2025.03.11 School Board Meeting

001we'll call this meeting to order of March 11 2025 I'll ask everyone to please silence their cell phones um and we'll start with the pledge allegiance I guess I will just do the pledge allegiance um please rise your r hand over your heart fles and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God and Justice all right thank you very much I have one item to report out of close session in close session by a vote of 5 to zero the board took action to approve a settlement agreement arising out of a special education dispute the settlement agreement has been reached by all parties um with that I would ask for an approval of the agenda second a motion a second any changes or comments on the agenda seeing none all those in

002favor of the agenda student board I I motion passes unanimously thank you um item number next item on the agenda um approval of minutes I have approval of the minutes for the I move to approve the minutes from February 25th a second a motion a second any changes or notes great uh all those in favor student I board I I motion passes unanimously superintendent board communication Dr stanowski a lot of pressure Mr President members of the board let's see here Mr okay excellent uh celebrated a few things this week um first off was the second annual tar Davis track Invitational was a blast to have her back at Agora she truly like lifts lightens up an entire room in this case an entire Stadium I mean her she is um really just a light the

003joy to be around she saw all the teachers she remembered all the teachers hugged all the teachers by name um phenomenal event uh double the tennis from last year under 500 student athletes last year 1 1500 this year sorry trip more than triple the attendance how far did they come from 28 high schools oh wow uh Carson I think was the furthest I heard that's cool um but uh obviously I didn't I didn't track all 28 uh they and um her track coach is phenomenal uh lady named Amanda and they really want to try and double it again next year um she spent countless hours the program was actually delayed because she spent so much time with the kids there was a huge line of kids to meet her say hello and pictures uh and

004at the end of it all um she did donate $35,000 to Agora high school so um which is fantastic there's her husband um there as well in the photograph um Miss cutro presented the proclamation from the board and I did get chance talk to her and her mom about doing an event for her and they said she travels so much and I said we can connect it to this event that's not a problem and so she really appreciated that when she said she was going to consider it so you think we'll do it again next year 100% great miss CLE anything else on that no it was just a a a tremendous I swear some schools brought their whole school but she provided with her sponsorships like all kinds of things that were at the

005yeah yeah Dick Sporting Goods sponsored her so she had um tons of gear Stanley Cups Stanley Cups all kinds of Stu one of the food trucks was all paid for Wow Wow from because it's her sponsor and uh it was just uh yeah it was a great atmosphere perfect weather she was ever intention in competing in 20 28 in La so that'll be fantastic her husband won a gold as well right he won a gold as well and in the previous Olympics he had a bronze I believe so he's a two-time Olympic medalist now very cool very exciting event congrats to calabas instrumental they is placed first in uh ikasa which is right there international championship of high school Acappella they did fantastic uh that's Aaron ikerd and S uh Sophia Cooper uh the two

006fronts are the leads are the presidents of OAA this year so they advance to the finals this year in New York April 25th so congrats to them super exciting we had the youth leadership academy last night at the Agora pack where we had Captain seu you can see top left Dr Kirk tamon and then um two-time World Series Dodger champion and onetime manager of the Angels when they won the World Series so he's got three World Series rings Mike Soha um and they talked the whole of course theme for the evening was leadership the students had outstanding questions uh Mike stayed and signed U all kinds of memorability for the kids really special night there again that program brings together students from kjo Oak Park in Las virgines and then miss cutbill um set the

007welcome and moderated our first ever women's leadership Forum which was fantastic um we had five outstanding panelists uh the students were fantastic LEL and Bailey I think to some extent stole the show Captain C2 was fantastic they were the entire panel was very genuine very sincere very vulnerable um about 75 in the audience so we're want to work harder next year for um you know better engagement with students better turnout with students and staff as well so we've got some ideas on that we've we've already begun reaching out to folks to join that panel for next year see here on the top um agore students and staff met with white oak and Linder Canyon students and staff as part of the social comp program they all met at lindair that's their multi-purpose room it was

008there for bonding and of course preparing the students for transition to high school eventually the bottom leftand corner there is the pathways concert which is a lot of fun we do one at Calabasas one at Agora this one's Agora and it is Agora High School Lindero Canyon and aite and it's their choir it's a three night event and it's their choir orchestra and jazz bands all participate so much fun and then I've mentioned this a few times but I'll keep saying it and again we're really working to have our students in our packs and so this was um the spring musical if you will from Linder Canyon it was 13 they did three shows in the agore Performing Art Center they're on the main stage right there and this is what we want we want

009our students from our elementary middle and of course our high schools on those main stages enjoying those instructional spaces speaking of performing art centers we've got two plays coming up those are photos on the left from a Calabasas they're doing ytown which I I have not seen I'm going tomorrow night I believe it's a satire about capitalism consumerism sort of thing fantastic musical is it have never seen uh it opens tonight uh so you got the dates up there March 11th through the 14th and then you got 42nd Street at Agora and that's April 1st and the 5th so excited to see our students uh and the talent on the stage and all the hardworking students and staff uh supporting the Productions as well uh went up to Sacramento uh twice recently to help Advocate

010and I had a chance to meet with the lieutenant governor and this is elen I think I'm saying it right Kus right there in the middle if I said that correctly I believe she's a candidate for governor uh and then she's in the Middle Air with Deborah Eduardo uh LA County super superintendent um we I went up with a continu of seven superintendant from LA County with 80 super with 80 school districts 80 superintendents and um you know 10 million residents we're working more on our legislative Outreach and so withut government I did have a very um meaningful and substantive conversation about law enforcement interactions on campus um and you know the success we've had there El invited her to tour our campuses as well that concludes superintendent col lots of Governor already as you

011saying mhm um thank you very much we'll begin with uh board communication Mr President members of the board Hal basas and Agora have been very busy recently at CHS last week we had our spring Spirit Week in pep rally the spirit days were centered around childhood memories with days such as teddy bear Tuesday where students could bring their childhood stuffed animals and baby blankets to school and little league Thursday where students could wear their childhood Jersey or their favorite team's Jersey currently ASB is holding a drive for the Agora animal shelter and a High teacher fundraiser where St students can donate money toward a teacher in the top three teachers that the most money get donated get highed also this week calbas theater is performing their musical of year in town coming up uh Cal

012basses has a College and Career knowledge night a 3b3 basketball tournament at lunch and ASB elections over at Agora last week music program held three concerts the track and field team also sponsored the second ever Tara Davis Invitational hosting over 1500 athletes from 23 different schools right now students interested in elect student council positions are campaigning and advertising for themselves in upcoming the Chargers will hold a few restaurant fundraisers and elect the Future Leaders of the school thank you um yeah I love the pday stuff I will continue my campaign to make Pi Day a holiday across the district absolutely um Mr President and fellow board members uh been visiting more schools of course but I will not go into the details thank you for accompanying me Miss cville uh a couple things that I've

013noticed uh just first of all at Lupin when we tour Lupin um the administrator did raise just that parents are still very concerned about the landfill uh understandably we've obviously POS passed a resolution uh in that respect but feel we must uh keep that uh on our radar Mr Lawrence and I met with uh Miss wro and Mr Shapero from City of Calabasas and they did report they moving forward with their um temporary injunction uh but it's going to take until May or June uh before that that comes to fruition and they did report they have not seen any data which reassures them about the waste that is coming to the landfill at this point so I hope that data is forthcoming we'll we'll see um the other thing which I've been hearing a lot

014of for some reason these These past two weeks from a lot of sources uh different schools is just Traffic Safety uh coming up and um in in our at our elementary school periodically carine gets like wild and crazy Mr Cyprus I still remember your video about how to stay safe in Cola when you were principal there I still remember the video yeah um but it you know every six months or something Carline starts going crazy and it's a small subset of parents that start cutting in and behaving really badly to be honest and one is just really scared that something will happen like happened at hanock Park and uh not that I think any board action needs to be taken but if we can just maybe put this out through District Communications as well and

015Air fairly regular basis do paying attention to traffic safety uh I've heard it from you know high school as well both calbas is high and a gurah high uh there's such a parking issue so many cars and uh I know some of the students are concerned about traffic safety too so just thought I I should say that since I've uh I've heard that from so many sources we had this issue a couple years ago at Mariposa and sumac if I recall Dr sh house Kei and we we specifically notified the sheriff's department and as I recall they had the motorcycle officer like dispatched for like a month to do when they come around it kind of clears things up for a while yeah yeah I think I in fact one of the administrators did say

016that to me please can Lost Hills just periodically send someone out uh and ticket parents because that's the only thing that really puts a stop to it y right yeah we we're happy obviously we don't address a Hotpot you know they can't they can't hit seven spots um Miss faul just shared with me that on Monday yesterday they were at Calabasas um police and gave seven tickets good the challenge was with the p fire you know candidly we lost the jtam for quite some time resources were you know spread thin um but I think this see it appears to me and with Miss fo report that they're back to more normal operations I here was fantastic but if there's a hot spot you want can you know let me know and I'm happy to reach

017out to C2 and say hey bay laurel has been um B needs a little bit of help there and support and they can uh rally resources I I did see lopin also blasting on on their social media particularly on this point that carine's getting crazy so um you know I've heard there were issues at chaperel too it's what you know I'm hearing it from a lot of schools right now so may maybe the administrators can provide more specific information than I I would say they when they hit sumac and mariposo and they wrote I think like 3x as number of tickets people still talk about it and that was like three years ago so it had a pretty profound imp impact because what they actually get everybody for is being on their cell phones because

018all those parents are on their cell phones driving um so those are $500 tickets a pop and they were writing them like like they was going out of business so I I mean I will say from law abiding parents who actually follow traffic rules there's a distinct fear that something is going to happen at some point you know so I I really think it's worth paying attention to Great anything else yep no that's it say thank you I have been out at schools because I wanted to visit some of the new things at our schools so Mr Lazar and I went out to Agora High School where we visited the brand new broadcasting uh facility which is amazing uh all the equipment and the space that they have we also looked at the new culinary

019arts um uh all the the equipment and talk to the students about um how wonderful it is to have this great equipment in their facility as well so it's wonderful to see our district doing these projects whether they're from our bond or maintenance projects it's wonderful um Mrs Mangus and I went out to AE where we um oh no AC Stell wrong School AC St where we checked in on desmo math so we were able to get into a couple of the classrooms that are using the brand new math that we just adopted and um it's really really wonderful to hear from the teachers and the students about how that's going I visited AE right where um also I was able to check in on math and science and see some of the most creative

020ative teaching ever and a new program that I want to bring to the district's attention which I believe they know about but I also want to have it added to the next Pathways agenda is writable which is very exciting to me because it is a program an AI program that teachers can set up a rubric and a writing prompt and get in there and write and it gives students immediate feedback based on the teachers rubric and one of the things that's always tough especially at the secondary level with um with Lang English classes is we want our our kids writing we want our students doing lots of writing but those poor English teachers have you know hundreds of essays if they you know you want thoughtful communic thoughtful feedback so it takes them time to

