Mt. Diablo USD Board Meeting 6/11/2025 Part 2

001Good evening everyone. I'd like to reconvene the board of education for the Mount Diablo Unified School District meeting for uh June 11th, 2025. Uh the year is almost halfway over. Isn't it amazing? And we've s had some wonderful graduations. Uh for the first um item is I will read 6.1 the land acknowledgement. We recognize the Mount Diablo Unified School District sits on the territory of the confederated villages of the Lassan, the ancestral and unseated land of the Bay Miwok and the Northern Yokut, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Contraosta County. As members of the Mount Diablo Unified School District community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we learn, but also we recognize that the land we inhabit and learn on is the ancestral

002land of these people who are alive and flourishing members of the Mount Diablo Unified School District and broader Bay Area communities today. Would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. So, we're on item 6.3, review and potential approval of minutes for regular board meeting held on May 14th. I move I move that we approve the minutes for the regular board meeting held May 14th. Second. We have a motion by trustee and Zi with a second by trustee McDougall. Is are there further comments? Hearing none. Um Trusty Ooa, how do you vote? Yes. So the motion is adopted on a 500 vote uh with support

003of trustee ooa. Has um we have we already made the announcement about translation services being available. Right. Okay. Thank you. Um the next item 6.4 Four is the review and a potential approval of the m of the agenda. No changes. No changes. Does anyone want to make changes? I will make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Second. So, uh, for item 6.4, trustee Mason has made the motion. Trustee count has made the second. There any further discussion? Trusty OOA, how do you vote? Yes, we have Trusty Mason and Trusty, Are you stuck? Your computer's frozen. Okay, the gremlins are with us tonight. Um, the motion to approve the agenda is adopted on a 5000 vote with uh support from Trusty Ooa. Okay. Now is my opportunity to report out the action taken in

004close session for item 7.1, which was negotiations. The board received information for item uh 7.2. There was no action. For item 7.3, there were two items. The board met in close session with legal counsel to discuss a matter of existing litigation pursuant to government code 54956.9 by a vote of 5 to zero in the matter of JD at all versus Mount Diablo Unified School District US District Court ND California case number 324 CB0000908. The board approved an amendment to a settlement agreement up to the stipulated amount and according to the settlement terms. The second item under 7.3, the board met in close session with legal counsel to discuss a matter of existing litigation pursuant to government code 54956.9 by a vote of 5 to zero in the matter of Munhal versus Mount Diablo Unified School

005District, Department of Industrial Relations, state case number WCM812190. The board approved a settlement agreement according to the settlement terms. We're moving on to item 7.4 and there is nothing to report out on that particular agenda item. 7.5 um is the public employee employ employee performance evaluation and I want to thank the board members for participating in the valuation of our superintendent and general counsel. Both evaluations have been completed by the board of education that of the general counsel and the superintendent. I'm pleased to report the general counsel Suzanne starts Kim's proactive mindset, legal knowledge, communication, and organal organizational skills and dedication to public education have exceeded expectations and contributed significantly to the overall stability of the progress of the district. Superintendent Dr. Clark has done exceptional work in meeting the needs of our students and

006communities we serve, increasing professional development, advancing parent engagement to parent partnerships, and advancing student attendance and achievement while students feel supported and academically challenged. His methodical leadership and visibility have put Mount Diablo Unified School District in the spotlight, has exposed the district to new initiatives and has increased the number of qualified employee applicants. He has also se exceeded exp expectations and we are very pleased to have both of these employees on our team. Thank you very much. Okay. All right. That was exciting. Uh, we will now move on to public comment. The public may address the board of education regarding any item that's not on the agenda. Public comment will also be allowed on each specific agenda item prior to board action. Uh, speakers may submit a card to the board secretary. The board president

007will call each speaker to the podium as appropriate. These presentations are limited to three minutes each or a total of 30 minutes for all speakers or the time limit may be shortened. Are we okay? If there are multiple speakers on any one subject, the public comment period may be moved to the end of the meeting. Speakers are not allowed to yield their time. Okay, great. So, we look forward to your comments. The first speaker is Alisa Steckle. Hello. Um, adjust the button on the mic. There you go. And turn it on. Turn it on. Press the red arm. Okay, good. Hello again. Okay. Um, we adult education instructors want to really thank you again for your support in agreeing to recognize us in terms of our admission to MEDA. We look forward to a mutually

008beneficial collaboration working together for our community. I thank you for the opportunity to speak again and um and am now speaking as one of about 27 ESL teachers in our program. As you may know, we have requested through MEDA information concerning our budget due to what we think is past misinformation and miscommunication from our administration. Something you might not know is that in August of 2024, our director told ESL instructors that we would receive a raise by the end of December and that if it didn't happen then, it would happen in 2025 and that it would be retroactive. Many of us, including some of us sitting here, were at the meeting where this was stated. In addition, several instructors were told things like, "It's coming. Don't worry about it. It just takes time." Um the

009delay was even blamed on a um on someone in HR who she said had left which supposedly cleared the way for us to get these raises. Obviously that didn't happen and that's part of what brings us here. So I'd just like to say a couple more things. First, based on WEOA funding data and a history of funds returned unspent, we believe that it is not exactly correct that there was no budget available for ESL summer school. The second thing I'd like to say is that based on data from our Cape and WEOA funding, we contend that there is that there are sufficient funds to continue our really robust fall schedule in ESL as we have in the past. What we've been hearing from several sources is that if teacher salaries are raised uh in the

010fall, then ESL positions will have to be cut and classes reduced. Now, there may be some truth to that, granted, but maybe instead of firing teachers as the first resort, the administration should look at other ways to cut costs that don't directly affect students. For example, we have one director, an assistant director, and two vice principles. Most adult schools in the area don't have as many administrators, and maybe our agency doesn't need as many either. Um, I would like to say that many teachers have questioned um whether the cancellation of summer school and the complete lack of preparation for the fall in terms of teachers and students um is a direct result of our organizing. But in summary, I just want to say that we respectfully request an immediate pause on cutbacks in the ESL

011family literacy program until an audit or full budget review is completed by an independent party. Our documentation that I'm going to give you provides important information to support our request. Thank you. Thank you very much. The next speaker is Marin Anton. Marin Anton. Did I mispronounce your name? Yeah. Marin. Marin. Yes. Thank you. Dear Dr. Clark and um school board members, good evening. I'm reading this letter as um a part-time ESL teacher from Montablo Adult Education received this letter at the end of the term in June 2025 from one of her students. He used Google Translate to clean up some of the grammar because he wanted to make sure he expressed himself well. This was not a homework assignment. This was given to her on the last day of class as a thank you letter.

012This letter illustrates the impact that ESL teachers can make in the community. She asked that this letter be shared with you. So, dear Miss Vogles, as this semester comes to a close, I want to thank you for everything you have done for me and my classmates. Not only did I learn many English skills from your class, but I also learned a great deal about American culture. More importantly, I was inspired by the sense of responsibility, mutual help, inclusiveness, and fraternity that I felt from your words and actions. I believe it is Americans like you who together build the true American spirit. And this spirit not only makes America strong, but also makes it lovely. In this dark and uncertain era, the enthusiastic dedication of you and your colleagues has brought such a touch of warmth

013to people, lighting a spark of hope on the path for those who dare to dream. We are deeply grateful to you. Your grace, kindness, and generosity will remain etched in our wanest memories. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Tatiana Dutra Emilo. Good evening board members. I'm going to write a letter sent by one of our colleagues was was unable I'm just going to repeat. Um, I'm going to write I'm going to uh read a letter sent by one of our colleagues who was unable to come um tonight. Dear uh Montiablo Unified School District board members, I want to thank you for recognizing the petition of the friends of Mount Diablo Adult Education ESL teachers to become part of the MEA union. I appreciate your recognition of our plea. Nonetheless, the struggles of

014teachers continue into the summer. Last week, we finished the spring semester. My students are looking forward to their next ESL class in the fall. And hopefully, they will be able to continue their language studies then, even though the school's administration has not provided any information about classes for next school year. Students and teachers alike do not understand this secrecy. In addition, our school's administration decided to cancel summer school, and I emphasize cancel summer school this year, which adversely affects our students and teachers. Our students are unable to learn English. We teachers do not earn those meager wages that we could count on in the past. As far as my qualifications, I'm a part-time ESL instructor at Loma Vista Dot Center. I hold a master's degree in education and have multiple teaching credentials. With this in

