001um and with that we will go to um let's see this is out of order yeah the the agenda is out of order it's like not do do this way I don't know why you that way we'll call flag slit uh I'll I'll do the flag SL we'll just do it uh uh it is it's a not how um please Rise um please right hand of your heart ready be de I to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep fors one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all it's the one online supposed to be yeah before CL session not there detailed agenda I'm not printing I'll scroll down it'll all be in okay uh let's see report out a close session report at a Clos session um
002and with that can I have approval of the agenda I'll move to approve tonight's agenda I'll second uh is there motion a second um all those in favor student voter of approving the agenda I Warden hi hi I motion passes unanimously approval of minutes I move to approve the minutes of the last meeting there's a motion to approve the minutes mrar this is incorrect it says approval minutes of April 1 2020 no keep keep all right okay there we go approval of the marchal of minutes okay there you go uh this all is very different to me it's very exciting to see it this way uh was a motion a second student board vote I board hi motion passes unanimously uh superintendent board Communications Dr stanowski Mr pres members of the board Mr CL if
003could fire up those slides super excited to share that we had three of our elementary schools recognized as California distinguished schools uh bay laurel sumac Elementary and Willow Elementary congrats to them their staff their principles outstanding work all right a couple of facts about it um and the information is new but they were recognized because they increased academic achievement and outcomes for their students as well as attendance and reduced chronic absenteeism um there were only about eight um California shinger schools in all of inure County we had three of them so we had 47% of the hall for all of inure County there's 20 School District in all of inure County so Las virgines uh rushed from that perspective congrats to those schools their staff we appreciate their certificate and classified staff and their hard
004work in making that we're going to be meeting with those schools and have some celebrations with them as well and show show some appreciation I've always wondered can you only get it once or can you get it a couple times okay yeah the first time you get it you paint it on the wall but then you that's yeah okay yeah every um two years there a two-year cycle so next year will be secondary schools so secondary schools were not considered uh this year at across the state only elementaries this year next year secondaries and then elementaries after that so but they do change the criteria uh the state tweaks what they look at and how they um rate it and then now they're eligible for National blue red status but um you know I don't
005know what's going on with the F Department Education Department of Education still okay so not holding our breath there yeah right next slide Mr Glen uh so uh also we have another program that we've we're going to be inviting to come and be represented the board and appreciated it's our Agora High School kasma uh program that's Kinesiology and Sports Medicine Academy they have had outstanding success uh they placed number one um across the region you can see all the different categories and places there uh they have 35 students competing the team not only won the top division award the top overall team they also placed in every special exam available additionally four students achieve top five placement in their divisions next slide Mr Klein uh so in those you can see the first place for
006super team first place for super temps up there twice I apologize second place for medical terminology and third in fourth place for um atage adage I like that next slide Mr C LA Rams are a fantastic partner of our schools and so they were out recently I believe that's lopin Elementary um and so they do a um play uh 60 with our students they visit all of our schools they do a rotation uh they don't get to all the schools in one year but they try to get to all the schools over several years I think there's some video trying to play that video Mr Clin or not we appreciate our Rams andh they ramp they bring in staff they bring in all kinds of different activity to to get out course they give them
007t-shirts lots of Swag kids have a blast next slide uh Brandon Maul so uh our district librarian Tina Johnson does an outstanding job of getting authors into our schools and meeting with our students Brandon mul super popular New York Times bestselling author one of my sons favorites uh he wrote Fable Haven series he recently visited sumac Mara Lupin and Lindero on on March 7th there's a photo meeting with students inside Linder Canyon's multi-purpose room so thanks to Tina Johnson and Brandon mul for visiting our schools next slide Los virus job fair we had 50 or so applicants uh Miss chambers does an excellent job of advertising those we get lots of walk-ins and it's been an invaluable resource for us is following pull pulling in um talented locals who want to be part of our
