6.17.25 Board Meeting

001Good evening, everyone. This is the welcome. This is the June 17 meeting of the Board of Education of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. Our boardroom is open with an in person format, however, we will continue to broadcast our meetings over zoom to provide the opportunity for our community to observe in real time. The Board of Education of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District is now reconvening to open session, and it is 707 PM. 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 of our actions approved in closed session must be reported out in open session so I would ask our Clerk Trustee Druin if he could please report. During closed session the Board of Education

002took action regarding a stipulated expulsion for Student H. The board voted five one in favor of the superintendent's recommendation to approve the stipulated expulsion of Student H. The roll call vote is as follows in favor, President Prusso, Clerk Druin, Trustee Vanden Heuvel, Trustee Kaplanis against Trustee Bueno. That was a four one, not a five one. I'm sorry. That's okay. Thank you. We'll next move on to our Pledge of Allegiance. We're going to ask Trustee Vanden Heuvel if you would please lead us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you very much. I would like to ask Dr. Gibson, are there any changes to the agenda? No, if

003there are any updates there noted in the item but nothing significant. Okay. We were, we're going to, we're going to skip our student board member reports as our student board members are hopefully having a break from school and on vacation, we'll see them again in August, and move on to our Employee Association reports. I'm going to invite first, LEA President Amy Thompson to come forward. And as a reference, Tara Lutz, her Vice President. I don't know if she's here or not. She's not here, but we'll recognize her anyway. Welcome Amy. Thank you. Tara's watching from home tonight. Good evening Board President Prusso, 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. I want

004to provide some clarification from the formal written correspondence summarized at the June 10th board meeting. It was stated that I submitted correspondence expressing concerns about the change to the board meeting schedule. To clarify, although I submitted the correspondence, it was actually collaboratively written by LEA members and included more than 180 signatures. The letter expressed concern that the movement of board meetings to Thursday mornings will limit access for those working in classrooms and reduce transparency. Therefore, LEA members are requesting that if there is no consideration to move the meetings back to the evenings, that members who would like to attend board meetings be granted release time to do so. Our members still hope that there will be reconsideration of the planned combination classes for the 2025-26 school year. I am again providing a chart of the

005data showing the number of students at each grade level. Our members are again requesting that if the pure grade level class sizes are at approximately 83% of class average, the same percentage used to form a high school class without forming a combination class, that classes not be moved into combos. You heard last week from a few of our members describing the negative impact combination classes have for students. It is important to remember that combination classes impact the entire grade levels and their teachers, as well as the elementary science and music classes with no plan in place to mitigate this. In looking through tonight's board agenda, LEA members noticed the changes to the management job descriptions and the accompanying change to the salary schedule. On the June 10th board agenda, the stated reasoning for these changes

006is to align job titles and salaries with neighboring districts. It further stated that the impact of the budget is $2,425 to the general fund and $39,060 to restricted ELOP funding. An analysis of the eight attached job descriptions and corresponding salary schedules reveals more than that. Seven of the job descriptions are revised and one is a new job description. Five of the revised job descriptions are simply title changes to director three and preserve the same salary range of $170,062 to $201,979 per year. The title of manager is changed to director one, a new classification. This moves this position from the CMC salary schedule to the LMA salary schedule with an increase of pay ranging from $23,864 to $33,411 per year per person. The title of coordinator is changed to director to a new classification and the

007classification of coordinator is eliminated. The pay range is maintained at $159,221 to $189,106 per year. The new position of director one of ELOP is created with a salary range of $137,215 to $162,969. Examination of the management salary schedules for Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon, and Fremont, which I provided you guys copies of, reveals that Pleasanton uses the classifications of director one, two, and three and coordinator one, two, and three. Dublin uses classifications of assistant director, director, senior director, and coordinator. Fremont uses classifications of manager, supervisor, director, and executive director. San Ramon uses the classifications of coordinator, director one, and two, and executive director. This shows that there isn't a strong consistent practice for the naming of positions in neighboring districts. Livermore is eliminating the title of coordinator. However, that is used by three of the other

008four districts. So to state that these changes are to be more consistent with our neighbors is inaccurate. It does immediately increase costs by approximately $167,000 per year. This is in addition to increasing the number of assistant superintendents, a change that was made earlier this year. The change initially is cost neutral, but in the long term, it is an increased cost. Coming out of a qualified budget with $6 million in cuts and the stated need to further eliminate $600,000 of expenses. Is this a sound decision? Is this the right time for our district to make these changes? I'm all for compensating people well, but I question the affordability and optics of restructuring management salary with increased costs while cutting counselors, psychologists, teachers and classroom budgets. Earlier this year, I provided our district management with a chart

009that shows the spending as a percentage of budget across Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Fremont. I've provided a copy of that chart to the board tonight. It's the last page in the packet. This chart is based on the unaudited actuals for each district for the 2023-2024 school year, which is the most recent available. Please notice that the revenue spent on teachers in Livermore is three to four percent less than in neighboring districts, while the revenue spent on management is very comparable. As a longtime Livermore teacher, I have heard that we have fewer managers than our neighboring districts. But our spending shows that we spend just as much. The conclusion I can draw from this is that the managers we have are well paid. Due to this, it should not be a priority for our

010district to make changes to our management that have added costs at this time. This is a bad look for the board in our community's eyes when there is approval for unnecessary increased costs and management while claiming the need for continued cuts at the school site level. Last week, I asked which of the six million dollars in planned cuts for the 2025-2026 school year are actually being implemented. Perhaps during tonight's presentation of the budget, that question will be answered. Maybe we will also get a glance at the position control. It would be helpful for the board to know the complete picture of where we stand financially before you're tasked with approving items in isolation that affect the budget. I am glad to see the resolution in support of Pride Month on tonight's agenda. I think it's

011very important to show all of our students and families that we support all of our students and families. I hope everyone has a restful summer break. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to invite CSEA President Mamie Kristevich and also want to recognize her Vice President, Victoria Storty, who is in the audience. Good evening, President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson, and cabinet. I am Mamie Kristevich, president of the Livermore Chapter of CSEA, the California School Employees Association. Joining me tonight is our chapter's vice president, Victoria Storty. At the board meeting last week, I spoke at length about our Me Too clause in our collective bargaining agreement. This language has been in place for decades, and former CSEA leaders and negotiating team members going back to the 1990s cannot recall a time when an administration

012in this district has tried to circumvent our Me Too. This is the first time and hopefully the last. The main purpose of Me Too clauses in collective bargaining agreements is to maintain parity and equity across bargaining units, which ensures fairness and promotes harmony between bargaining units and the district. I will point out that the Me Too clauses for CSEA, LEA, and SERIU are similar but different in a significant way, and perhaps the district was not aware of that. CSEA's Me Too language requires parity with other units based on total cost value and not a percentage, and that is what we went back to the bargaining table to do, to determine how the additional cost value should be allocated. CSEA's Me Too clause in Article 25.2 is very clear, and the last sentence states, should the

013cost value of the package agree to with any other unit include a cost value greater than that agreed to a CSEA, the parties will return to the table to determine how the additional value should be allocated. The district's attorneys may suggest otherwise, but this language is simple and indisputable. One can pick at each syllable in each word, but the meaning is still the same. The district tried to get creative to avoid triggering the union's Me Too clauses by offering increases to only portions of bargaining units, but that strategy does not work due to the clarity of our Me Too language. CSEA members are simply asking for what they are entitled to. We went back to the table to allocate the amount that is owed to us based on our contract language, and no more than

014that. We were aware of the district's financial burdens, so we were even willing to negotiate a non-precedential catch-up amount as less than perfect parity on this one occasion, but not hundreds and thousands of dollars less, which is insulting. Perhaps you do not realize that some of our CSEA classifications like instructional assistants and paraeducators work directly with students to assist with providing instruction and managing challenging behaviors at the same time, yet they are some of the lowest paid employees in our district. Paraeducators make as little as $4,112 a month, and instructional assistants make less than $4,000. If you walk in their shoes for just one day, I think you would agree that they are severely underpaid for the work that they do and the physical risk that they take. Again, we are simply asking for the

015district to do the right thing in honor of collective bargaining agreement. I urge you to please ask the tough, courageous questions and consider all points of view at all times. There's always more than one perspective. I hope in the coming school year, you will spend more time talking to employees on the front lines and considering them as valued individuals who provide a tremendous service to students and contribute to the efficient operations of our district. Imagine what it would look like if classified employees didn't show up for work one day. On the agenda today, you will be approving significant increases for some management employees, so we all know that funds are available. It is obvious to us that equity for CSCA classified employees is not being prioritized by the district and the board. CSCA classified employees

016were at the top of the cut list for reductions and layoffs earlier this year, but at the bottom for compensation equity. Why is that? And how is that acceptable? On behalf of all CSCA members, we are asking for fair and equitable treatment. At our board meeting last week, Amy Thompson, the president of LEA, spoke against the new board meeting schedule for next year. I think transparency is a word that is used quite a bit in describing strong leadership, so I am disappointed with the Thursday board meetings. There is no transparency in holding board meetings during the day when the vast majority of people who are employed are not allowed or able to attend. As such, CSCA stands united with Ms. Thompson and LEA and strongly objects to the new board meeting schedule. Thank you for

017your time and dedication this past year. I am aware that your work is not easy as you juggle multiple priorities, but you chose to serve on the school board. And I would hope that means genuinely listening and honoring your constituents and those who elected you and placed their trust in you. I hope July offers you the opportunity for some rest and fun, and maybe I will be able to catch up with you before our first board meeting in August. Thank you. Thank you, Amy. As a reference, Kirsty Governor is our president of SEIU, and I don't believe she's here this evening. And our representative for CMC is Lily Lopez. We're going to move on to our public comments on non-agenda items. So if you would like to address a topic that is not on this

018evening's agenda, now is the time to do so. We ask that you limit your comments to three minutes and that each speaker may speak once. As a reminder, this is a meeting of the board held in public and not a public meeting, which means we are here to conduct the board's business in view of the community. To ensure everyone has a chance to be heard and we maintain a respectful environment, please refrain from clapping or other reactions. It just limits the time that people have as they pause for applause. So if you agree with the speaker, the simple hand raise is appreciated so that we can see. I will also give a reminder at 22nd, Mark, and I'm not trying to be rude, but it is to ensure fairness and equity and giving everyone the

019same opportunity to speak. As a reminder, also, we as board members are not allowed to engage in discussion, take action, or give an opinion on items that are not on the agenda. However, we may briefly respond, ask clarifying questions of staff and or refer matters to staff for follow up. With that, I believe I have two speakers on non-agenda items and I will we will begin with Si Maiten and then following that Deborah Gibson. Si, if you just want to push the button on the microphone. There you go. Okay. Madam President, members of the board, Madam Superintendent, everybody in the in the room. I'm here to, I guess, the three minutes that we have is very short to introduce yourself, so I have a little bit of more introduction of myself, the way I came

020here. So I was working as a telecommunication professional in Iran when the Shah of Iran had a contract with the Pace Company of the United States to modernize Iran telecommunication. And I was working for seven years over there. During this time, basically, I learned English and I was able to come over here. They gave me a scholarship from the previous government of Iran to get a PhD. But then eight months later, when I came here, the revolution happened. So my scholarship got discontinued and I decided to stay. So I'm just trying to tell you that how bad the government of terrorist Islamic Republic is. And that's what they did to me. And then I was basically over here and ends up staying and working. And then the other point that I was trying to make

021is the United States and Iran has been really the best friendship relationship from long time ago. In fact, the example of it is after World War II, Russia, which was the USSR at the time, they occupied a big portion of Iran, Azerbaijan area, which I come from. And it was President Truman to push them out by basically telling them that if they don't do it, then the United States is going to take over the East Germany. So the United States and Iran has been very close friends at that time. We had 300,000 Americans in Iran, many of them got married in Iran. So I just wanted to bring that up. And I'm very happy and glad that the United States, along with Israel, they are trying to get rid of the terrorist government over there.

