001meeting of the board of education for the Martinez Unified School District to order at 5:30 on August 11th, 2025. Do we have any public comments related to close session? Seeing none, we will adjourn to close session. Okay, we're going to reconvene to a regular board meeting. We have nothing to report out from close session. So now we will you please join me in the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Do we have any changes to the agenda? No changes at this time. Thank you. >> Do I have a motion? >> I'll move to approve the agenda. >> Seconded. All in favor? I >> I. >> So moved. >> Do we have
002any employee organizational reports? Mea Good evening. Um, today was our first day back and um, it's a little bit exciting to to be back. A little sad that the summer's over, but it is nice to start up new routines and just to start we're going to have a good year. And so I would like to um say we'd like to welcome Dr. Patrick um to our district and we're looking forward to working with you this year and we're looking forward to having a really good 2526 school year. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. Do we have any um reports from CSEA? No. Okay. Do we have any comments from the PTA? >> Great. >> Good evening. My name is Jenny Celestri. I'll be serving as the president of the Martinez Council of PTAs. My little
003assistant Charlotte here. Um, I'd like to give a warm welcome as well to Dr. Patrick, our new superintendent. Um, she was gracious enough to uh grant us some time with all of the council presidents this year and talk about how we could work together and I'm also looking forward to that. Um, I'd also like to introduce the names of all of our unit presidents. We have Monica Minesis from John Mir, Amy Joe Mulvaney from John Sweat, Sheiley Arnold from Mela Park, Jennifer Penny from Martinez Junior High, Todd Navaro from Alhamra High School, and myself for Lassus Elementary. Together, we are a community of volunteer parents, teachers, and community advocates. Although each site is very different, our goals are very much aligned in creating a learning environment for students, teachers, staff, and our community. We support
004each of our school sites by fundraising, volunteering our time, and creating community events for families to connect together. Last year, we contributed over 500,000 amongst all the PTAs, and we're excited to have another strong year of support together. You might be wondering, who is this lady going to what is this lady going to ask me to do? Don't worry, I'm not going to sell you any uh cookie dough or wrapping paper tonight. Um, but I'd like to introduce um something that my assistant's holding up. Um, and that is a membership drive. So, joining the PTA does not mean you have to sell cookie dough, although you can. Um, and it doesn't mean that you need to volunteer 40 hours a week. Um, but by joining one of the units, we have six units in our
005district. Um, the cost is between six and $11 per year. And, um, we're uh, proposing to position this up as one group this year. So, we'll with permission we'll have this available if anyone wants to join. Um, and then I'll end with if you love Martinez, you'll love getting to know the PTAs and how we support our schools. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. And thank you for all you do for our schools. That's a great amount of money. So, thank you. >> Okay. Next, we have staff reports, superintendence report. Thank you. Um, President, trustee, trustees, uh, staff and community. Um, what I wanted to to just basically say this evening is that we are actively preparing for the first day of school which will occur on this Wednesday. Our staff returned today and
006we had a really nice meeting um that kind of helped us center what our focus will be on for this this actual school year as we really work to um be more inclusive and to identify and support the needs of all of our students. That was the recurring theme in our meeting this morning. um had a wonderful session and would then it kicked off to our EL training, our training on safety and we will continue for uh tomorrow until we actually start on the first day of school. Um, we are really looking forward to everybody coming back and um, we're very excited and I'm equally excited as I hear from others stakeholders in the community that are happy and looking forward to having a great start to the school year. I just want to reiterate
007that I am actually feeling the exact same way. I'm really looking forward to it. looking forward to getting into classrooms and looking forward to meeting and greeting um as many members of this school community as possible. So, thank you. Great. Thank you very much. Do we have any board reports? >> Okay, go ahead. >> So, good evening everyone. Um this new face, I'm Brenda Leal. I was just recently elected uh to this to the board and I'm honored to be chosen for this position. I look forward to earning the trust of our community. I am committed to collaborating with my fellow board members to always do what is right and in the best interest of our students. Over the past month and a half, I have been privileged to watch our adult school graduation and
