001All right, everyone. Welcome to the June 10th regular schoolboard meeting. Our last schoolboard meeting of the school year. Hard to believe we're we've rounded that corner. That happened quickly. I know. I feel the same way. Uh uh um totally have stayed. Don't have to leave. Uh we we the sound is actually nice nice to hear. We hear a lot of crying from adults, so it's nice to have He's a cult. He's dressed as a round metal cult, is he? Yes, it's a round metal cult. So, it's so normal. You get the job. We're on the fence. And that just pushed it over the top. Um, all right. I'll call We'll do a quick flag salute. I will do the flag salute if we could all rise. Um, put your right hand over your heart. Ready
002to begin. I pledge algiance to the 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. Well, now you know what song to sing that quiet. Pledge allegiance. Went totally silent. Um well um I have a couple things to report out of close session. Uh first item in a close session vote of 5 to0 the board took action to approve a settlement agreement for student number 7054104 arising out of a special education dispute. The settlement agreement has been reached by all the parties. Um second item by unanimous vote of 5 to zero during close session the board approved student expulsion agreement. Uh generally expulsion agreements require a student to enroll in an appropriate educational placement and complete terms of
003a rehabilitation plan prior to board consideration for readmission to the district. And lastly, by unanimous vote of 5 to 0, the board voted to readmit student number 20111529 following an expulsion that began in the fall of 2025. With that, I'll call for approval of the agenda. I move to to approve the agenda. A second. Uh, all those in favor of the agenda? I uh motion passes unanim motion passes unanimously. A motion to approve the minutes, please. I move to approve the minutes from May 13th and June 2nd. Okay. Motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Um all those in favor say I. I. Motion passes unanimously. With that staff board, uh superintendent board communication, Dr. Senowski. Mr. President, two recognitions. If you join me, we'll conduct those. Principal one. And Garen, come on down. Mr.
004President, members of the board, um thrilled to recognize uh Garen Leeck today as a junior at Agora High School. And if you read the acorn, you saw that Garren scored a perfect 36 on the ACT. Wow. Mom also shared in the lobby that he um that Garren also had a perfect on the PSAT as well. Wow. I had to ask a question. So I asked if we're going to go for the trifecta with the SAT and mom said we're stopping while we're ahead. This places Garren in the top quarter of 1%. So 1.37 million students took the test. This places Garren in the top 3,000 of 1.37 million students across the country, across the world. Um, but he not only is he a fantastic test taker, he's a great student as well with 4.38 GPA,
005straight A's through all of high school. Member of the Science Olympiad team, also looking to lead the Science Olympic team next year as a senior. Um, and he's generous with his time and talent. He tutors middle school students, is a peer tutor at Agora High School, has been involved in the wise readers to leaders, an organization that supports young learners um on in his private time, which I don't can can't imagine as much of. Karen competes in chess tournaments and tutors others in chess and loves traveling. Mr. President, any comments? Got a speech that um obviously incredibly proud of what you've done. I hope you're considering Berkeley a little bit north. Uh where were we taking for school? Any ideas? Where are we going? Not yet. No. All right. Uh well, when it's time, let
006us know. Um but uh really proud of all that you've done. Um it is a huge accomplishment for you. I know it's a family. It takes a village to make this happen. So, thank you to the family for all that you've done. We look forward to seeing what what exciting things are going to be. Yeah, I'll just echo uh Garen, we're so proud of you. Um it's been great connecting with you about your academic success and also meeting your wonderful family and your younger siblings. But congratulations and we look forward to see where you go. Um UCLA is a great choice as well. Really? Thank you very much. Next up, um, Miss Mona, come on down. Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, super excited to uh introduce Miss Monica as our next principal for
007Ral Meadow Elementary School. Uh she has been with Los Veres for three years uh as an assistant principal AC still been fantastic there. Uh I had the chance to meet her in the UCLA uh USC uh the third best school or lower um admin program in um uh at USC. As I mentioned, I saw her, thought she was fantastic. Wanted her on the team and reached out and encouraged her to apply CAC and she did and she's been fantastic and we're super excited to have her in this next position. She has nine years of experience as a special education teacher and an AVID teacher as well at William Workman High School. AVID is advancement via individual determination. Uh she formed the vision and developed foundational groundwork for the students in the MTSS program. Uh she
008was a member of the school site council, mentored and coach special education teachers through the induction program, bachelor's in arts from UCLA, go Bruins, masters in arts from secondary education at USC and she does love education, another masters in education and curriculum instruction, emphasis and design based learning and at from Cal State Poly Tech. I feel like I'm going to repeat what I said a second ago. I almost don't feel qualified to be welcoming because I love the fact I always we all look at kind of the backgrounds that people come and I kept reading. Okay, you celebrate it. You see, oh my gosh, brilliant. Calpaly, too. I mean, so I I I appreciate that you're a lifelong learner. We all do. We appreciate that you're bringing just the passion you brought to the job
009that you currently have. We're so thrilled to have you uh in a leadership role on our campus. So, I get to pin you. Um so, I'll be placing the pin on your lapel here and on the whole, we're very excited to welcome you and look forward to um just great things from you. So, I'll turn it over to you. I usually don't have a paper, but today I do. Um, President Lawrence, distinguished members of the board, Dr. Steinosowski, and our amazing cabinet. Thank you so much. I want to sincerely thank you for the incredible opportunity to serve as the next principal of Round Meadow Elementary. I am honored and truly excited to take this next step in my journey with LVUSD. My time at AC Stell has been nothing short of amazing. I've had the
010priv privilege of learning under the leadership of Susanna Baird and she said she wouldn't make it tonight because she might boo. So I'd be remiss not to give her a heartfelt shout out. From navigating difficult situations to leading with compassion and humor, even down to how to dress for success. If you know her, you know Susanna has been a tremendous mentor and role model. I also want to take a moment to express my gratitude for this district. Being part of LBUSD means being surrounded by supportive, inspiring colleagues. From the cabinet to my fellow administrators, I've never once felt alone, only lifted up and encouraged. As I prepare to lead Round Meadow, I'm ready to take the reigns and gallop forward alongside the staff, students, and families to continue the school's tradition of excellence. I'd also
011like to thank my incredible family who's here with me today. Um, I have my husband, Andrew, here. Thank you for being willing to do everything from chaperoning Astro Camp to attending the eighth grade dance to my parents. Thank you for instilling in me the belief that one great teacher can change the trajectory of a child's life. And of course, a special nod to our youngest supporter in the room, our little Colt, Kaden Mana. And I believe we actually have a round meta student here. So, you know, all the more special tonight. Thank you again for this opportunity. I'm humbled, grateful, and ready to get to work. So, if the board could join us down here, we'll get a picture with our newest cult and then a picture with Gavin and his family if that's okay.