021read it read each one and give feedback so this writable program it was very exciting and I thank um principal buly who's here today for uh taking the time to show me that I also want to congratulate um Miss cut bill I did attend the women's leadership forum and you did an amazing job facilitating it it was absolutely fantastic like Dr steep said uh the panel including yourself shared personal stories was vulnerable um really speaking to um you know who we are as women and and it just it was just uh one of the most special things that I that I've been to so I want to congratulate you and thank everybody in the district um Miss Chambers you had to handle in putting this together I know Jim Klein was there doing um Tech

022stuff and anybody else that you know help put it on it was really a remarkable remarkable event thank you thank you Miss kle uh I just wanted to say because um Mr lozar and I have been out at schools but we also went to Outdoor Ed shoper we out there and I want to thank Miss Davenport for all the work she puts in because U by all accounts it's just going amazingly it always does but um kids were Outdoors the weather was great for the early ones and I know that behind the scenes you do a tremendous amount of work to put that program together it is consistently year after year when uh kids graduate and they talk about what were the most impactful things that happened to them they outdoor it is always if

023it's not the top of the list it's close so um it's it went away during Co and then it was a a bit of a struggle getting kids back in that routine and now it's really back where we were so thank you for all that you do and your your theme so glad to hear that all credit to principal Logan who's been directing The Outdoor Ed this year great you know the thing is as well is word actually filters down from the fifth graders so my daughter in third grade has literally been excited about Outdoor Ed since been in third grade like for m m so I also want to give um kudos to miss cill for uh facilitating this uh women's leadership Forum uh I I'm hands down to you you did a fantastic

024job and um I think everybody on the panel um arrived as strangers and then they left as friends I mean it was just a very cohesive event and um great sharing and I just hope that next year a lot more people will come and that there can be some sort of incentive to encourage students um and teachers to be there um and then um I um also as Miss Stein mentioned went to AC Stell with her to tour the school and we saw several different classes but what stood out to me was we happened to see two different uh math classes and um and it was great seeing Desmos implemented and seeing it implemented in two different ways um in the one class there was a overhead projection and she was showing her computer feed

025feedback of almost all the students in that class had missed question 14 and she was able to zero in on it and and go in depth and then the second class we were at they all had their workbooks out and so it was great you know there wasn't a right or a wrong way to do it it was just great seeing it done in two different ways great um I'll just add um a little bit on what Miss Lazar mentioned so we did spend some time with the with the city council and Calabasas and dop a little bit deeper into the efforts around the landfill and um I just to update the my colleagues here on where where I think we're heading um there was been a lot of asks from loopin parents and others

026in the community to uh bring on board um higher quality air monitoring systems for our campuses in lie of the fact that FEMA and army for engineers are not testing any of the dirt samples that are arriving at the landfill uh we currently do have air monitoring filters purple is that what they're called Purple um um that um uh will not actually measure for asbestos or lead based paint but measure more for overall air quality um and uh the community had met with uh UC Davis scientist and a company and recommended a couple of different uh products um the ask for the community is for the city of Calabasas to fund one and for maybe the school board to fund one we fund one for Lupin Calabasas fund ones funds one for um uh gra

027Barbor Park uh in my conversations today with the city um they are investigating whether or not this system that's been recommended um would actually be able to measure particle matter and determine if it's Ash based if it doesn't determine that it's Ash B there's really no value in moving forward with it um it would just tell us that the air quality is poor it would not tell us what's wrong with the air quality um so thankfully I did not know this the mayor of Calabasas happens to be a an electrical engineer with an expertise in air quality management um so right place right time uh for him to be mayor of the city um so he's leading this effort to to look into that what's interesting that they have uh moved forward on the meantime

028they are moving forward with the Dual track on the lawsuit um and this is why I share with my colleagues just keep you informed about what we are going to be doing as a school district um they are requesting the Calabasas is requesting Julia brownley and Congressman Sherman are supporting this request that the South Coast Air Quality Management District scaqmd um uh which is illegally responsible for ensuring the quality of the air in Southern California it's independent uh State organization um which has set up air monitoring systems at the palisad landfill site set up similar uh air quality measurement systems at the Calabasas landfill site but only seems to make sense that if you're measuring where you're picking it up you should measure where you drop it um and so they have an ask in

029uh for that uh State body to fund these um they have asked if we would do a letter in addition to those from Julia brownley and from Congressman Sherman supporting it Dr stanas I discussed today seemed like it made a lot of sense and is in line with our board uh policy that we pass resolution so we will be sending a letter encouraging uh SC scaqmd uh to um fund that and get that set up ASAP um and hopefully we can get that in place pretty quickly because I think the challenge is the the lawsuit looks like it'll take at least until May in the meantime they're dumping 5,000 tons per day um of untested um contaminates um I was going to share a picture but I won't but I will bring it up because

030I think it just it's it's the height of hypocrisy um that I think is what people are feeling what they're so concerned about um there was a picture by our local County Supervisor uh at the site where they're picking up the uh dirt and moving it it's supposed to be clean uh in a video of her wearing a full n95 mask um uh in around dirt that apparently is supposed to be clean and clear for us so did you read the comments on that post yes it was a little uh uh not well played um so there is uh there's a lot of concern in the community appreciate what the school district has done um we are not in the air quality management business um that's not our specialty uh we're in the student safety

031and health of business so I think that that's what we're advocating for and we'll keep pushing forward on that um with that I've got nothing else um we'll move to consent a I move to approve consent a i second it there's a motion to Second any discussion on these items nope okay all those in favor student board vote I I you can go back in time it's okay um uh board vote I I motion passes unanimously uh consent B I move to approve cons B I'll second there's a motion a second it's a board vote only all those in favor I I I motion passes un action items approval of second interim budget report Dr G Dr G Mr President members of the board uh tonight we are bringing our second interim projections uh AB

0321200 uh requires us to provide multiple intervals of updates to the board of education and share our financial statements and projections uh as we go into the year uh starting off tonight just want to highlight our team who's been uh just so awesome and consistent I will share uh which has been uh really great to really have this consistent new team developing their skill and aptitude um so I just want to give a shout out to them of course there's a broader team that influences our finances but uh these six individuals work on that uh every single day so uh per this uh I'm sharing with you tonight a recommendation for a positive certification for our uh budget that means we believe we can meet our financial obligations for three years out and um and

033this is an interesting interesting time I think I say that every time um but it really feels sincere every time so um Governor's budget in January now this was released before the fires this was released before some of the geopolitical um things we are seeing especially with the new uh Administration in Washington um but the governor at the time projected so we'll have to wait till May to see if any of those adjustments are made uh the budget right now is really A Tale of Two budgets so uh across the state the state budget is not looking good um even though revenues are up spending is up um but the education budget is protected by um prop 98 so prop 98 essentially uh ensures that the state budget has a minimum allocation to our school

034district and that that allocation goes up by a cost of living adjustment annually last year the state was not able to fully fund the cost of living adjustment so we do have a due2 uh uh from the prior year that um we can um depend on uh right now the state uh we started off if you remember uh about a year ago the cola was supposed to be 3.95% um in that was in the first interim uh of the 2324 school year and the state lowered that to a 1.07% so that was a significant impact a 75% decline in the cola um this year right now they're projecting a 2.43% which is a half percent um below where we started the year so these Cola adjustments just have significant Ripple effects on our budget um

035there's some good news uh coming through at least in terms of one-time grants I think the state is a little um the governor and the legislature right now appear to not want to put too much into ongoing obligations so they're looking at having some one-time uh grants a discretionary block grant that we could use for any purpose from salaries to instructional materials and then there was a lossage at the state level uh because the state had not fully funded the learning recovery block grant that we currently enjoy and so that will be fully funded State's really interested it appears right now about uh in teacher training and Recruitment and Retention um this will be a major issue over the course of the next five 10 years how do we get um aspiring teachers to want

036to enter the profession to be able to afford to stay in California and um to uh be able to sustain salary and benefits in a way that helps them thrive in their life so uh those are um the you know kind of the main the the main highlights the headwinds that we're facing on the state level are um we've already received uh I I'll share with you three significant impacts so the first is um the we have the fires locally and that has led to the governor giving a reprieve on the tax filing deadline till um later this fall last time that happened we had the cola uh significant Cola adjustment from the revenue over estimates um so that's a challenge and the other Big Challenge right now is the Los Angeles county is trying

037to build the infrastructure for a World Cup Olympics and repl repair and replace all these homes the construction Workforce is spread Beyond thin as well as with existing supply chain issues already the uh cost for steel good and goods is going to undoubtedly go up um the on again off again uh tariff um uh threats from um the federal government have led to our major suppliers saying that they're going to adjust rates because they cannot have certainty over what those will look like and then just today the USDA as part of the Doge program uh the USDA had um cuts made um to the uh Child Nutrition Commodities funding so all these factors are kind of new and rapidly developing and so um I will share with you we are in a good position and

038have done everything we can to navigate these headwinds uh there are headwinds ahead there are reason for optimism and then there are reasons for caution and that's the story of our budget I know uh this is 150 pages in your agenda and I know you all have had the chance to to read it um as well as we have multiple layers of oversight of this in terms of the board staying deeply involved so um for the public watching at home our revenues are up um from first interim largely um it's a little um artificial so we had some lcff growth we've had 60 students who have moved into District because of the fires um but then we've also had some uh grants that have had some Readjustment some of those grants like the early educator

039teacher development Grant uh you don't earn a dollar until you spend a dollar so even though the revenues are up the expenditures are up and kind and then we moved our high schools uh our high school ASB and athletic programs into our general ledger this year um which reflects as an increase in local Revenue but that is money that belongs to the sites in terms of expenditures and and please do stop me if uh if you want the Extended Cut on any of these um in terms of expenditure salary and benefits um are um a little bit higher than expected our sub costs are really high for January and February there's this quadruple W whammy of um viruses going around um and then we had some onetime grants that have a 2026 expenditure deadline uh

040such as the educator Effectiveness block grant which was providing micro credentials so the expenditures are spiked bit for that in a way that will not continue moving forward one of the biggest um surprises this year is that electricity has increased by a million dollars so a $2.2 million electric bill is now north of three million and that's uh as we work with Edison as well as our jpa who provides us power it appears that um in order for their bottom line to adjust to the rising uh uh installation of solar that's being passed on to the non-solar entities so um just want to commend the board on uh taking quick action and getting the solar infrastructure up um there's about a five month lag once we have the infrastructure up to have get the permission

041to operate but my hope is by 2026 90% of that 3 million will be covered um by the Sun so and then um we have deficit spending so we this deficit spending is a common theme we coming off the sugar high of uh covid um we do have a uh fund 17 uh where the board has committed funds for um circumstances of declining enrollment or unforeseen circumstances um last year uh the second interim usually is or always is very conservative so u a lot of our expenditures in the next month will um uh will Shore up a bit because we're closing encumbered posos um and uh I anticipate that we will uh end with a um higher ending fund balance what that'll look like we're not sure yet um but as we look at the

