4.21.26 Board Meeting

001Good evening. This is the April 21st meeting of the School Board of the Board of Education of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School Districts. 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. It is 7 05 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 Capuanes, can you read out? This evening in closed session, the board took the following action. By a vote of five to zero, the board took action to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve

002the MOU regarding the student discipline matter for student 2526D. By a vote of five to zero, the board took action to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation to issue charges for dismissal against certificated employee 17136 and place them on immediate unpaid leave. By a vote of five to zero, the board took action to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the settlement agreement between LVJUSD and employee 14593. And by a vote of five to zero, the board took action to approve the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve the settlement agreement for OAH case number 202631023. Thank you. We'll start with our Pledge of Allegiance and I'll ask Chris Connor if he'll lead us in the pledge. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it

003stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Thank you. Let's move on to 8-0 recognitions. I'll call up Mrs. Jeanette Garza, principal from Junction Avenue TK 8th School, will recognize the Junction Costs Team. What? Oh, I missed 7-0. Sorry. Having an interesting night. 7-0 deletions, corrections to the agenda. Acting Superintendent Paschett, are there any changes or deletions to the agenda? Thank you, President Druin. At this time, I am requesting that Item 15.2.E, approval of a contract for just-in-time JIT office supplies be pulled from the agenda for further consideration due to implementation constraints. This item will be brought back to the board at a future meeting. Sounds good. Now we will move on to Mrs. Jeanette Garza. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh, there it is. Okay. Good

004evening, Board President Druin, chairs of the board, Acting Superintendent Paschett, cabinet and community. I would like to take a moment to recognize and celebrate our incredible cost team, which is our coordination of services team at Junction Avenue TK 8th School. This dedicated team works tirelessly every Bulldog is supported, valued and set up for success. Their work is not always visible, but it is deeply impactful. Through thoughtful collaboration, problem solving, creativity and genuine care, the cost team helps remove barriers so that all students can fully access their education. They approach every situation with compassion, professionalism and a strong belief in the potential of every child. We are truly fortunate to have such a committed team serving our Junction community. Thank you for all that you do for our students, families and staff each and every day.

005We appreciate your dedication, your tenacity and your can do spirit. So I'd love to read the names of our team. And first is Irene Cova Rubias, who is our social worker. Erin Grejeda, who is a title one teacher and interventionist. We have Julie Howard, who's not here tonight, but she's a she's the school nurse and one of our schools is Junction actually has been for like 20 something years. Marlene Morales, who is our child welfare attendant. Jordan Perry, our school counselor. Phoebe Stevens, who is our school psychologist, who is also not here tonight, was unable to come. And then Jessica Stewart, one of our teachers on special assignment and Veronica Velasco, another one of our teachers on special assignment. So thank you so much. And I'm so excited to be able to present them to

006you all tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's it's at the center this time. OK, it's closer to my house. I like that. Hey, great job. Great. Thank you. Next I'll call Mr. Chris Connor, director of elementary education, will recognize the recipients of the Carl Mellius award for science education in the classroom. Testing. Good evening, board president Drune, members of cabinet, board members and community members, and of course, acting superintendent Pichette. It's my honor this evening to recognize two outstanding teachers, Taryn Ruiz Fraser and Ryan Miramontes for the Carl Mellius award. Ryan couldn't be with us this evening, but I'm delighted that Miss Ruiz Fraser is right here next to me. OK, the Carl Mellius science award is presented annually to two elementary teachers who demonstrate exemplary science instruction established through the generous support of Dr.

007Carl Mellius, a practicing theoretical chemist at Sandia National Laboratories. This monetary award celebrates excellence in science education. Tonight, we are proud to honor two outstanding educators, Taryn Ruiz Fraser and Ryan Miramontes, whose dedication and innovation in teaching have profoundly shaped the way their students experience and understand science. Miss Ruiz Fraser is an inspiring TK teacher at Altmont Elementary, who brings science to life in ways that are both age appropriate and genuinely transformative. From the very beginning of our children's educational journey, she instills a sense of wonder and scientific curiosity through rich hands-on learning experiences. A great example of this is her annual spring unit on chicken life cycles, in which students incubate real eggs and observe the miracle of new life firsthand. As they document their observations through journaling, her youngest learners develop scientific vocabulary,

008critical thinking skills, and the habits of mind of true scientists. Miss Ruiz Fraser understands that meaningful science education begins in the earliest years of schooling, and her commitment to providing authentic, inquire-based experiences sets a powerful foundation for her students' lifelong learning. She is a thoroughly deserving recipient of this award. Round of applause please for Miss Ruiz Fraser. Tonight we also recognize Miss Miramontes. Ryan Miramontes is an exceptional fifth grade teacher at Sunset Elementary, whose passion for science transforms her classroom into a hub of curiosity and discovery. Drawing on her background as a former science specialist, Ryan goes far beyond her general education role by weaving scientific inquiry, questioning, and real-world connections into her daily instruction, ensuring that exploration and critical thinking are a way of life and not just a scheduled event. She has a

009remarkable ability to inspire genuine confidence in her students, empowering them to think boldly and engage with the world like true scientists. Her dedication, creativity, and unwavering commitment to student growth make Ryan Miramontes a very deserving recipient of this award. Round of applause for Miss Miramontes too please. Thank you. Next I'll call up Miss Sarawaki, principal of Livermore Adult Education. We'll recognize English as a second language teacher, Talia Petit. Good evening. My name is Sarawaki. I'm the principal of Livermore Adult Education, and I am hoping that Miss Talia Petit is going to join us from her classroom because she is in session at the moment. And here she is, and there are her students. And you see that her colleagues have decorated her classroom and provided a cake of celebration in honor of this event. So

010President Druin, members of the board, Acting Superintendent Pechette, and members of the cabinet. My name is Sarawaki, and I am the principal of Livermore Adult Education. And this evening I present to you for recognition, Talia Petit. Those of you who know me know that I'm not ever short of words, but this was a very difficult thing to write, not because I didn't know what to say, but because there was too much to say. So it's rather short, but I hope that it encapsulates everything. Talia joined the Livermore Adult Education team in the fall of 2021. She brought with her the wisdom earned through seven years as a successful middle school teacher, English teacher, and the global perspective of an adult BSL teacher. Talia is a masterful teacher. She runs her classroom with gentle authority. Her

011instruction is layered with multiple entry points. Not only is each student held accountable to perform to their current capacity, the next step is always available. Students are always provided with the opportunity and encouragement to continually challenge themselves. Talia is an inspiring and generous teammate and coach. She does not shy away from difficult or uncomfortable things. She will have the difficult conversations, exhibiting patience and grace. She will jump in and try something uncomfortable as it may be before passing judgment. She will honestly report back to the team whether or not the juice was worth the squeeze. Talia is a stalwart ally. Dedicated to social justice, Talia will speak out when appropriate and take action when needed. When I asked Talia's colleagues for some things to say about here, they provided lists, long lists of things that

012they wanted to celebrate about her and her and her as a teacher and as a teammate. And it's impossible to incorporate all of those things into such a short thing. But President Druin, members of the board, Acting Superintendent Pechette, members of the cabinet, this evening I present to you for recognition in excellence in teaching, Talia Pettit. Stay there, Talia. They're going to take your, oh. She's like, I'm done. I'm out of here. That's right. Thank you very much. Is that it? Are we good? Okay. We're almost there. Thanks, Talia. We're done. Okay. I was too slow. I was going to take a screenshot of all of us. Okay. Oh, you guys. How cool. I remember teaching with overhead projectors and now we're, this is insane. That's great. Thank you all. What? No comment. Let's move

013on to our student board member reports. So this is an opportunity for us as a board to hear what's happening in our high schools. So we'll go with Robin Deepak from LHS First. Trustee Deepak. March was an exciting and jam packed month for the Livermore High School Cowboys. April sports are in full swing with the boys volleyball program having a successful season with varsity and an astonishing record of 26 and four, making them ranked 50th nationally and 20th in the state of California. And in addition to this, both the JV and Frosh are also playing strongly with their respective records being 19 and three and 14 and three. In addition to volleyball, other sports like track and field for the Cowboys have also been flourishing with Laney Hemple competing at the Arcadia Invitational, which is

014one of the most prestigious high school meets in the country. On Thursday, April 16th, we held our college letter of intent signing day in the gym during lunch, where this year 18 athletes were recognized from sports, including soccer, softball, football, flag football, swimming, lacrosse, stun and rodeo. We are very proud of our Cowboys for all their hard work and dedication to their craft. On campus events have also been thriving, starting off with a staff variety show, which was held on March 27th. The show included a wide range of entertaining acts from music and dance to comedy and creative performances. The variety of performances showcased not only the talent of our staff, but also the strong sense of community that makes our school so special. The Cowboy Carnival was hosted recently on Friday, April 17th, 2026

015from 315 to 630 PM on a blacktop. This exciting PTSA fundraiser supported programs and opportunities for our students while bringing our school community together with Carnival games, food trucks, inflatables, and more with over 200 plus participants. Livermore's ASB is also hosting our first annual Daddy Daughter Dance on May 9th from 6 to 730 PM in the Student Union. This special evening includes a red carpet entry, photo booth, and more, which are open to grades TK to 5. Entry is $30 per dad and daughter. Also, Junior Palm was held on April 18th from 7 to 10 PM at Casa Bella in Senol, and Senior Ball is going to be held on Saturday, May 2nd at the Palm Event Center in Pleasanton. In addition to this, Livermore ASB has also hosted a March Madness Tournament spanning over

016two weeks, which ended with a staff against students game at the rally. It was a successful and entertaining event with the final staff and students game, providing a fun and entertaining experience for everyone's viewing. In addition to this, the Livermore ASB team also hosted the Cowboy Carnival, as I stated previously, and our floral students recently showcased their talents at the Bay Area Daffodil Society Floral Show held at Alden Lane Nursery. All 56 students entered daffodils grown right here in the Livermore High School Garden. Their efforts were rewarded with numerous first, second, and third place ribbons along with several honorable mentions. Beyond the awards, the experience brought excitement and pride as students supported one another throughout the event. Congratulations to our floral program for representing Livermore High School so well. GEA will also be hosting its

017annual Earth Day, where they invite sixth graders from East Avenue and Junction Avenue to learn more about the host of a variety of activities for students to play and learn from, such as students creating customized biodegradable seed starters with coffee filters. They designed the coffee filter with markers and add seeds, which they finally take home and grow. We're excited to see how it pans out this year. March is an exciting month for the Cowboys, and we are looking forward to finishing the school year as we get closer to the summer. Thank you, and it's always a great day to be a Cowboy. We'll go to Trustee Kress. April has been an incredibly high energy month at Granada, filled with school spirit, major events, and student accomplishments across campus. To start, our track team successfully hosted

018the annual Granada Distance and Sprint Festival this past Saturday, welcoming over 65 teams to compete. This large-scale event showcased not only the talent of our athletes, but also the organization and dedication of our program. Following a restful and peaceful spring break, students return ready to jump back into activities. Our seniors kicked things off in a memorable way by attending their senior ball this past weekend at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where they enjoyed a special fireworks show to end the night. It was a well-deserved celebration and highlight of their final year. One of our most anticipated events of the semester, Greek Week, brought an incredible amount of energy and participation to campus. Throughout the week, students competed in a variety of lunchtime activities, including a belly flop contest, dodgeball tournament, and musical chairs. The excitement built

019each day, leading up to our lip dub and culminating in our large battle rally on the field. With inflatables, games, and intense sumo wrestling battle between our principal, Mr. Conover, and our rally commissioner, Jack, the rally brought the entire student body together and truly showcased Granada's school spirit and unity. In leadership, class office elections were recently held, and we're excited to see our newly elected officers begin their training. We look forward to the ideas and leadership that they will bring as we continue throughout the year. We are also proudly celebrating Signing Day, recognizing eight outstanding seniors who will be continuing their athletic careers at the collegiate level. Kayla Carroll will be attending College of San Mateo for basketball. Jack Badger and Mack Cherby will both attend George Fox University for baseball. Mylena Nguyen will attend

020North Central College for wrestling. Marin Lenica will attend Milligan University for flag football. Katie Vale will attend Milliken University for flag football. Jocelyn Sosa will attend Dominican University for softball, and Ella Von Bergen will attend the College of Idaho for softball. This is a huge accomplishment, and we're incredibly proud of their dedication and achievements. Academically, students are also prepared for advanced placement and international baccalaureate exams, which begin in just two weeks. Many are already starting to study and review, demonstrating their commitment to academic success. Spring sports continues to thrive as well, with boys lacrosse having a particularly strong season so far, and our swim team recently celebrating their senior night, honoring the hard work and contributions of their graduating athletes. With so much across academics, athletics, and student life, Granada continues to be a vibrant

021and connected community. We are excited to carry this momentum forward as we approach the final stretch of the school year. Go Mets. Trustee Boehner had a comment. Just a small point on personal privilege here. Love your guys' reviews. I just want the community to not let it pass by us. The increased competitiveness and significant accomplishments that our student athletes have had in the past couple of years are a direct and indirect result of our community's support for a bond measure that helped improve our facilities. They literally have the ability to have college-level training facilities, professional dance studios, dedicated wrestling rooms. It's a real benefit. We knew those were going to be transformational for our community. I don't know that anyone envisioned that it would be this soon. We have multiple state-ranked, nationally-ranked individuals and teams.