015mind, you may ask why does she teach at Luma Vista Adult Center? The main reason is that I live in this community and I want to contribute to it. In addition, most of my students live and work in this community where they actively participate in the local economy and community. Sometimes I even run into my students as I conduct my everyday activities. I find it important that individuals contribute to their communities. In this letter, I want to emphasize how important it is that LMA visa adult center continue to provide classes to students who need to learn English and other um work skills. Our community will be hard hit if Lama Vista Adult Center cancels classes and reduces the number of classes in the future. Thank you for listening. Respectfully, Elizabeth Bognar, ESL instructor at LMA

016Vista Center. Thank you. Thank you. The next speaker is Amanda Sakat and I apologize if I mispronounced it again, Amanda. And also Amanda is a uh Pleasant Hill City Council member. So, welcome. That's right. I am speaking in my capacity as a Monteo adult education instructor today. Um so uh like the previous speakers, I'd like to thank the superintendent and the board for supporting our um petition to uh join media. Um we look forward to securing a living wage for our teachers. Um we continue to be disappointed that summer school is not being offered as it has every year in the past decade except for the one COVID year. Um, I know having a summer program for our preschool students, some who've experienced trauma in their home country and have limited English skills, helps them

017be successful in TK or kindergarten. Um, I also want to express my concern that the administration um at Mount Diablo Adult Ed has not sent out a fall query to teachers asking if they would like a fall assignment and if so, what levels and times they're interested in teaching. I've worked here since 2012 and this has been done every single other year I've worked here. Um instead the vice principal who has told us we're looking at the budget and we might be able to let you know midsummer. Um we've heard from registration staff that there's a plan to reduce the number of teachers and to pack students into the classroom which would be detrimental to students learning and also potentially violate the fire code. Um, with one administrator retiring and another leaving for a new

018job, um, now would be a great time to reduce administrative costs. Despite what you might hear, the ASL program is actually a money maker for adult education. We receive payment points from the costes in civics assessments that our students take. Um, I'd asked the board and the administration to take a hard look at the budget and where money was spent and to investigate if grant money from the state was ever returned unspent. Thank you uh going forward for making sure the adult education budget is well managed and that our teachers are not retaliated against for joining a union. Thank you. The next speaker is Angel Bazison Malera. Thank you, Miss Mayo. Good evening, uh, board members, uh, Superintendent Mr. Clark. So good to be back here again. And I know it's been a couple of

019weeks, months maybe, but I just wanted to come and recently came down from Sacramento, but also I wanted to share uh my grief, my gratitude, my thanks for all of the hard work that everyone has helped me throughout my educational journey here in this district. But most of all, I wanted to give back to everyone here in MDUSD because I'm thinking of becoming a special education teacher um for MDUSD. Yes. Yeah. And the first thing that I wanted to start with is that because um I'm going to start once I become a special ed teacher in MUSD, the first school that I wanted to work with is Bridge. And the first thing that I wanted to, you know, make this um a a great um goal for me is that I want to start a

020special program for kids for students who are blind, visually impaired, autistic blind and death blind. So it's let me explain an example. 50% of every of students here in this state are blind, visually impaired or death blind. Some in particular graduate and move on to other schools or programs, but bridge is something in particular in the middle that kind of miss kind of gets kind of miss out of place here. So, what I'm proposing is that every student in in this district, no matter if they're blind or deaf or visually impaired, they should receive like more support and services because sometimes students have a hard time, you know, you know, getting like, you know, um, included because, you know, blindness is an invisible disability that we all need to be aware. And one of the

021most important things is that we need more O andM instructors out there. We need more vision specialists and we need more of like any any kind of like blind and services. We need like to add like a blind and services department here in our district. that would speak that would like kind of close the gap between these between these kinds of issues because because let me let me and I'm sorry I'm going to lose a little bit more time but let me just focus here. Blindness is is is not just invisible disability but sometimes people need to learn about it with sports and programs and events with the specialed community around here. So that's why I'm thinking of starting a specialized program at Bridge for kids who are blind and visually impaired. And I would

022think I would call it the shadow light program. And I feel like every student here in this district will benefit from the ways that our students deserve better. I think so too. Right. Thank you. The next speaker is Pablo Benvete. Welcome. Good evening board members. My name is Pablo Bene and I'm a council member here in the city of Conquered. But I'm not coming here as a council member today. I come to you as a father with a future Montablo Unified School District student and as I'm as a proud member of the LGBTQ plus community. I'm here because I was deeply troubled by the comments made at your May 14th meeting. Comments that rather comments that rather than uplift our students sought to divide our community undermine our progress we work so hard to make.

023This issue is deeply personal to me. Like every parent, I want my child to grow up in schools that are safe, welcoming, and inclusive. Schools where all students, regardless of how they identify, are treated with dignity and respect. That should be that should never be up for debate. We live in a district that is beautifully diverse. And yet, even here, we're seeing attempts to inject harmful rhetoric into our public schools. Rhetoric that marginalizes our vulnerable students and ignores the very real separation that must exist between personal beliefs and public education. Let me be clear, everyone has the right to speak their truth. But when those views cross into intolerance, when they are seek to diminish or erase others, they must be called out for what they are. The board has a responsibility to protect all

024students, especially those who are most at risk. That means not just quietly standing by, but publicly reaffirming your commitment to equity, inclusion, and empathy. I've lived in conquered for most of my life. I know our community and I know that the comments made last month do not reflect who we are or what we stand for. So, I'm asking you, please continue to stand firmly on the side of progress. Continue to create spaces where every student, every family feels safe and seen, and don't let hate go unchallenged. not in our schools and not in our name. Thank you for your leadership and for standing with the LGBTQ plus students and families across our district. It truly matters. Thank you so much. Thank you. The next speaker is Mark Joffrey. Welcome, Mr. Joffy. Good evening board. My

025name is Mark Joffy. I'm the president of the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association. Uh I read with great concern the article in this morning's East Bay Times and the grand jury report concerning the status of the Measure J Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. Uh not maintaining this committee uh puts you potentially in violation. This is on the agenda later. Would you like to wait until uh item 15.27? My reading of that agenda was that was to give appreciation to the departing members. I want to talk about the future of the um of the of the of the committee. So I don't think it's Germaine. Okay, please proceed. Thanks. So um uh as I said there was a article in the newspaper this morning and there was a grand jury report earlier in the in the week. uh

026expressing concerns about the maintenance of the Measure J Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. Uh not maintaining this committee potentially places the district in violation of state law. Um it'll be more difficult for the uh uh board to put new bond measures on the ballot because people will have questions about how existing bond money is being uh spent. I'd also note that there's no annual report for the year 2023 2024 for the measure J oversight committee currently posted on your website. So given that uh I have notified Melanie that I volunteer to be on uh the committee and I hope others will will step up as well and we can fill this committee up and provide the oversight that taxpayers in this community deserve. Thank you very much. Thank you. So, we're ready to move on to

027um communications from district organizations. Do we have any cards? All right. Thank you. Um district recognitions and resolutions, approval of and appointment of the student board member for 2025 26 school year. Dr. Clark. Oh, no. I see a dashing young man in the audience there who I'm going to ask to uh to stand please so I can embarrass him a little bit. So um so uh ladies and gentlemen I'm so proud to introduce to you Allan Barrera Orana Oriana. Yes. He will be a senior at conquered high school in the 2526 school year. Allan has held a number of leadership positions and has been involved in many extracurricular and community activities. Of note, he is an active member of the Conquered High School Model UN and leak crew. In his letter of recommendation, um it

028stated in part, Allen's academic achievements speak for themselves. With an impressive 4.13 GPA, he consistently demonstrates a strong commitment to his education while excelling in a rigorous course load. Beyond the classroom, Allan is a natural leader and an active contributor to our school community. He serves as a link crew leader, providing guidance and mentorship to 9th grade students, ensuring they feel supported and welcomed as they transition into high school. Allan has shown exceptional organizational skills and a genuine passion for fostering a positive school environment. In closing, Allan wrote in his application, "I see myself as a bridge, someone who can connect students voices with district leadership and push for equitable opportunities for all. Allen is focused on a quality education where everyone can learn safely and engagingly and one that promotes students having a successful

029pathway to their future. We are excited to recommend Allen as our 2526 student board member. And if this board approves it, Allan will be given his oath of office at the August 13th board meeting. Ladies and gentlemen, I leave this um presenta I leave this uh resolution in the hands of the board. I move to approve this appointment of the student board member of the 2025 2020 school school year 2026 school year. I will second that. There's been a motion by trustee ooa with a second by trustee count regarding the appointment of Alan Barrera or Rayana as our next student board member. Uh further discussion trustee AOA how do you vote? Of course. All right, that motion is adopted. Alan, will you come up to the vote in here? I must, excuse me, I must

