Regular Meeting - Martinez Unified School Board - 3/11/2024

001e I'm calling the meeting to order item number two is public comments as a reminder the board will allow 20 minutes for a public comment before a Clos session in order to conduct the board's business during the allotted time those who do not get the opportunity to speak prior to close session will be provided the opportunity at the end of the regularly scheduled Open Session later this evening and I have two comment cards the first one is Jennifer Tuco Anderson and then I have Kendra Cooper okay sorry I picked up a cold at the book fair um my name is Jennifer Tuco Anderson um I have three kids in the Martinez School District uh my husband and I also are local veterinarians uh we own hrrest veterinary hospital and we have both been blessed with

002really great education and really great teachers just like my kids are and I'm here because I don't want to lose any of these great teachers um I have two kids at John sweat uh and we have been blessed to have a couple of the teachers here behind me uh Miss Dart inspired my daughter who is ADHD like motivated her to write with no this is a kid you can't motivate to do anything and she is just such a light to these kids and Miss Fontana also behind me here has been a partner with my ADHD daughter in helping her get ready for junior high I have one daughter the junior high who again amazing teachers like Mrs zoner who a math teacher that is teaching them cheers those kids aren't going to forget that math

003concept anytime soon and they need to be paid a livable wage we can't afford to lose them and if they strike if we if they if our kids are out of school after having dealt with covid it's not going to be the teachers fault it's going to be the administration's fault because you let us down you let our kids down it is so important for us to have good teachers and to not lose them and unfortunately we live in a really expensive area and they need to be able to pay their bills and to be able to live and I just it's super frustrating as a parent to know that my kids might have a lesser education because we can't pay them adequately and I have been told that educators are not listened to but

004but you'll listen to parents I'm a parent please listen to me please pay these teachers what they're worth because I I mentioned a couple teachers names there's so many more so many more amazing teachers so I'll hope you listen to me thanks okay thank you Kendra Cooper hello my name is Kendra Cooper and I am a parent of three children in the Martinez Unified School District I have a sixth grader at the junior high and a third grader and transitional kindergartener at Mela Park I am currently vice president of academic programs on the Mela Park PTA and I also serve on site Council I'm a room parent and volunteer weekly in my children's classrooms this involvement affords me the privilege of witnessing firsthand the dedication and passion of our esteemed teachers as they Inspire and

005educate our students over the past seven years I've had the pleasure of building meaningful connections with numerous exceptional teachers in our district their dedication to nurturing young minds and fostering academic Excellence is truly commendable it brings me immense joy to share the academic achievements of my children my daughter in junior high has maintained straight A throughout the entire school year a testament to both her diligence and the outstanding support provided by her teachers similarly my third graders Advanced reading ability comprehending material well beyond her years is a direct result of the exceptional guidance she receives from her Educators even my tker has begun to eagerly explore the world of literacy sounding Out words and independently spelling these remarkable accomplishments underscore the invaluable impact of our phenomenal teachers it's imperative that we prioritize efforts to retain

006and attract more educators of their caliber ensuring that every student receives the same level of dedication and inspiration that has enriched my children's educational Journey it's disheartening and frankly insulting to see our dedicated teachers offered a mere 3% pay increase especially when the state of California has provided schools with an 8.22% cost of living adjustment this discrepancy raises serious concerns about the prioritization of teacher compensation within our district moreover the fact that our district allocates less than 35% of its budget toward teacher salaries While most other districts aim for 40% is alarming our teachers are the backbone of our education system and they deserve to be valued and compensated accordingly investing in our teachers is not only a matter of fairness but also essential for attracting and retaining top talent in our district it's time

007to re-evaluate our budget priorities and ensure that our teachers receive the compensation they deserve our teachers play multifaceted roles in the lives of our children they are not merely Educators but also trusted confidants caring nurturers compassionate counselors and unwavering protectors they create a safe haven within our schools where our children can learn grow and Thrive their tireless dedication goes beyond the classroom as they serve as mentors cheerleaders and pillars of support for every student they encounter it's undeniable that our teachers deserve far more than we could ever repay them however at the very least let's ensure that they receive what is fair and just by providing them with the resources support and compensation they need to excel in their vital roles by investing in our teachers we are investing in the future of our children

008and our community let's recognize their invaluable contributions and make our teachers a top priority it's long over do to do right by our teachers okay we don't have any more public comment cards so we'll adjourn to close session e for e e okay good evening I'm calling our Open Session to order and um we do not have anything to report out from closed session so next uh we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance and um if everybody could stand thank you okay item number eight on tonight's agenda is highlights and recognition and first we have the elhammer high school track and field do we have the students from Al hamur here what oh thank you sorry didn't even look sorry everybody I skipped over so the first thing we need to do is number seven which

009is approve the agenda so do we have any changes to tonight's agenda there are no changes okay um any questions or comments no okay any do I have a motion I move to approve the agenda okay I'll second it all those in favor I I I okay the agenda is passed number eight is highlights and recognition okay so I don't see anyone from alhamra uh High School track and field they confirmed and maybe maybe they were running late how's that so or there's no school maybe they got or there's no school and maybe that's why okay okay well so our second group which we have I can see them sitting right here um we have um Arya Almer Marisol Nunes Gonzalez and Belle Rule and they are here to talk to us tonight about uh

010their school and Black History Month how they celebrated if you girls want to go right up to the microphone okay are they G they're gonna talk no they are I'm gonna just I'm just gonna welcome everybody um and let everybody know that in honor of Black History Month sorry my name is Patty and I'm the principal of Lunas good evening everybody um in honor of Black History Month lastas Elementary work with Miss Felicia BS from the contracosta alumite chapter of Delta Sigma theta's literacy program to bring the love of reading and the inspiration of optimism to our third graders with the support of our PTA Delta Sigma Theta presented each of our third grade students their very own copy of Amanda Gorman's children's book something someday a children's story that centers on the impact that

011small actions can have on creating a collective change in addition the book inspired our students to have hope and not be discouraged when a problem feels too big to fix Delta Sigma theta's amazing members also volunteered to read this heartwarming story for our entire third grade class the volunteers who included retired Educators and parents praise our students for their amazing engagement and respect throughout the morning's event we are already uh working on planning next year's event from the bottom of our hearts thank you to the contracosta alumni chapter of Delta Sigma F's literacy program and to our lentus PTA for enriching the lives of our students and as Margaret me said never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it's the only thing that ever has can you

012pull the microphone down there you go my favorite part of that day was getting my very own copy of the book something someday by Amanda Gorman I got to read it to my family I also learned that even if somebody tells you that you should not try something you should can you can still keep trying because no one can tell you what you can can accomplish I really want to thank the volunteers from Delta Sig sigmaa who read to us and thank them for coming to our class in school and my name is Belle thank you hi my name is Arya and getting the book was my favorite part of the day because it was very inspiring it was inspiring because the book showed us that even if they said you're too small it's important

013to keep on trying and never give up it's important to believe in yourself never give up and don't listen to people who think you're too weak and always be kind my name is my name is Marisol my favorite part of the day was getting my own copy of the book and meeting the ladies from Delta [Music] sigth who read the book to us I learned that even if you think that you think you can't do something it's important to at least try to do it before you say you can't do it I really want to thank the lady Delta Sigma Thea volunteers for sharing their lessons with us thank you girls you did an amazing job so you can go ahead and go home and rest up for school tomorrow cuz you're coming back right