022You combine that with our professional trainers, our athletic trainers, at both campuses. This has been a huge benefit for 4,000 kids. I just want to let the community know that it's greatly appreciated and that we should all recognize that. Really, really good work. Thank you both. Thank you. With that, our student trustees are going to exit so they can go study. On three, everybody say good luck. One, two, three. Good luck. Thank you, trustees. We'll move on to 10.0, our employee association reports. It's an opportunity for us to hear from our bargaining and labor units. First is LEA President Amy Thompson. I want to recognize Tara Lutz, the vice president. Good evening, President Druhan, members of the board, acting superintendent Pichette and cabinet. I'm Amy Thompson, president of the Livermore Education Association. Representing the educators,

023nurses, counselors, psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers, and specialists who ensure our student success every single day. With only six weeks of school remaining, we are in the home stretch. Wow. Yeah. Finalizing progress reports and then report card grades, state testing, as the students just told us, AP testing, IB testing, all of the tests coming up next month. We're going to be doing graduations, promotions, and the retirement celebration. A lot of retirees this year. LEA and the district have continued to work together to complete negotiated agreements that are needed due to changes in laws and changes in our budget. Hopefully, we're finished with that this week. It appears that there may be good news coming from the state for next year's budget with the Senate proposing to provide districts with the $5.6 billion owed from Prop

02498 funding. This could mean, if that happens, an additional $11 million for our students next year. We're looking forward to hearing the May revision of the state budget, how the governor and the legislator reconcile. LEA has expressed some concerns with the transition to the just-in-time ordering of office supplies, which was item 15.2.E. I really appreciate the item being pulled and allowing us time to let's just make sure we're doing everything right before we put it back. We're interested to hear the update tonight for the superintendent search, and we're looking forward to the opportunity for meaningful engagement in that process. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, CSEA President Mamie Christovich, and I want to recognize Victoria Storties, the vice president. Good evening, President Druin, members of the board, acting superintendent Pichette, and cabinet. I am Mamie

025Christovich, president of the Livermore Chapter of CSEA, the California School Employees Association. CSEA has had several different priorities that require focus and attention. Over the past many weeks, we have been grappling with the layoffs in our unit and assignment selection meetings for those who received notices for layoffs and involuntary transfers. As you know, the district had planned to reduce 30 paraeducator positions, or 22 paraeducators, since we had eight vacancies and 14 instructional assistants that served TK. This set off a firestorm that disrupted many lives, causing fear and anxiety for those affected. Fortunately, with the aid of TK enrollment suddenly increasing significantly over a very short period of time and two retirements, we were able to keep 12 of the 14 TK instructional assistants employed, with two employees placed on the 39-month reemployment list. For the

02622 paraeducators, we were able to bring back all but nine, but the reprieve mostly due to attrition. These nine paraeducators will also be placed on the 39-month reemployment list. The 39-month reemployment list guarantees their return to the district by seniority, should positions become available within 39 months. These employees may also apply for vacant positions and other classifications while they are on the reemployment list, and be given priority as internal applicants. I am hopeful that the vacancies created from our negotiated retirement incentive will provide CSCA members opportunities for career growth and continued employment. For that to happen, it is imperative that the district maintain the hiring freeze and consider internal applicants only. This may require hiring supervisors to look beyond district work experience and consider outside work history with an open mind. Speaking of retirements, I

027would like to share with the board that CSCA has 27 retirements this year, 25 of which are eligible for our negotiated retirement incentive, thereby creating opportunities for those remaining. I appreciate Acting Superintendent Pechette and Assistant Superintendent Banderas for allowing a bit of flexibility and agreeing with CSCA on some details that enabled additional retirements. Outside of the paraeducators and instructional assistants, there were other reductions as well, and negotiations regarding the impacts and effects of layoffs are not yet complete. CSCA's negotiations team will be meeting with the district's team later this week to resolve one final reduction, the executive assistant position in student services. We hope that the district will be flexible and open to creative alternatives. As I stated previously, CSCA realistically cannot sign off on blending two positions into one if that means that the

028employee would be required to perform the work of more than one person. I hope the district and the board would agree with that. Ultimately, we dodged massive layoffs for CSCA and my members are extremely thankful. I don't think anyone will easily forget returning from rent or break and learning that over CSCA positions, 100 CSCA positions were on the district's recommended reductions list. We've come a long way since then. The path has been arduous, but we made it, albeit with some losses. I am grateful for the board's good sense and intervention for your courage and trust when you declined to accept the recommended reductions list. Instead, you directed the formation of our budget work group that came together and successfully identified other alternatives to capture savings and saved so many jobs as a result. This was

029a turning point for us as a district. Collaboration had diminished and trust was non-existent. We could have continued on that trajectory, but with the board's leadership, we chose optimism and recovery instead. I sincerely hope that we continue on this path with transparency, respect and the realization that we have common goals that we can achieve with greater success together. With that in mind, CSCA would like the opportunity to weigh in and provide input on the selection of our next superintendent. CSCA represents over 500 employees, many of whom are anxious about what our next year will hold with new leadership. I would like to be able to instill calm and confidence rather than tell them, I have no idea. In addition to the layoffs and assignments selections, CSCA is in the midst of reviewing seven reclassification requests.

030That is a very large number for one year, and I am hopeful that CSCA and the district will be able to complete our review with unanimous agreement. More to come on this at our next meeting. Before I close, I will share some news about our annual scholarship program. Every year, the Livermore chapter awards scholarships to three worthy students of CSCA members in good standing. This year, we received several scholarship applications, and I must say that they made it incredibly challenging for our scholarship committee. We spent hours reviewing and discussing the redacted applications. Every single applicant was impressive with strong leadership, community service, and academics. Their essays were well written, and it was heartwarming to read how their aspirations have been shaped by their life experiences. These students clearly had a supportive, encouraging upbringing and positive

031influences that include caring teachers who gave them glowing references. It will be my honor to present scholarship awards later this month. Thank you for your time. Thank you. I want to recognize Kirstie Governor as the president of SCIU, CMC representative Sarah DeGroote, and the representative for the Livermore Management Association is Jeremy Wilkins. So move on to 11 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 a TAN card, please do so now per protocol. No additional speakers will be accepted once public comment begins. We ask that you limit your comments to three minutes. Each speaker may speak once. As a reminder, we as a board members may not engage in discussion, take action,

032or 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. That being said, we have two cards. I'll call up Debbie Gibson, who will be followed by Denise Corey. Good evening, everyone. I believe it is providential that I would have the opportunity to pray over this meeting tonight. There are many national leaders in Washington, B.C. this week reading the entire Bible over our nation, along with revivals breaking out on the campuses in our country and prayer and worship in the White House. This continuous public reading of the scripture over the United States is a sacred opportunity to call our nation back to its spiritual roots. The organizers of this reading have declared that in honor of

033the 250th birthday of the United States of America, of the United States, America Reads the Bible serves as a spiritual celebration of our nation's founding ideals and a call to rediscover the truth that still anchors us today. On March 16th, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a resolution designating Friday, May 17th, 1776 as a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer to seek divine favor for the colonies. The text advises colonists to confess sins, repent, and ask God to bless the American cause, preserve the colonies, and restore peace. President Trump and his team chose the exact same date, May 17th, for this year's National Jubilee of Prayer, praise, and thanksgiving, rededicating America as one nation under God. This afternoon, President Trump read from Second Chronicles, chapter 17, verse 14, which was in the middle of King

034Solomon's dedication of the temple over Israel. If my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and heal their land. I join him in appealing to God on behalf of our city and school district. I also declare, may all the peoples of the earth know that the Lord is God. There is no one else. Let your heart, therefore, be wholly devoted to the Lord, our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, we have Denise Currie. Of course, as I sit down, my there. Good evening, President, join members of the board, acting Superintendent Pochette and members of the cabinet. I'm here

035this afternoon, this evening to speak about the middle school program at Vineyard Alternative School. For more than 17 years, independent study has been an option for our middle school students at Vineyard Alternative School for various reasons. Traveling athletes, students that have injuries that are not hospital, home hospital, students now that have anxiety issues. All of these students have been served by this program. Students that wanted to accelerate or do extra were also served by this program. And as a matter of fact, I was reminded by having Junction here this evening that students who were on independent study injured for for P.E. also came to Vineyard for just that one course. Last year, the district began to shift to eliminate this option by not allowing the enrollment of sixth grade for this school year. It is

036not that there is not a need for the program and it's not that it hasn't been requested, but the district would not allow enrollment for sixth grade. Next year, the district plans to eliminate the middle school program independent study entirely. This will be a loss for our students who need an alternative program. Often in middle school, that's when we first see anxiety issues or students that just don't fit. They need time to adjust to a middle school and this alternative offers them that. The program may not have hundreds of students or thousands enrolled, but they are all our students in Livermore and I hope that the board and the district will reconsider the elimination of this impactful program and be sure that we meet the needs of all of our students. Thank you very much.

037Thank you. Move on to 12. Communication. Formal written correspondence to the board of education shall be acknowledged if received by the board or in the superintendent's office by 4 p.m. the day before the meeting. Formal written correspondence received after the count of time will generally be acknowledged at the following meeting. Please note our board electronic communications received via the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District website by accessing the formal written correspondence to the board of education link with all fields completed and verified shall be treated as formal written correspondence. Clerk, is there any correspondence for the board? Dr. Druin, there is not. This is the first in a very long time. Thank you. On to 13. Information discussion item. So, this is just for discussion only. So, up first, 13.1, Career Technical Education, CTE, Tri-Valley

038Regional Occupation Program, TVROP. I'll invite up Mr. Jason Karlakowsky and Mrs. Julie Duncan, superintendent of TVROP. Welcome. Test. Okay. Good evening, Superintendent Druin, members of the school board, Acting Superintendent Pichette, and members of cabinet. I'm proud to present our work in Career Technical Education tonight, and in particular our partnership with Tri-Valley Regional Occupation Program. As a region, we work together with our surrounding districts, Dublin and Pleasanton, and Las Pesitas Community College to provide the Tri-Valley Educational Collaborative, as we call it, TECH. It's existed for over 30 plus years and is considered one of the top collaborative models in the state. As you may be aware, our district offers a wide variety of CTE and ROP course options, and our students are able to access these for many of the three districts within the collaborative. In

039recent years, the state has helped place the proper spotlight on the importance of having a vibrant and vibrant career pathway options open to students. Completing a CTE pathway is an additional way with which students become college and career ready and meet the California indicator on the dashboard. I want to remind you in our LCAP, which we've had many presentations over, our first goal is to increase the percentage of students who have the skills and knowledge ready to graduate from high school. And our first goal was to increase college and career readiness by 5% until 60% is achieved. And then the other goal was to increase the CTE pathway completion rate to at least 40% by 2025-26. So I'm happy to share the results of those. The work we have done, as you will see, in

0402004-25, our college and career readiness percentage of 65.1%, that's just a 15% increase from 23-24. To help support the number of students in LBGUSD that are college and career ready, the percentage of students who have completed a CTE pathway has increased 14% since last year from 40% to 54.6. As a reminder, I know every year Mr. Hart gives a great data presentation and explains the term college and career readiness. And not long ago, there was a distinction between college or career ready and what was formerly known as vocational education. Thankfully, our educators realized that the skills needed to be college ready are in fact the same skills that we need to have our students to be career ready. So then now we intertwine the two by striving to have our students reach college and career

041readiness. Our states emphasize this metric as an indicator on the dashboard. College or career readiness means completing rigorous coursework, passing exams, or receiving a state seal of biliteracy, as you can see on the screen. The following measures are approved as indicating if a student is college or career ready. And you will notice some familiar data categories such as AP exams, A-G completion, SBAC proficiency, and state seal of biliteracy. And while all of these are focus areas for LBJUSD, in particular tonight we're focusing our CTE pathways, which as you've seen has had a great jump from last year or two years ago to last year. Just to cover some data again, we have our CTE pathway completion percentage that you'll see started back at 10% in 1920 and has worked its way up to 54.6. That's

042a combination of the opportunities we have with Tri-Valley ROP and of course the promotion of our pathways within our school districts. And with that, I'd like to turn the presentation over to TV ROP Superintendent Julie Duncan. Thank you very much, Mr. Gronkowski. Thank you Board of Trustees, President Drouin, and of course Acting Superintendent Bichette. Thank you very much for having us here tonight. We love coming here because we want to highlight our programs, but really we also want students as well to come and share their experiences. There are so many highlights over the last year, and I'm trying to be succinct, work-based learning experiences for students. So this is where we offer to the districts of Dublin, Livermore, and Pleasanton. We had a CNA summer program that was this past year where students who were

