Regular Meeting - Martinez Unified School Board - 6/10/2024

001e e e for June 10th 2024 item number one and number two do we have any public comment tonight s okay in that case we'll adjourn a close session e e e all right we are recommitting the regular Board of regular meeting of the Board of Education and we do have a couple of things to report out from closed session um item 3.1 was consideration of student expulsion 2023-24 d04 person to Education Code 48918 do I have a motion okay second mission for the expulsion of uh student 24-4 seconded okay all right and we have to do a roll call vote so I vote I board member Melendez I board member buger I board member hork Martin I board member yamas I okay motion passes um our second item is en close session on my

002motion seconded by board member hork Martin the board voted unanimous vote to appoint Matthew Jensen as director to special education beginning July 1st 2024 okay next item is the Pledge of Allegiance and Matthew would you like to lead us you can say no okay aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for [Applause] all okay item number seven is approval of the agenda and are there any changes to tonight's agenda yes there's one small change to tonight's agenda and it is on item um 143d the memorandum of understanding between new it should say New Leaf collaborative instead of new collaborative okay is there any um questions or discussion on the agenda any public comment okay there a motion to

003approve the agenda I'll move to approve the agenda sorry move to approve the agenda as amended second okay all those in favor I I okay motion passes and number eight is Introduction of potential new hire who is now a new hire welcome so Matthew Jensen is excited to serve as Martinez unified school districts incoming director 2 of special education he began his educational career as an extensive support needs special day class teacher at a title one Elementary School in Richmond after obtaining his administrative credential he moved over to the Brentwood Union School District he has held various leadership positions there including program specialist and Elementary assistant principal educating and supporting students with diverse learning needs has always been his passion and it is his goal to ensure that students with exceptionalities have Equitable access to

004educational opportunities inside and outside the classroom he looks forward to working in musd to establish a worldclass special education department it's our pleasure to introduce Matthew Jensen okay first of all thank you to the board for approving my appointment today I'm very excited and up here and also thank you to all of those who were on my interview panels I'm super excited to be working with an who I didn't know was coming today so thank you um I'm super excited to work alongside amazing leaders and teachers and staff and community members but most importantly the students to make sure that their needs are being met I'm also very excited to be in Martinez here so I can't wait to work with all of you and thank you so much for having me [Applause] tonight okay

005thank you we're excited to have you and you are welcome to leave now if you'd like to we won't we won't take offense [Laughter] good night Ann we say you too okay um our next item is comments oh sorry employee organizational organization reports is there anything tonight okay any comments from the PTA all right moving right along item number 11 is correspondence so we have one piece of correspondence from uh the County Office of Ed in regards to our second interim report that we presented January February March in March of this year um we did receive a positive certification we are warned about a deficit spending in reserves and um navigating the upcoming fiscal challenges which I'm sure um Andy has already addressed in our our budget so just wanted to say another nice job

006by our business department led by our CBO all right thank you um and do do we we make this do we attach this letter to the agenda or can people see that if they want to see it yeah okay I think it's attached to the agenda already okay great okay number 12 is Staff reports superintendent report so um last week we celebrated the end of the year with two graduations one Middle School promotion and four fifth grade promotion and and various kindergarten graduations um a lot of field trips barbecues field days and picnics every school was alive with activity and nonstop on top of that murel Park staff was packing up the final bits of their classro that had to be emptied by the last day of school and the junior high staff was rearranging

007their classrooms and packing stuff up preparing for their new furniture delivery next month um this week the district site Administration is closing up the year and beginning to delve deeper into the prep for next year setting things up so when they return in at the end of July um their work is not going to be too much cabinet is refining plans for professional development for the start of the year and making sure that supplies and curriculum are ordered in time for the start and various staff members will be taking um vacations here at the district off through office through the summer so be patient if your email or call is not returned eared immediately we'll do our best to cover all bases a huge thank you to all staff for a job well done we

008also on a on a side note received a resignation from um Megan de la Mater who's our morela Park principal early Friday morning she has taken a position in the Napa Valley School District and we have posted and set a timeline for um replacement input surveys have been emailed to parents and staff and they're coming in um slowly but surely and we already have uh quite a few applicants that have put it in um Ed join and we just posted on Friday so I'm hopeful we'll be able to meet the the short timeline that uh we have in front of us so that's it okay thank you okay um item number 13 is public comments under government code 549 54.3 members of the public have the right to address the board on any matter within

009the board's jurisdiction however the board may not take action on any non-agenda item individual speakers will be allowed 3 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 there was not enough time to speak during public comments do we have any public comment no okay all right moving right along item number 14 is the consent calendar and we are already heard about the amendment to 14d any questions or comments about the consent calendar just like to recognize our donations this this uh week we've received over almost almost $3,700 donated to the district so appreciate the people's generosity all right thank you for that um any public comment on the consent calendar all right I will move to approve

010the consent calendar seconded okay all those in favor I I okay motion passes unanimously item number 15 is our long one discussion information items item 15.1 is presentation of the 2425 budget and statement of balances and excess of minimum reserves presented by Andy Canon uh thank you and good evening trustees and members of the community tonight I will be presenting to you the 2425 budget report for our district Martinez unified each year we are required to create a budget that shows our revenues and our expenditures for the next fiscal year and this is an opportunity for staff the board and the community to see the financial health of the district and how we are going to meet our financial obligations so the purpose I'll go through this slide um we are required to adopt a

011budget for before July first each and every year um it includes the process by which we can recreate the local control and accountability plan known as the elap um it is a projection of our estimated revenues so what we are spending for this year and then comparing that to what we project to spend for the future year 2425 and lastly we have to ensure each year that we can meet our obligations financially for the current or next school year and two additional so for a total of three years multiple assumptions are used to be able to create this budget and you can see those listed in the chart before you um they include enrollment average daily attendance UND duplicated pupil count um cost of living adjustments additions to our lcff revenue and other statutory cost

012our enrollment projections and Ada are steady um as you look over the next couple of years we will see an increase next year of 13 students followed by decrease of 17 and then that net decrease is only four so right now we're projecting a stabilizing enrollment which is a great departure from what we've seen in years past which is a a rather dramatic decline in the enrollment over the last five years or so um we do monitor these enrollments and I will be updating these based on um kids that come into school the one difficulty is always looking at what our new Kinder group is going to look like we try to look at birth rates from 5 years ago to make that um determination but it's not always accurate and so a lot of

013times we wait until you know the year starts in October and then we'll make adjustments so you will see potentially different enrollment numbers as we get to First interim in December um Cola is projected to or actually is 1.07% and that's higher than forecasted earlier um when we talked just after the January Governor's um revised budget it was looking like Cola would be at 76% % so this is a a great piece of news for us that brings in additional Revenue than what we anticipated early on um future colas are projected at about 3% you'll see them there at 2.93 and 3.08 and they match fairly closely to the Consumer Price Index which is essentially saying that the inflation of goods and services is about the same as what cola is um for the next

014couple of years so there's a balance there we've started using a term called local Cola and this term um we used it last year and what we mean when we say local Cola is essentially the percentage increase of lcff revenue from one year to the next year and the reason why we put this in here because just the statutary cola does not tell the whole picture of what our budget is it does not encapsulate what happens with the change in enrollment whether good or bad increase or decrease and so what we do is we want to look at this from lens of how much additional revenues did we receive from lcff so if you look on the chart you'll see that for next year we're projecting our overall lcff revenue is going to decline by

0152.5% so that is less Revenue in lcff for 2425 than we have in this current fiscal year 23 24 next year you're going to see a very modest increase of 0 4% and then we'll return to some healthier increases at 2.8% in 2627 the key takeaway here is that again you can have a positive Cola but still not receive an increase in revenue and that is all going to be dependent on what your Ada is in this case for stirs we have um no change there so it's flat purs our Public Employee Retirement System there's a slight um there's a slight increase um going from 27% to 28% and then for Health and Welfare we're estimating an increase of 8% um on the year based on premium increases for our medical benefits the chart here

016illustrates further the difference between funded Ada and actual Ada actual Ada is the average number of students who come to school each and every day for us funded Ada um is what the state gives us based on one of three different criteria we are allowed to use either the current year um Ada the prior year Ada or we can use the average of the three most recent years Ada for us that threeyear average provides us with the largest Ada so that's where you're going to see a difference between funded Ada and Ada so in the chart above you're going to see that green line at the top shows our actual enrollment um and for next year that's 3738 the second line the blue line is our funded Ada and the third line is our actual

017Ada and what you'll notice is that from 2324 to 2627 you'll see that the lines and points are getting closer to one another that means that our funded Ada is declining pretty dramatically while our actual Ada is fairly steady and so just in the grand scheme of things we are for next year excuse me for the current year are receiving about 154 more we're receiving funding for about 154 more students than we currently have which is about a $1.9 million that we received more than we actually should if we used actual Ada and again that is going to decline over time um over the next two years that Gap will only be about 20 students so this is another case where you can have um healthy statutory colas but yet not see your revenues increasing

018or in some cases decreasing for our revenues um for those of you folks that are looking at the um board documents um posted online there were a couple um small errors here here that I've corrected in the printed version and they're what are showing in front of you tonight so for lcff sources um here you see that's um just short of 47 million I think it was 2 million off um in what we had published before um which means that the difference between our estimated actuals of $47 million in lcff to what our budget is for next year again that is that 2.5% decrease for fedal Revenue you see a very healthy decrease um which is negative for us but it is explained by the fact that we are running out of our one-time funds

019so our federal Sr $3 this year we had retained about almost $900,000 of sr3 and we will have um fully spent all of that by the end of this month so if you look at the difference there of nearly a million dollars in federal revenue the vast majority of it is because of the loss of sr3 um there's a few other um smaller accounts um sped went down by about $70,000 we had a homeless budget of $10,000 that we've spent a one-time fund um and we've also spent down some of our Title One Reserve funds um so you see a large 35% reduction in our federal reserves from last year and other state revenue um just a small decrease of 1% most of that is because of a change in transportation our cost for special

020education Transportation this current year have gone down slightly and because they've gone down we project that we will not as get as much back from the state the state now reimburses us for 60% of our transportation cost so it's not a loss per se we if we spend less we get less back in reimbursement so it's kind of a a balance there in other local Revenue we have a decline of nearly 177% um part of this is one-time local revenue of a solar rebate that we received this year and then it's also conservative budgeting um we don't necessarily know from any given year how much we're going to receive in donations or facility rental um dollars so we conservatively budget at this time so that number when we get to First inter will be larger

021and there'll be less of a gap from the current year to next year um as we get to First interm and have a better idea of what those projections are so overall we are seeing about a 5% decrease from 61 million to about $ 58 million in revenues to further illustrate um what lcf Revenue looks like over time and how it is impacted by Cola um this chart will show from 2021-22 fiscal year all the way until our second oute of 2026 and 27 what you'll notice in the first couple of years in the chart are sizable increases that are all based upon substantial colas 5 5.07% in 2122 a large 13 % in 2223 a very large um one in 2324 the current year of 8.22% but now you're going to see what the

022state is starting to look at in terms of tax revenues so as state income tax returns have declined dramatically after the pandemic the result is that we're seeing less Cola and the state's budget and its deficits are starting to trickle down to where we are now so we're not seeing as much revenue and growth as we did before and again this is to illustrate that funded Ada actual Ada and colas all have an impact on the revenue and that you have to put all of them together to determine what your trajectory is so we'll see losses in lcff revenue for next year and then we'll see it start to uptick again as our Cola rebound from the 1.07% um I think I've discussed expiring restricted funds numerous times over the last couple of years and