012Go ahead. Thank you. 9 and a half miles. Thank you so much. something. I just Crystal very well. communication. That was one step. First up, I think is some photos from um math curriculum work. Our team is hard at work. So I think um Miss Davenport and Miss Dr. Scott shared some photos. Two days for the secondary on professional development. Um one day was with the publisher and the new curriculum. Uh and a day with benchmarking and aligning general ed special ed. Um we're all intense for both days. Similar situation with the elementary PD on I Ready. They had six total sessions. U special education academic specialist principles all part of those trainings. There's photos from those. Next slide. Autoshop is alive and well. Uh, Miss Cup Missstein joined us for a little demonstration at
013the auto shop at Agore. It's fantastic. There's a rumor that Mr. Le Pisto when he was a student worked on this very car. It is a gorgeous car. I got a chance to go sit inside of it uh not drive it. Um, it's a kit car uh from the late 80s, early 90s. Um, worth a whole lot of money, but the um shop teacher, Mr. Wright, is fantastic. New addition to the team. He's the program is exploding. They've got uh Willwood Brakes is sponsoring and O'Reilly Auto Parts stepping in and stepping up. Uh class was full. Uh students were dialed in. They were changing uh brake pads while we were there. They've recently got this car to be fully operational driving and then they had a a Porsche. Miss Couples, do you remember the year
014on the Porsche? 97 78 78 78. Wow. And they originally got that one running as well. Yeah. Cool. Miss Katpo, I could see you in a 78 Porsche. It's graduation culmination uh and awards season. So, here's two photos from Agor and Calabasis. These are the superintendent youth um leaders and youth leadership academy students that we recognized at both events were fantastic, well attended. Congratulations, Ral Meadow just turned 60. Uh this drone photo from uh that celebration as well. So, we appreciate them and thanks to students, staff, parents. Uh, enjoy your summer. That photo kind of encapsulates it uh the best. Um, I think Miss Faulk may really be enjoying that summer. That concludes superintendent communication. Mr. Lazar. Uh, yes. So, I've been attending uh quite a lot of interesting events. Uh, I did just want
015to give a shout out to the music program overall for all the fantastic end ofear concerts. Um, I attended one at AHS and one at CHS and I really think the music program is one of the gems of our district and it's uh it's always invigorating to go to these concerts. Really fantastic. Uh, the water district invited me uh to head over there and and take a look around. They gave me a wonderful tour and uh I found it interesting actually that the um boundaries of the water district largely coincide with LBUSD uh also kind of encapsulating the four cities which um I thought was interesting and I wasn't aware of the grants that they give to our district and the level of interaction between uh the water and the school district and thought that
016was all very positive and uh I think there may be room for even more collaboration you know their whole program with native plants and droughtresistant landscaping on all of the school tours that uh Miss Kut and I did. They're bits and pieces of all of the campuses that really need some landscaping done and that could be a a cost-effective way to get it done in some sort of collaboration with the water district. Um I was very impressed as well uh just the efforts they're making to lessen our dependence on water from 400 miles away. Basically all of our water comes from the Sierras and they have this really interesting desalinization program going and pure water program going. One of the things uh I learned uh which I thought might be of interest is we do
017not get any of our water from groundwater and during the whole discussion around the landfill uh there was a lot of concern that uh the the materials at the landfill would leak into the groundwater and in fact we don't get any water from groundwater uh which is certainly positive from a health perspective. Um, which is a good segue into the landfill which we haven't discussed for quite some time uh since we made our resolution. Uh, and you know, just to note, the city of Calabasas is obviously continuing with their uh various actions to try and get it stopped. The LA Times have done a a survey um where they did find toxic materials in all of the ash. Uh, and the county is refusing to uh test uh even though a judge had ordered that
018they needed to. So, I think there's still reason for concern there and we should be keeping it on the radar um you know for the for the long term. Um excuse me if my words start slurring tonight for members of the public watching. Uh I did return to the United States about 3 hours ago from a work trip to Europe. So, the jet lag is slowly starting to to uh I think I covered everything. Oh, just to mention Bay Laurel, we had a wonderful taco celebration courtesy of the district. uh in recognition of the distinguished school status and uh it was it was wonderful to celebrate that achievement for everyone and that's it tell me if I start in my words too much deciding uh thank you what would I like to share first of
019all shout out to the district for a wonderful SDC brunch celebrating our uh PFA and PFC presidents and all they do for our schools that was a wonderful morning I think Mrs. Um, Mangus and I uh virtually attended the school services May Revise workshop. So that was that was interesting, always enlightening. Um, I I also attended the California Distinguished Lunch at Willow. It is so much fun to recognize the excellence of our schools. And Ava Pearlman came to Agora. I know Mr. um, Lazar went and saw her at Calabasa speak. She is a Holocaust survivor. She's written a book and she goes and speaks to um schools to for young people to hear her personal story, her family's story uh during the Holocaust um being in in Europe at that time. And um it was
020riveting. The pack was full, the Agora pack was full of students and you could hear a pin drop. So, you know, even though she is and I believe her upper 80s, early 90s, early 90s, early 90s, she is she holds, you know, young people's attention and she's really quite riveting. I'd like to also give a shout out to the foundation. We attended, many of us attended the event Friday night and it was really excellent. They really did a great job. It was at Calabas's country club outside. It everything was perfect and it was so much fun. And finally, I just This is a bittersweet time of year. a lot of celebrations as our fifth graders uh move up, our eighth graders culminate, and our 12th graders graduate. While the celebrations are wonderful, these are times
021of transition which can be challenging for students and parents. So, just everybody enjoy this time. Thank you to all of our teachers, staff, everybody at our schools, the district office for supporting our schools, and have a nice summer everyone. Miss Couple uh just wanted to piggyback on what Miss Stein said about this being a bittersweet time of year. I was not able to attend the tribute to educators this year and so um looking at the personnel document and reflecting on some of the retirements especially classified um I'm looking at like names there like there's one from YB that I know was there when my kids were there. I mean just the wealth and experience and knowledge that leaves us every year. Um and rightfully as they should go and enjoy their their retirement after years
