5.6.25 Board Meeting

001Well, okay, good evening. Welcome. This is our, for me, our most exciting board meeting because we have so many visitors who are smiling. We love that. So keep smiling. This is really exciting. This is our May 6 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, and it is 7 p.m. Please be advised that our board meetings are televised on local channel 28 on Wednesday and Saturday evenings and on Monday, Friday and Saturday mornings. All of the actions that we approve in closed session

002must be reported out in open session, so I'd like to ask Trustee Vanden Heuvel if he could please report out. During closed session, the Board of Education took action regarding a stipulated expulsion for Student J. The board voted unanimously in favor of the superintendent's recommendation to approve the stipulated expulsion recommendation of Student J. Thank you. Now we are going to invite, I believe we have some Joe Mitchell students with us, if we could invite them to come forward to help us in our Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, I believe we can officially say that was the best Pledge of Allegiance. We've had this year. I think we can unanimously agree on that. So I'd ask Superintendent Gibson if there are any changes to the agenda. No, there are not. Okay, now we're going to move

003on to our favorite part of the meeting, which is our recognitions, and I'm going to invite Mrs. Mrs. Good evening Board President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson, cabinet and community. I am Danielle Mackey, the proud principal of Joe Mitchell TK8 IB School. At Joe Mitchell, we are proud to have a student led initiative called the Green Team, launched last year by a passionate group of elementary students. The Green Team meets regularly to discuss and implement projects aimed at making our school more environmentally friendly. This initiative started last year when a couple of students want to make the school a cleaner place to learn. They asked Mr. Walker, if he would be their advisor. They started small with a few ideas as a group as excuse me as the group grew. They made a

004handbook, organized lunch helpers voted in officers and created a slide deck that they presented to me. This year our district has a green initiative. So at Joe Mitchell this effort is growing. Miss Martinez, who is part of that group, made signs to inform the students, which waste can they can put their garbage in and trained the students. Mary helps them during lunch to place items in the right can our head custodian Amelda has a team members of this Green Team that stay after lunch to help clean up the NPR. The Green Team is a powerful example of what it means to be an IB student in action. Their work reflects the essence of student agency, taking initiative, making informed decisions and leading with purpose. Developing agency is at the heart of the IBs mission to

005nurture active, compassionate and lifelong learners. When students are empowered, they become more engaged, motivated and capable of transferring their learning to real world challenges. The Green Team exemplifies this by turning ideas into action and demonstrating that young people can make a meaningful difference in their communities. As you can tell, we are very proud of our Green Team for their efforts. Together they are working hard to make a positive impact on our school and community by promoting sustainability, conservation and environmental stewardship. Our students are supported by a dedicated team of adults who help guide their efforts. When I say your name, put your hand up okay. Mr. Walker fourth grade teacher he's the advisor. Ms. Hilda our head custodian. Ms. Martinez who's a third grade teacher but I don't believe she's here tonight. And Mary Burbano

006who's a yard duty staff she also helps in this effort. Okay students it's your turn. I'm going to say your name and please raise your hand. Okay. Ella. Ivy. Lily Shaver. Priyanshi. Anaya. Mia. Ishi. Kenzie. Oh I hope I say this name right. And Ananya thank you. Ananya. Lucy. Ryan. Sienna. Lily J. Kaylee. Angelus. And Sophia. Thank you to all the grownups too for their support. That's a good group out there. For Odyssey. There you are. I was like where's Mr. Connor? Okay. Thank you to Joe Mitchell. Now we're going to turn the time over to Mr. Chris Connor who is going to recognize the Science Odyssey Award recipients. Good evening Board President Purcell, Trustees of the Board, Superintendent Dr. Gibson, Cabinet and members of the community. I'm Chris Connor, Director of Elementary Education and

007it is my honor to recognize your students this evening. We were so impressed with their young scientists and engineers at this year's Science Odyssey. Our students shared their curiosity and passion for science. They explored real world phenomena, asked awful questions, generated hypotheses, created well organized experiments, designed innovative engineering projects. And on top of all of that, they also confidently presented to the judges all of their phenomenal work. So without further ado, please join me in a massive round of applause for our wonderful students. Okay. Science Odyssey is a point of pride for our district. For over 20 years, we have come together as a community to celebrate our collective curiosity and appreciate our incredible students. This year was no exception. We had over 400 students from elementary and secondary schools participate in the Science Odyssey.

008And this is about 100 more students when compared to last year. Here are some photographs. You can see it's much more than just science. We have our high school jazz ensemble providing entertainment. You know, as well as the student projects, we have local organizations that provide interactive exhibits, and that just adds to the celebration of science and engineering. And here's some more photographs of our students winning awards, presenting their projects, and on the right hand side, they're exploring one of the interactive exhibits. Now, let's recognize our phenomenal students. We have Best of Show awards in grades one through 12, and this will be followed by our special awards for behavioral science, innovation, water, the environment, the trashing show, and the art logo contest. Students, this next part is for you. When I call your award

009category, please walk up to the front and some of our staff will help you just form a line here. And then when I say your name during your award category, you're just going to raise your hand so you get your credit. So everybody knows that was you, your amazing work, okay. All right. So let's get started with the first Best of Show award. We, our judges, sorry I should say, not myself, but our judges, hand out the Best of Show award to truly exceptional projects. So they need to rise above all of the other projects. So this is a big deal. So for now, I would like to invite down our Best of Show award winners for science and for engineering and board, cabinet and members of the community. You will see some students recognized

010more than once as we go through all the work categories. I've been doing the science now for several years, and what's really exciting is some of the same students come back year after year. And it's just amazing to see their journey as young scientists and engineers and really challenge themselves to solve real world problems. So in the category of science investigation, the following students received the Best of Show award. We have for the first grade through third grade category, Adhita Gupta, Siya Arikatla and Meera Rakesh. And fourth and fifth grade, we have Diya Sajjian and Vaishnavi Menon. And then in the middle school grades, we have Anna Stats. And then for high school, we have Angeline Roy and Isabelle Roy. That's for science. Best of Show. Round of applause, please. OK, and now for engineering,

011the Best of Show awards go to Samira Shaikh, fourth grade student at Sunset Elementary and Emma Leninger. Round of applause for young engineers. OK, students, you're actually going to be congratulated by our boards and cabinet. So we're going to start with yourself if you just want to walk around and get a high five. And then parents, we're going to take a group photograph. And then after that, we will invite you to the front to take a quick photo with your cell phone. OK, parents, if you want to come up and know how proud you are, come get a quick photo. OK, let's clap it up for students. And as those students are leaving, if you received. Sorry, this is a message for students and audience. If you received an award for one of our special

012award categories. So let me let me list those categories for you. Behavioral science, Tri-Valley Air Quality Climate Alliance, Grand Climate Solutions, Quest Innovation, One Water and Stop Waste. So I'm going to repeat those categories and students, if you received a special award in one of these categories, you're going to come to the front. So behavioral science, Tri-Valley Air Quality Climate Alliance, Grand Climate Solutions, Quest Innovation, One Water and Stop Waste. This is going to be a tight squeeze, but just find a space. OK, let's recognize our students. So in the in the primary grades for the behavioral science awards, we are going to recognize Kenzie van Gentz, Abigail Lopez and Everly Lopez for their joint project. And then in the upper grades elementary, we're going to recognize Rishon Menon and Tanai Rani. And then for

013the secondary level, we will be acknowledging Tanisha Chakrabarti and Arohi Mohapatra. And we're going to hold their applause till the very end. Now for the Tri-Valley Air Quality Awards. We will recognize Evanie Caffley and Sri Sanjana, Tara Cherayan and Pranjali Rao in the respective categories, first through third, fourth through fifth grades and then middle school grades, sixth through eighth. Moving on to the Innovation Awards from Quest Science. For the primary grades, we're going to recognize Viraj Gupta and Rayansh Mondada. In fourth and fifth grade, we're going to recognize Ellie van Gentz and Dia Menon. In the middle school grades, we acknowledge Om Navali. And then in the secondary level, we recognize Angeline Roy and Isabelle Roy. Moving on to our One Water Special Awards. For the elementary grades, the following students received the recognition Arohi

014Mahajan and Anjali Ganesh. And then in the middle school grades, Vihana Venkatesh. And then for the secondary level, Angeline and Isabelle Roy. And that was our One Water Special Award. Next up, we have Stop Waste Awards. Okay, here we go. We have, and it's not the same order on the screen, but just bear with me. We have Sri Manikra Raja, Thee Jasvin Ranganathan, Mia Vineeth, Om Navali, Tristan Eastman, Rhea Anandan, Dhruv Ratakonda, Viraj Peddi, Rishan Mukherjee, Sia Rekatla, Aditha Gupta, and let's see. Moving on, we have Meera Rakesh, Verona Preston, Amelia Boggs, Akshara Chakravarti, Akira Goyal, and Miranda Eng. That is all of the special awards. Massive round of applause for these kiddos. Okay, students, you're going to be congratulated by the board and cabinet. I'll get out of your way in just a moment.

015Okay, keep smiling. Okay, students, have a seat. Please don't leave if you are being recognized for another award. Which one is yours? What's your name? Can you see it there? You don't see it on this one here? Under the climate board. Okay, I will mention it right now. Okay, students, let's settle down now, okay? Five, four, three, two, thank you. Okay, folks, I was a little remiss in my haste to go through all the categories. I missed one student, and that is Mathali Sejpal. She's our secondary student who received an award from Stop Waste. Well done, Mathali. Okay, students, if you received one of the art-based awards, that would be the Trashin Show and the Art Logo Contest. Come on down to the front. So that's Trashin Show and Art Logo. Okay, for the Trashin

016Show, the following students are being recognized. Don't forget to raise your hand, okay? Here we go. We have Mahi Misra, Avyan Chetan, Esme Lockhart, Isabella McClellan, Jenna Kaspersen, Ali Valizada, Ty Grabowski, Adeline Lind, Adhita Gupta, Ruby Osborne, Samira Hervatkar, Milana Sempronio, Athena Lopez, Vihana Venkatesh, Milania Rodriguez and Theo Pascal, Louis Halvorson, Meera Rakesh, Verona... Oops, sorry. Moving on. Yeah, no. Let's see. That's them all for Trashin Show. And now I'm going to move on to Art Logo Contest. Okay. So for Art Logo winners, our overall winner with this wonderful illustration was Katharina Wu, and she's a 10th grade student at Granada. And then in the primary grades, our winner was Mia Vineeth. And third through fifth grade, it was Sean Gill, and sixth through eighth, it was Grace Montgomery. And that concludes a recognition of

017all the students for the Art Awards. Well done, students. And we're now going to go around and be congratulated by our board and cabinet. Well done. Okay. Proud parents, you may come down for a photo as well. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, round of applause for our students. And there's a photograph of our students at the Trashin Show. Very creative fashion right there with recycled materials. Well done, students. Okay. What some people will know, but many will not know, is that each year we basically have to build up the Science Odyssey. So we can only do that through our community partners who make monetary donations and also donate their time with interactive exhibits. We started beginning of the year reaching out to them. So I want to make sure I really recognize some

018of the big ones up here. So a special thank you to the Trivale Valley Air Quality Climate Alliance, Quest Science, Zone 7, City of Livermore Water Division, California Water, Stop Waste. Some other ones to be mentioned too would be LVF and Lawrence Livermore Lab. So thank you to our sponsors. In addition to that, what you may not know is we have over 120 volunteers to make Science Odyssey happen. There's a whole day of judging before the actual showcase and there's months and months of planning. It's like planning a wee wedding, to be honest, and it's well worth it. Okay, there's all their judges and volunteers. And then there's some people who lead everything. We're going to give a round of applause for all of our judges and volunteers in just a moment, or just now.

019But these folk are the leaders of it all. And right at the top is our event coordinator, one of our toasters, Shaleen Ma, who's done an absolute wonderful job this year. And then this amazing Science Specialist from Junction, Roy Hussaini. She coordinates all of the judging. And that's our committee underneath. We have Karina Day Rio, Donna Lee, Jenna Martin, Erin Swartz, Heather Day, Samuel Magnus, Jeannie Maslouk, Tina Wheatman, Fenagari, Karen Mates, Teresa Padden, Danika Wu, and Jeffrey Pennywell. And they were instrumental in the planning as well. Another round of applause for all of our volunteers and leaders here. And that brings us to the end of the Science Odyssey recognition. Congratulations to all of our young scientists who were involved in this year's Science Odyssey. Their love of learning, science, and engineering is truly inspiring.

020Thank you. Thank you. It looks like we're going to have... We're leaving the world in good hands. Got some good scientists and engineers and artists. It was amazing. Okay, we'll wait just a second. Yeah. Okay. Oh, we're good. Oh, we have a celebrity in our midst. Mr. Connor. Let's not let it get to his head. Okay. All right. We're going to move on to our student board member reports. This is the time of the evening where we have our student board member representatives who report on their school activities. We have board representatives from each of our comprehensive high schools, Livermore and Granada, to decide who would go first tonight. Trustee Bueno and I did rock, paper, scissors. Trustee Bueno playing as Addie Hart and myself playing as Gabriel Benitez. And I'm happy to say that

021Gabriel, we won. And so Gabriel is going to go first and Addie is going to go second. All right. Good evening, Board President Purcell, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson, cabinet and community. At Granada High School, we've been wrapping up the year with celebration and spirit. We recently held our college commitment day where our seniors proudly announced their next steps. From local schools like Los Positas and UC campuses to out-of-state institutions like Auburn, BYU, and Wellesley, the range of destinations highlights the dedication of our students and staff. Now for sports. In swimming, star swimmer Brooke Bennett had a phenomenal e-ball performance this past weekend, becoming the e-ball champion in the 500-yard freestyle and the runner-up in the 200-yard individual medley. The Varsity Boys 200-yard medley relay team also placed third overall. Additional standouts include Leilani

022Danielson, who took second in the JV 100-yard breaststroke. Gabby Klayman, who placed second in the 100-yard breaststroke and third in the 200-yard IDAM. And Atlanta Stifter, who placed third in the one-meter diving. We look forward to seeing how our swimmers and divers perform at NCS and State. Also, our boys volleyball team is currently playing Liberty High School as we speak in an NCS playoff game, and both our softball and baseball teams play LHS this week, and I know who I'm rooting for. Lastly, track and field e-ball champs this weekend, so good luck to all our track stars. Granada students Gabriel Benitez, Delaney Amua, Noah Blake, Sofia Bertolo, Hayden Hobbs, and Caitlin Brongill were also recognized at the Livermore Granada Boosters Olympian Luncheon for their excellence in athletics and academics, giving speeches to share their stories,

023representing our school with pride. Our ASL students have been active. ASL 2 student classes celebrated their families, and ASL 3 students share their stories in sign language with elementary students at Westwood Elementary. On Earth Day, Mrs. Cleveland's AP Environmental Science students pitched in to beautify our campus, and PE classes brought fun to the pool with inner tube water polo. Looking ahead, we are excited for Bike to School Day on May 15, an opportunity to promote health and active travel across our community. Lastly, our seniors and their families are getting up for all of our fun senior events, including the Aloha Rally, Senior Awards Night, the Disney trip, prom, graduation, and grad night. All these events are in the last two weeks of school, and seniors are counting the days. That's all for tonight. Granada continues

