5.13.26 Board Meeting

001Good evening. This is the May 12th meeting of the Board of Education of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. Our meetings are broadcast over Zoom to provide the opportunity for our community to observe in real time. The Board of Education of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District is now reconvening to open session and at 6 18 p.m. Please be advised that our board meetings are televised on local channel 28 on Wednesday and Saturday evenings and on Monday, Friday, and Saturday mornings. All actions approved in closed session must be reported out in open session. Trustee Prusso, can you read out? Thank you. By a vote of five to zero, the board took action to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the settlement agreement for the OAH case number 202630896 and also by a

002vote of five zero, the board the board took action to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the settlement agreement for OAH case number 2026020952. That concludes our closed session. Thank you. Moving on to the Pledge of Allegiance, we'll start with our Pledge of Allegiance. I'll ask Andrew Gomez from Granada High School, will you please lead us in the pledge? Thank you. 7-0, deletions or corrections to the agenda, acting superintendent Pichette, are there any changes to the agenda? Yes, President Drew, an administration is requesting that item 14.4.B.A. approval of revised CSCA job description office specialists be pulled from the agenda for further review and consideration. Trustee Bueno? Just a small request, if we could, could we pull a number? No, she just did. What's that? I think she just did. No? No. Keep going. Okay.

003Ignore me. It's the same, yeah, but it's different. It's, everyone's right here. I'd like to pull out of consent a 15.5 D. David and that's, it's a rezone. I'd like to build a, do that separately maybe during recognition or something. So thank you. So the, so we had a request to pull 14.4.B.A. approved, approval of the revised CSCA job description office specialists from the agenda and to move 15.5.D. resolution number 95-2526, recognizing Stevie Joyce-Martin to the recognition portion of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as amended? I move to approve the agenda as amended. Second. So motion from Trustee Prusso, second from Trustee Bueno. My brain, it's me. Any discussion on the motion? Clerk, if you could call roll. Trustee Caplales? Aye. Myself, aye. Trustee Prusso? Aye. Trustee Bueno? Aye. President

004Druhan? Aye. That motion carries 5-0. Say it again. I was going to ask them. Oh, you're right. Trustee Deepak and Trustee Kress? Aye. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to 8-0 recognitions. Up first, 8.1 drawing with Little League World Series. I'd like to invite Ms. Kathleen Mincer and Mr. Bill Albarumod of the Little League World Series to come forward to conduct the official team draw to establish the schedule for the upcoming tournament. Well, first of all, thank you for having us. And we love that we get to be out at the Little League field here in Livermore. This is our 12th year. It would have been our 14th if we did it through COVID, but we had two years we were off. So I'm Kathleen Mincer, Director of PR and Media for the tournament.

005And I'd like to first present you with a plaque for our tournament we completed last year. So that's for you. And then we're going to do the draw. But before that, Bill's going to say a few words. Thank you. My name is Bill Abumrad. I'm actually the Tournament Director and Facilities Director for Little League World Series. And as Kathleen said, this event was awarded to us in 2013. And I was on the original committee and I'm still here now. But more importantly, the Livermore School District has been an active participant in this event since its inception. And we could not be doing this event without your support and your help. The whole staging area where we set up our compound all takes place at Smith Elementary School. From setting up our trailers to support the

006kids for where they eat and ESPN and that whole setup happens on Smith Elementary School. So I cannot thank the board enough for all their support these past 12 years. And I do want to give a special shout out to Glenn Sherman. Glenn works closely with me. This is the time of year him and I get together on a pretty regular basis. But the support that we've had from all of you guys over these past 12 years has just been phenomenal. And we are very, very appreciative. And I think we were here a couple years ago doing the draw. We love having you guys do this draw for us. And this will get sent back to Williamsport after tonight. And then our event starts on August 2nd. And this year it's a little bit later.

007It goes from August 2nd to August 9th and the teams will start arriving on July 31st. So we'll have about 250 kids here plus coaches and then all the families. So again, thank you so much for your continued support. Okay, so we have to do our draw in a live setting so that it's the integrity of who plays who is kept. So if you'll take, say the first. Southeast. Okay, Southeast. Thank you. Australia. 057. D57. Asia Pacific. East. East, yeah. Sorry, we'll let you do one. Europe. Africa. Wow. Oh, there's one more. Canada. Central. Latin America. West. Puerto Rico. Southwest. And we left you some little goodies into your station. So enjoy. And there's a couple extra shirts that Michelle has if you need to change sizes. So again, on behalf of Little League International

008World Series, I thank you for your time today. Thank you. For those in the community who may know or may not know, Mrs. Mincer and Mr. Boomerod, their level of philanthropy over the years. I coached in this city for over 30 years and their level of philanthropy is unmatched what they do for children. I'd like to give them a big round of applause. Nice. Thank you both. Thank you. You guys did great work. A lot of lucky kids. 8-2. Mr. Clark Conover, principal of Granada High School, will recognize the boys and girls wrestling teams. And Stevie Joyce-Martin. Good evening, board president Druin, members of the board, acting superintendent Pichette, and community. I'm Clark Conover, proud principal of Granada High School. It is my honor to recognize the incredible achievements of our wrestling program. We often

009talk about Granada Pride, but what this team has accomplished over the last year and nearly the last decade is a great example in discipline, grit, and the power of dedicated culture. The numbers alone are staggering. Our program has now secured the EVAL Championship for eight years running, a streak that speaks to the sustained excellence fostered by our coaching staff. This year, both our boys and girls programs solidified their status as elite contenders in the north coast section. The girls team captured the NCS Tournament Championship in the NCS Tri-Valley title while placing fourth in the NCS Dual Meat Tournament. The boys team took second place in the NCS Dual Meat Championships, second in the Tri-Valley, and finished third overall at the NCS Tournament. Our athletes brought home 11 NCS medals, six for the boys and five

010for the girls. On the state level, we are home to Stevie Joyce-Martin, or SJ, Granada's first ever wrestling state champion, and two-time medalist, and Maile Nguyen, also a two-time state medalist. Perhaps most impressively though, these students are proving that they are just as formidable in the classroom as they are on the mat. I'm incredibly proud to share that the wrestling team placed second in the NCS Scholastic Team Awards. This honor highlights the fact that our wrestlers are maintaining elite academic standards while competing at the highest possible level in the state. While the hardware is impressive, I am most proud of the skill and the spirit of the program. With over 40 student athletes on the roster, wrestling has become a place where Granada finds a second family. This doesn't happen by accident. It's a result

011of a dedicated coaching staff that spends countless hours in the room molding not just wrestlers, but resilient, high-achieving young men and women. These athletes have proven that with hard work and a committed team behind you, there's no limit to what can be achieved on the mat or in the classroom. Please join me in celebrating the continued legacy of the Granada High School Wrestling Program. Go Mats. If we could coach, before we come around, can we mention the, yeah, the recognition? The item that we pulled, it's a resolution. And if people would endure, I'd like to actually read the resolution and we can vote on it separately. Go for it. It's resolution 95-2526, recognizing and congratulating Stevie Joyce Martin, SJ, for being named 2026 Girls California Interscholastic Federation State Champion. Whereas the Governing Board of the

012Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District proudly celebrates the achievement of students whose dedication, perseverance, and commitment bring honor to their school and community. And whereas Stevie Joyce Martin of Granada High School has demonstrated exceptional determination, discipline, and resilience throughout the 2026 wrestling season. And whereas Stevie Joyce has earned the distinguished title of 2026 California Interscholastic Federation State Champion, achieving the highest level of success in California High School Wrestling. And whereas Stevie Joyce further attained the extraordinary honor of National Champion, placing among the very best high school wrestlers in the nation. And whereas while many talented student athletes from Granada High School qualified for and competed at the state championship, Stevie Joyce's achievements represent a singular and exceptional accomplishment. Whereas this success reflects not only Stevie Joyce's hard work and dedication, but also the support and

013guidance of Coach Shawn Jackson and Coach Spencer Phillips, the coaching staff, teammates, and her family. Now therefore be it resolved that the Governing Board of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District hereby congratulates and celebrates Stevie Joyce for earning the title of State and National Champion and recognizes this outstanding achievement as a source of great pride for the school district and community. Be it further resolved that the Governing Board commends Stevie Joyce for exemplifying excellence, leadership, and sportsmanship, and for serving as an inspiration to fellow students and athletes. So I would entertain a motion on this resolution. I got it. Go ahead. I move to support the acting superintendent's recommendation to adopt this resolution recognizing Stevie Joyce Martin. I second. Motion from Trustee Prusso, second to Trustee Kaplanis. Any discussion on the motion? No. Clerk

014can call the roll. Trustee Kaplanis. I definitely support this resolution and I also believe we should do something more because winning State and National Champion is an incredible achievement. Trustee Bueno. Aye. Trustee Prusso. Aye. Myself. Aye. President Druhan. Aye. Trustee Gruss. Aye. Trustee Deepak. Aye. Motion carries unanimously. Round of applause. Yeah, if you get a chance, come watch them wrestle next year. They're really exciting to watch. Elevate them. Tall. Can you see Emily? Right here. Okay. All right. Hey, Spence, didn't you wrestle 122s? Thanks. Appreciate it. Nice job. Thank you. Steven. Two more. What's that? I got to go on the whistle. What do you mean the whistle? What are you talking about? No, that she made the motion before you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. After reading, I was just going to extend it, but

015that's fine. Thank you all. Eight, three. Mrs. Alyssa Lopez will recognize the Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program Year Two Teachers. Greetings, Board President Druhan, members of the board, Acting Superintendent Pichette, members of cabinet, members of the community. I'm Matthew Hart. I'm our Director of Assessment and Accountability. Every year, very quietly and efficiently behind the scenes, our Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program does an absolutely amazing job of preparing our teachers new to the profession and over the course of two years supporting them and setting them up the best that they can in order to just, I guess, support them to have a long, long-term successful, happy career in teaching. And so at the end of those two years, our teachers complete the program. And I'm going to turn this over to our amazing coordinator of the program, Alyssa

016Lopez, who will talk us through our celebration and recognition of those teachers. Okay. Yes. My name is Alyssa Lopez, and I serve as the Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program or TV Tip Coordinator for Livermore and the Director for our consortium, which is Livermore, Castro Valley, and Dublin. With me tonight are my amazing colleagues, Amanda Andino, Heather Bateson, and Michelle Apodaca. And we're here tonight to share the impact of TV Tip and to celebrate those completing teachers. TV Tip currently supports and works closely with 41 teachers who hold preliminary credentials here in Livermore, supporting them four to six hours per month through observations and meetings reflecting on classroom management, instructional practices, and just-in-time support. Here's where the math gets kind of fun, but due to what we call the multiplier effect, those 41 people are leading 87

017different classes every single day. And by the end of the year, they will have reached over 2,600 students. So when we invest in just one of our teachers, that support ripples to touch thousands of students. Of those 41 teachers, we're specifically celebrating 19 of them tonight who have completed their induction journey. To get to this point, this is just a quick look at some of the work that they've engaged in over the past two years. Alongside their coach, these teachers have used the California Standards for the Teaching Profession, or the CSTPs, to develop professional goals. They've moved into learning about their students and their diverse needs through bi-weekly observation and feedback cycles, engaging in multiple inquiry cycles, and consistently reflecting on their teaching practice. These teachers have shown growth across all areas of teaching. Through

018this hard work, these teachers and our program have ensured they have met the high standards of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and bridged the gap between what they've learned in college and what you actually need to do on a Tuesday morning in a classroom. So now, without further ado, I am proud to honor this very special group of teachers. Behind me, will all of our TV teachers please stand? Over the past two years, these educators have finished their intensive induction journey and completed all requirements for a California CLEAR teaching credential. As you can see throughout our slides, our TV Tip logo is the Marigold. Marigolds are remarkable plants. They don't just grow, they protect. When planted alongside other plants, marigolds naturally repel pests and reduce weeds, helping everything around them grow stronger, healthier, and

019more resilient. As coaches, we strive to be marigolds, but now it is your turn to be the marigolds in your schools, to create spaces where people feel genuinely encouraged and supported and where growth feels possible. In just a few weeks, we will be recommending these teachers for their CLEAR teaching credentials. I am so proud to introduce this year's Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program completers. We're going to have a quick slideshow for everyone, including teachers who are not here. Thank you. On the 8-4, I'm going to recognize our student board members. So I'd like to recognize our student board members. First, I'd like to recognize Isla Gruss, of Granada High School, for her outstanding service as the 2025-26 student representative to the board, and for the extraordinary leadership, scholarship, and passion she's demonstrated throughout her high school

020career. Representing more than 2,000 students across our district, she has brought a thoughtful and collaborative student voice to the board, to board discussions and district decision-making, advocating for student experience and support services with maturity and insight beyond her years. A dedicated scholar with a 3.95 GPA and a 1510 SAT score, and an impressive record of AP and IB coursework, Isla has consistently pursued learning with curiosity and purpose, particularly in the fields of biology and healthcare. Her experiences shadowing dental professionals and interning at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory helped deepen her passion for biomedical sciences and her future goal of working in healthcare. In addition to her academic accomplishments, she has been deeply involved in student leadership and campus life. As class president and longtime student government leader, she organized major school events, directed large-scale homecoming productions

021involving hundreds of students, helped raise more than $5,000 for her class, and worked tirelessly to strengthen school spirit and student connection. As captain of the varsity tennis team, she led with positivity, teamwork, and encouragement, earning recognition from coaches and teammates alike for her spirit, growth, and dedication. Her commitment to service extends well beyond campus. Through the 24-hour race, she helped raise awareness and funds to combat human trafficking, recruiting classmates, and organizing fundraising efforts year after year. She's also worked as a tutor, tennis coach, and nursery worker, experiences that reflect her patience, kindness, and genuine love of working with children and supporting others. Described as inquisitive, dedicated, and collaborative, Isla exemplifies the very best of Granada High and the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. The board thanks her for exceptional leadership advocacy and service and

022wishes her continued success as she pursues biomedical sciences at the University of Michigan. Round of applause. Next, I'd like to recognize Livermore High School Junior Robin Deepak for his outstanding service as the 2025-26 student representative to the board and for the exceptional leadership, innovation, and initiative he has demonstrated both within our district and throughout the broader community. As a thoughtful and forward-thinking student advocate, he has represented Livermore High School students with professionalism, insight, and a strong commitment to student voice, and the board is pleased that he will continue serving in this important role next year. Passionate STEM leader and entrepreneur Robin has already made a remarkable impact through projects focused on science, technology, and community problem solving. As the heat mapping lead for the Tri-Valley Youth Climate Action Program, he has helped map urban heat

023islands across the Tri-Valley using custom built heat sensors and presented the team's findings at the regional, state, and national conferences attended by thousands of participants. His work is now helping inform conservations with schools, with school and city officials about infrastructure improvements at Livermore High School and throughout the city of Livermore. Demonstrating both vision and initiative, he has also founded Pillars of Tech, a STEM-focused non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to science and technology education for younger students. Through partnerships with local schools and organizations, including the Pedrozi Foundation and Altamont Creek Elementary School, the organization has already reached more than 1,000 students through hands-on STEM learning opportunities with plans to continue expanding its impact across the community. In addition, Robin has co-authored two artificial intelligence research papers with mentors from leading institutions including META, the University

024of California, Berkeley, and San Jose State University, reflecting both his intellectual curiosity and commitment to advanced research and innovation. Through his involvement with the Livermore High School's GraviTechX robotics business team, he has helped raise more than $60,000 over the past two seasons while mentoring middle school students through the creation of a FIRST LEGO League team and hosting a regional robotics tournament for Bay Area schools. Through his leadership, service, and dedication to using STEM education and innovation to improve his community, Robin exemplifies the very best of Livermore High School and the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. The board thanks him for his continued service and looks forward to the positive impact he will continue to make in the year ahead. Round of applause for Robin. Now student board member reports. So we'll hear from Robin.