043part of our Alt-Ed campuses, we reached out to them, including middle college students that were interested in a career right away. Maybe some of them wanted to be nurses, but they really wanted, they need to get their clinical hours first. And so part of Innovation Tri-Valley and K-16 collaborative grant, along with ROP, we put 15 students through that program and they not only received the CNA, went through the program and passed. They were given vouchers to take the exam and they were all offered jobs at a job fair that we hosted. Every single student was offered more than one placement. So that was really exciting. This year, Livermore High School hosted the College and Career Expo. It rotates around the three districts. It was our first time in the new gym, which Mr. Bueno actually

044talked about in the facilities. It was so great to be in one building. It's the only high school that we've ever been to where there was an upstairs and a downstairs and it fit absolutely everyone in there. It was a great evening. Manufacturing day just happened last Friday. We had over 200 requests from all the students around all three districts, including Alternative Education and Middle College. 142 students were able to go, well, we had three buses and so there was Gillick and CGA packaging. I was on the Moss Brothers and Wente tour and we also had Mr. Plastics and Omron. Those employers, and I can't stress this enough, when we asked for them to open up their businesses, a lot of them hadn't done it since COVID and this is the first manufacturing day we've

045done since COVID. I was part of it before and they all have volunteered that they would love to have teachers come for the summer to do externships, every single one of them. They want to do it again. There was a lot of teachers that were chaperones, were pathway teachers that were really great in asking for the business card and asking if they could bring their students back. Could you come in for guest speakers? It was an awesome day. We had lunch at the Advanced Manufacturing up at Las Positas College and then we took each bus, went on to a different tour, went to the automotive center, worked in the welding area and the CNC lab as well as fire is right there as well. So they were lighting things on fire. There was a lot

046of action there. So it was a great day for students last Friday. I just wanted to let you know our summer camps, this will be our third year doing the summer camps at Las Positas. It's completely free to students in the Tri-Valley and this past summer, 57% of Livermore students took the girls who designed and built robotics. 38% of the students were from Livermore and the drone camp was 32% of the students. We still have our mentorship program at our Alt-Ed schools which is part of the WIOA program and in Livermore, this is a really big number. 171 students are in internship every single day throughout the valley, getting that experience in the area that they're interested in. Other dual enrollment opportunities over 308 Livermore students are enrolled in courses that are articulated which means

047if they get a B or better, they get the high school credit as well as the college credit and in this particular instance, that could be up to 1,386 college credits which is amazing. C-CAP, that's basically short for dual enrollment which is classes that are offered either typically on the high school campus, sometimes at the college campus. As an ROP, what allows a C-CAP class to really work is when you pull from three districts because the college needs at least 20 students to actually offer that course and internal public speaking is required as part of the oral, there's oral and written to go to any university and we had a summer class we started with Alt-Ed, that was our target group and then after that was filled we went out to the comprehensive high schools.

048That class is three units and is UC-CSU transferable so we had 28 students attend that class and currently in the spring we have another class. The professor loved the students so much that he wanted to do again. He's also going to be doing it this summer so that was really exciting. Middle college, it is our 10th year graduation. I mean we've been around, I can't even believe it's been 10 years, it seems like it was yesterday. So since 2017 we've had over 600 graduates. We're very pleased and honored that this program completely exemplifies the middle college model in the sense that we look for a first generation, the underserved. We look for students to have IEPs and 504s. Everyone is welcome so we always say you know the range of our GPAs is a 2.0

049to a 4.5 because we look at need. If you're thriving at your high school you may not need middle college. You know it's there for a reason and it's exciting to see that 22% of the students we serve are first generation. This past fall semester was the highest GPA we have ever had. Remember this is students from 2.0 to 4.5. 3.6 was their GPA and they had an average of nine units. That's really a direct result of I would say Amy Brown and her team but also of the counselors at your high schools and the principals who recommend students. They're picking the students they know that really would thrive there that or that need the support and the supports with loss of a seat are there. I think we really found out that formula and

050it's really great to see students thrive. A couple more highlights. One of the pieces a lot of people ask well what does ROP do other than the courses? We really do provide the professional development of all CTE teachers. We often pay for sections at your school sites for your teachers so that students from all three districts by project lead the way can come. For instance Dorothy Morales is here tonight she teaches civil architecture and engineering so students from Dublin and Pleasanton can attend. Next year Pleasanton offers the aerospace it's every other year. We have one section dedicated to Livermore and Dublin only because it's so popular so kids have that opportunity to take that capstone course that otherwise couldn't be offered at one high school it's just too expensive so the regional model really helps

051with that. So professional development opportunities for teachers we just had best day that's where we pair a teacher for just two and a half hours with someone from industry in their area and if it works out maybe they could get externship this summer so that's been a lot of our professional development tech as Jason actually had mentioned as our collaborative we're celebrating our 35th anniversary coming up. Educating for careers is for CTE teachers and the grants that we receive we pay for teachers to go so that is something that we did this past March. We continue to be awarded strong K-12 strong workforce grants this next one for next year is on AI education to build policy to help each district to build a policy around that and educate our teachers how to use that

052in the classroom and again we host the annual advisory night which is required for all grants and required for any of the pathways that you have and I know many of you have attended that. And finally I'm really excited that we have secured additional funding again for this following year for middle college early college CTEG round 11 that's for every two dollars to spend you get a dollar back which is great round eight which is almost a million dollars for strong workforce. We've also received increase in WIOA funding and they have renewed us for the following year which is great because its supports are all dead with CTE and mentorship programs. And then of course we have the CCAP grant specifically for DelVal and Vineyard to get students registered to be ready to be able

053to go to college and they can actually take a course while they're still here in high school. So with that being said we have two teachers that are actually your teachers to kind of show how we work together and how we partner and so I'm going to give it over to Karen Fletcher who is one of the green engineering project lead that we lead the way teachers who wants to talk a little bit about her professional development and how it's helped her in the classroom. Okay hi thank you for having me. I'm also a CTE teacher and I've done a lot of the things that Julie's just been talking about. I wanted to mention that I have been to the best day a couple times. This year I went to Calpine Los Medanos Energy Center

054which was a carbon capture company which so I'm basically able to come back and tell the students that yeah what we've been learning about is real. They're actually doing that they have jobs for that. I've also been to Optera which is a solar sizing company and they've they help size the panels for that we have by our track at Livermore High School and that has led to internships for our students every year for the last three years. Another thing I wanted to mention that that TriValley ROP has funded is the STEM academies at Las Pasitas that Julie mentioned. So I've taught that for three years. I've done the girls who design and build camp as well as the robotics manufacturing camp and the pictures up there on the slide are from that camp. So those

055those little robots that you see I was able to bring the because TriValley ROP owns the robots I was able to borrow them and use them in my classroom in my robotics class and my students were able to do the same skills and learn the same things that I learned at the academy. So it really it truly was professional development that I was able to bring right back to the classroom. And another cool thing is the the field trip that we went on with the camp to Tesla I was able to take my students on the same field trip because I had that connection at Tesla. So anyway thank you. And I want to just say she was also honored tonight at the volleyball game and when it was a little bit delayed I'm like

056just go you'll be here in time. So she went and she got a t-shirt to show the appreciation. So thank you Karen. Another marvelous PLTW teacher that we work with all the time is Dorothy Mraz. So I'm gonna have Dorothy come up. Hi good evening everybody. So just like Karen I've also benefited a lot from TV ROP's multiple opportunities for professional development. So I've also done the best day job shadows. In previous years I've been paired with Tykert which is a construction engineering management firm which is super relevant since I teach civil engineering. And then this year I got paired with BioRad and similar to Karen you know the why is really like what can we bring back to the classroom what are those relevant skills that are going to benefit our students and get

057them ready for college for the workforce and then also another thing that's important to me is is also like how can I reach all my students so not everybody's going to go to a university for engineering I also have to think about my students who are wanting to go into the trades what are the what is there for them what are the skills what are the experiences that are going to impact them right so that's been really important and you think the strength of these basically these professional development is also the strong partnerships which is such a key piece of our curriculum and instruction in CTE and so in the the benefit right goes beyond the classroom because our students who are experiencing this who are benefiting from these experiences that we have in the

058partnerships we have they in turn in the future like remember that and they paid forward and they become our new industry partners and we've seen that so actually this year I mentioned I went to BioRad and my host was actually a former student and then the pictures that you see here is a project that we have with Topcon and that's one of our major industry partners this year and we got to work with them and build an actual project that they use on their site and that was also through an alumni who wanted to pay it forward so I think that's obviously a strength of of these partnerships that we have with TVROP and the partnerships we then in turn have with industry and I want to conclude because what better way to know about

059the benefits of this program is to hear from the students themselves so I'm going to bring Anthony Edwards one of our students and he's going to talk about how these partnerships have benefited him. All right thank you Mrs. Morales. Before I start I want to thank the Tri-Valley ROP and the board for having me here it's an honor to be here and speak to you guys and share my experience. Yeah so I'm Anthony Edwards I'm a senior at Livermore High School and I'm associated with the Green Engineering Academy and so why did I join it? Well ever since I was little I liked problem solving hands-on activities and I always had the thought that I want to make a positive impact on the world so I joining Green Engineering Academy I thought it would reinforce

060those skills and even expose me to more opportunities that I've not yet seen before and oh boy let me tell you it did just that yeah so what I really liked about the Green Engineering Academy is that it showed the real world applications of being an engineer whether that be through building a bridge, robotics, industry partnerships, and field trips. Now I have a little story to share to you guys so two years ago my class went to NASA at Moffitt Field and NASA was showcasing all their equipment and stuff and one of the things they showcased was their wind tunnel where they test aircraft and when I saw that I was amazed it's so big and I'm like boy I want a piece of this so yeah and now in terms of industry partnerships Green

061Engineering Academy partnered with Topcon Corporation and we did an engineering project and I felt like what it taught me the most was professionalism it taught me the soft skills like being prepared, communicating with professionals, and what it means to work in a group and I will use these skills as I enter the workforce. I just want to thank Green Engineering Academy Mrs. Morales, Mrs. Fletcher, TriValley, ROP, and you guys for making this happen. I'm happy to say that I'm going to be attending Colorado State University and I will be majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in aerospace. Any questions? Are you on slide number 11 right there are you also representing the district there in front of all those people? Yes indeed yep all right well thank you guys I appreciate it thank you.

062Comments questions? Trustee Van Hoof? Yeah going back to slide number three this is a great presentation I love it there's you you have a 15 jump in readiness what are you I don't want to you know I don't want to poo poo on anything but is this due to changes how we how we measure or what we measure a little bit because that's that seems like oh yes so the college and career readiness standards have changed if I can phone a friend I'd like to have Matthew Hart come on up and give a detailed explanation for that but Matthew you want to come on up here? The way the state calculates that number did change a little bit from the previous year it used to be that a student could qualify with a score of

063three or better on two AP tests that's still the case but what they've now added in addition is a student can also be designated as college and career ready if they have a grade of C minus or better in two AP classes or score of one on the other that did give us a big jump I thought originally like uh well the rules changed a little bit um you know but I looked at other districts and there were jumps in other districts but not to the degree that we had so this is this is both because of that change which did result in some positive outcomes for us um but but regardless of that it is still an impressive jump in comparison to uh relative to what's happening in some other districts so it's it's

064good news but the rules did change slightly that's still really really good news it's really and the CTE pathway jump is bonkers like that that is is so impressive honestly at the work that the Julian everybody here has done to raise to have two years of double digit increases in that is astounding just pointing that out yeah that actually that is my next question and that is about that when you jump that far it's going to become more and more difficult to get those students completing that CTE pathway is there do you have a they have a plan are you just going to keep going and in addressing that 45 or 30 45 percent or are you yeah I mean not every student will take a CTE program or pathway but those that do we

065want to make sure they are completers I think we haven't I think a lot of that is we weren't capturing all our completers from the previous years um so we've tightened up our coding systems and I think plus the advertisement I think we've had a concerted effort to draw more students in I think our teachers have begun the professional development that uh that our students want to come back for that second class and pursue that road down that pathway last question is just like how are you celebrating this and like does does your whole team know that this is what you're doing because this is really remarkable yeah we're very proud of it I think um our CTE work we you know Julie does a great job of kind of keeping us together and not

066only within our own school district but in partnering with our other school districts so I think really it's been a attention to our professional development with our teachers so that our students do want to come back that's what I've seen the most um and the collaboration they've learned from other teachers across the district where you know it seems like districts have these hallmark programs where kids just keep coming back um and so just talking with those other educators has gone a long way for us yeah we celebrate this very much yeah way to go wow thank you I don't really have any questions but I just want to make a few comments first I want to thank Anthony for coming your enthusiasm is very great we're excited and that's the experience that I think we

