August 28, 2025 - Board Meeting - Open Session

001Good evening. We're going to get started. Um, we're reconvening back into regular session. Welcome everybody. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here. And, uh, welcome to the board of education's regular meeting of August 28th, 2025. We are um reconvening into regular open session at 6:03 p.m. Um item number six is reporting on any actions on closed session. And I just want to report that the board did provide the superintendent with direction and authority regarding a personnel matter. Um item number seven is swearing in South Lake Tahoe High School. actually South Tahoe High School student board members to the board of education. And tonight we have the pleasure of swearing in two of our board member our student board member representatives. And we have Mary and Arya. And I'm Am I going to

002stand right here and do this? Okay, we're going to swear them in. So this is their oath um >> oath of office. I wasn't sure if it would pick up on the recording or not. So um we're going to do this together. Thank you for both. Look at that. You're so collaborative already. together. Thanks for being here. Um, so I'm going to say the oath and you'll repeat it back. So first off, I and then say your names. Um, do solemnly swear. So go ahead. I >> I, Adios Sanne do solemnly swear. >> I, Mary Luxinger, do solemnly swear >> that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the state of California. that I will sorry that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the

003State of California. That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the State of California >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the State of California. >> That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the State of California. that I take this obligation Oh, sorry, Mary. Go. >> It's okay. >> that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the State of California. >> That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> that I take this obligation freely without any

004mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> That I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. >> And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. and I will well and faithfully dischar discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. >> and that I will I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter. >> Excellent. Thank you very much. >> And tonight you're both gonna sit at the DA. All right. Well, welcome. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. the beginning of a great year and this is the first year that our student uh board representatives are uh in the past um Dr. Dr. Cutler has had a leadership um student leadership group where he

005would um select those reps and I think as at the uh idea and request of last year's student board representatives this last year the students elected their board their representative to serve on the board. So that was an idea that came from our um student leaders and um so Mary is representing um this year for she'll serve for two terms and she was elected and you're a junior this year right and so welcome and so that was that was democracy and action at South High School and Arya was appointed she's a senior and she was appointed by Dr. Cutler and the student leadership um council. So thank you and you served last year on that student leadership council also. All right. Well, welcome and thank you for being here. Okay, next we have uh communication

006reports and we first have the board member reports. Do I have any board member reports? >> Um yeah, we kind of just wanted to >> No, they're not the students yet, but we are. You guys are next. Sorry. Item 8A is board member reports and then the student board member reports. follow that and then I'll I will definitely take your reports. So, any of the uh board of trustees reports? >> I will. >> Okay. But um Trusty Anderson, >> uh great beginning of the school year over at the middle school. I was up out there at 8:30 uh talking to teachers, students, uh anybody I could talk to. Uh, I also went to Mount Tac and watched a really cool icebreaker activity with their large group in a big circle in the room. Um, that

007was fun to watch. Uh, Julia Russell led that and Amy Jackson was involved. Also, I took a a little walk down the hallway to the new um community day school center at the Al Tahoe Center and uh introduced myself to the two people that are manning that place. um Sarah Sleta and Bill Rodrik uh the the uh newly placed teacher there. And I came away from that meeting very impressed and uh with high hopes for the success of that program uh how it will impact particularly our our middle school and our high school. Uh I was very impressed with uh Mr. Rodri. Additionally, on the the first day of school, uh went out early uh uh to Camp Richardson around 6:15 and was surprised to see the parking lot filled, absolutely filled, and uh came

008to find out that it was our our our Viking senior class decided to do a sunrise observation um before school on the first day of school. and they walked out to the end of the pier and I paddled past them um calling out go Vikings and uh it was really it was a really cool uh morning for for me. >> Awesome. >> Thank you, Trusty Menel. >> I was able to participate at Friday night's Sierra House meet your teacher and so I ran math games and some of the kids were like, "Okay, I solved the game. Now what do I get?" And oh, ice cream's right next to where I was sitting. So that was good that PTA provided the ice cream for the kids. And then also on the first day of school, I

009was able to go to Tahoe Valley and just the smiles, the arch balloon. And then after I went out on the playground, I came out and kids were still going through the little arch balloons and parents were taking pictures and it's like, "Would you like me to take your phone and take your picture so that you can get a family shot?" They're Oh yes. So yes, so it was just it was just very fun. So happy 2526 school year. >> Thank you. >> I went uh I attended the uh taking care of business days at the high school with for my students. Uh that went very smoothly. The the arrows on the ground were a little that was a little tough at times to navigate, but we managed through there. And then uh was super

010excited. I went back to Beiju for the opening day and um it was very emotional. I was thinking back it' been I think 16 years since I dropped off our first child there in kindergarten. So it was it was uh it was wonderful to see the line of I mean just the enthusiasm and the once again the balloon arch and the bobcat was there. It was it was really special and I don't think there was anybody tardy that day because I don't think they got started for at least 20 minutes late because there was such a long line and so here's to a good year. Thank you. >> And I would like to share that I went to fund your future at the middle school on Friday and was that Thursday? just wonderful uh representation

011from many different organizations and it was uh very welcoming I thought to the students and to the parents and then on on Monday morning first day of school I was at Sierra House and the first student I came across was this little itty bitty girl pony pigtails and it's just she's precious and I said are you excited and she jumped into my arms and gave me a hug and I said this is why I do this and so I'm going getting off that high and I run into a teacher and she's all ready to go and I said I said are you ready for today? She said I was born ready. So I thought just I just got it was just a wonderful first day. So thank you for Sierra House for being so welcoming.

012>> Sounds like a fantastic uh beginning of the school year. So thank you for all those reports. Um next we have our student board member reports. All right, Ara. >> Yeah, that's it. You push the button. Yeah. Okay. Well, good. Sorry about earlier. College apps have made my brain foggy. >> Um, yeah, you mentioned the senior sunrise. It was a great start to our senior year, although a very early start. We were told to get there at 6:00 a.m., so it's kind of rough, but um, it was a great start. We've had a great few days. Um, of course, in our new classes and whatnot with my senior year and Mirie's junior year, and we actually had our first superintendent advisory council uh, meeting today. So, that went really well. and we are currently working

013on a large project. >> Yeah. So, there's going to be a presentation for the SSDA, which will be the small school district association. So, we're going to be doing a presentation with us and the other parts of the advisory committee. And we're just going to be talking about the leadership positions that we have in the district and how those positions have just changed in the past two years and what they've brought into the district in a positive way. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. And at the California School Boards Association annual education conference, we'll be making uh Mary and I actually will be making a presentation expanding on that, talking about student impact and the importance of student voice in school districts. So, we're really excited about that. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> We're gonna we're going

014to make a positive difference. Thank you so much. You guys are awesome. You're hitting the ground running. I know it's because of, you know, your enthusiasm. So, I appreciate that. All right. Uh, next we have um the superintendence report. >> President Keer, member of the board, just like I said last year, I need to move this around this order because following our our students is is difficult to do. And actually, so so excited. I've got a call from the executive director of of the Small School Districts Association. They'll be up here just around the corner uh at um I believe uh one of our locations here doing an event on September 11th. Sorry, it left me where where exact location is. Um and uh and they called and say, "Hey, we would love for a

015student group to do a presentation, maybe something around leadership and and maybe something that superintendents and others might be able to replicate." And I said, "Well, what about my stu super student advisory council talking about all the what they do and them presenting?" And they said, "Would love it." and and got the students on a call last week and we started planning and and I'm so excited about them doing that and actually they then asked if Kelly and I would do a presentation on some staffing components that we've presented previous years at at the um the business officers association. So we're looking forward to doing that and and and excited for our students especially. I'm going to make my report brief. Obviously have a lot of folks in the audience and here for many reasons

016this evening. Um, I want to thank all of you for being in attendance at the welcome back breakfast meeting last Thursday. Um, and uh, I just really felt like it was a great time to get us together to kick off the year. You know, there's a lot of hard things happening and part of why a lot of folks are here, whether that be insurance or other other challenges that we are facing. Um, but it felt like a really good time to be together and I want to really do a big shout out to the Marcella Foundation. They this is the second year they've sponsored the event, but they took it to another level this year by pro providing the flowers. The food was extensive um comparatively speaking to previous years. They they they gathered up

017and and and I want to just do a a shout out to these companies that they worked with. Um Cup of Tahoe, Crazy Good Bakery, Tahoe Bagels, TV donuts, drink coffee, do stuff and Starbucks. Um, and then South Refugees had uh trash uh sustainability kind of trash cans out there making sure we collected the trash in an appropriate manner so that we could consider the health and of our environment. So, just so thankful for that to all the staff that were there. Um, just thought it was a great feel and a great excitement for the start of the year. Again, in light of lots of challenges we're facing, um, we're still coming together and and focus on doing what's right for our students. and and as I moved around the school district throughout the week,

018um it's just been a really good feel. I I've really been excited to to hear from students saying how excited they are and watching teachers get um really get after it in the classroom. Um you know, and but it takes everyone. It takes our bus drivers to pick up our students, their custodians to have the schools cleaned, our maintenance team to have the facilities ready. Um, our our aids to support the students and the teachers, our office staff to to make sure that all of the things that come their way make it smooth and easy for the classroom. Uh, so to to really to everybody, uh, I want to thank for a really successful start. And that's where I'll end my report tonight. Thank you so much. All right. Our next um item is the