025Trustee Diepock first. April was a thrilling month for the Livermore High School Cowboys. Spring sports are slowly coming to an end as the end of the year approaches. Boys volleyball is the 2026 e-ball champions, defeating Dublin in that e-ball tournament to win the school's first boys volleyball championship. Congratulations to the team on this historic achievement. They ended the season off with a 32-5 record, going 13-2 in league play, ranked 42nd in the state and 100th nationally. We are proud of them for their team's commitment as well as the recognition they have brought to Livermore High School. Not only has there been excellence among the volleyball team, but softball is also ranked number one in e-ball, number one in NCS, and number one in NorCal, and number eight in the state for the 2026 season. Outstanding

026work for our softball program as well. In addition, Boys Lacrosse recently hosted a first-round NCS game on Tuesday, May 5th against Clayton Valley and won. Thank you to everyone who came out to support our Cowboys. We are proud of all of our student athletes for making this past season a great success with memorable experiences and accomplishments across every sport. Student achievements at our school have also not fallen short. Congratulations to our outstanding Bridge teams from the Project Lead the Way Principles of Engineering honors class, who competed at the Engineers Alliance for the Arch Bridge Competition held at the University of California, Berkeley on April 25th, 2026. The Ashton Arch Bridge team earned the prestigious President's Award. Team members included Tara Dabu, Jackson Kung, and Kellen Belts. The Ashley Bridge team earned an impressive third place

027finish. Team members included Anish Kona, Hayden Pereira, and Vivonne Gofferpour, and Claire Gallagher. Both bridges were designed as pedestrian and bicycle bridges spanning the Ashley River in Charleston and South Carolina. Teams were evaluated by outside judging on multiple components, including bridge design, aesthetics, structural integrity, technical drawings, written analysis, and oral presentation. An exceptional demonstration of real-world engineering and collaboration skills. We're incredibly proud of these students and all the participants for their hard work, creativity, and innovation. Also, congratulations to Livermore High School Junior Siona Chamkura, who was recently featured in the Independent for her work empowering youth through a skincare project. Siona has been an active leader in the LHS Business Club, serving as both Secretary and President, and continues to make a positive impact through her leadership, innovation, and dedication to helping others. We're proud

028to celebrate this well-deserved recognition and outstanding work she's doing in our community. Looking forward to upcoming events, Senior Awards Night will be held on Wednesday, May 14th in the gym. Invited seniors to receive their invitation and students arrive by 5 30 p.m. We look forward to celebrating the achievements of our graduating senior class. Last week, students hosted a mental health fair in the Quad, organized by the Livermore Youth Council with support from the Wellness Center. Many community partners participated, including the Hume Center, Horizons Family Counseling, AI, and an AI Teen, T-Flag, Be Smart, and Naomi Tri-Valley. This event also featured dogs from the Valley Humane Society, adding a warm and comforting presence. It was a fantastic opportunity for students to learn about and connect with mental health resources available to them. The annual Special Olympics

029event was also recently held at Livermore High School, bringing students from across the Bay Area and in separate grade levels across two different weeks, hundreds of students competed in the Special Olympics in a variety of track and field events. We're delighted to have helped host this event in partnership with the Special Olympics. Livermore ASB has also kicked off May with the final rally of the year, Aloha themed, bringing together the whole school to watch live games and entertainment end the year. In addition, we will also be having our annual belly flop competition this Friday, where students can participate in solos or pairs at the pool deck in a belly flop competition. This has been an annual tradition and we are elated to bring it back this year. April is an exciting month for the Cowboys

030and we are looking forward to finishing the last month of the school year as we slowly approach finals week and summer. Thank you and it's always a great day to be a Cowboy. Thank you, Trustee Zipak. Trustee Gross. So far, May has been an exciting and memorable month at Granada as students continue to balance academic rigor, athletic excellence, and end of year traditions while preparing for graduation. With AP and IB testing taking place throughout this week and next week, students across campus have been hard at work demonstrating the knowledge and dedication they have built throughout the school year. Seniors also recently received their cap and gowns, marking an important milestone as graduation quickly approaches. To celebrate the end of the year, students are participating in a farewell spirit week, helping finish the school year off

031on a positive and spirited note. Today was schools out, dogs out, so we all wear our flip flops to school. Granada students also continue to earn recognition for their outstanding accomplishments both inside and outside the classroom. Peter Shines was recognized as the Livermore Rotary Club's May Student of the Month for his achievements and contributions to the school community. He will be attending the University of California, Berkeley next year to major in physics. Our performing arts students have been also showcasing their talents through Granada's production of the Evil Dead, the musical high school edition, which was performed in the Granada Theater. This production has brought energy and creativity to our campus with a very great turnout. It has given students another opportunity to demonstrate the strength of Granada's visual and performing arts program. Granada athletics continue

032to excel as spring sports wrap up postseason competition. At the NCS swimming championships, the boys placed ninth overall, while the girls team earned an impressive six place finish. The girls team also set a new school record in the 400 freestyle relay. Individually, Taylor Bennett became the first NCS champion in the 100 breath stroke, while her sister, Brooke Bennett, earned a first place finish in the 200 IM. Granada will also be proudly represented by the state championships by 12 swimmers and one diver, Ryan Harrington, who placed third at NCS. According to Mr. Conover, Granada's pool has the fastest water in Livermore. Track and field athletics also had a successful showing at the E-ball championships hosted by Amador Valley High School. Granada boys four by 800 meter relay team set a new league record with a time

033of eight minutes and six seconds, continuing the strong tradition of excellence within Granada athletics. Student activities and senior celebrations are also continuing throughout the month as the school year comes to a close. Granada's annual Aloha rally will take place next Monday as the students gather to celebrate and say goodbye to the senior class, while also announcing the next year's homecoming theme. In addition, senior awards night will be held next Wednesday to recognize the accomplishments, scholarships, and achievements of graduating seniors. They were also looking forward to Disneyland grad night next week, one of the final major events of their high school experience. As Granada enters the final weeks of the school year, students continue to demonstrate school pride, academic commitment, and excellence across athletics, arts, and leadership. With graduation approaching quickly on the 29th and many

034exciting events in between, Granada looks forward to finishing the 25-26 school year off strong. Go Mats. Thank you. Tenno Employee Association reports. This is an opportunity for us to hear from our organized bargaining units and employee associations. Subperson is LEA President Amy Thompson. I want to recognize Tara Lutz, the vice president. Good evening board president, drone members of the board, acting superintendent Bichette and cabinet. I'm Amy Thompson, president of the Livermore Education Association, representing teachers, nurses, counselors, psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers, and specialists who ensure student success every single day. The district's financial outlook has shifted significantly. Our third interim budget report shows a $1.4 million increase in revenue and a $100,000 decrease in expenditures. Furthermore, the state is projecting an additional $10 billion in funding for education. This includes $2 billion in ongoing funds.

035The ongoing increase is anticipated to translate to either a 2% well to some form of a 2% ongoing funding increase. With this positive news, the district needs to reconsider our planned cuts. We urge you to restore and grow essential programs, including the building trades program, the Vineyard Middle School program, counseling positions, and the stipends for high school department chairs and teacher leaders. These roles are not luxuries. They reduce administrator workload and ensure students receive the direct support they deserve. Michelle Bichette and I had discussed convening the budget work group to look at prioritizing potential restorations. And I think the time to do this is now. Collaboration must be a prerequisite, not an afterthought. While we appreciate the tabling of the just-in-time ordering to refine the process, other rollouts have been problematic. On May 5th, a

036new hiring platform was launched. Despite being planned since September 2025, LEA was never notified. Implementing a new system in the middle of hiring season without instructions for the rank and file is inefficient and disrespectful to the end users. We want to work with you prior to the implementation to avoid these hiccups. Clearly, early communication ensures our members feel valued and the systems run smoothly. LEA urges the board to vote in favor of the MOUs related to the delivery of special education services. The Educationally Related Mental Health Services MOU is an extension of the current MOU with some minor modifications. The MOU to address AB 560 allowed LEA and the district to work together to solve a long-standing problem and formalize practices that had been informally occurring. It gives a framework and remedy to count how

037much work must be done by education specialists while testing is ongoing. Once the testing is complete, the contract language in Article 10 providing an option for overage and requiring a state waiver will go into effect. It is not expected that either of the agreements will have an increased cost to the district and it is expected that they will have a positive outcome for our members and for students. Regarding the resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month, public education is not about me or my beliefs. It is about we and us. We serve a diverse society and our marginalized groups are deserving of positive affirmations and belonging. I urge the board to vote yes on this resolution to support all of our students and their families. I would like to thank the board for allowing LEA

038to provide input on the characteristics of our next superintendent. I will continue to advocate for employee voices to be a formal part of the final selection process. And finally, as we hold open house for our elementary and middle school this week, we celebrate the measurable progress of our students. Our educators have worked tirelessly to ensure that this year was a success and we look forward to showcasing those results. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have CSEA. Mamie Christovich is the president. I'm going to recognize Victoria Storti as the vice president. Good evening, President Drune, members of the board, acting superintendent Pichette and cabinet. I am Mamie Christovich, president of the Livermore chapter of CSEA, the California School Employees Association. Last month, I reported that CSEA has had several different priorities that require focus and

039attention. Over the past many weeks, we have dealt with layoffs and the resulting negotiations on the impacts and effects. After several negotiation sessions and various proposals regarding the elimination of the executive assistant position in student services, we were still not able to come to an agreement. Keeping in mind the position had already been eliminated and the employee had accepted the vacant EA position in curriculum, our goal was to determine whether we could somehow blend the two EA positions into one. That proved to be impossible from our vantage point. The reality is that we cannot reasonably take two full positions and reduce them to one without reimagining the work. We could have said that the student services EA position is eliminated and how the work gets done is not our problem. We didn't do that. CSEA's

040intent was always to find a way to cover the duties of both desks to ensure success for not just employees but also for the department. We continued on and finally agreed on the need for an additional .5 FTE administrative secretary district position to ensure that the essential work in curriculum would be supported. We appreciate the district's willingness to consider CSEA's perspective and also thank acting superintendent Peshad for her support. Our agreement is not on the agenda tonight as it is pending CSEA approval. I've also spent a great deal of time ensuring that the vacancies created mostly by our negotiated retirement incentive are filled quickly and with internal candidates. Every selection means that another vacancy opens up and I have been diligently tracking every vacancy and the domino effect. Last week the district unexpectedly switched to

041the new HR recruitment platform with no advanced communication or notice to employees. CSEA members were surprised and confused and we were not alone. The new platform is completely different and any application and applicant started but had not finished was lost. Also information does not migrate but we were not told any of this. I took it upon myself to send step-by-step instructions to my members on how to navigate the new recruitment platform as it is not intuitive or user friendly. This is a huge concern for CSEA as vacancies are posted for only five days and many still remain on the 39-month re-employment list. With no advance warning employees are uncertain whether they actually applied for positions and wonder how they would know if they do not get called for an interview. One member shared with me

042that they started their application and planned to finish after work on the day the posting closed. They were not able to log in and did not know about the new recruitment platform so they ended up giving up and not applying. Another member told me that they applied for several vacancies but did not get called for any interviews. If the district truly cares about employees and values their contributions and continued employment we can do better than this. I am not saying that we should never make changes but we must be intentional about when changes happen and be mindful of the effect they have on employees to mitigate the impact. Perhaps impose a test period or pause or extend the five-day posting period to allow employees to complete their applications. Even if you have never been in

043a place where you had to actively seek employment I would hazard a guess that you agree that communication and advance notice are always essential when changes like this are made. Last week I attended our district's retirement reception. I am very excited for our new retirees as they write their next chapter and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to get to know so many wonderful individuals. I must say however that it is also bittersweet. May 17 to May 23rd is classified school employee week. In 1986 California Senate Bill 1552 established the third week of each May as classified school employee week to recognize the vital contributions of classified employees. Classified employees are used to quietly and diligently working behind the scenes and frankly we should always be valued but the week of May 17

044is when we are officially acknowledged for our contributions. I hope you would agree with me that classified employees have earned respect as educators and partners in the education community. We are essential frontline workers and district office workers who keep our schools up and running while making a difference in the lives of the students we serve. Our Livermore chapter has historically held its membership appreciation and scholarship awards event closer to classified school employee week. However due to timing and scheduling conflicts we celebrated our members early on April 29 ahead of classified school employee week and honored our three scholarship recipients as they received their awards. Gisela Rodriguez graduating from Granada nursing major, Madison Aikita graduating from Granada interior design and architecture major, and Sahana Chalapan LHS data science major. It was a magical evening filled with

045laughter, fun, appreciation, and caring among friends and colleagues. It is truly my honor to work with such amazing individuals and to have earned their friendship, respect, and trust. CSEA members in the Livermore chapter are the best. As your encounters classified employees next week and at any time really please tell them they are valued. Thank you. Thank you. I want to recognize Kirsty Governor as the president of SEIU and Sarah DeGroats as the representative for CMC and Jeremy Wilkins is the representative for the Livermore Management Association. So move on to 11.0 public comment on non-agenda items. If you'd like to address a topic that is not on this evening's agenda now is the time to do so. If you've not already submitted your TAN card please do so now. For protocol no additional speakers will be

046accepted once public comment begins. We ask that you limit your comments to three minutes and that each speaker may speak once. As a reminder we as board members may not engage in discussion, take action, or give an opinion on items not on the agenda. However the board may briefly respond, ask clarifying questions of staff, and or refer matters to staff to follow up. We've got four cards so I will call up first for three minutes. Kelly Gruvella followed by Denise Currie. Good evening board. Namaste and peace to all of you. I came up here not sure what I wanted to talk to you about. I have something very specific and I'll hold that for later but at the beginning of this board meeting you took a pledge, a pledge of allegiance under that flag under

047God, one God in this nation and it became that great because it was under God and as we continually pull him away from our schools and in our board districts because of our personal opinions we are marginalizing these children not giving them the same advantage that we had when we were children. Our personal beliefs and our sexual preferences and everything else shouldn't even be part of it just a good education with truth and right now most of these schools in California do not even have civics. It doesn't have history. Instead when I was a child we used to have all those things and it taught us how to defend ourselves our U.S. Constitution and our teachers repeatedly our wonderful teachers repeatedly told us if we don't know our history don't know our constitution we will

048be doomed to repeat it. So I ask you what would be the reason for removing this and changing it around and rewriting it so the kids of today don't know it so they can't defend themselves so they can't know the truth so they're marginalized and you do this to kids that are 99 percent I guarantee that the Sikhs the Muslims the Hindu the Christians they love God they love their family and they love this country and we're going to marginalize all of them for just one percent so we can push Satan's agenda and mark my words he is here he is in between the space between you and I and you're going to either choose to make him happy or you're going to make God happy but in the choice you will destroy yourselves when

049you continue with the way these school districts and boards have been going makes me sad because they all came here people migrate here for the sake of a better future and it's amazing how California has become a laughing stock all across this nation as we destroy ourselves it should make us all very sad make us all think that's it. Next is Denise Currie who will be followed by Debbie Gibson. Good evening. Good evening President Joe and members of the board acting superintendent Pichette and the cabinet. I'm here this evening to make a request for the board and the district leadership to restore the middle school program at Vineyard Alternative School. With the third interim budget update showing improved physical outlook outlook for the district I would like to urge the board and the district to

050consider the restoration of the program that is small in scale but vital to the students it serves the Vineyard Alternative Independent Study middle school program. Currently the plan is to pause enrollment for sixth and seventh graders and transition rising eighth graders to high school teachers. Vineyard Middle School has been in operation for over 17 years providing necessary alternative for students who don't thrive in a traditional large-scale middle school. Matriculating them to the high school presents a couple of different problems and the first of which is high school teachers are not middle school teachers. Middle school is a very special time of year and there are challenges for these students. I have written in a letter to the board that outlines the different reasons that students come to the program high anxiety social challenges unique learning

051pacing for students that may be competitive athletes and medical or safety needs or unique special needs students. Middle school students are in a time of transition where they face academic challenges they face emotional challenges it's a very I've loved it for almost 30 years. I do want to let you know a couple of things this year we focused on growing the program and trying to get the program back to where it has been in the past and we have done that with a 0.5 teacher the program has actually paid for itself and so my request is that as the budget outlook improves that the district reconsider shuttering this long-standing program to the high school and restore a 0.5 middle school teacher so that these students that need this program will have it available to them.

