001evaluation for those of you sitting wondering what's going on we have all our meetings are taped and so when we finish the closed session the tape is closed down we are waiting for the new tape to start for this board meeting once that tape is ready we'll begin we're not just the community advice double coordinated foreign thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign p.m on June 20th 2023 I'm going to go ahead and take roll for this meeting of the 1pm meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education Dr McKenna here Dr Rivas president Mr schmerlson President Mr Melvin here Ms Gomez here and uh board member Ortiz Franklin here president board president Goldberg here that's seven are here and um student board member Shin here thank you all right today students from
002Baldwin Hills Elementary will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance please stand and join us [Applause] [Music] with liberty and justice welcome to today's board meeting at our last meeting we spent a lot of time digging into the budget and the local control action plan no as the lcap the main work of today's meeting is to approve those budgets as we work on these budgets I want to express my deep disappointment that according to the 2020 census California is still in the lowly position of 19th in per-pupil funding that's just over half of what is spent in places like New York Washington DC and New Jersey that is not acceptable in a state whose economy is larger than France larger than England at 3.6 billion dollars in GDP we are by far the richest state
003in the Union and we must fairly tax the incredible wealth of Corporations and billionaires we cannot continue to have to choose between the Arts and stem between early childhood education and special education we cannot continue to say that we cannot find the money to provide shade trees for children who are dealing with the climate crisis so I urge all of you hearing my voice to join us in working with the community organizations Advocates labor unions students parents across the state to fight to change our outdated tax structure which denies our children so much thank you for letting me make these comments about what I feel very strongly about having spent some six years in Sacramento if we don't change how we do things we will always be underfunding Public Schools now we go to our
004labor partners and I understand that there's someone here from aala who wishes to speak would you come forward followed by someone from school police good afternoon board president Goldberg superintendent Carvalho board members and Senior staff my name is Mary price president of 3100 Associated administrators of Los Angeles across the district schools and offices I want to share with you legitimate and Urgent questions and concerns members from throughout the district are asking me what is the district doing for administrators who are getting assaulted and battered board members and Ms Navaira Reed what is the answer please share it with me when you can on Friday June 9th the last day for most schools a day that should be fun and exciting however not one not two three of our administrators were assaulted by parents or Guardians
005even more alarming is that these unwarranted assaults happen at elementary schools where principals are more vulnerable our members are suffering from Strokes Bells Palsy and anxiety attacks there's an organization that comes here with defiant disrespectful students who struggle to read the same fabricated message and most of this board enables and empowers these groups by allowing them to continuously recite fictional anecdotes this group this specific group has been harassing and threatening one of our principals who is following District policies and mandates and yet again legal counsel tells Our member we cannot help you this has been happening throughout the year with the absence of school police to patrol and secure perimeters around schools and offices to the board members still considering less police less safety there is hard data with real life incidents across the district
006you should not be hearing this from me you should have access to these incidents in each of your schools and board districts and realize a police-free district is a worse idea than the original reduction learn from the costly mistakes borne by the students staff and District we have submitted proposals to the district to ask for security and safety assurances for our members doing their best to provide a safe learning environment but so far denied safety board members applies to students staff and communities however since 2020 you have compromised the physical and mental health of students and staff at all levels because of the reduction in school police it is imperative you work with all eight eight labor Partners in drafting resolutions or policies as it relates to safety the current and previous Chiefs of the
007LA SPD have done nothing to share with you or the public the daily count of incidents involving verbal and physical assaults and the battery of students and staff at schools due to the minimal number of available school police and school safety officers to provide patrolling and safe passages across the district aala sincerely hopes that as we continue to bargain we can improve the working conditions for members doing their best to complete the never-ending tasks and mandates from the region and boudry offices let's work together to invest in our members in the meantime joy and wellness are dead to us and meaningless as you continue your quest to be transactional rather than transformational thank you very much and next we'll hear from school police someone here nope they decided against it okay thank you very much
008will be a presentation for our student board member Nate Shin led by Dr Lorena Franco student empowerment unit I hope okay to be clear we're going to have uh some some remarks from Jalen Johnson on Nate's on Nate's behalf good afternoon board member and I'm so glad to be here with you all today my name is Jalen Johnson and I am a recent graduate of King June Magnet High School of Medicine and science foreign I plan to continue my studies in the fall at UCLA and study the physiological science while I move on so ornate sadly he is leaving LASD behind to pursue his studies at Harvard okay maybe not sadly because it is Harvard so let at least we'll know he's in great hands as we know Nate hosts the esteemed title of student
009board member to be the student board member you must be a strong leader a great listener to students needs represent and speak on behalf of all student groups during board meetings encourage positive change and create a safe space for students on all campuses Nate I can say that you've gone above and beyond to ensure that student voices and all student voices matter in all of lousd's decisions not only do you embody these qualities you always created a safe space for students to voice their opinions provide comfort and laughter in difficult conversations fought heartily to make changes matter to benefit all students through the district and as many students will though the district and as many students will miss you we will never forget the impression that you've made the mark that you've left behind the
010next student board member has great shoes to fill but for now let us celebrate you thank you for all that you've done for LUSD and all of his students thank you thank you any board members wishing to make remarks as we present a certificate to our student board member Mr shmurelson yes my pleasure to be sitting next to Nate I'm honored to be next to him he is a remarkable young man I've seen him at North Hollywood High School I've seen him in the Spanish class I've never seen a more fluent Spanish speaker in that class it was just amazing he's a great role model for all the students and I just will miss you very much Nate I want you to know thank you Nick I uh after you George go ahead Josh I'm
011going to express my appreciation to Nate he's been exemplary every one of ours student board members is selected by a rigorous process so we've only had exceptional people sitting in that chair he is no exception to the exception he's also an exceptional person but he's so personable so willing to listen even to Old Folks like me and that's not believe that I'm out of touch because I'm not he knows I'm not and I know he's not he's been a great great asset to us and we have nothing but great hopes for him as he goes on to Harvard and will decide what he wants to do with his with his mind with his career and come back and help the rest of us as we try to keep up with his show I say meteoric
012lifestyle that he's going to live and be so successful Nate I wish you the best buddy thank you Nick Malvern after University well um echoing what my colleague said and what our incredible student leader said I just want to thank you Nate for your year on the board you know we're living in interesting times and people ask me always how do you keep hope and optimism and positivity and my answer is always because I get to work with young people um but also because almost every Tuesday we get to spend time with Nate who uh is um wise Beyond his years uh you I mean to think that we were the same age going off to the same University and you're already like to be a professor there and I'm still like figuring out this
013whole world is insane and says a lot about how they've improved their admissions policies I guess um uh but uh I want to thank you not only for the things you led on like student voice which we heard Narcan I mean it's not an understatement to say that this board members saved lives his push to represent his generation and his peers but all of us when it came to the deployment and working with the superintendent is his team literally will and has saved lives but also your ability to find Solutions and I just see how your mind works and how you watch this board and even on things that aren't a priority area of yours to just say wait I heard Dr Riva say this and Miss Ortiz Franklin said this and maybe this is
014where we the board could go and people don't see you kind of passing notes and figuring out wait can we move this forward and I think there are four votes here and it really is just a um there's a awareness of how things how things work and also a real desire to get TS and to get to An Answer move the district forward so you'll be missed but of course not forgotten I know you're a successor who we got to meet through you and your mentorship last week or I think it was last week will be a great addition to the board I know you won't be a stranger but I hope you'll remember us um and offer us a job one day and uh and and that's all I got so thanks Nate um
015I just want to say you know um the student board members who has had here before yeah they go through a lot of vigorous um I guess process to get here and always impressed by every student and with you you know the you're so mature it's been said before you're very mature you're very focused and um you're driven and I'm not surprised that you're going heading over to Harvard it's really wonderful and I would just want to thank you because you are going to represent LAUSD you're going to represent our student body in a remarkable way and um I'm just very proud that you will be out there representing the students and I'm very looking forward to what you're going to do and on Harvard is just the beginning I know you're going to move
016a long way and thank you so much for just um for being that student voice you you've touched on so many issues from mental health to um just hearing youth voices and you've been very active in presenting here and I think you've done your your peers uh justice so all the best in your future endeavors thanks yes you join a line of alumni whose names we still remember and uh who we've learned from a lot I was just reflecting Tyler Perry She Francis Kamari Nate uh so really excited to have you among uh the alumni Halls of student board members you as my colleagues have said gave a ton to this board with your questions your insights um and very much raise the voices of student perspectives in a way that I knew before you
017even started because last year before you were officially the student board member you met with our student advisory Council on their big push for mental health and you took off with it this year and you've made all of them really proud you've made us really proud your family and community of course um excited to see what happens with your future and looking forward to our next board member as well thanks Nate for your service [Applause] thus Ms Gomez are you able to speak probably transitioning okay yes well thank you so much for the opportunity um Nate sorry to not be in the room right at this moment but um it's been such a pleasure to work with you I completely agree with what all my colleagues said and what I so appreciate is not only
018are you brilliant I think that you've offered so much wisdom um you are one of the smartest people I think on on the Deus and we're we're so grateful to have had your voice in those conversations but um but also you are so deeply caring about all of the students of our district and so passionate about that and I think that your heart has really been so inspiring especially at this time um so thank you so much for for your service for the chance to work together Harvard is lucky to have you and we will miss you very much let me join in as well first of all thank you he presented me with a book which I will now have some extra reading to do um I think that your demeanor and judgments and
019your participation in meetings has been really extraordinary and I have learned a great deal from you which I think is always as it should be each generation should teach the older generation as well as learn from it because our perspectives are not the same by wide differences in some cases and by narrower differences in others but you were always well spoken but you were always thoughtful you spoke after you've done your research you spoke after you knew what you wanted to ask you spoke after you knew what you wanted to say that meant that everything that you did was really helpful to this board and we appreciate it Brion words can say I just want to add with my colleagues our wishes for you for the most wonderful success and also that you'll return to
020Los Angeles when you finished whatever educational doings you're going to do I assume it will be Beyond a bachelor's degree when you come back to Los Angeles I hope that you will consider participating as well in US forming policies for schools because you've been through our schools you know its strengths and weaknesses it's always grateful to have that kind of information from our alumna so thank you so much for everything that you've done and we now have a small presentation for you well Mr superintendent yes let me add my voice to the chorus of of gratitude to a remarkable human being who happens to be young you're poised your composure your determination your eloquence your integrity the fact that you're so well researched all the time you're approachable you're you're a leader of your peers
021but in your own right despite the fact that you are a student board member you are policy wonk you research the issues well you speak the practice of teaching and learning you understand the policy far better than many many people that I've met in my life your true Testament to this community so as you pursue your lofty goals always be mindful of where you started out and continue to inspire your colleagues not only here from Los Angeles but also in Cambridge Massachusetts and uh I will never forget you know when you first became the student board member it took me on a field trip to North Hollywood High School and I thought that was the coolest thing never what I think that I would see a llama a little donkey all kinds of animals and
022creatures and I would eat fruit and freshly picked vegetables at your school but just the pride you had in showcasing your school accompanied by by people young students who really so respect you has impressed me immensely so it was my pleasure to attend your graduation your graduation your twin sister's graduation and uh I close by saying that for those who worry about the tomorrow I wouldn't because people like Nate Shin will fix that which we were not able to so my bet is on you thank you for more person we have to mention I see her in the back of the room with the biggest smile I've ever seen and that's Dr Lorena Franco Dr Lorena Franco is the person who nurtures all of our student board members gets them to be the wonderful people
023who they are and we really appreciate what you've done Lorena for all of our student board members thank you so much thank you Mr Chin did you wish to make any comments well I just want to start off by saying that you know my heart is filled with just so much gratitude for this experience that has just been so enlightening and really empowering I remember how nervous I was you know at the beginning of the year when I first started first time meeting with the superintendent and the first time I met with a group of students the superintendent was there and he said Nate why don't you introduce yourself and I think you know usually I'm a pretty calm guy you know I love making friends but I just froze they're asking me you know
024to introduce myself and I was like what can I say you know about myself that makes me somehow qualified you know to represent all of these students and I still you know don't really have an answer because the one thing that's been made so clear to me over this past year is just how much is left to learn I think it's an impossible job for you know one person to represent hundreds of thousands of students in LAUSD but I did my best and I owe it you you know to the network of support to this board I'm just so immensely grateful Dr McKenna the word I use for you was not old but wise um just when you speak we all listen just um your expression your vocabulary I mean um Dr Rivas I remember
025your first meeting we were going over a procurement contract and it was about a survey tool and you were asking all these questions very concerned about how we were going to be able to follow up with people if they submitted you know anonymous questions and things to the thought exchange and that was really revealing to me about how you want to lead with compassion and connection you know I have the privilege to sit next to Mr Vice President up here the funniest member of the Board of Education and my own board member it really has been a privilege and you've just been so gracious you and your team have been so gracious in supporting me when I have questions when I you know need to send a text can I I'm early can I come
026up to your office you know so thank you so much board president Goldberg it's been inspiring to learn and hear about your lifetime of Public Service I remember the first time I visited your office you had a wall of pins and it was going back to you know protesting the Vietnam War and you know student movements from then until now and it's just inspiring to see that you continue to serve uh Mr melvoin I remember our first meeting we went up to your office and you were showing me around and you had these big books of the Ed code sitting on the shelf and you told me I could find it online which I did um but just your knowledge and your willingness to read the lines between the lines between the lines and look
027for you know solutions that benefit all of our students I'm Miss Gomez if you can hear me I also remember our first meeting we were talking about the my voice surveys and how we were having you know some trouble with implementing them putting them on schoology and you heard that and you helped get it going and that really showed me how you know we didn't know each other but you cared and you were willing to listen to you know the concerns I had and I really appreciate that I'm a miss Ortiz Franklin you've been a long friend of student empowerment from student board members past and I remember just all the invitations you sent to me to go to the college Signing Day to hear from your student advisory Council and I'm so glad that
028we could collaborate and um and learn from from your students as well and that's really the the thing that was most impactful to me was hearing from students all across LAUSD you know though at my own school who were asking about band equipment or students you know from Jefferson High School I remember they they really inspired me um too and it was students of all backgrounds of all experiences with LAUSD you know across zip codes races documented or undocumented and that was just so impactful hearing from other students knowing that everybody has a story that deserves to be told just as much as mine and learning from them and none of that would be possible without the student empowerment unit who put those groups of students together and when I say student empowerment unit I
029mean Dr Franco because the unit is Dr Franco so a round of applause for Dr Franco thank you very much um and then I just want to end off on an exciting note for all of the the new initiatives that are starting next year that I've just been a privilege to be you know a fly on the wall and see all the amazing things that are taking shape I'm most excited for the expansion of the literacy supports that's been something you know it's very important to me just giving you know my family coming to the United States not knowing um the language here and so just seeing the expansion you know horizontally to more schools and vertically to more grades is very exciting the presentations on the division of adult and Career Education you know
030as I'm moving beyond high school trying to explore more in terms of careers and what I'm going to do with my life I think that's very cool to hear about and then um I'd be remiss if I didn't use this time to continue advocating for some more priorities so one thing that I've seen you know reading the news about education policy and the things that are going on is uh the trend among other school districts and other states to strengthen financial literacy curriculum and education and I know that under the superintendent's leadership and historically LAUSD has been a leader you know in setting the tone for what we want to teach students and how we want to make them ready for the world so it would be wonderful if you know we could start those
031discussions and see how LAUSD could be a leader in terms of financial literacy education and then I'm so privileged to be in a school district that has a vision of of shared Equity another thing I saw you know in the news is that in this push for Equity there are some school districts in the country and in the state that have decided that in order for us to be Equitable in order for us to make sure that students have a quality of opportunity sometimes that takes the form of dragging students who might be at the top uh down and so there's been a movement in some places to restrict say higher level math courses and things like that and I I believe that it's a mistake and that's why I'm so glad that under this
032superintendent's leadership we are removing barriers to Advanced courses we are making sure that students can be lifted upwards that we close the gap by lifting from the bottom up not dragging by the top down um so with that I just want to thank you for indulging me one last time and really it has been such a privilege and an honor to represent the students of LAUSD so thank you to the board to senior staff to the community and to the students thank you very much [Applause] shall lead them so that's uh let's present this if we want to do that where okay let's do that right in front here all right let's do this all right yes come on come on I told him we find ourselves right over here real fast everybody ready oh
033he'll be on that Advisory board look forward [Applause] come on foreign meeting is to assign things either to the consent calendar or the regular calendar the consent calendar is a calendar which is taken with one vote for all the items that have been put on the consent calendar the way an item gets on the consent calendar is by no one saying anything other than consent when we come to the item why can we do that we can do that because board members receive these materials at least a week in advance have had a chance to not only read all of the materials in these books but to ask questions of staff and rather than have debate on items which everyone concurs with we try to hold debate time for the items on which there might
034be disagreement so you will hear board members as I go through the items on our today's agenda saying either consent or discussion item number one is the Los Angeles school police association's mou for unit a consent item number two is the Los Angeles school police management association Unit H 22 to 25 memorandum of understanding item number three are procurement actions anybody want it off consent okay who would like questions okay Rocio Nick I think I have one okay uh George Jackie okay four people Define and approve seven athletic uh facility upgrade projects and amend the facilities service division strategic uh execution plan to incorporate them consent with a comment comment okay item five has been withdrawn and will be heard in August item six approval of the proposed amendments to the LAUSD policy and procedures
035for Charter Schools that's on consent uh I have a question anybody else okay nobody else okay item number uh seven adoption of the proposed 2324 budget uh we have a lot of speakers to that uh I think maybe we should leave it off consent just so that everybody feels like they have a comfort area to do that so that is not on consent adoption of the 23 223 2023 local control accountability plan and presentation of the 2023 State accountability dashboard local indicators I think we'll leave that off consent as well okay item number nine adoption of the Affiliated Charter Schools local control and accountability plans presentation of the state accountability dashboard and indicators for Affiliated Charters consent consent hearing no other objections consent item 10 adoption of work year calendar mou and revised instructional calendars
036consent item number 11 approval of minutes and item number 12 has been postponed to August 22nd which is future is now schools any questions or comments on those okay so I have only two items off of consent which are seven and eight is that correct for everybody okay good all right so now that we've established the consent calendar we're going to hear General no no superintendent's reports sorry oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't see you go ahead sorry it's okay we were in transition can you add me for questions on tabs one and two okay and ten thank you on two and two okay got it all right thank you very much uh board members uh in some cases uh for personal reasons leave the room but are not leaving the meeting because they
037are in another part of the building able to watch and see and they come back as they are able to do so but they are present and they are involved and engaged in the uh business of the board so now let's see what we go to next superintendents reports thinking about a president uh I'll be very brief in my introduction I think of General concern to the community and uh and critical interest to us is the composition of our instructional calendar and the first report today details the recently adopted changes which were successfully negotiated with our labor partners for the 2023-2025 that's to uh two uh school years um this revised calendar prioritizes student learning and teaching opportunities it prioritizes takes into account the general feeling of our Working Families in the Greater Los Angeles
038it also recognizes uh certainly some of the challenges faced by our Workforce it does provide for 183 days of instruction for each one of these these School instructional calendars that's three additional days compared to uh not only last year but a number of Prior years it does provide continue to provide the three-day three-week winter break however it does provide for what will be a very robust voluntary winter recess Academy targeting the most fragile academically fragile students in our community and continue to provide much needed nutrition for students and Families in Need during that time period and uh for details on on these revised and structural calendars I would invite Andres Che to the mic well thank you superintendent just waiting for the presentation to come on board come online while you're queuing that up let
039me just say if you are here to speak on item 12 which has been withdrawn from the agenda it will not be heard today so I don't want you sitting around waiting to speak on item 12. which was the future is now schools because we're not going to hear it today God bless everybody we all love it until it doesn't work right all right good afternoon or rather yes good afternoon I won't belabor any of these points because I think superintendent covered them far better than I could but again you'll see the critical points uh in our pivot to this two-year cycle uh in front of you on this slide I do want to emphasize some critical dates again the next school year meaning the 23 24 school year will now begin one day earlier
040it will begin on the 14th of August right in the 15th which is a Monday and winter break of course will start earlier it will start on the 18th of December and in fact last the full three weeks this is the calendar at a glance again this is a two-year cycle that we are looking at adopting so again you'll see in the yellow you have the revised 2324 and the revised 24-25 again the date of instruction I'll go year by year for year one it's moved by one day from Tuesday the 15th to Monday the 14th we now have a three-week winter break rather than the two-week two-day break that had originally been proposed the first day of second semester Remains the Same Monday the 8th of January the last day of instruction of course
041has shifted to reflect the fact that we are adding three additional instructional days in five additional days or excuse me rather three additional days of vacation for many of our employees so the last day of school now for next year is the 11th of June which is a Tuesday the other significant shift that I want to highlight is the pupil free days as you'll recall traditionally we have had two pupil free days embedded into our calendars those are mandatory days of work for the majority of our employees for the coming two years they will shift to optional employee preparation days again the key word there being optional employees can still certainly choose to participate but it is indeed their choice the dates for those for year one are Friday the 11th of August and of
042course Wednesday the 12th of June right after the school year ends going very quickly through year two again you'll see no change in the first day of school Remains the 12th of August you'll see again we're going into a full three-week winter break first day of school after the winter recess Remains the Same the last day of course is a significant change from May 29th which I believe is a Thursday of memory serves to Tuesday June 10th because that reflects the additional five days of vacation plus the additional three days of instruction and lastly as shared in looking at year one the pupil free days are not part of the calendar but instead we have the optional employee preparation days the next four slides are simply visual representations of our calendars for the next two
043years these are visuals or Graphics that are very familiar to many of our parents families and employees it's what we've been using since gosh since I was a teacher so quite a while ago I do want to highlight those days in pink those are the three winter Academy days that we will host over what would have been the first three days or what are excuse me the first three days of winter break or winter vacation again this is just another visual representation of year one of this cycle 23 24. here's year two again 24 25 you'll see the winter recess Academy the WRA if I can coin a new acronym for us highlighted in pink so that's up there and I'll close with another visual for year two again this is uh very similar to
044what we usually send out to our constituents to let them know the key dates for the school year there's really no other changes of note of course all of the holidays remain the same all of those key pieces are exactly the same as in Prior presentations with that if there's any questions I'm happy to help any questions of the speaker hearing none thank you very much sorry Ms Goldberg I had it for tab tab 10 but this is in alignment with that so I'll just ask it here while Mr trade is up um we received on Friday afternoon the ab1200s indicating an 81 million dollar impact for next year in the following years are those contemplated in today's budget requests to approve I might have to defer to either Mr Associated or Mr Hart on
045that impact apologies can you repeat the question uh yeah sorry um so the ab1200 we received on Friday afternoon said 81.5 million dollar impact for next year 87 million dollar impact for the following year are those included in the budget being presented today or those are not yet contemplated in the budget the board will be reviewing in another uh tab those are included in in this budget they are included yes okay thank you anything else okay thank you very much I did miss speak uh on item 12 which has been withdrawn but we will still be allowing speakers on item 12 at the request uh of staff so we will hear the speakers on item 12 even though the item is withdrawn we don't usually hear speakers on items that have been withdrawn but we're
046going to do that today all right uh next where are we up to uh we have a second report but it is about the adoption of the budget Mr superintendent can we hold that report until we're getting to items number seven and eight we certainly can okay all right so now we are going to go through the uh speakers on the consent calendar and the first item is a tab one okay under tab one Glenda Flores are you here in person Glenda Flores let me see if you're online with us you spoke you signed up to speak in person and you're not online with us either Elvira Castro signed up to speak remotely but she is not signed in for tab one all right and uh Juan mangandi are you here in the audience he
047signed up to speak in person Mr Juan mangandi okay check something here Absalon you spoke this morning are you here in person oh come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin um folks uh Mr Absalon is going to speak in Spanish and if you would like to hear what he is saying translated simultaneously into English please put your hands up and we will distribute these headsets to you they're automatically set is and then you're up last time I speak I was speaking in Spanish now I want to speak in Hebrew somebody can hear me okay very well so many things to speak about and so many things to listen to and really honestly this uh young person Nathaniel congratulations on behalf of the parents thank you for speaking one last time
048in the meeting that we had at PCS last time and this is the support of the parents those that support youth to fight for all of the things that sometimes it's not for us but it's for you for the students so congratulations on behalf of the parents now I have seen and I don't think that you see the news but there's a lot of protests from parents to have more police in schools but the TV I think it's for somebody else that is not you the organizations that do not want the police in the school have some kind of Interest what interest I don't know and I don't know how but for whatever reason they don't want police here we have police outside what do you fear them these people that are here why I