008to greet our new hires. Today, I was especially fortunate to help welcome back many of our staff. It has been a few years since we have had everyone back at one venue and I have to say the energy in the room was positively electric. I enjoyed seeing the names of past colleagues displayed with their years of service to Martinez Unified School District and I'm always inspired by the ongoing dedication to our students. I want to welcome Dr. Patrick to the district. I look forward to working with her. And finally, I want to express my gratitude for the untold hours of hard work that everyone has put in to make sure that the school year gets off to a great start. So, thank you to everyone. Thank you. >> Any other board reports? I just wanted
009to take a minute to just to let everyone know that the school year starting that if you um have questions or issues with your schedules that first line of defense is to go to your uh principal um site administrators and then kind of up the ladder because they should be able to resolve any issues that you have. So I just want to kind of put that out there and welcome everyone back to school on Wednesday. Next we have summer school ESY update Matthew Jensen and Yadira Zapata. >> Good evening everybody. Thank you so much for having us here. Miss Zapata is the coordinator of educational services and she and I will be co-presenting on our summer programs and I will be starting First and foremost, we just want to say thank you to the all
010the amazing staff who joined us for both extended school year as well as summer school. Um, they were located at Las Hunes Elementary as well as Vicente Martinez High School and a lot of these staff either worked directly over the summer or supported us in making sure that the program was running smoothly. So, thank you so much So, we'll be starting with extended school year. Um, extended school year is let me move this closer is uh specifically for students who have an IEP who are eligible for this service. And here's just a little bit of information on this slide about what it's intended and not intended for. Um, so when we look at eligibility for extended school year, there's various criteria in which we consider um when determining eligibility at the IEP meeting itself. The
011primary criteria we use is looking at the rate at which a child regresses um over breaks and the rate at which they recoup those skills following breaks. That's the primary criteria. We also look at is a child at a critical stage of development to the extent that missing out on school over the summer will be detrimental to their learning. Um what extended school year is not an exact replica of the regular school year because the purpose of extended school year is to maintain progress not necessarily to learn new skills. Um and it's not just a respbit program or a daycare. We really focus on ensuring that students continue to maintain progress on IEP goals. Here's some information. The majority of extended school year happened at Las Hutes Elementary for preschool to fifth. Um, and we
012had a small number of 612 plus students, meaning grades 6 to 12 and adult students that took place at Vicente. We didn't want them in little baby fifth grade chairs for those big adult students. Um, we had about 80 students attend. So, we um had a little bit more than last school year. Um, I will say that not all 80 showed up every day and attendance is not mandatory. We encourage it because we want students to be at school. Um and again we had our preschool and then we had um two PALS classes which are for students with more extensive support needs and then we had um SDC classes for K12 and our Senica collaborative program over at Bissente. Um we had a lot of teachers and staff at ESY. And I'm not going to
013go over all of them, but um I also didn't include these names on here, but I did want to shout out all the subs that joined us over ESY. Um to no surprise, illness happens. And um I did not miss waking up at 5 in the morning to text that they'd be out and frantically calling and texting subs, finding people. Um it had been a year since I had done that. But um I had a a joy being around students, and without the subs, we wouldn't be able to service all of these students. So, thank you to the subs out there who came about. But like I said, a lot of paras took their summer to work with this program and we wouldn't have been here without them and I will pass it over to
014Miss Sabata. >> Hello. Yes. Okay, it is on. Um, good evening board and Dr. Patrick. Um, so, uh, as Mr. Johnson shared, I oversee high school credit recovery or secondaries credit recovery. Um, same dates as extended school year, same closure dates. Uh, we were housed at Venta Martinez High School. Um, we had three teachers this year. So, we had Liz Chaffy, Maryanne Griffin, and Chris Petiti. These are tried andrue warriors that come back year after year. Um, and I will also shout out some of the substitutes we had. We had Leslie Blum, um, Danielle Adler, um, Millio Dulio came in and pitched in um, because of some illnesses or just some unexpected things that happened um, in people's lives. Um, and we also had a wonderful office manager who was in a previous slide um,
015Francancy Bach who without whom I would probably lose my mind. Um so uh so shout out to all of them. Um so via egeneuity uh it's an online credit recovery program. The courses are provided online. We offer um an array um of courses within English, math, science, social studies, and physical education for our students to access. Um so some statistics. So we had 249 total students enrolled in um credit recovery. That's six students less than last year. I think that's a positive. Less students earning an F, needing to recover credits. Um, of those 219, 210 finished one or more classes. That is up 11% this year. So, we see more students completing their courses. We had four students, so only 2% that did not finish their classes. And that is down from down 6%. So,