024to be a community that strives for excellence in a variety of aspects. Stay classy. 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 are proud to recognize our 2025 Livermore Granada Boosters Olympian finalists, Matthew Benson, Diego Valverde, Chandler Smoke, Gabrielle McClung, Sophie Garocchi, and Milana Island. Together, they've earned 34 varsity letters and maintained top GPAs. The winners will be announced at the Livermore Granada Boosters dinner on May 19. Baseball and softball are still fighting it out to make it to the E-ball playoffs, but they are both going to NCS as high seats. Boys volleyball had a great year, and we'll start NCS playoffs today. Boys tennis played in the E-ball tournament last Thursday and Friday. Boys golf

025had a great year and will most likely qualify for NCS as a team, but if not, four individuals will make it at large. For track, Chandler Smoke is only a few feet away from breaking the school record and disc and should make it to state. Don't miss our spring musical, Hadestown Teen Edition, a collaboration between LHS and GHS theater programs. Congratulations to our amazing student scientists for placing at this year's Science Odyssey. Angeline Roy, ninth grade, received first place for her project on water conservation. Maithili Sejpal, ninth grade, received second place for her project on water conservation, and Isabelle Roy, 11th grade, received first place for her project on water conservation. On April 25, we had an Earth Day celebration for all sixth grade students from East Avenue Middle School and Junction Middle School, hosted

026by our GEA students. On April 29, we had Ag Day for all the third grade students in the district, hosted by our FFA. This year, over 120 students were nominated for Cowboy Heroes Awards. We are proud of each of them for embodying our heroes values. Special congratulations to Nanette Hunter and Sri Theron. Both were selected for the 2025 Tri-Valley Selpa Make a Difference Award, honoring their lasting impact on students in special education. Join us for an unforgettable evening with the award-winning LHS Instrumental Music Department at their annual spring concert on Wednesday, May 8th at 6 p.m. in the Bankhead Theater. This year's theme is Final Frontier, A Musical Odyssey, promising an exciting journey through music and imagination. This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. PTSA is putting together a fun week for teachers, including a Western

027breakfast bar, snack and treat day, a catered lunch, a wellness day, and a gift appreciation day. PTSA also started a scholarship fund for seniors heading to trade school, junior college, or a four-year university. Each year, up to four students will be awarded $500 each. For seniors, Disney Grad Night is this Friday, May 9th. Seniors are very excited to celebrate their graduation with a fun-packed day in the happiest place on Earth. Senior awards are on May 14th. We are very excited to recognize all of our amazing seniors and their accomplishments. Senior Ball is on May 17th on the Hornblower in San Francisco. Seniors are getting excited for their last big event before graduation. AP testing kicked off yesterday, and we know our amazing students will ace all of their tests. We have 500 students taking 800

028tests this year. You got this, Cowboys. Thank you. A lot of things happening right now. We're going to move on to our Employee Association reports. And this is the time where we have representatives from our bargaining units who report to us. And we will begin with Amy Thompson, the president of LEA, and would like to recognize, is Tara here? Okay. Just for reference, Mamie Christovich is president of CSEA, and I believe she will, she's here. She will go next. Thank you, Mamie. Kirsty Governor is our president of SEIU, and I don't believe she's here this evening. And Lily Lopez is our representative for CMC. We will begin with Ms. Amy Thompson. Thank you. Good evening, board president, PRUSO, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson and cabinet. I am Amy Thompson, president of the Livermore Education

029Association, representing teachers, nurses, counselors, psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers, and teachers on special assignment. Many LEA members were invited to participate in the initial stages of development of the strategic plan. The feedback was positive with members feeling heard and also appreciating the time they spent with community members to hear different perspectives. When the draft initiatives were shared, I heard from several members that they didn't see the work of their group reflected. I believe that we will see those thoughts included when we get to the action items, and we look forward to taking this step to plan the particular actions to achieve our goals. Our district was notified by the United States Department of Education on April 29, that the department intends to cut the funding for our mental health grant for elementary counselors and social

030workers. The reasoning provided is that the funding conflicts with the policies of the current administration. I really, really cannot understand how providing mental health and social emotional support for students, for little kids can be in conflict with the policies of our leaders. Our district has 30 days to appeal this decision, and LEA stands poised to support the appeal process. The resolution to cut certificated positions that was approved by the board in February had potential to lay off 19.4 LEA members. It appears that we are actually reducing 18 positions, but we were able to achieve most of the reductions through attrition and reassignment. Tonight the board will be voting on whether to lay off 20% of a single position. I was surprised to see that my member was listed by name in the board documents. CSEA

031members and classified management were listed only by job title and employee number. The person that is receiving the 20% job cut is skilled and provides valuable services and teaching for our students. I am hopeful that we can find a way to make this person whole again. We have met with the district to negotiate job duties and staffing ratios for our intensive IRM psychologists and for staffing at Del Val and Vineyard for next year. Hot off the presses, we have finalized the MOU for I want to say it's the IRMS. And I think in the next couple of days we will finalize the MOU for Del Val and Vineyard. I'm pleased to see the updated LEA salary schedule on tonight's agenda. If it gains approval tonight, it will hopefully be posted publicly tomorrow to help attract

032teachers for the 18 teaching positions we currently have posted. Thank you. Thank you. We'll invite Mamie Christovich to please come down. Good evening, President Prusso, 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 chapter's vice president, Victoria Storti, as well as other dedicated CSEA members. Since January of this year, I have spoken before you regarding the reduction of 14 employees or 11.12 FTEs in various CSEA classifications. CSEA asked to be included in collaborations before layoff decisions were made and to our dismay that did not happen. It always makes sense to consult the people who actually perform the work to help determine where efficiencies may be found. If we must face layoffs again in the future,

033and I hope we don't, I hope the district will invite CSEA to collaborate in advance to develop a feasible plan. That said, I am happy to share that after four long sessions, we have completed negotiations regarding the impacts and effects of the impending reduction in force. Tonight you will be voting on resolution number 064-2425, the final resolution and decision to terminate classified employees due to a lack of work or lack of funds. You will find four CSEA classified employees who will receive a final written notice of layoff by May 15, 2025. That is a significant improvement over what we began with, though I must add that while the number of layoffs has been reduced in part due to employees resigning, retiring, or choosing not to bump other employees, the actual number of positions being eliminated

034remains at eight. That means that much of the work must still be dealt with, and CSEA continues to be mindful of those who may receive a heavier workload as a result of the job eliminations. To address layoff and workload concerns, CSEA proposed a memorandum of understanding which the district has signed. Our MOU cites specific protections for 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. For those who are receiving a final layoff notice, we are hopeful that they will find alternative positions within the district, as we do have some vacancies at this time. Our collective bargaining agreement specifies that internal candidates always have priority over external

035applicants, especially in times of layoffs. On behalf of CSEA, I would like to thank Dr. Gibson, Ms. Robbins, Ms. Wasley, and the district's negotiations team, which includes Daniel Mackey, Valerie Nebel, and Allison Noble. I would be remiss in not acknowledging the CSEA team as well, which includes Maureen Scholl, Victoria Storty, and our labor relations representative Amy Buscalia. While we did not start off collaborating, I believe that we eventually came together to try to make the best of an undesirable situation, and I am truly grateful for that. The past few months have been incredibly challenging for many CSEA classified employees, with budget reductions and ongoing uncertainties surrounding those reductions. Morale and trust remain low as employees are traumatized by these events, but I look forward to healing and moving towards a more positive future. It is

036a relief to be able to close these layoff negotiations, and CSEA looks forward to continuing our negotiations with the district regarding our MOU for the recent increases received by the other bargaining units. In closing, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite committees that I have participated in for years. You may not know this, but the Livermore chapter of CSEA offers three scholarships every year to our members graduating high school seniors and continuing college students. This year, the applicants are outstanding, and it warms my heart to know that our district has produced such remarkable individuals. These students show impressive drive, leadership abilities, and community service. Their futures are bright, and I am truly honored to take part in granting scholarships in support of their continuing education and pursuits. Thank you. Thank you. Okay,

037we're going to move on to our public comments that are non agenda items. So if you would like to address a topic that is not on this evening's agenda, and have filled out a tan speaker card which I have several here. This is now is the time to do so. So we're going to ask, I'm going to invite you up by name, you're going to come up and sit here at the desk. And there's a little button on the microphone for you to turn on. We're going to ask that everyone is going to limit their comments to three minutes. We have some clocks around so hopefully there's one that you can see. And when it gets to 20 seconds left. I'm just going to remind you. And that's not for me to be rude, it's

038just to make sure that everyone has the same amount of time. And so that you kind of know it's time to wrap it up. Okay. So, even when I say 20 seconds just keep talking, but you'll know that you have 20 seconds to go. So we're going to begin, and we will begin with Dorothy Tebbots, she would come up. And then our next speaker after Dorothy will be Catherine Tebbots. Good evening. I think, keep going, but try it again. Push, push. There's a button at the bottom. There you go. You're good. Okay, members of the board, my name is Dorothy Tebbots and I am a concerned parent of a sixth grade student in the STC class at Joe Mitchell School. I am here tonight to express disappointment that some of the most vulnerable students in

039this district are being displaced. We have heard a lot about numbers and building space from district staff but these kids deserve more. They don't deserve to be shuffled around. It is egregiously wrong to move established middle schoolers from the site and class they know and love. I would like to ask you for your support as our school board. Since moving to Joe Mitchell School in the fifth grade my son Mason is finally able to thrive and feel included. The middle school SEC at Joe Mitchell is more than just a class, it is a community and a unique environment. I am very familiar with the culture of Joe Mitchell because my two daughters have also attended. And the positive impact being included in his core class has had on Mason. My son and his classmates have

040built true and meaningful relationships with the general ed population that were not formed overnight and cannot simply be disregarded as replaceable. It takes more time for him and his friends to feel comfortable than their typical peers. I have seen these relationships firsthand when we are out in the community. Kids come up to Mason and introduce themselves to me as just his friend. He's not a guest in his school. He belongs there. This not only benefits Mason and the others in Miss Yates class but every single student in the middle school. I would like to ask what lesson it teaches to send an entire population of special education students away from their middle school and their friends. Joe Mitchell is also unique because of the smaller school size IB program and unique wellness center which has

041been so beneficial to his class. He looks forward to his time with the counselor and the therapy dogs. Mason and his classmates need consistency changes have been extremely disruptive general education students neighbors and friends without IPs have not been subjected to these kinds of frequent moves. Should we consider moving an entire class of established students to make room for new students who are just starting out? I can only imagine how it would feel to be told as a middle schooler that there is no longer room for me in my school. Members of the board, please consider these amazing students. There must be other less harmful ways to make space for new classes in this district. A public discussion is only fair to the stakeholders in this decision. Is it possible to add this as an

042agenda item for the next meeting? Joe Mitchell general ed students as well as parents have expressed frustration with this decision and feel removing these students will harm the culture of the school. 20 seconds. We ask for your support in this matter as parents of Joe Mitchell students. Thank you. Okay, we're going to invite Catherine Tebbits to now please come forward. Welcome Catherine. I think, yeah, there you go. Okay. Good evening. As a former student of Joe Mitchell school and an older sister of a little brother in the special special education class at Joe Mitchell, I was extremely disappointed to find out that their class was being. Not only is this class being displaced from a school they know and love. Many kids will need to drive outside of their neighborhoods to attend a different school.

043Joe Mitchell is also an IB school which offers kids opportunities that they would not have elsewhere. Joe Mitchell I see my little brother and his peers thriving and included in regular education classes. The class also gets to partake in the middle years program community project where they can learn essential skills and be a part of something bigger in their community. I have always thought of Joe Mitchell as an inclusive school and I hope they continue to support people of all learning abilities. Please reconsider moving the special education class. Thank you. Thank you. We'll invite Lena S to come forward. Welcome Lena I believe the microphone is already on so you don't need to push anything. My name is Lena Salazar. I'm a sixth grader and I'm here to talk about the SEC class that is

044being taken away. I go to school with Mason and all the other SEC kids. I've known Mason and Dorothy Tebbits for a long time, Mason and all the other SEC kids are so sweet and friendly. More importantly, they all have friends at Joe Mitchell, and this decision is just going to tear them all apart. This is not right. You can't just send these children to a school across town because they're different. And that's what's happening. Why are other classes being moved? Why the SEC kids? How is this fair? Everyone deserves a chance and this is doing the opposite. I don't know what I do if I had to go wait, go to a new school all the way across town. Joe Mitchell's middle school was recently expanded and has a brand new building yet now

045there is no room for the middle school SEC class. This is so unfair and I hope you'll take it into consideration that this decision will hurt these students, their families and their friends. Please find another way and keep this class at Joe Mitchell. Thank you. Thank you, Lena. We'll invite Mandy Gray to come forward. And then after Mandy will be Abra de la Tour. Hi you guys. I am here representing Stan from Mozart, Your Heart and Me, a local store downtown on 1st Street. We offer music rental instruments, and I just want to make you guys aware of that, and I wasn't sure how to go about getting him on the like the referred rental list for students being that we are a local store. That's all. Thank you. And now, Abra. Yeah, actually, did

046I say it all sorry, Abra. Sorry, Abra. Mandy if you could just give your information to Lori up here. That would be helpful. Okay, Abra I'm sorry I mispronounced your name. Thank you. It's on. Okay, thank you. I'm sorry. Super. I'm nervous. President Pruso board members Superintendent Gibson and cabinet members. Good evening. My name is Abra de la Tour. I'm a para educator at Sunset Elementary. Currently I'm serving as an accounting specialist substitute through the CSEA job experience program. First, I want to express my gratitude, sincere gratitude for your support of this incredible program. It has been a value and eye opening experience, not only in fiscal services, but across several departments, I've had the opportunity to work with a supportive and knowledgeable team and an amazing director to collaborate with district staff and vendors

047alike. Through this role, I've gained firsthand experience with the escape accounting software, the employee reimbursement process that counts payable process, and so much more. Since this program began, I have consistently filled out the interest form, hopeful for a chance to grow and explore different CSEA positions. This year, I was fortunate to be selected. It has been an amazing opportunity, not only to learn but to apply my skills in a new environment and continue building my strengths. This experience has helped me grow professionally, build meaningful connections, and most importantly, it has already made a positive impact on my family's future. I'm incredibly thankful for this opportunity. I'd especially like to thank Mamie Christovich for believing in me. I strongly encourage you to continue investing in this program and expanding it. I also encourage my fellow CSEA

048classified employees to take the first step. Please fill out the form. This program has the power to transform lives. I truly believe it can shape a stronger future for our district and the people who make it run. Thank you so much. Thank you. I'm going to invite Brett to come forward. Can you hear me? Yep, thank you. First of all, good evening, everybody and members of the board. I thank you for all being here and doing the job that you do. If you don't mind, I'd like to pray. So, Father, I thank you for every precious soul here, for everyone on this school board, Lord. I thank you for your love for all of us and for children, Father God. I give you a glory and honor and praise, Lord, and pray, Lord, that you

049will guide this board, Lord, with all clarity, Father God, with all love, with all power, and all purpose, Lord, because children are so precious to you. And Lord, when your disciples were arguing amongst themselves about who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, you called the children over and said, unless you have faith like these, you will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. John 18 six says that if anyone harms these little ones who believe in me and causes them to sin, it will be better if they put a millstone around their neck and jumped into the depths of the ocean. Well, Lord, I thank you for all of these wonderful people here. I pray that you touch them and guide them in a way so profoundly that they can't deny you and your

