Board Meeting - 5/14/26 - Open Session

001Wesley. All right, good uh good evening. I'd like to um call to reconvene us back into um our board meeting here um May the 14th. Um reconvening us back into open session from closed session. So, item number six uh is report on any action that we took during closed session. We did not take any action during closed session. Um next is agenda item seven, which is communication reports. These are limited to 5 minutes. Uh board member reports. Do we have any reports from our board members? Trustee Mansfield. Um the highlight of last week was going around to almost every school I was at last week. I was at the high school, the middle school, um Tahoe Valley, Myers, Sierra House. I missed Bijou. Also got to see transportation and and just for teacher appreciation, staff

002appreciation, not just teachers, but how much they do for our kids and how much how hard they work. You know, and just a really good dedicated group of employees. So, I was very proud of them and it was fun and it was and that's like the fun part of being on the board. Graduations and teacher appreciation week or staff appreciation week are the the fun things. Right. Thank you. I would like to share and I'll echo what Trustee Mansfield said. It's just everyone everywhere was so appreciative and we appreciated them and it was it was great. But, I'd also like to um highlight last Friday night at the middle school Discover Night was so fantastic. So many ages and so many participating in such a great community event and those who won't understand it was

003just so thankful. Thank you to whoever put that all I don't know who put that together. Was that the Marcella Foundation or high school It was all it was it was the Ors. Okay, yes. It Uh CTE there was both high school CTE students and Lake Tahoe Community College students and I saw also staff for sure. So it was a combination of um students and staff and um and and Dr. Ors. >> Dr. Ors, yeah. It wasn't it was absolutely so great. >> Fantastic. Yeah, thank you. And it was a really felt like a really good partnership and people really showed up. I know a couple of the college students told me they if they attended and you know, they got they got a credit for their grades, you know, raise their grades. So that

004was motivating incentive, but it was just nice that they I mean the younger kids really appreciate working with older kids, you know, on that on science. All right, anything else trusty Anderson? Do you have a report? Okay. All right, and I have nothing more to report. So moving on to our student board member report and we have Mary Let's Luxinger. Okay, so there's been a lot of stuff going on at the high school right now. Since the end of the year is getting closer, we just have more and more events coming every week. So for sports, all the spring teams are coming to a close. Track went did really well in regionals and now a bunch of them are continuing to state. So that's really exciting. Um swim did well and are also going to

005state. Baseball did well and softball ended up getting first in the 3A Western region. So a win. Um and then the arts, there's plenty of concerts coming up. So the band, orchestra, choir, all those groups are having the pops concert on the 26th of this month. So make sure you come to that. It's going to be spaghetti cowboy themed. so it's kind of like kind of fun western, I don't know. It'll be fun. And then, there was also last week an open mic at Bear Roots. So, that was really cool. There was a lot of students who just performed whether they were in the guitar class or band classes or anything like that, or they just wanted to perform. Um, so that got a lot of people involved and yeah, so that was really cool.

006And then there's another one coming up on June 15th, so make Yes, that'll be another open mic. Yes. At June the 5th. The 15th. >> 15th. Okay, I wrote five down, but 15. Um, Okay, thank you. >> Clubs, plenty of elections were happening. New exacts are elected and ready to start like doing stuff for the coming year as seniors start to fade out. Um, the senior projects are happening in two weeks. disappear. Yes, exactly. They're all stressed about their senior projects. >> [laughter] >> Um, so yeah, so if you guys want to judge or time them, like that's still open, I guess. A lot of students, I know myself, we're going to be timing them, so that'll be really cool. Um, and then, let's see. I also went and I talked with a lot of

007students through Tahoe Valley and Sierra House. Um, and of course, they were kind of complaining a little bit, but they were talking about um, they both brought up how they want better food. That was something that they brought up and I honestly think that is very valid. Um, so that was something that they brought up and they but a lot of them just recognized how like kind people are and how it's important to be respectful, kind, and patient. And they were a lot of them just very um, willing to talk and also willing to speak out about what they think needs to be changed, which was really important and good to hear about. Um, and yeah, I think that's about it. So. [clears throat] All right, thank you for your report. And I don't think

008our food services is here to hear that, but >> [laughter] >> we'll work on that. All right, um next we have our superintendent's report item 7C. Yeah, President Keffer and members of the board, I'm going to make it relatively short. I want to thank all of you for going out and seeing all of the staff last week um and and thanking them during staff appreciation for their work. Um we have a highly dedicated staff that really should be appreciated every single day of the year, right? Um but obviously um we take that took the time and I just appreciate that. Um next week is a busy week and I wanted to just give you some some highlights of that. Just so you're aware, our cell phone committee has been meeting pretty regularly the last 6-7

009weeks and they invited me to come next Monday night because they wanted to deliver to me what they're plan planning to bring forward to the board and make sure that they'd have the support of the superintendent on that as a possible adjustment to board policy. If you'll recall, we had our com- community conversation and then launched into having a committee. They've been working on that. Um Principal Zanino at the high school has facilitated that with we have had staff We've had staff, parents, and students engaged. And so I look forward to that and then eventually bringing it to you here in in the board room. Next Tuesday night, we're going to hold a community conversation. Um this is the third of a community conversation for the year. There's been a lot of questions around what's

010happening with the s- facilities and and so we decided that really would be good for us to have a community conversation to update all what's about to happen um through the bond, through um our sustainability projects, um our we have um a pilot going on with audio enhancement. So we're going to talk about all of that. And uh we're going to have all all of our partners will be there to to answer questions, to to hear about I'm going to share and then they'll share a little bit, but then there'll be time where people can just go up and see them and talk to them. So, that's that'll be Tuesday night. That will start at 6:00 and we're originally Teresa had scheduled for it here. I said, "You know, just in case we have a

011good turnout, let's get over to the middle school." So, that's where that'll be. I wanted you to know that we are holding SELPA Governance Council meeting next Wednesday afternoon at 3:30. It'll be a virtual meeting. Um and many of those items on that agenda will be part of a agenda item for you at your next board meeting. And then next Thursday night, starting right here at 4:00, we're going to have our Hall of Distinction Induction Ceremony, followed by the Celebration of Education and I believe Lytle Ed Foundation's here this evening. Well, he'll be here and he'll kind of highlight some of what's going to be happening at the Celebration of Education. But just so you know, we did announce our employees of the year this past week and we will be recognizing them that evening

012as well. So, a lot happening. I wanted to make sure that I shared that and and encouraged folks to be engaged. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have our Employee Association reports. And we have Ms. Mora in the house and I don't know if Bernadette is here. Okay, thank you for attending today. I appreciate that. And thank you. Yeah, welcome everybody that's here. Okay, Bernadette, I don't see her. >> Yeah, it looks like we don't have no reports tonight. Uh next we have public comment and during the public comment period we please ask that you limit your comments to 3 minutes or less. If there's more than one speaker on a single agenda item, the board president may limit the comments to less than 3 minutes. I just encourage you to not necessarily repeat something

013someone else already brought up. Uh no more than 20 minutes of public input will be taken on any one item. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us facilitate our meetings. The Brown Act only allows the board to address items on the posted agenda. The board is listening and cares about your important issues. A board member or the superintendent will be glad to meet with you to discuss your concerns and or address them on a future agenda. Do we have any public comments? >> Yes, we do. We do have one submitted public comment and we'll have Ms. Gao read that to you now. This is from Jennifer Drennan. I have My name is Jennifer Drennan and I'm a parent of a physically and intellectually disabled child who is also on the autism spectrum. I have served

014as an active member of the Community Advisory Committee CAC for more than 8 years. Throughout that time, while the work has certainly presented challenges, we consistently felt that we were building collaborative and constructive relationships with the district. Examples of this collaboration include bringing IEP trainings to CAC meetings for both staff and parents, as well as distributing communications through Aries regarding local special needs community events and gatherings. Unfortunately, following the the hiring and recent arrival of Michelle Boyd, this collaborative process has taken a significant downturn. Beginning on February 25, 2026, Ms. Boyd attempted what I experienced as a hostile takeover of our parent-run CAC meeting in pursuit of her own agenda. The agenda did not include introducing herself, building relationships with an established group, or addressing the needs of our students with disabilities. Instead, Ms. Boyd

015asserted that the CAC, as it has functioned, does not exist and never had existed, citing procedural and etiquette concerns that none of us as a CAC group had ever previously encountered or been informed of. Since that February meeting, the situation has deteriorated further, marked by reduction reduced communication, a lack of transparency, and an increased adverse adversarial tone. The role of the CAC as a volunteer advisory board is to advocate for what for and ensure that the needs of students with disabilities are met and supported. Did you Did you hit start? Oh, oh you started it. Okay. Let's see. Well, I'm not going to find where I am. Let's see. Yeah, we'll give another minute. Doesn't matter. >> [laughter] >> Does not exist. Okay, so sorry about that you guys. None of this is Okay, I

016I got it. Since that February meeting, the situation has deteriorated further marked by Oh, sorry. The role of the I'll just read this from here. The role of the CAC as a volunteer advisory board is to advocate for and ensure that the needs of students with disabilities are met and supported. Instead, the past several months have been consumed by unnecessary conflict culminating in a cease and desist letter from the district's legal counsel to our CAC chair, Daryl Mill Miller, demanding that we cease referring to ourselves as a CAC. As a volunteer parent, I have no interest in engaging in semantic disputes over navigating bureaucratic red tape. My sole interest is meaningfully advocacy for students with disabilities. Finally, I was recently made aware that my name was added to a {quote} certification list without my knowledge

017or consent. I did not authorize the use of my name, nor did I add it myself. This is evident as my name was misspelled. At a minimum, accuracy should be should have been ensured. The list, as I understand it, was taken directly from a SELPA document and states A12. Many representatives of the community we are involved in the development of all serious all sections of the local plan. In this table, report the participation of key stakeholders required to to participate in regular meetings by EC sections 56001F and 56192, including administrators, general education teachers, special education teachers, members of the CAC, parents selected by the CAC, or other persons concerned with individuals with exceptional needs. Include the agency first and last name, the title of each participant who was involved in the collaboration in the development

