001Good evening. Welcome. Welcome to our board meeting. This is the May 20th meeting of the Board of Education, 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. Please be advised that our board meetings are televised on local channel 28 on Wednesday and Saturday evenings and on Monday, Friday and Saturday mornings. All actions approved in closed session must be reported out in open session. So I would ask trustee Kaplanis if she could report out. In a unanimous vote with trustee during being absent, the Board of Education voted to reject
002claim number 655068. Thank you. We're going to begin our meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance led by our student board members Gabriel Benitez and Addie Hart. 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. Okay, I'd like to ask Dr. Gibson if there are any changes to the agenda. No, there are not. Okay, we're going to, we're going to move on to our recognitions and we'll invite Mrs. Alyssa Lopez, our Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program Coordinator to come forward. Okay, did that work? All right. Good evening Board President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson and cabinet, I am Alyssa Lopez, I serve as the Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program or TV tip coordinator for
003Livermore, and the director for the consortium which consists of Livermore Dublin and Castro Valley. And these three lovely women behind me are our three other TV tip coaches Amanda Andino, Michelle Apodaca and Heather Bateson. And so while tonight is primarily about celebrating the teachers completing TV tip this year I'd like to briefly recognize a major program milestone for us. After operating under provisional approval since 2021 TV tip recently completed a rigorous year long accreditation progress with the CTC. And in March a site visit team reviewed extensive program evidence and interviewed 127 educational partners across our three districts. And the result was a unanimous recommendation for full accreditation with all standards met, no concerns and no stipulations. And the reviewers noted that the clear value our program brings the consistent individualized support our teachers receive and
004the positive impact TV tip has across our districts. We're incredibly proud of this achievement and deeply grateful for the support from our districts, our coaches and teachers about the process. Without further ado, I am honored to recognize a very special group of teachers. Over the past two years these educators have worked closely with their TV tip induction coaches to complete all requirements to complete their California clear teaching credential. Many were also an integral part of that accreditation process by participating in our site interviews. Throughout the program they've engaged in regular classroom observations and reflective coaching conversations focused on strengthening their practice and advancing student learning. In just a few weeks we'll be recommending them for their clear credentials. And so I'm very proud to introduce you to this year's Tri-Valley Teacher Induction Program completers. If
005you guys will stand up. And then we just have a short slideshow to recognize them. Okay, we're going to move on to our next recognitions, and I have the pleasure of doing that. We are going to recognize our two student board members, Gabriel Benitez and Addie Hart, who are over here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to read you a little bit about both of them. So we'll go through that first and then I have a plaque for them. So we're just, that's the order we're going to go. So I'd like to take a moment to recognize someone who has made an extraordinary impact on our board and in our district this year, our student board member, Gabriel Benitez. Gabe, from the moment you joined us on the dais you have brought
006not only insight and intelligence, but a deep sense of responsibility and advocacy on behalf of your peers. You didn't just sit in the seat, you filled it with purpose, whether you were updating us on events at a Granada, sharing thoughtful feedback, or simply showing up with your signature charm and coordinated outfits you reminded us by student voice matters. Beyond this room your leadership has stretched across student government, athletics, community service, and even cookie club meetings, which I would like to know more about. You've served as ASB president, swim team captain, club founder, and camp counselor, all while maintaining academic excellence and bringing energy and heart to everything you do. And now you're off to California Lutheran University to study, swim, and continue growing into the leader we already see in you. We know that you'll
007make waves both literally and figuratively as student athlete and someone who truly cares and makes, cares about making a difference. Gabe, thank you for the many hours you dedicated this year, and for always speaking up for students with wit, ambition, and heart. We are proud of you and excited to see what comes next, and when we see your name on the ballot in 2044, we'll remember, be a babe, vote for Gabe. Congratulations and thank you. Okay. Tonight we celebrate and say farewell to an exceptional student board member, Addie Hart. Addie has brought wisdom, compassion, and a deep commitment to student voice to our meetings this year. Whether we were discussing campus culture or academic priorities, Addie showed up prepared, articulate, and thoughtful, always keeping her fellow students at the center of the conversation. But there's
008so much more to Addie than her polished board presentations and she is a fierce and joyful leader on campus, from cheer captain to ASB attorney general to head of the campus life committee. She volunteered over 100 hours through National Charity League, earned the state seal of biliteracy, and participated in student government, swim team, stunt, Girl Scouts, and more. And let's not forget that she's done all of this while carrying a weighted GPA of over 4.1 and surviving multiple AP classes, including AP calculus. That alone deserves a round of applause in my book. Some fun facts that you might not know about Addie, she's a self proclaimed word nerd, the kid who was reading aloud to her preschool class, and has a stack of books by her bed ready for summer, ready for summer to be
009reading to begin. She once won her school spelling bee and plans to put her lifelong love of learning to good use as she heads to Purdue University this fall to pursue a degree in elementary education, with her sights set on a master's degree and a future teaching in Colorado. Addie is one of the rare 2% of the population born without a sense of smell. So while she might not appreciate the scent of freshly sharpened pencils in her future classroom, she will absolutely be the kind of teacher who makes every student seem felt seen and welcomed. After all, she's been doing that just since elementary school when she was the first to greet new students and some of those kids are still her best friends today. Her parents shared that she's a loyal friend with an
010adorable giggle, a perfectionist to a fault, and someone who's consistently pushed herself beyond her comfort zone to reach her goals. They shared a quote from Maya Angelou that perfectly captures her essence, a strong woman stands up for herself, a stronger woman stands up for others. Addie, you are that stronger woman. Thank you for your service, your insight, your heart, and your hard work this year. We wish you all the best of luck as you head to Purdue, and we know that your future students will be incredibly lucky to have you. Congratulations, Addie. Everybody, all of us. That was really fun to get. I asked their parents for some additional information from them, and it was really fun to get those parent emails. It's just fun to see the parents' perspective of them. They have definitely
011been frequent flyers. We've been in the midst of awards season, as all of us have been at awards nights almost every night, and these two are always there at the top of the list getting awards. So it's just been fantastic to see them, not only here, but to just see what they've done at their school sites and how hard they've worked for what they've accomplished. And we're just very excited to see where they're going to go from now. So you always come back and visit us. You're always welcome. Okay, we're going to move on now to our student board member reports. So this is the time of the board meeting when our student board of representatives from our two comprehensive high schools, Livermore High School and Granada High School, give their reports, and we will
012begin with Addie Hart, who is the board representative at Livermore High School, and Gabriel Benitez will follow her, and he is the board representative from Granada. Good evening Board President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson, cabinet and community. My name is Addie Hart, and I am representing Livermore High School. We would like to congratulate Chandler Smoke and Sophie Garocchi for being named Olympian Award winners. This is an amazing accomplishment, and we are so proud of your academic and athletic efforts. We are also very proud of the other finalists and their accomplishments as well. Our Honours Orchestra is going to compete in the National Orchestra Festival. Only 15 schools nationwide are chosen. This is an amazing accomplishment. Our teacher for the month of May is Dawn Matthews. Congratulations. Swimhead NCS on May 9, we had
013three group events make it, including the guys 400 freestyle relay, and the girls 200 and 400 freestyle relay. Bridgette O'Brien was the only one who made it for individual events competing in the 50 and the 100 freestyle. Track had 15 athletes make NCS, which was on Saturday, May 17. Four of those athletes will be competing in the meet of champions this weekend. Softball won the league championship again for the third time in the past four years. Congratulations to our amazing players. Yesterday was the 12th annual Cowboy Alley Film Festival at the Vine. To start off the night, families were able to watch our Operation Needle Drop pre-show, followed by the Student Filmmaker Showcase in celebration of the Class of 2025. Several students from LHS Choir headed to New York this summer to perform at Carnegie
014Hall. Senior Ball was last Saturday, May 17. Seniors had an amazing time riding the Hornblower on the San Francisco Bay with their classmates as one of their last events together. Choir is having their end of year concert on Wednesday, May 21. On Thursday, May 22, seniors will be able to decorate their cars for graduation in the parking lot behind the football field. Belly Flop Fiesta is this Friday, May 23, just in time for students to cool off and get ready for summer. Finally, senior breakfast is on May 30, followed by graduation later that afternoon. Safe and sober grad night is the night of May 30. Seniors will get to spend four hours locked inside Dave and Buster's playing games and spending their last few hours bonding with their classmates before parting their separate ways. Thank
015you so much for having me as a part of the board this year. It's truly been an honor and I will cherish it forever. Thank you. One last time. Good evening Board President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson, cabinet and community. As we approach the end of the school year, I'm excited to share some incredible highlights from Granada High School. To start off, 59 students were awarded Padrosi Scholarships this year, which is a testament to our students academic and community excellence. Our spring play The Girls of the Garden Club was a fantastic success and a wonderful showcase of student talent in the arts. IB and AP testing for the class of 2025 is now officially complete. I'm proud to share that Audrey Manley, R of Metta, and Kate Wang earned the 2025 National Merit
016Scholarship. In alumni news, Madeleine Wong, class of 2022, was named to the 2025 US National U-24 Dragon Boat Team and will represent Team USA in Germany this July at the Dragon Boat World Championships. Also, our senior class leaves for Disneyland tomorrow night, following the much anticipated senior awards night. As for athletic updates, a big congratulations to our Olympian Scholarship awardees, Delania Moua and Noah Blake. We had 13 swimmers qualify for the California Interscholastic Federation State meet, including Brooke Bennett, who is now an EVOL, NCS, and state champion in the 500 yard freestyle. She also placed sixth in the 200 individual medley and earned automatic all-American honors. Isaiah Silver placed fifth in the 200 individual medley and earned all-American consideration at the CIF state meet as well. Our Matador baseball team took home the EVOL championship.