022And hopefully, pretty soon, we will get together and have the best relationship that we should have. And at the end, I would like to suggest that in summertime, I'm a substitute teacher for them. I have free time, so I'm volunteering myself for math, science. If I can help anyway, please let me know. Thank you. Thank you. Deborah Gibson. Good evening. I would like to just take the opportunity to pray over this meeting. Father, you are the great everlasting God who declares the end from the beginning. When our forefathers were stating their faith in you, declaring your plans and heart for America, you covenant and covenanting to partner with you and fulfilling them. You looked ahead and saw us. You knew we would have a people in this hour who would arise in faith and agree

023with what was declared back then. We are that people. What God began in America is not finished. It hasn't reached its intended goal. So tonight I pray that you will give the men and women of this board wisdom when making the decisions that they are facing for the entire school district of Livermore. May they embrace our God given roots and destiny thereby allowing you to finish through them and us what you started in America. I pray that all the decisions that are made by them will protect and benefit the students under their jurisdiction. Lord, I pray that you will continue to give us godly and righteous educators, government leaders, parents, business people and citizens pour out your spirit on the men and women of the school board and may your will be down on earth

024as it is in heaven in the name of Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Those are all of the speakers we have for the non agenda items, we do have some speakers on an agenda item that will be later in the meeting. So we'll now move on to our communications from the public, our formal written correspondence to the Board of Education shall be acknowledged if received by the board or in the superintendent's office by 3pm the day of the meeting. Formal written correspondence received after the cutoff time will generally be acknowledged at the following meeting. And please note that our Board of 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

025as formal written correspondence. So I'd ask the clerk, if he could please read the summary of our correspondence. I can Kate surreal community member post questions related to the award of contract for consultant services. Mark Zulam urge the board to vote no on resolution number 81 dash to four dash to five. Tara Boyce parent shared her expectation for a unanimous vote in support of resolution, 81 dash to four slash to five. That's it. That's it. Right. Thank you. We're gonna move on to our first discussion action items which is the approval of the 2526 budget. Oh sorry. The LCAP. Yes. Sorry. I'm gonna Michelle. Yes. Thank you. Good evening. Tonight we present the second reading of the final draft of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School Districts 2025 local control and accountability plan or LCAP.

026Following the public hearing held at our last board meeting we are pleased to report that no changes were made to the LCAP as a result of the public comments received. There were answers to public questions from the survey that was sent out that is documented on our LVJ USD website that can be found under the LCAP tab. The plan remains aligned with our district's goals and reflects input gathered through a comprehensive stakeholder engagement process conducted throughout the year. The actions and services outlined in the LCAP are strategically designed to support academic achievement, student wellness and equitable access to opportunities for all students. It is the superintendent's recommendation to adopt the final draft of the 2025 local control and accountability plan for Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. Thank you. I have no blue cards on

027this. I know we discussed this at length in the last board meeting but if anyone has any comments or questions before we take a vote otherwise I would entertain a motion. And move in support of superintendent's recommendation to adopt the LCAP. I second. So we have a motion by Trustee Bueno, seconded by Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to please take roll. Trustee Kaplanis? Aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel? Aye. Trustee Bueno? Aye. Myself, aye. President Prusso? Aye. That motion carries unanimously 5-0. Thank you. We'll now move to item 13-2, which is the approval of the 2026 LCAP federal addendum and invite Mr. Matthew Hart to please come forward to present. Good evening Board President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson, members of cabinet, members of the community. My name

028is Matthew Hart. I'm the Director of Assessment and Accountability. I'm here to present the highlight of the night, the approval of the LCAP federal addendum. This is a slightly new one for us. We used to group it with the LCAP. I think the decision was made just to increase clarity as to what exactly is being adopted here to pull it out for a separate discussion and action item. So we just make sure that we know what we're adopting. So I'm going to do my best to explain this. As you know, federal education law comes through the Every Student Succeeds Act or ESSA. And a large part of what that act does is it determines the rules regarding title funds. So we receive, we apply in this district and we receive Title 1, Title 2, Title

0293, Title 4 funds. Last week you approved as a consent item us applying for those title funds for next year. And then what happens with the ESSA is that it gets interpreted by California through what's called the California ESSA State Plan. You can Google this and see the whole document for it. And what this what this does is that essentially is California's plan for interpreting how California will enact the federal law that's outlined in ESSA. So some and that comes through two different ways, largely. Some elements of ESSA are fulfilled through the state priorities that are that are dealt with within the LCAP, which you just approved. However, there are other elements of ESSA that are not present in the LCAP. So we have to fulfill those obligations elsewhere. That would be the federal addendum,

030right? It's an addendum to the LCAP because it covers the parts of ESSA that aren't covered automatically just through covering the LCAP. Reminder that approval of the addendum and the LCAP, because both of those are how we fulfill ESSA, is necessary for us to apply for federal title funding. So what is in it? You have it as part of the board item. But I mean, summary, there's a plan to reduce you have to give a plan to reduce disparities and qualified teachers. We actually don't have that in this district in the way that it defines it. But it's but a description of that is in there. You have to provide strategies for effective family engagement for title one schools specifically. You have to outline services for homeless students. You have to discuss how you coordinate

031transition between school levels like TK to K and eight to high school and high school to post-secondary. You have to discuss effective language instruction programs. Some of that overlaps a little bit with LCAP, but these are specific requirements that aren't dealt with specifically within LCAP. So what exactly do these funds cover? All title just to be clear at the beginning, all title funds are supplemental, right? They cannot take the place of anything that we would have to give as just sort of part of standard education. It has to be like on top of in addition for the groups and the and the topics for which it covers. And those are for title one. Those are intended to support socioeconomically disadvantaged students. For title two, those support professional development for all staff. Title three supports English

032learners and immigrant students. And title four supports what it calls well-rounded education. This is kind of a funny loose one. A lot of technology in that one, for example. I am going to take this moment to say that just we know that title funding right now is like up in the air slightly. So title one has already been apportioned, so that is actually safe. But the question of what exactly is happening with titles two, three and four is just unclear at this point. The continuing resolution, which has passed the House of Representatives and is on its way to the Senate, does things like group title two and four in a way that it hasn't before. And it's unclear exactly how that might be divided out. And as of right now, what we're being told is

033that title three appears to be like unclear to the point of maybe it's absent from it. This would affect us. We use I have professional I have about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of professional development to help support our English learner and emerging bilingual students like planned that I can't sign a contract on right now because we have to be fiscally responsible and make sure that we have the money before we go signing contracts. So certainly just a thing to be aware of where we're certainly watching very closely to find out exactly how we gain clarity on what will happen with those federal title funds, because they mean a lot to our students on the order of the title three, two, three and four, probably close to about a half a million dollars.

034At any rate, the superintendent's recommendation is to approve the LCAP federal addendum. Happy to take questions, although you don't have to ask any to impress me. I'm already impressed by all of you all the time. I'll fill the time slightly. I just took a bite. I didn't know we were just seeing the services for homeless students. You somewhat answered that question that there's some aspects because LCAP covers homeless students. And so to see that here, but you did say that there are certain, I don't know, fine tune aspects that we have to report out. Yeah, exactly. We have to clarify a couple of roles and how we fill roles that are required by us that aren't necessarily outlined in the LCAP. Homeless students are also part of the LCAP as part of a separate accountability

035process from California. That's where some of the overlap can be. They don't have to be in the LCAP. They happen to be in ours because we qualify for like differentiated assistance for the because of achievement levels of our homeless students. So that doesn't have to be. But for us, it is the case that those do overlap just a bit. I share your concern for losing funding, especially when it comes to English learners, our immigrant population. When you talk to your buddies who do the same, your peers, you know, elsewhere in the state or in the country, what are some of the creative ideas that that come up or, you know, solutions? So, for example, we've had communication given to us from like the Region 4 Accountability Network. I know Assistant Superintendent Wassily has also had

036discussions with sort of her peers. In terms of the meetings that I've been, it's mostly about, honestly, there isn't a lot of like solution making necessarily at this point. It's more an attempt to kind of gain clarity on exactly where we are and where we expect to go next. It's hard to come up with an alternate plan for, you know, going on half a million dollars, right? It perversely helps that it's supplemental, right? Because by its nature, it has to be on top of things, right? So this doesn't mean this is like we haven't planned necessary teachers on this. We can't do that anyway. However, our ability to to support, you know, through the supplemental work are like, for example, our emerging bilingual students and our immigrant students, as you said, would be just greatly

037curtailed by this. I would, I would. We'd find other ways to give professional development, maybe utilizing local resources, but I wouldn't be able to sign a contract because I wouldn't have the money. Would something like Lexia be paid for under Title III funds or no? We pay for that separately. I have no other questions. I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the LCAP Federal Eldinam as presented. I'll second. I have a motion by Trustee Vanden Heuvel, seconded by Trustee Capuanis. Is there any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to take roll. Trustee Vanden Heuvel? Aye. Trustee Capuanis? Aye. Myself, aye. Trustee Bueno? Aye. President Prusso? Aye. That motion passes unanimously, 5-0. We're going to keep Matthew Hart there and we're now going to have a discussion only on the

038California Dashboard local indicators. Yes, this doesn't require an action, but we are required to present by law our local indicators for the year. So, just a reminder of what all this is, our California accountability system is based on multiple measures that assess how districts and schools are addressing teaching and learning for all students. And performance on these, our major external accountability system, is the California School Dashboard, right? You all know the Dashboard, certainly. It looks like this. And for the most part, when we look at the Dashboard, we tend to, we think of the speedometers, right, the metrics. However, the local indicators are actually not about the speedometer part of this. It's about the one, the five that say standard met along those, and that's what we'll be presenting and discussing tonight. So, what are

039they? The state's priority areas where data results are not collected, those are the local indicators, basically, right? They're not speedometers because there aren't necessarily numbers attached to them. It's more that we are asked a series of questions and we respond with how we feel that we are fulfilling the law as required. And that's why it's a local indicator, because we say, how are we locally doing what the law requires? So, those are the local indicators. It's about basic conditions. If you're familiar with them, like Williams, it's essentially, it's the same areas as Williams. Access to a broad course of study, which is essentially just how do we help students access various, you know, instruction and curriculum on their way to post-secondary options? How are we implementing the academic standards, like are curriculum instruction, is it

040aligned to what the state requires? Questions about school climate and parent engagement. So, those are the five local indicator areas. As part of the report, what I did for transparency's sake is I just gave you everything that I report to the state word for word, right? I'm not going to test everyone's patience by giving you all of that tonight, but it is there, again, just for transparency's sake. If you were to look on to the state dashboard in November, when the November 15th, when the state says that they're going to formally release the state dashboard, you will see exactly what I've written to you tonight. So, for the local indicators, you have one of three, like, end scores, I guess. Standard met, standard not met, and not met for two or more years. I just

041discussed the exact wording is provided in the report itself. So, for priority one, this is we have met the standard. This is about our, do we have teachers assigned to the subjects and qualified for what they're teaching? Do students have access to materials? And do we have, do we have any identified instances where facilities do not meet the good repair standard? Thankfully, we have an external audit to help us with this. Through the Williams audit every year, they come in, they check. Every single year that I've done this, our facilities inspection has turned up, zero concerns, and every single time we've had zero, I forget what the findings, with the instructional audit as well. The teacher assignment data, years ago, we used to just tell you what that was. It's basically what percentage of your

042students are like, or sorry, our teachers are misassigned, and we used to just tell you what that was. However, now what the state collects that information through CalPADS, and we don't report it to you, the state reports it to us. And so, just a quick reminder, I had to do this earlier this year. In the fall, I'm going to come back to you on this, and I'm going to report to you what the state tells us that one is. And so, it'll be very quick. We haven't messed anything up. It's just a timing thing. We have to do the local indicators tonight, but we don't have, the state requires that, but the state doesn't give us everything that we need to complete the local indicators. So, you know, I'll see you in September or October,

043one or the other. Priority two is about implementation of the academic standards. We are standards met here. We are asked to basically rank ourselves through a reflective rubric scoring in these five areas, and they're all well within the standard met framework. For priority three, this is about parents' engagement. The district does regularly seek input from parents and guardians within the three areas that I outlined there. We have both one-way and two-way communication right now. In other words, we collect survey data, we communicate out, and then there are opportunities for live discussion. Priority six is about school climate. We have met this standard. The district administers two climate surveys, Core SEL twice per year, and the California Healthy Kids Survey every other year. As a reminder, Core SEL is what we implemented this year in order

