These changes reflect the new state mandates and our commitment to preparing students for college,

120career, and life beyond high school. So, the three key updates are the personal finance requirement, which is in compliance with AB2927, where students will complete a standalone 5 credit personal finance course. And this course will begin on or before the 2728 school year and be required for the class of 2031. The second change is the visual and performing arts and world language split. The current 10 credit combined requirement will be separated into 10 credits for each visual and performing arts and world language. And the third one is a credit increase. The total credit requirement will increase from 225 to 230. So these revisions will support academic readiness, A throughG alignment and essential life skills. and we recommend for the board to approve the revised graduation requirements beginning with the class of 2031. Any questions or

121comments? I have a question. Uh do you happen to know when the last time we changed this was? The board changed this policy. This was changed maybe a couple of years ago with ethnic studies um was put in place. Okay. Thanks. I'm just for clarification. I'm just going just think both this and going back to the presentation from the last board meeting. So the we're adding personal finance. We're splitting the VAPA enrolled language. So that 10 units of each we're essentially 10 units shy technically of a full A through G graduation requirement based on this right because the only thing that's missing is the second year of a world language. Okay. And this is so this class of 20 of the class of 2031 would be the freshman class of fall 27 or is that

122fall of 26? The class of 2031 I think they're in seventh grade right now. Okay. All right. So fall of um however um because there's so much request for the personal finance course more likely this will be offered at all schools in the next couple of years. Okay. I think that the class of 20 31 31 are sixth graders right now. Okay. Sixth graders. Okay. All right. Right. Yeah. Can we get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I All right. Moving on. 17 A3. This one. The class ranking. Oh, sorry. Oh, go ahead. So, the class ranking places students in order based on their grade point average. This rank is included on transcripts and is visible to students families, colleges, and potential employers. However, class rank can result in

123evaluations that focus solely on academic performance without acknowledging a student's broader strengths, experiences, and personal growth. So to better support student well-being and promote academic exploration, we recommend that the language be added to board policy 5121 to remove class ranking from the student transcripts beginning with the class of 2027. So in seeking input from school principles, I received varied responses. One favored the implementation starting with the class of 2026 and another preferred the class of 2028 which is our current freshman. So choosing class of 2027 represents a balanced approach and additionally feedback from educational partners largely referenced when I gathered this input. I referenced class of 2027 and there was a general comfort with um this class. So based on that, I recommend um to implement this starting with the class of 2027. And those

124are the current sophomores, right? They will be juniors starting starting this fall. Okay. I have one question. Any sense of sentiment from the community like the parents of these kids from the class of 2027? Yeah. Um, a lot of this when I sent out the survey, a lot of the folks that um completed the survey would have had like their students graduate already. And so it's only very few um that really, you know, said wait or basically they didn't they're indifferent. Okay. And so re ranking um does is does it hold weight in any way and is there so it's it's not um not anymore. Um a lot of school districts have gone away from ranking. And so when students apply for colleges, one of the questions that they ask is, "Does your school rank?"

125And the counselors say no. And then they're okay with that. um they really look at more of on the grade point average of students and the types of classes students take more than ranking. Thank you. Yeah. Right. I think that the stat that kind of jumped out for me during the discussion last time was that only five and a half% of colleges actually considered it significant. So that was enough for me. And with more districts going away from it, it's going to eventually go right. And I think I think the other thing too were just some of the samples that were shown during a discussion with um where you know some somebody who's as old as we are looking at their transcript showing their class ranking which is kind of disheartening if you're if you've

126been out of out of high school for 30 years. Yes it is. Yes. So you miss Basin knows I wasn't calling anybody out. I was just simply saying in general if you're you know 30 years beyond high school. So all right. Well, if there's no further questions or comments, could we get a motion to move to approve um BP5121 grades evaluation of student achievement? Second. All those in favor? I. Thank you. All right. 17A4, approval of board policy 5127, graduation ceremonies. So, it is recommended that the board of trustees adopt a Latin honor system replacing the validictorian and saludiatoran titles beginning with the class of 2027. This system recognizes a broader group of high achieving students based on GPA performance and on-state assessments. Including the smarter balance assessment scores and part in their participation ensures

127that academic honors reflect both strong classroom environment and mastery of state standards through an objective statewide benchmark. This also encourages students to take the assessments seriously, helping improve overall engagement with the state accountability measures. The policy would also allow schools to recognize additional achievements such as the state seal of biiteracy, golden state seal merit diploma, career technical education completion, and many more. And with this, I recommend that the board approve this revised policy. Okay. Are there any questions or comments regarding this? I'll I'll start. Yeah. I am concerned about tying uh testing to uh to Latin honors. Um I I if they've got the GPA to earn those honors, SUMA, Magna, etc., then they should get it exclus exclusive of of the test. So I'm okay with with moving to this without the testing. That's

128where I stand. I thought we discussed that or we didn't come to a conclusion, right? the recommend the recommendation for us includes that. I'm simply saying that I I if I were to make a motion right now, I would make a motion to approve it without the testing. Right. And I thought that Oh gosh. So I thought that when we last discussed this that we also felt I think we pro we did feel that way. I at least I felt that way too. Um, you know, I mean, I I understand that we want pe want the students to take the assessment benchmarks um seriously and this is a way for them to actually take the Smarter Balance test, but you know, if you got the GPA, you've got the Latin that that has earned you