049know that is a federal building and that but we're not going to go through the hallways up down up and down we come here to talk to dialogue to talk to you so that you can do the things possibly in a better way than before for a lot of reasons safety in a lot of different areas we cannot leave the schools alone what is most important this place this Federal Building or the children and just like I've said many times before they are the future of this country they are the ones that will be taking your place and some of them will be higher than you but who gives them safety there will be a cleaner a somebody a cook and will take care of the student because a intruder comes in so why then
050we want police but then if we don't have them they don't support it support them I have a somebody I know who retired from the police and there said there's a lot of interest at stake they don't pay us well and they want us to do things perfectly if you get the youth if they grab the youth if they don't get them then then that's wrong too but there's organizations that have interest Charters have LAPD the public schools are just there alone because the private ones have their own security and the public one public school what happens with them each one do what they can with on their own thank you in Burbank our police academies and even then with police there's also things that happen there thank you okay thank you for your time
051Mr Juan mangandi is also going to speak in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what he's saying in English put on these headphones and hear simultaneous translation if you need a headset please feel free to put your hand up and we'll uh we'll get them to you okay foreign good afternoon see someone some friends called me today because I was a colleague with many organizations that say that there are four social justice and are in charge of many of the complaints from poor people and they said this is the time to comply this is not the time to fight and that they did not understand why some parents are so stubborn that are create tantrums and that are go against with whatever is new nutrients and the new trend is that we will make
052everybody understand just like how we see reality and I'm saying this because the problem comes out that today without me noticing I got a call saying hey there's an organization that is giving some food out here in this neighborhood but they're also asking that the people that will ask food sign a survey or fill out a survey so that they say that they don't want the police in the LA Unified so who are really deciding the fate of our children we as parents who are the ones that come here stubborn with a convict strong conviction up to a certain points suicidal telling you that you're doing so many things but that you're not doing anything for what you've been paid for and elected for is to legislate about having better education the education is poor
053it's bad and we cannot we say here that we are being very successful when someone a person half a million a million what three people are advancing but the majority of the people are not doing so welcome those who can be successful isn't it also fair that we all have the same opportunity to have successful and that everybody goes to the best university I want Title One and black Brothers to be in the top universities but what I'm seeing here in those that immigration uh that charge 50 60 80 to give a consultation to the person that is an immigrant now that they are proving TPS we are in a moment where corruption is part just like they say it's legal now because there's no ethics there's no morals because we do things according to
054the economic interest and not to the people's needs and that is a great problem now that we're saying that we don't want the police but what will happen when in five or ten years this failure that there's no police we will then come legislate legislators to bring the police back but at that moment how many murders how many people will be lost then because today the political interest is above the needs of the people that is the greatest problem right now and we cannot continue in that way we are attacking those Val tacking those values because if we're stuck in the past we have to analyze it through the dog and not to enforce institutional Terror we cannot become with the position and not to impose those that do not have the ability to defend
055themselves economically and judicially that's it that's not tolerable thank you speak remotely but you are not signed in so we'll come back to you Maria munyar you also signed up to speak remotely but you are not signed in there are several folks signed in to speak via the phone oh you're here good afternoon everybody my name is Monica rasola and I am a mother of two students at the district I have one daughter that graduated from high school and I want to again I request and I don't sway away that we do need the school police it's not a luxury it's a need and we need it we need the school police it's very sad to see what is going on and that there are people that are so stubborn about taking away the police
056and I think that we need to know the difference between the school police LAPD and the sheriff those are three things that are very different that cannot be mixed because it's three very different things the police in our school is prepared for our students in schools and we are trying for LAPD not to go into school and um put their hands on their Originals safety is important it's also important that these organizations that are here are not to uh slandering our police or saying that the police are calling immigrations or or that they're deporting parents or kids that is false the police does not um work that way it's so sad to see those organizations or what they're doing trying to destroy just to have money and that is not fair these organizations that are
057fighting for to get money through our children or through our schools it is not fair the way that they're doing it and I think that it's very important that we focus on this the police we need them we truly need them it is something very serious we have seen the states that we couldn't even think of that they've killed that there's been shootings among the students students shooting teachers in and others uh and shooting our students and if California who is the second state that we have so many students who are not prepared what can we expect we don't want for that moment to come and when that moment come what are we going to do if we have the possibility of doing it we have to do it now I request that and right
058now I'm so glad because in February I brought 130 signatures that were ignored but I have 430 signatures and I'm so glad that the parents are supporting me with 430 signatures and I've had the opportunity I would love for you to have the opportunity that when you go visit your schools to ask the parents how do you feel about the police what do you think about safety it is important for you to speak to those parents as well those parents that do not have voice to be here because they are working understand the Immigrant Community please they are working they're not at home just doing nothing they're cleaning houses taking care of kids is so important that you please talk to those parents and ask how they feel about safety so that they say that
059it's just me that's demanding I please task you to speak to those parents and that we can continue to gather signatures thank you for your time I'll call again for Maria munyar I see your sign up to speak remotely but you are not on the line right now uh Carla Franco are you here in the audience is he signed up to speak remotely but I'm calling to see if you're here just in case Carla you are not here okay um we're gonna go on someone just signed up for tab 2. so uh let's see Nelly Mendez Nelly Mendez are you on the line if you are please press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak once you begin Nelly Mendez okay signed up but not here Brian Higa I see
060you're here online please press star six to unmute yourself and you will have three minutes to speak once you begin Brian Higa to speak on Tab 3 procurement actions hi hello yeah speak through the board members uh I have something written that I can uh recite real quick I appreciate your time uh so thank you for your consideration board members and uh superintendent Carvalho and suggestions for the proposed Belmont 100 celebration uh September 11 2023 in the Belmont Auditorium uh we would like to invite all board members and uh six whole city band alumni who are listed below uh band directors that following laus schools to participate in a proposed program in the Belmont Auditorium just prior to lunch on Monday September 11th the following people Eric Kanye Los Angeles high school performing arts Claudio
061alcantor Obama High School Victoria Lopez and Daniel Lopez Verdugo High School Aaron Lopez Rancho Dominguez High School Gary Canal Southeast High School and Julio Belmont High School Buses will be needed to transport students from these schools to Belmont on September 11 2023 timing is critical as buses will have to be ordered in advance we would like to open the 100th Year celebration program with a combined performance of the national anthem followed by a prepared piece from each school and possibly one Belmont alumni professional group to perform at the end of the program would like to invite many Cal State Property including David Cathy Jeff Benedict Dave buck Dr Elrod Dr swing Dr susca and Dr Termini these professors Have Been instrumental in the education of then music educators throughout the country some have retired and
062others have passed away yet we still want to credit and include them on the Belmont 100th anniversary program along with sitting board members mayor and all that board members are encouraged to attend this historic event along with the media final assembly on Monday September 11 2023 is the culmination of three days of activity beginning with a Friday night football game against Marshall at Belmont an all-class picnic on the flat at Belmont Saturday and a culminating program and musical events in the Belmont Auditorium has described above as of today 6 20 23 I Brian Higa a retired Belmont High School music teacher and alumni of UCLA have met with a few key players introducing the uh this this event Tony white All City band director beyond the bell be the coordinator Ed trimitz retired principal and
063music teacher Nina Lee of the Belmont Alumni Association is also involved the Belmont Alumni Association would like to help with the funding of budget but it's asking for the board and board members for approval which will enable outside guests to approve to perform during the School Outreach for this project thank you thank you for your time okay Tab four uh Willard love Dorsey High School Willard love come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin yeah I'm Willer love Dorsey High School class of Summer 59 and we are here on behalf of Dorsey high school and we're going to offer our first comments by our principal good afternoon everyone I'm also a proud Alum Dorsey High School class of 94 and I just wanted to say that uh us it's funny we
064just had Father's Day and I was talking to my father on Father's Day who's an Alum of Dorsey High School class of 76. and uh tell us your name Orlando Johnson thank you thank you I was talking with my father who is an Alum of Dorsey High School 76 and I explained to him that we were going to be coming to speak to the school board about building a stadium and he says Orlando you you guys still got that dirt track over there so uh it it made me laugh but uh I think it's time for us to uh honor the Alum and and honor the students that we have uh today to get them an amazing stadium for them uh to be proud of and for the community to be proud of thank you
065good afternoon uh superintendent Carvalho and board members my name is Irvin Davis and is it it is with great pride that I address the board as an alumni parent and longest serving teacher at the fine institution that we know as Dorsey high school we are overwhelmed with Joy about our Athletic Field modernization project and the impact that it will have on our school on the future of our school and the future of our community I'm joined with several of our alumni colleagues and faculty members with us today and for years we've envisioned having our own stadium in our own Athletic Complex now that dream will become a reality we are looking forward to the exposure and the investment that this project will bring exposing our students to Opportunities and Contracting architecture and civil engineering and
066most of all the visibility that this project will bring to our school we are enthusiastic and optimistic as we continue our work to nurture develop motivate encourage and Inspire our student body and stand as an example of academic educational and athletic greatness for our community our state our country and our world thank you very much got about 20 seconds go ahead thank you very much so we do have our football coach Stefan Johnson Dorsey Grant we have our alumni president Andrea Canty tool obviously a Dorsey Grant and it seems very appropriate because this is such a very special occasion for us our student body president is here her name is miracle and this is a miracle for Dorsey miracle because here to say thank you we're very great very very grateful to take 85 years
067for us to have a stadium thank you thank you thank you Mercy guns from touristy Town their colors are green and white people here on uh five even though we have withdrawn it uh you came down to the meeting if you're still here we're going to let you speak today okay so the public comment on Tab five Let's uh move on to that let me see if we have our online speaker here Norma Gonzalez you were the first person to speak on this item Norma Gonzalez if you're on the line please press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak once you begin Norma Gonzalez good afternoon I'm Norma Gonzalez and how sad that you took item five from the agenda away because I had comments regarding that like I said
068my name is Norma Gonzalez I have two children with special needs in this District today I want to express my concern especially after having served three years of being and serving on CAC and my sincere disillusionment about this committee specifically in relation to the corruption that is prevalent in the process throughout those three years I've had without success knowledge and participation in this CAC committee from the beginning Mr Placencia and Miss poorer have ignored my application even though I had sent three total one of them supposedly was lost in the office and Mr Placencia promised to go about an a cybernetic investigation this has only reinforced my suspect my suspicions about the lack of transparency that has to do with the members of these committees before this situation I decided to take the initiative to
069send my applications not through email but also sending different copies to different officers and members of health pack also through email to avoid any losses and being ignored today I am very confused and I don't know if I should be worried or concern to be a part of this committee and I lament having to express the inappropriate committee activity because it's not a democratic process that allows in turn it seems like the people that select those members do it in a seldomly transparent way and have very little participation of parents and the community of special education this situation is alarming and needs immediate assistance and there needs to be proper elections done so that there can be transparent and fair elections to guarantee the participation of all parents and members interested in the topic of
070special education this strengthens the Integrity of the committee or Not only would it strengthen the committee but also include an appropriate integration of the voices that fight for special education thank you very much I insist that all members of the committee okay John Perrone are you here in person John Perrone I see you're also not online um Paul roback are you here in person Paul roback okay moving on to tab six Keith delaquila are you here Keith delaquila come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin all right good afternoon board members my name is Keith delaquila with the California Charter Schools Association the policy changes before you today seems straightforward and confirmed that state law dictates the processes for submission of a charter school petition and its contents would have been
071nice if the policy followed the law to get to in the first place but I'm glad we are here no doubt staff will begin updating the appropriate documents that go along with the policy I'll note that the recent guidance from the state board about verified data should be included in those documents as well I am here today to ask for continued partnership with policy updates like this and please work with us the policy change is considered no consultation with Charter Schools or with native tribes and I will remind you that according to State data 50 percent of the American Indian students in Los Angeles attend a charter school and so when we do this work in isolation it breeds distrust and it leads to policies that ultimately harm students it is what we saw last
072week when a policy was proposed that would have banned charter school students from sharing space at hundreds of public school campuses and those campuses are concentrated in the highest needs neighborhoods and I do appreciate that the resolution has been has been postponed and it won't be rushed for about this week I will again say that a blanket ban on sharing space is uh illegal it is divisive it is immoral we have lost hundreds of thousands of students from the K-12 system in this District we have not lost buildings there is space to do this work collaboratively and together and so I say on on this policy on that policy on any other policy that comes forward I would just ask for your partnership I have reached out personally to both authors of the resolution to
073say in good faith truly in good faith here to work with you on any charter school policy matters that come before you and so I'll close just by saying nearly one in four public school students in Los Angeles attends a public charter school it's about 115 000 students a hundred thousand students have called their ninety thousand low-income students twenty five thousand English Learners fifteen thousand students with disabilities and those students are well cared for uh this morning Ed source and Ed week published findings from a major new study out of Stanford that concluded that Charter public schools are closing major achievement gaps especially for Black and Latino students I mean especially in cities like Los Angeles Stanford highlighted 32 Charter School organizations from across the state of California for especially strong work with these students
07420 of them are here in Los Angeles they operate 158 charter schools in Los Angeles serving 75 000 students they are the accelerated schools Alliance Aspire bright star Camino Nuevo isana environmental Charter Schools equitas Fenton Green Dot ilead Kip who is here Magnolia para los Ninos Da Vinci Global education Synergy value and isaf and I will quote from the edsource article it says critics in California have discounted the results charging the charter schools weed out students but there is research found that Charter Schools enroll students who are actually are lower performing than the traditional public school students when they enter the classroom so this should be celebrated it should be supported on this in all matters we are here genuinely to work with you you cannot come out of the pandemic what we've experienced without
075different attitudes please work with us we are here to do that foreign [Applause] come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin good afternoon superintendent Carvalho president Goldberg and esteemed LAUSD board members I am Ida tatyoshyan and I am the founding principal of aradat Charter School I want to acknowledge my former colleagues in the charter division for their hard work updating the policy because I know it is not easy I want to acknowledge president Goldberg and Dr Rivas for postponing your resolution prohibiting LAUSD charter school students from sharing space with their peers in hundreds of district schools I appeal to your commitment and support of all students to consider not just to postpone the vote on the resolution but to cancel it entirely instead of a divisive policy we should be working
076together for solutions that support all students I would like to tell you a bit about our school community so that you understand the types of families and programs impacted when you make policy changes serves 340 students in grades tk5 our school is made up of 79.1 low-income students and 51.7 English Learners the key educational features of our program our project enhanced learning and the teaching of two languages aside from English Spanish and Armenian we also offer students weekly computer lab music library art and sell we have shared space with LAUSD schools under prop 39 since 2011. currently we are split across two campuses we work hard to build a positive and collaborative relationship with our district colleagues students and Families in fact we have had staff members whose children attended the district school on the
077same campus as Ararat and even families who have had one student at Ararat and the other at the district school on the same site there are times when sharing space can be challenging we would love to have a more predictable facility arrangement with the LAUSD and we hope one day to have our own independent facility we are all Educators serving the students of this District who want to build a better future for our children we should be working together to bring more stability to all our public school students thank you so much for your time and for your consideration thank you for your time Tony Angel are you here Joni angel okay Joni's declining but she's here thank you for letting me know Rhonda Rhonda d ude if you're on the line press star six
078to unmute yourself Rhonda is not here Randy palisak come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin good afternoon my name is Dr Randy palisak I'm a former classroom teacher with Ellie unified and in my first teaching credential through lausd's District intern program back in 1997. I am also a Founder in the former Chief achievement officer at Synergy academies which is one of lausd's national award-winning Charter organizations in Board District Five Ms Goldberg's district and in board district 7 Ms Ortiz Franklin's District currently I teach at James Jordan Middle School another award-winning LAUSD charter school which recently earned back-to-back California distinguished School awards and that's a double win for Board District three Mr smyrnson's District I'm speaking in support of agenda item number six which recommends the approval of updates to lausi's
079policy and procedures for Charter Schools I support these updates because they align District Charter policy with State guidance and the updates also increase Clarity between the district and its Charter School partners as an LUSD classroom teacher who became an legac Charter School leader I can affirm that streamlining the charter submission and review process is a good thing when District charter school policy aligns with state law in this case California Education Code 47605 as well as the charter schools Act of 1992 in general it cuts down on bureaucracy and it allows teachers such as myself the ability to more quickly get down to the business of educating our students and closing the achievement Gap additionally I believe that it would serve the district well to not only follow the letter of the law but also the
080spirit of the law as you know the legislative intent of the California Charter Schools Act of 1992 was to allow teachers among others the ability to establish Independent Schools in order to impute improve people learning at least he first gave me that chance to open a charter school almost 20 years ago and what has been the result only dozens of awards won and thousands of students lives change from South Central to the valley this is why I encourage you to remember that charter schools are your partners and that the achievement Gap is too big for any single party to solve on its own we chose the name Synergy for our first charter school because the word Synergy was a constant reminder that we can achieve more by working together than by working alone or worse
081by working against each other one leuc charter policy change that does concern me and it should kind of concern us all is the prop 39 proposal that was introduced last week that would prohibit LAUSD charter school students from sharing space with their peers in hundreds of district schools that policy changes against both the letter and the spirit of the law and it will do great harm to thousands of students I appreciate that Miss Goldberg and Dr Rivas have postponed their resolution and I asked that you take a step further and withdraw it completely and we ask that you meet with your Charter School Partners to discuss better ways to meet the needs of all of our students thank you for your time and we look forward to continuing to partner with you thank you for
082your time Yvette King Berg I see you're here to speak online Yvette kingberg please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin Yvette King Berg good afternoon president Goldberg honorable board members and superintendent Carvalho my name is Yvette kingberg and I'm a 37 year educator with experiences a teacher a former utility Chapter Chair and administrator as an LAUSD employee and as a charter school administrator I currently serve as the executive director of ypi Charter School most importantly I'm a proud parent of a recent UC Berkeley graduate who is the product of both LUSD and Charter School communities I want to acknowledge Charter School Division for their work updating the policy and I want to address my comments both to this item and to other recent proposed policy
083changes first I want to acknowledge for president Goldberg and Dr Regis for postponing your resolution prohibiting LAUSD Charter students from sharing space with their peers and hundreds of district schools and I also want to appeal to Higher Ground and ask you not just to postpone the resolution but to rethink it my message to you is that partnership is possible it takes work but that work is absolutely worth doing and I'd like to tell you a little bit about our school Community we operate three schools in LAUSD for Corona charter school work from the high school and learn senior Oscar Romero we're 185 805 students 94 are low income students 65 percent of English Learners 25 of the students who serve are students with special needs and it marks 40 percent of our students and newcomers
084let's talk about our facilities all three schools receive the state's Community Schools Grant and two of the three are co-located we have shared space with LAUSD schools since 2006 and in all across 39 all of our top 39 co-locations are positive you can ask anyone in the top 39 office our Partnerships have benefited our kids for example through the augmentation Grant in partnership with the district ypix helps leverage 30 million dollars of charge of measure Cube bond funds to create and develop the new gem for all students that's currently at brindle Middle School campus this positive partnership was recognized by the late superintendent Dr Michelle King and highlighted at her promising practices event why pix is also the lead agent on a second 1.7 million dollar gear up Grant that just ended where 76 percent
085of those funds were identified and benefited lausd's unified traditional students in local districts five two and four in 2017 we took 19 Educators leaders and some traditional schools nine from charter schools to Northern Ireland to participate in the Northern Ireland teacher exchange where participants learned about how collaboration and partnership through shared education programs are foundational to all students and Community success I know personally the partnership and collaboration is what moves what moves the need for kids who have been left behind by sexual racism and chronic disinvestment the board has an opportunity to find win-wings that benefit all kids including those attending traditional and charter schools by considering collaborating with us as you continue to consider the impact that any of your final decisions on this will have on your partners I believe in the power
086of us thank you very much for your time we appreciate your time thank you Justine Gonzalez are you here in the audience Justine Gonzalez yeah and Justine's going to pass thank you for letting me know okay that's all the public comment for tab six we're going to move on to tab nine Mr David tokowsky are you in the room you signed up to speak in person Mr David tokoski go once you're not here Mr tokoski okay for tab 11. approval of minutes yes giotem you're not here either and I've been instructed to go ahead and hear folks from tab 12. it is not being moved for Action today but we will be hearing speakers on the item uh so first in the lineup is Mr Steve Barr are you here Steve Barr okay Selena noon
087are you here in person Selena noon George Lopez are you here George Lopez likely these folks got the word that it wasn't going ahead uh John Brown um board member melvoy points out that this was originally for a Time certain of 3 P.M so we might we might have these folks back at that time okay yeah so we try to notify them that it was not on the agenda but we're going to return to it at 3 P.M in the event that we uh the event that we um unnecessarily stifle these voices all right so I'm going to go back through the list and make sure we didn't miss anybody and that would conclude public comment on consent items uh that's all I've got good now we will go through the consent items and we
088have first on the first item uh Miss Ortiz Franklin thank you um this is on the ab1200 for the school police negotiations I wanted to know from the team I don't know who the right person is maybe coming down there was a comment in the ab1200 that said the fiscal impact to the unrestricted general fund is 2.2 million in this school year 5 million next year 7 million the following year the cost of the agreement necessitated the release of remaining sunny in fiscal year 2425 and I was looking for Clarity on that last statement I'll have a our physical folks if they aren't here yet I know they're coming down so these are reserves that we set aside to make sure that we had sufficient resources to fully fund our commitment of sending and as
089a result of tapping into available resources and our general fund and other available funds in our budget and assassin States having to actually move dollars out of that Reserve in order to cover the cost of selling so this is for the police uh contract is seni paying for the Police contract or how do you explain that no so our our general fund resources as well as Sr resources are paying for those obligations as a result of moving that out of our budget we then bring in reserves to make sure that seni is protected in terms of commitment so Sunny is getting back funded from General Reserve correct okay that's why that's why we created that particular Reserve to make sure that if there were any out your liabilities or commitments that would potentially eat into
090our obligations around Sunny that we had something to to bolster it and to sustain it okay so just to be clear the school police budget is not being funded through sunny it's being been funded through General funds got it right um and this looks like an increase of this year two million dollars in the furthest year seven million dollars um do we know the total amount and maybe this is crossing over a little bit into the budget question but because it's related to this agreement the total school police budget is it going up staying the same or how is it changing the total school police budget as associated with pension and salary costs is increasing Personnel is not and so the average cost of a officer or individual that is part of laspd is going
091up because of a salary increase but when you look at the year over year Investments and and FTE for the Department it has actually decreased since the initial 25 million dollar reduction to the program raising salary to put more into Health and Welfare that's what is outlined in all of the ab1200s it's difficult we've been receiving a lot of advocacy to not increase the overall budget so I'm struggling with this vote just to let the team know because we've committed to our young folks that we I have you know that we wouldn't increase the budget but this if we agree with the negotiated contract would increase the overall budget so I just want to be clear on on what this vote will indicate to our community and just to give you an idea in uh
09220 20 21 prior to the 25 million dollar reduction we had about 511 Personnel in our laspd budget today it's about 388. um and when we actually made those reductions we went from 511 to 396 full-time equivalent Personnel it's a 389 and this year it's 388. um and so when we're talking about sustaining resources and remaining committed to what was voted on in 2020 we've been doing that balancing act because we do know that there's needs out there so trying to strike that balance of sustaining deployment and ensuring that uh our Personnel actually supported on that end is that we continue to do that and also sustain it from a compensation standpoint I think that today's agreement reflects that it would be helpful to know what the actual spend is I don't know if we
093have that for this year but just given all of the vacancies because maybe that's where the Gap can be communicated that while we budgeted for this much because of the vacancies we actually haven't spent as much as we budgeted for on school police and I don't know if we have that that gap between budget and actual spend I'm happy to look at it in the budget conversation later if the team needs some time or in the future yeah when you can definitely follow up on that okay thank you I believe I believe that was the only item on number one only person on number one you are on number two Miss Ortiz Franklin um yeah similar question I think I understand now because it had the same statement about uh releasing the remaining sunny and
094so just again this is for the management um that the increase would be 0.6 million this school year 1.3 million next year and a two million dollar increase uh for 24.25 so just want to make sure I'm clear that we are increasing or the ask is to increase the overall budget thanks okay um item three we had a lot of people let's start first with um Rocio Rivas Dr Rivas procurement actions questions um item e i remember was item e let me get to my question okay here we go enemy e um this was the IAP Tool uh General funds just a simple question just wanted to know why this funding is coming from General funds rather than special ed funds just really quick the IAP is different than the IEP so know that there
095is kind of a misconception out there so this is the individual acceleration plan which is for all students um in our district so General Ed special education as well as our parents well it mentioned mices and Willie gent so I mentioned some you know all inclusive so this is why it's coming from special ed because it's all inclusive right okay thank you next I had uh Mr Dr McKenna on item three you had some items you said you may wanted to ask some questions on um I guess my question is an item d is that I still have it here um what kinds of reporting will the system do that we currently didn't have the ability to produce should this be for approval since the contract value exceeds 350 000 delegated authority but to Adam