018of the local plan sections and sections worked on. I state unequivocally that I was never involved in the collaboration or development of any local plan sections. I do not know who added my name without my consent or knowledge, but its inclusion is factually incorrect and constitutes a misrepresentation. Thank Thank you for your time, Jennifer Drennen. All right. Thank you. Okay, that that is all that was submitted. We do have two submissions. Um we'll start with Darrell Miller. Okay. You're welcome. Board members, the CAC exists to give parents and students with disabilities a meaningful voice in special education and governance. Yet that voice has been ignored, restricted, questioned, and treated as a threat. I've spent countless hours over the years researching special education law, reviewing SELPA records, participating in meetings, communicating with parents, and trying to

019support students with disabilities and their families. Yet despite that effort, I increasingly feel dismissed as a disgruntled parent rather than heard as a CAC chair raising documented concerns about governance, compliance, transparency, and parent participation. The most serious issue before you is whether official representations were California claiming CAC and parent participation visions did not actually occur. Since 2020, participant lists have been submitted to the CBE without actual CAC participation. My own signature was placed on the 2021 and 22, even though 2023 was the first year I ever was provided a local plan for review. That is not a paperwork issue, that is an official certification to the California Department of Education about whether families of students with disabilities were included in self governance. There are the documents from the meeting proving this. The CAC was recognized

020in October, again in March, and the governance council issued a written apology to CAC members on March 10th. Yet on May 1st, district legal counsel issued a saying that it was wholly unfounded in fact. It claimed I was notified 5th that I was no longer a CAC member. The transcript such notification occurred. And I received no written Either way, this is not the proper process for removing CAC members. Claim the governance council was already considering CAC recommendations through the appropriate public process. If that was true, the agendas, minutes, discussion, or records showing that process occurred before the letter was issued. And the letter claimed I used the to advance personal complaints against LTUSD. I checked and I find one personal complaint I have made through CAC communications the process. It's appallingly appalling paid legal being

021used against a volunteer legislative body you oversee. I was also told last year by President Kemper that the CAC would be allowed to give a report to the board. That report is still listed on the board calendar. On May 5th, I to Mr. Kemper specific dates I could prepare I have not received a response. Students with disabilities need informed, supported, and empowered parents. When parents see the CAC at board volunteers targeted, official records treated You have 30 seconds. speaking up become with consequences. I appreciate that a fully governance council meeting has been scheduled, but that process can adopt the new bylaws. It must actual accounting of prior CAC participation, certifications, appointments, local plan recommendations, board reporting, and legal claims made against me as CAC chair. I'm asking this board to correct recognize the CAC's role,

022clarify CAC's status and appointments, allow the CAC to provide a board report, and restore trust of families and students with disabilities. Your time is up. >> Why is this Thank you, Mr. Miller. Thank you very much. Your time is up. Your time is up. Thank you. >> Thank you, Daryl. Okay. Next up is Jesse Kravitz. Trustees, I am asking you tonight to look directly serious problems in the Sulphur Local Plan certified. Multiple individuals whose names were used to certify CAC parent, staff, stakeholder their participation now provided statements saying they were not consulted, that they did not participate in the development of the local plan, and that they did not sign off on the certification submitted. This includes three people who are their own staff, their own employees. You don't have to take our word for

023it as parents. You can ask your own teachers and staff directly were they consulted? Did they participate? Did they review or approve the local plan certification before their names were used? If the answer is no, then this isn't a minor procedural issue. It means records submitted to the California Department of Education were falsely represented, may have been falsely represented, [clears throat] delete the required participation. This matters because CAC participation is not optional. Parent, staff, and community input into the Sulphur Local Plan is required because students with disabilities and their families are supposed to have a meaningful voice in the system that serves them. The same concern exists, but instead of just addressing these concerns directly, the district and the Sulphur have focused on challenging Daryl Rhodes' authority to chair. Even when prior certifications used his

024name in a role when it served the certification process process with the California Department of Education. That contradiction must be here. I'm asking you to stop relying solely on administrative assurances and conduct your own oversight. Ask the employees whose names were used certifications. Compare them to the written statements they gave stating that they're not consultants. Determine whether the CEO was given accurate if the district's own employee This board has a responsibility why you dependent oversight exists. I see. All right. We've come to the end of what is submitted. Is there anybody else in the room that intended to submit to speak on public comment? Okay, I believe we're we finished with public comment. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have our item eight, which is our student celebration. Thank you for so many parents and

025students attending tonight to celebrate South Tahoe Middle School and South Tahoe High School e-sports. President Kemper and trustees, please welcome Principal Martinez and team to share some student leadership, belonging, and empowerment highlights, as well as introduce us to some of their amazing students. All right, come on up. Yeah, Isaiah, will you close that door? >> You have to turn the clicker I'm sorry. Yeah, turn the clicker on. I don't think it got turned on. Okay. Is it Oh, there. Mhm. And adjust yours. Remember, don't touch the mic. We already know. All right. Well, good evening president, board members, superintendent, and members of the community. Tonight we're excited to share student highlights from our South Tahoe Middle School. And most importantly, you'll hear directly from our students. Tonight we have eight of our amazing 6th through

0268th students representing our site and that we're presenting on student focus groups centered around leadership, belonging, and empowerment. As we all know, students thrive when we feel connected, included, and valued. And this year we added three new groups to increase student connection and create a greater sense of belonging at South Tahoe Middle School. This group support the whole child by building connections, creating safe and inclusive spaces, providing leadership opportunities, and supporting student wellness. Community partnerships are a key key part of this work. Uh these partnerships expanded opportunities again for our students, supported social emotional wellness, and helped us build a long-term system of support. We are grateful for our South Tahoe Middle School counseling team, our Tahoe Youth and Family Service collaboration, the Lake Tahoe Community College, our Trio partnership for bringing these opportunities to

027our students. Okay. All right, thank you. Hi, I'm Wesley Darian, an 8th grade member of Save Promise Club. Save Promise Club is a student-led violent violence prevention and inclusion club that is part of the Sandy Hook Promise Network. At South Tahoe Middle School, Save Promise Club promotes a positive learning environment by helping people participate in safe activities and using a see something, say something culture. This means that if you see something like bullying or violence, you should tell someone like a teacher. With 17 active members, our club gets bigger and bigger each time we get together every other Friday. One reason I joined Safe Promise Club is that it gave me something to do with my friends that wasn't necessarily school. I've loved helping the counselors create videos to show our Thursday advisory classes demonstrating

028how to do activities or letting people know about upcoming events. Thank you. Hi, I'm Jackson Chen. I'm a seventh-grade member of the Safe Promise Club and some of my personal favorite student-led activities we've done in Safe Promise Club are the conversation starter posters and the kindness notes we had the school make in advisory. I like the conversation starter posters a lot because it showed me and many other students how to start conversations with people we didn't know very well, which helped me make new friends. I also really enjoyed making the kindness notes in advisory because we got to write a lot of nice notes to my classmates and I received a lot of kind notes. Nice. Thank you. >> Thank you, Jackson. That's awesome. >> [clears throat] >> Hi, my name is Ryden Salazar and

029Safe Promise Club encouraged me to speak to new people I don't know and have more positive interactions with others. More things that helped me in club are making new friends in club. My favorite thing to learn in Safe Promise Club is how to start conversations with others and it has empowered students to lead campus activities. My favorite activity was the conversation starter poster and no one eats alone day. Nice. Thank you. Hi, I'm Gracie. I am part of the Girls Empowerment Club which takes place at South Tahoe Middle School during Flex. This club is facilitated by Tahoe Youth Peer Advocates. Our club will run for about 12 weeks and our main focus is building our confidence as in talking about our insecurities and how we can help each other with problems. We also work on

030developing leadership skills. Lastly, we learn how to establish healthy relationships. My favorite thing we have done is picking between what advertisements are real or fake, as in fake filters, themes, and even AI. Thank you for having me here. And I hope to continue this club in the future. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Hi, my name is Everly and I'm part of the Girl Empowerment Club. In the club, we talk about so many helpful things that I will carry on for the rest of my life. Some of the topics we talk about are body image, being assertive, and also how to be ourselves, unique in whoever we truly want to be. We also talk about coping techniques for a ton of different situations, which helps in and outside of school. Haley and Annie are always open

031for anything we need to talk about. This club is an amazing experience and I hope they keep doing it for the upcoming years. Thank you for your time. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Um, hello. My name is Eva and I'm a part of the Girls Empowerment Club at South Tahoe Middle School. I will be talking about the impact of um the impact of the club to my peers and myself. Once you're inside the club, you immediately get welcomed to Ayanna and Haley. They talk about heavy topics and just by learning about that, you get informed and it leaves a good impact on how you think. It makes your relationship stronger with people around you. You work as a team and it builds a bond and impact for them and for yourself. That is the impact

032that this club leaves and I'm a part I'm glad I'm a part of it. Thank you, Eva. Good job. Good job. Hi, everyone. My name is Arianna Martinez. I'm an eighth grade student. I participate in a new club this year. This club takes place in Trio classroom on Wednesdays and Mondays during flex and lunch. This club is a very positive place to be around and also helps you socialize with everyone else in the group. Every week Angie Mora, the artist, brings all materials and food and gives us examples of what we can paint. Angie welcomes us with positive positive energy and makes the club fun. There are about 12 students who participate every week. The club gives us way to express our creativity. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, my name is Cora. I'm an eighth