052Thank you very much for your time. Thank you next we have Debbie Gibson will be followed by Lance Voorhees. Good evening on Sunday May 17th 2026 the National Mall will be the scene of a historic gathering as Americans of every background across the country prepare for the nation's 250th birthday with scripture testimony prayer and rededication of our country as one nation to God from morning fellowship in front of the U.S. Capitol to an evening filled with music anchored at the main stage on 12th street rededicate 250 will be rooted in giving thanks for God's presence in our national life throughout 250 years of our American history and asking for his guidance for the next 250 250 join we will join with neighbors and friends from every state in the union to give giving thanks and

053praise to God for 250 years of his providence for the United States in praying that God bless and protect America for the next 250 years and in solemnly rededicating our country as one nation under God in speech song and storytelling we will bear witness to the extraordinary story of how God has powerfully and wondrously shaped the United States of America remembering the people sacrifices and defining moments in which God has powerfully manifested himself in our history this is more than an event it is a once in a lifetime national movement as we approach this rededication we pray God for government leaders give us legislators and judges who truly acknowledge a reliance upon you and your statutes only through you will we see America's destiny fulfilled we boldly ask you to bless our nation and bring

054a sweeping revival an awakening that will touch every soul and set us apart you once again come holy spirit sweep across the earth states and cities we ask for these things in Jesus name thank you next we have Lance Voorhees my name is Lance Hunter Voorhees and I'm a former special ed teacher for Livermore High and I haven't had much time to prepare I just got these books at the public library but these books are in our school libraries one being a bear very innocuous by author Mike Corato and another one here called Flamer and so I have a concern that Mike has an agenda and in his book worm meets worm the worms are gay they debate on who will be the bride and who will be the groom now this is a children's

055book mind you and uh but that seems like oh well big deal it depends on your political views if that's good if that's bad but Mike Corato goes a lot deeper with his other books Mike Corato invites strikes me as a person who's obsessed with pedophilia and I have proof right here that's in your libraries that somebody an employee ordered so I will cover that right now briefly page 23 two boys one bent over the other has a hot dog between his legs says okay who wants my wiener oh yeah baby slide it right into my buns there you go there you go page 76 another boy bent over naked and then they're they're in the shower it says I dropped the soap oops don't get any ideas boy reference to sodomy these are 14

056year old boys by the way 14 year old boy scouts in this book page 80 bent before another boy in the shower in a position to have a fellatio that's oral sex and page 137 I forget what this one was about let's see okay I just put this together 137 oh I'll get to that one I'm saving that one for last um oh five seconds oh okay well here's the here it is we're each busting a load into this bottle it's boys playing a game if you don't come you have to drink it so if you're for this say flame on if you're against it say flame off direct to us please thank you oh yes yes on to 120 communications formal written correspondence to the board of education shall be acknowledged if received by

057the board or in the superintendent's office by 4 p.m the day before the meeting formal written correspondence received after the cutoff time will generally be acknowledged at the following meeting please note our board electronic communications received via the livermore valley joint unified school district's website by accessing formal written correspondence to the board of education link with all fields completed and verified shall be treated as formal written correspondence clerk if there's any correspondence can you please summarize it for us yes 49 pieces of correspondence were received 39 individuals expressed opposition to and urged the board not to adopt resolution 94 25 26 recognizing the month of june is lgbt plus q plus pride month and 10 individuals expressed support for and encouraged the board to adopt resolution 94 25 26 recognizing the month of june is

058lgbtq plus pride month let's move on to discussion action items so 13 oh we have independent citizens oh bond oversight committee cboc annual report fiscal year 24 25 from miss kayla wassley i don't have any blue cards on this we'll close public comment our first presentation sorry okay good evening um this evening the independent citizen bond oversight committee or cboc is presenting the measure j bond 24 25 annual report i would like to thank all of our cboc members for the time spent volunteering to be on the committee this year um with that i would like to welcome up will mesito the cboc chair um to present the report and the committee's findings we also have several other cboc members and attending i believe we have shruti jamie and tapas and as well all right

059there you go all right there we are i am will mesito this is for the president current chair of the cboc welcome board president board members acting superintendent and staff if you're not a teacher that's a line function everybody else is staff i was an aside to these people tonight we present our ninth measure j annual report i want to do a special shout out to the student board members we should never lose sight of the fact that everything we do we do for you student success is what it's all about it's true too that our bond expenditures are largely spent in the community the tax dollars go back into the community our property values are protected and improved and the overall livermore community benefits from what we're doing but all of that follows your

060success student success thank you for being here all of the required boilerplate language is in the formal report which you all have and you can get into that on your own tonight we present a short powerpoint presentation we're going to brag with pictures and i'm assuming i just pushed the one on top this is the the report we wanted we want the this is the entire report i think what we want is the slide presentation the powerpoint this is the the boring stuff that puts you to sleep it's required it's the boilerplate explains our roles all those things but i really do want to get to the pictures there we go there we go the annual report it's difficult to read the numbers up there but approximately 17 million dollars was spent during the fiscal

061year 24 25 the lion's share that went to maryland avenue as it happens in the steam program we were talking about a stem program earlier the steam program includes science technology engineering arts mathematics and that project is at maryland avenue if you haven't been there you really need to visit the site see what we're doing bang let's get to the right one this is not the right program our program is much better than this one i promise you we have pictures it's much more entertaining than knowing you know in the theater they let they hate dead time it's on our attachments i don't know i think the attachments have the pictures i'm not sure if that's helping her there's like 18 pages of this stuff before you get to the pictures but we do want

062to celebrate the steam project at maryland i'm not sure if that's on our tour next week or not but i think the board members have been invited to join us at our next meeting where we'll be doing a tour of some of our sites celebrating what we've gotten done my stick's not that good i can't keep stalling come on there we go oh well we just went past the the highly paid committee members it's just below that can i do this from here all right then you can blame them the pie chart just divides it up there is a list of members that were active during that that particular year maryland avenue steam project you gotta go see it next one please there's a picture of a tk classroom on the left is the our

063group touring it during construction the picture on the right is the final the first impression of this tk classroom is boy is that a large classroom okay tk students aren't very large but they have large needs that was expressed through all the planning process the teachers the users of this space they have multiple multiple activities in this no one thing fixes everything but the teaching wall the movable furniture all the other accoutrements in the in the room came from teacher input that the facility is honored next please a library you won't believe this library in an elementary school you've got to go see this for the smoke for the elementary age kids they need different spaces one thing doesn't satisfy all needs so this library has been built with classroom areas breakout areas whatever the

064staff wanted was incorporated in the design next please that's one of the lab rooms and the specific things to note in there they asked for power power to be delivered from the ceiling not the floor which is traditional that gives us problems keeping it clean they wanted movable furniture teaching walls all of the wet appliances all of that was incorporated because the teachers asked for it next please and here's an issue dear to my heart our softball team at livermore highs went from orphans to homeowners i have particular interest in this my daughter played for livermore high charlie foscalina if any of you remember and during her four years there we never had a home field we always had a practice field loaned to us by the parks department we didn't have enough an area

065proper area on our field our home games were played at robertson park which is a slow pitch field with 400 foot fences which is not appropriate for the game here you're seeing construction pictures and what i insisted on is more student pictures they now have a home they have a home that's probably the best ncs book field in the bay area they're proud to be there and they're doing really really well my daughter did well too but i'll brag while she was with charlie she earned a four year all expenses to miami playing softball these kids are going to do well with this facility let's go to the next one some of the most unsexy stuff we do we fix roofs you never see them unless you've got a drone or your google earthing too

066much but without that roof the integrity of that roof we lose everything under it we lose the structure we lose the equipment we lose our investment in student achievement we were able to work on crochet jackson library there rancho las pacitas is another one the district office was was necessary to do mitchell that's what you have on the one end that's what you have on the other hand when it's done those roofs will go another 20 30 years protecting those facilities below them we go the next one please we snuck in another picture of kids students excuse me our royal saco elementary we're working on hvac units we replaced or remodeled or refurbished more than 100 hvac units you cannot teach or learn successfully in an unconditioned area too hot too cold it's got to

067be where the teacher can be successful where the student will realize success that can't be the reason is what i'm saying a bad hvac unit cannot be the reason that kid does not learn algebra our last picture there's more hvac there's one at the high school let's stop here for a second because will insisted on getting another picture of students okay there is an important note very hard to read at the bottom here i want to point your attention to this is a forget me not we haven't done this in the past we're not just spending 245 million dollars of the community's money that and the interest that erin's along the way we are also able to qualify this last year period for nearly an additional 45 million dollars grant money we don't get that

068money without the ability to match it that's the way the state of california works measure j will really total about 300 million dollars spent community investment spent in the pursuit of student success those guys got a key prize on them before i conclude this the cboc asked at one of our recent meetings discussed and asked me to share something else which goes beyond the annual report the committee typically is charged with looking at yesterday what did they do did they do it correctly okay since we know how well to do large construction projects since we know how to control the expenditures and comply with voter approved intentions i refer you to the nine perfect audits we've had over the last nine years and since we have an updated facilities master plan i think you're reviewing

069now and expected to approve soon that plan demonstrates clearly how much more work is needed to continue our commitment to student success the cboc would like to encourage the board to entertain a new bond as soon as practical that concludes my bragging session okay i do i do want to i do want to add the committee appreciates the facilities team led by kim and the rest of her team very professional they get the job done we want to appreciate the finance department kayla and her team they've been responsive to us when we've had financial questions timely correct until we got the message that shouldn't be overlooked we shouldn't overlook the board's courage in pursuing this project 10 years ago you went to the community and says give us money that takes courage we're asking you

070to do that again i'll stay for any questions you have i have no blue cards on this so and this is discussion only so any questions or comments from the board trustee commons all good things thank you for your presentation thank you to the citizens bond oversight committee to our bond department and like you mentioned the finance team for making sure that these projects happen i too share the love for the new softball field that was my high school being a former collegiate softball player i would say that that field is pretty stay the arc and close to college level nice field it's a book field you can do tournaments you can do anything you want there it fulfills the needs yes and and just speaking as being a former athlete there's nothing like having

071your home field to go to right after school and so i'm really grateful for that as well i'm just really happy to see all the production that was that was able to happen with our taxpayer dollars and everybody's commitment to making these projects happen along with the softball field i'm really proud of this steam facilities classrooms and of course the new roofing is essential so i just want to just let you know i really appreciate your presentation thank you very much it's essential but not sexy thank you very much for your service on there and as well as all the other board members it was one of the first things i did before coming on this board was just sit in on some of those and then we passed a partial tax and for this

072folks in the community that might be watching or that may watch later it's an essential component of ensuring the public's trust is through oversight so the citizens oversight committee is comprised of very specific positions there's community members there's a fiduciary responsible people but it's all to make sure that the money that a body says they're going to get from the public is spent in the exact manner that the that the ballot language says and so having the compliance just so it doesn't get glossed over when when you mention nine years of audits that is a very good and essential component so people can understand that the money is being spent the accolades and we can all look at the accomplishments of athletics and academics and all the all of those things don't happen but you

073don't get the opportunity until you've earned and then also maintain the public's trust and the only way you maintain it is through the statute of having this body and those people all of you donate your time to do that so i know you're being a little facetious when you talk about these highly paid positions but it's it's not an easy thing you meet at night and you got to go through things and you're kind of running blind unless people give you what you need but to hear that our district has always provided what the board needs and that you guys are able to do this i think it's essential and our kids are benefiting so i really appreciate thank you very much thank you and i can attest that nobody's in it for the money

074everybody on this committee myself included are appreciative of the fact that we get a chance to serve we get a chance to give back directly to you guys these guys pay attention but it's for you yeah thank you i wanted to emphasize what you will have so eloquently stated multiple times and that is that these are not just facility upgrades but their investments into the future of student learning of innovation of wellness and of pride i think having pride in in our facilities and our schools is important i also just wanted to say as as my colleagues have stated just gratitude to the committee's ongoing work in and reviewing the expenditures and the facilities over the course of the year i know it's a time commitment and i'm just very appreciative of it and then

075also i wanted to thank the livermore community for their overwhelming support of major j and they're continuing to invest in local schools and students and will and with you i think we need to get ready for the next investment and and work towards continuing these facilities and reinforce our modern um and update facilities reinforce modern ones and support our mission of preparing students to contribute into the next sort of future so we're here for you thank you i honestly think that some of the academic achievement that we've seen over these last couple years is directly tied to some of the hfac stuff is just i was i had subbed in some classrooms that vacillated between 79 degrees and 59 degrees so pick take your pick i mean neither one was great and so to do

076that um yeah it's so expensive and it's you know you don't really see those big units up on the roof um so thank you for keeping them in mind at all times it's it's it really is easier to learn you said it well the the way the projects that the way a large project like this moves forward with no real issues is because they the staff did the planning with the users the teachers got specifically what they needed into the design and prioritized it based on look roofing's not sexy but it has to get in there that sort of thing hbac absolutely critical not sexy but i want to applaud the teaching staff for understanding that those things are competing with the new equipment yeah the architectural designs you get presented with there's a look

077we're going to give you the very best we can because you have good staff not negotiating but uh coming to a meeting of the minds with the users understanding that they really direct this now they may ask for something that's not practical and that's our responsibility our team's responsibility to make clear but the reason we've done well is because you have great staff collaborating with a great teaching staff the motivation is easy students that's a piece of cake everybody's motor well it's also um very clear that we've got some really dedicated volunteers and you and chairman eric humm and just thank you for for the work that you put in that thank you thank you for the opportunity to serve thank you thank you very much we'll move on to 13 to public hearing support

078of applications for eligibility determination and funding and we'll turn the time over to miss kayla wosley good evening this public hearing and the accompanying resolution and item 15.20 is required as part of proper proposition two which was passed by california voters in 2024 and provides 10 billion in school facility funding for schools the intent of the public hearing is to give the public an opportunity to provide input on new construction or modernization funding applications that may be submitted for all of our 18 of our school sites thank you i will now open the public hearing and invite public comment on this item if you wish to address the board please come forward at this time and i don't have any blue cards so i'll close public comments i will close the public hearing uh comments

079questions from any board members seeing none we'll move on to 13.3 update from the ad hoc committee on superintendent search which is me so several important events have taken place since the last board meeting regarding the superintendent search input from a variety of sources has taken place the alameda county office of education with whom we're partnering with has met with all board members a community input survey has been filled out by 789 people in our community a coe and i met for individual sessions with labor partners district leadership and district staff a coe also held a community input session data from these sources helped shape an updated job description and because of the brown act only two members were able to attend but would either trustee kaplanis or trustee van den who will care to