044to replace Panorama. These provide a valid measure of perceptions of, valid measure of perceptions of school safety and connectedness. Overall, our students do report feeling a sense of belonging and having positive relationships with teachers. That last one especially is part of like our district scoreboard. We do monitor that one very, very closely. Priority seven is access to a broad course of study. We have met the standard. The district annually measures its progress to the extent to which all students have access to all the things that we do for them in our curriculum and instruction, other opportunities to help get them to 12th grade and to a wide range of post-secondary options. So next steps after this presentation. No action is needed after this presentation to the board. The results of the local indicators will be

045provided to the CDE for inclusion on our California school dashboard that will be released, the state says, on November 15th of next year. And yeah, those will be released and that's it. I of course welcome questions though. Thank you. I have no blue cards on this. Any comments or questions for the board? We'll start with Stephen. For the school climate, does the state provide criteria regarding what constitutes an acceptable school climate way of assessing school climate? Could we self-generate our own climate survey or do they have a list of these are acceptable? The answer is sort of yes to all of that. Yeah, I hope you don't quiz me on the particulars. I'm not quite prepared for that. The state has, for example, like it had a list of social emotional surveys that meet what

046it says that you need to do. You can also meet those same requirements through things that you create locally. But we couldn't just create, do you like school? Yes, no, and that would pass the muster of school climate by the state. I mean, I'm not suggesting that. I'm just trying to understand the, you know, because like, you know, we pay for core, we paid for pay for panoramas. So, but they do have requirements for constructing that self assessment. Yeah, there are broad categories that you have to touch on within the social emotional survey. Okay. The particulars of that are not specifically outlined. So how you do that is sort of up to you. By the way, core SEL is actually included with our purchase of DNA, which you agreed to as a consent item last

047week. Thank you. Yeah, can I ask you to to explain or go back to the zero concerns about facilities in light of what we heard about junctions in the last couple of months? There's zero concerns because we've meet all the safety, but maybe, you know, parents and teachers and students are not super, you know, satisfied perhaps with the, but we meet the standard. Is that Yeah, we do. So I would, I would think of this in two ways. So one is we have an Alameda County will provide an external audit. But, but Alameda County is not going to examine every single school, right? If you're, if your school qualifies that we have 18 schools, right? And there are more like Alameda is not doesn't really have the capacity to audit every single school within its

048entire county. So what they do is they look for schools that meet certain qualifications. So we, for example, have had, you know, we've had Livermore and Granada meet those qualifications going back for as long as I've been in this position. And so we've had audits of those two schools and what that what the Alameda County would argue in the state that that supplies the law that they are fulfilling is those are representative of like those are indicators of the health of the rest of the district. However, part of Williams law also is that that's, for example, why we have the Williams uniform complaint procedure, right? So it's also that if, if, for example, imagine we have a district, definitely not ours, but a district somewhere where the schools that are audited meet the inspection. However,

049maybe this other school doesn't. Well, then that's why we have the uniforms complaint procedure in place and why we have the exact wording of that that has to be in every single classroom and in every single office in this district, which is also, by the way, part of the Williams audit so that the public has the ability to fill in where potentially a county audit would not hit. And I think the state's idea is that through these two methods, we will help ensure the efficacy of the of the of the prescribed legal requirements of Williams. I have a question. What measurable outcomes are we expecting to see as a result of the strategies outlined in your presentation? Strategies in particular? Which strategies in particular? Oh, which strategies in particular? Well, let's start with the facilities

050one. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I think what we want is what we've been getting every year, which is we want what the law requires. Which is facilities that are safe for our students. Right. The Williams. That's I guess I won't dive into this too much, but it's an interesting history behind the Williams Act and Williams audits, which is it started in Oakland. And there was a group of students and their families that sued the school district. And out of that, out of the court cases involving that came our Williams rules. Right. And every large part of my August and July actually is meeting the requirements of what we have to report to the county. So that we can fulfill the law requiring requiring Williams. And that's that we have buildings that are safe for our

051students. And I think our our measurable outcome is like zero findings on every audit that we have in terms of both instructional materials and facilities. Thank you, Chris. Thank you. I just had one question. Well, kind of given that, like all of our indicators have been met. Do you do you feel like there is? A or what would be the greatest urgency for continued improvement in it? Obviously, like they're met, but we'd like to continue to improve out of those indicators. What do you think? Yeah, I'm part of the curriculum department. So maybe my bias leans in that direction. We have adopted a new middle school ELD curriculum. That is one of the points that we reflect on within the priority to rubric. And so I think we're looking at that. I think that next

052year, depending on how middle school goal goes, will give us an opportunity to look at high school. Certainly, I think certainly social studies is on our minds because of the adoption two years ago that we haven't quite been able to implement. Math has released a new framework. So while we meet the standards clearly of those of those sections, I think in terms of going from good to great or from, you know, standard met to our own personal, like giving everybody the best that we can offer, I would say we look at curricular adoptions. Thank you. No other questions or comments. Thank you. You're excused. Hey, we're gonna move on to 13.4, which is the adoption of the 2526 budget. Once again, this item was discussed at last board meeting last week, and that we had

053a public hearing. But we'll go ahead and present and then we'll have a motion. Yes, good evening. Tonight we are presenting the second reading of the 2526 proposed budget following the public hearing held at our last board meeting. There were no changes made to the proposed budget at this time. The legislator has passed their budget bill and they're now in negotiations with Governor Newsom for the final state budget, which we will expect to happen in the next week or so. Following this, we will have the 45 day revision that will be presented to the board in August with any substantial changes that occurred as a result of the state budget. With that, it is the superintendent's recommendation to adopt the district's 2526 budget as presented. Thank you. I have no blue cards. Any questions or

054comments? Okay, start with you, Trustee Boyno. Just just to clarify, seem like we've gotten some comments, public comments relative to disparities and stuff. If you could shed some light on clarifying that if there's, if there's something built in or if there's something that's problematic, I won't say problematic. If there's been a substantive change, you know, that is, it's creating a greater disparity. There's obviously a disparity between someone who runs an organization in terms of wages and someone who's entry level. But if the compaction has changed, is there any change in the compaction? In terms of the management, the cost of management versus the cost of other. I was kind of looking through the way we code things, and I do want to do some comparisons with other districts as part of our budget committee work,

055because we do have a few positions that are on the CMC salary schedule that I don't know if necessarily should be categorized as management in our accounting system, such as our program specialists, athletic, athletic trainers, our occupational therapists, division specialists, some of our EAs, and communications department as well. So I do believe some of those positions that aren't necessarily management positions, but because they're on the CMC salary schedule have been coded as management could be skewing that data depending on how other districts code similar types of positions. So it could be part of how we are coding things because there's general guidelines that we have in the state of California of where to code things, but there's nothing that is really truly concrete that anybody really honestly checks as appropriate all the time for being

056coded the way it is to certain object codes, which kind of tells the system if it's management or not management. Okay. Nice job on the presentation before it. Would it be possible to supply the board clarity, because we can play back the tape, just so we can go back and it gives you a chance to actually look at some things you can look at whatever was spoken verbally and look at it and maybe clarify it, not this protocol, but just so we can see that, like the people saying, you know, some of these positions going from director to this, the some of the statements that were made, if it was be able to play it back and be it not today. But when you're back and be able to look at those and just clarify

057that for me as a board member to see if there's if those are true disparities or if it's going to make sure that they're if it's accurate, that's all. So I think you're asking so one of the things that was part of the December board meeting was the elimination so one statement is that we have an additional assistant superintendent well we also had an elimination of multiple positions that was a cost savings of right if I remember I'm just going to give an estimation of $350,000 cost savings. So that was all part of a package piece that led into this. So based on item number. Sorry I just messed that up. Based on item 13.6. I didn't just move all that around hold on I have to turn off my button here. Based on item

05813.6. Oops, I just moved it LMA classified salary schedule. Yes. Those numbers are absolutely correct that are in here that it is it is a $2,000 increase for this change, and it really has to do with that person purchasing director job job change. Correct. So the other position is a new position but that was the elimination of a certificated coordinator, which I didn't update on that title sorry for that error, and we went ahead and fix that but that dollar amount of cost savings to the LP LP budget is correct of 21,000 plus some change. Yeah, if there's any additional clarification that's needed or questions they have I'd be happy to answer this. Yeah. It just kind of like I don't want to say it's an overrider but just kind of a recurring theme has

059been the leadership of some of the groups has come forward. And, you know, I don't want to say alleged but they're making comments about numbers and it's hard sitting here to be able to comprehend it I mean I can listen to it and I can actually understand but I want to have a fuller understanding. So I'm just saying with the, with the opportunity of reflection. What I'd be requesting as a board member is that you guys as a staff could look at that. And if it's, I'd like to be able to look at it fully, as opposed to just numbers presented to me with no background, and you have the ability to look into the background of it and just give me the backs, the back history of it, you know looking at it with

060reflection. That's what I would like to see. I just have a quick question just for clarification so do for the budget do we build in any one time funds into our 3% reserve. So the way that reserve reserve percentage is calculated in a school district as we take our total ending fund unrestricted balance divided that by our total expenditures including restricted funds, including any transfers out of the general fund and then what is our reserve percentage and that includes the required 3% reserve. So in the event that we either have new one time funds or carry over one time funds and we budgeted those as expenditures that would increase our 3% reserve amount that we have to set aside in our in our ending fund balance. Okay, and then one more question, how long would

061our 3% reserve last, if we had to use it. Approximately two weeks but not even an entire month of payroll. So, about two weeks as a district. Thank you. If there are no other questions or comments I would entertain a motion. President Bruce I moved to support the superintendent's recommendation to adopt the district's 2025 2026 budget as presented. I second. We have a motion by trustee drew and seconded by trustee Kaplan is any discussion on the motion. I'd ask for a clerk to take role. Myself, I trustee bueno. Trustee Kaplan is I trustee Vanden Heuvel, I present Pruso. I that motion carries unanimously five zero will stay with Miss Kayla Leslie and she will present to us the major a citizens oversight committee. This is the annual report, and it is a discussion item only.

