001Okay, Mr. Lawrence, are you on? Mr. Lawrence, are Oh, did you start, Jim? Did you start? Okay, we started. Good evening everyone and welcome to the June 24th, 2025 school board meeting. I am vice president, if you see my name there, and I'm running this meeting because our president is participating via Zoom. Um, so with that, I called the meeting to order. And now, Miss Mrs. Faulk, will you please lead us in the flag salute? flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, that was the last for you. Thank you very much. I have nothing to report out of close session. And may I have um a motion to approve tonight's agenda? So moved. I second.
002Uh what did Dallas Okay, Dallas is on, right? Okay. Okay. All those in favor of a of the tonight's agenda. I Okay, we have an agenda. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of June 10th, 2025? I move to approve the minutes. I'll second. Thank you very much. Any questions on the minutes? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I Okay. Superintendent Board Communication, Dr. Steinowski. Madame Vice President, we have uh three recognitions. Uh actually four recognitions. If you'd meet me at the podium, we'll get going. We've got a chance to welcome three wonderful people to the team. But before we do that, we're going to say goodbye to a member of the team. I've got the tissues right here. This isn't for me. Miss Chambers, can you get
003more? There's only about five left. Miss Faulk, come on down. All right, we are um heartbroken and excited for Miss Faulk to enter into the next chapter of um her life. She began in Los Veress in 1986. Oh jeez, we already started. Uh Tears of Love. Tears of love. All right, I'll uh I won't go with my usual 1986 jokes and and share that uh where I was in 1986, but uh some of the things uh she has been in that 39 years in Los Angeles uh besides a rock up pilling the community and I may get emotional. She was a speech and language pathologist, special education teacher, program coordinator, director of pupil services. And ultimately we gave her 15 minutes before we headed into close session to make her assistant superintendent of ed services
004where she's been for the last uh two and a half years. Um some other things about her time uh in Las Vegas. She oversaw signature programs such as community based instruction, uh, social communication classes, post-secary skills, enhanced day and functional academic and, uh, social skills, ensuring our students gained real world skills, confidence, and were supported and nurtured. Uh, her vision also brought to life our life skills kitchens at Agora and Calabasas High School, which were phenomenal to visit and see the students and their excitement. Um, and our students learned hand on hands-on uh living and independent learning skills. And finally about Miss Faulk, a little bit of data. Under her leadership, really over the last two and a half years, uh, chronic absenteeism decry declined across all 15 of our schools by 67%. Just applause
005for that. Yeah. academic indicators. Um, our English language arts scores increased by 16%. Our mathematics scores increased by 24%. Our college readiness indicator increased by 9.2%. So, those are all amazing numbers. Um, and the the numbers tell of course part of the story with mythog. What I have always loved about her is she's super grounded. Um, she's uh down to earth. She's focused like a laser, unfiltered, direct, uh candid. Um uh I've always been able to go to her for um you know, advice, wisdom, and counsel. She's always uh very kind and also very direct, which I so appreciate. But what I most appreciate about Angie, she's always focused on the students and always focused on supporting the staff. And um that's what this is all about. So thank you for everything. Okay. Um Angie,
006what can we say? You've been here for almost 40 years. You know everyone. You know where all the skeletons in the closet are. you are, but you are so student centered and so focused on supporting staff, of getting things done, of doing the right thing. And for us as a board and for me as a board member, and I'm going to allow or have um each of our board members say something to you in a second, um the last two and a half years of of working directly with you in committees at the day is here at board meetings. I mean, you know your stuff. There's nobody that knows their stuff better in my opinion. And you Dan said, you are direct in a in just in the best way possible. You get things done
007and it's always for the benefit of students and always for the benefit of staff. And I am just I've learned so much from you. I admire you so much. Um and just thank you from the bottom of my heart. The the board has a gift for you that I will present. And at this time, I will ask um Mr. Lawrence up there, do you want to say a few words? Did we lose him? Can you hear me? Sorry, I was talking. Can you hear me? Yes, you can. Now, I I have the Oh, Leslie, can you hear me? Yeah. Yes. I I have the the the added benefit of having like a um a a neighborhood specialist as well because I see Angie. I'm going to be the one who gets to still see her
008on a regular basis. So, she's not free of me on her walks when she's out in the neighborhood. I'll be able to still pull her aside and show her slides and ask her for advice. Um, but I I think um it's it's really telling to me just the size of the job that she tackled that it is it is a threeperson job. Uh yet she took each one of those jobs and blew it out of the water for us. Um, if you look at everything that was shared, whether it's attendance or the fact that she the care and really the I I wish sometimes we could have a camera in close session to see the level of compassion that Angie brings to some of our most complex and challenging situations. Um, because uh nothing is