017Bois Lacrosse won the EVOL Valley Championship and advanced to the first round of NCS. Cole Caney qualified for the Division II NCS golf tournament. We had three divers make it to NCS, with Lana Stifter placing fifth overall. And last but not least, 51 of our track athletes qualified for NCS, an incredible representation of our program. It's been an honor to serve as your student board member this year, and I'd like to thank everyone on this day, and especially Mr. Kralikowski and Mr. Conover for the opportunity. And as always, say it with me, stay classy. Wonderful. Thank you both. We're going to move on to our Employee Association reports. I'd like to invite Amy Thompson, the president of LEA, to come forward. As a reference, the vice president of LEA, Tara Lutz, is also here in
018the audience. Amy will be followed by Mamie Christovich, the president of CSEA, if she's here. It's really hard for me to see, so, oh good, she's here, okay. And following her, if Percy Governor is here, she will then speak to us. She's the president of SEIU, and Lily Lopez is our representative of CMC. Amy, we'll turn the time over to you. Thank you. Good evening Board President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson and cabinet, Amy Thompson, president of the Livermore Education Association, representing teachers, nurses, counselors, psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers, and teachers on special assignment. LEA and the district sunshines for the 25-26 reopeners are on this agenda, and it's good to see that we have shared interest in the articles that are being open. I have confidence that our negotiations will be very
019efficient for this. We should hopefully be finished by late September, early October next year, being mindful that we have our full successor agreement coming up to be sunshineed in February 2026. The special education work group had our last meeting of the year yesterday, and we'll be resuming work on August 4th and 5th. We've been told that it will take three to five years to complete this work. However, this has created frustration for our teachers who have students in front of them right now who do not have three to five years to wait. An example of this is at Arroyo Seiko. You may recall that last year it was announced the SDC co-taught model was being eliminated and replaced with the Learning Center model, which is still not clearly defined. The plan for next year is
020to eliminate one of the Learning Center model teachers, thereby eliminating three paraprofessionals from the site as well. And while the site is currently in the process of planning student placements for next year, they're struggling to determine how to create balanced classes with less support, while also being informed that they will have to plan to incorporate a second, third grade combo class among their student placements for next year. Last Wednesday, we were informed of our district's plan for combination classes for 25-26. Because I'm a visual learner, I took the information that we were given verbally and I put it into a Google Sheet, which I think was just passed around. And so just walking through it helps me to see data. So we listed left-hand column obviously is the sites Arroyo Seiko, Jackson, Lawrence, Maryland, Smith,
021and Rancho, and we understand the Rancho combo has been canceled. Excuse me, second column is the grade levels for the combo. So for example, I'm going to walk you through Arroyo Seiko. It's a 2-3 combo class, so a second grade and a third grade. The next column is the number of students that would be in the lower grade level of the combo. Next column, number of students in the upper grade. So there are 87 students enrolled in second grade and 90 students enrolled in third grade. And then the next column is the number of teachers that we would have if we go through with the combo class. So at Arroyo Seiko with this plan, there would be seven teachers. There will be 25 students per class in second grade, 25.67 students per class in third
022grade, 25 students in the combo class, which would leave zero open seats if we're staffing to average or four open seats if we're staffing to class size max. By contrast, same information, but if we do grade level pure classes. So there would be four second grade teachers, average class size of 21.75 students per class, and four teachers for third grade with an average class size of 22.5 students per class. And next column is our contractual class size limits. So we're aiming for an average of 25, maximum of 26. And then we just added some notes or comments in the final column. So for Arroyo Seiko, the notes are that they have the Learning Center model with SDC students who are mainstreamed into general education for most of their school day. And also that for these
023particular grade levels, our district receives grade span adjustment money to ensure class sizes, the class size average at each site at each grade level is 24. The education code specifies that if we go over that 24, we would not receive the grade span adjustment funding, unless otherwise negotiated. So you can see in our negotiated sizes, our association already allowed to go above that cap to allow some flexibility in case kids moved in. So just kind of walk in through the data, leave that with you, get back to this. So last Friday, Tara sent a letter to the board and cabinet on behalf of our members regarding the plan to add the four additional combination classes. We've been told the reason for this is to save money. It would help us to know the targeted amount
024of savings to help identify other options. Studies don't clearly show the impacts of combination classes on student outcomes. However, the state of California requires students be taught the grade level standards for their specific grade level. This means teachers assigned to teach a combination class need to teach two completely different sets of standards simultaneously. This is an additional stress on the teacher and less support for the students. The request of our members is to reconsider the implementation of additional combination classes. We would like a clearly defined process for when the enrollment at a grade level at a school site is low enough to justify the implementation of a combo class. I believe the practice at high school has been to offer a class with a minimum enrollment of 25 students, which would be 83% of average.
025Based on the data we've been provided, we have one grade level for one of the planned combination classes that has a projected enrollment of 75% of the class average. So that would be below the 83%. The other nine classrooms have enrollment ranging between 82 to 93% of average. We appreciate that the district has already reconsidered the combo class at Rancho, but we continue to request reconsideration of the other planned combo classes. I am happy to report we were able to reach MOU agreements for both the educationally related mental health service psychologist staffing for next year and for our Vineyard DelVal staffing. And on behalf of our members, I want to thank our student board members for all of your service and wish you well in your future endeavors. Thank you. Thank you. Mamie Christovich. Good
026evening, President Pruso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson and cabinet. I am Mamie Christovich, president of the Livermore chapter of CSEA, the California School Employees Association. Joining me tonight is our chapters Vice President Victoria Storti, as well as other dedicated CSEA members. This week is Classified School Employee Week. Over the years, I've simply known this to be CSEW. But to share some history, it was Governor Ronald Reagan who first proclaimed Classified School Employee Week in 1969, stating that the classified employee plays an integral part in the field of education throughout the state of California. In 1984, CSEA members passed a resolution to establish an official recognition week. Then two years later, Senator William Campbell's Senate Bill 1552 passed, recognizing the importance of classified school employees. Senator Campbell stated, I urge all citizens to work closely
027to take time out and to think about school days and recall the efforts of the bus drivers, secretaries, custodians and all the other classified staff they met and knew. As much as any other group of employees, the classified school staff is a valued and integral part of the public school system, and their work is vital to our children's success. CSEW provides an opportunity for classified employees to be recognized every third week in May. This year we are celebrating the theme, trusted, inclusive, united. In honor of our classified employees, our Livermore chapter hosted a well-attended member appreciation dinner last week to celebrate their tireless work at school sites and district departments and unwavering commitment to students and communities. During our dinner, we also presented scholarships to three remarkable high school seniors, children of our CSEA members.
028Two are graduating from Granada High School and one from Livermore High School. From GHS, we awarded a scholarship to Saveda Halanga, whose mom is Virginia Halanga, an intervention specialist at Altamont Creek who was recognized during the March 18 board meeting, and Ziad Mohammed, whose mom is Shabana Sharif, an office specialist at Smith. From LHS, our scholarship was awarded to Darshini Binderaj, whose mom is Bhuvana, a paraeducator at Lawrence. All three are not only exceptional students, but they are also leaders at a very young age as well as contributors to community service. Their futures are very bright. With less than two weeks left in this school year, I think school employees are ready for a break. Before that happens, however, CSEA classified employees will be voting on a few items this week, including the tentative agreement
029for our 2024 re-opener negotiations and our MOU regarding the impacts and effects of the reduction in force for our 2025-2026 school year. Our MOU cites specific protections for the CSEA classified employees whose positions are being eliminated and for those who remain. The district agreed to reconvene to discuss and seek mutually agreeable resolutions should issues arise related to workload, staffing, or the implementation of our MOU. Negotiations are ongoing with the district regarding our MOU for the recent increases received by the other bargaining units. We had hoped to be further along by now, but look forward to resolving this in the near future. If you run into any CSEA classified employees during classified school employee week and beyond, please let them know that their efforts are valued and appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Is Kirsty Governor here?
030Okay. All right, we're going to move on to our next item, which is our public comments. So if you would like to address a topic that is not on this evening's agenda, now is the time to do so. And we have several up here. We have the TAN cards. And I would like to say that we have passed our threshold for public comments. According to our bylaws, if we exceed that limit, we do need to reduce the speaking time to two minutes per person. However, if anyone is willing to consolidate their comments, we could maintain the three minute limit. Otherwise, we will need to shorten the time to ensure that everyone has a chance to speak. Many of you are here speaking on the same topic, so I don't know. It's kind of up to
031you. Yeah. If we have five people that would be willing to pull their comments out, we can go back to the three minutes. Yeah. Yeah. And if you want to stand when people are saying what you wanted to say, we could do that. You can do that as well so that we understand that you're in his support of that. So if we do have five people, we can do that. Otherwise, we'll just go to two minutes, which is also fine. So raise your hand if you're willing to pull your comment or maybe stand up so I can see. Okay. Okay. I think we've got word three. I think that's good. Let's go with that. Does that sound good? So we have Tara. Actually, when I call your name, just say, just wave your hand so
032that I know that you're does that make is that all right. Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it. This is a good problem to have, obviously, because we have a lot of people who are here to share something that's really important to them. So we're, we're happy that you're here and we want to make sure that everyone has voices are heard. And so I think this will help because you'll still have your three minutes, which is what you have been prepared to do. So, hopefully that will be helpful. So we will have you come up, many of you are here for the first time, so you'll come up here to this to the dais you're going to push on the button that says push to turn it on there'll be a little red light
033so we can tell if it's on. And then you can see we'll have a timer here, so you'll have your three minutes it will count down. So, when you when you get to 20 seconds, I will remind you that your time is coming to an end. I'm not trying to be rude, I just want to make sure that everyone has an equitable amount of time. So that's why I'm doing it's just a reminder you can keep talking when I say 20 seconds it's just a reminder just keep talking right through me. And then also I understand that we have a few people who would like to speak in Spanish we do have an interpreter available for that and those people we will do four minutes, or we will do six minutes. So they will have
034double time just so that we give time for the interpreter. Does everyone understand what's going on. Okay. I also want to remind everyone here who maybe hasn't been here before that when if there's something that's not on the agenda we as board members cannot engage in the discussion or give an opinion on the items that are not on the agenda, and this is because But we may, we may briefly respond or ask clarifying questions of the staff or refer matters for staff to follow up. We will generally do that at the very end. Okay, so we'll just get try to get through as many as we can. And then we'll do that at the very end. Okay, I think we're all good if anyone has any questions as they come up, feel free, and this
035don't be stoned this is I know it's kind of, it's a big deal to come and speak publicly but we're all friends we're all here friends. So just come and be comfortable and we are here to listen to you. Okay. Okay, so we are going to begin and if I if I mispronounced your name please correct me as we come up as you come up. Veridiana Ponce. Okay. Sorry if I mispronounced your name, come on up. Good evening everyone. My name is Veridiana Ponce. I'm the mother of two students at Junction. My family, like many others chose this school because of the dual immersion program. Studies have shown that learning into languages improves cognitive development, empathy, and opens up more opportunities in the future. At Junction, we have found a diverse, united, and committed community
036that has been invaluable to us. Junction is over 73 years old, and many areas show signs of deterioration and lack of maintenance. This, along with what our children have shared with us, motivated a group of parents to walk through the school facilities. During that walk, we found alarming conditions that affect the health, dignity, and educational experience of our children. A report with these findings has been shared with you. We acknowledge that some of the reported issues have been recently repaired, and we are grateful for that. However, many of these actions seem to be temporary or superficial solutions. What we are asking is that the root causes of these problems be addressed, not just the symptoms. For example, ceiling tiles with watermarks were replaced, but we would like to know whether the origin of the problem
037was identified and resolved, and whether the presence of mold was evaluated. Additionally, it's important that all classrooms with the same issue be addressed as well. Our children deserve safe, clean, and functional facilities, as established by the Williams Act. Moreover, students have shown that the condition of the school facilities is related to academic performance, absenteeism, and student health. That's why we respectfully request a throughout inspection of the facilities and for the necessary needs to be addressed. We also ask that Junction be included in the NETSA school bond so that the renovation plans developed in 2022 can be implemented and we can have a well-designed, safe, dignified campus for our students. Thank you for your time and for your commitment to all the students in the district. Thank you. We have Josephina Toledo, and I believe an
038interpreter as well. Okay. And then just just so you know, next we'll have Flory Rodriguez. Okay. I have four daughters who attend different schools in the district. One of them has been in Junction for five years and has been able to see clearly the benefits that it has provided to study here. She can understand, speak, write, and read in both languages, and is even able to translate from one to another with ease. I value this school very much, and that is precisely why I am concerned about the state in which it is located and how this is affecting my daughter. For example, when I pick her up, she comes running to the car asking to go to the bathroom, saying that her stomach hurts from having waited so long. This worries me deeply because I
039feel that my daughter is not safe or comfortable in her school, not even in her classroom. I have had the honor of being a volunteer in almost all the schools in the district. My other daughters usually express positive things about their schools. Good evening, everyone. My name is Josefina. From my experience, Junction is the school that offers my daughter the opportunity to learn two languages. I can say with certainty that studying at a bilingual school like Junction provides immense advantages, both in the short and long term. I have four daughters who attend different schools in the district. One of them has been at Junction for five years, and I have been able to clearly see the benefit that studying here has given her. She can understand, speak, write, and read in both languages, and she
040is even able to translate from one from one to the other with ease. I value this school very much. That is precisely why I am concerned about the condition it is in now and how it's affecting my daughter. For example, when I pick her up, she comes running to the car asking to go to the bathroom, saying her stomach hurts from holding in for so long. This deeply worries me because I feel my daughter is neither safe nor comfortable at her school, not even in her classroom. I've had the joy of volunteering at nearly all the schools in the district. My other daughters usually express positive things about their schools, like how they look nice and are clean. It hurts me that my daughter at Junction doesn't share the same experience as her sisters. I
041would love for her to also be able to say nice things about her school. Junction is a good school because it offers after school activities and many other programs. I just wish that my daughter could feel at home, at school, safe and happy. Thank you. Thank you, Josefina. Now we'll invite Flory. Flory also needs an interpreter, and then after Flory we'll have Rachel Berry. We need to push the button. Yeah, there you go. Thank you. Good evening to each one of you. We are here to request your support so that our school Junction Avenue K-8 can offer our children a healthier and cleaner place. We can join forces and take the opportunity to work for our children with a common goal, so they can receive the same opportunity to learn and enjoy a beautiful school,
042both inside and out. We, the parents, are the voices of our children asking for this help. In advance, we are very grateful for you for considering the hope and the hope and future of our children. Let's go Junction. Yes, we can. Thank you. Thank you Flory. Now we'll invite Rachel Berry, and then after Rachel will be Elizabeth Favela. Oh, not Elizabeth. Sonia Perez. Nope. Okay. After Rachel, we'll have Leonardo. Did I say that right? Okay. Okay, great. Okay, Rachel. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening Board President Purcell, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson and cabinet. My name is Rachel Berry, and I'm here to ask the board to intercede in the district's plan to eliminate the mild moderate SDE program at Joe Mitchell K-8. My son, Cruz Cambruzy, is a fifth grader. He is autistic. He
043is in the SDE program. And he loves being an eagle. When Cruz came of school age we looked at programs in Livermore and we chose Joe Mitchell and moved into the neighborhood to provide crews with the K-8 consistency, so he wouldn't have to face the disruption of switching campuses to a middle school. We now walk to school and the weather is nice. We chose transitions, like what is being suggested, require careful planning, especially for students like Cruz. But in March, the district posted a mild moderate teacher job at Christensen, clearly indicating this move had been in motion for months, yet families weren't told until much later, and I wasn't called until 4-24-25 as a courtesy call. Now we're holding IEP meetings, mine being just earlier today with just a week left in the school year.