008team next slide we have two uh parent Series going on right now so this is Child Nutrition uh put on by our Child Nutrition department we' got Jennifer Prince from the Kaiser permanent Center for Healthy Living she's doing two sessions first one is my favorite why sleep matters that'll be April 3rd second one is Dr Cipher's favorite that's food and mood April 30th and I think this is my last Slide the other parent Ed series um this is fantastic again these are all free available to all of our parents they're all on Zoom as well um let's go and sorry let go and let grow raising confident independent children this is the author of free range kids one of the favorite titles uh for a book and that's Lenor uh skiny and she's the author
009of course as I said of free range kids and she'll be sharing her personal Journey on raising confident independent children all available for our families for free we G to have about 300 or so uh folks um logg in the zoom and it's an outstanding series again thanks to Tina Johnson 42nd Street opens tonight outstanding play at Agora I'll be there Saturday afternoon uh can't wait to see the talent students on stage behind stage in a pit and we appreciate our staff and great work on that as well so get your tickets going out and see a classic that concludes superintendent communication you Mr go Mr President members of the board both Agora and Calabasas are finding ways to make most of our time before spring break the Chargers have had 24 students accepted into
010an art show presented by the cities of Agora and West Lake also in the artistic Spirit at as Dr stenosi said uh the theater program is presenting 42nd Street opening 9 is tonight and it will run until Sunday some students have also been traveling with our music program performing at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and our Sports Med program also competing at ACI in Sacramento I'm proud to announce that we were award the top division award and top overall team award good publicity for the Chargers as well meanwhile at Calabasas the the Agora an their Agora animal shelter Drive wraps up tomorrow and donations will continue to be collected the College and Career knowledge night was also very successful with tons of people president uh coming up they are holding ASB elections and students are preparing
011their campaign campaigns additionally their second blood drive of the year is coming up senioritis might be in full swing right now but everyone's doing their best to continue performing at a really high level thank you Mr Lazar um so Miss K and I completed our tour of all the elementary schools we've now visited all of them Mariposa YB and Boro in the last couple weeks and uh I got to say I just love all of the elementary schools uh they're all so different they've all got a different vibe and uh met you know went into many classrooms met many of the wonderful teachers and staff and uh it was just R inspiring all around I must say we have a couple more middle schools to go um building on that uh the distinguished School awards
012you know I I saw uh sort of firsthand at Boro the the movement towards that Award of a couple years and uh you know it really takes a village um it's fantastic teachers uh it's amazing staff it's very involved parents and uh you know it's also principles just have such a lot to do with it I saw really firsthand on school side council at B lauro how Dr Duncan was just focused on it and used data so incredibly well uh to kind of get to that award and everyone was really jubilant at Bay lauro on receiving it so um just very very positive uh I will bring some of my day job uh into the conversation uh I can't resist telling you about the artificial intelligence Summit I attended at the television Academy a few
013weeks ago uh I got to say my mind was completely blown I uh I cannot believe how much impact artificial intelligence is having on the entertainment industry and the creation of film and television and I assume that in all other spheres it is having as dramatic effect uh and of course my mind went to our schools um I think there there's several things I know there's been some discussion of AI already but I think you know particularly programs at the high schools like entertainment Academy and at a gura the sports medicine program I think uh integrating AI into those uh is could be really really beneficial for the students and the thing that really struck me and they kept on emphasizing is the cost of this technology is not not going to be cost prohibitive
014uh you know you can get going with a 200 piece of graphic software you can make incredible looking movies these days and apparently it's the same across the board the other thing which really struck me is that prompting for AI is so important uh they say the people who are going to be successful in the new age are going to be the folks who know how to talk to the machines and for me this opens up so many wonderful possibilities in English Lage Arts uh you know getting kids to write prompts for AI and seeing how they interact and what it creates and um I I think it's got wonderful possibilities for all of that um what else to mention yeah I think that's about it spring break is uh coming up hope everybody has
015a wonderful time for everyone celebrating Easter and Passover hope you have wonderful holidays and uh that's it for me I give you my favorite AI fun fact is we have a bunch of teams that are training some AI um and we've done an AB test on what um politeness does to the AI please thank you thinking at the end for treating it like an actual human the results come back differently it's really fascinating um and and there more thoughtful responses that come back over time and so it's it's a really interesting Divergence in the so it's your point of the prompts and how you engage with the I really does matter Miss Stein thank you very much um the Arts are alive and well and part of a well-rounded education so uh Mrs Mangus and