022of service here. But um makes me a little far-clumped to think about all the personnel, the teachers and classified staff who are leaving us and um but justifiably going on to hopefully great retirements and very deservedly so. Looking forward to graduation and culmination. That's it for me. Miss May. So, as uh Miss Stein mentioned, um we were able to attend the capital advisors May revised workshop uh virtually. And I have to say that's one of the few upsides to the pandemic was that they realized that you could take these meetings and do them via Zoom and not travel and six o'clock arrival at the district office on onto a long day. Um, and I also, it was the end of the, uh, openhouse season and I was able to go to Chapperel, Yerba Buena, Buttercup,
023and White Oak. And it's always so much fun, especially at the elementary level. If you're ever having a bad day, just going to a kindergarten TK class. It's got to lift your spirits. Um, and then, um, as Miss Stein mentioned, uh, the foundations, uh, event this past weekend, um, the weather could not have been nicer. Um the location was really beautiful. I haven't heard any word on um how much of a money maker it was, but it was definitely a community builder. So, and have a great summer everybody. And uh yes, it'll retirements are sad times, but welld deserved. Uh great. Thanks everybody. I'll forgo my comments. Uh, I will say I did uh break down trial a little bit because I went to the um uh probably my the last elementary school event I'll
024go to for a kid, one of my kids. It was the it was such a cute thing. It was the students versus teachers kickball tournament at Sumac. Um and it was just and I what was fun is, you know, for the last five years my son has been waiting to be the fifth grader because all the kids come watch it. And last year my daughter had waited to be the fifth grader so she got to to do it. So, it was um it just was a reminder of all the special things we do throughout our district. No, not with it boot on. No. Uh um but uh it was great and I echo everyone's comments thanking everyone for another great year. Uh with that, we'll move to consent A. I move to approve consent A.
025I'll second. Motion second. Any questions? I don't have a Yeah, just a couple of questions. Uh Dr. Leon, do you mind just giving a little more detail on the amendments to the Loopin Hill uh contract uh for the HVAC and just the CHS and AHS solar uh uh what what happened there? Sure thing. Let me pull up the loopin uh one right now. So, you're talking about the um you're talking about the HVAC piece. Yeah, the HVAC. Okay, cool. So at at Agora and Calabasas High they we had um we had to uh we had change orders in place for a couple reasons. One uh as we went through the design process at Calabasas High we found that we needed to uh have greater distance for emergency vehicles through our solar arrays. At Agora High
026School we um we had a a drainage easement that was found to be in the solar arrays. Therefore, there's the change order there. In terms of loopin for 196, I have to take a deeper look real quick. Um, I would have to if I could have a moment to just take a look, I'll get back to you on the Yeah, no problem. What item was that? Which item number is that one? Uh, number six. Number six. Can I have a motion to approve uh consent A holding on item number six and we'll come back to it. So moved. I'll second. All those in favor? I I Great. Uh consent B. I'll move to approve consent B. I'll second. There's a motion, a second. All those in favor of consent B? I I I. Great. Uh
027uh uh Mr. Gleason, you just tell me when you're ready. We're going to keep moving ahead and we'll come back to you when you're ready. Okay. Appreciate it. Um uh action items. Action item number one, approval resolution 2324 declaring compliance with the requirements for extended day kindergarten pursuant to education code 8973. Miss Faulk. Firewatch. I know that. Mr. President, members of the board, um, tonight before you is approval of resolution 2324 declaring compliance with the requirements of extended day kindergarten pursuant to ED code section 8973. And this requires a formal declaration by the board that the extended day kindergarten and TK program does not extend the length of the primary grades 1 through three school day and confirmation that the program offers ample opportunity for both active and quiet activities in an integrated experential and
028developmentally appropriate manner. This is required because ed code requires TK to be no more than four hours unless we provide through the board this declaration. Seems straightforward. Is there a motion? I move to approve um resolution 23-24. There a second. A second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I I motion passes unanimously. Uh item number two, approval resolution 2420. Ready? Uh let's return to uh consent a item number six. Mr. Wson. Yes. So Loopin Hill, we have a couple things going on up there. We have increased enrollment. So, we're actually building uh two portables, bringing two portables up there. Um, but the coordination, but this is more related to the coordination of the HVAC and roofing projects as we pace them out because as we're doing two rooms at a time, we needed
029to go back through DSA, make sure that uh that new pacing schedule um was uh aligned. So, okay. Thank you. I have a motion to approve consent item six. Move to approve. Second it. There's a motion and a second. All those in favor? I I Motion passes unanimously. Brings us back to action item number two, approval of resolution 2424 declaring salaries indefinite to authorize retroactive pay changes. Dr. Gleason. Mr. President, members of the board, this is an annual resolution required by the LA County Office of Education as a precondition for us to enter into negotiations. This uh declares that our salaries are the salaries of LBSD staff are indefinite. So that Dr. Mr. Ciphers and Mrs. Chambers can uh negotiate with our bargaining units. We have a couple of these coming up that are standard
030every several of these are standard. Mr. State, is there any what kind of motion first? Uh so moved approval of resolution 24-1. I'll second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? I I motion passes. Uh number three, item 20, uh approval of resolution 2524, education protection account for fiscal years 2425 and 2526. Dr. Gleason, President, members of the board, this is a fun one, a two for one in one year. So the education protection account was put into place in 2014 as a sales tax uh portion of sales tax going to support education. This is an annual resolution for for us to declare that the uh 1.9 million that we received did not go to administrator salaries or administrator uh benefits. Um and it's pretty simple. We have $150 million of expenditures. $1.9 million
031coming here and we do not have uh $148 million of administrative expenditures. You don't make that kind of money that Yes. Okay. Um is there a motion to approve? So move. I'll second. There's a motion, a second. All those in favor of resolution 2524. I I motion passes. Approval of resolution 2624, authorization of establishment of fund 25 and 25.1 to comply with SB 937. I'm guessing where this is going to go. Dr. Gle twist. U Mr. President, members of the board, uh there is a new Senate Bill 937 that we have discussed uh with respect to the collection of developer fees. developer fees. The SP937 um is being debated across the state as to how it um uh relates to school districts and as we interface with developers. Um and one interpretation from uh developers
032is that they don't have to pay developer fees until the time for occupancy which puts districts in a hard position. To be proactive and to declare our differential understanding of the law, the board has uh adopted a resolution at a prior meeting. But to comply with the intent of the act, we need to have a developer fee fund that pays out our capital uh repair and improvement projects and then a separate fund that uh replenishes that subfund when uh it becomes depleted. And so this mechanism was recommended by legal and is part of our um process of interpreting this new legislation. Great. Um, and we appreciate our cities for helping us enforce this as well as being they could have taken one of two tax and they've been very supportive of helping us with our