044We didn't finish and we'll need to meet again. I also want to correct the record from the last board meeting. The assistant superintendent said that all families were contacted, but that's not true. I know of at least two families in the Cruz's fifth grade class who weren't notified until after I filed the complaint with the school and with the state of California. And I also requested an IEP meeting. Only then were they invited to off-cycle IEP meetings, and that's when they learned of the change. She also mentioned in the informational meeting, but no fifth grade families were invited. I only found out because a sixth grade parent forwarded me the link, and I attended. Until the last school board meeting, I hadn't heard about a proposed field trip to Christensen by anyone from the district.
045This whole scenario and experience hasn't led to meaningful parent participation as the law requires, not including I still haven't been provided a prior written notice as the law requires, and I requested it almost a month ago. I was told the K-8 program isn't ending, just that the moderate 6-8 students at Joe Mitchell are moving to the middle schools, but that does end the only K-8 option in Livermore for special ed students. My neighbor's neurotypical kids can stay through eighth grade at Joe Mitchell. Cruz, because of his needs, would be forced to leave. Well, that doesn't really feel equitable, does it? This may also violate my state protections. Students have the right to remain in the current educational placements during due process. In California, educational placement includes a specific school named in his IEP, and that
046is Joe Mitchell. Please pause the program's elimination. Ask the district to evaluate alternatives transparently and lawfully, followed process. Thank you for your time. Thank you. We have Leonardo, and then following Leonardo will be Eduardo Gomez. Welcome. There you go. Hi, members of the board. And good afternoon. I wanted to say that during the school, when my mom comes to pick me up, I've always been also asking her to go to the bathroom, because in the bathroom, the toilet always gets flooded, and the floor is slippery of all the water. And sometimes I fall down during, while I'm going to the bathroom, and during recess, I just can't, there's no shade, and I have to go under the air conditioners, and some people, when they stand up, they get hit on top of the air conditioners.
047But when they want to go play at the, at the heat, and while I was in the bathroom, I felt down and hurt my head really bad. And my mom had to get, give me like medicine or something for my head. So he had an incident in school where the floors were so slippery from the water that he fell and he hit his head. And we actually had to take him to the hospital just to verify that he had any head injury or anything like that. He has had this, these issues for a while now. We have been informed that sometimes kids aren't let to go to the restroom because there's just too long of a line. There's no doors on the, in the stalls. So some doors don't work, or maybe just one works,
048and so kids have to wait, and then some of the big kids don't let the little kids go to the restroom sometimes. So they're forced to wait until they have to go home. So a lot of kids who are little rush home in order to go use the restroom. I think that's it. That's all we wanted to say. Thank you. Thank you, Leonardo. We have Eduardo, Eduardo Gomez, and then following Eduardo will be Greg Sakamoto. Good evening. How's everybody doing. Okay, I'm a parent for two kids, one in Maryland Elementary and one in Junction K to eight. I would like to propose that the district will support the Junction Avenue's recreation room that has been used for the folkloric dance students, leadership students, and also the planetarium and other activities that has been used for.
049This benefits all of the students in the fact that it teaches them to focus in their artistic careers and goals in life. This school helps students to feel safe and secure and be able to develop and achieve their career goals and be able to be successful in life. These activities prepare them for the future and have a path to work on. We will appreciate the opportunity to in receiving the support that Junction Avenue is in need. One example is that our kids have been going to the folkloric dance classes at Junction Avenue for over eight years now, and have been very educational, beneficial, and has been teaching them to be more respectful, responsible, and be able to be more social. And we will appreciate if Junction Avenue will be able to receive more of the
050funds and the support that it needs to have their classrooms to be more safe. Thank you. Thank you. Greg Sakamoto. Good evening, everyone. I'm a grandparent of, and I take my granddaughter to school every day to Junction. And what I see in the parking lot, in the kindergarten parking lot, it always looks dirty, like the gardeners, they don't spend any time to clean it. The leaves are there, the same leaves, probably there from the year before. You know, leaves fall in the fall time. And it's like, the next year seems like it's the same leaves. Garbage there, weeks, the same garbage for weeks and months, it seems like. It's never, the parking lot never looks clean. Always a lot of leaves and garbage. There's an ACES building next to the parking lot. All the paint
051is peeling off. It's been the same thing since, I think, since kindergarten. My granddaughter's in second grade. It looks pretty bad. And we have gardeners there, and it all seems like they just mow the lawn and just go and blow. But when they're blowing, guess who's there? The kids walking around. I saw one gardener blowing towards two girls, blowing dust and everything. They should not, from 8, between 8 and 830 or 835, they should not be there blowing. Maybe breaking leaves and stuff, but no blowing while the kids are there and parents are there. When I first saw the school, this is a different subject, security. When I first saw the school, I thought, oh, this is the most secure school in Livermore. High fences, no one can break in. But you go to the
052back of the school, it's a different story. There's places with no fences. Right by the ACES building, I thought they were going to put some fence. They just put maybe about a 10-foot section, and there's holes on the left, holes on the right. Neighbors, people who live in the back of the school, they can just come in any time they want. We need fencing to avoid the massacre that they had in Texas, and that could happen any time. This has to be a priority, a number one priority to make all the schools safe. Thank you. That's your time. Thank you. We have Jen Valley. Following Jen will be Sean Megafina, the second. I may have said that wrong. Thank you. Go ahead, Jen. Thank you for hearing us. My name is Jen Valley. I am
053the PTA president at Junction Avenue for the last two years. I have a kindergartner and a fifth grader as well as I'm a small business owner here in Livermore. I looked up the word community today because I feel like that represents Junction really well. It means a feeling of fellowship with others as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. I wanted to just let you guys know a little bit more about Junction as a community versus all the things we're asking for. And I want to let you know that we are a community that at any given day you'll see moms praying together in the parking lot, kids encouraging each other at activities, teachers coming alongside, major life changes. We've had a lot going on at our school just with outside stuff, right?
054Life happens. But I want to assure you of something. We are not just asking and asking and asking. We do the work as well. We as the PTA, with conjunction with a lot of parents and our parent center, has raised more money in the last year than we have in the last five. We've raised $27,000, which does not sound a lot, but it is astronomical for our community. And we also got $16,000 in garden grants for our school garden. We are all about building community. This year alone, we have spent $3,000 on recess equipment, $5,000 in our wellness center, $1,500 to our library, and $4,000 directly back to our staff. I'm saying this because we, our kids, do deserve the safety, the health, everything we're asking for. But it's not us not wanting to put
055in the work also. We are working hard to make our school a safe place, a happy place, and to continue to grow our community. We're just asking for the things that every other school has, and we just want it to be equitable amongst the district, no matter where we live or who goes to our school. I am very passionate about the process, right? I know that not everything is just write the check or fix the stuff. But I do believe that Junction, for a very long time, has this bad rap of being the school that just doesn't get or just gets overlooked. And I don't, we don't represent that. We represent a community of parents and families who just want the very best for our kids. And we are putting our boots in the ground,
056and we're doing the work. And so we're just asking for you guys to meet us halfway. Thank you. Okay, we have Sean. Oh, there's Sean. And then following Sean, we'll have Dee Dee Arenas. Welcome, Sean. Hello. Hola, mi nombre es Sean McGoffna, el dos y yo soy en cuatro grados en Junction K-8. Hi, my name is Sean McGoffna the second, and I am a fourth grader at Junction. First, I would like to express that I love my school very much. Yo amo mi escuela mucho. We have the best teachers and staff, el mejor. However, I'd like to say that the bathrooms at my school are in very poor conditions. And I do not feel comfortable using them during the school day. My fellow classmates and I also do not drink from the water fountains because
057they are sometimes clogged up and they don't appear clean. The water tastes like spoiled pickles, and I do not think that's normal. I came here today to ask the board to please help us fix these issues. We spend a lot of our day at school and should be able to use the bathrooms and drink clean water without any hesitation. Nuestra clase es muy especial y nuestras instalaciones deben reflejar eso. Our school is very special and our facilities should reflect that too. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Wonderful. I feel like there should be a children's book called Spoiled Pickles. Someone needs to write that book. Didi? And then following Didi, we have Dorothy Tebbets. There you go. All right. Good evening, President Puzo and Trustee Bueno, Trustee Caplanes, Trustee Christian, and Superintendent Gibson and
058the cabinet. And congratulations to the high school student representatives on your outstanding achievements. I'm a blessed mom with three very involved daughters in the school district. I happen to be at Junction and even more blessed to have eight grand babes in the school district as well. And I didn't know this was going to be here tonight, but I've been at that school for nine years as a grandparent and very much in agreement with all these requests these parents and students have asked. It is a long time coming. As the school year is coming to a close, I want to share from a grateful heart my appreciation and thankfulness for what I have seen in the dedication and dedication to your your appointed roles that I have witnessed in very many board meetings that I've been
059attending. I have admired your knowledge, your diligence in achieving the goals that you have set, most importantly, your sincere love and care for all the children and their families and the staff of the district. Early in the year, a group of us from Turning Point USA Tri-Valley stood in front of the building and prayed over the city of Livermore, the unified school district, namely each one of you and the schools and for the students and the families and the teachers, and most importantly, the students and their families. We pray to our Father God for his righteousness to prevail and for the truth to be spoken and declared in each of the leadership decisions. We pray that you will observe and obey all the creator's words which he commands you so that it may go well
060with you and our children after you forever when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord our God. My brothers and sisters are thankful for whoever been attending with me here and privileged to come weekly to pray over these meetings. Last evening, our Tri-Valley TPU SA group met again and prayed fervently that you continue to seek the truth and do what is right in the sight of the Lord. We also have many prayer groups and churches doing the same for all of you. I will be sharing a few words prayed by our founding fathers as a recent in even as recent as this past year my pastor prayed in front of the Congress of the United States. I thank our Lord God Almighty Savior Jesus Christ for the privilege of
061sitting here before the stewards of righteousness and confidence over the protection and education of our Livermore Joint Unified School District children. I pray that they continue to seek wisdom that comes from above. As our founding fathers from over 250 years prayed for the unparalleled Constitution to be established as the beacon for our nation to all who seek peace. Many of us freedom loving people still believe and pray for this. As I witnessed the two trustees being sworn in and promised to uphold the Constitution, I was filled with hope that this would continue throughout the year and for the every time you serve in this position. From the words of Mark on the boat that night in the stormy night of the Sea of Galilee, he said, Who is this that even the wind and waves
062obey from God? That's your time. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. Dorothy? Is Dorothy here? Okay, Dorothy Tebbots will then will be followed by Candice Milano. I think you just turned off. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Members of the board, I would like to thank you for your questions at the last school board meeting and continued engagement. I do have some follow up concerning the displacement of 12 special education students from Joe Mitchell School. I feel like there is a lot left unanswered as to any beneficial reason to single out and uproot middle schoolers with disabilities to make room for a TK class. Joe Mitchell is a home these students feel comfortable with, even if it is not their neighborhood. Some have been integrated in the school for seven years. While there
063are other middle schools and we have been able to speak with some of the staff, we feel strongly that this class should stay put at Joe Mitchell School. Stay put is a student's right to remain in his or her current educational placement until due process hearings are complete. In California, special educational placement is defined as that unique combination of facilities, personnel, location or equipment necessary to provide instructional services to an individual with exceptional needs as specified in the IEP 5 CCR Section 3042A. Joe Mitchell School specifically offers a K-8 environment and programs that cannot be duplicated at another site. We also haven't to this date been given any prior written notice. I know these kids and they are happy at Joe Mitchell. As you can imagine, many of the parents from this class are frustrated.