016I had an opportunity to see calabas is production of UR in town and again it was a super smash a full house and an incredible performance I must say I saw it in New York when it first came to Broadway um my kids were younger my kids hated it sorry to say that and um and this honestly was a better production than the one on Broadway in my humble opinion um Willow Idol again just wonderful to see our elementary students um and parents and families and friends using our packs in our packs and The Willow Idol seeing the little ones on that giant stage I know I get nervous speaking from that Spa stage and we had a couple cypresses or one ciphers in it one little two little two cypresses in it and to
017see Cyree in it and did a great job and all of these students the confidence that they have at the youngest you know fifth kindergarten through fifth grade unbelievable um um I just want you to let you know that I'm aware that the J team is out working with our schools and they are doing an education campaign on ebikes ebikes ebikes are a Hot Topic in our community both with students or young people to know which ones are legal there's a couple different types which ones are legal how old you need what kind of requirements and also how to ride them safely and not get hurt you know with cars and I know uh Walkers and drivers you know tend you know there there's an issue so the J team is getting out with a
018full court press on an education campaign for our students and families um last but not least um Mrs Mango and I and Dr step I believe everybody here had an opportunity to to attend the College and Career night and this really is just such a fabulous um uh evening of a lot of work that goes into it but it's a collaboration of Calabasas High School agor high and Oak Park High School come together and there were over 50 colleges presented and a lot of workshops and Dr Steph and I had an opportunity to share our personal uh War Stories of going through the app college application process with our children I think my work War Stories were a little harsher than his but um so we've been there we know it this is the time
019where students start to find out where they're going Mr Gelb and we anxiously await your announcement but uh We wish all of our students well in their second semester no senioritis I talked about that that night no seni itis and um that's it thank you very muchas so um as Miss Stein said um she and I got to see the production of UR in town at calabassas high school and I I am always impressed when I go there from the minute you step foot into the lobby of the pack to the minute the play is over there just so many attention to little bitty details that really make it an interactive experience and um The Professional ISM of the actors and the singers on the stage and just the whole package was very very impressive
020um I also attended a couple of different uh committee meetings um but I think the the star goes to the curriculum Council where the TK team presented their curriculum and most of the curriculum council members that were there were ready to sign up to redo TK as a student after that presentation that's adorable um I just want to thank uh staff uh St and I had a chance to spend a decent amount of time digging in on Pathways uh on math uh a whole bunch of things but particularly on math and the continued commitment on um identifying how we course correct math in this District I think it I think the message has been heard I feel like it's been heard loud and clear throughout the entire District um from the top down that this
021is the top priority of the board uh to to see these test scores turn around uh and to make sure that our students are leaving here math ready so I really appreciate that focus and attention um also want to thank the team that's continuing to put on outdoor it I know Mr G will be leaving immediately after this maybe with a little bit break in between to get somebody to eat um uh to go to Outdoor Ed I had a chance to visit Outdoor Ed it's just such a great program um I didn't have Outdoor Ed my school didn't didn't have it and I think it's really cool and I'd love wher we've landed I think that's location is definitely of the three I've toured over the last 12 years it's by far the best
022and just provides such a unique experience so I know that takes an entire Village to make that happen so um really grateful and thankful for all that work all right with that let's move to consent a is there a motion I'll move to accept consent a I'll second there's a motion in a second uh student vote any discussion pretty straightforward um I just had a question I hadn't heard of the school accountability records cards before um you know generally I refer people to California school dashboard if they want that type of information when are these issued and and where are they available um was uh Mr L Mr Lazar I'm going to stop you for one second that item was moved to action so we will be we will be there in in in a