019employee association reports. We have uh the teachers association. >> Welcome. >> Uh good evening, President Keer, trustees, superintendent Cutler, the members of our community, and my fellow employees. Today, on behalf of South Tahoe Educators Association, I want to begin by sharing the joy and energy for the back to school season. Our campuses have been filled with the smiles of our students returning to the classrooms, the warmth of the staff reconnecting with their colleagues, and the renewed sense of purpose that always comes with the start of a school year. It was heartwarming to see educators welcome their students with open arms, ready to nurture not only their minds, their confidence, their curiosity, and their sense of belonging. I would like to thank you for allowing STA to share the at the district's back to school kickoff

020the importance of creating safe spaces for every single person on our campuses. The distribution of the red cards was not simply an exercise and symbolism. It was a reminder that every one of our campuses deserves dignity, respect, and safety in the workplace. Our educators and students need to feel safe, seen, and supported. We are looking ahead both with anticipation and care as we approach upcoming negotiation meetings. There is an excitement about the possibility of productive collaboration and the progress that we can make together. At the same time, there is concern among our members about their well-being, both in terms of their working conditions and the longterm sustainability of their positions here in South Lake Tahoe. It is our hope that these negotiations are grounded in respect and a shared commitment to the people who make

021learning possible every day. The presence of so many of our staff here tonight and throughout our schools is a testament to their loyalty and dedication. Educators are professionals who consistently go above and beyond. And this is because they believe in the students of LTUSD. They show up each day committed to provide stability, inspiration, and opportunity for every learner in our community. As trustees, we are asking for your commitment in return to protect the well-being of all of our staff to ensure that they are valued and respected and to recognize that the health of our schools depends on the health of the people who serve in them. Thank you. Right. Um, there I couldn't see you. >> Welcome. >> Good evening, President Keer, board members, Dr. Cutler, and everyone in attendance. I would like also to

022thank the Marcella Foundation uh for the wonderful celebration last week. I thank everyone. I certainly have gotten wonderful feedback from all our members. It is so much fun to see everybody uh and to enjoy a wonderful breakfast. Also, it was great for Lori to present and everyone else. It was nice to have everybody acknowledged and I think that we all really enjoyed hearing how much we all matter this year. I know it is on all our minds and my members are not here but it is on their minds about the insurance and the health and well-being. So, I know that's something that we all want to collaborate on and hopefully address as we go forward. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Our next item is item 8E, public comment. This is the

023time and place where uh folks can offer public comments that are not on items that are on the agenda. Um, and they're limited to five minutes. And I >> three minute. Well, the agenda actually says Oh, no, it's limited. You're right. The agenda says items 7A to 7D is five minutes. So, public comment is three minutes. I'm missing my little script that I normally uh read. So, I just want I'm kind of winging it right now. That being said, I just I know that the main message is we welcome all your comments. Um, we respect we want to respect um everyone's opinions. Um we have a lot of folks here. So if people can limit their comments to three minutes and if they and rather than repeat something someone else said uh perhaps just echo

024you know be able to say I agree with so and so that will help um for us to get through and so everyone's voice can be heard um if they so choose. So at with that Dr. Cutler do we have public comments? We're going to start with I think two uh submitted statements >> statements in writing with Miss Scow and then we have then we have four submitted cards. >> Four submitted cards. Great. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay. This is from Ashley Aminion. Hope I said that right. Uh dear LTUSD board of trustees. Happy first week of school. My name is Ashley Ashley Aminion and I'm an English teacher at South Tahoe High School. Go Vikings. I'm sorry I'm not present at today's meeting. I'm probably running six miles at this

025very moment as I'm training for the Chicago Marathon and now have no time for anything other than running in circles. It has been an exciting week of greeting new students, reuniting with past students, and many trips to the library for textbooks. It has also been a time of a time to reflect on the increased health insurance premiums for LTUSD employees. This comment is intended to provide context and not cast blame. some members of some some numbers for you to please consider. My monthly premium will increase over 400 a month and I will now pay over 900 a month a month for my insurance. This is an astronomical increase I cannot afford. I was it was suggested I switch plans but in the last few years I have developed a serious medical condition that requires almost

026weekly hospital and or doctor visits. In fact, I took an afternoon trip to Barton Hospital today for a body scan I now need need done regularly. Shout out to the kind nurses at Barton for always greeting me. It's like I'm a character in Cheers. Everybody knows my name. But I digress. With my current plan, I have met my deductible thanks to my large number of doctor visits, but still pay a large amount for a quick scan I need routinely. If I would switch plans, I would still be paying hundreds of dollars a month for a deductible I would never reach, and I would not be able to get the Medicare care I need on a regular basis. In addition, I still pay out of pocket for most visits. switching plans, they are now all very

027expensive, is not an option. So, I now face a fourth um out of my paycheck going towards my monthly premium alone. At this very moment, I am now losing money working for LTUSD and cannot afford to work for my job. I have an ask colon, please consider covering this new cost for teachers. Please also considering offer employees an opt out option so we can find a plan we can afford. I I thank you for your consideration and hope a solution is found for our educators. So that's from Ashley Aminian. And then I have someone a STHs teacher that did not want to identify themsself. I am writing out of concern about the increase in the health insurance premiums. I teach at South Tahoe High School and I have been worried for much of the summer

028about the discussed increased rates that were finally shared with all staff at 3:25 in the afternoon last Friday, August 22nd. LTUSD staff cannot afford to pay for these increases, but the school district should not be locked into these seemingly terrible rates that CVT is offering either as these rates have only been uh shared to all staff at the end of August with an open enrollment beginning September. It appears we are all stuck for this year. The school district needs to cover these costs for this year while investigating better options for the future. In our own local educational community, LTCC covers 22,030 of its employees healthcare costs. Meanwhile, LTUSD covers 13,250. This is a striking difference, and LTUSD needs to find a way to increase their contributions for this year while investigating better healthcare options for

029the future. I have taught in seven different school districts and I have never had health insurance coverage as poor as what is offered by LTUSD, including previous to this increase. This gives me many doubts about how our agreement was originally negotiated with CVT. In comparing our rates to other CVT districts, it seems we are paying an employee plus family rate for all employees. There are no employee only or employee plus one tiers. We also are not given an option to opt out of the district healthcare coverage despite significantly better options being available to many staff members to to their spouses to their spouse's employers and or covered California. Why are staff forced to pay for plans that give them worse coverage? The school district could actually save money as most districts give employees who opt

030out only 50% of the district contribution. We are being told that the other options have been locked into but there are there is no transparency about what looked into sorry but there is no transparency about what those are slash we're did we talk to the HR at LTCC and stupid the city etc and look into the companies they use they all have better options was there a Barton was there a Barton as an emergency room only option looked into did we look at a tiered employee employee plus one employee plus family option Thank you for your time and all LTUSD staff would appreciate your support. >> Okay, we're going to go ahead and start with Sharon Abalo. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Kepler and school board for this opportunity to speak. My name is Sharon Abau.

031This is my 20 year third year working in schools and my 13th year here working in this school district. Um, I apologize. I'm uh very confident speaking in front of children. However, speaking in front of a room of adults and knowing that this is going to be on the internet is kind of eating my nerves go. So, I'm going to do my best here. Um, I pride myself on especially Wait, where am I at? Sorry about that. Um, I pride myself on being very informed and involved. Um, most of the time I watch these meetings at home on YouTube, but this summer I've been attending in person because of my concerns, especially regarding the new massive increase to our health insurance. It is my belief that this health insurance issue, but really including all district

032issues that Dr. Cutler and you all on the school board that you want to be part of making positive solutions and policies um that benefit our students, teachers, staff, and communities. I think you want to help. I think you want to be our hero. Um I don't think you want these problems to continue without solutions. But what I have heard again and again from this board, from you, Dr. Cutler, is that you are out of solutions and that you offer us the community that you work for, your sympathy for these problems. Um, well, I think that you are out of solutions because your think tanks or your committees or whatever you call them, they're too small and they don't include the people who are more knowledgeable because of experiences and different perspectives. Um, at every

033school site, there are teachers and staff that have been part of those school sites and the communities for 10 to 20 more years than their site principles. Our long-term staff is full of knowledge and they have great ideas and they have solved problems in the past. Um, I urge you to talk to these district gems more than just at an I attend board meetings. I attended a board meeting a few weeks ago where another teacher CC Cross said something along the lines that the school board was tonedeaf and they couldn't read the room. Um, I think that is because you really haven't heard us or understand our reality. >> You have 30 seconds. >> Employes, I've come here tonight with some suggestions for the school board. Um, for Dr. Cutler, people like Dr. Reer, anyone

034who really is in a position of power to make solutions and positive changes. You should substitute eight days a year. I think you should substitute two days in an elementary school, two days at the middle school, two days at the high school, and two days in a special ed classroom so that you know what we're working with and then we will get more than your sympathies and admiration. >> I think you should individually go to each site and hear what we have to say and don't talk to us, but just come to listen. Okay, please. So, >> your three minutes is up. Thank you. >> Thank you. I appreciate for you listen. Allison Murphy. Hi. >> Uh, dear board members, Dr. Cutler, Dr. Reer, uh, thank you for taking the time to hear me. I

035want to to share the very real financial hardship that could be placed on this this year, especially those of us who are pay scale and still early in our careers. With the recent increase in health insurance, more than $300 for my family and the nearly doubled cost of district daycare, my monthly expenses have gone up by over $800. I no longer feel that I am val valued. For a new teacher with a young family, that kind of increase is tough. It's overwhelming. I have already dropped down to the lowest plan last year, and I'm constantly trying to find ways to cut costs in order to continue living in Tahoe, a place that I truly love. I hope you'll consider how these changes are affecting the people who every day are dedicated to this district and