062Yes, that is correct. I would like to welcome Janelle Harris who was our 2425 parcel tax chair to present their third annual parcel tax report on behalf of the parcel tax committee. And before I hand it over to Janelle and while she gets settled I just want to thank Janelle as well as the rest of the parcel tax committee for their dedication and volunteering to be on the committee and their hard work and creating this year's report. Yep, you'll push the button, and then you have the clicker, and you have the clicker to go through your presentation. Thank you. My name is Janelle Harris, pardon me I'm recovering from a respiratory infection so my voice is a little scratchy, but do the best that I can. Maybe if you could just get a little bit

063closer to the. Okay, that's better. Thank you. So this is my, the second year of my two year term on the parcel tax last year I presented as co chair this year I'm the chair. This is our third annual report of measure a, and I'm just gonna go to some basic facts about measure a that I think are notable measure a is a relatively small portion of the district's budget, although proportionally, it will increase. For example, we see the federal cuts that may happen. It is still notable in that it is direct support from our local community, the parcel tax and the bonds measure a and measure j are actually, you know, a vote by our local community to support our district. If you look at my slide it's notable that measure a was approved

064on May 3 2022 by 67.31% of voters, which was less than 1% above the threshold required to pass. So, we cannot take this support for granted is what I would say. And as we, again, this is a relatively small percent of the district's budget, but what we were repeatedly told by people in the district is that this allows our district to go above and beyond. When it comes to stem and provide things that would not otherwise be available in say other districts. Now measure a has an accountability provisions section, and it is pursuant to these provisions that the oversight committee exists. The oversight committee is very similar in the way that it's set up to the bond oversight committee. There's also an independent annual audit requirement. This year our oversight committee had seven members who

065are listed here. The mandate of the committee which is set by measure a is to ensure that all measures raised by the parcel tax are spent wisely, and only for the purposes named in measure a. And I've listed the purposes on the slide there. They're also in the report, obviously. And so now what I'm going to do is there have been some notable changes to the committee this year. Like I said, this is the second year of my two year term. And there's been some interesting and exciting changes. And a lot of this came about from discussions that the committee had last year, and some issues that were identified by the committee. The first change is the transition from current to prior fiscal year reporting for reasons that to be honest, no one on the

066current committee is aware of. We were reporting mid fiscal year in the past. So if you look at the report, which I helped prepare last year, we had basically, you know, expenditures and budgeting data as of mid May, when the fiscal year ends at the end of June. And so this is an awkward situation. And the committee identified this issue and recommended that the committee transition to prior fiscal year reporting, so that we were looking at a complete fiscal year's worth of data. And so this year our report is a little different. We're kind of playing catch up. So we are trying to provide complete data on FY 2023 to 2024, so that next year the committee can look at this year's data with complete data. Another change that's happened with committee this year is

067the adoption of resolution number 026-2425. So one thing that the committee flagged last year is that if you look at the accountability provisions, it says that the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee will be governed by a resolution adopted by the Board of Education. Last year I asked, where is this resolution? Is there a resolution? And it turns out that there was no Parcel Tax Committee resolution. And so thanks to Kayla, that was remedied this year. There is now a Board of Education resolution that authorizes the operation of the Parcel Tax Committee. Another issue that was flagged last year and resolved this year is clarity on the independent annual audit requirement. Again, if you'll look at the first slide, the accountability provisions for Measure A require an independent annual audit. And the committee last year said, where's

068the audit? Is it in the general audit? Is there another audit? And we were told that maybe an audit wasn't required. So this year we asked for further clarification and the district has said that they will be now doing an independent annual audit of the parcel tax. So we really appreciate that. We think that's a really important accountability and transparency mechanism. And then the final change this year that's notable is that the committee had sort of gotten into a mode of revising the prior year's report. And so last year we started to move away from that and actually look more closely at the language of Measure A. What does Measure A say, you know, and use it kind of as the Bible as we like to say. And so this year, in part because we

069were playing catch up, we had even more time to look into how Measure A funds are used. And so I've included on this slide, pardon me, on this slide, some people that we wanted to thank. And if you look at the people that we thanked in the last report versus this report, there are way more people. It's more than three times as many people. And they also represent all different aspects of our district community. We talked to teachers, we talked to Amy from Livermore Education Association, we talked to principals. And so we went beyond just doing form questionnaires and talking to district admin and actually talk to a much broader swath of the district. And we really appreciate Kayla's help in coordinating that. So I just wanted to do some Measure A highlights from this

070report. First of all is the table that you see on the slide where we have updated expenditures by category for the entire fiscal year 2023 to 2024. So you can see the complete data there. Another highlight is that, you know, the largest category of spending from parcel tax revenues is on elementary science specialists. And if you don't know what these teachers do and how elementary science instruction occurs in our district, it's actually really cool. And one of our committee members went and he actually sat in a classroom, he sat in on a meeting with the elementary science specialist, and he provides a lot of detail about how elementary students in our district actually learn. We also had committee members who interviewed two high school STEM teachers. This is another major way in which parcel tax

071revenues are used in our district. And so you can actually read the report and learn about what two high school STEM teachers, one at each of the high schools do, what courses they teach, how they approach their students, what kind of students benefit from parcel tax funded course offerings. And so that's something that we haven't done, at least in reports that I've seen. We also have more examples of what kind of technology and supplies expenditures take place. And I think you'll find that interesting. One of the most interesting things we learned about was their use in biological specimens in the high school, where it's held like shark specimens, for example, for dissection are funded through parcel tax funds. And then, finally, we provided more details on school maintenance expenditures, and I would actually given the

072prior discussion refer the committee to footnote seven on page 22 of the personal tax, which is in the school maintenance section, which I actually happened to draft because the California State Auditor actually released a report in November 2024 discussing the issues that Mr. Hart just raised about Williams, about what the audit process looks like. And the state auditor actually had some concerns and made some recommendations. So if you're interested in Williams, I would strongly recommend checking out that report. Okay, in conclusion, you can see our conclusion here, we affirmed our conclusion last year that funds were spent wisely and we take a very narrow view of what wisely means we're not a mini school board we're not here to replace you. We're not second guessing basic pedagogical decisions. It's more, you know, were they properly

073accounted for where they budgeted. And then we also found that they were used for the named purposes. We're really grateful to everyone who assisted the committee. As I showed that list before we had a lot of people who agreed to talk to us and provide information, and we're extremely grateful for it. And then finally I just like to say I think citizen committees play a very important role in this district. Sometimes I think they're seen to be frank as perfunctory, and just as rubber stamps or booster ism, and given, you know the small margin by which this measure passed and the fact that the last bond failed. I think meaningful accountability transparency and engagement is very very critical, and I'm very proud of the people that I served with on the parcel tax committee. I

074think they took their job very seriously. I think this is a very meaningful avenue for two way engagement which often doesn't happen in this district. Otherwise, so I just like to encourage you know the board to really take advantage of your resources and knowledge in the community. Through the personal tax committee but also I think as many committees frankly, as you can have and as many opportunities for really meaningful citizen engagement. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. I have no blue cards comments from the board. Start with. I just want to express my sincere gratitude for all of the work, and I wrote down authentic engagements that your process for being clear and clear and transparent but kind of like eyes wide open what is our goal here, and how are we going

075to effectively achieve And your phrasing of meaningful accountability I think is better than mine of authentic engagement but I think that that is what you did, and I think that you know I appreciate the efforts and, you know, reporting out to the community that those dollars were spent wisely because you know they're public funds so thank you to thank you to you for your leadership as well as everyone on the committee. Thank you I really appreciate that and I've always emphasized the committee's job we're an independent oversight committee, our job is not booster ism. But what we tried to do this year is, you know, people can scan a set of numbers and their eyes glaze over. We wanted people to actually under we think the best way you know it's frankly to help the

076district is by being independent by being transparent but actually letting people understand in a comprehensible way. What difference this money is making how it's being used and that's what the committee really tried to do this year to go beyond the figures to actually provide texture and richness and to what the impact of this, these funds are. I just want to second Can I second what trustee drew in sets, I second that. No, I would, I would actually love to know more you, you're the way of presenting and everything and your whole presentation is just super interesting and thank you so much for working on this, there's a lot of hard work that went into creating something this of this quality so thank you. I do want to extend my appreciation you and the balance of

077the committee. I believe this is the longest standing recurring extra source of funding that the district has it goes back multiple five year renditions and the current seven year, the cornerstone of the public's faith is in the oversight. It's extremely important that we maintain that you were able to catch a couple of things and and re implement. I know that the external audit used to be part of it, but maybe in transitions and things I don't know fell away so it's, this is the exact why you have citizens oversight on these bond measures and parcel taxes is so that you have an extra set of eyes on things and you can maintain the public's trust. That was the number one concern when we pulled measure G in 2014 was, is the money going to, you

078know, just disappear is it going to be spent properly. And so to me the key component to this beyond reiterating and reinforcing public trust is the fact that the money is spent accurately, and it is being spent exactly what it's intended for. And there's independent oversight and eyes upon it to say that. So I really appreciate you guys. Thank you. I do also want to thank you for your work and your time that you've spent in working towards this and your presentation as well. I just wanted to comment back to during my site visits throughout the school year I visited at the junction science class I got to see them in action and to see these funds. What they really do the students were engaged, the teacher was excited to share with me their projects

079took me into their lab and all of it and so that's just my feedback to what the work you guys do and how we use the funds appropriately. Thank you. Thank you. It was fantastic. I'm actually the parent of a first grader at Jackson, I didn't mention that and so for me it was really fun to read. work on that, because I learned more about how my son's science instruction works and I've seen him bring home the twig workbooks and I had a vague idea but it was actually really rewarding for me to to learn those details and it made me, it made me value the parcel tax more to be honest. Well thank you I want to sincerely thank you and the major committee for all your hard work and your diligence. I love

080that you guys didn't take things at face value you dug into the fine print, and you asked tough questions. And you ultimately helped uncover some things that we needed to be doing that we weren't. So I appreciate your thoughtful scrutiny and and the, and the process changes that are happening. So thank you so much for coming to present. All right, thank you very much and I just want to say in conclusion we really appreciate Kayla and Lynn's help in particular and also Doug, but I worked most directly with Lynn and Kayla and it was very helpful. Kayla was very open to things like looking again into the independent annual audit and made sure that a board resolution happened which were questions that were raised last year but resolved this year so we really are appreciative

081for that help. Thank you. Thank you very much. Happy June of July. Thank you. Okay. All right, our next item is 13.6. The approval of the revised Leadership Management Association classified structure, and Dr. Sorry, Dr. Torrey Gibson will be presenting that the following LMA Livermore Management Association classified job descriptions and salary schedule have been updated to better align job titles and salary structures with comparable positions in neighboring districts. These updates reflect the leadership structuring plan that was presented and discussed in fall of 2024, and a part of the 2425 budget reductions The impact of the general fund in the classification of the purchasing manager to director one purchasing the change had an initial cost of $6,564 in December of 2024, and will now result in an ongoing annual cost of $2,425. As our expanded learning

082opportunities program, we refer to it often as ELOP because we love acronyms and education so we just continue to add them continues to grow. We require a dedicated position to oversee daily operations, ELOP funds are restricted, and may only be used to support ELOP related staffing and programming. As part of the management restructuring the elimination of the Certificated Director, which is actually a Certificated Coordinator position, results in an ongoing cost savings of $21,577 to the ELOP restricted fund. The following job description changes will take place to align with the reorganization of the LMA classified salary schedule. Rename current director to director three for the following, bond program, child nutrition, fiscal services, maintenance operations and facilities. Change of job title from coordinator of community engagement to director two communications and engagement. Change of job title from

083purchasing manager to director one purchasing creation of new job description for director one. Sorry creation of new job description for director one expanded learning program. The following changes will take place on the LMA salary schedule classified to align with updated job descriptions. Rename the current director to director three, no fiscal impact, you can see that on the salary schedule and on the salary schedule appendix for details. Add job classes, director one, this new to replace category four, and restructure classification management with an annual cost increase of $2,425 to the general fund and an annual savings of $21,577 to the ELOP restricted funds. Director two replaces the current coordinator, 11, no fiscal impact. We are requesting that we remove assistant director, which is currently vacant, classified administrator, currently vacant coordinator, eliminate and move to director two

084title change with no fiscal impact, and the senior inspector would be a removal and that is the currently vacant. At this time, is my recommendation, I was gonna say the superintendent that's me. That is my recommendation to approve the revised LMA classified structure job description and updated salary schedule as presented. I have no blue cards. Any comments. Yep, Stephen. Do you want to go first. Go for it. Just small clarifier. Sure. It looks like there's a shift. So we're saving in ELOP 21,000 and change and costing the general fund 2400 and change. You just explain like that methodology, like that it's like why are we shifting on that shift and does that net out at like 18,000 or something savings. Overall, it does with their two completely different funding sources of course. It was all

085presented as part of the package earlier on in the school year and so it was something that that we just needed to follow up on. But the intent of all this is to standardize. Correct. And you're going to director one twos and threes, some people may have been miscategorized it's not a change necessarily and anyone's workload or anything like that. Correct. Absolutely not. The job descriptions will show that they're all except for the one new job description that they are all mostly title changes. So mine's kind of an expansive question, because we. You're almost at the end of your first year. I know it's hard to believe, but reorganization of the district office and kind of turning all the stones was kind of one of the challenges that he said to you and you said

086for yourself so I'm kind of curious. How does this fit into that broader reorganization. Are we almost done or recognizing that the district evolves and you're looking at things all the time but I'm just kind of curious about, you know, flagstones about how far we are along, you know, kind of your vision for reorg. I think this will, the last piece we will have is we do need to get the certificated salary schedule. So we have classified management and we have certificated management. They sit on different salary schedules they have different types of reporting to They have different vacation days, all the functions, we will need to bring forward the change to get us on to a director 1234 certificated as well. But because of the differences in vacation we just paused on that one