023we will continue to do so until they are finally um used up um for programs throughout the district right now we're looking at the largest of those restricted funds being the Arts music and instructional materials block grant it is to be spent by 2026 and we are on Pace to do that um in fact we may be close to spending all of it by next June so we're looking at 202 25 of actually spending all of those funds the learning recovery emergency School block grant um was a quite large um Grant almost $2.4 million it expires in 2028 we are using a lot of that on our mental health counseling and other programs that are around um health and concerns for our kids um and that is looking more like 2026 that it'll be fully

024expended at this rate our kitchen infrastructure Grant ends in 2026 U we will be spending using that a lot of about half of what's remaining on our Moralo Park project and then the rest to be able to supplement the other kitchen infrastructure projects that we have in place S 3 I've already talked about um it ends technically in September of 24 but we will have spent everything by the end of this month for that our a through G completion grants are expiring in 2026 we will use most of that up um by the end of um summer school this summer and through our credit recovery program that we have um at the high school and viente for after school then lastly our uh Universal pre kindergarten Grant upk all those funds need to be expended

025by next year and we are on Pace to to fin to finish those off as well so our expenditures are projected to be less um less than ,000 $100,000 when different when compared to our actuals and that's the total at the bottom of the chart the 62. nearly five million to$ 62.4 million so we're really close in what we projected there um and what you'll note is that the reductions that the board approved in February are almost um nearly offset what the increase in cost for the salary negotiated settlement was so that's why you're not seeing SE a lot of difference there some of you may remember that we um allocated um well over a million dollars in unrestricted um reductions but this is the impact of reducing in one way but also increasing expenditures

026and yet another through salaries um overall our certificated salaries are going to decrease slightly when compared to estimated actuals um classified salaries are higher and you're going to see this probably for the next few years we did this last year at the budget time is we we take the assumption that we are going to fill all of our classified vacancies mostly through special education with internal candidates um as we get through the summer and to the fall any of those positions that are unfilled by our own candidates then we'd be looking to do contractors so what that means is that we just take the budget from classified salaries we move it down into services and contracts um for books and supplies um they were increased um and you might have remembered that during our budget

027um conversation on reductions we were going to see a reduction in books and supplies well the difference here is that we're going to be using restricted funds or Lottery funds to do textbook adoptions so we did reduce our overall cost um based on what we projected from our February meeting but then we've increased this cost because we need to be able to purchase additional textbooks um overall services and contracts did decrease by $1 million which is a a good um decrease on our part and then in other outgo um this is specific to tuition cost for our County special education programs the county is increasing their cost uh most notably they are requiring us to pay additional costs for full-time instructional AIDS within their programs um including benefits um and so that has increased uh

028the amount that we have to contribute there but again overall we are seeing um a 1% decrease in total expenditures from what we did this year to um what we budget for next year when we get to our multi-year project projections we're going to look at this um in two different ways first we're going to look at our unrestricted multi-year projection and then we're going to look at all of it put together both unrestricted and restricted so here we are required to show that we can meet our financial responsibilities for next year and the two following years um and it requires us to have a reserve equal to or greater of 3% um what's kind of uh what we haven't spoken about yet that I want to call out is is the one the fourth

029line there contributions so we are we make contributions from our unrestricted accounts to our restricted accounts when we have um insufficient funds for programs and this is nothing new in any District special education is an unfunded mandate meaning the state and federal government do not provide enough dollars for us to run the program and because of that we contribute with our unrestricted general fund to that program so for next year we are looking at 11. 5 million um and of that about $10 million is for special education and the other $1.5 million or in this case $1.8 million is for our routine restricted maintenance account What's significant here and I want to draw your attention to is the level of deficit spending that is taking place and um and what you'll see is that we

030are going to be draining our reserves from nearly $6.6 million beginning balance of next year down to $1.9 million ending balance by 2627 which leaves us with just three1 100s of a percent above our minimum Reserve based on projections for 2627 and that deficit spending we will need to address um as we move forward with budgets over the next few years so when we put it all together um that will be our next chart here unrestricted and restricted um from all our Revenue sources um here you see that the ending balance includes what we just talked about but also the restricted balance and we go from $ 11.7 million all the way down to $2 million which is a decline of 9.7 million of our Reserve balance now that is a very large number and

031it can be very frightening when we think about what that means at the same time we are supposed to spend down our one-time funds so some of this is natural because because the one-time funds have always been meant to be spent not saved so that takes in a portion of this at the same time you're going to see that we are deficit spending by $4.2 million next year $3 million by 2526 and 2.3 by 2627 so our federal covid relief dollars we've already talked about have been um depleted and the majority of our covid relief money from the state which is the materials block Grant learning recovery block grant and a couple of the smaller ones are going to be spent down by 2526 or 2627 depending on some of the choices that we make

032um as we get into next year we do have other fund balances we've been talking a lot about um fundo one in fact exclusively about fundo one um in this chart you see the other funds that we have um fund 8 our Student Activity special Revenue with 277 ,000 balance Adult Ed projecting a $1.6 million balance um fund 13 um uh we have been doing really well um a couple of things one is our partnership with Chartwells to provide meal services which you've heard a lot of positive praise about o over various different board me uh meetings this last year um and also because of the state's decision to provide free meals for all our students so we have a healthy balance there of nearly $600,000 no contribution are needed to be made by the

033general fund our opab for post employee benefits is a little over 700,000 our building fund has gone down dramatically and that's because we are completing projects so we have um spent all but about 1.7 million of the John sweat budget and that's our last retention amount and we're waiting and hopefully anticipate a project um completion notice coming to the board June 24th at the next meeting so there's a few loose ends to tighten up before we get there but chances are you'll see it there and then most of the rest of our um building fund money is tied up in the morela park project that is ongoing right now in fact they're doing a lot of demolition um as we speak um throughout this week so when we're done we're going to see a small

034residual amount of about $225,000 in fund 21 but things can change things go up and down within construction um but uh we're hoping that we won't see too much of that that um volatility there when we get to fund 25 these are our developer fees um this is money we receive from businesses or individuals that build property within the musd boundaries um in there we see a balance of $270,000 fund 35 is our state U facility fund um this is where we get reimbursed by the state for some of our new construction and we are projecting to have almost a9.5 million um ending balance there and we still have potential um reimbursements for some of the other projects that are going on on it'll be a year or two before John sweat and then maybe

035two or three years before we may be able to see something back from Morel Park fund 40 is from the sale or lease of property um and we've been using uh we are going to be using these funds to purchase the desk and chairs for our students at the junior high school fund 51 is interest earns um which goes right back into paying the the bond payments that we have and fund 73 is our school donation account sitting at about 20 77,000 so as we get to the end of this presentation um one of my jobs is to be able to project um what kind of certification that we have within the district I can project either positive qualified or negative and because we are able to meet our financial obligations for the current year

036and the next two fiscal years um I am projecting that we will have a positive certification that we will send to the county office for uh their blessing as well in wrapping everything up I wanted to take a moment and look at our budget Outlook um going into the future and as you probably have already noticed it's not the rosiest and unfortunately cbo's job is usually to be able to paint the most realistic picture as possible based on known sources of information at the time and what we know is that the state budget deficit is looming over everything that happens in the state of California and that is because um tax revenues have not hit the benchmarks that they thought um in fact we're looking at over a quarter of a billion dollars in a

037deficit for the state I think it's approaching 28 billion now and of that about n billion is um lower than what we anticipated um at least the governor anticipated last year for education and the state is looking for um using modest cuts to many of the programs um that they have um to be able to cover some of that Gap and they're also looking to use one-time stabilization funds so what they've put aside over the last few years to be able to protect against um economic changes that that happen quickly in the state so right now we are not looking at any funding decreases in education but we are possibly looking at deferrals um at the end of this year and what happens there is that the state Waits a month or two to give

038you your cash and so they may be moving it from June until July that dispersement and it'll be our job at least Business Services jobs um offices jobs to make sure that we have enough cash to get all the way through the year um and there there's some strategies we have for that and we should be fine because we have a large cash balance in other accounts so I think we're going to be okay there but what's what's important to note is that the state is starting to deal with that drop in revenue and right now there are no Cuts but it doesn't mean in future years that they may not have to do something more drastic if um the tax base does not increase um the good news that we see in our district

039is that we are seeing flattening enrollment and that's a step in the right direction um but again it doesn't mean that our revenues are enough to absorb um the many programs that we have currently using restricted funds so although we will see an uptick in lcff and unrestricted sources um we will not be able to substantiate all of those restricted programs that we have um been providing to our our staff and our students over the last couple of years and so we're going to have to make some tough decisions on that um deficit spending is easily the greatest challenge that we see to the district's financial position and that's because the onetime state and federal funds are being expended and we were required to spend them on people uh people that can provide programs for

040our kids and as the funds dry up um we have to find ways to either embed those programs into our unrestricted fund or we have to look at possible reductions and So eventually as we look and go through this year we'll be coming back to the board and talking about um priorities about budgets and about um what we need to see going forward and again this is nothing that any one of us want to do it's the reality of seeing what the state and our own budget is um each and every year and having to make um decisions so that we maintain fiscal solvency um looking ahead um the governing board will be asked um to adopt the budget on June 24th so the presentation tonight is for information and to answer question questions and

041to hear from the public during the open hearing this evening um as we move forward um this summer so June 15th which is just a few days away is the last day for the legislature to pass the budget if they don't pass the budget they don't get paid so since they enacted that a few years ago the budget is passed by June 15th every year go figure um by June 30th the governor must act on the budget and so they'll make a decision and then as we get to July um every works really quickly they put a budget together and then sometimes they sit back and go what did we mean by that and so that's why we get the trailer Bill to come in later on and it will explain all of the aspects

042of the budget for us to be able to use again looking ahead to fiscal reports for next year um if needed we would have a 45-day revise and that's in August and that's only if you have substantial changes in either revenue or expenditures right now we're not seeing anything over the last couple years there was some volatility on whether we'd get our onetime funds or not and so we had to put something in place for a 45d revise last year this year I don't anticipate it then we get back on the normal routine which is September un audited actuals we'll close out this current fiscal year for 2324 and then compare that to our budget followed by first interim in December then next march yes we're already looking at next year um second interim and

043then once again we'll be back at the budget table in June of 2025 so we've got a lot of things on the agenda so I wanted to move that along but I am open to all your questions on the budget and I got two questions uh it was very good presentation very thorough thank you as always um first question is regarding the uh Grant funding that you identified I can find it again um there's the Arts and Music block grant the learning recovery Grant Christian infrastructure are these kind of like peanut butter spread grants that all the districts just you know submit the paperwork and and obtain or any of these musd specific where you know we we qualified we did the little extra leg work and and and applying for and received grant funding

044so most of what you mentioned we were going to get the funding no matter what and it carried with it the added requirement we're giving you the funding but you either need to put a plan together or you have to be able to provide certain reports at a certain time frame on how you use those funds they've been evolving for example the learning recovery emergency School block grant was kind of up in the arms of whether they were going to cut it as a state or if they were going to provide greater restrictions on the use what's been settled upon is there's no reductions to it but I think in the 25 26 year anything that's left over in that Grant has to be put into the lcap which for us is going to be

045really easy because we already put it in there elcap um but that's one of those requirements but overall everything you mentioned is something we get anyway and we just have to be able to show how we're using those funds okay and and maybe this is a loaded question but are how many dollars in Grants are out there that we could apply for that would be uniquely attributable to is or or you know not not the vanilla spread there there aren't a lot that don't require really large programmatic changes so for example year or two ago and still kind of in Vogue is the community um schools but in order to get the grant for Community Schools you have to transform your methodology of how you provide programming and services to do that which sounds really