036do our best to support the district's mission. Thank you for listening. Chad Lawrence. >> Hi. Thank you for having me and thank you for letting me speak. Um, this is a letter that was written by my wife, so I'm going to be speaking on behalf of her. Um, because she wrote it, there might be some slightly awkward phrases as I speak. >> It'll it'll come right out the gates. Like right out the gate. Dear members of the board, my name is Jennifer Marshall and I have lived in South Lake Tahoe for 19 years and I currently work as a grant specialist at South Tahoe uh public utility district. As a public service employee, I understand the dedication it takes to serve our community and also the financial strain of trying to make ends meet in

037Lake Taho's high-cost environment. This statement is personal and it does not represent any opinions of South Tahoe PUB. My husband Chad Lawrence has been a committed math and science teacher with LTUSD for nine years. He is highly engaged and well regarded by his colleagues, students, and parents. Two years ago, I began working with public utility district where our employees are fortunate to receive highquality health insurance fully covered at no cost for ourselves or our spouses. as you know, LTUSD requires teach us just over $1,700 per year with a $5,000 deductible. In practice, this meant we had to pay about $6,700 out of pocket before most meaningful benefits. This year, the cost of the same lowquality bronze 5,160 still with a $5,000 deductible. In practical terms, school teacher like Ched must pay over $10,000 out of

038pocket before most benefits even begin. His recent $3,500 rate or taxes and benefits for longevity and his two master's degrees has been entirely offset and then some by this increase in healthcare costs. In effect, you're being paid less for the same dedicated work. You would pay no premium. Our family's deductible would only be foreign deductible. We could avoid the significant financial burden. I strongly urge you to one, reject the current health plan proposal and continue negotiating for better coverage for teachers. Two, shift more of the burden from teachers to the district. and three, allow teachers with proof of coverage through a spouse to opt out of district sponsored health insurance. These thousands of dollars are not abstract numbers. They determine whether a teacher can afford food, housing, medical care, and stability for their family. They

039directly affect teacher well-being, retention, and ultimately the quality of education for the children of Lake Tahoe. Thank you for your time and your commitment to supporting teachers and the public service workers in our community. Sincerely, Jennifer Marshall. >> Kathy Haven. >> Hi, my name is Kathy Haven. I'm a parent uh for the last year and 20 um this year. And I don't know, this might not have been the best board meeting to come to, but I keep thinking, "Oh, I'll come next time. Oh, I'll come next time." But I would like to quickly speak to the school calendar. I would like the board and Dr. Cutler and everybody in power to consider putting committees together to look at the school calendar of LTUSD around us within a 100 miles. Almost every school district is now

040at an earlier calendar starting in August, mid August, early August, finishing at the end of May or the beginning of June. LTUSD participates in with NIAA, the Nevada schools. That'll start in the beginning middle of August. First day of practice this year was July 28th. And what it's doing, it's impacting learning. It's impacting summer vacation. It's impacting our time. I would love to see a committee together come together to look at how over many years, which won't benefit my children directly, we can back up our schedule to start earlier. This will be better as far as research shows because we're on a 4x4 at the high school. We'd be done at the December break. There'd be three more weeks of learning versus they come back right now at the beginning of January, have one week

041of school, one week of prep, and then finals, and then we start the second term. It would also help with sports. Right now, coaches and athletes at the high school and some at the middle school are getting roughly seven or eight weeks of summer instead of 10 because they start so much earlier. First league game for football this year was the middle of August, August 14th, two weeks before we were even in school. And then the last point is the end of the year. Currently, state testing AP exams are all done mid to late May and we are in school for more than a month after that. It is a time that yes, there's lots of celebrations and fun events, but there's also a lot of wasted time. Um, I see it mostly at the

042high school, and I know we are a K12 district, but it would just be really wonderful if we could put something together to look at the pros and cons of how our schedule is compared to everyone around us and what's that doing to our learning and to our livelihood and whatnot. That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you. President Kemp or members of the board, I believe that is all of the submitted cards. Um, I want to I do want to thank everybody for being here, supporting each other. Um, and uh, I'm hopeful that we can come to some resolution, some solution as quickly as possible. We have some upcoming sessions with with both of our um units and uh so just so we really thank that uh did you have something to say >> Max

043Max come up on >> appreciate it. >> Just state since we don't have your car just state state your name for us. Okay. Thank you. >> My name is Max Trader. I'm a junior at South High School. Um I'm I think I picked the wrong meeting to come to. Um, oh no, we want you at all meetings. So, >> no, it all the meeting um nonetheless. So, I came here to uh not necessarily complain, but I would I would like to state um my backpack is probably about 40 lbs. I I signed up for English 101 and honors US history. Um I would like to raise my GPA and both are 5.0 classes. So with those two classes, I have to carry around large heavy textbooks within my bag um along with uh my binders,

044my Chromebook. And thankfully, Mr. Lawrence was uh kind enough to cut down from three 2in uh binders, a single notebook. Um um so so I should uh the load wouldn't be as heavy if it if I um the load is less heavy now than it would have been. However, it it still is um incredibly heavy. And as you all may know, um we don't have lockers at the high school. So if we did then I probably wouldn't be here because I would have a place to I would actually have a place to store my books and it's I find it quite ridiculous that just because of the classes that I signed up for I have to carry around a practical small child everywhere >> a large child actually. >> So that's all I have. Thank

045you. Thank I I think you came to the right meeting. You got a big round of applause. >> Big round of applause. >> You know, ju just to just to finish a statement on that to all of our employees in here, you know, I know words are just words and this this has been a hard situation with CVT dropping on us in May, these new rates and working to get discussion started. The board has shared with me just to speak. They they because they can't respond to to public input. The board has shared with me their their interest and desire for us to do what we can and and figure it out. Um and that's their desire. So I support them. And yet it's always going to be tough, right? We we have sessions set

046up right now um to hopefully meet with both both associations and really start to really work these things out. And one rumor I do want to take care of because it it was brought to me by several folks is our administrators and our management team, they they have the same benefits and they have the same um amount money given to them um in their just as you do and they have the same options and selection. So this is impacting um every employee from that that takes our benefits um through that process, right? And and we are looking at is there a way to to because by CVT we can't have less than 20% opt out for example. So, we're working on what can we do there? What can we change? Um, and and we do

047know the cheap we there was once upon a time an interest and a desire to have a zero dollar and that's gone up like so no money out of out of pocket and that's and the rates have just skyrocketed. So, uh, I just want to tell everybody we've been hearing and I appreciate staff being here and sharing their thinking and and um and and the board has heard you and and I've heard you. I don't know if we can make magic happen, but we're going to work together with everybody. And like I said, there's sessions coming up and and it hasn't those increases don't hit until uh paychecks in the end of October. And you know what? We're going to do our darnest to figure out that before then. Okay. So, thank you for letting

048me say that. Appreciate it. >> Thank you, Dr. Cutler. >> Uh yeah, it's difficult issue. So, let's see. We're moving on to um item number nine which is our educational services back to school highlights. Uh thank you thank you T teachers for coming tonight. >> Helen might need to turn the clicker on. >> Forgot your what? >> She forgot her job to turn it on. >> That's good. It's Alan. Now other folks can have seats. I was hoping Max was gonna stick around to comment on other items, but that's okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, >> yeah, we'll get that. >> I'll get it. >> Thank you. >> Oh, no. >> Yeah, we'll figure >> All right, Dr. Reer, uh, back to school highlights. >> Thank you, President Keer and trustees. As we do every year,

049I'd like to provide you with a brief update on our back to school 2526. Our principles and district leaders have prepared a slide on their back to school information. They are very proud of their sites and departments and shared a lot on these slides. So I will just highlight a couple of areas from each slide. Our educational services department uh includes all the team members listed here. I also included this picture of Miss Wendy Smallley and some of her two um her elevated students. Uh although we have reduced staffing the past two years at Elevated, it still remains a viable choice for our families. Here's our areas of emphasis this year, including board priorities, alignment, improving student learning, increased classroom visits, critical thinking, creativity, and problem solving. Our site single focuses also remain a priority.

050They are listed here for each school site. Next up, our school slides start with principal DPerry and Biju Community School where they will continue to celebrate diverse cultures with our TWWBI program. Additionally, they are emphasizing thinking maps to enhance student writing and thinking and welcome several new team members listed at the bottom of their slide. Next up is our newest principal, Principal Hart at Meyers Elementary. She's provided some updates including their first TK program at Meyers, new team members and improvements in the surrounding neighborhood. Principal Holmes at Sierra House has provided a list of their new team members, also emphasizing their community schools grant work and continuing their math focus. Principal Harnet at Tahoe Valley is excited to kick off their school year, introducing new team members, a new special education program, a shout out

051to their custodial and maintenance teams, and emphasizing there are priorities of safety and supportive and inclusive environments. Principal Martinez at South Tahoe Middle School introduces us to her team members, campus preparations, their professional development emphasis, their high reliability framework, and their PTA. Principal Zunino welcomes his new team members, kicks off um had a great kickoff events, uh facilities, professional development, focus on instruction and math. Several initiatives are listed on the slide as well as some updates. Mount Tac continuation high school is starting with about 60 plus students. The team is identified on this slide and they are excited to continue their partnership with Lake Tahoe Community College where they will be on campus every Friday starting about the third week in September is developing as well as developing additional partnerships. Elevated Digital Academy again is