016again, another um improvement. And we did have 35 students, so about 14% of the students were dropped. Um, and again, that's a decline in of 14%. And these are various reasons why students are on dropped from summer school. It could be the parent said, "You know what? Summer school is not going to work for us this year. Please withdraw my student." It could be that they actually didn't need the class. Maybe they turned in some extra credit last minute. They were on track to earn an F and then they pulled a Hail Mary and got whatever they needed to to um lift their grades up. Um, sometimes they had other summer commitments. um they didn't need the course after all. And then another reason um we do drop students for excessive absences. Um our policy
017says three absences and you are dropped at the first absence. We are communicating with families, we're sending emails, we're doing phone calls, we're following up and we are um really trying to be communicative of that policy and and if that's our policy, we want to stick to it. So, three absences or more, we are um dropping students, but it's a wide range of um why those students um are, you know, dropped from summer school. Um we had five seniors that were on that um special circumstance and they were all able to complete their courses, earn that diploma. It was a very fun phone call to make to the families to let in and double um to ensure that the families knew that their child had finished and to be in touch with the high school
018um throughout the summer to go ahead and pick up that diploma. So, those were exciting phone calls to make. Um, and we had 280 courses completed in summer school and you can see the breakdown of what subject areas. Math was our biggest um, courses this year. And then everyone else kind of falls in from there. And then looking ahead. So, definitely lots of keys to having successful programs for both extended school year and high school um, credit recovery. So early planning um we've been moving the timeline definitely having a lot of communication with case managers or the high school counselors. Our counselors go in and do presentations in January. So we make everything um live and ready to start enrolling students in January in those classes they need because there's um first semester grades are
019finalized at that point. Lots of communication with students and families, collaboration with our essential personnel. So again those counselors, our custodial team, our case managers, the list goes on. ensuring that we are getting um our staffing posted, we're hiring, we're filling those positions to ensure that we have coverage and then definitely um for extended school year having any refresher training that would be beneficial for them to know >> and if I could add to that to what Miss Sapata just said about staffing that was something that I was forewarned for my first year as director was to get staffing secured sooner rather than later. Um, and I was very happy that we were able to fill all positions with district staff and didn't need to contract out, which um, took a lot of convincing with
020some staff, but very happy about that. >> And that's it. So, thank you for your time. >> Great. Thank you. That's um, really good to hear that you had more student I mean had less students but more >> completion >> finished completion. So, yeah, that was awesome. I'm I'm glad to hear that. So, thank you for doing that and thank you to everyone who volunteered and did all that. Um, any board questions or comments? >> Well, I'll just say thank you. My son did attend ESY and I will say that Mr. Jensen was there every single morning. Huge smile on his face. It was always a really welcoming environment for the students. And um I won't out anyone, but I have a very good friend whose son attended and did credit recovery and was really
021successful and actually told me I understand algebra now. So um so that was great. So not only did we get the credits, but he's like I actually feel like I'm, you know, kind of knowing what I'm doing. So So excellent. So I feel like all around a success and thank you for your hard work. Okay. >> Thank you very much. Okay, moving right along. We have um public comments. Under government code 54954.3, members of the public have the right to address the board on any matter within the board's jurisdiction. However, the board may not take action on any non-aggenda item. Individual speakers will be allowed three minutes to address the board. 20 minutes have been allocated for this portion of the agenda. Additional time is allowed at the end of the meeting if there was
022not enough time to speak during public comments. Do we have any public comments? Yep. Yep. Do you want to just drop the in the basket and then feel free? Uh yeah, just if you signed a speaker form. Oh, that's that's okay. You you can do it afterwards. No worries. Yep. You may. Thank you. Um, good evening board members. My name is Brooke Guy. My daughter attends John Mera Elementary School. Um, she's a bright, eager learner. Um, she entered kindergarten already. Uh, and she was reading the magic treehouse series. Um, she likes doing math worksheets for fun. She's very smart. Um, she spent much much of last year learning site words like the house, a cat, counting to 100, playing with toys, and making friends. I'm not sure how much academic progress she made in kindergarten.