080give briefly share out about your experience observing the community input session i don't want to put you on the spot but um i'll just say that i was grateful to be there i participated in the last one and um it's just a great time to hear from the community what they would like to see and i'd like to thank everybody that did participate in it it wasn't a large number but um still people made time to come to something that's very important and we love hearing from the community yeah that it wasn't a large number of people but what kind of stood out to me is that there were people from all the various stakeholders groups in in in livermore from lvf and quest and pedrosi and parents and like everybody was represented maybe only

081by one person but it was it was really helpful and the a coe team did a really good job pulling helpful information out from everybody that attended and participated so yeah it was really good thank you so looking forward the ad hoc committee will be meeting with a coe soon to continue our work and receive updates the last week of may the full board will review applications in closed session in preparation for interviews the last weekend of the month so that's what i have to say we do have one blue card on this and then i'll open up to questions so i'll invite tara voice up for comments good evening cabinet community so i did attend the community session i did do the survey for the superintendent search but have also been having conversations outside

082of that area with parents community members uh teachers people in other districts etc and one of the questions i asked the woman whose name is escaping me so i apologize at the session who was running it is where did she consider the livermore runway right are we well prepared do we have enough time and she said we have a short one right and maybe not long enough and i think even more critical to our discussion is let's be honest we're oh for two on the superintendent in the last four years right so there's a lot of concern out in the community that we might be rushing into something that will not get us the best superintendent place for the long term right we don't want a one and done again right my kiddos are in

083second and third grade i can't go through this every two years uh sorry they're in first and second second and third next year so i would just urge the board to consider a solution that will place a superintendent that doesn't have to be from livermore but can assimilate to livermore right um make a home here learn the district and go from the ground up instead of torching things like our previous superintendent um we can't our teachers cannot sustain that um i don't know if anyone noticed but a very well respected teacher in our district is leaving um and i think the last year is the key reason like literally leaving the community not just the school district we don't want that we want our teachers to stay assuming they can afford it and we need

084a superintendent that is going to rebuild those bridges from the ground up ideally it is the feeling of myself and a few other people that an interim superintendent who is maybe semi-retired maybe taking a break in their career not looking to make a name for themselves just wants to come to livermore and help rebuild stabilize no big initiatives no strategic plans you know maybe not even a bond this year just to get us back to a safe place and then we go search for a permanent superintendent so i just urge the board we rush into nothing knowing that 60 percent of the board is going to step down in november maybe maybe not and then we're going to have a net new board that is also going to have to become the manager of this

085new superintendent right so if you put all those pieces together we have a high risk factor and i just ask the board to consider that and we thank michelle pritchett too for stepping in thank you so this is just discussion any questions or comments from the board if not we'll move on just sure trustee pueno just one just to reiterate as we go through this and i know that it's a short runway the windows for recruitment of this position are also pretty narrow because people are usually leaving somewhere else and the back fills things like that so there's they call it the hiring season or something so i'm very mindful of that one thing that as the board i've worked on this board with many renditions of board members people come and they go they

086serve their term and they sometimes stay or sometimes they leave but the consistent and something that will never leave just like the district is our labor groups and so lea and csa and seiu and lma they have been here consistently they're they represent we're the second biggest employer in the city and there's 1500 people that are represented by that they work and are entrusted by the public and i think that they should be integral to this process as we come and we go they stay and they are trusted and i believe that they should be deeply embedded in this process they're the ones who are going to work with serve the children and i believe that they should be integral to the process not just a simple nod or whatever i'm not alluding that they

087have been i just want to reiterate so that it doesn't get forgotten and it's not a misstep because i think that that step will ensure that we do find the leader that we want it's always about relationships and it's always about trust and in all the 40 years that i've been in public service that is always the failing of of people that lead groups is the lack of trust and the inability to build relationships over time go on to 14 note discussion action items so 14.1 approval of new courses i'll call up mr jason krulikowski good evening test uh good evening board president druin members of the school board acting superintendent bachette and members of cabinet i'm here tonight to present eight new courses for approval our first course is advanced animation ab it builds

088on foundational animation skills through engaging project-based learning aligned to media arts and fine arts standards students complete structured projects with clear objectives timelines deliverables while using industry relevant tools such as storyboards cameras microphones and editing software the course emphasizes collaboration creativity and portfolio development helping students build meaningful work samples that support college and career readiness in animation media arts and related fields the next course is linear algebra and differentiated equations it's designed to provide students with an opportunity to continue their mathematical studies after completing both ap calculus and multivariable calculus it offers a true second year university level experience introducing students to advanced concepts such as linear algebra systems of equations and differential equations more importantly this course helps students see mathematics is a powerful tool for understanding and solving real world problems they will

089explore how these concepts are used in in fields like engineering physics economics data science to model complex systems and make informed decisions next course is spanish for spanish speakers three it's designed to ensure continued rigor and strong vertical alignment for our heritage spanish speakers and students coming from our dual immersion pathways spanish speakers three provide students with advanced academic spanish literacy literary analysis formal writing and sophisticated oral communication skills students will strengthen their listening speaking reading and writing through exploration of grammar syntax literature and important social political and contemporary issues across spanish across spanish speaking cultures most importantly this course serves as a bridge to ib spanish high level and ap spanish language and literacy literacy courses ensuring our students continue to be challenges challenged and supported as they were this next class while we

090have physics this is an algebra-based physics class it's introductory college level course designed to expand access to advanced science learning for all students who are passionate about physics but may not have yet completed the ap calculus which is currently a barrier for enrollment into ap physics c mechanics in this course students study foundational concepts including kinematics forces energy momentum rotation oscillations and fluids through inquiry based learning aligned to the ab ap physics curriculum next course has uh at one point did exist but we have rewritten it to seek g approval metals and machine tools is a year-long concentrator course designed to give students the foundational manufacturing skills aligned to industry standards and college readiness students learn metal properties including ferrous and non-ferrous materials please don't ask me what that means along with the blueprint reading

091precision measurement and the safe use of hand power tools with osha and epa standards by the end of the course students will complete a manufactured project that demonstrates both manual computer aided machine skills as i said creating this course to match the csu uca through g elective requirement this course ensures our students have access to rigorous transferable credit and building upon that is our next level this year-long capstone course in machine and forming technologies pathway students may pursue house cnc certification to demonstrate industry recognized proficiency the advanced machine metals course provides students with the opportunity to apply advanced manufacturing and machining skills through hands-on real world real world learning experiences students will work work with both manual and cnc lathes and milling machines while using cad cam technologies to design simulate and manufacture precision parts

092aligned with modern industry standards the advanced robotics course is designed for students who have completed robotics ab and want to continue developing their higher level engineering and technology skills in this course students will design build and program competition ready robots while exploring advanced topics such as custom robot design and effectors electronics sensors mechanics and computer program through hands-on project-based students excuse me project-based learning students will strengthen engineering problem-solving skills while also developing workplace ready skills like teamwork communication and project management lastly we have our symphony strings with honors it provides a stronger pathway for advancing string students this year-long honors ensemble is designed for students who demonstrate high levels of ability and commitment but who are not ready for the full demands of honors chamber orchestra the course will provide a rigorous and supportive environment

093where students will continue developing instrumental technique sight reading music theory ensemble performance and leadership skills to advance string orchestra repertoire the acting superintendent recommendation is to approve all new courses if you have any questions please let me know i have no blue cards on this item so questions or comments from the board trustee prusa i have some questions that i think i know the answer to but might be helpful for other people so i'm gonna ask them you ready yes okay oh you seem so nervous okay they're really hard my first question is are these courses going to be available at both comprehensive high schools yes okay and then the other question is these courses and this is my understanding is that they're offered as long as the class is filled is that correct yes

094okay and that also answers the first question if there is request and demand okay i think that's a question that often comes up when we're when we're doing this and i think the classes look great the linear algebra one i'm excited about because i think that gives people some some additional math classes they can get in under their belt before they get to college so i think that's great all of them so that's it one easy question one i don't know if you know the answer to just because um what's the fiscal impact of adding all these new courses some courses do require us providing new additional books so for example that the ap physics class will require us purchasing new ap physics textbooks with the algebra emphasis so most of these courses are not

095requiring an additional funding source for materials and curriculum thank you so we don't really know specifically no we do each course has has i don't include that in the report i can get you that information happily because each course does when they submit the request they talk about the book that they want or the materials that they need and then give an estimate of how much it'll cost okay nothing will be substantially beyond what we can control the funding sources are from restricted funds so that helps yep um so there's one course on here that i i that just jumps out of me because i think i can enroll in all of them but then there's symphony strings is that like an audition you do before you can enroll or how does that work yeah

096it's an honors class so it's again it's kind of that not the highest end of our students but also not a students who are just taking it to learn about it it's kind of the next level it's with honors so there it is a class that you need to try out for is it okay is it not a prerequisite but audition perhaps um especially if you come from other places excuse me sorry what was the last especially if you come from another school or another district or whatever yes i mean if you've taken any music instrumental music prior to this and you want to pursue this higher level i if if we took a student from outside our district we'd still give them opportunities that's really cool i can only imagine how this is going

097to make our uh strings the students even but i mean it's just they're already incredible so i don't know how we can improve on this but i'm excited thank you okay thank you i appreciate the district expanding uh offering these type of things i do i do i gotta take my hand off to you you didn't stumble at all on multi-variable calculus but ferris versus non-ferris i looked it up one has iron ferris they rust so that's it thank you aluminum's non-ferris but i really appreciate and then to look at i mean we're talking about a large handful of classes but it's spread over language it's spread over music it's spread over math and science and it's all giving uh ladders of opportunity you know a lot of kids if you haven't taken physics calculus

098if it's late it's that it's a preventer but to be able to take it algebra braced it acts as a ladder so kids can be introduced to physics and then move on afterwards um the metals you know getting someone into metals and then you can go into advanced cncs and things like that millwork it's exciting that we're able to offer these type of things at the same time that we're improving our facilities at the same time that we're congratulating kids for accomplishments so it's really good work and i appreciate it thank you trustee capone's thank you mr kralikowski for your presentation i just want to say i support these courses because they teach the students real skills and it helps to elevate their educational experience in our district i do have one question though is

099there a projected enrollment number for these courses i know it's based on interest and need but is there any projections i don't have those numbers handy but a lot of these courses well all these courses were put in to the student selections when they registered back in january so i can check on that and get back to you to see the actual enrollment for each of these courses okay thank you thank you any other questions or discussion um i guess i'll ask since it's e metals machines tools you said it was being revised to meet g requirements i was just curious how or why or uh rewritten with more rigor and the way we assess our students we have to when we apply for that through the uc system we have to show what we're

100how we're assessing the students and what demonstrates mastery and proficiency so they will accept most likely accept our proposal awesome thank you um if no other discussion i would entertain a motion on these items i move in support of the recommendation assistant superintendent i'll second so a motion from trustee bueno a second from trustee coplanis any discussion on the motion can you take the role trustee bueno myself i trustee coplanis aye trustee prusso aye president druan aye trustee debak aye trustee cress aye that motion carries five oh amongst the adult board members and i have been asked for a brief break so we will break for five minutes and then reconvene welcome back we're coming back to open session at 8 13 p.m and we're moving on to 14 to approval of a 2025 2026

101third interim financial report turn the time over to miss caitlin wasley good evening again tonight i will be presenting on the third interim budget report so here wrong slide so um in the attached cycle we have where we are at in our budget cycle which is right at the top um coming in third interim up next is may revise and then for some reason um our district adopted budget is not in that box at the top but that is what should be there okay that's good yeah so is on mine too um and then moving into the state adopted budget um following that so third interim budget um is a requirement for districts that meet the qualified or negative certification status at second interim um since our district um had a qualified certification status at

102second and we were required to submit a report which is an update to our general fund or fund 01 as well as our multi-year projection and cash flow projections and it covers the period of july 1st through april 30th based on current current projections our unrestricted reserve is 4.8 percent um so we meet the minimum reserve requirement of three percent and 25 26 and 26 27 with no new revenues um received we would be below the three percent requirement we did have an improvement in our p2 attendance rate um which drives much of our attendance or revenue for the district and so that resulted in higher lcff funding not only in the current year but also our subsequent years and then we updated assumptions for salaries benefits and our restricted categorical funds were updated based

103off of current um planned expenditures so overall we're projected to um have a decrease in our fund balance of approximately 9.5 million dollars with 1.8 million of that being unrestricted and 7.6 million being restricted um the restricted side is both the spin down of the one-time funds we received in 25 26 as well as the spin down of other categorical funds um that have expiring grant timelines um our projected ending fund balance is an overall 17 million with 11 million being unrestricted and 7.65 million of that being our required three percent reserve and then our restricted ending fund balance of 5.9 million of our overall revenue 72 percent represent um lcff funding sources and the remainder is made up of um smaller pots of federal revenue other state revenue and local revenue and a very

104tiny sliver of other transfer and inter-fund transfers in from other district funds so for our total revenue changes in the third interim budget from second interim our lcff sources as i mentioned increased so they went up five hundred and thirty six thousand dollars from second interim other state revenue um marine status quo from second interim we had no new revenue sources or decreased revenue sources federal revenue increased by approximately 72 sorry 42 000 dollars and other local revenue increased by 858 000 dollars in our lcff sources the 568 563 000 was a result of our p2 attendance exceeding projections by 47 8 47 ada our attendance rate grew to 95 that's up from 94.2 percent in our prior years we had been increasing in slow increments of about 0.2 percent so seeing a 0.6 growth

105was unexpected and they welcome surprise um by the time we got to our p2 cutoff which occurs in march typically for our district and um so this will increase not only our current year because we're current year funded ada for lcff funding but in 26 27 we're projected to be a prior year funded ada and then in 27 28 are three subsequent prior prior year ada so this increase impacts as i mentioned not only our current year but our subsequent years and our multi-year projection and for federal revenue the increase of 42 000 was due to a update to the ab2 allocation which is our special education allocation that we received through our selpa as well as a small increase to title four funding for other local revenue this increase of 858 000 occurred from

106multiple sources our donations increased by 573 000 this includes um not only donations for school sites but also our athletic accounts so it is a large amount of accounts that we hold for donations our medical reimbursements increased by 55 000 elop tuition by 26 000 so that is students that participate in the program but don't necessarily meet the qualifications but we are able to collect tuition on the for those students that enable to enable them to participate we had miscellaneous revenue of 50 000 project build an increase of 51 000 project build goes into september of next school year but because the program can't afford staffing for next year they um expediated their timeline for expenditures and moved it all into our current year budget instead of spending any in next year as well as

107school partnerships which is setting up our medical billing had an increase of 41 000 for expenses our overall expenses decreased by about 110 000 salaries decreased by 33 000 benefits by 14 000 books and supplies decreased by 485 000 services increased by 423 000 capital outlay decreased by 8 000 and other outgo increased by 6 800 so of our total expenditures 83 represents salaries and benefits on the total combined restricted unrestricted expenses with 92 being represented in the unrestricted side of the budget and for highlights of changes that were made for our certificate non-management through reviewing our current substitute costs as well as projecting out for the remainder of the school year and current leaves we needed to increase our substitute cost estimates as well as reduce staffing and our classified non-management largely due to

108reviewing elop staffing and what was originally budgeted for elop staffing and reducing that staffing cost management salaries increased by 40 000 that is due to anticipated vacation payouts of retiring management staff and their current vacation balances and then decrease of benefits of approximately 14 000 based off of the salary adjustments for books and supplies we had a decrease of 17 000 in looking at our unrestricted spending in the supplies and our spending freeze we was able to reduce that by 17 000 and restricted we reduced by 468 000 this is due to reduced elop spending so we're carrying more over into next year as well as reduced restricted lottery spending based off of what we've spent to date services and operating expenses increased by 404 sorry 424 000 there were increases in elop funding for