030state the outcome of the vote. It's a 500 Z vote. Otherwise, it's not official. Uh, so please proceed. So, Alan, I just want to say um we're a little old school here in Mount Diablo. So, I'm going to give you this notebook. Now, I'm sure you probably have some AI notetaker that like lives in your glasses or something, but I'm going to give you I'm gonna give you this book for you to take notes, but it's in it's embedded with our our logo and has a nice pen, and this is for you to take the wonderful notes at the board meeting. So, let me present that to you before you before you give uh comments. Thank you. esteemed board members and superintendent Clark, it is a true honor to stand before you today as a

031newly selected student board representative for the upcoming year. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to represent the voices of all students across the Mount Diablo Unified School District. My goal is to ensure that every student feels seen, heard, and supported so that each one has an equal opportunity to thrive, to build a strong foundation of knowledge, and to grow into the best version of themselves each day. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to my parents for their unwavering support and the sacrifices they've made that allow me to be here today. I'm also incredibly grateful to my counselors, Mrs. Mrs. Hindell, Miss Bergam, for encouraging me to apply and for being a source of consistent inspiration. Lastly, I want to thank my Link Crew teachers, Mr. Smith and Miss Yaya, for helping me

032find and strengthen my voice and for showing me the power that we each hold to positively impact others through our words and actions. I am also grateful to my principal, Miss McKinnon, for her support and for being here today. Thank you. Welcome to the team, Alan. I want to just want to officially welcome you to the team. Um, you and I will meet when right when school starts. I'll meet with you and your parents to kind of just talk about the um just talk about the lovely things that you get to be exposed to serving serving on this board. And um and again, I want you to enjoy your summer. And um also uh trustee outgoing trustee AchoA is always available and we can definitely um pair you up with with her contact information so

033that um if you if you want to ask her, you know, any questions or whatnot about what to expect, then you can do that. But we want to welcome you. I hope that hopefully you rest up over this summer or your next year and we're just honored to have you serve on this board. Thank you very much. Thank you. You're not going to be able to leave in next year when this happens. So if you got a chance, leave now. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mom. Okay. The next item is 10.1. Uh I'm sorry, 11.1. Um we're going or to public employee appointments. Dr. Clark. Yes. So um we have several public employee appointments tonight and it's it's very exciting. And so to kick us off we have uh Miss Kim Bayana with our first one

03411.1. All right. Good evening Dr. Clark, Madame President, board of trustees. It is with a great enthusiasm that the human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval for the appointment of Ryan Sheehy as the chief of human resources. Ryan began his career in MDUSD in 2006 as a physical education teacher. After five years in this role, he left the district for five years before returning as vice principal at Conquered High School. Subsequently, Ryan has was appointed principal at Highlands Elementary School where he served for another five years prior to his position as executive director of human resources and risk management. Throughout his career, Ryan has taught all grade levels and has also been an adjunct professor at St. Mary's College of California. Ryan holds a bachelor's degree in kinesiology and a

035master's degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in education. Ryan has been married to his wife Barbara for 19 years and they have four children who attend the schools in Mount Aba Unified School District. Over the past four years, Ryan has served with distinction in our human resources department and progressively steadily through increasing levels of responsibility. He has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to our district's core mission, ensuring students are at the center of every decision we make. With that, I leave the appointment in the hands of the board. Madame Chair, I move to approve the appointment uh of Brian Shei as chief of human resources. Second. So, we have a motion by Trustee Mason with a second by Trustee McDougall regarding the appointment of Ryan Shehy for chief of human resources. There further discussion. Trusta, how

036do you vote? Yes, Mr. Sheet. The motion is adopted on a 500 Z00 vote. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Clark. Madame President, board of trustees. I'm honored and excited to continue the important work that we're doing in the human resources department for our current employees and our future employees. Since joining MDUSD in 2006 as a teacher, I've consistently felt that this district is a special place for every single child. I believe that when we hire the right individuals for the right positions, we could we make great things happen. I would like to thank many colleagues who have mentored and supported me along the way. And most importantly, I'd like to acknowledge my wife and my four children, all of whom are proud students up until two weeks ago. now have a proud alumni of

037Mount Diablo Unified School District. So, thank you very much for this opportunity. I look forward to continue to serve. Thank you. 11.2. All right, I'm going to call Miss Maya back to the podium. Good evening again. It is my pleasure that the human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Leani Medina Estrada as the executive director of human resources. Leani has over 26 years of experience in human resources serving specifically in public agencies. She has served in various HR roles for K12 school districts for over 17 years, including as director of human resources here at Mount Alo, where her collaborative spirit has earned her the respect of colleagues, staff, and administrators alike. Leanie holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with concentration in human resource management from Cal

038State University, Sacramento. Leani is extremely thankful for this opportunity to continue to serve the staff, students, and community of the Mount Taba Unified School District. And with that, I leave the appointment in the hands of the board. Madame President, I move to approve Leani Medina Estrada as executive director of human resources and risk management. I'll second that. So we have um a motion by trustee count with a second by trustee Mason regarding the appointment of Laney Medina Estrada as executive director of human resources. Is there further discussion? Trustee Oaha, how do you vote? Yes. Thank you. And that motion is adopted on a 50087 vote. Congratulations, Miss Espura. Dr. Clark, Madame President, trustees, it has been an honor to serve this district. Um, it's an honor to work with this team. Um, and I'd like

039to thank my family who without this I cannot make any of this happen. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we have Mr. Shehy for our next appointment. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Kesha Emmendfer as the director of human resources. Kesha brings nearly 20 years of experience in education, including over 13 years in administrative leadership across California and Michigan. Most recently, she served as a high school principal in in the Martinez Unified School District. Prior to moving into administration, Kesha taught chemistry and biology in Detroit, Michigan. Her work is rooted in equitydriven leadership, strategic planning, and student- centered approach that prioritizes supporting the adults who serve students every day. She also coaches aspiring administrators through the Monterey County Office of Education's

040Clear Administrative Services Credential Program and recently completed the Access Personnel Academy. Kesha holds a doctorate in education leadership from San Francisco State University and an education specialist degree from the University of Michigan Flint, a master's in educational leadership from Wayne State University and a bachelor's of science in secondary education from Wayne State University. Kesha lives in Antioch with her husband Jeff and their three children Justin Ryan and Jacqueline Grace and her dog and their dog Ira. Since re relocating to California in 2016, they've proudly called Antioch home. New to the swim team mom life, Kesha can often be found poolside cheering on her daughter as she perfects her freestyle and cannibal ball form alike. Kesha is excited to join the Mount Diablo Unified team, humbled by the opportunity and looking forward to serve the community.

041With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. I move to approve the appointment sorry of Kesha Emendorfer. Yes. as the director of human resources. I'll second that. So we have a motion by trustee enzy with a second by trustee Mason on the appointment of Kaisha Immendorfer for the director of human resources position. Did I Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize. So it's Kisha. Oh, I apologize. Uh, Trusty Ooa, let's move on. How do you vote? Yes. Thank you. Hi. So, the motion to approve Dr. Emmenorfer as um the director of human resources is approved on a 500 zero vote. Congratulations. Thank you. With support from Trustee Oaha. Thank you. Good evening, President Mayo, board members, Dr. Clark. It is truly an honor to be appointed to the as the next director of

042human resources for Mount Diablo Unified School District. I step into this role with deep respect for the work that you're already doing and I understand how important it is to give the people doing the work the support that they need in a timely manner. I am humbled and I'm very grateful to Ryan, Leanie, Kim, Dr. Clark, the board for entrusting me with this enormous responsibility and for this opportunity to serve in this capacity. Thank you. Thank you. Please introduce your vibe. I also want to thank my family because they are the real MVPs for allowing me to do this work. Um, so it's my husband Jeff, Jacqueline Grace, and my Ryan. Yes. Um Justin could not be with us tonight. So thank youelcome. Welcome to Mount Diablo. All right, Dr. Clark, Madame President, trustees, the

043human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Martha Thomas as the director of assessment, research, and evaluation. Martha began her career in education in 1999 with the Mount Diablo Unified School District, initially working as a substitute teacher while completing her teaching credential. Over the years, she has served students in a variety of roles, including special day class teacher, elementary general education teacher, instructional coach, and for the past 10 years as a school site administrator. Most recently, Martha has been the principal of Walnut Acres Elementary School in Walnut Creek. In every role, she leads with a student centered mindset, always prioritizing the needs and growth of her students. Martha holds a bachelor of science and psychology with an emphasis in child development from Mississippi State University. She earned her