009black and white in those situations. There's nuance in all of them. And it takes somebody who has the heart and the desire to actually want to peel back the onion in some cases for people who may not be as um kind to her as that she is uh returning to them. Uh we have benefited from that so immensely and I know I have uh really benefited from your wise counsel and we're going to miss the heck out of you. Thank you, Mr. Lawrence. Mrs. cut bill. Um I think the one thing that um that can't be quantified is the legacy you've had on kids' lives. And I think about your career and I think about the amazing people who go into people's services and what they do for our kids and how incredibly skilled you
010were and um I remember uh during CO when it was all kind of going south and we were having to being required to shut down and and saying what will happen to our most vulnerable special needs students and you said to me, "We will knock this out of the park because we're used to being creative." And you did. And um so for me, uh I'm going to miss you in this job. I'll track you down and still find you and hang with you. Um but what a gift that you spent your career here with these kids. with this staff, with these families. Thank you for that. Thank you, Mrs. Cutville. Mrs. Mangus. So, Angie, I I promised you I wouldn't cry and I wouldn't make you cry. So, I will um I go with what
011everyone is saying that we will miss you terribly, but I am so excited for you to be able to spend time with your grandchildren. And um I had my first grandchild out of the area this past year and and I know how tough that is to not be able to see them on a somewhat regular basis and I'm very excited for you and like I said I try not to make anybody cry tonight. Thank you Mrs. Magus. Mr. Lazar. Um, Angie, I have not had the privilege of knowing you for as long a time as everyone else up here on the DES. I was only elected last November. And you know, in those months after I got elected, I really tried to reach out to as many people as I could and get to know
012everyone in the district. And very, very quickly, you just struck me as a person of such intelligence, uh, of such kindness, uh, with such an amazing demeanor to everybody. you hardly ever ruffled. Uh you care so deeply about students. Uh you have such a deep love for our district. Um and I I I got to say I was so bummed when I heard you were leaving just when I was like, "Yeah, she's one of the people I'm going to really stay close to." And then and then you were leaving. Uh and you know, I got to say as well, we've lived my family has lived in this district now for 10 years. And I'm very very grateful for the school district. And you know, it's it's people like you who've been here for decades and
013decades and have built it. uh over many years into what it is, a very very special district. Um so I uh yeah, I'm I'm going to miss you even though I've known you for just seven months really. Um and just wishing you an absolutely wonderful retirement uh and and time with your your grandchildren and wow are they lucky to have you though. I got to say that. Thank you, Mr. Lazar. We also have a proclamation and I'll just kind of highlight a couple of the um amazing things that you have done um for us. You have your passionate and tireless advocacy for students with disability, expanding inclusive opportunities, and empowering countless students to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. You lead with a student- centered mindset, making decision decisions grounded in what is best for children.
014and you foster an environment where all students feel valued and supported. Um, your leadership has been instrumental in the district's response to major crises including the Woosey fire and as we heard COVID 19 um during which you really helped highne students succeed at a very under very very trying circumstances. So I will leave you with this, leave you with our love. new people coming in. You got big shoes to fill and and you can see we are like a family where we Andrew's been here for a long time. A lot of our employees have and it's like it's like having a family member move on and it's very very sad for us. But we are very happy for Angie. You get to go hold a a new baby soon. So, thank you [Music] Madame Vice
015President, members of the board, my fellow cabinet members, Dr. Steinowski. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. If the board can join us down here for a photograph and I think we may He said, "So, let everybody know Three, two, one. All right, continuing on with some introductions. We'll start off with our new assistant principal at AC Stell, uh, Miss Ryan Russ. Come on down. A little bit about Ryan. Brian uh has 20 years of teaching experience teaching uh English language arts and AP literature. She taught honors 9 English AP lit comp AP lit and comp uh gifted and talent education EL and general education English. She is nationally boardifi board certified educator. Uh she led various wass she co-chared was Google certified education level one and two instrumental in cinnelos middle school being recognized
