001Uh, good evening. Welcome everyone. Um, I am reconvening the Lake Taho Unified School District Board of Trustees back into regular open session at 6:00 p.m. And um, the next item is reporting any action on items from close session. There were no actions to report on. And before we um jump into the business uh of our agenda tonight, I just would like to acknowledge um the pain and suffering that many of us are feeling in this community this week since the tragic accident ending Giata Lancelotti's life. Um she's the seventh grader from South Middle School. And so I'd just like to take a moment um of silence for us to send love and healing to um all those impacted Okay, with that, we've got more people coming in the room, it looks like. Um, but I'm
002going to move ahead to item number seven, public hearing. Um, we have two public hearings. First one is on the 2526 Lake Tall Unified School District budget. Do we have any public comment? Let's open I'm sorry I was looking for my offic I'm going to open the public hearing for this uh item. Yeah. So opening the public hearing for 2526 LTSD budget at 602 p.m. Yes. We have not received anybody. Is there anybody here that's here to speak on public hearing for 202526 LTUSD budget? Oh, there's so many people coming in. Everybody take a seat. I'll ask one more time. Is Huh? But are any of the are any of these specific to uh the the public hearing? Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. So, let me let me call you up. Okay. I just
003want to So, the these are specific to the public to the public hearing. Okay. Thank you. We do have some public hearing for the budget. Okay. Excellent. So, let's start with Maline Wilmont, teacher. Hello. I'm Maline Wilmont. I'm a teacher at fifth in fifth grade at Tahoe Valley. And so, when I first heard about the increase, it was 24.7% which seemed reasonable and also still a lot. Um, for my plan, I'd be going from paying $50 a month to $381 a month. So, it's a 662% increase. And it's just I'm a single person with no kids. So, it just seems very intense. And I already have a second job, so that's not really an option. And if I had an increase like that in my car insurance or my homeowner's insurance, I would look elsewhere.
004I would go shopping for a different plan. But that's not an option. So, I'm concerned and I just wanted to speak on that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, let's go on to Nicole Mora, teacher, sta, Miss Lucas. And Miss Lucas. Uh, good evening, Superintendent Cutler, the trustees, administrators, and colleagues. My name is Nicole Mora and I speak to you tonight as both a dedicated educator and part of the negotiation team for South Tahoe Educators Association. On behalf of our entire membership, I want to address an issue that strikes the core in our members well-being, the district's ability to retain and attract highly qualified educators. We are aware the district and its employee bargaining units recently received deeply concerning news. Our health insurance premiums are pro projected to rise an average of 24.7% or
005more depending on your plan. Additionally, our health or our dental and vision premiums are set to increase by 5%. Most of our for most of our employees, this will mean hundreds of dollars per month, thousands per year directly out of our take-home pay. These are the same individuals who show up every day to teach, guide, feed, and support the children of our community. They do this out of commitment, not for a paycheck, but commitment alone cannot cover these writing costs. My personal out-ofpocket increase will be $434.83 a month. A total of the year $4,348. This is a total of 12.2% of my take-home pay. These increases are not just numbers. They represent sacrifices. Many of our colleagues already live paycheck to paycheck, especially those of us supporting families. If this increase is passed on in
006full to our educators, they will be forced to make painful choices, delaying care, cutting back on essentials, working second or third jobs, or even leaving this profession altogether. We appreciate that the district is exploring ways to reduce these costs. However, we urge you to go further. We ask the district to share in this financial burden by adopting a budget that includes increased compensation to directly offset these rising healthc care premiums. This is not just about cost containment. It's about valuing and retaining the people that make LTUSD strong. We when we invest in the well-being of educators, we invest in the long-term success of our students. When we ease the burdens of our staff, we empower them to focus on what matters the most, teaching and supporting our students. You have the opportunity to lead with
007both compassion and foresight. Please help us keep great educators in our classrooms. No one is working for this district. No one who is working for our district should have to choose between their health care and paying rent or putting food on their tables. Thank you for your time, your service, and for making the well-being of our educators a priority in this year's budget price process. Thank you. And Aaron Okay. Hello everybody. My name is an Aaron. I've been working for this school district for 29 years. And um I am not going to be as well prepared nor as eloquent as Nicole, but I just saw this about 1 hour ago and decided to come to this meeting and I was completely shocked. We had heard about 24%. And so I was figuring, okay, that's about
008an extra $120 a month. That's a lot, but that's doable. Instead, it's going from, I believe, $483 to $9 and something. That's crazy. Plus, I put money into an HSA and so I don't know. I'm going to be out about $1,200 a month. I just hope that you take us into consideration because this is not doable at all at this time and I'm at the top of the pay scale. So I cannot imagine new teachers coming and especially you're a single teacher, no kids and you're still paying this much money and the district I'm just in shock that the district is not agreeing to put any money forward. that 24% is what is the combined amount from the district and what we pay and you're offering not to pay any money towards it. And that
009is just embarrassing and it just makes us feel completely undervalued. And so I really hope that negotiations go better next time. Otherwise, I think that you need to go and shop around and try to find because people I hear that work for the federal government, the county, they seem to have much better health insurance for a much less cost. And you will not be attracting teachers nor keeping good teachers or having teachers who have the time to do anything extra because they will be off working a second job. So, I really hope next negotiations go much better. be before I call up the next person, I just want to make a comment. The 2526 budget is a process. Um, and we're in that process. The contribution, the the amount of insurance that is increased on,
010that's not something we control unless we choose another insurance carrier, which we've worked with our associations to look at that. Also, the the contribution that the district provides staff in regards to how much they get per month for their insurance is a negotiated item. And so, we haven't closed negotiations. So I just want to clarify those statements is that though negotiations is a process and that's ongoing and and so I would assume that the negotiated team from STA and from the district are an ongoing conversations and that that's not conversations that are necessarily final or complete. And that's really important to just note because this public hearing, the board has a responsibility to actually pass a budget no matter what um before the end of June, June 30th. It's their responsibility. It has to be
011done and it has to be work be balanced within what we have appropriate to us. Now, as we work with our associations, that's part of the negotiation process. Um and just a note on that last the previous negotiations with our teachers association there was an inc significant increase in the contribution that's not enough actually just specifically to the to the increase that we are being faced with. But for the specific budget that's in front of you today that's that's a process that will happen with the negotiations with our associations. I just wanted to make sure there's clarification. I'll call the next person up. Um, Marissa teacher, Dr. Cutler, board of trustees. Thank you guys. I've been here on different terms before, but I'm here tonight. I don't need this. Um, I think, uh, Dr. Cutler,
012in response to what you just said, I think teachers are here on behalf of just the the sentiment of feeling a little bit of mistrust and scared. Um, nobody wants to incur a a crease increase that large. Um, I moved up here as a single teacher. It was at the time 12 years ago super affordable to live in Tahoe. I had my apartment right on the water. Things were good. Um, as we know, life gets more expensive. Things get more complicated. But I think one thing that we have to remember that is not worth sacrificing is what everyone has stated tonight is that attracting good teachers to our district is crucial to keeping Lake Taho Unified School District um, an appetizing place to be and providing the best service to our students. I now have
013I am not a single woman anymore. I have two children and they go to one is um not at our preschool but one's at our infant care. Um we're also incurring a cost to in order to keep it open uh the infant care program which is wonderful. It's going to be quite expensive. Totally fine but I think we need to keep into account when we look at increases in health care. We also have to think that this is not the only thing we're looking at this many other increases in life. Um liberty utilities. I mean, we all know this is real. So, I don't need to sit here and tell you all the other increases we have in life, but to keep this in mind, we're here just to, you know, come up with creative
014solutions and work together and hope for the best outcome. We want to make this work. We want to keep good teachers and want to keep Lake Tahoe Unified School District the best place. So, thank you. Keep us in mind. Thank you, Lou. Lou, were you speaking on this item? The the um public public hearing for budget? Yes. L Perini, go ahead. Yep. Yeah. Thank you very much, Dr. Cutler, president, and members of the board. My name is Luperini. I substituted here in um 1972 and 1973. So, I won't tell you how old I You can figure it out. But I started substituting again uh three years ago. And boy, you have a dedicated workforce out there. The teachers, the staff, the administrators um are all topnotch. And I think that you do have to consider
015what local other a other local agency are spending on their healthcare. as a member of the South Tahoe PUB board and I don't think they pay more than $100 a month even if they have three kids or four kids. Um, I think you have to be more in line with that or you're not going to get new teachers uh to come here and to teach and to match the capabilities and um the knowledge and whatever of your current staff on all levels, but especially the teachers and and and the supplemental people and uh the unclass noncertified side people uh they do a great job. They really do uh in numerous areas uh that I've been exposed to and I haven't been exposed to all of them but the ones I've been exposed to they have
016done a great job. I didn't prepare any statements so I'm ant living here. Um but uh this is about uh and I worked with Lori 50 years ago. No, 40. Only 40. 40. But anyway, those those were my comments and uh and uh I hope they're heard. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I didn't receive any other cards specific to this item. Is there anybody else that's here to speak on the public hearing for the budget 2526 budget? Thank you for those that that that have spoken. Appreciate the input. Okay, now we are going to close that hearing at 6:15, the hearing for the Lake Tahoe Unified School District 2526 budget. And now I'm going to open another public hearing for the 20 24 to 2027 local control accountability plan. I'm opening that hearing
017at 6:15. Okay. I didn't receive anything from anybody. Is anybody here to speak during the public hearing on the local control accountability plan? I I see no no we didn't receive anything and I don't see anybody coming forward. All right. I'm going to close that hearing at 6:16 and then moving on to communication reports. Uh first office the board member reports. Do I have any board member reports? I'm probably not going to say anything. Um, Trusty Anderson, those of us who attended the Mount Tac um and adult education graduation ceremonies yesterday could not have come away without being very, very moved. some student speakers um I think left the crowd with uh tears in their eyes, certainly mine. The dynamic duo of Heidi Roarbacher and Haley Turner gave a speech together about the merits of
018friendship, long-term friendship that was interrupted at one point for about four years. But uh it was just it was just so special um that people of that of that tender young age could understand so much about life. Accordingly, Connor Bole spoke um gave a speech entitled A letter to my father. I can't even go into it. John, you could probably talk about it, but uh oh my god, it was it was just amazing. So, I I did a bunch of other stuff, too, but that Yeah, thank you, Trusty Mansfield. I'll follow up on that with Trusty Anderson. Yeah. Um that is uh you know, all this time of year with all the graduations and all celebrations are always so outstanding. you know, all the uh all the hard work that the families and the commitments
019put in to uh making sure that, you know, our children our children are, you know, headed in the right direction to be our futures. Um it it definitely uh the ceremonies yesterday in particular, Mount Slag definitely gave you a feeling that um the ceremony means maybe a little bit more to those children and those families. There's additional efforts and sacrifices that are made. Um, one commonality that I that you see when you look in the uh in the stands is they didn't get there alone and they have tremendous support groups. It may not be their immediate families um which many of us are are blessed with um but they sure make it work and they they sure show you that um that we're we're only good when we're together. So, thank you. Thank you. Right,
020Trusty Mansfield. As much as I loved both of the graduation ceremonies, there it's just been crazy these last two weeks as the seniors know. Um, one thing that stood out to me, the senior awards nights was wonderful. Um, the gift of literacy with all the first grade classrooms all throughout Zephr Cove and all of our classrooms. um just was really special to work at. So I really enjoyed that open houses um the ally 20th anniversary party just things going on and it just it's it lifts you up at a time when we have had some tragedy. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Go ahead. Um I I'll echo uh what um Trusty Mansfield said about the open houses and I want to do a shout out to Tahoe Valley because they're going to Sutter's Fort those
021who've done that before. It is just a really special time. So good for those guys. Seniors. Um wow. Very I was very happy for them. That's a great experience. Um the senior awards that was terrific. loved seeing our representatives there up many times and um the alley celebration was just very uh well attended and happy happy it was great and I echo also about the energy from the graduations and the parents and very well put it not not the immediate family but all those there were supporting them and then um because it has been a very tragic week um I did have a parent from the middle school said please thank the school district for all the excellent the support they have received and I would also like to thank Dr. Cutler and the school
022district for reaching out keeping us informed and um just doing everything that can be possibly be done. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Um yes, thank you Trusty Kamacho. Yes, it's really been incredible all the staff that have stepped up to support our um students and um families. It's really been impressive. And I just want to say that I also had an opportunity to attend the biiteracy awards at Beiju School and um that was really exciting to see um the fifth graders uh getting their awards but also all the students that passed their English proficiency exam and there was seemed like a huge number more than more than ever before including some first and second graders. Uh thank you. I love that. It's it's so important but it was really great to see and really hearing
023the students um speeches. the fifth graders that gave speeches. It was super impressive like the why they're inspired to learn Spanish and what they're going to do with it. And uh it was it was great. And um I also went to the club live awards last night and we're going to celebrate Larry Lamden later in the agenda tonight. But it was really um wonderful to see the students because it was studentled um event and uh first time ever maybe or maybe they've partied before but I think it was the first time they did that particular uh format and uh it was it was great just to see the students um super all the students are super appreciative of each other and uh extra kind and polite and um also they just have a lot of
024fun. So, it was great and uh I know they're all going to miss Larry, but they're moving forward. They're going to move forward. I know he'll still be helping us. So, that's what I have. And next, we have um the student board member report. Our last report from Scott Yamoko. And it's nice to see Mia, our other student board member in the audience tonight. So, Scott, uh good evening everyone. Um I'm excited to be here for the last time. Um before I begin with what I prepared, I just wanted to emphasize in response to the public hearing that we've heard um that there is nothing more important as a student than the dedication that teachers are able to provide to us. Negotiations do take time and have a process, but the voice and opinions of
025the people that make our schools run is invaluable and undoubtedly validated in this process. I emphasize your concerns and thank all the teachers for the time and efforts that they dedicate to our lives and the lives of all students. You've changed my life and I know countless others who feel the same way about our teachers here. Supporting our students is supporting our teachers. Moving forward, um there are no words for these last few weeks other than hectic, emotional, and busy. Um, since the last board meeting, there has been countless events including prom, senior awards, the elementary school walk, the last rally, finals, pride month, and bike month, and end of the year club events and festivities. Um, prom was amazing. Uh, the decorations, dancing, food, and drink, everybody dressed up. Um, special thanks to the
026leadership team and Miss Ferguson for making it all happen. Um, this graduating class has never ceased to amaze me with all of our individual talents and passions. The amount of seniors at awards night and walking across the stage tomorrow um is a testament to the connectedness and achievements of a diverse group of students and I'm happy to share it among them. One of the highlights in the last few weeks uh in my opinion was the elementary school walks. Um for uh many including myself um it was very nostalgic to see our old elementary schools and all the fun things that they're doing. um walking through those halls with the kindergarteners getting high fives and even playing on the uh playgrounds was um really magical. Uh everybody has a mix of emotions going into graduation. Um
027but right now there's no better time to realize how connected we are as a community. This last week has been a mix of emotions and there are no words to explain the sorrow going through our community. To everyone um supporting our community, thank you Barton and our wellness centers on campuses. And for everyone affected, our hearts go out to you and Giata. Um it's your memory that lives on and all of our love along with it. Um nobody is alone and every day we're reminded of the connected community in South Tahoe and LTUSD. Um time together is the most precious of all. The end of the year is always busy and I'm excited to see our Viking athletes um being celebrated up here along with their achievements as well as everybody in this room today.