087and we needed to bring this forward specifically because the new job description and two of the positions that were the promises were made to them honestly about a title change prior to me even being hired. And that was brought to my attention about week to when I got here and at that point in time, you know, it just wasn't feasible. So I think once we get through the director certificated update then we should be completely done with that restructuring. That being said, I will leave one caveat that it's always subject to change based on the budget. Right. I mean, as we continue to look, I mean, we cut two executive directors, we cut a classified manager. I think there's something else, a coordinator position and something else. Is that it? Anyways, we could go back

088and rehash all of this year for all of those pieces. But, you know, as the budget continues to shift and the federal government, I mean, we just don't know. But I think for the structure piece, I think we are in really good shape. So this is more of an organizational piece. This isn't the intent or the actual result is not to change compensation for people. It's simply the funding source. That is correct. And then standardizing the structure within the district. That is correct. Okay. Thank you. I didn't really have a, I think I have a little bit of a question and that is, I'm assuming I just didn't have the details that the director one, the two and the three levels have similar oversight, have similar staff size. Is that how you determine what? Yes,

089it's based on responsibility. Okay, yes, that is a great question. So director threes are current directors who sit in a space that they oversee an entire department. So it, sorry, not it. He's the only one that isn't a director. Sorry, I keep I always keep thinking his title is director, but it is not mof is a perfect example. So he oversees the entire department, very different than, you know, a two or three. And we have these other positions that we don't even have positions. Sitting in them, but at least if we ever wanted to build that out, shrink it down, maybe collapse two positions that cost more and put it into another space, we would have that option. Okay. Any other questions or comments? If not, I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion

090to approve the revised LMA classified structure job descriptions and updated salary schedule as presented. I second. I have a motion by trustee Vanden Heuvel, seconded by trustee Kaplanis. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to take roll. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Myself. Aye. Trustee Bueno. Aye. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. President Prusso. Aye. That motion carries unanimously five zero. Moving on to 13.7. This is the extension of the superintendent employment agreement. We'll, we'll be discussing and may take and we'll take action to extend the superintendent's employment agreement by one year based upon the results of her final performance evaluation. As you know, the board has completed its annual evaluation of our superintendent and I am pleased to report that it was a positive review. Dr. Gibson continues to demonstrate strong leadership, a commitment to student

091success, and effective collaboration with staff, families, and the broader community. Based on this positive evaluation, it is my recommendation that the board take action this evening to extend the superintendent's employment agreement by one year in alignment with the terms outlined in her contract. And I, I don't have any blue cards, but if there's any comments or questions regarding this, now's the time to state. Otherwise, I would entertain a motion. I move to support the president of our governing board's recommendation to extend the superintendent's employment agreement. Second. So we have a motion by trustee Kaplanis and seconded by trustee Druin. Any discussion on the motion. I ask trustee Druin to take roll. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. Myself aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Trustee Bueno. Aye. President Prusso. Aye. That motion carries unanimously 5-0. Thank you. Now on

092to 13.8. This is the district strategic plan initiative. We're going to let Dr. Troy present that to us. I think this is one of the most exciting things that we achieved this year. It is not a small thing to do to bring 180 people together. It ended up being 178. But in March, district leadership collaborated with 178 educational partners, including certificated and classified staff, students, parents, and general community members who honestly do not even have students in our district any longer to develop a new five-year strategic plan. The plan is designed to guide and align district-wide efforts toward academic excellence, student and staff well-being, inclusive practices, and the responsible use of public resources. Rooted in the voices of students, families, staff, and the community partners, the strategic plan outlines a bold vision for improving student

093outcomes and organizational effectiveness through strong meaningful connections. The document shown that's attached here is the result of two full days of intensive engagement with all educational partners, which is the 178, along with input from district staff and leadership teams from our bargaining units. Once the strategic initiatives were identified, feedback loops were established to ensure all voices were presented, meaning that we did the two days with the 178. We took a break for a day, then we had two days with about 24 of us actually in this room where we took all of the feedback from the 178, created the initiatives that are in the document. We sent those back out for feedback from the 178, which was really fantastic feedback. A word here, a word there, making sure that the intent was there. And based

094on that, we ended up here with this document. This document is the culmination of that collaborative process. We're not done yet, though. The next phase involves district and bargaining unit partners developing specific action items for each initiative. So as you see the initiative, that is just the overarching, I'm not even gonna call it the 30,000 foot view. The 30,000 foot view in my mind are the priorities, which are academic achievement, student wellness and safety, communications and engagement, leadership development and employee success, and fiscal and facility resources. As you pull down from the 30,000 foot view, you're going to have the 15,000 foot view, which are then the initiatives that are listed under each of those. Then from there, the next phase involves district, like I said, the bargaining unit leadership teams, these action items will

095be tracked over the five year period from 2025 to 2030 with progress monitored monthly and evidence of completion documented throughout the timeline. Grounded in the core values of integrity, innovation, collaboration and inclusion, the plan identifies the five focus areas that I already mentioned. Together these initiatives form a comprehensive roadmap to strengthen the system and relationships that support student learning and overall district progress. It is my recommendation to approve the district strategic plan initiatives for 2025 through 2030. I have no blue cards, any comments or questions. So I think hearing about strategic plans are only good if you follow them and you pay attention to them. I don't know if living document is the right kind of way of thinking about this, but how do you see this ingraining itself in things like LCAP and the

096superintendent evaluation or other aspects of it? Because again, it's my mind that if this is if this is the goal that we run to, then everybody needs to be running towards those goals. I'm just kind of curious about your thoughts about how and you kind of address that to some extent. But how does this become ingrained in everyone's collective goodness? That's a great question. So when you look at the five areas, they are really outlined. Hold on, I have to, sorry, my computer went to the next item already. If you really look at the five items, those are really designed around individual departments. So academic achievement obviously is special ed and gen ed. We actually have two parts to that one because we wanted to specifically call out special education. Although the initiatives are similar,

097the action items will look different for both of those. What will happen is those departments will sit down with their teams over the summer and they will identify specific action items. Once they have those created, we will then create a tracker. And in the tracker, each individual timeline and I'll be able to provide this to the board in the fall. Once it's ready and we can provide you an electronic copy and people can view it at any time that they would like to. Each individual action item will be labeled with a timeline anywhere from twenty twenty five to twenty thirty. Some action items have to happen before others could can happen. So we'll identify them kind of in span of time spans, if you will, so that we will know then and then we'll track

098those. Some things are very easy to check off a to do list. Some are going to be ongoing all the way from twenty twenty five all the way through twenty thirty and beyond as we then go back in twenty thirty and in March of twenty thirty and redo the process. But we will have an electronic document with evidence, linked evidence, the beauty of technology to show any and all documents as we create things, as we track them and as we see. So this one hundred percent will be a living, breathing document. We will have a monthly meeting with leadership teams to check to do progress monitoring with our staff at all levels who participate, including principals. Our cabinet team has a strong commitment that anything that we're doing. The question is, how does this fit

099into the strategic plan? Ninety nine percent of what we do in the next five years fits somewhere here, or we have to question, is it something that is really needing our attention? If it's not, then did we miss something in the plan and do we need to add it in? If not, then is it something that we really need to focus on? So we will continue to have those conversations. Once those action items are created for each of the five areas, we will then want to make sure that our bargaining partners have a chance to review those. They were a big part of helping us create these initiatives, and we want to make sure that everything that they voiced. I know there's a couple of specific areas in here that they are really wanting to

100hone in on, and I want to make sure that as we move forward into the fall, that all of those items are listed as well. We will also loop them into our regular monthly meetings so that they can also see and work with us on progress monitoring, because some of the items we will ask for their help and collaboration as we create things and move forward. And then lastly, how do we communicate this to the public that this is this is where we're going, you know, does this go on the website? Is this do we create posters or t shirts or all of the above? Yes, so we will kick off kick off actually at Livermore High School on the 10th, 11th, whatever that day that Monday is in August, the 11th, we will kick

101off that day with our entire staff present where we will walk them through the initiatives. This will become everything we do, it will be posted everywhere. We will be discussing it at every principals meeting. When they're going through training, we will identify things as we dig more into this and we really get the action items. What I would love to have happen over time is in board agenda items as you're approving certain things that fit into here, we actually say this supports strategic plan initiative, whatever the number is action item, whatever that number is and then we can detail it out just for tracking purposes so that the board can also see that the things that you're approving align with the strategic plan. Now not everything is going to do that like our next item

102really doesn't fit into here, although it is a compliance issue that we have not done in the past the resolution that's coming up. So some of that is the policy work about aligning and making sure our policies are up to date. So anytime as we start going, it'll take us a few meetings to get into that repetition and used to reporting that out to the board, but I do think it's important that you can see that everything that we're doing that we're bringing to you are things that are part of everyday life in the strategic plan. I have a question. And I think, trust you drew in question. I was hoping that that would give me the answer but I'm not quite sure how, why this is a an item on which we're going to

103be voting if this is a guiding document that helps set priorities and help know where to spend resources, instead of a contract of some sort. That's a great question. It's not required for the board to approve, but it's something that I feel as a governance team that I wanted to make sure that you know we move forward with the same voice. I know everybody participated in this so it's just customary that that would be done. And since we keep cycling through unprecedented times, you're looking out five years, going you know we can do this. Yeah, is, do you, you know, do you have good track record of using five year plans because little more hasn't done great in that we haven't really stuck to something for this amount of time. Yeah, I think the beauty

104of this plan is, it is to be, and it sounds kind of corny, but this really becomes kind of that North Star. It really does become. This is where we're going and especially once we get the action items in there and we provide the timeframe the bands, then, and the, and it's really nice actually too because they're all compacted into five years that makes sense on a calendar schedule they're not awkward years by the way. So in third in 2030 we'll do it again for 2030 through 2035, and then hopefully once we do it a couple times it just becomes part of what we do because it then becomes the expectation. to sit through this and look at this. And my hope is that they find where they fit into this plan that's really the

105goal is that everybody knows where they fit and how they can contribute. Love that and I love corny so that's good. I like North Star. Yeah. So I love, I love having a plan. It's I think it's, it's, it's wise and it's prudent. I know as we're going through this, I had voiced a concern relative to the board sets policy. It's one of our only obligations as an elected member we're here to be eyes and ears. We have one employee, the superintendent, and we set policy by doing this I just want to make it have it clarified. This does not tie this board or the next version of the board's hands, relative to policy there's not going to be a hard line to. Well, if you want to do that, what aren't we going to

106do that won't be the reply. This is simply a guiding principle that we're able to each year when we set goals, we look at this as a board. And if in the board's opinion at that time. Well, we'd like to drop this off. And Mr. Ben who will mentioned you know things change until November of what 23. No one even knew what I was except maybe Altman or someone I mean a couple guys in a think tank. But that's completely changed education, and I would imagine there'll be a couple more things that come along like that. But just clarifying. This is simply a guiding principle, not a contract, not something that we're strictly to adhere to, but a guiding principle for the district. That is correct. Okay. Thank you. I was able to attend the,

107the planning for this, the two day, right today that we're here actually the other day, you came at the last. It was really great. I, it was so great to see the community room at the community center full filled with so many people from the community who really put a lot of effort into this and it really is just what our community wants. And I think that that's one of the greatest things about it. With that I would entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the district strategic plan initiatives for 25 through 2030. Second. So I have a motion by trustee Vanden Heuvel, seconded by trustee drew in any discussion of the motion. Ask trustee join the take roll trustee Kaplanis. Myself I trustee Vanden Heuvel. Hi, trustee boy no. President Pruso. That

108motion carries unanimously. We'll continue with Dr Gibson and move on to resolution number 72 authorizing the superintendent to hire staff during the summer summer months. Resolution for school districts, as we often experience a high volume of staff transition and hiring needs in preparation for the upcoming school year in many cases the hiring process must proceed quickly to secure qualified candidates and ensure appropriate staffing levels. By the first day of school as a result is customary to allow the superintendent to hire staff throughout the summer months as delays can result in the last qualified and highly qualified candidates authorizing the superintendent to make hiring decisions during this period ensures that LBJ USD remains responsive and able to move quickly when top candidates are identified. The proposed resolution authorizes superintendent to make employment decisions during the summer