052still alive and well with an elementary teacher serving first through sixth grade. Miss Wendy Smallley also shared with Alpine County and a second day secondary teacher serving seventh through 12th grade students and that's Dr. Julian Raymond. We have had to adjust how elevated uh will operate this year as a result of student and staff reductions, including a more comprehensive and robust online learning program called subject. Special education services coordinator Brena Dilman provides an update on our new special education program, introducing her team, extended school year, new hires, and some new testing protocols. Multilingual Learner Director Karen Goldberg, who you'll hear a little bit more from uh momentarily, also provides an updates on strategies to meet the aggressive goal of increasing student performance on CASS by 5%. These include expanding on site instructional support, strengthening district-wide

053multilingual learner systems, more professional learning opportunities, and ongoing data analysis. In summary, we're excited for the 2526 school year and are off to a solid start. This agenda item is forformational purposes only. Do you have any questions for me? >> Do I have any questions, comments, >> student board, student board members? Thank you, Dr. Reer. >> Very exciting. That was a very uh expedite, very speedy presentation, Dr. Reer, and there's a lot going on. Thank you. It was a very speedy presentation, but it was also full of lots of information, lots of exciting things that are happening. >> A little bit there. Yeah, >> it's good. There's excitement. Um, all right. Our next item is 9B, our multilingual learner update presentation. Welcome Karen Goldberg and ElenaBub. Alana Kyab, sorry about that. Usually, I just, you

054know, I call you by your last name. All right. Good evening, board president camper and board trustees. I'm pleased to be here today tonight to provide our annual update on multilingual learners for the start of the 2526 school year and reaffirm our strong commitment to discover and foster the unique talents and potential of all students. I'm also very pleased that joining me tonight is Alana and to introduce her as the multilingual learner specialist who will be supporting this incredibly important work. always. >> Oh, it's not. >> There we go. >> Our work is grounded in the priorities of comprehensive literacy, innovation, and a whole child approach. Tonight, we'll present our overarching goal, increasing student performance by strengthening staff support. and we will share data on student progress. I also want to clarify that while the

055state continues to use the term English learners, our district, like many others, has transitioned to using multilingual learners. This term better reflects students strengths in languages beyond English and honors their path towards bilingualism or multilingualism. your UCR complete team, including the multilingual learner secretary, Daisy Ariano, as well as our bold goals for the year. While we've seen gains in some areas and setbacks in others, we remain committed to achieving a 5% overall increase in multilingual learner achievement. We'll measure this progress through student outcomes on CASP. We'll also be including I Ready and the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California or LPAC. will support the district-wide goal of improving attendance with a goal to increase multilingual learner attendance by 3%. Supporting staff is central to improving student achievement. My expanded role this year allows me more

056time to work sidebyside with teachers, planning lessons, analyzing student data, reviewing curriculum, modeling strategies, and co-eing. We are developing professional learning and collaboration with principles and will um monitor both academic and attendance progress. Daisy will play a key role in tracking multilingual learner attendance and helping families connect to available supports. We will also support attendance and achievement in partnership with the family resource center. This slide highlights bright spots in our most recent California dashboard data. Graduation rates for English learners increased by more than 4%. While this exceeds the state average, it still lags behind LTUSD's overall graduation rate. Another positive note is that our students identified as long-term English learners have who having been in the program for six years or more are graduating at a rate well above the state level. As we would

057like to see, the years to exit the program by meeting state and local criteria to be reclassified as fluent English proficient decreased by one half year. Chronic absenteeism, though still high, dropped nearly seven percentage points and is approaching the district average. In the last slide, we looked at years to reclassify. Here you see the four required criteria. One important change, ELPAC results are now arriving earlier, in some cases as early as May. This allows us to reclassify students sooner instead of waiting until fall. Previously, we delayed entering reclassification data to maintain consistency across years. Now, we are required to report immediately. As a result, this year's data will appear inflated as it includes both spring and fall exits. Next year's data will reflect only the spring reclassified group. Here we see a preview of preliminary

058results of the spring ALPAC exam, which measures the acquisition of academic English and is the key requirement for multilingual learners to exit the EL program. We're pleased to note that a district year-over-year data shows overall growth of 2.5%. While this is a positive trend, our goal remains a 5% annual increase in student achievement on LPAC I Ready. These charts display I Ready growth in English language language arts and math for schools with a significant number of multilingual learners. Every site showed growth from fall to spring in both subjects. On the far right column in each chart, you'll find each site's progress goal for the 2526 school year, which is based on our overarching goal of the 5% increase in achievement academic achievement for multilingual learners. A highlight here is Tahoe Valley's overall growth in both

059ELA and math exceeds all other sites. This slide presents preliminary CASP data which may be updated before final release. In English language arts, the percentage of multilingual learners meeting or exceeding standards declined by 2.82 to 9.42%. Our target for this year then of 5% growth is at 14.42%. In math we saw 4.07 increase to 9.88 with a goal of this year of roughly 14 15%. Our team understands the magnitude of the task we are taking on this year to decrease absenteeism and significantly increase student performance. we approach this incredibly important work head on. And this slide takes a look at some of this year's additional support. >> This year, I will support multilingual learners full-time, starting with mentoring new teachers. We have already worked with teachers across the district, focused on supporting every teacher with

060the same key strategies and curricular resources. For example, we have begun developing grade level specific ELPAC practice uh Google Slides to support teachers across all elementary sites in their work with multilingual learners. >> Daisy continues to support assessments, data and training and is now helping monitor attendance. And as noted, we will continue uh we continue our partnership with the South Lake Tahoe Family Resource Center, supporting families with information, advocacy, and the resources they need to meet their basic needs. Our students and staff we know are and we begin this year with an eye on in the innovation and the hard work that will support our schools and families in increasing attendance and achievement. >> More and hand them out. >> In conclusion, I'd like to thank you for your time and we invite any of

061your question. >> Um board members, do I have any questions? Yeah, you mentioned uh obviously the and we're super pleased with the goal of increasing attendance obviously and you mentioned Daisy will be uh collecting that data and then providing supports. So what will she be like reaching out to the families calling them why what's going on how type of stuff. So what Daisy is taking on is doing some very regular and consistent attendance monitoring and giving that information and things we've looked at with use that data for is one communicating with families directly with calls. Okay. Um and linking family to what they need. So if that means linking them with the family resource center or connecting them with the site. So really trying to look at what what's causing an >> Yeah. Why? Okay.

062Thank you. Just >> that was my that was my question as well. And that I mean it sounds like you'll work as kind of a team then to address that. I mean it's not obviously Daisy probably has plenty to do. It's not she won't be doing all the phone calls but there's an opportunity for her to share the data with you and then >> yeah we already started kind of brainstorming some ideas today as to how we can work as a team so that it's not just person but really supporting um the parents in trying to get their students here so that they can be here to learn. So yeah >> I appreciate that goal and that focus. Thank you. >> Student student board member Arya would like to say something. How are you? >>

063I actually wanted to thank you guys as um a student that was a multilingual learner when I entered this district back in 2013 where this level of support didn't exist. Um from that perspective, I just wanted to speak that support means the world to these children and these families. So, thank you guys for the work you're doing. >> Excellent. Any other comments or questions from board members, student board members? >> Thank you. Really appreciate you and thanks. And you brought your mom tonight. Is that No. All right. So, next we're gonna have um we have another item coming up and it is the multi- No, I'm sorry. It's item number 10, risk and safety and it's the bicycle and ebike safety information and discussion item. >> Good evening, President Kemper and members of the board.

064>> All right. Thank you. As the director of facilities and transportation for the district, one of my responsibilities is ensuring the safety of all our schools and students. Within the last few years, our community has seen a significant increase in the number of students using bicycles and more specially electric ebikes as their primary mode of transportation to and from school. While these transportation options promote independence, physical activity, and environment sustainability, they also introduce some new safety concerns. Ebikes, which can reach higher speeds than traditional bikes, bicycles. Um, at our middle school where the bus isated, we've already seen a few close calls with the students navigating street traffic on bikes and ebikes without the necessary safety education. These incidents highlight the need for more structured approach to ensure that our students are riding safely both

065on school grounds and on public streets. In response to these ongoing concerns, uh, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, TRPA, and, uh, the TASK Tahoe Alliance for Safe Kids, TASK, has approached us with an opportunity to collaborate on implementing a policy that would address ebike safety, clear expectations for our student conduct. I'd like to bring this to the board today as a conversation starter to discuss how we might move forward with creating a formal policy to address these growing concerns. And here are some key points to consider. Helmet use and traffic law compliance. Um ensuring that all students wear helmets and follow local traffic laws while riding ebikes or bicycles. Safety education. Promoting bike and ebike safety throughout ongoing education for students, staff, and parents. potent potentially partnering with community organizations. Campus safety procedures setting clear

066guidelines for how students should enter and exit campuses on bikes and ebikes. This would be to minimize the risk around school grounds. Promoting responsible behavior, reinforcing the district's overall commitment to student safety by encouraging responsible and safe conduct among riders. And last, liability mitigation. Um, proactively addressing potential safety issues, it can re reduce the district's liability risk in case of accidents. While this policy offers many benefits, we must also consider some potential challenges. Oversight and compliance, ensuring that students comply with safety rules, which may require additional staff supervision and resources. training and education, the need for ongoing safety training and community education, which could involve guest speakers or external partnerships, infrastructural improvements. Some campuses may require additional bike racks, signage, or designated bike entry exit points. Um, that would cause deleting infrastructure costs. Equity concerns,

067making sure that the policy is equitable, especially when it comes to providing safety and gear for families who may Um consistent consistency in enforcement ensuring the policy is consistently enforced across all schools to avoid perceived in inequities in its application and financial considerations. Implementing this policy could involve some financial investment particularly in staffing, training and infrastructure improvements. There may also be costs associated with providing safety equipment for students in need. So the conclusion to this is with the growing number of students using ebikes and bicycles to get to and from school, it's clear that we need a more formal approach to ensure their safety. While there are challenges, especially around staffing, education, and infrastructure, the potential benefits of reducing accidents and promoting responsible biking far far outweigh the costs. So this evening, this agenda item