044teaching and administrative credentials along with a master of science and educational leadership from California State University, East Bay. Outside of work, Martha enjoys spending time with family and friends. Her weekends are often filled with board games, crafting projects, and the search for her next bingeworthy book series. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. Madame Chair, I move to approve the appointment of Martha Thomas as the director of assessment, research, and evaluation. I second. So, we have a motion by Trustee Mason with a second by Trustee McDougall regarding the appointment of Martha Thomas for um director of assessment, research, and evaluation. Are there further comments? Trusty OOA, how do you vote? Yes. All right. The motion passes 500. Congratulations. Good evening, Dr. Clark and school board. Thank you so much for

045having me here this evening. I'm very, very honored to continue my role here at Mount Diablo in this new position. I'm really excited. Um, I want to say thank you, of course, to my amazing husband and daughter who are here with me tonight, as well as my educator besties. Back there in that back seat is Michelle Anaman, who was my very first teacher I ever substituted for 26 years ago. I look forward to continuing my role here and working with all of you. Thank you. And your daughter finished her first year of school, right? Second. Second. Yeah, she's moving into her junior year. Oh, okay. Good. All right. Thank you. Welcome. Okay. Good evening again. All right, this is the fun part. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval

046the appointment of Brenda Barbara as the director of budget, accounting, and fiscal compliance. Brenda's career within the education industry began in 2006 at the Woodland Joint Unified School District. She worked for WJUSD for 14 years prior to moving to Contraosta County. Brenda has been working with the county for five years growing and holding different management positions. She takes pride in having 19 years of experience within public education finance and will continue using this knowledge and expertise in her position so that students, school sites, and departments have the necessary tools and supplies at their disposal. Brenda has her bachelor of science in business administration with majors in international business and marketing from California State University of Sacramento. She also has her CBO certification from AXA. Brenda is excited for the opportunity to work in one of

047the largest districts within the county that she lives in and looks forward to upholding the district's mission and vision. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. Madame President, I move to approve Brenda Barbara as director of budget accounting and fiscal compliance. Second. So we have a motion by trustee count with a second by trustee and uh regarding the appointment of Brenda Barbara for the position of director of budget accounting and fiscal compliance. Trustee Oaha, how do you vote? Yes. Good. You are appointed on a vote of 500. Welcome. Good evening board. Um Dr. Clark, I really appreciate this opportunity. I'm very excited to work with this team. I'm excited to bring my skills to the community and to offer as much help as I can to move students forward in

048um in their education. And I also want to thank my family who's here, my husband, my son, and my nephew and supporting me through this. Yeah. Um, so I am I'm extremely honored and excited to be part of this team and to serve the students of this community. Thank you. Thank you. And and just for all of our appointees, we're going to take pictures of you guys. Our our PIO is going to take pictures of you guys as soon as uh as soon as we finish all the appointments outside. All right. Good evening again. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Matthew Roso as the director of technology and innovation. Matthew has almost 20 years of experience in educational IT. He brings a deep and evolving

049expertise in technology systems that support teaching and learning. Matthew began his career with MDUSD as a site technician where he provided hands-on support to users and their individual systems. Over time, Matthew H advanced to managing and maintaining the core infrastructure that powers district-wide operations. Matthew holds the following industry certificates. The consumer support technician MCP, enterprise support technician, MCP, MCTS, multiple windows server certificates, compa network plus offensive security certified professional training. Outside of work, Matthew enjoys hiking, camping, and boating with his wife, daughter, and son. Exploring the outdoors together is one of the ways they stay connected and recharge. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. Madame President, I move to approve Matthew Roso as director of technology and innovation. So we have a motion by trustee count with a second

050by uh trustee McDougall regarding the appointment of Matthew Roso as director of technology and innovation. Trustee OOA, how do you vote? Yes. I'm going to miss that. Yes. All right. Congratulations. You are appointed on a 5000 vote. Welcome. Thank you, Dr. Clark. Um, want to thank you for the opportunity to continue in this new role. I'm excited and honored to be accepted into this position. um realizing education technology is not just about you know infrastructure and devices but it's about creating a safe reliable uh systems for teachers to teach and students to learn. Um as we continue to prepare our students for an increasingly digital world, the work behind the scenes is becoming ever more important. Um I'm committed to partnering closely with all of you educators, staff, and the community. uh to ensure forward

051a forward-thinking, secure, equitable, and sustainable uh system. And together, I believe we can build an IT environment that not only meets today's needs, but lays the foundation for a long-term success across the district. Uh thank you for entrusting me with this responsibility. What's that little device there? What do you got there? So handy already. All right. Thank you. Hello again. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval for the appointment of Nicole Bergland as the principal of Walnut Acres Elementary School. Nicole is an experienced educational leader with a strong background in curriculum and instruction. Currently serving as a coordinator of curriculum instruction in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. She is passionate about using datadriven strategies, inclusive practices, and collaborative leadership to improve teaching and learning outcomes for all

052students. Nicole holds a bachelor's of arts and liberal studies, and a masterers of arts and education. Outside of work, Nicole enjoys spending time with her family and exploring the outdoors, which helps keep her grounded and energized for the important work of supporting students and educators. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. I move to approve the appointment of Nicole Bergland as principal at Walnut Acres Elementary School. I'll second that. So, we have an appointment. I mean, we have a motion by Miss Trusty Enzi with a second by Trustee Mason regarding uh the appointment of Nicole Bergland as the principal at Walnut Acres Elementary School. Trustee OOA, how do you vote? Yes. I congratulations. You're appointed on a vote. Dr. Clark and board of trustees, I'm looking forward to this opportunity

053to serve and lead Walnut Acres and I'm very excited to meet the students, staff, and families. Go Jaguars. Who do you who do you have with you tonight? This school mentor Jurgens from Mr. Grande. He has um this is why I'm here today. Yes. Oh, good. Yes. Thank you. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Jeanie Johnson as the principal of Elorado Middle School. Jeanie returns to the Mount Dava Unified School District with 21 years in public education. She started her career at Mount Ablo High School. She also worked at Elorado Middle School as a French and AVID teacher and AVID coordinator. As a teacher on special assignment, Genie supported AVID, secondary literacy, and social sciences. She has also taught French for seven years at DHY

054Valley High School in San Ramon. At most recently has served as an associate principal for the last three years at Alcalani High School. Jeanie received her bachelor's of arts in history from UC Berkeley and her mers in education from Southern Oregon University. Outside of work, you can find Jeanie spending time with family, which includes chilled children who graduated from Conquered High School. Jeanie also enjoys traveling and cooking. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. Madame Chair, I move to approve Jeannie Johnson as the principal of Elorado Middle School. Second. So we have a motion by Trustee Mason with a second by Trustee Inway regarding the appointment of Jeannie Johnson for principal at Elorado Middle School. Trustee OOA, how do you vote? Yes. Congratulations on your appointment with a 500 vote.

055Good evening, President Mayo, members of the board, Dr. Clark. Thank you for this incredible opportunity and for placing your trust in me. I am deeply honored and truly excited to accept the position of principal at Elorado Middle School. I am passionate about fostering a positive and empowering learning environment for every student. My commitment is to work collabor collaboratively with El Dorado's amazing staff, engaged families, and the entire community to ensure that every student is successful. I am eager to get started and I look forward to um serving this community. Um I want to thank my family also um for all their support and all my MDUSD friends and colleagues for all their encouragement over the years. Thank you again. Can your family wave so we can see and then my son's watching from Los Angeles?