033interpretation of this and helping us to collect the funds ahead of time. So, I appreciate your coordination with them on that. Um, is there a motion to approve the resolution? I'll move to approve the resolution. I'll second. Motion a second. All those in favor? I I motion passes unanimously. Approval of submission of consolidated categorical aid programs for 2526. Mr. President, members of the board, this is on the Mount Rushmore of annual agenda items in June. The consolidated application for categorical programs is a federal uh program. You we uh we refer to them as title one, title two, title three, and title four. In order to submit the application, we bring forward to the board a request to submit uh to the federal government for those funds. We net about $1 million. Uh and of course
034we will talk in the budget presentation about how those might be influenced by um the uh current uh direction of the federal administration. But um recommendation is for us to be able to access these funds that help support um high need students as well as professional development. Great. Is there a motion to approve? I'll move to approve. I'll second. I have a quick question. Are you confident we're going to get this money? Uh don't want to spoil slide 37 of my budget presentation. Okay. Uh but uh yes, I believe uh right now the uh the big beautiful bill that the Trump administration is pushing forward has title one and special ed retained in fact increasing sp federal sped funding but has a consolidation of title 2, three and four funding uh into a single more
035flexible smaller grant. So, uh, if that bill does pass through Congress, we would see, uh, $250,000 of Title 2, three, and four money for, uh, supporting English learners, for supporting professional development, or supporting the arts come through potentially in a much smaller consolidated grant. Yeah. Is there a motion to approve? I'll move to approve. Or do we have one already? Maybe. Do we already made one? Yes. Okay. There's a motion. She had a question. Okay. Great. So, all those in favor? I I motion passes unanimously. What? We moved and second before. Who? I seconded. Yeah, no worries. Sorry, that wasn't um approval of amendment to measure G and S bylaws. Dr. Gian, anybody else work there? Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, uh we have discussed uh we are very uh grateful for the
036investment of our community into our Measure G and now our Measure S uh projects. When uh we originally adopted the bylaws, we did not clarify that uh to serve on the citizens oversight committee, you need to be a resident that is paying taxes that support our measure S initiative. Uh, of course we uh are very happy to have families that live in and also outside of the district. But for this important oversight, it was recommended by our facilities committee to uh amend the bylaws to ensure that a member of the citizens oversight committee is a resident paying taxes that uh they voted on for measure S. It's a very good addition. I'm glad we didn't make total sense. Miss Steph and I sit on facilities and this came to our attention as um and part
037of our discussion under facilities and we decided that it would be important with with Dr. Gleason and Dr. Ste to include this. Good call. Thank you. All those in favor I have a motion to approve. I move to approve. I'll second. Uh motion and a second. Angie can dealer's choice pick who you want on that one. Uh uh all those in favor? I I motion passes unanimously. Um, item number seven, report and public hearing 2025 2026 LCAP plan. I'd like to have a motion to open the public hearing, please. I'll move to open the public hearing. I'll second. There's a motion, a second. All those in favor of opening the public hearing, I I motion passes unanimously. Not seeing anybody here to speak on the public hearing. I would love to have a motion to
038close the public hearing. So moved. Second. There's a motion and a second to close the public hearing. All those in favor? I I motion passes unanimously. Item number eight, report and public hearing 2025 2026 budget adoption. Can we Oh, it says a public hearing again. My bad. But that one's actually the report. Mr. President, um and of course we'll go with the pleasure of the board. During the public hearing is when we normally make the LCAP and the budget presentation. Um happy to do that on the 24th if you'd prefer. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we just had to open the hearing and then close it. It's It's very confusing. Yeah. Uh but in the past we've done it in the first June meeting. Okay, that's fine. No, I But usually I thought it would
039be we open the public hearing, we close the public hearing, and then we vote on the LCAP plan. Is that not what we're doing here? So, it has to be in two separate meetings. You have to have a public hearing in the first meeting and then adopt it in the second meeting. So, um you would open and close order of operations and then Miss Valk would present uh the ELCAP and then followed by the budget. Do you guys have a preference for voting next in two weeks? Could you rather have the presentation tonight or in two weeks when we vote on it? Say, let's have the present. Let's just back up a minute and have the presentation tonight because they're prepared for it. Okay, I agree. Great. Alan, stay awake. Do my best. Actually, I
040got to tell you, the budget kept me awake. No, I spent three hours of playing reading the budget and it was great. So, my apologies. So, you want to go back and then cover the LCAP then? Doing the LCAP then. Yeah. Okay. Oh, thank We're ready. Go back to the LCAP. Correct. Yes. You ready, Mr. Lawrence? Yeah. Fire away. Uh, Mr. President, members of the board, tonight I present the LWSD local control and accountability plan, the LCAP. It must be updated annually to meet the California Department of Ed regulations. And state regulations require a public hearing of the proposed LCAP. Copies of the proposed LCAP, which is our 2526 LCAP, are available at the district office and on the district's website. In addition, the draft plan is attached to the board agenda along with a
041data summary and the statutory dashboard summaries. Um, keeping in mind that there may be some minor changes to this uh depending on uh further information from LEO who has preliminarily approved this draft. So again, I covered that um covered the background. Um this is our revised three-year plan. This is the first year of our three-year plan and which we're reporting out of. The goals were set last year. Um we had input on revisions and updates to the LCAP from parents, teachers, bargaining units, and community members through our LCAP committee. And I believe uh Mr. Lazar was on that committee. Um, and by aligning our actions with our stakeholder input, the LCAP continues to reflect the shared vision for student success. And here's some of our areas of growth this year. our A throughG completion rate,
042our CASP ELA and math ELA and math scores, our AP exam pass rate, our IB exam pass rate, the percent of students completing CTE pathway, the percent of students completing A throughG and CTE pathway, the number of students identified as long-term English learners, and that reduction is a very good number there. um the suspension rates for um English learners, lowincome and foster youth, and you can see our foster youth is down to 0%. Um chronic absenteeism for EL and uh um lowincome students, our EL progress in terms of uh proficiency, our recid our recidivism rate for sus suspensionbased referrals to wellness center and our CASP science scores all showed improvement from last year. Um areas we continue to target for improvement are high school graduation rate, our third grade students reading at grade level and