042multi-year a lot of it will depend on um all those factors that were AFF forementioned so the cola is looking a little brighter next year 3.5% and 3.6% um and of course the passage of measure s is out there minimum wage continues to go up um I think next year it's by another 30 cents or so and purs rates continue to go up uh good news is stirs has not uh but a challenge a headwind ah head is that measure e that $2.3 million will expire in 27 or 28 as we look at the three years um one very important um variable to to note is as the board knows my projections for the last few years have always included a 1% or previously a 1 and 3/4% decline over the course of the next

043two years um because a 10-year enrollment Trend would show you that's what's going to happen um we have had um fantastic marketing efforts and a real push to increase um enrollment in our schools and so this is a very concern these are very conservative numbers based on uh the existing 9712 uh 9712 students we have with a 1% decline in the next two years I don't believe we're going to have 9712 students next year and I don't believe we're going to see a 1% Decline and I'll share a little bit more about that in a minute so Ryan just going back to the the previous uh actually wait yeah the previous slide um those transfers in are from fund 17 correct but if things go well and we get all the enrollment we want and

044a decent Cola and and a good attendance and stuff we may not need to make those transfers correct correct so um the last my last two second interims have reflected a transfer in in the second and third year um but our enrollment adjust uh attendance and expenditure adjustments have led to us not needing to touch that one might wonder out in the world um why you would keep a $14 million uh extension of your reserve and a big portion is so a there's a lot of anomalies out there that we can't forecast things can go wrong but the second is Cash um we just because we have fund balance doesn't mean we have cash because property taxes come in twice a year um there are times when um you need cash even though you have

045money that's owed to you and that uh that Reserve really helps us from having to do what we've had to do before which is uh tax revenue anticipation of so what's the total deficit spend projected 20 million this year that seems like am I wrong that that's the largest I've ever seen with this District in the 11 years I've been on the board the that 20 million is the largest that I can recall for sure and um I'll share with you like our neighbors in Cano it's a $38 million deficit um they how much larger us one and a half times yeah so pretty proportional um yeah and big part of it you know part of it is misleading right because you have grants like your Cal shape grant that we've received the center for

046educational Excellence Grant um those all book as expenditures as full expenditures even though those are grants where revenues were posted in a prior year so the revenues posted earlier the expenditures are posting now similar with um covid grants um so if you hold if you hold all things equal and account for that realistically what is what are we over spending as a district today so that's this slide so um right here I have uh built into this budget approximately $6.8 million in reductions or savings um and um the good news is we've been able to do that in ways that don't affect too many employees uh through retirement through attrition um our secondary schools this year as we adjusted to the seven period day our high schools uh had to um take on more six

047fifths to make the master schedule work so when you reduce those additional periods that's a million and a half just right there um as was talked about last board meeting we're restructuring our P Performing Arts centers two million will come from the solar savings and we have small management reductions so um all those in the absence of enrollment and attendance increasing will right size their budget in the out years the deficit goes from that 20 million you see on the bottom line down to three or five um and that's a healthier place to be whenever you have one-time restricted funds you're going to have a small deficit because you're spending down money you have now that you won't have in the future and you have to book it that way so you're calling for a

048right size of $16 million in 12 months correct and it's not because a lot of it's one time so the S I can I can go through all the grants the Cal shape grants a million dollars you spend it one time the educator Effectiveness block grant million doll you spend at one time uh you have a preschool teacher development Grant million dollar you spend at one time you have the cgsc grant $2 million you spend at one time you have the eser one two and three grants that have been utilized you spend it one time so all the expenditures hit this is why all the districts have this deficit right now they all hit at the expiration year because you're trying to use up the money but they're not ongoing cost um we um and

049I you know I I always want to be realistic with the board so I'm sharing with you um a conservative estimate but I also don't want to be overly pessimistic we are surrounded by districts who are cutting 150 200 employees um we've been able to not do that by ratcheting down expenditures well the next slides will show uh showing a lot of optimism for uh new revenues so six million is really the 6.8 million is really the core if we cut that down in the absence of new revenues we're going to be in good shape questions still have a couple more slides if that's okay want to get my full second inter get better yeah it does it does so um enrollments so the budget was built on enrollment of U 9712 so if you

050see the third line on this graph U 97 or the first line on this graph 9712 going down 1% so when you look at the Reven Vues Mr Lawrence asked how do we shrink the deficit Beyond expenditures reductions it's also going to be through optimism on revenues so with the aggressive marketing we're bringing um students in in uh bringing students to lvsd schools I do believe a safe number now we have 10,250 students who want to be in our schools next year partly because of the fires partly because of our great marketing but of course all because of our great schools and it looks like one of the TVs is rejecting my second inimum report oh there we go uh and so a safe bet I believe is 9942 you might ask somebody might ask

051out in the public like why are you not putting 9942 into the budget yet it's because I have to send this to Leo and it has to be a story that they'll believe over three years and they're looking at 10year Trends in LA county that we are significantly bucking but if we hit that 9942 next year even with the 1% decline in those two subsequent years that's about a $9 million return in revenues um if we go higher it can only it will only increase so I have reasons for optimism on the revenue side while we're doing um the right thing on the expenditure side and we also know the board seeing this slide so not toh go to deep even the details we have new homes 2,000 new homes are being built around us

052which will have a positive impact on enrollment didn't want to give you too much positive news U because our attendance Miss uh Miss fulus team Rosen has done a fantastic job J on increasing attendance but nothing can prepare you for four different viruses going around after a fire so we have multiple flu and covid uh all going around and the um intendance rates have declined in January and February um so whereas in the first interim I was more optimistic about attendance we're still about 3% above my first uh my adopted budget projection but it really right now unless we can rebound will only really manifest in a few hundred, in your uh 67 and 78 that's because of the threeyear average of the 250 additional students you're forecasting give or take above what percentage of

053those would you say are out of District students whereas are we seeing people actually move into the district are we seeing organic in growth here say about 80% are out of District we are seeing students return from private schools um and we are seeing um uh some of our residents who went to a charter outside of the district come back but it's about 80% out the district yeah so I I uh uh leave you with this is an interesting time right so uh it's an interesting time ahead but lbsd has the thing that I want us all to feel good about we're we're doing the hard work the hard work of cutting expenditures the hard work of raising revenues but but cutting expenditures responsibly to where we're not over impacting our very important employees lives

054beyond what we have to and we have tools in place like fund 17 our responsible construction programs that will help offset the general fund that uh will help us weather whatever comes in uh May and ultimately in June and um so if there's a lower lower Cola we have ways to navigate that and um I I would just say we are very lucky to be able to control enrollments and attendance that is um those efforts uh that have really put into marketing our schools are what's keeping us from being a district like all so many around us of having to cut significant amounts of employees because the only a casual look at what's happening around the state even around um how many I think what pasaden is cutting 150 their enrollment is less than 15,000

055you know I mean it's extraordinary up north and and down here so the enrollment is making a huge difference and I think we just keep on doing what we're doing um in spite of the State uh I don't have any cards for this are you done I don't have any cards for this so no public comment so we'll go to board comment on this um is there a motion to approve I move to approve for a second second discussion um I have a bunch of questions that's why I'm looking at you I don't I don't have to go first though if other folks go ahead Mr R okay um so just first of all you know thank you to Dr gleon and and to your team as well you know I spent some time in

056your office a couple weeks ago and could really feel the team is positive and focused and working really hard and um yeah so just kudos to everybody and uh I think what was good about this report is uh the numbers are are pretty close overall to what was budgeted with to me says it was a good wellth thought out budget um and we within a very small percentage of where we should be uh which is is really great um so all positive stuff um you you discussed uh a lot at the beginning of your slides just the about the state budget and what was going on with it like how specifically is that going to affect us like what likely effects will it have on what what we what we get from the state I

057have optimism on the state budget um because um prop 98 uh is protected and with the tests that are in place we um we should see a more favorable outcome this year the next two years don't look as good when you look at the Lao but we live one year at a time right and that that way the discretionary block grant will be really helpful the district so some of these onetime um uh tools will help that Cascade down from that sugar high that I refer to for those eser funds so a lot of good stuff I mean the the one big uncertainty is will there be any impact of the closing department of Ed or any federal impacts while a small amount of money it's $ three and a half million doar and so

058we just want to watch that closely too yeah I I did notice that that federal revenue had already gone down for like 100 only 100,000 thus far but of course one worries that we may see more Cuts there right it's it's kind of unpredictable though yeah SEC secretary McMahon has suggested that uh there's no plan to Cuts any um special education or title funding um but you know that's I would share that the General State of I mean our jobs are to be anxious in business and so the anxiety is a little higher given the past few weeks um you'd mentioned that um tax payments are being deferred because of the fires and that previously that had resulted in a you know higher Cola effect in US does that mean that we only get payments

059from the state when the state effectively receives their tax revenues I wasn't aware of that so I'm just asking yeah great question so the the state by law has to adopt a budget in June and they B they adopt a budget in June the theory there is that the tax revenues income tax revenues are all have manifested after April 15th what happened in uh fiscal year 20324 is the go uh the state dram atically if you remember we had those rains most counties had a till October November filing deadline and the state dramatically overprojected its revenues um to where we went in really two weeks before the first in room in that fiscal year we went from a 3.95% cola so 3.95% multiplied around our $150 million to a 76% and then later a 1.07

060so the risk you run when you have that late filing deadline with a large County like LA county is the you run the risk because so much of our budget is dependent on the top 1% of income earners uh you run the risk of um either over or under projecting significantly um you know just regarding the deficit obviously we all concerned about deficits we want to get to a point where we don't have de deficits you know I know we all agree on that um the fact the uh steps you've been taking to reduce them that's very very positive I wanted to ask just about about your your budgeting process every year as you move towards the the next budget uh again I'm not familiar with this because I I come from the entertainment industry

061um you know in in in business budgeting every year is like such a a huge part of what a company does and every department is involved down to every single line item and and that process is generally very positive because you find 5% savings year and 5% it it truly all adds up um do you can you just just talk a little bit about what process you're going to go through when you budget for next year's budget uh and just you know where else can we potentially find you know Cuts we want to be focused on really strong meat and potatoes education for our kids uh with awesome teachers and everything should be oriented towards that you know yeah 81% a great question 81% of our budget uh 80 81 is is on people um

062the things we can't control are the minimum wage going up the cost of Health and Welfare benefit is going up the statutory benefit increase is going up um and so really I work very closely with Miss Chambers and Dr ciphers and of course the had Services team this time of year to look at areas where we um need more staff but also areas where our classes aren't filling and uh I know the board asks that very important question whenever a new course is brought when we add new courses if you don't reduce courses then you increase expenditures right so I appreciate um that in terms of um the remainder of that buet largely um uh just cutting to the chase I could talk about ed services I work with them very closely with Miss spul

063with Dr scan and Miss Davenport to align to the elap but the two areas that are um our Dynamic one is the um contribution of our general fund to support students with disabilities we have a um the best pup Services Department uh um I mean that sincerely in the uh I've I've worked in five districts I've never seen anything like it and that attracts uh students who are served by our great programs but cost more to serve um and then Grounds Maintenance and grounds have uh costs have gone up uh a bit and that's a contribution from the general fund and part of that is a real desire to make sure our schools as we have more tours look pretty and the weeds are pulled and the uh roof has some patching over it so