067have when we walk into those CTE classrooms and it's just exciting to see students really getting to get in there and learn from from industry and then I just wanted to say a couple of things about the ROP program and our CTE pathways and just the significant growth that we've seen I think is just really attribute to to both of you and Julie especially to your team and um also I think it's important to recognize all of the partnerships and I think that's something that is takes a special kind of person and Julie I've seen the work that you've done to and your team to maintain these these partnerships seeing the internships the externships all the things that the teachers get to do for their professional development and then how that translates to our students

068is pretty amazing and then also just the efforts that are gone go into the grants and the funding and I just want to acknowledge that as well because a lot of this is happening without taking away from our budget which is just truly remarkable and I just wanted to thank Julie you and your team for all of that and for just the innovative and the forward thinking and just always thinking outside of the box and figuring out ways for empowering our students in their careers so and I love the tagline of ROP which is careers by choice not by chance which I love thank you and I want to thank you for your years of service not that they may be coming to an end but I just want to say thank you for uh

069being such a champion of CTE of TBRP shouting our name everywhere we really appreciate your dedication I know it's hard to be on one board let alone two boards so thank you so much for always having support for us and our students thank you thank you thank you appreciate the report always look forward to the ROP progress middle college CTE as long as I've been on the board my 12th year now and prior as a professional I've always been in support of ROP and and I think it's even more important now as we it has already occurred and it's going to continue to occur in the next year or two the tightening of federal funds for college loans and the ability of a lot of our kids to be able to go into the trades

070into a profession and be supported in that endeavor a lot of them don't have someone who can direct it ROP serves that role our school district has begun serving that role in the last few years and I think it's going to become extremely important that we're outrunning AI and the impacts of that on a lot of the trades or a lot of the professions that are based off of a normal traditional college career so I'm strongly in support of this and a really good work just a couple on this any comments or questions thank you all thank all of you for your presentation and all the amazing work that goes into making this possible for all the students congratulations to Anthony and all your classmates that are completing the CTA pathways and then also going

071on to continue achieving your goals in college I'm pleased to see continued support for this program I have a quick question as far as middle college is there a cap on the amount of students that are allowed in the program yes Los Pacitos can only handle 140 students they don't have the facilities and as you can see they're knocking down a lot more buildings to grow bigger buildings but for right now that is the current cap but I'm sure your question comes because we had the most applications we've ever had in the history of middle college this past year and it was very there were a lot of very difficult decisions and I we always say year from year you know the kids that get in get in but I think this year was one

072where we have a wait list for sure typically too we have maybe one or two juniors go back and this you know we have more openings for the senior spot we had one so I mean that's a great tribute the kids are thriving there they want to be there so everyone's getting better at really I think also selecting the students that have that need and and that fit to want to be there so yeah this is excellent I have celebrating all the highlights that you covered thank you for that thank you thank you superintendent Duncan for coming and presenting in your tireless efforts anyone that knows you knows how hard you work to create opportunities for students in the tri-valley which is amazing thank you miss Fletcher and anthony for coming in presenting I think

073it's helpful for us to kind of see to be able to see what it looks like so thank you for coming in and so I just have a question if I'm a parent guardian or student and I saw this presentation I thought I want to do that whatever that is how should they go about pursuing to understand cte tvrop is there a website they should go to should they talk to their counselor well there are multiple options yes so our website is www.tvrop.org we also have college and career specialists at your high school so we have paula and combating at livermore high school and daniel watson at granada high school and they are there to answer all of the questions uh Stephen that you had just brought up they will talk about our programs they

074can talk about the pathways and how they work together with our classes as well as the pathways at your high schools and and please look out on the on they have college boards up there career boards in that in their different career centers so liver morris is in the library and the one at granada is within in the counseling department and thank you miss morales for coming as well um any other comments questions thank you so much thank you I'm next 13 to kitchen uh district-wide kitchen assessment updates I'll invite miss Katie Krauss welcome test test good evening president druane acting superintendent bachette board and community my name is Katie Krauss and i'm the director of child nutrition here at the livermore school district and i'll be presenting our district-wide kitchen assessment this evening this

075assessment began with a small facility's need upgrading outdated sinks in a few sites but we quickly realized that even minor kitchen upgrades triggered broader interest interest infrastructure compliance and cost implications we expanded this into a district-wide kitchen assessment aligned with master planning to fully understand the scope of needs across all sites to assist with prioritizing needs for future work in district kitchens myself kim mcneely who was also here tonight craig limos worked with lionocos architects and a kitchen design specialist from amd to complete this assessment today i will briefly cover program background and growth assessment process key infrastructure challenges and cost and next steps our program includes four production kitchens and 13 prep warming kitchens operating in a decentralized model a product kitchen production kitchen has full equipment and storage to prepare and hold five

076to seven days of food for multiple schools whereas a prep warming kitchen is smaller with limited equipment and storage holding about 1.5 days of prepared meals and two to three days worth of milk and produce historically our kitchens were built decades ago to support three to four thousand meals daily however today due to universal meals which provides a free breakfast and lunch to every student regardless of eligibility status our student participation in the meal program has greatly increased and i will be detailing that on the next slide universal meals also expanded the programs being offered at some school sites as breakfast was only operating at some sites only prior to 2022 universal meals provides a huge benefit to our students but it has outpaced our infrastructure creating strain in our space storage staffing equipment and

077transportation logistics these efforts though are clearly paying off a comparison of meals so served shows the significant impact this program has had for our students while historical data on daily lunch meals served in livermore is not available the average daily participation of our current operations strongly suggests that we are the largest restaurant in town you can see the differences between february 2020 literally just before covid started compared to just two months ago february 2026 we have had substantial increases and to take it a step further beyond this slide last month in march we hit an average of seven thousand five hundred and forty meals per day surpassing february by 200 meals a day this is amazing growth and expanded access to nutrition for our students at the same time it presents some logistical challenges and

078comes at a cost of space time staffing equipment and infrastructure to sustain the program effectively i'll briefly summarize this assessment process first we provided the architects with health reports kitchen designs equipment data and meal volumes then over three days the team reviewed operations storage compliance at every site identifying infrastructure and code deficiencies this resulted in a comprehensive report with district-wide insight site specific challenges and a detailed list of required upgrades to meet current regulations our decentralized model means infrastructure drives everything the size and layout of our kitchens the availability of sinks and prep space the type and amount of storage and the equipment available at each site all directly determine how we move store and serve food and ultimately what we can put on the menu because only production kitchens have full prep capacities food

079is delivered prepped cooked transported to cohort sites and reheated this creates a heavy reliance on transportation and has limited flexibility this system worked when volumes were lower but today it creates capacity strain at production kitchens limited adaptability at satellite sites and inefficiencies in food flow and menu options i'd like to go over a high level review of each cohort of schools serving by it served by a production kitchen and highlight some pressing areas of concern i'll keep it quick a junction tk8 school houses a production kitchen that serves its own campus and a cohort of three elementary schools and although the school is over 70 years old it received a renovation about 25 years ago so now it's our second newest kitchen what you need to know about all these elementaries and what they have

080in common is that they need more square footage the trio of required sink setups and countertops and upgraded mechanical electrical and plumbing systems laurence in particular has lower ceiling in the kitchens than others do that cannot support conventional ventilation systems so we have been using lower capacity equipment which slows down operations and limits what we can prepare on site the smallest production kitchen christiansen middle still serves its own students and another three elementary sites every available square foot has been maximized with equipment yet it still requires significant external freezer space to provide enough storage after an internal freezer was turned into a second walk-in refrigerator in the kitchen and at 50 years old critical updates to construction systems are necessary to be code compliant and address capacity issues what's notable about their elementaries that they

081serve is that we think of them as being younger 25 to 35 years old but they have the same needs applying to the cohort that junction serves improved layout more square footage various versions of new trios of a required sink setups and countertops and basic systems upgrades continuing with our two remaining production kitchens granada has one and it serves its own students in another cohort of three schools similar to christiansen granada's production needs have outgrown its kitchen and their satellite sites have the same needs as previously described but also of note at 195 square feet emma smith's kitchen is the smallest in the district and thus has significantly encroached on non-child nutrition space like the multi-purpose room and custodial spaces joe mitchell has one of our oldest kitchens and as a tk8 school staff prepares

082and serves two different menu offerings to accommodate students each day that current layout makes this difficult and extremely inefficient our last production site is livermore high school it houses a kitchen that serves its own students and a cohort of four schools and although its kitchen received a facelift 15 years ago it has significant needs around electrical system work and refrigerator and freezer box replacements despite new custom condenser units last year but yes they can be reused similar to granada the satellite sites lhs serves have significant challenges with needs for improvement in layout square footage sinks construction systems at east avenue storage has spilled into adjacent spaces and the inefficient layout narrow walkways and built-in rusted serving counters limits movement and it's difficult to upgrade jackson elementary has a single basin apartment style sink laminate countertops

083and extremely tight quarters a renovation is the only way to improve operations and address both the sink deficiency and a much needed ventilation system upgrade as you can see all of our kitchens are simply not built to today's scale and requirements these highlight of school concerns across the district there are lots of variations in our facilities yet they all share an exceptional level of need most of these kitchens were built under different legislative pretenses and societal and economic circumstances than we are experiencing today at the time they were built school nutrition programs were smaller in scale participation was lower and infrastructure required was far less demanding recent changes in state legislation have increased interest in school meal programs so kitchens are now essential to daily services for students the high level overview was meant to

084pick up on the key themes you see here and that i have been repeating those were need when those needs are combined with the individual layouts of each campus the costs to upgrade and renovate them start at around 70 million dollars that's 35 to 40 million collectively for prep warming satellite kitchens and 25 to 30 million for production kitchens but there are several caveats to understanding these costs these are today's numbers current orders of magnitude with no escalation certainly detailed estimates may be higher and will provide more accurate costs this district-wide assessment brought to the forefront the challenges our department staff and school sites face every day to serve students we have now reached a point where we cannot do much more with the spaces that we have over time i have replaced and added

085equipment utilizing every available inch of space increased staff hours adjusted the menu and reworked our daily operational logistics to accommodate the infrastructure that we have we've reached our limit of what we can do to support these spaces these assessments make it clear that we have hit the trifecta of aging infrastructure compounding code compliance needs and insufficient space to accommodate serving students and to meet the scale of today's meal service demands there has been funding set aside in the remaining facility funding to begin addressing some of these concerns but they will not be able to address the majority of the concerns so future funding will be needed to continue the work the purpose of this assessment project and report was to better document and understand the breadth and scope of the needs in our aging kitchens

086both in structure and function and to determine kitchen work priorities however completion of all of the work recommended here and more specifically and expansively in the report are only to help us reach current and minimal compliance with local and state regulations state funding and recent legislation are pushing school food programs towards sustainability local sourcing and scratch cooking this requires the ability to clean and process fresh foods while new laws aim to phase out additives and ultra-process foods starting in 2028 as a result upgrading infrastructure for food prep storage and efficient service is more critical than ever while the child nutrition department continues to inform academic community of our day-to-day school meal efforts and successes through our newsletter it is important to understand that our ability to continue progressing is directly tied to the condition of

087our infrastructure and as with most district renovation and improvement work it primarily relies on local funding sources which requires community support our next step is to return in may or june with rfp or rfqs to award contracts for our first priority project designs thank you i'm happy to answer questions trustee uh trustee bueno discuss really appreciate the the breakdown and the information because no problem gets solved unless you know what the problem is so i really appreciate this maybe a first step just clarity because i may have missed it with my bad hearing on the prep kitchens um prep and warm what was the estimated cost per unit as well as with the production so they were totals for all of our prep warming kitchens and it was i heard 35 to 40 35 to

08840 million that's correct and 25 to 30 million for the for the for production production looks like there's maybe 12 warming and okay yes that's true about 70 million dollars that's for today yeah right i understand how the construction works okay thank you yeah trustee capuanis any thoughts or questions um just wanted to thank you for the update on our kitchen facilities and it was very informative appreciate that thank you trustee brusa why don't we serve syrup with our pancakes just kidding the custodians would not be very happy with us that's the question i get the most now that's what i learned at pc i see it was great but i just appreciate you um recognizing these needs obviously and doing the work that of figuring out what what our needs are and hopefully we

089can figure that out appreciate the effort trustee vanden heuvel thank you so much for the presentation i think it's going to be one of those that we're going to remember and look back on and say remember that i made a present and i and i explained where we were um back in 2026 i i um i'm wondering to start what um what is your philosophy or explanation when when you explain to friends and family that you know you run the largest restaurant in livermore and why a school district now has to also be in the business of being a restaurant we do offer more than one food per meal so why do we have to be a restaurant we just happen to serve food every single day to all students students who want it yeah