043our students with disability graduation rate. These are areas that we did make did not make the expected progress that we had anticipated. But keeping in mind this is one year of three years. So we would not be expected to meet these goals until the end of three years. And we did meet all of our budget expenditures and goals identified in the LCAP, which means what we budgeted for, we spent. And again, this reflects our shared commitment to equity, student achievement, and strategic use of resources. And the next steps are once the once approved, the district, which will be at the next board meeting, the district approves the district submits the approved plan to LEO, who puts it on their website. We publish it on our website. And then of course ED services and the whole
044team will continue monitoring progress and making datainformed adjustments throughout the 2526 school year. So I'm happy to answer any questions. I I just want to say this is like my favorite ELCAP presentation I've ever seen because the data is so clearly presented. Yes. Here's what we moved the need. I'll wait till Dr. I step comes back in because I want to say it again. Uh this is my favorite LCAT presentation I've seen since I've been at the district. the deck is clear. We're I we're targeting in what we said we're going to measure. We're showing areas we improved. We're being transparent about areas we did not improve in like this. And it and it didn't take the board having to take out a magnifying glass to figure it out with spreadsheets. So, thank you for
045the clarity and transparency. I really appreciate it. Thank you. For that, we're going to renew your contract. I I just have one question. um because I I don't remember but and I think you said it in your presentation um we we have our LCAP meetings and and meet with all the people involved and then we we do send it to LEO and they tell us if they like it or not and make it tweaks to it before it's presented or did that happen after? No. So that's we I'm proud to say we were the first district to submit our LCAP to LEO. So um we we started early our team um so yes they will look at it to make sure that the goals that we set we're reporting on those goals and more specifically
046in the format that they want and quite honestly when we get things back from them that's revising format not content because the data is the data but yes you are correct. Thank you. Any other comments? No. Um now Andre I just wanted to comment that the the meetings themselves uh I thought were really excellent. Uh you know the there were so many different parties represented. I mean there was teachers, there was administrators, there were uh parents, there were community members. Uh the way it was broken down into subgroups and and folks really took seriously just digging into the data. Um, so I I was a member last year before I got elected and then this year as a as a board member and I I've really enjoyed them and I think it's a very productive
047process and uh like Mr. Lawrence, I just I love the fact it's it's very specific and and data heavy uh this this this presentation it's really zoning in using the data to zone in on on areas that need improvement. So just very positive. Thank you. Right, we'll move to the next item which I'm sure will be equally as concise, only take three slides and be very clear. Right. Pretty clear, right? Um, report public hearing at 2526 budget adoption. Can I have a motion to open the public hearing? I'll move to open the public hearing. I'll second. Motion a second. Uh, all those in favor? I I motion passes unanimously. Nobody here talk about the budget. Great. I'll make a motion to Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. Okay. Got it. Got Dr. I
048swear it was different before. Mr. President, members of the board, I did not prepare a concise presentation tonight. Um, want to make sure Mr. Lazar uh try and keep him awake with the 30 slides we have. I will though uh I do know um as been said many times, the board is regularly engaged in finance. We update uh the whole board and community four times a year and certainly throughout all the interim uh reporting. So, I'll share some of the updates from the May revise, but we are still what's fascinating in California is we you as a governing board are expected to adopt a budget before the state has adopted theirs. Uh, and so that puts us in a very unique position, especially as the legislative analyst office and the governor um have some differing
049viewpoints. There's nothing new that you've received from the state since our finance committee. Correct. I did. Yes. Um, the LA Oh, wait. Oh, wait. I was curious. Yeah, the LAO has weighed in on the governor's assumptions. Okay, that's okay. Great. Um, so, uh, you know, these are, uh, credit school services of California, some of their slides. Um, and I'll just talk about the highlights, but, uh, essentially the projections in the May revise are not as positive as they were in January. Uh, we can expect this in California for a number of reasons. Uh, the economy has been impacted by the fires. Certainly the broader economy is uh more in question uh from the um federal and state politics and uh we are in a state with uh some of the highest unemployment that was not
050helped by the um uh the Palisades fire and uh those other ones in Southern California. So uh you'll see a rainy day slide here. 4.6 billion dollars have been lost since I presented in January. the assumptions um over the course of three years. This has been the most one of the most challenging things over the last two years is that uh there were more optimistic assumptions for cola in the last two years that we started the fiscal year with and especially last fiscal year with a 75% reduction in cola. That was a big pivot um for districts. Um in terms of income taxes, certainly have an analysis of those slides. Of course, the big three in California make up our Prop 98 guarantee, personal income, capital gains, and sales tax. Um, but this does create
051volatility because the top 1% of income earners pay over 55% of that tax base that funds districts like ours. Uh, so the most controversial part of the budget, um, and, uh, to Mr. Lawrence's question is this strategy that uh Governor Nuome used last year and is again using this year and there are legal questions as to the constitutionality of it. So the state uh passed when Prop 98 was passed, Prop 98 was supposed to has three tests which I don't won't go into deeper detail on, but uh that sets the funding parameters as a minimum floor or threshold for Prop 98 for TK12 education. The governor is looking out and the legislative analyst office has affirmed this strategy, which I think is a problematic precedent to underfund Prop 98. um by uh 1.6 billion and
052which is the equivalent of $214 per student about 2.1 million for LBUSD. The thought there you know you could look at it glass half empty or glass half full glass half empty it's problematic to underfund the statemandated constitutional guarantee glass half full uh when you see a very um pessimistic economic projection if they give us that 1.6 6 billion. They will take it back when they rebench Prop 98 if their assumptions are true. So, in some ways, this um doesn't give us anything that we might not get until we have earned it, but it does set a precedent from uh the office of the governor. Uh mentioned in the consolidated app um agenda item that right now federal funding is being restructured and uh the Trump administration. Um it appears that title one funding and