064we are because of our LCS F position disadvantaged to where we receive about $2,000 less per student than the average school district in the state let alone the basic Aid districts around us and so Rose Dunn Dr Dunn who used to be um in the chair right to the left of me used to always say we make miracles happen given our funding uh position so um all those things go in place of course we work closely with all our committees on the board and the board's very involved in this um but like you said we're able to really tightly watch and maintain what we budgeted for so that we can um there's you if you look at that $20 million deficit it doesn't stray from the adopted budget that's not a surprise we saw that

065coming do do we uh when we go through that budgeting process do we look at stuff like uh it and books and supplies as well like you know I've certainly found in business and this may totally not be the case in in education but it just seems to change so rapidly that like every year there's a ton of subscriptions which nobody is using anymore and I mean even in my personal finances I find like a th000 bucks a year of subscriptions I just don't use anymore like when it's got to be so so H it you know but do we go through a process of just checking all of that stuff thoroughly and we absolutely do and we uh we reive restricted Lottery money that we bank for textbooks so we've built up a $4

066million um bank for restricted Lottery because we know that ad services department is going to engage in multiple curriculum adoptions um I think we've gone too far to be candid in cutting our at Tech budget I cut it significantly this year and that meant Mr kle had to really duct tape some old computers together um so we've been talking miss faul Mr Klein and I about um a different strategy um related to laptop computers so our Ed Ser our ed services team and say this having been a former member of One is the leanest and meanest in terms of personnel and supplies our our ability to control our budget are to look at three areas Staffing sped and grounds this time oh can I I just want to add on to that is um one

067of the things that Los virgus does is we don't go out and do um curriculum adoptions very often they're multi or their million doll Endeavors and um if we had the money I'm sure that everyone would agree especially teachers that they'd like to do them more often math adoption so right now is we've built up those reserves for it and we're very prudent and you see how inclusive the process is and how thorough exhausting exhaustive process it is to do these because we don't adopt materials very often maybe every 10 or 15 years even so um there sometimes we should do it sooner yes we should but have it matched the state standards for I don't think you know I've been on board a long time and I don't think that I've ever stop laughing

068and I don't think um I've ever seen where we didn't have a running deficit because a Dr Leon and his predecessor were very conservative in in budgeting and um except during Co when we know all that covid money and I will tell you that in watching it in sitting on on finance committee and whatever um Dr geson has done an amazing job with spreading the money out you know and your entire team it's like we get onetime money it's not like oh let's go to the store and buy everything right now we know that this has to last us because it's one time we're not going to get it anymore so um you know I I commend your you and your department for all of this and remember at the end of the day like

069you said Dr G Gleason is very um uh aggressive and proactive with grants I mean we've we've received more grants than I've everen my last question actually so I've never I'm assuming the whole board knows the answer already except me well no we've never I've never seen us uh receive as many grants and the types of Grants Dr Gleason is amazing in at researching and finding grants but you also have to be careful with grants because a grant has to fit a slot and we you know we try y we we have to really be careful and I we've all asked before is are we creating something new that once the gr the um Grant expires that we have to continue paying out of the general fund so and even in their darkest one it's

070just a terrible system and that we have the top 1% income earners well 50% 49.9% of the state budget and you have um hundreds of thousands of people of which the overwhelming majority is the high income leaving the state you have businesses leaving the state in record numbers population is down to its lowest since like 2015 that alone just makes for Less revenue and less um you know but I talked to other board members and some of our surrounding districts and everybody is you know slammed more than ever I mean with finances um and you know but if you talk to somebody who's a big winner in lcff they have their own problems I mean in that they now have to create programs to demonstrate that you know and they have to show the state

071that these programs are working and um it it comes with its own set of problems you know to to to the formula is really not not well tailored I would just say it wasn't that long ago that I was a new board member and I remember having it took me about a year just to spend the business side of my brain because we don't operate like a business um we if we were we would have gone bankrupt and been out of business a century ago um because every practice is bad um the fact that we pay 3x for construction it takes two years to get something approved we have laws that require us to do things and then don't fund it um I mean you I'm sure you have either a magic eight ball or

072a Ouija board back in your office somewhere Dr lison because that's you have to use a det what the state's going to give us so it's the fact that we have to make budgeting decisions before the interim budget before the state even approves the budget it's just it is insane you know I've I've seen business budgets which are the size of this budget but the complexity of this budget is just beyond description I mean the the limitations on funding and the that's why had like 60 people in his Department working on yeah watching that was a total joke let's go back to slide one there's six and you can't predict we don't know I mean if you have a company that's been successful for years you can basically predict your revenue and expenses right you

073can do it in your families in your households this is unpredictable for me I mean Dr Gleason he's the expert at this and and you know I he knows his stuff like nobody's business but I am very concerned about the state of the economy I mean I was on the board during the Great Recession and you know we were cutting muscle and at the time we had a superb relationship ship with our associations and and we were able to negotiate um Furlow days which are basically a pay cut which is the saddest thing ever but it was for the best honestly the best thing for kids and we paid that money back to them and but it was it's hard and that's one of the special things about lost virgines is you know the the

074relationships is you know the culture and relationships and I am very concerned about the federal government like Dr gleon said the USDA cancel a billion dollars in local food purchasing for schools this I did ask Dr gisson this is going to hurt Los virgines we're going to feel that we don't know to what extent but these cuts at the federal you know the federal level we're going to see some of those cuts so between the fires and like what Miss cill said 1% of earners basically pay the majority of the taxes well Pacific Palisades is not a not a poor area so um it's it's interesting but again next we have the May Revis right and we'll see and the governor may change Cola I mean nothing is nothing is predictable with a with a

075school budget with funding for education in California further comments from the um I don't really have a question I do I want to um thank Dr Gleason and his department for all of their hard work um I do feel a little bit of um that old adage of fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me when I look at the cola which looks lovely and I I'm just um very very hopeful that we won't look at a 2.43% cola now that turns into a 76 or something like that and and with the um delay in filing of income tax which I totally understand you know I just um thank you for all your hard work hello um all right uh I have a motion a second all those in favor of

076the uh second interim budget student vote I board vote I I motion passes say thank you very much please let your team know how much we appreciate them and again I I know we hold it as a badge of honor that you're like insanely lean um I don't think it's you badge of honor I think it it concerns me how lean you guys are but I I I think it's amazing what you managed to do with with the team that you've got so thank you very much um next item approval of lease with snaps I'm thinking we're probably staying with you Dr gleon Mr President members of the board that is true uh so we have one of our creative uh ways to ensure that we bring in uh a dollar raise is the dollar

077not cut is to lease uh property that we have available we've had a long relationship with the monor school that operates at a AE right they uh do business under the name synapse uh recommendation is to um approve five more years on this very consistent tenant um and uh pays us about $133,000 a month um for rent which goes into the general fund which goes directly to kids I don't have any questions um yeah I move to approve agendum number four to the lease agreement with synapse Educational Services a second it any questions board any question I have no cards in this one so no questions from the audience board any questions great uh all those in favor student vote I board vote I I motion pass unanimously and going for the hatrick Dr gleon

078is your third item of the day approval of resolution 1724 preliminary official statement for series B prop 39 funds am I get or is I going over to you I'll start Mr Lawrence and just to shower um or share some you know praise for Dr G and his team it's exciting to have series B in front of the board tonight um it in front of the board tonight because Julie avot um Scott McCallister and Sean Vasa had done such a fantastic job with our a projects launching them quickly getting them off the off the ground quickly things like the hvc system in the h building in Calabasas went to DSA a year before measures was even approved so we had the pl ready to roll on that um so their hard work um can't be

079understated in moving projects quickly and saving us Millions more exciting about series B is that it's bringing in a bunch of HVAC systems heating air conditioning systems roofing systems for schools in great need of them like Lupin lupin's going to have a state-of-the-art um ventilation system installed this summer with the highest standards of MV which um measures the filtration uh systems of power if you will and so it's going to have the best of the best we installed some of those UV systems as well um during the pandemic but these system don't only catch particles they catch bacteria as well so super exciting to be improving the working spaces for our staff and the learning spaces for our students stally Mr President members of the board this is a very important item of course just

080200 pages of detailed matter that we prepared in accordance with our bond Council this authorizes uh the sale of the series B bonds for measure S as um you know one thing for Mr Lazar um uh being new to the board you uh as a board member always want to make sure that uh we have spent I believe we can spend 85% of a bond draw within three years um and so uh because if you don't then you are potentially gaining interest that supersedes that of the investor and you have Arbitrage issues um and so it's odd it's it's it's I should say it's odd it's exciting but it's rare a year and a half into a bond draw of $85 million to bring the next Bond draw um but this team I keep saying

081it but I just work with the best people and they're uh Miss Abbott and Mr Vasa and uh their team are just yes so amazing we want to have a big reveal so this is a picture of the whole team but you know none of it happens without pay payments being made and uh POS being approved um we can play Guess Who's photoshopped because none of these none of these folks are ever together like somebody was skiing in their picture and was photoshopped in but yeah so we can guess that down the road um it is unusual to be at this stage I've talked to other districts who have passed bonds and nobody most districts pass a upon then go okay now what do we do yeah and we spent a good nine months before

082getting ready like especially with the h building at CHS sort of so that we could hit the ground running the moment we could that you know in fact we even started work early with some creative kind of application of financing so it it is unusual for us to be here but it's important we get a lot of this work done for kids I would be fascinated to know at some point if it's not a huge lift maybe like chat GPT can figure it out for us but uh I've just looking at the cost of goods over the last 24 months and now with 25% tariffs from Key countries on Goods we need to build I'd be curious to know the 85 million we spent if we spend it today how much more would it call

083like did we save 10 million by going early did we save five million it's just that's one of those we always talk about how much we save the taxpayers from the refinancing but I think by having by moving with a lacity and having a plan in place we also save the taxpayers money and that's a number I'd love to capture at some point yeah absolutely a be exciting project to look into and I know you know we talked about tens of millions being saved on the ROI for how fast we moved on solar given the NM uh benefits that were grandfathered into to um to highlight what Miss cill had shared the you know we are very lucky to have uh as much experience as you get with Shan Vasa and Julie Abbott they save

084us millions of dollars and they save it by where a construction management firm will say for like CHS bring in five Portables and have interim housing which would cost several million dollars just to get the project off the ground they're able to schedule it shift it turn make triple shifts happen and that saves Millions so um just a hats off to them you know I just have to say because I've been touring all the schools um I've been seeing a lot of the campuses for the first time and you can just feel the impact of this measures money I mean the projects that have been completed uh the way the campuses have been painted the turf that's going in and knowing that there's so much more to come and it just really helps close that