109period between June 18 to August 11 of 2025 all employment actions taken under this authority will be reported to the board and it's next regularly scheduled meeting in August. It's my recommendation to approve resolution number 072 dash 24 slash 25 authorizing the superintendent to hire staff during summer months. I have no blue cards, questions or comments. Okay. Do you know how's one will go with you in a first. I just had a question. What type of hiring do you foresee during the summer. Well, we know for sure we're going to need TK AIDS and probably some TK teachers as soon as we were hopeful. As well as they are hopeful that by next week, the state budget will be out and we will know exactly what that looks like. So it's traditionally AIDS classified staff

110at all at various classifications as well as teachers. My question is definitely not one of lack of, of trust or whatever but what what do we do if we when we come back we have an issue with one of your decision hiring decisions and comes back to the board and we find out that, you know, I don't know. How does that work. Is there. There was any position I would say that was above a teacher any type of management position, I would probably call a special board meeting during the summer and requested the book that we meet even if it's just a higher one or two people. If it's any anybody above a teacher level position. Great. Yeah, thank you. I would never take that authority on my own. And that was the question I

111had in the resolution 72. It talks about administrative personnel. So it's this is simply. This is the hiring window so schools out, you're going to bring in teachers coaches things like that for the upcoming year. But anything above that. Correct. Then in terms of rank. Correct. You'd call for meeting. Yes, to eliminate the concern. Correct. Do we need to amend the reso, or do we just have to. It's up to you we can definitely amend it, whatever you're comfortable doing. I'm okay as long as that's going to be the practice. It's on the record too so yeah no I would never want to hire anybody. Plus if we had an administration change I would want the board to be aware of that any ways of participate in the hiring of such a boy. So I

112know that you are not you, several people were on a hiring committee for the assistant superintendent of human resources, so that hasn't happened. So I wonder if you could talk about that will that contract happen while we're in recess or how do you. That's a great question so on the personnel recommendations list. Her name is listed there, because it was late Friday that we made that offer, we were not able to get that contract resolved. So, under, I was going to talk about it during consent but we can we can talk about it now it's completely fine. So during that for that particular higher. We put it on the personnel recommendation, the board to approve her to start July one and it's noted in there that she will be that her contract will be brought

113to the board August 12 for ratification by the board. No other comments or questions I would entertain emotion. Really quickly and the reason for that is because her contracts can't be approved at a special board meeting. It's the, it's the, the readout. scheduled because the executives have the readout cause that is correct for their initial. Yes, the readout clause for the initial. Okay. President Bruce I move to support this superintendents recommendation to approve resolution number seven to dash to four slash to five authorizing the superintendent to hire staff during the summer months. So I have a motion by trustee drew and seconded by trustee Kaplan is any discussion on the motion. That somebody that we're not on the, on the motion that we're not requesting the amended resolution because we, we've clarified in the record.

114I'd ask the clerk to take roll trustee Bueno. I myself I trustee Vanden Heuvel, I trustee Kaplan is present Prusa. I that motion carries unanimously five zero. Now we'll go to 13.10 to Miss Kayla was they for present presenting them. Yes, we are presenting a resolution for the delegation of authority to award specific consultant services contracts for facility master plan update and a district wide kitchen assessment. This resolution is to allow the district to move forward with these projects during the summer months as they have significant time sensitive time sensitivity, due to project timelines. The contracts will then be presented to our board of trustees for ratification at the next regular board meeting. The estimated cost of the two projects are $405,000 they will be funded through bond funds for the facility master plan update

115which is acquired through prop to state facility funding, as well as through kitchen infrastructure funds for the district wide kitchen assessments. The superintendent's recommendation is to approve resolution number 073 dash 2425 delegation of authority to award specific consultant services contracts. I have no blue cards, any comments or questions from the board members. If not, I would entertain a motion. I move to support the superintendent's recommendation to approve resolution number 73 dash two four slash two five delegation of authority to award specific consultant services contracts. Second, I have a motion by trustee drew in seconded by trustee Bueno, any discussion on the motion. I'd ask the clerk to take roll myself I trustee Bueno. Hi, trustee Vanden Heuvel. Hi, President Prusso. Hi, that motion carries unanimously five zero. And then finally 13.11 our approval of child

116nutrition contract with gold star. We get coming back with some more information, we'll turn that over to Miss Kayla was like, yes, so I'm bringing this back for approval after gathering some more information from our action cooperative. As a reminder, the cooperative is composed of 13 school districts and we use our combined purchasing power to achieve better pricing for our district. So we followed up with our lead district so each year they assign a new lead district. And so our director of child nutrition reached out to the lead about the language regarding the renewal letters stating that if no response is received, we will be forced to look into for a new contract with a responsible and responsive company. We spoke to the district and they did acknowledge that maybe their verbiage could be looked

117at but this has been their standard letter that they've used for several years. And so I have requested that our director of child nutrition Katie Krauss work with them to try to maybe soften the language a little bit and look a little bit more cooperative with our partners. But we did verify and confirm that we have a strong relationship with our current vendors, and there's no disputes or concerns with their performance and that as of this date all of the vendors have responded as requested by the cooperative and we have signed agreements from them as well. So with that I'm bringing it back forward for the superintendent's recommendation to approve the child nutrition contract with gold star procured through the action cooperative. I appreciate the clarification, and it's not maybe a softening the language. It's

118just mass red flag language like, you know, so I appreciate you clarifying it's probably just been there. Someone was delinquent at some point someone cut and pasted the same letter is centered off to friendly vendors but there was never from the intent of my question was never to draw into question the performance or anything like that. Clarification absolutely. Thank you. I would entertain a motion. I move in support of the superintendent's recommendation on this item. Reza 72 for the current year. Second. I have a motion by trustee why no seconded by trustee drew in any discussion on the motion. I'd ask the perch to take role. Trustee Bueno. I trust he could plan us. I trust event and who will I myself I present Pruso. Hi, that motion carries unanimously. Five zero. Consent items. We

119have 24 consent items on the consent agenda this evening. I am going to remove remove one of the consent items for discussion, as we have some blue cards which is resolution number 812425 which is also mark 14 and five, a can, can we just completely remove it and do all the others first. Okay, yeah, so we'll just completely remove that. So, any discussion on any of the other resolutions before I would entertain a motion to move them there in their entirety, I would like to remove 14 one, a, so that I can abstain, since I was not part of that meeting. Okay, so we'll remove that that's correct. That any other items removed for discussion. If not, I'd entertain a motion to move. Try to get this right consent items. How do we say it.

120Someone going to figure it out. I'll make a motion to approve consent items to three and four. In their entirety. Is that right. Six, two, three and four. To wait for, and we're six hold on. Oh six. All right, let me try again. Okay, I'll make a motion to approve consent items. Two, three, four, and six. As presented and seven and seven. Let me do one more do it again. One more time. Thanks. Thanks everybody for taking a shot at it. Can I just say one thing before you do that. Can we write those down for me. Sorry. Did we want to quickly talk about. Yeah, I was actually thought before we approve it. Which. Number 14.2. It's the approval of the contract for communication with pre campaign consulting services, we didn't have we didn't

121have we have a public comment on that comment. On this one so maybe I know. Trustee Bueno has been part of this process as well as superintendent Gibson if you want to just give sort of a brief. Just explanation on that. Sure. The award, we did, we got a little bit of. I don't see correspondence but some calls and a couple of little small emails and things. To clarify for people that may have questions on this, and I had a little curveball in my packet because I had the like a pre done thing might have the other company. Oh yeah the placeholder. So I was thinking about that but sorry. This is, is, is an apple and an orange comparison to campaign. This is an informational contract. So this firm. Clifford Moss will be doing

122informational work in a lead up. And it's a capped cost a maximum half of it is approximately half of it is to be used in the event they do public outreach, and a lot of it is just polling. So, rather than use something out of unapproved. This packages everything, and it allows us to pull the public for public opinion. And what you don't want to do is push out an election item without understanding where the community stands and being able to address the community So this firm's job is to pull our public and do outreach on information this is not a campaign piece. So if there was to be a campaign, and it was thought, well, this is how we do it, then that is individually fundraised as privately fundraised to campaign and do that.

123What the key component to doing information is the average citizen in most municipalities or most cities don't understand the component of facility maintenance because that changed several years ago in California. So the only way to do capital improvement, large scale projects is through bond initiatives. And so this component of consultant is to go out and inform the public. This is what we've done. It's called Joe Mitchell East Avenue Granada Livermore plus some every classroom in the district with STEM and with technology. And so that's what this component is for this this contract is for the purpose of information, and then subsequently polling people to say, how do you would you support a bond. That's what this is for. Thank you for that. You ready crossing my toes. I make a motion to approve the consent

124items 2346 and seven. Second. So we have a motion by trustee, Ben and Google. Wait, buddy. There aren't. Oh, okay. We pulled that one. Yeah. Okay. Okay, I have a motion by trustee Vanden Heuvel seconded by trustee drew in any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk to take role. trustee Kaplan is I myself I trustee Bueno. Hi, trustee Vanden Heuvel. Hi, President Prusap. I that motion carries in passes unanimously. Five zero, then I am going to approve the minutes of the June 10 2025 regular board meeting. I'll second that. Oh, today. I was going to approve. To prove. You're making the motion. Yeah, I'm making the motion. Okay. First, do it. It's the first. Somebody seconded just a second. Okay, thank you. Okay, with a motion by myself. Seconded by trustee why no.

125Any discussion on the motion. Okay, Clark, you ready. I think so. Trustee Bueno. I myself abstain trustee Vanden Heuvel. Hi, trustee Kaplan is I present person. That motion carries unanimously for unanimously for zero with one of the it is still unanimous isn't it because you abstained or zero with one of the abstention. You're right. Thank you. You're correct. Okay. Now, I'm always right I don't know why we always ask second questions about how I do things. Now we are going to move on to our resolution. Resolution number 812425 which is recognizing recognizing and celebrating the month of June as LGBTQ plus Pride Month. And I do have some blue cards. So we're going to open this up for comment. And I believe everyone was here when we discussed the comments would you like to me

126to repeat it or is everyone good. We're good. We want to repeat it. Okay, so a few people came in late. All right, let me find it. Okay, so just as a reminder, we have a three minutes. We have a three minute limit, there will be on the screen, three minutes. And also to ensure that everyone has a chance to be heard, and that we have a risk. Let's have a respectful environment and to refrain from clapping or other reactions. The main reason is because when you do that, then the speaker has to pause, and then it limits their time. So if you agree with something that the speaker's saying if you want to raise your hands we kind of see out there I think that's a better method as opposed to applause because then

127it does cut into their time. I will give a reminder the 22nd mark I'm not trying to be rude but we do have to keep this equitable so every person gets their full three minutes and that's another reason why we're going to try to be respectful of everyone's time. And then that's I think that's it for that. So we will begin. I believe we have nine or so comment cards and so I will try to call you up. I'll call you up. We'll start. We'll begin with Lainey Pascal. She'll come up first, and then on deck is Wayne Hankins, and if I say your name wrong, please correct me and I'm sorry if I say it, say it wrong. Good evening board Superintendent Gibson district staff and community here with me tonight my name is

128Lainey Pascal. I'm a queer person I also work with a local LGBTQ organization that does education advocacy work in the Bay Area. I'm also the parent of a rising eighth grader here in our school district. So first I just want to thank the board think the district for bringing for this pride month resolution every year resolutions are a public visible affirmation of our shared values. And this resolution in particular is a signal to those of us in the LGBTQ community that the district is committed to holding the line that your policies and California Education Code have teeth in this district. Conclusion is not optional. It's required policies are meaningless if they're not enforced. I have worked with teachers admin staff parents across the district who are doing the difficult work behind the scenes to make

129our schools more inclusive, more equitable and more accepting for families like mine. As parents, our expectation is that when we send our children to school, they will be safe. They will be respected, and they will learn how to live and work with people who are quite different than themselves. And I see that work, and I'm grateful for it. So thank you for this resolution. I urge every single one of you to vote yes. Thank you. Thank you, Wayne, Wayne Hankins, and then on deck will be Mike McKee. I think you, you just turned it off. Yeah, it's, there you go. Okay, there we are. Alrighty. Okay, good evening, President Bowen. It's a pleasure to be able to, to come here and to speak my mind on the resolution. And I like to do it by

130beginning of looking around us of all the things that we have before us microphone chairs, walls, many things. These are created. They did not simply come into being they are created, and the process of creating them is very similar to the process of God's creating. When I look around, and I see all of us, I can with confidence say that none of us created ourselves. We didn't create the color of our skin. We didn't create the color of our eyes, the color of our hair, whether our hair is curly or straight. We are created beings. When I came in, we, we did the Pledge of Allegiance, and the God that we pledged allegiance to, and also the it within our constitution where it says we are endowed by our creator certain in in inalienable rights.