050kingdom and how the school board should be run. In Jesus name, I pray. Thank you. So I'm not done yet, dear. Thank you. So I know you're all here and saying that you're all here for the good of the children. But things have gone in a direction that are not educating them. Well, it's become more indoctrination than education. So sex education and the way you guys are going about it. Sexual gender dysphoria and the way you guys are going about it. It's not correct. It needs to be turned around. It needs to be changed. It needs to progress in the direction that does give children and our youth the life, the abundant full life so that they can live full life without having mental health issues, without having gender dysphoria issues, without there being all

051these different pronouns and acronyms that lead them astray and cause them mental illness. So when the lady was talking earlier about having mental health care workers, you wouldn't need as many if this were off at the school board, especially to we have someone that's a pastor here who does not speak out against his stuff, who knows the Bible backward and forward. 20 seconds. And so I thank you for your hearing. I thank you for the time and opportunity to address you all. God bless you. Thank you. Next, we have Debbie Gibson. Good evening President for so superintendent Gibson and board members cabinet and community. When our founders wrote the Constitution the preamble began with we the people that broad definition of people, not only included them but also the general population. And of course all

052future generations as part of that future generation and a person who partners with God in my personal life. I cannot ignore the fact that according to his word he tells me in First Timothy to one through two, that all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. I therefore have a responsibility as a citizen of this great nation and the city of Livermore, but more importantly, a citizen of heaven to pray for those of you on the school board because your authority comes from God. Although I do this privately, I wish to pray for you publicly. Heavenly Father I thank you Lord for this nation and the freedom

053that we have here to be a voice in our own government no matter what role we play, whether as an elected official or a citizen who cares for our next generation. Our children are our future and I ask Lord that you would bless them in accordance with your word decisions being made by this body of officials have not been taken lightly. I believe it is the desire of their hearts to serve these children their teachers and the families of this city to the best of their ability. I asked that you would impress upon their hearts to seek you diligently throughout their tenure and beyond all wisdom comes from you, and to fear the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. According to James one five your word says if any of you lacks wisdom, let him

054ask of God who gives to all generously without reproach, and it will be given to him. It is my prayer that they will ask in faith without doubting. You also say in your word trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding, and in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your path straight as Proverbs five through six. I encourage each one of you to seek him wholeheartedly so that you can be confident, so that you can confidently say because I am in Christ, I have unlimited wisdom and knowledge and I pray these things in the name of Jesus. Thank you. So, oh, we have one more. Mia s. And I just want to as me is coming down I just want to make a comment

055that I should have made earlier and I'm going to just just so people understand, because of the brown act as board members were not allowed to to respond to comments on non agenda items. Because those topics haven't been publicly posted in advance. That's to ensure transparency and give public a fair chance but we can ask clarifying questions so when everyone is finished. If any of the board members have clarifying questions we can we can do that. Okay, so Mia, but that go ahead. Okay. I wasn't planning on speaking, I am here to support the request of the board to reconsider moving the entire class of middle school STC kids. There has been no discussion of moving the elementary STC kids, and I just am wondering why that one class is being singled out. They should

056be able to finish out their, their school schooling at Joe Mitchell their homeschool. And secondly I just wanted to reaffirm my support as as as a parent of middle school children in this district that I am proud that we support our LGBTQ and I a students, and that we support the use of their pronouns, and that you are teaching them about sexual education because it's important and I thank you for your continued support of that, and I would ask you to please consider not relocating the STC class and ask the district why they're singling out the middle school STC class and try and find another way to let those kids stay at their homeschool. Thank you. Thank you. Any clarifying questions. A clarifying question, because I was unaware of maybe it was in something that

057I didn't recognize but the movement of this class. What is the rationale behind it. And do we have alternatives to that. Sure, thank you. So the middle school program right now. So our elementary moderate class is housed at Joe Mitchell, and our middle school program we have one class at Mendenhall Middle School and we have one class at Joe Mitchell, and they're both full. And so, next year we have an increase in our elementary moderate program. And so therefore, the current classroom that's being used for the middle school moderate classroom will become an elementary middle school classroom for our moderate students. So, in looking our space as we increase our TK or is across our district and Christians in middle school has room to grow. And so the the middle school program at Joe Mitchell

058will move over to Christians in and so both of our middle school programs, one will be at Joe Mitchell and one will be at Mendenhall. Excuse me, one will be at Christians and one will be at Mendenhall. So, I understand that is the plan. Is there an alternative to the plan, because I mean in the years that I've been on the board I haven't seen a whole class of kids displaced like that from a school that they've been at. I just wonder if there's an alternative to it. Every classroom at Joe Mitchell will be used next year they're adding to TK classrooms. And so, every classroom and I've been there personally I walked the site with the vice principal. We actually have teachers that will be sharing classrooms next year. And so there isn't room

059to expand our middle school program. Additionally, the class cap is 13 for our moderate students in our special education program. That class is at 13 so if I have 14 students. Even if we were to not have a TK class there. I would have to create a class somewhere for the students again our middle school at Christianson has room for that. Currently, our TKK class is at crochet elementary school and so the long term plan would bring all of our elementary, moderate students over to Joe Mitchell and continue our middle school programs at both Christianson and Mendenhall. I'm wondering if there's a way that we could seek an alternative, or if we could get additional input maybe work cooperatively with the groups that are affected sounds I don't know you said there's 1313 families maybe

060involved maybe a couple less there's twins or something but So, have we worked with the families and they all understand it or. Yeah, so about a week and a half ago, our program specialist called all the families and notified them of a location change for their program. I have IEP schedule for tomorrow and next week. I also met with all of the families that were able to attend or either virtually or impersonal person on Friday at the speech office out in the sped office, and I had Brian Christianson there who explained the Christianson programs and I also had Danielle I had a program specialist and then my secretary was monitoring questions online I believe all but two families were able to attend that I've spoken personally to everybody who has called or emailed me. Can

061you can you walk us through a little bit of the benefit of doing this what the benefit to the students because I, I believe you when you tell me that you want what's best for each of our students. And can you tell us is there a benefit and what would those benefits be. Yeah, so I'm in both the programs and middle school program has benefits at both sites. Joe Mitchell is a smaller program Christianson is a larger comprehensive site we also believe that this is a good experience for our students to transition into the high school level as well so it's giving them exposure to other students other programs, both sites do project based learning there's been some concern that Joe Mitchell is an ID school, both of our sites to project based learning, but

062being around grade level peers in a number I forget how many Brian said like how many students he has on this campus but the significant more amount. And we also plan on doing a field trip with the students to bring them over so they can meet the leadership kids see the campus see the classroom where they'll be at. It's just different when you're at all middle school campus right that the exposure to rallies or activities is just different because it's all middle school students versus the elementary school, but they both have environments that are inclusive. Mr. Sharman is welcoming with open arms all of the students, and we do think while it is a difficult transition that you know one one year we have to do this. We understand that but we want to make

063it as seamless as possible make it as inviting and inclusive for our students to come over. We also have some students who go to Mendenhall right now whose homeschool is Christianson. We are able to make a swap of some students who are interested in going to Mendenhall, and maybe have students over there we have some families that it'll be an easier transition they have siblings at crochet. So this way if they go to crochet or Christiansen they're a little bit closer so drop off and things like that. So the next steps for our families will be holding IEP meetings, or we'll be talking about parent concerns, we talked about the transition in the program that they need, as well as any transportation that they might need. I think I've learned, just in the last couple

064of days is how this also really affects the Gen Ed students who are friends with the students that are being displaced, and so I'm going to trust that you're doing everything possible to keep students, you know, always where they are where they've built community where they built friends and so this is definitely a really difficult consequence of getting all these TK students to come in and these programs to start and all these extra classrooms we need to create so thank you for what you're doing but I hope that you also reach out to the Gen Ed students who are losing friends, and are trying to figure out how to continue these friendships. And I'm working closely with both principles, so that we can make it something that is supportive on both sides as well. Thank

065you. So, just even who will kind of touched on the point that I think focusing, recognizing that students moving that the needs of the general education students are part of this, you know, part of this complex situation as well that you know they benefit from having special education students and so that there's reaching out to those parents and students to kind of communicate and hear and help them understand. But I think, secondly, that this falls under district wide we're doing large scale. How do I say it, we have a special ed work group, and we're looking at. We're looking at special education system wide, and so I think that I know that my assumption is this fits within that, and I'm hoping that sometime in the near future we can get an update on where

066we are how this bed work group is going how this fits within that some of them. I don't know. I'll stop there. Oh, just. I heard the comments I appreciate it. I think it's unacceptable the way it is I hear that we let people know, but I don't know that it was collaboratively done with them in advance because otherwise they probably wouldn't be here. So it sounds like it was sprung up on people. And, and I have no doubt that Christiansen is a good site. Mr. Sharman's tremendous principle he's got a lot of accolades. So I think their experience we very good there. And why these kids, you know, because I don't see it as, whether they're kids that have to be in special ed or gen ed and the effects to me it's just

067a whole group of kids being displaced. And it's that it's just that that I find unacceptable. I mean if I was a fifth grade kid in the K eight and suddenly I find myself at a different school, simply to make room. I would have to ask why me. It seems to spare it. And so that's that's my concern is disparate treatment. And we did just finish our enrollment process and we're doing our placements at our school sites. Remember that we're also extending expanding our moderate elementary program. So we have more students that are being placed in elementary moderate that are also taking up a seat so it's just isn't about TK coming in but our students we have more students that are coming in to our programs, meeting that support and so keeping all of

068the And this wasn't something that's been processed for many many months. It looks looking at numbers and number of students that are coming in and being placed so I understand the concerns certainly and as soon as we had as much information as we did we started reaching out to parents by appreciate their comment. Is it possible that prior to these things, because I was unaware of this and is it possible that prior to that we could actually have. I know that this is kind of in the weeds on a lot of things, but we can be kind of, we can be kind of notified because it just seems like it's not one or two people it's a whole class. The board actually was emailed about this topic about a week and a half ago. Correct,

069with details. Email multiple board members have called in or have had conversations or had questions that we've been answering along the way. Okay. Okay, we're going to move on to our formal written correspondence, formal written correspondence to the Board of Education will be acknowledged if received by the board or in the superintendent's office by 4pm the day before the meeting. Former written correspondence received after the cutoff time will generally be acknowledged at the following meeting. And please note that our board electronic communications received via the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District website by accessing the formal written correspondence to the Board of Education link with all fields completed and verified shall be treated as formal written correspondence, I'd ask trustee drew in our clerk if there is any correspondence for the board and if so,

070if he could summarize for us. Can I just provide one quick update. Yes, please. So, Lauren I spoke today, and we will fix your, your script. So if we receive something prior to a board meeting beginning, as long as the item is agendas which is always agendas communication, we will go ahead and add it in advance. So you might get an updated script right before the board meeting but then that way things that may maybe come up for this meeting don't have to wait to go in correspondence or in communications until the next board meeting if that makes sense. Yeah, that's great. So we'll just, it'll be updated real time so if you look in the current packet under communications, you can see the updates that Lori has provided, it has the person's name and

071the date and time that the item was received. So we'll operate that way going forward. Thank you. Yeah, if you can just change the script that'd be helpful. Yeah. So Alameda County Office of Education reviewed and concurred with Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District's positive certification for its 2024 2025 second interim budget report and commended the district for its proactive community engagement and significant budget balancing efforts that improved its certification status committee on teacher credentialing the CTC assigned accreditation status to the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District and its credential program, pending a final decision by the CTC commission on teacher credentialing based on a positive site visit report and instruction institutional review. Third Clara McGowan student shared why she believes the special education class at Joe Mitchell K eight school should not be moved,

072and the following correspondence was received after the agenda was published. Violet Woodworth student shared why she believes the special education class at Joe Mitchell K eight school should not be moved. Janelle Harris parent expressed concern that recent double booking of school facilities contradicts board policy 1330s stated priority for school related activities, suggesting a need for clear policy language or implementation to prevent inconsistency and potential viewpoint discrimination. Next Tara Boyce parent expressed concern relative to the proposed 2025 2026 board meeting calendar. Next BJ Reynolds coots parent expressed concern relative to the proposed 2025 2026 board meeting calendar. And lastly, additionally 20 students from Joe Mitchell's Kate Joe Mitchell K eight school wrote to share why they believe the special education class at Joe Mitchell should not be moved. Thank you. Okay, we're gonna move. Should we

073make a comment about the, so about the word count for submitting board policy or that we have updated that so it now goes to 5000. It's not a word count right it's a character character count, it wasn't 1000. So it's now at 5000. Okay. But I think, I think the thing that we should say is if you have more than 5000 characters to say, you can do a part one part two or something along those lines to communicate, or they could just email it to Lori and I directly and then we can just add it to the board. Thank you. Okay, good. Okay. Does, do we believe that, because this. We're trying to correct this we had the one instance where we were weeks delayed on getting public correspondence, and then this time, at least

074two people ran into the character count. Right. So do we believe that 5000 character count is sufficient. I don't know how many words that comes out to. But it just is there anything that precludes us for making it 10,000 characters. Yes, it's not unlimited the system does not allow us for it to be unlimited it's limited on that. But 10 to 5000 the max is the max. Correct. I see is could we put a note on there when were people sign in that says, like, as a lawyer was just explaining that it does say that if you're going to go over the 5000 you can submit a second one, but the second half. Okay. Okay, we're going to move on to our discussion action items 13.1, the independent citizens bond oversight committee annual report for

075the fiscal year 2324. This is discussion only and I will invite Miss Kayla was a to present. Good evening, I will actually be inviting up our CBO see chair, Jeff Durbin to present the annual report that was created by the CBO see for the fiscal year 2324. Good evening. My name is Jeff Durbin. I'm a parent of, hopefully, to graduating seniors at Granada. Fingers crossed, we'll find out. We'll find out in well less than a month I think 16 days. Oh, thank you. I've been on the citizens board for the past four years, I have been chairperson for the past two years. This will actually be my last presentation, I will be stepping down as my boys graduate, but I have the honor to present our fiscal year 2324 annual report summary. And I'll take

076you through the slides, you should have a presentation I think in front of you. So, you know, I'm open to questions as well. I don't know if I need to go into the background I think after what, eight years, I think we should recall pretty familiar with what measure Jay was and what was meant to do. But really it's to modernize replace renovate improve upgrade and increase access to the infrastructure within the livermore school district. So what was our charter really our charter was to. We serve the taxpayers of the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District. Our purpose was to inform the public and the school board regarding the use of bond funds to ensure those bond funds were being spent appropriately. Our membership. It has varied over the last year, but you can see

077the 2324 season. These were our members, we have a mixture of community at large members as well as parents, members of the parent teacher organization we do have a representative from a taxpayer organization so a nice cross section of stakeholders within the Livermore Valley School District community. Our goal, as I previously mentioned was to actively review and report on the proper expenditure of bond funds, advise the public regarding compliance with accountability requirements, provide oversight that bond expenditures are in compliance, review the annual bond audit. So every year we did have an outside audit firm that came in and perform that audit. They presented to us and we would review their findings inspect school sites and to confirm implementation of bond expenditures, and as a personal aside that was the best part. Honestly going out and