016at California school gold ribbon school and a schools to watch bachelor's uh bachelor's of arts in English from uh UC Santa Barbara go masters of education University of Phoenix and doctorate she's in the doctoral program at Cal Lutheran expect her graduation is 2026 we're thrilled to welcome Ryan as new assistant principal for AC Stell Welcome, welcome, Ryan. We are so excited to have you. I'm going to let you pin yourself. Thank you. You are pinned and it's magnet, right? Which is great. We're in finally in the 21st century. And uh but we are excited for you to get out at AC still and meet the wonderful staff that you have, the administrators, the counselors, and all the fabulous students and teachers. It's a wonderful school as all of our schools are, but it's a wonderful
017school. We know that you're going to have a very successful career with us. So, thank you for joining the LVUSD family. Thank you. Thank you very much. Would you like to introduce yourself? Yes, I would. Uh, so this is my husband, Brian. This is my daughter, Tegan, and my mother, Karen. So, thank you for being here to support. Madame Vice President and members of the board, as well as the amazing cabinet, thank you so much for this opportunity. I am very excited to continue my educational journey in LVUSD. Um I've already felt just the warm welcome and as is obviously testament over here just the family feel and the communal feel. I'm very excited to get started and um I appreciate the vision of the school district and hope to contribute to it. Uh, by
018the way, for Ryan, Don, and Mark, um, you know, we're excited to welcome you today. And, you know, there's also expectation they stay for 39 years, and you do get confetti 39 years from, uh, Miss Don Thomas, come on up. Uh, Miss Don Thomas is our new assistant superintendent for student services. Uh her experiences are next door in Kho Valley Unified. She's been three years as their director and executive director of special education. She led inclusive strategic planning aligned with district goals in LCAP. Uh she supervised their multilingual learning program. Uh three years as an adjunct professor at Cal Lutheran teaching child development. Uh she was also an assistant principal at Thousand Oaks High School for three years. 18 years as a middle school mathematics and special education teacher, teacher on special assignments all in
019KJO. She started her educational career in central Bucks County in Pennsylvania. She may be an Eagles fan. Um, which we I deeply appreciate. Uh, bachelors of science education from Westchester University and masters in mathematics from Western Governor University as well. Miss Thomas. Hello, Miss Thomas. We want to welcome you as well. We are excited to have you join our LVUSD family. And I have a pin for you. I'll let you pin yourself. So on beh be behalf of the board of education, we are excited for you to get out and visit all of our schools, work with our district office, but more importantly support our school staff, students, and families. And you're going to be really, really impressed with all the amazing programs and everything going on at our schools. So welcome. We hope that
020you will stay for almost 40 years. Uh, Madame Vice President, cabinet, um, members of the board, um, thank you so much for Dr. Steinowski. Um, really excited to be here tonight. Thank you so much. Um, looking forward to continuing the innovative practices, inclusive practices, um, student achievement and academic excellence in this familyoriented environment. Um, maybe not 40 years, but I will do my best to make those connections. really excited to get to know um the school staff, the administration, and the community. Um really excited and happy to be here. And yes, go Birds. Oh, I do. So, this these this is my family. Uh my family is all on the East Coast in Philadelphia, but these are my friends who have become family um through my time in this community. Um have been with KJO
021for 18 years. um and have just met so many people through my child playing supports um bringing us together in the community and my family uh of co-workers um that we've come together. So, I'm really excited to have them here tonight. Um they're all here. I'm not going to name them by name. They'll hate that. Outstanding. And next up, fresh off a plane from Africa, Dr. Mark Anderson. Come on down. A little bit about Mark. Mark will be our new assistant superintendent for educational services. He is just finishing three years as director of secondary schools for Hassiend de Laenta uh Unified School District where I believe he has to leave us and go to a schoolboard meeting down there and you'll be presenting tonight. is what um well while his time at Hassiend Laenta he
022has increased the A through3 completion rate increased college career readiness increased AP passage rate and their CT pathway completion so he will continue the great work that Angie has done he also wrote and managed the $12 million uh career technical ed grant dual enrollment civic engagement and apprentichip grants as well before his time as director of secondary schools he served 10 years as principal of Marshall secondary school in Pasadena Unified um he is uh has his PhD from Claremont Graduate University, Masters Education from Isuza Pacific, Bachelor's of Science in Business Management from BYU. Um, also has his CBO certificate and u let's see here, he's got some several awards. He was AXA and um NASP honored him as California assistant principal of the year in 2011. He was California principal of the year in 2019.
