001e e e [Music] [Applause] [Music] wowowow [Music] oh oh [Music] com [Music] good morning welcome to the special meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education including Clos session items uh the date is February 26 2025 and the time that I started speaking was 11:02 a.m. I'm going to go ahead and take role Miss nuil present Dr Ras present Mr meloine here miss grigo here uh miss gonz here miss gonz said here she's remote today uh Miss Ortiz Franklin not here yet and board president schmon president okay we have a quorum I'm going to go ahead and read the purpose and Authority for the item that will be heard in Clos session and then we will take public comment I'll take public comment on the folks who listed themselves as being here
002in person and then we will call on the folks who are speaking remotely all right there's just one item for the close session conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6 the negotiators Dr Murphy and the employee organizations to be discussed are associate administrators Los Angeles California School Employees Association Los Angeles County building and construction trades Council Los Angeles School Police Association Los Angeles school police management union service employees International Union SEIU Local 99 Teamsters United teachers Los Angeles and District represented employees and man contract management Personnel so as is our practice with special meetings there is just public comment on item specific stuff which appears in the agenda so that's tab one we have 10 speakers Isabelle Gonzalez are you here Isabelle Gonzalez uh let's see how about oh Mr David tolkovsky
003there you are come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin the time is oh okay Miss Gonzalez okay Miss Gonzalez is going to speak in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what she's going to say in English please put your hands up and we'll get you these translation headsets okay and I'll note the I'm going to just call for the role Miss orti Franklin I see you're with us online are you here okay graas yes good morning members of the board the day where you first came to sit down in your assigned seats you promise to comply with the law and respect our parental rights as student parents of LUSD receiving education and in a safe environment should be the number one priority for you all they are the rights
004of the students without safety school safety the amount of students decreases and there's an increase in death idiocracy among other things so without school safety the student does not function at it at their optimal level without safety there is no academic success that is positive without school police our students or with school police our students feel protected they have good relationships they have respect and good behavior onto the Law and Order we don't need any more ethnic studies when students in math are graduating with the D's and Fs we have number 27 in educational rankings in the country and that is a joke if I were sitting there hearing this in the news I would be ashamed the more than 5,000 parents that I have signed for school police to return we are demanding that
005the school Police Department be reestablished soon as possible in its entirety our kids safety should never have been negotiated the well-being the future of our kids less so thank you Mr David tolkovsky come on down you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin thank you very much I'd like to speak on the uh presentation today in Clos session uh on collective bargaining I want to say first of all that the fiscal presentations last meeting uh from fmat and from school services are of the most conservative types you can ask from various agencies you could ask the governor to speak and come here his office is a few blocks away in the State Office Building and let him say what his budget is rather than have people M it up because they forgot the biggest
006item of controversy between now and the May revision and that controversy is the governor has held back $1.6 billion of Revenue it's called the hold back wasn't even mentioned and when I asked them out in the audience oh no we're not going to talk about that that is also compounded on July 1 it goes into the base of prop 98 I could be mistaken but you need an explanation from your team 1.6 billion dollars if you take the formulaic it's probably $200 million to the district that's a big amount of money s significantly uh staff may be saying that the medical money that you're applying for is in the implementation stage no that is not right July 1 of last year you could start reimbursing July one of last year that's $80 million additionally um
007you have the money for tutoring and all of the after school program $500 million which doubles up on July 1 July 1's around the corner and you had no presentation of the LC cap it just receive and file hopefully you can get that and finally when it comes to the unions when I was on the board we never got any information in advance because the staff didn't want to put things down on paper well they certainly could put things down about the dates you've met the topics that are at issue the side letters and so on so that at least you have a framework and agenda you don't have to put the secret sauce of what's Happening inside that's private that's collective bargaining but trust is important and you shouldn't be treated like mushrooms mushrooms
008are kept in the dark and they get a interesting diet thank you very much thank you for your time Maria Lisa I'm sorry is that is that Maria de Ortiz in the audience yes Maria Ortiz come on down you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin good morning everyone my name is Maria Daisy Ortiz and first of all I'm here because I want you to send me the copies of all the signatures of the parents that have been submitted we've already had uh a document submitted but we don't want something for next year but this year since everything you do is in like turtle turtle speed so first of all I want to support the previous speaker please stop lying to us and please stop treating the safety of our kids with the negligence
009that you have been when you took away the school police you did not have a plan for their safety and we are now having the results of so much violence in schools where you want them ignorant but we have sources of information so we are demanding that you do not lie to us with safe passages you can do those safe passages when you go home because you trust in that right I don't even trust in your salute because that's not working for me so I am asking that at this board that when you took away the school police you took away their funds return them because you cannot treat negligently the safety of our kids as parents we are joined because truly we are so tired of what we're waiting for for our kids die
