001Thank you. Welcome, I'd like to call this meeting to order at 903 am. It is August 28 meeting Board of Education. And just as a note our meetings are broadcast over zoom to provide the opportunity for community to observe in real time, and the video recordings of the board meetings are posted on our website typically within 72 hours after each met after each meeting. We're going to begin with the flag salute and I'd ask, I would ask trustee drew and if you would lead us on the pledge to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Are there any changes to the agenda. No, there are not. Okay. And we have no, no blue
002cards for public comment, but we do have our Employee Association reports. Do you miss Amy Thompson do you have. Okay, I'm going to invite Amy Thompson the president of our LA and I want to recognize her Vice President Tara let's who's in the audience. Good morning Board President Pruso members of the board superintendent Gibson and cabinet. I'm Amy Thompson president of the Livermore Education Association, representing teachers nurses counselors psychologists speech pathologists social workers and teachers on special assignment. Okay, looks forward to receiving the complete data for position control from what we've been provided so far, which is a list of hired positions that were in payroll as of July 28 showing 664 point for three full time equivalents, and the position budget committee meeting, showing 716 point to eight FTE in our bargaining unit. It
003appears as if we needed to hire 51.85 full time people for our bargaining unit. As of July 28, roughly two weeks before the start of school. It looks like it must be inaccurate, but without complete data, we can't know what's accurate. The homework given to LA as part of the budget committee was to do comparisons of staffing levels for our bargaining unit between Livermore Fremont San Ramon Pleasanton and Dublin. We then submitted a copy of the information we've compiled so far. Our process was to read through the contracts for all of these districts, and note the contractual staffing levels for positions. We then sent the data compiled to the presidents in the neighboring districts to ask for any clarification or corrections. And I want to just take a minute to walk you through the data.
004And I want to start with what's good. If you look at the nurse staffing ratio. You can see for Livermore the contractual ratio is one nurse for every 2590 students. When we compare that to our neighboring districts, you can see that they're at about a staffing ratio about one to 3000. So that's good. If we go back up toward the top, we can see certificated teacher librarians, we have zero. Our neighboring districts have at least one per high school. When you look at counselors, we have one per 600 at the high school and no contractual ratios for middle school or elementary school neighboring districts have smaller ratios and provide counselors in middle and high school. If we go down and look at teachers, so now I'm at the K through three teacher column in Livermore.
005By contract we have an average class size of 25 and a maximum class size of 26. Our neighboring districts Pleasanton Dublin San Ramon and Fremont all have a class size max of 24. We heard that one of the reasons compensation is an issue in our district is that we have lower class sizes. It was interesting to compile this data and find that that's not accurate. Our class sizes are really appear to be on par with or higher than our neighboring districts. At the last board meeting we shared that LEA currently ranks ninth out of 11 districts for compensation near the bottom. We shared that our members are watching money being spent for non essential non student centered things and activities. We shared that it will require an investment of at least $5.2 million to bring
006our compensation to average. What can the district afford the budget and the 45 day revised show that in addition to the $4 million in one time funds the district is also receiving 6.5 million in new ongoing funds. The question is how will this money be prioritized for spending. It has repeatedly been stated that we have a goal of top quartile. If that is really a goal then there should be actions to make it happen. As long as district management is able to placate the board by saying that they really want to but there's just no money, we will continue to be compensated below average. What can the board do to support us give district management incentive to plan for competitive compensation. For example, the board could instruct the district to freeze step and column raises
007and the Me Too clause for all management positions that have a salary above $200,000 per year until such time that the LEA bargaining unit is compensated at least at average. Not receiving regularly salary increases and falling below market value may provide the incentive management needs to make us a priority in their budget. Please do something to show us that we are a priority. Just saying it is not enough. Thank you. Thank you. Our representative here today for CSEA is Vice President Victoria Storty, and I believe she doesn't have any comments. Not with us today but just, just as a point of reference our SEIU president is Kirsty Governor, our CMC representative Sarah DeGraut, and our LMA President Jeremy Bilkins. I have a formal written correspondence to the Board of Education and I'd ask trustee join
008if he could summarize that for us. Yes, Kenny Brown requested the board prioritize teacher compensation in upcoming budget discussions. Sarah Frazier offered her support for Amy Thompson as she supports and represents educators of Livermore. Lauren Sutter asked the board to reconsider the decision of a 2-3 combo at Arroyo Seco. Chloe Mopas expressed concern with a lack of para educators and aides at her school. Gina Wooten urged the board to prioritize students by compensating teachers competitively and Gina Rogeri expressed concern and disappointment regarding the current teacher compensation. Thank you. Thank you. We have no discussion action items today and we have one consent item. The personnel recommendations which is a regular item that we usually do. If there are no comments or questions on the consent item I'd entertain a motion. President Cruso I move to
009support the superintendent's recommendation and approve all personnel recommendations. I second. I have a motion by trustee Druin, seconded by trustee Capuanis. Any discussion on the motion? Just a question on this. Is this consent item, the item that we tabled? No. Okay, this is not inclusive. Okay. No other questions. I ask the clerk to take roll. Trustee Capuanis. Aye. Trustee Bueno. Aye. Myself aye. President Cruso. Aye. That motion carries 4-0 with the absence of trustee Vanden Heuvel. We have no public comments on closed session so we will now adjourn to closed session. It is 9.13 a.m. Okay. We're reconvening from closed session and as referenced all actions approved in closed session must be reported out in open session. And there was no action taken during our closed session. Our next regularly scheduled board meeting will be
010held Tuesday, September 9th here at 6 p.m. And our meeting is now adjourned at 2.39 p.m.