096Davis's Power School group I got that was that for item g d is in David I believe wasn't it he is indeed Dave isn't David this is the item on Information Technology services for the office of chief chief uh strategy officer want to know information about the 22 million dollar expenditure over um looks like about seven years five six five year contract okay I'll call back on you in just a minute okay but go ahead we'll take yours while we're waiting for the staff to come down it is item F the student re-engagement recovery um so my question is uh we've done our own efforts right and and trying to engage re-engage these students so wondering um since we don't have like an in-house track re-engagement of students so what we're going to learn from
097from acceleration academies um I'm just wondering what are we going to be learning from them particularly when I looked on their website um they're mainly based in Florida Georgia and Texas so I want to know how much information I know about La the context of LA and how to engage our students and why we feel this they would do a better job than we have since we've been doing a lot of visits to our schools and our PSAs and psws and everyone has been trying to re-engage our students I just want to know um how this vendor is related to La rather than since they're from I don't know Dr Rivas I'll get started and then my Dr Romero will come by and and add more details so at this point what we're trying to
098do is we have a small percentage of students that we have not been able to engage these are students that have dropped out of our school system and we've had a really tough time even with Outreach to be able to get that back engaged so we can get them graduated and so the DOI team did an analysis to understand who these certain populations were and so we recognized that we need to do a different strategy for these students so we did some we put out an RFP to understand who has been doing this type of work and what are some things that to your point we could potentially learn and be able to do in-house but at this time we have not been able to so uh Dr Romero will share more details on why
099we went this route how we've selected the current vendor and our intent to do just what you said Dr Rivas learned to see where we could improve our internal processes good afternoon Michael Romero the chief of transitional programs so as Dr estrava shared we have filtered and filtered where kids might have gone when they've left our high schools down to about 8 000 students over the last five years so when we filtered we had students that ended up in other districts in Calif fornia we found out that students left California left the country some of them went to Adult Ed some of them graduated from adulthood but after we scrubbed that list for the last five years there were still more than 8 000 students that were with us in our high schools that we
100just plumbed don't know where they're at they have dropped out so la unified for the last couple of years we've actually done a very good job with a to G counselors at high schools looking for these students still in fact every month they draw reports withdrawal reports to still see if they can't find the students somewhere we have PSA counselors we have we have youth Source counselors that we work with the city trying to do the same thing where do these students go to grab them and get them back into our programs to hopefully graduate from high school well we found out that over the last 10 years working with eight different states acceleration academies has has helped districts find these students so they have a lot of experience with that I'll give you an
101example one of the districts is Clark County Nevada over 300 000 students and they've worked with Clark County since 2019 with good success of finding these students so we do want to learn what this group does acceleration academies because how the approach canvassing neighborhoods we think is a little bit different than how we do it how they have a communication team dedicated to calling and sending information to families we want to learn from that how this group uses social media to find these kids we want to learn from that as well so although there's been some great work there's still a lot of kids and we think over the next two years in this pilot and part of the contract is they will be building our capacity and helping us and training us on how
102they go about finding these students here another another important piece that we want to get smarter on with this group they have career and life coaches so when they find a student and they're by their side to get them back into our programs which would most likely be our option programs and division of adult ed on a weekly basis the career in life coaches are by their side talking about career opportunities and some of the barriers preventing them from being in school in addition and this is a feature that we want to learn from they have graduate candidate Advocates graduate candid Advocates where multiple times per week once they've found one of these 8 000 kids they're working with those students with wraparound services and staying close to them as they're bringing them back to
103either division of adult ed or the option programs and so they stay the course by the side of these students until the students graduate so those are some things that we want to learn from and we think there's some great opportunity there thank you yeah um I think that's great I think if we can learn from them and building capacity particularly USD you would say five million five million dollars I think it's a lot that we can do here and train our our Personnel in doing that work so thank you for that explanation appreciate it on just this item Nick go ahead yeah just a process question maybe it's actually from Miss Reese and it's something we hope to explore in the procurement committee and was related actually to miss Ortiz Franklin's resolution with our
104like just looking at some of these bigger projects chronic abdentism the IEPs and seeing we only get a few bids when there are you know like hundreds of Ed tech companies or national companies that are doing this work around attendance what is the process for notifying folks about the RFP is it they just have to be tracking our website are there consortia that like send out hey La unified is looking for work and apps in attendance help like just how to because I think not even specific to anything on the agenda today but sometimes people will say oh I didn't know that lust had an RFP for that you know home texting for parents or whatever and just curious for the public like how do these things get publicized thanks Mr Melbourne um so we
105do a variety of things we do we ask the sponsors if they know of any firms that we can do Outreach to we do look up we do some research on the internet to find firms that may offer that type of service we also provide a an ability to register with us so that they can be automatically notified when rfps are are published and then we do formal advertising um to to notify others of of the rfps and just so when you say sponsors do you mean like the sponsoring division so visiting instructions exactly right so and we do receive unsolicited so we you know advise them you know to register and and become part of the process so we can make sure they do get notified of the rfps and you know that we
106can help them with anything they need to apply if there's a provider that does attendance just to stay on this one they can sign up and they'll get a notification every time we put out an RFP right for attendance Services okay whatever they register for yeah right thank you thanks Ms cover okay that takes care of that I'm Dr did you have other items nine three okay uh next I have uh go ahead feel free to the question asked by board member malfoine uh very good question and we sometimes I think struggle with the with the process for procurement it has a it is a process that no doubt relies and benefits disproportionately fairly or unfairly Legacy contractors that already have a footprint with the system and those obviously that are teed up by the
107sponsoring entity that may be okay not good but okay for traditional Legacy products and services for new and emerging Technologies absolutely not a good fit because we don't know what we don't know right so you talked about attendance there are all kinds of products right now to rely on advanced technology even artificial intelligence to process through hundreds of thousands of data points to make meaningful connections right to a point where we would not have the capacity to man phones right the staff phones to call people and knock on doors at the intensity that this does so we are making improvements in the way we let folks know what we're looking for yes true and try processes are in place we're going to be casting wider net in National settings in some instances even International settings
108particularly in the area of new technologies unless we you know miss out on on quite frankly the best that may be out there but may be unaware of of our intent to partner with our contract with such entity if we have someone from the team here I had a question about item G I wanted to ask just for for are these tap cards that are going to The Dalton vocational students yes so uh we have either the cars that will be distributed or actually they can use the app and I know Mike Romero as well as uh some of his teammates are here to speak more on the adult school I can give any updates on the TK through 12 program as well thank you Dr Webb I just wanted to get an idea of
109how much money the district would be saving through this contract as opposed to if we had to pay for you know the fares individually or something like that great question with regards to this particular funding that we are utilizing for this approach although the cards are seven dollars each we do qualify for the home to school reimbursement which breaks it down it takes off 60 percent of the cost or our reimbursement which brings the price down to two dollars and eighty cents for each particular card for tk-12 students and so at that rate we're saving approximately 1.1 million additional funds for that room reimbursement thank you Dr Webb and then I just wanted to end with a comment as we're encouraging more students to ride the Metro whether it's for closing achievement gaps or for
110environmental reasons maybe we can include as part of our legislative advocacy when we talk to the Metro board concerns about safety you know I use the tap card myself you know it's a great resource but there have been times where I felt unsafe on the Metro you know I use it to come from North Hollywood downtown here I know there's one time I had you know a bottle thrown at me I have friends who've been you know threatened on the Metro before and a lot of those incidents especially for students it's become really a regular occurrence and so they go so underreported in the system so if we could just keep that in mind you know along with Distributing these tab cards putting some pressure for reforms on on safety so thank you hey very
111good thank you very much I just had a couple of questions myself go ahead I'm sorry oh yes they're here thank you okay thank you very much I'll restate the question item D I was referring to uh PowerSchool group permits authority to negotiate a contract for business intelligence and instruction management Suite called biims for data analytics 22 million dollars five-year contract what kinds of reporting will the system do that we currently don't already have the ability to produce so the what we are looking to seek is actually an upgrading of our existing systems our systems are about when it comes to reporting about four years old we know that technology has to be upgraded has to be we need to align it to the Strategic plan there is a new assessment that needs to come
112in and we need to align that as well so it's actually in its upgrade to the existing systems to build out Lessons Learned in the last four years there's upgrades that we need to have as well for that so it's actually improving the systems that we have and and building out what we currently have if you want specifics on the specifics the actual technology aspect um so Hal katal is here as well if he wants to if you have no I don't want to take the time to do that now but I I mean that would be a more tedious and in-depth thing that I want the audience wouldn't be on that one but the value of the contracts exceeds the 250 000 delegated authority should this be up for approval it is this is
113this is um that is what's on the agenda is to approve this the reason why you see attachment a is because we don't have um a second part everything in this report is up for approval okay for ratification okay sorry for the confusion no it's all right it's my fault thank you thank you both okay uh also let's see if I have I think most of you have asked all of my questions let me make sure yes you have you've asked all my questions thank you very much all right well next go to item number four there was a comment from I didn't get it who did you get okay oh Dr Rivas okay Dr Rivas thank you I'm sorry I didn't get the initials it was just a comment that I'm very glad that
114a lot of our us School athletic athletic facilities are being renovated I just noticed that board District 2 isn't here and I know that a lot of um my schools are not my schools but boy District Two schools um are up for um some upgrades I just wanted to you know uh want to make sure that I get that we have a briefing for Board District 2 so we can have some upcoming um upgrades for Board District Two schools because I have a few that's all I just wanted to make sure that we have a briefing so we can include more Board District Two schools high school hey also okay I I have just a comment and a question on item six item six uh hello how you doing so item six says that uh
115well why don't you tell us what item six says and I'll I'll instead of meet categorize characterizing it why don't you characterize it sure good afternoon everyone more president this item makes a narrow set of recommendations to the board approved policy for Charter Schools in short I've only done to the two buckets one is related to the receipt of a new petition or renewal and when the time clocks would start for example secondly there's one item there regarding resubmission after an item has been posted and if it was withdrawn that's the long and short of it we're working with legal counsel so does this uh change any of our criteria for selecting first and thank you for that question important to underscore the district follows the statutory criteria the board policy adds additional detail because
116the law does not provide all of the detail that's 1605. 15 for example 1505. so for example the policy will lay out what is the board expecting related to a community impact assessment and then staff's analysis and so staff will review what's submitted on the merits and then make a recommendation to the superintendent that uh information it has not changed that those those expectations are stated now a charter school whether a petitioner chooses to present that information that will be their choice we are not removing the board's um expectations so we haven't changed the criteria that says that we want them to do a community impact service okay that's the only thing I think that some of us were concerned about and the rest of it seems to be very typical any other questions or
117comments on this item okay we'll take care of that one let's see what we got else here I have on item 10. Miss Ortiz Franklin I'm sorry I asked with the calendar presentation already okay all right in that case I believe we're ready for a vote on the consent calendar the consent calendar to remind everyone is items one two three four six nine ten and eleven anybody not ready anybody not ready everybody's ready okay call the roll please can someone move it yes move it move by Mr schmurray Dr Rivas okay Colleen World Dr McKenna yes Dr Rivas yes Mr schmerson yes Mrs Melbourne yes as soon as yes Miss Ortiz Franklin Emma know on tabs one and two but a yes on the remainder so that's no on tabs one and two and a
118yes on the remainder for president Goldberg yes student board member Shin yes all right we are now to item number seven Mr superintendent adoption oh I'm sorry p.m okay we have the 3 P.M speakers uh I'll take it back doctor Mr superintendent we have set scheduled at 3 P.M uh tab 12. which is not on the agenda today but at the request of several if they came to let them speak and we'll see if they have come okay so we're gonna return to tab 12 uh Mr Steve Barr I see you here a moment ago Mr Barr okay there you are come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin good afternoon board members and Mr superintendent um a little disappointing day I was hoping to come and get an mou approved
119and move forward but um we'll get it done eventually and um I was thinking about the first time I always think about it when I see Mr McKenna because I've lived in La worked for an organization called Rock the vote and shortly after the uprising of 92 I did a voter reg Drive in South La with students from Washington prep and Dorsey and about 12 kids gave him summer jobs and one of the first people I met down there was Cecil Murray and those of no no um Mr Murray he always talks about health life expectancy how long we're going to live some you know a couple years few years ago and the same thing and he always talked about 12 years less life expectancy for people in his community than live in Brentwood it
120was such a stunning thing 12 years I thought wow that is amazing to me and I think about my mom who died at age 61 I would give I would kill for one more day with her but 12 years and nothing ever happens and still 12 years air quality management board says that between the 710 the 5 the 10 and the 110 the worst pollution in the country that's why I was so excited when the superintendent came forward with a plan to re that half of the soot in the air in the Basin comes from heavy trucks school buses and cars wow what a great thing that every time we can take a school bus off the street that pollutes and replace it with an EV how amazing that would be six hundred thousand dollars
121for a new bus is great and you're gonna need those for some some of the busier routes but we know we can take existing buses and convert them to EV for one tenth of the price and at the same time as I've got to know from my friends from IBEW Local 11 we can train kids to do this business and it's not just school buses which there's a 1200 in the fleet of LAUSD 3 500 vehicles but heavy trucks throughout the city and Passenger cars these are six figure jobs so I went to LA Trade Tech you guys get kids who are dramatically behind you want to bring them up you want to get a couple of years knocked off of their apprenticeship in five years it takes to become an electrician um we'll work
122together good good we'll give you some space that's what this school's about but it's an Affiliated Charter which is what I'm excited about and I was I was inspired by that by the board president LAUSD kids LAUSD employees all of us pull them together and working on this together and that's what the school is we had to give up a year I pulled the charter a few months a few weeks ago to create this mou so we can work together on this I'm looking forward to getting started on it but that sense of urgency that 12 years we've got to start knocking those at that time back we owe it to these communities thank you thank you for your time Selena noon are you here Selena noon if you're here coming up you'll have three
123minutes to speak once you begin Selena noon hi everyone my name is Selena noon I am a journey level inside wire electrician with ibw Local 11 Los Angeles I joined the trade after many years of doing other jobs right and as a single parent I really needed health insurance and a stable career and I found that with ibw local 11 and I found that with being able to have a job that basically no one can take away from me because of the fact that I have specific skills that will always be useful um and so to that end whatever we can do to get especially women and girls into the Building Trades and or the trades in general I think we should support I'm not always a fan of charter schools in fact generally not
124right but sometimes done is better than good and I think that's a really important piece here when we get to 50 50 for women in all these spaces then fine but until then we need to create opportunities for women and girls to have these skills and to have careers for their children and their families who we all know lift communities thank you very much thank you for your time George Lopez are you here George Lopez come on down you have three minutes to speak once you begin uh all right hello good afternoon members of the board my name is George Lopez I am a proud ibw Local 11 member and I'm here today in support of the charter submitted for futures now schools and the CTE program I feel this program will give the Youth
125of this uh Community path to the middle class through the ibw as an ibw member I stand here as a homeowner and a provider for my family on a single income which in today's California is no easy feat uh the skills gained by students will help set them up with the same Financial Liberties right out of high school I've seen this firsthand with classmates of mine of my apprenticeship individuals straight out of high school into the trade now journeyman and women with no student debt and six figure incomes being part of the ibw and joining in trades has been a blessing to me had I known about it earlier in my life I surely would have taken the opportunity for me being up here is about being able to help create opportunities for the next
126generation of young workers in LAUSD so they can too have what I have thank you for your time thank you for your time John Brown are you here John Brown come on up you got three minutes to speak when you begin good day LAUSD board parents and my fellow brothers and sisters of Abu IBEW Local 11. my name is John Brown and I'm extremely proud electrician here in Los Angeles the one thing I am more proud of though than my career Is My Two children who both went through LAUSD system from grade school through middle school and high school and they're now both succeeding in college I am speaking today to support an alternative Pathway to the one that my children took and the one that I faced in as an LAUSD graduate back in
1271985. I was lucky in that some parts of my education exposed me to shop classes I had Woodworking and metal shop welding and mechanics I can vividly remember one of my finals where they presented us with a lawnmower that and we had to start it stop it disassemble it into all of its parts put it back together and get it started with less than a cup of fuel it was stressful at the time but it's so fun and invigorating and a memory that I'll have for a long time I learned a lot of skills and wish that my children had the chance to participate in this type of education I am sure they would benefit from the knowledge the personal empowerment the career paths and the choices that become available to people who learn these
128crafts and they'd probably be a lot less stressed out than I was in my 20s and 30s when I had mountains of debt and few job opportunities having a program that touts the goals usefulness and traditions of physical work labor for financial gains alongside with the mental well-being and life-stabilizing skills that equip you to stay employed and enjoy a long career is an amazing opportunity that I as an apparent can fully appreciate I support future is now the Career Technical educational program please take this opportunity to make great people do great things for the LAUSD Community the sky is the limit today yet we are building more successes every day by working Union growing stronger and organizing the Next Generation generation into thoughtful skillful and self-sufficient human beings I look forward to working with you
129to continue these efforts and conversations and to get this off the ground thank you very much for your time and consideration thank you for your time Danielle Lewis are you here Danielle Lewis come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin Danielle Lewis okay Judith Hermosillo Judith Hermosillo are you here come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin hello I'm an ibw Local 11 member and chief of staff to business manager Joelle Barton who represents approximately 12 000 ibw members in Los Angeles County specifically 600 members within the future is now schools jurisdiction ibw Local 11 is proud to support future is now schools to become an Affiliated Charter School Finn mirrors our philosophy a program that prepares and equip students with industry certification based upon Community needs
130and provide students with skills to benefit from high-skilled high-wage earning careers you're likely familiar with high profile buildings that locally lover members have built and maintained so if I Stadium La USD sites the light bulbs needing to be changed at the Union Bank building just on the other side of the freeway we also build trains for 11 million angelinos kinky shario ibw manufacturing members built and maintained the new Gold Line trains within two years after the plant opened you'd hear of marriages new home buying experiences an announcement of new babies from our members our Labor Management partnership was doing something right once upon a time I was a fellow for Teach for America I was placed at the school formerly known as Locke High School I now work closely with apprentices at one of the
131largest apprenticeship programs west of the Mississippi as it was then and is now students aim for the same goal to be successful and feel proud of their school experience because they wanted to lead to good paying job that sustains their family we hope you can move forward with this we will be back if necessary and feel free to contact us thank you thank you for your time Martin Barrera Martin Beretta come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin hello thank you my name is Martin Barrera I am the workforce Equity coordinator at jobs to move America and a former stem teacher at a charter school in Los Angeles and Lincoln Heights Los Angeles I'm here today to show support for the Finn prep school I know firsthand the benefits of a
132small community centered charter school and the ability to provide individualized care and support to students with a variety of needs from learning disabilities and social social emotional needs to socioeconomic and legal as well this school's Target student population is one that can be overlooked due to excessive tardies and absences by providing these students with a small learning community and tangible Hands-On stem education and empowering them with the ability to leverage their skills towards Collegiate credit and apprenticeship experience it sows the seed for students to take ownership and pride in their education and work not only will this school make them excellent students but it will help them develop into resourceful and highly skilled workers while also bolstering their appeal amongst the existing Workforce these students will enter the industry and have years of experience working
133alongside skilled union workers and develop an understanding of what a good family supporting job looks like as well as the ability to pursue similar roles this will also lead to having a large group of homegrown talent in the field of vehicle electrification during a time where this work is highly valued but limited in the number of experts available lastly introducing black and brown students in LA to this type of green technology has a capacity to influence Youth and car culture in our city the same way youth of color Embrace car technology for decades in auto shop classes and Infused it with their culture to create low riders informed car clubs in the past our youth can build a new culture a cultural way focused on environmental justice and Green Technology by showing students the benefit
134of eliminating fossil fuel engines and empowering them to use their skills to make existing Vehicles electric we can make electrification desirable outside of buying stock electric cars like Teslas and Priuses allowing them to bring their own Visions to the electrification movement we're not only diversifying the movement but also actively bringing Equity to disadvantaged communities in conclusion fin prep has the prospect of providing equality education supporting students in need and preparing them to be upstanding and valued workers while Paving the way for a more diverse and Equitable electrification movement in Los Angeles thank you thank you very much this postponed spoon at a request of a couple of board members who did not feel they had enough information to move forward on it it'll be heard at our first meeting in August which will be on
135August 22nd and at that time I believe everybody will have had an opportunity to have their questions answered okay and do we have anything else before we go to items seven and eight that concludes public comment all right that we didn't do public comment yet hold on I'm sorry oh Danielle is here okay come on up Danielle I didn't see you I'm sorry I didn't see you come on up please you have three minutes to speak once you begin sorry about that hello sorry I just got off work um my name is Danielle Lewis I'm a third year inside why I'm an apprentice with IBEW and I just wanted to come here just give a restatement um of why I joined the union and why the Futures now charter school is important so I took
136the traditional route in life School College work Looking Back Now I wish that I had had an alternative path I wouldn't be saddled with debt from tuition and I'd be further along in my career that I love I support Futures now CTE Career Technical education program because it offers the young people of today another path growing up I was always handy and I love solving puzzles and reading Mysteries two things that benefit greatly in my career now becoming an inside Wireman Apprentice for the ibw has changed my life I now have skills that I take anywhere in an education that is valued internationally I'm now politically involved in my union which wasn't even a thought when I was growing up they've encouraged me to push past my limits and become an active participant in my
137future I know now that um I will do so many more great things and I want younger generations to be able to do those things as well I often wonder where I'd be if I'd joined the ibw sooner what I have my own home would have a larger savings would I be a general Foreman or superintendent these are all questions I hope students joining future is now Charter School won't have asked they'll already know my general informant says that in order to be successful you need to be invested I stand before you an invested member of my union I'm sure that students attending the future is now charter school will be as well as I mentioned before I went to I went the traditional route and at the age of 35 I'm now on the
138right path I strongly believe we should be putting our students in positions to win and sometimes those position positions are non-traditional thank you so very much all right I believe we have done all of that we will now go to items hold on a second to item seven which adoption of the proposed 22 20 20 23 24. you have people coming up I don't know who I don't know thank you very much Madam president uh I'll just tee up the budget presentation I'll ask David Hart and the team to come down uh once again and you've part of this information is a repetition from what was presented the last week there are a number of guiding principles that Orient the budget development certainly it's implementation not just for next year but through 2026. these principles
139are important principles number one this is a budget that's aligned to our strategic plan it aligns funds for the implementation of everyone of the ultimately the four goals of the Strategic plan and every one of the strategies within that strategic plan inclusive of post-secondary success literacy numeracy and social emotional and wellness goals is a plan that's cemented on empowering student achievement addressing the immediate needs in our schools specifically targeting and prioritizing the most fragile schools and within those fragile schools the most fragile students and tiering approaches not only in terms of resource allocation but also support with embedded accountability it strategically uses one-time funds where appropriate but also begins to move away back away from this one-time funding and places individuals as well as products and services programs and services into more sustainable long-lasting funding
140streams it is a budget that approaches the work through a lens of equity and certainly urgency spends funds on students that generate them instead of embracing this philosophy that we are hoarding money and carrying over money for future years we can never have that sixth grader again so we ought to spend the full promise of State funding and investment with the students are in schools this year it is a budget also that ensures equitable distribution distribution of resources in terms of meeting the immediate needs of our students and I will detail a couple of those it is a budget also that's cemented on investing significantly in our Workforce our highly qualified Workforce it maintains Staffing levels as appropriately necessary to meet the needs of all of our students across the district but also Target specific
141Investments and interventions for our highest needs students I'd like to take a pause just here for a second because it is as part of this guiding principle that we've seen some degree of controversy and and confusion and some of the confusion has been incited and excited unfortunately I want to be very clear about one thing this district and most districts across the country there are around 15 000 districts 67 of which are the large urban districts deploy and employ a variety of different strategies to deal with intervention and intervention simply said is a way of accelerating students towards proficiency usually employing strategies which include much lower professional teacher to student ratio now an intervention can be high dose tutoring one tutor very very small number of students one student two students three or four students
142an intervention can be a push-in model meaning a teacher going into a classroom to reduce the ratio and work specifically in small groups in a classroom setting and if it's an Elementary classroom it's best to have differentiated instruction models where you have direct instruction with a teacher teaching a number of students a number of students utilizing digital content a number of students working in teams and then the teacher actually rotates through those different stations intervention can be embedded in that model so you can push in he can pull out kids on the basis of of a homogeneous grouping you know their performance you know where they are in terms of of their Lexile score in terms of their reading or numeracy proficiency and you work with those students the idea here is number one intervention
143is not forever that's why it's called an intervention there's no permanency to intervention intervention is a short time um approach to accelerate and Elevate the proficiency level of a student in a specific subject or area usually reading and and numeracy this district has had a great track record of intervention not just over the past three or four years you've had interventions working in the in this school district for a long time I went to dispel one myth because these words have been used interchangeably I don't know why I don't know the Genesis for that narrative we are investing in interventions we will continue to invest in interventionists somehow at some point The Narrative was shifted that we were doing away with interventionists and bringing in coaches wrong that's certainly uttered by people who don't know