078seeing the sites, meeting with the teachers and staff, and even meeting with some of the kids and seeing the smiles on the faces when they got a brand new gym, or a new ball field or even a new classroom, so that was the best part of being reviewed district efforts and implementing cost saving measures and issue reports like this annual report. Our meetings. We meet every other month actually we are changing that to him. Are we going to quarterly. Yeah, we're going to quarterly next year. Next season. We review our meeting minutes. We have updates from is McNeely. We have financial updates from this was Lee, and information and other matters that were requested by the committee. We also have special agenda topics. The annual audit report as I mentioned, we access the bonds financial

079data system with training available as needed. There's usually state information there's a, I think there's a state organization of citizen bond committees so we'll get reports back from that state organization, and can share best practices with those other committees. And we do the project site tours as well. Here's our lovely pie chart every year we struggle to make this look nice. Here's how the spend during that fiscal period netted out. Alright, in summary, the district continues to efficiently deliver the voter approved bond projects, voter approved priorities continue to be implemented. The committee has access to specific information and our questions are answered in a timely and professional manner. Big shout out to the staff that we work with. They've been phenomenal. They are diligent, they are committed to their roles and it's been a pleasure

080working with them over these past four years. Financial reporting continues to be compliant, timely and transparent, and the CBOC appreciate the bond teams continuing efforts cost savings. Right now, I wish I had some of these at home, but for use of plans and district standards to improve project implementation from lessons learned, reduce or eliminate interim housing so build new projects outside the footprint of bid timing, maximizing that pricing and available contractors, pulling multi use building elements so reducing duplicate spaces by serving multiple programs, operational cost savings, long term cost savings, lower maintenance materials and finishes, resource efficiency, and maintenance productivity. So, all these cost savings have come by way of staff and their efficient project management of measure J. So, I will read this part verbatim. It's the CBOC findings. The CBOC finds the Livermore

081Valley Joint Unified School District is in compliance with the requirements of Article 8A Section 1B3 of the California Constitution and that the funds are being used for the purposes specified by measure J bond language as audited by which disclosed no instances of noncompliance with the terms of Proposition 39 or measure J. And annual report conclusion, we acknowledge that the board, we acknowledge the board for their hard work in pursuing this bond. The committee acknowledges there continues to be many facility needs in the district as discussed regularly in our meetings and on tours. The students, our schools and this community have greatly benefited from this work. The CBOC believes the projects implemented effectively support the mission of the district creating the opportunity for each student to graduate with the skills needed to contribute and thrive in

082a changing world. And the written report that we present tonight, satisfies the statutory requirements. And finally, we would like to recognize our community, our community for their generous support of the education needs of our students. Thank you. Thank you. I have no blue cards on this. If any comments or questions from the board. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Durbin. Some people may not know that this is a legal requirement to have this oversight. It's the cornerstone of public trust, it's to ensure that the money is collected and utilized properly. And everyone, all the positions on that board are predetermined, the people are not, they fill all the slots. You've done a great job as leadership, the reports are very concise. And I just want to let you know that we appreciate, you know, maintaining and instilling

083trust with the district and you're the go between, between the public's trust and their pocketbooks and their hard earned dollars and their support for public education. To greatly appreciate what you've done. Good luck on your sons on their graduation. That's going to be great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments. Thank you. Also from from me for all that you did. You've done four years of experience. Now, is there a way for you to give feedback on what can be done better or as we look to the future and other, you know, hopefully bond issues that we are bonds that we get to pass. Is there any way for you to give us that feedback or give, you know, a committee or. Absolutely. I appreciate the question. So I

084guess one of my recommendations would be is to make sure that we have a funnel or a pipeline of of members of folks that would be interested in being on the committee. That we have struggled over the years to have a complete committee. We've gone times where there's only been a handful of us. So and to recruit new members takes a lot of effort. So just having that funnel, having that outreach and just kind of making that that process maybe a little bit easier, a little bit more efficient. I think also we have to do a better job of communicating the benefits to the benefits of being on the committee and what it means to the community. Right. So why are we doing this? To your earlier point, we are doing this to ensure that

085the public trust that these funds that they voted for are being spent effectively. And so part of our job on this committee has been to promote and to message that correctly so that the public has trust in us. Yeah. Since, you know, there's a lot of people who are going after waste and fraud. And so to have somebody sit here and be able to tell us everything was spent so well and we get so much benefit out of all this money that the public gave us is super, super helpful and very important. So, yeah, thank you for what you do. Thank you. Thank you for your commitment and helping in this committee and congratulations. I think your sons are going to graduate. Real quick. Is there a certain amount of people that you need on

086this committee? Is there a limit? I don't know if you heard that maximum of 15 and there are prescribed roles that we need to fill. So the community at large, taxpayer association, parent, PTA member, etc. Okay, thank you. I'll just add that we do have some vacancies and so we will be recruiting for members based on the roles that we need going into next school year. Just one small public think, and hopefully there's, there's more to come with some of the match money, but sitting in the backdrop of all this. Our bond director Kim McNeely. She takes no accolades I know that all the efficiencies that you cited, that's good leadership, understanding when to scope these projects how to scope the projects, when to use redundant planning how to get things through the DSA the

087state architect. That's her leadership, she sits very quietly and she's very humble in her role, but the equates to millions of dollars, and those millions of dollars get re appropriated to other projects or to further the scope. So when that red line on our $1.5 billion worth of need was lowered down to, I think it was 245 million we got another 50 million and match. There's still more to do, but we were able to drop that red line further down our priority list to accomplish projects. Because of your guys oversight and diligence, and because of the leadership and organizational skills and professional contacts of Kim McNeely. So I just want to, again, publicly acknowledge her. I second that. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Oh, Kayla. All right. Kayla's going still

088going. Oh, she's still going. Nice job. We're all crossing our fingers right. You have something to say. We're going to invite. Mr. Krollakowski to present our new courses for approval. And then after this item we will take a short break. By trustee bueno. Good evening board President Prusso members of the school board, Superintendent Gibson and members of cabinet. I'm here tonight to present seven new courses for approval. Tonight we'll highlight our agriscience and agricultural construction pathways as well as two new courses that are articulated with a community college. The first course we have is agricultural construction technology AB. This is a concentrator course in the agricultural mechanics pathway. Students will build foundational abilities and technical trades through guided instruction in the correct and secure handling of various tools and supplies commonly found in workshop and

089outdoor settings. Students will participate in interactive projects covering areas such as carpentry, circuitry, brickwork and material shaping. These experiences will culminate in completion of practical building assignments within professional workspace, deepening their grasp of construction techniques. The course also lays a groundwork for further education, professional credentials and starting roles in related technical and mechanical industries. The next course is the culminating capstone course which is advanced agricultural mechanics, which equips students with practical experiences and building rural infrastructure using professional grade tools and materials. Students apply modern farming technologies to enhance operational efficiency and complete hands on projects involving metal work, wiring, wood crafting and machinery upkeep. All while following, excuse me, safety protocols. The course will prepare students for opportunities to earn credentials and pursue advanced education or employment in the field. This course biology and sustainable

090agriculture is the beginning or introductory level class for the agriscience pathway. It'll introduce students to the study of food production and environmental stewardship through practical project based learning. Participants will cultivate and care for growing spaces, evaluate environmental conditions and study the relationships between living organisms and their environments. Through experiments and real world scenario students will consider how human interactions influence nature and public well being by preserving resources and ensuring future communities can thrive in and balance with the natural world. Agricultural soil and chemistry is a concentrator course in the agriscience pathway. It's the next in the in the sequence. Students will delve into the composition and characteristics of earth materials and how how to influence pharmacy farming practices, building essential knowledge in the scientific field through theoretical lessons and hand on experience, they will examine

091land use strategies and engage in investigative learning by developing and executing independent studies interpreting results and presenting their work professionally students will strengthen their analytical and communication abilities. Participation in leadership programs and career focused experiences will further prepare them for success in related industries. And the capstone course which is advanced interdisciplinary science or AIS for sustainable agriculture honors. This course serves as the capstone experience in the agricultural sciences track where learners apply cross disciplinary knowledge to investigate and solve modern environmental and farming related problems. Participants will explore practical challenges faced today by faced by today's land and food systems, crafting innovative responses aligned with current professional standards. The curriculum includes an in depth research assignment and offers opportunities to present work in competitive academic settings. Students will also engage in co curricular leadership events and

092manage an extended independent projects, fostering personal growth and preparation for future careers in the field. These next two courses are articulated courses which means that there's an agreement between the college and our schools. The other courses completed the high school are recognized as equivalent to college courses allowing students to earn college credit while still in high school and biotechnology honors a B this articulated course with a lonely college students will learn and engage excuse students will engage in practical training that mirrors professional bioscience environments, developing core technical abilities and laboratory work. They will follow established protocols to ensure safe and accurate practices while building competence and experimental experimental planning, data interpretation, and effective communication of findings by examining applications and health farming and ecology. They will reflect on the broader consequences of scientific innovation through

093analysis of real world scenarios involving ethical dilemmas. And lastly, biochemistry honors a B and other articulated course. This dual enrollment program provides students the opportunity, excuse me, participants will build on existing scientific understanding through complex experiments and explore practical application in areas like healthcare, law enforcement and agriculture. This program includes hands on exploration of chemical and genetic processes, fostering independent inquiry and analytical skills. Students will engage in thoughtful examination of the broader consequences of scientific advancement considering moral and societal impacts through collaborative discussion and case based learning. Superintendent's recommendation is to approve all the new courses. Thank you. I have no blue cards any questions or comments from the board. Clarifying question on the C biology and I'm sorry, D agricultural soil and chemistry. Is there any crossover on Viniculture with that or do we

094have anything with Viniculture. Not yet, but there we want to. That's just a little tricky in the sense that it is wine, and so we need to look into potentially some of that is wine. So we need to look into that. Okay, I mean I understand the tricky nature it's been like that since I mean when my kids were in elementary school they put grapes on the school thing, but the fact remains 30% of our kids are tied into the Viniculture industry through their parents working there and it's part of our city it's on the flag of the city and I mean that sounds like right in the wheelhouse, you know, wine, you know in terms of the land and the soil and chemical analysis of it. Oh, and then the classes, are they all

095at one school or they broke up. These particular courses are offered at Livermore High School through their agriculture department, and their ag program. All. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Well not the the biotechnology and the biochemistry that's actually Granada. Okay. For D, the ag soil and chemistry is that does that mean a through G requirements for science or is it a separate. Like could you take that as opposed to taking general chemistry. Yes, it does meet that requirement. Oh, that's cool. UC Davis. Yeah, I'd entertain a motion to move these in their entirety, I would say, at the approval of new courses a through G. I'm just saying, I'd entertain emotion. Oh, yeah I move in support of the superintendent's recommendation, and to move all items. Okay. So we have a motion by trustee Bueno seconded

096by trustee Kaplanis. Any discussion on the motion. I asked the clerk to take role. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Myself I trustee Bueno. Aye. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. President Prusso. Aye. That motion carries unanimously. We're going to take a short break. That's better. Welcome back we're now on 13.3 of our agenda, and we are going to turn the time over to Miss Amy Robbins. And this will be the reductions and services and staffing for the 2526 school year. Good evening and thank you President Prusso Superintendent Gibson trustees and cabinet. Before I present the next two items I would like to extend our appreciation to our bargaining units. Making a very difficult time in education with layoffs and reductions of service, one that was very collaborative and in the center of it all we've kept the best interest

097of our employees at heart and worked really really hard as a team to minimize those impacts so thank you to our bargaining units for their partnerships. I also want to explain the next two resolutions look a bit different there's different education codes that govern classified versus certificated layoffs. Our first reduction is resolution number 064-2425 which is our final resolution and decisions determine a classified employees due to the lack of work or lack of funds. As a background, there is a need to eliminate or reduce particular kinds of service of classified services. And we are legally required to notify affected employees by May 15, the action is necessary for us to meet our fiscal obligations and to balance our budget. In coordination with CSEA, we are excited that we have an updated resolution on the item

098tonight. We reviewed the original resolution and we were able to identify two additional employees which we were able to remove from our final layoff notices. As a result, you have an updated resolution number 06-2425, which is on the item this evening and it reflects this change. With that it's a recommendation of our superintendent that the board approve our updated resolution number 06-2425 final resolution and decision to terminate classified employees due to the lack of work or lack of funds as presented. I have no blue cards any questions or comments from the board. Thank you for the report. And I want to also thank CSEA's leadership for being persistent and using the collaborative piece, if we want to call it that, to thank goodness you had a great contract because I think that it works as

099the basis for bringing two sides together. I think that good language brings two sides together because in the absence of it, it's people's opinion and so they have a very good contract that they've established over the years and they have very good leadership that's trusted and through that process we were able to save some integral positions. I am somewhat embarrassed that we did lose some really good people, namely a young man who came up here and talked before us that was in technology and he got some good offers, thank goodness. But I'm glad that we have that and I'm glad that there was persistence on both sides that we came to something we were able to save a position over at Joe Mitchell, which was I think an intervention specialist, something like that. That's one

100of our most challenged schools. So thank you for getting through it and all of us working hard together. If I have, if there's no other comments or questions I'd entertain a motion. I move in support of the superintendent's recommendation on this item. Second. I have a motion by trustee Bueno, seconded by trustee Druin. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to please take roll. Trustee Bueno? Aye. Myself aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel? Aye. Trustee Kaplanis? Aye. President Peruzza? Aye. That motion carries unanimously 5-0. We'll move on now. Go ahead. Our next item is addressing our certificated employees. It's resolution number 065-2425 and it's our final resolution and decision to terminate classified employees due to the reduction of particular kinds of service. And with that, it's our recommendation of the superintendent that the board approve

101resolution number 065-2425, our final resolution, to terminate certificated employees due to reductions of particular kinds of service as presented. Once again, I have no blue cards. Any questions or comments from the board? Trustee Bueno? On this item, this particular position, for those who may not be following it or some who may be following it, this is our culinary academy person. This program has been around for over a decade. It was previously run by Diane Russell, who is widely acclaimed and it's a very narrow scope. It takes a very special kind of person to run this. Natalie Burbach, her name's mentioned in the document. She's an extraordinary individual with a very unique skill set. Some of there's very tangible benefits to this program. This isn't a large program for those who don't know. These are some

102of our most challenged kids. A lot of them are at DelVal and some of them get a direct pipeline into gainful employment because of this program. The public has received this program for over a decade with wide open arms. They've done things at the Bankhead. They've done catering at our events. I can't be in support. I know it was negotiated, but I can't support a point two. I know how thin this is. This is a single individual that is over there and rough estimate. I mean, I don't know how much people make. I don't want to make their salaries, you know, but this is a small nominal amount of money. I would hope that we could find this money somewhere else. I know budgets are tight. So I'm not going to be able to support

103this item despite the fact that was negotiated stuff because I want to see that position held whole because I want to make sure that these kids get every advantage they can. And I know because proof of concept is there. I think so. It says due to reduction of particular kinds of service. Can you explain that phrasing to me? And is there the possibility that the reduction of the particular kinds of service may be reversed or something because of enrollment or something along those lines? Great question. So that particular kinds of service for certificate is really looking at enrollment and looking at needs in coordination with our budget and making decisions at the time. Remember back in February, we brought this position forward with a point for reduction, maintaining a point six of the position. We

104continue to work and we have ever since that day to work together as a cabinet and to work with our unions to figure out how to find alternative funding. So we were able to reinstate a point to making this position at point eight. If we don't bring it before you tonight, we are unable to keep the point to if we are unable to get the enrollment. We're continuing to work with both Vineyard and DelVal who are supported with this to look at enrollment for next year. We've also let the employee as well as the union know that if there is the enrollment and the opportunity, we value all of our employees. And this might be a position that we're able to fully fund depending on that enrollment for next school year. Can you clarify if,

105you know, as a teacher, if I need to teach five classes and this is point two, that's one class. Does that necessarily mean that this the individual that teaches this is moving to a point eight? Or does that mean that they could teach another class or something along those lines? I guess I don't know if you understand. Yes, I do. So the reduction would be for this specific position. However, if there is another position in the district that the person qualifies for, they could pick up that additional section elsewhere. They could apply for it and go through the process. Yes. Could you specify how much money this would save the district this point to depending on the individual? It can range from twenty thousand to twenty five thousand dollars per section or point to FTE.