023couple minutes we'll be there apologize it was originally misfiled yeah uh any other questions great student board vote I board I motion passes unanimously um consent B I think we have a challenge I will move to approve consent B striking item number two great so motion to approve consent B item one uh is there there's a motion is there a second great there's a motion a second board vote only all those in favor I I right brings us to action items approval of 2023 2024 School accountability report cards like we were just talking about that right I guess I will get my explanation right Miss Fulk Mr President members of the board California Ed code section 35256 requires the governing board of each School District District to annually annually issue a um sarc which is
024a school accountability report card and that is directly related to our funding so in November of 1988 California passed prop 98 also known as the classroom instructional Improvement and accountability act the ballot initiative provides California public schools with a stable source of funding in return for receiving that funding California public schools are required to annually prepare a report card is what it's called um to disseminate that information to the public whereas the California dashboard has a lot of different information this is specific to one school and each School uh issues their own sarc um SARS are intended to provide the public with important information about the school and to communicate progress on achieving its goals um none of these screens are working I don't know if that's something we can work on maybe later but
025yeah working yeah none of these working um so although there's great variation in the design of the school report cards they generally begin with a profile and then have to include all that information per state law the demographics safety and climate academic data completion rates and so forth and so on some of that comes from their comprehensive school safety plan some of that comes from California dashboard some of it is not on either and it's just about their profile have we done this before so I'll get to that so in so yes and California SARS must be published by February oh go back February 1st of each year and school boards are responsible for improving and implementing them so the short answer is you have not done this before okay thank you the the other
026short answer is I follow rule so it is required that it comes to the board and and all that thank you so um we should have been doing but we have it okay you said that so you can find our sarc on two places we are required to publish it which we do and it's under a tab Under The Edge services department but California event also a sark web page which Jim will go to right now and you can search School District's sarc reports because we are obligated and we do report them up to the state and then CDE publishes on on their dashboard so they're not only on our website which we're we have to do ours are also reflected in every year on the CDE sarc just in case anybody's watching at home
027because they have other they're fascinated by board meetings they are um uh we may not have seen it here but we have filed them in accordance we have put them on the website we've done all the things from an accountability standpoint we're required to do by law except for having a a hearing here so we have always met the requirement of following a school accountability report card having said that much like Ed code changes it wasn't always required board approval okay so as you know as I'm updating or the or the all the board policies this has now come up so much like the l cap we now have a mid year report we have to do this is the same with the sarc thank you so the district is seeking tonight board approval for
028the data from the 2324 School accountability report card otherwise known as the sarc can I just ask a question is this the type of information that's like good for members of the public parents looking for schools is is this a good way for them to find information because it's been my great mission for 5 years to get people to stop looking at Great Schools because it's such a crude and an incorrect way of looking at a school it's just such mangled information I think so I often refer people to um California school dashboard or our Niche is a lot better um but is this a good resource do you think or is this you know more sort of reams of government data that people may find difficult to decipher I actually think of all the
029ones that you named this is probably the best this is the best our chance to showcase the great things that we do at each of our individual schools and the arc is is listed by you would you would search it like you do on the dashboard of individual schools but it's really focused on the school itself the profile of the school what they do well all of that of the three you named it's the best to refer parents to that good to know thank you would you like I'd like a motion is there a motion to approve I move to approve the school accountability report C I'll second great uh all those in favor student vote I board I I motion passes unanimously approval of resolution 2024 for health benefits requests for proposals Dr Gan
030Mr President members of the board with the cost of Health and Welfare benefits and the impact on employees always want to uh make sure that we're receiving the best and most comprehensive options for our staff um issuing a request for proposals uh simply will allow for other agencies trusts jpas to bid uh for us to explore through multiple levels of committee work uh if uh Cal Pur is not our best option of course this is a very thoughtful and a very important decision the request for proposal is uh is required process it's a inv VA process and involves uh multi levels of scoring we would work with our partners in lvea lvca and of course through our board committees if uh we decide if there was a recommendation to move forward with a different provider
