Regular Meeting - Martinez Unified School Board - 6/9/2025

001Okay. We're calling the regular meeting of the board of education for Martinez Unified School District to order on June 9th, 2025. Do we have any public comments related to close session? No, I think we're good. Then we will adjourn to close session. Thank you. Okay, we're reconvening to the regular meeting. So, we have a couple of um items to report out for close session. First item, in consideration of student readmission following expulsion pursuant to education code section 35146, student number 242502. Do we have a motion? I'll move to approve subject to returning to bionis. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll move to approve subject to returning to bionis. All in favor or I'm sorry, roll call Brian I. Trusty Horic Martin I. Trusty Campbell I. And myself is an I. So moved. The next item for consideration

002is a student readmission following expulsion pursuant to education code 35146, student number 24-253. Do I have a motion? And this one is for Vicente. I'll move to approve to readmit to Vicente Martinez High School. I'll second. Um, trustee Marcel O'Brien. I, Trustee Horack Martin, I. Trustee Campbell, I. Myself, I so moved. Next we have consideration of student readmission following expulsion pursuant to education code section 35146 student 24-2506 and this student is returning to Martinez Junior High School. Is there a motion? I move to readmit student to Martinez Junior High School. I'll second. Trustee Michelle O'Brien. Hi. Trusty Horack Martin. I trusty Campbell. I myself as an I. So moved. In close session, the board considered the recommendation for a stipulated suspended expulsion for student number 2024-25-11. Is there a motion to approve the stipulated suspended

003expulsion? I'll move to approve. Trustee Marcel O'Brien. Hi. Trusty Morak Harton. Horak Martin. Hi. Trusty Campbell. I myself I sorry about that. So moved. All right. It is the recommendation of the superintendent that the board appoint bead as principal Alhambor High School for the 202526 school year effective July 1st, 2025. In closed session, on a motion by Logan Campbell and seconded by Annie Horak Martin, the board vote the board voted four to zero to appoint Frank be as principal Alhamra High School for the 202526 school year. Congratulations, Frank. Would you like to say a few words? Oh, we're going to do that later. Sorry, I'm still reporting out. Sorry. reporting out for the conference with labor negotiations. The board is pleased to announce that as a result of its recruitment and interview process and discussion

004in closed section session under negotiations with unrepresented employee, it has selected Dr. Gigi Patrick to be our next superintendent of Martinez Unified School District. Dr. Patrick has 25 plus years in education, most recently assistant superintendent human resources since July 2020. We are confident Dr. Patrick will be a transformative leader of the district. Subject to finalization of the employment agreement between Dr. Patrick and the district, the board will take action to ratify Dr. for Patrick's contract at its negular regular next regular meeting on June 23rd, 2025. Congratulations. Now, we're going to do the pledge of allegiance. If you would join me. United States of America to the stands nationice. Do we have any changes to the agenda? There are no changes. Wait, do we have a motion to approve the agenda? I move to approve the

005agenda. Second. All in favor? I. So moved. Now we have an introduction. Janelle. Good evening. It's my pleasure tonight to introduce Mr. Frank Bey. Um m Mr. Mr. Bey is an East Bay native and graduated from UC Berkeley with his bachelor's degree in history. Mr. Bey went on to earn his teaching credential and began his teaching career as a history teacher, athletic director, and coach at Antioch High School. Mr. Bey then earned his master's degree in educational leadership and became an assistant principal at Freedom High School. After four years as an assistant principal, Mr. Bey became a principal of a TK8 school in Knitson. As a principal in a small district, he also oversees district assessments, attendance, MTSS, EL, and student support programs. Mr. Bey has since earned his second master's degree and also teaches

006ESL at our own Martinez adult education program. Mr. Bey lives in the Martinez community and understands the special role a one high school district plays in the community. He's looking forward to being a bull pup and an active member of our school district community. I'd like to introduce Mr. Frank Bey. Congratulations. There we go. All right. Um, good evening members of the board. Superintendent Rossi. Uh, I want to thank first of all all the panel members uh that came out for the interview on Friday and then today. I know it's taking time out of your day to do that and I really appreciate it. U I also want to thank since she's here, Miss Suzanne Murphy for actually bringing me into the district uh with adult uh ed uh and really kind of getting uh

007me the experience of what Martinez is all about. Uh and so I've had nothing but a wonderful experience underneath her leadership. Uh and I'm really looking forward to taking over the reigns at Alhamra High School. Uh I as as Janelle pointed out um you know coming from a a community I was born and raised in Ann California and we were a one high school at that time and I I really understand the significance of that uh that Alhhamra is a center of our town uh and it's extremely important role that I'm serving in and so I want you to know that I do that with humility uh and respect and so thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations again. We're very excited to have you join us. And can we

008say the little known fact that you were a football player for NFL? So, everyone should be really excited that hopefully the football team will be even better than it's ever been. Okay. Do we have any employee organization reports from Martinez Education Association? No. How about the California School Employees Association? How about comments from the PTA? Nope. Okay. We have correspondents. Helen Rossy. Yes, we do. We have two letters, both from the county office of ed. The first letter um is in response to the submitt of our second interim. The county office uh is in receipt and is also in agreement that the district will be able to meet its financial obligations um for the current and the two subsequent fiscal years. They did um thank us for taking proactive steps to address our deficit by

009adopting a budget reduction plan which we did put in place uh by our budget reductions that we made for the upcoming year. and sorry. And they did um ask that we if we did give out any um um raises for any of our bargaining groups that we did uh submit the um the appropriate disclosures to the county, which we did and were approved. Our second letter is in response to um the updated Williams monitoring list and where we were just with Martinez Junior High I believe on facilities before um we now have added Alhamra John Mir and Losontus because in previous years from 21 to 24 I think Amy right 21 to 24 they were in ATSI although they're not in ATSI now but because they were before they get added into the mix and

010get to have um visits and check to make sure that our students have textbooks and that their facilities are um in good shape and so on and so forth. So, we now have four schools that are going to be um monitored from 25 to 27, which was a little surprise to us because we couldn't figure that out for a bit, but but Amy sorted it out by attending a few county meetings. So that is all I have for today. Great. Thank you. Next we have some board reports. Um I did attend the uh Martinez adult education English second language 26th annual fair international fair and it was fabulous. Um I know a couple of other board members also attended and it was just um a wonderful dancing and singing and to see you know they

011had Russia there, they had Mexico, they had just a number of of countries listed there and they had some had sample food um the dances and it was just a really wonderful event. So if you haven't made it, I know it's in the middle of the day um but next year you should definitely try to attend. It was really wonderful. And then of course we also had um Vicente graduation. We had eighth grade promotion. We had Alhambor High School um graduations which um I attended all of them and they were fabulous. And I have to give a special shout out to Joe uh Gangler because um Sarah Stafford had actually said, "Can you some do something live stream it or something?" And he did a fabulous phenomenal job. I he just jumped on it and

012did it for the um eighth grade promotion first and it was just and then he did it for the high school and so you could hear the band in the beginning and he did a wonderful job. So um congratulations and thank you Joe for doing that. Um that was just awesome. He's a wonderful cabinet member as they all are but that was just above and beyond. So thank you for that. And we have other board reports. Yeah. So in addition to those I attended the uh John Mir Elementary fifth grade promotion. I think most of you all know my son promoted from fifth grade. I'll try not to cry. I'm very much were in a denial moment about moving to the middle school. Um, but here we are and uh, Miss Principal Leau and her

013team of fifth grade teachers and Mr. Pulo and Mr. Ronz, they all put together a really, really lovely and brief promotion, which is always appreciated. I think the kids mostly, I mean, how long can you expect a fifth grader to sit there and um but they did a they performed a song. They performed a Bruno Mars song. It was very cute. And had two speeches and then across the stage they went. And so here we are. And um and that was really nice. It was the first time I'd ever actually attended a fifth grade promotion. So it was it was really nice. And I know that even when they're small and simple, it's a lot of work. So thank you to the JME staff and to all of our elementary staff. I know it's not

014easy to organize those. So, thank you for putting those on. Um, I attended two of the graduations, one of which was my daughter's graduation from Vicentia Martinez High School. Um, and I actually got to hand her her diploma, which was really special and it will always be a highlight, I think, of sitting on this board. It was an honor and a privilege. And um Patty and her team did a wonderful job with the graduation and the student speakers were out of this world. We had um quite a quite a few members of my family attended it and they could not stop talking about how meaningful and special it they said it was the best graduation they've ever attended. So thank you for that. Um and I also attended the multicultural fair and thank you for

015that Suzanne. And I think um I'll keep it brief, but everything that's happening in our world right now, it was very special to be able to celebrate our multicultural students from all over the world. And um I think it's an honor and a privilege also that we have them in our community contributing like that and to be able to celebrate with them like that was really awesome. So thank you. I also attended the fair. Huge turnout. I'll probably go even after I'm done with this board because it was just such an exciting event. And uh again, Patty, great job. Uh the kids that spoke were very inspirational and to see that many parents and family members show up is a testament to what you and your staff do. So, thank you. And Helen, I forgot

016superintendent's reports. That's okay. Um I I also attended the graduations and um before the graduations I I had the privilege of attending the awards and scholarship night at Alhhamra High School where once again our community um donated in scholarships to our students at the Alhhamra and at Vicente during their graduation um hundreds of thousands of dollars to our students to continue on in their education. And it's just amazing how much money passes through to these kids. And and to watch some of their faces when their name gets called is just I mean it was just thrilling. And there was this one girl I I swear to her face just said it all. Made the whole night. And she was just so shocked and so thrilled. She won a $7,500 scholarship and and all because she

017went and asked a question in person rather than emailing or or texting. and she just was absolutely shocked and and it just it was phenomenal. And so, thank you to our community for once again stepping up for our kids. And the uh promotions and graduations were awesome. Thank you to Jason, our custodian, for um working with our Saints Motorcycle Club, by driving the the the former head of the club in his custodial wagon because he can't ride a motorcycle anymore. It was the cutest thing. He drove him up to the stage in the custodial in the custodial wagon. It was he he was so happy to be able to participate. It was so cute. And uh all in all and and to uh the junior high uh graduation, we had a couple of board members

018that that weren't able to make it for various reasons. And so after working at Martinez Junior High for 19 of my 31 years, it was a privilege and an honor to hand out diplomas or to promotion certificates. So it was really a kind of a special and cool night for me. So, thank you for being absent. It really meant a lot to me to be able to do that. You have no idea. I've always wanted to do that and for all the years I worked there, I could never do that. So, it was really a cool thing. So, anyway, we'll move on. That's great. Wonderful. Yes, the promote the graduations. Everyone did a fabulous job. It was really It was really nice. Had heard nothing but compliments. Uh, next we have public comments. Under government

019code 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 not enough time to speak during public comments. We have a few today. First, we have Sarah Stafford. Thank you so much. I actually wanted to add to what Tanya was saying and thank Joe so much. Um, Tuesday about midm morning, I texted him and said, "Hey, um, any chance we're live streaming our graduation ceremony?" And he texted, "No, we are not. Never received a request, but probably could cobble something together,

020but it would be last minute." I said, "A parent just called and asked." I'm totally reading our text messages. Okay. Um, he said, "Haven't streamed it since I've been here. It hadn't happened prior to that, but not that it can't be done." I said, "We told the parent not it wasn't being streamed, so no stress." And then he said, "Uh, you know what? I ordered a camera. I'm going to test it tomorrow. This is Wednesday. If it works, we can do a last minute parent square. for now, keep it between you and I so we don't give staff the wrong expectation and in case he couldn't make it work. But he's magical and he did. So third to Wednesday evening, I'm at home and I got the message, hey, they're live streaming the graduation. So

021I started sending pictures. Um Joe Gangler, congrats and great job because it was amazing. I got to hear the band. I got to watch the whole ceremony. I sat at home, made my husband watch it, too, even though he knows absolutely no one at the junior high. It was beautiful. And he said, "Got the concept done one hour ago, AHS tomorrow." And I said, "You are a miracle worker." And he did. And it is, it was so I even have watched our graduation. He recorded, he live streamed the band playing. We brought the party 40 minutes beforehand. And you can hear the band the best I think the band has ever heard, like been heard. And you can hear us bring in the party, bring in the fun. You can hear the speakers clearly. The

022speakers, he also adjusted the speakers in the stadium. It's the best I've ever heard or seen graduation. Um, after so many years of doing graduations and promotions, this really was a really joyful uh event for us because we just sounded and looked so good because of Joe. So, I want to congratulate Joe again and thank you profusely and publicly for everything that you've done, the magic that you made happen. Thank you so much. Next, we have Marshall Cochran. Good evening, members of the board, superintendent, and staff. Thank you for your time tonight. My name is Marshall Cochran, and I am the parent of a nine-year-old student at John Mure Elementary and a four-year-old daughter who will be starting at John Mure this fall. I'm here again to respectfully ask that my son Marshall be allowed

023to remain at John Mure Elementary. When we were in for informed that he would be moved to another school, we went to the school and appealed to this body. We found out that the school secretary unilaterally decided not to process Marshall's information because not all the paperwork was in her possession. We were not made aware of this. While I understand the challenges the district faces, I believe this decision does not does not align with the district's policy or the best interests of our family. According to the Martinez Unified School District's intradist transfer polity policy, siblings of currently enrolled students receive priority when applying to attend or remain at a school. In fact, the board has previously acknowledged that students have students that have siblings at the desired school have a priority. Additionally, California educa education

024code section 35160.5 encourage encourages districts to consider parental preference where capacity exists and to give priority to siblings and to take into account logistical needs including child care and parental employment. For our family, this is not a matter of convenience. It is a necessity. My daughter has a learning disability and will require extra support. Having both children in the same school will allow me to coordinate their care and education effectively. Managing two children at different schools would create a severe logistical challenges and risk compromising both of their well-being, especially my daughter's ability to thrive in her new school environment. My son is thriving at John Mure with strong relationships and academic progress that we hope hope to continue. Uprooting him would cause unnecessary disruption at a critical development stage for both him and his sister.