068is for information as well as discussion um just to get some input on the matter. Thank you, Mr. Zebu. >> President President Keer. >> Yes. >> You know, thank thank you uh Dave. And you I'm so thankful for Dave. He's taken on so many things, but the creation of a safe environment, especially how they go handinhand with facilities and transportation is is key to his work. This is obviously a larger scale scope that is much beyond just thinking about what Dave has brought to you tonight. I I've sat down with a a couple of our law enforcement officers um just last week to discuss several items and I brought this up and and in your packet in in your agenda item there is a link to information um regarding what's legal to ride at what

069ages and what has to happen and and I was uh and they were expressing that really the reality of it is is there's a lot of violations just of the law >> and that people don't know about them and that That's some of their job as a police force to start to to to educate. I I stopped by to see um our our SRO, school resource officer, Officer Peterson, yesterday just ask him about his start of the year and then specifically to ask him about how is it going with bikes um and specifically ebikes. And he said he started at the middle school by stopping every single one of the students um that he saw on ebikes and and and then and identifying them whether that bike was not legal for them to ride, not

070having proper safety gear and all of those things. And he said I he said I called a parent and informed that parent that the bike that they were riding was not legal for their age. And and so this a very large scale component, right? because and and I think to to to Dave's point, we're a little concerned because it's very difficult for us to to enforce um across the board uh you know and how we how we navigate this, but we also want to make sure that we are partners in our community for creating safe safe places not just in our campuses but beyond. Um and and Dave did mention in his his words that we were reached out by both TRPA and and TASK and we do have folks here tonight. So, President Kimber,

071we we have a written statement from TRPA. We have a couple folks from TAS. Would you like to hear those or would you like to start the discussion first? >> Um I don't know. Do you have any preference? I think we could hear those and then I also recognize uh folks from the Tahoe um bicycle coalition in the room as well. Um, but I but anyway, I think it's good that we all can, you know, provide provide some input and discussion on. >> But do you guys want to give some thoughts? >> But we might but I'm okay with hearing what they have to say first and then we can talk about it. >> Yeah. So So if you want we'll I'll have Teresa read the letter from TRP by the way that we made

072copies for each of you on that. >> Okay. Um and then we'll have our folks that are here to speak from the Tahoe Alliance for Safe Kids. >> Yeah. >> And if you guys would like to speak. So this is from Michelle Glicker, transportation planning program manager for TRPA. Dear Superintendent Cutler and trustees, on behalf of the TRPA, I want to thank you for your thoughtful consideration of policies related to student bicycle and ebike use. TRPA strongly supports safe, sustainable transportation cho choices for our region's youth and we commend the district for recognizing both the benefits and challenges of increased bicycle and ebike ridership among students. Encouraging students to bike to school aligns with our shared regional transportation goals of improving air quality, reducing traffic congestion, enhancing connectivity and mobility, and promoting healthy active lifestyles.

073With more students choosing to ride, it is essential they have the knowledge, skills, and infrastructure to travel safely. TRPA offers the following comments and and areas of support. Support for bicycle and ebike ridership. TRPA encourages student use of bicycles and ebikes as a sustainable and affordable transportation option that helps reduce vehicle trips and greenhouse gas emissions. Bicycle safety education. TRPA strongly supports the district's emphasis on safety education. TRPA has supported in-class safe routes to school curriculum and would be glad to collaborate on providing additional bicycle and ebike safety training, helmet distribution, and family outreach. Infrastructure improvements. Safe, accessible facilities for biking and walking are critical to encourage more students to ride. TRPA supports efforts to improve campus infrastructure such as secure bike racks, designated entry, exit routes, and signage. And the agency is willing to

074partner with the district in exploring funding opportunities for these improvements. Partnership opportunities. TRPA values collaboration with the district and other community partners in implementing effective and equitable bicycle policies. We welcome the opportunity to coordinate on education campaigns, safety programming, and infrastructure planning that will benefit students and the broader community. We are grateful to the district for its leadership on this critical issue. TRPA is committed to working with educational organizations in the Taho Bay basin to ensure that biking to school is not only accessible and stain a sustainable option, but also a safe and wellsupported one for all students. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us as the district continues policy development and implementation. Sincerely, Michelle Clicker. >> Okay. >> Want to move? Keep keep doing this. Okay. Yeah, great. >> So, let's have

075Teresa Pap Andrea. I know I know how to say that better. >> Um, thank you guys. Um, my name is Teresa Pap Andrea. I'm the executive director with TASK, the Tal Alliance for Safe Kids. >> Sorry. Um, and >> you don't even have to touch that, honestly. I feel like I'm always we uh I'm here because um we are in support um obviously our mission is to help um keep kids safe in the community and like the TRPA um we want to make sure it's still an accessible way for kids to get to school and commute around our community. Um and so we are willing uh to help with the process and be a convenor and a partner um to help with policym along with others in the community that would like to do that

076and um just making sure that uh kids can still be able to bike and get places safely. Um we are some of our board members had sent just what other school districts are doing. Um so there's a lot of great stuff out there to not have to reinvent the wheel. Um there's different pieces you can take from different school districts. Um but we're really in support of, you know, more um safety. U maybe even things like, you know, a parent waiver. We know some of the biggest issues is not knowing what bikes are legal or not. You know, there's things around registering a bike that's connected or a parent identifying and approving, you know, that the kids can buy. There's all kinds of ways we can go. Um, but I think just something that's consistent,

077that has education, um, that parents are aware and students, um, so that can continue to be a way kids can commute and get around not only to school but in the community. Um, so just know that TASK is um here and and willing to partner and convene. Also do things like do bike safety trainings um you know help with some of the parent education, help support others that are trying to get the needed um helmets or things out that might be part of you know making it all safe. So, just wanted to share that and we're happy to partner >> and thank you and good >> um and I would just say that in the board's agenda material there was a link to Ensenita Union School District samples that Paula Peterson had provided an email

078to us and let's have Paula up. Paula Peterson, >> sorry I was tardy and turning in my speaker card. I'm not used to like talking during >> push it back down. >> It's the Paula height. >> Perfect. >> All right. >> So, um thank you very much for having this on agenda pretty quickly after I sent the encas um link and that's a great policy. We thought it concise explicit. It tells you everything that you need to do. No, there's no gray area. Parents know, kids know, the community knows what the policy is. So, that's why I sent that one because it was great. And so we think that schools should have an ebike policy to ensure students safe with safety by addressing high speeds, lack of experience, potential hazards on campus and the surrounding

079roads while also promoting responsible behavior, managing congestion, preventing damage that could happen at facilities to bikes and vehicles. Um reasons for an ebike policy is to touch base on those speeds. You know, I don't know if you've um navigated on an ebike before. It goes a lot faster than when you have to pedal it yourself. So, it's it gets away from you. And if it gets away from an adult, it's definitely going to get away, you know, as a child. Navigational challenge. A policy um will help a student's lack of awareness with traffic rules, navigate busy areas increasingly by chance of accidents. Um infrastructure strain. A large number of ebikes can strain existing infrastructure. We understand leading to safety issues potential damage a student welfare and responsibility. It develops a child or students independence and

080promotes health, standardizes conduct and also um gives great environmental benefits to get the kids on the bikes. And we get it. It's a great commuting tool. It's environmental. the kids get here, they have independence, but our concern is they're getting on bikes that they don't not sure if they can ride them safely with, you know, are they bikes that should be by 16 year olds and over. So, we just need to have a policy and education tools and as um task chair that we are like what Teresa said, we're here to help and coordinate bike rallies or or whatever you want to do. You know, we know that winter's coming, but we could still be a part, >> you know, in the fall and in the spring and and ongoing. So, let us know how

081we can help. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Paul. >> Thanks. >> All right. So, I think I think Lake Tahoe Bice Coalition, I think Pete Frink and Nick Spiel, is that right? >> Nick Spiel, >> you guys want to come up to speak at all or no? You good? >> Pete, sure. Do it. Do it. Well, I know that uh I know you guys >> I know that uh Thank you guys for coming. I know that Pete uh was involved with the bike club at BG School for many many many years and uh and he's doing it again. Thank you. And I really appreciate the the dedication and commitment he's made over the years to finding bikes for kids and just you know doing that education on safety. So that's I know that I invited

082him to come tonight and thank you Nick for coming. Bicycle Coalition. That's it. >> Great. Thank you for having me. Um apologies I didn't fill out the form. Um, we got you. We got you up here. >> My name is Nick Steel. I'm here speaking on behalf of the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition. We're an allv volunteer nonprofit organization whose mission is to help Tahoe become more bicycle friendly. Um, so thank you first of all for for you know taking on this this initiative um for recognizing the problems of safety and and investing in solutions. Um we are definitely supportive and want to be a partner in uh in this project. So, please let us know how we can help. Um, we're definitely supportive of increasing education um and helping making sure people can get to

083school safely. As we're doing that, we also do want to be encouraging more people to ride to school. You know, as more people do it, it becomes safer just from the safety and numbers. And so, as we're um implementing policies, let's make sure that we're not accidentally discouraging people from being able to ride if there's too many hoops you have to jump through to be able to ride a bike. >> Um, but we're definitely supportive of more education there. Um, and one of the the the key pillars we really think here is infrastructure. And I know funding can always be a challenge, but um, we'd really encourage the district to look at the adopted safe routes to school plan. There's a number of infrastructure projects that there's uh, that have been adopted and we'd love