046great and could be really great for school districts if that's what they choose to do but it takes a lot of admin oversight and creation anytime you're creating a new program there's numerous meetings there's people that you hire to bring in there and many of the times those Grant monies just pay for the implementation part and then you have to take over the rest of it as you go on so it's a commitment um that's at least what I've seen in that Community um community school program um the other grants are very similar in that nature is it's for a specific purpose and you have to apply for it and then use that it never seems to be that they come without a lot of strings um there's also Carlos a lot of times grants

047will look at and it'll come across my desk and I'll say oh this is exciting but we don't have the um free and reduced numbers to put us towards the top of the qualifications um we we're nowhere near what some of the larger districts in our our area have uh the other question Indian I know you're you're walking a tight RPP here especially at the what was it 0.5% forecast um we had all the expenditures identified specifically you know 41% of our budget being salaries so they're identified for a current year but the they're kind of glazed over on the forecasting for future years not really accounting or specifying any increases to to that so are we holding that flat and then assuming these numbers based on on a flat uh salary base or no

048what we do each and every year is we put together um a step and column increase for our staff members of 1.5% so whatever we do budget for this next year for certificated salaries for example it's say it's $9 million give or take then that 1.5 would be what like um $200,000 or so and so the next year would be $9.2 million and so we put that on there and then we do something similar then the benefits are all calulated based on what we know are the actual percentages on top of that and then for Health and Welfare we've added an 8% multiplier on it for next year so that's how we see generically U those raises okay um there are no negotiated raise increases or projection for raise increases in any of these budgets

049except that 1.5% step and and colum raise thank you anybody else no okay hey we've talked about the budget so much this year I feel like I could give that presentation myself just kidding but is there any public comment okay yeah as Carlos said um you always do a good job explaining thank you um and you're still up for 15.2 which is review of resolution number 22429 regarding the education protection account uh so EPA which again you mentioned is the education protection account funds um the state um puts a a number of dollars into this account and then gives them out to the school districts each and every year this resolution 2429 is an annual resolu annual resolution that acknowledges how the district is going to be using those funds each and every year we

050use those funds to pay for certificated salaries um we are not allowed to by law to put it towards any admin cost or admin of salaries um and annually we receive somewhere well projected for next year we're going to receive about $723,000 so this resolution simply says that we are using the state money we acknowledge that there are restrictions to it we do not spend it on admin salaries or admin cost and we determine that we are going to be using it for certificated salaries and so that will come back to you next time for uh for Action is it on action it's going on the consent calendar next week or next board okay and this is something we do every year right yes is there any public comment all right moving right along 15.3

051is presentation of the annual update of the 2023 24 local control and accountability plan and proposed 20242 elap presented by Amy Espinosa good evening board members and superintendent Rossy it's my pleasure to um share with you tonight the annual update of the local control and accountability plan as well as the proposed lcap uh tonight's presentation I will provide an update on our lcap development process just a quick reminder for everyone and then I will go over our annual lcap update I'll review our actions and our um services for our upcoming proposed lcap and then uh we will also provide an overview of the proposed expenditures of lcff supplemental funding so really quick I just wanted to remind you because I will talk about the state priorities throughout the presentation um so we have our state

052priorities around conditions for learning as you'll see they're in the purple boxes up above our pupil outcomes which are the two green and then our engagement um there at the bottom in the orange and so these are the state lcap priorities in which our lcap priorities are aligned so the intent purpose um of the lcap is to offer high quality instructional programs for all students it is to eliminate the opportunity Gap among student groups and it allows local flexibility to address specific needs of students and be held accountable for student achievement our our process that we use um is we engage with our educational Partners it's student centered data driven and it is written as a three-year plan if you'll remember this is the end of a three-year plan and we're moving into a new

053three-year plan it includes state and local metrics and it is around increasing Andor improving services to high need student groups and so for the annual update um tonight you'll see I did this in a particular order and the rationale for that is in February offered a very extensive U midyear review around our lcap I don't know if you remember that presentation it was about 40 slides so today I summed it up a little bit shorter um to give you some highlights of our annual update so first uh as you remember goal one is our academic achievement this is where we're talking about our academic achievement especially in the areas of language arts and Mathematics the state priorities that this goal aligns to are basic Services pupil achievement and other pupil outcomes the numbers there you'll

054see align with the state priority numbers that's why it's not a mistake progress towards goal I picked some highlights for um progress for this goal um access to instructional material was fully implemented this school year as you know in September we did the Williams Act and so we went through and we had our hearing our public hearing on sub our instructional materials professional development was offered related to udl foundational literacy skills and Mathematics this year and we did continue with professional development in those three areas throughout the school year and we will continue as we move forward into the next school year formative assessments is an area of opportunity um this was part of our current lcap and there has been some growth in this area but there is opportunity to make further growth growth

055as we move forward into the coming school year and you'll see when I go through the proposed lcap that rather than calling it formative assessments we've changed the title to Common assessments here goal two was our English language proficiency this was a goal that was specifically for English uh language proficiency for our e Learners and particularly our long-term English learners our state priorities were the implementation of State Standards pupil achievement pupil engagement and other pupil outcomes here progress towards goal the percentage of students receiving a level four on the elack continues to be in progress as we were at 16.5% of students receiving a level four this was under what our projection was although we are making progress in this area a level four um just to remind you is the highest level you can

056receive on the lpac bilingual Paras was fully implemented and we are now at 3.5 FTE now this doesn't mean that we have three full-time employees and one halftime employee but it means that we have people working that equate to that amount of time across our schools programs and services for elel students to access standards for increased English was achieved um program was bought in the last few years that allowed for new ELD program to be within um the elementary and the Middle School level here for goal three College and Career this goal was to promote achievement for all students and in particular our lowincome foster youth English learner It Was Written where we had lwi income twice in this goal so I kept it as is and um sped students by working collaboratively with students

057teachers and Community to review educational practice and research for the purpose of developing a graduate profile the reason I read this one out loud is this was a um topic during many of the lcap um executive advisory committee meetings uh Around The Graduate profile The Graduate profile came to the board last May and was approved um but but then I think there was a little bit of a hiccup around communication out to the community and to the greater um uh greater School Community especially um the state priorities here were implementation of State Standards parent involvement pupil achievement and pupil engagement you'll see our progress um towards goal was we did centralize The Graduate profile so we did bring that forward to the go uh to the board implementation of a system of local performance assessments

058was completed for 6 through 12th so what that meant is that it was provided for 6th through 12th grade for some benchmark assessments to occur in the areas of language arts and Mathematics course access and materials was fully implemented with a focus on high school which were around electives and CTE courses as well as offering Quaver at the element level and Quaver is the um music program for our goal for social emotional learning was the um was overarching um topic and it supported the state priorities of basic Services pupil engagement and school climate here our progress towards goals we included seal um professional development throughout the school year this included support from the County Office of Education and then we also completed the healthy kids survey multiple uh sites attended restorative practices training and mtss

059counseling was provided at all School sites for our last current goal um goal five this goal was written specifically around diversity equity and inclusion and the state priorities were School climate and course access some highlights from this um goal were curriculum reviews have taken place and will continue for new adoptions participation in the equity audit review and then musd has evaluated and updated current interview recruiting and hiring practices through an equity lens transitioning now to the review of the proposed 2425 lcap bless you um goal one has is around academic achievement um providing a differentiated responsive and well-rounded academic experience based on instructional practices that Foster the musd competencies expressed in The Graduate profile to eliminate barriers to decrease the opportunity Gap and so here um we really wanted to highlight The Graduate profile so

060that we can push that out to the Greater Community and then we wanted to um ensure that we were talking about differentiation which could mean acceleration for students who needed acceleration could u mean remediation for students who might need um reteaching and then also including a responsive in this uh goal was important because that meant ensuring that students were receiving continual feedback and not allowing for something to um take a long time prior to coming in and giving supports to a student the state priorities that uh this goal uh touches on are basic Services implementation of State Standards pupil achievement pupil engagement course access and other pupil outcomes here you'll see um the total expenditures at the top um because the did take more than one slide um to show our actions but I will

061briefly just touch on a few of the actions here um of course we continue to provide access to instructional materials um the cost there can include any types of new adoptions or supplemental materials that are needed for students professional development as well this would be to continue our udl professional development as well as our foundational reading as well as mathematics for the coming school year and then here's where you can take note that this has been changed to Common assessments so this would be rather than formative assessments which inform your teaching this could include benchmark assessments which would could give you a summative result as well as inform your teaching and so really coming together and having common language around assessments and then the use of that data we included parent education here as well

062you'll see on the on this slide um the I forgot to put the number on top but it goes with the slide prior um this continues to be the action steps for goal one here I'd like to highlight the College and Career specialist this support is at alhamra high school and support students in all levels um this includes support with dual enrollment at the at DBC as well as support in AP classes as well as CTE support um you'll see a few action steps here might um look like they're geared towards students that may need additional support or remediation that's true but I'd like to highlight tutoring and 1.7 is many times I've looked at the tutoring reports and for the most part that tutoring is for students who are taking AP classes it's not

063for students who might need remediation on to goal number two English learner we continue to have an English learner goal but you will notice um this one is written quite a bit differently uh this is to provide a high quality educational experience for all English language learner students that promotes both English language acquisition and multilingualism the last goal around English Learners really had to do with compliance and reclassification and test scores this goal is geared a little bit differently around ensuring multilingualism and support and acquisition and so the state priorities are implementation of State Standards parent parental involvement pupil achievement course access and other pupil outcomes here here you'll see our action steps and you can see a few highlights here we continued bilingual par Educators was very important we took this to deac and

064that was one of their top priorities was to continue with that um the reclassification celebration of course access to instructional materials and then there are two new things on the bottom seala by literacy this isn't to this is to ensure that any student who has opportunity to receive the sealed by literacy um that we support that the sealed by literacy requirements have changed somewhat and allow for students who receive a specific um level on the lpac at any particular time on the lpac are able to receive the Seal of by literacy it doesn't have just to do with your high school experience any longer and then the newcomer welcome intake process uh we work closely with our family lison to ensure that we were making contact with newcomer families or families that we perceive to

065be newcomers and welcome them into our community and gathered information and support um that they might need for goal three learning environments um this is to create a culture of equity and inclusion through the development of safe welcoming and healthy learning envirment environments that support the social emotional needs of students and Foster a sense of belonging and connectedness for students and families so that all students are present and ready to learn so yes these are these are very um meaty goals um but we wanted to ensure that we weren't leaving things out of the goals that were important to us and so State priorities we have basic Services paral involvement pupil engagement and school climate here you'll see our action steps um one of our largest action steps is here which is the implementation of

066multi-tier system of support when thinking of a multi-tier system of support you might think that th that is solely focused maybe on the top tiers or the most intensive um students but when but you need to think away from that and think of the bottom tier when we're thinking of our first best instruction and what's happening within our classrooms for all students and then of course we have this the second and third tier which may happen for some students and then for a little small amount of students and so we need to this was put in place prior to um covid and so we need to move back into getting a very robust implementation of our system of support for all of our students and thinking about this um is not just academically but behaviorally

067and social emotionally and so that's why you'll see a large number there um as well in this one we have our counseling support which was uh brought the board brought this as one of their top priorities in December and so you'll see that there at 3.5 and then continuing with school and facility safety that's a priority for all that uh in the district and so ensuring that we continue to have the staff and the facility upkeep and the training that is appropriate for that and then finally we have our goal four which is our Equity multiplier goal this goal is specific to one school um that met the equity multiplier re um guidelines and so during the 2425 school year improved School climate and student engagement and achievement of vente Martinez high school for all