033grade student at STMS and I put participate in the art activity we do in school. Some of the activities we have completed are making on sketches and drawings and one fun project we're working on is a big group mural and our own with our favorite flowers and outdoor scenes like mountains and cherry blossom trees. The activities have helped us build friendships and express ourselves to the people around us. The club is a positive environment and creative space where we can be ourselves and creates an escape from the stressful space of school. These are some quotes from the members of the club. Excellent. Thank you. Oh yeah, and the quotes are up on the screen. Yeah, very good. Thank you, Principal Martinez. Wonderful. Almost there. Um okay, so as we look ahead, uh we hope to

034continue these partnerships, of course, expand participation in the new year, and increase student leadership opportunities, and as well add hopefully more clubs that support student wellness um opportunities. Um I definitely want to extend a a thank you to our student speakers that they were great. Yeah. Right on. >> [applause] >> leadership and willing willingness to share tonight. And I also want to thank our staff, our counselors, our community partners and families, uh and of course the board for supporting opportunities to help our students grow academically, socially, and emotionally. And our extended uh Tahoe Youth Team members are here, our our peer advocates, so >> Oh, thank you for being here. Thank you. So yeah. >> Good luck on your comments. Mr. Martinez, I just want to say thank you um to the students, obviously to

035to you and the staff, but I just want to look at you guys cuz I talked to a few of you out there and you seemed a little nervous. You did an amazing job at the mic, but what I want to say is that you're helping us have a safer, more more helpful community and school by your efforts and I just appreciate that. Thank you so much. >> to close it out today, Safe Promise Club, you guys had an activity that we didn't talk about. Just really quickly, you want to share what that was about today? Safe Promise Club. >> Wesley or Jackson, the activity you did today. Yeah, come to the mic if you Today there was a um there were free kindness grams at school where anyone for free could just come up

036to the table and write a kind message to someone who just might not usually get one and um they'll they'll be delivered, I think, Monday. Aw. Yeah. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. Any questions? >> Yeah, board members, any questions? Yeah, I'm curious to the young ladies that That's probably not the name. >> [laughter] >> Youth on the Margins Through Art. >> Margins Through Art. Youth on the Margins Through Art. Through Art. 12 of you, is that what I heard? Yes. 12 >> [clears throat] >> and are the lion's share of you people who are already I kind of self-identified as as artists or are you just like regular kids who just wanted to Explore art. >> explore art, yeah. >> Yeah, we just wanted to explore, so we started a group to make a

037big memorial and put it where we think Well, we all just put our creativity in what we like in one big memorial and we just all share it. Like our creativities. A mural. >> A mural. I was going to say is it a memorial or it could be a mural that's a memorial. Yeah, a mural. Yeah, [laughter] but it's a mural. You said it would be about the land like a mountains and and birds and flowers. >> a piece to it, right? Awesome. And that's going to be in the hallway? The mural? Well, the big like painting and then there's two groups of us. There's a group of boys and then there's a group of us and then we're going to combine our two paintings that we made. Yes. Cool. Excellent. Know that you're making

038a difference. >> Yeah. What a great representative our students here, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you so much. >> let's get a picture with the board. Let's get you guys up here in front. Get the board. Yeah, let's do it. And and and parents that are here with your students, thank you so much and you have such incredible wonderful representative students. Thank you. All you guys, that you're just amazing. I I Next we have the high school e-sports and I encourage parents to stick around if they want to. The middle school students may learn about another activity at the high school. Nobody's listening to me, I know. >> [laughter] >> If you want to learn about e-sports, you can stick around for the next presentation. It's something to look forward to at the high

039school. Just saying. President Kemper [laughter] and trustees, please welcome our some STHS team members. We have a Mr. Zunino, Mr. Tanassi, and Mr. Garcia to introduce us to some of their amazing students engaged in e-sports, which is supported by our CTE department. Good evening board, President Kemper and Dr. Cutler. Uh it's a pleasure to introduce a couple of efforts here at the high school through our CTE e-sports academy. Uh beyond competitive gaming, uh this program immerses our students in live broadcasting, media production, and technical infrastructure. Under Mr. Garcia's leadership, our teams are currently ranked in the top 20% of the West Coast and bringing home top finishes from regional competitions. I'm going to turn over to Isaiah Tanassi to talk a little bit more about it. We're going to have some kids chat a little

040bit with you. Uh good evening. Thank you, Dr. Cutler and board of trustees. I'm here today to share with you some successes in the CTE academies. The CTE academies are after-school opportunities for students to gain exposure and learning in a field that is not offered as a normal CTE class during the school day. Examples of CTE academies offered in the past include cosmetology, military and ROTC, intro to firefighting, outdoor recreation, and the e-sports which we are going to celebrate tonight. We're looking to continue to expand opportunities for students in the future including other high interest uh pathways such as welding, firefighter academy, certified nursing assistant, and more. One of our biggest biggest successes is the e-sports academy founded and run by Mr. Garcia. It's been going for a good four to five years. Um and

041I'm happy to introduce Mr. Garcia and the e-sports students. Just use this to mess with the slides? Yeah. All right, perfect. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Dr. Cutler. Thank you, boards the board for inviting us here today. We are the e-sports club South Lake Tahoe. Woo. Um in our club, students participate in competitive video gaming as Nino said, where we practice and compete in organized teams just like traditional athletes. We also work in broadcasting and media production by streaming matches, creating content, uh learning the technical side within e-sport events. These experiences help students build confidence, collaboration, real-world tech awareness, and skills that can connect to future careers after high school. It is There we go. So, uh Um So, behind me, um I have a few of our folks here, but currently we've gone up

042to about 18 students and their names are all listed over there. And they'll I have my students over here that will share in just a little bit. Okay. So, we began as a lunch activity with just a few folks um in my room. It was just three or four students, and people just kept coming in and coming in, and we quickly knew that we needed a bigger spot, and we probably needed a more dedicated space. So, with the help of the CTE department, we got room C10. It's the old OCR room. Um I guess it was a uh music room before that. And students [snorts] tore it apart. We painted it. They built furniture. Um they put together the computers, the desks, everything, and they were completely in the um they're com- completely involved in

043building it into the vision that they wanted. So, here it is now after all the gutting and painting. So, it's now open af- uh after school. Um right now we're off season, but normally it's every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we're after school. Students can participate and play. They don't have to compete. They can hang out. they can join the broadcast, they can root support just like traditional sports. We're also live broadcasting on Twitch. We're working on going into YouTube and other areas as well where they do commentary and all that. During Flex every Friday, um students want more days to be in there, but um I have to do my other teaching work, but students uh every Friday it's open for everyone to show up. So, the picture on the right, those are just students that

044are there to show up during Flex. And then I also have it opened up during lunch when I can. Cool. So, over the past year the eSports Club at South Tahoe has continued to grow and compete at high level while we're representing our school positively and responsibly. Um all games played through our program rated T for teen by the ESRB uh helping ensure that competitions remain school appropriate and accessible for all students. Our teams play through a platform called Play Versus where we compete against various schools online throughout the West Coast. It is a nationally ranked service. Um colleges such as UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, University of Las Vegas actually use that exact same program then they use it for scouting because they're actually have an eSport arena and they're really big in trying to

045get people for that. So, scholarship money is applied and looked at these and students are being looked at for their ranks and for how they are competing in that program. Um we also competed in the University of Nevada's Reno's Break the Internet event just a couple weeks ago actually. Uh we brought some trophies here, we got some pictures over there for you guys to see. Um but it was a tournament where the local community was invited. There's community colleges, there's other high schools, our rivals Fallon High School were there. Um and college students from UNR were there and we were able to score second and third and fourth place against the college students in our respective games. Um most importantly with all this cool stuff here, all our cool rankings, um, the best thing that

046I have from my experiences of doing this club is I see that this this club, the room, everything is a place where students can belong. And I see that they can create a meaningful space together and I see friendships that probably wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for that environment, that group that we have here. But, I've blabbed enough. Um, let's get these guys in. So, first off, I have Enoch Jimenez. He is the current vice president. Graduating this year, leaving us. And I'll Our president Did he get a scholarship from from the esports? That's what I want to know. >> [laughter] >> So, yeah, I'm Enoch. Uh Welcome. outgoing president. I've been in this club for four all my four years and high school and it has brought me a lot of experiences, has

047brought me a lot of a lot of joy. I've seen a lot of people just playing games and having a good time and they have bonded over playing against each other or just talking with each other about a game that they like. It's a special club that just I I can't really uh I can't say how proud and how amazed it has been, how much it has evolved from when we didn't have a room to now that we have room the room and we have computers, consoles, we have the furniture, and how everything is installed. And I can't thank um all the club members for sticking with us even in the rough times where we didn't get good results from our competitive games against other schools. And that's all I want to say. Thank you.