085Gap as well when folks come and see the schools you know you were mentioning the private schools they have fancy landscaping and all this and it's like they're coming to a school that feels new and feels like it's yeah there stuff happening just I'm so grateful to voters for passing this measure because it makes a huge difference th% um so series a we sold in August of 2023 uh Dr Steep and I uh have been meeting with we just most recently did a maintenance uh credit rating with standard and pores probably we'll do a Moody's credit rating right around end of this month and then we'll set to close for May 15th so this has been strategically set up so that we can take advantage of the summer uh it's Mr Lawrence's Point waiting a

086year is going to uh definitely reduce the buying power especially given the current Dynamics um so series a projects just to cover what we've covered so um similar to what Dr steep said prior to the passage the bond we got the design approval which takes one to two years for CHS we've been working this series over the last a year and a half on getting round Meadow sumac Loop and shap and Agora ready to rock um while also installing one floor of the CHS INB building uh promise the community we're going to uh fix our holes replace our HVAC uh some of these projects are not exciting on the face but make a huge difference for the learning experience we moved up solar because of the return on investments and the impact on the general

087funds for those watching closely to the second interim how important that decision was because of the cost of electricity so we can give ourselves a pat on the back in hindsight we had Fields uh that were unable to be watered in droughts and now are full and flush and not only used during the school year but uh Miss Jamal was sharing with me that they also used these in the elop program so that's really exciting to uh see so uh we have the pool and Sports Complex uh that is being designed at Agora certainly much more than a pool um it is a high dollar item but also keep in mind that the existing Agora pool has failed uh given an earthquake about nine months ago in the interdependent water systems of the 60-year-old pool

088um but uh we'll talk a little bit more about that and then our new broadcasting facilities I think Miss Stein maybe highlighted that from her tours and then nothing uh paint has such an impressive impact we saw that at Round Meadow Cal vastas and Agora taking a picture of HVAC uh is not as great as feeling it uh so this is the old HVAC on the Le hand side of CHS on the roof that one unit uh supported 16 classrooms so when it went out half the building went out and it went out all the time it went out all the time and uh so now uh you can see each classroom on the the picture on the right has individual units is is the h building now completely no no upstairs is not fixed

089right no uh there is half of the building that still needs to be Flor and that'll be done this summer cor right that'll be done this summer it'll start is that still out of series a money that'll still uh be out of series a we will have about $10 million left over of series a after this summer and we can't do it before the summer because it requires construction that makes us evacuate the building right correct we do double and triple shifts over the summer so we can get it done because you're pulling the roof down you're people because people we understand the reason why we're not sitting on this we physically we' have to remove all students out that building and we have nowhere to put them right that's the millions of dollars of

090cost that you would add if you didn't have that creative approach that Mr Vasa has led um and then of course we've already started Roofing um Agora ad right chapparel lero calabas and retto have all had Roofing projects that have been completed our solar um will be done this summer so summer 2025 the last two rays are going in at aore and Calabasas High uh I know the U board has mentioned there's been a lot of site visits the shade that these are providing on campus in addition to um the savings are both uh um fantastic we should be off the grid by January 1st 2026 I'd say might most of these are most of these going in the parking lots not on our Fields uh most are going on the campuses so your your

091B bua which is a heat island it's going on to the playground which is great they need shade Lindero is going on the field uh around Meadow so if it goes on the field yeah What's it gonna do to the field uh in many cases it's not affecting the grass so like at sumac it's on the field and it affects the grass and it affects the playing area okay I talked to Miss Logan she was saying that the really doesn't it's penetrating through and continuing to grow I mean you you have beams every 50 fet now every 50 feet so you can't it's not an open field anymore you've lost right but the angle of the sun I think is hitting it enough to where it's continuing to grow I meant more you can't play

092soccer under these things because there isn't space to do it lost space and we don't have um you know in designing the solar arrays we had to make two determinations one we couldn't put them on roofs you mentioned the overregulation of California so we can't do that anymore um we know we need shade shade has been a commodity that's been asked for by a lot of our campuses and um proximity to um the electrical infrastructure is key that drives a lot of it where where do you access the grid yeah I'm just Lindero has that one beautiful open field that gets used for flag football other things it would be very sad to lose the openness of that field to play on to put a bunch of concrete slabs on totally you're gonna have the

093open field but you're basically Spectators on the sidelines are going to be going be like at the back at the one tot so like if you're sitting on the sidelines watching you have some shades so you can cool off during the day um White Oak will go half uh half in the staff lot half in the back and then aore and Calabasas will both be in the um parking lots those have been hard to figure out because we're finding easements below um our campuses where sewer lines or other um things might exist and we don't want to build solar over that and then have the city have the right to just take it down so uh here's a a great combo picture a onew punch a chapparel some field and some solar um here's the

094bay laurel field and solar so you see that nice uh sweet and salty that shade and Sun sunshine sunshine U round Meadow here you go can see a little bit of the new paint there's the aerial view um so great you know TK classrooms this was mentioning the previous agenda item this was a $9 million expenditure thank goodness for measure X that's another place where districts are really getting into financial trouble to meet the demands the specific demands of the facility needs for TK which continue to be delayed and so thinking is four measure s to be able to cover that um if you saw you know round Meadow um one of our oldest campuses really needed a paint job there was old mural and some old colors and so that's really popping Calabasas little

095piece of a pop you got a Gora popping here are some of the broadcasting facilities there was a combination of developer fees that went into them but really exciting you know um we our community has um you know definitely an interest in stem and CTE and so having these programs uh where our kids can learn both trades and skills at the same time are really exciting um and then uh Mr Klein a little pallet cleanser is going to share with us some of the tech upgrades all right just a few things um we've seen some of these come along the way as we started the project you know we've uh kind of pieced them in as we could based on budget availability so the um uh the top right corner you see the screens you

096actually see one in this room now uh we've been gradually adding those uh over the entire district and that's actually not just a screen but it's also part of the PA system it's got the speakers for those as well as strobe lights so that they can alert students for example who might have hearing disabilities that there is actually an announcement the screens do change as uh as we need to send messages they can be simple things like you know it's lunchtime or they can be something like evacuate so it can be as simple as complex uh as they need to be and that's all part of the announcement system of course we've upgraded our phones uh we are adding speakers uh in classrooms that have not already had them as you recall part of the

097forward learning process was uh upgrading or adding classroom voice reinforcement for our elementary schools we're adding those across the board now uh through the measure s project so you see you'll see speakers popping up really soon uh and finally the uh uh actual interactive displays are what we're putting in now in classrooms which are below that so that projector on that that's circled on there is going away and it's being replaced by a screen the one that's below it um those We Believe will be a little bit more cost effective and longer lasting than the projectors and uh because of their interactivity they make it a little bit easier for our teachers to use some things like our new digital math curriculum and functions like that uh teachers can use a record lessons they can

098use them to share with the students at home after the fact a lot a number of uh good functions there we're actually um uh starting this project at Calabasas and agura high school it's actually underway at Calabasas right now as of last night they've completed their first four classrooms so literally they just started um but we do expect this to be uh completed relatively quickly here over the spring in all the classrooms at calabases and we'll move on to agura and by the time we're done with that we're hoping we'll have a series B uh funds available so we can continue to move through the rest of the schools it's good for safety as well right yeah excellent for safety yeah we can use the uh uh The Voice reinforcement systems for example the microphones

099actually have a panic button on them so if a teacher finds himself in an urgent situation they can press and hold the panic button on their microphone to alert the office and then they're in a two-way conversation with the office directly that they're in they're in trouble or they need help and the office can dispatch or call the police or do whatever they need to do uh to to move forward and all of this stuff also integrates with our emergency management system which uh you principles will be able to use to say press a button and say I've got a fire uh those alerts would automatically come up on the screens and the strs of Flash and everybody would be notified it's a pretty effective setup all the way around so that's series a um

100a lot of work been done um and again shout out to the team series B has so much in it I had to use fourpoint Font so um but cannot understate the importance of all these projects so really getting to the heart of um the passage of measure s so thank you to the community the h building will be completed so there are so many so so much construction happening this Summer that our facility use is going to be close to zero um because the chh building will be done um you have round Meadow will have half of its HVAC completed this summer um the other half the other building the admin building will be completed uh the following summer so that rented cooling tower that creates the thud thud thud in the NPR we're

101about a year away from getting rid of that Lupin and sumac will be done two and four classrooms at a time so it should be completed by 2026 should say by are some of them starting this summer they're starting um uh as early as the spring yeah um and then uh you know both lopin and sumac are combos you have sumac loopin requires uh Roofing uh work to be done in conjunction sumac requires um dropping the ceiling to for efficiency and then qual and chapparel will be completed this summer those are just plug and play Asphalt and concrete uh work will be done at more schools than I can list they are on the slide um very important for Access it's one of those things like paint you don't know how important it is until

102you have that work done also reduces liability for us and then new roofs uh Calabasas wio aora Bora Lupin Hill and Willow Elementary you'll see um earlier tonight we approve or the board approved um uh bids for these projects for the roofing projects I think it's important for the public um YB and for um uh yab Buena and AC Stell were originally included in our Roofing projects because of cost the cost of roofing we had to pull those two back um those roofs are 24 and 22 year old 20 2 4 and 22 years old respectively so they're 30-year roofs so we still have some mileage on them where the roofs that are listed above far exceeded their 30-year lifetime so that's how we're prioritizing just a quick question on contractors for like ruine and

103so on you have a list of preferred providers uh for each type of work that needs to be done and when there's a bid to be made you're going out to all of those and saying would you like to put in a bid or do you go to specific ones or do I understand your process yeah for um when it comes to Services we the board um right before the bond and then there was a subsequent vote uh as you said passed the resolution to um pre-qualify providers for uh services and construction we reach out to them we uh and we go for the lowest cost the lowest price I should say and then Mr uh Mr Klein the crowd is going wild they want an encore so we'll kick it to you for the

104series B uh Tech uh projects but first this is uh the before pick uh of this is the round Meadow HVAC system this is the sumac HVAC system right now so that's going bye-bye um it looks like rattlesnakes or something in but look at that looks like something out of the Industrial Revolution we literally have to machine parts to repair it I love all the jugs of stuff up there like like well I don't know maybe this will keep it going pour that on it so we're we're getting quot quotes from the Smithsonian on that one uh loopin not an exciting pick HVAC something you feel more than you see um but in terms of uh other Tech upgrades Mr CL uh so as I said we're going to kind of continue to expand our

105sound systems but we're our systems in classrooms uh we are also doing a lot of work on multi-purpose rooms um they have been here forever and not touched in in centuries so upgrading Lighting systems upgrading audio systems we're actually in process on that as those come up as well um you've already seen all the lock systems that's also measures uh and some of the things we're looking at for the um uh for the high schools are improving their scoreboard situation their scoreboards are also a thousand years old so going with displays including video panels um so that we don't are putting actual sound systems into the elementary school mprs yes we are like ones that work yeah absolutely that's what we start' working oning on those as we set you're watch by the fact that