023And NASP has twice recognized Mark as a breakthrough principle for leading high academic achievement in a high poverty school 2014 2014 and 2017. Welcome to the team market. Dr. Mark, welcome on behalf of the school board. We are excited to have you join our family as well. I have a pin for you to officially welcome you. And between what we've heard tonight, we've heard the words that ring uh so uh warmly to our schoolboard hearts. We heard the word increase achievement and we heard math from where's dawn? Math. So uh we look forward to uh increasing all that. So thank you and welcome. Thank you madam vice president, members of the board, Dr. Steinowski. Um it's very daunting to watch the presentation to Angie and all the great things she's done and then have to
024follow in those footsteps. quite nervous. Way to set me up for like uh oh. Um but it's funny as I was watching everybody get pinned. It reminded me just of two things if you don't mind if I share. The first I was a boy scout as a kid and when they give you a pin and you're a boy scout, they actually give it to you upside down and the idea is you have to do a good turn every day and then you get to turn your pin around and that reminded me of this and there's a movie I watched a long time ago. I don't know if I'm going to say it accurately. This is how I remember it. It's called Tomorrowland. And they have these pins and they go around and find people who
025could build a better future. And they give them a pin like you've been chosen to build a better future for our community. So I'm hoping by doing this that every day I could do a good turn for you to make this community better and that you have I could live up to the promise you've given to me by giving me this pin that we could build a future for tomorrow and continue the legacy that Angie has left and that you guys are all building together. So, thank you so much for this opportunity. And I didn't bring my family. I could have brought my dog waffles, but I don't know if that's appropriate. Um, but thank you so much. I look forward to getting to know and working with everyone. Of course, everyone's welcome to stay
026for the board meeting, but my guess is you want to spend time with family and friends, and you have a presentation at a board meeting tonight. So, if you want to take off, we totally understand, but we'll continue with the rest of our regular board meeting. No. Do I moving right along in just a second? Dr. Steanki, we're at uh Superintendent Communication. Okay, Mr. Klein, fire me up. So, a lot of exciting things. Um LBSD Plus is our academic program that launched last week. Had a chance to tour it. We have 180 students in it at uh Willow Elementary this summer. There's some shots. The top two photos are students uh working on mathematics. Typically, the morning is the academic program. The afternoon, of course, there's a lunch there on the bottom lefth hand side.
027And the afternoon is um other activities. I think when I was there the students invented a new game called squirt the superintendent. What did what was what what did you say something? If you can go back one slide Mr. line. Bottom right hand side, the students are holding little squirt guns and so um they were following all the rules until Steve and I showed up and um so yeah, it began uh well the good news was very hot day so I was uh very much relieved to uh get soaked by the kids. Uh some more pictures from LBD Plus. Um, and again, the academic elements of it are super exciting. And of course, kids getting outside and stretching their legs and running around and enjoying the out our outdoor spaces as well. And that's all
028Willow Elementary. And just yesterday, our sports camps launched. We have 172 students in that program. And these essentially are both brand new for us. So, a shout out to Val Lotheian, um, Miss Johnson and Miss Peoples. Uh, they've really coordinated these activities, launched them. Um, and so fantastic. So top left there is a was a track team with the track coach on the right and the yellow the yellow shirts are our staff which a number of our students athletes from Agora High School and Calabasas and our professional staff as well. So it was track on the left there on the bottom right they had flag football for boys and girls um was fantastic fantastic day the temperature was fantastic this week uh as well and I believe we have a nice uh little video for
029you of the camp sports camp as well. Mr. here. Let's get started. And the sports camps are operating at two schools, ACEL Middle School and Agora High School. Um in going forward, we'll probably have them at Calabasas and Agora. But as you can see the photos, next couple photos, there is a lot of work. We have um uh the maintenance team um Dr. Gleason's team has uh launched out of the gate for the start of summer. It's our best opportunity of course to get things done. So here solo going in on the left hand side uh for Agora. We want Gord and Calabasas to get their solar in this summer so that we have all that parking available in the fall. So left is the steel pillars are already up. Bottom right they're drilling the
030holes in the staff parking lot. Top right we're doing extensive u heating, air conditioning, ventilation work and roofing work. So that's the G building. Um and these photos are all from this morning. Next slide. Uh same thing at Calabasas. Both campuses, many of our campuses are um under heavy construction this summer, which is why we had to limit some of the activities that we could typically sponsor. This will probably, I think, be our heaviest summer of activity. Uh so, um this is all heating and air conditioning work. So, we did great work on the first floor of the H building at Calabas, the 16 classrooms, and now the more challenging piece is the second floor. And so, these are photos from inside the hallway on the left and bottom right hand side. It looks like
031a bunch of um debris. It's actually the ventilation ducting system that has to go into the roof first. So you see a bunch of the tubing and a bunch of the units there and the insulation on the on the um left hand side. Uh so they are uh we started this work gosh three or four months ago. We moved several classrooms in the second floor of the H built it so we can get it done and it's ready for students. And then on the right hand side just above the coyote clock you can see um the uh construction folks are redoing that roof in the main admin building uh at Calabasas as well. Next slide. Here's the solar of course and again many of the parking lots on our high school campuses. Vast majority of
032them are fenced off because of this work. So if you drive by you'll see it. Bottom right hand side was a picture from last week where they had laid down the steel casings for the pillars. You can see there's nothing gone up there in the bottom right hand side. And just today the pictures on the lefth hand side you see the steel uh in front of the pack bottom left um steel support beams and then in front of the main admin building steel support beams uh going in. So super exciting to get all this work done. Electricity rates, we're you know paying about 3 million a year on electricity and those rates are going only one direction only and it's up. So uh we are thrilled to be doing this, thrilled by the community support