010more kids die it can't be possible that you are this insensitive and that you are masking this with all this like mental health and safe passages and this and that and all these different things happening in our poor principles with our hands tied behind their back every school can decide on the school police okay when there's an incident it takes 20 minutes for a school police to go to get there that could be the difference between life and death we used to have a school police there in 3 to five minutes you already had an officer there so due to that I am demanding that because if not we will take action thank you and have a great day thank you for your time okay di guen are you you here I see you're signed
011up to speak in person but I do not see you in the room we'll now go to the folks who are signed in as speaking remotely oh and Miss guen has signed up to speak remotely so miss guen please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Miss Diana guen hello good morning members of the board my name is De Guan I represent the network of parents for school safety and first of all I want to say that we've been coming to the work groups for school safety and the poor employees don't even know what to do anymore they're going round and round in circles because they can't find a solution to the safety problems so people that come talking about all these wonderful things but the
012violence still increases in this schools so today you're going to negotiate the contracts of all the employees and what I'm most concerned is the contract where you want to approve for utla since they have so much power and you're giving them even more to manage the district because at the end you don't even manage it or control it it's the teachers union with all the policies that you are giving way to even parent participation is being push down and and you're not and our children are the ones that are suffering and you will eventually suffer soon because it's going to be the end of the schools so I said one or two years ago that you're going to keep losing more and more students and that's what's happening because of this lack of empathy of
013having our kids with proper safety parents want the school police in the school grounds if they're kids that don't feel safe let's consider them but why everybody else that does feel safe with them needs to have them taken away so parents are in Union and you need to stop your campaigns against the community that is the most impoverished because if you have this very so for example they have a very juicy contract why do they also want to get involved in parent policies and safety we are saying enough utla stop this is our kids and we want to talk to the chairperson of utla who are always saying her babies no they're not her babies this has nothing to do with that we are the parents and you need to stop pushing us aside as
014parents okay Maria Louisa pal I see you're with us please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Maria Louisa Palma good morning my name is Maria Lisa Palma I'm speaking today on behalf of olada Inc a nonprofit organization let me read to you California government code 3547 which is the public notice requirements for meeting a negotiation for public educational employment bargaining all initial proposals of exclusive representatives and of public school employers shall be presented at a public meeting of the public school employer and thereafter shall be public records did that happen because what I saw presented in the board packet is just a simple letter with a list of initial articles from utla and some other little letters from the other uh bargaining units those are
015not initial proposals there's no information these are simple lists how can you possibly be in compliance with the law I look on the labor relations website La usd's website I don't see any initial proposals anywhere so how how are you possibly in compliance with this code section the next item in the law meeting and negotiating shall not take place on any proposal until a reasonable time has elapsed after the submission of the proposal to enable the public to become informed and the public has the opportunity to express itself regarding the proposal at a meeting of the public school employer so where are we with all this how can the public become informed if we don't have the initial proposals we don't have the bargaining units initial proposals we don't have La unit initial proposal how
016can the public comment without information never mind the issues that are in utla's proposals including they want to have the authority to approve and extend public funds through the bab committee through the Local School uh governing Council they want a 21% salary increase I don't know what else is in there there's a ton of information but we don't have any information on any of the other bargaining units so please we ask you board members as our elected representatives we beseech you to advocate for your constituents to have transparency provide this information to the public thank you thank you for your time all right we have Jenna noise I see you're on the line Jenna noise please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Jenna noise hello
017hi please go ahead all right good morning good morning uh I was raised by a single mother who advocated for me to get the resources I needed to excel in my education especially after I dropped down due to severe bullying and Su School anxiety I was fortunate that my district allowed me to attend a boarding school a variety of therapeutic support which truly changed my life I had the benefit of counselors therapists incredible teachers and most importantly a safe space where I could Thrive so this experience inspired me to become a special ed teacher so I could give back to the system I worked hard to ensure my students were placed in the right settings to help them succeed and my parents knew their rights I also made sure that there was enough support for
018GED teachers when my students were in their classroom uh sorry um my goal was always to make my students feel safe and while them not after becoming a stay home mom my mission has remain the same educate parents advocate for children and Ure schools we're doing the right thing I'm living proof of how a supportive positive School environment can transform a person and I want every child to experience that unfortunately the more I hear from my community the more I hear frustration and anger I want to help being uh bring change and be the voice for those who have been ignored when they've expressed concerns our State Education Code says that parents should have a SS that affects their children's education yet it often feels like our voice voices aren't being heard why don't we