014you're what oh no you're no thank you again and thank you parents for bringing them here I appreciate it thank you okay agenda item number nine is our comments from our student representative which are we what are we doing with that Janelle Janelle is going to be our student representative go for it thank you I'm filling in for Marisol tonight so bear with me um our first school report is from Lunas um the highlights from the week we enjoyed our read Across America week and had so many wonderful visitors read to all of our students thank you to all our guests readers at LJ you make a huge impact on the lives of our students Miss Quinn's second grade class are the LJ readathon winners this year a huge shout out to Miss Quinn and

015her second graders for all the pages read in a week to together they are shining bright Lunas had their Baseline School waist audit last week and we are now starting our LJ Green Team students in grades 3 through five will be able to apply to be green team leads thank you so much to miss Rell for spearheading this amazing effort our fourth graders enjoyed their class field trip to Connelly Ranch although it was a little muddy our students parents and staff had a great time exploring the ranch we had an incredibly successful PTA meeting on Tuesday March 5th and enjoyed DIN and donate at Jack last week and had lunch with a loved one this past Friday thank you PTA for your ongoing support this year at John Mir Elementary John fifth graders went to

016the shabbo Space and Science Center and learned about Mars the Mars r they got to experience Hands-On activities that modeled how Rovers could safely land on Mars and made different models to test out their ideas Mrs Santiago's fifth grade class is the MEF Reon winner for the school and the entire District way to go jme fifth graders second graders are busy learning about important Americans for their biography unit each child is choosing their own person to research for an openhouse display at John sweat fourth graders had an outstanding time on their overnight Gold Rush camp in Coloma where they had various Hands-On real life experiences about what it was like in the Gold Rush days also Lots came back with real gold that they panned for in the river students had a great read Across

017America week parents school board members and even the Martinez mayor came to read to us this week it inspired a deeper love for reading in the kids we also had a week-long book fair so they could explore some new reading material Merlo Park Elementary School We are continuing our one school one book challenge where all of our students are are reading upside down magic each student was given a copy of this book and encouraged to read at home or watch the videos of Staff members reading different chapters each week students participate in discussions and are able to answer some questions to be entered into a drawing to win prizes we are grateful for our PTA partners and our staff PTA leison for helping support this fun Endeavor focus on promoting literacy at Mel Park we

018had our March buddy day on Friday where students were able to talk about their reading of upside down magic and make a bookmark together our students always enjoy these fun activities with their buddies martinius Junior High a huge congratulations to the mjhs staff students and community on being named a 2024 California distinguished School the collective work and continued commitment to our bullpups academic growth school connectedness and safe safe learning environment have been amazing Miss kusak had the honor of reading to fifth graders at Lunas and John elementaries for read Across America not only did she get to meet some soon to be sixth graders but read a book with a valuable lesson about meeting new peers mjhs took part in say something week through Home Room classroom and lunchtime activities around important ways to be

019a positive and proactive student identify trusted adults on campus and build commitments to say something for the safety of all shout out to our bullpups who were prepared focused and committed to doing their best on their lpac test this week way to go alhamra High School congratulations to Sam gross for being selected to represent the district and a chance to be recognized as contracosta County certificated teacher of the year our student-led Equity Committee of students and advisers met with Dr Watson last week one of the highlights was their in-depth discussion of the identity wheel students reflected on the various ways their identities become visible or more keenly felt at different times and how to use those identities impact and how those identities impact the way others perceive or treat them we are still in need

020of parent and student focus group participants for our accreditation visit if you are interested please contact Miss emendorfer as soon as possible vente Martinez Bron independent study vente Bron hosted a trades Fair on campus students also had breakout sessions where they learned how to write a resume and practice interview skills many of our seniors were able to make connections with professionals who work in the trades and signed up to start training as soon as they graduate in Miss morard science class um students are continuing to incorporate Project based learning throughout the curriculum such as the bird beak Buffet activity in this activity students were engaged in demonstrating the concept of natural selection they are presented with three different types of food each requiring a specific type of bird beak to effectively gather various beak models

021representing different bird species such as long slender beaks for probing short sturdy beaks for crushing and flat wide beaks for scooping were provided students selected the appropriate beak for each food type experiencing firsthand how different beak shapes are adapted to specific feeding niches in the Wild by observing which beaks were most successful in acquiring food they gained a deeper understanding of how natural selection favors traits that enhance an organism's survival and reproductive success finally U Martinez Adult Education Spring quarter started last Monday and we are seeing a significant increase in our ESL students and enrollment in accounting and QuickBook classes last Tuesday and Thursday evening we had 58 participants take part in the pharmacy tech training program orientation those we are interested who are interested in the program will enroll in a six-week boook camp

022that will start in April and please check the event calendars for all of the upcoming events at all the school sites thank you okay um our next item number 10 is employee organization reports is there anything tonight no okay next is comments from the PTA I don't see anybody from PTA here so we'll go to number 12 which is correspondence okay we have correspondence um from Kosta County Office of Ed in regards to our first interim report um that we filed with a positive uh certification and the certification uh is approved and says the district is going to meet its Financial Obligations for the current and two subsequent fiscal years they did uh warn us on um the district projecting deficit spending in the current and two subsequent fiscal years and especially in the restricted

023general fund um they reduce the available balances making it more diffic difficult to respond to economic recessions and other financial difficulties they strongly encourage us to take steps to eliminate ongoing operating deficits while maintaining sufficient unrestricted reserves to protect the agency from unforeseen hardships they also um commended us for the successful management of finances in spite of the operational challenge Alles such as uh declining enrollment um an ADA and a uh uh inflation and the funds actually improved our multi-year projection and ending balance however the district is cautioned that fluctuations in the Ada and the lower cost of living adjustment in future years with along with the expiration of one-time funds can impact our fiscal Outlook so congratulations to our B business office for getting your second or your first interim report the second is

024coming out tonight the first interim report approved is that something we can make attached to the agenda if folks wanted to look at it I think um I have to find out if we can attach something after the meeting okay okay but in the future I can attach them okay okay thank you okay okay so as you heard in um uh Miss cac's uh school report um the junior high has been has received a distinguished School award so a huge congratulations to the mjhs community for their recogn recognition as a California distinguished School each year the state of California they do every other year Elementary and then secondary and uh so on and so forth recognizes californ is exemplary schools teachers and classified School Employees for achievement and for advancing excellence in education for the

025past few years the state has used the California dashboard to determine the distinguished schools this year the mjhs is recognized for its Improvement by increasing English language arts on the ASC by 6.8 points increasing mathematics on the ESC by 4.3 points it increased the percentage of English Learners making progress by 7.1% with 7 72.5 students um English Learners making progress by going up at least one level their chronic absenteeism declined by 6.2% and the suspension rate declined by 2.4 I want to truly thank the entire staff for their hard work and efforts um the representatives from the staff will attend a reception in May in Anaheim and I know know that uh John Meir was the John Meir Elementary was the last school to be recognized and that was in 2020 so when I looked