048Thank you. Good job. Hello there. I am Mason Luckert, and I am the outgoing vice president of eSports Club. Over the past 4 years, I helped with and I'll go over it there, basically build the club from the ground up. It existed before me, but I was a part of the major turning point for it, basically. And over the 4 years, I've come to two major conclusions about the club. The first is that the students at the high school really want something like this. It's interesting, and they're passionate about it, but it's not something that they naturally congregate towards. You'll see them really liking it, but you'll never see them actually coming together and acting on it. So, having a club like this that's already there for them has really helped us create a tight-knit

049community of passionate people who enjoy these things that wouldn't have come together before. And the second is that, as we saw through the UNR Break the Internet, is that colleges are becoming a lot more interested in eSports because their student bodies, who were like us, moved on and helped build interest in the colleges themselves. So, a student that is in the club might be able to help build something for their college application for their future while enjoying themselves, you know. This club might be an X factor for them in their college applications, and I think that's really important, you know. It's a lot of what of senior years have been about, college applications. So, I think I'm really proud to have built something that will continue to help people in the future. But, that's enough

050from us people leaving. Here is the current president. Hi, I'm Sam Rojas and I'm the upcoming president for the e-sports club. I have been in the club since I entered high school as a freshman. And overall, I've made a ton of friends, including these fine people here. >> [laughter] >> I'm also the lead team captain for the Street Fighter team. This club has taught me about leadership and how to create bonding experiences. It also taught me how even though we're a ton of random people join the club, we all want to make a bond and we make one whole team and we succeed pretty well. And we also don't just hang out in the club room. We also hang out hang out outside of school and compete together outside of school. And in the Break

051the Internet, there's people I haven't played with before, but ever since then I've been playing with them for a while. I also like to thank Garcia for the chance of letting me join. He's also he plays a big role in my reason for staying here cuz no matter what, he always cheers us on and makes it a very fun environment. And yeah, that's all I had to say. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. Good job. Thanks for stepping up stepping up to be president. Uh hello, I'm Jed Arieta. I'm the current and upcoming vice president for the e-sports club. Uh I've been in the club ever since I've joined or ever since I've gone here at South Hall High School and I can't thank Garcia enough to say I'm grateful, you know, it it's been a

052very fun experience to be with him and this entire club. I probably wouldn't have been friends with all these guys without the club. And yeah, that's all I have to say. That's all I have to say for me and we have a saying from one of our club members here which sadly couldn't be here because of work Aaron Pettis. So if I may can I Sure. Even though I am unable to attend today due to work. I would like to share my thoughts and interests about my time with the e-sports club. I joined this club this spring season of my sophomore year of high school. Yet I've already met a bunch of new people I never would have known about without this club. I've been able to learn new interests and discover discovered things I

053never thought I would have liked without meeting some people in this club. The people in this club made me realize it's okay to be who I am even if I don't know someone. I learned that this club is one of the most inclusive in the school coming from someone who has played football and played soccer since 6 years old. This group of people is one of the most inclusive I've ever had the opportunity to hang out with. While I've only been able to compete with this group of people for one season due to fall sports and being uninterested in this group my freshman year, I've created bonds with everyone in this club. While the bonds aren't the strongest due to little time, I know all the people in this group would be willing to help

054me whether that's with school work or just advice from some of my older clubmates. They would be willing to help me just as much as I'm willing to help them. While some people in the club I met before, all the new people I met in this club really helped me in some way. If that was helping improve my game mechanics or just teaching me some new strategies, everyone has helped me in some way. Finally, I'd like to talk about our club advisor. I met Mr. Garcia when I was thinking about joining the club and Mr. Garcia is my favorite advisor / coach I've ever I've had for anything. Garcia aims to help everyone not just who are his favorites. Mr. Garcia is the most inclusive person I've ever met making jokes with everyone and being

055funny without trying his hardest. I look forward to my next year with this club my senior year. Thanks John. Any questions? >> [laughter] >> You have one more student. He didn't want to talk. Uh do you want to do you want to try? Uh come on. You're here. You showed up. Thank you for coming. >> [laughter] >> My name is Caden Nelson and uh I joined this club in the very beginning of my freshman year. I've been in it for well, yeah, since my freshman year. Uh uh but I was in middle school. I had a horrible time. It was one of the worst times of my life. And ever since joining this club, it's just it's fixed all those problems and I like feel very included from like Mr. Garcia, everyone else in the

056club. It's just one of the best places in the school. I would consider it the best club. That's awesome. Nice job. All of the different club members and especially Mr. Garcia Sounds like >> for his amazing coaching and always helping us get better at the games we're competing in. And I just Yeah, I can't thank everyone in this club enough. Thank you. Thank you. Sounds like >> [applause] >> Mr. Mr. Garcia, Mr. Garcia, I mean the words of our students say it all. But thank you so much for giving of yourself and and caring so much about students. I have a question. And I mean, I listened to words that were shared. And uh you know, I think about our boards uh I think about our our vision of discovering fostering unique talents and potential

057students and that maybe this is one of those things that actually captures that and supports that. But I heard words like friendship and joy. And and and one of the words that came out and and it was connections. And our our board has a priority of connection. And I I wanted to ask and I don't know if one of you'd be willing to just share. If you didn't have this group, what what how would high school be for you um without it? Would anybody like to share that for me? All right. Aeson? Enoch? Enoch. So I'm not really a friends person. I prefer to be alone, but this club has helped me make a lot of friends, a lot of connections that I would have just otherwise didn't have if this club wasn't made. Our

058for the founding president is one of my best friends. And I can't thank this club so much. I I I can't Powerful, right? I I wouldn't I don't know where I would be without his friendship and this club. Thank you for saying that. Very powerful. Thank you. I'm trying [applause] to make a comment. It's Aeson? Aeson, yeah. Aeson, um very impressive. I I know I'm pretty sure uh you were the person when we took the tour of the uh CTE program. You were rebuilding the parts of an engine. Am I correct? No. No. Okay, okay. All right. Doesn't [laughter] that look very very similar? Look, I can't remember, yeah. All right. I apologize. But I want I just want to thank I think you have sized this Aeson, but um thanks to Mr. Garcia. Sounds

059like you guys have built this really strong culture of helpfulness. I mean, it goes beyond um you know, the middle school um and thanks Wesley for sticking around. The The kindness It goes beyond just simple kindness. It's like actually helping, you know, the notion of really finding out what what folks need, you know, if you're struggling and I heard that from all of you, you know, that the group is just super helpful and that's just really that's warm, you know, it's really nice to hear that that's happening and that you've built this culture of helping each other and not it's not trying to undermine each other, you know, even like you said you're competing for fun. But there's still the support to just for everybody to get better at what they're doing, right? >> That's

060correct. So, yeah, thank you. All right, now if nothing else, I want to make sure we get pictures with you and Mr. Garcia, make sure you're in that as well. >> [laughter] >> And I just got to tell you. Oh, trophy. Yeah, let's get that trophy. All right, there it is. Yeah. Thank you guys. Come on up. Just stand up here. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> Well done. Well done. Well, they they've been doing five years. I think it's been around for five years. I know. All right, next up is our Lake Tahoe Unified School District partner organization updates and first up we have the Lake Tahoe Education Foundation. >> President Kemper members of the board tonight with us is Chris Campion and Michelle Riley from the >> [laughter] >> Lake Tahoe Ed Foundation. So excited

061to hear from you. All right, Chris Chris welcome. Welcome. Thank you very much. Board, Madam President, Mary, Teresa, Dr. Dr. Good to see you all again. Michelle Feeney sends her regrets. She's traveling again. So we got to we we got to work on this for next year. So you don't have to see you hear me and her again. Sorry. But we're going to be seeing a lot of each other in the next couple months here. So some items coming up. We just put our mission up there which is to be partners with you all and and we've been doing that now since 1989. So we're going to keep on going. At least we'd like to. Um oh. Teresa, can you help Oh, there we are. All right. So the first one is our celebration of

062education which is coming up next Thursday a week from today. You all should have gotten an invitation. Hopefully we can all see you there. Folks, I hope to see you Well, I see retirees are going to come. Employees of the year hopefully are going to come. Administrators, staff, and and just the whole education community. As if you've been before, I know many of you have. It's just a nice evening. You get to Are you going to play again this year, Mary? So Mary's part of the jazz combo that does the warm up. This year we had a little changeover in the culinary program mid-year. So, um the culinary program for the college is going to come and um show their stuff. So, maybe we'll get a little competition going alternate year something like that. Uh

063but we also have the student entertainment, the choirs, the drama department, everybody's going to come as we've had for the last few years. And then, of course, last but not least, the Hall of Distinction uh awards. So, um you'll be doing the awards earlier in the day here. Uh we'll be um doing a little bit more expanded uh presentation ceremony and uh and speeches. All right. Uh any questions about that? You guys uh I don't Mich- Michelle, did you bring any um tickets by any chance? It Okay. If you want to buy tickets, go to our website. It's the easiest way to do it. >> hey Chris, just before you leave that, I just want to say that I'm just so excited that we just continue to do this now year in and year out

064and that this was a brain you know, that you guys had done something previously and we talked about this and you've just made it happen, but the two of you. So, so thank you for making this happen. >> Yeah, thanks. And we're excited about it. Um we had that conversation um outside I remember it on a Saturday with the beer over at one of the events and uh and it's uh it's kind of grown to this. So, some pictures of uh we didn't get a picture of Bob Grant, unfortunately. If anybody has a picture of Bob Grant that we can share, um Oh, send Will you send it to me, Nicole? Please? Uh but Yvonne, Brook Lane, Kathy Jensen, and Manny Alvarez, and Bob Grant are going to be our honorees this year as you

065probably already know. All right. Then, followed um not too long after that, June 5th, the Gift of Literacy. And uh that's a fun event at the college. Alan and his team have been working with us and the um the college, the uh Soroptimists are involved, uh uh the noon group, I believe. And um so, that's getting ready to go. We've got some really good book selections. We've got a local author whose name just went out of my mind. Alan Cat Medina. Thank you, Gloria. Who's going to be the presenter this year? Grunkle the the great was one of the selections and she's going to give a great presentation we know. So, that'll be fun. June 5th, if you'd like to come, we're still we will always need volunteers to lead groups, to read to the

066kids. See me after or send me an email, we can get you on the list. I got an email someone new is coordinating. I sent Michelle, yeah. Yeah, Melissa Melissa Hoffman I think it is at the college. Yeah. And so yeah, they they've had some change over there but >> Yeah, so I let her know that yeah, I've done it before. So, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Did you get a email? Did you get an email from >> email from Melissa. Yeah, just reply to that you'll be on the list. So yeah, it's a fun day and can't be first graders all over the place. So, I think I got a picture here. No, I went too far again. That's a little blurry even for me, Teresa. No? Okay, it didn't show up it didn't come up.