109the different programs that they operate so they do a lot of services to bring in outside vendors to provide classes to students and so increasing those costs as well as magnet grants and restricted routine restricted maintenance and donation spending and then capital outlay the small decrease of eight thousand dollars was an update in the kitchen infrastructure expenses so in our multi-year projection assumptions i bolded the numbers that changed from second interim so we had an increase of cola from 2.41 percent to 2.87 percent and then our p2ada the three the numbers increased across the board not only for the current year with the 95 but also updating our projections in our subsequent years to also believe we'll achieve that 95 in the future years and then our funded ada was based updated based off of

110the updated p2 attendance numbers so this graph illustrates where our enrollment has been and where we're projecting our enrollment to go so the third column from the right is our current 25 26 year and then 26 27 27 28 the green line represents our funded ada and our the blue line represents our current year ada so that is what we're primarily funded off of so you'll see in many of the years our funded ada is quite higher than our current year ada and that was largely due to our covid relief that we had for ada and then in the more current years we really balanced out to being close to our current year ada is what we're being funded off of but as you can tell because we're funded as a state off of our

111attendance so students actually being in seats at school that day we received much less than what our enrollment is so that kind of represents where we're actually funded versus what the students that we are serving is the orange line so our current multi-year projection this is the multi-year projection that assumes no new revenue increases beyond the cola increase so are unrestricted in 25 26 we have a 4.84 reserve moving into 26 27 it drops down below the 3 at 2.14 percent and then in 27 28 in order to maintain a positive ending fund balance and to get back to the 3 reserve requirement we would need reductions of 7.3 million dollars in order to meet the 3 reserve requirement and the combined funds we would have an ending fund balance in 25 26 of 7.46

112percent in 26 27 of 3.52 percent with 1.3 percent of that being restricted and 3.91 percent in 27 28 with the 7.3 million dollars in reductions and 0.9 percent of that would be a restricted ending fund balance so then in our combined funds with the state january budget proposal because the may revise has not been released yet that will be released later on this week this incorporates the original proposal of the one-time learning recovery block grant full restoration a one-time student support and professional development block grant and an ongoing increase to the ab 602 special education based funding and so with that because of the improvement from our lcff funding we no longer if we utilize all of the one-time dollars to not have to make reductions we would be able to not make reductions

113in 27 28 and meet our 3 reserve requirement however we would still be faced with an ongoing structural deficit that would need to be identified and when we added that 28 29 fiscal year out it would likely show below the minimum reserve requirement if our spending continued but our revenue did not increase because we have the structural deficit that is still ongoing however current estimates for the may revise that will be released by the 14th so sometimes in the next couple of days um show that sorry let me get to this slide information um that initial information shows the may revise is supposed to have significant higher revenue state revenue than originally projected for prop 98 funding this could be an increase of approximately six to eight billion dollars for the state and one-time funds

114um this senate and assembly democrats have both indicated support um supporting fully funding the prop 98 guarantee so not doing the hold back to the governor initially proposed in january so depending on how the state addresses the previous proposed 5.6 billion dollar hold back we could as education agencies could see between six billion and 11.6 billion dollars in additional one-time funding across the state the increased funding outlook also it was improved for 26 27 with current projections showing that prop 98 could receive an additional two billion in ongoing funds looking at that number um in an ada fashion straight ada would be approximately four million dollars for our district ongoing and we don't yet know how the additional funds will materialize for districts so we'll know more information as I mentioned at the may revise

115and for sure with the state budget adoption in late june but i do believe we should start planning once we know more information about what those funds will look like moving forward and then looking ahead we have our may revision that will be released on may 14th june 9th we'll have our public hearing of both the 26 27 budget and l cap june 15th is when the legislator must pass a balanced state budget june 16th is when we will adopt our district budget and l cap and then june 30th is the deadline for the governor to sign the budget that will take any questions okay trustee prusa are you going to complain about the timeline of educational systems in our state my turn yeah great thank you wow so generous of everyone to allow me

116to go first okay i have a few questions my first one is do we know can we attribute anything to our increase in attendance like do we can we actually hand that over to acting there's you know we have what are we doing right i guess that's my question the one thing i can tell you and it's really i'm very cautious because um we don't ever want to attribute causation to or cause with correlation yeah and so i'm very careful about saying this is why but i can tell you some things that we implemented this year that that i believe led to the increase in our ada um one major um initiative that with the help of michelle dawson and sarah degrote um and our community engagement is we really did a push um and

117put the word out about how important it was to have kids in school and even if your child had a doctor's appointment at 9 30 bring them for an hour bring them for a little bit of the school day because every day counts and so that um i think and then we we put it out in our monthly memos um out to our parents and i believe even it went to this granular level i want to say that our labor leaders especially lea helped a lot with that outreach um to to really get the word out about how important student attendance was to our budget good um okay and then let's skip some of those so uh we were according to like where we are right now without looking forward yet we were looking just

118correct me if i'm wrong i'm going to ask you a question and i might be wrong we were looking at nine million in cuts for next year are we now looking at seven correct and that's without any new funding any new funding okay so then that leads into my next question which you kind of answered which was the two billion ongoing would possibly be a four million for us correct which is ongoing but then there was a six six to eight one time yes which which do you know what that would be for us i guess it would be i could do some math but i believe that that would be upwards of 12 million to 15 16 million probably higher than that so my question about the one time funds is what does that

119mean for us because if we i mean i think we're learning if you use one time funding for ongoing expenses then down the road you may have to make cuts so what would be the strategy for something like that like it's generous but also it kind of puts us in a tricky spot does that make sense yes you definitely have to um it's never wise to use or fiscally prudent to use one-time funds on ongoing expenses um i do know that with all the one-time funds that are given to schools that makes it a really challenging thing especially with such a large dollar amount um so i would say that one as a district would have to be very strategic in how we use them and really plan them out it's not um utilizing them

120all up front at one time it's kind of spreading it out and really looking at what are the things the daily things that are needed that we haven't been able to provide um and kind of gotten behind on as we've just um maintained our day-to-day like our staff devices and student devices and curriculum and all that and now we have i believe it's math is our next curriculum adoption coming up so it's looking at all of those items as then well as well as making sure that we maintain our programs the best that we can but still planning for the future and not letting a cliff happen okay thank you that's helpful okay ask a question it's on uh page 14 on your slides just a clarification it's uh the enrollment went up small i

121mean went from like 94 point something to 95 percent and the green and blue kind of represent where our funding is and the orange represents the columns represent what our real attendance real enrollment that's not this isn't to scale if 95 enrollment it seems like there's 25 that we're not getting funds for is this just a graphic or is it literally to scale because it doesn't look to scale i mean if 95 attendance you'd think that the green dot would be much higher up on the attendance i think because it's in increments of 500 it makes it look like it is not to scale and so each 500 is a much larger piece of the bar chart because our enrollment has declined so much it's a kind of a larger it goes from 11 000

122to 11 500 to 12 000 so each of the lines represents like our um for example in 25 26 that enrollment line represents that we're almost at 13 000 students but funded at 13 or 12 300 students and so it's slightly the orange bar is right at 13 000 and then the green and blue because we're on current year funded ada is both right below the 12 500 students so if it was expressed in dollars and not numbers the green dot would be much closer to the end of the bar i think if i can interject also keep in mind that the bottom threshold is 11 000 if we're missing correct should should go down to like i just think as a graphic that we use publicly it kind of presents a misconception of where

123we're at because there's always a thing about enrollment and the district does a very good job of enrollment and it's very difficult when you get above 90 92 to actually drive that number and sometimes there's diminishing return on that the return on investment is minimal if not nonexistent i'm just saying in terms of looking at that the graphic to me would either include the entire orange bar so that it looks for the public looking at this that we are doing a good job on our attendance an exceptional job on attendance and so that it doesn't represent like we're not capturing something you know we're capturing everything we can in attendance we should be back the other question is on page 16 and 17 just uh i'm looking at one is multi-year projection combined funds one

124is combined funds with state budget proposal and looking at the top we'll go to the first one page 16 20 26 20 27 combined and then look go down to the next one page 17 the same number it looks like it increases by what 6.5 million correct is there any reason that the expenditures the far right column are revenue in because you're reflecting one-time money in 26 27 but in 27 28 the one-time money you carry it over from combined funds into the combined funds with state budget they're both uh relatively the same one's 207 802 one is 207 577 it's less the top right number but yet the expenditures are reflective of going up about a little over five million dollars yes so the um slide 16 the combined funds assumes making the 7.3

125million dollars in reductions to meet the minimum three percent reserve requirement so it would bring our expenditures down to 207 million dollars so that's on slide 16 and then on slide 17 if as i mentioned we used all the one-time dollars to just sustain our programs and not make additional reductions we wouldn't need to make additional reductions and so our expenditures would remain um at the 12 uh 212 million dollars is the difference so it's making expenditure reductions or not making expenditure reductions across the two years or across the two um projections okay all right it's just one thing i'm cautious of is the state i don't want to say is notorious but in some sense one-time money because they can't guarantee what's going to happen so what i've seen being on the board is

126that and we've seen it here you know we had uh we'll never make it to let's all work together look for solutions understanding how to project funds um and then we're able to you know it's painful but it's not cutting down the tree right um and so when we start looking towards those out years and we start making decisions a couple years before as to what we're going to do um i would always caution that one-time funds from the state tend to materialize year after year because it's a strategy that's used in a lot of places i would agree that you don't build structurally on one-time funds but also if one-time funds become recurring each and every year then in fact historically they are recurring and so you're denying either children or the people who

127serve them the benefit of that recurring fund so it's it's simply a matter of expertise and looking at that like with a scalpel each year the state of california is not a failing state it's the fourth or fifth largest economy in the world it's got a super majority and can sustain a governor a gubernatorial veto so there's and it's pro public education so as we look at these things i don't believe that the sky is falling or has maybe 0708 when there was a worldwide catastrophe but going forward i have full faith in the state of california and its ability and willingness and desire to pump up to fund public education and i think that working with them and our partners we can sustain what we need and it's always in the 11th hour sometimes

128it's pressed but it comes through but reflecting that in our decision-making process causes a lot of angst in the community and especially on our employees and how they're able to serve as kids so it's just a matter of especially when our board the rendition of our board changes over and over to me it's not as clear as saying one-time funds can't be used structurally that's i agree with you that's obvious but when it's again california has exhibited that their definition of one-time funds tends to be recurring they're always cautious about building that base was that prop 98 yeah they're always cautious about that but again what are they saying two billion dollars or 11 billion dollars or whatever the number is this time is going to come into our budget so appreciate your work thank

129you trustee capuanis thank you for the report miss wasley and i love that we're seeing a higher than expected attendance which has led to greater revenue in our report do you think that we can sustain this to get a higher percentage next year or beyond that's always the goal always okay on page 11 why are we seeing so many more substitute teachers than planned i would every employee is entitled to leave and so based off of the current leave usage that's just where we're projected to be at a slightly higher based off of those leave that leave usage and so that can be for a variety of reasons it can also be if we have more iep days more 504 meeting days so we do give release time for that so it could be across

130a variety of reasons to have an increased substitute cost and for pd and stuff like that yeah pd is typically more restricted this was more on the unrestricted side the increase in substitute costs okay thank you for clarifying that and then also is there a concrete plan to close the structural deficit i would say that looking forward as we see what the may revise releases in the final state budget then we would probably look to the board for direction on how we want to move forward in addressing the structural deficit if it is still depending on how big the structural deficit still is at that point after the state budget and then to see if that is reconvening the budget work group or using our budget advisory committees and how we would like that to

131function the timeline of how we would like that to function because we would have a longer runway hopefully of making decisions moving forward that structural asset okay thank you trust you and yeah i think both my colleague trustees asked that i really want us to get a plan together because having a longer runway in making reductions to get to that seven million dollars now it would really serve us because we you know i feel like there's some rush that we had this last round and i would i would like that so whatever you know whatever we can do maybe as a board to or as a governance team to come up with a timeline that will help future proof our district financially would be really great this last question is maybe just maybe something is

132i should just take a youtube course on but like the donations right you got a half million dollars more of our donations are those i'm i'm totally assuming that those are very restricted funds we can use only for the things that they were donated to but we're we're counting them in the full like hey we're doing better budget and yet we also don't we can't count in towards a three percent reserve correct yes so the way that donations have operated in this district is as we receive the donation revenue the revenue gets budgeted as revenue we have to recognize it in current year because that's when we received it and then we also budget an equal expense to that revenue and so donation expenses also increased by 573 000 which does increase our three percent

133reserve requirement but correct that is cannot be used to meet the three percent reserve requirement and then donations are geared towards the site or the program that they are donated to i hadn't even thought about the three percent also increases that so thanks thanks for your donations everybody but that's super helpful thank you for this just a quick question and then i guess a request on page eight uh revenue highlights what is meant by school partnerships the plus 41 000 yes so it the full name of the grant is school partnerships link so it's a grant through alameda county office of education to get our medical billing up and running to be able to bill private insurance for counseling services as well as other services for students and then a request thank you for sharing

134may 14th and i'll do my i think all of us are going to look at what the may revise is but if we can get a summary or it doesn't need to be this in depth but just an update either via email or at some point i think just kind of through your lens what does the may revised look for us i think would be really helpful absolutely any other questions or comments from the board now that would entertain a motion on this item i move to support the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the 2526 third interim financial report as presented a second so a motion from trustee prus to us pruso a second from trustee vanden huvel any discussion on the motion we need to wait clerk can you please take role including our

135students trustee capilotus trustee pruso aye trustee bueno aye myself aye president jurid aye trustee gress aye trustee debak aye that motion carries unanimously we'll move on to 14.3 reductions in services and staffing for the 2627 school year dr jessica benders okay thank you so 14.3.a is the final action on the termination of classified employees as a result of reductions due to lack of work or lack of funds these employees on appendix a were noticed um given preliminary notice by march 15th if approved they will then be given notice a final layoff and um members of csa and sei replaced our 39 month reemployment list it's the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the recommendation for the termination of classified employees there are no blue cards so i'll close public comments any questions trustee bueno as we

136go through these and i know that we're talking about putting this group back together the budget advisory group so we can give consideration i know that we had a lot of kids who came in particular we had one student athlete who showed up many times to voice their concern and i could share their concern the athletic trainer at the high schools it is a singular position i feel that it's a bit i don't want to call it hypocritical but it's kind of like it's literally bite off your nose just bite your face in that we celebrate the successes that are recent i know that we're all making very painful decisions just months ago we were in a much different place than we are right now it's very good work and the praise goes to the

137cooperative effort between our acting superintendent her team and our labor groups for coming to a resolve and the board listening and working with you know community interests that position is a singular position that has had great benefits and as someone who's coached even in our high schools for 20 years i will tell you in the absence of that we will not have the accolades that we are currently celebrating for our athletes there's no way to back it up it's one position and it's a very low dollar amount so as we try to rebuild in that team i just want us to not lose focus that this is water under the bridge that we revisit some of these positions something these are these are real people and beyond the emotional side it's the functionality they have

138with our children and i want to make sure that we give due consideration to things and i appreciate it thank you there's no other discussion i would entertain yes trust you i'll just um you know getting to see this process on the um behind this the curtain i get to see that employee number tied to a name and i'm um i've become close and got friends with several people on this list and so i in in do in going through this process it's you know there's real people on the other side like trustee bueno said and it's uh this is a painful thing and um we i just want to say that we none of us take this lightly and we just we don't you know we don't just vote on a number um we