019have a sick people Express their opinions but we don't see any real change is it just the leadership of these organizations making the decisions how is this fair when we all pay taxes and continue to remain dissatisfied with the system there aren't enough AIDS and class in schools provide adequate support for teachers and students there aren't enough mental health professionals to assist during crisis principles are often go beyond can still get claimed because their hands are tied CL sizes are too large staff members aren't given proper training staff Fe liability if they intervene in a physical altercation and security of campuses are compromised the list goes on so many of these issues need to be addressed with the focus of the whole child thank you very much for your time goes it takes your time
020okay Marcela Garcia I see you're on the line Marcel Garcia please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Marcela Garcia Marcel Garcia Marcel Garcia last call Marcel Garcia how about Karina Lopez Karina Lopez please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Karina Lopez seea Karina Lopez hi my name is Karina Lopez I am calling because in regards to of school safety we have indicated that there's a big necessity and the importance that the integrity and it's important to take care of this Integrity when it has to do with physical me and mental of the children many incidents have happened they report that are being reported but it this is not just as of now it's since school
021police was removed please it is very important that school police goes back to the schools the we need the number the necessary number of schools of police at the schools for every school to have an office of officers inside the schools we need this inside the schools inside the schools many children are being lost many children are are not attending Mr Calo says that parents need to protect him no he needs to go because he has been ignoring us for quite some time especially the ones who voted and for school police to be removed they should go in front of the protest and them to follow and for and for them to stop using us thank you please press star six to unmute yourself and you have two minutes to speak once you begin Raquel
022Diaz yes hello hi hi good morning good morning board members and good morning Mr carello my name is Rael Diaz I'm a mother of two I apologize I'm a mother of two students that attend L USD schools and My worry is that yes please we need school police we need school safety at the schools we need for it to go back it's very important in my case my daughter was suffered bullying I had a daughter that was at Virgil it was about a year ago and a another girl attacked her she covered her face completely but attacked her from her back coming down the stairs uh fortunately my daughter is tall and she's a bit heavy and therefore there was no accident or assaulted her so strong but it is very important for school police
023to go back to schools for there to be security it is very important students are exiting schools are fights in certain occasion a principal said oh it's because they're lying they're they're hitting each other on purpose and that's not true because I live that my daughter is calm and she was aggravated and she was bullied therefore if school police would go back to school security would go back to school and they would be around the school I believe that they would everything that's being seen would be less a lot of children are exiting the schools they're doing things that they shouldn't do unfortunately that they shouldn't be doing and US parents shouldn't we can't always protect them because of work we can't be on top of everyone but please I ask that for security to
024go back to school for police to go back to school it is very important for schools to be watched in case other people want to hurt them outside the school as well please it is very important thank you very much very kind of you for your time thank for your time okay uh we're going to try um Marcela Garcia One Last Time Marcela Garcia please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Marcel Garcia Marc good morning members of the board I am Marcel Garcia I am here once again because there were a group of parents that signed a petition so that security can go back to the schools for school police to be around the schools and inside the schools these signatures have been ignored why
025because we are Latino parents we are the ones who signed therefore all the parents that are at the schools did not sign but because we are Latino parents and Latino parents are the ones who present ourselves as Leaders we are the ones who signed they don't listen to us and why is it that from this office from the board why does racism start with latino parents from the board because when there are parents color parents that are in front of you you do help them and you do ask for what they're asking you for but because we're Latino parents we are ignored imagine we are if we are ignored how our our children doing at our schools are also being ignored they are suffering the violence that every school has and they suffer and they
026have a battle psych psychologically and mentally we as parents we need to be strong but you remove everything that we want to do you reduced you reduced police school police but where are these funds going to where are these funds and now Mr carvalo is saying for us to have petitions have a signature so that Title One funds wouldn't be cut but us parents you don't inform us of all the complete funds that are coming in you just say we will cut this and you make it happen but us as parents and as people uh lowincome people when we are asking for help for our community we are completely ignored why is it because of our color is it because of our ignorance thank you very much for your time please thank you for your
027time that concludes item specific comment the time is now 11:27 and the board is going to recess into close session e e e thank you I said Valley High okay well Welcome Back Time Is Now 3:32 the date is February 26 2025 we're the board is done with the closed session I do not have anything to report out but I will go ahead and take roll just to establish that we have Quorum Miss nuil present Dr Rivas present Mr melin here miss grigo miss gones miss orti ranklin in board president schmon pres present okay that's four members we have Quorum I have nothing to rep out the time is now 333 thank you very much