131It is that creator that God that I want to refer to. I'm not here to talk about the rights that God has given us, but I want to talk about the principles of life, the principles of creation by which God created all life. And we see this in all all different parts of life from the atomic molecular level we see plus and minus, and the plant world we see statement and pistol and the animal world we see male and female. And in the human world is man and woman. God did not make a mistake. He created us with this beautiful symmetry. And that God did not make a mistake. We are created in his image. So the principles of creation is this pair system that is found out found throughout all of creation. It is

132that pair system that is being ignored, and is being supplanted by human ideas, where we are pushing God out of this country, pushing God away from the principles by which we are created. So I come here to urge the board to reconsider making this celebration of the month of June. I find I find that the turmoil that we are having in our country is denying is denying the very principles by which God created us. And the turmoil is only going to get worse. I think it does not do well to our children to confuse them in this way, we need to teach them about God. So, thank you for your attention. Thank you. Thank you. And then following Mike, Marilyn Dijkstra. Welcome. Good evening everyone. While having compassion for individuals I'm offended by the pride

133flag, and what it represents, thousands and thousands of people in this local, local community and surrounding East Bay Area are offended by it. Millions in the state and worldwide are offended by it. Like it or not, not a single person in this room can deny the divisiveness surrounding it. If the name of, if in the name of inclusiveness, should we not also then fly and celebrate the Christian flag, or the Gadsden flag most recently used in support of our constitutional Second Amendment. Why should Christian children and those who support the right to bear arms be made to feel included. There is no end to flags of support for causes that may need to be flown as a show of inclusivity, inclusivity, which in turn may offend others. Why is this the one flag that already

134flies, which among other things represents liberty and justice for who. We said it earlier liberty and justice for all. Why single out and divide. I therefore implore each of you to vote no on raising any offensive divisive flag and agenda at our schools. Thank you. Marilyn Dijkstra. And following her. Jenny Melinda Melinda's. Do I need to. Okay, I think you're good. All right. It's already on. Good evening. Trustees. Superintendent. I am my name is Marilyn J Dijkstra. I'm a member of the more advocates for public education. I've lived for more for 28 years. I'm the mother of two Granada High School graduates. And as I said last year sitting on the same chair, I'm also the by an LGBT cube. I want to thank you for putting this resolution on the agenda and to ask

135you to please vote yes for June recognizing June is Pride Month. I have a request which is to please move up the vote next year to May 2026 so you can vote on it before Pride Month starts. I feel it is important. Youth are at four times the risk of suicide of their straight peers. 41% of queer youth have seriously considered suicide. The cause is not from their orientation or identity, but from the trauma they have experienced at home and in school. I was to made earlier this spring to hear from a reaching grad of Granada High School of the trauma that she experienced the anti LGBTQ trauma from classmates and even from a teacher. How can this be reduced. It can be reduced by decreasing the trauma by supporting, such as this resolution or

136other methods of accepting LGBTQ youth. So I say now is not the time to step back and bow to threats, but it is the time to show that Livermore Valley will not tolerate LGBTQIA plus phobia, but rather will support its queer use. The purpose of this resolution and other measures like it is not to create division. But lost my notes, but to show inclusion. We are watching you both straight and queer students, teachers and voters. Will you bow to threats, or will you stand up to LGBTQ plus phobia to protect all youth and vote yes on this resolution. Thank you. Thank you, Marilyn will now invite Jenny Melendez, followed by Deborah Gibson. Thank you for offering this opportunity to hear our voices. I visited City Council meeting in October of last year, in which there

137was a question about using $10,000 of development money towards a art display out in the forum where all families could come and see it. And they were drag queens. And this is what they wanted to spend $10,000 of development money on. So I went to listen. And I heard a lot of voices there had been so many that they had carried this over for a second meeting. And at the end of that meeting, the mayor said it was obvious that there are many people who did not want to spend the money that way. There was a majority of people and he understood that. But he still felt that the money should be spent that way, because it was important for Livermore to embrace all people. It's quite disappointing. Every council member also made a statement.

138Similarly, I was really surprised by that, that they weren't listening to anyone. Well, they were listening to people. I experienced that the display that we had at the White House during the Easter weekend when there was also an LGBT program that was exhibited. It was not something that you could show your children. Then we also watched the Olympics and the opening of the Olympics was not something we could let our children watch. And I began to wonder, is this supporting people or are we promoting? A full month to do this would be promoting, it would seem, instead of embracing our children. I don't think anyone wants to hurt the community that has differences. We're really good people in this community. I also know that we have voted and in that vote we would be going

139against federal conversations that will limit us. We stand to lose quite a bit of money if we do pass this resolution. And you've already talked about the difficulty of the monies we're facing. Thank you. It would seem that we're not supporting all children by the possibility of removing money, especially when the country has voted. And as we saw this last weekend, there are no kings and queens. We depend on the voices and the votes of our country. Thank you very much for your time. Deborah Gibson, and then following Deborah is Catherine. Good evening again. I have been coming to these meetings praying over the proceedings asking God to give you wisdom and all decisions that you make. I sent each one of you an email regarding this resolution, I would like to emphasize one point

140concerning your oath of office and your integrity. Your code of ethics states, as a member of the LVJ USD Board of Education, I shall represent the interests of all people served by this district and not favor special interest inside or outside of this district. This ethics code is a document each one of us signed. I want to take you at your word, and I assume you want to be taken at your word. Saying that you represent all people does not have to be defined in any other way. Each one of you campaign without giving a discriminating list of those you would or would not represent all meets all means all. I have quoted from the Book of Wisdom known as Proverbs when praying over you and leave you with Proverbs 11 three, the integrity of

141the upright guides them but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity. I ask you to oppose this discriminating resolution. Thank you. Thank you. So now we have Catherine, I just have a first name there, followed by DD arenas. Welcome. Thank you for letting us be here. That same pride month for the schools will benefit students seems. It would only be for such a small percentage with 5 million being withheld due to non compliance with Title nine. Couldn't the focus be more on basic education for all students. Thank you. Thank you. Now we have DD, followed by Joanne Morrison. Good evening President proof so board trustees cabinet and Superintendent Gibson. Good. What is respect for authority didn't 80% of our country vote to bring our schools back to a healthy environment. Haven't we already been denied

142federal funds for a much needed mental health program and hasn't this already affected our children schools and staff. Why, because unfortunately our state has chosen not to be in compliance. How is that working. This is a deliberate defiance to authority. What I saw at these past few board meetings this year's budget cuts has caused quite a bit of hurt towards staff administrative and staff and also here, especially for our students. Is this really fair to all students families and stuff. Why, for allowed small majority group that has to pour out their choices on everyone. Heaven forbid we speak about this. If this is how I feel as a mom and grandmother. I can only wonder how our children are feeling. Speaking on behalf of what our country voted for should for should not cause cause

143I'm sorry, these individuals to go after anyone. If you give into this resolution now then what will they provoke next because you know they won't stop. So we wait and we see what happens then what happens when we are denied more federal funding, who will you blame then think, I think it would just be you for voting on this tonight to leave an open door and to be really fair, how about we put a verse on The verse in Genesis talks about our beautiful rainbow goes like this. God said this rainbow is a sign of coming and I'm making between me and you and every living creature with you, the covenant for all generations to come. I have set the rainbow in the clouds and it is will be a sign of a covenant between

144me and the earth. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds. As a reminder that never again will the waters become a flood to destroy our life. I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all the creatures creatures of every kind. So let's reflect for a second on why there was a flood. I believe is because of defiance to authority. And if we don't have this verse, there are many others we can put on the marquee. Since prayer has been taken out of our schools, this would be a nice to see on the marquees and what a perfect way to teach our children obedience to authority. Isn't this what we want for our children. So I would ask you to really consider where your hearts are when you were voted into this

145position to consider our children 20 seconds equally. Thank you so much. Thank you. Joanne Morrison is our last speaker. Good evening President Purcell, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson and cabinet. I want to read you a famous quote. First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the LGBTQ plus community, and I did not speak out because I was not gay. Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak for me. I took some liberties with that quote by Martin Niemoller,

146but I think it's appropriate to do that in this instance. The pride month resolution has become a tradition in our district, and this is no time to break with that tradition. Although I know you have been urged to do just that. Now more than ever, we must speak up on behalf of our LGBTQ plus community, because they are under attack, just like the immigrant community and those in need of mental health support grants. If we don't speak up for the vulnerable, there will be no one left to speak for the rest of us when our rights are being taken away. That is how authoritarianism operates. Appeasement by failing to pass this resolution will not stop the attacks. It only encourages authoritarians. I support resolution number 812425. I thank you for bringing this resolution. Let's be

147loud and proud in passing it this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. First of all, I just wanted to thank all of you guys for coming and being super respectful. It was really great to be able to hear everyone's voices and your opinions on this topic. And I open it up for board members if they wish to speak on this topic as well. Superintendent Gibson, the last speaker spoke of tradition. Do you know how long this resolution has been passed or come before the board? I'm going to defer that. I know it's always been. I do want to do a clarifying question because we did have a public comment, I believe, from Miss Boyce in regards to the timeliness of this and specifically my lack of timeliness for this coming to this meeting. And this

148is always when this resolution has been brought to the board and we just followed suit. As for how long, I'm going to have to refer to the board. I was part of the process that where we wrote this resolution. And so I was on the board. I believe it was maybe my second year. So maybe 2019. I don't know. We could go back and check. Yeah. So it has been for, I would say, five or six years. And it's the same resolution. I don't think it was 2020 because I think I would remember. Well, June of 2020, yeah, you were doing other things then. We haven't changed it. It's been the same since we wrote it. So June 2020 was like in the heart of the pandemic. So I'm going to assume it was either

14918 or 19. 18 is when I was elected. So I think 19 for the same resolution at the second June board meeting. Yeah, I think I checked. I did check that and it looked like it was usually the second June meeting. The difference in timing is largely due to when school got out. School getting out earlier by a couple of weeks kind of throws this off just a little bit. So yeah, we plan to move it up going forward. But I just have a brief comments. So if our district is committed to the all kids are our kids policy, then for me, that means providing support for students where they are at. As a historian, I'm well aware of the history of oppression LGBTQ plus groups have faced, ranging from criminalizing their act, their right

150to express themselves and denial of social and financial resources available to other groups. Quick napkin math tells me that it was illegal to be a gay student in public schools in California for about 125 years. I do not think it takes away from other groups to speak directly to one group who has a long history of oppression, telling them you are welcome here now. Yeah, in considering how to vote on this, I went into my own personal values and beliefs and say that I'm proud to support this very thoughtful, this very custom to live a more resolution. I really like that because I strongly believe that every student deserves to feel seen, to feel safe, to be supported. And recognizing Pride Month affirms our commitment to creating all these schools where all all students, all

151families belong just as they are. As a child of the 60s, my upbringing was a lot different than most people who were younger today. And I saw people who were, you know, not taking care of weren't embraced. A belief system that myself and many of the people I knew just embraced because that was culture. But it was counter to the real people that were around us. And I can see it in family members and friends that later in the absence of that oppression, they came out and whatever the term is. And I watch kids now as someone who coached in our high school for 20 years. And you see kids, it's not a big deal. Even with kids that like my kids age, they're in their 30s. It's not a big deal. And oppression is