139see the names behind that so um yeah i would understand a motion i will make a motion to approve the recommendation for determination of classified employees as a result of reductions due to lack of work and or lack of funds i'll second i have a motion from trustee vanden heuvel with the second from trustee pruso any discussion on the motion clerk can you call the roll without student votes myself aye trustee bueno trustee caplanis reluctantly aye uh trustee pruso aye president druane aye that motion carries five oh 14 3b okay 14 3b is the final action on the termination of certificate employees due to reduction of particular kinds of service again these employees were given march 15 preliminary notices and upon approval will be given final layoff notices as the acting superintendent's recommendation is to

140approve the termination of certificate employees due to reduction of particular kinds of service there's no blue cards in this item so i'll close public comments questions or comments from the board trustee bueno again not to go through the entire thing but that we look at this i know there's at least i mean there's a few people if we're eliminating positions based on we just don't have the money or the program has um shrunk in a way um but i know that there's at least some individuals one that i noticed on the list um that was integral to benefiting a lot of our most underserved kids and went out of his way professionally to gain um credentials so that he could serve our children better and so it's not to me it's beyond the the human

141and emotional component it's about trying to do and doing what's right and not forgetting the sacrifices that these folks have made he's an exceptional human and he has done exceptional things for our kids here and so i want to make sure that we give due consideration going down the road to try to build these things back before we come up with new things that we look behind us at the things that served our children and that we can reinstate some of these things we were in a really bad fiscal fiscal situation and we had to resolve it and really good work in doing that but unfortunately some things get caught and i want to make sure that we don't forget these folks chocie cabanas i just want to share too that i really am passionate

142about the project build program and the students that it serves so i would encourage that we do get creative on how we can reinstate this this program is there a motion yes i i make a motion to prove the termination of certificated employees due to reduction of particular kinds of service is there a second i'll second the motion from trustee vandenheuvel a second from trustee pruso any discussion on this motion clear can you call the road without students trustee bueno trustee pruso aye myself aye trustee caplanis aye president druane aye that motion carries 50 14 3 c board action adopting the decision of the administrative law judge dated april 30th 2026 regarding dismissal of certificated employee and final action of termination as a result of reduction of particular kinds of service okay thank you so

143we had one administrative hearing the hearing decision is attached and you can see there that um law judge mario choy mario choy excuse me in the layoff hearing of certificated employee paul gorsuchy the board will take action for the recommendation of termination as a result of layoffs and to approve the hearing proposed decision it's the acting superintendent's recommendation to adopt both the decision of the administrative law judge and final action of termination for the certificate certificated employee i have no blue cards in this item any questions i have a question trustee colinas just for clarification purposes is there any alternatives to this program currently in our district so the position is grant funded right now and the grant is ended and so there are no current alternatives for that okay i will say that the

144rop program does have a construction right program at doublet or at emerald high school that our students are can participate in but not the bike that's okay then not the bike repair program okay any other questions or comments if not i would understand a motion i move to support the acting superintendent's recommendation to adopt the decision of the administrative law judge dated april 30th 2026 regarding the dismissal of a certificated employee and the final action on the acting superintendent's recommendation for termination as a result of reductions of a particular kind of service i second the motion from trustee prusso a second from trustee vandenhoovel any discussion on the motion clerk can you take the role without our student trustees please trustee prusso i trustee bueno nay trustee caplanis nay uh myself aye president juror aye

145that motion carries 3 2 14 for declaration of need for fully qualified educators dr bonduras okay so as a prerequisite to issuing any emergency permit or limited assignment permit california at code regulation section 826 of title 5 requires that school districts annually submit a declaration of need for fully qualified educators to the commission on teacher credentialing which includes the number of emergency permits or limited assignment permits our district anticipates requesting the efforts our district is making to recruit certificated individuals to certify align and develop fully qualified individuals and also the verification that the declaration of need was adopted by our district it's the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve our declaration of need for fairly qualified educators again this year there is no blue cards in this item so i'll close public comment questions from the

146board if not i would entertain a motion i'll move to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation of a declaration of need for fully qualified educators second i have a motion from trustee caplanis a second from trustee bueno any discussion any motion or can you call the roll without our student trustees trustee caplanis aye myself aye trustee bueno trustee prusso president druan aye that motion carries five oh move on to 14.5 approval of the 2026 2027 thank you uh meeting calendar so meetings of the board of education are conducted for the purpose of accomplishing the district's business board meeting exists whenever a majority of board members gather at the same time and place to hear discuss and deliberate upon any item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board or district in accordance with the state open

147meeting laws the board shall hold its meetings in public and shall conduct closed sessions only as authorized by law to encourage the community to encourage community involvement in the schools meetings shall provide opportunities for questions and comments by members of the public and shall be conducted in accordance with law and board adopted laws so the proposed calendar has our regularly scheduled board meetings at 6 pm on tuesdays twice most months mimicking the before we made the switch to having one in the evening and one in the morning or one in the early morning it does have some thursday morning meetings which are workshops which are restricted and not normal meetings of the board so i have it before you i would entertain discussion questions or emotion real quick can you repeat the last part those

148thursday workshops are restricted and no they're there you can't conduct normal business in during a workshop okay so it's it's more of a in the past it's been more of a general conversation we do have a structure for it it's not like we just show up and start talking but it's a way for us to conduct to address topics typically we'll have a budget workshop we'll have a governance workshop to to talk about those things that's a change from the discussion we had last time where it doesn't matter what we call these public meetings they are board meetings and as such they you know the public may have interest in it or so what what in in transparent you know to be as fully transparent allows as much engagement from the public by having it

149in the evening these workshops are not by law restricted to only certain things we could we could decide on things we can put things on the agenda 72 hours before that am i describing it correctly so we can so this meet the the the proposed calendar as an attempt to move back to what we were before so i mimicked the calendar previously and in the past we had before we had an evening and a morning regular board meeting we had workshops and workshops were an opportunity for us as a board to grapple with different topics so but we wouldn't address the normal business that we would in the past we had when we were doing morning regular meetings we had presentations from schools so these wouldn't have those it would have just the kind of

150normal opening the session you'd have a pledge of allegiance and then you would grapple with some type of topic sometimes we have a an expert come in to like we had greg danis come in to present uh to do a governance workshop with us to talk about what does good governance look look like we've had budget workshops where we spent we spent a long time about one topic so i'm not sure if that's fully answering your question not completely because i remember the public pushing back on that and saying what would stop the board from going ahead and having having other content you you can't in a workshop you can't address you're not allowed to address you're not allowed to vote on things it's it's essentially and correct me if i'm wrong but i believe

151that it is just discussion only i believe that the uh descriptor workshop is not something that you know the brown act recognizes like there's no either we meet in public as a board or we don't but there's no different kinds of and i think that's what we got to eliminating these thursday morning meetings because the public said well we don't necessarily trust y'all to only discuss things that are you know a little boring and workshoppy i got i got a point i think the morning meetings had nothing to do i was here with public trust it was a unilateral decision it was made by the previous administration to move it was based upon maybe an opinion that it would give access when in fact the main complaint that i received was that it limited access

152historically the board did operate with workshops and where people get in trouble is when they don't agendize them correctly and you don't post it correctly it gives to president drone's drone's point it's usually a more singular perspective so you're going to deal with the budget so we had a budget workshop so it tended to be more in depth a lot of the regularities of a regular board meeting didn't happen so we're not going to do a whole bunch of recognitions it's just kind of let's get right to the work but it's still a public meeting it's still posted it's still agendized and it didn't preclude us there was a couple of times when we utilized it to like like a cleanup like there was a an agenda that someone didn't you know hadn't approved or

153something but it wasn't intended to be a regular board meeting and we did them we did them for years and under review i understand the intent and i trust the intent because i trust you all but i just want us to really think of the impact of having board meetings at a time when teachers can't help us or look over our shoulder or give feedback or make a comment on something that's on the agenda the public is it's harder for them that's i believe some of what we experienced was last year was was you know that there is a feeling that we were high you know we had the opportunity that we didn't but there was an opportunity for us to hide something in those or do something in those thursday morning workshops if i

154call it a workshop doesn't make it a workshop we know what it means because we you know we're like we promise which this is all we want to do and for me personally i think a thursday workshop would be great instead of every you know three times a month on a tuesday great i love it i just i want to make sure that we understand the what we're communicating to the public and to our teachers to our staff again my recollection is that these were discussion items so it gave the board the public the staff the ability to go in depth you know we usually had them in conference room c to my recollection and so it gave us the ability to go like with budget it tends to be kind of boring but it

155might go for three hours on one topic and so the they would we would have these i mean when i first got on the board these would be at seven thirty in the morning and they would go till ten ten thirty but then there was some people had needs to start a little later so we'd usually start them around eight o'clock and we'd go till 11 maybe 10 30 or 11 on a single topic when we discussed facilities we're going to go through the slides for every school in the district and we're going to look at slides of roofs and things like that we can ask our questions it helps staff the bond department put things together so that when we come to our regular meeting they understand kind of where our line of questions

156are going to come from and then you would vote on it and fully discuss it in public but we're not going to belabor three hours of looking at roofs or classrooms or technology or budgets it gives us the opportunity you know when you're it's it was a smaller group in a smaller room with not much on the agenda and we forwent all the other items that you know keep us the first hour of our meeting i really do i do understand and i i hear the intent i just want us to consider the impact trustee capone i just want to say i really i supported having the morning meetings just to get our workshops whatever just to get work done board work done to be efficient and then the one evening a night and then

157i thought we you guys voted to only have evening meetings so i just wanted to know what changed so i think that what changed is the mix-up in the last two years of what constitutes a workshop and what constitutes a meeting because when i got on there was a very clear distinction between those you you this is a meeting a workshop we open the session and then we have a presentation and it was more informal and a dialogue even there was a lot more free-flowing conversation it didn't follow the exact structure of this and as trustee bueno said it was related to one topic because trying to trying to address you know taking the example of facilities and looking through all school sites in a meeting like this is not practical right i understood that

158and that's why i supported it and i'll still support it but um the addition of of multiple meeting evening meetings a month like for example in the month of may can we i know are we planning to be in a qualified budget again next year for the additional meeting in may the third meeting are we able to put that meeting or sorry the second meeting in may as optional if we're not in a qualified budget we can we can add meetings if we need to we can add can we reduce um we can in the past we've if we don't need to meet for a workshop then we don't meet for a workshop but i don't know for a regularly scheduled meeting if it's possible to cancel well what i would say is you would

159amend if if the board chose to you could amend this calendar to state that the second meeting in may would be optional only if we were not in a qualified budget because we do need that second meeting in may for miss wasley to do her third interim and additionally there has been the need to move the second meeting in june later because the state was delayed and getting us the information that miss wasley or her predecessors needed to present the budget because sometimes the state kind of drags its feet so there's been times when we moved that meeting but my understanding has been over the years be your best to adopt the the practice has been to adopt the calendar and if we don't need a date then we say listen there's nothing there's nothing

160happening so we're not going to use the second one but it's easier to not use a meeting than to try to schedule one because we we all know what the what the calendar is going to look like right and then it was just along with the additional meeting in may as well as october and september i just want to make sure those meetings are necessary or can we put those as placeholders as optional i think we haven't discussed this in some time since january february but i think the community came out strongly saying wanting us to return to evening meetings and i believe the returning to the standard of most months being two meetings so that's what that was my recollection so that's how the how the how this was built i just want to

161understand it if it's necessary do we need those in those two months well i think this is i i don't think we'll know till we get there but as as i presented as we were talking about board calendars this is the standard practice amongst school boards in and around our area is most months meeting two two two evenings so if we are attempting to to return to standard practice in the area then again i built this with that intent okay but october would be technically three because there's still a workshop correct correct okay and then my last thing is the saturday workshop would that be optional or is that indefinite well it's different the saturday go for it what we have done historically is after new officers are installed after an election we come together

162and we do a saturday it's a governance workshop so it is a saturday and so it usually is it's usually the superintendent and the the board and sometimes there's a new board member and so usually there's a facilitator and it's for the purpose of kind of understanding how board governance works and usually there's a brown act book presented things like that that's what the saturday one is that's my historical memory of how it's been done in the years past i just haven't experienced that but thank you um i have to say i'm a little frustrated i you guys know i like to play nice i wanted to keep the workshops i felt like we were very strongly pushed not to keep the workshops and so from our community from people on this board so like

163christian and nina i am confused i i experienced workshops like craig did and i liked the workshops i fought for the workshops when we discussed this last time i got shot down and so i'm just like what are we doing the community seemed like they didn't want the workshops maybe i misunderstood the community i felt like there were people on the board who are now saying the opposite who didn't want the workshops so personally i like the worst workshops i guess i'm just confused is that are we i just want to make sure we're not dealing with like semantics that because i don't remember ever in the many years i served on the board before some with you that there was ever community outcry against the workshops what we were told administratively what i was

164told and as part of this group was that we could no longer do the workshops because of some technical or illegality or something like that and i remember that there was pushback from the board at least for myself and i'll just speak for myself that i didn't feel that that was an accurate description of the workshops then there was a pivot to go to morning board meetings where nothing substantively would be discussed it would be more like single plans and things like that but when that came to fruition it became ineffective and there was business that needed to be conducted but we found ourselves without adequate slots to conduct that business and so then we kind of came into like a quandary and then there was discussion about adding some meeting ones but the specifically

165the specificity of workshops was simply my recollection brought to us as board members saying that we could no longer conduct that conduct those workshops that were historically very productive for everyone because they were not really deciding meetings they were simply discussion meetings of greater depth that was it i believe what you felt maybe some like hey this is is illegal i just think that we were shown that there's no distinction other than the name between these different timed slots for meetings and so i i would just like to say can we just get a little clarity on whether or not we you know we are there some guidelines together are together it has to be an agendas board meeting no no can we just get some clarification from whomever knows this because i've i've i

166hear from you all that you can have these board workshops and they're really helpful and you just decide not to put anything on the agenda that we have to vote on or that has any kind of structural uh policy changes whatever but that's a self-imposed rule when really next board could just you know say well we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna do some stuff you know we all we have this meeting already it's it's there it's on the um on the calendar so we're gonna put some stuff on it that's what i felt you know a year whatever we decided to take out these workshops because there was um no distinction between we you can say that there's a distinction but there just isn't there is no other meetings than meetings the difference when it

167was changed from a long-serving historical practice that worked and held up to scrutiny was that we eliminated an evening meeting and and curtailed the board's ability to conduct business in a public meeting and we did it in the morning which limited access and to me my recollection was the public their meeting the meeting that they come to was eliminated and so access was limited not eliminated but limited yeah i don't recall having board meetings during the day where we had a board meeting like we do now where we were voting on items did we do them a little a little bit okay a little bit yeah just some things not not major maybe some board policies that were also outstanding that we needed to update occasionally i just think it may be a i don't

168know i just feel more comfortable if i have some clarification about a distinction other than just the name but they're the same thing we just call it something different we could also we could also put it into policy to protect it for a subsequent board right so we if we chose if we're able to yeah if that's if that's possible maybe that's something we could look into as well if we choose to define what a workshop is and what you can do that's fine i would check to make sure that there isn't already a policy that exists on it there might be i don't know yeah it's been quite a while but i think there was a very effective means for a number of years that predated my being on the board that was a

169very good way for us to i agree i discuss it yeah i like it and i'll go on the record to say i like i love the idea of those thursday workshops spending time on one or two topics and what a great idea however i'm hung up so sorry to the audience it's painful sometimes to listen to us talk so i have a question real quick are we since it says draft are we able to make any like tweaks possibly as far as like the may one optional upon our budget status or or a pending or something i think to trustee bueno's point i would recommend and i'm not like no ego associated with this this is a draft this is our conversation i would say my recommendation would be to adopt as is and