068students including socially economically disadvantaged students and you may ask why it says all and then social economically disadvantaged but the reason we received the equity multiplier was because of our socially economically disadvantaged um student group and so it needs to be called out within the within the goal and so you'll see the state priorities aligns to our pupil achievement pupil engagement and school climate and as I worked with um side Administration um these were the action steps that we going to be implementing um and it equals out to the full amount the equity multiplier is a onee a onetime oneyear money um that we may qualify depending on numbers uh again next year um and so you'll see see here how we broke out the action steps and so implementation of social emotional program sitewide

069uh mental health counseling this is an addition to and then professional development and so even though you may see some repeats here these are in addition to what is in the lcap as well and then I'll have Andy go over the bud parent budget overview so I get to talk about budget again you want me to do it I be more than happy to I'm just kidding um so uh maybe three or four years ago um when the creators of the lcap template were evaluating and looking at it they thought hey we talk about a lot of great things but what does it mean in in the whole totality of what the budget looks like because your lcap is just one slice literally and metaphorically with this chart of what the budget is here so

070the idea was to put in this chart that shows the overall budget U revenues and expenditures and then use it to show about um how we're using the supplemental money which is the lcff money from supplemental grants that Amia talked about within there so the large pie on the left shows all of our projected funding sources which you saw in the budget presentation between lcff federal funds state and local funds the second pie is expanding out the lcff funds and highlighting our supplemental Grant we receive a supplemental Grant because of our unduplicated pupil count we do not get the concentration Grant because you need to have over 55% of your um student body being identified as UND duplicated so for our district and I think Helen talked about this when she was being asked about

071grants was that we only receive that supplemental amount which is about $3 million so of our whole entire budget three million of it has to be used for increasing services for duplicated students and that's how we outline that and measure it within our lcap um so here when we're looking at our overall budget our total budget for um the district is just short of $63 million and of that amount we have almost $8 million that's identified in the elcap and primarily we do this so that we can show how we're providing services using multitude of funds so our elop funds for after school program our learning recovery Arts music inst Arts music and instructional materials block grant money and all of our title funds are just examples of what go into this elcap overall and

072so the idea is to give a very digested view for our parents about our overall budget and specific about lcap and so that's why we have these two slides and the chart and diagrams that go along with the lcap um actual documentation so there is an addition additional uh supplemental piece there are actually two um supplemental components to the LC cap one is the federal addendum and the other is the local indicators the local indicators just need to come for information which I'll be bringing to the next meeting but the federal addendum does need to come to this meeting and be uh and have action taken on it so briefly the federal addendum supplements the lcap and maximizes the impact of federal programs in support of underserved students and so there are multiple programs within

073the federal addendum and they have individual purposes and then the funds can be used in specific manners and so this plan is just to ensure that we're maximizing what we're doing and looking at the federal dollars only but the plan plan does not include you guys saw the plan uh it was one of the attachments it doesn't include the money specifically but includes the purpose and how we're going to be using it and then for next steps we'll have um board approval on the June 24th meeting and then the county office will approve sometime in July with a final um letter or correspondence that will be brought in August to the board thank you Amy yes questions go ahead I have a few questions okay um so back to the career in college specialist yes

074are we tracking how many lowincome Foster youth El and sped students are are accessing her I would have to ask her that question directly I don't know if she takes like attendance or or tracks who comes into her office specifically the way that we would track that would be looking at like our students who had a to G completion and then looking at those student groups would be and then but do we but do she take attendance or like who comes into her room I'm not sure that she goes that far in depth with students um she might know off the top of her head who is a special education student but asking that student might become a barrier for them to go in and have access to to that person um just because they

075might feel like that's intrusive or uncomfortable I can ask her though we do an exit survey at the high school um and so through that exit survey we capture some information around their around student groups and so if you would like to know if she if she does like a percentage of students that she supports I can find that out for you if I can chip in on the socioeconomically disadvantaged um that is not a data point that she is allowed to have access to there's only a couple people in the district to have that um principles don't get that either um so we're not able to track that um and that's just something that is um Ed code that does not allow us to share that information so in in terms of being able

076to ensure that these disadvantaged kids are accessing the career in college Center how how do we how do we do that do we know so I will tell you that she's out in the classrooms she's someone that's visible on the campus and she does work closely with the counselors so would I ensure that she's helping them above and beyond all students the answer would be no she's there as a support for all students but she's not solely there for high achieving students okay okay um my next question is the torine the 1.7 million that I guess you stated was mainly used by AP students let me go you have to remember in that line that says tutoring it's not just tutoring it's tutoring enrichment and hold on let me go to that slide intervention intervention

077thank you and so it's it's multiple um I just called out tutoring because I wanted to ensure that that I called out tutoring specifically it's not for remediation or for students who are having trouble maybe at a very low foundational level but many times it's for our students who are in in an accelerated pathway that um they need that additional support after hours because it is available after hours okay um but it's not just 1.7 million dollars just for tutoring it's for all three things so it would be enrichment as well as intervention so that could include supplemental programming as well as any type of supplemental programming that happens at the elementary levels and it's not just for high school um that would Encompass the tk12 so it's used across the district yes okay okay

078yes got it um as far as the Seal of biliteracy I was at the awards night and I think there were like four or five students that got the Seal of biliteracy this year um my son who speaks Spanish didn't get the biliteracy seal so how do we ensure that more kids do end up getting it in the years to come that's one reason we added it specifically on the LC cap so that it was an area that we kept as a as a for front area that we need to make progress in because there were I think there are questions around how do you get the sealed by literacy do the students know it's available to get and then how do we ensure that we're supporting students when they might be making that final

079decision not to take Spanish for if that's what the last step would be to get it and really counseling them through it and so that's one reason we did add it as an additional step or an action step this year is to ensure that it wasn't something that kind of fell by the wayside which it could possibly have kind of just been oh it's here and these students got it but we weren't promoting it and continuing to ensure that everyone had access okay got it um and then maybe Andy might be able to answer this one um regarding the concentration grants um I think you said we needed to have 5 5% of the district to get the additional monies do we know where we are in terms of reaching that 55 are we really

080far away from it or are we close to it we're we're really far we're sitting in about 33% okay um so we'd have to see a a dramatic change in our student population in order to to reach that your mark all right okay thank you Amy it's a great presentation um thank you I I do have a couple questions um and I'll I'll it's trying to connect the dots on some of the programs or things that we offer and where the money's coming from and you know I think I I kind of equate it to roads and taxes like you'll drive down the road and like you know this dollar this project funded by you know your your tax dollars um and and so I'm I'm trying to figure out I know there are a

081lot of programs that there's a lot of offerings is there a way to kind of publicize this a little bit better to make people hey this this effort is going towards this initiative of the lcap and or this goal and and connecting the dots to make it more visual for people of of what they're what what what objective they're they're meeting or participating in I think communication is key something that I learned this year being uh being in the elcap executive advisory committee was was the disconnect Around The Graduate profile and really where The Graduate profile had landed last year and we had people who worked very hard on it during the lcap um meetings but then didn't even realize it had gone to the board last year and then at that point they didn't

082know it had gone to the board and then how was it tied to anything and so I think I think it I think it's very important the communication and how we do the communication and so I can be very thoughtful on how we move forward with communication to ensure that there is some connecting the dots there and that people have a better understanding um like I said we wrote some very robust goals that Encompass a lot so if you look like our goal three really when you're thinking about coming to school every day when it says that at the end we're talking about lowering our suspension rate and um increasing our attendance rate right I don't say that specifically but really having that communication to allow our community to understand that and that that's a

083highlight and so that might be a way that we can highlight it in newsletters or have our principles put it out where remember lcap goal to is sealed by literacy or whatever it might be so that we can continue to have that um being seen over and over because that's the way people are going to remember well and along those lines so like um the the go four for viente with um so we had $30,000 allotted for professional development um and I know are there's certain amount of hours throughout the year that are dedicated to teachers for professional development is this um un is is this professional development unique to viente like it's above and beyond it is going yes it will be above and beyond and it'll be unique to Vicente and so I'll

084be working closely with Patty especially around their goals with that they received after their wasque accreditation and really H focusing in on improvements um with that School site in particular so that money is above and beyond what would have been listed for professional development around uh udl or foundational literacy they'll still receive that but then this is an an addition too so is that an additional time commitment or burden on On th that that group of instructors it could potentially mean that they would attend a conference where they would have to write sub plans or or something like that but all of that information will go through myself as well as cabinet and we would want to ensure that there is a balance because we don't want we don't want people to be overly trained

085in so many things that there's not a depth of training what we would want would be a depth in training so that they can meet the needs of students and that they can feel very um confident in what they're doing thank you okay is there any public comment all right I was just gonna yeah go ahead well first of all I was going to make a little well I was going to commend you for all of this work because I have sat on elcat for the first time in my many years in in the district and I have to say it is one of the most informative committees um and just all-encompassing so I guess my plug would be I think there's usually openings for parents to come and teachers and community members at large

086so if anyone out there is looking to get involved I think this is a really excellent committee where you can learn a ton about what's going on in the district and of course the goals are just overarching and so I think that there's really a space for for everyone no matter what your particular areas of Interest are you know grade levels of your kids or grandkids or whoever you might be interested in and it's really really informative and um I would also like to just commend you for I think the um I guess consolidation of goals I feel like we had these five goals before they were really meaty and I know these goals are really meaty but I think that they're um I think they get to the heart of what we're trying to

087do and I think they're also a little bit aspirational which I think is actually a place that we want to be we want to be striving for for excellence so I appreciate your hard work on that and if you're out there and looking for a committee to join it's it's good and there's always just great conversations it's a great group of people it really gets you thinking about the direction of the district so it's a it's a great place to get involved and I think that ties to where I was more my head was of of advertising because the more people are aware of like the value it it kind of connects to that's oh something I want to go volunteer for participate in yeah good points I actually served on the elap committee 10

088years ago when my daughter was in first grade and then last year and it's really amazing to think back on how things have changed in the district um so yeah people really good thing to get involved with thank you we'll bring this back next meeting yes and then you're still up for 15.4 which is the review of single plans for student achievement yes well thank you uh you guys get to hear me a lot this evening um so up next is the school plan for student achievement and it's okay all right tonight I'm going to talk with you about the sipsa de development um what a sipsa is Who's involved how it's created and why it's important for our school sites so the sipsa aligns our school goals the goals are aligned to our district

089goals through the lcap um if you uh glance through the sipsas you'll see that our district goals are on um each of the sipsas and are aligned the cpses include strategies and actions to reach the goals and it's an a road map for improving student achievement Administration works collaboratively on csis to ensure that all resources and goals are Equitable for all students St this T this is a team approach it's done at a team level at the school site as well as the district and it ensures that the title funds are spent appropriately sipsa alignment to the lcap as as you guys just heard um we have goal we have four goals for Vicente Martinez high school and the other schools all have three goals so you'll see that difference in the sipsa as well

090um assessing student needs as well as developing strategies that support student achievement allocating resources and then engaging our partners so writing the sypsa includes engagement by parents staff and students a School site council is who works on the sipsa they are composed of a principle and representation of teachers selected by teachers um other school Personnel selected by other school Personnel parents as students attending the school selected by those parents and in secondary schools it includes students that are in that attend the school the School site council is a group of elected people with the responsibility of developing monitoring and evaluting the effectiveness of a of the sipsa so while uh as throughout the year monitoring the zpet um the implementation of the actions and the use of the funding revising and improving any changes that

091need to happen this could include changes to actions and or funding and this could happen because you're writing a sypsa now and you haven't received the students yet and you might have an action step that's completely out of line with the students that walk in the front door on the first day of school and you need to re-evaluate and be able to um change those actions Andor the funding you also um evaluate the implementation of the plan at the end and you use the evaluation of the plan to determine the next year's goals and action steps and so as you revise the plan you are reviewing your current practice and if it's being effective that's where the data comes in and you need to look at student data to determine the student need again you're