090um and are there other districts that you've because i believe this is something since we're we're asked by the state to now provide to make sure that our students are fed not just uh academically but also physically um have there been other districts have come up with creative ways to perhaps solve some of the same aging equipment aging uh facilities question with i don't know you know food i'm obviously showing my naivete or my complete lack of expertise in this but like uh like food trucks that show up and everything is done off site everything is done by other companies that are i don't know have you what do other people say yeah there's a whole industry of school food sector food and so there are nutrition regulations that the federal government and the state

091government require us to follow and so there's a whole industry that is dedicated to child nutrition food generally speaking a food truck off the street so to speak doesn't follow those same guidelines because they are very heavily regulated and not just from a nutrition standpoint but allergens and knowledge about the nutrition content so we can take care of our students who are medically fragile or need other parts from yeah i i thought about that too but i'm just trying to think like are there other districts that have have gone before us and have had failing kitchens uh that now have to still meet the needs of students and have to come up with whole new maybe this is not a question you should answer because you know i'm just thinking out loud um to clarify

092do you do you run into issues with wanting to fix something in a facility or with equipment but you're kind of grandfathered in it so you don't want to trigger that ada um requirement currently that's a constant challenge um it happened it happens both ways sometimes they'll allow us to change in a piece of equipment like for like sometimes they don't yeah and then as somebody who supported um our bond measure last time around some of our schools have seen updates like uh you know joe mitchell tk8 and east avenue middle school um how come kitchen upgrades weren't in included in what miss mcneely was uh was doing i will defer that question to miss mcneely when she comes up after me i was not here when those decisions were made okay thank you though

093thank you so much trustee bueno other comments yeah just to kind of uh circle back just just a little bit um it sounds like there's been a shift in the role of i'm going to just uh call it a meal prep and student meals both with um the way the distribution the numbers are up but it sounds like there's also been more than a philosophical adjustment in terms of where the food's prepared like it just sounds like we're becoming more centralized you know looking at kitchens versus bringing meals in from a centrally located place yeah we don't have a facility that can do that correct so this was our um just post covid when we realized that we were going to be required to feed have the capability to feed all students we did do

094a rather extensive uh search for locations that we could use to have a central kitchen to feed all students and there just isn't a location that's really large enough we would have to have freezers the size of what we have out here at the district office in order to do that right and there aren't current locations that exist in livermore where that's possible so we've used the kitchens that we have on our school sites so it sounds like the mission is then largely the same but it's just expanded in its capacity and the facilities that we have become outdated or don't serve the need that we currently have we kind of hit those things at the same time they're old and now they don't have enough space and trustee vanden heuvel kind of hit upon

095it but given the likeness of especially the three districts in the valley has there been a collective effort to work on this um you know collaborative sense because it is a regional issue it would appear um because i i would imagine that most districts have expanded so as not to replicate and and given that there are no funds to do this you know that this is a bond money there's not general fund money this has to be external money that comes into the district to facilitate this have we looked at this in a collective manner yes all schools and school districts in the state are required to be doing this sort of work and um actually kim and i were chatting a couple weeks a couple months ago maybe and that there is a recognition

096at the state level that there's not enough funding currently amongst districts in the state to be able to support this at the level that they really need to given the choices that they made to have a universal meal program within our tri valley we are the only district with a decentralized model all other the others two school districts have full working kitchens at each of their school sites so that is something that's unique to us and it changes the way we can do our operations okay thank you trustee vanden heuvel um i just want to make sure that i understand the tone of your presentation as in i in i think in in dutch we call this a fire letter meaning i'm here to tell you and explain to those who govern that things are

097kind of on fire and we're seeing we're going 100 miles an hour we're seeing a wall right there and i'm here to tell you as the expert in this field that there's a wall right there and unless there's action that we're going to see some problems we're going to crash we're going to end up in a in a situation we don't want to be is that kind of what you want to communicate a little bit or do you yeah are you are you hopeful in a way like hey we're going to get through this i feel like those those numbers that the number of um of meals in our current and economic cry uh climate is going to only rise in months to come you know and it's very possible that they could rise that's

098going to be something that is student driven in terms of how high they go up or if they don't we do have options they're not the best choices it would mean more frequent food deliveries everywhere um we have the kitchens that we have currently and until we are able to spend money to change something this is what we have to work with we're not out of we're not in unsafe environments we're moving food fast enough to keep temperature control correct to get enough food to the right place at the right time but this is what we have to work with so have we hit a wall no but if things break then the county and the state can come and say you need to take care of this thank you so much for your hard

099work it's very difficult i can tell yeah i think most of my comments have been said i just wrote sobering and i appreciate the lack of candy coating pun intended to try to make light of this that it's important for us to understand that the the condition and but also to recognize you know i sincerely appreciate your feeding our community and i think that students learn best when they're not worried about being hungry so i hear that and i hear that you are working as creatively as possible with the tools that you have and i look forward to looking at the list of establishing priorities and trying to tick some of those things off the list but i also hear that we as a community if we want our students to have healthy safe food

100they have healthy safe food now but if we want to be more efficient and provide that that our community needs to step up regarding local funds which means bonds so thank you so much thank you up next 13.3 facilities master plan i'll invite uh miss kim mcneely for update part two mr president members of the board acting superintendent pichette and cabinet we're pleased again as you mentioned to be returning tonight for part two of our facilities master plan presentation before we launch in i just want to remind the board that approval of a current master plan is in fact a requirement for us to apply for state bonds and funds in the future although it is a best practice a big part of the reason that we are here in this timeline is because of

101that requirement i'm going to launch this right in again i want to reintroduce amy fine and jeff evans with hkit architects they will be providing the bulk of the presentation this evening i'm just going to cover a couple of things to introduce us before you are the planned well they would be there we go before you i'm going to get with it before you are the planned topics for this evening and we're just going to jump right in for you our view last time included goals and the 2020 2021 fmp as a foundation for the 2026 work that we are doing staff did review and updated the requirements that are included under prop 2 for you in last presentation and shared with you this is part of a best practice as well we also reviewed

102our approach to the fmp update and revisited current goals with you this is just a quick recap of what we talked about previously recall there was an extensive stakeholder input process as well and we reviewed that with you for a for a bit last time i want to just remind that although the 2021 fmp is the foundation for the 2026 master plan you should treat this as a standalone document there they don't work together they don't need to you will have a complete and comprehensive plan in the 2026 document again remember that this is a long-term vision for our district and the goals that we have and of course as such it will take time to implement that's largely driven by funding as as i think we're going to hear on a recurring theme i

103want to turn it over to jeff evans we'll begin the review and then i'll take it back at the end thanks so much we touched on this a little bit last time and to recap some of the changes that you'll see in the facilities master plan really center on programmatic changes in particular introduction of the tk grade level to the district and then as has been mentioned just now one of the other overlays is is the district ride kitchen facility assessment and we'll talk about that a little bit in detail as it relates to an example for example at sunset elementary and then of course the accommodating growth should it occur where it makes sense is something that we've looked at as from a lens and then another piece that has been important part of

104the changes in fmp is that we've been able to further refine constructability and look at ways to reduce interim housing and then of course we are updating for the conditions that are current in the district and the buildings and the educational programs that go with them so go to the next slide hey there we go one of the ways to look at the report is to understand the way that we've categorized the work and so we see here is just a little summary of that based on looking at the age and the modernizations that have been done a facility we get a good indication of the level of work that's needed in today and though not universal the age of the buildings and upgrades really do relate the other lens that we've used is to

105review based on program as we mentioned it could be a space that is not very old but it's accommodating a program it wasn't designed for and so this is an important input and so you'll see then these three categories in the master plan the minor modernization category the major modernization category and the new construction category and so all of the buildings as well as parts of the site themselves have been put into these different categories like to walk you through an example of a chapter each school site of course has a chapter in the report and so what we'll do then is talk about the different parts of the chapter and then we'll talk about sunset in particular the first page we're going to come across is our site context page there of course is

106the aerial there but i also want to draw your attention to the boundary is shown we've gone to great care to locate where the property boundary is as you know of many of your sites there are adjacent parks or other features and so what is the district's land versus not the other parts here are the campus size we need to know the area the acreage and then of course we point out what borders the site and then we'll honor and celebrate the work that's been completed and so you'll see the measure j projects that are listed there and of course a little map that shows where that campus is in the district as we get to the next page this here is our site observations and just as an aside you'll find that we say

107things a couple of different ways and so you'll see in here some information about the ages of facilities that's also on a table that we'll get to in a second but this is really our observations in narrative form and so it starts with a description again we go by the different parts of the campus and then we talk about the needs and then really kind of set the stage for the recommendations that come in this case as we look at sunset elementary one of the sort of key areas we've talked quite a bit about is the npr admin library building and how that is repeated on a couple of campuses and it in brief doesn't function well for the different uses that are located in that building doesn't provide the kind of entry that we

108want to a campus or that we would design in today's sense doesn't accommodate our food service program well outdated systems those kinds of things and so the other part you'll see is sort of a listing of some of the other buildings and the conditions that they are in next is our existing conditions drawing and so again each campus will have this what's important here is the different colors we do like colors and so we're coding the different uses on the campus one of the kind of unique things we did this time around is we really wanted to draw your attention to where that kitchen is and how big it is and so we have a color for that but also as important where are the bathrooms you may remember that was one of the areas

109of interest in our survey is the restrooms and their condition so then we come to our vision for the campus and and again this is going to occur in written form and then there's going to be a drawing that goes with it and so these are the recommendations and then here we'll start with the overall vision talk about the major needs and what gets modernized what gets replaced what's new construction and here just to talk a little bit about sunset you'll see the sorry let me organize you for a second so to the right of the drawing is our legend and this is going to tell you minor mod the left column the middle column major mod the right column new construction indicated by sort of the amount of color or hatch so the more

110hatch the more work and so this also has those same colors for uses the other thing we've kind of overlaid in here is some colors for the site so the site has a light green medium green dark green for work we've also kind of categorized and tagged on district buildings and so with that information now we can look at the campus and we see again sort of that front building there what we affectionately call the pod building which sees major modernization and you'll see that the area related to the kitchen is greatly expanded you'll see that the area related to administration is greatly expanded and the shop I will catch that the library is no longer in that building because there's not enough room in that building for all those things to function and so

111the recommendation then is this new standalone building for library that also captures some new classrooms that allow us to remove the portable classrooms I know that was quick that was a lot but we're also tagging an area for future growth should it be needed where it makes sense and so we're dashing in in that corner new six classroom building the other piece you'll notice there's a new tkk building that's shown as we mentioned last time what happened typically is the tk classrooms took the kinder classrooms the kinder classrooms took the first grade classrooms and those kinder classrooms being in first grade classrooms weren't designed for that use and so we're showing additional space for custom-built purpose sized standard tk classrooms in addition to the the building that's there now and then as it will be

112indicative across all of the examples we're showing major modernization at the restrooms we find those are in need of improvement district-wide last but not least won't go through this won't make you read it is the site observations and data again ages of things range of capacity on the campus renovations that have curved those kinds of things and so again getting that information in multiple forms and so while sunset is a good example of what you will see in most chapters for each campus there are some differences as you go across each campus has its own you know personality and things that need to be addressed so just wanted to go over some of the the differences you might see this is the example of junction it's a tk8 site so you'll see that there's an

113added use of the gym so new color getting introduced there and as you look at the junction site you'll see that there are a lot of portables and things happening in the back and so in this chapter we have included a removal plan to show just the buildings being removed versus remaining just to hopefully make the the plan at the end the vision for transformation clearer so there's not the red dashed line everywhere that you would see so then you get a clean vision for transformation instead of seeing the red dashed lines this will happen on a couple of campuses that are getting more removal um junction is also one of the sites that is a transformational site so you will see included with it renderings of what the campus could look like at the

114end of the process this is just one example of sort of the overview you see the new entrance the new building two-story building in the background there and so you will see those at the transformational sites across the district uh this example of east avenue is a site that has received some more work so you will see you know existing buildings but then less work or no major mod on the newer buildings and the newer sections that were that were recently renovated and then as we move on to our high schools obviously much larger campuses um much larger scope of work uh we've included granada here you'll see the existing campus again with all the different uses and it will also receive a removal plan just because of the amount of change going into the

115campus and then the transformational plan with the two-story classroom or three-story classroom buildings you'll see the second and third floor displayed off the plan but you can see what's happening on that multiple multiple story buildings you can see what's happening there some of the other sites that we haven't included in examples for example the arroyo mocho site which is not currently used for instruction classroom instruction there will be a narrative for transformation but we have not included a transformational plan because more study and planning is needed before we move into a plan it just at this level was not not ready for a plan if you will and this is one of the transformational images you will see from granada again overview of the front of the site what it could be when the work

116is complete and with that i will hand it back to jeff thanks so much amy as you'll see in the document program changes change the campus requirements and the building demands something we mentioned we have a district where our buildings continue to age where something that might previously have been identified for minor modernization has moved to the major modernization category as as time has passed but important as important as has noted the building code changes as well and that changes requirements programs themselves for example our nutrition program has changed and that changes our requirements as well and so we're keeping up with that i think the other thing that just sort of note is that construction costs increase over time through escalation and typically that is in the four and a half to five percent