025Simply asking that the district to follow its own policies and guidance of state law to prioritize keeping siblings together, especially when there is a clear educational and logistical benefit. I appreciate your consideration and truly hope we can find a compassionate resolution that keeps our family together at John Mure. Thank you. I also have notes from a doctor that I'd be happy to pass around that also reiterates the importance of keeping him and his sister together. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next up, we have Megan Nickela. I figured the secret is saying it fast. Happy summer break, everybody. Uh, while we all look forward to some busy schedules taking a beat, I found it curious how often some board members love to use that as a go-to excuse, but we all are,

026and it doesn't track. Something else that doesn't track is the time involvement that some board members continue to give Britney Ayala's campaign. A campaign that only the only consistency seems to be the con contradicting information which at this point about four and a half months in just feels like lies. And here's some top favorites. She's a lifelong residency of Martinez, but she has also openly posted that she's from Pittsburgh and in her own campaign materials highlight that she's the outsider to solve all these problems. Number two, she's unaware of the 20 the $2,500 in her account and plans to return it, but the funds haven't been returned. and she's also made a statement in an interview for endorsement. So my interest here is public education. Um that's where I went. That's where my kids went.

027Uh public [Music] school timer went up. I'm not sure if I can respond to that. Please, will you accept money from charter schools? Great question. I will um I sorry, I will not accept money from charter schools and then accepts 10,000 more dollars from charter school pack. Her most recent flyer also says that she's not supportive of parcel tax, but we all know parcel taxs are pretty important when it comes to helping us run the daily day day-to-day activities on campus. Throughout these variety of actions, the continual support is unwavering from some of our sitting board members. Some support comes in voicemails. My name is Courtney. I am a volunteer with Britney Ayella's campaign for Martinez School Board. There is a special election in Martinez on June 17th and you should have already received a

028ballot in the mail. You need to return that honor before June 17th. And I'm hoping you'll vote for Britney Ayella. Further support comes in constant comments online in support of her and not appearing to step down or back away from their involvement. If the continual support of a campaign with such conflicting information, how can we trust the variety of decisions and problem solving that's involved for these elected seats? How can families feel confident knowing that the active participation of our current board members? I hope something that we can all take away is how important transparency, honesty, and consistency is needed to have trust and faith in our elected officials to do what is right. Thank you. Next up, we have Marie Masa. Good evening. My name is Marie Masa. I'm a parent of three children

029in MUSD, a longtime Martinez resident, and someone who has spent countless hours over the past few months engaged in the school board special election. Not just watching it unfold, but actively seeking to understand all sides. As the special election now winds down, I have to express some disappointment with the majority of our current school board. Since the moment the election was triggered, I've tried to do my part as an engaged community member. I've met with interested parties and trustees. I've sent private messages and emails in search of clarity. I've welcomed conversations, including a surprise one at my own front door from an elected official who showed up to share their views. I've listened. I've reflected. I've asked questions. And I've tried sincerely to give people the benefit of the doubt. But what I've encountered over

030and over again are deflections, contradictions, excuses, and silence. And all in service of a candidate whose campaign has relied on division, intimidation tactics, and misleading claims. From the start, those who supported the special election were painted as racist. That messaging was both dishonest and damaging. It cast allies and neighbors against one another, dividing people who would have otherwise stood shouldertosh shoulder in important equity work. That narrative should have been challenged, not embraced, not echoed. And I worry we'll feel the aftershocks of those unnecessary chasms for years to come. And when new issues emerge, like the acceptance of charter school pack money after publicly stating otherwise, our board members who endorse this candidate had a choice. You could have demanded honesty and accountability, could have walked back support and said you've said nothing. Or worse, you've

031publicly doubled down, continuing to defend and promote a candidate who still hasn't explained how the now $12,500 in charter contributions aligns with an earlier pledge to not accept any of those funds. We deserve better. Silence is not neutral. We are living in a political moment shaped by fear, cruelty, power grabs. When that kind of behavior starts seeping into our school board, uh when candidates are propped up through misinformation, fear-mongering, and loyalty to political agendas over truth, we should all be alarmed. We may not be able to stop what's happening nationally, but we can demand something better right here. It's our district. These are our kids. This is their future. If you aren't willing to call out dishonesty in a campaign you support, how can we trust you to put aside political alliances and make decisions

032that required unbiased decisions that rely on your integrity? I teach my own children that integrity means doing the right thing even when it's hard, especially when it's hard. I'm not sure what the board has taught us during this process, but it hasn't been that. Suzanne Murphy is next. Apologies. Um Todd Navaro, thank you and good evening. So, I'm going to jump on the Joe bandwagon here for a minute and thank him as well for um live streamings, particularly the high school graduation. Um for those of you that don't know, another hat I wear is I am president of the grad night committee for the high school. So that evening, um, my son was playing in the band on the field, and I had choices to make of whether to sit through the entire graduation and

033then continue on my evening until 5:00 a.m. the next morning um into um an appointment here at the district at 8:30. And luckily, I was able to sit at home um off my feet and enjoy the entire graduation, including the band's performance. So Joe, thank you very much. You are a miracle worker. Second, I'm going to jump on something that Helen shared and I want to make sure since we have um new individuals to our community, our school community here in the room. Um I also attended I've had the um opportunity to attend scholarship night at the high school now as both a parent and a presenter um for the last four years. Um two of my boys have graduated Alhamra High School and this year I actually am celebrating my 35th year of graduating

034Alhhamra High School as well. of the 60 organizations that were that participated in scholarship night and give back into this community. I found it amazing there are actually individuals that presented at my scholarship night still presenting 35 years. That's how deeply seated these organizations are in our community and these individuals are. So, just running some numbers, um there were 60 organizations, over 100 individual scholarships totaling over $143,000 were given out that night. Um, and those are rough numbers. Not all of the organizations provide the amount that they're awarding to our students um for that evening. So, it's not a metric that's perfect, but for an a school district and a and a individual high school, that's a lot of money coming back to a lot of students who those scholarships are awarded for a variety

035of reasons from need to what it is that they're selecting to take forward in their next four years and into their future. So, um if you haven't had a chance to attend it, I highly encourage that you do. It's a great way and a great opportunity for us to say thank you to our community for giving back to our kids. Thank you. Thank you. Um do we have any changes to the consent calendar? There are no changes. Okay. We have a number of donations. Um and since Carlos isn't here, we're just going to mention them real quickly. We had um Los Hunus Elementary, John Sweat, uh Martinez Education Foundation contributed $7,990.90. Um William Weiner, Maria Feliz, and the Blackbod Fund um and Alhamra High School PTSA, Martinez Education Foundation, and Creekide Church. Um and also,

036yeah, the Alhambor High School PTSA donated 7,000. So, thank you from for that as well. Um, do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? I'll move to approve the consent calendar. Second. All in favor? I I so moved. Next up under discussion items, we have um presentation of the 202526 budget and statement of balance balances in excess of minimum reserves. Andy Cannon. Uh good evening board and thank you for the opportunity to present our budget tonight. Uh education code 42130 requires that school districts um report uh and send out a budget each year. And this is our opportunity as a staff um to show the board and the community the financial health and allow the staff to make sure that we're going to meet our financial obligations not just for next year but

037the following two years. So our role is to make sure that we have a budget that's ready and adopted by July 1st. That means that tonight u we have information and action. We'll also be followed by a public hearing and then the next meeting in on the 23rd you'll have a chance to approve the budget. Um we are u bringing this um this plan along with the LCAP and so Amy will be presenting that after me. I think last year she went first so I think I won this year. I got to go before her. Uh what we are going to be able to show you is both a projection of our estimated actuals, what we've spent this year and also what revenue we've gained and then also look at next year's revenue and expenditures.

038Um and we again we have to show that we can meet our financial obligations for the next three years. So any budget is built upon assumptions. That means that the state does not give us funds in advance. Next slide please. So we have to build it based on um certain common assumptions. Most of these come from uh the dart board that school services California puts out. Um for us, I wanted to go through a few of those. Um there is some really good news around enrollment for us. We'll see that our enrollment is ticking upward. So we're projecting to have um just short of 3,900 kids, 3,863. And that is an increase of last year, mostly due to TK enrollment. We've seen significant enrollment in TK and most of that we believe is coming from

039parents who are becoming more trusting and used to TK being in and the full implementation based on age. So we are seeing growth in that area. Overall we project that our students are going to come to school 95% of the time and that's not where we want it to be but we are um hopeful that we'll get that to increase um with our administrators and our sites working on attendance incentives. Uh overall we are going to be funded um at 3,6668A which is a great number compared to this year. So that means that we are going to be seeing some um funding increases which we'll talk about um here shortly. Um overall our cost of living adjustment um when we got the governor's proposed budget it was sitting at 2.43. That has ticked down slightly

040to 2.3%. Um next year 3.2 is less than they predicted, but we have in the 2728 year see a little bit more of a of an up increase of to 3.42 and those are all beneficial signs, but right now we took a small hit from what we thought we were going to get at second interim projecting out. Um, and that cola is built on national standards of cost of living. Whereas what's listed here is our California consumer price index. We see a little bit higher of inflation 3.42% 42% which is going to tick down to 2.7. Um so we're we're seeing some kind of reversal whereas California is a little bit higher right now than the f than the the uh federal government but we're going to see that kind of balance out over time.

041Both our pensions stirs and PERS um are largely unchanged. Um PERS went down about I think a quarter point and it will increase by 1% over the next two years. And lastly, we look at our health and welfare increase of increasing by about 6%. And we won't know that figure until July when CalPERS puts out their rates. But that is our projection at this point in time. Um when we look ahead to enrollment, and I think this is the the most exciting slide um for me tonight in this presentation. Um again, you'll notice that that TK top line, we have an increase of 74 students compared to this year. So going up from 150 to 225 kids. um the bottom line um at the bottom of the totals that says difference. So we are a

042net increase of 65 students next year compared to where we are right now. So good news of growth. At the same time that growth is really um because of the TK um and we knew that we were declining enrollment. We've been projecting that for some time but that decline in enrollment even with um what we're projecting with TK is less than we had before. So we're seeing some growth there. Um, I want to call attention to this year's eighth graders at 256 and the incoming class of 9th grade at 274. Um, so for whatever reason, we're seeing an influx there and that is definitely beneficial for our high school community and overall for enrollment. Um, but where we have a little bit of a struggle and we'll see how this develops over time is next

043year's kinder and first. We're continuing to see low numbers there. um and and we don't know if that will continue. Um we do have the experience in this district like many districts do of late um kinder and TK enrollment. So we expect that some of that might grow. Um right now we have 27 openings for TK and K across the district. Um and so we've padded a little bit heavier adding additional staff believing that kids are still going to come in. So, if those kids do choose to come in and parents enroll them, then we'll see a slight uptick in um revenue for next year and that will be known um by first inter. We'll be able to get a closer count of what our enrollment projections will be. Um but overall, we are going

044to see that we're um trending in a in a better direction. That does not necessarily end um declining enrollment, but it will stabilize it. So we may see smaller declines um because as we lose our next year's group of 286 seniors um we replacing with 250 kindergarteners. So we we're not matching what's coming in with what's leaving. So that's going to be our discrepancy um unless we again get a higher kinder enrollment for this next year. So how does this relate? We've talked about the difference between funded and actual ADA. Um so we'll continue to put this chart in for some time um to talk about um what that difference is in funding because the state allows us to use one of three um test for um our actual funded ADA um the current year,

045the prior year or the average three years. Um so we'll notice in enrollment we are looking that over the next few years. So from um the current year we're in now all the way until 2829, we're going to go up a little bit and back down, but overall we're only seeing about 11 student change. So that's pretty stable compared to where we were with some very significant declining enrollments, especially around COVID. In terms of funded ADA, we're going to see a drop of 21. Um so not not insurmountable, but still a challenge. We'll look at how deeply challenged that is for us as we look to potential reductions in the future years to be able to cover that change. Overall, in that last column with difference, what I wanted to highlight is that every year

046we are looking to get more funded than what we actually have for kids in the classroom. So, we're always a little bit heavier funded because of that average, sometimes more than others. So, in 2324, we were funded for 164 more students than we actually had. And so that was a great year with funding resources. Um there were substantial raises given out to staff, but as that difference has gone closer to zero, which we see for next year, um we have less and less disposable income um to be able to to move towards some of our programs and had to made reductions in the last three years that this board has overseen. Uh looking for revenues. Um again over TK we are seeing a good increase in our LCFF. So that's 4%. Um that's because of