092reviewing the P sypsa You're reviewing testing data this is this is probably the most important because you are going to be using data and then making projections um to move forward and you want to ensure that you are making um goals that are appropriate rely lined for the needs of the students and so understanding if there are any barriers and you need the budget is always involved throughout this whole process and then seeking input from the Greater Community alignment and this alignment goes with our lcap so sites align needs with the resources to goals and strategies based on the data and the results and then like I said if there are changing needs then you make those changes throughout the school year in um collaboration with the school site Council so why do we have

093a sypsa it helps us have focus and direction it's shared decision making and accountability and because of improvement and so um at the next board meeting I will be asking for approval of the school plan for student achievement for all Martinez unified school district schools and so that's my recommendation anyone have any questions on any of the sipsas okay is there any public comment okay we will see this next time thank you Amy you're still up for okay 15.5 proposition 28 annual report just for the audience sake I tried to change up the format for everybody because I knew you'd be listening to me so um so tonight I'm bringing forward uh the proposition 28 Arts music and school funding annual report for the fiscal year uh 2324 and so um part of the board

094memo memo includes um what prop 28 is um the allocations and why we receive allocations but really the important part starts in the third paragraph So during the 2324 school year the prop 28 fund was used at two ele School sites John SWAT Elementary Melo Park Elementary it was a 7 FTE that was funded and a point4 FTE at Martinez Jor high school was also funded prop 28 funds also supported the uh purchasing of instruments at Martinez junior high school so you'll see the table below um this is an actual copy of the report this is actually the report that I turn into CDE so it's not like the l cap or it's not multiple pages I complete those boxes there um you'll see the Topline 1.1 FTE are the the the positions added together

095and the number of students serves includes the students at the three School sites and then the number of school sites providing Arts education are all of our school sites and so that answer is seven even though we use the pro the um prop 28 money only at school three School sites this last year questions okay thank you Amy is there any public comment okay U 15.6 is the dashboard alternative school status presented by Amy maybe next time we'll put people in between me so thank hasn't hear me so long give you a little break okay uh all right great thank good evening everyone that the dashboard alternative school status uh is this presentation here um the dashboard alternative school status uh which is also called Death if we would like to have an acronym for

096it um has this is a modified me method of measurement for indicators that are aligned with the evaluation rubrics of lcff to evaluate the success or progress of schools that serve highrisk students so what does this mean what this means is that we have the opportunity having a an alternative school to be able to have our our alternative school marked on the dashboard as one and so uh that is what this whole presentation that's a gist of the whole presentation so right now when you look at the California dashboard and you look at Vicente Martinez High School there's no indicator that shows that that's an alternative education school and if we were to um go move forward with a recommendation for dashb bar alternative school status there would be something on the dashboard that says

097this is an alternative school and it will also give us a different measurement on the dashboard which I'll talk about in a second so although the D modified methods are not used for federal accountability so what that means um the state is the only one that permits this type of accountability so the federal accountability will continue as is um because they did not um they did not agree to the waiver that California Department of Education put in so for State accountability we can be identified on the dashboard with a dash status information under the school details on the dashboard we can receive the label as a dash community of practice for those that meet the eligibility for comprehensive support Improvement for low graduation rate or low performance to distinguish the uniqueness of our school and

098the students that are served and we receive the D one-year graduation rate on the dashboard for informational purposes in addition to the combined four and fiveyear graduation rate reported on the current indicator so what that means is well a few things one we we will be labeled as an alternative alternative school two the second bullet means that we would not go into comprehensive support and Improvement like we just did so we were in it two years ago then we were out of it and now we're back in it for Vicente Martinez high school so we wouldn't be labeled that way we still would be under an accountability model but we would be called D community of practice rather rather than CSI low performance which is what we currently are labeled and then the third and

099I think the most important piece is that they will give us a one-year graduation rate vers the four-year cohort that they currently use so with our four-year cohort now we are in the low Stat or the very low status and that has to do with the amount of movement that we have with our students at vente Martinez what this would do would be it would capture the students that were there for that moment and time for that one year of graduation so it stops it you still uses a cohort model but it also gives us a second way to monitor our graduation rate at the school site um that allows for how unique the School site is and for the type of um students that we serve at that school site so for our criteria

100um El for eligibility criteria alternative schools participating in the dashboard alternative school status program are limited to certain eligibility requirements students or schools are identified as alternative through one of two methods and I will say that we are the second method so other alternative schools other alternative schools serve high-risk youth but not explicitly required to do so so that means that we have we have students who might opt in right they aren't required to to serve students and this includes alternative schools of choice and charter schools these schools must have unduplicated counts of at least 70% of a school's cumulative enrollment comprised of high-risk student groups to be eligible and they will check this each year so one of the um to participate you have to continue to have must maintain the documentation of 70%

101of students reflected um on there's a form that I have to complete um to allow us so we might be able to be Das for a year it would just depend on the students that um vente Martinez High School is serving all schools voluntarily participate in Dash as I said it makes no difference to accountability with the exception that it allows us to have an alternate indicator for that graduation rate so that's really what it's giving us that indicator rather than a four-year cohort that we have the four-year cohort plus the one-year cohort and so I'm recommending and this will come back for Action at the next meeting that Vicente Martinez High School participate in Das using the alter alternative indicators to evaluate the success or progress of the school that serves high-risk students in

102our district questions um so you just mentioned that they the in order to meet the D eligibility there has to be a s that 70% and this can change depending on the year so I I just want to make sure that it's we're not going to turn students away that want to be atente because that would change that 70% number no we would not and so each year uh so this is a if we uh move forward with a recommendation we're automatically in Das for 3 years but I must turn in an annual report showing our numbers so our 70% right now is our socially economically disadvantaged students that's the same um group of students that uh the equity multiplier also that funding is going toward So within that so this would be an annual

103report and we would our school would continue to be an optin program rather than a required program and so no we would not make any changes to the requirement to go there okay thank you so um the only real difference is that instead of averaging over four years so if someone starts as a freshman and they let's say after year three they drop out or whatever you're just looking at the seniors every year um and using that graduation rate that's correct okay in addition to the it'll have both that four-year cohort and the this separate cohort on the dashboard and the benefit of having that one year is to allow for us to see are we making progress okay thank you so I I just want to say um that I was really impressed at

104the graduation with the quality of students that are being graduated that one girl that got 6,000 in scholarships I was like wow like I want to go to that school now so on that note are we we're not currently Dash right or Dash no we are no we're not all right so then this will we're obviously doing really good work at the school so this is just going to make it that much better can this will give us another indicator to support any improvements that we want to make yes okay perfect thank you okay is there any public comment all right we will bring this back next time okay okay Amy you get a break now just for a little bit 15.7 is alternative school survey report presented by pattio Ali it won't be as

105long as that I promise um so I'm here to present tonight um the alternative school programs of choice and it's the annual evaluation report and basically what the annual evaluation report is it's alternative schools are required by the um California Department of Education to give an annual survey to parent student and staff and it's combined so um the alternative school is not just by sente they don't they don't um differentiate it's all it's put together as the alternative education this year normally the the CDE will put out the survey questions in about May 1st but this year they didn't come out with them we've been waiting and waiting so we took the questions from last year and we just implemented them again so to get the uh participation we sent out or I sent out

106um you know many emails asking parents to um take the survey our Guardians and we talked to the students in the classroom um our counselor also pushed it out our Bron teachers pushed it out to their individual students and parents so this year we opened it on May 15th and we closed it on June 4th so we had um 58 out of 114 students that took the survey we had 26 parents and seven staff members so I won't go through all of these numbers but I do want to just point point out a few things you'll see with the student surveys there's only six questions for the whole survey um and so I'll just go through the questions and you can see what I noticed is that our strongly agree agree and somewhat agree um

107are pretty strong but I would say the strongly agree and agree were pretty high so the first question is from for the students I enjoy learning at the school I attend um 41% of those students said that they agree uh strongly agree and 37% say agree my school helps me succeed again 48.3 strongly agree 37.9 agree my school provides different opportunities and ways to show what I have learned and again those numbers are both in the 40s and um 30s high 30s my teachers give me feedback on my academic progress 48.3 strongly agree 29.3 um agree my teachers are available to all students in my class and again and that's at you know 91.4 with strongly agree and agree and I believe teachers care about me and that's 37.9 and 36.2 um and 24.1 with

108somewhat agree the parent uh Guardian survey that comes out to about seven questions uh the first one my my students teachers care about my students we have 80.8% my students teachers provide excellent education for my student and again it same up in the ' 80s % um teachers frequently State clear expectations and expect high quality work from my students and you can look at those um percentages as well my students teachers communicate with me regularly about my students progress 69.2% and 15.4 the school's program is rigorous and my student is challenged and you can see the percent you know it's pretty across the board about 42.3 and 38.5 my students School promotes an an appreciation of diversity and uh again 61.5 and 38.5 and my student School promotes a culture of acceptance and that is

109in the High I mean the high 69 and 30% the next survey um has a few more questions for staff and Survey results and is it says that we have seven participants we have a very small staff in terms of uh teachers and ser and uh staff the schools Pro program designed is designed to ensure success for all Learners and I would 71% said I strongly agree there are expectations that all students can achieve 71.4 strongly agree we have opportunity to evaluate student outcomes and achievement 28% strongly agree 57% agree our school provides interventions for students not meeting the grade level standards or having difficulties in their learning experience um and that is 42% and 28% um and the sum would agree is 14% as staff we maximize learning opportunities that may not be achieved

110achievable in a non school um a non-choice school and that's 57% and 28% time is allotted again with continuing with teacher and staff time is allotted for professional development with other teachers to collaborate and plan um and that was pretty much even from strongly agree to somewhat agree School administrators involve teachers in decision-making and problem solving again 57% says yeah strongly agree and then 14.3 agree and somewhat agree School staff students parents and community members are invited to the campus to be an audience for students work and activities 14% strongly agree 71% agree and then the last question was our school promotes a culture of acceptance and again it's 71% 14% 14% strongly agree agree and somewhat agree does anyone have any questions Patty do we need to take any action on this or is

111it just for our information it's just information yeah okay okay and we do report it to the state once we get the the uh link that says we want the 242 23 24 did the state questions ever come in they have not come in yet that I saw they haven't update it's usually the same questions but they haven't updated the the CDE website for this particular survey so far this year so safe than sorry went ahead and we did it jumped done so PTY the you the parent Guardian questions were you know all really high until you get to the question about the is my the program rigorous enough and I'm wondering is that a is that a good response or a okay response I know it's still pretty overall positive but it drops off

112pretty significantly comparatively well the way that I when I saw the same thing I was thinking we don't have a huge we're going to really work hard to get more parents involved in what's going on with school um but that is you know work in progress so it's it's out of 20 you know 27 parents for all that that um that replied and I don't know if those parents were from bionis or viente because it doesn't differentiate so I think we'll send more surveys out around some of those areas specifically to each site that's just for internal um interventions and things like that I remember you gave this uh report last year as well do you remember um I think these are better results than last year well uh Amy Nichols was the principal last

113year I know I heard them so I I would have to go back and look at at that presentation um but I definitely will know now moving forward for next year that we'll be looking at those results to see the difference slightly higher so good job um on that and yeah I also was very impressed with the graduating seniors they were all very impr yeah it was really nice so I have I have a question um we have 114 students at viente what is the max number of students that can enroll at the school so it's a combination 114 students viente and Bion so it's combined both so what's the max number that we can service at both schools do we have one we don't it depends on Staffing so we usually go by Staffing