056Yes. Those your parents back there? My husband's um Hi. Great. Good. Thank you so much. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval for the appointment of Jamie Keith as the principal of Valley View Middle School. Jaime began her career teaching history and government at Pittsburgh High School, where she developed a deep appreciation for civic learning, critical thinking, and student voice. Since then, Jaime has held several high school administrator positions, as well as the position of middle school principal, all with a focus on building inclusive school cultures, supporting effective instruction, and fostering strong partnerships with students, staff, and families. Jamie earned her BA in government from CSU Sacramento and a master's in education from CSU East Bay. She also holds a single subject credential in social sciences and an administrative

057services credential. Jaime lives with her daughter, a creative teen who keeps her grounded and inspired and Steven her supportive and steadfast partner partner of 12 years. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. Madame President, I move to approve Jamie Keith as principal of Valley View Middle School. I'll second that. Great. Um, we have the um motion by Trusty Count with a second by Trustee Ooa regarding the appointment of Jamie Keith as Valley View Middle School principal. Trusty Ooa, how do you vote? Yes. Your appointment is approved on a 500 Z00 vote. Congratulations. That was really nerve-wracking. Sorry. Uh, good evening, Dr. Clark, President Mayo, and honorable trustees. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I'm truly honored and excited to step into the role of principal at Valley View Middle

058School. As a Pleasant Hill resident myself and the parent of a recent Valley View Middle School graduate promoter, she just promoted. I've had the chance to see firsthand what a caring and dedicated school community it truly is. I also want to thank uh Principal VMI back there for her leadership and the positive impact she's had on the school. and I look forward to continuing to build on the strong foundation she's helped create alongside with her sta alongside with the staff and to serve the community of Valley View with the same heart and commitment that she does. So, I appreciate your trust in me and thank you very much. Thank you. Anybody w would you like to introduce anyone? Hi. Good evening again. The human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval

059the appointment of Ronald Richardson as the principal of College Park High School. Dr. Ronald Richardson was born and raised in Oakland, California. He began his career in 2002 as a fourth grade teacher at Laurel Elementary School in Oakland where he served for 5 years and went on to serve as an assistant principal at Hercules Middle School in West Contraosta Unified School District for two years. Ronald also served as an elementary school principal in the West Contraosta Unified School District for four years. From there, he went on to serve as a middle school principal in Oakland Unified for two years and then went on to serve as high school principal for nine years. Ronald earned his bachelor's degree in liberal studies at San Francisco State and master's degree in education from the University of Berkeley, California.

060In 2013, he received his doctorate degree from California State University, East Bay. He and his phenomenal wife have three beautiful children, a 12-year-old son, and twin daughters who are 10 years old. Ronald is also an MDUSD parent. His twin daughters attend Delta View, and his son goes to Pleasant Hill Middle. In his free time, he loves to read, spend quality time with his family, play pickle ball, bowl, and help coach for his son's baseball team and twin daughter's basketball team. Ronald is extremely honored and excited to join the learning community at College Park High School. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. I move to approve the appointment of Dr. Ronald Richardson as principal of College Park High School. Second. We have a motion by trustee Enzoi with a second

061by trustee McDougall regarding the appointment of Dr. Ronald Richardson as principal at College Park High School. Trustee OOA, how do you vote? Yes. Congratulations on your Oh, thank you. Oh, wow. Wow. I am I'm I'm humbled and excited and for you all. Good evening, Dr. Clark. I'm I'm excited. Congratulations to you as well, our board member. But board of trustees, thank you for entrusting me. Um, President Mayo, uh, Deborah, you've been amazing. Board of Trustee Mason, you've been amazing supporting me at Riverview. Uh, you too as well, Dr. Clark. I also want to acknowledge Riverview Learning Community uh the families, the students and scholars and the staff. I wouldn't be here without them. It was an amazing year. So, I also want to congratulate you as well. Believe you have some family members there. Told

062me to tell you to say hi. And I'm very proud of you and congratulations on your journey. Um and I I I'm committed uh to student voice uh but also staff voice, right? And really to ensuring that we're improving the conditions of not only our amazing scholars uh but our staff as well. right? But also continuing the body of work to ensure that we improve the human condition and also address the things that affect our our community and our schools and that we're addressing in the schools so our kids become civically engaged. Um but also to ensure not only college and career readiness but also to ensure that our students have unlimited opportunity uh unlimited access to opportunity and prosperity. And so I'm excited to continue the amazing work of Mount Diablo Unified as a

063proud father, proud husband and son and nephew son. I'm gonna introduce my family. Introduce the whole I want to introduce my mom, a retired educator school district. Uh my uncle, my everything, my uncle dad. my retired firefighter of San Leandro Alama County, my younger brother, uh, Daniel Rice, my uncle, dad's son, my amazing young brother, proud of him as well, my beautiful, phenomenal wife, uh, Zora. Good evening Richardson, also a counselor in Antioch. Oh, my beautiful son at Pleasant Hill Middle, shout out to Pleasant Hill Middle. Um, I love you, son. My beautiful daughters, daughters. I had twins. I had twins. Yeah, double double uh Sabrina and Serena. And they go to Delta View. Gold Stars and a and go night. So, uh thank you, but I'm just so excited. Thank you board of trustees.

064Thank you community. And congratulations to all the appointments too. So, love you all. Have a beautiful day. Good evening. Again, the human resources department is bringing for the board's review and potential approval the appointment of Megan Ali as the principal of Prospect Continuation High School and Horizon Center for Independent Study. Megan taught in alternative and comprehensive high comprehensive school settings from high school to middle school. She brought her knowledge of special education and restorative practices to administrative roles at site and district level positions across the Bay Area. Most recently, she had the privilege to work at Oak Grove Middle School where they are innovating as an international balorate program. Megan is excited to step into service for the district in TK12 alternative education programming. Megan holds credentials for education specialist and administrative services. Her degrees

065held include a master of philosophy in theater and performance from Trinity College Dublin and a BA in theater arts from UC Santa Cruz. With that, I leave this appointment in the hands of the board. Madame President, I move to approve Megan Murphy Ali as principal of Prospect Continuation High School and Horizon Center for Independent Study. I'll second that. We have a motion by trusty count with a second by trustee Mason regarding the appointment of Megan Ali for the principal position at Prospect Continuation High School and Horizon Center for Independent Study. Highly valued programs in this district. Um Trustio Choa, how do you vote? Yes. and your appointments approved on a 5000 vote. Thank you to the school board, especially Trusty Ooa representing Olympic. Um Dr. Clark, I am um so excited at this opportunity. Um

066I've had such a far ranging career. I started as a substitute at the Alliance program at Olympic back in 2007 and I ended up just sticking in the district. My mom taught in this district. She's watching at home. Uh as is my son who goes to Valhalla and my husband. Um it's really an honor and a pleasure to serve the district and I have worked with so many families in so many different ways. Uh that this program that serves our families in times of need or transition or where their kids are trying to do so many things that don't fit the traditional model. It really is exciting to get to be a champion for them um and to keep this well-rounded programming that we have. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We

067have um we have one sleeping child here. So, I'm going to I'm going to let all the folks She's I know that's the swimmer, right? So, yes. Okay. So, if you're a new appointment, you can head on out. I we got teams that want to take photos of you guys and post them on our social media and things like that. and then you can always come back if you'd like, but we're going to be here all night. Um, so but I just want to welcome you all to the Mount Alaba Unified School District. Thank you. And and thank you for bringing some joy to the evening. Give it one minute. I know I keep telling I keep looking at Robert Robert. Robert. Robert. Oh, you you're right there. He's got a sweater around. Gonna sit

068there. If you're gonna sit there, you're in control. Melanie, will you give a training to Yeah, I I saw your reaction, so I got someone else. Got someone else. I know. We didn't have this on our pre schedule. So, right. We ready. All right. Doctor Richardson. Richardson. Richardson. Shut that door for me, please. Thank you, sir. He's working, boy. He's working. All right. Thank you, Ryan. Yep. Mr. She has uh our next item 11.12. So, this is a review and potential approval of the first amendment to employment agreement for Suzanne Sereki Kim as general counsel for the Mount Diablo Unified School District through February 28th, 2028. This item seeks approval for the first amendment to the employee agreement for the position of general counsel effective June 30th, 2025 through February 28th, 2020 2028 on a

069range 48 step 9 of DMA management salary schedule for a salary of $259,488. With that, I leave this agreement in the hands of the board. I make a motion to approve the first amendment to the employment agreement for Suzanne Stury Kim as general counsel for Mount Dav Unified School District through February 28th, 2028. Second. So we have a motion by trustee Mason with a second by Trustee Enzi for the um approval of the first amendment to the employment agreement for Suzanne Sterski Kim as general counsel. Further discussion. Trusty Ooaha, how do you vote? Yes. And the motion is adopted on a 500 vote. Thank you very much, Forge. Next, Dr. Clark, we have a report. Oh, please. Go ahead. Yes. I want to hear from the counselor. Awesome. All right. Can you hear me? Yes.