033of measure S. We're making great use of these funds. Um and we'll be dramatically reducing our carbon footprint. um essentially reducing it to zero and um saving, you know, hopefully real close to $3 million a year in operating funds once they're all installed and activated. And Southern California Innocence is in the middle of activating our solar right now. I think that's my last slide, Mr. Klein. Yep. That concludes superintendent communication. Thank you very much, Mr. Lazar. He wanted to just touch on a couple things. Uh most of the events this year I'm going to for my first time and uh attended the AW culmination and CHS graduation. Uh both of which I enjoyed very much. I think I ranked them up there with tribute to educators as my favorite event thus far. Uh and just
034so exciting to see uh the joy and the pride in students faces as they receive their diploma. It's it's it's truly wonderful. I found it a a wonderful day. Um this morning I went to uh Santa Monica for a business meeting and for the first time I drove through to Panga Canyon and went up the PCH which you know opened I think a week or two ago and uh you know obviously a lot of cleaning up has already been done. Uh plants are starting to grow up as well but even that said it was just such a desolate sad landscape. I just found it so heartbreaking to look at um and was, you know, just thinking of all the victims of those fires and so glad that our district has been able to welcome some
035of those families uh and and that we can really do, you know, all we can for the families that were affected by the fires. Wow, what a what a thing to go through. The scale of it is just extraordinary. I mean, it went on for miles and miles and miles, you know. um rel related to the fire. Uh I think many of you know that the city of Calabasas was granted permission by the court or actually the court ordered that the city of Calabasas could test the ash that is coming to the day to the landfill which the county had refused to to test. Uh and I think that's a positive development because uh just as they test we we know if there are safety issues and we can obviously aim to to keep our
036community safe through all of that. Uh beyond that, yeah, I hope everybody has a wonderful summer. Thank you very much. U Mrs. Cut Bill, I will forgo comments tonight. Um Mrs. Mangus, so I want to give a shout out to the culminations and graduations this year. For the first time in a really, really long time, we had really lovely weather, so that made it even that much nicer. Uh usually it's very hot on those days. Um and then um I was over by White Oak um earlier this week and I saw people on the roof there. So there's uh pro in addition to the slides that Dr. Stefenki shared, there's uh roofing construction going on at even more school sites. So and I hope everybody has a fantastic and restful summer. Thank you very much,
037Mr. Lawrence. I will forgot my comments today. Thank you. I have a couple things to say. First of all, like Mr. Lazar and everyone we attended. I attended um AC style culmination which was just beautiful and warm, wonderful speeches. Um congratulations to everyone culminating at AC Stell. And I attended the Agora High graduation where they had a special surprise of a flyover. Um but it was also wonderful and warm and not just temperature just lovely, lovely, lovely. And a shout out to Mrs. Cutville who who always gives the most heartfelt meaningful speeches and thank you. Um, and I actually had an opportunity to do we have a slide? Okay. I had an opportunity to um tour the Mana facility of Mana of Kaneo Valley in Thousand Oaks um with Mayor Penny Sylvester and Mana board
038member uh Nicole Cretcher and executive director Anthony Linuato. And I learned which actually I didn't even know there was Mana in Thousand Oaks. Um but I learned that they serve all of our cities. So between Agora, Agora Hills, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, um and Westlake Village, there's over 1,300 people that are food insecure and that they provide food. So they're trying to get the word out. Um I know Mayor Sylvester is going to add them to their agenda for the COG, which is five cities. They also do Malibu as well. Um and trying to get the word out, spread spread the word. But it is an amazing facility. Um, and I also had an opportunity to attend the celebration of life for former school board member who passed away, Judy Jordan. Judy Jordan served um with
039with dignity and love this school district and she passed away. Okay. She was also involved in the Calabasas historical society and she was instrumental in having the Ae bell uh designated as a historical site for the city of of Calabasas. So that's it for me. Next we have um hearing from delegations not on the agenda. We have no one here for that. So at this point I'm going to ask for a motion to approve consent agenda A. I move to approve consent A. Do I have a second? A second. Any questions on any of the items? Hearing none, I will call for the vote. All those in favor? I I. That passes 5. And at this point, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve consent B. I'll move to approve consent B. Thank
040you. May I have a second? A second. Thank you. All those in favor? I I I Okay, thank you. Okay. Um and at this point, we are on to our action items and the first one up is the local control and accountability plan. Dr. Stephanowski. Miss Fox. Last agenda item. Miss Faulk. Madame Vice President, members of the board, uh at the last board meeting, we had the public hearing for the uh 2526 LCAP. Um the action item before you is the final version of the LCAP. Uh LEO gave us final approval two days ago. And so, as you know, uh, this continues to focus on improving academic outcomes, which we've talked about today, expanding mental health supports, increasing parent engagement, and the LCAP being approved tonight includes some minor revisions to the one that was
041presented at at the public hearing, but nothing substantial or substantive. Thank you very much. May I have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Thank you very much. Uh, any comments, questions? Just to say I was, you know, on the ELCAP committee and was very impressed by the whole process. I love the way there's, you know, thorough discussion from teachers to staff to parents to administrators. Uh, I really think it's an excellent process and a and a very good document. Thank you very much. Um, no other questions or comments. I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I I Okay, that passes 5-0. Next is approval of the budget, adoption of the budget for 2526. Dr. Stepp Mad Vice President, members of the board, I'm so excited I jumped. I apologize.