047the increase in TK enrollment and also of the increase in per pupil allocation. Um the governor has proposed and we believe the legislature is going to sign off here shortly for approximately $2,400 more per TK student. And those dollars are intended to meet the 20 to1 adultto student ratio um that was put in. It's still underfunded um at least from what the governor proposed in January. It's about $1,000 less per kid than what he originally did. Um but there is, you know, substantial debate over what is the exact amount of per pupil funding that's required to fully fund TK. Um from our perspective, more is better. Um so the more funding you get, the better we can serve our kids and be able to balance our budget and eliminate deficit spending. Um for federal revenue,

048you're going to see a significant percentage-wise drop of 14%. And that's because um our CSI funds that Vicente received in the past, they are no longer eligible for because they're doing such a great job. And when you do a really great job and you had federal funding, um the feds take it away from you when you do better. Um so they will be able to work through that loss of revenue. Um in terms of other state revenue, we've got some volatility in how we're dealing with um this piece. Um, from the standpoint that the governor again said that he was going to return the money that was not funded for the learning recovery emergency school block grant. And for us that was about $400,000. So there was a promise for millions of dollars. The state

049was a little concerned. They said we're not going to give you the last installment of that. That was about 4,000. Now it's back in the budget to return those funds. So we believe that's going to happen and that is built within this budget. There's another block grant um which is super long. uh the student support and professional development discretionary block grant, which potentially could be another million dollars. Um we don't know for sure yet. And this budget um does assume that that money is going to come in at $1 million, but it doesn't put it in the 2526 budget. It defers it to the 2627. Um so what it does is it gives us an opportunity to see if it comes in, we will make an adjustment um at a 45D revise. So, for the

050board to know some of the newer ones here, if we have a substantial change to our budget um during the summer and after the trailer bill comes out in July, then we can do a 45day revise. What I would bring back to the board is kind of a summary of what those changes are. I anticipate doing that for this block grant and then we will amend the the budget going forward and you'll see that in the first interim. Um all that is to say is that we are hopeful that the state is going to fund all these things. it looks like it's going to happen. The exact dollar amounts we're still not sure of, but our budget needs to be able to have those dollars in to make sure that we're meeting our reserve. And

051I'll talk about that when we get to our MYP. Uh overall, the other one that sees a substantial decline is our local revenue. And this is purposeful in some ways. Um Superintendent Rossy was fantastic about getting a capacity grant this last year. That was $256,000 because that's a one time. Now you're going to see that off next year's budget. Um, some of our special education placement, we've had several students from neighboring districts place their kids here because we had space and they did not. Um, we have lost all of those points at this point. Um, we have no sped placements coming in. We hope that that may change and that provides some extra revenue. That was a $200,000 um source um that we won't have for next year. Medical billing, we are being conservative and

052so that's $200,000 less than last year because last year we had a true up payment. So, we had a lot of money coming in from previous years. Um, MEF donations I don't put in there at this time. Um, it was $214,000 last year, but putting it into revenue also means I put in an expense because we don't put that to our bottom line. So, that means that that'll be a wash even though those numbers will be different at first interim. Um, and then there's other donations that we're not claiming for right now. So, that's the 24% decrease. Overall though, despite all of that, we are seeing 1.4% increase overall in what our revenues are. Um, and I've spoke kind of off to the side or kind of inferred that we do have some challenges with

053revenue. Um, I wanted to highlight the local revenue again because uh the two items that are listed here are what we come to expect as a yearly um revenue source, not as a one-time like the capacity grant. And we are seeing that um again sped placement is down and also our facilitron um rental revenue. Um we thought we would be a little bit higher at this point in time. Usually spring we get an uptick of there but we're seeing that's down about $45,000 for the year than what we expected. And so we've made that adjustment to next year and hopefully that's a conservative estimate and we'll beat that. um federal funding. I think all of us are are fairly aware of um the Trump administration's um at least u conversations around ending many of the

054federal education programs. Um where we're kind of leaning towards right now is that title one and special education would continue to be funded, but title two, which is um professional development and teacher support, title three, English learners, and title four technology counseling and others um could potentially be defunded. And we don't know right now. The budget currently includes those projections. Um if the federal government were to defund that, we're looking at about $200,000 decrease in federal revenue. Um also with that, we are seeing good change in a way, even though it may not look like it from a dollar standpoint. Our English learners, we've seen a decrease. So that means that both English learners are not registering as such and also that we're reclassifying kids which means that they are performing well and they are

055um doing you know great in the educational system in our classrooms and being reclassified. So we're seeing a drop of about 56 kids um that were previously English learners but no longer eligible for funding and that's about a $12,000 decrease for us. Um spoke briefly about it. Our TK mandate is a 10 to1 adult to student ratio. Um we thought we were going to get another thousand dollars per kid. That didn't happen. That's a $225,000 change to the budget. And then lastly, the student block grants. Um we're hopeful for $1.4 million from those. And again, we'll see that most likely at the May the 45day revise this August. My expenditure slide. Oh, expenditure challenges. U not only do we have a decline in our sped placement, we also have um quite dramatic increases in special

056education cost. Um the first of which is county tuition. Um the county has decided to change a little bit about how they run um some of their special programs. One thing they've done is they've changed their instructional aids from iterate aids to full-time aids. So that means they provide benefits. our cost for everyone to one aid has gone up. Um also um tuition they are now charging us about $70,000 per kid in the program and when we take all the students that we are putting in that program it's an increase of almost $400,000 to the county to run these same programs. Um, also, and this isn't the full $900,000, we have one new placement of a student, and the student needs two one-on-one aids plus a non-public placement, and that cost alone is $300,000 for

057one student. And I did this just to highlight the fact that um both ways um in special education, if you have a couple students leave the district, um you could have significant savings or less contributions to the program. And if you have a couple of kids who get special placements, you can have extreme changes in expenditures. And so there could be volatility with that and we have to adjust because we're required in to be able to provide those services based on IEPs. Also with expenditures are retiree benefits. In fact, we have one famous retiree in the room right now. Um they are set. That is correct. The superintendent is not the reason why. Yes, do not blame that on me. It's going up. Um, but we do have to pay for our retirey benefits. And

058so when when folks retire at the end of the year after serving this district for 15 years, um, which we are extremely grateful for, including our current superintendent, um, we do pay for those benefits from the age of 55 until 65. Um, and so that's just an annual increase of $110,000. Insurance has gone up. um especially with the claims that are going out over um well various different things. We're seeing $120,000 increase there. And then because we have new TK enrollment, we are hiring new T new TK teachers and one new kindergarten teacher. So whereas when we talked about reductions and going through that process last spring, um we've kind of reversed that and you're going to see that in the overall expenditures, we are we're going to see um our salaries increase because of

059these new positions, but it's also because we're seeing revenue that comes on also. I think I missed my expenditure slide, didn't I? Go back one. Did it not come through for some reason? One more. Did How did it get out of order? Oh, forgive me. All right, we'll go there. U So, speaking of certificated salaries, we are noticing a 1% increase from this current year, and we thought it would be less than that because we made budget reductions. Um, classified salaries up 4%. This is because um Matthew has done a great job about seeking out some of our speech and language pathologist folks. And so instead of having to contract out, he was able to secure a person to come in and work in the district. So what you'll see is that as we've increased

060some of our salaries will decrease contracts. U but we also every year we go out and we try to fill all of our vacancies. And so at this time usually see classified salaries a little bit higher because we are hopeful that we'll hire every single position. And then as we get through the year if there are any vacancies we switch over to contracted positions for special education. um with benefits. Um that increase is because of the staffing that's increased there, plus the increase of health and welfare premiums that we look for for this year. Books and supplies down quite a bit. Um we did do an adoption this last year that's cost quite a bit of money and we don't expect to do one next year, but if we do one the following year, we're

061hopeful of getting to earmark some of that block grant money, that 1 million block grant that we can afford to uh buy all of our kids new textbooks for math. Um with services and contracts almost 10% decrease that is mostly um salary. Um we had I believe four or five vacant teacher I think we had four vacant teaching positions five of them that we had to fill with contractors. So again we're seeing that switch to salaries instead of contracts which is much better for us um when we can hire our own folks and be able to train them and to have them around for several years to provide services. Um beyond that um capital outlay we had our kitchen infrastructure grant which is expiring so we will be no longer spending um capital um outlay.

062The other outgo that 1.356 is um the county tuition and then indirect cost is what we charge our restricted funds going forward. So an overall we are seeing expenditures drop by 7%. So revenues up by four and expenditures down by.7. um some of our expiring restricted funds. Uh we've talked about expiring restricted funds every time we meet and we'll continue to do so until they're gone. Um and that's because we are part of our deficit spending is directly attributed to these um expiring funds. So arts, music and instructional material block grant that will be done by next June. The learning recovery block grant, it goes, I believe, until 2028, but we are projected to expend all funds by next June. So, we won't go to the full duration of that. The kitchen infrastructure grant is

063finishing um this month. We're using the last couple dollar bills to replace the dishwashers at both the high school and the junior high. Uh the UPK grant for preschool is done at the end of this month. our educator effectiveness block grant will continue to fund Atosa and we have enough funds for at least one more year to do that um before it expires. And then again the hopefully not mythical student support and professional development discretionary block grant as it comes in. We will apply that um for our multi-year projection. Um we're going to do this um two ways. We're going to look at the combined unrestricted and restricted and then we're going to look at just the unrestricted. Um so total revenues you can see across the top we are now above that 60 million

064mark and we project to be almost $64 million in the next couple of years and that's taking advantage of colas and also um increase in attendance funded ADA. Um, at the same time, our expenditures, if you look, are still greater than our revenues. That means we will be deficit spending. And some of that is natural because we are paying or spending down our one-time um expiring restricted resources, but some of that is not um not okay, and we'll talk about that in the next slide. Um, so overall, we have a beginning balance of $7.6 million, and by the time we are done in 2728, we project that we'll be down to 2.8. Um and that may change with lots of different factors. Um but what we put in front of you is what our best

065uh uh our best knowledge is based on assumptions and what we think. Um this can change in the next couple of years. You could have really great financial periods where the state has super colas that come out and this will increase our bottom line but right now at this point in time we are projecting $2.8 million left by 2728. So the unrestricted multi-geear U here you'll see in column 22 2526 the one with parentheses is our special education contribution which again is about that $900,000 increase from last year. So we're just under $12 million that we contri contribute to support that program starting with the $5 million um beginning balance and as we go to 2728 that will go down to just over $2 million. The good news here is that we are able to

066meet our our 3% reserve over the next couple of years, but in order to do so, we do have to make some reductions. So, those reductions are yet to be determined, but we know approximately a dollar amount. Um, we need to cut about $2 million from our budget. And this is if no other favorable things come through. if local revenue increases, if enrollment increases, all of those things can help um to to lessen the amount of impacts. But we know in order to stop deficit spending, we have to continue to cut. Um and right now we're projecting a million in unrestricted and a million in restricted. And why do we have to do these things? Um well, I mean truly the increased cost of special education, we did not plan on not at that rate.

067We've we kind of project a 3% increase every year in special education. This ended up being closer to 10% increase from last year. Um also u we know that there are rising health and welfare cost. We know that our one-time funds are going. So all those staff members who are paid for out of learning recovery block grant and others um we have to either absorb them into the general fund or we have to reduce those positions and other expenditures. So, the board will have another tough decision as we get through the winter time of deciding where those reductions are going to be. Um, besides um the fund 01, which is what we've been talking about, our general fund, we have several other funds. Fund 8 um our student activity special reserve has got a healthy

068balance. Adult education with $2 million left over. Um and principal Suzanne Murphy has a plan for starting to pay down some of those things and so we'll be working on that as we get through the fall. Cafeteria fund is still positive almost 240,000 to the good meaning we do not contribute any funds to support the cafeteria. Um OPED we have a balance of 760,000 in building fund is a little shy right now. We're down to almost nothing. Um but we are selling a bond and that bond um receipts should come in. So, $30 million should be deposited into our account by the end of this month. So, right now, because it's not in the bank, we're projecting $8,000. Um, but by the time we get to the fall, we will have $30 million from the

069first bond sale of a $90 million general OB obligation bond. Um, capital facility fund 600,000. Our fund 35 has been growing. Um, we're at $15 million. Um and we'll talk a little bit about how those funds are going to be used in the facility report later tonight. Um fund 40 user developer fees almost 600,000 bond interest which we don't touch but goes towards paying down the bond 1.5 and then a sizable donation. We talked about scholarship nights. That money there is sitting in trust accounts for scholarships and other things. So we are doing really well in our other funds. Overall um with this budget presentation we are projecting a positive u qualification with the caveat that we need to be able to make budget reductions in order to do that and those budget reductions would

070not start this year they would be planned for 2627. So what are the next steps um tonight? Uh well the governing board will be asked to adopt the budget on June 23rd at our next um board meeting um as we get closer. So, in the next few days, uh, the legislature has to pass the budget. If they do not pass the budget, they do not get paid. So, that is a great incentive. And since that went in, they have never not passed a budget by, um, that date. Um, by the 30th, the government governor is going to act on that budget and then we'll wait until July when they figure out what they actually signed. That's the trailer bill language and we get to know a little bit more about how we're actually going to