114used to in in our robust days there was somewhere around 120 to 130 kids at viente and we've been about 45 to 50 this year pretty much the whole year we were up by the end we were about 57 at viente right the last little bit there but that's not unusual when it comes to graduation time um and Bion used to consistently have 2.6 FTE for years and years and years and of course we went up in the pandemic but now we're we're down to two and neither one is that full case load I don't think right yeah the case load for bionis is 30 students 32 oh 32 30 something like that um and I think we got up to about 26 27 because some kids did want to go back to um Al

115hamur for their second semester so just my my so if we have students that are struggling at alhamra we present this choice to them obviously the counseling we work very go ahead um we work very closely with the counseling staff over there we actually had them come to viente so they could actually see a class in progress and understand the program more but they work very closely and they have those conversations early and often um and then what what we do as a staff if we have someone who is on the fence but even parents that are Guardians that are bringing their child we always have them come over over if they can and we give them a tour before they have to make that final decision not to brag but I would say 100%

116of the parents that came for a tour wanted to go there themselves I mean it's a very you know so I think that tour of going around and seeing the classroom seeing the kids seeing that it's not just the you know whatever people think of the Vicente kids that really is a game changer for parents so we're going to continue with that thank you yeah my impression of the school is really good so hopefully I don't know what the perception is of the school in the community but I think definitely it's a great school to be at you know if the opportunity arises so thank you and our the alhur counselers are fantastic I mean they're very very in touch with their students and guiding them and and your counselor is fantastic also and I

117will say I've I've done the tour and I I'm going to give you a little work if any of these guys want to take it I'm sure you'd be happy to give them it right you should it's it's it's a really they have a really cool setup over there so we have to come when the students are there because there's not a lot going on when students aren't there but when they're there there's a lot going on yeah all right thank you um is there any public comment all right thank you thank you okay I L check where okay 15.8 alternative pathway diploma courses study presented by Janell yeah good evening um as shared at the last meeting um State Legislature has now required school districts to wave the local graduation requirements um beyond the

118California state minimum graduation requirements and establish an alternative Pathway to a high school diploma this will provide our students um with significant cognitive disabilities Who Um take an alternate assessment and complete um a prescribed course of study that aligned with academic standards to earn a high school diploma um the proposed course of study um brought forward tonight was approved by CAC on May 15th um and the board is being asked to consider the proposed course of study to satisfy the alternative Pathway to a high school diploma this will be brought back for Action um on the 24th questions any public comment all right thank you Janelle 15.9 is the general obligation Bond programs and 2024 measure discussion presented by Jeff picket good evening everybody well thank you for having me uh tonight last we spoke

119uh we were beginning the process for that Bond refinancing and as you probably already know uh we successfully refunded or refinanced uh the 2014 bonds save the taxpayers about $800,000 so um congratulations for that great job um what I am here to talk about tonight is a potential new Bond um we are looking at November 2024 coming up um and this is the next opportunity for the district to ask voters for Gen new general obligation bonds a new general obligation Bond program as you recall um you have the opportunity to do it every two years uh when we have regularly scheduled elections so it's this time uh the next opportunity would be 2026 um unfortunately you know last as u in front of you a couple years ago talking about this um we attempted the

120bond and just barely uh we're under that 55% threshold uh so we're back again to possibly consider one for this November okay a lot of these slides you've seen before so I will go through them relatively quickly to not bore you I know you've got a lot lot going on tonight um but right here we always start with uh the assessed value or your tax base and this is what repays the bond so we always look at this and we want to see you know how robust it is how big it is how much it's growing um because the stronger your tax base the more you can sell in bonds or the more your tax um property taxpayers and Community can support the bond um so just a little bit of background you have some

121bonds outstanding as you know you've had pretty good growth in your assess value over the years about three and a half% over the past 20 years looking back farther over 4% um the combined tax rate of all bonds outstanding is about $94 $95 and that does not include the recent refinancing that will start saving taxpayers next year um and one thing again just to highlight because um I think it's important to highlight that you're looking out for your community over the past uh eight years you've been able to refinance bonds a couple times and save nearly $4 million for the community uh again you've seen this slide and I kind of cut to the chase here uh based compared to other presentations um if you were to do another Bond program um in 2024 this

122is at various tax rates what your community could support and by support I mean what they could repay um uh with their property taxes uh to pay back your bonds um looking at this here and I use similar numbers as we looked at last time um as I recall and I think Andy you might be able to correct me um well I know last time the needs were about $90 million um now I assume it's a little bit more than that based on inflation because I know construction cost escalation has been pretty obscene the past few years um so I would assume it's a little bit more than 90 that you'd need now um so I looked at similar dollar amounts tax rates um and also within the range of dollar amounts that you were

123looking at last time and so right here you see at a $39 tax rate um which is what we tested went out with uh before um we could raise about $96 million at a 4 $44 tax rate uh nearly $110 million and at a $49 tax rate about $120 million uh just for comparative purposes that $39 tax rate that we looked at last time supported $90 million now it's a little bit more because that tax base has grown over the past couple years um and just a couple of assumptions we assume long-term assessed value growth of 3 and a half% which we know historically you've been able to reach um if not a little bit more if you got a little more aggressive on the tax rates um as you may recall unified school districts

124can go higher up to a $60 tax rate or if we assume that your tax base would grow a little bit more your bond program or your community could support a bond repay a bond of about $160 million um not that I'm suggesting that at all I just want to give you the idea of what you can um and cannot afford around here um again you know if that if we're targeting what your needs are we're probably looking at around 100 to 110 million is my guesstimate voter demographics in the area you guys are well aware of this um and is very similar to before um to what we were looking at you know two years ago four years ago even eight years ago in 2016 uh one things I did note um there's been

125a slight growth in the 25 to 45 age range um so the people with kids in the schools um the older population 55 plus is about the same and there's been a slight decrease in the 45 to 54 age range but other than that primarily Democratic voting base which is usually good news for school bonds uh we're looking at voter turnout voter turnout is something we talk about a lot uh because uh generally um and historically the higher the voter turnout uh the better for um local Revenue measures also just say broadly not just School bonds but local Revenue measures um and the reason I bring that up is we expect a high voter turnout this November and then we put together this p page I thought it was pretty interesting it just showed the

126success of school bonds uh since 2001 and 2001 just for historical context uh is when prop 39 U for school bond measures was passed and what that what that did was lower the threshold from 2/3 to 55% for school bonds so looking back over the past 20 plus years um you see the average at just over 80% passage rate for school bonds um and the president itial elections so 200 uh 2008 I'm just going to focus on the more recent ones well 04 8 12 16 20 um you have above average um approval for school bonds that again those are the usually the higher voter turnout elections the prim or the presidential elections and we see it translate into Real Results there uh the only difference in November 2020 uh they hit about average as

127a presidental itial and there was about an average turnout or success rate for school bonds um and then as you recall in 2022 when you last did or attempted the bond um you see in general school bond passage rates were lower so you were kind of with that group that unfortunately um were under the average any questions on this because this is a little bit different than what I've shown before but pretty straightforward and then I'll just go to the next steps um here we are in June we're at the board meeting I'm presenting the information um for you tonight to consider um just taking that next step of surveying the community okay we did that last time we asked the community would you support a bond at these various different tax rates various different

128projects and we ask the community we ask the community what they think about the schools and you know based on the survey results it looks like people are very supportive of the schools um but that's that's the ask tonight is would you consider or would you want to do a survey to see if the community would support a bond possibly it's not a decision beyond that just testing the community to gauge their interest I would bring the results back um at the next meeting and then you would decide whether to move forward or not any questions what is the cost for the the survey survey is going to be about $10,000 10 I'll say 10 to 11 it was just under 10 before um so I'm factoring a little bit cost inflation but right about

129there and that's telephone and um email it's good it's telephone just telephone okay just telephone yep and we aim for about 400 uh responses it doesn't sound like a lot but that's usually enough to get us um scientifically or statistically accurate count of the community just curious do you guys have cell phone numbers or do you have land we have cell phones oh yeah we we're able to get all the um voter data from the county um and that will put whatever people put down so cell phones are what people use these days I know for myself I'd like another bite at the Apple and and try to go again and and finish off the what's on the uh Improvement plan for the for the district one question um trying to understand going back to

130slide two you have um The District's gross bonding capacity is 1999. two million uh the net net bonding capacity left is 54.4 million can you explain the difference between between that and the 96 million yes yes that's a very good question um okay when when schools sell bonds or within the kind of the school bond um world that we work in or that I work in there are two parameters or two two limiting factors that you got to look at when you're doing school bonds one is that tax rate um and I'm going to start with that one first um that's what I talked about here for unified school districts the maximum tax rate is $60 and I'm talking under that prop 39 55% voter threshold a little more restrictive than a two-thirds which you

131could still do um that's one factor the other factor is the total amount of debt you can have outstanding on the community so as a unified school district your able to have 2 and a half% times your assessed value in bonds outstanding at any given time across all your elections um just to clarify that $60 limit that I just mentioned was just each election so you could do an election now at $60 you could do one in another two years at another $60 you could just stack those up but this bonding capacity in bullet point 2 is Total Bonds outstanding across you know any of the districts bonds across all the elections um so as the assess value grows that gross bonding capacity is going to grow and get bigger as bonds are paid off

132that net bonding capacity will get bigger because the bonds are being paid off um but you could actually still ask the voters for more you could ask for $100 million you just couldn't sell them all at the same time because you're limited at this point to that $55 or 55 million of additional bonding capacity just to further complicate it you can actually to get a waiver on that because the state realizes it's just too limiting for a lot of districts especially the smaller ones it wouldn't affect you as much you could you could go more than that you just have to go through a waiver process can I interrupt for a second so when we did measure R we had $120 million and we sold it in four different series but we planned it on

133five we ended up in four we or we move the the time we move it faster so we going to do four over like six or eight years we ended up doing it in four or five so that's how you're able to keep that threshold makes sense yeah thank you and we're suggesting the same going the wrong direction we're contemplating the same thing here um for different sales because there's rules about how quickly uh you have to spend the money so most districts can't just suddenly get $100 million and spend it all right away so you SE sell it over time it also allows you to get a little B more you know bang for your buck or a little bit more dollars uh from the community if you spread it out um as we

134did last time we were able to actually accelerate it so as long as your tax base is growing uh this might be done even faster I have two questions yeah well I guess another question for Andy have we updated our uh estimates for the remaining projects no we haven't um the last time was the facility master plan in 2020 and at that time I think the remaining amounts that we haven't already accomplished with our other bonds is about 66 to 70 million so if we add in the you know just Factor but we did we did do some of those projects correct because in that list or like the field at Al hamur we're going to do and and and meip which we did out of other funds so there there's there's some Savings in

135there and because we have been using fund 35 for a couple of these projects that are going on um so we would definitely need to reevaluate what our cost struct is and get kind of general pricing from folks that that are in the construction world to update it um I don't know that we would need more than $100 million based on what we currently have forecast I think that would be a kind of a good starting number so my my questions I think I have three do do we know why the previous Bond failed um that's number one number two what can we do differently if we were to agree to do this um um and number three the climate of the previous Bond versus the climate now do we I'll let you answer okay

136I'll start I'll just go in order because that's pretty easy um why you failed last time I mean I have my you know based on my experience and based on what I experienced last time with you um I think going into the election going into the summer we were very positive there was the support for the district um we felt good we felt good with with the relationship with the teachers if I recall correctly um and thought we'd get a lot of support um from various different groups that had never really materialized um you guys can give some of the inside information on that I'm just providing a little bit of feedback and Outsider um view but I don't think that ever came and then what happened is we're going into the election um without