023Um, but I had really high hopes for first grades because that's when real real school starts. Um, legally speaking. Um, so we just we just got our uh card about um where she's going to be. And um I learned she's placed in a kindergarten and first grade combination class. Um something I didn't even know was possible in this district. I was told the combination class is new and it's developed due to enrollment numbers, but Martinez has four elementary schools. They're all within a 10-minute drive of each other filled with multiple grade levels at each school. I'm guessing there's like 250 kids in each grade level. With all these kids, why are we combining classes? Um, I was told that combination classes can be created at any time in the future as well. Um, So, I
024was very surprised. I was disappointed when I found out my daughter's placed in a combination class and we're starting in a couple days. So, there's not much I can do. Uh, no alternatives such as a transfer to another school was offered. No one's consulted me about it. No one explained how the classes will operate. Um, no one's given me time to come up with an alternative plan. And no one can tell me what specific criteria is used for placing students in the combination classes. um we don't know if it's testing, report cards, birth dates to and to me it sounds like it's just a random selection. The only way that these mixed grade classrooms works is if we have like smaller student toteer ratios, which isn't going to happen, and carefully selected students. So like
025maybe the very bright kindergarteners and then the first graders that need more time. Um as far as I'm aware, there's no criteria making these selections. Combination classes historically haven't produced positive academic outcomes, which is why they're typically only used in rural areas as a last resort option. Um, we have age and grade levels for a reason. And Martinez is far from rural. And I have a feeling this all boils down to one thing, which is money. So, I'm here today speaking on behalf of my daughter who I'm want and I want to set her up for success and I want to see her challenge to grow. I'm also speaking on behalf of the teachers who are now being burdened with splitting instruction time between two grade levels, managing a wider range of behaviors, and they
026have to develop multiple curriculums at once. Um, teachers don't need this additional workload. We all know they're overworked and underpaid. >> Thank you. And I would just um suggest you contact the principal and have a conversation because they can give you some more information. Thank you. Any other public comments? Okay. Uh, next we have the consent calendar. Any changes to the consent calendar? >> No changes. >> Do I have a motion? >> Approve the consent calendar. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I I >> So moved. I always forget to acknowledge the donations, so I'm going to do it after the fact real quick. Um, Home Depot, Loft, and the Blackbod giving fund. Sorry. Um, okay. Next, we have discussion information items, state budget update, Andy Cannon. >> Uh, good evening board. Um this
027presentation is designed to show you the final 202526 California state and education budget in a very condensed um fashion here. So we're going to really look at some of the highlights of what's going on um based on when we left you in June to now. Um and we'll be able to see the budgets. Um so we'll see the education budget, we'll see the federal programs that have been kind of a hot topic lately and see where we end with that. So, with the next slide, I wanted to start with California state revenues. Um, and you'll notice that they are lowered from when we started the governor's budget. So, the graphic to the right shows the governor's budget, which was in January. And Governor Nuomo at that time with his staff believed that we would have
028revenues of about 206 billion. You can see going now to the enacted budget through the summer that were approximately 10 million or 10 billion, excuse me, less um than that. Now, um there is um several things going on that are causing these revenue forecasts to decline. Um one is the increase in unemployment that's being projected. Um high housing cost. Um and this isn't just housing costs across the board. It's particularly around affordable housing um and the lack of new growth in that sector. We're also looking at increased immigration enforcement. Again, another topic in the news. Um and the only um highlight in here is that we are expecting that inflation may um decrease by 2026, but not in such a way that we're going to see a return to, you know, egg, milk, and and
029prices of that nature going there. So, we're still going to see inflation is just not going to be as great as it was before. uh where we're looking at those two big pieces of the decline in that revenue. Um 8 billion of it is from personal income tax. And this is a little bit of an unknown um area because due to some of the California wildfires that were just recently, not all um all individuals in California have had to turn in their personal income tax. So we're also hedging against that a bit as a state to see what that comes in. Um, we know when we've had natural disasters in the past in California, the state has thought that revenues weren't going to be as great as they were, and they've been actually more. Um,