067All right. All right, then after that we have the retiree recognition coming up literally later that day, June 5th at Elements I believe. Again this year, so um we are looking forward to that although the class of retirees is somewhat [clears throat] smaller this year, which is a good thing, right? We want to retain our great employees but certainly a distinguished group that is going to be alumni. And then just a quick word with the little time I have left. Our kind of program these days that we're now in our second year of the future teacher scholarship program that we initiated last year to help current employees of the LTUSP who are interested in becoming teachers to achieve that goal. And they're at various stages. Stephanie Spees was like in their last semester of her

068credential program. And so now she's and you know, finishing up her first year. She's got another year. She'll be fully on board a teacher. And so we've got that and then people who are just starting out on their college journey. So just real quick we'll go through the the names in a little bit more detail at the celebration. But Daisy Arellano is graduating from Sac State this month. I don't know the exact day but it's probably coming up soon. She'll be hopefully being pursuing a certificate program I think through Ed Co hopefully. I don't know when they come out. But we'll find out. Danae Boring is special ed at the high school and she is not going to quite graduate. She's going to go another term but then she'll be right behind Daisy in graduating

069looking for teaching credential program and in special ed. So wonderful to have those two coming right along the pipeline. Demarice Card is is student teaching this year and she's um I think applying for a job right now. So I can't make a recommendation but I would. Amparo Martinez as well is in that same boat. She's doing her student teaching I think at Talley Valley, right Nicole? So she's finishing up and will be ready for the the market as well. >> [clears throat] [cough] >> Jamie Nowitzki finishing up her bachelor's as well and looking to go into a credential program. She's cafeteria supervisor at Myers. And last Oh, there's Stephanie we just mentioned. And then Sid Stimmick is in early on her her her bachelor's. She might be taking a little bit of time off. You

070might know she had a baby a couple weeks ago. And so well 4 weeks a month now? All right. What is it Ridley? Ridley. So welcome to the world Ridley. So we'll see if Sid's you know going to take a little bit of time or if she's going to press on. So that's our our cohort from last year that we selected. We awarded scholarships last year. They're going through it this year. We just closed our application at the end of April. We got some really good strong candidates from a whole different crew of applicants. So we're going to be going through those and awarding those probably sometime at the end of this month. So any questions about anything that the Ed Foundation is doing? We really appreciate the new that new focus for developing our

071staff to becoming teachers. I think it's I think it's just incredible. incredible and that you that you're supporting and partnering with us in in doing this and getting it done, right? Cuz this when I say partnering you're you're supporting them and then we have the opportunity to have incredible folks that are coming through the system to be ready to work. So Yeah, that's what we're looking >> grow our own, yeah. So Have you have you chosen the new group crop of We've we've we've gotten the applications. We're reviewing them now. Okay. And we'll probably announce that at the end of the month. And we were hoping to get it done by the celebration, but I don't think we're going to be able to get it done. So How many applications did you get? So we

072just got seven this year. We invited I think 11 12 and and seven actually applied. So and and we had seven last year that were awarded. So Thanks for Any other questions? Thank you for providing the update. Thank you. and again we hope to Thank you. Look forward to seeing you next week. We'll be seeing a lot of each other. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Excellent. All right. >> [laughter] >> A lot of parties. All right, it's that time of year celebrations. All right, next we have our Measure G information and it is an action item. >> President Kemper, members of the board, on the June 2nd, 2026 ballot is Measure G. Measure G would extend the existing parcel tax that funds maintenance of local recreation facilities including bike trails, athletic fields, and

073parks. The current funding source expires in 2030 and generates approximately $650,000 annually with no identified alternative. Tonight, you have a resolution in front of you. It is staff's recommendation that you approve the resolution. I want also in the in the board material is a letter that I submitted. We myself and Dave Zebo met with the Lake Tahoe Recreational Facilities Joint Powers Authority and then with the idea that they're looking at making sure there's money that would come through through this process to help us maintain our fields for the community. Um so that we also have you know, there's there's a good for purpose and reason for us to to be supporting as well. Also in the in the audience tonight is Pete Fink who if you would like him to speak on this at all,

074you know, that would be up to you, but it is staff's recommendation that you approve the resolution. Um thank you for coming, Pete, to answer any questions. Do we have any questions or um comments or do you want to make a motion? Well, Pete took the trouble to come. You want [laughter] to take the podium, Pete? All right, welcome. Pete Fink. Good evening, uh Madam President and Trustees. Uh yeah, I'm here to answer any questions you might have about Measure G. I am currently the chair of the Bicycle Advisory Committee, so we oversee uh how the maintenance funding for the Class 1 bike trails, which really kind of helps connect me back into the bike safety pilot program providing safe alternatives to being on the highway for all of our community, not to mention the

075ball fields, and this will include a $90,000 a year for the district to maintain and improve their fields in addition to helping fund Tahoe Paradise Park and all the other ball fields in our community. The money that goes towards the maintenance of the bike trails, is there money for new bike trail like some of these connection or like the the recent projects that have happened? >> Yes, like by the Sierra College trail. There's not like bond money that we can build with. What What we really do is by having maintenance funding in place when our different entities apply for grants, it gives you a big step up. And then because all of our bike planned bike trail infrastructure is not built out yet, so that annual money per mile is not fully being used cuz

076we're not fully built out yet. So, we can accumulate that a little bit over time, and we've used it for things like matching funds for the Al Tahoe bike path you see right in front of here. We provided matching funds or community funds for the grants that are building the the bike trail that goes from the Greenway through Bijou Park um to connect with Al Tahoe because well, our count our counters that are in front of the county building there show somewhere around 134 people a day walking by, and I've gone out and walked it in the winter, and I see that our middle school kids were walking through Bijou Park not crossing Al Tahoe because people don't want to cross that twice. They were just walking through the snow. So, we made it a

077priority to make that connection. >> That they're doing that now. That's the construction going on right now. Exactly what you see happening right now. >> Okay. That's it. So, we do Yeah. help fund a little bit, but really it's grant funding that that builds this stuff. We just can help provide some of the local matching funds. >> Matches. Okay, makes sense. And then and then the maintenance. Yeah, and of course the maintenance, yeah. >> Thanks for that explanation. And also just thanks in your various roles [laughter] in this town. Appreciate all the things you do for this community, Pete. Thank you very much. Empty nester, what am I, you know? >> [laughter] >> So, and any any other any questions or No. All right, have a motion? Pete, thanks for coming in. Yeah, the sign

078in your front yard. Okay, excellent. Thank you. Okay, do we have a motion? I move that we support the resolution in support of measures G. All right, do I have a second? I'll second. All right, all those in favor. I. Those opposed? Motion carries. All right, and we'll transmit that to you, Pete, once we get it signed. Yeah, thanks. All right, thank you. All right, next we have educational services single focus plan from Tahoe Valley Elementary School. >> President Kemper and trustees, please welcome Mr. Harnett and his amazing team here with an update on their single focus plan, strengthening math instruction. Excellent. Hi. Members of the board, Dr. Cutler, good evening. We are here to present to you the Tahoe Valley single focus report for the 25-26 school year. Uh the basis for our conversation

079today is student achievement data. Data that shows that Tahoe Valley student achievement has increased nicely over in recent years. My time at Tahoe Valley has been marked with consistent increases in both math and language arts student achievement on i-Ready and most importantly on CAST testing. Each year [snorts] we start with a percentage of students below grade level. And by the end of the year, the movement towards or even above grade level is spectacular. This coupled with the increased number of students at Tow Valley with economic difficulties and our special and the blooming of our special education population with our second SDC class. >> [snorts] >> This is a notable achievement. And this is not an accident, either. It is a representation of the work of the passionate as passionate educators at Tow Valley and the

080fruition of their efforts. Tow Valley was the first school to employ the use of i-Ready. This data [snorts] shows our annual flexations of student scores over the first two interim assessments annually. They're in pairs um a fall and a winter for each of the last 3 years. >> [snorts] >> If you look at the results from a fall and from a winter of the same school year, you'll see that, for example, the number of students one or more grade level below on the fall assessment decreases dramatically for the winter assessment. And these are our math interim assessment scores. These are our reading scores and the same is true for the fall and winter since 2003. While [snorts] there are still there is still room for improvement and still students we want to push along to

081a higher level and increase their achievement. The consistency of improvement and growth demonstrated by our students as a result of instruction offered by our staff members staff members is colossal. Nicole. Nicole Symington is going to share with you some of the aspects of our math growth at Tow Valley. Thank you, Pat. Uh okay. Uh so, tonight I am here to just talk about some of the benefits that we have found while participating in the EdCo Partners P3 experience. Uh, for several teachers at Tahoe Valley, this journey this journey began 3 years ago at the middle middle school with um Ashley as our guide and mentor. Through these past 3 years, our school has had the opportunity to openly explore new math curriculum options and supplements, exchange resources between sites, and even collaborate with teachers within

082our school, across the district, through El Dorado County, and even outside of our state via the NCTM conference a few years back. With each of these meaningful experiences, teachers have been given time to gaze more critically at new math curriculum and dive deeper into the math standards. P3 has been a really positive experience for Tahoe Valley, and I would say in general LTCC, and I think the impact is pretty clear. >> [clears throat] >> There we go. Our Currently at Tahoe Valley, we are exploring some alternative math curricula while we are piloting the new curriculum choices, and looking forward to the newly adopted math texts next fall. In the meantime, our focus has been on engaging students in mathematical thought. As we have seen with the results of the data I shared over the past

083years, we are helping students not only increase their math achievement, but also to understand and articulate what they are doing. Students are able to carry that information along with them to the next grade, the next school, and onto their life. One of the math components utilized across all grade levels at Tow Valley are school wide open problems. We We do about one set of problems per month. Working with teachers, I determine which standards will be addressed for the open problems and then I write three problems for each grade level. I make it so that there's a common theme across grade levels so it's a coherent process. With [snorts] the problems, I include what standards are covered, the math practices addressed, some teacher notes, sentence frames for students student answers, some math talk prompts, I could

084go on. It's a It's a full package and it's from the feedback I've received from teachers, it's helpful and valuable. One of the more potent aspects of it is that I create some CASP style problems that are in line with the open problem that help prepare them for the the testing. I write three different versions for each grade level with a variety of levels of difficulty. We [snorts] had a discussion last week during collaboration about our um March and April open problems and shared insights and learnings from the last set. We looked at student work and what strengths had been uncovered, what new things still need to be worked on and perhaps what directions we need to go from there. >> [clears throat] >> Allison Murphy's going to talk to you about our adoption and