031this process will just start the exploration board is not authorizing anything other than exploration through this process I think this is a a really excellent development actually uh because I think the the past couple years with inflation you know families are really Str struggling to uh deal with their household budgets and health insurance is just such a a huge part of it um so I I think and I think teachers and staff probably deal with the difficulties more than most uh so I think it's really great if we can come up with some more options do do you have a sense how long this process would take right uh we the RFP as outlined tonight will will have all submissions due by May 1st we have a um an agency palms and Associates that we
032work closely with that will issue the RFB on our behalf to the providers because thek what's her name poms and Associates PS uh definitely not pomy or pomy um they um the health Healthcare Market as everyone knows is very complex so they will help us navigate that um Cal Pur we know we know it's our current provider our long-standing provider uh there's two Parts one is we know that they are going to fund the HMO plans off the back of the ppos for the next two years so our employees who have the lower uh plans are going to be more proportionately impacted the other tricky thing that we will off away with that recommendation is calp if you leave them you're not allowed back in for five years years so this has to be a
033very thoughtful decision where we see a long-term outcome we of course did a lot of due diligence and pre-planning um with our partner my Partners in HR to evaluate districts in our area and who have left calers um and to see how that has affected them so there's pros and cons um but uh for our employees it is important that we explore and turn over every stone you know I noticed with the kpor plans as well there aren't that many options with different deductibles as well and you know I think a lot of folks these days uh with home insurance with health insurance with car insurance they're looking at getting even a slight increase in deductible can actually really impact your rates so much and I think more options like that might make sense to
034some families you know particularly if it's a family in good health and um Dr gon was the last time we did this I was living my best life in IT services so Dr cyers three years ago no and I think this is also a wonderful um example of collaboration that we that we try to follow with lva and lvca so thank you for you know collaborating with this on with this on them with them as well I I agree with Miss Stein I was wondering how long ago we had done this and I was also wondering if we had used Palms before or is that new to this process yeah Palms uh has been around probably even before Dr step it's been a long partner of us I actually think I did bring them here
035actually to review to do a health benefit survey like this the we we looked at extensively and ultimately did not make any changes at the time but it's a valuable thing to do every several years thank you um is there motion approved so moved second a second a motion in a second uh all in favor student vote I Bo I motion passes oh miss lazari you're in for the most four fun quick agenda items you've ever seen in your life um what buckle up this is fine uh all right uh public hearing uh lost virgin Unified School District and lvea joint initial re openers contract agreement open the public hearing I will move to open the public hearing I second second there's a motion a second all those in favor no student vote on this
036one I I I I motion's open anyone here to speak on the joint initial reopener seeing none I would love to have another motion I move to close the public hearing there's a motion to close public and the second uh board vote only um all those in favor of closing the public hearing I I motion passes unanimously now uh presentation of the joint initial reopener of the certified contract by L Los Virg school district and the lvea Dr St Dr Mr President members of the board we're looking forward to getting together with our bargaining Partners from the association and we're always appreciative of the collaborative relationship among the two teams along those lines uh the district and lva have agreed to present initial proposals in a joint format for the board and previously The public's
037review uh and Miss cruss are also available for questions from the board or the many members of the public who have graced this and this year the entire contract is open correct that's correct so do you want to explain to the public and Mr Lazar how this works different years it's different articles yeah Happ to so every three years the entire contract is open and we have if it's not within the three-year time frame each side has two different articles that they propose for this year in particular though for lvea the entire ire contract is open uh for discussion and so the years that it's not when the contract is not all open they agree on certain articles of the contract and it's the only areas they're allowed to discuss and you'll see in the