030so we'll just see where this ends. We don't know at this point in time. Um, but a lot of the the revenue projections is that kind of safety net of projecting that there could be some loss with that. U, we also see that there's a well, we'll talk about the two billion where that's coming from in the next slide. uh in the California education budget specifically, even though we're projecting less revenues at a state, we are seeing no reductions in the education budget. So that means that the state is saying that they're going to fully fund Prop 98. But in order to do so, um they are going to be doing something that is risky from, you know, folks that have been around for a long time. when we started a rainy day fund as
031a state, we put away dollars to be able to support education so that we wouldn't have some of the difficulties we had early on in the 2000s. Um so the graphic to the right here shows that we had over $8 billion in 2022 23 and our rainy day fund but because um the state legislature and Governor Nuome has decided to fully fund Prop 98 which they have to um they are going to be drawing down these reserves. So you're going to go from an 8 billion rainy day fund um to nothing. We had to completely wipe it out in order to be able to pay for the 2324 Prop 98 amount. Small investment in 2425 this past year 455 million and then we're back down to zero next year. So we are able to the
032state is able to substantiate what it's offered and what it's projecting, but there's nothing left in the reserves um if the economy were to go through some sudden turmoil. Um, so eight billion of it, right? Because you're looking for how do you get to the 10 billion dollars there? Um, so eight billion of that is from um deferrals. The other two billion is mostly from a deferral. So the state at times will use budget deferrals, meaning it will hold your June payment um for a district and they won't give it to you till July. So it's one month difference, but it is completely in a different fiscal year for the state. So in this manner the state will save almost $1.9 billion dollars by deferring it into the next year. Why did they do that?
033They do that in hope that the um economy will improve in such a way that they will be able to pay this year's bills with next year's dollars. So it's looking at a rosy forecast in the future. Um our colas are projected to be above 3% for the next three years, fiscal year 2026, 27, and 28. Um but we're also competing against an overall decrease in enrollment. So as you can see up on the slide, 16% decline um is expected from the beginning of 2018 all the way until 2034 with a brief kind of um pause in that decrease in enrollment due to TK. So, as we have introduced um a lower age level for kids to enter the school system through TK, we've kind of staved off that enrollment. And we'll see that with
034our this probably our last year of good growth in TK because we're kind of maximizing that out. And then we'll see an average of a 1% annual decline across the state in attendance. So, some of those state funding highlights for us, and we've talked about this at different presentations, but I want to just give more information because it's a little more solidified. And when I say solidified, we have a dollar per ADA, but we still don't have a resource number. So, we are anticipating booking um revenue for our student support professional development discretionary block grant. Take a breath. Um but we haven't received that resource yet. So you'll see that most likely at first interim, but we are going to get um projected $315 per ADA, which is a total of 1.12. And I'll go
035through some of those different numbers when we talk about the next section, which is the 45day revise. So give you a little bit more detail um at the next presentation. Um the learning recovery emergency school block grant. Um, we expected to get a little bit more back than this, but right now, School Services of California is saying that we should get about $114 per ADA. Um, that's also then multiplied against our unduplicated pupil percentage, um, which is giving us about 132,000. Uh, and then lastly, um, and really important for us as we work to get that 10 to1 ratio for our students to adults in TK, um, we're increasing the per student amount by almost $2,400, meaning for every TK student, there's additionally $5,500 that the state gives us to be able to pay for
036those reduced class sizes and the services that come with that. Federal programs, we've got some good news um, coming out of the next slide. uh in the beginning of August, we were concerned, well, we've been concerned for a while about whether we would receive our title two, three, and four funding, which is for teacher training, English learners, and for providing well-rounded education and other sources through title 4. Um we did get word um early um in August that that was going to be restored. Um the federal government had put a hold on it temporarily because they wanted to review those programs and determine whether they were going to on them or not. U but after several states sued the federal government, they decided to release that and not contest it any longer. The great news