085our moving away from our current explorations. Thank you. Uh This year I got the opportunity to pilot two fourth grade math curriculums. At the start of the school year, we piloted Illustrative Mathematics program called Imagine Learning. The program was rigorous. It provided learners with warm-ups that provided multiple strategies to get the students thinking and prepare them for the lesson being taught. The activities allowed for students to relate math to real-life situations. At the end of the unit, there were assessments that uh were allowed them to show their learning and they were very uh cast similar problems, lots of different multi-styles, multiple choice, word problems, fill in the blanks. The next program that we used was Amplify, which allowed for students to begin to learn by solving problems using thematic lessons that followed them throughout the

086unit. It had resources that helped to meet the needs of all of our students. Amplify was online friendly for both students and teachers. As Dr. Reader and Mr. Harnett knows, I went back and forth um when it came time to input my opinion to the about the adoption because they both had their own strengths and weaknesses. Overall, I believe the school district made the correct choice in picking Illustrative Math as it clearly has the best practices of when it comes to teaching our students to think conceptually about math. Our Tahoe Valley fourth grade team has returned to Illustrative Math and is looking forward to seeing students' understanding of math grow. >> [clears throat] >> As Allison said, uh full implementation of the new cur- curriculum begins well, now, with spring training. Uh school will roll

087out the school will roll out the new curriculum and begin in the fall with lessons being taught in collaboration, having discussions, problem-solving, getting acquainted with new curriculum and new ideas, uh [snorts] learning the new math pedagogy and teaching techniques. Tahoe Valley will continue to monitor student progress using i-Ready and we look we are we'll be looking for opportunities to collaborate, share [snorts] best practices, and help our students to Tahoe Valley is grateful for the district-wide cohesive curriculum that will be used as a basis for math conversations for years to come. Uh this is a huge investment in the futures of our students and our district. Tahoe Valley is staffed with passionate, dedicated professionals who are excited for the opportunity to move forward, grow in their profession, and propel students forward. In my time at Tahoe

088Valley, we have collaborated well, we have worked through issues and problems, and we have helped students learn and grow. Thank you for the opportunity to come join you this evening and share our successes and next steps. Are there any questions? Yeah, I have a couple of questions. Just maybe for Allison Murphy, but the comparison between amplifying the imagine imagine learning or Illustrative Math, you one of the highlights on the slide said that the Amplify was adaptable to all learners. That was a strength of that program. How do you see, since it wasn't mentioned for the other program that that promotes the deep thinking? I mean, how do you see the Illustrative Math working for different types of students and their learning styles in terms of the adaptability piece? >> was a big concern of mine.

089Um It Illustrative, and Dr. Rita can correct me, it's a newer program than Imagine it. They are working on it. They reassured us that they have new things coming They have resources additional. They have EL program. Our Spanish learners will have the whole program in their, you know, Spanish. Um They're working on an online platform that will kind of similar to I-Ready My Path give all the our students stuff at their needs. So, Okay, just at their needs. Yeah, I was just thinking of like whether they're like a visual learner or they're a you know um hands-on tactile you know I don't know what all the styles are but you know what I mean Yeah but I mean hopefully that it it it it allows students to yeah learn at different levels there. Okay. And

090this is going to be for all the schools then is that what's happening? Dr. Reader's going to have a adoption adoption information coming up next agenda item. It's the next agenda item. Okay. Thank you. Any other Any other questions or comments anybody else jumped in? I Nicole did you also were you able to pilot both the programs or just Dallas? I just Dallas. Okay. There was just the second grade team as well the fourth grade and the second grade team was Okay. I want to say this to you guys um when we started this single focus process the whole idea you know we have the the the LCAP the local control accountability plan the district level we have SIPs at the site but it was this idea that sites were going to pick that one

091thing that they felt like they could really focus on and and when we started with Tahoe Valley single focus plan it seemed like it wasn't singular. Um and and there was a lot and I just want to compliment all of you to really get singularly focused um and and in the and the data is showing it right? I mean of course we teach our students all all things and and and but your data is showing that and I really appreciate um Pat you and your your leadership and the staff's leadership and and and you guys being here Nicole and Allison to to prep to represent that and to support that um just thank you so much for the work. Yeah thank you. I'd like to thank you just because it's so hard to make change.

092>> [laughter] >> Thank you for implementing this. I appreciate Principal Harnett you doing the open things creating these open problems too. So Principal Harnett thank you for doing the doing the work of creating, you know, uh open problems for the whole campus. I know you have a math background, so, you know, we're going to miss having having that uh those opportunities next year. Hopefully, we'll find other ones, too. All right. Uh next, we have Dr. Reader to talk about the curriculum adoption update. >> Well, Allison stole my thunder, so Okay, that's good. Thank you, Allison. Thank you. What did you do now? They're all just leaving you behind. Good evening, President Kemper and trustees. Tonight, I'll be providing you with a brief update on our curriculum adoption updates, particularly our math curriculum update. We're going

093to We will review our CDE approval process. We will review considerations when selecting new programs, LTUSD's curriculum adoption plan, and finish with our math adoption update. The California Department of Education has three parts when they are reviewing and approving curriculum. This includes a social review, a public review, and comments opportunities, and an educational content review. The title of slide is linked to the CDE website, where you can learn more about their process. When we're considering adoption, we look at these factors. First, is it approved by the CDE? If it's not approved by the CDE, there's several other steps that we need to take in order to get that. It's easier just to select the CDE because of their rigorous process when they're reviewing curriculum. Our El Dorado County Office of Education's engagement and support is

094also critical, the ease of implementation, other nearby districts' curriculum use and experiences, the tech components of the program, does it offer resources in Spanish, ongoing costs, and the training available that is provided by the vendor. >> [clears throat] >> This is LTUSD's recent, current, and future plans for curriculum updates. If you recall, we piloted science curriculum in the '21-'22 school year and purchased Foss Science for TK-8 for the '23-'24 school year. We are currently in the midst of our math pilot. I'm going to share a little bit more in just a minute. Our English Language Arts pilot is scheduled to start next in '27-'28, followed by social science. Our original curriculum adoption timeline is also linked on this slide. These adoptions are mostly TK through 8 with the exception being our current math pilot and

095adoption is a K-12 process. We have completed an inventory of our high school curriculum resources and will work with Mr. Zanino and the team to develop a schedule for their adoption of materials either by department or by course. So, our updates on the math adoption, we have been fortunate to go through this process with both EdCo and our California education partners who Dr. Cutler hooked us up with 4 years ago. The new California math framework has was released in 2023 and approved in 2024 by the California Department California State Board of Education. From there, publishers had to submit their curriculum for review to the California Department of Ed. This past fall, a list of approved curriculum came out. It was a total of about 60 varying between K-8, K-12, 6-12, 7-12, some with Spanish materials,

096and some without. Our [clears throat] Sierra House team requested to actually start a pilot on one program school-wide at the start of this school year. They did that this last spring. This program is Imagine Learning's Illustrative Math and was utilized by two fourth-grade teachers in '24-'25. Although reluctant at first, since the approved list had not been published yet, after doing some research and looking into the programs they were proposing to pilot, we were confident that their chosen program would be approved. So, we went ahead and worked with the publisher and received similar pricing to the resources we were going to have to buy anyways for math. Once we secured pricing and gave the okay for Sierra House, we collaborated with our three other elementary schools and were able to secure four volunteers from each of

097the other three schools to also start with a pilot this school year on Illustrative Math or IM. >> [clears throat] >> As you see from the bottom of this slide, our elementary pilot team chose Illustrative Math and Amplify, while our secondary team chose Amplify and Big Ideas. So, here is a list of our math and pilot team. Um as you see from these names, we have some fantastic educators who were willing to be involved and engaged in this process. Here is a breakdown of the trainings and collaboration that have taken place over the school year for the math curriculum pilots. >> [cough and clears throat] >> In the end, as Ms. Murphy shared, our elementary team opted for Illustrative Math or IM due to its rigor and challenging content. It was not an easy or

098unanimous decision. Over all, the third to fifth grade teachers preferred the IM, while the K through second grade teachers preferred the Amplify. I'm excited and actually proud that our team chose some really challenging, rigorous programs that are more aligned with the new math framework as opposed to some of the bigger, more traditional programs that are are very similar to the My Math program that we're currently using. >> [clears throat] >> Um the elementary pilot team did provide some suggestions for a successful implementation. This includes ongoing professional development, learning, and support. They also requested that they had the materials in hand before the end of this school year. They asked that we provide some initial training before the end of this school year and that we hire a full-time math coach or teacher on special assignment

099TOSA for at least 1 year. As far as our secondary's experience on the two programs they piloted, Amplify and Big Ideas, when I met with the high school math team just yesterday morning and with the middle school math pilot teachers yesterday in the p.m., they were mixed regarding which of the programs had a preference, Amplify or Big Ideas. We are looking at some other options for them and want to make sure that we make the right decision, including possibly postponing this decision and taking another year to pilot material so that we get it right. Our next steps for elementary includes hiring of our math TOSA next year. We're excited to welcome Mr. Jeff Henderson from Sierra House who interviewed last week and it was a unanimous decision composed of teachers and principals who interviewed him.