064I am not the only one. While I really appreciate your comments about working with the general ed population, I have questions. How do you soften this? What could possibly be said as to an equitable reason for displacing their disabled friends? How could this affect them for the rest of their life? How will this affect the way they see disabled people in the future? I think this is a valid concern. I also have questions about why other options weren't considered for the TK, including an empty temporary building on district property that I took a picture of, schools that have been previously closed, how long the district know about the new classes. I am very concerned about the lack of due process, lack of transparency and the disparate treatment of vulnerable students. Thank you for your time
065tonight. Since I have a little more time, I want to say that I support the parents of Junction Avenue and my heart is just really breaking to think of kids that can't go to the bathroom at school. And I can't imagine how that would feel to see knowing in my neighborhood, we do have a brand new building. And that's heartbreaking. Thank you. Thank you, Jordan. Thank you, Candice. Candice Milano and then we'll we'll be followed by side. Good evening. My name is Candice Milano and I stand before you tonight with a heavy heart, not just for myself, but for every parent in the Livermore Valley special needs community for the general education and special education students of Joe Mitchell, as well as our teaching and support staff to express our disappointment and sadness and actions
066taken to try and displace my son and his classmates who are students in their mild to moderate STC program. Board members, if you haven't already, please read the letters that were submitted by students in our STC parents so you can hear firsthand how this change will negatively impact them. My son's name is Santiago. He's been attending Joe Mitchell for the past seven years. From an integral part of the school's vibrant community, he has blossomed, fostering profound social interaction and forging invaluable relationships with both his special education peers and his general education friends. This inclusive environment has been pivotal in supporting his social emotional well-being and significantly contributed to his academic progress and overall development. The proposed relocation of his program to a different school could participate significant academic regression. Our students thrive on routine and
067familiarity. They are sensitive to change in a transition of this magnitude has the potential to shatter their learning trajectory and doing years of tireless effort and remarkable progress. While I acknowledge the district's responsibility to ensure the provision of quality special education programs, I must emphasize the district's failure to adhere to our procedural safeguards mandated by the IDEA California Ed Code 5600. This is not a minor oversight. It's a direct breach of our students fundamental right to a free appropriate public education. I also wanted to clear some misinformation that was presented at the last board meeting, which took place on May 6. While not forgetting to give my sincere gratitude to Mr. Bueno and Mr. Vanden Heuvel for pushing back and asking questions to Director Mankie because that was not something Joe Mitchell parents were offered.
068Instead, we received a courtesy call informing us of our children's program would be moved to Christensen without their special education teacher or their para educators. We learned that some of our students classmates were quietly offered an alternative middle school location that wasn't Christensen. This means that the remaining Joe Mitchell students will be forcibly moved to a new school, ripped away from their friends, their classmates, their teachers and those who make them feel safe. This is not an inconvenience. It's a direct assault to their right to a least restrictive environment. In fact, this move is the very antithesis of that. Under the notice of procedural safeguards that possess the undeniable right to participate in the decision making progress concerning my child's special education program. This has been anything but a collaborative effort. There was no discussions,
069no room for conversation, no genuine outreach. There's no private written notice to discuss this change. All efforts rectify the situation were made after parents notify the district of our rights being violated. This is precisely why we are invoking our IDA state put provision to protect our children. That's your time. Thank you. Sy Maiten, welcome. Thank you. There you go. This is Anna. One more time. There you go. Good evening, Madam President, Madam Superintendent, members of the board and the public. My name is Cyrus Matenia, also known as Sy Maten. I am a new member of your district, joined in February of this year as a substitute teacher. I have master's degrees in physics and electrical engineering. And then after working in telecom industry for over 30 years, I have decided to follow my passion and
070join the education members and become a teacher. The information outlined in my paper, which explains my reasoning for doing this change in my career, could not be fit in the three minute time for a speech. Therefore, I have decided to put them in an email and then limit my time here only just for saying thank you. And then to some wonderful individuals from your district, which have provided me with the support, kindness, and generosity during this past few months in my work with your district. The names and then of those honorable individuals are as follows. There are administrators and teachers from different schools that I have been attending, starting with HR department. Honorable Miss Amy Robbins is on top of my list. Miss Michelle Hillgrove and Miss Jenny Arvio. Miss Mary Aragon and Mr. Buster
071Young. From Livermore High School, Miss Roxana Mohammed. Miss Carla Pasquale and Miss Terry Broach. On the Granada High School, I have Mr. Clark Conover. Miss Jennifer Asbicola. Miss Christine Lansin and Miss Haley Edson. Mr. Grace Head. At Christensen Middle School, Mr. Brian Sherman. Miss Michelle Gomez. Miss Senai Yunchoglu. 20 seconds. And Miss Gayle Steinbach. And then from Arreo Chico Elementary, Miss Sophia Rodriguez. So I guess that's my time. I have more stuff, but I will put in the email to everyone. Thank you very much. Thank you. We've reached the end of our public comments. Before we move on to our formal written correspondence, I'd like to ask Dr. Gibson. We had a lot of people here from Junction tonight. If we could maybe get a staff update and maybe a follow-up with some of the
072comments that have been made tonight. Okay. And then just as a reminder to the board, can ask clarifying questions from the staff, but not give an opinion on the matter. So we'll start with that. And then if anyone has any clarifying questions. Yes. Good evening. We have Mr. Glenn Sherman here tonight to provide an update in regards to some of the facility things at Junction Elementary. We also have some information that I think would be helpful just in regards to both the 2016 bond that passed as well as the 2022 bond that did not pass. And the 2024 bond plans that we ended up not moving forward with that I think will also be helpful. So let's just start with that, Mr. Sherman. Good evening, Board President Prusso, Board Trustees, Superintendent Gibson, Cabinet and community.
073I am Glenn Sherman. I'm the Director of Maintenance Operations and Facilities for the Livermore School District. And I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about the information that was just given to you from the folks at Junction. I realized that I was able to go by and look at the school, and I realized it's one of our older schools. And I understand the difference between bond projects and I know there's a lot slated. But what can we do, or is there a plan that maybe we can talk about make public on some of the things that, in my opinion, at the time, they were pretty egregious and I understand. I think when I went through with folks. They were very reasonable. Very, very reasonable to the extent where we'll help work on it
074and I said that we have a really good maintenance and facilities department. Some things might have got overlooked, maybe it's on a checklist. But there's toilets that were overflowing and the bond stuff I get, it might take some bond money to put up shade or to replace buildings. But when the bond failed three years ago, they're left with a very old building with some middle schoolers tend to be a little harder on schools. And so my question is, what is the plan to take care of some of the inequities that's causing disparate treatment at Junction. So, I'm sure all you know that we have a work order system for the district called help desk it and the maintenance department works off the help desk platform. So the site will let us know when they find
075things are broken, things aren't working right. They will bring it to our attention on the work order system. Me and my maintenance manager and my operations manager will look at the work order tickets and assign them out. I received a report that the parents had put together last Wednesday, I believe. I believe Tori gave me that when I went in meeting with her. And so that was the first time I had a look at this information. There were several things that were in the report, I think it was mentioned earlier that some of the things that had been taken care of. Those were things that were on a work order system that we are aware of. There was a lot of things that were not placed on a work order. So if we're unaware, we
076really can't do too much about it. One of the things I've been doing is I go out to our staff meetings and I speak with the staff during their meetings. And I talk to them about work orders, the process, who to contact and let them know, hey, you know, we're humans. We sometimes get the prior rotation wrong. Sometimes someone puts in a work ticket and it's not quite, you know, explained to us to make us go, shoot, we need to go take care of that right away. So we need them to be our eyes and our ears and let us know when we're getting it wrong or something needs to be moved up. And I was at Junction just a school year on October 25th and spoke with staff and I told them, hey, when
077there's a big storm, look at the ceilings, let us know. Are there leaks? Are the tiles getting stained? Because we can't get through every single classroom in space and inspect everything. We were relying on them to pass the information to us through the work order system so that we can get over there and get things fixed. And I've been talking with Principal Garza and we're trying to figure out how we can, you know, fix this. There seems like there's information not being passed well between staff or whether it goes to a person and then maybe they forget to put a work order in. Usually there's a handful of people at a site that puts in a work order system once information is passed to them. It would be the principal, the EA, the head custodian.