084to see that um, implementation accelerated. One thing that other districts have done um, is hiring a safe routes to school coordinator who can be a liazison and can really focus on this sort of thing. Um and uh we'd love to to see that sort of investment as well. Um thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So >> I love all the um I love all the commitments and the offers for help and support because obviously um we don't have a safe routes to school coordinator. I mean other than putting another thing on Mr. Zebo's plate. Um but and I also know that you know we're at a time right now with our with the bond that we're going to be making a lot of ingress and egress kinds of improvements at all the

085sites. That's part of the bond. Um and I know that was focused a lot on we heard a lot from people about cars because as we all know that's a huge issue as well at all the school sites the way people line up. So I I agree with um the sentiment that it'd be nice to get more kids on bikes and even on foot going to school rather than in their parents' car. Um, so I'm definitely an advocate for that. So hopefully our infrastructure projects um will look at not just the car but the but the bicycles related to bike racks or you know routes and I know that we have heard over the years um we've worked collaboratively with the city and the county related to some of those safe routes and out at

086Meyers that big project happened this summer that's made made it much safer for kids to get to school at Meyers. Um so I think this is really exciting. I think we we want to, at least from my perspective, we want to move forward on some kind of event or some education um opportunities this fall, you know, whatever we're doing. I appreciate what you said, Dr. Cutler, about the school resource officer um just making that one-on-one connection with students as they arrive. parents. I mean, he said he and he and he told me he said >> they didn't know they didn't know that they got their child wasn't even legal for the streets for for their age >> um for their you know so it's like we >> it's pretty easy to order things on Amazon

087you know anything can be delivered to your door in a heartbeat regardless of whether it's legal or not >> also said to me that you know we we are going to and there is a point right in Tahoe did everybody stop spiking right he said we are going to probably give citations if we've already stopped the child, we've already talked to the parents, that's going to be part of their process. And that might get some real push back, but it'll also be a part of an education, right, of hey, we need to have this conversation. And speaking of, I think that it might be worthwhile to have a community conversation with around this topic. >> Great idea. >> Oh, okay. Mary, yes. wanted to say that I think that this would be something we could

088include in either health or the driver's ed class because a lot of students were learning about this kind of thing in the driver's ed class. I remember when I took it and I never heard anything mentioned about ebikes. Like I didn't know it would be illegal for anyone until you just told me. >> So certain ones. >> Yes, exactly. Of course. Like I just think it's important to educate the kids in a school setting that they're already involved in and not make it seem like some extracurricular activity that they have to attend just to learn about their bikes. Like making it something in the school system like through the health class so there's no accidents or anything like that or just through the driver's ed. I think that would great idea. >> Look at these

089these two rocketed down here. >> So Ara, do you mind if I add? Sorry. And we kind of um mentioned like infrastructure, but like a super simple kind of thing that I've noticed um we're parts of climate crew. We lead bike to school weeks. We lead, you know, all those sort of um initiatives throughout our campus, but at least at the high school, obviously that's where we can speak for. Um the bike rack location is insanely decentralized. >> And so there's no sort of supervision. Um you know, I have a car and I park in Upper. Um and I do not see a single kid that rides a bike because it's the complete opposite side of campus. I see tons of administration um and teachers walking around the camp part of campus that I'm at

090where my car is at, but I don't see anyone on that opposite side of campus. So, I think even just like a increased supervision or movement of the actual bike racks because where kids are biking through the high school um to get to school is >> well, a it's like through the grass, but >> I guess you and I are going to go look at bike racks tomorrow then. Yeah. And Arya, I mean the the you're I mean I've attempted to ride my bike to the high school and it's you know because they lock the gate I come if I come late up the backside on 10th Street so I know there's some issues there but um but yeah figuring that out. Um so yeah, I appreciate um just reexamining those those infrastructure things and

091I know that at almost every school site there's not a lot of racks and I know at the middle school they kind of put them all in a cage, right? Um, and I I don't want to put somebody on the spot, but there is a a Tall Valley teacher in the back of the room who teaches PE and is really into bicycling, and I invite her to join the conversation, but because I know based on what you're saying, Mary, I know she talks about bike safety to kids, but there may be. >> Tasha, you gonna come up and say something? >> No, that's it's up to you. >> I'd love to hear what you're up to. >> Tasha, you got to come to the mic if you're gonna speak. >> What up to them? >>

092Tasha. Okay, Tasha Thomas, come on down. Tasha Thomas. >> Well, I know that she gives away a bike every year, so I know biking is really important to her. >> Thank you. Yes, my name's Tasha Thomas and I'm a professional mountain biker and huge biker in the community and um I talk to the kids all the time about safety and for me I think the infrastructure is a little tricky here in town and the way I see the kids riding on the ebikes. I have an ebike. I have a dirt bike. Like, I love these motorized things, but there's a safe place and a right place for it. So, if I can help support this in any way, and I have CHP is coming to our school in a few weeks. We're doing um a

093bike rodeo. So, it's it's important to me to have this stuff for our kids starting at the young age and all the way up to the high school age. So you um you included as part you're the PE teacher there. So you you basically um you see every student at Tahoe Valley and you start talking about bike safety >> student >> with every with the kindergarteners with TK maybe not TK okay but kindergarten. So um but that there might be an opportunity for you to share some of the materials that you share with your you know with your students that you could share that with the other PE teachers at the other elementary schools. It would be awesome. >> Um >> I would be happy to. I >> Mhm. Perfect. I really appreciate that. Thanks

094for being here. >> Okay. >> Oh, you don't have a car. Oh, do you want to speak? Do you want to speak, Jody? Yes, >> you may. Yeah, absolutely. No, this is a discussion item and and we're trying to gather information. So, I appreciate uh everybody's participation. Thank you, Jody Dayberry, uh community member and teacher at Tahoe Valley Elementary School. Um just a couple quick comments. One, Tahoe Valley is probably one of the scariest places. We don't have a safe route and it goes through the industrial way. And if you just take a any morning and just sit park and watch what happens between the um trash trucks and the parents and all the other people that um go through industrial way uh not even a sidewalk, >> right? No sidewalk, right? No >> anywhere.

095So that's just one comment. And then the other comment yesterday, I just happened to be going to my bank to Elorado Bank and uh at the time middle schools letting out and it was astonishing to me. >> Yeah. >> Um I know we have the school signs there. I think I counted three coming in on the bus garage side. The last one being tucked so far back. Um, if you blink, if you're not looking for it, you would never see it. But there are no flashing lights at all. So, I encourage you to just park over there and watch what happens every day after school. I'm not It's no one's fault. It's just maybe a place that might need some more attention. It was very scary. And it wasn't just the students. it was more

096so the line of parents coming to pick up and then other people just uh community members trying to make their way. So, it was just an observation that I would have never noticed had I not been filling out my bank deposit across >> at the time. Yeah. At the time. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. And I know Mr. Zebo is very aware of that because he that's where his office is. He sees it every day. Um Pete, you want to say something? Yeah. >> Come on, Pete. We want to hear from you. [Laughter] It's like I don't get this opportunity often where I get to just it's like being a teacher. I get to call on people in the room. Okay. >> My name is Peter Frink. Um I'm involved in numerous things.

097Uh one I chair the bicycle advisory committee. We oversee the maintenance on all the class one trails in town. I do the bike club at Beiju. I help with the bike coalition. I'm on the board for Tampa. I'm I'm pretty much the bike guy. And because of that, after the summer's tragedy, a number of people reached out to me and said, "We've got to do something." And so, I took in a lot of input from a wide variety of people over the summer. Um, brought this subject up a lot. Um, I've speaken spoken with Dr. Reer. Um, we were introduced on email. Um, have some ideas. There's great ideas here. Love the ingress egress. That is important. I know my son was one of those kids who rode his bike to school every day and

098um yeah, the the middle school is scary. >> Um high school has >> no real effective way to ride a bike. My son would go in the dirt and ride up. >> Yeah. >> Um >> or go up 13th Street and around. But >> one of the things that we're that's missing in the conversation I noticed right now is the um is the driving aspect. Um one of the things I've seen especially like when I go to Beiju, there's no driver as dangerous as a parent running late to get their kid to school. >> That's right. >> Um that it's a little nutty. And I think part of the outreach to the students is one thing. I think an outreach to the parents as well is another. I mean, the driving in our community is

099one thing, but the that we don't really have a lot of control over, but one thing we can do is we can reach out to the parents and let them know um their role in the safety of the kids that are walking and riding to school. Um I think that that is uh one thing I haven't heard a lot of tonight, so thought I'd mention that. >> And um and I'm I am willing and able to help in any way that I can. Um, I've also spoken with uh John Dalton from Sir Optimist um and they said that they do have some funding that they would be willing to try to help fund a educational program a little bit and I don't think they have the kind of bankroll to fund a a position but

100um the League of American Wheelmen do have instructional aids that and people that can teach bike safety. So, okay. And so there there are a lot of options. I've been talking a little bit and we'll talk more. There's a lot of options out there and I'm really excited that we are >> moving forward with this. So, thank you very much for taking this on. >> Thank you. >> Could I just say this is what I was hoping for to hear and and and so what I would look for at this point in time if there's any direction from the board and what I mean by that is to continue the conversation. Um, do you want us to look to bring you a a policy? Um, you know, where do you want to continue to go