106So twenty to twenty five thousand. Yeah, that's that's not a lot. And or, you know, all every little bit helps. Yeah. Can you can you explain why this person's employees name is mentioned in the document? Happy to reiterate that. So for there's certificated versus classified, there's different education codes. And so because of that legal counsel, as we're working through these items, because this is something we haven't experienced in many years, had suggested for the transparency and to meet education code to for the to for the certificated one to list the employee as well as the additional information on the resolution. Does this person get to go to the top of the list as as trustee drew and said to pick up another class or to get back to 100 percent? Yes. If the opportunity arises,

107this would be a person that would definitely have priority to return. How many students are typically enrolled in these classes? You know, for this, I know it's kind of a different kind of course. Well, and it's a different type of program. One of the struggles that we've been having in that particular at that particular site and program is the under enrollment. Yeah, we've had I mean, the program currently is costing us approximately thirty seven thousand dollars per student. So we we managed to really squeeze it down. We're hoping to rebuild the program starting next year and really backfill, which would allow us to have that individual come back at that point, too. There's just no guarantee at this point. And so all the other staff that were I think what's what's hard is that there's

108only one point to which doesn't seem like a lot. Everyone else has has been moved around in in vacancies. And so although we don't have those positions as layoff notices because they aren't, we fill them through the vacancy, you know, pieces of it. This is no reflection on her at all. She is truly amazing. And our goal really is to bring it back. It's really a formality as of May 15th that we need to provide this while we work with the incoming principal to rebuild that program. It is a very specific, very, very specific. I've been to that classroom often and I was just there, I don't know, a few days ago and there were three students in there. And so we need 10 or 12 or 15 students in that classroom. So that's going

109to allow us to build up those enrollment numbers in the other sections that she will have. And then, like I said, our long term goal is to get her full and whole again. Thank you. I'm leaning towards supporting your recommendation only because this is part of a, you know, also conversations with our with our union and I'm just surprised that we couldn't find that point to that we could not find the $25,000 you know that's just it's just I don't think it's about finding the money that I think it's about what the whole master schedule at that campus looks like. It's a very complex system. It's two schools within a school. They also support our adult transition students. So it's a little it's not a traditional just high school. Oh, it's just a one period.

110It's, it's very, very different at that particular site. And it's every little bit does help at this point. Unfortunately, if it's not about the money, it's about the scheduling. It leans me even more. I mean, it's it's $20,000. If I looked up the number and it's around 20 grand, slightly less. And it's just, it's when you affect I can't look at it. I understand when you go in the classroom and there's three kids. But our attendance at that school accomplishments, I mean we fold it up on the on the youth build, and I understand because the, the level of expectation for kids to graduate in gen ed is going to be up here when kids have challenges it's going to lower. And I don't think that it's a fair measure it's a fair assessment to

111say well there's less kids in the class. I think we should keep trying to work towards it but the challenges are greater. And I saw the work that that Diane did before her, because it was such a long period of time. And it was kind of like a gift to have someone like Natalie Burbach, whose daughter was in our shooting stars program she has a personal connection to some of our most components of our kids, and for her to step into that role. And if she's going to be less effective that means kids get less and for 20,000 bucks, it just seems like we could find that money somewhere else. It's not six figure money or something. I just I just like to see us find it somewhere else, and I appreciate the district's efforts

112in looking, you know, like we're going to try to get more kids in the class and try to recruit and build it. But it's such a small little program with so many accomplishments, and so many kids get finding gainful employment out of DelVal, I can't support a cut. It sounds like there's still plenty of opportunities for students to take the courses versus not. This is not going to diminish. I mean how many students if more students than can take those four sections can take them they will add another section. And we max out those classes already around 14 to 15 students anyway so those students those classes are almost half of what a comprehensive regular classroom would be. So when we say, three or four students, it is drastically less than a comprehensive site. And

113we understand that we know that this program costs more money it's a specific program designed for specific students and their needs. It's really the master scheduling piece and it's just trying to work all of those pieces around. I think every single position, whether it's on item three A or three B, or or or has a leg to stand on as to why we keep them, but it all adds up and unfortunately these are the recommendations that we're making, because otherwise we, we will go back into a qualified status, maybe not over 20,000 but it adds up. And so, it is the recommendation that we request, we have worked with our unions very collaboratively to get to this point. And it would be remiss of the board to not follow the recommendation. I think one of

114the concerns that I may have is kind of. My brain just disappeared. If we, if we elect to say no to this, and what would happen in that classroom, you know, during that period if there aren't students to fill it. And why support this program in this instance, and not other programs, and I recognize that perhaps we're talking about the difference between somebody working 80% and somebody working 100%. But I think, I think that there's, there's a, there's the potential of a danger of precedent setting in saying no to this with full consideration of all the points that you just made. This is not a neutral decision, but I'm just saying that it's complex on both sides. And I understand your point. I don't, I don't recall any other programs being eliminated. It's just, it's

115the narrow scope of this program. It's a one, it's a one person show. And so, to cut it by 20%, there's going to be less bill maybe it forces kids in other ones maybe some kids walk away. I don't know the availability and I don't know the class structure. So we actually were supposed to cut it by 40%. Right. And we opted to go ahead and give one period back. And even that's a gamble. So we don't even know if we can fill it at 80%, let alone at 100%. So we've already given to keep her as whole as we possibly can while we work with the new administration coming in to see what we can rebuild at that site. It could be October and we bring her back it could be a month from

116now we bring her back. We are tied to a May 15 deadline. That's the reason why we're here for this item. It has nothing to do again with her or the program, or any of that it's a matter of formality, and to get us through the process in hopes that we can rebuild that enrollment. I checked on that we own it when I went to point six I asked some questions, kind of behind the scenes. And my understanding is that it was untenable, it didn't, it wouldn't work there was a group of kids that would be excluded or participants in the class it would be excluded that's what I was told. And so, I'm appreciative that it was brought the point to was brought back. My worry is that when we start chipping away at

117specialized programs like this, that we lose the person, because it doesn't work for them that you lose kids in the process. There's a few programs like this I mean we've all, I believe, gone to the DelVal graduation, it's a special one. These are kids that just have, you know, unbelievable challenges, and for them to be able to come out and grab gainful employment right off the bat, and to be able to showcase those talents in public. I love that. So, you know I just I just don't see this amount of money being. I don't think that I would be remiss to not support this. I, with all due respect and I really appreciate especially the historic background in this. I also think it's irresponsible of us to elect to have a employee. around for one

118or maybe two periods, and we're going to keep paying her, because we really believe in the program right I totally believe that but if, if, if this is the, you know, the best of two evils I think this is a better and smarter way and more responsible way to go and say we're all making cuts along. It also it would. It's precedent setting setting I think, like trustee drew and said and it's a little disrespectful to 13 a 13 a employees that we just now voted to to drag along and I had the same reaction when I saw the name. And when I saw the single, you know, it just, it puts it. It puts a different spin on it but I think this is, in all fairness, probably the best in the most responsible

119way to go with respect to somebody who know who's been here much longer than I have. And on that I do appreciate it. I don't see it as your response because I don't understand. I have no idea if this person is going to be sitting in an empty classroom for the point to I don't know that I don't make any statements to understand how many kids are in the class. I just see if the person's there and they're doing their job if this is being done, because the classes aren't full, and we're going to keep 100% of program and save 20%. That's a completely different conversation. My understanding is that we're going to have to cut a little bit offer a little bit less to vulnerable kids, if that's the case, that's where my opposition

120stands. It's not that we're trying to just put the kids like it's the same class for four, five periods and now we're going to do it in four. That sounds like efficiency. But I don't know that all the classes are the same. I don't know that. That's not what I was told. That's not correct, right? Yeah, that was my understanding. That's my understanding too. Okay. President Bruce I move to support the superintendent's recommendation to approve resolution number 065 dash to four slash to five final resolution and decision to terminate certificated employees due to a reduction of particular kinds of services. I second. I have a motion by Trustee Druane, seconded by Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to take roll. Trustee Kaplanis? Aye. Myself, aye. Trustee Bueno? Nay. Trustee

121Vanden Heuvel? Aye. President Prusso? Aye. That motion carries four zero, or sorry, four one. Okay, we'll move on now to continue with Ms. Robbins for our declaration of need for fully qualified educators. So this is a report that should look familiar to you. Each year we bring forward our declaration of need for highly qualified educators and today we are doing so for the 25-26th school year. This is a requirement set forth by California Code of Regulation, Title V, Section 80026 and it's a prerequisite for our district as well as all other districts to request any emergency permits or limited assignment permits through the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. This is a routine report and it's important annually that we bring it forward. This will help us maintain compliance with ensuring that our students continue to receive

122instruction from appropriately credentialed staff. With that, it's a recommendation of the superintendent that the board approve the declaration of need for highly qualified educators for the 20-25-26 school year. I have no blue cards. Any questions? Yeah, Stephen? I was a little surprised to see emergency transitional kindergarten. If I'm correct, I think this is the year that the Californians, they need a specialized credential to teach transitional kindergarten and so them to have that demand and then also be offering emergency credentials. Is that correct? You are correct. It is the year that there are special requirements and in recognition that those requirements may be difficult for some districts to meet, they have the emergency credential. We are doing very well. Again, this is all we need to probably over ask as opposed to under because if it's

123not on this resolution or in front of you this evening, we need to bring it back. So it's an abundance of caution on our part. I would entertain a motion. I move to approve the superintendent's recommendation. Second. We have a motion by Trustee Kaplanis, seconded by Trustee Bueno. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to take roll. Myself, aye. Trustee Bueno? Aye. Trustee Kaplanis? Aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel? Aye. President Prusso? Aye. That motion carries unanimously, 5-0. We're going to turn the time now over to Ms. Kayla Wasley for 13.5. It's our approval of board policy and updates. Good evening. This evening I have to present for you revised board policy 1330, use of school facilities, as well as revised exhibit 1330, which is the exhibit that follows the port policies for the fees

124that we charge for the use of facilities. For revised board policy 1330, we're bringing this forward outside of our planned full revamp of our board policies because we've been working really hard this year since we transitioned to our new facility use program, Facilitron, to really streamline and shore up our structures and processes that we have in place for the use of facilities. Currently, not all parties are using our Facilitron system and it's sometimes causing some issues, so we just wanted to make sure we have really clear policies in place for what our policy is on use of facilities and how we prioritize the use of our facilities. In addition, there has been some updates for guidelines for the fees collected for capital direct costs, such as maintenance, repair, and refurbishment, as well as the authorized

125use of school building as a voting center on election day or during the 10 days proceeding. When the board policy was adopted and reviewed in 2022, it was presented with three options. When the policy was adopted, it was adopted with all three policies presented in the final version, instead of choosing one of the three policies. Based on our current practice, we're recommending none of the three CSBA recommended policies, but a version of option three as a custom option for what our actual practice is, which is allowing the use of our school facilities or grounds without charge to school-related organizations whose activities are directly related to or for the benefit of district schools. Use of time at times other than normal hours of operation at district facilities or large events during normal hours will necessitate charges

126for supervision, custodial cleanup, access, and security at the site. All other groups requesting the use of school facilities under the Civic Center Act shall be charged an amount not to exceed direct cost determined in accordance with 5 CCR 14037. So that's a recommendation about how we're currently processing our charges for our facility use to internal as well as external groups. And then the exhibit that accompanies exhibit 1330 was updated with a few of our fees based off of what we've actually been currently charging, as well as some clarification on who we charge to what organization, just to provide some clarification as well as to make the document easier to read. And with that, if there are any questions. Is that both? That's both of them? Yes. Okay, I do have some blue cards, so we'll

127do that first. I'm going to invite Joanne Morrison forward and then following her, Amy Thompson. Good evening, President Prusso, members of the board, Superintendent Gibson in cabinet. Nice to see you this evening. You just raised a couple of things in reading this custom option that I wasn't going to talk about, but it says uses at times other than normal hours of operation at district facilities or large events during normal hours. Maybe should say may necessitate charges for supervision, rather than well, and then shall be charged an amount when reading it you said not to exceed direct costs determined in accordance with five CCR, but the not is not in there. One other small typo in the third paragraph on page one. There's a typo in the word designee. And then, substantively, in the in paragraph

128six I believe it is last paragraph in this section as necessary to ensure efficient use of school facilities the superintendent or designee may with the board's approval, enter into an agreement for the joint use of any school facilities or grounds. To me this sounds rather vague joint use by whom there are several possible activities or group categories. It could be school activities classroom or class projects. It could be school related uses like PTO or site council, or it could be community groups like scouts or religious group. Does this mean a joint use by any two or three of those categories, or by whom, and with the superintendent or designee be entering into a two way or three way agreement. How does the board approve such an agreement by hearing. And in the best interest of

129the district and the community. How does the board determine that there any standards, and I say this because there has been an instant recently which I think you receive communication on where there's been some conflicting joint use. I think this really needs to be clarified very carefully and given some thought, so that that won't happen in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Come on up Amy. Hello again. I second the may instead of will may be charged a fee. And I kind of got into the weeds on the second document instead of the first one trying to understand what it meant. So, I want to be sure that I'm understanding what these changes mean. What I'm going to read it to say is that if an organization like PTA is using a facility for a

130fundraising activity. That would be a large event. They won't have to pay a facility fee, but they will have to pay a minimum of $90 for custodial staff. If an organization like Boy Scouts is using one of our multipurpose rooms for their weekly meeting, they're going to need to pay a $26 facility fee plus $90 for custodial. $116 per meeting for the Boy Scouts to meet. And if a for profit group is using a facility say for example our pool is used all summer long by an outside organization, they're going to have to pay the facility use feed that's market rate, which is still reasonable I think it's like $100 an hour. Plus they're going to have to pay for custodial. Did I understand it. Okay. So then, how does this compare to what we're

131currently doing is this going to have a negative impact on groups that are currently using facilities that we partner with that support us and other ways. Are we going to ruffle feathers by charging fees to people who we haven't in the past charged fees to questions. Thank you. Kayla do you want to address some of the questions that were, or either one. We have been working with our PC IC repair teacher clubs to talk about these policies and procedures. We've had kind of a mixture of what has actually been happening with how we've been charging custodial it's really about around the custodial fees, we haven't ever charged parent organizations nor do we plan to, but it's really if we have custodial staff that we're bringing on site in extra hours or needing to provide over