144what they're talking about interventions work with kids coaches work with teachers by the way good school systems have both because you want to provide direct Intervention which is timed short term with students but at the same time you need to elevate the skill set of teachers so you need effective coaches who model and coach and mentor and demonstrate good teaching practice and what is good teaching practice well as far as reading is concerned for the past four decades is a science of reading focusing on vocabulary on fluency on comprehension we know this well why am I saying this for two reasons number one our strategy recently has been a strategy that works and I've said this and unfortunately the LA Times said my God Carvalho said it works so why change it of course it
145works anything you do with kids will work the question is to what extent for how long and can you afford to scale it up to everybody and usually the answer to the first question is an easy one the answer to the second third question not so much so we cannot just have one strategy that says we will do all we can with a restricted number of students for a certain period of time and then we don't have answers beyond that what do I mean if our sole strategy is intervention between K and second grade they're K and third grade or even if you expanded to fifth grade question number one how many kids are you helping and why are you going to do about the long-term literacy and numeracy needs of students who are Beyond
146those great levels but it will still be with us for the next six seven eight years what do we do do we give up on them this cannot be an either or proposition needs to be a both and approach yes we do need early intervention in literacy and numeracy but we need to expand for the sake of equity and literally to save kids who are right now in fifth sixth seventh grade in eighth grade ninth grade with a second grade grade reading ability that kid will not graduate and if that kid graduates and makes it to College somehow is not going to succeed so what is our strategy this is not about politics not about Legacy some of us arrive here already with a legacy this is about doing right for kids and not just
147some kids all kids so the shift here in terms of in terms of budgeting with equity and urgency is to implement an intervention strategy that is not a novel idea this is not going to be carvalho's intervention strategy it's not going to be Carla strata's intervention strategy this is the intervention strategy that has proven has been researched and implemented in districts and states that actually dramatically improved and increased literacy performance why because you are investing equitably you're increasing the skill set of the teachers you are empowering all teachers with a professional development the retooling and the reskilling for them to be effective in the teaching of reading for example following the science of reading so that we don't rely just on a limited number of Spartan reading Specialists that intervene with students but that body
148of knowledge is shared by everybody the second reason is if we do nothing our strategy Folds because it is totally tied to funding that ends September of 2024. and a fully implemented will consume about 200 million dollars it is such a large number which if you try to scale up that model meaning let's do for the rest of the kids that currently are not being served the same thing we're currently doing it would break the budget just do the math 200 million dollars for grades K through 3 or even four now take it all the way through eighth grade do we have a billion dollars running around to implement a an intervention strategy consistent with what we currently have just add more kids and more grades we do not so with the best of ideas
149with the best of intentions we sometimes can do something that for short term with limited number of resources at Sunset do not provide scalability towards the future what we are proposing is a model that number one transitions from the current model uses the best practices of small interventions teacher to student ratio but we're adding great levels and numeracy on top of the early literacy which the current model provides for it relies on an interventionist Academy to expand the skill set and the number of people trained in training others so you have a viral infection of Science of reading in the schools it provides also Global training for all teachers in a science of reading particularly particularly with specific micro training in areas of interest for kids with dyslexia additional strategies for kids with disabilities for
150English language learners if all we do is continue to do what we've always done we will continue to get the results we always got yes we will see increased improved scores in Reading for our second and third graders first graders we will do that no doubt but as soon as they pop out of intervention there's no guarantee that that those scores will be sustained in fourth fifth grade and Beyond and the issue that really kills me coming from somebody who up until I was in seventh grade I was not a good reader and I was not good in math until somebody sat with me explain it to me how many seventh graders do we have currently in this school system that cannot read a great level or compute and what is our strategy for them
151simply put this is what's happening we went back and um as we were closing out the school year this is a district that's been uh impacted by carryovers as a function of principals at schools not being able to hire all the professional candidates for positions very very tight job market we understand that so it became creative we know Esther money is running out and we have a little over a year to find a solution for the close to 2100 people tied to that short-term money so to not compromise the long-term Effectiveness and viability of intervention we looked where are the funds and you know what the vast majority of kids who are not reading a grade level are Computing a grade level happen to be in Title One schools schools that are eligible for Title
152One funding because of the correlation between poverty and performance it's well known to us these schools in district why we have an excessively high percentage of Title One funds are unspent year after year which means they carry over to the following year our board president asked that question just a week ago federal government usually allows 15 percent of those funds to be carried over the following year it is not uncommon for this District to carry over in excess of 20 percent 20 percent that too means that we're not adequately spending the money we need to spend on today's kids not Future Kids so using carryover title funds particularly centralized funds we will be able to go into next year we don't have all details on this we will be able to shoulder the vast majority
153if not the totality of the funding for intervention to the extent we shift the model meaning schools individually will not have to pay for the cost of intervention I know some principals have gone ahead rightfully so and hired their own interventions we will work with them as they were ahead of the curb but the shift needs to take place for those who will say you know what why change it you know fully implemented it's less than 200 million dollars that's less than one percent of the budget folks that's just one element wait until we have to tackle the next big part of that 2100 employee element of Esser there will be a group of people say why this just punted I'm sure you can find the money no we can't 2100 people is a lot
154of money and if we do not begin to take the appropriate measures in a sequential fashion we will run out of time by simply kicking the can down the road the can will get heavier and the road shorter and anything we delay in terms of fixing this issue now will make the impact on our Workforce and programs and services much more difficult coming next going into next year so members of the board and the public I'm speaking directly to you we're not abandoning interventions I know how to do this done it and the record is solid we are democratizing for those who do not understand what democratizing intervention means is that we're making it accessible to everyone by empowering all teachers and by making it accessible to all grade levels and by adding numeracy because
155last I looked our numeracy performance levels particularly when you look at Smarter Balance our 10 to 20 percent worse than literacy so we need to do this I wanted to focus on this point because there's been a lot of conversation out there and we're missing the point the money is going to run out we need to do something and we have far more kids than those that have been covered by effective intervention up until now last Madam president we will continue to invest in our Workforce I don't need to belabor this issue it's been a guiding principle in the contracts that this board has ratified our evidence of the value we place on our Workforce but equally importantly we need to do all this keeping in mind that we need to protect the fiscal viability
156and sustainability of this district for the Long Haul we need to transition responsibly from an era of covet funds Esser emergency funds to an Era around the corner where you will all evaporate the four and a half to five billion dollars that we have been living off will all disappear and if we do not begin the process now a year from now it will be almost impossible to do so without incredible pain I commit to this board in this community if we are responsible and diligent we will be able to overcome the sun setting of the funding without falling into the fiscal cliff that would compromise full-time positions benefits or programs but we need to stay the course with that said I'll turn it over to our Chief Financial Officer Mr David Hart Mr superintendent
157we have two members who will probably be leaving relatively soon because of child care issues I'm wondering if you would mind if we would let them ask some of their budget questions out of order even though the presentation may have answered some of them I want to give you that chance to do so for you okay I apologize to those of you who are waiting for the presentation first but I want to make sure they have a chance to do that they will stay involved with the meeting while they take care of their child care Niche issues but and they will be involved in voting and all all things in our meeting but I want to make sure they had a chance in public to ask their questions so we'll start first with Miss Tanya
158Ortiz Franklin thanks Miss Goldberg yeah we were on Zoom last time it was really hard to hear so we couldn't ask all of the questions and since the presentation is very similar to last time I imagine um we can just build off of that so I wanted to first start with the class size reduction from the utla contract if that was included in the budget presentation particularly on the um the multi-year projections I'm going to think about where we are in the process it I believe at this point in time we have have we yeah class size reduction is included it is included in the projection um you may recall the the lead-in um sorry I got to get myself up to speed here what is and is not included is based upon whether the
159board has acted to approve those agreements right so on that earlier I asked about today's instructional calendar and we were told yes the 80 million for next year was included but considering we just voted on that is that included or it's a bit of a hybrid we have dollars that have been allocated for a variety of anticipated costs this would be one we don't have that allocated in terms of can you point to a line item and I say that's it so in terms of our multi-year plans all I heard Mr Salcido's response will will stand on that I'll also offer that come August we will do a Reconciliation between where we stand today and anticipation that there is a budget adopted today I'll refer to that as a June enacted budget as opposed to
160when we come back in August with an August revision we'll be able to walk you through what those changes are in a much more defined manner than I can today great yeah I I'm looking looking forward to the August revision we've done this once before so that will be a welcome conversation a couple of programmatic questions that we didn't get answered in our budget briefing can you point us to where we might find information about the digital divide or rebranding or marketing those are some questions I asked on Friday and the team said they were going to let us know where we could find that information if we have it off the cuff I'm not aware of that I'm not saying your question I um I don't know if others are in a position to
161provide a more detailed answer on the digital divide Simone so the the new logo and those materials were provided pro bono to the district any additional time spent by staff to update the website update letterheads was then in the normal course of operations and so including like printing big signs and decals like the physical materials as well yes I mean those things are done in the normal course of operations in every division so we updated our PowerPoint template for example and something that's very commonplace in any given year and so there are no costs to point to related to that rebranding effort okay and digital divide that's a separate one they know we were let me help Steph this is the cost of connectivity for this coming year and new device refresh we have Quantified
162it we were paying for internet for about 100 million 100 000 students oh go ahead so on this one is so that is actually factored into this coming year remember this is a reimbursable program under ECF it was actually obligated for this year has not been fully expended and so we intend to actually extend the program into the 23-24 year as the federal government has actually shifted the deadline from December 31st to June 30th so allows us to have a longer Runway to onboard more folks for this coming year the one of the key areas of advocacy is to continue the program and to continue to Advocate to the FCC that this is something that's valuable to the community so we're working with our Advocates as well as other state organizations to continue to press
163on that one of the key things that is incorporated into the budget is that reimbursable model we hope to kind of Leverage that for this coming year two other quick programmatic ones um one is on family engagement it looks like our budget reflects a slight reduction from 61 positions this year to 41 positions next year and was curious are those only Central positions because we spend a lot of money on community reps um so what is or is not included in family engagement and why does it seem to be a reduction nobody it's uh consistent with the message earlier it's the beginning of the the actions necessary to wean ourselves out of Esther money so positions number one all those positions are non-school side positions secondly it's the beginning of the reconciliation of Esser based
164positions and some degree of reduction and offering individuals an opportunity to transition into other positions is our board president said in the past nobody's losing their job but in some instances to protect people's jobs functions are going to shift somewhat that's helpful so if people look and see family engagement is only a couple million dollars that doesn't include their School site Investments because those have been paid for from a separate bucket that's helpful that is correct great and my last programmatic question is about bsap um when the plan was approved a couple years ago there were some ratios around school climate advocates for sort of Justice teachers PSAs psws do we know if all those ratios have been maintained in this year's B sap or have there been any changes and if changes you know
165why the changes not aware of any changes I can confirm that no ratio changes have been made to bsep at the school level great um okay well I will look forward to the August conversation I will say I'm a little concerned about our opeb contributions and I hope we will continue to put as much money towards that um but appreciate the team's effort on all the budget issues okay thank you very much Ms Gomez uh thank you I appreciate the opportunity and um and thank you for the framing superintendent I think it's really important for this budget conversation to talk about the balancing Solutions and also the moment where we find ourselves in with our Esser funds expiring in the near future as well as the decrease in expected support from the state from State
166funding so it's really important that we utilize these one-time dollars wisely and also be thoughtful about what that will mean for our supports for students in the future a few questions for me uh first is about our district goals so those are the four established board goals around literacy and numeracy College and Career Readiness and socio-emotional learning which are also the foundation of the Strategic plan can you share how our proposed budget aligns to achieving those goals I can I'll have to refer to my notes as I do so and then two uh as a follow-up to that um appreciate the request we can also in terms of I don't mean to punt so much on this but that's also something that we can come back with as a public document in August so off
167the cuff in terms of post-secondary uh the a to G intervention support uh there in this example of four line items 10.4 in lcff supplemental and concentration funds 7 million in sr3 funds 14 middle and title one for AG diploma counselors 1.6 million in title 2 and title IV diploma program 25 excuse me I misspoke 2.5 million in llcf supplemental and concentration College access rounding of numbers 500 000 again an lcff type funding career Readiness CTE and linked learning 20.5 and lcff based funds another 2.8 in supplement concentration have those examples per goal post-secondary literacy numeracy and then going to our last I just want to make sure reading that correctly social emotional awareness wellness and let me just go to that one as an example of the bookend at each School level the dollars
168are being allocated we have the bsap school climate and wellness supports at 59.6 million dollars an additional 4 million in lcff supplemental and concentration mental health and psych Services a total of 145 million health services at 114 million psws that are essentially provided will be included in the utila game agreement reports so we can craft that in different ways it's actually a little bit of a teaser of a question because on some level I'd like to believe that if it might be easier to answer in a negative of what isn't going to support those goals and I don't know how to answer that question in some form or another I'd like to maintain they all go to the achievement of and surpassing the board's goals for uh well I I appreciate that information and I
169look forward to a more detailed document I think my framing would be it would be what's above and beyond what's required for our school so obviously teachers are supporting literacy and numeracy in their school sites but we wouldn't count the teachers towards the budget because we're going to fund those anyway I think it would be more around what percentage and overall investment among our discretionary dollars are we utilizing to achieve the board goals and then I would just further clarify in the socio-emotional learning it's it's around students attaining socio-emotional skills it's not necessarily around mental health supports for students which is equally important but it doesn't exactly pertain to the to the board goal understood appreciate it and we also last year I'm sorry I'm going to remember the of the cuff open gov we
170had as a means of linking our spend with those programmatic outcomes we'll be sure to update those links accordingly great thank you and then I wanted to follow up with more details on the interventionists I know the superintendent spoke a little bit about the uh the shift to the literacy and numeracy intervention model um superintendent I think you also mentioned in the last meeting that there would be some sort of bridge or transitional plans with regard to the shift from primary promise can you speak in more detail about what that means in terms of Staffing and budget investment sure so that's one of the one of the things I touched on but I'll give it a little bit more detail so we're looking at minimally at around 40 million dollars to achieve this dramatic expansion
171of intervention fully funded through Title One centrally done to offset the additional cost that would be felt by school principals and and school councils so going into next year the proposed expansion number one adding numeracy and literacy to the grade levels not currently covered by the current approach are going to be funded through Title One at no cost to the schools and this will afford US a bridge we're doing this because we can it's the right thing and we can for two reasons number one they're still Esther funding available secondly there is a significant carryover of Title One whose most appropriate way right is to supplement educational opportunity for some of the poorest kids and the poor schools in the district the ones that need the intervention anyway so we are still finalizing the details
172but for individuals who understand our model which expands going into next year literacy and numeracy intervention all the way uh through eighth grade those Investments that were expected in some cases to be shouldered by specific schools are now going to be a function of title one particularly utilizing a title one carryover funding from this current year we can do this um with that said we're going to be very very clear and honest that there's no guarantee that Beyond next year we're going to be able to use the same strategy unless we make a decision about centralizing a certain pot of dollars title one for the purpose of district-wide Intervention which is a strategy right so that's the the way the model will work going into next year great I appreciate the additional information and I'm
173sure schools are interested in finding out how it might impact them because to your point uh you know we have so many schools with great need um I know in my district I only have two schools that are non-titlement schools and many of them will not be receiving the centrally allocated interventionists some are funding it out of their own School budgets but there are some that don't have the the ability to do that and so I appreciate hearing that we will work to to help support those schools who can't afford it on their own because we know that these supports are so essential for all students and then I just wanted to clarify I I know that some of this was addressed in previous board presentations but just because I continue to get questions maybe
174Dr Aristotle can help us with this um can you speak again to the role of the interventionists and then how the the new model will be a combination of supports both for General classroom teachers and of interventionists as well thank you so much so when we think about instruction for all of our students in literacy and Mathematics we have to always ensure that we have a strong foundation and that Foundation starts in every classroom every single day so this summer we'll be starting off our professional development for our teachers and be offered throughout the year with these kind of micro bites as a superintendent shared of diving deeper into certain topics or areas that Based on data we're seeing additional need and training and tools need to be developed for our schools and our teachers
175so that's the first part we want to make sure all of our teachers have a common Foundation they'll be started off this summer we also want to make sure they have the right tools so one of the things in selecting the assessment if you recall in identifying the right assessment tool that will get us the right data to then be able to make good decisions is something that was really important to us in the selection of our vendor and so moving forward we will also be starting training for our teachers and staff on the irie assessment which will not only provide the data reports that are very useful and helpful for teachers but also comes with some additional tools on how to intervene how to do small group especially which is a critical aspect of
176making sure that all teachers are equipped with the right tools you see them in great classrooms these kinds of classrooms where the teacher has the right structures and students are able to work independently worked on online resources and tools which we invest significantly as well in to be able to provide targeted support for kids in addition to that we also know that some students need more and this is where the interventionists come into play in different schools we have different roles as well in which the interventionists might be centrally funded for our high need schools but we also have had our schools purchase interventionists we also have schools of purchase other staff members who serve in that similar capacity and so next year what we'll be offering is an interventionist Academy which will offer multiple
177opportunities for folks who serve in that capacity staff members who serve in that capacity to receive specialized training which will also be offered to all teachers because there's some pieces of this that I think is really important for all teachers to have but very unique training for these interventionists in order to ensure that when they're working with these students who need more that they have more of a specialized kind of training to address some of these struggling academic areas that students struggle with thank you so much um so just to clarify there will be a level of coherence for um for the interventionist whether they are School funded or centrally allocated because they will be participating in the same training exactly and you will see too in the budget additional funding for not just as
178we've been looking at our digital tools to our curriculum to additional resources we have we're examining every aspect that we can for that coherence and ensuring that our teachers have the best tools out there that help them do their great work if I may thank you for asking that last question because we should be a district where the intervention was reading or literacy or numeracy should be absolutely agnostic to the funding behind it that's not been the case if it was centrally funded and by the way the contractual implications on us now pulling away from Esser which is which provides centrally funded positions has created disruption in schools didn't have to be that way so we are pulling away from that model so that people's positions are not disturbed because the funding is which is
179the case currently a lot of the friction and noise we hear is because the Rules of Engagement based on contract specific to centrally funded positions versus school-based positions are different so we're going to move forward a board member Gomez in a way that what we do in terms of intervention and other deployments is agnostic at the funding behind it so that there is coherence the professional development is uniform right the expectation of schools is uniform we can better monitor the implementation in terms of fidelity based on the standards that we develop thank you some questions on sunny and the equity multiplier we've heard concerns from advocates in the hearing last week regarding the sustainability of our investment since any and how we will achieve the 700 million allocation for sunny in future fiscal years given
180the release of the 300 million dollars from the reserves as attached in attachment F can you speak to our ability to meet that 700 million dollar allocation how are we planning for that in future fiscal years especially because we've we've been relying on Esser funds in part to meet that sending allocation and then it's easiest to address that by taking a step back when the board made the decision to up to 700 million we knew we had the Esser funds in one form or another coming to us we've made a commitment at that time to fund the 2223 year and and had intended to do so for a handful of years at the same time we were uncertain on the spending plans related to Essence so we took the unique step to offer the assurance
181that we would have general fund dollars as a backstop as we stand before you today with this the dollars that had been committed we no longer need to maintain we have that solved for in our forecast period we do expect that we will utilize the general fund to the extent the not to the extent we know the user funds will be going away from us and the equity multiplier the language we're using and want to be clear on this to the extent we can utilize those funds in lieu of the general fund that is I want to be very clear about it that is an intent it would be disingenuous to suggest that we would be able to take a 700 million dollar program which is sending now and take the additional 150 that's our
182rough estimate of what we will get from an equity multiplier and make that allocation into 850 million dollars and then meet all of the conditions that superintendent Carvalho spoke to we will certainly be mindful of rule and regulation statute as it relates to supplement versus supplant we are intending to utilize those dollars to the extent that we can to offset the contributions that were funded into sending from Esser funds we do not believe that will give rise to any concerns that we as staff have or that Advocates might have in that regard clearly there will be a potential for there to be implications in the allocation methodology it is our intent not to have that occur to the extent our best laid plans don't hold then we will have to be back before the board
183and and having a conversation about how it is we might look to modify if necessary those allocations the point being until we have a in writing Assurance if you will in the form of a bill and the requisite trailer language to know whether or not it has been funded to what level it's been funded which of our schools are eligible how those funds are to be allocated and can then play that out against our practice and policy around cine I can only speak to you of our intent we won't know for a fact until the legislature acts until such time as the governor and legislature reaching a court and when that occurs that also will be one of those matters we reconcile in August but to Sentiments that were covered during our conversation last week
184if we can we would offset that general fund contribution by using the equity multiplier as you may recall when this was first introduced back in January I believe I stood before you and said that it is a double-edged sword we get additional funding but we get much less autonomy on how to spend those dollars and one of our challenges at this moment in time is trying to display a certain amount of equity that we would Define as opposed to responding to the state's mandate on how it is we should allocate those funds um I can't say I'm entirely reassured by what you shared Mr Hart I mean I think you mentioned at the beginning that we made the commitment for a handful of years for the 700 million dollar allocation and I don't recall that
185the board specified that it was intended to be a short-term investment I think it was really around um Transforming Our approach to school budgeting by really centering Equity apologize to interrupt the commitment was out of the yeser funds which we knew had a had a time stamp so that was what I was referring to that portion is true um um relying well two concerns with regard to the equity multiplier I I assume is it intended to be ongoing funding or is it a one-time um investment presumption we're operating now is that it would be an ongoing commitment from the state but until we see it we don't know okay well that that'll be something to to that will be something to look out for in August um I guess my my other concern though and
186you know is my understanding that the equity multiplier includes a supplement not supplant provision um and you know I think for the layperson what you know I'm I'm very familiar with SNS but it's basically intended to be additional funds not to replace the funds that schools are already receiving um so how are we planning to handle the supplement not to plan requirement with regard to the equity multiplier funding and sending as I alluded to and apologies if I wasn't clear the funds to the extent we can apply them will offset the contributions that have been made historically from Esser okay I could understand why that would meet technically with the with the language of of the law and and the budget my feeling is that that feels contrary to the spirit of the equity multiplier
187as an idea which is additional funding for for school serving low-income students so I'll just register my concerns I know it's not it's not a real thing yet we have to wait for the budget to pass but um but I think it's intended to be additional funding a few questions on the school police just to follow up on some issues that Ms Northeast Franklin raised earlier um you know obviously this is a focus for many in our district and it has been for the last several years I would just ask if we could work to ensure greater transparency around the school police budget so that it can be more easily tracked from year to year I know that we continue to focus on ensuring the entire budget is transparent and accessible and I think there's
188been a lot of improvements in in that area but there's still definitely work to be done so that all of our public all of our constituents can understand what the what the budget is in various areas that being said can you please clarify what is the total laspd budget for the coming fiscal year give me one second to refer to my notes or the upcoming school year it is 58.5 million dollars foreign be able to find that just for the transparency of the public that would be in your major group um in in the budget book what I have asked the team to do as we come back in August is to reconcile the various line items so when you look at the major group uh breakdown around laspd it's captured in three areas one
189of them is around school police centrally funded positions that's about 93 positions I believe that are captured there there's another 289 or so that are captured under a different line item under school safety school safety support in the major group line item and there are some and actually in our maintenance and operations which is also some of our Fleet Management Acquisitions that were tied to last this year's current budget which was about uh five million dollars and so last year's budget was actually well the 2223 budget was 62.6 million dollars it is being reduced to 58.5 because it reflects a shift away from funding the fleet coverage we're going to be utilizing other resources to do that but we've also are looking at the acquisition of Fleet in a different way okay so uh so
190as of right now a reduction from 68 sorry 62.6 million to 58.5 million because of the fleet however we because of the the agreements that we just approved which I think I calculated for the 22 23 and 23 24 um approximately 7 million correct so there's going to be an anticipated growth one can expect that in the coming year that budget will grow as a result of implementing the new salary increases some of which which is retroactive yes for for the past two school years right okay um that is all of my questions for right now thank you and with your presentation thank you like we lost it oh there we go okay so taking it from the top we'll go quickly here um go back actually one slide for a moment I I think
191it is important to note here in terms of the projecting and protecting the fiscal stability to set the stage for where we stand um what I want to do is address the fact that the we're at a Confluence where somewhat to the questions that were asked were the state's funding the lack of federal funding on a go forward basis the fact that we remain a declining enrollment District we have a structural deficit we'll be a reoccurring theme not just today but it'll also be something that we need to feature to the opening comments that the board president made with regards to the state of the state's funding for school districts in California it is an issue that we will not be able to revenue per se our way out of the challenges that are before