071proceed. And with that, we'll probably end up with a 45day revise um which will be in August and then we'll be followed by the other fiscal reports and we'll get back on that that schedule. So with that, I am open to the board for any questions you have about the budget and what we're projecting. Thank you, Andy. Very detailed. Um not necessarily positive, but very good presentation and good information. Um do we have any questions from the board? Andy. Um, it seems like a small amount, but the 45,000 reduction for Facilitron. Um, every amount counts at this point. When we implemented that program, I know we all kind of had the hopes that it would help increase revenue, especially with all these new beautiful facilities we have. Is there have have we or can we

072make some sort of effort to kind of figure out if we've lost people that have rented in the past and if we can attract them back or what we can do about that? Well, and and maybe be more clear about it. It's not that we're receiving less than we did before. It's just not as much as we had hoped for. So, we budgeted a little bit um not conservatively enough for it. We thought we'd reach closer to the $190,000 mark for rentals. We just didn't quite get there. So, as a matter of over budgeting, not that we are reducing. So, we're seeing an increase in rentals and think we'll continue to see that going forward, just not at the rate um that we put in the budget for this year. Mr. Thank you for putting

073all the time and effort. Uh I know you put a lot into this. Do you have any idea when we're going to have to start looking at what type of cuts and when we will expect to see something? Yeah. Typically what we do in the fall is we start looking at overall after you know as we prepare for first interim after we receive um our CBEDS report which is our our true enrollment um we start looking and planning out what that is we start thinking of um of what we need to do this year I think going forward will be a little different because we have a new superintendent and we'll have new board members um we're going to we would advise that the board go through a process of developing what your priorities are

074Um, and based on those priorities, then we can work as a group to outline what reductions kind of fit within those priorities and give them back to you. Um, so this will look a little bit different this year because Superintendent Rossy had been here for a while and and she kind of taught me how to go through this process. Yeah, it's time to to take a look at um you know the district's mission and your priorities as a board after you do a little governance training and things are have changed and based upon your guiding principles and your um goals. you will look at what we have to offer and where we can reduce using those guiding principles and goals that you come up with as a new governance team and that's what you'll use

075every time you look at reductions and so on and so forth over the course of the next couple years and tweak them each year as things change as things do change so it's time to to go through that process and that process should start right away when you come back in August so all right well thank Again, I know we're in a lot better position than a lot of other districts, so that just speaks to all the time and effort you've put into this. So, thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Logan, for bringing that up. I think that's a really good point about, you know, when those conversations start. I know a lot of I I know I think I can speak for all of us that budget reductions were really challenging

076last year and a lot of people here in the audience were here and I think that we can definitely do a better job of workshopping that and making it feel like we're really sharing with the public as much as we can before it happens so that there's no surprises and that we're really giving our reasoning and and to Helen's point that it's aligning with our mission. So, I think that's a really great point. Um, Andy, this is nothing to do with your presentation. I just always want to take the opportunity. I know Courtney's done it in the past. California does a wild thing where we get funded by how often our kids come to school. And it really is not the way every state does it, and it's frankly a pretty terrible way to do

077it. And we're lucky that we have attendance at 95% that we're able to count on that. Um, I feel like it is it would be remiss to not say that the districts in our state that are hurt the most are the kids that struggle to get to school. And so it seems like the most counterintuitive thing to me that we're having kids struggling to attend and we're going to take away their funding and so school is going to be an even less desirable place for them to go. Um, so I know it's not really something that can take place in this room, but Courtney and I both have attended legislative action day. We really advocate for this. We try as much as possible and I always encourage people in the public write to your California

078representatives. Some of them honestly when we bring it up don't even know that like they don't even know what we're talking about. So, it's I think it's really really important to continue that conversation that and advocate for different ways of funding that are not dependent on kids being here every single day. And again, not any reflection of you, just it always feels like a good opportunity to bring this up. I appreciate it. Yeah, I've attended those legislative action days as well and um they are good. So, if you want to write a letter um you can do feel free to do that. Um, as far as Fillettron, I was going to ask that same question, but can you tell me um what percentage use sports like the or do most of the people just use

079buildings? I mean, are we getting revenue from It's mostly sports. It is mostly sports. It's soccer, it's football. Okay. So, I know that um we have our master plan and we have we're doing some renovations and things. Um and I know it's not going to happen this summer, but maybe next summer. So theoretically, we might get some more money from that because we're looking at the track and field at the high school and we're looking at some other things. Yeah, I I think those are great potential revenue um gains for the district. Um but they will take time to to put into play. Maybe we can kind of prioritize some of those if we can just to start getting the revenue. Um yeah, I was that was something I was thinking of too. Um, and

080then you made a comment about the um the funding. You can either use this year, last year, or the average ADA for funding. Um, so if our enrollment continues to go up and it's higher than the ADA eventually, we can use that. Yeah. So, for example, um, next year we're projecting um, ADA of 3,666. the following year we're actually going to have actual ADA is going to be less but because the prior year is higher. We get to continue to get that 3,666. And so we're I mean I think five of the last five of the six years I'm projecting we will actually get more dollars than we have kids because of that attendance measure. And what are our programs? I mean do we have something in place for the kids that um have a

081hardship getting to school? Is there what extra program? What can we do to encourage those kids? Because I know that some kids they missed the bus or there's other things like that. Is there anything have we looked at that? Do we have kind of a track record on why? I don't have the information on that except that but I may not fit in your thing is we do the transportation every plan every April and part of that is we allow that families and students can get bus passes and get support for getting to school. U beyond that I can I defer to one of my colleagues to talk a little bit more about programming. I'm just wondering if maybe not since I'm springing this on you now but if we can maybe at the next

082board meeting or something get some information about that and see if there's something that we can do and as far as bus I mean some of the kids come from Annioch um not you know because they do interd district transfers or so um so do they have the opportunity for buses too or is it just it's just local Martinez only. Okay. I have one more question. I asked Helen this a while back and I just forgot. Maybe you can tell me where it's at on here. The grant that we have for the mental health counselors and I believe that expires next year. Is that correct? That's the capacity grant. No. Or the learning recovery. We have we pay for our mental health counselors from title one right now. Right. We use a bunch of different

083services. So title one we use for that and also learning recovery block grant. So we multifund that. Okay. Thank you. And the learning recovery grant ends at the end of next year. We will have all the funds spent by the end of next year. Right. And how much of that uh was paying towards the mental health counselors? I I don't want to give you a thing off top of my head. I can get that information to you. Thank you. But most of it is that's what we the board had stated in previous years that mental health counseling was a priority and so we've been using that fund um to for that purpose and it's not sufficient to do all of them. So that's why we back into that into title one and work with the

084sites on it and then as we go forward next year we're going to have to decide how we want to fund that. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Public comment. Okay. Um, next item is presentation of proposed 2025 2026 local accountability control accountability plan and local indicator report. Amy, good evening board members and superintendent Rossy. Um, I'll be going over some of uh the other side of what Andy was t just talking about. So tonight I have the R LCAP presentation and the outcomes for tonight are to provide you an overview of the development process as well as our local indicator report our current actions and services for our 2526 LCAP and then also um a reminder around our federal addendum. Briefly I wanted to remind everyone of the state priorities. There are three

085overarching priorities which are student outcomes, conditions of learning and engagement. The intent and purpose of the LCAP is to ensure we have high quality instructional programs for all students to eliminate our opportunity gaps among specific student groups and then to ensure that there is local flexibility to address the needs. We engage with partners throughout the entire year with our LCAP executive advisory committee um which includes members of our community as well as student members. This is student center data driven three-year plan. A reminder this is year two of our three-year plan. So I'll be presenting our proposal for year two. It includes state and local metrics. And then we need to address if we're increasing or improving services for our high need student groups. So first off, I'm going to go over our local indicators.

086Just a brief background. Um this is the same as it was last year. This reflects um the purpose of our local indicators is to reflect an emphasis on local control. It enables us to do a self-reflection and measurement process inhouse and then it provides us valuable information on opportunities that we might not see through in other ways in the LCAP. The first is priority one which are basic conditions at school. Here you we have three overarching areas which are our teacher miss assignments, student access to instructional materials and our condition of school facilities. As you know in September I bring the instructional materials and school facilities information to you. And then our miss assignments are a few it's a little outdated here. This is a correct year. So um don't wonder about that. But what

087I do want to say is that at this point in time. This is a 5.8% increase from our last year's um priority one. So, in a positive way for priority two and the following priorities, you'll see a rating scale um which shows how much uh how we meet implementation with five being full implementation and sustainability. Um that's the key word um to look for or think about when you're seeing the 4.6 or 4.4 here is the sustainability. So can this be sustained without funding in its current capacity and that's where you don't necessarily see a five in this column here. But we are providing professional learning. Our materials are aligned to California standards. And I will say this one has gone up a little bit um because we did do our science adoption last year

088and our K5 history social science adoption and then programs to support staff implementation academic standards and then support for teachers and administrators. All of this is around implementation of state academic standards. Priority three is around family engagement. And here we continue to see o a little bit more opportunity with our 4.25 um building relationships between staff and families, building partnerships for student outcomes. A lot of this information we use our healthy kids survey to uh determine are we making growth? Are we seeing positive outcomes? And then priority six, school climate. This is completely our um our healthy kids survey. And here I just wanted to point out that in the first line we see 80% of students share they felt connected to the school. This is an increase of 5% from last year. And then

089our um in the bottom two, I'd like to point out that our ninth graders had an increase as well. um in both of those areas of school connectedness and felt very safe at school. There were very like 48% of our 11th graders last year also had school connectedness and 50% of our 11th graders last year felt very safe or safe at school. So it stayed status quo for those grade levels. There was a tiny decline for the seventh graders. But I did want to point out that we had some growth in this priority area. For priority um seven, access to a broad course of study, we continue to look at our master schedule and meet the needs of our students. Review schedules of unduplicated student groups, our offerings of CTE, electives, and advanced placement are

090very important here. And then in addition this year, revamping of courses offered to special education students. So on to the LCAP itself. A reminder, goal one is a broad goal. This is an academic achievement goal. And a broad goal means that we're not um specific to a a certain student group. So this is for everyone. You'll see the state priorities listed below. Here for goal one, we have our action steps. And then I also um listed the cost. A few things I want to point out. Overall, you'll see that we are spending $3,389,000. This is a decrease of 1,350,000 from last year. This is one of the areas in which um we made decisions in December time frame around our budget reductions. And so um this shows up here in the LCAP. The areas that

091are reduced or action steps that are reduced are instructional materials, professional development. And then on the next page, our foundational reading instruction as well as our algebra readiness and mastery. Goal two is a focus goal which is specifically for our English learner group. You'll see that it does um hit still five of our state priorities when we're talking about this group. And specifically here for goal two. This is uh you'll see our overall spending is 317,100 and this is a decrease of 42,745. And the major changes in this one have to do with um all of them with the exception of the multilingual celebration, the seal of bi literacy and the newcomer welcome intake process. And I just wanted to um say Andy had mentioned that our English learners uh number has decreased. Another change

092that had occurred this year is that our TK students are no longer um being tested and that was a law that went into place. So that is another reason that our English learners have decreased a little bit. So there's just a small decrease there. Um but those are two factors that come into play. Goal three is our learning environments goal and this is around engagement and a safe welcoming environment. This is a broad goal. So this is all students. Here for goal three, we have just a slight decrease. Um we are currently um projecting 2,351,000. It's a decrease of 34,000. And here this decrease is occurring in the actions of parent engagement as well as counseling support. And we just talked about how counseling support comes from different pockets of money. And so that's where

093we're seeing that. And then I want to mention before I move to the federal addendum. Last year we had a goal four which was specific to Vicente Martinez High School is called the equity multiplier goal. We no longer qualify for that funding and so we no longer have a goal for moving forward. for the LCAP federal addendum. Um this is just a brief overview. As Andy stated, we're not sure at this point in time um how the money from um the federal government will pan out, but there has been one difference that I did want to point out with our title three. Um English learners and immigrant students were two of the programs in which we received funding. At this time, we're no longer receiving funding for immigrant students. Um, so that is the small

094one of another small change that we've had that impacted the LCAP. And I just wanted to share to receive immigrant funding um for students, we must have five students that are eligible and we must also have a half of 1% growth each year. So we must maintain that five and then continue to have growth for us to continue to be eligible for that. So our next steps are we will um have our final approval on June 23rd after we have our public hearing this evening and then we will send the LCAP to the county office for approval which we will receive a communication from them about approval in the new school year. Thank you, Amy. Thank you, Amy. Uh, any questions from the board? Yeah, then the law for no longer testing the TK students.