106the microphone's not going to work at our at our elementary nprs during whatever back to school night we're at it it depends on the school but we've been working on that so you know YB has recently been upgraded Willows on the on the dock and round Meadows uh next there are a number of uh plans down the road here to upgrade them but we will have them all not just upgraded but also running the same setup um which will be good because then if you have someone who needs to switch sites or someone who's out that night doesn't know is the only person on campus who knows how to operate the more complex systems we can pull somebody in from someplace else and have them operated as well are you while you're doing all this

107work are you are you I just think about all the different I've gone to in elementary schools the how the schools kind of rig together a camera in the back to try to record and live stream it for the grandparents and it's always different and are we thinking about trying to build something for each of these schools so they can have that capability if they want to uh not camera systems really but the rest of it yes I mean the audio and the recording and all of that kind of stuff is going to be there so um we're definitely not looking at camera systems particularly one of the things we are doing though is we're definitely easing the situation for them the whole system is set up essentially as a blackbox style setup up so

108it's all preconfigured and pre-tuned and they don't have to worry about sliders and mixers and all of those kinds of things to reduce the volume levels they'll just handle themselves automatically ideally we want them to be able to just walk up and turn on the on switch and then hand it all the microphones and everything just works that be amazing um it's not quite that easy but it's pretty close we' got it pretty good thank you and then uh as I previously mentioned the uh existing Agora pool is not competition worthy it's was built 60 years ago and failed in the um earthquake not the earthquake a week ago but the earthquake nine months ago and is currently leaking and um this pool we've uh as we designed it it's really part of a broader

109sports complex um that'll be connected to the sports medicine Academy that has well over 200 students um which just received a good half million doll grant for virtual caver labs and other things as well so um pools this will be a 52 m pool these are actual renderings initial renderings from the design team of course this still needs to be go through several layers of the facilities committee reps we're meeting with uh again uh tomorrow I believe and um you know looking at everything from finishes tiles to shade to energy recapture um and uh this will be um an extraordinary complex a pool like this is really complement to a real strong Athletic program um Mr rosenal the water polo team certainly has built a reputation um but they also facilities like this attract um

110students programs and big part of a high school so we have something that we need to replace we have something that's not competition worthy we have the opportunity to create that and we have an opportunity to connect it to our CTE and sports complex and um what's the estimated opening date of this pool oh my God 2028 was wasn't that 28 seems 27 if we're yeah no we're we're making great strides but it's been dug yet we think we'll have it in three years I think it'll be right before the Olympics yeah that's the goal as to it would be nice if we could get some Olympic practice or whatever you know out to our area that's awesome anything else Mr no so uh with the passage of this resolution the board will be authorizing

111the sale of the bonds uh following the securing of a credit rating um to be issued in May so that we can execute these uh projects we don't have any speaker cards from the public on this item so we will move to board discussion is there a motion on the table so moved a second second a motion a second any questions Dr please very thorough as usual thank you yeah no yeah I mean I know several of you have been on facilities dealing with this for year and the week deeply in the Weeds on facilities with all of it so but thank you and we are having full meetings every couple weeks and I believe more updates on facilities um and the pool will come to the board in April am I right the summer

112projects and some updates right in April April will be the big summer reveal so right now we're going out to bid for all these projects uh as we approved some tonight uh and then that will allow us we're trying to put together a calendar and a schedule and uh the one and only uh Miss Julie Abbott and her famous slide presentation I wanted to do the slide presentation tonight because I know she's always hard to follow and I wasn't sure if the interim would follow so we're doing both but she'll be here in April and I just also want to join Miss CUO and say thank you as we sit on facilities and it's just such an exciting time to see the talent in the district to get all these projects done coordinated executed it

113is amazing and we're finalizing the pool so that will come to you soon as well yes for an update yes thank you um all those in favor student I board hi i m passes YY thank you thank you very much for all the great work um information items uh move to um item add administ regulation 513 1.8 mobile communication devices Dr stefanoski Mulk Mr President members of the board Los virist adopted board policy 51 31.8 in January of 2025 which was the board policy related to mobile communication devices um csba does not have an accompany AR but at the board's request the district developed an accompanying AR outlining the progressive discipline should a student violate that board policy in developing the proposed administrative regulation District administrators met with all principles two of which are here

114tonight Mr wkey and Mr uh Foley to develop Progressive discipline designed to give students opportunities to correct their behavior before receiving more significant consequences this is in line with the state's revised accountability system the draft AR was reviewed at the February safety and wellness committee meeting with two board members miss cutbill and miss Mangus and the lvea union president Miss Miller the proposed regulation outlines the progressive discipline at the elementary middle and high school levels should a student use a mobile communication device during school hours with all the exceptions in place taking the exceptions out of that a student would be in direct violation of a teacher school and board policy if they use a mobile communication device at any time during school hours with the exception of the exemptions in Ed code based upon

115feedback from the board we'll make necessary revisions to the bo to the policy tonight on the deis um and it will not be returned as it is in administrative regulation unless the board gives direction to return it great any questions I have some comments yeah okay so on um the first page um I think this is great thank you page two of the I don't have no idea the first page of the okay so um under Elementary School it says students may not take pictures of record audio video of others anywhere on campus or so this is only under elementary school should this apply K8 K12 I I have a if I could pick you back on yours I I have a more macro yeah that's what dislike for how this is laid out because

116it assumes that we have a lot of differences between Elementary and secondary and the board passed a district policy and so I feel like you can should break it down you can have a difference of consequences I could see at different areas but our board policy does not differentiate um it is often away bellt Bell K through 12 period all stop teachers have the right to introduce into the classroom for educational opportunities in all grades K through 12 period all stop I think we've over complicated this with having that's where I was going as well and the wording is not consistent exactly the wording that's I have it all marked up because the wording is not consistent and some of it is global some's not and some is different and yeah I'm feeling like Mr

117Lawrence and so some says te some says calls some says calls and text correct yeah so I think the idea all of that is obviously doable so the language repeating that language so I think the concern when we went through this with the principles was that there is a difference in the Progressive discipline piece in terms of what the discipline would be not what the policy is and so if a parent reading this would go if you're an elementary parent you'd want to read what the elementary Progressive discipline as opposed to the high school so that was the reason why it was broken up but I understand the board's Direction and the board policy is the same but the reason why it was broken up so that it would be easier for principles to point

118to a parent to go to AR 51 31.8 under high school to see what the progressive list ofin is see and I and I agree with that and I think that's great but I think there's some language in in introducing it like Middle School there's a paragraph here I think though if you're going to have these paragraphs here they need to be the same language off in way which is why I to Mr lawren point I think you have one kind of thing and then break element the discipline I agree with you I I take your point and then the principal could point to what that discipline level can we go so if we can go paragraph by paragraph um initially we can take the language out and just do the discipline but the very

119first part yeah um I know there was some discussion about um field trips um which is not specifically mentioned in there sorry you mean the first paragraph the first paragraph correct where it says lunch nutrition and passing periods and there was some discussion about why don't we start at the top I let's work our way through I mean I I wouldn't do that I I think I think we give big what I think that's where we are I think it's where we are to I think it's so yeah and I would say I I have uh this is not the first time staff has heard some of this feedback so uh there was a decision to want to have it discussed at the de with the full board so a lot of this feedback has

120been given already but I think it's it's important for I think staff to hear the in of the board uh and not from one person um but I know uh I think it makes sense just to go Section by section and and and I think I think it's good and I would I would just start with I think there was a request from the board to instill the values that the board was assessing at the very beginning and I feel like that's missed in this it doesn't say the the why the board feels this was important and I understand this is an AR not a board policy but some ARS do say that and we are trying to instill a culture change and I think it's important for us to set at the top the

121very beginning language why we've all gathered here today yeah and and I feel the emphasis is very different in that opening paragraph uh if you compare it to what the board policy says the AR says the governing board believes this policy will Foster a more engaging learning environment reduce cyber bullying and encourage face- tace interactions among students that's all true but the the wording of the board policy was the Govern Gover in board recognizes that smart devices have a negative impact on student learning and mental health it's a much stronger intent uh thus the board encourages teachers to permit students to use Smart devices in the classroom only when essential for instructional purposes and no other means of technology is available and and again there's there's no debate that teachers have uh the right to

122do whatever they want with cell phones at the end of the day in their classrooms but it's us saying respectfully this is uh you know we we want it only when when it's essential what teachers eventually do is their decision but it's it's you know for the board to express that encouragement St yeah and so I think that wording from the board policy should be in the opening paragraph it can even just be added to the opening paragraph than you have that you have it's complimentary to what you what you have there and are I I I would agree I would agree with that add it on to the after among students I always like to start with um the first go back right after that among students I I would if I could I

123think it should be the beginning I think it should the start with positive the governing board believes policy will Foster more engaging and then go into the negative about it being you know distracting or whatever super passionate Mr Umar do you do you have a preference for or anybody else have a preference fine if it just gets added onto that that first paragraph I I think our intent is clear then so and so miss if we're all okay with it then we would take the opening paragraph that Mr Lazaro quoted and we would drop it in right after the sentence it says the governing board believes this policy will Foster and it we'll go there yes I have a second one and that is it says the only exemptions this I'm still I'm still there

124I'm still there I have this proposed up okay um okay and I don't see the exact wording you did so Mr lar where did you see that it's it's in the actual board policy which uh I I went I can email it to you if you want Andrew I can okay where is it from the board uh it's I copied it last night from the board policy I don't have it up in mind that starts the governing board recognizes that smart devices have a negative impact on student learning and mental health that's what he wants just that no no also the the wording also in the board policy that's the board encourages teachers to permit students to use Smart devices in the classroom only when essential for instructional purposes and no other means of technology

125is available I copy that also encourages we use the word encouragement in the policy changed it to that because it's teachers discretion at the end of the day what we doing is inour I guess what I'm saying is teachers are only the students are only allowed to use it in the classroom under teacher instruction we're not encouraging that so the way that's worded makes it sound like we're encouraging that to be no we're encouraging teachers to only permit it only permit to only permit it when it's essential for Learning and no other but they're only allowed to do it under word policy for that only allowed to my understanding is our board policy does not permit a teacher to say you're all free to be on your phones the next hour while I go out

126to lunch no I say it's for educational purposes yeah so I so I think it's it's already whatever I think it's no it's a direct worde from our policy we're already saying that teachers have the freedom to use the instructional materials they wish for instruction I I I found that in the policy as a whole okay it it obviously students could only do what teachers said in the classroom but intent to communicate to teachers that we encourage it only for essential purposes we're only encouraging teachers we're not saying they have to do it it okay that was not in the policy um that that's why I thought that wording should be added so that if administ administrators or teachers read this they will see what the intention of the board is to encourage okay okay

127so the next paragraph the next paragraph so I would recommend that we have two sections in one section is the policy as it is to be implemented and that is universal for K through2 and the separate section is consequences and that can be elementary middle and high school yes okay so we have one clearly consistent principles can point to and they can say here here's the K through 12 policy it's Universal it's off and away it's Bell to Bell it is it is that's it and that students will follow the rules of the established classroom teacher if elect devices to be used I I really think that we don't need to go into much more other than that I think there's I think where you have a section here on on Middle School where you