192us in terms of the budget highlights many of these are well known and certainly can skip through this quickly to get back to other questions from the board you see those here highlighted by the class size reduction and then if you will bookended by The increased compensation for All District staff in terms of the budget highlights and these numbers that are in the bottom right hand quadrants of of the various cells referencing the pillars within the Strategic plan you see here the closing Equity gaps to the sustainability of our initiatives and different allocations and the dollars associated with those tenants is identified in terms of what the budget does that'll be a recurring thing but it is also appropriate for us to say to what the budget does not do there are no layoffs in
193the 2324 budget there is no expectation for reduce in and benefits of employees now or the retirees we continue to make investments into the bsap and student Equity needs index and we were asked not to use as many acronyms so to be clear the black student achievement plan in terms of what the budget does and as it relates to seni to clarify any confusion created by my earlier comments the sending allocation has grown substantially over time at the end of the 1920 school year on a per student basis we were allocating 552 dollars as we look into 2324 that is essentially been increased three-fold we're at a total of approximating Seventeen hundred dollars per student and through the forecast period of 25 26 we will then get to 1756 per student in terms of the
194black student achievement plan you see the allocation in the various rows detailing between the more generalized supports to the safety Pilots totaling an investment of 125.4 million dollars in terms of the literacy and numeracy interventions would not look to improve upon the comments made by the superintendent as it relates to the Community Schools a matter that we touched on last week provide this as additional evidence of the total of the 30.4 million dollars allocated in that regard in terms of the multi-year projection to come back to the reoccurring theme ours is a forecast that is predicated upon a whole host of underlying assumptions and we go to lengths to specify what it is included as opposed to that which is not in terms of where we stand today are forecast through the forecast period 25
19526 is that we're positive by 11 million dollars that is a a herod's breadth of latitude we are in that mode where our fund balance is being utilized a one-time source of funds in terms of Esser that is supporting a use of one-time monies for reoccurring expenses the factors that are not included in our multi-year projection include the anticipated changes in compensation future labor agreements which broadly could also include anything that comes by way of the health and well welfare that contract lapsing at the end of this calendar year additional opeb contributions will be a focus for us and and how and to what level those would be made as well as necessary contributions to our LSI fund and reacting to the state's enacted budget which we are hoping will be coming in the next
196week finally we speak to the S the sun setting of Esser on the left hand side is covered previously there you see the dollar amounts on the right hand side you see the ftes that are being funded and just to note that the dollar contribution necessary to fund those rounding 2100 positions is about 260 million dollars to emphasize the points that are being made the 5.6 million excuse me billion of us are funds that we will receive represents almost 50 percent of one of our general fund budgets it's very difficult to avoid that you know feared fiscal cliff but to the strategies we are deploying now we think very much that we're creating a guide path that will allow for a smoother transition into a post covid relief funding environment to begin wear or end
197where the board president began this is to speak to where we are on a national average citing various dates but this is the best that we could find that that covered all three as of January 23rd excuse me January 2023 California is the world's fifth largest economy we can start a debate whether they're sixth or fourth or third but suffice it to say large in 2019-20 California ranked his 33rd and per student funding for state and local this gets even more complicated when one tries to do this funding because of the variances that you will have California will use local in addition to state and federal we have different manners by which as a nation that local education is funding funded but it is worth noting that in virtually every report I've everything of California
198we have very rarely in the last 10 15 years since the Great Recession been above the 50th percentile California's ranking has improved since 19 excuse me 2009 10 where it was we were at a to use a play on words in a race to the bottom when others were racing to the top we have improved slightly in that regard I'm not certain how much it is we've improved as it is others may have fallen off but the fact remains we are well below an affordability quotient and and speaking to the adequacy of funding for the outcomes we Aspire and that concludes the presentation one last thing because it uh it did not come up I thought maybe it would come up as far as questions I think our Deputy superintendent Peterson and particularly Tony aguiar
199and others have done remarkable work in terms of listening to the community speaking with experts and while I we addressed a Great Lengths the issue of the intervention approach for the district moving forward we have not addressed or Revisited the issue of psychiatric social workers and the appropriate supervision for clinical supervision of some of those psws and we've gone back and we're not moving from our position but we're modifying it um we believe that considering the social emotional status and mental health status of school students in our schools we need more direct professional talent in our schools we need to begin there but we did have 75 centrally deployed meaning particularly at the regional centers psws that we have invited to go back to schools we out of those 75 were going to leave 18
200uh at the regional level we're going to at least for the time being increased that number to 30. so reduce the set the reduce the number of deployments to 45 and maintain 30 of the psws this is a recommendation brought forward we believe that even under the previous model that we could address the issue of clinical supervision but this is a touchy issue and if we're going to air we ought to air on the side of greater presence and support for the psws while still augmenting the in-school presence of PSW so I wanted to let the board know this shift right uh I'm now going to make a couple of small changes we normally have 4 pm general public comment but we are in the middle of the budget action so instead of doing that
201I'm going to delay general public comment and go to the comment on actually the item we are on which is the title item seven the adoption of the proposed 2324 budget and ask that we hear from the speakers on that list first okay Cara annofri are you here come on up Carl you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin good hello good afternoon uh before I begin thank you uh student board member Shin so much for your service and commitment to this District we're so excited to see and hear what the future has in store if you and I look forward to working with you uh good afternoon board members and superintendent Carvalho my name is Cara nopre and I am the senior vice president of policy and advocacy at the partnership for La
202schools and we are a proud member of the equity Alliance for LA's kids the equity Alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations committed to increasing the investments in the highest needs schools within our district which is done primarily through the student Equity needs index also known as the sunny and as you consider adopting this initial budget for the upcoming school year the equity Alliance and our numerous allies still have serious concerns as to how the sunny will be funded this year's budget considers supplanting a portion of the stable consistent funding of Sunny via the lcff supplemental and concentration dollars with the governor's proposed Equity multiplier due to the sun setting of covid funds details regarding the equity multiplier are still emerging but the current budget trailer Bill states that this funding should supplement not supplant
203dollars meant for schools and as you may remember in May 2021 the board approved resolution 2321 which resolved that Sunny will be funded at quote 700 million which will grow every year of supplemental and concentration funding close quote as of this meeting the equity multiplier has not been fully realized in the state's final budget nor have details about the longevity of the funding or the metrics used to determine the distribution they haven't been codified yet and yet despite these still unknown constraints of the equity multiplier the budget before you today is still proposing the release of the last 300 million of the sunny Reserve commitment made to the made by the board back in June of 2022. the equity Alliance is asking that the boards stand by its commitment to equity and postpone the release
204of the 300 million of the sunny Reserve Fund in attachment f we still don't know the limitations of the equity multiplier and schools have already received their Sony allocations for the upcoming year even Mr Hart spoke to this challenge earlier what happens when Staffing decisions or programs made by schools with sunny dollars are non-eligible expenditure by the yet to be known conditions of the equity multiplier all of this instability would disproportionately impact our highest needs schools schools like the district's 100 priority schools 88 of which are Sunny highest highest needs schools and with the landmark Milestone of 10 years of Sunny of La unified on the horizon now is not the time to jeopardize the long-standing reliable funding source of the sunny by using the equity multiplier do not let an emerging Equity effort undermine
205the stability of the district's long-standing local Equity initiative again we're hoping that we can rely on the board to stand by its commitment to equity and postpone the release of the 300 million in attachment F thank you thank you for your time Sarah peral I see you're on the line Sarah peral please press star 6 to unmute yourself then you have three minutes to speak once you begin Sarah peral good afternoon members of the parole and a psychiatric social worker in the clinic program and a UCLA chapter care I just heard what Carvalho said and I am going to draw your attention to the concerning issue of the inadequate number of mental health consultants nccns proposed by The District's recent lcat and budget presentation um you know I was going to stress the amount of
206work that mit's MHC is due to support and I hear you saying that you increased it to 30 but I just want to reiterate how important these roles are the um the ratio um is so inadequate as it fails to meet the needs of our students schools and tsws as well as the ethical and legal requirements set forth by LAUSD National Association of Social Work and the Board of Behavioral Sciences attempting to burden 18 or 30 mhcs with a workload of 76 professionals is simply not feasible these individuals should be expected to work four times the number of hours per week leading to overwhelming competing demands they would struggle to balance school-based Direct Services responding to unforeshees crisis incidents providing mental consultation clinical supervision and quality assurance the situation would undoubtedly create serious ethical and
207legal dilemmas placing significant liabilities on the district although it was argued by Mr Joseph Narrows to board member Goldberg last week that crisis responders are not going entirely the impact of reducing the team of mhcs fails to acknowledge the repercussions these professionals will no longer be available to provide direct support on field training to newly hired psw's crisis team professional development parent workshops across all schools the repercussions extend to direct Crisis Intervention for significant incidents involving our tier 3 students threat and suicide assessment participation in the County's threat offense and response partnership behavioral Crisis Intervention for two for tier two to three students and it has been well documented that the mental health needs of our students have only increased since the covid-19 pandemic during pre-esser funding School mental health had 18 mhcs 254 school-based
208psws with a ratio of 1 to 14. so with lausd's commitment to having csws at every school and the addition of 106 new psws in expansion not a reduction of the ccns and MHC department is urgently needed we require a minimum of 49 mhcs and 33 ccns professionals totaling 82 positions to adequately adequately support new psws in conclusion I employ the LAUSD School Board of Directors to reconsider the proposed number of mental health consultants and ccns or student schools and dedicated psws deserve appropriate and sufficient support to ensure their well-being and success let us not compromise their mental health and overall development by neglecting the ethical and legal obligations we have as a district by investing in the ccns and MIT departments we can provide the necessary resources to address the pressing needs of our
209educational Community thank you for your time and consideration thank you for your time Melanie Juan are you here in person Melanie Juan thank you for having me board members my name is uh Denisha Jordan um I've been an educator a student and a parent for LAUSD um I'm also a member of the expanded bargaining team and we fought really hard to get bsap into our contract and it's extremely disappointing that LAUSD is attempting to change its funding formula for bsap groups one and two um prior year funding specifically laid out ratios based on black student enrollment for example like a school climate Advocate was one one to two hundred a PSW is one to two fifty a secondary counselor was 1 to 250 and a PSA counselor at the elementary level was one to two
210fifty current beset funding language does not mention ratios at all furthermore when I look at individual school budget summaries for the 2023-24 fiscal year it's evident that positions have been cut indicating that LAUSD has chosen to decrease funding for bsap schools for example we'll take Dorsey High School which is a group one bsap school in Board District One the projected enrollment for Dorsey is 795 which is a decrease by 11 students based on a 22-23 year according to the fiscal summary for this upcoming year 23-24 Dorsey will lose two PSA counselors and two PSW counselors specifically the funding goes from 9.6 to 5.21 in addition they lose coordinator and out of classroom staff equivalent to three positions just to give you some data as far as when we first started the bsap program there was
211a baseline And there's projected goals that the district has stated they would like to see I'll just point out the a through G completion rates as as far as some of the data in 2019-20 which was the Baseline the a through G completion rates for black students all throughout the district was 28.2 percent for group one schools that it was even lower at 27.2 percent however in 21 in 20 and 21 that increased to 40 percent district-wide and then in group one schools it increased to 42.1 this is after the implementation of bsap with the previous funding formulas that I mentioned now LASD has desired outcomes for 23.24 to raise that a through G to 57.8 district-wide and then in group 1 schools to 56.8 but how can LAUSD expect better outcomes with decreased funding
212or is it that desire of this district for the black student achievement program to fail I am urging the school board to revise the proposed budget so that group 1 and 2 B sub schools are able to maintain their current funded positions that the data has shown to be effective and supportive to black student achievement and success thank you thank you for your time are you here come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin hello superintendent Carvalho and school board members my name is Monty cephas loose and I am a rising senior at the girls academic Leadership Academy and a leader within students deserve I recognize that this board has said that the funding for the black student achievement plan will stay the same however I would like to emphasize the
213importance of maintaining bsap's funding formula for the services offered at Tier 1 and tier 2 bsap schools such as the same number of bsat psws BS academic counselors and school climate Advocates offering resources such as these are necessary to guaranteeing the success of black students and black futures as a bsap student at my school I can attest firsthand to the positive effects the program has had at me and my school Community as a whole the additional counselor at my school has gained and has been an incredibly important asset to fostering the black community at my school when anti-black discrimination happens at my school which unfortunately occurs semi-frequently we know that there is a counselor looking out for and willing to advocate for us this is an important resource for black students to have as we
214are an often criminalized group this staff support has in turn created an environment at my school in which black students are more willing to discuss anti-blackness and watch out for one another when Andy Blackness does occur it is crucial that there are adults on campus dedicated to advocating for black futures in April my fellow Juniors and I went on the b-stop trip to Atlanta and it was amazing experience during this time I was able to learn about the college application process create stronger connections with fellow black students on my campus and become closer to Black faculty at my campus my favorite part of the trip was when we visited the house Martin Luther King Jr was born in the church he preached at and when we saw the wagon that was used in his funeral
215procession this experience was a stark reminder that though much has been done to advance Black Liberation there's so much more that needs to happen it is imperative that LAUSD carries on the duty of advancing black Futures by investing in b-stop and remaining its resources to to support black students part of maintaining these resources includes keeping the unspent funding for bsap and though bsep has been highly effective its expansion is as important as its maintenance no allocated funding should be reduced even if the district has failed to spend it thank you thank you for your time Maria Avalos are you in the room you signed up to speak remotely but I wanted to see if you're here because you are not online Maria Avalos okay uh Joseph Williams are you here come on up you'll have
216three minutes to speak once you begin good afternoon board members my name is Joseph Williams and I'm the director of students deserve uh unfortunately three minutes is not enough time to ask all the questions that I have I know uh several of the board members hopefully have seen some of the questions not only for myself but also from a number of community organizations who have been deeply invested in supporting the district and supporting some of the most vulnerable students parents and families in the district y'all have already heard from folks asking about cine asking about bsap these are programs that support some of the students and schools in our district that need the most support and yet there are huge questions around what this budget and the materials that have been released are actually saying
217you've heard a number of people ask um if the allocations for bsap staff for group one and two schools are being maintained between this year and next year one of the reasons is because we haven't gotten clear answers around that today is the first day that I've heard somebody respond and say yes those are those allocations are not changing but one of the reasons we're asking is because the district's own documents right the original bsat plan laid out the allocations by school that Denisha just read as of this morning the website for bsap says nothing about those allocations we've been able to get nothing about those allocations from the lcat documents from the budget documents from numerous questions that we've asked the bsap steering committee which I sit on and have since the creation of
218bsat was first given details about the or not even details a presentation about the bsat budget on May 18th since that time we have emailed numerous times including the superintendent including all of the board members including Mr Hart who was here earlier and have gotten no response we've requested meetings to uh with and sent emails with specific questions about the bsat budget and have gotten no response these are from the entities that you are supposed to be working in partnership with to implement this program again I sit on the bsap steering committee and have for almost three years now since it was created and we have no information so the transparency that board member Gomez asked for earlier around the school police budget is urgently needed not only around the school police budget also around
219the bsat budget also around any budget there are extremely concerning uh issues that have been raised that have been asked about I sent an email last Tuesday to Pedro after he came down to talk to us about the LA school police budget of which there are still massive questions one of which how did we get to 62 million dollars last year when just in 2020 to 2021 the budget was cut to 52 million how did it increase 10 million dollars in the span of a year and a half we have no answers right and so we've asked repeatedly for answers and transparency around this we want to work with the district as partners we want to help Implement these programs effectively but we're being uh blocked at every turn and essentially told to just trust
220the district I want to just re-emphasize we almost we had to make a decision around whether we were going to sue the district earlier this year right for public record and how to use the public records act request to get information that we have frequently been blocked for so again I want to name we are demanding right no increase to the school police budget a budget that still includes 60 vacancies at least 60 vacancies why does that budget need to be increasing year over year when they can't even fill the positions that they have and number two we are demanding that bsap not be uh not only cut we want to make sure that the resource allocations for those schools are maintained at those levels and that we get some actual transparency so that even
221the steering committee members are not feeling like it's a shell game where the district is moving things around and not being transparent about what's actually happening thank you and I'm happy to share uh if y'all would like to see the language and the district's own description of bsat that says the allocation of positions originally versus now I'm happy to share those with y'all I have printed copies thank you Yesenia Reyes are you here I guess Yesenia Ryan is come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin good afternoon board members I'm justinia Reyes associate director of K-12 policy at Catalyst California so thank you for having me um Alberto carvallo and board president Jackie Goldberg I am a proud LAUSD graduate and I have pertinently personally seen and witnessed how sunny has
222impacted High need schools in my community I would like to acknowledge the district's commitment to fully funding the seni at 700 million dollars the highest high need schools in our districts deserve to know that they can count on the district's same level of Investments or even more to come through the senate for the years to come earlier today the equity Alliance along with eight other education Equity allies from Los Angeles and across the state submitted a letter to elevate some concerns on the district's intent on how to fund seni for 2023 and 2024 school year next year will be the 10-year anniversary for the sunny a landmark policy that should be celebrated LAUSD has been an incredible leader to partner with Community to build a city as an evidence-based tool to ensure lcff dollars reach
223high and highest needs schools we have been deeply engaged with Equity multiplier proposal that this state and have been proud to uplift seni as a model to build from as of today the equity multiplier has not been adopted by the state's budget nor do we know which indicators will be used to identify High need schools across the state to understand if it will actually reach the students the way Sunny does based on its intent it is supposed to re it is not meant to replace or undermine existing funding or programs going to schools today suggesting to supplant money from a revenue stream that is not secure poses serious concerns to the financial stability for this any and lausd's long-term work to serve students with greatest need we urge the district to not supplant a portion
224of the stable funding for the seni and funds from a revenue stream that has not been adopted we asked the district to hold off on releasing Sunny reserves until there is more clarity on the equity multiplier we must ensure that any additional funds to school from the governor's proposed Equity multiplier should be supplant supplement the sending Investments and not supplant supplemental and concentration dollars resourcing this any additional Investments coming into the district should augment what city has already identified via its research-based Equity index now is not the time to supplant resources to high and highest needs schools we look forward to celebrating the sending 10-year anniversary with the district thank you so much thank you for your time that concludes public comment on Tab 7. okay we are ready for board member questions who would
225like to go first type 7 board member questions go ahead Miss Rivas I have loads of questions I finally was able to read this wonderful budget book um so okay where do I go where do I start I don't know where to start um I'll start with what's already been said so I just want to comment about sunny and I have the same concerns and I'm glad my colleagues raised those questions and I think and I want to Echo what um has been said before we decide to allocate the funds from the equity multiplier I think we need to wait first to find out what what the details are and because this is a new program and well you know um our state um changes a lot of things and there's recessions and so we
226don't know if this Equity multiplier is going to be guaranteed it said it's going to be ongoing but we don't know so it's new so it's best to find out first what um the requirements the parameters are um before we even say we're going to use it for sunny um so I Echo the same the same concerns and one second I had some comments here I just want to say that regarding this Equity multiplier we can't multiply Equity with a budget with budget tactics that some plants Equity work this was Equity work so it's it's like sort of like treading water when you're trying to you're treading water to get this money but what we're actually what we need to do is really multiply transforming High need schools and I think that's what really sunny
227was is about um so we want to make sure that the investment and the commitment of the district and sending stays the way it is and new funds are great but we just have to be careful that it doesn't change the purpose of saying so I just wanted to say that in terms of bsap um there's a lot of questions I'm just gonna I'm gonna ask the question again just so we are sure about what's going on with Equity with a bsap so I want to know has a formula for how bsap staff I get assigned to schools changed in the new budget and will the allocation for groups one and two schools shift which is when I have just for the record so I just confirmed with the bsap team nothing has changed as
228far as ratios and the budget as you've seen remain the same but we are looking to see if there's an individual case situation so we are following up to make sure okay great and I think the reason that the ratios of this the school the the ratios that are being mentioned because they were detailed before and I think if we can bring that back details in terms of the ratios like School climate Advocate one to two hundred students restorative justice teacher one per school so just give us this breakdown so that we understand um that we're maintaining or if not increasing our staff and ratio so I think that's what the concern is is transparency and understanding how the funds are being allocated and if anything is changing so those are the things I wanted
229to say about bset because the questions already been asked and I just wanted to make those statements um so first of all there's zero based budgeting there's it's all over the new um a word that a process that has been um sort of promoted I guess that we're using right so I want to know can you just give us an understanding of what zero-based budget is because I did a little research and well just trying to understand did we do this before is this a new way of doing budgeting because based on zero-based budgeting it analyzes and justifies every single expense it's a process that involves both recurring and new expenses that might come up during the budget period so I want to know in the zero-based budget process did you identify any budget items
230that were found to be obsolete or eliminated any program expenses for example anything so how give us a breakdown on this budget process we Our intention as it is referred to in the Strategic plan to do all Central departments within a four-year if not a three-year cycle this year we did what I would refer to as a abbreviated or scaled down version of departments and what you're reading I'm not privy to but I would say the sentiments sound accurate it is meant to say you start at zero and you build from there you build out for what's essential essential can be defined by contractual obligations can be defined by perceived or sought after outcomes I would say we apply as many lenses as we think is necessary to determine what is essential then you make
231a determination of whether or not you want to make investments or not depending upon the affordability of those assessments that one you know might undertake so we will redo some of the Departments we did this year in future years it was a we got started late we started I think in in Earnest in off the top of my head Dr Rivas who was closer to the end of January hopefully this year we'll start closer to October November and it'll be part of a process that leads into budget development for those targeted departments in the budget development of spring of 24 for the 24-25 school year if it's possible and it can result in mid-year reassignments or reallocations that better align to board goals aligned to the Strategic plan of course we wouldn't wait a year
232to do that we would implement it in the second half of this school year at this juncture off top my head I'm not recalling those that we did or didn't did or what we have a schedule for but we do have a schedule across each of the upcoming years as to which departments will be focused upon at which point and at which at which year as I said the commitment is to get through them all within three years at the outside four yeah if done in Earnest as zero-based process is an intensive process and it and if you're truly starting at zero and you're dealing with budgets that are in the you know Millions if not tens of millions it takes it takes a minute I think you're good I just wanted to understand what
233that entailed the process entailed my next is about Community Schools as you all know we all Pat we passed a resolution and uh the district is is committing to expanding Community Schools and so when I looked in um and the budget here there's only two sources of funding that's coming for Community Schools a state fund the state money and um some other friends right and so I don't know if this is enough to really sustain what we want to do and this is what we want to do for Community Schools um in 2526 we the the district will fund the infrastructure necessary to sustain Community Schools we want to also expand Community Schools to more including bsap schools and making sure that they're Community Schools so there's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be
234done and for me to just be relying on the state Grant if for me it doesn't seem like the district is being very proactive and really making sure that the infrastructure of Community Schools is sustainable and I know here that for the literacy and numerous interventions you it's mentioned that this district is implementing a long-term funding strategy but what I would like to see is a long-term funding strategy for Community Schools and thus far I have not seen it at all I don't see it really here I see a commitment for a lot of other things but I think Community Schools is so essential because it covers all of the Strategic pillars and so I don't see that it's it's the district is being very um active on that the last time we received La
235unified Community Schools framework and implementation was back in February 26 from 2019 from Vivian action where she provided a very detailed um explanation and on Community Schools I would like to see another one for the current another framework on this okay so are you familiar with the White House toolkit Federal resources for to support Community Schools hi thank you so much Cora I'm Cora Watkins the director of the Community Schools initiative and yes we have been utilizing that tool as well as some other National Tools in building our infrastructure which at this time what initially you started as the board resolution started our initial funding for the building of the infrastructure now that is being continued through 2026 at this point we have 10 positions six of which are filled and four are brand new
236because of the recent bargaining agreement with United teachers Los Angeles and those four positions have been flown they will be paper screened next week and interviews conducted tentatively set for July 6th so we feel very confident about our infrastructure in moving forward with the 55 existing schools that we have and are excited that we're finally staffed up and infrastructure ready um and that's great I just feel like we need more funding we need to really be looking for more resources and the reason I I bring up the Federal funding sources is they provide um oh there's this whole document a plethora of grants that can be used for Community Schools and I just don't see it here that we're actually playing and I oh I'm just going to read what it says here this toolkit
237lists federal grants offered by a variety of agencies that can be used consistent with applicable statutory regulatory requirements for each grant program to support the services provided from Community Schools and it's from the Department of Agriculture they have grants that can support our schools every Department of Health and Human Resources Department of National telecommunications so there's so much money that we can be using for our community schools that I don't see representative in here and I think if I know that if we go after this money we will have a very strong Community Schools infrastructure and framework I the reason I bring this up because I it needs to be a commitment by this District because there are State funds and there are federal funds that are going straight into Community Schools and and it's