053sp federal sped funding will be maintained under the current legislative bill. In fact federal sped funding will increase slightly but title two which funds professional development, title three which funds English learner support and immigrant support and title four which supports safety and arts. The proposal from u the department of ed is to consolidate all those restricted categorical programs into a more locally flexible program. uh but funding it at a much lower level. So um Dr. Gleason, does that u you know looking at the budget I noticed there's a drop from 2425 of like 3.7 million from federal sources to I think 3.6 million in this year's budget. Is that basically what that is reflecting? So it's based on the assumption that this will be passed into law and it it will result in about a
054$100,000 drop in our district. Right. Uh that's it's a very uh thank you for uh that level of detail. um reading through um it's actually not the um it's not that I didn't put that assumption in because this is not into law. It's more that a lot of the federal programs are adjusted for ADA and I have an enrollment decline built into the budget. Oh, I see. Good. Thank you. Yeah. So, are you saying that there may be a greater federal drop then if this bill becomes law? If this bill becomes law, it means that $250,000. So, not a substantial amount of money, but not a nuclear sum of money will now be in question as to if we'll receive it. Uh, as an example, title two as a whole is a $2 billion federal
055program. Um, and the Trump administration under the Department of Ed is cons uh the recommendation is to consolidate about 15 other programs such as title 2, three, four, and other grants into an overall $2 billion flexible package. So, the package is going to be a lot smaller. So, we'll It doesn't appear that we would receive zero if that bill moves through. It also does not uh see I don't see any likelihood of keeping a quarter million dollars. I'm encouraged though that Title One and federal sped funding are uh retained. That would be really problematic to lose. Yeah. Thank you. Uh in the May revision, the governor proposed um because they un underfunded Prop 98 last year and we need to uh they need to rebench that a one-time they call student support professional development discretionary
056block grant. Um Governor Nuome likes to uh has uh had that's been a practice to have these fancy named block grants that are really entirely discretionary. They can be used for any purpose of across the state. The belief is that this block grant is in place to help districts with cash flow. Cash flow will be a challenge for districts uh across the state. Um as uh all the COVID money has left the coffers and um you have uh you know property tax revenues coming in at different times. Historically, we have had um as we look over the last 10 years, we have had cash flow um periods where cash flow was an issue and we've had to do inter fund borrowing. Um right now, I do not have any projection for 2526 needing that um
057because of our uh reserve position. Uh but to Mr. Lawrence's earlier question, the LAO came out today and said instead of 1.7 billion, I shouldn't say today, in the last couple days, instead of 1.7 billion, let's only fund this at 500 million. So, you're talking about just right there if that moves forward uh $2 million of this one-time money. That would have been really nice to have. Some say the LAO is uh creating a negotiating position with the governor's office and this is why we have to wait till June. Didn't build any of this into the budget because we don't know where to land. Uh transitional kindergarten. This is a very important adjustment. The uh the proposal is to fund the 10 student to one adult ratio. It has been 12 students to one adult.
058Uh going to 10 to one of course means we need more adults uh for our students. And uh the governor has a add-on for this 10 to1 adjustment. That would mean about $800,000 for LVUSD. The governor and that 5,500 per child is in addition to what we receive for each student uh per per student anyway, right? Uh correct. Those are all um age grades span adjustments. Good question. Uh learning recovery emergency block grant. This was underfunded in the prior uh couple fiscal years. The um uh budget uh uh right now is set to restore the funding that was cut from this block grant of which we had till 2028 to spend. That's a half million dollars. So if you're watching this presentation right now, you're saying, "No, there's some good news out there. There are
059some tools that we're getting in this budget uh depending." And then there's some really interesting things. The workforce, California workforce shortage is real in terms of educators. So, a creative idea is to offer a $10,000 stipend and I believe the LAO upped to 20,000 for student teachers. Um, so to incentivize um teachers to go to school, this will be a real challenge. uh a strategy that's used by uh the state is sometimes to show a lower expenditure in a given fiscal year is to not to pay the final June aortionment until July of the following fiscal year to um demonstrate that your expenditures were one month lower. That is what the governor is projecting which means uh we will need to make payroll and payables as we close the books without that June aortionment. And
060that's where districts that have low reserves. Um, this is why having a fund 17 is helpful. This is why having 10% reserve is helpful. Um, because we don't have budget problems. Sometimes we have cash problems. So, so the reserve will be used to cover that cash flow should you right. Right now with how we've budgeted next year, um, it'll depend on enrollment and attendance, but I believe we're going to be able to make that June um, just fine because of fund 17. Yeah. California. Now, uh we're in the bad news part of today's presentation. California is in the enrollment uh decline hall of fame. Um and uh LA, uh LA County has won the Hall of Fame in that Hall of Fame. So, we are in a an area that is has a dynamic flux
061in enrollment. Um our biggest some of our biggest challenges are not ones that you're going to see on a a school services slide. AB218 um sexual abuse and molestation um claims that now can go throughout the life of a someone who a victim who was affected um are coming up across the state and this of course is affecting all of our premiums. So school services is recommending we increase our uh expect premium increases of about 20% as a result of this workman's comp. We're uh seeing a lot more slips, trips, falls across the state as well as stress leave. Um and so five to 10 percent increases are expected there. Property and liability with the fires um and the risks there. We expect to see an increase and uh utility costs. Thank goodness. Thank you
062so much for uh leadership in um having solar because that is a really uh important impact not only for the environment but for the budget. It's very exciting to see that actually start kicking in to having effects on the budget. Yes. So very positive. is uh that and you know if we look back to some of the series A uh maneuvers we paid off that cop debt that's also been a very helpful tool in this time. So appreciate that. Um some things to look at on the horizon that are of concern of course we talked about measure E is expiring in 2728 and then Prop 30. Um tonight everyone's favorite agenda item second to the LCAP was the educator protection account resolution. uh this resolution or Prop 30 was established um with and then renewed