128bring up earbuds out of nowhere right well what's the earbud policy for elementary school is that allowed well that's what that's what that's what I'm saying that wasn't consistent I mean I think I think another paragraph saying cell phon SmartWatches earbuds and all electronic or connected electronic that must be off in away during school hours again it it's mentioned later under each section but with different words there now if you look up there so I think we yeah so cell phon SmartWatches earbuds and all connected electronic devices must be off and Away during uh school hours comma including or parentheses Bel to Bell I think that's including lunch nutrition and passing period right like because we said that in high school so bring it up lunch so Bell to Bell including lunch nutrition see what

129you're talking about let me try get policy again I copied it from the policy school hours right you can do that in parenthesis during yeah during including including yeah take the word during out yeah that one including during nutrition nutrition lunch and passing periods right period uh if this is for all then it's not lunch and pass period at elementary luness you can include the word recess if you want to do include it all do including recess nutrition lunge and all passing periods so that encompasses K12 it doesn't matter if not all apply to one level right yep and then did Mr wch you wanted that last sentence out students will follow the rules established by their no I'm fine to leave that in there I have an addition that I want to add to

130that that one paragra correct so I I feel pretty strongly in talking to a number of parents about that who are no self-owned policy parents that we need to make sure that we are following all Ed code um in including 49011 which is very clearly states that we cannot a teacher cannot use a cannot require a student or even assign a device to be used for educational purposes in the classroom that the district is not providing uh it is creating a separate une equal education system or as the Ed code says a two-tiered education system that is against the law in the state of California so I want I would like very specific language that speaks to the requirement to follow Ed code 49011 and that if any teacher is choosing to utilize a mobile

131or connected device in the classroom they must have taken they must have taken the they must have whatever legal term you want to use taking the necessary steps to ensure there are adequate similar devices provided in the classroom for other students and that no student is made to feel left out because of because that is happening today in our district AB I strongly strongly support this I do too it's on calculators if if they tell you to bring a calculator at school and a student doesn't have one they forget it they can't afford it it is they have extras they have to have extras in class for students does that suffice what we read up there what did you say teachers are not permitted to require a student to use a mobile communication device in

132the classroom teachers must provide a similar device for students to complete their no because because we are letting them use it teachers are allowed to use it in the classroom I think that we need an extra sentence before that part no I think it's different because there's a difference between Ed code does not allow a teacher to say in the classroom now we're going to for those you who have a cell phone we're going to go over here and for those of you who don't we're going to go over here that's not requiring but that's still against the law so so I think the language this needs to say is um I want to this is like a really sensitive issue with a number of parents in our community um well we can bring this

133back you know next meeting so we can do it right now yeah yeah but I'm just saying in general to really I think what needs another sentence at the very first paragraph that says the part that Mr lar was talking about is Teachers encouraging te you know teacher use Ed Edco allows teachers to um have students use the cell phones okay now that was not what I was referring to though I was referring to the wording we put in our policy okay which is in the policy I copied it last night I'm I'm sorry my login is not working full Dam now I don't know okay it it may not oh you do I don't see it there there is unless I'm missing in the policy about in the policy yes about teach I have

134the I think it's on the second page it's a little further down the second page yeah it it it follows the section where obviously teachers are permitted to use at their discretion according to ad code and it says what we encourage I mean I I believe you I just don't see it I don't see it in policy I I cannot log into gamit right now but I copied it l teacher use isn't in the policy I mean did you look on gamut or did you look on the one that we worked off of I looked at the final one we discussed it at meeting that specific do you see it in there because I don't so the first sentence I don't either so for the section Ron now maybe we'll come back to that what

135I would like to suggest for the board is it says students will follow the rules established by their classroom teacher if an electronic device is used in the class period great teachers may not permit the use of personal electronic devices in class unless they take rigorous steps to ensure compliance with California Education Code 4 9011 um I think it needs to be very clear that this means that no student will be required or expected to use a personal device and all necessary and equivalent devices must be provided for those students with that one some version of that that you feel comfortable with needs to be very clear that if that if we're going to use if we're going to have a lesson that has a a mobile or personal device before that lesson is taught

136the teacher or the site administrator needs to make sure they're in compliant with 49011 and brought in extra devices in the back of the classroom so a student doesn't realize at the middle they don't have one they have to stand up and go to the office and get one and they're singled out as a kid who doesn't have a cell phone that just one that's illegal and two it just shouldn't happen so I want to make sure that we are however we need to put this in there we're saying hey you're full free and flexible to use a mobile device in your educational environment you need to make sure that you've taken account for every kid in the classroom to have one and know it is integral to it because we we've had threats if

137not outright law suits on basis of like even suggesting you must buy the tennis uniform right so um it absolutely goes to following the law and the spirit of the law abs and it also reflects what is going on uh in the community that kids are being pressured a lot at the elementary level particularly and feeling singled out left out because they don't have cell phones so obviously as parents we have to deal with that and uh if it's dealt with at school it helps a lot as well that kids are not made to feel left stop because they don't have a cell phone I had a question of why we're including earbuds in the like wording because you can make a phone call in earbud right you can I think what we're saying is

138the earbuds are falling under the same policy as our our phone so if a teacher for example in the classroom wants to say uh you're free to have uh earbuds so that you can use your MacBooks or your acers that have been provided um we're all going to go in separate and watch videos um check me on this Mr kle can you use uh Bluetooth earbuds with the acers yeah so uh but the student may not have paid for one doesn't have the $100 earbuds we need to make sure that there are headphones in that classroom that have been provided for that student to use on that um that's the point if it's if it's if the if it's being used in the classroom uh for educational exper educational usage there has to be one

139for kids who don't have one is your question why are we not allowing earbuds for non-educational purposes yeah I guess I just don't understand that like I use music when I do homework and like when I'm in class to focus sometimes it's too loud for me I can't like I can't read or write anything if it's too loud um and then for interaction like I'll share like airpods and I think um the regular ones too allow you to share audio so as far as like interaction goes like my friend and I and AP Lang will uh will'll do homework together and we'll share audio so we can like Bond over listening to the same music while we separately do our work so I guess I just don't understand Banning earbuds I would say the challenge

140with that is under our board policy that we've adopted you will not be able to listen to music on your smart device in that classroom it has to be off and Away not just away but turned off and put away I think that the computers have access I mean my computer has access to my Spotify and also Apple music so and then if it's like a concern during class and like people listening to music during class they can't have their phone out and they can't have their computer out while the teacher is talking so they can't have the only thing to connect to while the teacher is doing a lecture or instructing you get what I'm saying the goal in the attend is to have the student listening to the teacher and paying attention class

141no that's what I'm saying there's no way that you can if your computer's shut it won't connect and if your phone's off and Away there you it'll just like disconnect and obviously you'll see if something's plugged in so I just I think that it it would be difficult to sneak it if you're in class and off and away and then I I just think that it's like a little bit of a reach like I understand cell phones and smart watches but earbuds like I just think that there's good uses for it and I don't think it should be banned I I I feel like if there's an educational use for it the teachers have the right to allow it and that's under our current board policy and I I and I feel like if a

142teacher doesn't want to have it in their classroom I don't want to make them have to be the ones who are the cops for it I'd rather the district be the one that sets a board policy that says not allowed and if you're a teacher the wants to have an exception for an educational use in your class or if you believe that your students do better homework with it in the past you can authorize them to have their headphones on based under this policy I believe but I that's how I feel I'll just speak for myself Miss F uh the I just did manage to get the board policy up it's I'm under number four and the exact wording in the board policy is the board encourages teachers to permit students to use Smart devices

143in the classroom uh only when essential for instructional purposes and other means of technology is available I just I think that was not reflected in the AR it said that students students could only um uh use cell phones if their teacher instructed them but it did not give the board uh encouragement to teachers that they should only be used when essential that's added and then if we could look at the I added it to the first paragraph like you asked thank you is can can we re review the third paragraph which is what we were just talking about in terms of uh what Mr Lawrence had brought up you know the other thing with with earbud um at high school level you know we're encouraging uh parents to drop off like first period if a

144if a student doesn't have a second period because it's a later start you know we've opened the library the media center Up For Students to come and do homework or whatever so like you said is then they can't use their earbuds to listen to music and study there or do we allow it up to the media clerk to you know use that as their discretion with students because you know it does help with traffic it does help with working parents to drop them off then it does help with siblings so you're talking about the ones who may come before school starts and how many I mean you could you could argue both ways you could argue that's not Bell to Bell because their school day hasn't started right you could make that argument um if

145they're coming in because their parents are dropping off early they don't start until second period but they need but I think that's a dangerous slippery slope for us to say if you're on campus and you're not in a class you can have your phone out on Tik Tok how is the person who's monitoring who's using phones and not supposed to know our policy is a bellt bell if that's not clear we should put it in the we should put the time but Bell to Bell means when the first bell rings at the end beginning of the day and when the last bell rings at the end of the day not when your bell rings as a student when you're on so so if that's not clear we should put that in the board policy the

146AR that makes it very clear that the intent of the board is from whatever time zero period starts whatever what time is that I don't know what that is um top of my head the top of your head but when it ends I know it changes every day based on the schedule that my daughter has zero period so student who have I'll give you an example opposite of that so to speak so you're a student and you have a sport your day doesn't end six period you stay for football for two or three hours after then it's under that it would kind of make your class I feel like the class schedule that when the bell rings for final the day on campus they call yeah they call it Bell Dev Bell in like 8,000

147school districts because it's supposed to be pretty clear it's when the morning bell rings and when the ending Bell Rings very first class and if you go to Theater Arts afterwards for um a uh that's after the final after the final Bell that's your thing if you you the other 17 hours of the day students can use their funds right now and Mr Wy can speak to this because we currently have uh are not allowing kids I believe when they're in the if they don't have a period they have a free period and they're sitting in the lecture hall we did say they're not allowed to use the mobile communication devices is that accurate you has to come to the mic yeah you want you want you want to come to mic yeah we can't

148if it's in the middle of the day that's what we're talking about good evening Mr presid than for the comforting and warm sweater vest rers everything right um yeah like like Mrs faul is saying if it is during the school day periods three and four when they're sitting in the lecture hall they're not supposed to be on their devices um nutrition break and lunchtime we have been permitting it this year yep but those students that are already done for the day and maybe waiting for practice um it's been a little different and like you said it is tricky to know which schedule they're falling under so I do understand that slippery slope that you're talking about um but during the school day we're not allowing them on it is it clear to you as a

149principal what Bel to Bell means or let me ask what does bel to Bell mean to you I mean it's easier to interpret as when school starts and school ends because then we can universally apply it with our campus supervisors but when does school end in your mind on 3 o'clock on Mondays and 3:30 on the other days yes see that's what it means to me as well so if you have sports afterwards or you know whatever else it might be that's fine but if you have a release period and you're staying on campus you're not on your phone because the Bell is still that wrong yeah and next year schu and next year we're not going to have all these release periods either which will be fantastic so do we need to put any