070Okay. Thank you so much. It is such an honor um to say that I represent the Mount Apple Unified School District and that is truly because of each of you and everyone else that's standing behind me. I am grateful every day for this job. This is my favorite job I've ever had actually. So just thrilled to continue the work. Thank you. Thank you. Right. We're to report some information. The annual report by measure uh C 2010 bond Oversight Committee. Yep. And we have u uh Melanie Coslo is going to assist with this uh with this item. Good evening board members. Dr. Clark, I just wanted to take a moment and just acknowledge that um we are required under ED code to present or the the citizens bond oversight committee is is uh required to present

071in the annual report. I just want to acknowledge that this is our final report. I've worked with this bond oversight committee for quite a while and um to introduce Mr. Fonte for the final time regarding this bond is just something I wanted to take a moment to do. So Mr. Fronte, I'm going to turn it over to you. There's a story about that hip, so you'll have to ask Mr. Fante about it. I wish it were the hip. It's the back. Oh, good evening. This, as Melanie said, is our annual required report by Prop 39. And as it says at the bottom there, final report. We are done. All the money has been expended. Um, we just did that. We met all the requirements of Prop 39. We were able to maintain our membership as

072required by Prop 39, satisfying their minimum requirements for various aspects of the community being on board. The bottom line has the link if anybody would like to go and see a site by sight by sight listing of what all was accomplished with your tax dollars under measure C. Uh we did our quarterly reports, the solar production, we did all that. It's all been good. Uh we got a passing on the audit. They had no findings. We managed to make the entire run with no findings at all ever with this bond, which is really good. Hello. Oh, there we go. Um, the bond was for 350 million. As you can see, we brought in a little over 350 million. We got a little over 5.6 billion in interest. P Gen rebates you can see 380,000. So

073we had a total of 356 million plus and we spent a total of 356 million plus. It's all done. There are lots of projects left to be done unfortunately but there is no money under this bond measure with which to do them. Um that is it. That is all there is to say other than we're all done. Thank you. I want to thank you, Mr. Fonte, for your years of service. I also see Mr. Walsh out there and um um Miss Haynes also served for a while, I believe, on Measure C. So, I can um thank you for your service and the many hours of reports and reading that you had to do. We This is an action item. Do you have any questions? Madame President, I uh move to receive the annual report by

074the 2010 Measure Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. I'll take that. And congratulations on clean audits for the entire time period and spending the money. Oh, if I can just take one moment to acknowledge um our measure C uh final committee. So, we had obviously Mr. John Fonte, our chair. He was our community member at large. We had John Parker who was our vice chair who was part of our taxpayers association. We have Jay Bedare who was um a part of our business organization. uh Sunn Noak who represented the parent or guardian of a uh involved in the PTO or parent group. Uh we had Jim Walsh who was a participant under the citizen senior citizens association. We had Mark Willis also a community member at large and Sean Arbeck a parent of an enrolled student um

075at one of the Mount schools. So we do have some certificates available for our um oversight committee members who were uh able to be present today. So, I just want to extend, you know, our appreciation um on behalf of myself and on behalf of the districts for the great work that we've done together the last couple years. Thank you, Melanie. So, we need to conclude this business. We have a motion by Trusty K with a second by Trustee McDougall uh for the acceptance of the 2010 major C citizens bond oversight uh report, final report. Trusty OA do you vote? Yes. And the motion is adopted on a 500 vote. Thank you very much. Okay. Um, next we're on uh 13.0 board member reports. So, uh let's start out with uh Trusty K. Thank you, President

076Mayo. Um so, uh I just want to say the graduations were amazing this year. all of our student speakers, including Trustee OOA, uh were so inspirational. All of all of our speakers at our graduations, um it was just a really really joyous time. Um so, congratulations to all of our graduates and to all of our educators and staff who helped help them reach their goals. Um so, I have an announcement to make. Um, I was recently asked to apply for the planning commission for my city where I live in Walnut Creek. And so I did apply an interview and last week I was chosen as one of two new members of the planning commission. So, I will be sworn in on June 17th, and I'm very excited about being able to make a difference in

077my city, especially right now as it engages in updating the city general plan with a vision and goals for the next 20 years. I did discover, however, that there is a conflict of interest in that role with school board since they are overlapping jurisdictions. And so after much thought and introspection, I have decided to submit resignation from this schoolboard position effective next Tuesday, June 17th. I know this may come as a surprise to many of you. Frankly, it was to me too, as I never thought I would re leave this role before the end of my term. But at this time, I feel called to make a difference in my community in a new way. I'm so honored to have served on the Mount Diablo School Board for nearly seven years now, and I'm proud

078of all of our accomplishments over those years. And I have full confidence in this board and in this superintendent to continue all of the hard work towards meeting the goals that we've set to champion our students and to advocate for quality public education for all. We've been through a lot together and I'm proud that we've made systemic changes in many ways to last for years to come. Some that stand out in my mind are adding an official student trustee position to our team to elevate student voice, steering this ship through the choppy waters of COVID, giving our teachers and staff a 9% raise and 100% benefits while still making fiscally responsible decisions that raised our financial ratings of our district and protected us from the mass layoffs that many districts are now facing. We adopted

079new curricula across the board from next generation science to history and social science, ELA and math, including piloting literacy screeners before most other districts. We updated our board policies, which was a tremendous project. Thank you for all of your work on that. We went from what was really challeng challengingly outdated technology servers literally in closets in the district office and schools here and there raising their own money for student laptops to what we now have equity-based IT investments that are cyber secure and one-on-one uh student Chromebooks. We hired a Title 9 coordinator to ensure gender equity in sports. And we transitioned from English language learners to a fully multilingual department, including collaborating with community- based organizations to win funding for a newcomer care coordinator. All of this not to mention that our district has the

080only IB high school in Contraosta County with a diploma that is recognized worldwide. We have the dual language immersion schools that many surrounding smaller districts simply cannot provide. We have things like the state recent statewide teacher of the year, Mr. Alvaro at Ignasio Valley High School, who transformed an old unused wood shop into his vision of an engineering career pathway and robotics team. And those students are mentored by and present to local professionals. And I believe they're in Boston right now at MIT presenting their inventions. This and so so much more. um just you know everyone can read uh Dr. Clark's end of year message which I highly recommend that is many pages of wonderful things that we've done just in the last year. So I want to say Dr. Clark thank you for your

081steadfast leadership and excellence in truly working as a team with each of the each of us on this board and for staying focused on equity and excellence for all students always. I'm so thankful to have had this chance to work with you and to learn so much from you. President Mayo, thank you for mentoring me from the very beginning when I was just a parent possibly running interested in running for school board and pestering you with questions um through the many many details that you've taught me all along the way. Trustee Mason, thank you for finding ways to work together with me and always being focused on ensuring that students in every zip code have access to quality schools. Trusty McDougall, thank you for being open to meeting with me and hearing my perspective and

082discovering things that we both care about like quality career pathways. and Trusty and Zi, thank you for being an inspiration for sharing your vision, your extensive policy knowledge um and all of the things that you learn from our nationwide networks. And Trusty Ooa, thank you for sharing your story, your journey, and sharing the voices of so many students so that we can really make the best decisions here in this district. And so I'm fully confident that Dr. Clark and this entire board will continue to strive towards excellence for all students. Though I'm stepping down from this official role, I will always champion Mount Diablo Unified School District students and the importance of quality public education for all. Thank you. It's been a great seven years working with you and um I know that the city

083of Walnut Creek will greatly benefit from your talents and your dedication and your perseverance. Um so I wish you the best, your family the best, and the city of Walnut Creek the best. Other comments? I would just say have being someone who has worked on general planning and the development of community, I think you're going to really enjoy it and I think you're going to be able to make a big difference in your community. So, good for you. Thank you so much. as I've moved through my stages of grief from denial to acceptance over the last few weeks. Um I'm well I don't know if I'm all the way there but I mean you're leaving you're not going to be at the next meeting so whatever. Yeah. Um but I just want to say that

084um it's been as you've recapped the journey at the parts that I've been a part of. It's been an amazing journey and it's been a tough journey that I honestly um we can't underestimate the importance of your partnership in this and your willingness to disrupt and be a co-conspirator conspirator. Um yeah, that just can't be understated because and and that I will miss. Um I've I feel a little lost. Um but I'm but we talked. I'm also excited because now you can say things from there that we can't say thing that we can't say from here and I'm very excited for that. Um your your your community is very lucky to have you. I think your engineering type mind is perfect for the role that you're about to take on and that your neighbors will

085get to benefit from. And so, um, I'm I'll be unselfish in that like, yeah, I guess that's a good thing. Um, I want to thank you for your leadership in, um, you didn't mention of raising the pride flag in MDUSD and your leadership in organizing us to participate in now the fourth um, Clayton Pride parade and from the inaugural through now. And I'm like, well, who's going to organize the education people now? Um, so someone will have to take up the mantle with that. Um, but I know you'll still be there just as a different role. Um, so just thank you for all these seven years that I know takes away from your family, your children, um, to the benefit of 30,000 children of Mount Diablo Unified. Um, so thank you for that. I'm shocked.