026it up just to make sure because I'm like that was the pandemic and I remember I was there at the dinner but that was in February right before it hit and on that list it listed all of our schools in what years so I have to say that um aside from the 2020 the uh the Mela Park and John sweat got California distinguished schools in 2012 and then we had none up until John M in 2020 and then um Martinez Junior High in 2024 so that was quite a long stretch and I hope to see this continue in this Direction with more schools being recognized and and Martinez junor high this is their fifth recognition they've had the most recognition in the district of schools for um California distinguished schools so congratulations mjhs awesome yeah

027that's that's awesome great thank you okay um our second staff report is CSI and atsi presentation by Amy Espinosa good evening um tonight I'm going to be going over accountability with you so um we have two types of accountability state and federal uh the California dashboard is what is used to determine if we fall into an accountability criteria for this State we look at local control funding formula and that is differentiate assistance so that would be um Lea level of student group outcomes for student achievement School climate and student engagement we did not um we did not meet this criteria so we have exited out of that accountability model but we did um continue to uh have accountability in the area of federal which is every student succeed act CSI is our comprehensive support and

028Improvement based on school level outcomes we have one school that falls into this accountability model and then additional targeted support and Improvement is based on school level student group outcomes and we have four schools that meet this criteria so with CSI um schools are eligible if they receive at least one colorcoded performance level on any of the state indicators and meet the criteria of one of the following this uh there are two criteria we have low graduation rate so that would be a graduation rate below 68% remember this is at the school level not the Lea level and then um the other one is low performing so this category consists of schools that receive Title One funding for the 2223 school year and are in the lowest performing based on the California dashboard as a

029whole and so for us we meet the low performing um this is the criteria they look at are using the performance color combinations that the schools receive at the school level so these color combinations occur in English language arts mathematics English learner progress graduation rate suspension rate chronic absenteeism and collagen career here's the criteria and we meet under criteria number two all red indicators except for one indicator of another performance color and so on the next we're coming up to it here you'll see that uh Vicente Martinez High School falls into CSI low performing um even though College and Career is at the very low status bar without a color they're um representing very low as red and so um that's where you'll see that we were in red in all areas except for one

030which is our graduation rate that is why we're low performing verse the the graduation rate so we met we were fine there but because they use suspension rate and College and Career Readiness um we fell into the low performing category for accountability for our um other schools for additional targeted support and Improvement is if they have one or more student group that for two consecutive years method criteria applied to determine at least one of the lowest performing at under 5% these can also be Title One schools and non-title one schools in order to be eligible you have to have a student group the insides of that requirement for two consecutive years so that would be 30 or more students so the groups the student groups that um fall under atsi are race and ethnicity homeless

031students English learner students Foster youth students students with disabilities and socially economically disadvantage students and here we have the criteria as well and so you can compare the two there is a little bit of difference so all red indicators is criteria one on the 2023 dashboard and then comparing it to the 2022 they're looking at the status level and so you can see for criteria two all red indicators except for one of another performance color or in looking at criteria three five or more indicators where the majority are red so looking at our um schools that fall under atsi we have four schools um and these are the student groups in which they fell the performance level of red and also I listed the state indicator as well so you'll see Al Hamber High School

032our student group is black and africanamerican in the state indicator of suspensions they were red John Mir Elementary two or more races in the state indicators of absenteeism and suspensions Los hunus elementary students with disabilities absenteeism and suspensions and then Martinez Junior High School English Learners in the area of ela math and suspensions so our next steps stud schools are currently working on their needs assessment to drive their discussion for their school plans the sipsas will be aligned with the 2425 lcap and the new lcap template includes required sections on comprehensive support and Improvement and the technical assistance the lcap will also include goals directly related to the areas of need so we will be calling out the student groups specifically it won't be in general but we will call out the School site and

033the student groups in our lcap and then we will have data and progress will continue to monitor that question thank you Amy and you're talking about the elcut for next year yes okay any other questions I would just like to um request that when the elcap Committees are formed for next year that we make sure we reach out to the groups that are in the um red zones so they can participate and get their input as to how to fix you know the issues that we have with those groups thank you thank you okay thank you okay our next agenda item is the consent calendar oh sorry it's public comments and I have right now I have one public comment card okay okay um under government code 549 54.3 members of the public have a

034right to address the board on any matter within the board's jurisdiction however the board may not take action on any non-agenda item item individual speakers will have 3 minutes to address the board and 20 minutes have been allocated for this portion additional time is allowed at the end of the meeting if there wasn't enough time I have um Char Davenport and Nick web so come on up please I'm ready oh okay hello members of the board and thank you for allowing me to come up here and make my speech my name is sh Davenport and I am a student at vient Martinez high school as a student at viente I've been working extremely hard to finish my credits for school so I can graduate early but as a senior there Al are several activities I

035would like to be a part of that are past my graduation date forcing me to choose between graduating early or delaying my graduation to do these activities I am here today to ask you to consider letting students at vient Vicente and Bron's if they wish to participate in senior activities at alhamra even if they have graduated early I understand that the reason I cannot participate in these activities is because I am seen as a member of the community or no longer a high school student this is confusing considering that I am still allowed to walk in June with the rest of my classmates to receive my diploma I ask that you consider treating other senior activities such as Disneyland and prom like the graduation ceremony and allow students to participate if they choose while we

036have the option to stay enrolled in four per periods this can prevent us from continu continuing our education elsewhere or limit our hours that we are are available to work at a job bentti is a wonderful school and I am grateful that I found it the faculty and staff are amazing and I truly felt like I could continue my studies while being emotionally and educationally supported it was disappointing to find out that even though I put in the work to graduate early I would have to postpone it to participate in senior activities I urge you to consider consider alternatives that appeal to both the school's board the students that wish to participate thank you for your time and consideration thank you okay um Nick you're next hello I am Nick Webb um I'm here in

037support of sh and also to talk about the issue in general um so as a student at bente I was moved there because of bullying at alhamra which I have talked about here for various uh other things um but because I was moved by sente I was uh for not for credit recovery but for this reason which is something that happens to a lot of students there um I was very ahead in my credits that are needed for viente um and because of that I would have in order to have a senior year have had to stretch 30 credits out for an entire school year now uh we decide to make uh we decide to have it so that I'm graduating this year but this is the case with a lot of students who start

038their senior year finish their stuff early and then if they want to participate in anything related to senior activities they have to stretch out their year for ridiculous amounts of time and even if they don't they'll have to have for example multiple study halls throughout the day that aren't being used for anything um it makes it really difficult uh to be able to have all of these things happening have to sit through classes that you really don't need just so that you're able to go on the senior trip to Disneyland or go to prom if you graduate early at viente and you still want to go to prom you have to have a guest pass which means you have to go through someone else you have to pay more um in order to get to

039get to prom and all of this just to have your senior activities but at the same time as sh brought up um we're still uh able to or allowed to walk at our graduation um we're we don't have our diplomas given given to us we still have our ceremony but we're still members of the community um I'm aware that a lot of this does come from State policies so it's a little bit limited uh at the same time there's a lot of factors to consider that we very much hope you do consider because it makes being a senior and going to the viente really hard and most of the time the people who go to viente go for factors outside of their control like um or like there's Credit Recovery which can come from a

040multitude of factors and not just falling behind and then there's bullying like happened to me there's like all sorts of reasons and um I it's important that students even if they're at alternative school still get to have their senior activities and still get to have time as a senior um and I think that it should be that should be considered sorry this is a little messy but yeah thank you okay is that it for public comments all right all right thank you all for coming in tonight um moving right along we're going to go to item 15 which is the consent calendar um is there any changes to the consent calendar there are no changes okay any questions or comments on the consent calendar I'm just going to step into Carlos's shoes for a minute