101with this? >> Anybody I mean, you mentioned the community conversation. I don't know when the next one. >> Well, you know what? We I was thinking a different topic, but actually now that we've done this, I we have a community conversation in September planned. >> It's like September 30th. So, we can do definitely schedule this a community conversation specific to this. I think that uh Pete just said really truly important. I mean there's a lot of need for awareness around our campuses about >> students not just biking but walking and all the access and yeah sometimes people are in a hurry right and we have to try to work on that so it's a a community awareness we we can definitely get started with that a little cautious about what a policy is going to

102tie us into but I think we could start with that too as well so just really some direction from you on this tonight >> I would like to see posted at every school site what types of ebikes are legal and what types are not legal and the whole helmet rules and all that kind of stuff and they're not posted. I mean Mary was saying >> it's pretty com it's pretty complex. I mean, so when I when you ask that, we go to click on the link from this the >> QR code. >> I'm just saying there's a lot to it. There's a lot of information, but but I tell you what, we'll we'll we'll talk about that. We'll >> And then also PTA meetings to bring this up at PT. Maybe have principal put it

103on there or the PTA presidents put it on their PTA meetings. >> I think that it would be valuable. Uh Jody brought up a great point. Um talking to the city uh regarding some flashing lights around the school sites more so um would be a big benefit because I had a neighbor that was hit. Uh someone ran through a a stop sign on Blackwood and um he's still learning how to function as he used to. >> They put in flashing lights at Sierra House last year and I can't tell you how many times I've almost been run over. >> Yeah. walking through the >> I will say but I think that's part of the city though. Yeah, that would that would be in certain whether it's well it's county or city. >> It's county or

104city. Yes. >> I will say to a point that was made as well, you know, um we've worked when we were working on the bond and everything else and talking about >> the we call egress and ingress and egress. I just coming into our campus, leaving our campus, we're going to be doing some work through our bond on that. But we did speak, you know, safe routes to school and where that money comes from in the city, the city's monies that we have. We we've spoke to both the county and the city back when we were working to draft the language around the bond to make sure they were prepared and ready in those where we connect to them. And so we have to do some work on that as well. So, >> okay. >>

105Um, I would like to add one thing. Um, I really think it's important that we add more specific bike lanes like along the roads and things like that because a lot of the students I know at lunch if you're going off it's chaos cuz people are stacked going down the hill like bikes are like curving between all the cars. It's like >> Oh, specifically on the high school campus. Yes. >> Yeah. That's actually that's actually part that's part of the plan for the for the high school. I think yeah, I think it' just be really important to like make sure that kids know where the bikes are supposed to go and sure they'll some kids won't listen to that, but then I feel like a good amount will and they'll it'll be a good example

106for like >> and I and I do think Dr. color. I know I've brought this up in the past and TRPA has come before us on that issue related to the high school and I know we plan to do it with we plan to have some way to get there with the bond money, you know, but I'm with you that today like, you know, right now even just having a map or information um of really directing students to use 10th Street, you know, to go up to Taylor and over to Gardener Street and like that's the safest route. It's paved, there's not a lot of cars, you know, it avoids it. It somewhat parallels the bike the the the bike I mean the buses go up 13th but they might also use 10th right >>

107on snow day. Yeah when >> on a snow day. I think the point is is that trying to have bikes on the on Viking way is just impossible, right? And so that's something that could happen sooner because waiting for the bond which is you know three years away at least probably before we get a actual bike trail to the high school and even that might take longer because it's not there's not an easy routers or Tahoe Mountain Road beyond. You're not going to go all the way through town and then go >> up to town. No, the the people that come from Meyers use the dirt and there is a dirt trail. No, I mean and it's not that I'm not just saying there's dirt. It is a it is a trail. So whether it

108was user created or it was a forest service trail. Uh I don't I'm not going to comment on but there is a wellestablished trail from the paved bike path to the high school and that is something that could show up on a map also so that uh new kids coming to the high school from Meyers uh know that's the way to go. But I I think the challenge is yeah, you can get kids to campus. It's the um getting kids to lunch. You know, they want to come down Viking. That's more direct than going down 10th Street. But it's not impossible to ride your bike down 10th to go you can go find lunch. Like you can get to Jalapenños faster and burger lounge. So I'm just saying there are options, right? >> So I'm

109going to I'm going to take this conversation so far and think about that Dr. Dr. Reer and I will be reaching out talking to principles about some of their efforts to work with their staff um in regards to to to education as well as communication to parents and students about access and and safety and all of those things. We'll plan a community conversation to continue that and and I don't want to rush into just having a policy, but we'll draft up a policy. Is that I think those are the directions I'm I'm hearing from you. And um the uh the one last one just related to what Tasha if there's an opportunity to uh have her materials shared share with other PE teachers um you know at all the school sites I think that would

110be really helpful. >> Well I think that that the part of that conversation with our principles is >> right. Oh >> there you go. Yeah, >> for all the PE teachers or whatever >> and not to forget TASK or TRPA or other or any of the groups that are going is is as we build the policies looking at what are the expectations around um students taking classes, what are those those those ideas around how we move forward with implementation? Well, right. Like the community partnership doing bike rodeos or or or fundraisers related to helmets and or you know having that kind of program. I appreciate all the all the partnerships. >> Absolutely. You know, I was so thrilled that we are addressing this and it is so much bigger than just LTUSD. Right. So, it's

111so nice to have this collaboration within the community and to hopefully take advantage of it and have this community outlook re outreach what they were having. Um anyway, I'm just thrilled because again it is just a big big undertaking. So thank you so much. >> I appreciate the input from all these uh all the stakeholder groups, all the organizations that are working or interested in working towards fixing um what's clearly a problem. Um, so Paula, Nick, Peter, Hasha, uh, TRPA, whoever, once we get the school districts, uh, problems solved, I hope that we can solve the problem on the Highway 89 bike path between Eloise and Baldwin Beach and beyond. It is horrifyingly scary. Yeah, >> that's if they get funding. Yeah. >> All right. Well, thank you so much, Dave. >> Thank you very

112much. >> Okay, you heard. >> Thank you. Thank you everybody for coming on this >> topic tonight. Thank you very much. >> All of you. All right. Um, next we have item 11, which is business services and operations. Item 11 A is school services of California proposal for consulting services. And this is a discussion item. Thank you all for coming. >> Ready to be available to speak. Is she ready? Good evening, President Kemper and trustees of the board. The board directed the superintendent and staff to assess the state of special education in Lake Tahoe Unified. >> At the August 14th board meeting, Anginette I'm going to screw up her name. Peltier is what I'm going to say from school. That's great. >> California did it presented a proposal to the board for an overview of

113options. It was the board's indication to complete a full-scale evaluation of the state of special ed in the district. This is a discussion item. Depending on the board's direction, staff intends to bring it back for action at the September 11th board meeting. The proposal from school services is attached and an Janette is on Zoom to help answer any questions that you may have. >> So, just just to recall, right, we had and we only had three board members there that night and the three board members or in the information items indicated that really wanted to do this and wanted to do it with the full scale approach to it. Um, and so as we think about what Kelly said is our our intention is to get your final thoughts and dis and direction tonight with

114the idea that we would be coming back with a contract for approval at the next board meeting if that's so what you choose. >> All right. Thank you. Any questions for Anette or Miss Buttery? Bob, Trusty Anderson. Well, we talked about um costs uh for um this this sort of uh review. >> Um I I I would just like maybe uh Ellie, if you could remind us of what the uh relative benefits of going with a uh a Cadillac plan, which sounds like this is, as opposed to a a lower cost plan. >> Yeah, it really is. And honestly, I would probably prefer that Angette answer that question because she's here. Um, and I do believe part of what she's going to say, I'm going to chime in first, Angelette, is that >> going with

115the Cadillac plan, the all-encompassing, not only is it going to tell us if we have uh apps or things we need to change, they're going to provide us with the most feedbackable um to help support how we can um transition if if that's what they suggest. And all also give us kudos. We know that we probably have some as well. Andette, please take it from me. >> Yeah. Hello. Thank you. Um well, I I don't know if I' I've realized yet that I was being called a cat black program, so that's flattering. Um I know that um our costs are not low. Um so, uh one of the re there's several reasons why we believe that the service we offer is is really high quality and worth the investment. Um we try really try to

116take a strengthbased asset um looking um approach to our process so that we can work with the district to rise uplift and highlight those excellence areas of excellence things that can be leveraged and built upon for the future. Um, we find that our work is more impactful and effective when we engage with a broad range of interest holders and complete interviews and gather data from them about both the things about which they are proud and the things that keep them engaged and invested in your system and also their perspectives on where opportunities for growth and improvement and needs needs for um development and um you know I I've only worked for this company. I have not worked for other companies but um I know Fikmat is one of the main companies that comes up and

117they're not really a company. They are state agency funded by the state of California. Um but their approach is a deficit model. They um come in and identify what is missing and what um needs to be uh they do focus on what needs to be improvement and they make areas and recommendations for improvement, but they're not using or leveraging your systems, resources, assets, and strengths um to to build and to make those recommendations. And we really pride ourselves in the fact that we attempt to get to know your system during our time there to help you develop a path forward that's in alignment with where you want to be and where you are um already going and that really uses the resource people personnel that you have there. um our our reports people do say

118that they um both find them useful, not only the process, but the actual reports. And that uh I just got a a text earlier today from someone who said, "I just wanted to call back and let you know that two years later, I'm still using that report to implement um you know, ongoing improvements with our practice." And we do believe that uh we bring that level of excellence that people can really leverage into into their future. So um you know we do realize it is a little expensive um for your system. I did include that we would look at your uh SULPA allocation um plan to give you a a an analysis of that which is often a separate um type of contract. Um, but I did weave that into the work that we're going