086I'm the last one to know. That's fine. I wish you well. Thank you for being so welcoming to me. Thank you for showing me how to ask the hard questions at these sessions and and being a good example of of leadership that we need. We're going to miss you. Oh, Trustee OA, I'll say my personal comments because I'm emotional. Ah, okay. Well, shall we follow up with our board reports? That's exactly. I can keep going. Um, I don't have much to report. I got the flu type B. You can take a test just like COVID. It went through our house. Um, that kind of sucked. But what didn't suck was all the graduations I was able to get to until I got knocked down. So I regret missing the last last weeks, the ones after

087the weekend. Um, but I'm so proud of all of our graduates. I was so inspired, like you mentioned, all the student speakers, our own trustee. Um, and especially as a parent who will get to go through this next year. As a parent, I it was giving me all the feels. Um, one of my favorite parts about attending graduation is hearing families yell and cheer for their children and it like moves me so much and this year especially like how am I going to embarrass my child the most um from getting to celebrate this accomplishment. So to all the families and to all of our students who who got to celebrate this accomplishment and to the ones that we'll get to later this summer um congratulations. Um well done. Um, and I don't think anything else

088happened in between since then. Yeah, I was knocked down and then I was out of town. So, uh, Trusty McDougall, would you like to go next? Thank you, Madam President. Uh, it was a little quieter the last month. uh went to a couple of graduations, conquered high school at the pavilion and I found it to be quite exuberant and vibrant and I really enjoyed all the singing performances that they had at the uh at the graduation and uh it was the first time I'd had to accept a class so had to learn how to do that. Um in the middle of doing that and another graduation here, I went to my granddaughter's high school graduation in San Diego from a um charter school down there and she was the saludiatoran. So we were very proud

089of her and glad to see uh how that charter school was doing down there. And then uh last Saturday attended the Mount Diablo Adult Education Graduation which was much smaller, more dignified than uh the other graduations we had been to. But uh I was able to accept that class and uh really enjoyed learning about all the different parts, the moving parts of the adult education. So uh that's the end of my report. Thank you, Trusty Mason. Well, I've been a little busier. I've got a whole list here. Um, since the last meeting, I went to the open houses at Shoreacres, Rio Vista, and Riverview. There were many parents at all of them. Shakres did a really cool thing. They had like a a scavenger hunt because, you know, you get there with your parents and

090you're like, "What do you want me to show them?" So, the teachers had a little checklist for them to go around. I thought that was very, very smart. I went to Hullbrook. They had a teacher parade, which was really cool. They line up and the kids and they have the teachers go through and they clap for them and cheer for them and give them balloons. That was really cool. There was a bike rodeo in Baypoint at Riverview that the sheriffs do every year that they gave out a hundred bikes to students in in Baypoint. And then I ran from there to the celebration of scholars at Willow Creek for our Hispanic population, which was such a great event, well attended. And um the uh counselors did such a good job with that. I went to

091the tis celebration that has a long name colloquial or some for getting our new teachers ready and um able to face our kids every day. I went to the CAC meeting which I'm sure trusty Mayo will talk more about. I went to the college now celebration where we actually had a student that graduated with her AA and her high school diploma at the same time which is great. Uh I went to every one of the graduations. Uh, Nation Valley High School had their warrior awards, which is really cool. Mount Diablo High School brought back the band, which we hadn't seen in years. That was cool. Then I went over to Monty Gardens next door for the fifth grade clap off. Didn't even know what that was, but that was fun. We just all sat there

092and clapped and and the parents blew bubbles for the fifth graders. I went to Conquered High School where they brought back their greetings in multiple languages, which we had missed in the past. Uh, Alt Ed is always fun to watch the kids get all their scholarships at the they give them out at the actual graduation. Olympic and Crossroads, which has been my happy place this year, and it was so nice to hear the moving speeches from all of the students. I was here for Raise the Pride flag, and then I was at um College Park um high school where the choir sang a couple songs. uh Northgate High School. They had two uh students come out and actually um sing for the crowd prior to the graduation to entertain the crowd. And then I went

093to Willow Creek for the counselor showcase the next day and then um the adult ed event on Saturday. And it's always fun to see all the families come out and support these kids that have had to take all and some adults alternate routes to get their their diplomas. And that's always near and dear to me because my dad got his diploma at Adult Ed in Pittsburgh. And all that I did because I had all the energy from having just come back from the happiest place on earth at Disneyland. Disneyland. I've got my Mickey on tonight. Thank you, Trusty Ooa. Okay. Ever since I officially graduated, I had the pleasure of sharing them that milestone with my fellow board members and I am grateful for your continuing support throughout my journey. In addition, I recently had

094the opportunity to volunteer at Bair for their school carnival. It was a fantastic event filled with joy seeing the kids play games, win prizes, and enjoy the festivals. Was it truly heartwarming? I also had the chance to attend the Riverview Middle School musical play. It was a wonderful production showcase and creativity and talent of our students. Showing them watching them perform with such confidence and enthusiasm was a reminder of the positive impact our schools have on young lives. This past year has truly been a mindful journey. The experiences I have I have had not only taught me a lot but also helped me grow as a leader and as a person. I'm incred I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunities I've I have given and I can't thank everyone enough for the support and trust you've

095showed me along the way. Thank you. We are the ones that were blessed with your presence trustee. Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here and a pleasure to be part of this board. Okay, I'm the last one. Um, first I attended the May 15th uh major J meeting. The meeting did not have a quorum, so the committee received information and asked questions and the chair was advised that a special meeting could could be called at any time. Um, I went to the teacher induction support program ceremony, uh, the YB high school robotics endofyear celebration where the families, uh, watch the transition between the two leader classes, um, and how they celebrate each other with the paper plate awards. If you haven't ever seen a paper plate awards ceremony, please go to Ignatio

096Valley High School. Uh I went to the first budget advisory committee meeting on May 22nd where the uh new appointees were um received an orientation and introduced themselves. Uh and the district learner advisory committee uh did some LCAP input and endofear recognition on May 22nd. On May 27th, I participated in the capital advisor's presentation at the county office of education on the governor's budget revise. And um if you ever have the opportunity to attend in person, it's very valuable because we have the opportunity to ask specific questions at that particular time. The graduations were outstanding and Trusty Mason and I attended all of them except I missed the bridge one and um uh we do have a couple more coming. Trustee Mason gave an excellent uh recap of all of them and um it's always

097an honor and uh with we recognize the students with such pride. I attended the June 2nd Pride flag uh raising at Dent and we also went to the city of conquered when they raised their flag. And um I want to acknowledge our chiefs and directors and assistant directors who attended the mult multiple graduations and sat up on stage. And I especially want to acknowledge retirees uh Felicia Stucky Smith, Margie Kalebeck, and uh Kim Vanna who also attended the graduations. And um I must give a shout out to Mrs. Kalebeck because uh the College Park students re uh received her with such a a cheer uh when she was introduced on the stage because she's a former principal of Vajala Elementary School and most of those students knew her and worked with her. So that concludes

098my report. Dr. Clark, would you like to present your report? I would. Thank you so much. And I just um again I want to I was also taken aback by uh Trustee Count's Vice President K's um announcement and um but I know that she is um she's fought tirelessly and fearlessly for the students and community of the Mount Diablo Unified School District and I really appreciate our partnership that we've had over the last five years. So thank you for your service. Um I actually have a a presentation Um, just, you know, I like to, um, kind of ground us back to our LCAP goals before I before I talk to any groups. And, and tonight, it's especially important because we're going to be, um, we're going to be updating our LCAP tonight. And, um, you

099know, LCAPs are are difficult documents to kind of get through. They can be um, you know, they can be up to 200 pages in all educational talk. And so sometimes it's hard to it's it's it's hard for people who aren't in this work each and every day to really understand what an LCAP is asking and what we're committing to doing. And so I thought that I would um that I would show those who maybe don't know in pictures and in events and programs what an LCAP does and how it impacts our um our district. And I just have to preface this by saying that um there is so much material out there this is impossible to do. Um I wrote I I spent a lot of time and I I wrote that end of the

100year letter just highlighting some of the programs that we do. Um, our public information officer, uh, Teresa Brandt is going to be doing this summer going to be doing a year-end review of our Friday letter. And, um, and we have, um, multiple posts on our website and on our principles websites and different departments of what I like to call the evidence of the work that we're doing. Um, as someone said before, we don't just talk about doing this work, we actually do it. Um we are still in partnership with CCE because we have multiple student groups that still are not performing to where um they don't meet our expectation and they don't meet the state's expectation. So we are still getting uh direct assistance from our county office and from CCE. So I want to