041and thank you to all our donations that are on the consent calendar um and I'm going to make a motion to approve the consent calendar seconded okay all those in favor I okay motion pass classes moving right along number 16 is discussion and information items and 16.1 is the transportation plan presented by Andy Canon uh good evening board um starting last year we were required to bring in a annual Transportation plan and we did so part of the law requires that we update it each year this is our update if you look at it you'll realize there's not much of an update we changed a few things by removing information that was no longer necessary for example what our original Transportation balance and what dollars we were going to receive but the substance of this

042plan is still the same it provides no cost bus passes for our families in need um the meet certain criteria and they work through our student support offices for that uh we do have a special piece about students with disabilities U really looking at ways to support them as it's a condition of their IEP plan um beyond that there's not a whole lot of changes here and we're asking the board tonight to approve this annual update for the transportation plan or was an action it's for next time I'm sorry so we'll be bringing this back next meeting for approval okay great um any questions or comments question so would there this is just me a like a safe bike path is that would that be part of our transportation plan um not for this purpose

043it would be for ways to provide um rides for kids to get to school it wouldn't be about um bikes or any other alternative transportation okay because I know there was a child hit on poo earlier this year by a car that was on a bike right there's I believe that um uh home to school transportation was on the city council yeah when we met with the meeting yeah it was and it's going to come up on the next one as well y okay any public comment all right okay so we'll bring this back next time thank you um 17 is action items and 17.1 is our 2023 csba delegate Assembly Election information which we saw as a information item last time right and and just to refresh your memory uh tonight's the big vote

044vote for three and there are three candidates um there is a ballot in front of you if you um would please make sure that Nikki gets that ballot with your vote for the end of the night and this um is for the California school boards Association delegate assembly and um somebody can make a nomination to do it and then you all have to vote is that Norm so is the idea that we all vote the same way but fill out our our own ballot well it's there for you for practice I guess we're not going to do the fill your own because it's we're not going to okay because there's three and you have to vote for three okay so it's it's kind of a moot point so we just really what we need you

045don't have to fill it out but well let me think about that it might be good just to have it for record that you guys were here and you did vote yeah we can do that you can do it um and just make a nomination and second I um and I think they're all incumbents too so they were already serving and want to serve again which I think is great that um because this is another extra volunteer thing that takes up time that um folks are willing to do so um any questions comments any public comment all right any do we have a motion I I'll make it if you guys don't want to um I'll make a motion to um to vote for all three second all those in favor I I all right

046thank you number 17.2 is adoption of resolution 2024-the McCary vocational Scholarship Foundation account presented by Andy Cannon uh we were notified by the um by the trust that they were going to be giving us a little over $133,000 to go into our scholarship fund when we do this type of work we do have to have a resolution by the board to accept these funds and to create the structure in which we give out scholarships um the idea for this scholarship was to go towards those graduating seniors who want to further their education um specifically around vocational education and we're looking at an annual Award of $500 that can be for one person it could be up to two people so it'll be part of the scholarship committee at the high school to be able to

047determine how they disperse that but they can get up to $500 per and looking at that that should give us a few years with this scholarship uh moving forward so I think it's a very gracious act um by the family um and Arthur McMurray did pass away quite some time ago um but for whatever reason those funds are now coming directly to us um for the school to administer instead of the trust and so tonight we're asking you to approve this resolution 20248 great thank you um and then that'll be something well that will start next year the or what a student receive the scholarship this year uh it can start this year it just depends on this the scholarship committee I don't know when they first start meeting but I think they have time

048or did they okay if it's a scholarship that we hand out every year they probably already have it on on the list or that gets handed out every year it's not a brand new scholarship correct it's only new that we're holding new M we are taking over the control of the scholarship now I see I see okay all right great okay no I'll make a motion to approve we have to public comment first sorry I thought you had a question any public comment no okay go ahead it's moving so fast today um I make a motion to approve resolution 2024-the McCary vocational Scholarship Foundation account great okay and I second all those in favor I I all right motion passes moving right along also presented by Andy Canon is 17.3 the 20123 2024 second interm

049report I appreciate all the time that you've given me this evening um to be able to go over the second interim I think it's a really important time for us to discuss budget considering all of the factors that are weighing um on education the state budget and how that trickles down to our sites um so this evening I'm going to be able to share a little bit about um how our budget is changed from first entrum um so if we go next slide we'll go over the purpose of this and again it's to review any significant changes that we've had since our first interim report that you've already heard about tonight that was approved by the County Office of Education um it's actually to go over the financial data that has um that we have

050that we have in our system from the beginning of the year July 1 all the way until the end of January so just until the end of January even though we're halfway through March um and at the end we are required to certify if we can meet um our uh our financial responsibilities um whether we um ultimately if we're going to be a positive certification the budget is built on many assumptions um and I've listed many of them here for you to look at um enrollment our adaa percentage our average daily attendance um we're going to talk a little bit more about funded Ada funded Ada is our average in this case our three-year average of um average daily attendance and the figure you see in front of us is how much it is different

051from what our actual Ada is and we'll look at more of this upcoming slide um we also use our Cola and we've calculated another factor which we call local Cola and local Cola in essence is the percentage of increase in our lcff funding um we also look at our Consumer Price Index which you'll see that inflation is starting to slow in California um over the next couple years at least it's projected to do so from 3.36% to 2.7% our stirs employer rates this is our retirement pension fund for our certificated employees is going to remain steady at 19.1% um but you will notice that our purs employees that rate that the that the district has to pay will be increasing by almost 2% in the next couple of years and Health and Welfare and this

052is kind of widely known in this group we had a large increase this year of 13% and we're looking at more normalization in the next two years at 5% so to go a little bit deeper into our enrollment projection um I made this graph big because I wanted to really make our our kind of the factors that we're using to plan this budget stand out you'll notice that in the gray bar that is our projected enrollment green is projected Ada so that would be our actual Ada and then the um reddish color is our funded Ada and you'll notice that over the next couple of years that our funded Ada is going to get closer and closer into until 2025 and 26 where funded Ada and actual Ada are almost the same so what does

053that mean that means that this year we are getting 99% funded of our enrollment means we're getting more money based on more kids that we don't actually have and that's a great thing for us this District that means more revenue for this year but even though our enrollment is going to be declining by small amounts we see our funded Ada declining by large amounts and it's still good news it's a way for the state to kind of slow down our um declining enrollment or at least the impact of our deining enrollment by trying to buffer our Revenue but it is going to steadily decrease uh we do have an assumption that we build our budget on 94.5% Ada that means that on any given day we have a little less than 95% of our kids

054coming to school we are trending high right now as of P1 which was um back in um January that we reported on this um we were at about 95% so conservatively we are budgeting that we may drop about 6% in our Ada as we get towards April that may change things if we find that our our kids are returning from pandemic we're not seeing the sickness we're not seeing people stay home as frequently over um you know smaller coughs and colds um and those things um we may see that they're returning here that kind of the fear of not coming to school has gone away um and if we see that going up then we will adjust our numbers as we get to the end of the year um again funded Ada is much higher