129that Latin honor. So, I'm also of that mind. I don't want to tie it to um changing it to the Latin honor and having them have to meet these uh benchmark assessments. I have a question just to clarify again the smarter balance uh test what is the significance of it to us as a school district? So the smarter balance assessment is tied into the California state dashboard that I presented. So if us as a district or some significant subgroups do not meet the threshold, we may end up in differentiated assistance for the state of California, which means which could mean a monthly meeting with um the county office of education to develop a plan and implement a plan. So that's just one part and then there's federal accountabilities um that is tied to that also

130which means another set of meetings with different groups of people. Um and so it's really just you know it's accountability and creating additional plans and implementing those plans and sometimes what is expected is like unfunded mandate where you know we're basically in meetings all day. Yeah. So ultimately it sounds to me like the smarter balance test yes doesn't have a direct academic merit to the students per se but at a global picture of of our school district and making sure that we have a robust schools district that serves students at the utmost level. We want more students to take the Smarter Balance test and we want them to take it seriously. Um because when I looked at the data, the sumakum laades are the ones who typically actually already get the standard met or above.

131Um and so it really just shows that, you know, what they're learning in the classroom is represented in these assessments. And if for whatever reason, you know, they don't get a standard MET or above and they meet the GPA participation, they still would get recognized, but they would be recognized as the Kumala instead of the Magna or the Suma. Okay. So for Kumalum Kumalad, it's participation in all of the exam. for magnaum laad either um standard med or above either in English or math and then for sumakum laad would be for both math and English. Okay. So I speak for myself I I think it makes sense to pass to pass it as it is. Yes, it might not be ideal for the students, but if we're really stepping back and setting a foundation for

132future generation students to come, I think it only makes sense that we encourage more students to take the Smarter Balance test. Yes, it might not count towards the overall grade per se, but it reflects to us as a school district and gives us a blueprint of a quote unquote a good school district going forward, right? for for I I'm fundamentally for me if you've earned the designation based on your academic achievement in the classroom you should get the designation irrespective of whether you take the exam the taking the exam is really fun it's really a school site issue where they need to encourage the students to be able to take that exam and I think that's a separate issue from from the academic achievement of the student in the classroom. I I think that adding

133the task testing to this is actually punitive and I and I and I fundamentally disagree with include with that inclusion with this designation. Yeah. You know, Andy, we we've talked about that a little bit and I'm I'm kind of leaning your way on this. I was I'm I was a little bit torn at first. I I know we need these we need our our the students that are performing well to take these tests. I mean, it's important that they take these tests and that we, you know, gather this data and and so it more represents what our district is doing and how we're doing. So, that's important. Um, but like you said, I I don't know if tying it to this honor system is fair. Um, ju just because, like you said, if they're performing

134at the level they're supposed to be performing at and hitting their GPA. So, just real quick question on on the their their honors would it's not based on how well they perform on the test. It's just based on if they take the test, right? Is that kind of what it is or it's tiered? So for the sumakum laad um so a student can get a 1, two, three or four. So um three and four are passing. And so for the sumakum, if they get a three or a four in English and in math and they meet the GPA criteria, they would get the sumakum. For the Magna, it's one or the other, either math or English. And then for the cumlad, it's participation. Got it. So that's how you're encouraging them to really try hard

135to take the test. And how else does I, you know, you've probably heard this before, but how else does that smarter balance assessment affect them aside from this like taking that test where where in their academic, you know, right now, the California State University of System actually uses their scores for um the early assessment program to see if they can be um placed in the college level course when they first start college. So, um I know you that's one of the measures. So, if they get a standard MET or above, then they could be placed in, you know, is it English 100 um at the CSU levels? Are we communicating that to the students though? Because I mean, because it seems like if if we're I mean, if they understand that, then that's really the

136carrot. Yeah. It's I mean I don't I don't think that tying it to to to to this is the right approach. It's really more about Yeah. It's like how how do we get them right? Yeah. And and maybe and maybe we need to it's one of those situations where we need to overcommunicate it to the students. Yeah. Especially if it's being looked at by the other college potential colleges. For sure. Uh yeah, this is a tough one. Um if if any the way I look at this is you know back in the day when you graded students AB, A+ A minus, the A+ student was the one that turned that assignment in a little bit on time. The assignment was still turned in. It was still graded, but they just put that extra effort. And

137so it's worthy to recognize and appreciate that effort. That's the way I view this. And I really, if maybe my perspective is completely wrong, I'm willing and open to learn. But am I looking at it differently or is that I So I I see what you're saying. But I think the way I'm looking at this is like if I'm looking at it like a like like when you're grading on a curve and you have a big test that counts a lot towards your grade. This this seems to carry a lot of weight in and for their for this honor system. Meaning they could have a great year academically acing nailing everything. Come into school today. They take their having a bad day and they just they don't do well on that test for some reason.