132time for set event cleanup, making sure that we are not paying that out of pocket from the general fund to subsidize the fundraisers and so we have been talking with our PC ICs and I'm working on training at the beginning of the school year for that to make sure one that we have an understanding of what sites are being used and how they're being used and then to make sure that we don't have conflicts in the scheduling of it because right now we're using two different systems the school site has their own internal system and then we have our facilitron for outside use. So we're really trying to bring that together. I would say that, while of course no group wants to be charged for use of facilities they've also been understanding and knowing that

133we can't continue to pay staff extra hours or overtime and then not charged for those fun. I just have a quick question so what is the feedback, like, for the PC IC, the PTA representatives, and I said it's like what 5050 that the people that have currently been using the system, or, or as far as their understanding. I would say, only a few of the organizations have actually been using our system and so some right now have been paying and some have not been so we're trying to make sure that it is a process across the board that is applied evenly to all of our district sites. But then I would say the feedback has been. I don't love it, but they are also understanding of why we need to move this way and have

134policies and procedures in place for this process. And so we're really working to make sure also that we do only charge if we need custodial and not just if they have a meeting that we're not going to charge but if they have a large fair after school one day, even if it's still regular business hours and that those custodians are busy working their schedule and it's very tight on their daily schedule that they are then having to shift over and work longer to cover and clean up the sites. So I would say that. I mean, Dr Gibson can confirm because she's also been in the PCC meetings that while they don't love it they are also understanding. I think one of the one of the other issues that we're having that was raised is just

135the need to get a system in place where everyone is putting all their events into the same system. And that includes our our PTOs and our PTAs. We want to give them first chance at those facilities for obvious reasons over any outside just random agencies. Currently, some do use it some don't use it and so we're really working on getting everyone trained so that we don't have the overlap of different things which we have had which has happened just recently. It's a five to 10 minute overlap between the use of a facility at Jackson. And so we want to just make sure that that doesn't happen in the future and so really getting everybody onto the one system is going to be is going to be a huge advantage for the district as well as

136for the sites. Just for clarification, it sounds like it's been a little bit inequitable inequitable in that some sites are doing it correctly and paying the fees and other sites are not. So it hasn't just been clear to all sites that this is the process. Correct, we thought we were under the impression that it was clear until recently at PCIC we started digging more into it and then we then learned where the disconnect was so now we're working on fixing all that but in the past, there has not been a clear practice. Okay. Is this a matter of economics, or is this a matter of policy. I would say both. What is the fiscal impact of the increases and putting this in place. At this point I couldn't actually put a number to that because

137we have just been paying the overtime or trying to cover the facility use as neat as needed to clean up sites. But I do know that we have been putting general fund dollars towards the custodial usage at the sites. But until we actually start appropriately using the system there's no way to put a dollar amount on the fiscal impact of it. We will probably see it should really balance out if we're charging for custodial that means that custodians are actually working the events and being paid for that time. So it won't really net us any profit it will only just bring us to being netting out to zero for that facility use for our, our internal users that are district organizations. So I see I mean it's a it's a relatively simple thing. If we

138were to model usage that we know of from last year, and the different some places paid some people didn't. The only thing we would gain we would gain from the people who didn't pay. And I'm just wondering, there's no real variable here other than some people paid and some didn't. I would say we have no idea actually what the usage is because they're not you don't system we don't use the system. So the internal any PTAs boosters, any other programs that are district approved programs don't actually use the system so we have no idea at the school sites what's happening. We actually recently had a situation that Jackson. No. And another site that could have been a very serious situation long term, somebody had keys to a facility that they've had for probably decades, and

139they were going in and using a facility and off hours to run their own program. I'm going to just leave it very generic. And then we're then not only are they in there using it but then they have students in there we don't know who's fingerprinted we don't know what's happening we don't know. I could go on and on and on, and then you add then the layer on top of it not only is it not in the system. We don't have insurance, all those functions, but then on top of it then there's cleanup afterwards that then the regular custodian who has a schedule that we provide to them are that we're then expected to, to just figure it out on how they were going to do that and that's just not fair to our

140stuff either, but we can't track that because none of this stuff is in the system. So that individual after being talked to, I don't know, two or three times. We said now you will give us your keys. You no longer get to have a key because they just even after having multiple conversations, they continue to go in and use the facility. That's what it would come to. In my opinion, if we, if we don't know the numbers, but we do know that there would be an impact on some groups, would it be possible, notwithstanding the for profit groups, we'll call them the group three folks. Could we give like a window of discovery, say it's the rest of this year, where groups one and two are not affected fiscally, but we implement the policy so

141that everyone's compliant. You'll be able to calculate numbers to say this is what we're, it's costing us and this is what we will realize we're going to close our fiscal gap here. I don't think it doesn't appear on implementing this until the 2526 school year. So, okay, so could we just want to get this in place so we can start getting people trained. So could we do it in the absence of the fiscal impact on our nonprofits for one year, and then implement the fiscal side, it's going to be better for our nonprofits if they're not an internal group of the districts, then they are currently paying, and they're following this process. So, are not if you're a nonprofit, and you're using our facilities but aren't actually associated with the districts are not a PTA

142booster, then they are currently paying it's really that internal group that I'm saying that there wouldn't be a fiscal impact. In other words, we go for the registration piece we go for the compliance piece on groups one and two. In the first year, to see what we're actually talking about, I mean it would be. If we're doing all of this for not we're going to raise $50,000 or something and affect numerous nonprofit groups. Maybe the board could look at that and say, maybe it's worth it maybe it's not maybe every every nickel counts. But in the, you know, we're looking at community engagement through, you know, a potential bond next year, and it seems, if we had the numbers, and we could look at this and say this is the fiscal impact, we're giving away

143things and it's costing us a lot of money. It clearly is costing us something, but we don't know what it is because we don't have compliance. I just look at it as maybe a two tier approach. So, are you, are you asking us to give our facilities for free with a gift of public funds or I'm just I want to make sure I understand what the ask is, I would say I would say to keep it, keep the fee schedule, as it is, but it sounds like there are some people that are using our facilities that we don't even know they're using them. It sounds like it's all of the above. It's really all of the above and it goes back to a conversation that we have had recently with the board about our fee

144schedules, right about us raising the fees. And that's why we're here as we had this conversation. Everyone knows that there are current people that are paying these fees, right. So, and then there are people who don't ever have to pay the fees. This is just cleaning everything up it's getting us to where then it's not a gift of public funds. And I think we just have to be really careful with letting some groups use our facilities for free not letting other groups use it at all letting some groups pay other groups don't pay. Again, every dollar counts. I'm not proposing that we that we're that we act in a disparate manner. As opposed to implementing increases in fees, before we understand what those impacts are. I'd like to see the impacts as it relates so

145we have some data that shows. This is what we're actually doing. Like I understand some of these are going to be direct. If it's a, you know, group to the courts to use our swimming pool we're charging $41 an hour and we're going to raise it to $100. That's, that's probably a real cost you can calculate that. So I'm going to refer this to the board this is our recommendation. Okay, our recommendation is to, is to implement what we are providing based on prior conversations that we've had with the board about this topic. Okay, I think it's difficult to ask for information that you don't have because of the non use of the non registration and who's not ready we don't, you don't know we don't know. But I have a couple of questions to

146number one. Is there a way for us to vote to approve this with some of these changes in language that obviously we didn't mean to put in. Yes, we can do a table change so instead of will it can be may. Sure, for sure. Those, those kind of things. Secondly, just for when it comes to the fee schedule I think that there are going to be requests for rooms or facilities that won't require any cleaning or any like, is there a checkbox you can say hey this will not require any janitor impact at all. I think there is actually a question on the form that asking if you will need custodial services obviously that will then in the review process we'll see like okay if you're event, an event having 400 people and you say

147no to custodial services will have to override that, but there is that option because we also talked to some of our organizations, or internal organizations that if you're requesting to use the site you don't feel you need custodial just please make sure that you're not pulling our custodians off of their schedule and so they were very understanding of that. So we are really trying to make sure that we are charging the minimal that we can in all aspects so there is a way to say no to custodial fees. What about a cleaning deposit or damage deposit something that you, as a, you know, especially at the beginning of a, of a school year and say we're going to you're going to be using this for this many years and we, we have, you know, we

148plan to pay for wear and tear and cleaning out of the fees that you pay. However, there are also things in the room TVs projectors that cost more so we need to deposit from you or something like that is that. That's covered more by their insurance that they're required to have to use our facilities and they have they are required to have all groups are required to have insurance and they can also purchase it through facilitron if they don't have their own insurance. And then lastly I think part of the disconnect. Some that some that just came up earlier to is that line, if it's in the best interest of the district and the joint use. I'm just thinking who, how are we making the decision, there's some boards that have a better, better policy

149or more detailed policy that helps with the decision or the room is not being used so we're good because if you know if you got a group that comes into practice, meditation, and next door is the group that is working on their tennis ball against the wall skills. That's, that's a conflict, but who do we choose them and how do we do so to have better language around that I don't, I don't want to kick it back for that but I would say, maybe in the future we can come up with something to make it easier on the facilitron operator to decide to go. Nope. Yep. Here we go because it's super clear. Yes, and I was based on a timestamp, our facilities definitely work in progress and so that's where we wanted to at

150least get the initial language cleaned up with kind of what we've been operating under and then work towards. We've been looking at some other districts and two but until we can kind of see where our struggles are, and as we implement the system. Absolutely consider revising it to make it a little more clear and what our processes. One last point to clarify. Well, will there be any change in the mathematical methodology on the charges, specifically, or not, not completely exclusively, but baseball field is listed as singular and tennis courts are listed in the plural. So is there any change in methodology, because I know like Granada Little League there's four or five maybe six fields something like that behind Emma Smith. So is it $20 with a per hour for the time that anyone's out

151there, all in theirs is by it is by field and we actually have a separate agreement, but there's no change in that there's no change. Okay, that's fair. Just a little bit more. And I'll just ask the question so are there group twos that are currently not paying, or we don't know, because I think if I heard you speak correctly, nonprofits are paying, it's mainly internal PTO is that, because if I heard you correctly PTO is if they're having their PTO meeting they don't pay, but if they're doing a fundraiser where they're raising funds then they would pay. If we know about the event if we know about the event. But yes, there are currently groups that are paying the group to rates that are nonprofits, currently, that are not internal organizations so different youth

152youth groups, youth sports groups, and such as that will be charged the group to you and I've already been paying the group to you. And, but they're currently not paying anything. I would say, if they're not an internal group, I would say there's probably minimal of that. But there is probably the possibility that we do have some group to that have not been charged if we if we don't know that they're using our facility going to trust you Buenos is everyone going to be shocked are we talking about one or two groups because most people have that are nonprofits like our boy scouts and that kind of stuff. Yeah, they're in the system correct so I don't think there will be a lot and then my second kind of question slash comment is policy fidelity

153regarding facilities is really challenging, because you have to go from us the board all the way down to the custodian with So hearing about you reaching out to PCIC I think there's going to be a lot of work to communicate and get this correctly, work with PCIC and the parents and community groups but also working with principles, all the way down to the custodians to make sure that if we say, like I received a letter about double booking and then here in clarification, it's not double booking it's just that it's so close together that you know there may be an assumption of, you know, we may think that, or when they click the box that the one group But if they don't know they need to be cleared out by three at the dot and

154they think that they finished their meeting at three but they really aren't done till 315 you can see that this can lead to all kinds of issues. So my point is just that we need to make spend a lot of time training everybody about what the system is and try to hold people accountable but also give some grace as we try to, you know, talk, put everything and especially as you said about trying to make sure that our groups are PTAs and PTOs know how to use the system so that they can, you know, the facilities go to our internal groups first. Yes, absolutely. One of the best coordinators I've seen over the years at doing that exact piece, because of the kind of proliferation of say girl sports, we brought in new stuff, field

155time is our athletic directors at the high schools they're really really good at that, and making sure that it's messaged and the people are off at three o'clock because someone's come, there's not even a two minute overlap. It's exact they're really good at it. Well, and I think perhaps leveraging their knowledge relating to this to train is something that we can do. Okay. I'd entertain a motion I think also. I think what we, what we have been learning what I have been learning of this new approach to board policies is that we always have the opportunity to update it. So, I think as we go along if there are things that we feel need to be updated that should be a problem for us to do. The main reason why we brought this forward is

156because in the past, up until well as of even right now, technically, our options are three options that all contradict each other. Yeah, so we have to start somewhere and then of course, as we're looking through the policy manual, you know we'll be able to continue to refine this. Okay. I would just ask, is there one, because equity looks different. So, and I don't consider it a gift of public funds but is there an option under may that the superintendent, or your representative has the option to scholarship, because there are some groups that are very challenged at fundraising and even a $90 fee might be preclude them and they could be a PTA or a PTO, and it may discourage them just enough. But is there an option where we could, someone could check a

157box it comes to your attention. So someone could say listen this is, you know, just a private matter and we did that all the time with student athletes, you know, it's just it's tie and shirt day and coaches to go out and buy tie and shirt for kids, because, you know, it's hard for some people. I would say yes I would say however we have to be very careful, because where do we say yes to one and no to the other and we have a clear policy in place if that's the case then why do we have a policy. My job is to uphold the policy that are your policies that you give to us to uphold so that we would need to have something in the policy that says I would probably need to

158bring that back to the board for approval and then put it on you to change your policy or to debunked your own policy that you approved, because it's. I'm not I'm not going to put that on me as a superintendent when my job is to follow the policy that you give me to follow. I am going to say to the board no I'm going to follow this policy. So you decide on what policy you want me to follow and I will follow it. Okay, I'm simply looking to give you discretion, another tool in the box that if you get to it, and you see that there's, you're working with PCIC all the time and you know what groups are challenged. And if someone comes and they have a particular challenge that you would have the

159discretion, so you wouldn't have to be in conflict with the policy, but if the policy had a simple discretionary clause that allowed for the superintendent's discretion, I'd be for that until I say yes to one and no to another and then you get an email that I said no to someone who you would want me to say yes to. Yeah, I'd be very concerned about the discretion because how do we decide, you know, I'm not sure what that looks like. So, okay. And then there was discussion of some of the, I don't know the word for it table change to. So, are we able to capture what those are. Yes. The may or the will to may for sure. I know that there was a type of word may instead of will and not to

160exceed and not to exceed. That's correct. And from designer to designate and desire to designate that was just type of Yes. And then the other language when we do all this in June, you know we can we can come back to this we'll have a lot more information at that point. And we will work with CSBA and our committee to update this even further. Joanne will be calling you don't worry you're on my to do list. I have a CSBA meeting coming up and then you're on your next on my agenda. Okay, I'll make a motion to approve this superintendent's recommendation to approve the reward. Sorry, the revised board policy 1330 with the changes. Yeah. Second. So I have a motion by myself, seconded by trustee drew in any discussion on the motion. I'd ask