055than actual Ada you'll notice that this year we dropped 166 students for funded Ada next year we'll drop 94 students for funded Ada and then in the third year 2526 we see it actually starting to get close again with only 14 um decline there want to continue this theme of looking at how we come to our budget how we look at our revenue and understanding where money is coming in from this chart shows the impact of cola on lcff that's the unrestricted portion of lcff what you'll notice in the first few years in this um chart is that we have growth in 2223 and 2324 and that's indicated by that red line you see significant growth up on the chart as we look for um future years and what the governor has changed in the

056um January Pro projected budget around Cola you're going to see that our declining funded Ada in conjunction with the lower proposed Cola we're actually going to see Revenue decline for unrestricted lcff and sometimes that can be a misnomer for folks how can you get an 8.22% Cola how can you have positive colas in the next two out years but you actually see lcff Revenue decline well that is because of how we use that funded Ada um and so for the next few years we really have to look at how we're using our funds and what kind of concessions are we making around expenditures and programs so that we can continue to meet our in reserve and it's not on this chart but just for reference sake our local Cola for this year we are seeing

057a 4.78% increase in our lcff funding for this year next year because of the changes we will see a decrease in lcf funding of 3% with 2526 being basically no change a 3% increase so just to show that in a little bit more detail here the chart on the right shows what we anticipated originally um from the state what we were put out actually during first interim and that was um all the way in January or excuse me in June of 2023 and then we see what the change has been in um based on the governor's proposed budget and and we'll see if the big decreases next year Cola the projected Cola has already dipped to 3.18% less than what was anticipated and mind you that the financial news coming out of the state has

058not improved around tax receipts so there is a chance that this may be even lower lower as we get towards the May Revis overall the impact of this lower Cola you can see on the far left with lcff impact we're projecting 1.4 million loss next year compared to what we started with and 1.6 in 2526 so over a two-year span we are looking at a reduction or less $3 million less than what we were hopeful for when we started this school year and again that's because of the lower Cola that's being projected that has significantly caused us um to relook at how our expenditures are going out the next couple of years and you have already looked at that from the terms of layoffs and reductions um at the last board meeting where we were

059looking at $2.3 million in lcf reductions to help combat some of the projections that we are facing School Finance um can be complex um there's lots of things that go into it um this is just one um piece of the lcff calculator again I want to make sure that we're hitting home how we're receiving our Revenue so Cola is not the same as a revenue or a percentage increase to revenue Cola that cost of living adjustment is based on certain factors and I wanted to kind of look at them this evening on the far left you're going to see calculation factors and you're going to see grades TK through three 4 through six 7 through eight and 9 through 12 those we collectively call our grade spans each of those grade spans have a different

060amount of funding that the state provides that level of funding you can see on the right hand side in the chart so each of these grade levels have their average Ada so in example TK through 3 you have 1,164 N3 average adaa we receive a base allocation for each student in that grade span which is 9,919 we get a grade span adjustment of 1,032 for TK through3 that is to help us U provide the 12:1 um student to adult ratio for TK you see supplemental of $860 per student that is for our unduplicated students that we have when you calculate all of that out you add up each of those pieces you're getting a total of almost $14 million for our TK through three what you'll notice is you work down through that chart by

061grade span you'll see that each is different so our four through six base is different than our s through eight and then 9 through 12 is even higher than each of those and the idea behind it is there's extra funding in there that works towards CT and other programming for high schools once you take that base supplemental and concentration amount your total base you'll see a figure there 44912 691 there are a couple add-ons that you have a home to school Transportation not the same as our transportation reimbursement that's an additional part that we won't talk about in unrestricted because that's a restricted amount you have a TK add-on and when you put all this together here you're going to receive or look at our total revenue for lcff of 4,515 178 so you take

062your Ada times the base plus your grade span plus your supplemental multiply that together add your add-ons and you get your total lcf unrestricted and I think we've talked about it a few times before the next step of this is looking at your tax your property taxes so if we have enough property taxes to meet the whole 45 million we don't need any state aid because our property taxes isn't the same as less than our lcff entitlement that's where the state comes in and they give us funds to meet that deficit so all told we receive 45 or projected to receive 45.5 million from the lcff the cola getting back to that the cola is put on our base and our I believe our supplemental so you see that in that amount but it's not

063based on last year's Revenue so last year's Revenue whatever it is you don't add 8% onto it you're adding 8% onto each of the categories by grade span here and so that's why there can be this this misunderstanding of how do you have 8. 2% Cola but yet you can't necessarily offer that and you don't have that within your budget why are we saying that there's a 4.78% local Cola is because we're actually using that to calculate the lcff increase from last year to drive it home just a little bit further um showed this slide during first interim to kind of give a graphic of how Cola and local Cola can be different so in Year One um and this is just completely a hypothetical based on a small group of students um we have

06420 students and if we in year one we received $100 per student we would have $2,000 in Revenue if we had declining enrollment into year two where we only had 18 students our base would be the 100 students 10% Cola or increase based on that base rate would get us to $110 per student but because we had less students our Revenue would drop to$ 1,980 that's $20 in Revenue loss which is the equivalent to US calling a local Cola of negative 1% so again Cola is based on the grade span um and the base allocation local Cola is the increase in lcff as what we're projecting so these slides give us kind of context for understanding how we work through and deal with Cola and how it relates to our overall budget so now getting

065into the the details of our Revenue um when we compare our current Revenue projection to First interim we see that we're pretty close to what we had projected there's only a 71% um variance in that total um and the one that stands out mostly is our local so if you see that 7.65% that local is interest income it's donation and its rental income because that can be really hard at the beginning of the year to project you don't you don't want to go too far in projecting donations you may have a really great year where lots of people want to donate MEF can be very productive but you may have years that you don't so you want to be very conservative when you do that that 7.6% is a result of us being conservative in

066our budget around donations and interest and the rental income that we have through here but overall everything is sitting um about where we expected to be this slide I call the whatif slide so there's lots of there's lots of ways where this slide can go wrong but I just want to give again a thought process on why our Revenue isn't as high as we'd like it to be or what it could be so I've already mentioned that we are seeing a drop of funded Ada of 166 students from last year to this year well what if we didn't what if we maintain that same funded Ada how much money would we have additional money would we have this year we would have an additional approximately $2 million this year if we would seeed our funded

067Ada drop so then let's compare what if 2425 saw no change from this year lcff reduction we would see 1.1 million dollar more in our budget and then let's just add on the factor if we didn't have the cola reduction from 3.9 down to 76 that'd be another 1.4 so the year to change from 2324 to 2425 you might see an extra 2.5 million let's do the same what if if we move from 2425 to 2526 and we didn't lose another 14 funded Ada we see a small amount of 175,000 in lcff reduction but that Cola change that Cola change that we saw from the governor's budget is a 1 .6 which would mean there'd be another $1.62 million in the budget for that time nobody did anything wrong right this is just a factor

068of how the state helped us deal with declining enrollment so someone say why would the state do that if the state hadn't done this we would have seen what we called a financial cliff a couple years ago that was the big buzz in finance and in education and instead of waiting three years to kind of slowly go down as an offramp we would have hit a sharp decline down so these are good things but you always do the wh if right what what would have been the best case scenario ultimately as students age and go through the education system and graduate and if they're not replenished with um new students coming through the the TK and the Kinder ranks this is something that you see in communities and that's what we're experiencing and it will