117five and a half percent range at present and and so over time our purchasing power is reduced and then very important as we noted in the beginning that we've been continuing to refine the strategic approach to minimize interim housing you know thoughtful planning really helps us maximize available resources i'm going to take it back but we covered a lot so i promise it'll be your turn momentarily we want to continue to use the facilities master plan to educate our community about the district needs and our vision to transform the district i think the theme that you're probably already getting is that we have an age district and there is a tremendous amount of need we are trying to this evening review the organization of the report with you folks who have looked at it previously

118or glance through it now it is a very large report so our intent this evening was to give you an idea of how and the community an idea of how to effectively review the report if you're if you're interested in doing that and to assist you in that process with at least an overview of how to read it we hope that we have been successful in that but we'd be interested in your feedback about anything that isn't clear we are intending tomorrow to post a link on our webpage and provide that same link to you of the entire draft document initially we were debating about the timeline to return to you as i shared when we started this it is a requirement ultimately that the board approved the plan but we know it's a lot

119to look at our thinking is if the board's comfortable and again we'd be interested in your feedback in returning january sorry june 9th with approval so that gives you hopefully plenty of time to review the document and to ask any questions that you have and but we'd be interested in your feedback about that that timeline and then just confirm that you're comfortable with that as a next step that does conclude our presentation this evening i know we moved through it briskly so please share with us any comments or questions trustee capone's any thoughts or questions thank you for the presentation i appreciate the detailed work that went into part two of the facilities master plan and i really like the campus vision examples that you gave particularly at junction that shows thoughtful planning for making

120it more modern i have two questions what criteria is being used to prioritize across sites and who determines this so there is no prioritization identified yet what determines that primarily is funding so depending on the amount of resources we have obviously we can get further down the list and we will give with lots of input thoughtful recommendations to you to i to ultimately approve the prioritization um so i just want to make sure i'm clear on this who makes the determination on the prioritization is it us as the board or you guys bring it to us we will make a recommendation to you but it is your approval that prioritizes got it thank you and then how are we ensuring um equitable investments across all of our more neighborhoods and schools such as like elementary

121and secondary that's again really a prioritization question so depending on the resources available we will make a recommendation typically based on our expertise and technical assessments of of that as a goal to identify work across the district and to provide equitable distribution this is a very large need of an aged district so i mentioned before i know you're aware this is going to take time to accomplish so we will definitely make a recommendation based on available funding and if you and the community concur with that then you will identify the prioritization that accomplishes those goals okay thank you for that just your person thank you i i appreciate the emphasis on the current needs and also thinking ahead for the future because as we know things can change quickly um just like we've seen with

122our kitchens and tk and all of those things so i appreciate thinking ahead for that this is just really a thought but it's interesting to see the changes in the designs of schools now with the the multi-story buildings coming back and more outs outdoor space which i i love we've we've seen that now at east avenue and joe mitchell and some of our other schools that we've had a chance so i think that's a nice change um i'm trying to remember when we did this last time does the does the plan have cost estimates attached to it i can't remember the the plan does have an order of magnitude cost again at this level of planning it is fairly high level cost estimating we are in the process of reviewing that now and you will

123have that high level summary before you approve yeah and i know it's really just like an estimate and then i guess just one thing it's not really i don't think it's really a question but i maybe just to put out there in how to i appreciate that it's going to be on the website so what you said for the community because that's one of the things i think is important is trying to figure out how to clearly communicate the scale and the need to the community and then also the financial realities obviously i think for many of these many of these needs are obviously that we're going to have to get a bond in order to do them so just try just thinking ahead on that and i think a good step is having it

124available to the public so i appreciate that as well i don't really have any other questions thank you not really question i really appreciate the the showing us how to read the reports when we go in there the only thing i could think about is when my little sister would turn in her little toys arrest catalog around christmas time it's circled everything you know you just go oh that's so nice but you know realistically so i'm just i'm um yeah i'm trying to just go we can do a lot of this and i'm hoping we can get the our public our livemore people on board with this and to see how absolutely important this is to do this right for the future of our city so i appreciate your really really professional helpful presentation just

125going on thank you appreciate the update as as always uh miss mcneely and uh you've done a remarkable job and on all the past projects getting us to this point and just so that it doesn't get misconstrued this isn't we're not creating like a wish list or um this is more procedural that we're getting updates on something that has been long planned um and so it's not to look overwhelmed it's it's not realistic to look at this maybe as a question um it's not realistic to look at this in its entirety but to look at it more on a somewhat lineal path where we are progressively looking at this methodically over a long period of time maybe into perpetuity like the maintenance of a bridge that be somewhat somewhat accurate the the analogy that i

126often give people when we do community meetings is this level of planning is the understanding that we aspire to get to new york it is a compass direction for the district and so every decision we make on that trip to get to new york by car is thoughtful so we don't end up in seattle when where we really want to be is in new york so it is a long-term vision that we hope allows the district to be thoughtful every step of the way as we march our way to that vision we have of our total campus i don't know if that's helpful i think of this as compass direction i think all of those type of analogies are helpful because i don't know that someone who came to our community a year ago or

12710 years ago unless or even if you've been here for generations and didn't have your eyes specifically on it understands the method by which we have to analyze this scope for this plan for this and what steps have already been taken that you mentioned earlier that were transformational in the district you know both comprehensive high schools joe mitchell our ibeast campus east avenue had significant work done in new construction um but this is a very large thing that it's not a it's not singular it's not a single effort that we're going to accomplish once it's uh you know it's the old how do you eat an elephant and but we have to continue because it's going to continue to grow but it's not to look at it is in an overwhelming sense i think it's

128just it's something that it's a the effort to gain the support of our community has to be ongoing much in line with accomplishing this which takes an ongoing effort it's just it's not there's no end to this but that isn't that isn't a bad thing it's just like it's a it's a big district where the second largest holder of land in the in the community of 17 17 campuses 17 thank well yeah that are you know functioning that all require maintenance and there's no funding that comes from this in our general fund from the state so it has to be externally sourced so i really appreciate it that we don't take our eye off it that did happen to us after 99 it was a 17 year gap between the 99 bond and the 16

129bond and so we did fall behind and so this has to take a just an ongoing effort and but we're already seeing the benefit of what we've done you know with the projects that we've done so that was our proof of concept so thank you for the presentation yeah thank you for the update the update is essential to make it viable for us to try to get local funding so that we can get matching state funding so it's important for us to have that i think just thinking of card part of your comment was feedback on this i think that the presentation helped make the document accessible i think that thinking of the the prior master plan and this one it's nice to see some fine tuning the visuals on the far right like the

130legends of existing minor major and new construction and the visibility of that is all fantastic i think a recommendation may be to have a video a voiceover on slides to walk the community through accessing kind of like what you just did with us like i look at this now and i'm like of course yeah it makes sense but you just did the presentation so i think one way to make that accessible maybe to do something like that perhaps in multi-language multiple languages so multiple or community members can understand the vision and help us with the prioritization moving forward so thank you so much just one final clarification june 9th is comfortable for us to potentially return we will take a look at our schedule thank you that's what i was going to say thank you

131up next 13.4 are we okay do we need a break break five minute break sorry mr krulikowski mr krulikowski welcome back we're coming back into open session from a brief recess at 9 14 p.m and we're at 13.4 graduation requirements for mr jason krulikowski and just to remind us this is discussion only thank you good evening school board president druin members of the school board acting superintendent pichette and members of the cabinet today i will be presenting the work of the graduation requirements steering committee this presentation will walk through our purpose our process and our final recommendation the committee was formed to review and evaluate current graduation requirements as a reminder we have changed from the trimester system to the semester system which did not allow our students to take as many have many as

132many opportunities take classes as they did in the trimester system we wanted to work on this this year so that it could take action for next year if we're going to make any changes so our purpose was to align our requirements with state law board policy and district goals a key priority was ensuring equity rigor and preparation for college career and civic life we also analyzed data gathered input and developed recommendations for consideration the committee included broad representation across all high schools and departments members included administrators counselors teachers from every subject area this ensured that all perspectives academic operational and student centered were included and the collaborative approach strengthened the quality of the recommendation and i'd like to thank everyone who was present the process we used is we had three meetings which i'll talk

133about in a minute we had a steering committee which after our first meeting they would take back to their site leadership who would then take it into their departments and then communicate with all staff so this ensured that recommendations were informed to us excuse me were informed by those closest to students and so this process happened between every meeting we had three dates we met in september january and february we had an additional meeting scheduled but the committee came to a decision and so we did not need that fourth meeting but this timeline allowed for thoughtful discussion and refinement throughout when we began this work we looked at our neighboring districts and obviously our state of california minimum requirements currently livermore valley joint unified school district requires 240 units for graduation this is higher than

134our state minimum of 135 as you can see neighboring districts typically require between 220 and 230 units and this comparison helped frame our discussion around alignment and competitiveness the committee after many meetings and a lot of it was small group or large group or questions answering discovery research and ultimately we asked the entire group in small groups of four to come up with some key benefits of the reduction from 240 to 220 and i'll share with you where that hits based on our graduation requirements in a moment but as you can tell it increases flexibility for students quite frankly this does not take away from any opportunities a student wants to take courses as far as for those of for our high achieving students who want to take as many classes as they can but

135quite frankly the focus turned into credit recovery in the semester system there's not as many opportunities to attain graduation requirements in that system so it supports diverse learners including students with ieps it can improve graduation rates and student well-being and it also aligns us with neighboring districts making us more competitive and attractive to families when the committee i would say unanimously recommended to 220 i said give me your primary reason for your position and the the what you see on the board is what the committee came up with the shift to 220 units is about better supporting all students it creates more opportunities for struggling and high achieving students it maintains course load expectations under ed code and it preserves staffing levels and reinforces a student first approach and now and and overall the benefits

136outweigh maintaining the higher requirement so i'm going to talk about the changes that were made several core subject requirements in science english math and history will not change and i want to be very clear about that so what you're seeing up on the board is our current graduation requirements and that will not change based on the recommendation to lower to 220 the committee agreed these requirements were appropriate as they are where the changes happen is we had a graduation requirement of elective requirements of 70 units and so the changes in the documents you've seen is number one is our formatting of the actual board policy just the way it was actually laid out on paper or computer screen was a little bit complicated to follow so the the grid was just an attempt to make

137it real streamlined and simple the primary change is like i said is we're going from 50 elective units or excuse me from 70 to 50 the requirement to take a world language visual performing arts or career technical education path that is unchanged so you'll see that you have to take two years of any of those plus one year of any of the others and hopefully that makes sense based on the examples this promotes both depth and breadth of experience excuse me of experience and it allows students to choose and personalize their own pathway up on the screen is just a revised ar i know you can't hardly see it but it's in the attachments on the board docs as well the physical education and health requirement remains the same and the adjustment is with the

138overall units and the committee's formal recommendation is to reduce the graduation requirements from 240 to 220 credits if you have any questions please let me know thank you before i jump to them what what does ar stand for for community members oh i apologize ar is administrative regulation and that stems from board policy it's how we carry out the board policy so this is our way of saying we're meeting the board policy on graduation requirements thank you trustee vanden heuvel yeah i really enjoyed being part of some of the conversations around in the background about this can you once again explain the connection or rather the lack thereof or actually the positive connection between lowering our grad requirements and how that positively affects rigor because it seems in the community that it's like oh now

139we're making it even easier for people to graduate here yeah we we're we're we're up there 240 can you explain that a little bit um i guess i think for for i'll start with just this visual for example um you see just before this this committee engaged we were already requiring the most within the tri-valley and that was great because when we had the trimester system students got in one year they could take up to 15 classes in our in our current semester or our semester schedule you can take 12 so you can see how if you fill one class your freshman year and every year after you are packed in with this 12 12 12 unless you're going to summer school unless you're taking our ingenuity classes during the school year which again then

140puts you away from another class it lets you take the course again within your school within uh the the remaining three years if you're a freshman and you failed something um i want to make sure i'm answering that correctly does that make sense it's not reducing anything it's lowering requirements excuse me um some will say well you know a kid will only strive for 220 then and and i would argue that's not going to be the case um our students all of them will strive for 220 but kids will will oftentimes end with more than that yeah i i liked in the discussion hearing from teachers and counselors about how they were explaining how it would help students who are struggling and want to you know make up some credit but then also how it

141could help students that are really high achieving to get to it was really very cool and i support this very much it's great thank you yeah i was gonna ask it sounds like you had consensus fairly early on you didn't have to have your fourth meeting did it start out that way or was there were there some struggles we had a healthy uh healthy debates and and i mean that in the most sincere way there was conversations there were the same concerns that are that have been raised here just what does this mean um there was fears that um you know if students know they can fail they will fail and i don't i don't know that i align with that philosophy um just because we've lowered it they will fail now so they can