078And so there's a little bit of a disconnect there between information getting to us and getting put on a work order so that we can get to the school and take care of things because they shouldn't have things like overflowing bathrooms and such. When we got the report last week, myself and my maintenance manager, Ray Sanchez, walked over to the site and from looking at the report, we came back and put in 13 work orders in the system. That should not be happening. That should be getting put on the system at the site. We were down where that shot us up to 22 work orders for Junction that were pending this morning when I looked at we're back down to nine. And there was only one bathroom at this time this morning and that was
079a urinal that had just come in yesterday. So if we know about it, we're going to get over there and do our best to fix it. One of the things that we have been looking into are the prior planning from the bonds, specifically 2022 and 2024. One of the biggest issues that I see that we will want to work with the Junction community on and I would like to actually start this sooner than later as we are looking at a bond for June of 2026 is the plan for 2022 that did not pass and the plan for 2024 that did not go. Neither of them had a full renovation of that school site, including bathrooms, which is a huge problem. The plan was to build a brand new 70 million dollar building to just replace
080portables. And that was it. The, the school office piece was going to be pulled to the front of the campus further out so it was more viewable to the parking lot that was actually taken off the to do list because of the cost of the building. It's definitely more cost effective right out of the, out of the gate when you have a school that has the conditions of Junction would be to start at completely looking at the modernization of classrooms. The modernization of buildings in the sense of bathrooms, office spaces, the main office parking lot, all of those functions before building a 70 million dollar brand new building. So I think we need to go back to the drawing board from our the bond plans from that have been created back in the day. And
081I think we need to work closely with that community our parents and our staff specifically around what it is that their priorities are. And that's the list that we follow. I think sometimes, you know, we get architects and different people and they they see things differently than we do. And I think it's really important that things like bathrooms and classrooms are where we start. Forgive me if I'm blunt, and I know that I'm not looking to placate anyone. But I want to hear the plan to take care of this stuff quickly. While these kids are still here in the school. I appreciate not. Mr. Sherman I know that you're one of the best employees in the district. I've worked with you personally. It's not an attack on you in any way, and you can't work
082on something that you aren't aware of. And in all fairness to the people that put that to report together, I think it was kind of a collaborative group of parents and supporters and the ladies who work in the lunchroom and there was a whole bunch of people and I don't know their names. They were just there and they walked you through and they were all very humble about it. But in fairness to you guys and the good work you guys do, you can't fix it if you don't know. So we do know, and I do appreciate Superintendent Gibson, the 2026 and there is a plan and we need to work with the community. But I've been a contractor for 40 years. Water jetting some of the sumps in the junior high area where they're shade,
083putting up a temporary shade structure maybe in the back for the kids so the little kids are there seeking shelter underneath the air conditioning units on the portable buildings, because there's nothing back there. And while those things might be long term planning, fixing toilets and sinks. I just want to hear, like, you know, by the end of the school year we're going to concentrate on this summer, whatever we can do, and it sounds like you guys are clearing them like you guys are really making a concerted effort. But I know that it's cyclical and to talk about a bond that's going to pass in 2026. You know by the time we get the money, scope the projects, re scope the projects, get DSA approval, you're three, four years down the road. So, I want to
084see it done. I mean I just want to see that these kids are, I mean it's an old school it's not going to be a brand new school it's not going to be a school that was just constructed different standards. You know the schools what 75 years old I'm gonna get it off, and schools only last so long buildings only last so long. But I think that the community I mean they're. I don't think anyone is over asking here. I think that everyone's just being really nice and kind and very very patient, and they just want to make sure that you know little kids are talking about UTI infections in junior high because they can't go to the bathroom. Thank you for everything you do in the, in the work order process is there a
085way for you to see hey this is a safety thing this is sanitation thing. This needs to go to the top of the, of the list. Yeah, usually as I review my, I make a determination as to the prioritization of the particular work order. Yes. I don't always, there's a part on there where you can assign it as you know what the degree of the priority is, and I don't. Whatever reason I don't really use that feature because I have meetings with my AM staff when they come in and I review them before they get there. I take a look and I see what I need to prioritize things that come in the day before, and I have a conversation with they love it when I come up with sticky notes and I start handing
086them sticky notes of things I need to go. Hey, this just got put in the senior name I need you go there this morning before school starts or whatever the case might be. And then I do the same thing with some my evening folks when they come in. I dispatch someone right away if someone's smelling gas or something like that or just water lake or whatever's going on. So, yeah, so there's a priority system we just kind of see what the information is being given to us and decide, you know how quickly we have to get back to that particular work order. Like, like for instance when you know I hear the, the pickle the spoiled pickle juice. Is there any do you guys do testing of those drinking fountains and we know for sure
087that the water safe even if it may not look that safe. So we have done testing of the drinking water, but the focus was lead testing and water previously. But that's the first thing I've heard of anything of water with a strange taste or smell or anything coming in. Yeah, I will have to, you know, figure out a way working with principal guards us that parents can turn in, I'd like to get feedback from the students is awesome. The students that came and spoke tonight because when I'm sitting here, whether no matter what the reason is I can't stand speaking. So I'm very impressed with the junction I'm like, dang, I wish I could do that. But, uh, yeah. Okay, is the derail me know, I'm sure. Oh yeah, is maybe you know this or
088maybe your, your, your staff reports this back but how much of some of these issues have to do or related to or connected to some vandalism or some discipline issues where things are just shoved down the toilets and there's not enough oversight or things like that. Do you have eyes on that you know that happens no matter what site you're at those kind of things, especially in middle school ages, you know they like to put things in the toilet that don't belong there and stuff so it's not really for particular site we just have those issues you know that come up. But, you know, when I was looking at the report I think the thing that stood out most for me was the drinking fountains whether they look like the dirt and stuff and some
089of that stuff, because those are not something that should be on a, you know, a work order So those should be taken care of by custodian staff that's there so I've talked with her good rear operations manager we got over and cleaned the drinking fountain was like this needs to be on the utilities, every, we know, and their schedule so these don't ever get like this again I was really embarrassed at how those looked. And this is you know also probably not part of a work order. What is your evaluation of your landscaping staff that you know when there's maybe unsafe situations there or things are just not kept up or how does that work. It's, you know, I don't like making excuses it's it's a tough thing with the grounds. We've had some like
090we were trying not to use round up, which was very effective. Weeds are a little bit out more out of control now without round up in use and trying to use different products. And we have eight people to cover a whole lot of territory. And I think, you know, the expectation sometimes can be only need to look like this but really with eight people. And on every given day, if you look at their vacation and sick time and everything else we probably have 6.5 FTE available work every single day to cover 22 sites, 18 of them schools, so it's a it's a tough thing they have just, you know, an unending supply of things to do. You know, like the parking lot, the gentleman spoke about earlier, the leaves in the parking lot and such.
091And for that our work schedules a lot of times. You know they have like maybe an hour before that parking lots full of cars, it's really hard to get in there and clean use blowers and do things but they should not be using their blowers when their students around I'll be having a conversation about that. And then lastly the president of the PTO spoke about we can be part of the part of the solution here. Is there. Have you worked with sites where you go hey we have a work party we do a Saturday we're going to do a whole thing we're going to. Absolutely and we always try to help the garden clubs we try to do that a lot I'm just maybe a week and a half ago I worked at Livermore High
092School from 8am till noon with a group from several churches got together and said hey we want to come clean up the campus and do some work. And knowing with the graduation stuff coming and our community service day that used to be in May got canceled one year because of a storm pushed into September and that's where they've decided to keep it now. And that was huge for us to get in clean the campuses have these extra hands from volunteers to help so. Yeah, but there's there's been several opportunities to go out and, you know, pull weeds pick up trash and stuff. And it's a huge boost you know I picked a little more because of graduation, we have a, you know, several thousand people from the community come in and see people graduate. And
093we want to have our best foot forward when it comes to stuff like that. Let me know when you. I'll help sign up. I'll be there. I do have a question so it sounds like there was a little bit of a communication gap with the work tickets. So, my question is, if, if parents or students have come across an issue. What would be their best method for letting someone know, or you know, so that the work ticket can be submitted. The best practice would be for them to contact someone from the site, let somebody know from the site. But if they're not getting any response like one of the things when I go out to the sites and speak with the staff and say please, here's here's my email who's my phone call me let
094me know. I want to know when things aren't getting done right. Okay, and I'm fine with people from junction, knowing my contact information, so that we can get in there and get things fixed a little bit faster than they're getting done now sounds like So maybe to the site administration, and then, and then they could reach out to you as well. Yeah. Principal guards, I said you know we need to have some kind of thing where the staff needs to know whoever needs to know that when someone comes in and presents an issue and tells you about it. email that goes up to the front office, so that someone could check and make sure that tickets getting put in. I think a lot of times when I go to these staff meetings. I'll go and
095I'll say okay these are the tickets you have in the system right now that are active. They're in the pending process or open process. And they go what about this or what about that I go, if I didn't read it out to you it's not in there. But they're thinking sometimes they told this person or that person the worker got put in and never did. Okay, so maybe some more more education on the process some way to track of whether or not they've been in entered in the system so we can do something about it. Okay. Is there. One of the things I heard in regards to that was that it's difficult once staff puts them in to actually monitor the status of them to get feedback. They, whether they have it in or they
096don't have it in what's the status it's coming in three days. Is there a check and balance where people once they submit it that they could get feedback in terms of maybe a timeline or. Yeah, we're considering it or your request been denied or it's mitigated. So, I've been with junction. They've had those requests of trying to get more information to the teachers or people put in the work order. I've been trying to make sure and hit. There's a section down the bottom where you can hit email. So, it emails the ticket to them again with an update on it, and I'll start working with Ray and, and her to make sure that we're all all doing that and that they're getting the ticket sent back but usually it's doesn't go back to maybe a
097teacher or something usually goes back to the person who put the ticket in, or if they're listed on there, the, if the person puts a ticket and says, you know so and so this teacher wants to know what's going on with this work order and lists or email address. I could then plug in any email address from the site and want to push email, it'll go to them also. Sorry. Thank you for the work that you do and for just answering these clarifying questions. Real quick, just to wrap things up. When can we realistically expect the completion of these projects. And what projects you referred to like the ones in this report. I know there's only two weeks left to school or summer, like, do you think they could all be complete before the school
098year starts. Almost, almost all the things have been addressed that are in the report that I can remember a lot of the ceiling tiles we've gone through and put in work orders for multiple rooms with ceiling tiles we went and inspected that had some, you know, old stains or from the rains of this last season, I think we might need to have a meeting with the parent group behind you who are giving a thumbs down to that just so that it sounds like there's some things that maybe aren't in the report that we're not aware of. I will get that meeting scheduled with this group through Miss Garza ASAP. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I think, I think, thank you. And we can provide an update to to the board. I'll provide an update at
099the next meeting in my report. Yeah, we'll have them a meeting long before June 10 which is our next board meeting. Well, our next one is actually Thursday and that won't happen before then but before June 10 we will go out and meet with that group. Okay, so we'll have someone contact people in this group and have a meet with with the group, and then we'll work, we'll work on some of these communication issues and make sure we can get those things. Those projects going. And then, trustee bueno has a question, not unrelated to not junction thing. So, thank you. This has nothing to do with the junction or facilities. I asked when we talked, we took the action we had a couple speakers, and I had asked the question, relative to the displacement of
100some of the sped kids over at Joe Mitchell, this whole class of kids. And I had asked if there was an alternative if there was a plan if there was an option, and I have not heard of any. And is there, can there be an option to the displacement of these children. I would have to say, we can displace another group of students which we can definitely discuss. It would be a matter of displacing another classroom of students. So we'll we can have that discussion. It's a matter of just whatever the option is. You know I mean if the option is expanded space utilizing a temporary building anything, but if there's options that we could discuss that as a board, as opposed to a group of very, you know, it's a, it's not a shouldn't
101to me this should not come down to It's just you have an established appears. I don't know the children in the classroom, but it appears as though we have a group of established students with special needs at their school, and they built relationships and you know they have different conditions And they're being displaced in their entirety. And so I asked them and I'll ask again in light of the question. Is there an alternative that we could discuss and I don't need the alternative now, but I would like to discuss that to give the these folks some hope that not But some hope that there might be a realistic situation solution to the problem. I just want to remind us as well that we have our other moderate middle school program is at Mendenhall middle school.