042Um the uh adopted budget was presented at the along with the LCAP in the public hearing at the prior board meeting. Um nothing has uh changed with the exception of um Leo asked me to add commas and dollar signs um to all the fields. That is not a joke unfortunately. And so it's fully committed, fully dollar signed and fully ready for approval. Um they're bureaucrats. Sorry. Terrific. Uh may I have a motion to approve? I move we approve. I'll second. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions? Okay, I have one. Uh, Dr. Gleason, has the state approved its budget yet? State has not approved its budget yet. However, it appears that there's a deal between the legislature and the governor's office uh to where uh the insiders up at the state have felt comfortable
043releasing those details. Okay. Um I I just wanted to make one comment actually which I forgot to make at the last board meeting because I was jetlagged. Uh but just I noticed in uh you you really had some some positive developments in reducing expenditures and particularly in consolidating legal fees um uh reducing consulting fees to some degree and uh just I can see a lot of thought was put into all of that and I just I think it's very very positive because I know we have a lot of headwinds when it comes to state budgeting and so on. So, and the next step for uh us and you is the 45day revis. You'll bring us back a budget with any changes. So, that'll be the state budget and any expenditures or things, you know, um
044revenue expenditure changes, right? Yes. If there's any major changes to our assumptions, we would do a 45day revise. not required by uh AB1200 to do unless we uh foresee a major shift in our three-year projections. With what's in this budget, it's been a pretty predictable budget in terms of um there's not a lot of unique um additional elements that we could plan on. So, I don't foresee a 45day revise, but a lot will depend on negotiations this summer. un audited actuals will come out later this fall and that uh is the next planned formal presentation. It goes without saying and I just want to make sure um my team is has is new is growing. I'm so proud of them and um the 180 pages is really um their work of a lot of um
045detail with a lot of new regulations. So just want to give them a shout out and please share with them our appreciation as a whole board. We really appreciate the time and effort and and thought and detail that goes into this. So, thank you very much. Second. With that, I will call for the vote. All those in favor? I. Mr. Lawrence, did we lose him? He's muted. Mr. Lawrence, you're muted. Mr. Lawrence. Dallas, where are you? You're muted. Let's give him another minute. Should I text him? No. No. Have we gone to the um Okay. Okay. 4 passes. 4. That's okay. And um next item is authoring authorizing design for approval of summer construction projects and change orders. Dr. Stepp Dr. Gleason has the next three items. Madam Vice President, members of the board, uh
046as has been shared, we uh have significant summer projects in place for our series A, series Bonds in terms of roofing and solar and HVAC and more. Um, and given that we do not have another board meeting until August, um, what has been our practice, uh, since last summer has been to ask for the board for authorization for Dr. Steppp or myself to sign change orders or approved bids in the absence of those board meetings. Um, of course, we take that responsibility. uh if if the board approves as designated of the board very seriously uh if there are unique anomalies we would uh call a special um and certainly the board would approve uh ultimately all the expenditures via purchase orders. Is there a limit to that? I forgot. Is there a limit? Uh certainly
047not as agendaized but the board certainly could set a limit. Change order would be beyond 10% already. So depends on the nature and scope of the project. Do you anticipate any? Absolutely. Um you know whenever like a great example um if you drive by Agora right now and you'll see all the roofing um coming off and when we see the roofing coming off we find where the holes are and um you know we find dry rot we find other elements that then require us to intervene. So um another great example is what we put Calabasas solar in. we hit a water mane and had to reroute and redesign. So those sorts of things happen and they, you know, for the spirit of continuing work on the day-to-day basis, it's very very hard for our team
048within 45 days of summer to get all these projects completed um without having um this um approval in place. I feel like we do this every year. This is pretty standard, right? Yes, we Yeah, we do. And years like this where we have significant construction. May I have a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. Thank you. May I have a second? Second. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I I. All those opposed? Dallas, are you there? I said I Oh, you did. Okay. Thank you very much. That passes 5-0. Okay. The next item is approval of resolution 2824 authoring authorizing 180day wait period exception. Dr. Gleason. Madam vice president, members of the board, uh we have been searching for a
049director of maintenance and operation in facilities. We've gone out for I believe three rounds. We've looked at over 150 applications and no one uh can has uh emerged that could fill the sho unique shoes of Julie Abbott to date. Um and this really follows kind of a statewide trend as the regulatory nature of California becomes more and more sophisticated. um individuals very tactical. Thank you. Uh it is harder to find classified management with that level of expertise. So the recommendation of uh staff tonight is for us to um pass a resolution that bypasses Kalpers's 180day waiting period after Miss Abbott's retirement which was I believe on June 13th so that she can continue work throughout um this summer and into the fall. Say no more. Motion to approve. Yes. Second. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay.