028Graduation is tomorrow and I'm excited to share this moment with my class and community and I hope to see you all there. Thank you. Dave, you Scott, very nice. We're going to miss you, but hope we hope you communicate back all the things you're doing next year. Give me give us some updates. Um, all right, Dr. Cutler, you're you're following Scott. Yeah, we I've got to stop at follow with Scott. Can I just can I just say ditto? Um, and I don't mean that to be sarcastic at all, Scott. Thank you for all of what you just said. And to all of you for the words that were shared tonight. Um, this has been a a difficult time yet exciting time. it's all in the same breath. And uh and so first of all, I
029just really want to say how thankful I am for everyone um for all the efforts to make events that have been going on the last few weeks and and moving through the next week um to be so special for our students, for our staff, for our community. Um, we've mentioned you you've mentioned some and and and I said it last night at the Mount Tac graduation. I've never been so moved by speakers in any of the graduations I've ever attended. Um, it's a special place and special time and I'm not just talking Mount Tac is a special place, but this district is a special place. Um, you know, we had a a horrific situation occur um and and it's so painful yet everybody came together and I do want to make sure I say thank
030you to everybody that have have come together to support each other um to be ready and prepared to be here for our students, for our staff. Um on Saturday night we had a team meeting leadership principles cabinet um to discuss how we needed to make sure we were here to support everyone. Um and then 10:00 in the morning on Sunday we had this room full of our counselors, our psychologists, our wellness center staff members, our leaders um to talk about how we could want we're going to launch support in our schools. and and people gave their Sunday a weekend day to to to support the community. Chris Proctor's in the room. I spoke with Chris Proctor early on Saturday and we've stayed in touch throughout the entire time making sure that Barton and Barton's supports
031were there for us and he was always making sure that we had uh the supports. Um and Tina Bruis from his his agency has been absolutely amazing. um the the wellness center folks just I went into the wellness center at the middle school on on uh Monday and we had a hundred kids that had been in there um and and and that had stayed really consistent over the three days. So just and then all of the staff that showed up on Monday ready to support children and to support the the pain um that that folks were going through but also to make sure we were there for the celebrations that were in front of us. Um, and that's a hard balance and and our professionals have done just an an incredible job doing just that.
032Um, and I I couldn't be more proud um to be the superintendent. And uh, you know, there are always differences that are amongst us and and concerns whether it be about, you know, insurance or or budget or or whatever we're doing. But the commonality amongst us is that we care that we care about each other. we care about our community and we care about uh making sure that everybody's okay. And so, uh, I had a lot I was going to say specific to all of the events, but I wanted to share that tonight. Um, and so from from me to everybody here. Um hopefully u we can help each other, we can support one another, we can celebrate our ch our students and our staff for a great year and also take the time to
033take care of each other and uh and and support one another. So thank you very much. Thank you Dr. Cutler. Um next we have employee association reports. Any association reports tonight? No. Okay. Thank you. I think we Thank you, Miss Mora. Thank you. We already got your report. Thank you. Um, all right. Now, we have general uh public comment, which is for items that are not on the agenda. Do we have any public comment? I didn't receive any specific handouts. Is there anybody here that's just here to speak on public comment? No public comment this evening. And next, we move on to our student celebration. Tonight, we are celebrating South Tahoe High School spring sports. Thank you, President Cber. Thank you, President Keer. I appreciate uh very much this opportunity tonight. Tonight represents the third
034of three uh in representing in this opportunity to highlight some of our outstanding student athletes. Uh so tonight I have Coach Hennessy, a couple of his coaches, and several athletes we would like to recognize. Thank you. Thank you. We're here again. Uh, thanks President Keer, Dr. Cutler, board. Um, real quick, I just would like to el echo a little bit of what Scott said and Dr. Cutler said speaking for our site. It was amazing to watch how much our kids care. Um, it was phenomenal. Um, it just it was and the our teachers and everybody, it was just um a special place to be. It is. And um I just wanted to say that cuz being right there and seeing it all and being a part of it um it just reiterates why we live
035here, you know, and why we're a part of this. Um so with that said, as he said, this is our third time. Um I want to thank everybody who came to the senior awards as we celebrated all of those seniors. You're going to see a lot of the same faces, which is amazing. which goes to what we talk about all the time or what I speak to is the whole child and and how it's not a coincidence that success in the classroom or at school in theater or CTE or some aspect that we have in music or athletics it all goes together you know and you'll see some of the f same faces so we have a lot of success this spring um we're going to bring up track and then swim so with that
036I'm going to introduce uce our uh track co head track coach Rob Cany and he's just going to give you a little bit about the success we have down in Las Vegas this this spring. Thank you, Mr. Hennessy. Thank you for having us in here this evening. Uh the 2025 season was very exciting. We set seven new school records on both the girls and guys sides this season. We had a couple other close ones that will definitely be hitting next year and continuing to grow. Uh, a short thing, we had 20 kids that we brought down to Moa Valley this year for the state track and field meets. On the guy's side, we finished fourth out of 23 teams. Uh, one athlete that's not here, Brody DeFranco, state champion in the 110 hurdles, second in
037the 300 hurdles, fourth in the 100, sixth in the 200. Uh, we had a couple other right here. We have Jacob Manning. We have Ben I always say your last name wrong. Araleeno. Araeno. Mars Lopez, Marcus Vidari, Connor Hennessy, and Fernand Vasquez back there. Uh, we had a couple individual stuff with them. Mars cleared six feet this season for the high jump, placing third. um between Connor, Marcus, Ben, and Jacob finished second in the 4x400. So, it was a a great feat for them overall. Then, stepping onto our girls side. Ladies, come here, please. Come here. So, this is the second year in a row that we finished second at state with six or less athletes. We finished second with 75 points to the team in front of us. They had 14 athletes that beat
038us by seven and a half points. So out of five girls just killed it. I'm starting off Laya second in the 3200. Payton Connley was second in the long jump, the state champion in the triple jump with 37 feet, setting a new school record set back from 2010. right here. Junior year, she's a threetime state champion in the 100 hurdles and long jump. So, a great feat on that aspect. Leslie was one of the strongest forces for us for our 4x1 to repeat as state champions again in the 4x1 and to finish as a state champion in the 4x2 this year setting school records again that we broke from last year that were our school records. So there was about another 10 or 12 athletes that finished fifth just missing state. So next year it's
039even more exciting with some of these seniors leaving. We're coming up stronger. So thank you very much guys. Appreciate it. Our our hurdle coach, our hurdle guy, Mr. Coach Lawrence back there. Can't forget him. Leaving him out. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. So, our swim team, I'm going to bring our swim coach up, Will Davenport. He coaches both boys and girls. And as we spoke before in another meeting, our diving, our diving team is part of this, too. All right. On the left. Oh, swim and dive. Okay. All right. Mr. Davenport, where is he? got to make his way. There he is. Give the coach the microphone. Right. They're all that metal. Metal, right? Um, hello. My name is Will Davenport. I coach the boys and girls swim and dive team. Uh, we've had a
040very successful 2025 season. I'd like to thank Dr. Cutler and the board for um, hosting the night of recognition for our spring sports. Um, a little overview. Um, we had our boys and our girls competed and we had a new dive team this year as well. So, um, lots of big things happening for us. Moving into the new swim center next year. Uh so we're looking to build upon all of that. Um this was the most successful swim season uh that we've had since since I've been here. Um our boys team was regional champs for the first time in 10 years. They placed third at state overall. Our girls uh team finished second at regional and they finished fifth at state overalls. And for the first time in five years, we had a dive team,
041three divers, and they finished first, second, and third at regional and first, second, and third at state. Um, we qualified 17 swimmers for the uh, state championships. That's the most that we've ever qualified since I've been here in 10 years. Um, so that was a great accomplishment for these. Um, I want to recogn Haven and Eddie Coller. Um Kathy was our assistant dive coach. Eddie Coller was our dive coach. Um he coaches for uh Douglas and he was kind enough to allow our our divers to come and join their practices this year. So that was a big help and Kathy coordinated everything. She was amazing. So we couldn't have done that without her at all. So special thank you to Eddie and Kathy. Um I want to recognize our team captains. Um Nicole Wisnet senior
042uh one of our most that's this year's she's got our our boys team captain Juan Preiato. Um we have some of our great swimmers that join them on their relay teams and in their individual events. Uh, Kiki Ren, Kiana Ren, Pizza Ren, Lucas, Rston Pierce, and I want to give a a few special recognitions. Uh Nikki was a dual regional champion in the 50 freestyle and the 200 IM. Uh the fastest race, the 53 and the 200M. Probably I am the most difficult race. You have to be the best at all four strokes. Our team captain for boys led our um 200 medley relay, our 200 free relay. Uh 50 free. He qualified for state and hunter fly. Uh he was a great mentor to all our swimmers, held the team together and a big
043reason why we took home a regional championship. And uh Rston Pierce not only swam for us, but he was also our state champion diver. Oh, um, we lose some good seniors, but we have some really good people coming back. And, uh, next year we'd like to expand our dive program and expand the whole swim program with the new swim center. So, I think big things are in the future for our swim team. So, thank you again for recognizing Just keeps There you go. Wait, I I I have to say this is by far my favorite thing of part of my job is being able to do this. I can't wait to see everybody in the fall when we come back and we bring more teams. So, thank you very much and we'll see you at
044graduation. Hey, one quick note folks. Thank you very much. Uh once again, I want to I want to thank uh my athletic director Kevin Hennessy for the leadership he has shown and I want to thank number two the board. This makes our second complete year now of recognizing our outstanding student athletes three times a year after every season and appreciate the opportunity in doing that. Thank you. You're awesome. Thank you. Good job. We have some excellent athletes in this community. That is for sure. All right. Our next um item is 10A which we are going to recognize our student representatives to the board of education. Dr. Cutler, President Kemper, members of the board, we're moving into a segment of our our agenda that um you know, we've had just such a wonderful celebration of our
045our students just now and we continue with some celebration of our students. And you know, I've said this several times and I said it again today. Um every time I had to follow Mia and Scott on their report, I'm like, I can't do that. They're just they've been so so great. Um and and I want to say this, they've set a bar for our super for the um board member representatives, right? For the student board member representatives, and it is a high bar. Both of them have just represented themselves so incredibly um to represent the student body, to represent the community, to sit here and provide you their thinking, their guidance, their advice from a student's perspective, that's invaluable. And um I know this when I started five years ago, board members said, "You know,
046Todd, uh we don't often have the student board reps show up." And I said, "Well, we're going to change that." And boy, have we changed that. And and like I said, the the bar is so high. Um, so this is an opportunity for us to to to to celebrate them. Before I bring them up and give them a certificate and a small little scholarship that comes from our board to you, um, I want to give the board members an opportunity to say anything to Scott and Mia. Um, right now at this point, can I start? Go for it. And I remember I well because I've been on the board, this is my fifth year. Each year with the student advisory committee that Tata started, the board reps have gotten better and better. But you guys,
047there is I mean just listening to your passion about everything that you have and your compassion about everything that you have, you've just Anderson a a brief comment. Um, clearly crackerjack students, but even more so, just clearly cracker jack human beings. That's right. Thank you. All right, Trusty Kamacho. Thank you both of you. I um I'm just so impressed on your knowledge and how much you know about so many things, too. Right. So, every time you report, it's like, gosh, I wish I could have said it that nicely. But I know we can't wait to hear uh as you move forward and your success moving forward. Thank you all very much. I want to sincerely thank both of you for putting up with my silly jokes when we're they're not that bad. But um but
048sincerely uh sincerely thank you for your input um for your guidance for caring so much about not only yourselves that shows with you know the directions you're going and your futures but caring about the student body and uh really embracing the concept of community and everything you do and and bring forward to us. So thank you very much. Thank you. Very well said Scott and Mia. I it's been a joy to um get to know you both and I really appreciate the fact we got to travel to the education conference together. But I also um I really do want to say that um I appreciate and admire your leadership. You really have helped um helped lead um your not only the student body but helped lead us. I think after some difficult things that happened