170if we get to a point to to your point if business doesn't need to be need to occur then we can make those modifications at that point because putting an asterix to it and saying that we will come back to this later is this effectively the same as us adopting it as is now so will it have to be agendized to adopt the changes to the schedule yeah okay if there's no further discussion i would entertain a motion i move in support of the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the 26 27 board meeting calendar is there a second i will second the motion from trustee bueno with the second from me any discussion on the motion or can you take roles yes myself no trustee prusot no trustee bueno yeah trustee kaplanis no president druin

171yes so that does not carry so that will be two three so i will bring another agenda i had thought about bringing multiple agendas so perhaps the next one will bring a couple agendas for us to menu shop and go from there i believe we were on to consent items if i'm correct let's move to our consent items so 35 consent items on the consent agenda this evening are there any consent items that board members wish to pull for separate discussion we just get uh earlier pulled it was the one i pulled uh i wrote down i think it's 15.5 resolution 95 is the one you already pulled yeah number 15.5 d david that was pulled okay so we haven't pulled any others right that's correct okay if there's no discussion what i would assume

172that we would pull things and then if we have discussion we would address it with the item as opposed to doing comments now yeah i'm just saying if you have public comments then you should pull do you have public comments on any all the public comments are on 15.5 c so i'll pull maybe pull that one out yes okay okay what is the number 15.1 15.5 c okay mr president can we also pull 15.5 b 15.5 to clarify under consent 15.5 b bravo c charlie and d david have been pulled no others okay any others entertain a motion i would like to pull 15.4 c so again 15.4 c the approval of the mou for separate discussion okay so anything else that people would like to pull from consent items if not i would entertain

173a motion for all the consent consent items with the exception of 15.4 c 15.5 point b 15.5 c and 15.5 d david and d thank you would you just want to consider that the motion and i'll second okay so i have a motion from trustee bueno is there a second second second from trustee vanden heuvel any discussion on the motion if not then i would clerk can you take the role without students please myself aye trustee bueno aye trustee prusso aye trustee kaplanis aye president druane aye that motion carries five oh so let's go with 15.4 c approval of memorandums of understanding between livermore education association and lvj usd so with this item um this is an mou so part of this is an mou between livermore valley joint unified school district and special education

174teachers and so we received legal guidance on this and the education section code 35107 says a member of a governing board or a school district shall abstain from voting on personnel matters that and this is the important uniquely affect a relative of the member but may vote on collective bargaining agreements and personnel matters that affect a class of employees to which the relative belongs and in this again the relative passages for me are uniquely affect a relative and class of employees i believe so we i received theoretical legal guidance i believe that i am allowed to vote on this matter as the mou pertains to a class of employees but i i i'm going to be more comfortable in this instance of abstaining president druane i'm in the same position and um yeah the the

175uniquely affected can be interpreted in various ways so out of caution for and respect for the public trust that that this seat carries i will also choose to abstain from voting on this item and i think a point of distinction that i would like to make is that i would like to get more information on this but out of out of an abundance of caution is is my action relating to this so any other questions regarding 15.4 c no um i have a question for 14 um 14.4 c 15.4 c yes um is the action is it ever accusable or is it abstain what what's the difference for this portion abstaining is when there's a conflict of interest so okay i'm expressing that there may be a potential conflict of interest relating to this mou

176and so out of an abundance of caution i'm going to abstain but again i'll reiterate that it says that uh uniquely affect a relative and um i am allowed to vote on a collective bargaining agreement which this is on personal matters that affect a class of employees but i would just like more clarification and so in an abundance of caution i'm going to abstain thank you i move to support the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the mou between uh livermore education association and lvj usd the motion from trustee pruso is there a second i'll second second from trustee kaplanis any discussion on the motion or can you call the roll call us yeah uh let's see trustee pruso i myself abstain trustee kaplanis aye trustee bueno aye president druane abstain so that motion carries three

177with two abstentions so now move on to 15.5 b which is the resolution number 93 25 26 recognizing may is heroes month need discussion on this motion on this item yeah i just want to thank local law enforcement for their partnership with the the school district and where increasingly we need we need assistance and help and just their presence is helpful um uh their advice there as we're you know as we're looking at how to how to handle certain situations certain things so um i'm sure uh miss christmas would agree that these people are just top top top notch and as the father of somebody who works as a peace officer i'm just i'm just so impressed with this whole group of people and we're super glad that we have this resolution to celebrate them

178to thank them and recognize them as as truly heroes trustee kaplanis i just want to take this time to thank all of our service and our heroes that serve our community our first responders our health care workers our military i know that represents a lot of the families in this district as well i think it's great that we honor all the work that they do to keep us safe and healthy just briefly to add what anyone in those professions will tell you is that they don't like to be called heroes there's no heroes in those professions so it's a bit ironic that we recognize heroes month because most of those people to their credit will just simply tell you that they're just doing their job have an interesting motion i move to support the acting

179superintendent's recommendation to adopt resolution 93 recognizing may as heroes month second a motion from trustee prusso a second from trustee van den huvel any discussion on the motion clerk can you take the role you can do this right yes yes yes uh trustee bueno aye myself aye trustee prusso aye trustee kaplanis aye president druane aye trustee gris aye that carries unanimously so we'll be on to 15.5 c and so i have 14 last time i counted cards on this item oh goodness i think it's 15 now so in the event of a large number of speakers for both non-agenda and agenda items the allotted time will be modified in the following ways there are 11 to 22 comment cards each speaker will be allotted two minutes and just in in i know you've all stuck

180with us up to this point but if you agree with a comment a non-verbal raise in your hands so that we can see is appreciated so that if you're clapping or making comments it's difficult for us to hear the comments of the person that is speaking um and lastly please make sure that you're addressing your comments to the board with that being said i will call up maryland dikestra followed by debbie gibson no okay all right good evening president druane members of the board staff first of all i want to thank you for moving the vote for this resolution up to main we really appreciate that my name is maryland dikestra i'm a resident of livermore a mother a proud queer woman a volunteer with livermore advocates for public education and livermore moms man action

181for gunsense in america june is not only pride month but the first week in june is when we commemorate those killed by gun violence this is my reason for wearing my mom's man action t-shirt here with the pride colors and my wear orange bracelet to commemorate those killed by gun violence 60 of those killed by gun violence are suicides 36 of lgbtq plus youth seriously consider suicide they're about three times greater risk for suicide than other youth in fact last year 10 of lgbtq plus youth young people committed suicide just last year the good news is according to the trevor project acceptance from adults reduces the risk of suicide attempts by 24 access to lgbtq plus affirming schools and space likewise lord suicides risk significantly so i ask you to please vote to accept this

182resolution to make june pride month with lvj usd thank you up next is debbie gibson who will be followed by wayne hankins good evening again although i have addressed this in past board meetings when this resolution has been brought before you i must remind you again of your code of ethics that you swore to uphold as stated and signed by each of you the trustees of the board of education of livermore valley joint unified school district shall not hold themselves shall hold themselves excuse me to the highest standard of ethical conduct what does ethical conduct mean ethical conduct is the practice of acting in accordance with principles of honesty integrity fairness and respect for others in all situations the oath you took stated as a member of the livermore valley joint unified school district board

183of education i shall represent the interests of all people served by the livermore valley joint unified school district and not favor special interests inside or outside of this district this so-called pride resolution is unnecessary it is a divisive and not inclusive there are many students and families that do not feel respected or supported or have a sense of belonging as this resolution states because it does not represent their moral values why is the board proposing a resolution to celebrate sexual behavior when minors should not be encouraged to engage in sexual activity federally june is no longer recognized as pride month however it is recognized as title nine month focusing on protecting our female students in their private spaces and fairness for female athletes when it comes to athletic competition by making sure that they are

184not competing against boys who are dressing up as girls would be a resolution i would wholeheartedly support i urge you not to pass this resolution thank you up next is wayne hinkins followed by terror boys good evening abraham lincoln said that if if evil if slavery is not evil nothing is evil there was a part of our country that's that thought that slavery was a great blessing it was a great goodness and it took our civil war and the deaths of many people to show whose side was really right who was closer to god the times that we're living in now are very similar to that our country is divided and i think the division is simply do we believe in god in the laws of god the nature nature is god and the laws

185of nature or do we not are we rewriting what god has has taught us through through religion and i believe that that is the key point now because of the emancipation proclamation we have juneteenth and that is the recognition of what abraham lincoln did to eliminate slavery once and for all to make our nation a more perfect union and he did that we need to look at the times that we we have right now and to see that we should be looking at june as the month when we eliminated slavery and made our nation a more perfect union and not being divided between between gay pride month which violates the laws of nature the laws of natures the principles of life are the pair system man and woman masculine and feminine stamen and pistol positive

186and negative you can go all the way down and there's this pair system and we're violating it thank you thank you i don't think terror voice is here um so i'll call up kelly guvera will be followed by joanne morrison oh goodness yeah i'm good that's just a tough subject i'm good thanks oh i'm good it is said pride come before fall in some versions going back 8 000 years it does it says also in scripture pride cometh before destruction do we really want to destroy this board in the school you talk about inclusivity you talk about marginalized what about the 99 percent that you're trying to protect the man that came up here and spent all those millions of dollars to fix the schools and do everything else he didn't do it for just

187a small group he did it for all of the students every single one of them christian muslim seek hindu catholic it didn't matter did it for all of them that's what your board is supposed to do for all of them but by singling out sin and putting it on the board to shove it in the face of everybody else you're marginalizing everybody else and that's a shame your sexuality is your own and it doesn't need to be in the face mine isn't in the face of anybody else's you can do what you want to do make your own choices and that's between you and god but as an educator here as someone who is chosen to trust and direct things you have an absolute obligation to that flag to the oath that you took and

188to all of these students pride does come at the farfall i have a solution for you you guys are stuck between a rock and a hard place because of all the screamers saying we hate you don't have to hate instead take that calendar agenda set it aside and make it for all children national children's month not just pride but all children and make them the priority not the sexuality agenda thank you up next is joanne morrison who'll be followed by christy zoom good evening everyone first i want to thank you for bringing this motion timely in may it means that our lgbtq plus students will hear that this board stood up for them before the school year ended and that matters to them a lot resolution 94 25 26 is not a radical document it

189reaffirms commitments this district has already made the 2017 all kids are our kids affirmation board policy 0415 the california education code it calls for anti-bullying efforts parent engagement and student wellness resources these are not controversial goals they are the basic obligations of every public school you will be hearing and have heard arguments against this resolution what used to be a hidden agenda is becoming very apparent the religious right is small but very obvious in this community and their agenda to inculcate their beliefs in our schools cannot be allowed by this board everyone is entitled to teach their children their own religious beliefs at home and in places of worship they do not belong in public schools i urge you every lgbtq student in this district deserves to know that they are seen they are safe

190and they belong here please pass this resolution thank you up next is christy zulu will be followed by lisa disbrow good evening board thank you for your time i'm here tonight on behalf of my godson who goes to joe mitchell school on your website you provided background for this resolution it states the livermore valley unified school district is committed to fostering safe inclusive and welcoming learning environments for all students staff and families that is wonderful and yet by passing this resolution you would be creating a whole month of celebrations where many families and staff and children would not feel safe welcomed or included more than 80% of students and their families come from traditional families who are not comfortable with the lbgtq plus agenda how are you serving them by passing this resolution lbgt is

191an agenda it's not an identity and creating an environment in the classroom where the majority of students and families would be uncomfortable and further who do not wish to learn about a progressive non-traditional ideology and i would add dangerous lifestyle does not fulfill the safe inclusive and welcoming environment that your resolution says that it wants to foster when we have teachers which are authority figures in children's lives condoning and celebrating these alternative lifestyles it brings confusion and anxiety into children's minds anxiety and other mental problems have exploded exponentially in our society including within our young people please let them enjoy being innocent children don't confuse them with ideologies they are too young to understand i urge you to protect these young minds and vote no on this resolution thank you next is lisa disbro will

192be followed by catherine villasenor good evening lisa disbro here if according to the resolution you're interested in fostering safe inclusive welcoming learning environments for all students if that's your genuine goal then you cannot pass recognizing the month of june is pride month number one the united states american flag is the most inclusive protective flag that secures the rights of every student parent staff member and point of view no one is erased under the united states constitution of america secondly people can fly their lgbt preference flag at their home at their business on their car on their clothing anything that is of their personal property without imposing their belief and values on others in addition if you recognize one special interest group then the other groups deserve to be recognized as well the resolution statement all

193kids are our kids is offensive it asserts ownership over children that don't belong to some to anybody but the parents it defies 100 years of parents rights supreme court rulings affirming that parents are the legal authority of their children they are recognized as the agents most committed to the protection supervision care and nurturing of their children these rulings and decisions clarify parents are in charge not the government not the school not any other special interest i commend the idea to create a june as the children's month thank you that gives me chills katherine billison yours up next followed by ananya fuller good evening please do not put on pride agenda as a month or in curriculum it is a divisive use of school time pride ideology is a religion against christ why not let the

194parents teach their values in their homes thank you up next is anya fuller who will be followed by samuel barnes good evening board excuse me i have to take a lozenge oh you turned it off right there you go about that i'm speaking as a grandmother and an educator with 20 years experience and i appreciate that lb lgbtq plus as a people group i respect all people and i appreciate that they require recognition as a relatively new movement but i think their preoccupation is a very personal issue mainly their sexuality and i don't think it's appropriate to facilitate their being seen in a school setting i understand they need to be seen and respected for their uniqueness but i don't think it's proper to facilitate this in a place of education especially elementary schools where

195sexuality is not a priority for little kids children's education should focus on literacy numeracy science pe writing all the traditional subjects and any imposed morality should be a general type of morality like honesty integrity inappropriateness to the emotional maturity of children there's a lot of room for improvement in kids education so it is a well accepted fact that parents are the best teachers and modelers of morality to their children especially with all things sexual and again i say inappropriateness to the children's maturity it's not the place for schools to do this because they don't know the kids so intimately as the parents do i applaud that that the hero month has been introduced because my next point was that there are so many other people groups that could be celebrated okay thank you thank you

196up next is samuel barnes who will be followed by mark atrisca turn the push the button there evening board i'm here tonight as a parent who is deeply deeply frustrated with the direction this district is taking our schools are failing to stay focused on their primary responsibility which is educating our children um your job is to educate our children in core academics like math reading not um not sexuality that's none of your business quite frankly um that's our business as parents so um these subjects are not subjects that schools or teachers should be responsible for teaching their personal conversations uh they belong at home where parents not school systems have the right to guide the children it's not for you to guide my children and i hope you understand that we constantly hear that teachers

197are not parents that is your direction teachers are not parents whenever concerns are raised about discipline behavior moral guidance that's true then why are teachers here trying to step in when it comes to sexuality gender or identity many families in this district feel their voices are being ignored public schools are meant to educate not push social or political agendas um just as schools avoid promoting religion out of respect for differing beliefs they should also avoid promoting discussion surrounding gender identity sexuality to young children especially kindergartners parents are not uh parents not the government not the administrators and not the teachers should decide when and where these conversations happen and it should be something done at home not not out of our supervision let me be clear every child deserves respect every child deserves respect but

198uh parents are paying attention and many of us are tired of watching this so i hope you're paying attention to me i appreciate your time up next is mark triska who'll be followed by ellie redwig ellie yeah if i mispronounce her name feel free to correct me well good evening good evening school board um i have two daughters who graduated from granada high school and they're successful and happy so thank you for that also uh don't you have a difficult job dealing with the public and public sentiment as well as what's best for educating our children i'm here to speak out against the school district formally recognizing june as lgbtq pride month it's not because i don't have friends and family that identify as lgbtq i do it's just that lgbtq history and contributions are