050May I have a motion, please? Thank you. May I have a second? Second. Okay. Uh question. Um so when when will you go out and post this? Is this a continual posting for this position? Yes. The law requires us to continue to advertise and post. Uh essentially, Miss Abbott would be hired as a retired annuitant as the director of M. she can only work up to 100 equivalent days. So, this is not um this is not a long-term solution. Uh however, we have uh strong internal candidates or I should say a strong internal staff that can learn a lot. Uh Miss Abbott's role will be coaching, mentoring, and growth to support our internal development um as we um wait for a unicorn and plan for the absence of such. Thank you very much. Any other
051questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. He said okay. Passes 5-0. Yeah. The next item is the impact fees, development fees. Dr. Gleason, madam, vice president, members of the board, me again. Uh we are working on uh we're bringing forward to the board tonight uh our developer fee study. We have as we have grown in enrollment. Uh we have been working with legal to analyze our construction projects in accordance with Senate Bill 987 and uh legal and the consultant firm that we have utilized has determined that we are eligible to increase our developer fees which are the fees on new development in our region to the maximum allowable by the state allocation board. uh in working with legal uh they also suggested that in this
052resolution uh which is new. So it's been common to bring to the board of education in the past a developer fee study where we adjust our fees based on growth in the area. What is new in this resolution is the ability for us when the state allocation board increases their rates uh every two years for those rates if higher to automatically go into place um so that we don't need to do another five-year study for that to end up happening. So those two elements are embedded within the resolution. This resolution is significant. Uh we anticipate that uh we have over 2,000 units of construction going into our area that'll have an impact on the school. The goal of these fees is to ensure that impacts of of development have corresponding capital that goes to the
053school district to serve the additional students. Um and so the maximum uh developer fees allow for us to have the best facilities for new enrollment. Thank you very much. May I have a motion to approve? I'll move to approve. May have a second. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions? Um, you know, I just I noticed reading the report that um per per student uh of or or per unit of new enrollment, the cost per square foot to us is works up to like $14, but the maximum we can claim from the state is like $5.17, which always a pleasure doing business with this state. Okay. It just it struck me as very unfair. There's like nothing we can do about that, right? And again, and I think the challenge of community impact fees
054is that in most parts of the state there's this is the statute in most parts of the state there's declining enrollment. And so usually uh to be able in this day and age to have the maximum allowable rate means that you can you have proven that you can um sustain or grow enrollment to justify the fees. And this these new rates will go into effect um increase in 60 days from today's vote. Correct. Correct. And I think it's worth noting, Madam Vice President, if you don't mind that uh we have posted uh a public hearing in accordance with the law uh for anyone to come tonight to offer comment. Um does not appear anyone is here to offer comment. Um and uh therefore we've checked that box on the statute. Thank you. And it authorizes,
055like you said, future automatic increases based on inflation. So, how often would that would would they increase that? Would our fees be increased? Uh, the state allocation board in the absence of a a new developer fee study, the state allocation board increases them every two years. So, it's on the on a every two-year basis, we'd be able to adjust based on the inflation. Terrific. So, that's uh noted somewhere that we can uh increase them in two years. We have a we have an annual calendar that is uh very very long of things we check to make sure that we are um um bringing forward. Uh undoubtedly we would um you know bring at least two committees um if not the full board in a budget presentation if we did increase fees in accordance with that
056resolution. This will not bypass our need to continue to have developer fee studies presented annually as well as uh fiveyear or the five-year reports as well as um you know to adjust our fees if enrollment some reason goes in the opposite direction. And how do resident residents and um commercial developers uh get notified of our increases? They get notified when um the permitting agencies that are cities say you need to go to the school district and pay them the developer fees and get a signed off certificate before we will um issue a permit. We um we had a developer in Agora uh bring a substantial check today and we appreciate it. Terrific. Is that for the Regency Theater development? I know. Uh yes, it is. Uh yeah, it was8 $850,000. Terrific. And that goes that