102So when the students come into sixth grade, they are being split already has been happening. And that's based on where their homeschool is and by choice as well. So just want to make sure that everybody's aware that while yes we're talking about moving the current program we have two middle school classes currently they're at Joe Mitchell and at Mendenhall. So the students have been going through Joe Mitchell. And then in fifth grade when they transition to sixth grade some of them are going to Mendenhall right now. That would be by their choice. Or in homeschool. Okay, and I think that's the difference is the what was initially communicate Miss Manky to the board was that people were given notice or courtesy calling that there was discussion. And Mike, the clarifying point that I'm seeking is
103if it appears as though people were not given that advanced notice and people were being moved without the choice. And there's a difference in that in that if I choose to send my child from fifth grade to a different campus going in the six. That is a different decision than being forcefully removed from a campus where someone might be thriving. Yeah, I'm happy to have the conversation. Right. I'm sorry I didn't hear. Yeah, can I ask a question about that as well. I, I was really just concerned to hear several parents say, I was not told in well advanced, is there any way that you could inform us or show us like hey this, this all like here's the communication that we started back in the whatever months and months ago to have these discussions
104into, you know, as we saw this big boulder approaching we're going to get crushed under this we've got to come up with a solution. Let's pull these parents in so that we have a discussion we have, we have buy in that doesn't look like, you know, based on some of these public comments doesn't look like that really happened but could you help with that. Yeah, so I did send the board an email that outlined the steps I'm happy to put a timeline together and share that with you all. And a lot of it has to do with staffing the number of students that are enrolling and then also the number of students that are coming into our moderate programs via change of placement or moving into our district, which is why we've added an elementary
105class at Joe Mitchell, as well. So in addition to, I've heard TK mentioned they just want to add that we have added a moderate elementary K five K five program as well so I just, we have added a class there, which is also space issue. But I'm happy to put timeline together. That'd be great. That'd be helpful. Thank you. All right, thank you. We're going to move on to our formal written correspondence, the 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. Please note our board electronic communications received via the Livermore Valley joint unified school district website by accessing the
106formal written course correspondence to the Board of Education link with all fields completed and verified, shall be treated as formal written correspondence. I'd ask trustee Bueno who is our acting clerk tonight if there is any correspondence and if so if he could summarize it for us. Yes, thank you. Districts compiled summaries on for core pieces of correspondence. Tara Lutz, LEA vice president shared a letter that was signed by many of our teachers expressing concern over elementary grade combination classes. Peggy Zoller, a parent, expressed concern relative to the location change of middle school STC class from Joe Mitchell to Christiansen. Junction TK parents requested that district staff address the conditions of the facilities at Junction TK eight something we've covered much tonight. Dorothy Tebbots, a parent, expressed concern relative to the location change of middle school
107STC class from Joe Mitchell to Christiansen. And that would conclude the correspondence received. Before we move to our next item, let's take a short recess and we'll be back at 9pm. Okay, we're ready. Okay. All right, welcome back. We are now on discussion action item 13.1, which is the approval of new and updated courses we're going to invite Mr. Jason Krollikowski to please come forward to present for us. Good evening, Board President Pruso, members of the school board, Superintendent Gibson and members of cabinet. I'm here tonight to present three new exciting courses for approval. Our first course AP seminar, which is typically taken in the 10th or 11th grade is part of the AP capstone diploma or AP seminar and research certificate, both of which are going to be new to Livermore Unified. These programs
108use an interdisciplinary approach to build college level skills in research, critical thinking, collaboration, time management and presentation. Both the capstone diploma and research certificate are reported colleges as AP scholar awards and appear in the AP scholar reports. In this course our students will learn diverse materials to investigate contemporary and scholarly topics through different viewpoints. They will engage in research based approaches to gather information, assess credibility and form well reasoned conclusions. Additionally, they will share their insights through both solo and collaborative presentations divine design to convey their messages with clarity and impact. The next course in the sequence to achieve the AP capstone diploma or AP seminar research certificate is the AP research. Over the course of a year students will explore a self selected subject through an in depth study using credible information and responsible
109investigative practices to guide their work. They will track their growth choices and learning milestones and reflective collection. The experience concludes with a substantial written report paired with creative or practical component and a formal talk in which they will justify and explain their findings. And the last course tonight is advanced placement micro economics. Our students will analyze how people and companies adjust to shifting financial environments by interpreting actual economic trends and forecasting outcomes using economic theories. They will investigate how markets operate folks and key ideas like resource distribution pricing and the effects of competition and limited resources. By working with real world examples and data they will evaluate how economic factors affect choices made by consumers and businesses. The course will involve challenging material and practice with exam style questions and simulations to prepare students for
110the AP micro economics exam. Superintendent's recommendation is to approve all new and updated courses. Thank you. I have no blue cards. Any questions or comments from the board. Yeah, go ahead. Thanks for the presentation and and thank you staff for having these classes come in a question because I welcome these type of classes, you know macro economics these kind of things that kids are always clamoring for. Did we have to bring in teachers or their teachers that drove this so that we have existing teachers, we have existing teachers. Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you. I'd entertain a motion. I move to support super intense recommendation on this approval of the new classes. I second. So we have a motion by trustee Bueno seconded by trustee upon us. Any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk
111trustee Bueno to take roll. Mr. Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Trustee compliance. Aye. Myself I present Prusa. Aye. That motion carries unanimously for zero, with the absence of trustee drew in. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to 13.2. This is our public hearing on the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District and Livermore Education Associations, LEA, the initial sun sunshine proposals for 2526 re opener negotiations. Probably Amy, or is that sorry I don't have it in my notes. Good evening President Pruso Superintendent Gibson members of the board and cabinet. As introduced, we are introducing a public hearing the Livermore Valley Joint Education. Sorry, Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District, and the Livermore Education Association are submitting our 2025 2026 contract re openers for the current collective bargaining agreement between LEA and the district
112which is effective January 1, 2023 through January 30, excuse me, June 30, 2026. The term sunshine proposal reflects an effort to promote transparency and openness and governance and requires organizations to disclose relevant information related to their operations and decision making government code section 3547 requires that the public have the opportunity to express itself regarding such proposals. For this evening, the LBJ USD proposes to sunshine the following articles, Article 21 wages, this article is automatically reopened annually per Article 36. Article 22 health benefits, this article is also automatically opened for Article 20 or 36 and appendix a the LBJ USD calendar pattern, the district has an interest in reviewing the contract language associated with academic calendar patterns. LEA proposes to sunshine the following articles, Article eight work year, which includes appendix a, which is our calendar
113pattern. Article nine workday, Article 21 wages, Article 22 health benefits, and Article 26. This proposal is presented to the board for public input. The board will be asked to formally accept the sunshine proposals from LEA and the district and our next agenda item, which is on tonight's meeting. Okay, does it does the board wish to discuss this item. As president I will now open the public hearing and ask for public comment on this item. If you wish to address the board on this item now is the time to do so. I have no blue cards. No public comment. So the public hearing is now closed. Okay, now we're going to move on to 13.3, which is our sunshine proposals for 2526 contract reopeners. Article 13.3 point a is the approval of the Livermore Education Associates,
114associations proposal to LBJ USD for the 2025 2026 re opener negotiations. Again, those articles that LEA is bringing forth tonight to sunshine are Article eight work year, which includes the calendar pattern, Article nine workday, Article 21 wages, Article 22 health benefits and Article 26 leaves. It's the recommendation of the superintendent to approve the Livermore Education Association's proposal to LBJ USD for the 2025 2026 re opener negotiations. I have no blue cards any discussion. If not, I would entertain a motion to move and support a super intense recommendation on this side. I second. We have a motion by trustee Bino seconded by trustee Kaplanis. Any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk to take roll. Trustee Ben and Hubel. Aye. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. Myself. Aye. President Prusso. Aye. Sorry. Aye. Motion carries the motion carries
115four zero in the in the absence of trustee drone. Sorry I'm trying to eat and drink and talk at the same time. I'm fine everyone I'm fine. All right, let's move on to the next item and stop talking about me 13.3 be 13.3 point B is the approval of the Livermore Valley don't unified school districts initial proposal to the Livermore Education Association for the 2025 2026 re opener negotiations. Again, our articles that we're bringing forward tonight are article 21 wages article 22 health benefits and appendix a the calendar pattern for the district. With that it's the recommendation of our superintendent to approve the Livermore Valley don't unified school districts initial proposal to the Livermore Education Association for the 2025 2026 re opener negotiations. I have no blue cards. Does the board wish to discuss this
116discuss this item further. If not, I would entertain a motion. I move in support of the super intense recommendation on this item. I second. We have a motion by trustee why no seconded by trustee Kaplanis any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk to take role. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. Trustee. Aye. Myself I present. I that motion carries unanimously for zero with the absence of trustee drew in. And now we'll turn the time over to Dr. Tori Gibson for 13.4 which is the approval of LVJ USD enrollment Street Guide. So with this item there are no updates to what we are currently following for a street guide. What we determined is that in October of 2022 there was a boundary change added that is the crochet Altamont Creek Elementary School boundary that was not in
117place. And there were there was kind of this what I'm going to call the DMZ area that was gray that nobody really knew where they were supposed to go to school and so everybody just kind of did as they pleased. So in October 2022 that boundary was drawn but we realized and it was brought to our attention that that boundary guide the street guide never came to the board for formal approval. So this is just requesting formal approval of the current boundaries that we use to place students in their neighborhood districts. As of today. I have no blue cards. Any questions or discussion on this motion. This is a point of clarification for someone looking at this. This is simply codification of existing practice. It's not an expansion or change in any other method. That
118is correct. And we still, I mean it was requested to be agendized at some point, the discussion about Lawrence. That's not part of this that's not germane to this. That is correct. That's a really good question. So I wanted to get this approved first so that in the fall then we can start that conversation. I want to make sure that the board has approved what we currently are using which also outlines that Lawrence does not have any streets attached to it. Correct. That is correct. And this is not a change in practice from our open enrollment although most kids go to their home school. That is correct. Thank you. The only real open enrollment school that we have is Lawrence technically. That's fully open. But the practice of open enrollment in the district where some
119kids will live on one side of town and go to school. It's very few. Correct. But we've embraced that. There's no change to that. This is simply codification of something that is practice relative to a single site. It's cleanup so that we can take the next step. Correct. Yes. So we can have the next step with Lawrence specifically. But I think also philosophically we're going to need to have the conversation about the open enrollment concept for everyone because that does pose some of our issues for some of the splits and some of the other factors that we have in place right now. So that will all happen first thing in August in the fall. I have a question. So we're not out of compliance currently even though this was never an approved map because we
120have the open enrollment. Is that how? Correct. Correct. It's just our board policy state that the board is supposed to approve any boundary change to a school site. We can't find evidence of that since October 2022. So as Trustee Blano said it's really cleanup. But being in compliance now does not mean that now, for lack of a better term, because I'm super creative, that now there's students that are out of compliance because they're not going to the school that we've that they're right because they're still open enrollment. Right. So that's a good question. So there's a difference between an intra district transfer and an inter district transfer. And intra means that they live within our boundaries and they want to go from one of our schools to one of our schools. And inter has very