037for us is those dollars um although we've already booked them and we planned on having them, but now they're secure that we're going to see those coming in. Uh but we do see that at the same time of that restoration of title two, three, and four, there is an ongoing um desire from the Trump administration to either eliminate or reduce dramatically the education um budget and staffing. So we'll have to look and see what that does over the year and then make adjustments to it if it will eventually impact any type of funding that we received. And that just means that federal funding is in doubt. We know that federal funding is is a product of Congress making decisions in their appropriation bills. Um but the administration, the executive administration can have a lot of
038um impact on that. So we'll see what that looks like over the next couple years. Um and especially as we get to budget time in the spring. And again, that is a very short kind of condensed version. Um, I think there's some really good new pieces of information there that we're able to provide, but substant substantively there wasn't a whole lot of change from what we saw before we left in June. And I'm open to any questions you may have about the California budget. >> Great. Thank you very much. Does anyone have any questions? Public comment. I didn't have any questions either, so thank you very much for that presentation. Next, we have the 45day revise. And Annie Cannon, you're up again. >> Thank you. Um, it's recommended that we bring a 45day revised budget
039anytime we see anything that um has a dramatic or a substantial impact on the budget. Uh so for this year because we now have information on the student support and professional development discretionary block grant wanted to make the board aware which kind of did in the last um presentation but go a little deeper in here. Um we are estimating that we're going to receive $1.12 million for that. Um and we will um we will be putting that in unodited actuals if we can get a resource for it and project it to the budget but we'll definitely have it for first interim. Um, when we created the budget, we gave a conservative estimate of $1 million. And because we didn't have that information yet, I put it in fiscal year 2027 instead of this fiscal year
040because we needed to account for those dollars, especially as we have a lot of um, uh, programs that we are funding for our restricted dollars. Um, and we will be looking at, um, we've talked about this several times, we'll be looking at how we're going to prioritize through the board's actions on what they want to fund through programs through the district. And so, we wanted to maintain that and we put that million dollars in there. Where we'll change is that when we get to unodudited actuals or first interim, we'll be able to switch that $1 million that was in 27 and we'll change it to 1.12 um, for this current fiscal year. Um there is some negative news with the learning recovery block grant. I alluded to it just briefly. We were projecting to have
041about $400,000 returned because that was the amount of dollars that um we did not get when the grant was initially given to us. So that was what I was expecting that because all of the language was fully funding that block grant. Since that time, school services of California has put out a calculator and based on their calculations, we would be only receiving $132,000. So that change is about $268. So we have a plus um 112 $120,000 from the student support block grant and we have a minus 268 from the learning recovery block grant. And I'll talk about what that looks like in our summary. um for federal revenue. Just um for reference point, we know that title two, three, and four were restored, but at the time we were estimating that to be $182,000 if
042we didn't receive those funds. So that's good news that that is now secure. And then with adult education, um they receive $173,000 from the federal government and that was another program that was um on hold and now that'll be freed up and support our adult education program. So overall, um, the fiscal year 2026, we're going to see $852,000 in change. That is lowering the learning recovery block grant, but putting in the other block grant. And then in fiscal year 27, we'll see a $1 million decrease. So overall, with all of these changes from what we projected to what we have now, we're seeing a net loss of $148,000 in our multi-year projection. So, a lot of money, but it is something that we can we can work around um as we're really mindful of our
043spending and as we project out what we're going to do the next few years. Uh and that is our 45day revise. If there's any questions, I can I can help you and answer those. Thank you very much. Any questions? Any public comment? Well, thank you very much. Not good news, but it's not as bad as it could have been. So, thank you very much. Okay. Next, um we have uh CSBA conference attendance, Dr. Gigi Patrick. Thank you. Uh before I go into the very short presentation uh PowerPoint on the CSBA conference, I'd like to start by just providing a little bit of information for why this conference is so important. So the California School Boards Association hosts its annual educators conference and trade show. It is a premier event designed to support and empower educational