199already taught in our schools in our public schools it's a state requirement that they're taught secondly sex ed is also required to be taught in the seventh and ninth grades and gender topic is is one of the subjects that's covered in these classes i don't understand why livermore valley school district needs to acknowledge pride month when the rest of our society in the bay area in california is already doing this what's the benefit to the kids so lgbtq represents five plus or minus percent of our population why not also recognize the many other minorities that are harassed and bullied during an all-inclusive diversity month so why not call it diversity month instead of pride month include racial and ethnic minorities people with disabilities socioeconomic disadvantaged people immigrants and refugees religious minorities all of these peoples

200are harassed and bullied so in summary don't just celebrate sexual orientation in june but also celebrate the diversity that makes america a great nation thank you up next is ellie redwig followed by carson mitchell it's on it's on okay um good evening board my name is ellie and i'm not going to hide it i'm a christian and i'm a parent of four children in this district and i'm here tonight because i believe bringing pride month celebrations and messaging into our schools is divisive and it moves the district away from its primary purpose of educating our children academically i want to be very clear just like sam said everyone deserves respect everyone deserves kindness dignity protection from bullying and i teach my children to love everybody but i also believe parents come from many different faiths

201values and viewpoints and our schools should be careful not to promote social or ideological beliefs that are deeply personal and often controversial for many families like mine these topics involve moral and religious convictions when schools elevate one perspective through assemblies classroom messaging or school wide celebrations it can make other students and families feel excluded and othered or pressured to stay silent on their own beliefs our schools should be places that unite students not divide them with competing social social or political ideologies we have families from many backgrounds in our district and i believe the best path forward is to focus on shared values academic excellence character respect and kindness towards all students without promoting ideological movements i respectfully ask the board to keep our schools focused on education and neutrality so every family feels equally

202respected thank you up next is carson mitchell will be followed by lani paschall good evening board members my name is carson mitchell and i have a child entering kindergarten this year i represent a largely silent group of people who do not want pride month incorporated into our school calendar or curriculum we live in a society where people who share my beliefs fear repercussions in their social circles and workplaces so many will not speak on this though they do indeed share the sentiments i'm about to express many of those who share my beliefs are in the faith community i understand that my christian faith is not something that everyone can relate to but i want to make something clear by asking for you to vote against implementing pride month we are not asking you to vote

203against any children who identify as lgbtq or our allies or come from a home with same-sex parents those of us attempting to follow christ and raise our kids in the lord love everyone from any of the categories i just mentioned we see them as people who bear the image of god just like us we may not agree with their ideologies but we value their lives and their safety as much as anyone else if the goal is for students to feel safe and included there are endless ways to achieve that without making a sexual or gender identity the basis for it in fact by choosing that platform to jump from you effectively ostracize and exclude my child and countless others who are taught traditional values within their homes issues like this should be addressed by parents

204with their children at home on a timeline that is decided by the parents at a time that is developmentally appropriate for their child parents have the right to instill the values that they believe in their children schools have no business teaching controversial values it's supposed to be a neutral ground for academics friendships and communities we don't seek to divide we seek to find common ground and community with each other in a way that doesn't create a clear us and them mentality thank you last is lani paschall good evening everyone my name is lani paschall i'm a queer person i'm the parent of an eighth grader in our district and i'm a board member for p flag tri valley which is a local lgbtq non-profit i'm here tonight on behalf of many families in our chapter

205who urge you to vote yes on this resolution and on their behalf i want to take a moment and say thank you i want to say thank you to our district to our staff and to our teachers for being us being sources of support for our lgbtq plus students and their families thank you for having curriculum that's inclusive of our identities for doing ongoing training to enhance understanding of issues related to our community and for stepping in when bullying or harassment occurs and also it's not enough we know it's not enough because there is not a single student here tonight and that's not because students don't know about this or don't care about this it's because this boardroom is not a safe place for our queer community the written public comments received by this board

206are evidence of that those comments call lgbtq people quote trash object to quote normalizing our identities as if we are not normal already and reduce pride month to quote who you sleep with those who oppose this resolution don't see us as whole people they see one part of our identity and they can't just see that i'm an exhausted parent with a teenager who has a mortgage and a job who took time out of my schedule to come and advocate for families like mine who are also exhausted and tired of hearing this rhetoric so my sincere hope is that one year i will come for this pride month resolution and it will be a positive experience so please vote yes to recognize our common humanity thank you thank you before we move to board questions or

207comments i would like to thank the audience for your non-verbal representations and for keeping your clapping to an appropriate place so thank you all for that discourse questions comments yes trustee venhu i have a question for acting superintendent pichette i want to make sure the community understands the scope what we're acting on can you clarify whether this resolution authorizes any specific spending curriculum changes physical displays or is it really just a statement of value it is a statement it's a resolution recognizing pride pride month as june in june as pride month it has nothing to do with curriculum it has nothing no funding attached to it it is just a resolution how long has lvj usd been passing this a resolution similar to this how many years far before i got here i think the

208first year was 2019 yes that's what i think are there questions comments i have a comment trustee van hoevel if you got more go for it now it's your turn i want to double click on something one of i think one of the comments but they also came out in in just my conversation with people like what's the benefit for the students to have this resolution and so i sat down with a couple of the students at livermore high school who uh who i just wanted to go like what is these words on a page from a bunch of adults old adult i'm just talking about myself old adults in some room somewhere in town how does this actually help you as you walk through the world and they tried in their 15 year old

209ways to explain to me how incredibly um valuable it was to feel included to feel like holy moly people in my town think i belong um think i'm valuable it's not just words it's actually something that means something to me as a person um if i can as a as a you know a person here in this community can do anything to help students deal with um maybe suicidal ideation around this um kind of issue i'm i'm all for it i just i i ended my conversation with them ask him like do you still you know do you get bullied or you get and they started laughing and i said oh you you you do like yeah i'm like was it weekly do you like like no it's it's monthly i'm sorry it's daily it's

210not monthly it's daily daily like slurs comments uh physical things bumps getting things ripped out of their hands harassed and our staff at the school does a great job but one of them said i don't usually report things because it doesn't help and it i want to be friends with them and anyways it was a very very interesting helpful conversation that made me feel proud of being part of a of a community that says hey if you're on the outside come in here you you belong here as well we all do and i hope uh that we can do that with any of the students who feel like the way things are in my school i feel excluded i feel bullied i feel less than we can do better so if this resolution these words

211on the page students say thank you thank you thank you this means the world i'm all for it uh first of all i wanted to thank all the people who came and spoke tonight and for people who who emailed us about this topic i think it's really great i think in this world today we kind of live in these bubbles online and um it's really nice to be in a space where people can have different ideal ideological ideas and be able to speak to them and i know sometimes it's uncomfortable and i know sometimes that it's scary but i think it's important and so i just wanted to say that first that i appreciate everyone coming from both sides and speaking to this because i have an open heart and open mind and i feel

212like i learned something from every person who spoke today and i feel your passion on both sides that said i did write a few things down that i wanted to say and some comments regarding this resolution i was part of helping form this language many years ago and i continue to be proud of of it today and if you haven't read the resolution i would ask you to read it um i just just read it if you haven't what i appreciate most about most about this resolution is that while it recognizes and supports a specific group of students and community members the language itself is enroute inclusivity belonging dignity and respect for all people i think it's important to clarify that this resolution i think we had this clarification a little bit from trustee van

213hoevel is not connected to curriculum changes funding decisions or instructional mandates it's simply a statement of support an affirmation that all students deserve to feel safe welcomed and valued in our schools as a board we regularly adopt resolutions recognizing different groups causes and members of our community in fact we did so tonight we also recognize the heroes month um honoring individuals in public safety healthcare emergency response and military service for their contributions towards our students and their in our impact on our students in our community and these resolutions reflect the values that we want to model as a district respect respect appreciation service and belonging at the heart of this resolution is the belief that every student should know that they matter and that they belong and that our schools are places where all students

214can learn and thrive and so i will be supporting this resolution before we move to a vote i just want to make something crystal clear publicly however people would perceive this but i do want to say that i don't see any child different i value all children equally i love them all equally or else i wouldn't be in the position i am right now um this resolution though promotes an ideology that has already been weaponized against children in our own district at granada high school a student was suspended simply because he referred to a biologically female classmate as someone who used to be a girl he simply refused to fully endorse the preferred narrative for that he was suspended and later denied a transfer to another district this and part of a larger this is

215part of a larger pattern we are seeing puberty blockers cross-section hormones and surgeries on minors multiple public multiple hang on one sec people in the audience listen if you've been in public meetings the only way this is our meeting you guys happen to be here so give the respect to one of the board members we listen to everyone just i understand it's not about pointing fingers we can point fingers all day and i can see these kind of meetings next thing you know people get angry and just nothing good comes from it president druane gave these accolades and i would support it we do a really good job in this community of listening to diverse opinions let's continue it that's the beauty of this community that we're able that these are polar opposite issues no

216one is going to convince anyone that they're wrong that just let's just listen and let us vote the way we're going to vote we've heard your opinions let's just be respectful that's the beauty of this place i would think everyone in this room would agree on that because of your show of hands we're all respectful that's all i'm asking thank you multiple european countries have banned these procedures at the same time biological males are taking spots from girls in sports and private spaces i will not vote to advance an agenda that pushes children from telling the truth and i also want to thank everybody that came to speak tonight on both sides i said most of what i was going to say there but the one point i want to say is we're living in

217a time where a lot of things become fulcrums and a lot of things look to divide us and we are going to have differences of opinion being as old as i am i've seen quite a bit i'm in my mid-60s i think that the days of decorum are diminished and the days of debate with changing of opinions are almost non-existent and unfortunately that's the time we're in i think that what i'm clasping to uh currently is just that we can maintain some level of decorum so that we can all express our opinions um and we can and i'm just in a small microcosm as one member of this board i just want to do whatever it is that i can to support the children of this city i can't worry about a bigger picture or

218broader picture it's a very limited scope and has been my focus for 12 years and i'm going to continue to do so a recent survey of more than 16 000 lgbtq plus students found one in 10 lgbtq plus plus young people attempted suicide in the past year however those who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than a third of the rates of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities i will live in an accepting community and i will be voting in support of this item is there any other discussion or question from the board if not i would entertain a motion i'll make a motion to adopt resolution 94 25 26 recognizing june as pride month and i will second that motion so i have a motion from trustee vanden

219heuvel seconded by me any discussion on the motion clerk can you take roll myself i trustee caplanis no trustee bueno aye trustee prusso aye president druan aye that motion carries four one move on to reports and requests i will turn to trustee bueno first we've been uh there's been a few things lma retirement some of the things these indie years things that are coming up right now and they're always fun to go to the olympian presentation and speeches a lot of the arts things the town is going to be bustling from now through the end of the school year and then right into summer i also want to remind folks that the second weekend in june something that is different in this town than in most towns is that we happen to have the world's

220fastest rodeo and that is june 13th and 14th at the livermore fairgrounds is the 108th holding of the livermore rodeo trustee caplanis as we wrap up another school year i want to extend a heartfelt congratulations to our graduating seniors your hard work resilience and achievements have made us all proud best wishes as you step into the next chapter of your lives i also want to recognize and thank our retiring staff members your years of dedication and service to our students and in this district have left a lasting impact enjoy this well-deserved new season and you will be missed a big shout out to our student athletes for their impressive victories this year your talent teamwork and sportsmanship have brought pride to our schools for those continuing your athletic journeys in college we can't wait to

221cheer you on in this next level to all our students families teachers and staff my warmest wishes for a safe joyful and restorative summer this month i was honored to represent our district at several wonderful events including the lma awards breakfast chaperoning for our children's web uh sorry chaperoning for charlotte's web at the vine a brief stop at the csa scholarship awards an interview panel here at the district my family and i did enjoy the barbecue meal from the ffa sponsorship sponsorship dinner kermase at junction the superintendent search community input session district retirement ceremony special olympics at lhs math task force end of the year meeting with sbmi the lhs ghs rivalry softball game the jackson avenue carnival and the prodrosi scholarships awards last night congratulations to all the recipients it is such a joy

222to see our students and their schools communities in action and celebrating everything our district has accomplished thank you for the opportunity to serve you all yeah it's been a few full few weeks what do they call it macember phew uh here's a brief account settling i'm just kidding but so i read to these first graders at jackson for the abilities awareness month and it's just such a great reminder what like all this is for you know you just sit there and they are adorable the lma awards breakfast we honored the the management's staff who keep the work running or uh the now the awards was uh awarding these amazing students i joined the axa region six administrator of the year event like a bunch of our uh people got awarded um uh administrator of the

223year but dan musselman was being named administrator of the year for the entire state of california so congrats dan you were awesome um the ad hoc committee we hosted the superintendent search we talked about that um let's see that also i attended the lbj usd retirement reception that group who pulled it off did an amazing job especially having to pivot to the bank head at the last minute that was really good uh special olympics track and field event at livmore high school pc ic meeting uh all these parent representatives from across the district years of service service award um and then pedrosi foundation of recognition event just last night and then capping that off last night with the cowboy alley film festival at the vine theater oh my gosh you guys so all these young

224and aspiring filmmakers show off their work that they were working on the year some was hilarious some was actually really moving some was artful and then some was downright disturbing i'm gonna have to have a conversation mr castro what is going on um the coolest thing happened when i was traveling when um president drewan had to carry a ton of the load of the superintendent search while i was gone for that week but i stood on school street in boston at the site of the first of the rather the boston latin school founded in 1635 the first public school established in what would then later become the united states um people like benjamin franklin went to school there john hankock sam adams and i don't know standing there thinking about what public education has meant

225to this country and what it means right now in our own community what we saw just even tonight was a reminder of why this work is so important and why it has mattered for nearly 400 years that's my board report thanks for paying attention everybody trust your personal i'm going to keep mine short i've attended many of the same uh events as my colleagues here a few uh notables the um the tec education collaborative at um this is a collaborative with with pleasanton and dublin and middle college uh and it was up at los pacitos i also attended the special olympics we had a rop board meeting um the retirement reception and uh i wanted to also as my other my other career as as swim coach or livermore high school um we have to

226work extra hard because we don't have the fastest pool in livermore yeah so i just wanted to point that out but um i was able to attend eval and ncs with our swimmers which was really exciting and we um one of our swimmers brigitte o'brien who is attending scripts um as to swim next year got a long-standing uh new school record in the 50 freestyle she can swim it in 23 seconds which is really fast i couldn't even run it that fast well obviously um anyway i just wanted to uh shout out to her yeah thanks uh most of my time has been helping supports and working with a coe for the superintendent search and doing some other events over to you acting superintendent thank you i too attended all of the events that were

227discussed tonight as well as more i did want to highlight um wishing all retirees a healthy and happy retirement uh the petrosi scholarship night i just wanted to give a few facts the petrosi foundation awarded an incredible five hundred and five thousand dollars in scholarships to 112 livermore students which is pretty phenomenal um as this is our final board meeting of the academic school year i wanted to thank our board of trustees our staff our labor leaders and our community for your continued partnership and commitment to our students this year has brought both challenges and meaningful progress and it is through our shared dedication that we continue to move forward our role is not to ask everyone to agree but to ensure that every student knows they belong in our schools and that their well-being

228matters two things can be true we can hold space for differing perspectives while still upholding a learning environment that is inclusive respectful and focused on students thank you there will be a special closed session board meeting on may 26th the next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held on tuesday june 9th 2026 open session will begin at 6 p.m this meeting is adjourned at 10 21 p.m