161the court to take role. Trustee vanden Heuvel. I trustee Kaplan is I trustee Bueno. I myself I present Pruso. I, and then I will move to support the superintendent's recommendation to approve the result revised exhibit 1330 use of school facilities. I second that. So then on that when we have a motion by trustee drew in. Seconded by trustee vanden Heuvel, any discussion on the motion. Okay, it asked the court to take role. Myself, I trustee vanden Heuvel I trustee Kaplan is I trustee Bueno. President Pruso. I those motions both carry unanimously five zero. Okay, we are going to move on to our consent items. Wait, just kidding. Just kidding. We have another board policy. Sorry, I skipped it. We'll turn the time over to Miss Kelly Manke for the differential graduation and competency standards competency

162standards. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening President Pruso members of the board superintendent Gibson and cabinet. So I am bringing forward to you this is board policy 6146.4 differential graduation and competency standards for students with disabilities. And what I have, what you'll see in here is added as there's new law that says that if students who take the car that's cut the California alternative assessment, the law of our students in our SEC classes, that they also have a pathway to a diploma. A through G or even our district standards, but they are taking classes that fulfill the California state standards, which will give them an alternative diploma, keep them in line with all of their peers, as well as maintain their eligibility status for special education and continue on until they are age 22. So

163this is taken partly from CSBA, but it is under under the advice of our attorneys that we revise it a little bit. So this is under our attorney's advice. The difference being that CSBA spent a lot of time adding to that first paragraph describing FAPE and IEP process and it's just not necessary and kind of you got lost in all of the mix here. So it's really that middle section that talks about the exemption from district established graduation requirements. So these students are receiving the state standards and modified versions of our district standards so that they can get their diploma. We will have one student, if this is approved, that will be receiving their diploma this year that's eligible under this new law. So we're really hoping that it passes this evening. So our superintendent's

164recommendation is that we approve board policy 6146.4. I have no blue cards. Any questions or comments from the board. If not, I would entertain a motion. I'd like to make a motion to approve revised board policy 6146.4 differential graduation and competency standards for students with disabilities. I second. We have a motion by Trustee Vanden Heuvel, seconded by Trustee Kaplanis. Any discussion on the motion? I'd ask the clerk to take roll. Trustee Bueno? Aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel? Aye. Myself? Aye. Trustee Kaplanis? Aye. President Prusa? Aye. That motion carries unanimously. Okay now we are going to move to our consent items and we do have two blue cards on one of our consent items so we're going to move to that one first which is 14.5. So if everyone wants to get to their correct place and

165it is the approval of the revised board calendar and the board meeting calendar. I know this wasn't a discussion item but I am going to ask Dr. Tori Gibson if she could just give a short explanation on what this is and why the changes and then I will invite our speakers to come forward. So as discussed with President Prusa for some time we have talked about in the current way that our workshops are held on Tuesdays, on Thursdays, sorry I'm going to get this wrong, on Thursdays we call them a workshop. A workshop only requires a 24 hour posting. You can put action items and different functions on that meeting if necessary but it is never advised to have a standing meeting schedule for workshops. They're usually used for special meetings and just different other

166functions. So we can call the Tuesday meetings board meetings which is my recommendation just to tighten it up so that we are really strong and making sure that all of our I's are dotted and T's are crossed with with Brown Act. The function of those meetings won't change from our current Thursdays, it'll, it'll be the items that will be on those agendas will be exactly what we've been doing our workshop type items discussion presentations those types of things it was really about a 72 hour posting, which a regular board meeting is required to do, as well as requiring that. Sorry I just lost my whole train of thought on the second part of that, the posting, and I'm looking at Emily because we've talked about this a million times. Sorry, 10 sorry I'm not helping

167you right now it's okay it's all right. But we can call them either it doesn't matter whether we call them a regular board meeting or we call them the other it's a matter of when the posting happens. The, like I said, it'll be just like our regular Thursdays are now. They will be held on that Thursday that's on the board meeting calendar, we went through the board meeting calendar and we're very precise and where we placed the Tuesday meetings as we want staff to have as long of a runway as they can to meet their deadlines for example in December we have first interim, there are certain requirements around that for Miss wisely to have first interim done. There are certain things around March 15 notices as we've learned this year and may 15 notices

168I was, unfortunately we've learned tonight. And so, we really went through that process, moving the meetings up to 6pm was really to accommodate, you know we do a lot of celebrations which is our favorite part of our board meeting. And then we had some feedback from parents just saying it would be nice if we could move those up a little bit, just so that parents aren't getting I mean I think tonight it was 745. So it is a little bit later. So, that's just some clarification again if we want to change the, the title of what we call Thursdays it that's completely fine we can call them workshops. I just want to caution us that it does. It just isn't recommended by legal counsel. So, just trying to shore up some of those functions but

169we technically can go either way. Okay, we'll have our public comments and then we can have a discussion as a board so I'll invite Joanne Morrison, again to come forward and then Amy Thompson I should have gone the other way this time but that's okay. You guys are good. Okay. You can fight over it whatever you want. Okay, well now I'm really confused. Hello. I see that this past year we have 17 evening meetings. And in the upcoming schedule we have 12 evening meetings. I have not taken a survey I don't know of any survey. But I think it's a safe assumption that most working people are working in the morning and not available for morning meetings. We have fewer meetings overall coming up there were 28 in this past year and 22 in the

170upcoming year. I really appreciate that the evening meetings are moved up to six o'clock though I think that's a really good idea. But I'm just concerned about maintaining transparency and giving the community, the greatest opportunity to participate and to be informed about what's happening. And I think that's going to be difficult. Whether you call these workshops or meetings. I would like to see more of them in the evening I'd like to see all of these in the evening. Why do we need morning meetings. But for the sake of transparency. I would really urge you to rethink this and put some more evening meetings in here rather than mornings. Thank you. I am here again. Okay. At first blush I look at this and go yes, only one night meeting a month. I've heard from members

171they're concerned that they won't have access, having a nine o'clock in the morning meeting doesn't allow le a members if they have input to give to come because they're in classrooms teaching. And in reading the agenda it references that part of this change is ensuring transparency and public engagement. And I think having the meetings in the morning. I maybe I'm missing something I don't know how that increases public engagement or the ability of the public to engage are we planning to start where people can call in from a remote location and ask questions or. Anyway, that that is my concern. Going from the first and third Tuesday evenings, eliminating one of the Tuesdays entirely and yeah, thank you. Thanks Amy. All right, Stephen. So, I think that the. I think one of the things that

172we need to be cognizant of is when we talk about accessibility, who are we talking about making meetings accessible. I think for, if I'm correct, Dr. Gibson for workshops public comments are not allowed. So, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 15% of full time wage and salary workers usually work evenings or night shifts with a focus on industries like hospitality healthcare transportation and security evening work is defined as between starting between 6pm and 10pm in Livermore, specifically the figure is 8.5% of our residents work in the evening. However, as previously mentioned certain industries and types of work disproportionately occur in the evening, for example as an estimated that for part time workers close to 30% work during the evenings. So, in my mind, making morning meetings board meetings allows access for people who

173can't access meetings in the evening. So, I think that's, I see that, you know, I hear the, there's five less meetings, but I also see that this is giving people who could, because I have had communication with several people, including si si. These who cannot come participate in the process because there is not an opportunity, the only way they can participate is if they don't attend work, or they are sick from work. So, and I recognize this is not equal rights that we're talking about a majority of our community works during the day, but there is a minority of our community that has a disproportionate burden to participate in the process of sharing their perspective. I think that that's something that is guiding my understanding of this modification. I have a question we wouldn't be

174possible for us to elect to address certain issues board policies, whatever that affects people that can largely only come in to an evening meeting so we can have those discussions then I think that's probably possible to. Like in a meeting like tonight will continue to be on at the night meeting. Yeah, calling the Thursday meetings, a board meeting though does open it up to public comment for items not on the agenda that day so let's say we have three or four site presentations, and we don't have any other agenda items we still will have a public comment section so let's say those si you employees which that recently did happen, where we had employees who came and they wanted to publicly speak and they had to go to work and they had to go to

175work. And they lost the opportunity to have their voice be heard. And so, it really just opens that up for them to be able to come during the day, but the bulk of the work that we normally do will happen on the Tuesday night meetings, as we currently have happened. I think this could be a good, a good way forward. Also, when we, when you take out the, the premise that the evening meetings is where the engagement happens because we have. Maybe the record can show that we have have one person who's not who's not an employee here, and, you know, 20 people online so that's not our biggest fan, you know that's not a lot of people and that's the evening meeting. And so to say that that that's when when engagement happen that's

176when we can really engage with the public is, I don't know that doesn't. Well it's one of the reasons that when Laura and I met today that we are switching to the correspondence and the communication regularly prior to a meeting so that if there is something prior if if somebody didn't have a chance to read an agenda prior to our cutoff date of it going into the packet, it would, it could be two three weeks on the road before it would actually become public record. So, I think we're just trying to shift our practices to the new way of the world how using our resources, both the morning currently and the evening meetings are recorded and posted. They are also both live streamed. I think, like, for me, I like the idea of continuing the

177evening meetings to look similar to what they do now with the option of having, I think the benefit of having the Thursday meetings deemed a board meeting is again, we can have public comment. But I also really enjoy the school reports, and I also recognize that when we have the school reports in the Thursday meetings. That is not additional time for those principles who put a lot of time and effort into it. It's built within their, their day. So I recognize that I think, I think, like the policies I, I do think this is something that if this isn't working, then it's not working and we can change it, but I, I think the intent is for the meetings to look more like they do now we've had some. But we have had some really

178short meetings in the last little bit and I feel like to combine them gives people, you know, more freedom at night and we can get people all together on one it to me it makes sense to consolidate. But I am also open to, you know, trying it out and if it's if it's not working if we recognize something that's not working we can make changes and I think we're always worried that we're like boxing ourselves into a corner and I just don't think that's, that's not realistic in the real world we can, we can make a change when needed. Yeah, I see the moving the meetings up everything there's always gonna be a give and a take and a winner and a loser a little bit moving them up there's a lot of kids to

179play sports. If you played literally, there's no way you can get here to a six o'clock meeting, soccer, basketball, but there's going to be other parents that say, that's great. There's going to be parents that come from work to say there's no way and get there by six I'm commuting. I can't get there by six seven o'clock work perfectly. So I'm not really sure what's driving it but to me, when you put a truck maybe we do a trial period and we say well we're going to do it but we are approving this like this year we're we're revising the second half of this one of these items is to revise what's left of this year. And then we're going to put in place for next year. As long as we're nimble on it. I

180think so, you know, is that we look at it. The one thing that I do see that, and I take trusty drones point that there are people that maybe work part time or they work nights and they can't make it. I mean, I look at as if we had to convert some of our Thursdays, or we had to I don't even say convert. If we had to implement and conduct Thursday regular board meetings, a few and maintain your Tuesday night schedules. As we have it, you're not reducing we're increasing public access and public input. I mean, it's just simply our time. But if we're looking for transparency and we're looking for public access leading up to public engagement, then make a few keep it as we have it, and just add a few Thursday meetings

181so that people have better access. I mean we're doing all these other things that have expanded since I've been on the board we started filming them and putting them on live stream we took, we take public input, and we do take public comments at our Thursday workshops, maybe not on the specific topic, but there's always a public comment section. It was always on our agenda. There was. I know people came up and they spoke because we'd have people in the back row and conference room see for years and they during budget and stuff and people would put up their hand and they would say, I'd like to have a comment with parent groups we had teachers groups, organizational groups that spoke in those and it was on our agenda for years so maybe it's improper

182but I know that it actually wasn't agendized then it was just that the meetings were as formal which is my understanding which is why the those meetings were moved into this room so it created more of the formal setting. That is what I've been told by two prior superintendents. Okay. I know that we took comment because a lot of times, the workshops were concerned workshops not board means, but workshops were considered a more informal means of communication. There was a lot of back and forth teachers, other employees in the district that weren't on the agenda would answer questions and have open discussion in our workshops. Correct. And the problem with that is it's a major violation of Brown Act. So they move them into here to create that more formal setting so that we are

183not violating Brown Act. And then they move so that everything became agendized and then it's a slippery slope of them we add things on because we have the time and we all know how hard if we tried to schedule the 10 of us, or 11 of us including Lori to be in the same space at the same time in the next 10 days it would be extraordinarily difficult for a six hour meeting. So, I think that's why then at one point right the meetings were held, so that they were just calendar but they were often canceled but then over time they were used more and more I'm talking a decade of history that trustee bueno you and I just had the conversation about that you gave me which makes total sense. And then it's a

184slippery slope in the sense over a decade of, well we already have this scheduled so I can get this from you and I can get this approved or I can have this presentation and all those functions happen. But when prior when those back and forth conversations were happening. That wasn't the intent of the meeting which is then why they were moved into here to more formalize them. This is how I inherited it. I inherited the Thursday morning and then the Tuesday nights in this room. I didn't know any different I had to get that background from the powers that and I'm not opposed to making the Thursday, call them I mean there may be sometimes when you still have to have a workshop I guess I don't know how you call it to make us

185compliant. I'm fine with that. But I am opposed to limiting public input relative to lessening the amount of meetings we have, and that sounds funny coming from me if you don't know me because I'm usually a person who's about efficiency and I don't like to have a whole bunch of meetings let's make a meaningful. But at a time when we're kind of leading up on public engagement. I would like to see this maintain the Tuesdays and maybe expand to having the Thursdays, where do you seem that they're relevant or they're impactful, so that we can offer it input opportunities for more people in the public. That's it. That also can be discussed after trying it and finding out like we are, we, you know, we keep getting backlogged on public comment we could we get,

186you know, we get a lot of pushback from people go I want to be there and you have too few meetings. And I keep trying to get there and we can't get, you know, can't get a word edgewise because it's too busy or whatever then we can always add, or we can change this decision right. I just think that this is a, I just don't want you to get a false read. I mean I know I get references this old board member, but with age and being on this board you've seen some things. And when we went through coven and we went through masking and we went through the charter school. There wasn't two people from the public here. This room was packed every single night. And so if you put your schedule to a

187point where there are instances of curriculum change and things like that. It makes it extremely difficult to deal with them. And now we're limiting public speaker cards to one minute rather than three. I just, I understand the whole issue of trying to be compliant. I don't know if that was pronounced to me we were major Brown Act violators. But, well, I thought you said was a major brown polish but. So, if, if, if we have to clean things up. I'm all for that. But I just see it is lessening the impact fullness and the availability of this board's business to the public by minimizing those Tuesdays. I'd like to see us maintain as many of those as possible, and then expand if we need to to Thursdays to offer more input from people. I've seen

188us back up on a lot of things here in the last couple years. We changed the high school curriculum and you guys had to come in and clean that up. You know, I mean there's a lot of things that we've done because we didn't conduct enough business in this room so that's just my five cents. I mean to me it sounds like we're all in agreement that we want this to be nimble flexible nimble as you say, the opportunity, if it's not working, we can come back at any time is my understanding and changes that this is the board's decision right. So I, I would suggest we go forward with the board calendar, as it is, and then, and then see how it goes. I don't know, that's my recommendation but I'm open to suggestions.