095When are they now being tested? Once they go into kindergarten. Yes. So, um, when they are a TK student, they're not identified as an English learner. So, they're not identified. They actually are marked nonidentified in our system. And then when they go into TK, when they fill out the home language survey, then we would um identify them as an English learner and that would be the first year that they take their initial ELPAC. Okay. And the title three money, that's not that's not a recent change to the law, right? That's just a change to our population. That's correct. Any other questions? I had it and then I'm scrolling. I wanted to go to that the school climate priority six by 10. There you go. Uh so I know I very much understand that these things

096take time. Um and I'm glad that we're seeing some incremental changes here. But to only have 50% of you know, our 11th graders and 52% of nth graders say that they feel felt very safe or safe. I mean, safe that seems to me like a pretty baseline expectation that kids should walk onto campus and feel safe. Um, and just how drastically that goes down from elementary school. And I I mean, I understand there's like a variety of factors that are out of our control, but I just I'm glad to see this a continued priority. Again, I am glad to see some incremental change, but just wanted to point out that there is clearly a lot of work around this. And um I really am of the belief that we can't achieve academic greatness if kids

097don't have the baseline of what they need when they get to school. So uh I know having sat in LCAP meetings that this is something we talk about a lot and that is you know utmost importance to the community and just again progress is good. This is a big area that I see of you know for improvement. We'll continue looking at that I'm sure. Any other questions? No. Okay. So we'll see this back next board meeting. Any public comments? Next, we have Proposition 28, annual report. Amy Espinosa. Thanks. Good evening again. Um, tonight I am bringing forward the annual report for Proposition 28. Uh, as Andy shared, the funding for this potentially could end in 2026, I believe, per his slide. And so we will continue to do this annual report um per the law

098until it changes this year. Um the most important part Joe is scroll to the the table. Yeah. Okay. Um here you'll see uh this is what is required to be reported to um California Department of Education and you'll see that we have 3.6 FTE for certificated teachers across the district. This impacted 1,343 students at six of our school sites. This is an uh significant increase um from what I presented last year. Last year we're at 1.1 FTE with u 516 students being um serviced by these funds. And so that's my report. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Uh, public comment. Okay, we're back to Amy again. Review of single plans for student achievement. Thank you so much. Um, tonight I'm here to present the school plan for student achievement for all of our school sites.

099This is a quick overview of the process and the purpose of the plan. So what is the SIPA? Who's involved and why it's important? So our SIPA outlines our school goals. It's in alignment with our LCAP. It also is a roadmap for improving student achievement. And it's an opportunity to look at our data points. It's in alignment with our action steps and our strategies that are listed in the LCAP. Each of our SIPs, you'll see will have um the alignment with our three goals. The assessing student needs at the school site has been identified and they have developed strategies that are unique to each of their individual schools. They engage with parents, staff and students on how to allocate the resources. The school site council is um the body of people that is most involved

100in development of the SIPA and they are a group of elected people who it's their responsibility to develop, monitor and evaluate and also change the SIPA throughout the school year to meet the needs of students because they do change. Here's a little bit more about their work. So they need to ensure that they're monitoring that they're following our cycle which is this time of year is when they have looked at all the culminating data and then brought it forward and done a needs assessment and then revised and rework their goals and then begin at the beginning of the school year to determine if the current if the SPA is working to meet the students needs. They are looking at the past SIPA. They're reviewing testing data and they're evaluating the needs of the current students

101at the school site and ensuring that they align with the district's priorities. And the reason we have them is to continue to have a focus and direction at our school sites, shared decision making and accountability that includes all educational partners. And it's an opportunity for improvement because when you do your needs assessment, you might see something that you weren't aware there was an improvement need for. So, tonight I am recommending the approval of all the school plans for student achievement for all of our schools at our next board meeting. Thank you, Amy. Um, can you refresh my memory? Um I believe next year is the year that we the students in 11th grade will have had algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2. So those scores should be substantially higher next year. That would be yes

102they are for the mathematics. Yes, that's correct. Okay. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. And you don't have the spec because I was looking at the other details that you had in the um that you attached. Um so we will see that but we'll see those results next year. Yes. So, our dashboard will come out on November 1st. So, you'll have a dashboard presentation before the end of the calendar year for 2025. Perfect. Thank you. Any other board questions? Public comment. Okay. Oh, we have someone different now. We have Patty Mali alternative school survey report. Mine's quite a bit shorter than that one. So, um, I'll just get right to it. So, I'm Patty Ali. I'm the principal of Brionies and Vicente Alternative Schools. And, um, this alternative school, um, schools and programs of

103choice report comes out and it's due August 1st of every year. And what they do is they send us surveys that need to be sent out to, um, the staff, the students, and the families. So, this is required by the California Department of Education. And so we send this out um annually and we send them out in both Spanish and English. Um and this report will also be part of the larger report that I'll be uh submitting on August 1st. So it's a voluntary uh survey. So and you know we don't have a ton of um uh kids at our schools right now. So we put this out. I sent it out twice between May 1st and May 31st. Um and in um really encourage teachers to have their students take those. We had 31

104students, 15 parents and seven teachers. And for the survey results, they're very short surveys. And for example, the student student survey only has five questions. They pretty much are clear. I looked at last year's and this year it's very close to um what it was last year as well. And these are done by both Vicente and Riyote students. Some of the highlights I think um my teachers give me feedback on my academic progress. 61% I believe my teachers care about me 67% um and my teachers are available uh to all the students in all the classes 61% and again the surveys is strongly agree to strongly disagree and those top three is where most of um these surveys fall with the students feedback with the parent guardian survey um this is about the seven questions

105again um if you look it goes down from strongly agree to strongly disagreeed And most of this is um the percentages are in the top three. Some of the areas uh teachers frequently state clear expectation and expect high quality work from my students. It's 60% strongly agree 40% agree. Um some of the other areas my student school promotes culture of acceptance. Again that's a 66.6. And then another area where I'd look at is the school's program is rigorous and my student is challenged. and looking at 33% and 33% I'd want to look at that for next year and um analyze what our programs are offering in terms of academics and the teacher survey results. These ones a little bit longer. It is nine questions and just keep in mind that between the two sites we

106have seven teachers. So it might be that you'll see something at 40% that could be two teachers answering that. Um but what does stand out is the teachers are expected that all students can achieve and that's on both sides of biionis and vicente and also um the school's program is designed to ensure access for all learners which um at 60% and 20% I say that 80% is pretty good because that is what alternative ed is that we are creating programs that all learners can learn at their pace and at their level. And then going across here, uh, school staff, students, parents, and community members are invited to the campus uh, to be an audience for the students work and achievement. And we do a lot of work on trying to get families and students to

107our back to school night and our open house. And even though we do have a good amount, um, we'd like to increase that. So, they are invited and there's a lot of promotion around that. Um, and you know, over the last two years that I've been here, we have saw many more kids coming and their parents coming to the back to school night. And so, like I said, this the data from this survey is going to be part of a larger report for alternative schools and programs that will be submitted to the state by August 1st. And that's all I have. Do you have any questions? Thank you. I just wanted to say that I'm happy that um the student survey results um most you know we have a lot of them in the strongly

108agree and the agree category. So it's almost you know it's over 90% 95%. So that's great that the students feel that way. I think that's a good um indicator of how you're you're there and how you're teaching and you could see that also at the uh graduation for them that kids were very motivated and really so I think the one-on-one did a good job. So, thank you for that. Um, any other questions? Just a comment. So, reading the survey, I think it's should be something to be very proud of that parents and students uh believe that the teachers care about them and I saw that in the open house and uh again, just great job to you and your staff and making sure those students feel accepted and safe. Thank you. All right. Next, we

109have review of revised NASA salary schedule. Janelle Ayat. This evening, I'm bringing forward a revised um administrative salary schedule. The only revision is a change in the work year for our coordinator of educational services. Uh the work year has been reduced from 218 days to 210 days effective July 1st. So, this is being for uh brought forward for information tonight and be brought back for action at our next meeting. Thank you. And just so the audience knows, this was voluntary. This um employee wanted the reduction in hours. Any [Music] questions? Any public comment? All right. Thank you. Uh next we have facility master plan update. Andy Cannon. My last presentation was about reductions. This is going to be about additions. Um so our facility master plan um is a framework um that we have had

110for some time in this district and other districts do this as well um and it's used by the board and the staff um to be able to put together what their priorities and needs are um going forward um what I want to make sure that this is not the construction plan that what u projects are actually going to look like if things have to move because of unknown utilities. Whatever renderings are in this is not necessarily the final project, but this is about um looking back at what we've done before, what our needs are, and then eventually we'll talk about priorities, but right now it's just to put it on the map about what these potential projects are. Um and again, priority depends on a lot of different factors. Um what our district needs are

111about DSA approval. Sometimes there's a domino effect where one project needs to happen before the next project happens. Um, and then there's all sorts of things about project costs that could change, good or bad. Right now it's trending more towards tariffs and increase in in construction cost. Um, we've had previous master plans. Um, I won't go back further than 2014, but at 2014 for measure K, um, that was a $45 million general obligation bond. Um, so we had a robust master plan. We did an update in 2020 because of measure R, $120 million. And now we are doing an update based on measure O. And yes, if you add those all up, I believe you're at $255 million that this community has pledged to our schools to make them better places. And I think that

112is absolutely phenomenal um that the the residents of Martinez value their school system and their facilities to that degree that they literally put dollars um into that. Um so tonight what we're getting to is what does that update look like? Um and who was involved with the process. Um so we began a long time ago with constant loop at our plan, but we began our next meeting series in December of 2024. Um had several people attend from the high school to junior high district staff and communities. We reviewed what was in the current master plan. Uh we had a couple board members also um there for that evening. got some input on what our needs are and some possible solutions to it. Um, and what we found is that everybody had more needs and more

113wants than we could possibly have dollars for. And that is completely um, you know, a known thing, right? That's what you expect to happen. And then what we do from that is we start whittling down to what can we do with the resources that we do have because $90 million is a lot of money, but it is never going to be enough to redo everything that we want. um heading into January of 13th, we pulled adult education separately um because we wanted to give them a little more time and attention and we have a wild card there which is what are we going to do potentially with workforce housing um that the board asked the superintendent to investigate. So that's still out there. It's not in the facility master plan except to say that there

114are a couple of options we'll look at for the adult school. Um, in May, we came back after seeing this feedback, after working with our construction management partners and a little bit with California Design West to figure out, you know, what what would we do here? What are some of those changes that would take place? Um, so in May, we came back reviews reviewed the master plan update. Some of the things that we looked at was the music room in the junior high gym FB building track um at the high school and then new construction at both the adult ed and a new one Mela Park snuck in there um because we have again this increase in TK enrollment and we needed to be able to meet the needs um at that facility. So, starting

115with the junior high, um I'm going to pull for this presentation. You can see the full um update which is attached to the board documents. In this presentation, I took out some clips to highlight certain things. So, the overall picture here is the junior high school and it's hard to see there because green is looking more yellow um here, but the highlighter yellow on the bottom left music room. We'll get to and you'll see a couple other spaces, but this is the grand um picture. In the next slide, we get more specifically into um the music room. And there has been an overwhelming outcry to increase the space and the ability for our music program to grow at the junior high school. The teacher is absolutely, you know, creating an amazing program where kids are

116interested in, they're doing well. We heard this at u the the junior high promotion ceremony. Was fantastic. Uh played a couple songs there, did a great job. And so we want to be able to help her by um increasing the facility there. And so you'll look in the picture um we are looking to replace the old wood shop and the lab that accompanied with it and supply room with the new music room. So we're going to be adding a lot more space um for that program. Also looking at the kitchen reconfiguration um C building reconfiguration for a possible professional development space. Um, we've already done a lot of work on security fencing, but because we're going to add the music room in, that um, whole F- wing has been outside of the security perimeter, now

117we're going to add that into the security perimeter, and we should be able to totally fence off um, the property and create um, which I think is extremely important, that single point of entry into the main um, to the main office area there with an accessibility ramp. um cover all the mechanical flooring, paint, window coverings, and do some asphalt repair. Um so provided a few pictures because I and many of us are well aware of what it looks like here, but we thought for the rest of the audience, we'd show what we're doing here. The bottom lefthand corner is the outside in the driving parking lot loop drive area um of the F building. So in the corner back there is where our old wood shop is and will be the new band room. Um,

118in the top left is the storage facility. We're actually going to um remove a lot of stuff, get down to bare walls and create a storage space for the instruments. In the top right hand corner is well, yeah, it's a wood shop. Um, a little disheveled in there. Uh, we're working on removing all of the equipment out of there and getting it down to four walls and a floor. Um, and that should happen really soon. in the bottom right. Um the window wall that you see there actually adjoins to the um to the construction shop and that's a lab area. And so that's all going to be replaced. We're going to take out a wall. We're going to be able to build a really large classroom space, provide all the technology that we have for

119all of our schools, um and give her the ability to put I mean hopefully 100 kids in there for an orchestra. And let's see what they can do. trying to follow along. Okay. Um I spoke about the administration entrance. Um here's the picture of it. This gorgeous really old how old superintendent Rossiund 1932. Gorgeous building. And I only bring it up to her because she was so much a part of conserving that building. She was there in the 90s when it was remodeled. um um extensive remodeling and we are continuing to use that facility because it is such a fantastic building. Um but this front we are looking at adding a ramp um to go up so that we can get into that that little court area there. We're looking at trying to create a

120line of sight um viewpoint. So we're investigating whether we can put a hole in a wall to be able to get a window or other access so we can have direct view there. We do know that we're going to put a camera system in and an electronic locking management system so that we can have people enter in there. And that's for those who don't know the junior high. Once you go through those blue doors in the middle of there, you have open access to the classrooms. And that was just a part of how it was designed back then. Now we um try to create schools with single points of entry. And so now we have to modernize that so that we can have that same functionality um and safety um security that we have at

121all the other schools um except for the high school which is also in this plan. U speaking about the high school, this is the overall plan. Very large U facility. The more yellow highlighted colors is where we're going to be focusing our time on. Can't see the new construction too well, but we'll jump right into the next picture here. Overall, we are looking at um creating a second gym. Um we are looking at redoing building F. We're looking at track and field and tennis courts um fixes because there's some issues there. And then also um the commons area where the cafeteria is and looking at ways to do covered outdoor dining. Um fencing off the entire property, creating that single point of entry and some library reconfiguration. All of that with mechanical and roof repair.