069change over the next few years we will see it return to a different thing as just our demographic and our population change so moving into expenditures uh we know what we project to receive now what are we spending so far so the expenditure chart is showing you actual and incumbrances so what we've actually spent and what we think we're going to spend for the rest of this year and it's comparing first interim with second interim overall with these expenditures we see a very low variance we see only a difference of 64% from what we projected at first in what stands out is books and supplies we have made a concerted effort in cabinet to identify those materials and supplies that we can either wait till next year to do or that we can just completely

070take out of the budget so we are looking at saving that 10% or about $200,000 out of books and supplies um classified salaries have ticked up just slightly but nothing that's above a a normal variance level there um and so of that is because we're starting to bring par positions back when we can from contracted employees and there's been some other special education needs where we've added um folks in those roles um the other difference you see is the capital outlay of almost $165,000 increase this was a known quantity that wasn't put in first interim um we've already paid used these used funds to pay for the John sweat kitchen um equipment and now we are going to be purchasing the morel Park equipment so we just put that in the budget after the first

071interim there um and that's helped that's to help use Grant funds to help offset some of our measure our programs specifically the modernization of morel Park and I wish um student board member Marisol was here um I mentioned that um and she asked a really great question about are there other ways to look at our budget at the district and how we can reduce things and so at the time I said I'd bring back something for that review so that that everyone on the board can kind of see what our unrestricted um uh expenditures are at the district office and where they go by category um so this is an opportunity for us to look at again actual in incumbrances and as you go through here you're going to notice that most of these items

072um you wouldn't put in a discretionary um category there are things that we have to do in order to make sure that the district runs for example ground custodial supplies and services toilet paper Pap towels cleaning products um pesticides and sprays all of those things we need to be able to create safe and clean environments for our kids alarms again a safety item um we pay for the services so that those things will sound off when someone tries to get into our property and it saves us $57,000 saves us millions of dollars of what potential damage vandals and um people who want to theve um would would cause audit is legally required we're required by the state to do audits on our books our copers we um have the copy our contracts for each of

073our schools so they can provide those supplemental instructional materials for our kids insurance is a large amount I'm not sure if everybody's aware of how much we pay for insurance but we do Ure a student population of 4,000 kids almost um and you know 600 staff members give or take um so it is quite costly to be able to provide Insurance our legal fees this is a again actual and incumbrances we have not spent $96,000 um depending on how the rest of the year goes if possible we'll be able to reduce this as we get to the end of the budget phone and in um internet um we are working to lower phone cost our director of it Mr gangler is working on ways to cut out um unused um hard lines um utilizing our

074Voiceover IP system and a few other products in program so that we can uh overtime reduce this cost um we spend a lot of money on software licenses um Aries parent Square our voiceover internet our web filter Google um smart find all of those go into the systems that help support our kids and our staff and then the big one that stands out if you hadn't noticed is the utilities even though we have solar we still have a lot of electrical consumption so we spend almost $1.4 million on our utilities including watering The Lawns so that we have great surfaces for our kids to play on um for our young kids and for our athletes um at the secondary level um consultant contracts partial tax real estate um and a few other um groups that

075um do some of the work that we that we talked about within the software licensing is making sure our technology systems work all the time does and membership we have Calpers we have um csba and we have AXA um and then last ly I just put whatever was remaining because it was a small amount into other supplies and services and that's how we get up to our 2.65 um within our unrestricted general fund budget for the district office this graphic I include um each time I do this just as a visual reference to see how the kind of the bulk of where our funds go you'll notice that salaries and benefits make up the Lion Share of how we U spend our funds for the district district and then services and contracts is quite large

076um but there are a lot of services that we have to do especially in the the troubling time of finding um qualified staff and special education we do reply on contractors to meet our student IEP needs and so that that number is included in there so it's not reflected in in salaries and benefits because they're not our employees but they are performing the same roles as our employees because of a shortage of Staff members multi-year projections um I split this um this time into two different things I wanted to first start with unrestricted and then I wanted to look at the combined unrestricted and restricted so this first chart is only unrestricted um and the key in both of these charts and we'll talk about is that 3% Reserve that's on the second to last

077line we are required to maintain a minimum of a 3% Reserve um and that figure for this year is about $1.86 million so when we look all the way starting back from the top and going down our total revenues for unrestricted only um is over $48 million our expenditures are 36 our contributions which is to our special education program because it is an unfunded mandate the state and the federal government do not provide enough money for us to run our special education program as it is needed so we make contributions from the general fund um we see that we will have a surplus this year and mind you this Surplus is only possible right now in unrestricted because of the pending um reductions that we are making again that 2.3 million almost of reductions has

078allowed us to see a small Surplus um this year of almost $900,000 so how do how does that work we had a starting balance of $5.3 million beginning in July that surplus of $800 almost $900,000 gets added into our ending balance so we have a 6.1 ending balance projected for June 30th of that 6.1 we have 1.86 million that is um required for our 3% reserve it leaves us with about a $4.3 million unassigned balance there overall we are looking at just short of 10% of overall Reserve that's our required plan are unassigned that is an increase from what we had for first interim for first interim we were looking at about 99.2% most of that increase is that we um did not fill the director 2 of special education so that was able to

079save us some funds there and also um we were able to save the materials and Supply so it helped lower some of the our expenditures and caused that first interm Reserve was at 9 excuse me the second inter is now at 9.89 but the first interim is 9.24 as you look at those out years we're going to see our second interim Reserve um stay steady next year at 9.85 and then reduce down to 8% and mind you this does not include any potential raises for mea CSEA management or classified in confidential this is as is expected expenditures for this year as it projects out over the next two looking at the fund balances for next year and the following year you will see that we will be having we will be conducting deficit spending so

080we'll be short about $200,000 next year and we'll be short a little over a million dollars in 2526 so let's put these together um there is if you haven't noticed there are a couple errors on this slide um the last line should say second interim Reserve percentage and I'll make that adjustment when we post it on the website and the other one and I don't know how it was different but the required 3% has got a different um number amount than the previous Slide the previous slide is correct so where it says 1. 1814 million it should be 1.86 in the next column where it says 1.86 it should be 1. 812 and then the last column for required Reserve should be 1.83 and I'll make all those adjustments and post it to the website

081for um for everyone to see um what this shows you if you look at the red color and the middle of their excess deficiency is that we as a whole when you put together both unrestricted dollars and restricted dollars are going to be see this deficit spending this year of 1.76 million next year 2.8 and then the last year of 1.8 million and that is to be expected remember that our unrestricted or excuse me our restricted dollars many of them one-time funds we are supposed to spend them down because we have a set amount of time before they expire so you will see deficit spending over the next couple of years right now we are going to be finishing off Esser 3 which will be done in September of this year then we'll have the

082Arts music instruction materials block grant that's um concludes I think in June of 2026 and then we have the um learning recovery block grant that will expire afterwards so as we get through those dollars you will continue to see deficit spending in the restricted side until we balance out and that's why I wanted to separate those two because the most concerning is our unrestricted deficit spending we want to do what we can to avoid um that um that scenario as we look to our fund balances um we've spent all our time really in fund1 our general fund this is how our other funds um shape out with ending projected balances uh fund eight is our essentially our ASB accounts with $277,000 in it adult education fund 11 with almost 1.5 um we continue to see