142take it their sophomore junior senior year um i don't know many students that want to take the class twice yeah so um it i think the process where i showed this cycle here is where it went big is it started kind of in the committee and had a lot of debate but once it went back to site leadership into departments some discussions happened there and then came back to our committee and we're able to share out their support for 220 that's great i thank you the process worked so appreciate that thank you trustee kweiner trustee kaplanis any thoughts or questions sure i support um the opportunities flexibility and of course success for all students i just want to ensure that reducing elective requirements by 20 credits is not a cost-saving measure of purely just a

143student-centered reform absolutely there's no hidden agenda with this it's purely student-centered and there were questions that were brought up by teachers and we we reassured them that this we can't i can't see how this will impact um positions or establish cost savings for us that was no intent involved at all our quite frankly our educators wouldn't go for that if it was just that not what's good for students okay just wanted to be sure of that and then also was there any input in the process from like pcic or any like l cap um well i think for pcic that's the parent community okay so we did not involve our community in that sense outside of our educators because this work was so technical and related to ed code and requirements and other factors that

144would probably take two or more meetings to kind of bring people along this was a decision i think what was best is i think our parent community came out when our counselors on the room because they're the ones seeing our parents and students and when they are wanting to advance or when they have to remediate a course so um i i think in this case we chose to lean on our experts who definitely have the best interest of our students and community in mind as well great thank you just thank you for to you as well as all of uh everyone that participated in the process i know wrangling that many people with really i don't want to say high stakes but like you know this is shaping the course of what our comprehensive high

145schools are going to look like moving forward so i appreciate uh the process and the engagement thank you thank you the next 13.5 public hearing livermore valley joint unified school districts and livermore education livermore education associations initial sunshine proposal for 2026 2027 reopener negotiations i'll turn the time over to dr jessica bundars thank you uh lea and uh the district would like to open up this public hearing for any comments with regards to our sunshine reopeners we have two articles definitions and transfers this is just the public hearing section yeah so 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 do not have any blue cards on this item so i will now close public hearing and

146i can now open up to board any comments questions if not then we will move on to 13.6 13.6 is me so 13.6 update from the ad hoc committee on superintendent search so i'd like to start with an announcement we will begin uh we'll be hosting a town hall meeting for community members community organizations parents guardians anyone connected to our school district to come and provide input on the next superintendent may 5th may 5th at 6 p.m here in the boardroom communication will go out to to uh to people of that but i wanted to start with that so now how do we lead up to that it's the ad hoc hiring committee along with three other staff members director of communication michelle dawson assistant superintendent of human resources dr jessica bonduras and executive assistant

147lori rice met with the alameda county office of education superintendent hiring team april 14th we discussed priorities for the search and refined a plan to succeed in finding the next permanent superintendent for the school district generally speaking i'm pleased with the professionalism and sophistication of the a coe team and trusty van and who will when i'm finished or you can jump in at any moment um the next steps uh include the a coe alameda county office of education team speaking individually with non-ad hoc committee board members to develop and refine a list of priorities to drive the search these core set of priorities will then be used as a jumping off point for the creation of uh the opportunities for community input such as a community survey the town hall sessions and meetings with our

148labor partners the ad hoc committee and staff are next speeding with the a coe to design to design the online survey design the town hall community input session and sessions with labor partners input from these will be used to create the job description and advertising for the position the goal is to post this position in early may review applications through the month with interviews the last weekend of the month again we'll be hosting a town hall meeting for community members and community organizations tuesday may 5th at 6 p.m here in the board room thoughts and trustees from trusty van and who will and then any questions or discussion from the board yeah i want to echo the um uh the comment that you made about how easy it's been to work with a coe um

149in the way that they've been able to moderate these meetings or these uh brainstorming meetings where we were able to be honest and vulnerable and and really express what we were looking for in our next superintendent so uh it's been a really really pleasant process so far questions or discussion trustee capuanis i have a question for the town hall on may 5th i know we have an ad hoc committee but um our board members that are not in it allowed to attend uh we'll confer with them i don't want to violate brown brown act related to it so we'll talk about that as a possibility okay back to you and i'm also concerned that the search may result in hiring someone from a large urban district who brings different values and approaches that may not

150fit livermore's unique diversity culture and priorities i want to make sure that that that's part of the search process too i think the the goal acle is not vying for someone from alameda county they're trying to find the best fit for us and i think one of the things that i'll point out that that i think is important about this process is they're not just interested in us hiring somebody they're interested in us as the board also creating using this as a process to create the superintendent evaluation so this is two sides of the same coin so we're projecting to anybody you know to this is what we want and this is yeah set the expectations of who we are and what we want so i don't think that there's any focus on trying to

151get somebody from a particular you know we're going to set the standards of what what we want to see and then we'll hopefully find knock on wood the best person to meet those priorities but it is inclusive not exclusive yeah inclusive not exclusive thank you for that trustee pruso thoughts questions i just wanted to thank the ad hoc committee i think um i think everything is on track and i appreciate that the time that you guys have put into it and i'm i feel good about having gone with a coe so we'll see how our meetings go and the timeline looks good as well so appreciate it thank you thoughts comments just to thank you let's keep it going yep um any other thoughts or questions all right then we are on to 14 oh

152these are our discussion action items so 14 one is also me election of representative to the california school boards association delegate assembly so there are new no blue cards on this item shocking um so a closed public comment on this so we have the opportunity to cast a tie-breaking vote how exciting to decide between two representatives to sit on the california school boards association delegate assembly the two candidates are lc lee from emory unified school district or gabby blackman from dublin unified school district we vote as one body or we can elect to not cast a vote so is there any discussion or on this item and then i would entertain a motion do do we know anything about any of these candidates one is in dublin and when the other one is in emory

153this is correct besides those things i suppose does anybody have any knowledge uh i i did a little bit of research and my research um i believe that lc lee is a better candidate but i'm also open to letting it letting it sit whatever you guys think why would you say that i don't i don't really good night devin i don't really want to stay publicly so stall that's all i got just to be clear this is for the delegate assembly for the california school board associations that this is not going to have any like direct impact yes one of our own is we we already have a representative from our we already have a representative so if if there's a motion then i would entertain a motion um and if not then we can

154we can choose not to and move on i would say in the absence of us being unanimous on this there's no purpose other than division so i would move past the item choose not to vote all right then let's move on to 14.2 approval of agreement for acting superintendents so before the board is a contract between us and michelle pichette to serve as acting superintendent hopefully until we fill the seat at the conclusion of the superintendent search in june of this year the contract outlines the appointment terms duties and responsibilities the per diem daily rate of compensation and other to provide some context it was my intent to have miss pichette serve as an acting superintendent for a few days while the board found an interim superintendent largely to help us navigate our budget with

155miss pichette's assistance we navigated those waters leading and with lots of inputs and collaboration but helped navigate those waters leaving us with the choice of continuing to search for an interim or staying with an act acting superintendent while conducting the search for our next permanent superintendent and the board opted for the latter of those to give the community a sense of the cost of an interim superintendent which is not acting in 2024 pleasant and unified school district paid a daily rate of fifteen hundred dollars plus one thousand dollars per month car allowance the contract before us outlines a daily rate of three hundred and ninety six dollars and thirty nine cents which constitutes the differential pay cost between miss pichette's current salary as an assistant superintendent and the lowest step for superintendent in our district

156over the course of 92 days from february 11th to june 30th 2026 an interim would have cost us around 138 000 dollars while staying with an acting superintendent will cost us thirty six thousand four hundred sixty seven dollars and eighty eight cents i fully recognize that miss pichette has gone above and beyond the quote few days she was asked back in february and i appreciate her dedication in stepping in and stepping up for the students of our district while facing tremendous challenges and potential costs it is noteworthy with that being said i would entertain discussion questions and then a motion so i have no blue cards on this item so we can open up to the board i think well said what you said i appreciate um miss pichette's willingness and just a reminder that

157she's doing two jobs which is pretty incredible one of them is is a difficult well they're probably both difficult a little bit i just appreciate that uh she was willing to do that and i think everything that you you kind of encapsulated how i feel so i just wanted to say state that i fully support this uh this contract comment trustee bono just a comment on this the district was um in a public sense um in a very tumultuous situation um and the analogy that i have used and kind of used no longer until we're because i think we are on the ground is that we uh were flying without a pilot for a moment and when asked for our public's knowledge um superintendent acting superintendent pichette did not hesitate and said yes i'll do

158it without considering taking on the role it was simply i'll do what i have to do um and did not ask for anything and stepped forward and that is admirable as someone who's been around in government and doing things for a long time 40 years now um i don't know that i've seen that and so it exercised a level of dedication to the organization despite her tenure here in this district being very short um and she took over and we landed the plane and largely resolved some of the issues that were at hand um and which is uh exhibited by some of the tone um and decorum that has been uh so would reinstalled um i greatly appreciate what you've done for the district um and uh i think this is a uh it's still

159one person in two jobs which um is i don't i don't i just want to minimize it by looking at it in a fiscal sense but that can't be ignored that we uh it has benefited us fiscally but more importantly it is it has benefited us as an organization operationally in that we are landed we are on a path to recovery with relationships with our bargaining groups and labor we're moving forward on plans and um and it's a it's very it's very difficult to write an organization of this size this is the second biggest employer in the city of 100 000 people and due to that ask by the board due to working cooperatively with our locals the the unions and due to the expertise of mishpochett um i think we're on the right track

160and and so i i think this is uh this is like a kind of a kind of a have to do and i know that there can be heartburn as someone who was an executive and also i was in rank and file um the boss can sometimes do no right i know that and it's easy to put a target on the boss and it's a day and in this case uh i don't want to i wasn't cantonize you or anything but you've done but you've done a really good job and i think that to me that's the point and we have to kind of make it right it's it's it's morally right and it's correct as an organization to compensate someone and we're still having a fiscal saving so trustee capone's i just want to

161thank mishpochett for the work she's done um you've done a really good job and so i fully support this trustee vanahoo i echo the sentiment of my fellow trustees and as i told you earlier um just the fact that you put the clerk out of a job today by having zero correspondence which the correspondence often is just you know uh it's a little anecdotal evidence of uh things not going great so uh it's just it's remarkable and thank you and i fully support this agreement i said a lot but just sincere thanks i think the compensation is is part of it but as trustee boino had said your willingness to step in pretty much regardless i think says a lot about your character um and i know that this is a unique leadership opportunity for

162you but um again sincere thanks so uh with that being said uh trustee clerk can you please do a roll call vote oh i'm sorry we don't have a motion i'm i move in support of this item thank you uh so i have a motion from trustee bueno i'll second and a second from trustee prusso it's like governance um now any discussion on the motion now clerk can you please call roll myself i trustee prusso aye trustee kaplanis aye trustee bueno aye president druane aye that motion carries unanimously five votes we'll move on to 14-3 approval of the livermore education associations proposal to lvj usd for the 2026-2027 reopen and negotiations uh dr jessica wonders great thank you so lea proposes and the district agrees to open article three definitions and article 15 transfers for

163our reopener negotiations for 26-27 is the acting superintendent's recommendation to approve these reopener these articles for reopener negotiations thank you there are no blue cards on this i'll close public comments uh questions from the board okay if not i would entertain a motion i move in support of the acting superintendent's recommendation on this item motion from trustee bueno second second from trustee prusso any discussion on the motion clerk if you can take roll trustee kaplanis aye trustee bueno aye trustee prusso aye myself aye president druane aye that motion carries unanimously five oh let's move on to our consent items we have we will not have 19 is that correct or will we we did we remove a consent item or was it outside of a consent item i can't remember oh okay so we do

164have 19 then so um any discussion or questions on consent items or is there any that's a board member wish to remove for separate discussion or separate voting i would like to pull 15-2h out of consent 15-2h and i have questions on two other consent items um go for it 15-2f miss wasley i think it's you right 15-2 i wrote it down i don't know expanded learning 2f yeah it looks like it's it at the bottom it looks like it was a three-year a three-year agreement with up to two years option to renew that seems pretty long or or no that's like a five year almost it can three years guarantees our pricing and then if we want to elect if it continues to go well with resolution foods we can elect for the next

165two years but if we feel like there's better pricing out there or if service has not been what we um we're hoping for in it or we move in a different direction for our food coverage for elaphanesis then we have the option of changing at the three year time period but this is not one of those items where we have to do competitive bidding or anything right correct because of the type of um contract that it is for um food and then 15-4b dr bondores so there's these stipends that um are i guess my question is what's the plan if those stipends are main cut like who then does that work so um in the mou it outlines what will happen if funding comes back should the budget committee um elect to bring back things

166but in the absence of that funding some of the additional work won't take place so the ilt won't take place because there's no stipend associated with it so i guess my understanding is maybe that there's that um something will take precedence if if funding is restored one of these items and is that like a trigger that does that that will bring it back or so if you look at the end of the mou the final paragraph says if funding is made available through savings provided by medical collaborative or retirement incentive the items on the tiered reduction list will be restored as determined by the budget work group so it continues the conversation in that budget work group of which what comes back when it comes back and things like that that's cool that's great thank