122We're going to do fresh paint, window coverings, and flooring and some asphalt repaving. Very similar to the junior high there. What is noticeable is we removed a couple of things from the update and that is the new admin building that was originally in the plan and the front loop design because when we looked at all the cost, we could fence off the property and continue to use the same administration building for a very low cost and then in turn change those dedicated funds instead of doing the new loop and a new admin building, put it into classroom space. and we thought that was a better and more advantageous way of doing that because when you look at the facility um building F and H are much older and we don't know the next time that

123we'll be able to afford um to go out for a bond and so this would be the opportunity to redo that classroom space now otherwise we may be sitting on it for quite some time. We also know that our central plant is finicky that's the politest word to use about it there and as much as we can get off that central plant system go to repackaged um heating and air conditioning units um will be in a better shape for everyone um on that campus. Um so I want to highlight the potential of a new building F. This is a rendering. It does not necessarily mean the final picture here, but there are some um this is one of the options that we were looking at. It's for 17 classrooms. Um it will increase some dining

124space. So the white area with the what is that? um 10 squares. Those are picnic table areas right now. It will broaden that outdoor dining area a little bit and create a one large channel line of sight from the top of the F building all the way down to the current outdoor dining outside the commons. So, it creates kind of this one um although like a Tetris shape, but like kind of one um outdoor dining space that can be visible from the top all the way to the bottom, which is much better for our staff to be able to to watch and to supervise lunchtime activities. Um it also creates the potential for an ADA access walkway. So, this is a raised area in the back. And we would be able to potentially have a

125direct pathway from the back fire lane and where the new gym would be into the new F building. And so, it's better access. It's better for our wheelchair um students um that that do attend there because right now to get down to the bottom from the back, you got to go through a couple of different buildings and down a few different elevators. Um and so I think this would really enhance that experience for anybody who's in a wheelchair. Uh, and then it would also have improved bathrooms. So, right where that cursor is to the right in the bottom, you're going to have accessible bathrooms from um the inside of the hallway and to the outside. So, this is going to be more access for our students who are at lunchtime. And again, keep that nice

126pocket of of eating area for supervision and for activities. And some pictures just so you see. Um, the picture to the left is the gate system that goes down by the gym and to the left where the tree is, that's building F. The picture to the right is where that potential walkway would be. And I put that there just so that people could get a visual of what a walkway would look like. So, you would go picture left and picture right. Same kind of area. You would just walk straight on a catwalk into essentially where the that window wall is um to building F. And that's how you would access that. On the other side of the building is the other extensive catwalk with the elevator. Also in the plans is a new gymnasium. So

127we'd have a full competition size gym. Um we did increase the aspect a little bit of the gym in the plan alone. Um, and the reason why is that we did want this to be um a larger space, a more usable space, especially with storage because we have um both wrestling and cheerleading and other groups that going to use this along with PE. So, we needed ample storage. We don't want people shupping, you know, materials and equipment back and forth from the other gym to get in here. Um, highlights here are the outside bathrooms. We do not have um bathroom facilities other than a porta body uh in the back field area. And so especially with softball and other programs that are running back there, this would give the chance for them to come into

128the bathrooms from the outside or from the inside. And then we also have a small set of bleachers in here. So we'd be able to get a couple of courts that run across there or you could have bleachers out and have one competition. Um it's going to be a huge benefit for the sports program that they don't have to share. um both the main gym. They could actually use the second one here. Um the idea is that we would also have um um wrestling mats that would come down from the top and that way the wrestling could use this space um instead of the down and cheer mats. Absolutely. Cheer mats that are sitting in the mezzanine right now that don't necessarily allow the site to use the concession area in the way in which

129it was designed to do. And then also we'll have uh some parking around there. So, this is an aerial photo just to get an idea. Um, the picture on the left is looking from the parking lot across. So, you're seeing the current outfield, left field of the uh practice field. And then the picture to the right is the aerial. So, we're going to be putting that gym smack in the middle of that infield and it'll carry out into right field. And then around it will be asphalt for parking. So, we're also increasing the parking space because we are already parking is a premium back there when you have lots of programming going on and with the new gymnasium, we'll only have increased needs for parking. The track and field um what we know is that

130over time um the ground has shifted slightly and it's causes some issues. There are some waves in the track, some cracking in the track. Um the idea here is that we want to be able to dig this all up and redo that. We want to get down substantial into the grade. We want to lime treat it to kill everything in there and to pack the soil in tightly to prevent from the soil movement as much. And we want to look at putting um a artificial turf in the center there. Um what it's going to do is it's going to give a really great facility for our track and field athletes and it's also going to give us a chance to support um just additional field space especially for um lacrosse and soccer. I know lacrosse

131has to compete with baseball a lot of times for the facility. So, this will add an extra dimension there. And and I don't think it's a small thing um to note that when student athletes have to have practice times that extend into the afternoon and evening, it does take away from family time. It takes away from studying time. So, the more that we can be able to provide for some of these um additional spaces for them to be able to get to sports, get home, do homework, and have family time, I think it's a very beneficial thing for the entire community. Um, so there's a lot of things that are going on here. Um, also with this area, the tennis courts um have um some fairly good cracking. So you can go to the next

132slide. Um, and we've talked about this before. You can see those paint lines. That is not the art class doing some type of Picasso thing. of that is repairs that we've done in the last couple of years trying to mitigate the crackings there because there's so much water um underneath that soil, especially in the springtime that moves that soil. We've put in additional drainage. We've repaired the cracks, but we're at a point where we need to do something um much more substantial to be able to fix that facility. What we're deciding to do is we're looking to do is a post-tension slab. So, we would pour a a concrete slab over the top of what's here. There's cables that go through that. you tighten it up and it's supposed to make essentially one one block

133immovable um concrete slab. So even if it shifts and moves, it does it all together and prevent some of that cracking. And we would essentially be replacing everything like for like here, including um some fencing upgrades. So we would look at um continuing to get eight courts um in the place and we'll see how that works. There's a lot of work to do around soil testing and making sure that all this can work, but that's what we're looking to do is to fix these facilities also. Uh, and then adult ed. Um, we've got two options here. Spoke to it a little bit before. Um, you know, on a side note, we have been doing an investigation on workforce housing and how to support our classified and certificated staff members to keep them from being priced

134out of the Martinez um, home market. And so there's still a potential of leasing that to a developer or doing other things with the property. So the two options we have before you tonight um in this master up plan update is to keep the adult education building on Alhamra Avenue where it is right now except for we'd move it to the parking lot. We essentially change the buildings in the parking lot around um and create a a two-story facility there. The other option is at the bottom with the pictures. The one on the left is the rendering um where you have 12 classrooms and various office spaces and it would take um the same footprint that lower campus does right across the street from us and you can see what lower campus looks like to

135the right picture. Um formerly we had MEIP and other programs there. Um but the building is definitely showing its age and it's time for um time for it to be torn down and something else put in that place. Um and the adult ed is going to be on the tail end of our construction projects because again we have to figure out what we want to do with the other properties. Um but we know that having it at Susanna Street and the proximity to Vicente and to the to the district office could potentially save us in overall size because Vicente isn't used in the evenings and so as the program maybe grows and does other things we'd be able to expand it much easier there. even if we were to leave it at the current site

136and build um the facility we build, we could also take advantage of the high school and other areas that go through that. So, there are potential options on how we continue to have a large adult ed project, but also being mindful overall of all the costs that are coming in. U Mela Park is the newest one um to the program. Uh we did see a large increase in TK enrollment. So, our plan to be able to deal with that because we don't have adequate space there in terms of square footage and also dedicated bathroom facilities and we really want our TK kids to have a bathroom that's inside the room. So, we're going to make some temporary plans to be able to house them for the next year with the hope that we'd be able

137we'd be able to move more quickly on building these two new TK classrooms. Um, so in total we will have three in the TK compound. Um the building says new TK building would actually be two different classrooms and it's going to be located next to what says daycare but is really a TK classroom for us right now. And then we have this really gorgeous nice playground area that we'll do a little bit of uh refurbishing on but essentially we would have this whole area there alongside with Woodbridge that just built in. And I wanted to add something to that. So, we know that there's going to be some future housing over in this area and in the event in let's say five years from now um enrollment in that area for TK slows down and

138for some reason we don't need this this facility the way that it's configured on that campus the TK and the daycare well it's not daycare but the three TK classrooms how they're separate from the school area you across the road, so to say, could also be um utilized by, let's say, an adult school um childare, child care co-op or child care um program that they want to start and and look at because I I know that I've spoken with a group during um construction meetings where they wanted to open some kind of a a a center where they they do training in and so on and so forth. Or we could just lease to and bring in income to a a child care center. So it wouldn't be like a waste. So if we we

139need it, we use it and if future comes and enrollment goes down, it could be seen as something or a private school or whatever that we could lease to because it's a newer facility with a playground and has all the structures for a small school. So yeah, and it just speaks to the fact that we're trying to build facilities that are multifunctional that we have lots of different options to. And what's great about this space, um, and you look at the top picture, it's going to be on that lawn area in the bottom middle of that picture, the building with the the square roof on the side is the other TK. And so we're able to fence that whole area off. You'll have three classroom buildings, plus you have the concession, the outdoor bathroom area,

140and storage in the fourth building that's there. Um, and it's away enough where, you know, you have kind of a nice little community, beautiful redwood trees back there and a grass area. It's going to be a really nice um space as we get through that. Um, and then then we get here, right? This is where our really great ideas and wonderful plans hit the reality of cost. And what you'll notice um is our total project and management cost is just short of $99 million. That's right. 99 and our measure O is 9 million $90 million. Um part of that total $99 million budget is a $3 million project that's going to be out of fund 35. So we can kind of take that out. Um but we know that we're over overall. Um also part

141of that budget is a reserve of $5 million. That's a contingency for anything that can go wrong with construction, including price increases that may happen. So it's going to be tight. Um these figures already account a lot of construction um aggressive more liberal um charges in cost um based on what current construction is right now. But that doesn't mean it won't grow in and get increase in what we have to be able to contribute. What's not in here is any type of funding that we'd get back from the state that we're eligible for. We could be eligible for millions of dollars from the state and we'd get that money back later on and we can reinvest it back. We currently have about $15 million in fund 35 that can also be applied more with the

142caveat, right? Again, Superintendent Rossy will come find me if we don't make sure that we don't keep enough money behind to repair our turf surfaces. So, that's replacing the high school turf a couple more times, the new softball turf, all of the elementary turf um surfaces. And so that we've made a commitment that we need to keep enough money behind so that we don't get this big bill and we also don't have dilapidated um facilities um because we can't afford them for our kids. So, we're again, we're trying to plan as strategically as far ahead as possible um with that and we know that this cost is over and um and I think I've spoken it probably five or six times, but our efforts through our construction management company, through John Navar representing Cummings Group

143who's in the audience tonight, Superintendent Rossy, they have done a wonderful job about cutting every um every budget that they can, finding ways to smartly use money and to put projects together that are under budget and on time. And I think it's has been wonderful so far and the hope and goal is to be able to continue those type of efforts in these lean times when we're not you putting um any general fund money away in deferred maintenance or for our long-term maintenance plan. We have to make sure that we use fund 35 which is our reimbursements from the states for the projects that we have done over the course of the last I don't know 10 15 years. We have to be smart and leave that money to be able to maintain our roofs

144and and things that on these newer buildings to keep them up because we never want to be in the state of disrepair that we were when we started these projects in 2016. So just be smart, keep a list, keep an eye out on that list and stay on Andy's back. That's all. Amy, will you will you advance the next slide for me Amy? Yep. Uh so tonight is board information. Um um we're open to receive feedback from the board. Um we'll make any adjustments as needed to the master plan at the June 23rd meeting. This is when we'll bring it back for approval. And at the same time, and this is maybe not unique, but something I want to prep the board for, we will also have contracts as part of some of these facility

145master plan updates ready for you to review. Um, because we want to be able to move timely, especially for Mela Park. We don't want to take any longer than we have to to get that into place. And right now, that looks like we would bundle together uh projects. So, we may look at um we're currently looking at bundling the new gymnasia at the high school and the new TK at Mela Park. We want to make a project that is substantial enough to garner interest from construction firms. Too small of a project. It will be more expensive and we won't get the the type of builders that we want um to do the job for us. So, what we will do is we'll bring back this um update. We'll also have contracts ready to go and

146and you guys will be able to decide whether you want to do them at the same time or if you want to delay. But we want to put everything in front of you. It's going to be another busy Fortnite, I'm sure, but we want to put it in preparation for you because we want to start at least on Mela Park. We need to start fairly quickly. If it's bundling it because it's a better deal, great. If it's not, then we would potentially go with Mel Park alone if the board wanted more time to to look at this and decide. Thank you, Mandy. Um, and I think as soon as you have the contracts, you get them to us, you know, not doesn't have to be just a couple days before the board meeting. If you