137that kind of robust group of volunteers and really the support it wasn't even the volunteers um but just the support of the community getting out there and saying oh this bond is going to help us this Bond we need it for XYZ we need it for these projects um I think that that failed us going into the summer and late summer early fall and then on top of that the economy took a sudden nose Dive Right In mid I want to say it's Midsummer right around there um and there's a lot of bad economic news that came out and it lasted for several months it it quickly turned around by the end of that year beginning of next year but going into that s summer and fall into summer early fall a lot of bad

138economic news um and that jumps going back to your last question I think was what's different now I think that's different I don't I think we have a little more you know we just did the parcel tax um and that if you recall that passed you they had to have two-thirds vote and that passed very you know handily um so hopefully you get the teacher support um back in to help promote a new Bond or potential new Bond um so I answered the first and the last one I think what was the middle one what can we do differently this time oh what can you do differently I think really focusing in on you're almost doing the same steps we did last time but making sure we have that teacher support and getting the word

139out so that the community knows you need this why do you need it we have a master plan that is relatively recent um you know I think it was they did a big update back in 2015 2016 uh but it's been kept up to date since then I think the most recent update was two years ago uh but it's all projects that you still need you may need updated dollar amounts but we get that word out that these are necessary you know otherwise your kids are you know learning in substandard conditions so for the survey I'll say I think the survey will be hopefully if we decide to proceed I think that will be enlightening it was with the parcel tax certainly um so $110,000 is where would that money come from uh we are

140able to use our general fund um to be able to do that up until the point in which we make a decision or the board makes a decision decision to move forward so similar to The parcel tax we would just use our funding sources internally I did actually have another one on the survey I think maybe to piggy back on what yasine was asking I think something that kind of was a challenge for us in the last Bond which I think will still be somewhat of a challenge is that people were when the with the prior Bond it was very clear what we were doing was very easy kind of an easy cell to the community we're rebuilding elementary schools that's something that's very easy for people to understand it's like a a very it's

141an easy to grasp concept we're building new schools rebuilding existing schools um a lot of the projects that we have it's they're smaller and they're across the district and there's I think we we didn't necessarily do a great job of messaging and I don't think even that our messaging and our campaign materials were congruent with our actual projects and so that's something that I don't know if there's a way in the survey to I don't know gauge a sense of what the support would be like for instance we know that one of the biggest projects would be to rebuild the adult school but what we also know is that if that were to happen the adult school would move and that's other property that we own and so that frees up the district to potentially

142do other things and I don't think that was something that was very clear to the Community it's not as easy of a sell as like it's going to be a brand new elementary school but it has the potential to be very impactful for the district for the entire community and I just I think we were never really able to like grasp that and get that cohesive message out yeah yeah yeah no that I would I would definitely agree again from you know from my perspective um and for this one I think I think the message is you know we want to complete the projects we started we want want to complete that master plan we got you know 2third of the way there or three4 of the way there but we still have these very

143necessary uh very needed much needed projects you we did the elementary schools we still have the high school we have the um Adult Ed I believe still need some work done um I just I pulled up I brought the actual survey from last time and the results um one thing that we always find interesting on surveys is some it's sometimes the simple projects or the not the non sexy projects that actually do very well so looking at the survey results last time um the number one kind of vot getter so to speak that garnered the most support was construct um CTE career and Tech um Ed classrooms including science labs repair replace leaky roofs replace uh deteriorating plumbing and make health and safety improvements so those all scored very well last time so people that

144tells me that the community is supportive of just those very basic items doesn't need to be a flashy new knew anything um however you need to to your point make sure that word is out the word is out to the community that these are very important and just as important as some of those other big projects and make sure the community knows that that's what you're going to be spending the money on um going back to sorry I just wanted to tie two questions together going back to yasmin's other question but what would we do different I would think of the campaign one you it's a lot of Word of Mouth I think making sure the teachers are talking making sure the community is talking and a couple Flyers do a much more simple campaign

145this time uh but make sure those flyers you know have the information this is exactly what we're going to do based on this master plan that we started um we just got a few more projects we need to finish we're not asking for you know we're not asking for the maximum dollar amount just enough to get us through these projects I I would so um I agree with what Jeff has said and also with what um Annie said I I think the difference this time might be like the the personal tax that just passed we had a different campaign um consultant than the bond um and we were really happy with the new campaign consultant um those were some of the challenges last time I think is the messaging and also um there wasn't some

146of the stakeholder support that we thought we would get um I feel like that may be a challenge this time also we just had a really contentious negotiation season and I think there's still some kind of bad blood out in the community because of that um so that's a concern I have I think the good news is the presidential Camp the presidential is on the ballot this time which as you showed us will help us so just things to think about so I just wanted to say that I I don't think it's fair to blame the teachers for it not passing no I yeah I don't mean to blame the teachers and I know that like neighbors that I have that voted no their comment to me was we drive by these schools and they

147look beautiful like why are you asking us for more money so I think that if if we are to entertain a study and to put this back on I think we need to do community forums where we say hey open house come look at our leaky roofs open house come look at our track and how we how how it's waving so much like people need to physically see the conditions that we want to repair um because the feedback that I got from the people that I know voted know was that these schools are gorgeous like why are you asking us for money if these are like the best schools in probably Contra Casta that are of older age um so I think there's beyond the messaging I think there is a lot of information and

148education that we have to do in the community about how the schools really are I do think the one of thing we can one of the things that we can capitalize on is um the the successes of the schools that have been rebuilt and the how one the forecasting and the execution of the spending of the funds and you know that that that's a huge track record that we can say hey let let's let us finish the job and those those numbers are very factual and can be laid out very succinctly yeah I mean I I would definitely point to that um the success of the you know measure R um as I recall on time or actually quicker than originally planed and under budget so I mean that that resonates is there any public

149comment will you will you P out a card please no after sign anamarie abala FAS um as someone who has voted for many of the school bonds um you know I think all the factors that were brought up um are true of white did not pass but even more importantly is just economics of um homeowners are being burdened with consistent taxing on our Parcels um maybe we just need to scale it back because um you know the adult school has been a project for a very long time and it's alternative education for adults retraining a great opportunity to maybe just focus and finally relocate the school and rebuild it to be a great job center that you know elaborate even more of all the great things that are happening there in adult education um and

150not throw so much at it where it won't pass um and you know look at a different cycle once we have another good accomplishment under our belt so maybe you know don't bite so much of the elephant take one bite at a time and see how we because that's a pretty big project within itself is just pulling the adult school um and and rebuilding that um and then just the economics again that you know the majority are renters in this community and we continue to burden a lot of homeowners in this community and we have to just be very careful with our ask um and then lastly um academics it's really hard to sell a bond when your numbers aren't that great in academics all right thank you okay so um we'll bring this back

151next time or did you want to you're done yeah the only thing I need tonight is Direction on whether you want to do a survey or not right and then I'll bring the results back and then you could actually decide on the next step okay thoughts yeah favor I think I would entertain reducing it to just the adult school for now um just so it's very clear proposal because what are we going to survey on I'm I'm a little bit afraid about doing that because we have an HVAC system at alhamra high school that has to be taken off the power plant right the there's a major major as far as keeping kids um warm so so we have a list of needs then obviously it's all lined out in in the Master Plan update

152well and I think what would be important is looking at as the total cost right is the idea of scaling back if that's the direction of the board because the overall cost or because of the breadth of projects that we have because I think you have to look at it both ways um what Helen alluded to is that we've been doing a lot of this work through different funds and so we wouldn't necessarily need the same size of bond as we did before so for example if if you are you looking and this is something to consider are you looking at something like if we could do between 50 and 70 million versus 70 and 90 versus 90 you know and 110 does that fit in with whether we would do um the adult school

153the high school and the junior high which are essentially the three areas of need that we have with Junior High being probably the least severe need so I I think what you describe plus dollar amount would be important to to discuss so in in terms of this okay we have a an a list of needs that we have right in terms of the survey can you you're probably just going to ask would you pass a bond but in terms of the survey can you ask are you willing to help replace the hbac system at Al Hamra high school or whatever is on that list can you survey that like individually are you willing to replace whatever else is on the needs list that way it's it's going out as information and you're getting a more

154concrete answer that's tangible for our voters yeah I'll tell you a few things about the survey um and I'm glad I brought the survey from last time because I can kind of walk through some of that stuff um first you know the survey itself we don't want much longer than about 10 minutes um because you just lose people's interest so it has to be generic enough or at least broad enough that we can ask all the questions we need to ask within about 10 minutes um so we can't get too specific having said that we are able to get through a a lot of questions that ask a lot of different things to gaug people's you know support at various different tax rates so that table that I showed you and what we did last

155time is we asked would you support a bond at a I'll just make up numbers for this purpose uh at a $30 tax rate and you make it 75% people say of the people say yes would you support a bond at a $40 tax rate and maybe you might see a little bit of drop off would you support a bond at a 50% or a $50 tax rate so so you're gauging their willingness to sh to pay out money to pay the taxes you also ask a string of questions on projects so we ask you know it's not going to be specific projects at specific schools but we'll ask about HVAC we can ask about Plumbing we could ask about uh Career Tech education or adult education um those are some of the ones we

156did last time as well as let's see health and safety improve improvements um General technology we asked about um and then we just rank we we see what resonates with people what they want to spend their money on um and then what they don't want to spend their money on I think the low the lowest one last time um that's a little let's see one of the lower ones renovate and upgrade athletic fields and Facilities that still scored above 55% um voter support but it was on the lower end of that you know you know some of the other ones the Career Tech got in the 80% support and just to add to that if we're looking at kind of the major things that were on the facility report um in the past and then

157what we have here so it' be completely a new adult education facility at the junior high would be HVAC and potentially expansion of the music room facility and then at the high school HVAC electrical updates as we know the bus duct situation there and that needs to be revamped um athletic fields and security fencing uh the idea around getting a single point of entry at the high school campus was really important in the facility update so I think pulling all those together may be able to help give you guys an idea of how you want to package or or look at a potential Bond so I would be curious to know currently in bonds how much are people paying per 100,000 so all the various bonds that we have what are they actually paying um

158I think that's an important question um to know to when we're asking also because I feel like there's at least three you've got the parcel tax and you know we do have a lot of seniors we do have a lot of um you know maybe homeowners that have rental exempt not from a bond exempt from the partial tax so yes they got Exempted from the paral tax but not from the bond and I know there's at least three bonds I I think there might be more but I'm just really curious what the total dollar is before you say I want to add even more so that if someone were to ask me I want to be honest and be able to say okay this additional $30 or $50 will make it you know $300 per

159100,000 I want to know that information I think that's we should have that we it's $94 $95 sorry okay 9480 okay in in for the bond itself that does not include the partiel tax which is on top right okay but the $95 and it to it it's per 100,000 right so the average home in Martinez was about $450,000 so 95 time four and a half okay got it that's what they're paying for all right thank you um I don't know what you guys want to do about the survey I think Carlos is a yes I'm a yes Annie's a yes all right let's do the survey Okay so do we have to do we have to vote on it is it it's not on the I don't think it's so I just have direction from

160you yeah um so for everyone's sake I will just reach out to Andy and Helen um tomorrow because we'll have a quick turnaround time for have everything ready by the next board meeting I'll reach out to them we'll pull together the um survey um work with them if they want to work with any of you on it can and then we'll get it out there quickly and then I'll come back next meeting the end just for clarification I want to make sure so the board is giving direction to the superintendent to go forward with the survey and then we would put together a survey with Jeff and then be able to bring that back to you for review or would we do we want I mean do we want to what is the direction of

161the board so we know that we're clear I don't think that there's time to bring it back the survey at the next board meeting not to the next board meeting no because the I would have to work with Courtney so we work with Jeff and then I work with Courtney and then um cuz the time the time is a crunch we're two weeks from the next meeting so what dollar amount are you going to be asking for then that's what you guys are going to figure out that'll questioning so I'll work with Andy to find tune like an exact dollar amount so if the need before was $90 million which I recall had a little bit of a buffer in it so you but you've spent some of it down so maybe the needs are