044professionals across the state. Board trustees and superintendants are able to um network and also participate in professional development. The event supports participants in fulfilling their professional responsibilities through collaboration and shared learning. There is also an exclusive trustee workshop which board trustees only members um only school board members can attend which is tailored to the unique demands of school governance. The workshop also provides up-to-date information and resources essential for effective school business practices. The conference usually has key areas of focus and topics are are curated to address current challenges and innovations in special education, facilities management, labor relations as well as legal expertise. So typically educational law attorneys present the latest updates and guidance on legal matters in education and attendees gain access to specialized legal resources relevant to school operations and policy. All right. So
045this conference will take place on December 5th of this year. December, excuse me, December 3rd through 5th of 2025, and it will be held in Sacramento, California. Um the early registration rates, the reason we're bringing it so early in the school year is that um we have to take care of this, I believe, tomorrow. Is it Nikki? Tomorrow. Um for early to get the best early registration rates, um we want to try to expend as you know, save as much as possible. So we want to get the not be paying late registration. So hopefully um the we'll meet the early registration deadlines and there are hotel and lunchon fees associated um with the cost of this event and um we provided a range of hotel costs. Hopefully uh the goal is to for any board
046trustee who wants to stay in Sacramento and not drive back and forth to attend the conference. Um the goal is to try to stay in the host hotel and we have the rates there for you as well as um each day there is a specific lunchon that uh the trustees and and myself can attend as well as there are some events um there's a reception and bell awards uh ceremony um that the trustees might want to attend as well. So we provided those dates and the lunchons and the cost but just assume for each day each trustee would only attend one lunchon. So there'll be one lunchon each day. Um and so these are basically the the details for uh the conference and um I think it concludes my report unless there are any questions
047from the trustees I'll entertain them. Thank you very much. Um I know last year I think only two of us attended. Um it was in Southern California. Um this is something that especially with the new superintendent and a new trustee. I think it's real important um for not just networking but just kind of team building to attend this. So I'm I'm all in favor of this and I do appreciate that we got this on the agenda, pushed for that to get it um the lower rate. So I'm all in favor. I don't know what other people's opinions are or thoughts, but just wanted to throw it out there. >> Yeah, I so I wasn't able to attend last year, but I did attend the first four years on the board and it's always been a
048really good experience and I think we always learn a lot and we're able to bring things back that we've learned about governance, um, workforce housing, uh, different different legal matters. Um, so I definitely would support attendance and I think it's good that it's in Sacramento this year so we don't have to worry about travel expenses either. So >> So will we get more information on where it's being held exactly and dates and times and addresses, things like that? >> Absolutely. Yeah. So it starts um the main conference is the 3rd through the 5th and I think as a new trustee you would go to the new trustee orientation which is the day before um but all that information will pro provided. This is just um we're just talking about is this something the board wants
049to approve and is it a good thing to go to move forward but you will get all that information. >> Oops. I would definitely like um the opportunity to attend. Great. Yeah, I like just like Courtney, we have gone most years. I was not able to attend last year, but I have every other year. One um thing to clarify and Courtney, you made me think of it because of the travel expenses. I think at some point we had talked about when they are in Northern California that we would not that the if if people decide to stay overnight that that would be an individual expense, not a district expense. Um, and we had talked about that because in the alternating years when we're in um, like San Diego or Anaheim, that's something that we don't
050really have a choice. And so we had decided I think I felt like that was a discussion we had. >> Yeah, I think we talked about that for San Francisco. Um, bec you know, like I think I took Bard in each day. I think Sacramento is a little bit different because that's not an option. Um, and it's a little bit of a further distance. Um, so although I support keeping costs down, I'm not sure that it makes sense in this instance to, but I know like for myself, if I go Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I would want to only spend probably Wednesday night and Thursday night. So, Right. Um, hopefully there's still a way to try to keep the cost down. Yeah. Okay. I just wanted to put that out there. I'm okay either way. I
051just it was something that had come up and I I do recall that a lot of people barted and so then that was a lot easier and that's not an option in Sacramento. So, um but yeah, the conference I'm I'm all in. I think it's great. >> Yeah. And I know that in San Francisco I drove and uh I attended some of the events afterwards and I drove home at 1 o'clock. I think I drove Courtney home but um you know and then I got there the next morning at 8 o'clock. So, it was a really long day and I think for safety reasons I didn't want to do that again myself but um anyway so you don't have to say many but um do we have any public comment okay do we have a