147get them sooner so we can have chance to review them, that would be helpful. Um, so I have a couple questions start on the facilities committee. Uh, let's see here. So, slide 10. Let me see. Is that building up? Uh, yes it is. Um, I know you say improved bathrooms. Is that an additional bathroom or not? Because additional bathroom and for students. Yes. And staff but students as well. Correct. Okay. Because what is it okay if John comes up and he can answer some of these question? So John Devar is with Cummings Group and he'll be up here that way everybody can hear you on the live stream as well. Perfect. Yes. So F would uh replacement would add student restrooms that don't exist. But when we remove F, we're taking away staff restrooms which

148we're adding back in with the new building. But we're not So overall to the campus, we are increasing restrooms. Correct. Okay. Because I think that's been a problem I've heard um from a number of students um that it's hard to get from room to room in the in the passing time and to use the bathroom. And so I think that is really critical to make sure and also ADA access for that. Yeah, it's putting the restrooms in a in a better location. Perfect. That's very good. Okay. Then I have go to page 12. Oh, so then the the new gym, the AS new gym, which you're looking to do possibly bundling with um Melo Park. Um you're going to have bathrooms inside and outside accessible. Yeah, we're doing restrooms. So you can do either inside

149or outside. So, say if you have an outside event going on, you lock the doors on the inside. So, we can keep people out of the gym and just use the outside or vice versa. Or you could have both, but you can lock one or outside or inside depending on what the use is going to be. Okay, perfect. Because the track and field doesn't really Yes. Yeah. Or the softball field. And the softball, everything up there. Yeah. Okay. Um, good to know. And let's see. Oh, yeah. And I know um the track and field is is near and dear to my heart because I've been up there and I know they don't do a lot of stuff, but that's not going to happen this summer. That's going to be but it will be next summer

150we anticipate. Uh well again based on you know board's direction and moving forward anything that's authorized like Andy says you know next board meeting the goal would be to get all those projects started next summer. Okay. So just so you know um the board has approved a study. So we had we had put together a group verde. You want to talk about what that's what we've done so far? Yes. We currently got an analysis going on about, you know, what it would take to put a synthetic field up there to tear out and replace the track and the surfacing. And then Andy talked about, you know, different options of fixing the tennis courts one being tension slab. Um, so we're doing that analysis to kind of figure out what those costs might be to see

151if, you know, how it fits within the budget. Sorry, turn the mic off. Um, on the picture 14, what is what's that gray stuff there? Is that That's the solar array at the top. That's the solar. Okay, that's what I thought. Okay, I was thinking, were you putting tennis courts there? That's not okay. Because the tennis courts are to the side. Okay, just double checking. Thank you. Let's see. Okay. And then I'm going to mention this only because um Suzanne is going to mention it as well, Suzanne Murphy. But um and I know it doesn't really matter because this is down the road, but um she currently has 14 classrooms. And so I know that they're looking at expanding their programs and I know if you were to move it to um Susanna Street, there

152was the suggestion that she could use some of the centi um but I know a lot of her classes are also during the daytime and so then they wouldn't be able to go over there. Um so I don't know how you can change that. if there's any way we can get 14. I I guess you can't do a twotory. I don't I don't know what the um but it and that's probably down the road down the road. I think the biggest thing is going to be, you know, what's the budget? You know, what what happens between now and then, you know, what opportunities come in if we do a a housing project, you know, so there's a lot of variables, right? Uh but it's the main thing is having a plan, having dollars reserved so

153that we can something. I know. We'll just throw in there that at a board meeting we mentioned that they want 14. I told her I would do that because I did think they do a good program and they have a lot of benefits to being there. So, I'm just going to throw that out there. So, it's in the record, right? We have it in the record. We also have room usage charts, so on and so forth. So, when we are at our max, we have to remember that teachers don't own rooms. We use rooms as on a room usage chart so that rooms don't remain empty that are used at night. We use them in day and night and so on and so forth. We want to use everything to its capacity. And we have

154that problem at every single solitary site in this district. It's ownership. And you know, there are times at the junior high when I had teachers using wagons going from room to room to room. And it wasn't their room. It was the room that they taught in. And they get very territorial. And sometimes you have to do that. So, we we have x amount of dollars and we're we we didn't count on doing the F building, but the F building is older than John Mure and um Lasis and we won't get another bond for another 20 to 30 years. And the F building and the H building won't last another 20 to 30 years. So, we had to take a right-hand turn when we didn't really want to take a right-hand turn. and we didn't predict

155that. So, we have to kind of see where we are and how much money we have to supplement. Just like we did at Los Hunters, we ended up having to we got the money to add the two extra classrooms at Los Hunis by juggling and doing what we did. So, everything comes down to where we are at the moment we build and where we can pull that money out of. So, projects just come and it's not not like we say how can we short change something. It's like where can we find the money when we come down to it and that's what it comes down to. Yeah. I think you have to to vision that the the master plan is a road map. It's a living document. It changes continually. You know, you can just

156see from 2020 to to 2025, you know, how things change and what priorities and you know the environment of you know what's a school facility looks like and we adapt to that. Um I think the biggest thing is when you do the master plan uh one thing that we try to do which was different from the 2014 and then the revision is we didn't follow that master plan. Uh you know it it went through the board um you know when we sat down and evaluated to take it to construction we looked at it and go this is this is not realistic. It's it was so conservative that we weren't replacing the schools we were just doing modernizations and additions. So when you when you start moving forward, you do a real really a reality check

157on what's a prudent way to move forward and uh make good decisions based on that. And uh when you do the budgeting, it is a fine line between if you're over conservative, you do the wrong thing. And if you have too big of expectations, you can't achieve it. So, you know, we don't know what the right answer will be, but we try to be in the middle and and not one way or the other too far because again, you're making bad decisions based on Even when we did we did our CSBA um workforce housing workshops and we designed you know a fictional um development on the adult school sign because that site that was our project. We had to come up with what something could look like and we were we were really cool. We

158put all these nice little coffee shops and stuff down underneath and then we were the last ones to present and found out that that doesn't work. And we were like, "Okay, everything we did didn't work." And then I was thinking that night when we were we flew home late and I was laying in bed and I'm thinking, "Okay, that's not going to work." But what if we took some of our adult school because it's a huge space underneath right along the frontage. What if we took some of our adult school classes and put them underneath the housing where the the shops were and some of our, you know, our neighbors there can still attend and walk and be on the bus line and attend our ESL classes there or our so on and so because

159it's huge space. Instead of being retail, maybe we could put some of our more um attended classrooms underneath, you know. So, there's a lot of potential for a lot of things just because it's not in one space or connected. Does it have to be? So, sometimes you got to think outside the box. And part of the timeline I just want to make sure everybody's aware of is that we don't sell all the bonds at once, right? We sold 30 million now. We'll sell another $30 million in the next couple years. I think two years and then by the end of five or six years, we'll have the full 90 million. So, we also don't want to oversaturate the construction project. We want to time it out, but then we also have to build it within

160when we receive funds for it, too. So this project I mean we will be going at least another five years before we we probably finish up everything that's here and there'll be another master plan update in five years because now the rule is you got to make one every five years. So absolutely I'm I wasn't saying any of that stuff. I think doing the F building and all that stuff is great and I just wanted to um throw out that the adult center that they do want I just wanted it on the record that's all. Um but anyway, uh yeah, and I think the bathrooms are more important and F building and some other stuff. So, absolutely. And I'm sure we've got many more um board comments. So, next one. Yeah. So, it took me

161a second, but I realized that um we have two F buildings that we're talking about. So, I want to talk about the F building at MJHS. Yeah. Not to confuse people. So, if we could go back to that. Um so, the highlighted space is F103. Is there currently a plan for F101, F102? Is that going to One of those is the mirror room, right? Yeah. They're PE rooms. Oh, so they are being used. Okay. And then F104, is that going to be the storage that? Yeah, that's the old classroom area. It's got a varnish room in there. So, we'll be um taking all that out. Um the the varnish room can essentially be like a a storage room for music is what we had talked about. And then the rest of the room will put

162in um storage space so they can store their instruments. And we'll make sure the windows are covered so that it's really safe. Perfect. And then is there a plan for the current music room? Um not in the facility master plan. Um we've thought about um putting together as a green room and developing the theater space a little more because there's not adequate like dressing room and facilities there for both our productions now and for any of the outside groups that come and use it. So that'll be a work in progress of of what we'll do there. Thanks. I was on the facilities committee, too. This is very exciting. Um, I'm glad you get to deliver good news. Yes. Thank you. Once in a while, we let you do that. Uh, and you know, it it

163is really good news. It's exciting. It's something I think we can all be proud of. Um, you know, we have bad news about the budget and there's other challenging things happening, but this is something that's really great and, um, I'm looking forward to It's not a blank check. 90 million is a lot. I'm very thankful the voters um approved that for us, but uh we aren't going to be able to th those meetings were very interesting because people had great ideas. We're not going to be able to do it all. Um but it's going to be worlds better than what we have now. So, thank you very much and thank you to everybody that participated. We do have a public comment. Suzanne Murphy. Thank you very much and good evening board members, uh, superintendent and

164cabinet. Um, I wanted to talk about the proposal for Martinez adult education, the new facility, and I wanted to highlight the need to extend it to from 12 classrooms to 14 classrooms. Currently, our program operates in 15 classrooms and a multi-use room. While we understand a multi-use room is probably not going to be in the future for a new facility, we can host events like the international fair and career fairs off-site and other facilities. But the use of classroom space is really critical, especially for two things that we really want to move forward with with the adult school. One of them that was mentioned is a dedicated child care classroom. So when we survey our students at the end of year, overwhelmingly the child care is one that comes up time after time and it's

165critical and we do have funding both state and federal that could support a child care within our facility. Not only would it support students and help with retention, but it opens the opportunity for articulated child development classes in partnership with Diablo Valley College. It also enables collaboration with Contracasta County Office of Education's early childhood education apprenticeship program. It can create hands-on experience for students at Alhhamra and Vicente high schools that are interested in careers in teaching and early childhood education. It strengthens our commitment to career pathways and it offers community services. So, it's really important that we have a designated classroom on our site to use for child care. The second would be our dedicated testing center. CASUS testing is used for placement, for program tracking, and for federal reporting. It's very important for our

166income that we receive at the school or funding. Um, we do high school equivalency testing that's approved by the state of California. That's important for our students to be able to receive their high school equivalency doing testing at the site that they attend. We could also use the space to do testing for different indust industry recognized certifications, lensures for our pharmacy technician training program, optical assisting and medical billing and coding. So a designated classroom that's just for testing is really essential for the for the site. Estimated cost per classroom is 1.3 million. So an increase of 2.6 6 million to add two additional classrooms and have all of the classrooms in one space would be ideal. Um I urge you to consider this in looking at the facility master plan that initially started with classrooms.

167Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comments? No. Can we can I make a motion for a fivem minute recess? Yeah. Say second. Second. All in favor? Bye. Okay. And we are back from our short break. And now, where did I leave off? Okay. Um, number eight, review of new job description. Noon duty cafeteria supervisor Janelle Ayat. Tonight for information, I'm bringing forward a new job description um titled noon duty cafeteria supervisor. Uh the district and CSEA have negotiated and agreed through theou process to this new job description. It is pending CSEA the CSEA 610 process. Um and we expect that to be completed prior to our next meeting in time for the board to take action. Thank you. Any questions? Any public comment? Okay. So, I'm going to go ahead and close the adjourn

168the main meeting and we're going to start with a public I'm going to start a public hearing of the 2025 2026 district budget and balances in excess of minimum reserves. The board will conduct the public hearing. We know all that. Okay. So, I'm looking at Andy. Do we have any public comments? No. Okay. So, we're going to close that public hearing. Now, we're going to open the second public hearing of the 2025-2026 local control and accountability plan and proposed 2025 20226 Martinez Unified School District LCAP. Do we have any public comments? No. Okay, we will close that public hearing. And so we're we're restarting our regular meeting. First one up is action item 2025 2026 consolidated application for funding. Andy Cannon. Uh tonight before you is our annual application to the federal government. Uh we

169still don't know if everything will be funded or not but we are planning to ask for funding for all of our programs for title one, title two, title three and title four and also Indian education. So the application is something we're required to bring to the board each year and then we will enter that into the consolidated application um to the federal government and to the state for funding purposes. Um so tonight we're asking the board to approve the application for funding. Thank you. Any questions? We do this every year. Um, any public comments? Okay. Do I have a motion? I move to approve the 2025 2026 consolidated application for funding. Second. All those in favor? I. So moved. Next we have review and adoption of resolution 2025-27 to establish temporary interfund transfers of special

170or restricted monies. Andy Cannon. Um resolution 2527 is to help us with cash flow or the potential for not having it. as a part of the budget that you saw tonight. There are times when we have negative um cash flow because we are waiting on the state to or the county to provide um funds to us whether through taxes or through state aid. Um because sometimes that causes us to lack in cash, we're able to borrow from other funds like fund 35, from fund 40. We're able to use that cash to be able to make things like payroll because payroll is the largest expenditure we have each month. This resolution allows for us to borrow from those other funds as needed, especially around um December when we are short cash because we're waiting on taxes

171to come in in January. So, I'm asking tonight that the board approve resolution 2527 allowing us to do budget transfers from other funds. Thank you. And again, we do this every year. Any board questions? Public comment. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve resolution 2025-27. Seconded. All in favor? I. So moved. Okay. Review and adoption of resolution number 2025-28, local assignment option to teach subject matter courses. a continuation independent study as allowable in ED code 44865. Janelle Ayat, this is another item that we do every year and this resolution is being brought forward in preparation for the 2526 school year. Um, as um you mentioned, ED code does authorize the school board to um issue local um assignment authorizations for teachers in certain subject areas. This particular resolution is for teachers in our