162$60 million you need another 10% for contingency so we'll start with that and then we'll I want to test those tax rates again I want to see are people sensitive to the tax rate okay gotcha because if if we're asking too much then we don't want to do that right we don't want to set ourselves up for failure and just so people know the reason we have to vote next meeting is because it has to be on we have to tell the election Department in August whether we want this to be on the ballot or not right okay okay thank you Jeff okay thank you very much and have a good evening thanks J okay item 16 is public hearings um the first do I do I adjourn before we do or I read it

163and then we adjourn okay I always forget how this works okay so okay thank you okay so 16.1 is the public hearing for the 20242 District budget and balances is of xf's minimum reserves and the public hearing provides an opportunity for stakeholders to comment or provide recommendations on the budget so I'm going to adjourn the regular meeting and convene the public hearing does anybody have a public comment on the budget okay did we adjourn again okay or do I do them both sorry guys okay so now sorry guys now we're reconvening the public meeting and now I'm adjourning the public meeting and can reconvene or convening the public hearing for the 2023 2024 local control and accountability plan and propos 202 24 2025 MD elap okay is there any comment for this public hearing seeing

164none I am closing the public hearing and reconvening the public meeting all right item 17 is action items 17.1 is the technical correction of the board approved amendment to superintendent's contract the reason we are bringing this back is because the last time we voted on this um because of the way we worded the resolution by mistake it made hen's entire 6% raise retro back to last July which is not what we did for the other employees um the other employees a portion was retro to July and a portion was retro to January so we're bringing it back so that it's the same for Helen um it was just a mistake last time so we're fixing our mistake Joe can you put it up in just highlighted where we took out the effective date and the

165effective date when it was determined by the county it could be interpreted by stirs it should be high did you put the highlighter one on yeah I did okay that's all right on the bottom um right there um we took out the effective date that was effective um July 1 2023 which could be interpreted by stir in years to come as something that was owed to me and I wanted it fixed so this is an a fixing of a technical error yeah so this is just clarifying that um the 2% is back to July 1st the other 4% is back to January 1st which is what we did for all the other employees and we are not voting on the raise again we are just voting on the amended language to fix our mistake any

166comments or questions okay any public comment all right I am moving to approve the technical technical correction the board approve Amendment to the superintendent's contract second okay all those in favor I I I okay motion passes thank you 17.2 approval of proposed Martinez adult education teacher salary increases presented by Dr Dan sco and Suzanne Murphy the board has been asked to approve the proposed 6% increase to Martinez adult education salaries effec of July 1st 2024 to retain and recruit staff the increase in compensation would come from adult education funds and will have no impact on the district general fund and director Suzanne Murphy is here to answer any questions I don't have much of a voice but I will try Okay so this is um Suzanne this is again all all other employees got a

1676% raise you're asking for the same raise for your employees but it's coming out of your budget and not our general fund um yes it's specifically for the teachers the classified staff received the 6% so this would the teachers would be receiving the same and yes it's out of adult education funds okay thank you how many teachers do you have um the teachers working at this site there's 24 teachers all right any public comment all right seeing none is there a motion we'll make a motion to approve the pay increase I'll second it all those in favor I I I all right thank you thank you thanks 17.3 is approval of updated Declaration of Need for fully qualified Educators for the 2024 2025 school year presented by Dr sco so we just ask you to

168approve this on May 6th and since then we had a number of resignations uh that caused us to need to modify our numbers upward uh so this is just a more upto-date copy and on on your correct copy that Nikki passed out it should say on page three that it's a total of 17 in the top portion and we're just asking that this be approved with the updated numbers okay and this is one of those things that we have to do every year right correct correct and and this is the one that allows us later this next school year to use emergency waivers for any of these positions so it's a it's a front-loaded estimate on what's coming in in the future year and we're just moving it up because of the amount of res

169we have in so looking at that on page three um it does total 17 but it says 12 under you should have the new you should have a new copy oh the new oh on I'm sorry the new copy that's okay I was just looking I'm like this m isn't we were adding up I'm like 12 it's 17 okay it's funny on this okay got it yep so potentially next year we would have 17 emergency credentials teaching in our district is that what that means we potentially we could we usually do not have that amount um but we want to make sure we have enough coverage in each of those subject areas that are listed so for example you'll notice on again page three or four uh art that we did we did a number

170of art interviews and we're we're not finding a lot of candidates with clear art credentials so we're going to have to do something different from that um and that's one of the reasons why we modified the numbers upward you also notice in special education the numbers were modified upward because we had a number of special education teachers resigned okay is there any public comment no okay is there a motion I'll move to approve the updated Declaration of Need for fully qualified Educators for the 24 25 school year seconded okay all those in favor I I okay thank you okay um hey Amy it's your turn again good evening uh 17.4 key to five history social science approval of new instructional materials tonight I'm here to ask um for approval of core instructional history and social

171science materials for K5 um the publisher is saas and is California history social science my world interactive okay and we saw this last time is any other questions or comments okay any public comment all right um I will move to approve the new curriculum for this history and social science my world interactive second all those in favor I I I I okay thank you and 17.5 9-2 science approval of new and instructional materials Amy Espinosa I'm asking for approval this evening for core instructional High School science materials for anatomy and physiology biology chemistry and physics including AP classes for biology and chemistry okay thank you and again we we saw this last time we're voting on it tonight is there any other questions or comments okay any public comment okay is there a motion I'll

172move to approve the new instructional materials for science 9 through 12 science okay my second all those in favor I okay um 17.6 is review and Adoption of resolution number 2024-25 in the matter of ordering regular specifications of the election order presented by superintendent Helen Rossy so tonight I bring forth a resolution um that pertains to the November election due to the um three board members that um whose terms will be up and um it outlines all the specifications of the election like the number of positions that are up for election um who pays for the candidates costs the candidate statements costs and the confirmation of District bounding boundary so it's here for Action tonight has to be submitted to the county by July 5th um so um waiting board decision question is there any

173public comment no okay is there a motion all move to approve the resolution 202 2427 I second all those in favor I I I okay thank you and 17.7 2024 2025 Consolidated application for funding presented by Andy Cannon uh this is our annual application for federal funding for our title programs so tonight I'm asking for uh approval for our application for funding it's one of the easiest forms that we ever fill up for the federal government it's a check box and we are choosing to apply for Title One title two title three and title four programming so with that um I ask for um the board to approve the application any discussion public comment any a motion I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 Consolidated application for funding second all in favor I

174I I do we need to wait for Courtney that would be nice even though you were moving it right along yeah right yeah can we come back and just see what sheid I could feel the awkward silence with the presentation if you'd like for this for the next one I don't think we can move on waiting for me yes sorry or are we yeah or n yes motion passes motion passes all right thank you um 17.8 review and Adoption of resolution 2024 28 to establish temporary entered fund transfers of special or restricted monies presented by Andy Canon um so this is an annual resolution that we put forward um not that we think that we'll need it but just in case we may need it throughout the year if we get into a situation financially

175where we need enough cash to get through any of the months we could use interfund borrowing from other funds that have uh stable and sizable balances so we are requesting that the board approve re resolution 2024 28 have we ever had to use it I haven't been here my time I mean I'm only mean a CBO because have to say prior to that I probably didn't notice so any comment okay we'll bring it back for a motion I'll move to approve resolution 2428 seconded all those in favor I I 15 or sorry 17.9 is review and Adoption of resolution number 202 24-30 local assignment option to teach subject matter courses at continuation independent study as allowable in Ed code 44865 presented by Dr sco so this will be the first of three local assignment options

176we bring these back you uh annually uh this one is specific to Vincente um in all three of these including the one I'm talking about right now the teachers have to consent and we have them signed that they're okay uh going forward on a local assignment option like this um and then the committee on assignments reviews this make sure make sure that these uh employees are appropriately placed that they've actually given their consent and then we bring it to the board for approval questions or comments public comment okay um I will move to approve resolution number 20 24-30 seconded all those in favor I okay 17.10 review an adoption of resolution number 202 24-31 local assignment option to teach subject matter courses at middle schools as available in Ed code 442 58.2 and this is

177one you approved uh last year for this very same teacher who consented to this and was approved by the uh committee on assignments all right any public comment is there a motion I'll move to approve I second all those in favor I I okay and review and Adoption of resolution number 2024 32 to teach elective courses G grades 1 through 12 as allowable in Ed code 44258 point7 presented by Dr Dan uh and this one's a little smaller than in in previous years because uh some of our teachers actually got credentials in these areas uh and no longer need our assistance we also did an analysis and there were a number of teachers for whom their current credential actually already gave them permission to teach that so we removed all of those and what we

178have left uh are those teachers who need a local assignment option from the school board to teach the listed electives and again we ask for the board's approval okay all right any public comment I'll bring it back for a motion I move to approve resolution 2024-25 um what time do we need to extend the meeting okay we're good okay um okay our last but not least 17.12 approval of board stiens under California Ed code 35120 and musd bylaw 9250 so two weeks ago um we I brought forth the item in regards to compensation for the board and um discuss uh a discussion was had about the maximum of 5% increase on the board stiens which comes out um to I want to say $1250 maybe 60 60 cents thank you Tanya and um so tonight

179it's back for um vote okay all right we had a pretty good discussion on this last time does anybody want to add anything okay is there any public comment is there a motion I'll make a motion to approve the board stien increasing by 5% I'll second the first time I've ever done that it's about time um all those in favor I I I I all right motion passes all right everybody take a deep breath we did it congratulations all we have left we don't need number 18 and we have left number 19 comments from the superintendent board members and future agenda items um yes mean do you want to start so I just I wanted to just share about the amazing energy at the graduations um I guess that's the best part of being on

180the board being at those graduations and just sharing with all the families and students and the community that that's present so that's definitely a highlight and I'm excited for the next two or more or whatever that are coming up yeah it was great we were all able to be at all of them so have the adult school coming up and that's awesome um I just wanted to congratulate all the families and students for making it through another year and a huge thanks to our teachers and support staff and most especially I think we always forget or often forget that we have a lot of employees that are year round including all the folks aside from the board sitting at this um de so thank you for your continued work and hopefully you get to at

181least spend some time with family um but we appreciate all of the efforts that all of our staff put in for our students and for those of you who get a break have a happy and safe break I just also want to say um the graduations were a lot of fun and they all went very smoothly it was great to see all the families and um Al Hamber high school was very well organized at their graduation no balls being thrown or anything it was just very um I think the most Kesha had him totally um in alignment but uh yeah it was wonderful and um yeah congratulations to all the graduates and the promotions and um enjoy your summer vacation and I think all the teachers and principal were really excited that AP tests were

182done at the high school and uh yeah looking forward to the next school year so thanks everyone likewise I think it was a really successful enjoyable week of graduations and promotions well executed and so compliments to to staff for making that happen um and if what I'm going through at our house with the junior turned senior I'm sure you guys are hot they thicken you figuring out College Coles and applications and scholarships and you know sorting through that so um don't rest too much this summer because there's still a lot of work to do for the for the junior senior class I was just going to add that summer school started today um thank you to all the teachers and and staff and administrators that are making that happen and um hopefully that goes smoothly

183I'm sure it will and everybody else enjoy your summer break I'm just going to say I'm amazed that we got through that agenda before 9:30 so thank you everyone um it was quite a lengthy one and it had a lot of information a lot of information that was necessary and and hopefully the next agenda it's going to be lengthy but not quite as lengthy a lot to do in the month of June to prepare for next year so thank [Music] you e