189Yeah, I like this change to. Yeah, you're looking for a moment. I would like to thank you guys, the administration for cleaning up the cleanup on 4d, just not without porn or anything just to clean up on 4d. And if we don't make a motion. Yeah, thanks for cleaning that up. Another option is that we could table this, we could talk more, and then we could come back at the next meeting, if that's if somebody wants to do that, or propose that. I think I think about, I mean, I'm okay with moving forward with this calendar as is with the option to change it, if necessary, but I just think we're like we won't know unless we try it. And then we could always change it if needed. I would like to, if we can.

190I'd like to vote on this item, separately from the consent item, I was going to say, okay. So I'd like to request a pool 5a and 5b. I was just gonna, I was just gonna say the same thing. Right. All right, well let's then I would entertain a motion on the on the other consent items. So the motion would be for consent items 14 one through 14.4, excluding five. I'll make a motion to approve that or to support that. So to approve that rather. Second. So I have a motion by trustee Vanden Heuvel and seconded by trustee Bueno. Any discussion on the motion. That's the clerk to take role. Trustee Kaplanis. Aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Trustee Bueno. Aye. Myself. Aye. President Perse. Sorry. Aye. Those carry unanimously. Okay, and now we will. I would

191entertain a motion for consent item 14.5a. May I make a suggestion on 5a and b. As they're currently written, given it. I can't support them. I'm going to vote, you know, the way I am, but I can't support them as a written. If we table it, is there the opportunity for us to look at that and possibly make it more inclusive so we can actually make more access for the public? If we have that opportunity to table it and then further discuss it. I don't want to just table it for the sake of dragging our feet. But if there's, if I feel by even by head nod or just by flavor of the room, that we feel like we could change this to offer more public access, I'll make a motion to table those two

192items. But if it's going to be, if there's no flavor for that, if you don't have an appetite for that. I would be, I don't want to just support that if I could see a clear path to better inclusion within a revised and I just don't see it. I just don't see with what I'm hearing what I'm seeing in the meetings currently the way they currently are. I don't see. I think this is our cue to get out of the building. We've got to wrap this up y'all. Exciting. So it's so I would, I just don't see a path to more inclusivity at this point. Maybe that will become clear after we approve. After we just change this change the calendar, and then come to find out. There are some inclusion issues, and then we

193go back because we want to keep this flexible we want to keep this open handed. Had this been brought to us by the public and it was a demand by the public and there was a mandate, then I would feel a lot more comfortable as they do a trial. But I don't see that it's a little bit info here and a little bit of info there, and I would like the opportunity but I understand that I'm just looking to see if there's appetite to make a change. Otherwise, no need to table it. I don't want to drag it. Are you asking for five additional meetings then. I'm looking for. I don't know if it's five I know someone mentioned that yeah speaker mentioned it was 22 or something, but if there was. I'm not sure

194what the number is. I'm not sure because we talked about the cycles trying to hit the March 15th and the May 15th. So it sounds like those meetings were meant to capture some of the key things throughout the year. I think the thing is then we, we would have months where we have three board meetings a month. We already, we already do that in what we call them a workshop. We do that. So, if that's going to be the case, then I'll let you all decide, but it just I just would caution us that then we would have three. We would be in board meeting cycle madness, because we would have months where we have three board meetings in a month so we are never out of board prep time. That's all we would do,

195Lori and I, but in cabinet. But it's largely due to the fact that we're going to call them board meetings as opposed to putting placeholders as workshops right then I would recommend that we go back to placeholders and then we don't hold those workshops very often, they're only as needed and we only do what we need to do. And I guess that would be part of more of a robust conversation and that's why I'm asking, could we sit, I'd say we do a workshop or something, but there's no flavor for it. I'm not going to table it. There's no appetite amongst the board to discuss it further than I'm not going to table it I'm not going to request a table. I think the. I think we're going to find out pretty quickly how this

196will impact. I do see your. I saw some of the pressure on trying to get everything done in every meeting, even with the schedule that we had. So I think we're going to find it very quickly like we can't keep up this like we there's too much to do and these meetings and now going to one o'clock in the morning, because we're trying to get everything done in fewer meetings and so I'm hoping that we can add in these Thursdays. Regular meetings. Having early publication of the board packets on Thursdays or before Thursdays is going to help us get to where we want to be. Yeah, I'm not opposed to that. It's late. I'm in my mind. I have an employee in the room, and I'm thinking about the cost. There's a, there's a cost

197to having to having five more meetings for our employee to be here working in the afternoon that comes. So what is, what is the, what is the benefit and what is the cost associated with that, because obviously we paid Dr. Gibson for her time to work, but there's also a level of will the district as an institution function, more efficiently and effectively, if Dr. Gibson is not here till 11 o'clock to two nights, or one extra night that she has one more day of firing on all cylinders to do stuff, because we haven't had that meeting. So, that's one, one of many things that I'm thinking regarding this. Okay. I understand it didn't sound like there's an appetite for. I would entertain a motion. Yeah, go ahead. approve the superintendent's recommendation to the revised 2024

1982025 board calendar. Yep, and I'll second that it's, it's item. It's number five on the consent calendar. Yeah, five, a. Okay, just move them together. Yeah. 14.5. A and B. Second. Okay, so we have a motion by trustee upon us, we have seconded by trustee Vanden Heuvel. Is there any discussion on the motion. Okay. Trustee upon us. Aye. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Aye. Trustee Bueno. Nay. Myself, I trust President Prusso. Aye. That motion carries for one. We're going to move on to our board member reports, and we will start with. Trustee Bueno. Okay. Just wanted to thank LVEF for the two competitions, the Wizards fundraiser that's the biggest fundraiser of the year. Livermore Value Education Foundation is a solely for the support of the education of kids within this district was founded. Partially by Bill Dunlop

199years ago, and it continues to raise a lot of money on behalf of Livermore students. I'm glad that we got the portal issue fixed on some of the public correspondence and apologies to those people who hadn't come through timely beside the district's got that done and thank you for getting those characters increased on that. I also would like to see agendas I'm certainly get letters I'm sure some other people may have. I'd like to see it agendas that are future agenda so we can talk about the homeschool thing for Lawrence School sounds like that just, there's a lot of folks with Lawrence It's not a homeschool, because when we open that school about six seven years ago for some of the kids that were coming out of the charter at the time. It was open

200mid year was remarkable accomplishment by admin here. Anyway, I'd like to see it because there's some kids. Some of the things are very valid I mean there's kids who live right there and they can't go to because it's not a homeschool so kids are having to get So I just like to see it agendize, so we can have a public conversation. It's, it's our only school I believe it's like that attended the NLI over at Granada, and I believe there's another one coming up. I think in the 12th. And that's the National Letter of Intent they can do a cleanup. That's where the kids are going to go college on scholarships, boys and girls, male and female athletes, and they go and they sign their national letter of intent. Ag day was a big success.

201Mr McNeely, just a killer event, I was able to bring one of my granddaughters over there. She's just a little one, and she absolutely loved it and I took pictures of her with the pigs, you want to see the pigs. So she really loved that the LMA Awards were great. Listening some of the kids are they're just remarkable. Unfortunately I missed the first year and I think almost 20 years that I've missed the, the Olympian speeches had something going on with the grandkids. Also I had an opportunity to walk through junction with some parents like there's just some ongoing things. And I asked the parents to be patient. I do have a copy of the report I'm going to submit it to the superintendent. So a lot of facilities issues and it's, it's kind of

202heartbreaking. When you go over and you're talking to folks and I've been going to junction for a long time. When I walked that school about 10 years ago, there were some things and it's good to you go back and you see air conditioners in these rooms. And there's, you know, some of my, you know, you try to explain to people and we don't do mo the maintenance operation facilities. But, you know, there's folks in that in that demographic that they don't even speak our language, it had to be interpreted when you're talking and it's very difficult and they feel isolated. And, you know, frankly, some of the things are kind of deplorable and I know it's extreme challenge mo f department does a really, really good job. And I know they're overworked. But there's some

203issues over there that I'm sure we can get cleaned up. They gave me a little thing. It's entitled the report and evidence at the visual inspection of junction Ka, they actually put a report together with photographs. So I'll give this to the superintendent, just so we can kind of work and I told him I said I can't make any promises anything. I said but the district's always been very responsive. And you know they understand what they would like is they'd like to see. They don't they lost the link to the proposed building things for the Kim McNeely is department had done the links that what do you call hyperlinks to the master plan. They said they stopped working. So they're wondering if they could simply get the hard copy pictures so that they could show

204people that if we do a bond, this is what they would get. They would just like to see it. So this group, I don't even know who this group is. They have not reached out to me. If you will either let me know who they are, or have them reach out to me directly. Miss Wesley and I are happy to go out and meet with them and we can provide them all of those documents and reassure them they were trying to hit it I guess they tried to hit it on the website and the links went dead. So they said they don't work anymore. So I told him I said, Listen, everyone's been responsive. I said we'll just we'll get this information up. They don't have a title. It's just, um, it's the ladies that

205work in the lunch room, the principal walk through with us. If you can give me names of people that you met with though, so that I can reach out to that group directly and then I can coordinate with them to set something up for a larger group. My suggestion would be as we just simply go out to through the principal, because the principal knows everyone by name. Okay, the principal is the principles of their really good job of, you know, walking us through and showing us things and tiles that were leaking things And I said, you know, I'm just there to be a vessel of reception, so that we can convey it over, and they were kind enough to put a report together. And I just like to see us do something for Junction. That's

206it. Trustee Jordan. I went to the LMA awards breakfast. It was great. I went to the green engineering day at LHS to the walking field trip. It was great. I went to the one Olympian luncheon. It was great. I went to AG day. It was great. And I think that at AG day I spoke with. I believe that we found categorical funds for busing. Is that correct. Miss wasley for AG day. Did we find categorical funds to pay for busing. I don't know, I want to say fantastic question. I spoke with somebody and I can't, it's too late for Mr Neely, is that his name. They did receive a couple of grants this year so it could have been from that. Yes, I think that's fantastic because when I first met they were like we're

207having a fundraise for this and so to be able to pay for buses because it is really a district event. I went to the math PLC cycle. It was great. I attended the Tech Tri-Valley educational collaborative end of year celebration with some of my colleagues. That was great. I signed hundreds of diplomas. That was great. And I look forward to commencement, graduation, other end of year celebrations. Okay, try and make this as quick as possible. I continued with my site visits to Jackson, DelVal, Vineyard, GHS, Kerchie and Ultimont. Continuing with math task force, the reviews for the secondary education. I also attended the LMA award ceremony and really really enjoyed the Livermore Granada Olympian boosters luncheon and hearing from the student athletes. Their speeches are so good. Ag Day, of course, was awesome. And the

208math PLC cycle data analysis was really good to hear the feedback. I attended the CTA school board training and also completion of the CSBA master's in governance on policy and judicial review. I attended the construction trades workforce initiatives mixer and fundraiser and San Leandro. And I had the honor of being interviewed by the young scouts in our community from Arroyo Sunset Smith in Maryland regarding elections. I attended in one night the Maryland Spring Festival and the Kermes Cinco de Mayo celebration at Junction. And then, lastly, happy Teachers Appreciation Week and Happy Mother's Day. Trustee Vanden Heuvel. Mine's gonna be long. Sit back, relax. It's gonna be so great. Not so great as Trustee Druins, but it's did a ton of stuff Mr. Liebman Smart did this LVF orchestra, middle and high school orchestra concert. It

209was so good. It was great, actually. The element that one of the teach know one of the volleyball teams from Livermore High did a teacher appreciation evening which is totally off the books and they just said, here's seven or eight teachers that we really like, can they just come to our game and they gave And they gave him a t shirt and they said really cool things about them. And it was so touching and awesome and principle Mohammed and I were able to give high fives to everyone is this is just a highlight of my month. And also, going back to the LMA Awards and the in the Livermore Granada boosters Olympian luncheon as things are so chaotic and there's so much negative negativity out there. And then you hear these students talk, and you're

210like, oh my gosh, our, our world is going to be fine. We've got some incredible, incredible students, so proud of them. And then yeah ctwi AG day, the wizards, I saw him twice. I get extra credit for that. I loved it so much I went twice, it was great. And that was it. Thank you. I went to many of the same things that my colleagues have been at, including the LMA Awards. The Granada boosters Olympian luncheon, of which I cried in every speech. Today obviously is a favorite of the board math task force, and the, the tech conference at Los Positas for our, our educational collaborative with our Tri Valley partners and middle college and Los Positas with our career tech education. I also got to go to the evil championships as a junior varsity

211swim coach. But it was really exciting to watch the athletes in our city I was there cheering with for both Granada and Livermore. We all sat together with the Granada coaches that one table we were like we're one city. It was very exciting. So many, so many strong swimmers in our city, and Mr. Gabriel Benitez didn't mention but he is a star swimmer and he was really great and amazing to watch so that was really fun. Dr. Gibson. I will try and keep this short for sake of time. Strategic planning doc. We had to get a little bit of feedback which is great so we're going to make some updates and just some fine tuning to that document that was sent out to the hundred and I think we ended up with 172 individuals that

212attended the two days, we will then send that back out probably in the next, I'm hoping, hoping by Friday that's my goal is to get that back out and then explain some of the action items that will go under, specifically the one that Amy Thompson referred to has to do with the human resources section where, you know, they have goals, as we have same goals of really working to build you know robust salary schedules to compete with other districts around us so I know that's the biggie, as well as really focusing on on the retention So, I just want to put that on the record that that is on the radar but that's an action item. It is not a strategic initiative. So that's the difference but we will get all that out and do

213some explanation on that so my plan is to have that to the board. June 10, hopefully, no later than June 10 for final approval, and we will be working also on logo and some of the other functions so super excited about that that work has been just very rewarding. We had another sped work group. We have our final sped work group meeting of the year and this I was gonna say in May but we are in May, I think it's next week I think it's two weeks. And that'll be a half day where we're just going to kind of wrap it up, hit pause on where we are and then that whole group of 47 I believe will be coming back before school starts August. Let's make is it like fourth and fifth or somewhere

214somewhere around that week. So they're going to come back early and we're going to have two straight days of really continuing to dig into that work so it's amazing. Anybody who wants to join us feel free. Again, LVL VF went to the music event, the LMA Awards. The Olympian luncheon was phenomenal. It's fun to do these things once because I'm like, I don't even know what this is and I show up and it's just magical so I day I have to say was absolutely one of my favorites that I've been to so far. The Wizards was fun I definitely want to play next year I'm all in for that. I really want to highlight that we just hired a new vice principal as well for Mendenhall, and we are super excited to have her join

215our team, she is dynamite. Best of the best so very stoked about that. We have 616 days of school left I believe if I did my count right, no one's counting but we have 16 days. My last and most important thing is happy staff appreciation week. We actually celebrate all of our stuff it is teacher appreciation week, but in the in our district which most districts have moved to. We celebrate all of our staff at one time otherwise it's chaos. All of the district leadership team spent Monday. Was that Monday we did that where we went on field trips, and we delivered sheet cakes to every single school site it was a ton of fun. We had our margaroons for a non gluten for gluten free stuff. But it was just fun to show up

216with a couple sheet cakes and a card and they were just very appreciative and it gave us all a chance to to thank them for the hard work that they do every day. They're very much appreciated. They've got this they have 16 days and then they get a much deserved break so. Thank you so much. That's it. Our next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held Tuesday May 20 here at the district office. Open session will begin at seven and this meeting is now adjourned at 1036 p.m.