150clear language into this miss faul that that def I'm asking you guys have to deter defines what bell to Bell means do you feel like you need that if a bus hits this entire de next week and someone goes what is this board policy how do we I think it's clearer than putting start and end time because that would be that applies to me more starting in time to the student as opposed to Bel to Bell for the school wait so you're suggesting what now no I'm suggesting Bell to Bell is better kindy to clarify it differently like start and end time could be specific to a student right but does that third paragraph capture what you everyone wanted on the days yes yeah just the third paragraph my only request would be and then

151again I don't know how detailed this has to be I feel like the more detailed the better for the first couple years is that we say something like before the decision is made to utilize a device in the classroom the teacher has to ensure 49.0 one1 has been followed so we're not like what I don't want to have happen is what I'm hearing is happening and that kids are getting called out in classroom or having to go join with somebody else in their group did you read that yeah because it says okay so Jim said before devices are used in the classroom compliance must be in accordance with great perfect okay thank you thanks all right thank you and then do are we saying we want to take out the next paragraph correct we're basically

152saying well it was only I believe under Elementary doesn't wouldn't it now is applying to everyone so no leave it because it applies to right exactly I believe it was under it was under element but if we're doing Bell to Bell you can't do that anyway that's why it's that's why I think it should go but I also believe this sits in another board policy this so this is already this is person I've seen this language before so far so so think we take it out of this because it's confusing because it says well wait you can have a phone okay okay that works okay is there anything else that needs to be well keep going you'll see that needs to be ensconced in the text I would say a text I so I my

153issue with this one is again it it it appes everybody the phone should be in their bag so what what they're getting nailed on is not did they make because then then the question comes down to a parents to say well they weren't making a call or a text they just had the phone on their hand right there are two ways you get popped on this infraction if the phone is on period even if it's in your bag or if it's out of your bag and the phone is off the opposite of off and away like like exactly so it's pretty clear the phone has to be turned off and in your bag if you violate either one of those and say on and out it can't be on and out it can't be off

154and out actually this is also easier for teachers to enforce a clear enforcement they don't have to worry about every ping that comes in yes I would delete that entire first sentence and just say um you know first infraction or first infraction or if it's off if it's not off and away if the cell phone is out or something like or however you said it here's why here's why I think the principal's added that though just okay that's so we have a lot of discussions with parents about kids can't use their phones during school hours but we know even now with that current policy we have parents calling and texting during the school day which is why I think the principles felt strongly about they agree with everything you said but there needs to be

155something in the policy that the student will also receive discipline if a parent call because the reality is and these are kids there are going to be kids who forget to turn off their cell phone there's no doubt about that so I think I think you lead with what the board policy is and that is that any instance of a student having a phone that is either not off and that is that has to be off and Away off and Away both it's not off or away it's off and Away will lead to the following consequences this includes a student who receives a text cell phone or other notification during school hours yeah it does yeah okay so it's not we lost the PO the AR okay no we're there again I would just say

156yeah yeah okay and again it's not mobile communication it's even if the phone is just on and out you're done unless the teacher has told you you could use it like that needs I think I would just say any instance of unauthorized mobile device usage because we've already identified that what's authorized is when the teacher says I have a plan I'm going to use it in my classroom that's the only way it can be authorized except usage applies that it can be on but away if I don't use it that's why I mean we're gonna have people who parse out words so we need to parse out words if I have it on and it's in my backpack and I'm not using it then that doesn't qualify under usage here here's the bottom line with

157this this is such a change of culture we may have to come back and revise this at some point I mean it's just such a you know we're doing the best we can start as start as strong as we canre but if there if there becomes problems with it that's what I'm saying so so maybe you start the sentence with every student is required to have their phone off and away all day right that's a good one period That's Clarity right and if you feel like you need to include the except for authorized education uses pursu I I I've already addressed that the board the top then you say then you can say if a student every student is required to have their mobile communication device off and Away throughout the school day and I

158would say any violation of this will have Progressive conse any violation of this parentheses including receiving any text call or other notification including policy yeah then parentheses including iing receiving call text or other notification receiving any call notification will result in the following Progressive consequences okay then delete the rest after or uses a smartphone during school hours including recess nutrition so delete everything after notification or other notification delete all of that we WR save the last four line four four words will result in the following Progressive consequences and don't forget like headphones a lot of our curriculum and cast testing uses headphones so we want to make sure that we clarify that this is not about headphones or whatever we're talking mobile communication right right okay good okay uh is there no escalation if the

159kid does this every day I noticed that for the elementary school we kind of cut it off at the second slap on the wrist it's the same thing over over again we just there's no phone has to be checked in at the office we're just okay with it I mean I think that the principle this has been an ongoing thing at elementary school we're not changing policy I think the principles feel like the policy that's in place has been 100% effective which is why they don't feel like we unlike High School especially where it's going to be a very dramatic culture shift uh I think you delete the opening paragraph of this one because we've already set it up and then you just go to what the infractions are fore so we should can we

160not just make Middle School and High School the same uh because I I I thought yeah what would the difference be well that's the thing the the high school policy is written um let's have a look at the wording the wording says um first infraction student will be directed to put away their phone the device may be confiscated by staff member at the discretion of the staff member the phone will be returned at the end of the period or turned into the office to be picked up at the end of the day I feel like again that puts a lot of onus onto teachers that I mean every High School teacher has what hundreds of students they expected to remember who they've told before who they have they have to police it after you know

161if it's just a CA um it will be confiscated and turn into an administrator it's a clear strong message that will get the policy done and FKS won't even be thinking about their phones with it Mr lazar's question I agree 100% if we just took the first through four of secondary schools what are we missing what are we missing that changes it from high school what else are we're looking at uh I'm looking at that yeah the first infraction yes right so if we listed a secondary that would cover every get rid of all and then get rid of all the high school I think we did out of curiosity what are the infractions that make students lose off campus uh yeah access grades tardies uh discipline Ken all of this I would like to

162suggest the cell phone policy should be in of that yes violation of cell phone policy should get them that's what's going to help bring about I think the attention that's the carrot for juniors and seniors Juniors and seniors but yes it's only jior stage but it's the thing everybody wants so were you thinking the third second what infraction were you thinking and I guess I think third is fine I I would I I don't know how we currently have that in our our ARS where we do we specifically say no so it's left to the principal to decide if if you've been tardy 10 times I mean you you lose yours it's not like an automatic eight times you lose it off campus we don't have a consistent policy for that do high schoolers not

163serve detention and maybe on this third infraction it would be serve detention or lose off campus privileges an option we only have secondary kid I mean high school kids serving I mean they can it's not a common thing so is it not is it not in written somewhere let me ask I could ask you is it is it is it is it is it black and white when a student when they do something if it causes them to lose off-campus permissions or is it kind of up to the counselor or the administration if they currently the off-campus permissions are associated with grades and tardies that's it right now is there a set number of tardies it um it's usually around five T well four to five tardies per quarter for five weeks sorry for five

164weeks so it averages out to about one a week if for me if we're going to include off campus uh privileges I'd rather this go back to the principles to talk in the the administrators I I don't really want to be policing this from here that's just me so I I would be comfortable with not in I think it should be in there but I would be comfortable giving it a year and seeing what happens or six months and we and if we're hearing and seeing anecdotally that it's just being blatantly not followed and we're having huge problems agree we can come back and have a discussion about that I think that getting too far also write under may result in a referral to District counseling or loss of off campus privileges it's is good

165I like that okay that works yes because then a principal has that at their disposal of something if they're having a problem with somebody and you can leave it both Jim I mean it's kind of stupid to lose you're off campus because then you can go off campus and use your phone well that's that's a really good point yes be really dumb to jeopardize that but somebody might LAUSD and some of the schools where they've purchased Yonder bags they're only using Yonder bags for remediation um where if it's like you're if you violated the off and Away policy for the third time you're required to come in every morning and check your bag into a Yonder bag do we have any sense for how does that run into Ed code or with students being able

166to have is it I mean is it if they're doing it I assume it's legal but I mean well it goes back to what you originally said in the beginning that you can do that provided that if a teacher requires it they provide some other way for the student to be able toess you know use a mobile communication [Music] device I think those are things we think about in nine or 12 months if we don't see the policy being way that we followed yeah but there are always other things that could kind of we'll see how it works at the schools that are using it for mediation well just with the current policy that we have by all accounts at uh especially at the high school teachers are consistently and administrators are consistently reporting cell

167phone use is down dramatically from when we didn't have it so it's going to be a change the lunch nutrition my guess is we're going to see more kids going off campus at lunch um you know then we'll have to look at tardies what's the impact of that we have to look at the Ripple effects of all these which we don't know at this time well if they're tardy they're tardy and there's consequences to being tardy we don't roll back because they're tardy no I'm just saying we don't know the ramifications of this until we actually roll it out I think one of the things that we saw at least I heard from the principal of the Newport fee school was that one of the immediate things they saw was a momentary blip in scuffles

168in Middle School um because none of our students have been taught conflict resolution skills uh so now that they had to go talk to somebody face to face they lost that they said they immediately discovered that and started teaching conf resolution skills and it was solved within a month but it was a fascinating aha for them that we're raising a whole generation that does not know how to talk to somebody in the eye and say I disagree with you about something and this was forcing those conversations and and then for the positive outcome so I think there are going to be things that we detect along the way that will be worthwhile I I think Miss Stein's probably right I wouldn't be surprised if we're back looking at this again in 9 12 months when

169your board president all yours so is this good to go in terms of yes good to go the only thing is add on that third infraction uh may result in referral to District counseling or law loss of off-campus privileges yeah right oh I'm looking what are you reading it's not even on that screen is is the fourth one any different than the third it feels like it's very similar yeah oh okay okay well plus one is a month one is a semester okay in terms of what they have to do I I just I don't think we're gonna be having to use that much I I think that the students are gonna click in place I mean everything the data tells us is that students follow the rules once the rules are clearly articulated they

170are one one difference for us in almost all the schools that I've looked at including the one that that you spoke with down we have a lot more kids going off campus than any other which is I think it's I'm not saying that's a bad thing a lot of the schools that have implemented this are closed campuses they don't L their kids off or they let a small amount of kids off that is a that's been the culture and I think it's great my girls loved it when they were able to get off campus but that's going to be a little bit of an adjustment that other schools who have implemented this have not had to deal with exactly I think that's fair so okay I would like to uh request that this come back

171as an information item on the next board agenda just so that because it is such a big policy thing so that we have the completed copy for people like but why I mean we have a final document I'm not really to discuss it or anything but just like I don't have any notes of of what changes be sent out with I'm just put in the Friday letter yeah can you put the before and after version on the Friday letter okay well it'll go on to gamut you can download it I just it' be helpful for M Mangus anybody wants to see what it went from to um we could put yeah okay is that okay good idea yeah unless unless there's no personally I just feel I'm so sick of talking about C at this

172point and I just hope we can of us in the room we move on and like just implement this positively and move to New positive things so let it be done all right I appreciate that I did tell Alan he wouldn't have any more cell phone meetings for a while uh all right with that uh thank you everybody and uh meeting's returned thank you Mr Wy and Mr FY