057goes it does not go into the general fund. Correct. That goes into goes into fund 251 which we established at the last uh board meeting. Um but it helps uh expand our ability to do capital um outlay and and improvement projects. So similar to if we didn't have a bond, this is where you would access for that expansion. So, this um provides additional layers of support beyond the bond. Terrific. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I I Do we have a We have a Did we have a motion? Okay. Okay. Okay. Passes 5-0. Thank you very much. The next one is the um what is the next one? Declaration of fully qualified educators. Dr. Mr. President, Madam Vice President, uh the
058school district makes every reasonable effort to hire fully credentialed teachers for all positions. Uh the state does allow for the option to retain the services of partially credentialed teachers and hard to fill positions. In order to utilize this option, the CTC requires that in public session, uh the board of education approves a declaration of need for qualified educators in which emergency credentials may apply. Uh declaration form is attached to the agenda and will be submitted to the CTC upon the board's approval. Thank you very much. May I have a motion to approve? So moved. You have a second. A second. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor? I I And the last one is the uh Prop 28 district plan for 2426. Dr. Steppson. Madam
059Vice President, members of the board, uh we work of course closely with uh Miss Fox department, Dr. Scott, Mrs. Davenport, uh Mr. Bloom, uh Mr. Chad Bloom, and Mr. um his new counterpart, Mr. David uh Pickard, uh who will be joining the team on the arts integration plan. Uh, Proposition 28 requires for uh, there to be substantial collaboration at the site level to determine uh, what the supplemental arts needs are for the campus and uh, Mr. Bloom uh, in the future Mr. Pickard and of course Mr. Davenport and Miss and Dr. Scott, excuse me, uh, both uh, all work together with the sites. This plan is really a compliance piece. Um, you you don't see this is not a strategic plan. This is a plan that reports the allocations, the general expenditures, the enrollment, and
060the projected entitlement for the upcoming fiscal year. Uh, as I read the audit guidelines, they're not clear uh as to um how uh this needs to be presented each uh year. So, I'm bringing this in an abundance of caution to ensure that we have it noted in this fiscal year that this report was reported to the board. Uh we did the same thing last year in spring. So I'm just mirroring that process. And so it's all supplemental basically, right? Yes. Prop 28 is intended to supplement, not supplant. It should supplement what was the core program in uh the uh budget year prior to Prop 28 being implemented. 80% of the funds have to be spent on personnel. 20% need to be spent on um uh 20% cap on infrastructure and a 1% cap on administrative
061fees. And with that, may I have a motion to approve? I move to approve. Thank you very much. Any questions or comments? Additional. I have a question. Okay. We have a new elementary music program starting this fall. Can um uh Miss Davenport, can you speak to training for teachers so when when school starts, they hit the ground running and they're on the same page basically? Yeah, it's happy to. That's um definitely on our minds and uh Mr. Bloom is putting in place the professional development that will make sure that we're presenting a unified program. Um he's got a couple of different um providers in particular who are trained in the Kadai method of uh musical instruction uh for students. So we're excited to see um him get our team of elementary vocal music teachers together
062uh either during the summer or just prior to um to school starting. But there's already been quite a bit of conversation around um providing them the resources they need to start um preparing themselves over the summer. And they have the materials. They'll have the materials to start. They do. We've got a a curriculum that we've um we've looked at and they're selecting different se um musical pieces that they'd like to to uh coordinate with each other. Um and then the the lessons that are going to go along with them. Okay. Thank you. And will you please keep the board apprised of um the developments with this uh like you said to have a unified elementary music program which is new to LVUSD as far as my uh time here has been. So thank you for
063that. That's wonderful. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Uh I just I have to take every opportunity I can to support music and arts programs and I'm thrilled about the new elementary music program and you know looking back uh music at the elementary schools has been such a patchwork uh and just the fact that we're going to have a curriculum that goes TK through five uh I think it's going to have huge benefits for the music programs actually in middle and high school because they're going to be taking kids that have gone through a substantial music program. I love the emphasis on vocals and there's also a cost benefit there because we don't have to buy instruments for all the kids. Um, and yeah, I just think it's a a wonderful, wonderful program. I'm
064also interested to see if it has bounce off effects on academics actually because, you know, there's such strong data saying that there's this connection between strong music programs and academic success. Uh, so I'm I'm interested to see what it does in that way. Agreed. Thank you very much. May I have a a call for the vote? All those in favor? I thank you. And with that, we adjourn the meeting. Everybody have a wonderful summer. Thank you very much. Angie, come back. Thank you very much. Get better, Dallas. Thank you. Thank you guys.