038following agenda item which M Chambers will share with you that's the situation with LCA great any questions t on all right is there a motion to uh um uh is there do we accept how do we word that motion to accept the initial joint initial to approve the reopener uh for LV with with lva and the district uh with for the entire contract second second motion a second uh board vote only all those in favor I I I motion passes unanimously in case you weren't paying attention the first time and you want we're gonna do it again uh so it's super fun um uh is there a motion to open the public hearing for uh lvusd and the lvca joint initial openers I move to open the hearing for L for lvusd uh and lvca
039second great there's a motion a second board vote only all those in favor I I I motion passes unanimously is there anyone from the public here to address the board on the lvca joint me openers seeing none is there a motion to close the public I'll move to close the public hearing and I'll second motion a second to close the public hearing board vote only all those in favor I I motion passes unanimously joint initial item six joint initial re openers for the classified contract by lvusd and lvca Dr Stephan aski Miss Chambers Mr President members of the board we are submitting for your review The Joint reopener that lvca and the district wish to discuss during our upcoming negotiations you want to talk about those at all we have five articles that we are
040going to address article three salaries and Welfare benefits article 7 vacation article 8 leaves article 10 procedures for evaluation and finally rounding out article 18 professional growth any questions no great um is there a motion I'll move to approve the uh joint re reopener between lvusd and lvca articles 3 7 8 10 and 18 now second great there's a motion of second board only vote all those in favor I I motion passes unanimously that brings us to information items um Dr stanowski Mr of the board uh next two items are with Miss faul they are information items only no action required by the board Miss Faulk Mr President members of the board the two board policy and administrative regulations before you tonight are part of what we include in our each school's comprehensive school safety
041plan the first one 4158 enhances protections for District employees against work repl violence and threats these revisions were made to reflect new legislation effective July 1 2024 the updated policy emphasizes a commitment to providing a safe and orderly work environment by outlining procedures for reporting threats initiating legal actions and offering Crisis Prevention and intervention training for staff any questions looks like it's a compliance and I read it and no questions from me that was much easier than the last one we had I know nobody wants to on pencils out make changes what you I'm sure could find so the board policy will come back as a consent item for board vote and the administrative regulation does not come before correct board vote okay and then the second of the two is BP and AR 51453
042and these are proposed updates based on the US Department of edge 2024 revisions to Title 9 regulations which broaden protections against sex discrimination and harassment in educational settings these revisions in the bpn AR are designed to align with federal guidelines by clar clarifying that prohibited discrimination extends to sex and gender related bases ensuring fairness and grievance procedures and mandating specific accommodations for pregnant students the updated policies also emphasize the importance of maintaining a safe School environment free from unlawful discrimination harassment intimidation and bullying and outline comprehensive measures for prevention reporting and addressing retaliation and these are in line with the current Title Nine revisions thank you very much I wonder if there's going to be any more revisions I feel like we just did this like a year ago or in we did about eight
043of these there were eight of our board policies aligned to title this one we did not do and this is the one that goes in our comprehensive um so just out of curiosity why don't we just have one policy on Title Nine where all this is included versus like nine different policies because there's nine different aspects to it some relate to to adults some relate to students okay there's BPS and ARS for each of them some are specific to like sports some are specific to the campus climate so there's a whole bunch of title n regs I know I'm just I know there's a whole bunch of parts I'm just wondering like we have as as you discover as you dig into these we have so many BPS and so many ARS in this District
044I think not in this District the Ed that required to have like some of these get the bits and Bobs get lost over the years whereas if you had one on Title 9 that had all these things in it you we would know to go back to that one every year and updated but you're saying that doesn't make sense you have to have nine different ones because the way that csba aligns them some are related to just employees some are related to just students and their separate BPS and ARS for each of those some are related speciic specifically to school climate some are related specifically to Athletics so the way that it's aligned is the is with the reason why we have so many of those I guarantee you somebody's job at csba they're paid
045by how many BPS and ARS they change every year that's their metric how many have you updated because these are um well thank you for doing it I appreciate it's important stuff any questions no thank you very much uh with that we are adjourned thank you sorry Mr G you have to go back at time for dinner so was me he was