238a model that will really transform our communities and I just don't see uh the commitment here and I would like to let really see that commitment in the next budget uh where we look going after all of these funds as much as many funds not just relying on a state Grant because as years come by we need to add more money to it and we need to continue looking for more money and we also need to support our community schools coordinators because they're doing so much work and looking for these resources that I know that if they knew a lot of these resources and then unfortunately a lot of them don't because um because they need more support and I know there's the steering committee is doing so much great work and I really appreciate
239you Cora for all your dedication um I just want to know how can I support you how can we support Community Schools so they're really strong and strengthened and we have a strong infrastructure so that the district LAUSD can be a model for Community Schools I just wanted to bring that up so thank you for for your support and you won't get any argument from any of the 55 schools were 100 behind you at that we are doing um a bit of braiding and blending of funding so for example the full service Community School Grant I'm in communication with our Student Health and Human Services Division about and there are early Ed grants there are a variety of grants that are probably listed within what you are looking at that we are approaching but it's
240not necessarily all through the Community Schools initiative we are trying to make sure our departments and our divisions are fluid and that we're speaking and that we're maximizing the resource dollars so we are going for additional grant funding but some of it will not appear purely as a community school initiative yes thank you so much Corey I just wanted to highlight on page uh 31 we have some of the breakdown but of course Dr Rivas I think you're right we need to keep advancing for Grant so I appreciate your response for it Section 3 page 31. yeah thank you and that Grant is uh on page 31 of section three that is speaking specifically to implementation Grant one and we will have as soon as we receive our grant award notification we'll have the same
241document prepared for you for implementation Grant too um my next question is in regards to indigenous um funds for indigenous students I know that last year we provided 10 million dollars in a winning procurement and only less than a million dollars was spent so we still have nine million dollars and I know that um the district has committed for another 10 million dollars I just want to know um what is the plan on spending These funds for indigenous students how how do how is the district planning on investing and spending the money for indigenous students um for this money and are we able to carry over the funds from last year over to this year so I just wanted to know what the plan is for spending our indigenous students so we have a an
242advisory that gives guidance on how to expend those dollars and so I will ask for the committee to come down and give some more details but it is a committee that gives input into how those dollars will be spent and so Tony's on his way down yeah it will be good to know how they're spending and how we're really supporting our indigenous and Native American students because I only saw one item here and I would like to see how much more we're investing in our students and how we're spending that money regarding the in and the monies that's been set aside so it's money that's going to continue every year there currently has been some money's earmarked that were given to schools to provide as kind of Grants and incentives to what they could pay
243for field trips or other kind of cultural events but we are working with the advisory committees to make sure that they're informing us on how to best spend that money but it is money that's going to be continues on every year thank you okay I just want to make sure that we're we're on top of that money um the next one has to do with our immigrant and newcomer students uh recently as some hope mate some of you may know that we Texas sent um a bus of of migrants um to LA and they went to my district and my staff and I immediately went and wanted to make sure that you know and thank you for Kristen Murphy to helping with helping with that but I think we need to be be more proactive
244in this because I'm pretty sure there will be more um actions like that where we need to be ready for our our newcomer students our migrant students and supporting them with all that they need and I would love to see a framework because I saw through here newcomer money here and there but I I want us to be more strategic in how we're using these funds to really support our students especially when they're coming in I think as we have families and students children that are coming in from Texas or from other Asylum you know individuals who are seeking Asylum um I would love for this District to really have a more proactive and framework and and really getting those resources to them because you know I was making a phone call and then another
245phone call so I think we need to have more of a strategic way of supporting our migrants or incoming migrant students and also our community-based organizations like Chilean and supporting them as well I think we need to have more of um direct communication and understanding and how to really support our students that are coming in so I I love that we have a lot of funding for newcomer students I just wanted to be more strategic and how we're spending them and how we're using board member Rivas I think an anticipation of those changing laws and and how the federal government's kind of treating title 42 we sent an informative to the board to talk about just the infrastructure that currently exists and how we respond to newcomer populations coming into LA because we had been
246Outreach to and informing us that there may be impacts to the LA region the practice has been that we actually are informed through our office of emergency services that actually provides a weekly report on expected populations that are coming into the LA region when that happens then we organize folks to actually take almost like a mobile sepa center where we can do quick you know triage of families and get the kind of school support words that that they need there and most recently as you alluded to you know there are opportunities to think about how we leverage some of the other resources that we have like food to welcome our our new families and so know that you have a committed staff the team is ready to to respond um as as the need comes
247so just expect that we are actually building off of the experience that this district has has shown leadership in and for many years and that we have a open line of communication but to the extent that there's opportunity to even strengthen the network and the relationship we will leverage that scrambling and at the last minute you know looking for and I really also want to thank Manish because he was really awesome in making sure that food and was sent meals I should say were sent to the church where the families um their final destination was so thank you for that and um I think that was it for that you have more questions but I'll make sure maybe someone else can ask questions Dr McKenna questions Mr shmurlsen Rocio asked okay Mr Melvin yeah thank
248you I mean I'll say most of the colleagues or my colleagues answered or asked I don't know we got the all the answers but ask most of our our questions thank you to the budget team and staff um thanks for fielding many questions today last week over email and then briefings um and I know that you know one of the challenges that we're asked to approve a three-year budget when we don't even have a one-year budget from the state and so I look forward to the shifting landscape in the conversations when we come back in August to not only see what has changed at the state level but also to have some more clarity on things at the state that affect our District budget like the equity multiplier in senni um I hope that as
249those shifts continue at the state that the superintendent and the budget team continue to work with our community to collect feedback and prioritize student well-being and academic success and our long-term promises to employees I am excited that we now have a budget with Investments That align with an lcap in align with the Strategic plan it's been a long time coming there are some really exciting things in this budget early literacy efforts and a TK expansion that is uh you know if not the largest the second largest rollout in the country to a language program supports for both Els and Standard English Learners that improved by literacy Outdoor Learning and enrichment and arts instruction the historic raises and support for our employees continued Equity Investments through sending and priority schools though we I think there were
250legitimate questions asked today that we'll still get some answers on and I know that we have to make some difficult decisions to stabilize our funding sources as Esser is is expiring um I still think the process is quite confusing and can be frustrating for the community and Advocates as we heard today with an lcap that describes about half of our investments and like I said last week you know a few years ago El Cap was most of our investments and now because of Grant programs and a lot of this Federal investment it's only half but it does make it difficult to understand where something is and so I think you're hearing from our community asking legitimate questions that even the board is legitimately concerned or confused by when it comes to police or bsap and
251you know I I do dream of a day with a coded budget and early on in my tenure even brought some software partners and others to work with the sister to try to find a way to have budgetary tags so you could look pretty easily either through open data or opengov and understand you know how much is going to whether it's one of the four board goals like Ms Gomez was asking or strategic plan pillars or bsap or police or mental health and I still think that that's you know when I appreciate staff Fielding questions at the public because when people say well we can't see it here and the answer is well you're not looking at the full picture that's not their fault that's just the confusing nature of a process that we still
252need to simplify um I also hope that we get more time to provide feedback I know that some of us feel like this is somewhat of a placeholder given that we're going to come back in August when we have a state budget and understand what those Investments are in terms of a cola and an equity uh Equity multiplier but I do hope and that we have more time to review it and I think for the board some of these conversations like Dr rivas's suggestions about what she wants to see we should really start having those conversations for next year in the fall so when we start meeting with the committee of the whole and I know Miss Goldberg has done that have us think through these priorities and the reality is that any 18 billion
253dollar budget trying to serve half a million kids in a thousand schools is going to be complicated I guess my one one question and some were around the issues raised around intervention and around psws that the superintendent addressed you know I've been grateful that over the last few years we've we've done work to reduce our our long-term opeb commitment through things like the 50 state Medicare Advantage plan and really find ways to fund the promises we made to employees and I want to make sure that even though we're balancing the budget and we've heard Miss Ortiz Franklin ask about the opeb um withdraw that we are still thinking proactively about how to fund that because of the promises we made to employees so superintendent whether you have some thoughts now or maybe when it comes
254back in August or September just a supplemental plan of okay we understand that we've reduced that commitment which again was an historic one we only added to it a few years ago but here's our plan to tackle that challenge so that we're not left with ballooning deficits that then make it hard for employees to retire stably sure so I we certainly look forward to coming back in in August with a more detailed conversation regarding post-employment benefits which is one of the critical uh elements that we should be concerned about specific to long-term fiscal viability school system we do take pride and I think you acknowledge the fact that this year and last year we did make combined historic Investments prior to last year's investment had been a number of years since the district had actually
255put any money in so between both of these fiscal years in excess of a quarter of a billion dollars but that's not enough so in addition to direct Investments which is what we've done this year what we're proposing to do this year and we did last year there are a number of other levers mechanisms that we're looking at that do not necessarily require District investment require additional awareness of on a part of our Workforce specific to other means Beyond The District's support that could uh dollar dollar without compromising level of service provide a bridge Gateway without overburdening the system in addition to that we continue to look at long-term models specific to Workforce some of those we hope to introduce in the upcoming conversations specific to the benefits committee but we will bring a more
256robust conversation to the board but again we stand proud of the fact that after many years of no Investments over the past two fiscal years you know we invest in Nexus of a quarter billion dollars but we are in catch-up mode that needs to accelerate but we will never be able to make single dollar investments from the general fund and to opeb to bring it to a level that we believe is sustainable so we need to look at other Alternatives Beyond general fund investment in the program that's helpful and I look forward to more of those conversations I'll just say too you know I think we've spent years talking about budget as a statement of values but then we would have the budget conversation and then we'd have a separate conversation I do think we're
257the best place that we've been in my tenure where we have a budget that aligns those values and when we say we're about early literacy and when we say we're about equity and when we say we're about our employees when we say we're about black student achievement when we say we're about others community supports whether it's Community Schools or mental health supports you can find it in this document it's not perfect and there are some outstanding questions when it comes to the ongoing commitment of those programs they've been raised today but I am I uh you know I'm gratified of where we've come and just appreciate your team and the board it's leadership and getting us there yeah no family thank you for that comment because I you've made that comment our board president makes
258it often I anticipate to the next 18 to 24 months will be difficult you cannot pull away billions of dollars you cannot face close to 2100 in full-time employees who are tied to those dollars without some degree of inconvenience and a great deal of strategy right what we need to be very very and I suspect also that over the next 18 to 24 months you will not have seamless funding streams to cover current programs and initiatives it's going to require strategic cobbling of funding streams to maintain the level of service and by the way there's nothing wrong with that there's nothing wrong with that the services in the program should be agnostic to the funding behind them right but there is this there's almost Obsession right with a there's this word priority or or or
259program there needs to be funded exclusively by this type of funding and the funding that's preferred of course is general fund because it's the most flexible while we anticipate that going to next year you know knock on wood we'll see uh but if in fact the current indicators become the reality General fund's going to be pretty tight so we need to diversify our use of other supplemental funding that is available to the district whether it's Title One Ida title two title three title four appropriately used without supplanting right to maintain the level of service we have before we think about expanding so we were just talking about Sani you know sani's expansion was done with Esther money if Esther goes away our first preoccupation needs to be we need to fill that Gap because we're
260not I want to reassert what's been stated we're not going to diminish our investment into sending we're not going to do that we're not going to diminish our investment into bsap we're not going to do that we have not changed the ratios for bsap we haven't done it we're not going to do that I don't know where those rumors begin but our commitment is steadfast but the board understands going to next year and and into the into the future we will need to be very creative and very flexible in how we maintain the level of service that our community currently is benefiting from even if the funding structure shifts so it's not going to be easy things will need to change because as David Hart has said the equivalent of one year's worth of general
261fund is going to disappear and you cannot have that happen without significant stress to the system so our our way of work is to stabilize replace with an appropriate funding source the funding source that is elapsing collapsing before we add any additional elements to those funding streams Mr merlson let me just ask a question in the budget book about my favorite topic and that is Library AIDS and I guess I may be the only person who cares about Library AIDS I don't think that's true well I'm making that assumption because I do not see it in the book at all as a requirement I see a teacher librarian part of the UCLA agreement I don't see it anywhere else in elementary school and I also know that that's the only physician that's flexible and I
262do know schools that have closed the library and got rid of the library Aid and use that room for another purpose so that's why I say I'm the most concerned not the only I'm the most concerned about libraries in elementary school today it's almost impossible for kids able to get to a library by themselves a public school library I mean it's a public library very difficult very hard to get to especially by yourself so that's why I'm asking why it's not mandatory to have an elementary library and every Elementary School board member schwarlson I just want to point you to section 3 page three in the budget book we do have a section there that describes the allocation of Library AIDS where what page it's Section 3 page three um and we identify libraries as
263a basis of allocation not only for this year but for last year and you'll see there that we do allocate a six hour Library aid for every Elementary School with grades K through five including span schools and special education centers you allocate a six hour Library Aid to every Elementary School is that a flexible position it's a position that the principal with approval of the communities is school can Flex for this budget development all elementary schools but I believe seven schools opted for a library Aid at their site they funded a library aid for the upcoming 23-24 year with the exception of seven schools though it's not a requirement that there be a library Aid in every school because there are seven I think you said that don't have it correct that is correct they
264had to receive approval to um not fund approval from whom Community School regional directors and that's as high up as it went I believe so well I personally think that that's a mistake that there should not be any flexibility of having a library Aid in a school I think that's a very wrong thing to do especially to close a library so I don't understand what is that the only flexible position that there is in the budget book it is not what else is flexible I believe office technicians um basically anything that is not in a contractual agreement could be Flex on saas for example cannot there's a Code requirement that you should have one for each site but we have clerical I believe with clerks board members Merchant we can get you a list of
265what are the um how about a certificated Librarian Is that flexible that Louise Financial managers also flexible uh the two-year question about the certificated Library that's part of our contractual agreement with utla so that's not no that's not flexible so if if CSEA would negotiate that a library Aid is required in Ella in every Elementary School a six hour library then that could not be a flexible position if that was agreed to in the contract correct yes okay so I guess that's what I have to work for I don't know what else to do to get a library in every Elementary School I think you're down to only seven that's that's too many I know let's just work on those seven rather than changing the whole mission gosh but I don't know how often it's
266going to change Jackie that's what happens every year something new happens why don't we find out why those seven don't have them okay Dr Rivas did uh did you still have questions okay go ahead Mr shin I know we're hearing a lot of talk about the upcoming fiscal cliff but I did want to highlight one of um we might characterize it as a win the prop 28 Arts funding that I know a lot of people are advocating for and a lot of students are excited about so I was wondering if you could give us an idea of how those investments will manifest is it going to be more Personnel what is the money going to be spent on for prop 28. we anticipate receiving approximately 80 million dollars I believe 53 million of that or
267thereabouts has been allocated there is a per student amount that has to be allocated equitably and then they're equally and then there is a equitable distribution on the balance it is um being governed by I would say the Department of Instruction relative to the actual spend on a per school basis there are different Pro foremas that I believe they are working on to do that allocation there are certain latitudes um allowed my statute the particular school by school we'd have to give you that detail there are Provisions in improp 28 that also call for 80 of it being spent on Personnel so when you think about how it'll be exercised it's kind of predetermined in that way and I cannot supplant and to board membership so there's this uh 80 20 on the spend Personnel
268non-personnel there's a 70 30 rule in terms of the allocation Central Administration is allowed to only keep one percent for General so it just within those broader constructs they're going to spend it on people okay thank you uh and then in that same vein for Arts education the cultural arts passport I know there was a limited rollout this past school year and then it's being scaled up to the next school year so can you give us an idea maybe per pupil spending or per School spending comparing last year's Cultural Arts passport the first phase of it to the the scaling up next year so I will have Titus come on up to share more details but we've broadened significantly the different options as well as a line to the Arts framework as well as other
269instructional Frameworks so Titus can share more details good afternoon everyone so this here all K-12 schools did receive an allocation and um and so next year the expectation is that they'll receive a new allocation those funds did not carry over however some Provisions were made to fund items that were not received by June 30th to support schools and receiving a late rollout and they'll receive a new allocation in the new school year is that allocation uh per pupil or is there some Equity formula or something that goes into that so this here for this school year there everybody received the same amount and next year there are different options being explored so yeah per pupil funding is part of it for next year and and there's different factors involved as well I don't think a
270decision has been made just yet but we'll soon and the allocations will be sent to schools as soon as that is is made and then you mentioned that this past Year's funding was not carried over so I guess the assumption that I'm making is there was a significant portion that was left unspent is that correct or schools got through most of it well some schools per used all of the funding and others did not so so yeah overall there were some funds that were not that were not used what was in your best estimation the reason for that was it the effort to see of the cultural arts designee at that school was it I think there's a few different factors one thing we heard is in in the allocations coming in the spring semester
271that was one challenge it is a new program I think we also heard um some challenges with which the budget Services team really stepped up and and and really tried to support as best as they can our procurement procedures and meeting deadlines which were there was some some there were concessions made and some deadlines were extended in order for goods to be received but I think those were some of the major things I heard from the field okay thank you and I think those were all of my questions the last thing I wanted to make was just a comment I know that senior staff the superintendent and board members of well as well have had to reiterate um it seems on a couple of topics related to Sunny B Sapp and school police funding and
272I know that a lot of members of the public are very passionate about those topics and have come up you know to speak to the board on that um and some of the points that are raised are not necessarily based in fact so I was wondering um you know assuming that when the budget is passed and the superintendent releases a statement and you know information goes out on social media we could maybe put together an infographic or something that makes it unequivocally clear about the funding levels for sending the ratios for bsap and the total budget for school police and hopefully that will free up for the next year maybe some more spaces or time at the meeting for more legitimate concerns to be raised so no I I know I said I didn't have
273a question but cultural Mr Titus Campos if I have a question about cultural passport um the first question had to do with um what board member Shin mentioned student mentioned um and you alluded to that that schools were allocated some cultural passport funds in in March and they had to hurry up and spend that money and so schools are scrambling all over the place right and then they heard no actually you have you have an extension so you can continue spending so all of our schools and as I was going visiting the schools they were spending it on the same things because they were rushing to spend it um to me that made me very upset because I don't think that's exactly how we want this Cultural Arts passport to to function it was like
274just spend it and just spend it on whatever um so I want to understand what happened there why did we distribute very late in March These funds um so what what happened take walk me through that what happened there so originally if you recall we had our priority schools that were the first to be funded and they received that allocation and we realized that we're able to scale up we did scale up so now we're into March and so and in the March the month of March we did provide a lot of detail to the regions and also to the school um champ Arts Champions Arts Cultural Arts Champions provide them details about the types of things that they could do we provided them a list of locations where they can plan those culture arts
275events and also provide provide them with materials we did find that there were some issues that we were resolving for example uh schools needed to make sure that nurses reviewed all of the health profiles of every single student going on a trip that became a little bit of a challenge so we worked with nursing to ensure that they had extra time to review the health profiles of every student before they went on the bus we found that there were certain things like that that happened that we were troubleshooting as we faced those those challenges and so I think at the end of the day schools decided that they wanted to also invest in materials and resources that they could then Implement during arts lessons so that also became an acceptable form of the of use
276of those dollars because that goes right back into instruction Arts instruction in the classroom um I think in in the next um when you allocate These funds would be best if you allocated way before so they have ample time to really um plan out the the field trips and and really be more strategic in how to use these funds because the way it was done it was just spend it hurry up and spend it um and that wasn't very strategic and I don't think that was actually that was very stressful for everyone and that was not the intention we provided a lot of guidance but they were they were faced to you know yeah I just think moving forward is not true they will be getting them July 1st great and um for we have
277here 80 80 million dollars um allocated for Cultural Arts passport is that including the philanthropic philanthropic funds ever I'm expecting to read us just to clarify at this moment in time we do not have final numbers so we have allocated about 53 million out of a total of 80 that we expect that additional allocation will come once we know the final allocation from the state that you were speaking to the arts program now the cultural arts passport in 80 million dollars that's rather comment my apologies I want to know if this is including philanthropic funds or it is all coming from General Ed and if it's not who are we partnering with to help us out with this program Petty million is currently coming from elop expanded learning opportunities program yeah so it's so I
278remember I asked this question that we were going to be um partnering with philanthropic to help us with this funding so if this is coming off for elop what's coming from our partners or is that not set in place yet because I want to know if how this is sustainable for moving forward because I heard I remember asking if um so philanthropy has supported us they've supported us in the form of exact for example with discounts or no costs or not charging students to go to particular venues so there has been collaboration in that in that fashion if you can be transparent at that too because I would I would love to know which are the organizations or entities that are helping us with that that would be wonderful and that's it thank you all
279right thank you first of all um let me say that um this budget book is significantly improved over anything I've seen here in a very long time um you do not have to have a PhD in economics to read a lot of this book which used to be the problem and the second thing is is that it is clear as to what is happening I just want to commend you on the work that you've done in making this document something that people who are not Financial experts can make some sense out of and confine answers to and I I'm I'm very impressed with the difference between when I first came here in 2019 and now so I just wanted to say that publicly uh first of all I want to join all the comments that
280Dr Rivas made about Community Schools I'm glad to hear that we're getting closer to being staffed up but I am concerned that we make sure that it is an ongoing issue in terms of how we Finance it and deal with it but I think the thing that I most want to say is is that only 39 of our budget is unrestricted I want to say that because that's really all we really can look at on the whole each and every year and it is my intent to ask the committee of the whole chair to act more like a budget Committee in some cases starting in about February after the superintendent gives his initial statement at the superintendent listen to me the governor gives his initial statement about the state's budget to begin us having conversations
281at the committee of the whole about what that might mean for the future years of our district in looking at not the whole budget but at the 39 percent that's unrestricted because the last analysis it turns out that's really all we really can change the restricted are all the salaries all the things we've committed to all the things we're buying all of the capital outlay those things are ongoing and they're ongoing but about 39 of the budget which is uh not an untidy amount of money it's about seven billion dollars uh is somewhat unrestricted and I'm going to ask that we begin very early in having conversations Mr superintendent uh as we look at this budget for the next year now that we have documents that are easier to read and people can find this
282online and you can take a look at it in any way you want the first couple of sections really explain mostly what's happening in the school district so if you can just take a look at the first couple of sections you get a good idea but then if you go to section five you take a look at class size and enrollment Trends you take a look at the difference between uh how education is funded in California and what the local control funding formulation is this is a Bible for understanding how School financing works and you do not have to be a person who is adept at this to deal with it because a lot of it now is in plain ordinary English which is how it always should have been I want to say though
283that I think that we we need to be very clear to everyone the next couple of years are not going to be easy financially everybody and I don't care if you're in a charter school or if you're in a community school or if you're in a public school you're going to be facing dealing with the crisis of less and less funding and it's such an insult that in the richest state in the richest country in the world that we should be facing that because it says what somehow or another the larger society as a whole has not come to grips with that the children aren't just the future they're their entire future our entire future our entire future so I think my comments are really basically about a couple of things one is that people
284are going to be finding themselves in the next year or two doing something not everybody but many people too many people will be doing things that they aren't doing now and they're not going to be happy about it and I don't blame you change is always easy when someone else has to do it not when I have to do it so there's going to be a anxiety there's going to be tension we're going to hear from people who say I had a wonderful job and now you're making me move to here and I don't like it it's going to happen all the time and it is as a result of the fact that when the federal and state government removes the coveted money they're saying no longer do they really think that children in our
285district in our state in our country are important that's what they're releasing they're only important when we have a sickness when people are ill and dying but they're not important when they're healthier and well I don't know how we change that but we have to change that because really it ain't a joke to say that the children are not just the future they're the entire future so I'm distressed by the fact that we're not going to do some things that I love doing some things are going to be eliminated we're not going to be able to do all the things that we are doing right now that is a reality it is a reality not in your school not in our school not in any school so what we need to be doing in my
286humble opinion is to help the public understand at least in California that there's no excuse to underfund in a state that's the fifth world's richest economy that means for Nations have a bigger economy than California what an outrage that we're the fifth richest economy and we do not fund our children properly what an outrage and that's an outrage that everybody in this room should be expressing to every elected official that you know both in Washington and in Sacramento it is an outrage to have the wealth of the State of California and be 33rd in what we spend on our kids that's an outrage and until we can create the kind of vocalization of that outrage I don't think anything seriously is going to change so we have an unrestricted balance set a a general fund