083our fund 13 our cafeteria um be profitable um we will be looking on ways to invest um that Surplus um into different equipment and materials um and hopefully eventually adding on to increased meal cost possibly if it works out that'll be able to give our kids even uh better nutritional options um fund 14 we have only $30,000 remaining uh remember that the board chose to no longer contribute to fund 14 as a way to reduce some of the other reductions that we had to make and so we were only have $30,000 left in there um opab our post employment benefits 75,000 our building fund fund 21 we are just finishing up measure R so John sweat is is done it's going through warranty work right now and Morel Park is going to start um ticking

084up faster and faster they've already got um the outer shells for the new admin the Kinder and the kitchen going on campus if you've had an opportunity to drive by there you're going to see a few changes and then when the summer hits they're going to be working feverishly to get that done so it's completed before kids and staff come back in the fall um but the result of all of that which is good news is that we've almost depleted our bonds um funds because of that 25 is their developer fees we have $227,000 in there fun 35 we've seen an addition of almost $2.5 million that is the state's um contribution to US based on the AHS pool and we have John project and Los hunus in the hopper with the state for possible

085funding as well so we may see that um balance increase even more um for spending we are using it on some of our summer projects and other work which we've described in the past before I think the most notable right now is the um AHS softball field where we are in plans to replace the the grass and dirt Turf with field Turf there and our expected um completion date should be sometime this fall for that project um lot of lot of work to do in the meantime but that's our hope to get it done um by then um fund 40 um we are already planning on using um fund 40 for our Junior High School Furniture so we'll be replacing ing all the furniture for our kids and for our staff to have new desks

086and chairs there 51 is our bond interest it is for the repayment of those bonds that we use for construction um so that is not liquid cash for us to use that is so that we pay off um the bonds that the uh the generous folks of Martinez have agreed to in the past and lastly our donation account has $265,000 approximately because we have so we've talked so much about restricted versus unrestricted I added this slide in here and so that's why we're probably seeing an extended second interim um report that you may not be used to um but I wanted to look at balances for our restricted funds and I'll tell you which one of those are one time as we get through them our expanded learning opportunity program it's our after school program

087which has been doing quite well in servicing our families and providing them great opportunities for enrichment um we have a balance of 54,000 this is an ongoing program so we receive funding each year educator Effectiveness um is a one-time fund and we are currently using that those dollars to fund our tosas um for Math and for ELA and we have approximately 313,000 left for it Lottery is ongoing with half a million dollars in it mostly used for our curriculum budget um Amy and her team use it to make sure that all the curriculum is there and ready to go our yearly subscriptions um and then any possible new adoptions can come out of these funds um anti-bias is part of uda's work and you've seen presentations on that grant that she received a couple years

088ago um 6762 Arts music instruction materials block grant 1.2 million right now it's um being reserved for um curriculum adoptions um Arts and Music is a new one that's our prop 28 that came through we are using some of those funds currently this year we have three years um to spend um that the first Year's allocation of those funds um we will be inserting in our prop 28 money into the school sites um school plans and they'll be able to budget for that as they complete the needs assessment process that director Amy and spoke about earlier tonight um Child Nutrition services staff training we're starting to wear down those funds just $110,000 left our classified employee block grant small amounts a through G recovery that will be gone after this summer we're using it for

089credit recovery and so that will be completed um probably by July and that is a one-time fund our ELO program PA professionals we've been using that for our bilingual AIDS and that will expire this year learning recovery block we are holding that for our mtss counseling part of the board's decision was to prioritize mtss mental health counseling and so we'll be using those funds until they expire for that purpose um and then a few other ones here are um ongoing major maintenance count 268 and then other restricted which is our donations our scholarships so when we look at our restricted funds budget we are projecting to have $5 million left and most of that we are going to have to spend down over the next years again getting back to the idea that deficit spending

090for restricted dollars is a good thing because we're utilizing all those funds we will eventually get to the point with our cost that we won't want to be doing that anymore but with this onetime funds we need to use them all as best we can looking ahead and trying to summarize this presentation we are up against a few different factors that are concerning to us and things that we just have to plan through of that is you know what is going to be our lcff funding and what is the cola really going to be when we get to May Revis um where most analysts are projecting instead of even a 76 that it may be lowered down to zero um the governor could choose to not give any Cola at all they could choose to

091do deficit they could choose to do deferrals there's lots of options that are on the table right now we know that we're working with declining funded Ada which isn't anything that we can deal with at this point in time even if we were to raise our attendance rates our enrollment dramatically we would still be um kind of dealing with funded Ada um expiring one-time funds which you saw a little bit there we are spending them down we are using using them to fund um staff members that eventually will have to find places for them or potentially look at reductions again um our parcel tax um when we put this on we didn't know what was going on right now parcel tax is the great news um has it been certified yet still not certified but

092it's trending at 74% there are 44,500 ballots left to count they will know on Wednesday how many of those will be left they'll post the results of the ones that they have count counted of the 45 or 44,000 on Friday at 400 p.m. and the rest will be counted the week after so it's going to take a couple more weeks till certification um I wouldn't believe it so I called them myself that's the news I got um then I don't like a couple of the websites I looked at because they were projecting and and did that so right now it's not certified we'll have to wait officially for that but um cautious happiness cautious optimism something cautious all right U special education spending is increasing um just the reality of what it takes to run

093a successful special education program requires additional funds and we're seeing that grow each and every year and so that is a factor in how we look at our ongoing Financial Health Health and Welfare increases and then also collective bargaining um we as you know have not settled with any of our U bargaining units and so that will have an impact on the budget however that turns out overall despite the challenges that we are facing we are projecting that we will have a positive certification and so we will be um you know presenting that to the county and and within a few months we hope to get a letter for them that says they agree with um with that finding each time I bring a budget report to this board I try to give you a

094little bit of a a calendar um information and show you what you have coming next so tonight is the second interim um and that's in March uh May revise isn't in there but it should be coming up here pretty quickly I know it's only March but it it's around the corner especially as spring break and other things start getting and the weather turns nice it moves along fast we'll be looking at preparing the budget next and we'll be presenting that to the board in June along with the elcap budget so the overall budget and elcap together if necessary we'll do a 45 day revise in August and that's only if there's significant changes in the budget um after we adopted in June um un audited uals in September that's when we'll close out the year

095and look at exactly what we spent for this current fiscal and then we start again with the first inter for 2425 so we've covered a lot of ground tonight and if you have any questions I am happy to do my best to answer them for you I have questions um and and I know you already explained this can you say one more time what the fund 35 the count school facilities fund what that money is used for um we can use that for any construction projects so they are capital projects of you know of of great size what happens is um when we were using the bond money to build schools we didn't wait for the state to give us a portion to support us because each year the state allocates certain amounts of dollars

096for construction projects so we would progress through and we would build Los we built John we've done all these projects we submit all the paperwork for the states um to contribute to that but it takes a long time so it might take a year or two years or so to get those dollars back so now we're starting to see those dollars come to us after we've completed the projects what we can do is we look at um what are our needs still that exist in our facility master plan that this board approved and updated I believe in 2022 2020 and now we can start looking to apply those funds um and we've got a whole Litany of those for summer projects that we're doing but we will not spend down all of that balance okay