063by Prop 55 um but it is not indefinite and so we will um losing that 1.9 million in I believe it's 2930 yeah 2030 uh would be problematic especially if it uh if measure E was not to renew. It's really nice. Uh when Miss Kimmel was sitting in this chair, um Calsters rates were going up like a exponential growth curve. Um thankfully we're at a different well for better or for worse, we're now at a time where that's relatively flatlined on the Calers side. Kalpers, look at this. This is a really important. It's a moment in time. We should probably take a picture that the Kalpers rates next year are projected to go down. Um so that's a nice little thing. Um, this is a question from someone who's only been a board member for
064six months. Uh, please can you explain what this means in a little more detail? Sure. This is the district contribution to the pensions of uh certificated and classified employees. So, our district uh uh pension obligation I don't have in front of me, but back 2015 2014 was in the low 10%s for uh stirs and even lower for PERS. um as the population has aged and the um you have more folks drawing from the PERS and stir system um uh who are living longer and a much smaller workforce paying into that system because of declining enrollment and so districts have had to cover that delta to keep the pension system we didn't have to the state shifted the mandate to us so so we should be clear the state could have maintained their pension fund and
065funded it uh but they didn't manage it appropriately for the acqu acquisitional timeline they were all things were talking about. Therefore, they were left with a giant goose egg and rather than funding it, they simply signed a piece of paper and said, "We're going to shift this back to the local school districts. You have to make up the difference and it accounts for what is that delta from what it was now is it like 10 million a year more?" Well, if you think about, you know, I'm doing napkin math here, $70 million of certificate and classified employee salaries times 10% versus 20%. Is close to a $10 million delta. And so, we're spending about $10 million more and getting nothing for it. That's just literally money that we're funding. We're covering the state's required retirement
066system and pension system for the union employees. sort of what the federal government wants to do with things like FEMA and other things is push the costs on to those those costs back onto the states. It's exactly to balance their budget. They pushed it back to school districts and didn't again an unfunded mandate didn't didn't give us any money for it. We uh especially in those years we were talking about a shell game. You know the uh on the adopted budget you'd see this cola four or 5% but on the back end you're seeing at least that in terms of pers and stirs increases. So it felt disingenuous um at the time. Um so all these tools the um with the exception of the cola uh right now school services is not recommending we include
067any of those positive things. So the learning recovery block grant, the TK ratio add-on, the discretionary block grant um none of those are built into the budget. I hope to be able to share with you either at the 45day revise or uh uh when we bring an AB1200 to the board that those tools are now built into our assumptions. Um so getting into the actuals so um of course we uh report four times a year to the board with our assumptions. So by the time we get to the adopted budget and our estimated actuals there's not too much change. Local revenue is um when I look at the estimated actuals for this year versus the U budget for next year, local revenue is down mostly because of a couple things that we've done. One is
068we had non-ASB functioning site funds uh that have shifted to the site uh general fund um and of course work closely with ASBs on that as well as we have that cowshape grant that was booked under local revenue for to um fix all of our filters and assess all of our HVAC system that falls off the books which makes the level local revenue uh look down. uh salary and benefits, books and supplies and services are all pretty static with the exception uh something that would stand out on the slide is books and supplies. Um the reason that you see a 20% drop is because this year um uh Dr. Scott, Mrs. Davenport, Miss Faulk, uh worked very very hard on a I believe it's an eight-year math adoption that hits the books this year. It
069doesn't hit the books next year. Therefore, that's why you see the delta. Our net position um has uh us you know we need to acknowledge a few things we are deficit spending um part of that deficit is spend down of restricted funds uh and we are uh in this budget I uh in past budgets I've been very conservative on enrollment looking at our current enrollment picture I uh was still very conservative but increased our enrollment to 9826 um and uh but I also built in 1% declines in the next two years. I don't necessarily uh see that manifesting given our current enrollment trend, but I need a couple years of data in order to justify an increase. So, I say all that to say here is the fine print. Uh in the spirit of Angie's
070three slides, uh I am You're 30 slides too late. I'm not meeting that mark and I apologize. It's like fallen Julie Abbott here as well as those pers and stirs rates. Um, as we um as we look as I cut to the chase in terms of fund balance, uh, my colleague to my left is going to be surprised to see we have a 3% addition to the board is to demonstrate that we can for the last couple of years. And um the reason um if uh right now we have estimated actuals We hope and have been working hard to make sure that those don't manifest and team that will make sure we make the adjustments as necessary. Sorry attendance. The enrollments number I'd say 10,000 is a safe number where we put in 1998. there
071there. And then of course two scenarios, one at 10,000 and one at 10,200. 10,200 I would be um skipping through the city of Calabasas because that would be Okay. And the stock market's hard to predict. Our opportunities I don't have a slope for that. No, I'm just kidding. Opportunities are half million in the learning recovery block grant, 800,000 in the TK span adjustment. Hopefully eventually Prop 98 will be fully funded, $2.8 $8 million in the student support block grant. The coal will be applied to C categorical programs. And then uh LBSD plus attendance recovery is a big conversation next year. New law allows for us to recover up to 10 days of attendance per student. Um we want to be on the front end of that. It's good for kids. It's good for achievement. It's
072good for that core mission. And it's also good to ensure that we have the fiscal tools available uh for the public watch. And we build a budget based on enrollment, but we're funded based on attendance. And so that attendance piece is uh significant and uh if you have any questions happy to answer them or might recommend closing that public hearing. Well, first thank you very much for all the work. I know the finance committee members dive deep into this and we spent a lot of time on this last week. Last week just like it was last week. Um so we appreciate that. I don't have any questions. Others do. If not, we can close public hearing. I move to close the public hearing. Motion to close public hearing. Is there a second? Second. All those
073in favor closing public hearing. I I I liked Angie's presentation better. Uh there better news in it. There's better news. Yeah. Um no no it was a great presentation. We appreciate it very much. Very thorough and and it it paints a clear picture of just how uncertain the the economic situation is for our which I feel like we say every year. Um, but it it feels I think I asked you in the finance committee, does this feel like the most uncertain and and concerning you've ever seen? And your answer was I don't know what call my answer was then. Um, I uh yeah, this is an unpredictable year, but I have I have faith we have a lot of tools and we're ahead on um revenue opportunities and enrollment and attendance. So when I look