052motion >> what are we looking for >> um I guess to approve the uh attending the conference and hotel if someone is staying I I think um one member said one trustee said that they have finals and so they would probably just drive both ways. Um someone else might have a friend to stay with and you know obviously we would not stay the last night. Um it's usually half day anyway. So um >> you know if like um Trustee Le would um go the day before I there was a class I think that I wanted to go that I think you you and um you both attended in the past that I might want to go to um for more experienced board members. So, I would go the day before also on December 2nd. >>
053Okay. So, I'm going to move to um approve conference attendance and host hotel stay for those that want or need it. Is that a fair motion? >> That's great. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> So moved. Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. We do not need any um more public comments because we had that we only had one speaker. Um so we have com comments from superintendent, board members or future agenda items. Do you want to start us Courtney? >> Um yeah, I don't have a lot. Uh I wasn't even sure when school started this year because for the first time in like 13 years I don't have a student anymore. Um, but uh I am very thankful for all of the things that went over went happened over the
054summer. I also got to attend the adult school graduation which is always a great event. Um, summer school sounded fabulous. So, thank you for that. And everybody else, welcome back. And I hope everybody has a really great year. I just wanted to acknowledge that Matthew Shik is here and um I know you weren't sitting up here yet, but thank you for coming. Yes, next week we're waiting. Thank you for coming and um sitting through the meeting and um I'm wishing everybody a great year. Um I do appreciate the untold hours. I I can't say that enough um that it took for Wednesday to come off smoothly. So, thank you to everyone. Just say a quick thank you to all the staff that worked over the summer and then got everything ready for the start of
055the school year. And again, welcome Dr. Patrick, our new uh trustee and our soon to be new uh student representative. Thank you. >> Yeah, of course. I'll echo. I hope everyone has a fantastic start to the school year and I wanted to take a moment to recognize Dr. Patrick in her first very short meeting. Um thank you. We're all, I think, really excited for you to be here and to get going with um all the work that we have coming up and we have some workshops for governance training and I think we're going to really identify some areas that that we want to really focus in on. So, I'm very excited for that. And then also welcome to our newest member, Brenda Liao. I um cannot speak more highly of this woman. I have known
056her I'm not going to hopefully no one will do the math but since I was a student at John Sweat Elementary um so a very very long time she was the union president when I was a teacher in the district and if there's only one thing you need to know about her it is that she is extremely passionate about student success and she will go to bat for every kid in this district so I don't think that we could have a better person sitting with us and I'm so excited to have you here and to have a full board of five it makes it a lot easier I for all of us. So, welcome and um happy start of the school year, everyone. >> Yeah. And I also attended the adult center graduation, which was
057always a lot of fun to attend. Um yeah, thank you for the summer programs and for everyone who worked for the summer. I know that um teachers have it off, but some some worked also, but um classified um also continue to work. So, thank you for that. And welcome, Matthew. We're looking forward to seeing you um up here next next week. And um yeah, uh congratulations to Brenda and Dr. Patrick. We're excited that you're here. And amazingly, you had a very short meeting for your first one. You're you're setting the bar really high. Um but yeah, school starts on Wednesday, so hopefully everyone gets enough sleep and um we're looking forward to a wonderful school year. Um so with that, oh, and it's your turn next. Sorry. Yes. Again, I'm I'm just extremely excited and
058happy to be here and I look forward to visiting all of the schools and um connecting with as many of you as possible and having conversations and check-ins and um just, you know, want to be accessible. And again, I appreciate all of our staff and yes, absolutely kudos to everyone that worked over this summer. Um, I saw people in and out um as I started in July and trying to get those days a day here, a day there so they could still be um accessible to the district and doing all the things that needed to get done to be able to open. So, I want to acknowledge and appreciate that especially um my cabinet Matthew. Oh my goodness. Um and Amy and and Joe just fielding all the the challenges of opening a school year
059and so just appreciating everyone. Um and I'm looking forward to this wonderful new school year. So, thank you and have a great evening. So, with that, we are adjourning at 7:20.