287balance that's only 38 percent of our total money and I'm going to work with you I hope and to have our chair of the committee of the whole work with you so that we can begin as early as February late February or March to begin looking at what are the choices as we go forward as this continues to do this and as our needs continue to do this because this is not going to be an easy battle I had a bunch of specific questions I'm going to ask a few of them but mostly I wanted to just say that we are in a situation where we have at least taken the following precautions board members and Mr superintendent that is to say we're not going to lay anybody off we're not going to reduce anybody's
288salary we're not going to take away positions that have been funded we're not going to close positions that we have not yet been able to fund because we got to fill them but people are not all going to be doing the things they're doing now people are going to move and they're not going to like it and I don't like it when I had to move but that's the reality that we're in in order for us to remain whole to have our classified and certificated people to have all of the folks that work in this District remain with the bargaining that they have completed and those that are still finishing intact it means that some jobs a lot of jobs are going to be moved and changed as we close jobs that Esser funded and
289those people were not laying off were moving into under positions so this will be a time of distress and I want to share believe me my sympathy with everybody who loses the school they're in the position they're in that loves what they're doing and finds out they're being bumped or that they have to change because of other needs on behalf of this whole board we feel your pain but it's going to happen it's going to happen so I think what mostly we can do as a board is to figure out how we can help the public to understand that it is an outrage in California to make any cuts at all it's an outrage in a state that if it were a nation would be the fifth richest nation in the world other states can't
290say that we can't so having done that let me just ask a few quick questions and then I'm just going to let it go um uh you say in any balances and reserve requirements that we now have a larger Reserve requirement why is that in terms of the uh there are two factors to speak to the reserve for economic uncertainties when our Ada dropped from a forecast of greater than 400 000 to less than 400 000 we were required to add an additional percent we went from one to two percent on the size of our budget as it is computed that required another um roughly 110 million dollars so that gets set aside there is also a reserve cap that is imposed on school districts that is to say that the combined total of the
291undesignated non-restricted non-committed funds cannot exceed 10 and that is what pushed us to make some of the commitments that we are now seeking to unwind is as we move through the budget process for 2324 with a knight of 2526 would just have to be dynamic as we move forward and pay attention to both of those statutory requirements find for 20 20 24 is about 113 million dollars but it drops down to 18 million the following year which means it goes to zero basically uh are we looking now for what we may have to do to make sure that that doesn't drop below zero uh yes and and just to be clear that is a portion of you know that that that balance but as we move forward and we have greater clarity as to what
292the state is or is not able to do and what our actual spend is against our budget uh that too will be a number that um I imagine will need to reconcile to how 18 became something different than uh it is um as you stated it's essentially zero and it's it's too tight for comfort as we look at the transfer from the CRA the community redevelopment fund for 30 million dollars there were CRA projects all through this District have we exploring what other ones of them might owe us money and that question was asked last time I know we owe a response and I don't know what if we actually got to it this last weekend let me just look I feel like the picture that wants to bring the heat in my kitchen is
293shaking me I was very involved because I was representing Hollywood when I was on the city council land we had a lot of CRA funds that were going a lot of different places and I think there is money there that we need to be looking for that is understood and we will apologize that it wasn't track down this week but we'll get to it you were a little busy I understand uh okay I'm actually just going to let the rest of these go basically I think what we have here is just an understanding for us all to know that the next couple of years are not going to be easy for anyone but that we have made historic changes in terms of how we employ an income of all of our employees and we're working
294on the remaining contracts that we will honor those that there won't be give backs but we are asking everyone to understand that this is going to be a difficult Financial time because when you begin to lose not Millions but billions of dollars that you've been spending you do need to do things that change lots of places and what that will do if we're not going to lay anybody off we're not going to reduce anybody's wages we're not going to ask for give backs it means that what we're going to have to do is people some people will be doing different things than they are doing now and some of them will find out that it was a joy they didn't expect it and others will hate it but that's the reality the reality is is
295that we're keeping our people because they are our biggest asset and what we want to do is to make sure that the superintendent and his staff helps us use them in the wisest possible ways given the amount of money that we are losing each year and to the end of 24. so with that I'm going to ask that we take a vote on the budget unless of course let me ask for the board members have anything else before this is the 10th of the last word then we'll take the vote then we'll help public comment so uh this is the second budget that I recommend to this board that I just want to use 30 seconds of my time to thank uh Pedro David the entire teams that collaborated the Community Partners and agencies that
296helped shape this budget look budgets are are like accordions um they're not static and they have to have the flexibility to adjust to ever-changing fiscal Dynamics we find ourselves and I appreciate our board president continuing to be on message about about this we find ourselves in a very very interesting position which is a combination of a possible downturn certainly seen in California with a 32 billion plus deficit that's not significantly impacting this year's budget but could impact any adjustments within this fiscal year or going to next year coupled with the fact that we need to cure decisions that precede many of us that tied full-time people programs and systems to short-term money I'd like to apologize for that because that was a wrong move that we need to pull ourselves out of now that needs
297to be fixed and we're fixing it in the worst possible time which is doing a Time of curtailment of Appropriations from Sacramento so when our board president stresses the fact that the next 16 18 to 24 months as we find solutions for the close to 2100 full-time people tied to ask for money as we find solutions to a stable recurring uncompromisable funding stream for bsap and sunny as we find solutions for our environmental efforts and our arts and music programs and dual language programs in addition to protecting our staff which we have made a commitment that we would and sustain the recently negotiated contracts which we needed to negotiate at the levels that they were negotiated in for us to retain incentivize recruit the staff we need there's a lot of work ahead this budget
298reflects our values and this budget begins to make inroads strategic inroads into pulling ourselves from the dependency of Esser we're seeing it in a different a number of different areas and we hear the stress point coming from the Khmer and we hear that and much like our president said we are empathetic we are compassionate about it but we cannot not do something because whatever we fail to do now we will have to do at a higher level of sacrifice and pain going into next year so we will come back in August for necessary adjustments but I'm proud to bring to the board before you vote a budget that's balanced a budget that does not require a qualified status declaration meaning over the next three years it is a fundable budget a budget that follows the
299principles of Integrity of protection of our students and programs and prioritizes spending on our students and those who are closest to them with historic investments in literacy and numeracy in intervention despite what many have said in a sustainable and scalable way so Madam president members of the board I thank you for the work for listening but also to perform for your desire in terms of providing feedback and recommendations that have fashioned at this budget thank you very much all right emotion is in order to adopt the budget moved by Mr smurlsen seconded by Mr Melvin call the roll Dr McKenna yes Dr Evas yes Mr schmorelson yes Mr Melbourne yes Miss Gomez Miss Ortiz Franklin [Music] sorry Mr Ortiz Franklin was that you and uh the babe sorry which board member um it is is
300that you miss Ortiz Franklin yes thank you so much okay and uh board president Goldberg yes and uh student board member Shin yes and leave the role open please for uh Miss Gomez we will now go to I'm sorry we're so late but we will now go to public comment which is normally at four o'clock but with the budget being I believe a little more important at this point uh we will take public comment now okay here we go Marcella Garcia are you on the line Marcela Garcia if you're on the line press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak one should begin Marcella Garcia okay if she's not there Vanessa Vance oh are you here in person okay come on come on sorry my apologies um so if you
301want to hear what Miss Garcia is saying in English please get a pair of these headphones and put them on and we will do um simultaneous translation um does everybody have one of these they need and if you do put your hand up if not um gracias good afternoon my name is Marcela Garcia and I am here to ask for more safety inside of the schools because the fights have increased and only and the students only do it to have to get likes and in all of the social networks the district must develop a policy to prevent and to intervene in that way to stop bullying in schools and that is why many of the students do not want to attend schools because they feel pressured and intimidated due to the many fights that we
302have seen lately at the end of the school year we parents want to work together with you so that we can provide an effective safety in the schools Miss Rivas you were at a community meeting in the Northwest on May 16 of 2023 and the parents in the community that attended and were there they gave up they gave their concerns about safety in schools they asked for more police from the district and to review the backpacks before going into school Miss Rivas do you remember that there was a lot of parents many mothers in community at Highland Park and the majority of them wanted more safety in our schools for middle and high school there are so many fights and there's a lot of drugs introduced and we want just like you've met with our
303community I would like that the members of this board of education go to their communities and to listen to the parents really listen the parents that are from there that have children there and that live in communities in poverty because here comes the organization I've seen organizations come here to represent parents but in my community these organizations have not been there I don't know them and I don't know what they are called and they said that they represent parents but we are a large community and we don't know anything about them and so what parents do they represent we do not know I asked please to put more safety in our schools because our students are um be in between thank you and I see you're on the line Vanessa Vance please press star six
304to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin Vanessa Vance Vanessa I see you're online and signed in to speak just press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak once you begin otherwise we can come back to you give you a few more moments Vanessa Vance okay we'll come back to you Chloe Finley are you in the room Chloe Finley if you are come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin okay she is calling in remotely come on I'm in I'm sorry it's been a long day press star six to unmute yourself you're not going to be coming on down press star six to unmute yourself Miss Finley and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin hello my name is
305Chloe Finley I am a 12th grader at Hamilton High School I'm a participant member in the students deserve and I would like to share with you information you need to know about what we are expecting before the school Year's End starts there needs to be the same number of bsat psws bsap academic counselors and same climate Advocates at our schools next year just like there has been this year if there is no plan to make these changes then that is a problem one that immediately needs to be fixed thank you thank you for your time Jasmine Kono song are you on the line Jasmine Kono song If you are press star 6 to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak once you begin Jasmine Kono song I see that you're on with us
306press star 6 to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin hello Jasmine UCSB I'll be an MSW student at cscov this fall I chose to become a social worker because I want to gain a deeper understanding of how to serve and support diverse communities I've seen both Injustice and Humanity in our world Through The Eyes of a queer Asian-American woman raised by two parents with MSW degrees this background has given me not only a realistic perspective of the challenges people face but more importantly the positive impact that social workers can create my goal is to provide Mental Health Services for adolescents and young adults who confront everyday challenges and barriers due to their race class gender and sexuality being ready for the world means our students will serve as the
307next generation of change makers and problem solvers I'm one of them School social work and get my ppsc ultimately to get my LCSW based upon the most recent budget cuts I'm worried about the lack of support in clinical supervision I'll receive as an MSW intern and PSW I'm aware that crisis counseling and support psws provide the clinical supervision for all non-licensed psws and other quality assurance the PSW Central LAUSD means all legal and ethical requirements mental Consultants provide the crisis counseling support and consultation for psws schools and District personnel reducing the mental health consultant team and eliminating the crisis counseling and support department to 30 rather than 75 support psws will lead to the dismantling of school mental health infrastructure at the last board meeting LAUSD stated that it's not a money problem it's a
308people problem LAUSD is currently in a budget surplus not a budget deficit and therefore LAUSD has enough money to maintain and expand the school mental health infrastructure and hire new school-based csws 113 new school psws were hired the school year which demonstrates the high interests of msws to work in laus and the ability of school mental health to exponentially hire psws to fill positions as fast as human resources could process with the help of the ccns department lausd's goal of hiring at least 106 new psws this upcoming year will be met LAUSD needs to be proactive rather than reactive by maintaining the current infrastructure that has been successful in building one of the largest and most successful School mental health departments in the nation thank you thank you for your time uh Paola Meneses I
309see her online with us please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin Paola Meneses good afternoon I will be speaking in Spanish I have three students one of them is in elementary another in middle school and one in high school as my mother I have a lot of concerns about physical safety in our schools many parents we think that the school police is very important because a counselor does not have a cancer does not have the training to be able to manage violent situation trespasses referee uh use and sell of drugs more than anything now that there have been so many cases of students that have been used fentanyl for a better school police we need to work together with the administration so that the school
310and the parents but the way that it is implemented those policy for parent engagement I'm sorry for parent engagement we are ignored due to the missing of follow-up to our complaints as parents we are ignored and we have a lot of them we have known that organizations Community organizations come to this meeting to say that they represent us as parents and say that the school police is not necessary I myself have witnessed different fights in the schools and due to the cuts that they have the cuts that have been done to the school police when we talk to them the fighter over and it's not the way to do it as an immigrant I am bothered that organizations that deceive my community and say that school police will take our students to immigration we know
311that that is not true and and not in California I asked for those organizations to stop instantly fear so that they can seek for empathy for their political agendas they do not represent us I would like that if you can do something about it to do it believe me that a mother is asking a concerned mother not only for my children I'm concerned for all of the students that are in schools and in that way I want to let you know my concern as a mother thank you Angela Martinez are you here Angela Martinez come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin hello my name is Angela Martinez and I lead Kip SoCal Public Schools our school students look just like those who attend LAUSD district schools they live in the
312same neighborhoods they play in the same Parks go to the same grocery stores and have friends and siblings that attend district schools I'm here because my job alongside all of these Educators behind me to protect my students our students against anyone trying to hurt them and intentionally trying to disrupt their right to a high quality education in their community when I read the prop 39 resolution last week authored by board president Goldberg and board member I was disappointed and then Furious that two people who were elected to protect the interests of the students in their communities would offer a resolution that so clearly seeks to punish public school students just because they attend charter schools this resolution would evict thousands and thousands of black and brown public school students from their schools this resolution disproportionately
313harms black and Latino students and targets South La Watts South Mid City Boyle Heights and the Eastern at San Fernando Valley for president Goldberg's resolution tries to hide the harm it will cause students by disingenuously saying it is intended to then benefit neighborhood kids the untruthful implication is that charter school students are somehow different from District students that they aren't in the same neighborhoods that they don't deserve the same opportunities and that is unacceptable this board and board president Goldberg especially you should know how dangerous it is to otherwise and Target groups of people even if it is an effective political strategy so the board members Goldberg and Rivas there are questions you need to answer why are you specifically targeting black and brown children why do you want to evict them from spaces in
314schools I have every right to can you tell the difference between a district public school student and a Charter Public School student and calculate which what each is worth just by looking at them can the students of Los Angeles for just starting to recover from the pandemic's trauma afford to lose the schools that are source of safety and stability in their lives what do you think happens to students when their school is forced to move miles away or close its doors for good or is that intentional and to the other board members Dr McKenna please tell me you disagree with the impact of this resolution I know that you believe all public school students are your students I know that you believed in lifting up communities I know that you don't want to hurt black
315children by evicting them from the schools and Educators that know and care for them Ms Gomez I know you care about students and don't want to divide them based on political special interests you know what it means when politics inserts chaos into the lives of children Mr melvoin and Mr schmerlson please tell me you disagree that some public school students are worth our care and others are political enemies Miss Ortiz Franklin tell me that your career of advocating for the well-being of young people you see the harm that this will cause the only way to answer these questions and prove that you really are for all kids is to put this resolution pull this resolution permanently and let the family students and teachers get back to focusing on education [Music] thank you very much for
316your comments but I guess you missed last meeting in which I said all of it was prospective not reactive had nothing to do with the placements that were already in place they are for forward placements so go ahead and say what you want we listen to you absolutely but I wanted to at least clear up that we made that statement last time we pulled the resolution because that was not clear in the resolution but the idea of having some kind of organization for us to work on how to make this work for everybody and that means for everybody that means for our students too that's something we will continue to pursue but we're not talking about moving anybody off of their current campuses unless you were already moving for some other reason this policy would
317not have had any impact on any of your schools so we'll hear everybody speak but at least you should know we've made that clear last meeting okay Portugal are you here better Portugal okay um all right so Diana Guillen are you here Diana Guillen come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin Dion is going to speak in Spanish so if you don't have a headset already and you would like to hear what she's going to say please request one you'll be able to know what she's saying as she's saying it again good afternoon members of the board I'm Diana Guillen and I'm chairperson of D Lock today I'm a little concerned with the budget that is being managed here in the school district my first year as chairperson what we did
318was make sure that there be transparency and school budgets we know that a lot of parents don't understand the budget because the principals do not teach it or clarify it in a very clear way and that is a problem we'd like Mr carvello to me commit to an initiative to clarify this for schools in the district because so many positions that are here speaking there is money in the schools and a lot of parents don't know how the money is being invested there is no transparency if at that at this level it's hard to see can you imagine in our communities how to understand the budgets of each School our parents need to be informed on how to do so so the previous superintendent with Miss Bice we had many talks about this but it's
319really not being enforced another thing that I want to share is parents were very concerned about safety and we're analyzing that the situation of safety is not a simple thing like getting school police simply due to racism it's about social inequality what is that if you go to communities that have money and you walk around these streets like myself there's police that go and ask you what are you doing here because there's a lot of Rich homes here there's a lot of security but now you want to take away school police not from just the schools but from the areas where that are of low income there is a huge inequality here because the people that have money have a lot of security but the poor people have to figure it out and what we're
320trying to say is these organizations that want to remove school police and they also want to remove police in Los Angeles they do not represent the community because they're leaving us vulnerable alone and for us to figure it out in December I was hit in a store in a Target by a person that was homeless and this was an African-American person that hit me and I reported it and they let him lose as if nothing I'm not sure why but these types of things are not acceptable and the poor communities are the ones that are suffering I live here in MacArthur Park and we need security here but what happens with all these budget cuts something happens a police officer arrives an hour later prior we would call the police they would arrive within five
321to seven minutes I think these organizations are financed by other special political interests that don't benefit the community and you need to listen to us the parent Community because we're the ones that are suffering the consequences not the people there living in the mountains where they don't even know what's going on down here thank you I understand Vanessa Vance is back online and remote Vanessa Vance please press star 6 to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak won't you begin Vanessa Vance press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin otherwise we will move right along okay we're going to move along Laura Flores are you here in person Laura Flores are you here come on up in the three minutes of speak when you begin
322good afternoon a little nervous um so my name is Laura Flores uh I am the parent of a rising fifth grade student at que Corazon located in South Gate I am represented supposed to be represented on the LA unified Board of Education by board president Jackie Goldberg you may remember me or not um Miss Goldberg I have reached out to your office multiple times inviting you to events um at Cape Corazon but I have not received a response and I do look forward to eventually receiving a response um and hopefully you can attend one of our events um um I'm here today to ask why the board president would propose a policy which was seconded by Dr Rivas that would evict children like mine or deny the use of these spaces like you just clarified
323from their schools or the school that we chose disrupt their education and hurt their Futures I chose a school that is best fit for my child every day I send my daughter to school knowing that she is cared for by Educators who know her and what she needs that is exactly what public school families all throughout Los Angeles want for their children to be cared for by the people who know them best it doesn't matter if these people work for the district public school or for a Charter Public School our choice is the most powerful tool we have why would this board want to take that power from families why does this board think that it is good for children to be evicted from schools where they are known where they have created families and
324where they feel at home [Applause] this is exactly what will happen if board president Goldberg's resolution passes children in the Charter Public Schools and neighborhoods like mine in South La Watts Boyle Heights and in San Fernando Valley will watch as their schools are forced to move out of their neighborhoods what do you think will happen next do you expect that public school families will be able to go miles outside of our neighborhoods twice a day and still work our regular jobs and care for other family members maybe you know exactly what will happen most families will face the terrible decision made for them to leave the public schools where our children are currently learning where the Educators know them and have dedicated themselves to making sure our children succeed we'll have to enroll them in
325a new school where no one knows them and they know no one the one thing that I do want to leave and ask is is Jackie Goldberg for all kids or only District kids thank you for your time Kevin Perry are you in the audience Kevin Perry Kevin Perry Ton's board I'll be speaking briefly and then I'll be conceding the rest of the time to Damian um as you guys know my name is Janae Tyler parent and Family Center Director in LAUSD LAUSD parent and excuse me parent and family organizer with students deserve I just had a few budgetary questions I know you guys just passed it but hopefully this can be amended in the August session um so I really had a question about family engagement being reduced from the 61 positions to the
32641 positions I personally know with that reduction the initial reduction has already cost us in parent engagement and how that's made my job three times harder we no longer have the same amount of parent educator coaches my Hamilton Community of school still does not have a pizza nor do we have a parent um resource assistant assigned to us and so as a parent and Family Center Director I just happen to be one of the only that have a credential in parent education that already Works close with the community and providing resources that remove barriers to student education and attendance so I implore you guys to re-look at that model and definitely see what we can do to keep those positions at the very least and get our parent educator coaches back and make sure that
327each community of schools actually has a pizza because this is year number two that we still don't have one and then secondly I want to just address quickly that there's been stated that there's no ratio changes at school level with bsap but I personally work with our budget and I know that our bsap is being cut I have the exact dollar amounts we are being reduced from one million excuse me from one million 300 2 502 down to 951 614 dollars we will be losing an AP as well as a school climate Advocate the school climate Advocates are the alternative to school police along with the campus aides that we have the school security officers that we have those that wrote the Beast app wrote in the school climate Advocates as the first line of
328defense coming from our communities working with our students directly to change the environment and also de-escalate situations that happen with school police on our I mean with students on our campus where school police were being unlawfully used in the first place even this school police officers that are assigned to our campus have stated that they know that they were being misused and that they shouldn't be coming out for simple adolescent Behavior fights are just fights that's what they are we all have them in school and we were never handcuffed arrested and dragged down face down on the ground vomiting on ourselves because we had a fight with another student instead we may have been suspended but there was restorative justice and we were taught conflict resolution skills we know that there's been an increase in
329violence since the pandemic because students were locked up for over 18 months I'm sorry Damien um I had one last question and I just really wanted to know about the restructuring of the bsap even at the district level because our acis we know are going to be restructured by the office of educational transformation Hamilton has the highest number of beasts of black students in LAUSD which based on the ratio of the one ACI to 200 allowed us to have a dedicated ACI our first year we did this year we had to share it with four other schools and at the at the rate of what you guys are proposing that means we'll be sharing an ACI with eight schools and there's no way they can do their jobs even as instructional coaches or intervention Specialists
330one human cannot properly serve eight campuses thank you for your time Rachel V are you here in person Rachel V if you are come on up and you have three minutes to speak once you begin hello I'm here to um sorry comment on the queer all year um calendar that was reposed that was approved by your District last week or a couple of weeks back um it is crucial to respect topics that are far outside of your scope of authority and to be advocates for parental rights the educational Equity compliance office within LAUSD has lgbtq resources such as gender and sexual identity lessons my pronouns are campaign trans support including info on cross-sex hormones and other disturbing LAUSD guidelines and bulletins these topics are sensitive and should only be discussed by parents see the brain
331is in a state of plasticity and it doesn't fully develop until after 20 right so that's why my students can't buy um cigars or cigarettes alcohol right they can't vote they can't join the the army or sign contracts children are too young for these identity lessons and they do not have the capacity to make lifelong decisions so if you go through every single resource on the LAUSD website you're going to see the distinctive Mark of groomers sexualizing our children one day my friends you will face your maker and we will have to be accountable whether we've protected these children or if we harm them your resources dismiss the whole truth your resources they dismiss the whole truth and it's catastrophic right it's important to consider multiple perspectives so perhaps you can gain um a good
332valuable perspective from exploring organizations such as gays against groomers it is crucial to also acknowledge stories such as Chloe Cole who transition at a young age she underwent puberty blockers and hormone therapy and then she also removed um healthy breasts um she went through healthy breast surgery and and now she suffers and she regrets she regrets those decisions which are irreversible have damages consequences it affects the bone the mind it affects your mood and she might potentially be facing infertility right the stories of individuals being destroyed by this agenda is countless and um they're rapidly growing um there's also Jackie Hill Perry the author of gay girl good God who shares her story um and she offers tools that helped her finally find just wholeness and peace after she left her lifestyle of homosexuality there's
333Dr Jeff Myers it's an e-book it might be a good resource it's it it's called exposing the gender lie and how to protect children and teens see nothing will truly satisfy the soul but the love of God and may our children know the truth and the truth set them free you cannot force families to give up their beliefs many children in LAUSD come from families of Faith who do not affirm and will not celebrate what God condemns um we saw that at the Dodger Stadium okay and so true Faith does not compromise and we will not and we will continue showing unconditional obedience to God's word and it's important to note that you guys have fired hundreds of religious employees with policies and you continue kicking them out of the girls that shows your religious
334intolerance and bias thank you all right trainees Thomas are you here trainees Thomas come on up you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin hello board members I'm Denise Thomas and I'm a ninth grader at King ju and a former student of KIPP scholar and a leader within students is there and today I am here to explain to you why I'm here to explain to you why you will not raise a school but the political police budget from 5 52. million dollars 258 million I came up here last Tuesday explained to you and explained to you in great detail on what I have experienced and this and this decision seemed as if you have not heard a word of what I said actually you know what it seems as if as students come up