074across the the state to our peers, we're in a really good position, provided that we take uh the overall state climate picture very seriously while also not letting that shackle us down and not give a great program to kids. Thanks. Well said. All right. Um moves us to information items. Revision of board policy and AR 5131.9 academic honesty. Mr. President, members of the board, excuse me, CSBA has recently come out with a recommended policy on AI. Uh, as the board knows, I had an AI working group put together this year of, um, parents, uh, staff and students. Was fantastic group. We took the CSBA recommendations to that group a few weeks ago. Uh, again, their input was invaluable. They understand it's only advisory. And also, these next two items are information, no action required by
075the board. Miss Faulk, did they make any changes? Did you guys make any changes to the board policy based on that working group? We did. Great. I made a couple of revisions. Um, Mr. President, members of the board, as Dr. Steinovski said, he asked me to look into CSBA's policies related to student use of AI and the proposed uh updates to board policy and AR 5131.9 reflect the guidance from CSVA on the responsible and ethical use of AI and California public schools. They do recognize the rapidly evolving role of AI and do anticipate several revisions to this policy as time goes on. But as Dr. Steinowski said, we met several times with the AI committee which was made up of students um union leadership, teachers, uh district leadership, and we went through the each version
076of the AR and the and the BP and did make some slight revisions based on their feedback. Um updates encourage schools to provide citizens with in uh students with instruction on how to use AI tools responsibly is not a ban on AI while also equipping staff to to guide appropriate integration of AI into classroom learning. And we have started that with some of our inservices for example with Magic School. We had Miss Hatfield and Miss Kimell come over and do several trainings and Mr. Klein and his team have also done several trainings. The policy underscores the importance of safeguarding student data when using AI powered platforms in alignment with state and federal privacy laws. The revisions acknowledge the potential for AI to exacerbate digital divides and calls for efforts to ensure all students have fair
077access to tools and instructional support. Um, you know, one of the things that struck me on reading this is the difficulty of policing. um uh students using AI and I feel like it puts I mean such a difficult onus on teachers. I mean how are you meant to try and figure out where a kid has used AI? I mean do we do we have tools? We do that that and school yet just wait still use turnitin.com. No, that's no. Okay. But they have it's something similar where you can input a student's essay in and it'll tells you the percent of uh the likelihood of the percent of this was AI generated. And is it evolving? Because AI itself is evolving so quickly that it's getting better and better at mimicking people's voices. And it is
078I mean surprisingly and not surprisingly I guess uh the majority of kids just copy and paste. So it's easy to figure that out. What we're trying to teach kids is it's okaying as kids become smarter. It's going to have to catch up. But teachers are pretty we've we have probably caught a fair amount of students who have turned in AI generated work. The likelihood is 90% 99% teach them to train others. What what I think I'm all what I've also seen with through my high school is that teachers are going back to what they've done for 200 years and that is or longer at 500 millennia. Uh they're saying um we're going to write the essay in class. Um and uh it it's you know I think it's fantastic actually because I think that's that's
079a skill we want these kids to learn how to think on their feet, how to think in a classroom environment. So um I I am not as concerned about AI as I am about other things in the district because I I feel like our teachers are on top of it and there's ways by the time these kids are in college they need to be mastered seventh degree black belt ninjas and AI or they're not going to get a job. Um, so it's critical that they understand how to do this stuff. I mean, Facebook today just laid off two entire divisions at Facebook that they're replacing with AI. So it's like, you know, this is this is smart stuff. I appreciate this effort. Yeah. And and like I was saying is they, you know, when my
080kids were in school, there were programs they still use them in English class where you submit it and and it's all written out. the stu when you go to back to school night for your incoming high schooler. It's all written out as to you know what is cheating, what is academic honesty, what they're looking for when you do this and they sub you student submits their paper and you know hope for the best you know and and I know even when my kids were in school kids students that you know were were caught with they didn't intentionally do things. So So we'll see this again in two weeks to vote on our policy not the AR. Yeah. So, if we have more questions, we can if we want to sleep on it or mash on
081it, we can bring those back up at that time. Well, and and I appreciate that you did develop an AR for this even though CSBA doesn't have one. Yeah. Excellent. Um, next topic that's coming to you too. Next up, what was it? Okay, Mr. President, members of the board, this is the adoption of board policy 6170.1. We currently do not have this board policy. CSBA um developed this policy in 2023 and it it just outlines the framework for TK in California. It s as we know TK serves as the first year of a two-year kindergarten program for children who may not be age eligible for transition kindergarten. The policy ensures all children have access to a developmentally appropriate early education that supports school readiness and long-term academic success. So, this is really just putting into
082place what we've already implemented. Just imple having a board policy to back that up based on California Ed. I have a question on the 20 24 school year children whose fifth birthday is between this, you know, we're this that that school year is already done as tomorrow. Correct. That's just what Ed code says. So, just copied ED code. They have not taken that out. Actually, they don't. I can take it out. Yeah, let's correct that. Um, and I don't know if it's in the AR. There is no AR. Okay, there you go. So, okay, great. That that was the only thing I saw. Comments. Thank you very much. as I will not be here in person in two weeks. I just want to personally thank you for your I know we're going to probably do
083it, but I want to have my chance to sit here and say thank you very much for all of your great service to the district and all you've done for our kids. It has you have made a generational multi-generational impact on our kids. Uh and it it it means a lot to everyone here, but I we're heart sick that you're leaving. U I know we'll celebrate you in two weeks, but I wanted to make sure I could do it face to face with you in front of the cameras and say how much I appreciate you. Um and I'm going to miss you dearly. And when I have and when I have questions, I'm just gonna pull over when I see you walking and the neighbor because we're neighbors and then say, "Angie, I've got questions."
084So for the the two people that we have that are coming, she's my private consultant. So thank thank you for your great service. Yeah. With that, we'll adjourn. Yay. I didn't fall asleep.