097thank you um okay so I'm gonna I'm going to try to kind of how I'm understanding like slides three through 7 about the cola and the lcff and I'm glad you said it's complicated because it is really complicated um would it be fair if I described it as the state has been paying us for more students than we actually have because of covid but they're going to start to gradually bring it back to actually paying for the students we have so even though there's a cost of living adjustment after the three years we are still going to be receiving less money from the state is that a fair way to summarize it I honestly I wish I'd have said that way in the presentation so thank you for providing I know it's really hard for

098people to understand and um and that's why I I know I know you try really hard and I try really hard too um so I'm glad I got it right thank you and I part of the length of the slides was maybe one slide will work and so if I do six slides I get maybe six different people who will be able to kind of latch on to the information well I thought especially slide number eight was very helpful where you you just gave the the kind of simplified example of the 20 students $100 per student um we could theoretically like do that slide with the actual numbers right okay yeah where it again where it gets complicated is the package of students so you have multiple grade levels multiple sizes and then you know

099what are the ma Max class size so to overly complicate it I think that's what it would do and that's why we're trying to simplify this as much as possible yeah I think I think that slide number eight is super um super helpful for people to understand it helped me um going back to the reserve which I'm looking for the slide okay I think it's slide number 14 um where you have the multi-year projections the um so we're saying at the end of the third year which is the end of 2025 2026 if we didn't change anything of what we're doing today so no salary increases or adding any anybody or anything like that we would have an 8% Reserve correct that's correct however we are we are we are required by law to have

100at least their 3% Reserve right yes okay so any changes we we're going to make in the next three years have to fall in that 5% correct okay all right thank you that those are the I think those are all my questions and just to point out the contributions in 2526 oh you know what that needs to be corrected so that before you put it up contributions okay I'm glad you I'm glad you brought un of course you know something that I don't know no um I I I think there was a different version um I think and unfortunately I put a few of these versions together and this was the wrong one um I I'm glad you brought that up because I did have a question about that but I'm not sure to which

101slide it was it's on 14 is it on um no where was the slide that it showed the stirs and the purrs that's the assumptions so it should be like slide three I just wanted to because one of them was sort of remaining constant that the district was going to have to put 19% and then the other one was increasing um can you thank thank you okay um so on slide number three so um what what are the differ what's the difference between sturs and purs and why if you know is one increasing and one isn't so the stirs is the state teachers retirement system and it's just for certificated employees um the state actually contributes more than that 19% so we receive what we call s on behalf and that's the state giving additional

102funds for us to be able to pay the offset of what's necessary to maintain um that retirement system funding so the 19% is just our contribution to that um pers sets its own rates based on an Actuarial study that determines how much funding they need in order to continue to maintain their program for future years and so they set that based on a lot of different factors what happens each year is that they communicate that to us and we use the school Services dart board which kind of um synthesizes all that information and puts these factors together for us to use okay so but it is significant that we have to pay more and more out of the district funds to be able to fund um you know the retirement system program and the employees

103themselves do contribute each month um to both s Anders as well and so stirs is the um certificate employees and and the ERS is the pension for all other employees yeah for all of our classified employees including classified management um yes okay all right okay thank you uh and then just to give you corrected um 11.8 is what that should be for the multi-year contribution for 2526 on side 14 correct okay all right thanks okay so yeah we were missing zero after the eight so it should be 11,880 okay any any other questions I just had a question about the Health and Welfare increase um 133% 23 24 and then it goes to 5% and 5% is that directly related to the purs no this is for this is just for our Health and Welfare

104cost um the average cost of Kaiser so it's an anticipated cost change um depending on what they um what are it's not a Consortium it's a yeah it's it's a it's a program it's a essentially a Consortium that that we pay for Health and Welfare um cost out of so they will communicate what those rate changes may be per provider so if Blue Cross um changes the rates they'll let us know Kaiser uh and so forth um and to this date we don't have anything new other than this because we just changed over January and we won't get the new rates until just before January but in previous years prior to the pandemic we used to budget a 3% increase for every year and that usually covered it there were one or two years that

105went up maybe to a five but since uh the pandemic it's been going up so much we're just we're hoping that it stabilizes and we're doing five just in case I we don't know what it's going to be so but the 13% we that's accurate yes that's already occurred because um for us we do fiscal year July to June but for our medical we do January to January we do calendar year so we know we know in the fall what that's going to be and then the rate changes starting in January one each year okay and there have been years where these costs go down but not this year and probably not the next couple okay thank you okay any public comment no okay um is this a are we taking we're taking action on

106this okay okay do I have a motion I will I'll move to um adopt the 2023 2024 second inter term report I second it okay all those in favor I I okay motion passes um thank you Andy if I didn't say that already we don't need number 18 uh for additional public comments so our last agenda item is comments from the superintendent board and future agenda items um Helen would you like to start um I just want to thank our ed services department for um what I what I believe to be a successful um professional development day Amy had and Janelle um put their heads together using the um input from previous professional development days and Amy created this this uh it felt like I was at a professional Workshop the way that they uh

107put it out so you could every teacher could choose for different sessions and you made your own agenda and then when you got to the classroom you signed in with a QR code and they would only take so many in each session or you have to overload to another but there were sessions that covered um all um areas of teaching and learning and social emotional health and I just want to thank everybody who was involved Amber as well was there um putting this together because I think I think it was um it was it was a great event so thank you great um I just wanted to say thank you um and congratulations again to everyone at the Martinez junior high for being a caler and distinguished school and congratulations and thank you to our

108teacher of the year Sam gross um and thank you to everybody that supported measure C and I know so many of us worked hard to make that happen whether it was um knocking on doors or texting or going to the farmers market and passing out leaflets so um and thank you to the community for voting our um what did we call it our cautious optimism that that will pass yeah I just want to say also um thank you to the community for um hoping that passes yes um looks like it will for sure um also I just wanted to say that I went to the um Tim Brer track and field event that we were going to have speakers out today but they didn't come um but it was just a very well-run um event

109and a lot of uh coaches from other teams that came because it's a lot of different school districts were very impressed with the way it was run with um parents actually doing the measuring um so there was no chance you know less chance of error but also the students just raking when they did the long jump and the triple jump and things like that um and also um it was funny because um I was there the whole time and I saw the custodian Charlene I believe was her name and I finally went up to her and asked her her name but she was so busy walking back and forth CU that track is very high up there and she had these little garbage bags in her hand and she was constantly moving and I was

110just really impressed that she was just smiling and in good spirits and I just wanted to say thank you to her for doing a great job also and then the coaches of course um it was a it was a great event kids had a lot of fun so two things for me um Ramadan started yesterday and I remember when I worked at Wilder middle school and berly um my supervisor would say you can't go into that room during lunch and I didn't understand why until I saw two of my students praying at lunch so I just want to uh make our administrators or teachers conscious of the fact that we may have students that practice Islam and they may need somewhere to pray during lunch so if you can make space available for them in

111honor of Ramadan that would be great um I didn't understand that unfortunately until I saw it with my own eyes and it is very important religious holiday for the Islamic community um and then the second thing my son Nico at morelo Park said that the salads are the best salads in the world and that the rice and the sweet and sour chicken is the best Foodies ever eaten also and he wants to ask the cafeteria sta staff to make it as often as possible for him so thank you and on that positive note we will adjourn the meeting thank you everybody