049this year after the election. And I mean just some of the the fear on campus that you were able to share that and really um take leadership on campus to try to support students. I really appreciate that and I enjoy seeing the videos that Scott does and just trying to increase uh student spirit and engagement. Um it's really just uh impressive and so thank you for influencing us and um we need to we need to hear it and so thank you. So let me share one final thing. Um, so, and folks might not know, we bring our our our student board representatives to the California School Boards Association's annual conference. Um, and they they engage with students from all over California. Um, and and they brought back a concept and an idea that actually is
050going to shift up a little bit of how we have board representatives in the future. And now from the leadership of Scott and Mia, we drafted a whole new process. And that process is electing a incoming junior that will serve two years and every year will elect a junior. And that was their work on what they g some of the stuff that they gained from that conference and their efforts. What's interesting to me, I didn't really know Scott prior. I I've gotten to know Mia through the superintendent student advisory and and if you listen to Mia, she just such a quiet pe way peaceful way that she speaks. But boy, there's some power in her words and same with Scott. So, um, we have a check for you as a scholarship as you move on
051to your next step in in in your journey. Scott, I want to make sure you don't forget to grab this tonight. Uh, right, as you get to take these with you, right? And we and we have a certificate and the certificates read certificate of recognition presented to and of course Mia Venuela and Scott Yamoka uh, for outstanding service and participation. um um a superintendent student board member u school board member at Lake Tall Unified School District. So, let's give a round of applause and bring me in. you have an opportunity to say something for them. Members of the board, Dr. Cutler, Mr. Dr. Reer, and Miss Buttery, thank you so much for everything you have done for me. It has been a pleasure. And one of the main reasons why we changed it up this
052year is cuz we knew we were going to miss you. It It was only one year, but I would just like to express my gratitude. You know, coming from a lowincome child of immigrants, first generation Hispanic student, it's just been really difficult not to get my voice across this district because I have you guys, but just because of who I am. But being able to be in this position has helped me so much and being able to alleviate and hopefully changed it for future n generations ahead of me. I'm sorry, I'm getting but it just just has been a pleasure and I'm so excited. I'm a little sad, but I just think that I I remember all the moments and I'm just so thankful. Thank you guys. Thank you. Um well, I wasn't I was
053thrown into this um because I was elected as our ASB president. Um, and that won't happen anymore. But I think that, um, what I want to say here is that I'm grateful for the opportunity to be here. And I hope going into the future that all students feel like they can have their voices heard and they have the courage to step up and talk to either the student board members or come and be involved in our district because um, the district, as much as we say, it really does center around the students. and I um I'm excited to see the future and I'm glad to have had this opportunity. So, thank you all very much. All right. Mia Valenuela may now leave the Oh, Scott's leaving the room, too. What? You're not G. Thanks for
054your thoughts on the budget. I appreciate that because that's gonna we're gonna talk about that some more. See you tomorrow. All right. Our next recognition is for our um it says 23 24, but I do believe we mean that 2425. It's recognizing our our current our retirees from this year. 24 and 25. Oopsies. That's okay. That's okay. We know who We know who you are. Um, Dr. Cutler, I'm just going to recognize recognize our 2425 Lake Tahoe Unified School District retirees. Yeah. And you you were going you had just talked about um Okay. I was going to read their names. Yes. Their names. Let me say this. I wanted I did want to share. So, I want to number one, we had a retiree celebration last Friday. Um, and we we've really been working to
055make sure that the retirey celebration is special. Um, and we've continued to ramp it up. Our HR department put on a a a nice event last Friday that we celebrated our retirees. Um, but tonight is in tradition that we've been doing is just a a reading of their names and their years of service. I just don't have a I don't have the list. Oh, here I got it for you. That's what I've got for you. Remember we talked about that. All right. I can do that. All right. So, this year we have our uh retirees from the certificated staff and they are Jesus Cortez Acasta, 29 years of service and education, Biju school teacher. Vicky Dant, 36 years of service and education from Tahoe Valley. Jelene Fry, 29 years of service and education from Sierra
056House. Larry Lamden, 44 years of service in education from South Middle School. Timothy Martin, 14 years of service in education. Um Karen Niswonger, 29 years of service in education from and she's most recently been at TAC. Michael Patterson, 37 years of service and education at South High School. Patricia Pazzzo, 20 years of service and education in special ed. and Sakoro Sanchez, 23.5 years of service and education. Karen Sullivan, 20 years of service and education at Sierra House. Um, thank you for taking such great care of our students and encouraging them to be just wonderful, successful humans and I really appreciate all the all of the efforts and energy over a very long period of time. Are we going to move on to the next one? Then the classified retirees we have Alice Brady 20 years
057of service and education. Blanca Castillo 20 years of service and education. Barbara Kubal 25 years. Wendy Cppel 25 years. Mark Hayer 9 years. Lilia Nilson 11 years. Michael Renzy 15 years. And David Santana 17 years of service. Thank you. And oftentimes our classified staff make some really unique uh contributions and connections with students and I really appreciate everything you do to support um our facilities and our students. Thank you. Take this back. All right, Larry. Larry, glad to see you here. Thank you. Next agenda item is recognition of our district employees of the year. President Kimber, members of the board, excited to recognize our employees of the year. Last year, we launched a recognition program and and that recognition program consisted of every site and department putting forward um anybody could be nominated for it
058and that each site would select a classified employee of the year and a certificated employee of the year. Um and and through that process, we also recognize those employees of the year at our celebration of education. Their names are listed in the um agenda tonight, and I'd like to just read those out for us tonight. If I bought your name, I apologize. I tend to do that at times, but our our employees of the year from Al Tahoe, Deanna D'Angelo, classified, and Jillian Raymond certificated. Our our employees of the year from Beiju, Pedro Lopez classified and Nico Echart certificated. Our Sierra House employees of the year, Christa Levas classified and commune certifi certificated. Tahoe Valley, Aliho classified and Vicky Dant certificate. Meyers, Elizabeth Millis, classified. South Middle School, Bianca Castillo classified and Larry Lamon certificate.
059South Tow High School, Bernardet Santana classified and Liz Ferg Ferguson certificated and district employee of the year, Brena Dilman, a sup in supervisory confidential and Scott Ramirez classified. Congratulations to those folks. They were recognized um at that event. Tonight, we're here to recognize our employees of the year. From that list, then we select one classified employee and one certificated employee. And everybody submits information about the the candidates and we take a look at it and make a decision. Our classified employee of the year is not here this evening, but I do want to speak briefly about Elizabeth Milis from Meyers Elementary School. Um, and I'm just highlighted a few things that her staff said about her, but I will tell you she had a very difficult year. um through the process of the year she
060lost her husband and yet she had stayed strong to provide service and care for the students and staff at Meyers Elementary School through the tragic situation. Folks wrote Elizabeth wrote a school anthem for us, Meyers Bears song. And interesting, Teresa and I were um at a celebration awards at Myers Elementary a couple weeks back and she sat there and strummed the ukulele and sang with the students and it was just heartwarming. It was amazing. Um and this just to give you a sense of what she has done at that school. They added Elizabeth Primary works with students who are struggling academically and does amazing work to help them focus and get and get on um their direction. She I'm there's a lot written, so I'm just trying to catch a few things here. She spends
061much of her time promoting positive interaction. She's always enthusiastic and coming up with new ideas to help the school be a better place. She's constantly helping others. She's she's committed to her prof professional growth. um and and she gives everything she can to our school. So, let's give a round of applause for Elizabeth Meltz. And what do we say about Larry Lamon, our our certificated employee of the year? Um there's so much to say and and I I think that I to read a few things that were written. Mr. Mr. Lamman is very passionate about everything he does. He always is the last one on campus and and very meticulous. He gives everything and goes far well beyond that it's ever expected. Mr. Lamb is always willing to step up and assist all fellow peers
062whenever they need it. Mr. Lamb is a true professional, always willing to help wherever he is needed. He's very dedicated to all of the school. And it it goes on and on. And I just want to say this, my observations of Larry is just this man that just gives his life to the community he's in. Whether that's at the school or out serving and without the throughout the community, he does it endlessly. Club Live, I mean, you you mentioned Club Live earlier. This this is a gentleman that just has given his life to this profession and we are so blessed and yet we are so sad to see you go. Larry, there's nothing I I mean I I can't say enough about what I think you mean to our school district and what I've heard
063from everybody that when they talk about you, but I do know this. People are moved when they talk about Larry Landon. They're moved by who you are and what you do. So, it was so was a no-brainer. Select you as our certificated employee of the year, Larry Lman. We have this those crystal things sit desk, right? It says it says Lake Unified School District D district certificated employee of the year presented Larry Landon. We thank you for your dedication to stu the students of the Lake Tahoe Unified School District. Larry, I am certain that our board members would love to say a few things to you, but I want to also give you the opportunity to share any of your thoughts. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you very much, Dr. Cutler, and the school
064board and everybody else that's involved in this. Um, my wife told me if I was going to speak, she said, "You got to make it quick or they're so um I started teaching way back in 1978 in rural Kansas. Um, a little town the center of the United States, Lebanon, Kansas, population 500. Um, I was a football coach, basketball coach, track coach, and I drove the school bus. I really did for one year. And after that, whenever I filled out an application at another job, I made sure I did not put in bus drive bus driver. I wasn't that again. But I've taught in a number of schools. And then in 1993, I got the opportunity to move to South Lake Tahoe. And this has been an incredible experience. I've worked in the special services
065department at STMS, both as a resource specialist and also as a special day class teacher. Um, my wife and I also had the opportunity to start the club life chapter back in 93 at the same time. and and um my wife has always been the person, the invisible person that's helped coach me along in doing Club Live. Um I am going to miss work coming to school each day. It's um it's been a lot of fun. Um and I'm going to miss my kids a lot. And um thank you so much for everything. I I certainly appreciate it. Right. Like on the side. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. Good job. And I assume board members may want to anybody want to say anything? I just want to say that um when I got on the school
066board, I was um I was asked to volunteer at challenge day and I know Larry was really behind bringing uh that to the the district and it was very moving to have students really um learn about each other and um it just was one of many ways that you've done you've taken um the effort to break down the barriers, you know, and students really understand that they share a lot more in common than they realize. And I think that challenge day is one of those days where kids who thought they were the only one who'd lost a parent or they were the only one who, you know, lost someone to drugs or whatever, you know, whatever hardship or that they didn't have enough food on the table. Uh, kids all really got to see um
067something about each each other that they could connect with. And um I think that's really helped our students and I appreciate that uh all that work that you've done just to help students uh really take care of each other and take care of themselves and make healthy choices, things like that. Thank you. I I'd also like to thank Mr. Lambden. He uh taught our daughter 20 years ago and when I went to visit him at the open house, he goes, "Katie sat right here 20 years ago." He remembered where she sat. And you Thank you. You've touched all of my family from um Katie to my son and husband in challenge day and the support you gave us was wonderful. So, thank you so much and congratulations. Thank you, Larry, for your commitment to our
068students, to our district, and to our community. We're much better with you. Yes. Thanks so much, Larry. Larry, thank you for everything that you've done for all these years for the kids. And I know so many kids who have gone through Club Live that you have absolutely changed their lives and so thank you legacy. I appreciate Thanks. Thanks for coming tonight, Larry. I appreciate that. Um, our next recognition is our participants in the leaders and learners program. Okay. You think so? You think Well, it's it's fun recognizing and celebrating everybody tonight. I'm not sure if all of our leaders and learners are here. Um but I want to make sure that everyone knows what leaders and learners is. And um I think in my second year I started leaders and learners for our district. And
069really what it is is an opportunity for anyone that works in our district that even substitute teaches in our district if they would like to um learn and develop leadership skills and learn strategies for growing and and supporting our district um and being a better place. Um that's what it's about. And folks don't have to apply, they just have to say they want to do it. And we've had a graduating class group every year. Um, and I've really been proud and excited to to lead those conversations. We meet once a month for eight months on a Monday. We spend a couple hours together and we talk about leadership. We talk about culture, change, communication, all that comes with those components. Um, and I really proud of the group that that that we had this year.