100We hope to receive the materials in early June and we have a K-5 training schedule for June 11th and 12th. Additionally, I've talked to our TK team about reviewing the Imagine Learning TK materials that most recently came out to see if we have materials that would support their work, too. So, again, our next steps for the secondary include further discussions with our middle and high school math teachers together to help determine those next steps, adopt Amplify or Big Ideas, or continue the pilot process in 2026-27. This agenda item tonight is for informational and discussion purposes. On May 28th, I will be returning to request a purchase approval for our K5 curriculum for Imagine Learning's Illustrative Math at a price just under $600,000. Do you have any questions for me at this time? Any questions? I

101asked actually Mr. Henderson why he thought that the K2 teachers liked Amplify better and he had what I thought was a pretty good answer is that they haven't seen the CAST test, so they don't know what they need to get to. And so that's why all the third and on up who do CAST testing and so I went, oh yeah, ding ding ding, that makes sense. >> Yeah. Thank you. Mhm. I hope we can find somebody to replace him in the third grade over at Sierra House. >> that to her. You're correct. So talented. Yeah. And will with his position, would he provide any assistance on the middle school process? Yeah, we're going to use him into the middle school process. >> [laughter] >> He and and he's very humble. He's saying, gosh, I I

102don't know a whole lot about second grade math. So I'm excited to get him connected with Alicia and and um and Jo- Jo- Johanna Johanna Johanna Johanna Johanna. Alicia and Johanna um as well as with Woody and team up at the high school. I I I want to say um a couple things. Uh I obviously we're excited that he wanted to do this and was interested in. He He He also wants to be able to get back to the classroom. Um and there there was a request through the process by teachers to have um extensive and support and training. And this was we said this is the best way to do it is have one of our teachers that that has been heavily engaged with the work at Sierra House, um Khalid partners, um in

103this process of utilizing and looking at different materials. And so we feel it's just really blessed that he wanted it, but he he said, "I want to be able to get back to in the classroom." And and yeah, and we're like, "We want you back in the classroom, too, because he's such an amazing teacher." Um and and we feel lucky about that. Yeah, and and he'll in regards to the question, obviously his number one job will be to help and support the implementation of the curriculum material. Yet, he he will help with the middle school and the high school and the Khalid partners work. And as as he that'll also help him grow, too, as a teacher and a support. So, really excited about that. All right, thank you. Appreciate it. All right. Next we

104have an action item under personnel services, the 26-27 Leik Town Unified School District Administration initial proposal for collective bargaining with California School Employees Association, CSEA. All right. President Kemper members of the board, pursuant to government code section 3547, the purpose of sunshine requirements is for public to be informed of the issues that are being negotiated. Negotiations are not permitted until the proposal has been made public at a public meeting. Um the administration sunshine proposal for negotiations with California School Employees Association for 26-27 school year. It was in your attachments and specifically are the items article um 12, vacation plan, and article 13, leaves. I do want to let you know that usually we would have um CSEA's sunshine as well. Um they weren't quite ready, and so we said we would move forward with our

105sunshine at this time. So, it is staff's recommendation that the board approve LTUSD's opening negotiation proposal um the 2026-2027 school year with CSEA. All right. Any questions or comments? Motion? Do I have a motion? We're adopting this list, this initial proposal. Um I move that we adopt the 2026-2027 LTUSD administration initial proposal for collective bargaining with California School Employees Association. Second. [clears throat] Second. All right, I have a motion by Trustee Mansfield and a second by Trustee Camacho. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? Okay. Next we have an information item on new warehouse vehicles in our facilities and transportation area and specifically related to food. >> President Kemper, members of the board, Tammy Miller, our director of food services here to address this item. Welcome. Thanks. Good evening, President Kemper and members

106of the board. I'm here to provide information on the possible purchase of a refrigerated warehouse truck for a food service transportation vehicle. Uh last year we were advised by the El Dorado County Health Department inspector that we should have a refrigerated warehouse truck to properly transport food to and from our sites and maintain to maintain safe food temperatures during unloading. Um we've also had an ongoing issue with our current warehouse truck. Being that it's um diesel powered, the short delivery spans between the sites and low travel speeds have caused repeated DEF system problems. And um we were without a warehouse truck for quite a few months until we rented a lovely U-Haul um for our deliveries. A refrigerated gas-powered, not diesel, uh warehouse four-wheel drive warehouse vehicle would allow us to continue daily deliveries and

107keep food products at proper temperature ranges. We're also requesting a used vehicle to transport food items um to sites, get staff to sites when needed, and support [clears throat] quarterly visits and staff trainings. Transportation to staff trainings. These purchases would come directly from food services funds funds 13. It would not impact the general fund. We are currently on a spending plan with the state of California, which means that we need to spend down some of our funds. And the purchase of the truck in additional vehicle um has already been approved by the California Department of Education. We have to go through different methods to get approval to spend our money. Um it's the staff's intention to bring this item um back to cons- consent agenda at a future meeting. This is an information and discussion

108item. Do you have any questions? It seems obvious that if the state says we need to keep our food refrigerated, then we need a refrigerated truck. So. Yeah. We were aware aware of that until when D- she was at site when we were deliv- It was the county, right? The county health inspector? Yeah, that came up. Yeah. Yeah. And she inspects both the warehouse and all of our sites. [clears throat] Right. I'm curious about the choice of a gas Were there no electrical vehicles available? We don't currently have the facility to to charge in our warehouse the an electric vehicle. And talking to our mechanic the gas powered is one of the best ways to go. We don't have to worry about the DEF system, which we've had terrible problems with in the last 2

109years. Help us understand what that means. Oh, it's >> system. It's the emissions. When when you have a diesel powered vehicle, you're supposed to run it at certain speeds. speeds and for a certain amount of time. They said the only way to overcome the issues that we've had were to be to go run it for an hour or two at 560 miles an hour. We simply can't do that in town. And in my warehouse guy, he didn't have time to do that. I I I I It's a real waste of gas. I think specific to the question of possibly looking at an electric vehicle, you know, right now our our our electric charges are all set up for our bussing system and and aren't specifically ready for that as well as then concern about having

110making certain that our power to keep the the the storage area cold, right? Cuz the refrigeration system, we would have a concern about maintaining that electrical charge. So, our our our maintenance folks really felt as though you know, that this was the right way to go. Just one. And my concern also would be about the refrigeration unit. I believe it would have to run off of propane at that point. >> Yeah, there's there there were some challenges with that. Yeah. Oh, instead of the electricity. Yeah. All right. More challenging. So, it would be our intent actually if then if there's no concerns that we'd actually just place this on the consent calendar for approval of purchase at our next your next agenda item. That sounds good. I think no objections [clears throat] to that. Thanks

111for coming and sharing the >> need. >> Thank you Kim. All right. >> [clears throat] >> Board governance. Board compensation. President Kimble, members of the board, if you recall, we had a previous agenda item to review um possible changes to board compensation. Um Ed code 35120 allows each member of the governing board of the school district to uh receive compensation for their service. We originally did an initial compensation assessment back in 21 22, which equated to to providing the board $240 a month. California Assembly Bill 1390 was effective January 1st, 2026, which amends education code to significantly increase the maximum monthly of compensation for school and county Board of Education members. Um this was discussed at that meeting uh and it was given direction to me as your superintendent that you didn't want to increase

112it um at the levels that were available through Assembly Bill 1390. Though you were interested in having still consider the 5% increase to your compensation. Um and on an annual basis, the governing board may increase the compensation of the individual board member beyond the limits initially delineated, but not to exceed 5%. So, this is a discussion item this evening. We're looking at increasing from $252 a month to $265 a month. Um so, this is discussion. It would be our intention, if per your direction, to bring it back for action at a future agenda um in a future meeting. So, really just looking for direction from the board. Any comments or questions? I think I missed the discussion on the on the new law. What what's the What is our like for our size district, what

113is the new law allow for? >> so, I would have to have we'd have to We didn't We didn't dive into it. It The compensation ranges between from 600 and 4,500 monthly based on average daily attendance. We didn't We didn't work those details out because the direction from from board I know you weren't there, but the direction I received from um Yeah, from the board members. >> from that night. >> But for what we still have in our funds, we don't want to you know, oh, well, let's give the board a raise. [clears throat] >> Yeah. But um just you know, we've got two positions coming up in the in >> Yeah. the fall and it might be even just a little bit more would be a more of an an incentive to serve because

114this is pretty much a volunteer job. Right. It's pretty much a volunteer job. Yeah, I mean that's what I was curious about that. I know in the past we've had board members that, you know, had to take off from work and and Jessie Camacho has to do that at this point and so does Jessie Heatherton where, you know, so it is a it is a bit of an economic hit where they're not necessarily getting paid, um, you know, when they're not working and that sort of thing. Um, so yeah, I I mean I and I think that the having it be 5% every year just to regularly just give us a 5% would still won't reach that threshold, um, but at some point we may want to consider a higher amount just to try to

115incentivize getting other like working people who choose to serve, you know. Yeah, I I this was discussed, um, early on in my time here and the idea was that it's not that much money. We should give increases to it in essence just even just keeping up with the adjustment of inflation, right? Even even not being much. Um, and uh, last spring we did not address this cuz board direction was to not bring it forward. So we haven't increased since 2024. Um, you know, if you're asking your superintendent, I think that it's minimal. Um, you know, you guys you all of you are here you you do this because this of your your care and want and desire to help the community. And so it's not about the money. Um, yeah, a 5% increase is minimal

116um, and would just keep that number moving up a little bit every year or so. But that's absolutely up to you as a board. All right. Sounds good. You know, we we all do it because of the kids, right? So but, um, it yeah. I'm very torn. I think we shouldn't get any money because I think this is what what we did last week this is was paid off so nicely but like like trusting Mansfield said, we kind of have to look forward to the future and what could possibly might make a difference to someone to have that little extra income so yeah. All right. So would it be the direction of the board to bring back a 5% increase at a future meeting? Yeah, I think it's I think had no other input. We

117feel I waffle on this. Yeah. Yeah and of course I mean obviously you don't have to have unanimous direction but I understand yes yeah. Well sometimes I think last year because we were looking at such a small percentage increase for teacher you like with the cola is like 2 and 1/2% there's And there were some there were some financial strain that we were concerned about last year too that you guys were like hey you know don't bring it. >> Right. I understand trusty Anderson that that kind of uncertainty of it because you know again as you say you know you're you're really volunteering to make a difference for kids and we appreciate that that it it it is there are in essence time or time that you give to this right and and it's it's