335here every public comment pour our hearts out and some of you dismiss it because let's be honest you seem to not care and you show that you show this through the disrespectful comments some of you some of you made especially in last public comment hey Carla didn't you promise us that you would not raise the budget and yet you and yet you still plan to you know you are a liar that's scary because if there's no trust between me and the person that controls basically my whole life at school I don't feel safe if you don't have trust what do we have the money that you are directly putting into policing and making me and my peers feel uncomfortable or maybe the money that you're putting into the imminent pepper spring of students the policewurgers
336shall not be increased from 52.5 million to 58 million that is an enormous and unacceptable increase to the school police budget don't try to convince us don't try to convince us that this is actually a decrease or a maintenance of what has been we know that it's a massive increase from what we've won and we reduce the scope please but when we reduce the school police budget to 52.5 million dollars carvell you promised that you would not increase the budget and this is exactly what is happening we demand that this will be amended today before this budget is approved I'm making clear that me and everyone are most people in the audience are expecting you to modify the budget proposal so it doesn't so it does not include the increased alcohol proposing there's a lot
337of money that could be put towards anything else mental health club support funding campus rebuilding and many many more things but you are so adamant on using it for policing it's saying it's upsetting that I'm up here today pleading with you to care about the USD students well-being once again what I'm talking about today isn't spending for a sport or a club a new program or anything like that this is us students talking about how we feel and how we shouldn't feel uncomfortable to walk around our own school and we should not be criminalized by the people who were sent to protect us today when you make your decision about think about every individual student who will second guess even going to school because of the horrible atmosphere you may have created create if you
338continue with this this side we listen to our voices or disregard us again I am human not a number thank you thank you for your time hey luiso Galindo eloisa okay if anyone would like to hear what she's going to say in English as she speaks in Spanish please raise your hand so we can give you a headset if you do not already have one hello members of the Board of Education my name is eloisa and I have my other I am a mother with students at LAUSD also I belong to reclaim our schools and for Power Parent of community empowerment and I'm here today to tell you to put the money in the budget and what what's most adequate to increase the platform the abilities for students right now I have heard something I
339have participated or I have the experience to be with the teachers during the strike I've seen him in the rain how they are raising their voice so that they have enough resources but I want to ask you a question ask a question to the people that did the budget here have you noticed the plans of the millionaires that are within LAUSD the plan of the millionaires that one of them Mr ronfield paid so that Proposition 39 can become a reality and it is a plan for privatization to take away public education and to take in a vote I know I have this as an experience just like the mother said that it had affected her in my experience at Mariana school I also had that experience that their que promesa came to it and they
340said I will put a steel fence and I will take away uh classrooms away for parents and Community classrooms computer classrooms many of the classrooms that were taken away so what is the point the point of the Millionaires and those that that our anti-union is to divide and conquer why why are you not seeing how position 39 is working you're talking about that there are no resources at LAUSD why why are you allowing for more schools to be open why is it that those Executives that I have seen them and no one can tell me that I'm a liar the executive from altamed are negotiating in our schools come they see our children as a business they don't want for our children to really go to university and they are dividing us as parents we
341went to Sacramento and we created The Proposal 1505 that there is a monitoring and how they're going to create more new schools how it would affect the community and how it is affecting because they're on the ground because there's a lot of charter schools that are being are close to a gasoline station and I think that it's time for laus to unite and to see how it will make the change in Proposition 39 so that there's Equity you're talking about Equity so that there's equity and no more division among our communities and it to stop for the millionaires executive to be doing business in our schools and I say this because I've lived it and I have seen also how they've taken away a library from the students so they have they have done a
342library they made it a classroom and that's discrimination okay uh Khalid are you on the line Khalid I see you're on the line please press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak once you begin Khalid good evening board superintendent my name is Khalid alileem a proud member of students deserve an alliance to reclaim our schools I've been doing this for a very very long time being a parent engaged with LAUSD my oldest daughter is an educator of special needs students I have two graduates one from Crenshaw one from Dorsey I have two more senior and a junior one at Hollywood and one in Francisco Bravo so I've been doing this a while and I'm understanding very well what's going on I want you to also understand that even though we
343call ourselves parents we are we are professionals so we would like to be treated as such we understand the budget we understand some of the policies and guidelines and bulletins that come and go but what we don't understand as parents and professionals as why we are so excluded from the negotiating or discussion or Community engagement process you just heard you may speak to the fact that you know a budget is being cut and we're losing one of the primary I I would believe one of the primary positions that a school would need parent engagement so we need more and not less so how do we do it we think about outside the box we think about using these professionals who happen to be parents and their backgrounds and how they can contribute to making things
344better for our community schools they're just not isolated silos they are the primary institution in our neighborhoods that help develop and Revitalize our community our streets our way of living the values and principles in our families and yet we have meetings to be discussed too instead of being discussed about so that we know that when we have these so-called mean times that are coming in the next 18 to 24 months we're facing disaster and not a celebration right now we cannot afford in any shape form of fashion not to stand tall and strong with continuing with Community Schools the black student achievement plan it is for everybody it is for everybody to benefit so what we need to do is look outside the box and Trust our Partnerships and Trust our professionals who happen to
345be parents to Aid and help out instead of letting the district try to decide and superintendent let me let me stop right there I want to commend you for the fact that you stood tall in the contract negotiations and that's great it took a little while but thank you for standing tall and then doing something that made it beneficial for all of us more pay more benefits but better yet the ability for these teachers these Educators to practice their craft thank you very much for your time we appreciate it Colleen thank you very much thank you [Applause] Carla Franco are you here in the audience Carla Franco if you are coming up good afternoon I want to congratulate Mr Carvalho for the decisions you're making I know they're difficult to take but I think it's
346going to take the right decisions because we're focused on the priority of which is our children and they're not easy but in the name of our of us parents thank you for listening and putting the students as a priority I am with you with the fact that we need more people in libraries because us parents were the ones that would read to the students because we didn't have a librarian in Southgate middle we did the same thing we struggled and the person who used to go is extraordinary and would use reading to motivate I'm here because it's very important for what I'm trying to emphasize which is the return of school police in the school sites I know there have been comments saying that there's there there's simply about fights yes there's fights that makes
347um School sites have bad reputations and I have evidence here I have videos that students send me and parents in Southgate High School I have Southgate middle because I was not prepared or trained to deal with the reaction with the hair pulling because there there's someone that is pulling by the hairs to get students to their classes in Southeast High School there's there's fights within the School site and it escalated to a level where these fights continued off the School site and the ones that wound up fighting were the parents too so if you're saying this is a simple fight no sir this needs to stop and like I said previously too I'm not going to wait for a tragedy to happen when all this can be prevented we need police to return to the
348school sites we need the funds so they can return because what I was told by Southgate PD is that we have too many problems in the community to go deal with the schools so we're not all on the same page the school safety and student safety is first and should be the priority always now we know that there are people that are saying that they're scared of police we have we're in a sanctuary where you cannot um and we even had a situation where Texas had a bus where they had immigrants and they're saying how police is is alarming everyone no we need them and at first we used to avoid uh things but when the cat is away so thank you David tokovski congratulations uh Mr Shin it was bold statement about truth and
349about the reality of the schools and safety in your last meeting very much noted and appreciated by more people than just myself and if you need a letter of recommendation to transfer to Yale I'd be certainly willing to help you with that letter um but I do recommend you read the SEC document for the 500 the half a billion dollars of certificates of participation in that document it talks about the revenues in the district and many other sources it's a great document for somebody who has Ambitions in the in the finance world to read that document president Goldberg I thank you for reiterating the Redevelopment concerns and ways in which we can continue to raise money for the district as we tighten the belt in these coming years this board and and the superintendent have
350submitted a positive document for three years um and that requires some navigating uh to find money and Redevelopment to find money by building on the Affiliated Charters I'm really not clear if senior staff and others understand the Affiliated Charters and what it means in terms of Revenue if thirty thousand kids were to come in and continuation schools have all all or most of the magnet schools like open Charter magnet were deemed to be Affiliated families could come from the Inglewood School District the Hawthorne district families who live in Southgate who are divided into four school districts would have the opportunity to not apply from a permit to leave their District to come to LA and fight we'd shine the marketplace would show the strengths of this District next I would like to also remind that
351we follow up on on the legislature's announcement the the week or so ago and putting money back into the budget in the billion dollars into the Arts Grant and to other areas totaling roughly around four billion dollars which generally would mean 400 million or so probably more for this District letters need to go to the governor letters need to support the legislature in the elapen in other areas and the kindergarten program we need to double down on the superintendent's metric of ten thousand kids we need to double down on our efforts in Medi-Cal so we can pay for a lot of the support services that you have intelligently envisioned and we need to work on more than just partial tax I joke in on the west side where families put three hundred four hundred thousand
352dollars into their school donations it's essentially a parcel tax around that school we need to be in build on Community Schools to make sure they raise the revenue and finally we need to be careful with cops that's a large payment out of the general fund 500 million and maybe some of that could be paid by putting the facilities Bond on thank you very much thank you for your time and the last call for Vanessa Vance plus press star six to unmute yourself Miss Vance and you'll have three minutes to speak once you begin this is the um your last opportunity there you are you've unmuted yourself yes we can you have three minutes please go ahead great I made it yes good evening superintendent Carvalho and members of the school board thank you for listening
353to these public comments with sincere ears my name is Vanessa Vance I'm going on my 24th year teaching for LAUSD I have an approved exemption for the coveted vaccination and was provided a reasonable accommodation to work as a high school teacher in one of lausd's virtual academies this past school year I taught seniors 12th graders my students and I were truly heartbroken when we learned due to lausd's vaccine policy for employees that I could not attend their in-person graduation at Wilson High School to support and celebrate this profoundly important moment in their lives one of my students I'll call a wrote in the zoom chat how come you're not allowed Miss covid is in a National Health Emergency anymore this is not fair another student I'll call M said this is really sad and disappointing
354I would love to see the teacher of my last school year of school life at my graduation this actually makes me angry a third student I'll call Ed commented all of my family members have helped me graduate you are like a family member to me Miss Vance this is such an important moment in my life and I want you to be there instead I'll see unknown faces needless to say the reason I'm calling is to ask you all to please consider changing the coveted vaccine policy for employees I know many folks are asking for the vaccine mandate to be lifted but here's what I'm asking can you please consider changing the policy to allow those employees with approved vaccine exemptions to one be allowed on campus and two to return to work on campus in
355person at this point in time don't you think it's reasonable to alter lausd's reasonable accommodation policy for those who are exempt and lausd's August 13 2021 ioc guidance on vaccine requirement for employees it was stated if a risk to the health and safety of others cannot be reduced to an acceptable level through a workplace accommodation the employee may be excluded from physically entering the workplace now it's nearly two years later at this point what science shows that unvaccinated employees still are a health and safety risk to others unvaccinated students are allowed on campus and there's no longer a testing masking or daily symptom checker requirement for anyone coming on campus at this point why hasn't the policy changed to allow unvaccinated workers with approved exemptions back on campus if you change this policy there will
356be hundreds of teachers who will gladly return to teach in person this will help to alleviate some of the current Staffing crisis due to teacher shortage I am happy to serve in the Virtual Academy for another year but my heart physical classroom thank you for listening and considering this change in policy thank you for your time this concludes public comment we will now return to item number eight Tab 8 is the adoption of the 2023 LAUSD local control and accountability plan and presentation of the 2023 State accountability dashboard local indicators hear the speakers first why don't we hear the speakers first as staff comes down let's start with Maria Luis Obama she's going [Applause] good afternoon board members and Mr Carvalho my name is Maria Luisa Palma parent and family engagement standard met is that
357true although I am a parent of an LAUSD student I am here this afternoon speaking on behalf of oliada Inc a non-profit organization I recently founded with a purpose to promote parent engagement with school districts through research Outreach identification of barriers and education so let me give you one example of why these services are needed the state accountability local indicators that have been presented here for your approval tonight performance standard number three lcff priority three which is parent and family engagement the standard is the district measures its progress in building relationships between School staff and families building Partnerships for student outcomes and seeking input for decision making now the district summarizes progress toward this goal now you determine whether you've met the standard not met or not met for two or more years you say
358you've met this standard allow me to be skeptical about that now the document that you have for approval today goes over a number of areas now I invite the public to read this document even though it's only available through a link in today's agenda materials now to me this sounds like a fantasy tale a best interpretation of actual practices at the district one point specifically the school experience survey now I'll discuss numbers from that survey from 21 to 22. your document looks at the most recent numbers but those are not available publicly and this is just math now I calculated enrollment in the district during that year and then I counted the number of responses these two different data points are available but separately now the in Rome the percent of enrollment that actually responded
359let's say in high schools is only 26 for the question that you quoted in this document I feel welcome to participate at the school so only 26 of those parents responded yet what you cite in your document is that high school students 85 percent of their parents agreed or strongly agreed with that statement but if we multiply the 26 percent of actual responses times the 82 percent that responded favorably in that year you only get a 21 so only 21 percent of parents actually make the statement that they agree or strongly agree with the statement so these are the only numbers that you normally show in the Strategic plan or in this document you never say what is the percentage of the total enrollment you only give the percentages of the number of participants the
360no the number of responses can we see how this is important this particular difference do not exclude these other data points thank you for your time Miguel Dominguez I see you're on the line Miguel Dominguez press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes to speak oh I'm sorry I'm buried in my computer come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin uh hi uh what is it good evening good evening carvalo on board uh my name is Miguel Dominguez I'm the director for education and youth policy at Community Coalition I'm also here is peeking on behalf of the equity Alliance for Ellie's kids um I'm here to talk about the lcap uh as we just had a conversation about budget it being a values based I think the lcap
361is values based as well too because you can't achieve a lot of votes in no cap without having that proper budgets right um and I want to just uh say that I am I'm happy to see just kind of like a lot of inclusion around like sunny and B sap and then and then and and uh in the budget and then the lcap um and I think uh uh that's pretty huge right because I think that the The Advocates that you you have here today speaking on multiple issues are here because they recognize that there has been a historical disinvestment it has been historical achievement gaps uh to have disproportionately impacted black and brown students um particularly in certain neighborhoods right um and and what does that cause is that it's left generations of black
362and brown students behind um and that's kind of like what we're dealing with when we talk about the budget and the lcap is that a lot of the students who are here now are inheriting a lot of those inequities right and what we call stubborn achievement gaps and then I do want to acknowledge that it's been a fight to even have uh black students be a part of the lcap to have certain goals around the right to have like I need students be a part of it um and even though we talk about it like it's normal and as it's protected it has been a fight it has been a fight uh and it's because of folks that just keep on showing up week after week year after year to be able to do this
363right it's protecting our wins is the bare minimum that we can do and what we really need to see is like have the whole budget the whole cap reflect a lot of that stuff right and have resource allocation to match it as well and that's what it'll really take to meet the lcap goals uh to like really uh Target a lot of those resources to uh disproportionately impact the communities um and I understand that it's a tough job to like preserve the budget but I also want to acknowledge that when we hear protecting the budget and then we're going to have a hard time and hard conversations it's a historically black and brown communities like South La have historically lost right uh whenever we we see pink slips it has been disproportionately fact seeing at
364higher highest in communities and so when we hear those tough tough conversations that are coming that's what we hear is that tough conversations it'll disproportionately harm black and brown students um and so what what did it really take to close these opportunity gaps in the district um is to make real efforts and we make real efforts towards achieving lcap metrics is that the district needs to take both leadership that will take comprehensive approach that builds Equity district-wide by augmenting current efforts so that's me that means doing the Sani and the B sap and the equity Alliance and doing more right and it is about and it isn't about a nor conversation we should do sending Orbeez app or Equity multiplayer right um and so uh I invite I'm asking I'm applauding you to uh because
365of everything that you've done so far to make the progress right that's really what it's going to take is to continue the happiest conversations and I can and I challenge you to continue to have those uh the tough conversations um because uh we can't continue to put the budget um and lcat metrics and all that stuff on the backs of black and brown high needs students in particular we we really got to start doing that um and we gotta and I invite you as well to to to to engage the South State uh community and and really move towards the authentic decision making Beyond engagement right um and so saski once again don't release the there's any uh uh committed budget until we have more clarity in terms of like how we're going to maintain
366a lot of these Investments to be able to meet these Hellcat metrics thank you for your time thank you for your time Pedro T I see you signed up to speak online but I you're not online are you here in the room Pedro t okay Maria Desi Ortiz I see you are online please press star six to unmute yourself and you have three minutes once you begin afternoon distinguished members and while after 10 years that the new financing of scfs the district is still committing the same mistakes and I will say I will tell you why an apparent representative expressed the question out of the hundreds of pages in El Cap can you tell me on what page does it talk about the supports directly for the English learners I think not even you all
367have read all of El Cap which is like a Bible not everybody reads it the deficiencies that lcap has are also regarding the different Investments that lcap has there is no monitoring there is no evaluation Also regarding the goals it says 100 graduation when you only have 80 something percent of graduation and it's so competitive when 50 where's the 36 percent that's missing I'm pretty sure you don't know also learning for all how can you say that when the English Learners are at such a low percentage for English and for special education lpac has them below the level at 60 do you do you call that proficiency for all and then attendance and goal for that has to do with parent participation when it comes to that goal it doesn't even speak about how schools
368are funded with all the programs that the schools have and translation is deplorable in the schools especially with the school plans how can you have a goal for when you don't even have in schools a way to communicate to parents the different programs that the students need to to better in many ways themselves so a lot of schools are not functioning and a lot of things in the schools aren't working like the air conditioning and the water and they're supposed to be green spaces let's not even mention safety it's a joke because you are not the ones in the schools how can you call this equity this is a lack of equity Equity a lack of fulfillment please you need to be more proactive and assertive to have a transparent lcap document when it comes
369to financing and Investments and funds and how the parents can be informed and using indicators with a survey that does not reflect thank you very much of the parent thank you Daniella Henry are you here in the audience Daniel Henry come on up you have three minutes to speak once you begin hi there my name is Daniella Henry and I'm a current legal intern with the ACLU of Southern California I've personally read all 1563 pages of the budget and lcap documents the district has provided we're severely concerned about the lack of accessibility and Clarity of the budget and now-cap documents California law requires the documents communicate to parents students and teachers about what their school is spending money on the community should know that the funding what funding is going towards supporting our teachers and
370students how much of it is being invested and actually spent in the black student achievement fund and why the police budget continues to rise substantially despite the research showing the mental and physical harm done to students by school police the 2023-2024 lcap calls for 58.54 million in police funding which is a 9.55 million increase from the previous year's allocated funds and a 6.2 million increase in the actual expenditures based on the 2022-2023 lcap there's an additional 15.4 million referenced in the operating budget for potential total budget of 73.4 million based on the unclear budget document this is 11 million more than the total spending of 62.6 Million last year the district seems to be content with continuously spending more on police than budgeted and fails to spend all of the planned expenditures on resources that
371actually support students in 2023 school year the district did not meet planned expenditures in these categories teacher pipeline support by 1.4 million Arts funding by 5.89 million the Community Schools initiative by 33.88 million mental health supports by another 1 million and most egregiously the district only spent about 50 million of the 104 million promise to the black student achievement program now the district has rolled over carryover funds from the 2023-2024 lcap hiding the fact that the district is not in fact raising the base funding amount from BS app and instead is using this 54 million leftover funds to create the perception that they're increasing funding while allowing the substantial amount of under spending to go absolutely unaddressed the budget and the lcap documents are confusing repetitive and circuitous for example the lcap assigned 50 the
3728.54 million to police stating that this funding was from carryover from previous years as well as funding for this community computer-aided dispatch system the income and cost student negotiated collective bargaining as well but they overspent in 2021 and 2022 um as well as there is one fewer full-time equivalent position and the dispatch only accounts for 2.5 million so where is the carryover coming from in previous years there's also been additional funding spent on police and other funding and line items this is absolutely unclear the memorandum of under of understanding what the lspa will only further The increased need for police spending by raising the pay for sworn police and non-sworn police substantially police are already receiving nearly three times that of teachers and employee retirement benefits as a percentage of salary without Clarity in the
373budget how are students teachers parents and community members supposed to hold the district accountable for Stu for Community priorities thank you so much so we will hear from Channing Martinez who I don't see but he's calling in Mr Martinez uh is not online right now so that concludes public comment for uh all right they have before us tab eight which we spoke at some length at the last meeting uh but if there are questions or comments people wish to raise now this would be the time to do so seeing none a motion is in order to adopt uh the 23 2023 local control accountability plan the lcap and presentation of the 2023 State accountability dashboard local indicators emotion is in order moved by Dr McKenna seconded by Mr melboine Noble discussion hearing no discussion I
374want to make sure that board members Gomez and Ortiz Franklin have an opportunity I'm looking at them online and I do not see them with a handouts okay first before let's take the roll on number eight then Dr McKenna yes Dr Rivas yes Mr Morrison Mr Melvin yes Miss Gomez yes Miss Ortiz Franklin Ms Ortiz Franklin uh board president Goldberg yes shall we hold the role open for Mr schmurlsen swertres Franklin right and the board student board member shin yes and uh let's take uh Ms Gomez is on now for uh item number uh seven the adoption of the budget yes okay all right so we'll leave the role open on that I believe all right we have just been informed that procedurally a board is supposed to vote on the lcap first and then
375on the budget so we will remove the prior votes on both and ask for you to call the role first on the lcap budget or we just did the bill okay do the technicality all right so what we'll do is we'll keep the vote we just did ask Mr smurlsen for his vote on the L caps I can also add my vote okay good all right so we got a yes on number eight the l cap uh pardon me on numbers yes yeah l number eight the l cap yes and yes for Mr schmerelson so there are now seven votes on that seven eyes on the 2023 El Cap and now we're going to move for a re-vote on the 2023-2024 budget that's tab seven so if we have a we're gonna move in second
376all over again all right we need a motion on the budget Mr Schmelson moves it Dr McKenna seconds it call the motion call the roll please on the adoption of the 2023-24 budget item number seven Dr McKenna yes Dr Rivas yes Mr Morrison yes yes yes Ortiz Franklin yes for president Goldberg yes student board member Shin yes seven eyes yeah the babies there we got got two babies actually one in each arm so okay um did we have any other votes for either of them that we wanted to make sure that they got a chance to do are we good all right are there any adjourning motions it's not quite an adjourning motion but I realized I unintentionally saved the best for last when at the beginning I was going from one through seven I
377seem to have neglected eight our superintendent and I just wanted to um you know as the last word of the last meeting wanted to express my gratitude to our superintendent to borrow his turn of phrase he has the belief the skill and the will to make change for LAUSD students and it's been a privilege to know you to sit next to you and to work alongside you in LAUSD thank you sir are there any adjourning motions I actually have one it is with great sadness that I ask that we adjourned in memory of Bob Brooks Bob Brooks was born August 8 1942 and grew up in Redondo Beach she loved learning he had over 4 000 books in his apartment loved his family his daughter tomoko his ex-wife and fellow Dr Nancy and his two
378Ohana Carla and Nicole after receiving his ba from Stanford in 1964 he went into medicine graduated from USC medical school in 1968 fulfilled his military service in San Francisco where he treated young men injured in the Vietnam War and completed a Psychiatry residency but soon decided that Psychiatry was not for him and retrained in Family Medicine at UCLA at the height of the AIDS epidemic he opened one of the first clinics in West Hollywood that treated age patients he worked at the clinic during the day spent his nights in the hospital visiting his patients he ran monthly workshops called being well being gay where he updated patients and their families on medical advances instructed them on nutrition and meditation and made a space for patients and their supporters to share their experiences but in the
3791990s Bob pursued a second career education and for the last 20 years he was the academic coordinator for the after school program laser literacy arts culture education and Recreation he often said quote set high expectations for our students and they will suppress them he created a spelling and definition competition called word wizard using difficult words rarely taught to middle school students inspired by Bob's enthusiasm students threw themselves into the competition and it was not unusual for his students to master all 60 words requiring laser staff to cough up additional funds to award 10 first place winners he made a business to make math fun and accessible for his students a love he shared with his daughter to Moko a math teacher math coach and assistant principal he started the laser after school program's homework meetings
380and you know it got his homework program got so popular they had wait lists when was the last time you ever heard of a group of kids being on a wait list to get into the homework club but that was Bob he was remarkable and he's first started at one school and then put this kind of homework club in all eight of lasers after school programs it was a remarkable remarkable man and anybody who ever met him just fell in love with him immediately he was deeply loved by his friends and family and colleagues he cared so deeply for others and worked so hard to make sure that young people in Los Angeles were given the opportunities to learn and grow and challenge themselves and discover who they truly were he got ill really at
381the end of a bout of covet and died relatively quickly and it was like an unbelievable loss for our young people in eight schools that we work with in laser because he made an idea that sharing ideas and working together and learning more math and getting deeply involved in your homework together was fun was not to be avoided and so we all have to say that we will miss Bob Bob Brooks and his his Brilliance his energy his love of young people oh God how he loved young people and how he made it a place where they felt safe to ask questions about homework and not feel like someone was thinking there was something wrong or stupid about them and so Bob Brooks will be remembered I I have to say by an awful lot
382of students for an awful lot of years he was there from the 1994 until this last year and it was able to get these kinds of homework clubs started told me once as he was Revisited him when he was dying he told me once that if he had known about education sooner he probably never would have been a doctor but he loved what he did and he loved those young people in a way that made them feel very very special and he will be truly remembered at the remarkable time of 651 we are adjourned [Music]