070Um, they were dedicated. We started with seven, five, five completed. And I just to tell you part of their expectations is that they keep a journal. However, it doesn't have to look any which way that they want it, but they get paper, they get things that they read, they get they they take notes, they do have conversations, and they're supposed to capture it and things like this. And and and really that's kind of their, hey, did you complete it? Oh, you did. You that's great. And they do that. And I tell them, I said, this is something you can always access later whenever you're thinking about how to handle a circumstance or a situation or how to help lead it. um anything that you're doing. The group did an amazing job. And so I would
071like all of you to just come up. I'm I'll read out the names real quick. Give your certificate. Um and then I think Matt Bishop is ready to speak this evening. Um Oh, so if you'll if you'll if you'll welcome up here Jen Peek, Christina Ramos, Matt Bishop, Norma Candelera, and Samantha Munoz. for you. All right. So, these are certificates read certificate of completion presented to you in your name for your dedication and successful completion of the leaders and learners program Lake Tile Unified School District. I'm I'm so thankful. So, Matt Want to make sure Dr. Cutler, Dr. Cutler, Dr. Cutler, could you could you say what their roles are with the district? That would be helpful. Some of these really quick job that's absolutely all right Christina and Norma. And by the way, pick
072up your fold your your folder. I don't I don't have one here right now. So, but why don't you guys let the board just say hello? Tell my name is Matt Bishop and uh custodial and transportation um and just uh enjoy the opportunity to do the leaner learner lean leaders and learners program and um learned a lot about myself and about ways to uh to lead and continue to learn while I lead. So, Take pictures of us together. Hi, I'm Christina Ramos. I started as a substitute teacher and for the next school year I'll be a first grade teacher at Beij Elementary. Hi, my name is Jenpac and I came here from Boise, Idaho and I could not believe my fortune of landing off long-term substitute position for the entire year and I will be
073at Sierra House full-time next year as well. Hi everybody. Um, I'm Norma and I started as a school bus driver. I will take Mr. Lambda anywhere he wants to go. And now I'm a lead transportation bus driver currently. Now seriously, um Matt, you said you were going to take give a speech tonight. Uh he's been he's been he's been kidding about it for at least a few months. Do you want to do that, Matt? All right. I want to make sure we the five of us get a picture and then if you don't mind, board, we'll get one with you. Let's get a quick picture of us real quick. And I really wanted them to tell you two of those folks are going to be new first year teachers with us next year. Right. Well,
074congratulations and thank you Dr. Cutler for the program because it's really important to empower our staff and to build leaders and you know we really want to encourage all staff to um take the next step whatever that is you know in terms of taking leadership roles. So if you don't mind me say like so like for example we have two new teachers um but folks that have are graduates of leaders and learners like for example Rosie Dpier was a teacher um that eventually become a principal right so it just really depends on what their their role and desire is. Thanks guys. Thank you. Thank you uh for everybody that came to support the the staff. That was awesome as well. Um next we have our Lake Tahoe School District partner organization updates. And tonight we
075have an update from Barton. Uh looks like Mr. Proctor's here with um he's going to talk about our student our superintendent student advisory members and the work they've done with Barton. Yeah, we welcome uh Chris Proctor. He comes to the mic. I just want to tell you I am so thankful for our partnership uh Chris and you've been here for me a lot. Thank you so much. Feelings mutual. Thank you. Uh good evening, President Keer and uh school board trustees. Um I'm I'm really happy to come here tonight uh and introduce two amazing students that I had the good fortune of working with this year. Um I would like to just give a little background on on our partnership. you know, um I I started my current role with Barton um in about the same
076time that Dr. Cutler got here and and I remember we had a a meeting in June of 2020, you know, so it was think about where we were back then, you know, we were kind of figuring out how we were going to function in this this pan post pandemic or pandemic world and and so we kind of came into our roles together and and really, you know, discovered that during that time frame, there was a there was so much uncertainty and even in the healthcare world, we were learning as we went and it got us together to really figure out how we could best serve the students and the district when they were going to go back to school in the fall. So, that's where our relationship started. And I think we both kind of
077learned through that experience that was kind of forced on us that um that we need to be there to support each other and and so we we kept working on things and and and if you don't remember, we were meeting, you know, monthly with Dr. Snearinger and some of our experts there at the hospital, uh Dr. Cutler and his team, just really navigating information as we found it. And when we got through that, we I think we just kind of decided, let's let's figure out a way to make that more of a sustainable partnership. And we actually added some other partners, you know, we added uh the city, we added the family resource center and just kept going on the conversation and really we had a little bit of a pause where we didn't have
078to really worry about things too much until we had a wildfire. Um so that was another lesson that we had to learn together. Um and and over time we've just realized that there's an interesting thing in I think all communities, but when you are a parent of a student, you care a lot about education. When you're um a city live, somebody lives in the city or the county and it's snowageddon or it's a wildfire, you care a lot about what's going on in the city. And of course, when you're ill or you're struggling with your health and wellness, you kind of care a lot about what's going on with the health care system. So those entities alto together, you know, I think share that responsibility. And so what we came up with was just a
079way to support each other and we we had to test that on Saturday. Um unfortunately, but uh but I but I think that uh it's also had a lot of really positive things and one is this uh superintendent student advisory committee. Um this is my third year I think doing it and I must have done an all right job because I got two students this year. Um, and as I mentioned, they they're amazing and and and I think it's like anything. It's it's a testament to you all. Uh, it's a testament to the the the school board student representatives. We just I mean, my kids graduate or graduated from school. Gosh, it seems like forever ago, but it was 2020 and 2019. And I'm just amazed at the quality of students. Not don't don't tell
080my kids I said that because it seems like they're getting better, but but but but it's like I'm just amazed. And these are two examples. So I'd like to bring up Deari Embis and Laya Landy to talk a little bit about what we worked on together. Thank Hi everyone. As Mr. Proctor and Dr. Cutler have said, we are here on behalf of the student superintendent advisory council and this year we got assigned to Barton to be student liaison. and we are presenting what we've done this year to you guys. This is our biggest school presentation we've ever done. So, be patient with us. But we really had a lot of aspirations for this year and we came in with really big ideas and we knew exactly what we wanted to focus on. Guys, just give
081a second because I want your power to want your PowerPoint to be seen. Oh, there we Oh, we got it. We got it. Okay. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt you. No, no, no, no problem. And so, basically what we've done this year is created a program that specializes in helping kids who suffer from any community health issue mentally, physically, and at home with their sport system. So, yeah. So, the Barton Heart and Health Club is basically a club that is studentled. Um, it is founded with uh Chris Proctor and we do do a weekly Thursday meeting. Oh, I'm sorry. You're fine. We do do a weekly Thursday meeting that's held throughout our the school year and the topics uh focused on supporting students mental health being and yeah and this year we decided to break
082up each month into separate entities just to cover all the topics that we really wanted to focus on. And we saw that February and March which is when we decided to start the club. Yes, it was a little bit late, but we still covered most of what we wanted to for this year. We decided to focus that on mental and community health awareness. And then next we moved on to April, which is where we focused more on coping skills and just world like politics and just things that were happening that were affecting our students and healthy ways of dealing with that. Then in May, we did our substance abuse education unit and we volunteered at the fentanyl high screening at South Tahoe High School and that was an amazing event and it really showed us
083how a community can pull together and everyone was very touched by the actual screening itself and I hope that we can see more stuff like that in the future. And then finally in June, which was cut short due to graduation and everything going on as Scott said earlier, but we kind of focused that more on community service and resources. And just today we had our last meeting and that was really interesting. So our community impact for the project, we began to go bags. We haven't been able to um complete it this year, but we will be continuing it next year. And these to- go bags are essentially for students who need necessities like it includes food items like hygiene products and it also provides children's books. Um whatever anybody could donate was kind of like
084contributed into the two go bags. And then our goal was basically to provide accessible support for the students who need it or anybody in our community who needed it. We were hoping to have it at the Hope Church and again we didn't have time to complete it because of June being cut so short due to um graduating graduating seniors and um next year we will continue with new leadership. So yeah, and then our specific event this year that we did get to attend was, as I already said, the fentanyl high screening. And that really, as I said a little bit earlier, raised awareness. It showed a lot of community participation just from organizations and some people who you might not have expected to see there. And that was just a really interesting and impactful event.
085And it showed us that a community can pull together and that there is a lot more people who care and are impacted by these events than we see. And our reflections to this is honestly that we made more we made a huge amount of progress than what we initially expected because we planned everything so last minute. So we didn't even expect as many club members to show up. And surprisingly, I feel like we did make a like an a great impact on our students who showed up and we did teach them, you know, strong foundations and like gave them a bunch of resources to rely on when, you know, there's like substance abuse involved, um, mental health issues involved. And our plan is to grow and hopefully create the club and make it expand it
086next year again with new leadership. And we're hoping next year to get more guest speakers for the kids and also to reach our goal of making to-go bags and having this be a consistent thing that happens in our community hopefully with more community support. And just to wrap it up, we are so grateful for this opportunity this year. We're hoping that next year we can reach more of the goals that we had set in place and just grow this program as a whole and reach more kids who need it because that's the biggest part of this community that never really feels like they have a chance to reach out for help. But we our main concept for next year would be having students lead students and students be involved in programs led by other students
087just to have them feel more comfortable and safe. And thank you so much for giving us this opportunity and listening to our presentation. And if you have any questions, we'd be more than happy to answer them. Yeah. Anybody have any questions? I could. I could. Thank you very much. Where do you get your items for the to-go bags? We actually had Chris Proctor plan all of that. We He was like, um, I don't know. He has a lot of resources to go to. So, I person Thank you. That was one of the issues we didn't get to cover this year is we wanted to have it be in June, but we had to open a bunch of accounts in order to get the money from sponsors into our like our ability to use it and
088purchase food and hygiene products and because if we would have had the opportunity to if we hadn't had to do so many go around so many like barriers and stuff, but that's why it got postponed this year. But we do have community sponsors that are willing to donate for next year and we've talked to some people in Northshore that are also donating bags and other things and we've talked we've already talked to the church and they're willing to have us put bags there. So yeah, that's great. Okay, I have a question mostly about the student advisory committee. So there's everybody gets two so two for the city, two you everything. Do you guys get to pick where you go or are you just assigned? Yeah, depends. You get to put in a request of where
089you would like to go. And at the beginning of the year, I was like, "Oh, like I'm I'm not into anything medical. I would not want to work with Barton." But as I got I got well, I got assigned there and I've never felt so empowered to do anything in my entire life and be a part of this. And I think that that was part of it is that it's not always something you get to pick, but in the end, it's always the things that you don't expect that find you and make you become a better person. And I think that was amazing. Good for you. Good for you. I I love that answer. And I'm just going to say this. So I I I do share with the group um what we have, right?