121specific legal requirements that requires that the exiting school district and the incoming school district approve that. And the reason for that is because the incoming school district is taking away ADA from the exiting school district. So those rules are a little bit different. So this has no impact on the inter district transfers. It doesn't even have an impact on the intra district transfers. It really just does a cleanup as Trustee Blano asked of what our current practices of where we're placing. So if a parent calls and says this is my address, regardless of what's online, we say, oh, Croche is your school or Altamont is your school. And that that's how this was brought to our attention to begin with. Because we also do not fund our schools based on their ADA, correct? No, it's
122all the same pot of money. Thank you. Yeah. Well, schools do get that's a whole other conversation. But yes, schools do get their site funds based on ADA from us. But it's all from our same pot of money. Got it. It's like your children's allowance, I guess, is the way to look at it. I appreciate the cleanup because it just sounds like Altamont just never had it established. But we know what it is. There's a practice, but not a standard. Correct. OK, so it's just we just want to make it very clear. Doug, who the demographer who did our by trustee area, he was so gracious. A huge thank you to Doug. I'm sure he's watching with the thousands of people watching our board meeting. I'm sure he's watching from Southern California, but he graciously
123did these maps for us at no charge. And he's willing to help us as we go through the discussion in the fall. I want to have that conversation with the board about maybe possibly bringing him in to help us really look at the size of each school and the boundaries and different different functions, which is a really good practice to do about every. I'm going to ask Miss Wasley what 10 years or so to kind of look at those practices of boundaries and school sites. So that that'll be coming in August. Separate conversation. Yes. All right, I'd entertain a motion. I move to approve the LBJC enrollment street guide for superintendents recommendation. I second. I have a motion by trustee Vanden Heuvel seconded by trustee Kaplanis. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk
124to take roll. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Myself. Aye. President Prusso. Aye. That motion carries unanimously 4-0 with the absence of trustee Druitt. We'll now move on to 13.5, which is the authorization to purchase and install Verkata security cameras and we'll invite Miss Kayla Wasley to explain that to us. Good evening. I'm bringing forward to you a proposal to purchase and install Verkata security cameras and badge access system utilizing what's called a PEPM Cooperative Procurement Program. So PEPM is a program that does piggyback contracts. So Verkata as well as DGI have entered into a contract with Kern County Superintendent of Schools and Verkata and DGI for the installation of Verkata products. And so utilizing this contract, we're able to obtain pricing that has already been bid out and fully vetted through a contract
125and bring that forward to you for install. Mr. Sherman has been trialing out these products, both the badge access, which is like a key card access to buildings as well as the security cameras. This spring, as we have aging badge access systems as well as several camera systems that need replacement. And so going through this process, Verkata is a very well performing program and it comes with a 10 year license for all of the badge access as well as the security camera software. It's a cloud hosted service, so it will minimize the staff time to maintain our servers that currently host all of our camera footage as well. And so the cost of this project is $2.68 million and will be paid from Fund 35, which is our state reimbursement funds that we've received for
126previous bond projects. And so with that, I request approval of this proposal. Okay, I have no blue cards. I have a question by Trustee Buena. You mentioned that this was paid for out of which fund? Because it seems like that changed from the last time it was presented and we pulled it. Fund, Fund 35, which is our bond. So typically, so how it works typically I might have had fund 21 but now as we've looked at our balance of fund 21 which is our bond facility funds and Fund 35 we're receiving more funds into Fund 35 this year due to reimbursements from the state. So, the balance of that. Those funds are going to be held in Fund 35 and so that's the funding source. What is, can you define or can you explain those
127funds. Yes, so fun 35, as well as bond funds can only be used for the items called out in the measure j ballot language for the bond and so that covers security systems for all of our sites. And so that is how this is eligible both for either bond funds or our state reimbursement funds the state reimbursement funds we receive as matching funds for eligible projects and so we have completed eligible projects through our bond fund and we are now receiving those reimbursements for completed projects. Okay, so this isn't the money we previously described the developer fee money that came in. It isn't that money correct we will be using that money for either TK renovate classroom renovations or bathroom renovations. Okay. And so this is the match money that we got. Miss McNeely is
128department work pretty diligently to collect this. The fun kept drying up at the state level multiple times was going other places. Governor change, we were able to get the money, and this is some of the money that we were able to. What was the initial amount that we got. So we qualified for that separate from the 25 million that we got for the steam Academy. Great question. I believe we received approximately $40,000 in state reimbursements. In the last several years we're receiving another 16 million this year, and I believe we received 40, he said 40,000 40 mil I'm sorry 40 million. Yeah, thank you. Okay. I want to say there was there was talk it kind of moved the needle kind of move because the state ability to pay but I want to see it
129was around $55 million. It was about 55 million or something like that. Yeah, I'd have to pull records on that of how much we've received total. Okay, so the 60 or 60. I would have to pull the records. Okay, the stuff that we're putting in, and it helped me explain because I was here when we went to card readers. And I was here when we upgraded our security cameras. Is this in addition to what we have, or is this removing what we have and wholesale changing security card readers and cameras. Largely removing everything that we currently have there are some systems that have been put in place through bond projects that we are remaining because they are still in good working condition but for the most part it is replacing all of our existing cameras
130to then be a cloud based camera, and then all of our batch access systems which are no longer fully functioning at this point in time is any is any element of the replacement, due to the relationship or the canceling of the relationship we had the quarterly or quarterly or annual, you know, monitoring. So, my question would be a no doubt with technology is going to be better, and I trust Mr Warner is going to get a super good stuff. But how do we this other stuff I don't think that it's probably out of life I mean it was, it's not the technology ages out quickly, but cameras and things like that. I mean, it was within, it was our last bond that put some of that stuff in. And so I'm wondering, does that stuff
131go can it be redundant, or is it simply that we don't have sauna troll. And so, a lot of this stuff just doesn't work. A lot of it because we no longer have sauna told most of it does not work. Okay. The new this new system one of the benefits of this new system also is that the police department will have access to every single camera, all the time in their TV room, the war room whatever they call it over there, where all their monitors are, so they will have that up, they will have access at all times so at any moment when we call in their dispatchers can immediately pull up they can see what's happening at a site, any camera that we may have. We also did work diligently with principles to find
132out where your blind spots where things where you want extra cameras. This contract is also good for any issues that we have for 10 years. For what 10 years. Along those lines. Are there any changes to like our policy around what we cover with cameras you know I mean like we want to do more around hallways or maybe see more around areas that we've decided in the past that we don't necessarily for for for fear of privacy violations we don't need the teachers to be on the, whatever it is, is there any changes to the policy around that, based on what we're getting. There will never, we won't have any any cameras in classrooms clearly in bathrooms. It's mainly parking lots hallways indoor hallways, those types of functions better coverage probably a lot better coverage.
133Excellent. And what I'm sure this is also part of the current system but what do we do in case of an outage, and we want to, you know, and power outage I mean, can you still get in, can you still get out, I mean you can get out I'm sure you can out. Can you still get in can we all of our doors for the badge access also have keys. Okay. So that is just that so that's our redundancy of having more old fashioned ways of getting into our buildings. But with the card slides, you. It does two functions. So if you had a power outage, you know some of them are mag locks. Some of them. I mean it's a good question because sometimes, you know you had the old system had keypads for
134the alarm. The powers out. No, they're on battery backup. I don't think so. Well, but if sometimes they do go down at times and so if that happens and the battery backup isn't up and running I mean lots of things have happened, then we have other types of keypads and different things that that turn them off so I, it's the same type of system as what we've always had. In that sense, with some added benefits. Yeah, right. I mean you want this stuff safe and I know we don't discuss it completely fully because security reasons and plans and things like that. But I do have some concern, because some of the things you mentioned. They're very favorable and but they were the same things were said just a few years ago maybe three or four
135years ago I'm bad with dates but it wasn't six. When we put in the card readers and cameras and full vision and we'll be able to pull them up on the iPad and the principal can watch them and we have direct links to the police department all those things were said when we just put them in and very short order. It seems like some of this stuff is simply as the sonatron issue or the monitoring issue. Yeah, I'd be happy to have a discussion with you off record for security reasons that there are these are not top this is not a topic that I can discuss any further in that length of what you're specifically asking for for security reasons, but I'd be happy to talk with you up to me. Yeah, yeah. I entertain
136a motion if there are no other comments or questions. Do you support the superintendent's recommendation to approve the PPP and contract. I second that motion. We have a trust. Sorry, we have a motion by trustee Kaplanis seconded by trustee Vanden Heuvel. Any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk to take role. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Hi. Trustee Kaplanis. Hi. Myself. I that motion carries for zero with the absence of trustee drawn. We'll now move on to 13.6, which is the award of contract for summer roofing projects. Their teamwork. Oh, right. Oh, sorry, Kayla. Good evening again. So, bringing forward for you approval of our award of contract for something roofer. Roofing projects. So previously, we requested authorization to bid out this project in March of 2025. Our request for proposal was issued on March 26
137with proposals due by May 1 on May 6, you approved the lowest responsible bidder who was a and I contractor Inc. And so bringing forward to you today approval for the final contract. I have no blue cards. Any questions or comments. If not, I would entertain a motion. I just have a comment. Sure. Go ahead. With the roof working is a significant amount of work. We've run into this a couple of times. Not that long ago, maybe five or six years ago we had a very large project at crochet I believe it was one of the newer schools metal roof was a bad design. Some of these roof issues might be able to mean there's age, but there might be a maintenance component and listening to Mr Sherman tonight and listening to amount of resource
138you have in terms of people power and dividing that by our campuses, as your facilities age, you need the maintenance goes up. Conversely, when you have brand new facilities you pass a bond, your maintenance goes down. So it's hard we've talked about punch lists and summer inspection lists and things, but it's hard to get to the work we use private contractors and things, but a recommendation when we're doing this amount of rough work. I mean it's a thing it's about a million and a half dollars worth of rough work and it just repairs is that maybe we look at assisting Mr Sherman, so that he can, you know, whether it's positions I know the budgets tight. But you know you spend a nickel and you save $1 it's a good investment. And these are significant
139failures, and you listen to the folks here at junction tonight with leaky roofs and things some of those are portables with flat roofs, but the ones that aren't that might be designed or there might be valleys that are filled up. I think with any one of us could drive by almost any school and see weeds growing out of the gutter, but it requires three guys to get up there and ladder it and bring out a, you know, a lift that maybe we have to look as a district to additional support towards Mr Sherman's group. I truly believe in the guy. He's done remarkable work here, but you can only do so much with the hand that's in front of you so absolutely. Yes, my long term goal working with Mr Sherman and his team will
140be to work on our five year deferred maintenance plan to help us better get in front of some of these issues as well as determine kind of staffing needs as well and help us in our long term planning for our facilities for our maintenance and upkeep of it because it is minimum funding that we have for any maintenance work because it is a contribution from our general fund to ourselves for maintenance deferred maintenance and routine restricted maintenance, but it will be working with that trying to project and foresee kind of in the future and help better maintain our buildings, and he has done a fantastic job and I know that there's just been limited resources, and it's kind of figuring out as bond funds are running out. What is our next plan and what is
141our next step for ensuring that we have safe and appropriate facilities for all of our students. And I appreciate that. It's just one of the things that when you put two items right next to each other, when we're replacing cameras that were replaced just a couple years ago. Yeah, there's a need, we're going to spend two and a half million dollars and then we have systems that are failing, because, largely because of lack of resources not lack of care, the people care and they want to do they just don't have the resources so it would be nice to move funds from funds that we have to help better support Mr Sherman's group. I move to approve the award of contract for this roofing project to I and a contracting Inc. Second, we have a motion