119to do for you. So, um, in my in my book with with my supervisor who does the pricing, she thinks you're getting a bargain. So, >> of course. All right. Uh, any other any other any other questions or comments? Student board members, any questions or comments? >> Um, all right. We do have one person that would like to speak >> and so if you're ready I will ask invite Daryl Miller to the podium. >> Thank you. >> Welcome Darl. >> I see Bill's in the audience also. >> Hi. >> Um thanks for your time uh President Kemper, members of the board and Dr. Cutler. My name is Daryl Miller. Once again, I stand before you as the chairman of the community advisory committee for special education for the Tahoe Alpine Sulpa. I'm pleased to see

120the board take action to gain insight into the education of disabilities within our district. After viewing the August 14th presentation online, we strongly agree with the board and Dr. Cutler that the full study will provide the best picture of the strengths and weaknesses of the LTSG USD special education services. From the presentation, it seems the audit will not include LEA service delivery. Um, almost all of the concerns that we have had over the last several years stem from inadequate services being delivered to students with disabilities as expressed by parents, staff, and service providers. We respectfully request this component be included in the audit. We also request the consultant be directed to interact with the special needs community to hear concerns firsthand and incorporate this into their findings. A strict internal audit without incorporating the concerns

121of the special needs community would be incomplete at best and negligent at worst. We cannot stress enough the importance of involving the special needs community as a part of this process of discovery in order to move beyond the communication barriers and build a true partnership that serves the interests of students with disabilities. However, there still is a fundamental and serious lack of ability to include the stakeholders in these efforts, evidenced by the repetitive lack of communication and development of action plans to address the special education community's concerns. I say this because I was informed of this agenda item only this past Monday by the SUPA director, Bill Roderick. His email reads in part, "I'm writing to let you know that the regularly scheduled Lake Tahoe Board meeting on Tuesday, August 28th, the board of trustees

122will hear for the second time and take action on a proposal to engage school services of California to conduct an in-depth independent audit of LTUSD's special education programs at Dr. Cutler's request. I'm sharing this notice in case you wish to attend." End quote. Mr. Mr. Roderick's statement quote for the second time end quote led me to believe led me to discover a presentation by the prospective consultant was on the August 14th agenda. Mr. Roderick was unable to attend this meeting. In a subsequent email he stated, "It was my understanding that school services made a presentation about the scope of work that would be done. It will be a deep dive for sure." End quote. Yet no one thought it important to have the special needs community informed of this important presentation. What does it take

123for the district to overcome its inability to communicate effectively and consistently and work for students with disabilities by including the special needs community as early as possible in all potential solutions to address our concerns? And when will the board hold the district accountable for their inaction? >> You have 30 seconds. >> In addition, since nothing will happen before February 26, we sincerely hope the board and the district will develop a plan of action to address the concerns in the meantime. Uh and because of a statement that was said earlier by one of the trustees, given the concerns, and this is directly related to the cost, given the concerns over the past several years, the cost is inconsequential if it addresses the issues and improves education for students with disabilities. >> Your time is up. >>

124Since nothing will happen before February 26, we sincerely hope the board will develop a plan of action to address the concerns in the meantime. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you, Darl. Um, I would like to ask Anget if if if after hearing any of that statement, um, is there any response to the specifics of the of the work that you'll do that would address anything that Mr. Miller had stated? >> Yeah. Um, thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to um, highlight some of the things that were in a proposal that I was able to provide after consultation with um, Kelly. And um we did actually uh adjust the proposal to include information about service delivery patterns. Um that will start at the pre-referral process, move through um referrals. Um so

125start, I'm going to go back. Start at the pre-referral process, move through SST, look at um the MTSS resources available, look at assessment and service delivery patterns, and then all the way through potential exit from special education service. Now, this won't be a deep dive in which services are directly delivered to each student because I'm not going to be looking at every IEP. Um, but the idea is to look at service delivery um methodologies, pedigogy, and the models that are selected by the district and whether or not those are um leading to the results that the district wants by virtue of things such as a um educational benefit review process. We're also going to be including information from compliance and improvement monitoring activities that the district is currently participating in and that they um are

126mandated to participate in with the state of California. So that would include things such as their compliance and improvement uh monitoring plan uh and their um IEP implementation data that is submitted to the um state of California every year in the spring. I also as part of my interest holder uh groups, I typically um hold meetings with um all of the different job alike groups um and at different grade levels so that I can um give sufficient time to gather information from the um program staff, teaching staff and um support staff about what's working well and where are areas that um maybe they can identify that there's opportunities for growth. And it is very common for me to um include an interest holder group um such as a a special education advisory group or um

127a group of representative parents. Um so I I obviously can't meet with every single person. So my interest holder groups are often um represent representative um but it's very common for us to include um information from the the special education um interest holders from across the span in one district the district and I even decided that it was worth it to do a student focus group. So, we have not chosen groups yet. Um but um I would anticipate given I was there at your um I uh looked back at a couple of previous uh um board meetings to um see the most recent presentation by the CAC um and actually um as part of my proposal there's um some information about looking at what are the um connections for the uh community advisory committee and

128a parent advisory committee at the district and Sela level as So hopefully we'll meet your uh your goals because we included some of those same goals in the proposal write it up. >> Thank you Andette. I appreciate that detail. Um so members of the board, it's our in intent um unless you give us other direction is to bring back a contract with school services um to do this work at the next board meeting so that we can get it scheduled and set to to be done. And could you go over the timeline? I mean, uh, Mr. Miller mentioned February 26. And in terms of like the what is how and maybe um, Anette can talk about how long the process is. >> Yes. So, so I know that Anette last time and obviously be be

129ready to answer this, but I know that last time she spoke to us, she said that they are getting filled up and it's more looking like they could do this work at the end of February for into March. Um, so Angela, what when t what time frame if we were to approve of this uh agreement with you on September 11th? What time frame would we be looking at you being in district to do the assessment? And then how long would it take to pull together your report for? So example, when would we be expecting a report from you? >> Yeah. So um yes, as I shared last time, we are filling up. There's only so many weeks in a in a in in a month that um we can allocate to doing these studies. Usually

130it is requires a team of two. We typically don't come to districts um in isolation. And so um in looking at the weeks that we have set aside um right now my team and I the very first week that it looks like we could fit you in is the week of February 24th and the next window is March 9th through 13th. Although we do think we could also make a window the 15th through 20th. So, that's one of the things that we would engage in is which of those weeks could work for your for your team. Um, it usually we uh do an orientation meeting about a month before we're scheduled to arrive so that the district team has the time to gather data that we request to start filling it into a data folder

131where we can then re view that data. It takes sometimes several weeks to create the interest holder um schedules either virtual or in person. Some meetings are much better to do in person whereas some are easily lending themselves to virtual um completion. Um, we also do site visits. Um, and with the number of sites that you have, we would anticipate, um, hoping to spend between half an hour and an hour and a half at each one of your sites depending on um, how many students they are serving um, directly receiving special education services. I don't know what your um, program distribution is. Uh, but typically a minimum amount of time for us at any site, even if they have merely a learning center or resource specialist program, is half an hour. Um and um so

132it we do we typically there for a period most of a week. Um once we're done with our week visit, we usually um have a list of things that people have mentioned, told us about, asked us to review, and so we ask for all of that data. Once the data is all completed, we estimate um about eight weeks for us to complete our data analysis, data review, and start writing our draft report. At the 8week mark, we typically have a draft available for the um leadership team at the district level where we can go back and forth and say, did we hit the mark? Did we get this right? We have some questions. We have two competing data sources. Um which we might be doing during that writing period, but it's really a draft report.

133We go over that. the team then them and our team uh finalizes our report and then we start preparing for bringing that to you as part of a board presentation if we're requested to do so. So typically a final report is usually in your hands at about week 10 after our site visits. Um and a board presentation we um are open to having those be completed any time within um the the remainder part of that calendar year. Um, so we we realize that sometimes board meetings don't happen as frequently. So we um leave ourselves some leeway for scheduling a a board presentation if the district asks us to do that. >> So So really, if I'm looking at that time frame, by May, we'd be ready to be bring something forward to the board. >>

134I would I would I would I would hope so. Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> And that and that again would be Yeah. Thank you. That would be the racket. It would be the recommendations. Then from there we would, you know, move forward. All right. Um, any other questions or comments? And I think that um hope >> Yeah, that sounds like a good direction. And I hope that we can continue to uh beforehand improve communication with the with our special ed community. And I appreciate Mr. Roderick being in the room today, too, and his his efforts to uh to do that. Um, >> so yeah, Bill Roderick is here, right? No. And that's Oh, no. I'm sorry. That's what that's that's parent. I'm sorry. I I recognize you. I'm sorry. Um All right. So, we

135will um move forward and um we'll see that on the next agenda the for action. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you for having me. >> Thank you, Angelette. >> Look forward to to seeing you. I haven't been up there in the in the winter time for quite some time, so we'll see how it goes. >> That you make all your commitments because you get your get your new tires on. >> That's right. That's right. Okay. Thank you. Have a great day. Evening. Goodbye. >> All right. Item number 12 is the consent agenda. Uh, do I have a motion and second? >> Go ahead, Ellen. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. All second it. >> All right. I have a motion from Trustee Kamacho and a second by Trustee Mansfield. All in

136favor of the consent agenda say I. >> I. >> Those opposed? Nay. Thank you. Motion passes for the consent agenda. Item 13, items for consideration at future board meetings. Uh do we have any suggestions? We've got a lot on our plate. Thank you. And um with that, we are going to adjourn the meeting at 7:52.