090And we have Barton, the city, um we have Family Resource Center, um LTCC, and of course our our board, right? Um and and so often times folks will of ask for, you know, more than will ask for one thing or not, right? So I have to make that selection. Um but they've just been amazing doing this, right? Good night. Um and then are you both are you both juniors or seniors? I'm a senior this year. You're a senior. You're leaving. So you're going to be participating next year, Laya. Yes, I am. Okay. But mayor, you may or may not be on this particular committee. Uh we get the I'm sure we get the choice to stay if we want. I hopefully we'll be here next year as well running the same thing and just building
091what you've started. And then I I mean I'm really excited about the idea that you you're establishing a club and then you'll have the ability to you know raise funds. What is the interaction with this club the student members with your wellness center at the high school and the counselors there and is there an opportunity? Have you been working with them? How and how do you see that maybe moving forward as another another thing? This year we didn't get the chance to work with them quite as much. We didn't really think about using already school provided resources. We wanted to bring in outside resources because originally we didn't we weren't going to start a club. We were going to just have meetings and not really establish anything. But yes, in the future we hope to
092work with them. We've also worked with some people who are working with the uh wellness center as well. So, we're not directly working with them yet, but we definitely have contact. They know that we exist. We know that they exist, and hopefully we can partner with them next year as well. Yeah, I know. Seems like there's a lot of opportunities to connect um our students with different resources and the resources, you know, with with each other and, you know, things like that, right? So yeah, thank you for starting the starting the effort and yeah, look forward to more next year be before before we leave this. Chris, have anything else you'd like to say? Chris, is there anything else you'd like to add? Come on up to the mic. Chris, come on up to the
093mic. As as Chris comes up to the mic. Um, by the way, I think we should get a picture. We usually take pictures when we're either celebrating or recognizing, but you guys need to get a picture with them in the spirit of tonight. We'll do that in a moment. Um, but can I tell you these just absolutely great amazing representatives of our superintendent student advisory group. So proud of them. Um, and you guys did a wonderful job tonight. Like to just tell a little bit of stories about them because we didn't meet in February and I remember it being one of those like late nights and I gave them a ton of information and a lot of times when that happens, you know, students tend to like kind of pull back and quite sure and
094they they came up with the idea. You know, our community health needs assessment is a survey we do every three years and it gives us some ideas of what the community would like us to work on. And they jumped right in. You know, the concept is a is a really good one because food insecurity is is probably this after mental health challenges, food insecurity is probably the one most stigmatized issue. It's hard for people to admit that they might not be getting the food they need. And so that's where we came up with the concept to make it, you know, somewhat discreet. We didn't want to make it so obvious that when we had these go bags that, oh, that student's taking a go bag, they must have trouble having high quality food. We wanted
095to make it really an easy thing to do. And I think that's what we'll carry on, you know, uh, next year if Laya still wants to stick around. And, uh, you didn't request a change. Also, you know, and they were talking about how June came really quick. We also had some snow days. Like a lot of our meeting days happen to be snow days. So, did disrupt, I think, some of our goals. But I just to give you an idea of what we hope to achieve. And I think the idea of, you know, collaborating with the wellness centers and seeing where there's that crossover will be something we can focus on next year, too. Let's get you guys in front of the board for a quick picture. Let's do that. That's you guys. Yes. There
096we go. Good job. Good job. Good. Thank you. Congratulations tomorrow. We'll get to shake your head tomorrow, too. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Laya. Nice to see you again. And it's nice to watch you run. It's fun to watch you run also and we love to see the runner in Laya also. She's an amazing runner. All right, we're moving on to educational services and uh starting off with South Tahoe High School Singles Focus Plan. We have Principal Zunino here and his staff. Excited for this. Good evening once again, President Keer, board members, and Dr. color. We're here on behalf of South High School to share the progress of our single focus for and where we're headed for next year. At South High School, we are united in our mission to promote academic excellence through diverse
097learning opportunities and to empower our students to become informed citizens who demonstrate integrity, kindness, and confidence. Our work this year has centered on a singular focus, which is to say improving teaching and learning in every classroom for every student. I'm joined here tonight by my department chairs and I would ask the for the opportunity for each to please introduce themselves along with their respective department. Mr. Tenassi, I am Isaiah Tanassie with CTE. Sir Woody Peterson, mathematics. Taylor Garcia, English and also representing EL today. Nico Salceto, I teach Spanish. Kyle Toms, science. Whitney Pomemeroy, social science. Uh, Will Davenport, PE Health Department. Good evening. I'm Matt Kaufman, visual and performing arts. Excellent. Thank you all. For 2425, we focused on instruction and will continue to do so over the course of next year. Essentially, our intent
098was to improve student engagement and achievement through consistent, highquality teaching practices. At the start of the year, our staff collaboratively identified five areas of instructional focus, then refined that to three. First, chunking and processing content, which had 11 particular strategies. The second demonstrating with itness or teacher presence and awareness which had four particular strategies and the third noticing and re-engaging students who are not engaged which had five particular strategies. Through these uh three structured rounds of implementation, reflection and staff discussion, we deepen our understanding of each of these strategies. We organized the year into three rounds for teachers to select, implement, and take time to reflect on various strategies. Notice that the majority of staff, 58%, selected chunking and processing content as a focus. Here are some of the strategies teachers used, uh, including using
099whiteboards to pinpoint who needs reexlanation or retaching. Give you a moment to just take a look. Those were quotes from staff after reflection. Okay. Next, thought it was powerful uh in that when students are able to articulate their own learning. And here we have a quote from a teacher that highlights the importance of taking the time to do this strategy more often. Here are four more teacher quotes. I'll give you an opportunity to look them over as well. Overall, our findings here would suggest that the student engagement increases when these various strategies are implemented. As our reflection would suggest, we have found an effective process of study around improving our instructional practices. This is yet another teacher quote at the end of our process there towards May. Tonight is about sharing the reflections and learning
100we've gained from this year's instructional strategies. Each department selected one strategy to implement and discuss throughout the 2526 school year. Each DC will share why they chose what they did along with the learning outcomes that were noted. I'll now turn it over to our DCs to share. Mr. Tassi, the CTE department chose to focus on the strategy of demonstrating witness to improve student engagement and safety in our CTE classrooms and labs. As a department, we felt it was important to focus on the strategy as so many of the CTE pathways have a lab element to them and to ensure that all students are engaged. We know that this year we have an improved success rates in the classroom and more students wanting to continue in the pathway and take the next level course. Thank you,
101sir. Garcia. All right. So, our strategy for ELA and EL is responsible and irresponsible use of AI technology. It's a big hot button all around and it's not going anywhere. So, we decided to have those conversations with our students. Um, so we talk about what is irresponsible use and responsible use. Responsible use maybe using AI to build flashcards, language translation for EL students or even sentence starters or outlines for essays. Not having him write it for them, but maybe help with the outline. And in terms of irresponsible use, it is really anything that gets in the way of learning. We want our students to think. We want our students to learn. And when AI is responsible for taking that away, then that's what we don't want. So, we don't want AI solving math problems for
102our students or writing essays and then turning it in. That's not what we want. Um, but it can be useful. It just needs that we just need to be clear on what is appropriate and what's not appropriate. And our outcomes from this is less teacher student conflicts and setting clear norms in the classroom about what is expected. Mr. So say per the Spanish department or uh lo as we're known um we decided to focus on we chose chunking content and collaborative processing to strengthen student understanding and retention. These strategies help students make connections between new and prior content while building skills in cultural comparison which is a key skill on the AP Spanish language exam. This approach has led to notable successes including 44 seals of biiteracy so far and 32 students completing the TWWBI
103uh SDHS pathway. Mr. Peterson uh so in mathematics we chose uh processing content uh specifically concept attainment. It's a strategy where you give examples and non-examples of a concept without telling students the actual definition of that concept. And as you know as we humans we usually dis discover things uh we don't question things when things work well. We question things when things are break or don't work well. So kind of changed the shift of like well why isn't this working? um it's shown a little bit uh more engagement with our students but mostly actually in our department it shifted our conversation more about um well how do we teach this instead of the boring conversation of like what do we teach what do we teach what do we teach and so it kind of improved
104the conversations we're having in collab so thank you Mr. data. Yes. I the uh PE health department selected the think pair share strategy to encourage collaborative thinking, decisionm and confidence in verbal expression. It effectively engages younger students by promoting active participation and peer-to-peer idea sharing. So I think it's safe to say that science deals with some challenging concepts. And uh one of the things that our department came up with to explain and to help to teach these concepts was to have students teach them to each other or to communicate them to each other. One of the best ways to learn is through teaching. and we came up with uh scripted cooperative diads or SCDs as we call them. And what it is is just a script um a format that allows students to communicate difficult
105concepts with each other and to explain difficult concepts to each other. So it can be a long conversation that they're having with each other or a very quick short one. So we like the flexibility that it that it gave us as a department um and also the conversations that it it started for our students. Yeah, we just wrapped up our uh social science expo as we call it. So, social science chose the strategy of demonstrating with itness to maintain a balanced and attentive teaching presence in the classroom. By modeling this awareness, we aimed to inspire our students to exhibit similar engagement and confidence during peer presentations at our byianual social science expo. And thanks to some of you who came. By the way, I'm going to step in for uh student services here. Uh in
106this area, department adopted a strategy monitoring and re-engaging uh individual students uh to address diverse learners. This approach has shown success based on individual student needs and levels of independent engagement in the learning process. And finally, we have Vappa. Okay. In both visual and performing arts, how we present content shapes how it's understood. Chunking, breaking content into smaller, meaningful parts help students process complex ideas or emotions without overload. In galleries, this might mean organizing works by theme or chronological order, guiding viewers step by step through a larger narrative. In performance art, scenes, movements, or melodies act as natural chunks, each building on the last to deepen emotional impact. To maximize learning, presenting art in clear sequential steps rather than all at once, creates space for reflection. And it turns an experience into meaning. So whether
107curating a show or directing a performance, thoughtful pacing isn't just structure, it's part of the story. Thanks, Okay, so want to talk for a minute about 2526. So we've already gotten the ball rolling here in the following areas you see there on the screen. Uh developing first developing uh clear learning targets and assessments for all courses. This is a big lift. Uh working to reduce our DF rate schoolwide and implementing a common department specific instructional strategy. You've heard those here tonight. We will continue uh to to work on those into next year. And finally, uh at STHs, we believe every student deserves access to high quality instruction and every teacher deserves the tools and support to provide it. This year, we've seen the impact of focused, reflective, professional practice, and next year we will build
108on that momentum. Thank you for your time and support. I welcome any comments or questions you may have. Do we have any questions? Thank you. We'll zoom in. Is it Can you tell us a little about the DF ratio? I mean the percentage. I I was at the senior awards night and I was kind of floored by the high uh the numbers of students with extremely high GPA. So it seems like I mean I don't know what the demographics are with at the high school, but it seems like there are more students um thriving. I mean, you know, there are more students getting really high GPA than ever before. And maybe at the same time, are we having an increase in DF rates? You know, I just I'm not familiar, but it was a little
109shocking. Absolutely. Appreciate the question. So, our last three terms at each term, we've increased our GPA. Uh I put that out in our newsletter there at the last posting. Um I'm hopeful we'll know here whether or not we hit 3.0 as a school. Okay. that that would be pretty fantastic to celebrate. However, we're always wanting to look to improve. Where is it that we can improve and you know we we definitely see um room to improve particularly with our younger kids, our freshmen in particular. So, this is an area to I think for us to grow in. Uh there have been a couple of departments been working on this. U there were some clear takeaways in our work with uh Called partners and mathematics. uh and it really led us to some pretty impactful uh
110discussions and um actions that have created some success. So yes, we are always intentive to that. Everybody, I really enjoyed your presentation tonight everybody. It was it was informative. It was um I could just see it working every every single strategy that you guys came up with. Thank you. It's a good focus. Yeah. I I just like to thank all of you. number one for having the patience because you know you were coming I'm on a little night. So thank you all for being here and and I what I also in that spirit is that you all were here and and gave your insight and and and and last I'd like to say is the whole concept of single focus plans or that the site has a plan right and you have that overarch plan
111and then each then each of the departments really focusing in on how you're going to do that piece was really powerful for me and I really appreciate that. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you for taking time out of your evenings and away from your families and it's a busy day tomorrow for the high school obviously, so it it is truly appreciated to come and show how much you care. Thank you all. We'll see you tomorrow. All right. And we're not Yeah, we're not finished with the high school. Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. We're doing career tech uh education. and we're going to have an update on the crew tech education. Thank you. Okay. Uh presentation three of three tonight for the high school. Uh we have the pleasure here uh of providing some updates
112around CT, career tech education. Uh this is a um robust um opportunity uh uh sharing of information here for you tonight. look forward to uh uh sharing. Thank you. Mr. Tenassi and Mr. Luke will be joining us. Okay, you're good to go. Great. Uh good evening um board and Dr. Cutler. Uh thank you for the opportunity to uh give our annual report on the career and technical education programs and pathways that we have at the high school. I'd like to introduce uh my co-presenter with me, uh Paul Loop, who's um actually uh was hired this year as our um pathway coordinator through a strong workforce grant that we'll be talking more about through our slideshow. So Paul and I will be working together on this one. So um as there we go. So looking at
113our agenda really quick, uh just want to give a brief overview of all of our pathways. We actually have CTE incorporated into our entire district uh K12. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Um there's a lot of support from the state in uh grants for career and technical education. So we've been aggressively pursuing those and so we'll give you an update on those and what we've been doing so far. and then our vision of our strategic goals and what we want to be moving uh as we focus on the future. So we really believe within the CTE world that we are really looking at how do we focus on our mission and vision of discovering and fostering the unique talents and potential of all students. And so we relish that we have, you
114know, 4.0 or higher students in our classes and we have those 1.0 students in the same classroom. We have 9th graders through 12th graders um and really incorporating all students um within our programs and for them to find meaning and purpose and something that they have a sense of belonging with. Maybe it's going. No, there we go. So, just give you a little overview of the K12 program. Um, so in uh elementary schools, uh K5, uh the focus is on career exposure for all grades. Um they do class presentations and we have a um K8 specialist who works with all schools. Um she'll work with the elementary schools and the middle school to bring those exposure opportunities. Um early career awareness, uh skill exploration, interest development, um guest speakers, arranging field trips for them to