138They're tired. They're something's happening at home. they don't do well and that knocks them down from, you know, from getting a better, you know, from being higher up on their honor system. That's that's tough for me to kind of feel comfortable with. Right. It's just a good way to put it. Exactly. I I completely agree with that. I mean, it's I mean, the board policy should simply say on on track to receive a diploma GPA 4.0 and above. Period. Manumi on track to receive a diploma GPA of 3.7 and above. Period. Cumli on track to receive a diploma GPA of 3.5 and above. Period. That's how it should read in my opinion. Yeah. And then basically remarket or rebrand the Smarter Balance test to the students and show them why they should they should take

139it. It's a se that's a separate discussion alto together. Right. Got it. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. Okay. Um um yeah, I'd make a motion to approve. All right. So motion to approve BP 5127 gradu graduation and ceremonies eliminating the smarter balance testing requirement for all three Latin honors to just limit SUMA to 4.0 and above, magnet to 3.7 and above and cumludi 3.5 and above. Second. All those in favor? I I I just to clarify before I vote on that, that's that means we're taking out the standard the smarter balance testing, right? That's what we're voting on. Yes. Okay. Yes. Hi. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh Karine, thank you for that. I know we're really trying to figure out a way to get this these testing scores and people participating.

140I It's a It's a good discussion. That's a tough one. We're gonna figure it out. We have to figure it out. It's important. So, we'll get back on that some point. Thank you. All right, scooting along here. So, 17B1. Um, public disclosure of proposed bargaining agreement with Excuse me, President Gyos. Yeah. Um, it's 9:39. Can we take a quick five minute? Absolutely. Yeah, let's do it. Potty break. Yes. Yes. Five minute recess. We'll reconvene. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] 9:45. Is it really 9:45? Wow. Okay. Uh, let's see. Where are we at here? 17B1. Okay. Public disclosure of proposed bargaining agreement with American Federation of Teachers Local 1481. Deputy Superintendent of Business Services, Miss Tina Van Rapor. Thank you, President Gyos. Later on the agenda, Miss Luhan will be asking the board to approve a tenative

141agreement with AFT. This in agreement includes a salary increase. AB1200 is legislation that stipulates that prior to approving any collective bargaining agreement that increases cost to the district, the board must adopt a public disclosure that outlines the impact to the budget. The public disclosure document that's before you is based on the most recent approved budget which was adopted in March during our second interim report and it includes the impact of the proposed tenative agreement. It shows that the district can meet the projected costs for this fiscal year and subsequent two years. As noted in the document, the district will use reserve funds to cover the increased costs. The document has been reviewed and affirmed by the business staff at the Sanonteo County Office of Ed. And with that, I would like to recommend that you

142approve the public disclosure as presented. Can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. All those in favor? I. Thank you for our work on that too, Tina. All right. All right. Uh, next up 17B2. Thank you. For this item, I recommend that the board approve resolution 2024-2025/20, which would approve the engineers report and declare the district's intent to continue assessments for the 2526 fiscal year for the maintenance assessment district. The resolution would also provide notice of a public hearing for June 3rd, where you will be asked to vote to continue this assessment. The maintenance assessment district generates about $350,000 annually. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. All those in favor? I I 17C1 approval of tenative agreement with the American Federation of Teachers Local 1481, Director of

143Human Resources, Miss Dana Lewan. Good evening everyone. The item before you is a tenative agreement which summarizes language changes that AFT1481 and the district have agreed upon as well as salary schedule updates that reflect the 4% raise that we have agreed upon. Thank you Dana. Can I get a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All those in favor? I I Does this deserve applause? Excuse me. Should we applaud thing, right? It's a good thing. Yeah. Okay. All right. 17C2 salary schedule revision and unre for unrepresented employees. Miss Dana Luhan. Thank you. This item here represents salary schedule revisions that also reflect a 4% raise equal to what was provided to aft 1481. It just covers the employees who are not represented by aft 1481. Move to approve. Second. All those in favor? I I 17C3

144public hearing and actions. Miss Dana Luhan. Thank you again. The item here is a sunshine uh where teamsters um 856 and the district would like to open negotiations particularly focused on one small language change and salary and benefits. Thank you. Is there a motion to approve? This is public hearing so you're going to have to open a hearing. Oh, open a hearing. Is there a Okay, say tap tap. Okay, my bad. Sorry, guys. Open for public hearing. No, they close public hearing. Okay, close public hearing. That's all right. Now we do. Can I ask a question? Yes. So, I should know this by now and I don't. So, let's get me straight. Got it. Um, when we use the word sunshine, does that mean we are making something apparent to the public? Yes, we are

145making what when we engage in negotiations, the last thing we want to do is not we want to keep it above board. So, we want the public to have an opportunity if we're opening an article that the that the public may want to have a comment on, we want to provide them with that space so that way they know what we're going to talk about in negotiations. I'm glad you asked. Thanks. I'm glad you know. That was a good wondering. That's a great that's a great explanation by the way. Okay, it's 10:00. Move to move to approve. There you go. All those in favor? I I All right. So, if there's no consideration of future agenda items, we are going to adjourn back to close session. Motion to adjourn back to closed session. Second. Those

146in favor? I forgot about [Music]