172alternative education settings at Vicente Ambionis who might be teaching coursework outside of their credential authorization. Um and so I am asking the board to um authorize and adopt uh this resolution. Thank you. Any board questions? Public comment. Do I have a motion? I make a motion to approve resolution 2025 through uh-20220 uh 28. Second. All those in favor? I so moved. Okay. Next, we have review and adoption of resolution number 2025-30 to teach elective courses grades 1 through 12 as allowable in ED code 442 58.7. Janelle Ayat. Um this resolution is specific to our middle school. Um also allowable under ED code. Um the board may authorize employees who hold a single subject um teaching credential to teach uh other coursework for which they have um completed specific number of units and therefore can be

173considered qualified at the local level. So, the board is being asked to approve U resolution 2025-29 for next school year. No. Okay. Um, thank you for correcting me. Any questions? Board questions, public comment. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve resolution number 2025-29. Second. All in favor? I. I. So moved. Now we're into review and adoption of resolution 2025-30 to teach elective courses. That's the one. Okay, we messed up. But yes, you got it right. Um, grades 1 through 12 as allowable in ED code 4428.7 Janelle Ayat. Thank you. So again, this item is for teachers who um are uh teaching elective courses. The board is being asked to authorize this resolution in order to allow teachers um to teach uh credentials in area uh teach electives in areas for which they are

174not credentialed. Thank you. Do we have any public comment? I mean, I'm sorry. Do we have any um board questions? Public comment. Do I have a motion? I'll move to approve resolution number 2025-30. Second. All those in favor? I I so moved. Okay. Review and adoption of resolution 2025-31, local assignment option to teach subject matter courses as allowable in ED code 44263. Janelle Ayat. Last one. Um this authorization um is for our teachers who hold single subject um credentials and are teaching in another subject area for which um we can deem that they are locally authorized based on their subject coursework that they've completed um in the university. So someone who for example might hold um a chemistry um credential and they are teaching um an earth science course or a math course um and

175they are able to do that because of the uh coursework that they've completed. So we are asking for the board to approve this resolution 2025-31. Thank you. Any board questions? Any public comments? Do I have a motion? I will move to approve resolution 2025-31. Seconded. All those in favor? I. So moved. Next we have RFP25-03, office equipment and related technology and services. Joe Gangler. Good evening board. And uh uh I would say it's Superintendent uh Rossi, but she has gone on vacation, well-earned vacation. So uh just a minute here. I'm used to doing this while other people are talking. All right. So um just bringing you up to speed and uh looking for action today uh regarding our office equipment related technologies and services RFP that we put out this past month. Um just to

176give you some background um our current contract we use for a lot of our copers, printers and related technology is going to expire on June 30th, 2025. When this contract expires, we lose our vehicle uh that we call it in um contracts like uh Camass and Source Source well and all these other contracts that are bid out already. When this expires, we're going to lose our vehicle to uh be able to lease copers and um buy printers and get various software packages that we currently use in our uh school district. Um we found out that that piggyback contract that we're using is not being renewed and we decided there was an opportunity for us to issue our own RFP and see if we can negotiate our own pricing. Not that the current contract pricing was

177something that we didn't want. We liked that pricing. Uh so we posted that RFP on April 14th, 2025 and we solicited to three vendors uh mostly because they had contacted us prior uh just cold calling just seeing if we were interested in uh looking at their contracts. So we used those as direct solicitation and offered them an opportunity to provide a proposal. Uh we did receive three responses uh one from Xerox, one from Kanuka Manulta business solutions and another one from UBO business systems. I put an asterisk on Xerox as they were not considered uh because they asked to request a uh to remove a core RFP provision that we put out. Um which was the actual piggybacking clause that allows other agencies to use our contract. Um and we were unwilling to uh negotiate

178that as it is a core principle of the RFP that we posted. Um so we did inform them of that of communication and received confirmation that that is something they asked us uh very politely I may add uh to remove and informed them that we couldn't uh move forward with their RFP uh consideration. Uh so then we move forward and we started reviewing uh our process with UVO business systems and Kanukica Manulta. Um so our scoring methodology uh we used criteria based scoring. So we basically evaluate against specific RFP criteria that was uh displayed and shown on the RFP that we put out. Um and then we use weighted categories everything totaling 100%. And then we would issue uh points uh based on the responses or the proposals effectiveness or um ability to align with

179the requirements of the RFP. Um overall cost as per state law must be the highest weighted which our overall cost weight was 30%. U and then our scoring scale is one to two points per category since and that fluctuates depending on how many respondents based on the template we use. So since we had two respondents on our proposal that means a maximum of two points could be issued and two points would be someone that is you know very responsive one point would indicate maybe some responsive elements uh but not uh maybe missing some and then zero points would be non-responsive in that category. Um so our overall score uh for UBIO systems was 85 points. They were our highest responsive bidder. Um they best met our district uh requirements as set forth in the request

180for proposals that we put out. Uh they had the highest marks in all categories except overall cost. Um we'll go into that a little bit. Um they offered solutions by uh the district that's in use today. So that's important to us. We want to make sure that uh we're able to continue using systems that we feel are providing value to our students and our business operations here at the school district. Um one thing that was very important to us is a service level agreement on the copers and printers. Um the UBO was able to guarantee a 4h hour or less response when those issues are reported. Um if you ask any teacher uh there's many things that are important in a school site, but the most important thing is a copier for them. And if

181that copier is out of commission and at some of our schools there's only one, uh, that is a big problem and we need to make sure that we're able to have a company that's very responsive and making sure that if possible on and guaranteeing the closest amount of time to resolution that we can get for them. Um, so that was very important and we saw that in the response and felt that that was something that was uh very responsive to our needs. Also um since we are a public institution we are required to uh provide devices that can be used by all manners of people students faculty staff um in form of accessibility options. So you know can a copier uh can you adjust the level of a screen? Can you change it to high

182contrast if you're visually impaired? Uh does it make audible uh alerts? Um is it actually accessible to someone in a wheelchair? Um and these are important things uh and uh bio systems provided excellent descriptions on how their equipment is accessible um and can be used by all manners of people. Um it did have an higher overall cost compared to Konuk and Monulta and the reason being is that the quote the price sheet is attached to our item. Uh the price sheet is not to exceed pricing. Um, if you notice in our uh RFP, we asked that this contract could be piggybacked against any other public entities. That could be a college or university, uh, publicly funded healthcare agency, um, government. Um, so those price points uh, vendors are varied depending on the area of um,

183of uh, or category of business. So what they did is they offered the most maximum price it could be. we're going to be significantly lower um based on our assessment because we are a K12 institution. We would receive some discounts there. In most areas um especially in related technology categories, UVO is actually the lowest uh price bid especially in some of our existing software systems. Um in copers uh we see variability. It's really tough to compare compare um apples to apples in copers because they have different abilities of printing pages per minute um different paper sizes, different technology. So, uh we try to look at just see, you know, where where everything's kind of landing in sort of an informal average. Um but even those prices we we know or we think should be a

184little bit cheaper when they come in. Um in Kaneka Monulta, they scored 75 points. Uh they had the highest market overall cost because they had the less expensive device. Um they did have a wide variety of solutions offered. Um most of the offerings that they had uh particularly in related technology uh was not in use by Martinez Unified School District as it is today. So if we were to move to that contract, we'd have to have significant staff resources to migrate systems and everything over to these new platforms. Uh some of these systems contain transcripts from the 1930s. Um, some of these platforms are our printing control software that uh we just deployed this year uh asking staff to relearn a whole new system and it hasn't even been a year yet. Uh there probably

185pitchforks for that understandably. Um so um also we didn't see any uh product accessibility information. Um as we talked about how things are accessible to all uh people um we also were missing some alternate copers. We asked, you know, primarily to provide um copiers that could print A3 size, which is um what we call legal size paper um in the US. Um and uh we also offered them an option to provide an A4 size, which is ledger, the big monster pieces of paper. Um and we didn't see any pricing for that. U actually quoted us a A4 size copier first as their primary uh price point for all their units. Um and like I talked about related technologies do not integrate well with the existing district platforms. Um one thing that I don't put in

186the presentation and if you look in the RFP you'll find uh this is uh my department's way of contributing to the general fund and helping out with revenue. Um there is a 1.5% administrative fee that will be attached to any contract that's uh used off of this piggyback. Um we don't know what that amount will be. It depends on a lot of varying factors. It could be um you know how many renewals occur against this contract, how many uh purchases occur against this contract. Um technically speaking, we'll probably any revenue that comes in, we will use it as one-time funds. Um just because it's so variable, you can't really depend. It could could be, you know, 100,000 one year, it could be half a million the next year. We don't know any of those prices.

187So, as much as I would love for it to be half a million, um anything greater than zero will also be beneficial. Um So this administrative fee is basically covering uh my time uh most in a little bit of of my time to make sure uh that the project is managed uh or excuse me the contract is managed, the vendors adhering to the requirements. Uh they provide quarterly reports to us to make sure that whatever is uh happening in our district um as well as the other contracts are being uh disclosed to us so we can make sure that we're holding them accountable. Um we uh so basically at this point what we're doing is asking for your approval for our intent to award um this proposal to UBO business systems. Um uh we basically

188at that point if you approve this um staff i.e. myself and Mr. Cannon will start working with UVO systems to finalize a contract based on this proposal. Um if everything goes well we will have that final contract to come before you on the board meeting of June 23rd uh hopefully for review and action of approval. Um, and that's pretty much it for me. If you have any other questions, thank you very much. I appreciate the fact that you were trying to um generate income from the school even if it's one time. So, thank you for that and I definitely agree that the four hours u maximum is really critical for the teachers and we want to make sure we keep staff happy as much as possible because we value everything they do. Um, so uh

189I don't have any questions. I think it's a great idea myself but um board members any questions? Public comment. Okay. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion that we approve the uh contract for IPO. Just RFP 253. Perfect. Sorry. 253. I will second that. Yeah, I think we should if if the board uh would uh entertain that, I think we should make sure we're very specific on intent to award. Yes. So, I'll make a motion the intent to award RFP 25-03. Seconded. All in favor? I I so moved. We don't need any additional com. We don't we didn't use up our time so we don't need to use the additional comments from the public. Um so we have comments from superintendent board members and future agenda items. So why don't we start with

190um Courtney. So one event I attended in the last two weeks that I forgot to mention is the PTA sendoff for Helen. Um so thank you for that. That was a lovely event. There's been a lot going on the last two weeks. Uh and we spent two whole days this weekend interviewing superintendent. Um so three graduations, the interviews, um that event, uh very happy that we have hired two wonderful new employees and very important roles. So welcome Dr. Patrick and um our new AHS principal. Welcome. We're excited to have you both on board. And that that's it. Yeah, I think we all had very busy weeks with graduation and then interviews. I got to sit through both of them and uh I can't tell you how excited I am to have both of you to

191be part of Alhamra I mean Martinez Unified School District. So look forward to working with you soon and I thank you for sitting through tonight. Okay. I know I was a little soapboxy today and I'm going to continue that and I don't I have a lot of thoughts in my head so forgive me if it's not super articulate. Um, I know this the special election that's going on has been really divisive. Um, but what I see and where I want to be positive about that is that I think democracy is more important than it has ever been, at least in my lifetime, um, you know, reading the news today and seeing what our fellow Californians are going through in Los Angeles is really important to be active and involved in your community. And so I

192really appreciate that people are passionate, that people want the best person that they believe is going to do right by our kids. And I also want to say that I don't think it's just me on this day. I think it's everyone here, all of us, that we're really committed to making a governance team that works. We have a new superintendent coming in. We have a new board member member coming in. I think we have a real opportunity to create a long-term vision to build trust with each other, with the community, and move forward in a way that is honoring our kids. And so, I want to thank people for coming out, for being passionate, for caring. Um, democracy is really messy, but it's so important, and we're seeing it happen here. We're seeing it unfold,

193and I think that's I mean, something to be really proud of. So, thank you to to everyone who's who's involved and passionate. Thank you. Um, so I also want to welcome again Dr. Patrick and Mr. Be Oh my gosh. Bey. Yes. Frank BD. Okay. I remember that. Um, no. And I I also want to um say again that it I also went to the PTSA um retirement for Helen and thank you for doing that. And I just want to thank everyone because I think um again as as uh Annie said, I think it's important that people come to uh our board meetings and we you know whether or not we agree with the opinions, we I think it's important for people to share their opinions and for us to hear them and have them out

194there. And um you know, regardless of anything, I think also we're going to have a great governance team when we have our new board member. And I really do appreciate all the teachers and staff and everyone for everything you do every day. um you make it um you know I say a pleasure all the time but we certainly enjoy doing what we do because for the kids and that you have those same um goals that we do um and I want to say congratulations to all the graduates and this is summertime so I hope you enjoy your summer uh for the people that don't have to go to work um I know that's cabinet does but um for teachers uh and and that's pretty much it and Janelle did you want to say anything okay

195with that um we didn't have to extend the meeting so great we are journing morning at 9:24 p.m. Thank you. Good night.