115get exposure in in very broad ways. Um and then what we do every year is um all the fifth grade classes come up to the high school and uh every school and we did this just last week. So, every school came up to the CTE classes and spent two hours on campus um getting uh to know the campus a little bit, but get see all the programs. And so, that picture in there is actually uh fifth graders all wearing the hard hats um in the construction class. So, they're getting hands-on exposure and experience with that. So, it's been it's always a great time of of the year to see them all so excited in there. And we we like the fact that we get to do that annually for all of them. at the middle
116school. Uh we have some broad programming that we really want to try to tie to all uh CTE pathways at the high school. Um and we do a tour for them as well before they select their high school classes for the eighth graders. Then they come up to the high school and they get to see all the pathways again and get a little bit idea of what their interests are and what they want to try to sign up for before they do those class signups. So in the middle school there's uh new this year is culinary and baking program. Uh we have digital media arts with uh photography design and digital creation. Uh there's broadcast with the Timberwolf TV and media communications and then uh STEM lab with robotics coding and engineering. Um great opportunity
117for middle school students to do that as part of their electives and their wheel. And then in the high school um we have in the past it used to be just individual courses and so we spent a lot of work in the last few years of really um bundling them and seeing what the focus is on them. So we have four main um sectors uh allied health, arts, media, entertainment, engineering and hospitality and tourism. And so those are kind of the main four focuses within that are sub pathways. Um and we will get into those a little bit more as we do it. Uh for those of you who were at the uh senior award night, uh we gave out over uh 90 uh awards for students who are completing those student those pathways in
118any of those uh programs. So it's been uh good clear communication with our students and they they see vision. They see how they can kind of accomplish the end goal. We talk about this. Sure. So uh we're u from the high school we try to not only access and support our CTE students but we want to provide support and um a relationship with every student on campus excuse me. So uh one way in which u I'm trying to reach out to our larger population is to capture some of their attention. So uh the first thing um I did was do a little freshman takeover. So, I go into the health classes and give a like a Tahoe basin labor market kind of curriculum. Uh, just a class little activity where we talk a little bit
119about how all of our pathways lead to potentially sustainable employment within the basin. Um, and give them some examples, a lot of interaction that way. Um, for the sophomores, um, we I introduced a industry day. We brought in 10 working professionals again from the Tahoe Basin, a little bit out. We had some Reno and Sacramento representation also. um to show again uh these how these working professionals uh took their own path to their job and there more of an informative event for all the sophomores. So different form of engagement um a little bit more one-on-one um activity for them. Um we also are trying to expand um and building up the workbased learning internship opportunities. So um some of our pathways are really built and developed and some of them we're trying to add on
120new exciting ways in which students can use what they learn in the classroom um and go beyond just the completion of those classes into work-based learning or internships where they get to apply those or at least do some shadowing um in the marketplace. Um additionally we um have also developed uh basically monthly uh visit from community colleges and trade schools. So, um, we are lucky. We have a local, of course, LTCC, but we also have a range of exciting programming that's happening in Reno at Truckucky Meadows Community College, Carson City at Western Nevada. Um, and we're trying to bring in all the representatives of the trade schools from Sacramento like UTI. And that really is a really good uh perspective on what the varieties of educational opportunities are to them. And then if we can
121we bring them down and once they're kind of we spark the fire then we go light it we go bring them down to the and get a tour of like the automation campus stuff like that. So um I'm going to talk a little bit just about the different pathways. So in allied health uh we have three uh pathways. Sports medicine, exercise science and dental assisting. Um these have multiple courses within them. Sports medicine has four including a hospital internship. Um, exercise science has two, but then there they can repeat it over and over and then they also have a personal trainer certificate built into it. And then dental assisting is a three course pathway with multiple certificates and leads straight to employment at the end of it. And pretty much every student who completes that
122pathway gets job offers out of that dental assisting program. Uh within engineering uh we have our automotive program which uh is essentially four courses. It's a small engines and then uh auto 1, auto 2 and auto 3. Includes we've been changing that curriculum a little bit to adding electric vehicle technologies into that. Uh in our environmental engineering uh we call it to science. This is a a pilot program we uh piloted a few years ago through uh some CTE grants from the state to be able to incorporate a science course with CTE concepts and really trying to incentivize students to want to continue in that science course and pathway and not just do the minimum and then be done uh but to see the interest in that. So uh really around our our local um
123you know from ecology and forestry to conservation and and sustainable tourism that we see here. Um and then our construction program which is uh a threecourse pathway uh around uh used to be a wood shop class and we've really retoled that into construction. What are the skills that students are going to need in our community? Um you want uh you met Mr. Kaufman earlier. He's um a part of our uh CTE digital art program. Um so uh it's multi-level program. um talking about everything from digital illustration and design animation and fundamentals. Um he also knows that uh we have a digital photography. So we have the you know basics of all photography but through a digital lens. So it looks like a computer lab. Lots of interaction that way. And then we also have our
124broadcast uh that much of it our Viking television that's uh kind of uh transformed a little bit every year and and developed into a really interactive um like onampus kind of everyday um reporter in the field sort of feel to it this last year. in hospitality tourism culinary is a really exciting program direct line straight from um our middle school culinary program and we're really building out um we have such a unique opportunity here in the basin with the the number of restaurants I like to joke that I I have also lived in a a similar size town but in rural central uh uh the middle of the United States and we did not have the number of restaurants that Uh so it's really uh ripe for opportunity for our students to partner. Um in
125fact you just saw our LTCC put on the cookoff which we participated in is a really great asset to have that programming kind of go all the way through to our college level um locally. Um resort and recreation management um another field which we have just um the basin is here for us. Um and then we have our event planning and leadership which is and incorporates um everything um around campus and all of our events. Um and of course um Scott is one of our featured uh leadership individuals who does like a lot of the announcements and stuff and um pieces on campus. So that's a summary of um the programs that we have at you know K12. Um definitely a little bit more depth in the high school. Uh I want to talk a
126little bit about um a lot of these grants that we've been pursuing from the state. So over the last six years there's um a lot of money in what there's called strong workforce grants which are from the state to support local economies and looking it has to be tied to our job market and our needs and things like that. So over the last six years uh we've gotten 2.5 million um from strong workforce grants to help support these pathways and to start some new ones and see how it is. So we got uh new pathway of the tile science at the high school and we started a culinary program this last year at the middle school. Uh lot of the stuff has been about updating and upgrading our existing pathways. We have amazing facilities um
127definitely at the high school and so but it has been about 15 years since those were built and uh supported with equipment. So, there's been a lot of infrastructure and support um that's needed to kind of re-update those. Uh but also looking at, you know, new things such as electric vehicle curriculum, uh tiny house curriculum with our construction classes. Uh looking at uh adding a culinary food truck or trailer for the culinary program to that workbased learning and provide uh you know meals for after school events and athletic events and around community. Um and then some technology stuff. Uh anatomage table for allied health. This also worked with science and anatomy. Um we were the only high school. This essentially the only place that had this. I saw this years ago. I was super excited
128about getting it. Um you medical school had one and then South High School was the next next person or the next place to get an anatomage table. So we got it during COVID. We couldn't use it for a year or so till we were able to get it back online. Um but it's been a great uh kind of interactive way for those allied health students to um engage and do more. Um and then looking at kind of equipment replacement and improvement. Um so updating uh three MAC labs that we've had there. Uh new tools for construction and engines for automotive that been there for 20 plus years. Um changing X-ray from analog X-ray to uh digital for our dental program and it's kind of updating that. So it's been a lot of those focuses on
129that. You want to yeah talk about the college career center. So um my office and my station is in the career college and career center. So, uh, we're the future vision is to, um, continue to have it staffed and to, um, have this kind of interaction, the opportunity to work with students, um, for all of their needs, their broad needs, um, for whatever stage of potential interest they have, whether it's a, um, an additional trade where they want to find out about that pathway or whether it is something a little bit more like job search, resume, a little bit more tactile. Um we also are looking to um continue expand like that community outreach um partnerships build some really great partnerships um now bring up a couple examples of that that like for examp um
130to bring in um really good targeted u uh for instance we're doing Tahoe keepers training so they're doing like uh aquatic invasive species research then learn how to do the prevention and then get two the facility in Meyers. So, it's a really good, you know, legacy project. Um that that's just an example of one of the many community outreaches we're doing. Um we want to uh continue to broaden our dual enrollment um and and work with LTCC to um figure out where um even maybe added programs can um begin in the college level. And um we we've just seen a really kind of uh interactive uh successes. So being um staffed on campus in the career center and just being kind of doors open um we we've just seen some successes. So students we've seen
131that were struggling um student one attendance issues were um but he was really interested in getting a job. Uh the goal for me was not actually to get him a job, but to kind of lure him back into the engagement of education and rather than finding employment, he found uh athletics and was more engaged and went from uh 45 absences in in his uh in like a year to zero. And so it was really successful. Another student um it was uh academic issues blocking her from getting um permitted or eligible to work. Um again, very successful. multiple Fs to somebody who's now getting like a 3.5 GPA. Um we also see students through um the the same open door policy accessing the career center for uh support through senior projects, right? And and getting and
132kind of uh flooded with like thank yous for that sort of interaction is is really positive. So we're seeing a lot of success stories from the uh where we're managing the career center now. Yeah. And that was um all part of a college and career success grant that we got through strong workforce to support all students, not just CTE specific pathways, but we want to support all students in there. Um I'm really excited about this last grant that we just got awarded uh this spring. Um looking at we have so many things going on, we can't add more, right? So how do we still support students? How do we do things for them? Um we've always wanted to try to do entrepreneurship in some way. So we got a strong workforce grant to start an
133uh kind of a business incubator program. Uh it's a little bit different concept. It's not going to be a class or a pathway, but it's going to be an opportunity for students to be able to go to a maker space um to experiment, to be able to learn, to be able to grow, and be able to that is as a business incubator u locally made in Tahoe. So, that's going to be upcoming. I'm super excited to uh kind of kick that off this next fall with some planning and get that implemented. Uh our goal is uh by January 1 to have it up and going here locally in the community. Um couple other things uh we're looking at uh after school careermies. We've been we kind of to tinkered with this a little bit this
134year. Had some great opportunities with uh some uh firefighting with cosmetology with uh armed services to come in and do some things after school on a regular basis. Um and so uh getting beyond our pathways we have a lot of interest but students want more things we just can't offer it. So how do we do it? Uh and then uh capstone and workbased learning like Paul said uh increasing those kind of expectations within our pathways that there is an expectation there that they're going to be doing those in all courses um on that. So we've been investing in that and uh some software and programming to make that happen. Um and then continue to look at the future, right? How do we look at this? We're looking at, you know, science, um, the tiny house,
135uh, medical careers, tourism, digital marketing, um, how do we kind of keep morphing and keep, uh, you know, changing with with our times and with our, um, how things are going. So, that is our, um, kind of annual summary of what's happening in CT world and things that we're looking at for students. So, happy to answer any questions. Thank you both. Anybody have any questions, comments? Was that the animatage thing? That last slide was that? Okay, thank you. That's looks really cool. Um, thank you so much. It sounds like you guys are really accomplished a lot. There's a lot more going on. And the maker space, is that you're thinking of that's going to be an after school thing or during flex or Yeah, an after school. It wouldn't be a flex option. It would
136just be after school. Correct. Yeah. Um, okay, great. And I Oh, sorry. And my last thing is that I was at the um I'm glad to hear about the industry day. It sounds like the partnerships, you know, just keep growing and obviously I know there's a lot of trades people in this town that are looking, you know, are seeking internships and um so the more you know, the more you can connect with all those folks is great. Um I did sit I did I was at high school yesterday at social science expo but also the trade fair that the uh Kathy Haven and the Learning Haven did and um she just she would just wish that she found out after she got put that on that this that you guys had done the industry day
137for the sophomores and she felt like again part of it was timing the end of the year you know not as many classes came to the library yesterday um for trades and I know some of some of the partners were you know you you're already partnering with like Western Nevada College, but um just improve that partnership with the Tahoe Learning Haven because um Kathy would love to work with you more closely or and not do certain things if you guys are already doing it. You know what I mean? Just um uh facilitating those kinds of partnerships. You know, she she's willing to help you. I think you guys can help each other, you know what I mean? And get get more information out to all the kids. Um but I appreciate the efforts you're doing
138the way you're doing it with the sophomores and the freshmen. I really like the forward thinking that you guys are doing like electric vehicle, you know, learning about that. Not just how to change oil and how to change brakes and stuff, but just the concepts. You guys are very creative and I'm impressed. Isaiah, thank you as always and nice meeting you, Paul. Um, if in that entrepreneur thing, if you ever want a boring insurance business owner to come in and explain Small Business America to a scare them away from the the, you know, it's not all joy. Appreciate it. I appreciate all the diversity you're bringing to them. And I didn't realize that you had so many partners coming from Reno and Carson. that is not only are you giving the information and you're showing
139where they can go with it. So I just think it's an amazing program. Thank you. Thank you. Losing two uh uh automotive teachers to retirement this year. Do we have any insights as to replacements? Uh yeah, anybody out there? Yeah, I was surprised we had the position had multiple people that have applied. So, I'm looking forward to We're right in the process right now of working to finalize. Um Paul Isaiah, great job. Thank thanks again for the patience to get in here tonight. Um I want to say this. I I love that we are talking about that career tech education is K12, right? And that we have students thinking about their future careers and exploring in in the elementary level and then growing that. I just want to encourage us to continue to to think
140like that. Good job. Thank you. Thank you for your time. All right. And now we have uh again take a break community to us. All right. Next we have our K through2 reading difficulty screener assessment tool. This is a discussion item. President Keer and trustees, I introduced this topic back to you in February. I am here tonight uh for this agenda item as a discussion item and then on June 26 I will return asking you to approve our reading difficulty screener as you see here. Okay, you got it. Since I'm on the slow, is it is it back? Okay, got it. As you see here, this requirement dates back to 2023, requiring all local education um agencies to adopt an approved reading difficulty screener screener for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. These are