167you any other questions about consent items if not i would entertain a motion for all but h or i'm sorry 15-2h okay with the exception of consent item 15-2h i move to approve all the rest motion from trustee preso i'll second that second from trustee vanden heuvel any discussion on the motion one small just clarifying point um the initial change on the agenda it was a tabling correct just to clarify it was it was tabled not pulled just yes 52e okay thank you quirk can you take roll trustee pruso aye trustee kaplanis aye myself aye trustee bueno aye president druane all right that motion carries unanimously so then can have a motion for 15-2h yeah i if i may speak on that i had a chance to um it was so the 15-2h it's it

168accepts the east avenue science renovation project and it was done completely on time on schedule within budget so i was at east avenue earlier and i wanted to i don't know just commend the team for what they accomplished i love science classrooms i always have loved science classrooms that's where i would want to go to lunch um because they're not just rooms they're like spaces where kids are encouraged to ask questions and to build things and to make things and to experiment things and so i uh yeah and to build maybe even the kind of thinking that this community expects our graduates to you know to carry with them so when we invest in those spaces we're investing in what students are capable of becoming and a project like this only goes well when a

169lot of people do their job like on time or you know together simultaneously so huge shout out to construction west services who again delivered on time and on budget and our bond program team managing the scope the schedule probably as well on the dollars and of course a specific word of appreciation for principal mark neil and his team who were asked to kind of work around construction project all while doing school so that takes a lot of time in professionalism and um going along with what um trustee bueno said earlier i want to acknowledge the voters of livemore because of measure j project like this are possible and every time we complete one of these on schedule and within budget we're keeping faith with the promise made when these dollars were approved and so i'm

170really glad to support this resolution and the notice of completion so that was a motion right um i'll make a motion to um approve this notice of completion in item 15 to h i'll second a motion from trustee van hoover second from trustee priscilla my my my comment wasn't to be snarky to oh i know i didn't take it i thought i heard a motion in there but i wanted to clarify the language that was the case yeah so uh any discussion on the motion uh quirk call roll trustee kaplanis aye trustee bueno aye trustee prusso aye myself aye president druane aye that motion carries unanimously just a side point yes please so it doesn't get lost every project that the board was reported on through the the entire process of that bond under the

171leadership of miss mcmilley was completed on schedule at or under budget through the entire bond 245 million dollars plus all the match the aggregate surplus was allowed us to lower the red line on projects that had fallen on the prioritization list below the line and allowed us to do additional work that project was managed that well and the close out of these projects these completion notices is something that um when the district there's different ways you can administer bond in the 99 bond a lot of these it was opted to manage these from internally it's very very difficult to do it internally the expertise of a bond director allowed for these programs to be completed notice of completion with the department of state architect it's an extraordinary accomplishment and it was a big team effort

172um but i think that it goes as a true truth a proof of concept as to how a bond can be implemented and can be managed thank you we'll move on to board member reports and requests so we'll start with trustee bueno um just first on a just kind of topical level uh i only got a couple things but i want to thank uh for our broad listening audience um governor newsome and our legislature for at least signaling the additional funding mentioned in this evening's meeting we're always critical of the they not just us but as a public and we have a great it's a super majority in the state of california that's in support of public education and i think that our schools deserve full unfair funding and this is a potential step towards

173that that goal and so i think it needs to be uh you know acknowledged um i was able to attend it was many of my colleagues or all of our colleagues here the olympian awards uh meet and greet speeches of the potential people being considered um the male and female athletes and i love that event as someone who coached in the district for at a high school for 20 years but about 30 years coaching in this city and one of the primary reason i got on this board was in support of student athletes and the epitome of that is getting awarded the olympian award that's one female one male from each of our two comprehensive high schools and that banquet is may 18th and it's our spectacular livermore high athletic complex this year also i

174want to thank uh matt fuzy he's a general manager of larpd and i'm sure others will cover this um matt fuzy is one of those folks that most people believe in this community don't know who he is but long-standing supporter of livermore kids and specifically and the reason i'm acknowledging it now is i believe an extraordinary effort to pivot to on a facility thing for an ag day that we had today and it's a beloved event um and i'll let others um add to it and also shila fogliano who is a fifth generation uh livermore resident um and a strong steadfast supporter of our ffa for uh 4h and uh it was her and matt fuzy and all the folks that work with them um that made something very very special happen today and it's

175just it's it's kind of symbolic that the of a healthy organization and a healthy culture amongst we're one of the few cities that does not incorporate their parks district within their city structure and so it's a separate entity and so it requires some really good relationships and when you see things like this it's really easy on a day like this when you have a big storm rolling in thunder lightning to say well we can't do it but seeing things through and having the relationships to be able to trust in people it's it's really special it is one of the things that's special about this community and that i i personally appreciate so thank you to the teachers and parents and staff and everyone that accommodated it and made it special for a thousand third graders

176today i want to publicly thank all the 69 employees who are retiring this year their collective decades of service have made a profound difference in the lives of our students and i wish them all health and happiness in their retirement i also want to start by supporting the recognition of april as autism acceptance month our autistic students bring unique strengths and perspectives to our schools and they deserve genuine acceptance not attempts to fundamentally change who they are however i'm deeply concerned about the growing trend of socially and medically transitioning autistic students or children research shows a significant and well-documented overlap between autism and gender dysphoria autistic youth often struggle with rigid thinking intense interests social influence and identity formation which can make them particularly vulnerable to the current social connotation around gender the cas review

177in the united kingdom along with major policy changes in sweden finland norway and england have all sharply restricted puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors these countries acted because the evidence does not support rushing these interventions especially for neuro diverse youth who may be misdiagnosed or influenced by social factors as a board of education we have a fundamental duty to protect our most vulnerable students i call on the direct to adopt clear written policies that require full parental involvement and consent comprehensive psychological evaluation by qualified professionals and extreme caution before any social or medical transition steps are taken with autistic students we should not be affirming confusion we should be helping these children accept themselves as they are and receive the proper evidence-based support they need to go along with this i had the honor

178of participating in disabilities awareness week at jackson avenue yesterday as i read to third graders their incredible story of louis broil accompanied with some very intentional discussion time about how challenges in life can motivate us to keep achieving our goals some other events i was able to attend since our last meeting was today chaperoning with a third grade um class at junction for ag day and i also wanted to thank everyone who helped in a quick pivot to relocate this amazing day due to the weather um i was also able to attend with my colleagues deliver more granada olympian lunch and best wishes to all our amazing student athletes i helped participate in the junction fun run for both elementary and middle school students i love learning at the math live lesson at joe mitchell

179with sixth grade students i had a christianson site visit and also i was able to attend the forest dedication um i went to the pedrosi scholars family night i went to the livermore valley education foundation make time for music with all the middle and high school bands leadership day at laurence was it was very impressive with all our young student leaders very exciting viral rivalry baseball game between lhs and ghs great job to both teams and a special thank you to mr conover for a warm welcome to all the little leaguers we brought with us that day and i also attended a granada and livermore track meet at foothill high school and a wellness and oh i had a great opportunity to be on the wellness and early learning coordinator panel um is a really

180fun experience and great job to all the candidates and my final thought of the night i want to express my strong preference that our next superintendent be someone deeply committed to livermore's unique community and values we do not need a big city style superintendent imported into our district we need a leader who respects local culture prioritizes academic excellence parental involvement it will not bring diversive ideologies into our schools i hope the search committee keeps this firmly in mind thank you and good night trustee vanden huvel i also want to highlight some things that i was able to be part of just to highlight the students because they're it's just so cool we i was went to make time for music orchestra concert and fundraiser at granada and uh we they were able to feature orchestras

181from all of our high schools and middle schools and just a really powerful reminder of the depth of talent in our music programs i think it's something to be really proud of um i attended senator mcnearney's ribbon cutting for his new tri-valley office the senator is a really strong supporter of public education and it's good to know we have an advocate for our students in sacramento um and then we have the selpa teacher appreciation awards night i attended with the assistant superintendent menke livermore special education teachers made of the largest contingent of educators recognized by the students the parents grandparents and i think that really speaks a lot about the quality of our special education staff um like trustee kaplanis mentioned the pedrosi foundation young scholars family social at maryland avenue steam academy that's a

182mouthful uh celebrating those students those families there was another lvef make time for music band concert and fundraiser at livermore high school and uh i just want to say thank you so much to lves for their continued financial support of our schools uh they they've donated well over two hundred thousand dollars so far in the last few few years i went to a pocket garden dedication of christiansen middle school with create a california native plants and uh it's actually if you go there at christiansen it's closer to a small forest you can get lost there it's really fun beautiful addition to the campus go check it out and then lauren's elementary leadership day i was given a tour by some really cool students who walked us through a station showcasing each of their seven habits

183um and it was i don't know it's sort of that the the the ownership and the confidence of those students was really a joy to witness and then finally i had the privilege of attending the livermore granada booster olympian luncheon as trustee bueno mentioned with our fellow trustees and i i just i wrote things down while we while they were sharing while they were doing their speeches um the this theme that came up again and again that um every one of the seniors look back at a moment in their high school athletic career when things did not go well they had an injury or a loss that was really life-changing made everybody cry in the room or a season that kind of broke down or something that like literally broke in their bodies but what

184they kept describing was not the setback itself but what comes next what came next for them resilience recommitment the choice to just show up the next day and i think that message in particular because whatever obstacles we have faced as a board and as a district over the last couple of months we can take a lesson from our own students we can treat what feels like a setback as an opportunity to recommit to the work and to each other so if our team seniors can model that for us at least we can do is follow their lead so thanks to livermore granada boosters go check out their website and go listen to those excellent speeches it was awesome that's it for me trust priscilla thank you i don't have a lot um trustee van hoevel

185you said all the things now you said all the things i wanted to say um attending i was able to attend many of the same things my colleagues but i think two of my very favorite um two very two of my very favorite activities to attend is the olympian luncheon and ag day and they both were this week so it was really fun um that is the that is the thing that i noticed what trustee van hoevel had said is the speeches of our athletes and this is every year but i just felt like the speeches this year were exceptional and um they're very emotional and inspiring but the main theme has always been and i think in past years as well the adversity and the hardship that these athletes have had to um work

186through and i think as um a former student athlete myself and as a coach um i recognize that our student athletes have such a strong sense of themselves a strong sense of commitment and teamwork because of the experiences they have in athletics and and i just am grateful to be a part of a district that really puts um their support and emphasis behind their athletes and we will continue to do so um they're going to be great amazing human adult humans very soon and then also ag day of course was amazing and having it at the rodeo grounds was really exciting so that's all i have so bulk of my time's been spent working uh with a coe and the ad hoc hiring committee but today i was able to attend a meeting of the

187climate literacy task force in december of 2024 the board passed a student-led resolution establishing climate change education as a priority for this district a task force of teachers administrators students community members and community organizations have worked to bring that resolution to life they began by conducting conducting a needs assessment what are we doing and what do we need to do creating an action plan and creating an action plan this small but mighty team are looking to present the findings and practices from the group to other staff members early in the fall i also attended the lvef make time for music that included combined middle school bands and high school groups mr enright covertly enlisted me to pull him off stage mid performance to fulfill our very own mr connor's wished to take hand at conducting

188so i'm apologize if i caused heart attacks amongst people seeing me sprint um but i also attended several the events that uh people had mentioned now we'll turn the time over acting superintendent bachette thank you president druan i too it is event season i've had the opportunity to attend many events i'm just going to go through a few uh one of the highlights was the reclassification celebration at granada high school uh principal conover and uh their el liaison martha garcia put on an beautiful celebration for their students and families where they walked across the bridge for those students that um it's a very arduous task to it's very difficult to achieve reclassification and they were able to do that i also attended the cms the christiansen middle school pocket forest dedication it was lovely i

189want to thank brian sherman the principal and ann brown from tri valley air quality climate alliance uh we also had our one of our l cap parent advisory committee meetings um and then of course our annual pedrosi young scholar family social at maryland elementary uh led by maggie tufts and carolyn sigfried which are amazing um partners pedrosi that gives hundreds of thousands of dollars to our students and scholarships i also attended the olympic scholarship luncheon for our olympian luncheon for our student student athletes uh put on by livermore granada boosters i attended all three of our lvef make time for music uh events choir band and orchestra which was fantastic and yes president druan you did give me a heart attack um i want to special thank you to our music coordinators kathy boster and

190leaven smart as well as livermore valley education foundation and i too want to thank sheila fogliano and matt fuzy she sheila sent a text to matt yesterday asking to uh utilize the rodeo grounds because of inclement weather and it was without hesitation the larpd said absolutely yeah matt said yes um and our students were able to stay in that beautiful covered area um and out of the rain and it was lovely so thank you and that's all i have right now the next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held on tuesday may 12 2026 open session will begin at 6 p.m this meeting is now adjourned at 10.08 p.m