152a serious thing. And I don't see this as taken from anyone. I happen to be one of the people who crafted all kids are our kids. And that was part of an effort when we were addressing the DACA kids. And so I got on this board because I want to take care of kids in this city. I'm retired. And my mission, as long as I can, you know, be on the board and as long as I'm walking, is to help kids in whatever endeavor I can. And I see this as some marginalized kids. And I don't want to see them oppressed. I want to see people thrive. That's part of our mission to thrive in an ever-changing world. And so if we can target a group that says, hey, I can't thrive because of this,

153or I can't be proud of just who I am, different last name. You know, my family is a family of immigrants. Most of us are. At some point, whether you came on the Mayflower or you came sometime later, in all different walks of our life in America, have been oppressed at one point or another. And to turn a blind eye to oppression is a terrible thing. And I don't want to see kids oppressed. I just want to see them. It's not my issue. And so I'm not very knowledgeable on a lot of different things, but I want to see people thrive and kids especially. And I don't see this as hurting anybody. It might be a difference in ideology for some. But when I talk to children, not little kids, but when I was in

154high school, 15 year old kids, this is not an issue for them. And I had the same kind of group of kids for 20 years. And they really they just embrace people. Their biases are gone largely. And I think it's a great thing. I think it's just a thing as we as a society done a great job. It's one of the reasons I have hope for the future is because people of my age group and people my grandparents age group, a lot of really good people, people help build this country. But we had biases. And the kids today are absent, many of those biases. And I think that's a great thing. And I embrace it. And not necessarily every little thing of every one someone does. But when you can make a society freer of

155bias, I think you're going to have individuals who thrive in the basis of this country. The greatness of this country will excel. And so I truly embrace it. And I support this. Well, I've always prioritized local control and staying focused on what's best for our students and families. I recognize that symbolic resolutions like this one are often seen through a national political lens. I support the intent of this resolution because I believe all students deserve to feel safe, seen and supported in our schools. That said, I do not want to indicate that continued federal threats, threats to defund districts over ideological disagreements real or perceived are not going away. I urge this board to be cautious and strategic in how we position ourselves publicly, especially with the prospect of federal shifts in leadership. This vote

156should be about supporting students, not poking political bears that may cost our district up to five million dollars. We won't be able to replace to be clear. To be clear, a yes vote for this resolution, as it stands, could result in our school district losing federal mental health funds. A no vote means we will comply with federal government guidelines and position ourselves to receive the funds for all students. With that caution in mind, I will not be voting in favor of this resolution. Just a clarifying question. Is this risk? Is this resolution? Could this resolution risk federal funding? So I'm asking the superintendent. Thank you. So today in cabinet, we had a conversation. Mrs. Pichette reached out to CAP, capital advisors, who is our group who works directly out of Washington, D.C. In fact, they

157were the group that helped us specifically with our school based mental health grant reapplication. We wanted to make sure that we received that feedback from them in regards to this specific resolution. And it is their belief that this will not have any impact on our federal funding moving forward. OK, thank you. Tonight, I am proud to support this resolution in honor of Pride Month, not only because it affirms the dignity and worth of our LGBTQ plus students, but also because it reflects our district's broader commitment to equity, inclusion and belonging for all. As a board, we have affirmed that all kids are our kids. And that affirmation doesn't change based on a student's background, identity or lived experience. This resolution is grounded in the belief and directly aligns with our equity focused board policy 0415,

158which calls us to eliminate barriers and ensure that every student feels valued, supported and seen. We know that LGBTQ plus students across the country and in our own community face disproportionate challenges. And this resolution is one way that we can say clearly that you belong here, you matter and that you are not alone. And while we center LGBTQ plus students this month, we recognize that true equity cannot be siloed. Our shared goal is a learning environment where every student, whether they are an English learner, a student with a disability from a low income family or from a culturally or religiously diverse background, fills a genuine sense of belonging. This commitment shows up in the systems that we build and what we're doing in our schools right now and how we use our PBIS to support

159positive school climates, how we engage families through inclusive communication and partnerships, and how we invest in student wellness emotionally, academically and socially. Obviously, we still have work to do, but this resolution is a meaningful step. It signals who we are, what we value and the direction we're committed to going as a district, one where all kids are our kids. So if there are no other comments or questions, I would entertain a motion. President Prusso, I move to support the superintendent's recommendation to approve resolution number 81-24-25, recognizing and celebrating the month of June as LGBTQ plus Pride Month. I'll second that. I have a motion by Trustee Druin, seconded by Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to take roll. Trustee Bueno? Trustee Kaplanis? Nay. Trustee Vanden Heuvel? Aye. Myself, aye.

160President Prusso? Aye. That motion carries for one and we'll now be moving to our reports, our board member reports. So we will begin with Trustee Vanden Heuvel. And I have a note. I love going to be, I love being on the float with everybody here for the rodeo. I want to thank Trustee Bueno for kind of setting the stage for that at the meeting right before then, just to really take it in the historicity of it. Is that a word of the moment and of just, you know, being part of that and celebrating our students, celebrating our cabinet and just the direction of our district. And I'm just really super excited about summer. Thank you, Trustee Druin. I wanted to express my gratitude to my fellow board members for their support in my two absences.

161One was work related that arose somewhat unexpectedly, and the other was for family reasons that was known and planned for, but I didn't know they would be linked up. Regardless, thank you to Trustees Bueno and Vanden Heuvel for stepping in for my clerk duties. And again, thank you to Trustee Vanden Heuvel for stepping in to attend Tri-Valley self before me. Since my last board meeting, I celebrated several forms of graduation and commencement as a board member, a parent, and a professor. I appreciate the fanfare of the events as they create a space for us to stop and pay attention to the accomplishments of our students. Thank you. Trustee Bueno? Thank you. Yeah, I want to thank everyone. I mean, because we close out the years figuratively speaking for there's a lot of transition we've gone

162through. It's my 11th year on the board, and this is the most transition we've seen in over a decade. But to absorb all that and remain functional and high functioning and to achieve what's best for students is difficult. There's a lot of growing pains and people coming and going, but I think we'll prevail. I know we will. We've got a great community and we've got a great purpose. The rodeo was always good. It was the 107th annual rodeo that we went to. There's probably nothing like when I tell people to be there, I said, don't be late. I mean, listening to John Wayne do that rendition in the beginning, I did say I was a child of the 60s. So John Wayne was on our house every Sunday. So it's just it's impressive in a

163community like this with 100,000 people that we can celebrate like that. And there's no reds and blues or anything. It's just a bunch of people coming together for a really good purpose. I think it's really, really cool, especially when you see like the little partners and some of the little peripheral stuff that people don't see. The little princesses that come out and the district has supported that in the past. And it's just a good thing. So I would ask just one in closing that there's businesses that might be referred. We have 13,000 kids here, and that means that we probably have somewhere around 2500 to 3000 kids that are work eligible. So if there's opportunities for our kids over the summer, please embrace them. We have a lot of really good kids in this district

164and a lot of us need those opportunities. Those are some of the best summer jobs and they help build strong character. And so anyone who's able to bring any of those kids on, it would be appreciated. And to those kids that are out there have a real safe time off. And if they're occupied and they're playing sports or they're working or they're involved in their communities, they're probably going to grow up to be a fine citizens and be able to contribute to this nation. Trustee Caplanes. Okay. Well, since it's only a week since I saw you guys last in this room. I did have a good time being in the rodeo parade with all of you guys on the float and a special thank you to President Prusso who took her time to make our

165God Ag shirts. I also had the opportunity to speak to a community group about health and wellness. And so I appreciate that they took the time out to ask me to speak to them. And I always love an opportunity to educate the community about bettering themselves in a healthy way and keeping their bodies strong and moving during the summer months. So with that everybody continue to soak up your vitamin D and the warm weather. It's helpful to your bones and good for your mental health as well. And everybody enjoy the break. Thank you. Like you I don't have a lot of updates from last week. The rodeo parade was great. And I did, I did attend the rodeo, believe it or not, for the first time. I always attended the family night, which is Thursday

166night so that's always fun but I'd never actually been to the real rodeo in Livermore, and it was just as Trustee Bueno said it was fantastic I was there on time. So I got to be there for the beginning ceremonies. Stay the whole time it was really, it was really exciting it was really fun like you said great to see the community there. And I am excited to take a little break from this and do a lot of coaching and swimming and camping and reading. That's my goal. So, Dr. Gibson. Well yes, it was only a week but it was a busy week last week. Everyone just keeps saying to me, oh you get some time off now I'm like no, the calendar is still busy so we had two days of policy work. We

167are approximately 80% done already. Thank you so much to our staff. CSBA had recommended. I don't know six or seven people participate in the policy work, and I thought, there's no way six or seven of us are going to do this work so we had about One that included. Joanne Morrison so thank you Joanne for your help and continued help. So we're about 80% done within two days with the new policy manual update. Our goal is no later than the end of August is to have the public review time start we will do a 30 day review of the entire policy manual update so we'll keep you posted on that, but thank you to our staff and to the community for the support on that. I attended a meeting with Contra Costa County and Alameda

168County superintendents. The executive director from access, which is the Association of California school administrators. Edgar he attended our meeting in person with us which was great was able just to provide provide us a ton of updates, both from the state and federal level, and just kind of overall support with just some of the kind of regional things that we are all, you know, We, as trustee bueno discussed and thank you to him for his participation in the interviews of the bond communication consultants, very excited to have them on board and move us forward and that work starts pretty much immediately. Miss wisely and Mrs McNeely and I went to a meeting with the city. We hold an extensive meeting to learn about long term planning for housing across our city so that the school district

169can be better prepared going forward. I just really want to thank the city and the police department we we have such a great working relationship with both agencies, as well as LARP D. And it just makes it so much easier for all of us to do our jobs, we will be moving forward with some long term planning with the board, specifically with housing and the impact that that will have. Thank you for the approval of that contract for the demographer because we definitely need to do that work that we have not done in quite some time. We had interviews for the assistant superintendent of human resources, we had 17 panel members bargaining unit members, and specifically their leaders district leadership, a board member, thank you trustee Vanden Heuvel for participating in that full day event.

170And thank you to the board for approving her July 1st start I apologize that we didn't have her contract but we will have that in August. And we very much open our arms and welcome, Dr. Jessica bond or as to our team. She brings a wealth of experience from the HR lens both at the district and county level, which is such a huge support for our district. We had a really fun time we actually had a few of our school district entries, so we need to step up our game by the way. I didn't realize there were prizes for this. Apparently there's prizes, I learned something new every day around here. Well apparently there's prizes. Our float did not want to prize, but next year it's game on by the way so be ready. We

171will have all kinds of things but we had multiple groups from LVJ USD win prizes. But the, I found the rodeo to be a ton of fun in the parade we celebrated our FFA and our ag program as it's the only program still in the bay. I grew up in an agricultural family and my grandfather was a cattle rancher so for me, rodeos and anything farm related is near and dear to my heart and just reminds me of growing up I, I was at a rodeo farm. I grew up in an agricultural family and my grandfather was a cattle rancher so for me, rodeos and anything farm related is near and dear to my heart and just reminds me of growing up I, I was at a rodeo every single year in Red Bluff. If

172you haven't been to that one, it's equally amazing. It's a little insane but it's fun. Thank you. Yes, we are done for the 2524 25 school year I'm trying to get myself a year out already. The 2526 school year and a huge thank you specifically to the board. And to our staff just for all the support. I know I've put us through a lot of change, and I appreciate very much. In the direction that we want to head. I know change is not easy, and it can be difficult and I appreciate what trustee bueno said about the fact that we we managed it gracefully. I wish everyone a wonderful summer, and please unplug I know we plan and our team plans to do that so we can kick off the school year strong with our

173new initiatives and just a lot of fun that we plan to have next school year so again thank you and we'll see you in August. With that, the next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held. Tuesday, August 12 2025 here at the district office open session will begin at 6pm, which is a new time. So just wanted to note that. And this meeting is now adjourned at 941pm.