141the state approved screeners. We pulled our inter intervention teachers and elementary principles together to form a team and review um the four options. Our team opted to pilot three of the four approved screeners. One called a mirror, one called MClass, and one called multitudes. In the end, the team overwhelmingly opted for multitudes. Here's some of the requirements to the bill. All K through 2 students need to be screened the first 45 days of school. Parents need to be notified. Parents can opt their child out if they desire. Screening rules results should not determine eligibility for special education or 504 and screening results cannot be used for high stakes or reclassification of EL students. Additionally, the screener needs to be administered in the students primary language if possible. The screeners we chose to to try out
142all have English and Spanish to them. So, here's our action steps. Since I last discussed with you in February, as the list demonstrates, we've collaborated with uh our friends at Elorado County Office of Education. We've been meeting since February. We met with the intervention team monthly to review our pilot implementations. And in the end, again, the team unanimously chose multitudes. Um, we've had our introductory training on June 4th and it appears fairly easy to administer and to implement. Here's a little bit more about Multitudes. It's developed by a team of reading experts from the University of California, San Francisco. It is at no cost to us. Um, our only cost will be training our teachers. Here's a summary of the FS assessments that are provided at each grade level. um for kindergarten, first and second,
143some of the our local assessments will be able to drop as a result of what multitudes will cover. As I shared, I introduced this item um in in February 13th. I'm back tonight for discussion purposes and then I'll return to you and ask for approval on June 22 6 for multitudes as LTUSD's reading difficulty screeners. I've included some additional links here if you'd like in more information and I attached to the board agenda some of the resources we received in our June 4th training. Do you have any questions for me at this point? Any questions? I do. Um you knew I was going to. Yes. Um, when we first looked at them in February, there was one or two that did nonsense words as far as can you decode these words. Is multitudes one of
144those? It does. It has a component. It wasn't as strong as the M class, but there is a component of the nonsense words and the teachers appreciated the nonsense words, too. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And I appreciated the no cost. Oh, and are you and our professional when are you going to do the training? You've just done a June training indicated that they want to they want to try it first. They want to take it on first before we start training the teachers. So, we'll have some additional training for them in late August, early September. They're going to master it down and then I'm going to lean on them to help us with the training. I always love trainings where teachers are teaching other teachers. Okay. I would like to be involved in that. Yeah,
145you bet. Thank you. Thanks. Any other questions? I think that's Thank you. Thank you. You could help with the assessments then too. You can All right. Excellent. All right. Our next item is the local control accountability plan. This is Good evening again, President Camper and trustees. On May 22nd, I provided a quickformational update on our local control accountability plan or LCAP. Tonight, I'm providing this agenda item for discussion and of course is a public input meeting. I will return on June 26 asking you to approve the LCAP revisions for 2526. The LCAP of course is driven by our vision and our mission. We have input from our task force, our parents, and our STEA and CSEA team members. This green link will take you to the task force members and the parent advisory council who
146are involved. This is a list of all the meetings we've held to review the information, the data, and to collect input. Here is a brief definition of the LCAP according to the California Department of Education. Here is a timeline of the of the um actions to implement our LCAP. And here is our goals and actions. So the LCAP executive summary there is a 13page um thanks to Jenny and she also wrote us 162 page more thorough uh on the LCAP. She gets high praise from our friends at Edco. Our LCAP goal one is inspiring lifelong learners, fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and problem solving to increase student achievement. I think we heard a lot of that tonight and our single focus by our South Tahoe High School U team. Our action steps on LCAP 1 is
147to include elementary intervention teachers, continue with our Caled partnership, having our CTE specialists, Alyssa, who you just heard about from Isaiah, have an evidence-based instructional strategies, and we recently added our engagement in a community reading action plan initiated by the Marcela Foundation and us titled Read Tahoe. That's going to include imple implementing the reading difficulty screener, literacy nights at the elementary schools, reading pals hopefully expanded. Thank you trustees for helping with that and working together on a community campaign encouraging students to read 20 minutes a day. Our second goal is around maintaining a positive climate and culture through inclusive connected school community and engaging students and families. All staff matters. Our action plans there include hiring elementary counselors um through the community schools grant, continuing to to promote the SEAL practices, continuing with the student
148advocate or we'll call it a wellness coach too for this year, having five full-time nurses, continuing with our academic and community school liaison intervention teachers, family engagement opportunities, and providing SEAL intervention supports in lie of suspensions. s when possible. Our third LCAP goal is to maintain a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth for all staff to support student success. And our action steps include um our annual professional development day. This year it'll be on October 31st. That's a Friday. Continue with our teacher on special assignment. Continue with our early out Wednesdays to support collaboration and professional development opportunities. and continue with our single site focus plans for each school. We are recommending to incorporate goal four into the first three goals. This goal was originally required as a result of low achievement and high
149absenteeism rates among our homeless students or students experiencing homelessness. Those rates improved. So this goal is no longer required as a standalone goal. And goal five was required when Mount Tac qualified for the equity multiplier funds because of high transiency rates and high socioeconomically disadvantage rates. Uh we did not qualify for uh funding for 2526. So we are also proposing to incorporate this goal into our first three goals as well. Our next step to uh our next steps are tonight, of course, holding the public hearing, providing this agenda item for discussion uh purposes. Again, I'll return on June 26 to request approval of the LCAP 2526 revisions. Do you have any questions for me at this point? Any questions for Dr. Reer? Yes, Dr. Reer. I I think this year we've had intervention teachers split
150time between two campuses. Is that correct? We did have one situation where we had one teacher that was split between Tahoe Valley and Myers. Yes. Is that going to be the uh currently that is not the plan? It wasn't the plan going into the school year either. last year. We currently just have the one intervention teacher, solely academic intervention teacher at each of the four elementary schools plus um an additional person at the schools that qualify for the community schools grant. Thank you. You bet. Um I had a qu I had a question a couple of questions. Um I'm glad to see that absenteeism will be, you know, it's no longer going to be a separate goal. it's going to be worked in to the other goals. Um I noticed that that you know continues
151to be an issue. And then because Amanda Hammond is leaving, are we going to be hiring to fill her position? We are. Yes. So that there is currently posted. Okay, great. It's it says wellness coach one/ community liaison. We got some some one-year money from Edco. I noticed that the draft the 161page report um has a lot of blanks like the the budget items are not filled in and so that for the next agenda for next in two weeks when we approve it you'll have the budget items in there because it was hard to actually it's like I understand there's there's commentary about lack of money you know like we wanted a lot of things and some things we aren't aren't able to commit to because of lack of um dollars and maybe you're working
152with Miss Buttery on that we are and with Mari and Mari. Yeah, Jenny. I think she's probably working on it right now. Thank you, Jenny. Because yeah, that was hard to review is all I could say at this point. Um, you'll have a complete budget in in there. The main because we have our our actual budget, right? And we what was so important to us now is to get that kind of aligned. Make sure you have all of the planned actions and goals. Um, and then that'll all fall together. Well, I hope Yeah. So that way we hopefully won't see changes in the actual planned actions that are listed that we'll have the money for that. And I I I did read through the input from the STEA and you know they were like they
153were there was some comments about wanting nurses at every site and I know we're sharing the five across like six or seven and then um and that's probably just the way it's going to be next year. I understand in terms of money and then tip they mentioned tip I didn't know what that was and it was something related to alternative ed programs is that what I don't know what it it's an acronym I don't what acronym I'm sorry tip oh yes so so we this was a program we were looking at creating for um in absence of having a a community school um which we've we've shifted because we're working on on the concept of a community school with Alpine County right now. So that tip program, I forget what we Oh, alternative. This was
154so that was that was that program we were looking at talking about kids that are I believe that's you said middle school. That's what triggered me. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's for and that was the acronym that the team had come up with as we were related to alternative ed programs related to kids that we need to get out of the classroom discipline probably as well as I know there was some mention about Saturday programs and you know things like that and I know we're I know there's new legislation that I mean there was mention in the budget so these things are overlap with the next item but um related to the fact that we don't exactly know where some of that is going to land so but specifically to the question I just would need
155to get catch up thank you trusty Anderson for helping trigger that thinking um we were looking at how we're going to create a program to think about how students that just aren't necessarily function effectively inside the the classroom, but right now we're focused on working with Alpine County on a community school. So that's where we shifted that right now. Okay. And that community school is different than the community school that we have at Tahoe Valley. I mean it's a different concept. So it's a total Yeah, it's a different concept. They're called opportunity schools. Community schools. Yes. Okay. Okay. It's just we'll actually be bringing you information towards probably in the July meeting. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Eer. Thank you. All right. Uh next is uh business services and operations. Item 13A is the
156253rd interim budget. And this is an action item. I think we need a sign that says don't touch the microphone. Well, no, but I just felt like it was blocking my vision. I'm short. No, I can't see my paper. It's fine. Good evening, President Kemper, members of the board. After reviewing the district's second interim, the Elorado County Office of Education asked the district to provide them with an unofficial third interim and updated actuals to ensure fiscal sovereignty in future years, primarily due to a discrepancy with benefit expenditures that was included in the second interim. We were given the option of completing a second interim revision or a third interim. The work of the third interim is more in line with budget development. So, we opted for a third. And knowing our timelines are really tight
157between second budget development, uh the third interim is actually not a significant amount more work and it lines up so well with what we're already doing. It makes more sense to do it. Um so with that, and I know you can see this on your screen and you can't see it there. It's just unfortunately the way I have to do it. Um yeah, as part of the third interim, we're providing an updated MYP, so multi-year projection and our updated actuals. So that's how much money we've spent as of um April 30th. That's the cut off for this uh for the 2024 2025 school year in the next two years. So we basically just updated everything. Our expenditures for benefits were low um and so it's now adjusted. You can see they're really in line with
158the future years moving forward. So that's basically it for the third interim. This is an action item and it's staff's recommendation that you approve the third interim budget for the 2425 school year. All right. Do I have any questions, comments? I I noticed in having the chart up, I I noticed that the the bulk of the cuts, especially for the and we're going to this goes into the next item to talk about the 2526 budget, but I see that most of the cuts are in the certificated salaries, meaning a lot of that actually with salaries is due more to attrition. Oh, so we're we're spending less money on sal Thank you. I was wondering. Okay. attrition retirements. That's looking kind of projecting and looking at where uh people are on the salary schedule, how long
159they've been teaching. And again, multi-year projection, it's a projection, not a prediction. And that third year out, you're only seeing two years out right now. You'll see the third year in just a minute. Yeah. Um it's it's really difficult to understand to assess. But even just it's helpful for me to see next year's budgets. And I see the increased revenue. I see the increased local revenue also that that we related related to charging for bus services, athletic fees, the increased daycare. Those are the main local revenue increases I think for Okay. Um All right. Any uh do I have a motion to adopt the interim third interim budget? I move to adopt the third interim budget for 2425. Second. All right. All right, I have a motion from uh Trusty Heatherton and a second from
160Trustee Anderson. All in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Okay, it passes. Next, we have a discussion on the 2526 budget. Next, we have the proposed budget for the 2526 fiscal year. Go slow. Oh, no questions. [Laughter] Is that me? Okay. So, this is should be a very familiar slide. You're going to get really tired of it, I'm sure. Um, so it's a view review of the timeline for budget development where with where we are highlighted in yellow. So, we're finally at that bottom mark. Um, the this is like I think my new favorite graphic inside. So, I hope you don't get tired of it too soon because you're going to keep seeing it. Um, keep in mind this is a budget hearing for our budget and if there are significant changes when the
161state adopts their budget at the end of the month, we have the opportunity to complete a 45day revision. These are the bud the assumptions and planning factors on which we built the budget including cola for the budget year and future years stirs and pers rates. So those are the retirement rates for both teachers and classified uh as well as funding adjustments for lottery universal TK and the mandated block grant. Most of these have remained relatively stable. PERS rate actually dropped uh for the 2526 school year which is the first time that's happened in quite some time. District revenue is based on a 2.3 cola as well as ADA. ADA is based on an average of the prior three years as California is in declining enrollment almost the majority of the state. Um it's sort of
162a softer landing when you do the average of three years versus year over year. Uh our ADA our average daily attendance while our enrollment has declined. Um the percentage of average daily attendance has gone up slightly. I was looking at the last three years, we're up to like 90 almost 92% districtwide average daily attendance, which is like pretty much precoid. So that's a really good sign for us because a lot of districts aren't haven't recovered to that level yet because that does really help with our funding that kids are showing up to school. LCFF makes up the largest percentage of our funding revenue at 67%. Federal revenue, including title dollars, makes up 3.4%. 4% and other state funds including lottery make up 25% of our revenue for a total of $63.2 million. Here are the
163general fund expenditures aort majority of which are spent on salaries and benefits. Kalpers has a slight decrease in 2526 while stirs remained remained constant. This slide shows a quick overview of our budget for 2526. You'll see that we're still deficit spending. Also, revenue is a little bit less. It's been a little inflexible. When we did the budget last June, we actually predicted it to be 58 million in change and it ended up being a little bit higher than that. Um, so everything is a we never know until it really comes in. It's a it's a little bit of a guessing game and it's uh interesting to work with. So the multi-year projection shows our multi-year projection showing how we're reducing deficit spending while maintaining our 3% reserve. You can see it's at the very bottom
164of that slide. So for next year we're or excuse me for 2526 we're at three exactly 3% the following year 3.1 and then we're this is the projection not prediction here of 4 change. Um so hopefully we'd have to do less reductions. We didn't build anything back in to put things back because we just don't know that far out at this point. This slide uh shows what makes up our ending balance. So this is the components of our general fund um and our statemandated reserve. So that includes what's in our cash. Uh the prepaid expenses, if you look at 2526, a prepaid expense for 30 uh excuse me, $853,000, that was for the 10 electric buses that we got a certain good chunk of them covered. This is our portion that has come due for
165us to actually pay. So that's our prepaid that we did uh 2425 for next year. And you can see what we've reserved for economic um uncertainty as well. So, the district funds is an interesting one as I was redoing this graphic because if you look over on the far right at 2526 and you see that $93 million little where did that come from? Because I initially went, did I have a typo as I was keying in data? No. Building and bond, the 32 million is the bond money. Um, it falls under the same fund. Um, so that 32 million was kind of threw me for a loop for just a moment. Uh but really what we're looking at is that's it's always going to sit there and it's in that separate account. So like um