142by trustee Vanden Heuvel, seconded by trustee Kaplanis, any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk to please take role. Trustee Kaplanis. Hi. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Myself. Aye. President Russo. Aye. This motion carries for zero unanimously with the absence of trustee drew in. We'll now move on to our consent items. There are 12 consent items on the agenda this evening. There's any that the board would like to discuss we can do that now, otherwise we can have one, just one question. I just want to see where this one's at. I just perusing through them and I know it's, there's a lot of these, but I saw one in there that had, I tried to look at either large ticket ones that we don't know, get explanation. But I saw it's in purchase orders and
143it had it's a board supervisor superintendent one. I didn't know if it was like a reimburse or something from like CSBA. I just wonder what that one is. It's, I'll try to find the number. 25-04663. It's a small one, but it had us on there. The last time I saw us on there was like for iPads or something when we changed some technology. On the warrant. Let me see. Purchase orders dated 41 through 430. Can you repeat the number again? I'm sorry. Let me see. 25-04663. It's just a little under 6,000 bucks. And it was the only one on there that had the board. So maybe it's something else and it's not the board. It's like, let me see. 25-0466. Let me try to scroll down to it. I think it's on page six. There
144it is. Page six. It says seven sisters or something. Soup and board. Is that like CSBA? Oh, no. That is actually, I should actually say soup and cabinet. That is for, that is out of the superintendent's gift account. And that is for our summer meeting offsite. Okay. So it's not board. We'll correct that. No, it's not board. We'll make that correction. Okay. So when somebody makes a motion for this, do it with the correction of that being fixed to superintendent cabinet. Okay. All right. No other questions. I just, I think you'd want to say it out loud that I'm glad to see that. Or hear that we're talking about schoology and maybe how we're going to replace it with something maybe better. That's not through power school since we're, you know, spending another $81,000 and
145something that we don't really like all that much. So that would, that's great. That's great. I'm glad that we mean we can't not vote on that today because it's takes a long time to roll out a new product. But if there's something better, let's go. That is in regards to the schoolgy. Yeah. Yes. We will be looking at other options coming up. Let's see. Ready. Yeah, I'm trying to get that. I'm trying to get that. It's stuck. Okay. Yep. I move to move the consent items, one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven in their entirety with the amended to a purchase requisitions for item number 25-04663 for seven sisters rentals to amend to say, Superintendent and cabinet. I second that motion. So we have a motion by trustee Bueno, seconded by trustee. And an
146oval. Any discussion on the motion. I'd ask our clerk to take role. Trustee Ben. Hi. Trustee compliance. Hi. Myself. Hi. Hi. That motion carries unanimously for zero with the absence of trustee drawn to go to our board reports. We'll begin with trustee Kaplanis. Okay. I'll try and go quick. Since our last board meeting, I was able to attend the district to retirement ceremony. I think all the colleagues were there as well. And site visits to Joe Mitchell and junction junction. I was able to walk the campus with Miss Garza and she pointed out some of the things listed on that report. So got to see it firsthand. I got to attend the GHS LHS baseball and softball games, which are very exciting and very close games. I attended the LHS orchestra performance. The Joe Mitchell
147eighth grade IB community project presentations were very impressed. It was exciting. If you guys didn't get a chance to do that. The Pedro Z award ceremony, the junction Avenue spring combined orchestra concert. I guess they won an award last year and I could see why they're really talented. I caught the tail end of the CSCA award celebration. I attended the Jackson Avenue carnival last Friday. And then the Livermore Granada boosters Olympian awards dinner. And then just lastly, a big congratulations to our graduates and retirees. I hope you guys are abundantly blessed in your future endeavors. Thank you. Trustee Bueno. It was mentioned by Gabe Benitez tonight, but not to be overlooked. And I don't think you can say it too many times. Brooke Bennett won the 500 freestyle champion in the state of California, where
148we educate one in eight kids in this country. Isaiah Silver took a fifth in the IM. Oh, and the 500 was the freestyle. The AD I talked with her and get 13 state qualifiers. And one of the things that's significant about that, having coached at that school for 20 years. Is the investment that the community made in our aquatic centers and in our facilities. And we're seeing direct benefits of it. We had a basketball team just a couple of years ago that played for the state championship division one. Coach Willis at Granada High School was coach of the year out of a public high school winning the state championship. You know, you've got remarkable accomplishments coming from these kids because the community supported him for a bond effort. And the district brought in Kim McNeely
149to manage that bond. And we've done remarkable work in our kids. As we said, those were transformational projects and we're seeing the transformational progress in the kids now. So as a community, we should be looking at this and it's just it's amazing things. And it's going to bring out obviously some of the disparities between schools that haven't been improved. And that wasn't intended. It's an unfortunate circumstance. But we can't lose sight of the fact that the students in Livermore are reaping the benefits from community support for public education. I was able to go to the Olympian Award. The Olympian Award for those maybe watching or that might watch this. That is a very prestigious awards and academic athletic award for the top female and male athletes at the two schools. And the kids that were
150considered were Delaney Amura, Sofia Bertolo, Kaitlyn Broglin, Gabe Benitez, our very own, Noah Blake and Hayden Hobbs, Sofia Garocchi, Melania Island, Gabe McChing, Matthew Benson, Chandler Smoke and Diego Valverde. I had to be partial that I had a couple of sons that actually won that award two consecutive years. It's a it's a it's a big deal. And those kids, I can tell you that Clark Conover won that award way back in the day. And they tend those kids tend to continue to give back to the community. And they've been giving that award here since, I believe, 1958 when they started at Livermore High School. So congratulations to those kids for even being considered. Thank you, Trustee Vanden Heuvel. That's really cool. I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere. I'm not going to sing it. So
151I went to the LHS Instrumental Music Concert at the Bankhead, blew me away. So good. And so we give them Miss Wasley, we give them a whopping three thousand dollars a year, and they run that whole program, just really based on community donations. And it's so cool to see everybody rally to get all the funding. Ninety seven percent of the funding comes from from outside the school. And it is just really remarkable college level type of arts, just wild. Also went to several school open houses, ran around all the classrooms, saw covered wagon desks, just amazing. And then I got lost in the steam lab. It had to be pulled out of there because it had already been seven o'clock and the teachers wanted to go home. But it was really just amazing stuff that
152we that kids get to interact with and use tools that will prepare them for the future now. And it's just really, really cool stuff here in Livermore. The retirement reception that LMA put on was amazing. I joined the superintendent and board at the LHS farm tour and was blown away by the work that Mr. McNeely puts in to that. Yes, yes. It's just it's so it's it's such a great program and it's so hidden almost, you know, because it's on the other side of the freeway. I just loved it. If you have never heard about it, go check that out. I joined the principal Jones at a PTO meeting at at Jackson, which is really fun and really great to interact with parents there. I popped into this letters PDC PLC PLC that would know
153what to call. Let's go with that. Yeah, thank you. Look at me. I was there for maybe 20 minutes and walked through 50 activities. I don't even know to do and to and to learn and and these teachers were so involved. And so it was I was so impressed. And the the next level or these really cool ways to teach teachers how to best teach reading to these students was phenomenal. I just there's more stuff on here. All these amazing things we're doing here in Livermore. And I'm super proud to be part of this. Thank you. Thank you. I was also able to attend the retirement reception, the TV ROP board meeting. And I was at the NCS swim meet and saw some of these amazing swimmers be able to do so well. Their competition.
154So many of the swimmers cut time and it was just really incredible. And as Gabe mentioned and trustee Bueno, we did have many swimmers who qualified for state, which was very exciting. Also able to attend the Pedro's Foundation scholarship, one of my favorite events to see all the different diverse students and where they're going to be going to school. And so great of the Pedro's Foundation to offer these scholarships, so many scholarships for students in our community. I attended the senior awards night at Livermore High School and also the LHS LHS farm tour. Livermore also had their senior ball last weekend, so got to experience senior ball with my daughter, not, not to the ball, just the prep, the prep. We started early in the morning, a lot of prep time. And then as everyone
155else, also the Livermore Granada boosters Olympian banquet, which was last night and just as everyone also mentioned, truly an incredible event with some just amazing student athletes. And because, because this is our last board meeting before graduation, I hope you will indulge me, I have a little bit of something to say. And I'm definitely not going to get emotional. 25 years ago this month I became a mom. I remember the immense adjustment motherhood was for me. Yeah, once I surrendered myself to the role I leaned in and met its challenges head on. I had four kids and six years and for five years of my life, my niece and nephew also lived with us. We had six kids afford a Connelly nine passenger van and one bathroom. I immersed myself in classroom activities site council
156rep and room mom, my life was often overwhelming and exhausting, but there were so many moments of joy pride and happiness as well. In 2016 my niece graduated, and over the next few years our family rapidly went from a family of eight to our current family of three. Our youngest daughter Jane is a senior at Livermore High School. The day her sister moved to college she created a text thread with herself, my husband and I named the empty nesters. It is unfathomable to me that in a few short months our household will truly be empty. When my daughter Alice graduated from eighth grade. I wrote this in my journal. Sometimes I wish a little golden bell followed us around and would ring for all of our last, the last time you pick up your little
157one while they're still little enough to hold the last time you see your high school friends, the last time you hug your dad. Some of those moments don't need a golden bell. Today was our last week last walk to school for the three of us. Next year Alice will be in high school, and I realized this week will never all walk to school together again. Some changes are harder than others, at least Jane and I have two more years of walking to school. And now here we are, a few short six years later, and the little golden bell is ringing its heart out. Next week will be my last high school graduation. Sorry. I am equal parts excited and equal parts sad. And I just wanted to thank LVJ USD and the community of Livermore
158for making our school experience what it was. It wasn't always perfect, but it was good enough for a little big family. They say that when raising kids, the days are long, and the years are short. They are right. And finally I have some advice for the parents of the class of 2039. Our new TK class. My advice is, don't blink. Thank you, Dr. Gibson. I have to follow that. Seriously, well, I'm just going to talk very, very briefly. And if you don't know Jane Perusso, I am going to miss Jane so much. She's one of the first students I met when I got here and we are such besties and I can't wait to see all of her college adventures. She's such a gem. So she's been a huge joy for me to get to
159know. So thank you for sharing her with me, Emily. Quickly retirement reception was amazing. I'm going to do the things that have already been mentioned. LHS farm. If you haven't been there, please go see it. It is fabulous. And we are going to start highlighting all the amazing things that our kids are doing, starting in a couple of weeks with the parade. The perjury scholarship event. A huge, huge thank you to Carolyn and her staff. What they do every day for our students from fifth grade on up is truly remarkable in this community. And what our community does and giving back if you saw how many students received a scholarship that night, it is overwhelming. A couple of events that I attended that haven't been mentioned. We had our last PCIC meeting and what a
160great group of parents it is to see every month when we come together. We meet once a month for lunch from 12 to two. We do some sort of training with them and then they do a quick look around around what they're doing at their sites for different things and they have a lot of collaboration. It's a ton of fun. The Rotary Education Educator and Principal of the Year event. Mrs. Pichette and I had the honor of attending that with our staff. So one teacher from every school site and a principal are nominated and are awarded from the Rotary Club. And it was a really wonderful experience to see those teachers and the one principal honored. I'm really looking forward to next week. The madness of the Livermore graduation extravaganza that happens here. I am
161super excited. It's the culmination of what makes us all come every day to work when times are tough and things are long days and different things. But to see the accomplishments of our students and the smiles of parents and families as they make those accomplishments is truly why we all do what we do every day. So next week, I'm very excited to participate and be there. I wish I could clone myself or have every ceremony be on a different day because I would attend every one of them if I could. So if I'm not at yours this year, I will attempt to get there next year and so on. So thank you so much. Thank you. So our next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held this Thursday, May 22nd at the district office beginning
162at 930 a.m. And then Tuesday, June 10th. Here also the district office open session will begin at 7 p.m. This meeting is now adjourned at 957 p.m.