118it's very minimal. Right. I mean we have I think it's in in our community we have so many people that volunteer you know and don't don't get any compensation compensation and they spend a lot more time yeah really you know really serving our students you know which I really appreciate that and I'm glad we we get to honor them next week with the whole distinction of things like that at different opportunities so anyway at this point I think we'll go ahead and say yes to put in on a future board and then you guys can make a final decision sure. Yeah and I think if board if you think about if you want to do a smaller percentage that's a possibility too but at this point we'll put it on I know it's a small

119amount I know. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thanks for your direction. Next we have an action item. It's the February 2026 California School Boards Association Board Policy update. It's second reading. President Kimber, members of the board, it is the second reading that you've had heard previously. Um so the staff's recommendation that you approve the February 2026 school board policy updates. If there are questions, we can address those. Thank you. Yeah, Dr. Cutler on the some of the topics about you know, staff behavior and expectations. You know, it when I read through it, it didn't seem like the changes were hugely they they weren't they weren't huge. I mean, they they're not they're not >> Nothing nothing dramatic. >> Nothing dramatic. And yet I just had a question of how do we how do we inform

120staff that these things have changed and is it part of training where they get I they they're handed these expectations and their understanding. I know that earlier this year you talked about increasing training for like our coaches and things like that. But just wondering how it fits into our kind of our professional development or or just education in general of informing our staff about >> That's a great question, right? And there's lots of board policy that I mean, there's so many school board policy that you know, we work to work to try to conversations with our associations and talk means cuz there's some professionalism Right, they reference some of the they reference some of the union professional standards and things like that, too. >> we we usually try to work with our our associations as

121we navigate policy forward and determine if there's specific trainings that we need or or even just providing policy. >> the policy. But once again, sometimes it's complex because there's so much board policy, right? So and then I then mean I mean I then step into this. Part of our training is actually the online components that we that we do at the beginning of the year that hit on new laws as well. So So this we also often times will assess um what changes happened in this year's um legislation, with what changes then this year happened in board policy, and are these being addressed in our mandatory trainings. So, that's what that the best answer I could give at that point. >> Okay. That helps. Thanks. You bet. >> Thank you. Um there is one thing

122that I like have been noticing. Um especially when I went to the elementary schools, they both mentioned the subs and how like like class gets very chaotic whenever there's a sub. Uh-huh. And I understand like that's it's hard to like have find people who can come in like take the place of the teacher when we're already struggling to find teachers. Yes. But I do think it's really important that subs understand their obligations and like they're the ones who need to continue the curriculum even though the teacher's not there and stuff like that. Right. So, I think that's something that also might be really helpful to bring up and like enforce Actually, we are working on some some specific planning for training for subs. And we've been doing that every year trying to look at what's

123the stronger method of of making sure we do that with subs. So, thank you. >> Yeah. That's a good good input. And then I've heard that from I've heard that from other um staff that not only subs, but just that um teachers in general they all receive different levels of classroom management like just depending upon the programs they went through. And um And so it's always it's seems like we need to just continue to you know, be able to provide that kind of support and training because um it comes down to a lot of that, you know, that some teachers need a little more support or examples or some training. And others got more of it, you know, just just that's part of their education. Yeah. So. Um and then you bring in subs who

124may not they didn't they didn't study at all to be teachers, right? So, yeah. Um all right. Uh with that, do we have a motion to adopt these this policy update? Oh. Uh I will do that. I make a motion to update the Let me get this right. February 2026 California School Board Association's policy board policy update. >> All right. Uh second? >> I'll second the motion. >> All right. I have a motion by Trustee Camacho and a second by Trustee Anderson. All those in favor, say aye. >> Aye. Aye. All right. All those opposed, nay. Okay, item numbers uh 13C is also is an information item and it is information on resolution number 2526-09 declaring an election be held in its jurisdiction, consolidation with other districts, and requesting election services. It says it's an

125information item, but I think we it might be an action item. >> No, we're doing an information item. So, let me let me uh Oh, it'll be an action item. >> President Kemper, members of the board, this will be an action item for a resolution to declare for the election um of basically two of our seats, which are Trustee Kemper's and Heatherton's seats will be up for election on November 3rd, 2026. One of the interest One of the desires to bring this forward as an information item is actually just to be more public about that we have two seats coming open in November and that we have this process and it starts with the board's resolution. Um and so, tonight was just simply to provide it as an agenda item for the public, for you

126to to know that you have this resolution coming, and then as you pass that, then that gives direction to staff to get go working with the electoral offices and and get it all set and get it on the on the ballot um and and taking those next steps. And of course, then that initiates the time frame for people to put forward themselves and their interest in those seats as well. Yeah. Thank you. My understanding that the only requirement for a prospective candidate for one of these positions is that they um apply with the uh apartment Department of Elections, whatever it's called for the county. El Dorado County down in down in the Placerville area. Yes. Um So, I think in the past um we've know the superintendent's office has said prospective uh candidates should contact

127me. Should contact the superintendent. >> The superintendent. >> Oh. Oh, that there was there I think there was in like a press Last year there was like in a press release or something where it said if people are interested to contact the super >> Exactly. That's what the press release would have said. If there are any questions or information And I want And I want to say I think that's a Well, Bob, I I I think from my perspective, I appreciate that that the board packet has all the information that the county provides. So, the And I wanted to just make that public, whoever's listening to this on YouTube or watches it later is that as part of this agenda packet, if you go to the website, there's a number of attachments that are all

128the county um lays out the timeline and the schedule and the applications. And I think there is a requirement that you have to be 18 years old. And that's the only requirement. >> well, and a resident within that that that area. >> A vo- vo- voter eligible >> So, you have to be registered to vote. >> Yeah. You have to be registered. I'm not sure about that. >> can we can clarify through the material. It's in the material. Yeah. The residency >> It is in the material. But, I'm going to say this cuz I don't I don't believe we said um for you to get to put your name forward for the running for the office >> to talk to >> You don't have to talk. I think we said if you have any questions

129that to direct somebody someplace for questions was um >> And And I want It may have been the intent I'm not sure it worked out that way with understanding. Okay. And I want to say too that for any member of the public that's interested that they can certainly contact me and ask about the you know and I don't know the other board members may feel the same way that that members of the public who are interested in serving on the board of trustees that they can reach out to any of us to find out more about you know what the >> to make sure I'm really I want to make sure I'm really clear on this though because I don't want the anyone to believe that I'm trying to make folks come see me. >>

130Yeah, they don't have to come to you. I will but yet people do have questions and and and for them to ask questions we want to be able to provide that that availability because if there's often times people don't know where to go. Yeah. Right and we can actually our our our office Teresa and I can can guide and assist folks to know where they they can you know find information. We provide information. For example, you as a board have designed and developed a board governance handbook or and you have a resolution on that. We can provide those types of things if they have questions. There's you know direct them to web page page information. I remember when I was first running and first interested I went to the that current board president and just

131said what what is >> What is it like? What what what do I have to do? You know, what does it mean? And and I know that even when I explored it even like back in 2008 the first time I ran for the board I reached out to the superintendent because the superintendent is the person who is the supervisor of staff. Like I wanted to meet principals. I wanted to visit sites and the superintendent was the obvious person to contact and and say and it it wasn't necessarily easy at that time with that superintendent because it wasn't necessarily amenable to that but I felt like as someone who's running for the position you want to get to know the issues at the sites. You know, in order to campaign you kind kind to know a

132little bit. You can't just you know, go into it, especially if you don't have an educational background. And so, um, the superintendent as the supervisor of the district, of all the employees in the district, is the appropriate person to contact. >> to go look at the language because I don't want anybody to ever think that you have to talk to me. But if you have a question, I actually am the expert in what's going on. I'm just saying, I actually happen to be the person that would actually have detail information on the school district. So, I just want to really stress that. It was there's no intention. Well, because it was made of clear and apparent that it was feeling like it was directing people to have to go to me. That's not at all

133the intention whatsoever. Cuz that would be improper. Okay, but to be able to provide information to people that may not know where to find it, the superintendent works directly with the board and for the board. And with the staff Very much. >> And with the staff as well. And with the staff as well, clearly. So, um, all right. Um, so that'll be on the action item. After 32 years as a teacher in this district, I thought, oh, yeah, this is going to be I I got this job down. It's going to be easy cake. Big learning curve. Big, big learning curve. >> Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. >> All right. Well, but yeah, you came with knowing yeah, exactly, knowing some things. One thing I just wanted to say earlier that Absolutely. So, when me and

134Arya were at the student representative workshop in the conference that we went to in December, um, there was a student who had referenced their district. This was like a district in like Oakland or something like that, but they, um, started allowing people over 16 to be the ones voting on the election. And I know that's something that definitely would take a lot of Oh, the the county, county elections office and everything. >> However, I do think that is something that definitely should be considered for future [clears throat] elections in many years just cuz I feel like that's very important cuz they're representing everyone in the district, not just They're not just like the adults Yeah, I'm interested in that. I mean, I want I wonder how onerous that process is. I didn't realize that you

135could do it for like a specific a specific, you know, It was just for school board. It wasn't for like the county supervisor or the mayor or anything like that. It was just for the school board. Yeah. Yeah, I Yeah, I'd be curious about the process for that. Thank you. I I Yeah, I'd be interested in that. So, I'll have to see what I can talk to the elections office maybe or something. Okay. Um great. Thank you for sharing. All right, next we have our consent agenda. Um do I have a motion for action? For adoption of the consent agenda. I move to adopt the consent agenda. And I'll second. All right, I have a motion by Trustee Mansfield and a second by Trustee Camacho. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. Okay,

136motion passes and then items for consideration at future board meetings. Any suggestions or inquiries? Okay. Seeing none, then I will adjourn this meeting at 7:53.