166is it 21 Dave? Fun 21 I believe. So it's fun 21 um and they all have different numbers. Cafeteria is 13. So it's that other account that we only spend on certain things. So by law by SB 858 we are have to disclose our reserve. Um the minimum reserve level required each year is required to we're required to maintain 3%. Um and we have that for this year and throughout years as well. So we are able to say that we've done that. Um and today is our public hearing and then on the next meeting we will have budget adoption. Do you guys have any questions for me? I don't have a question more of a comment. I know we have to wait until we see what money we are going to receive from both the
167feds and the state. Um, and talking for me and probably every board member here, we want to do whatever we can to help the teachers and the staff. So that's just a given. You know, we know that I I do want to say something. I I would want I there, you know, when we have public comment or an open comment, right, that people can say what the you know, we're in process of negotiations, right? So, so there's no final conclusion of what that looks like or doesn't look like in that process. Um, of course, you know, there is a lot of uncertainty that's happening with budgets right now and there's a lot of nervousness about what we can and can't do. That's a reality, right? And we're nervous about what we're going to potentially have
168to cut, right? So, so obviously, I mean, as we have the that input, I mean, we we we care absolutely about our staff and and absolutely want to do everything we possibly can. I mean the timing I guess though related to what you mentioned about negotiations and everything and and the budget is what is that we're going to be in two weeks we're going to be adopting our budget based on these numbers you know that you've presented and then and then in some future time if um there's a new agreement with teachers to you know increase their salary or increase benefits or whatever then that's going to we're going to see that in a future adjusted budget you know we will see how that impact and that that will be at the same time you'll
169be updating other numbers like what were the final state budget numbers and what were the final federal budget numbers and obviously I get that that's all part of um the negotiation part of and why we're not making decisions right at this moment related to that well I think that's why I I wanted to make sure I stated that at that time one you know um I actually can do that you guys really can't in that moment respond right um but it was to make sure that you guys have an obligation to pass a bond with I pass to pass the budget with what we have available information right right now also from what we've already agreed upon with our associations right that's where you know so same thing with teachers or or classified members or
170any employee we we we we move them forward on the salary schedule that's all part of budgeting right you you you do that you know how much you're contributing so that's all part of the current budget once we complete you know actually get the dollars actually once we complete in any negotiations once you know you will see those modifications to budgets in the f future a lot of uncertainty right now so we got to be really careful and cautious um but you know you have to pass that budget and exactly right so president Keer I appreciate you that's what I was trying to say earlier is that simply you know you you have what you have and you and you use what the current agreements say right and then we have to move forward through
171that and we build in step and column we build in that possibility um as a just in case for certain groups if we are not settled with them. If we're settled then it's already built out for those settled years. The other piece is it is I think Dr. Keller mentioned this at the last meeting when I did the May revised presentation. It's a little counterintuitive because we don't even have a finalized budget from the state until June 30th. Right? So they're asking districts to pass a budget prior to theirs being completed which is why we have that 45day revise. So if there's anything drastic that shifts at that June 30th, we will we will be doing a May revision or excuse me. Yeah, it was really good. It's a really good point. Right. So you
172may have the 45day revise in August, may not. I mean, if we have to if we make if we were able to land on some decisions that changes things or if we get a change in dollars and cents, if we don't have anything dramatic, you may not have a a 45day revise, but you'll then definitely have a different budget when it comes to you in your first interim in December, right? So, it's just school budgeting has that those complexities to it. And and you made estimates. I know I'd asked um I'd asked Kelly to to just to confirm that this budget includes the new revenue sources from the athletic fees of charging students to play athletics. And so you're basing that estimate on like existing participation essentially and as well as trying to also factor
173in the fact that kids that qualify may not be paying, right? But it did look like but basically the amount of money I saw was like an extra $300,000 which is significant potentially. But that's based on your predictions. So I just wanted all the board members to be aware of that because um that may be something we will hear more from parents next year about potentially. So um thank you. Um and that's a discussion item. So we don't we'll be taking action in two weeks. And the next item is the measure you update. We have uh George Roas standing in the back. He's trying to stay awake. Trying to stay. Are you awake back there, George? Uh from coming group with an update on measure as you're walking up. Thank you guys for hanging with
174us all this time. Appreciate it. What is the full house? It was until Yeah. May I? Uh good evening uh good evening President Keer of course members of the board uh Dr. Cutler and uh cabinet. Thank you so much for having me here. This is our third update on the measure bond program. So I'm excited to be here and of course provide you an update on all the progress that's happening. So let's see. Okay, perfect. So to begin the presentation for tonight, of course, we're going to do a quick little update and uh we're going to start off with the agenda. There are three areas of focus of course that we have currently. Uh the first one is the program team development. The second piece is trying to get all of our partners in the
175lease back process. We're going to give a quick update on that and then just finish up some additional updates that we're currently working on. So the goal for tonight's presentation is to kind of give you a little bit uh to at least speak to the eight different uh consent items that we actually have on your uh board consent agenda. So, let's see. Oh, too far. Oh, okay. I got it. I got it. Here we go. All right. So, for the first one, uh, starting off with program team development, of course. So in the last uh bond update that we actually put together for you folks, we spoke in depth about the program team development, how we were looking for uh seeking professional services uh by using government code 4525 of course which uh requires the
176qualification selection process. Right? So we went through in detail all the different steps that we're actually taking and seeking professional services such as surveying, hazmat consultants, geotechnical among some others. Right. Um now in the last uh board update that I did I think we brought a a a list of uh qualified pools and those included geotechnical survey among some others and I mentioned there was one more that we needed to bring back and so for tonight we are bringing the hazmat consultant pool for for your approval and that is part of your consent agenda. Now the second step of course uh in looking for qualifications is now going into the request for proposal. That is the second step that is going to be very sight specific asking for proposals that includes pricing uh for the
177very specific projects that we're actually looking at. So we've broken those up into three different priorities. There's a lot that we have to get out on the street and making sure that we are evaluating all of those. So for the priority one for both Tahoe Valley Elementary School and South Tahoe Middle School, we are bringing to you the environmental also the special inspections for the softball field and the survey um agreements for your consent. So um the next step is going to be bringing the priority two which is going to include the hazmat and geotechnical which we hope to bring to you on the June 26 board meeting. Okay. There will be a third one and that is going to be for the storm water pollution and prevention plan consulting services and that's going to
178be coming at a later time as we see that it's necessary. Okay. So now moving on to the second step a very important step of course in trying to build all of our program team and that is the lease back process and selecting our lease back team. Um so of course the less back process we've been following the process that is required by educational code 17406 and also 17407.5 which requires a competitive selection process. Um in the last couple of board updates of course I've gone through a very kind of detailed all the different steps which you can actually see on the wheel and you can see some of the check marks of everything that's been completed to date. Um in the last update we also had just recently finished some of the interviews and
179uh with the three different shortlisted firms. So of course now some of the milestones that we've actually hit is of course the proposal evaluation which was done on May 13th, the interviews were which were done in May 22nd and of course we are bringing back uh our recommendation for board approval in tonight's uh board meeting. Thank you. Ah, just moving into maybe just to talk a little bit about what that evaluation process looked like. I apologize if you have to turn your head a little bit to look at the screen, but it's a lot of information of course, but we wanted to show you just how comprehensive a lot of the interview process, a lot of the uh looking at some of the how we graded everyone, all of the requirements that each uh entity
180had to go through. But of course the evaluation process did require all of the folks who were submitting uh just we evaluated them based on methods and strategic plan really their approach um staffing the experience that they have not only working on construction projects of this magnitude modernizations but also uh their experience with division of state architect um also snow country of course um the area was we focus really really big on the area and how these firms have actually done and demonstrated some of the construction they've done here and again just looking at prior relevant experience in school construction division of state architect their contracting history their fee model of course which is very important um along with interviews and reference calls um so I want to thank also again President Keer for being
181part of the process and also trans Mansfield you guys spent uh close to two days working with us not only on evaluating those proposals but also in the interview process so Okay, here we go. Okay. So, uh, in looking at the lease back evaluation process, of course, after completing our evaluation, uh, for Tahoe Valley Elementary School and also South Tahoe Middle School, um, we kind of are sharing a little bit of what the final results look like. And the the folks who were actually selected based on having um the best qualifications were core construction. Um that's with the highest point of 1499 also and they also mirror on both of the uh school sites. So tonight we're bringing for consent on on the consent agenda. We're bringing our recommendation of the resolution supporting the leaseback
182agreements with core construction. Okay. And just to finish off and just the additional updates, of course, um couple other things that we have going on. Of course, the South Tahoe Middle School softball field. Um I mentioned in the last uh I mentioned the last update that bids were due on May 27th. Um we did receive a bid protest as soon as we received of course all of the bid uh the bids from all of the folks who were interested in. Now our Tim did review those bid protests and we also coordinated with our legal counsel with district legal counsel of course and what we found is that the protest was immaterial. It did not really change um the outcome of the responsibility of the lowest bidder. Um so we actually um we were able to
183respond and district has responded accordingly um with legal uh recommendation. So for tonight, we are bringing for board approval um Shrader and Brent as the lowest responsive responsible bidder to begin construction in on July 10th. Okay. Now, as part of the other um in addition, I guess I would say we're also bringing for um board approval is the contract with CS3, which is the division of state architect inspector. So the inspector will actually be the contract is with the district, but the inspector will be working right alongside with the regional inspector for division of state architect. So it's someone that's necessary in order to monitor the work that's going to be happening out there. So um the hopes is to still go July 10th. So we're very excited to actually get construction going and I
184think it's going to be a great momentum into what we're trying to do in the next coming year. though. Uh the next uh update is going to be South Tahoe Middle School and also Tahoe Valley Elementary School. We have completed our third uh site bond committee of and that was done on May 29th. Our partners for Studio WS led those meetings and those of course included district staff, the program management folks and um they have been going very well. This has been the third meeting. I think we've gotten some great participation, great input, and we're looking forward to just continuing that momentum into the summer. Um, one of the last uh updates I'll do is for the sustainability, and of course Brett, who's typically here, he's not here today, but um he will be doing
185a board update in the on the June 26 board meeting. So, he'd like to come and bring of course everything that he's been going that everything that he's been doing, I guess I should say. So with that, that ends tonight's presentation. So know if anyone has any questions. Any questions for Mr. Roas? What could you tell me about the the contract for the softball field that the company Shrader? Where are they from? They are from Chico. From Chico. Okay. California. All right. They're kind of a well known contractor. They do a lot of work with school work, the school district. So thank you. Hey, George. I there's some gentlemen that have been sitting in the audience a long time tonight. Who are the Who are these people? You want to introduce them to us? I've
186been wondering the same thing, you know. So, so yeah, these gentlemen, this is Ronnie and of course Andrew who have been here with Core Construction. I think they've been here and very interested not only in the district, what they've been doing, but I think they've been attending meetings a long time. Uh we were very happy to have them on board and uh excited to work with them. So yes, thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. Excellent. No questions. So you got a question? You mentioned July 10th as a starting date. That's for the softball. Yeah. Do we have accordingly a starting estimation for Tahoe Valley? For Tahoe Valley, of course, next year. Um, you know, one of the things we need to go through now, we're going to be going through pre-construction. We're going
187to start working on designs. Um, currently we're about uh finalizing schematic designs both for uh Tahoe Valley Elementary School and also for South Tahoe Middle School. We hope that we can start bringing some of that progress and in the next future updates of course, but for construction, we are hoping that we can get things started probably as soon as the kids are out. We're going to start construction. Yeah. One one thing that's important to know, the reason why we're able to start the the the construction at the site at the softball field is because that work had already previously gone through DSA, right? So, it already was designed in DSA. So, we already have DSA approvals for for both the Tahoe Valley and the middle school. Um, that's it's going to be a long it's
188a long probably eight nine month process right now. Yeah. Our goal is to try to beat the next code cycle and uh kind of the design documents that we're putting together. So we hope to have everything complete by the October November timeline. So love, you know, in the next board update, I'd love to maybe bring some of those new dates as we're tracking in reconstruction for you folks. Thank you. Anything? No. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Roas. All right. Item number 14, board governance. Um we have board policy and administrative regulation 6145.6 international exchange students president camper and trustees um as I shared in the write up on the agenda board policy 6145.6 international exchange students states that we recognize the value of interactions between students of different countries and cultures in promoting
189global awareness and international understanding. probably more important nowadays than than it has been previously. We welcome the enrollment of international exchange students and um staff mainly uh our registar Stacy Lopez as well as principal Zunino have advocated for this change in this policy. Our current policy requires us to charge tuition for any international exchange students which has of course been a deterrent to the students um coming to South Tahoe High School. We have recently learned that we can collect average daily attendance or ADA funding for international students. Therefore, we are suggesting revising our policies and regulations to remove the tuition charge requirements, add a few guidelines as suggested by the STS staff, um, and hopefully attract international exchange students in the future. The suggested revisions are attached to the agenda. So, I'll return on June
19026 for a discussion item on this agenda and then I'll be asking your for your approval on July 24th. Do you have any questions for me right now? There any questions? Uh, do we could we put it as an action item for June 26 if there's no comments? you you obviously I always anything brand new I like to go through the process but absolutely if the board feels as though it does not need um a discussion item we can put it on for a second read and action at the next meeting if that's what you'd like yeah that's what I would like I think that sounds like the direction going thank you get some kids in here and yeah I don't know how it affects the timing of getting new it most likely will not
191impact the start of this year but at least we now can start working for folks. So, yeah, if you guys are ready for action, we'll we'll bring it back on uh at the next meeting. Excellent. Thank you. Um I have uh the next item is the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? I move to accept the Oh, you have a motion for me. So, to adopt adopt the consent agenda. All right. Do I have a second? A second. All right. I have a motion from Trusty Mansfield and a second by Trusty Heatherton. Uh, all those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed. Okay. The consent agenda is approved. And next, do we have items for consideration at future board meetings? Does anybody have anything they'd like to consider at a future board meeting?
192Seeing none. And then I will then adjourn the meeting at 8:52. Nay.