101first highlight what uh goal number one means which is all students will receive a high quality education in a safe and welcoming environment with high expectations and rigorous instruction in the California state standards that prepare them for college and career. So first of all when we're talking about academic excellence here it is um these are our national merit scholar finalists. These are three Northgate um um high school students. And the student on the right, Sophia Mitchell, is actually a National Merit Scholar winner, which means that um she took the PSAT and was measured against all the students in the country and um and she did very very well at that test and um and is recognized. And so we are very proud in Mount Diabo to have a a national merit scholar. and we have

102a long tradition of of of some other national merit scholars. But this is educational excellence. And so um here you have it. We also when we talk about safe and welcoming, these are two um presentations that we did, two events that we held this year. Um both attended by the superintendent, both attended by board members, and they're in partnership with the mayors. This one at the top is with the mayor of conquered and the one on the bottom is with the mayor of Walnut Creek and also with the um police officials. We have the police chief there from Walnut Creek on the bottom and we have a acting um high ranking police official there from conquered on the um on the top of end. And in these presentations we talk about gun safety. We talk

103about um keeping our campuses safe and how we respond to threats of gun violence or of potential violence on our campuses and off of our campuses. And so when issues come up concerning guns on our campus, our administrators have been trained. We have a protocol. We have a process and procedures that we fall that we follow and we follow it uh we we follow it very strictly and we take this extremely serious. So we want to keep each and every person safe. Next thing which has been horrible in our district is we have lost um not only current students but we've lost several past students um to fentanyl there. They don't take a pill that's labeled fentanyl. They're taking something else that is laced with fentanyl and it has been devastating to our communities. And

104this is one of our um this is one of our teachers who we partner with to go around to each and every high school and middle school to do these community fentanyl awareness presentations. They were led by Linda Pete previously. We still thank Linda for her work, but at at these at these meetings we partnered with local law enforcement. We uh partnered with federal uh law enforcement. We partnered with county um county agencies and local agencies and our own staff to really tell the story of how parents can protect their kids from fentanyl. And I and I am extremely proud of this work that we've been doing for the last two years on this topic. as we also talk about keeping our students safe. We're are um yonder bags and so we piloted them at

105um at um Olympic and um and Prospects and they were successful there. We then piloted them again at um Ugnesio Valley High School and Mount Diablo High School and next year we are expanding it to Conquered College Park and Northgate High School. I say safe and welcoming because of the dangers that um that our students are exposed to online and the bullying and body shaming and other things that take place through social media while students are at school. So at least our students for the six six and a half hours that they're going to be at at school at least for our high school students they're going to put it away in a yonder bag. And so the um the purpose of this at the core of it is to keep our students safe, but

106there are all sorts of unintended benefits from this process. And so we will see how the other three schools adapt to this um to this safety measure. Now also in our in our goal one, it talks about preparing our students for college and career. And again, um, this is just, like I said, the information and evidence that we have is overwhelming. So, I just pulled this out is that this is our college fair that we do at, uh, at this took place at YV, but it really talks about having over 90 representatives from college and universities there so that students can come. We we have staff there that will print out transcripts for students in case they don't bring their own. And uh students show up either by themselves or with their parent or with

107somebody and they go around and talk to different schools and find out about admissions, campus life, majors, all those types of things. And this is open to everyone of our students and adult program students. To support that, we also send our high school counselors and college and career advisors to conferences. And so these are folks in the fall going to CSU conference to learn how they can support our students going to the Cal State system within within California. And again, we we support those folks and they're they're representative of our high schools and college and career centers. Another another thing, we sent uh several counselors up to the University of uh Nevada Reno, which is it's out of state, but it's also very affordable. It's close. So, a lot of students from the Bay Area

108attend school in Reno. So, we sent a team um team up there. And again, I've shown pictures before of our students visiting college campuses and things like that. And um really proud of of that work. So, college and career. So, within care career, um and I see Dr. Fontell out there and if I gave her the microphone, she could talk for probably about an hour about just some of the things that are uh included in our in our um pathways program. But just to summary, um um we have eight different pathways uh including art and digital media, automotive technology, building trades, education, engineering and manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, tourism, and information communication technology. And so we have multiple um opportunities for students to engage in that career aspect of it. Whether they want to try something

109out or whether they, you know, just want to get connected to something outside of school, it's a great opportunity for that. You want evidence, here goes evidence. We put this on um annual career education fair. You can see the fire department there. You can see Kaiser is there. You can see one of probably one of my favorite things watching the kids do the uh the forklift. That's not a forklift back hoe. Backhoe. Um you see other students getting information. It is just an outstand outstanding event that is actually put on and organized for our college and career center. I thought I saw her earlier, but maybe she was here, right? I'm not okay. Right. Our our college and career person over at Conquered High School, and she does an amazing job. So again, there goes

110just some ways how we how we commit to college and career. We also talk about making everyone feel welcome. And um I could go on and on and on and on with pages and pages and pages like this, but these are just some of the examples of community events taking place at our schools that just is share where you come from and share your thing. And instead of like having students stick that way in a suitcase and not expose it, we want to expose it. We want those families to feel welcome. We want people to learn. How better way to learn than to see and ask questions and engage. So, um, again, I'm not going to go over them all, but you recognize the schools and and things like that, but those are just some

111of the examples of some of our cultural events that we have throughout the district to make everyone feel welcome. Now as I move into LCAP goal two um um this is around our our our educators, our staffs, our um highly qualified, culturally proficient and responsive staff will create a safe and engaging learning environment respectful of all students backgrounds ensuring they are college and career ready when they graduate. We start with our data and again this is last year's data but as you can see from this post on October 10th the state released standardized test scores. I think I sent out a notice to parents on maybe October 10th or 11th where I shared our data and it says right here superintendent Dr. Adam Clarkson sent a message to families and staff comparing the statewide results

112to Mount Du to MDUSD which can be found on the state website. And we we loaded up the websites. We loaded up all their information. You can also search by your school to see how students at your child's school performed on on the test. And in addition, parents can access their students scores in their ARIES home link account. So, we are being transparent with this. We are pushing this out. And as soon as our data comes, I will be doing the same thing, sending it to every single staff member in the district and every single family and posting it on our website. And much of our work is in response to um to that um standardized data. And just so you know, these are the types of datas that we that we collect. If we're

113looking at quantitative, we're looking at our calves, we're looking at grades. Um our screener is STAR and the diagnost diagnostic is MClass. And then in the class, in the classes, we have formative assessments where teachers are assessing students constantly to help inform their instruction. They give these daily, weekly, endofunit tests and then we have our we have our benchmark tests and then more on the qualitative side those would be surveys, interviews, informal conversations and observations. So when we talk about data that's an example of of what that is. So professional development, we we have a professional development day in March. We also have one in the one in the fall. But these are just some pictures of of our staff going to professional development. So this is this is what it looks like. This is

114the library at Northgate and this is a session on on a topic. Here's another session. You have um these are on the left. That's just a regular staff meeting, but you can see you have educators who are there in clumps. They have evidence on the walls there of things that they've worked on and discussing and they're working out these things as a group. on the right side. This is a tech presentation. And so you have folks there being trained on Prometheium boards or whatever the tech topic is there. And you see at the top, highly qualified, culturally proficient, and responsive staff. Here's another um example of PD. These are our teachers working through um our concepts of building thinking classrooms, which is in the which is in the math area. And so this is just

115real life teachers going through professional development, but we provide professional development for all of our staffs around myriad topics and and concepts and procedures and protocols that they have to know in order to execute their jobs to be highly qualified. Of course, we have excellent staff in in the district. I could go down departments and just just name off all the departments that are doing so much work. But um on the left you have our um you have our classified employees of the year. On the right you have our you have our uh teacher of the year finalists. So it's not just it's not just on this again we don't just talk about it we do it. So it's not just on this paper here. Here it is in real life where we bring our

116classified folks out. We read about them. We talk about them. We celebrate them for them and their families. We give them an award. And so these are classified um employees of the year, but they represent all departments where we could have found dozens and dozens and dozens more of folks who could have been there that night to be recognized. And here are our teachers. And of course, we have our two teachers of the year, Dr. David Pentado and Elizabeth Swanson there holding the the big plaques, but we have everyone else there just celebrating. So again, those that that um that high quality staff at all levels is something I'm extremely proud about that we do in this in this district. Meeting that LCAP goal, engaging learning environments. This is what an engaging learning environment looks

117like. We have we have students working on stuff. We got students over on the right working on site words. We have this student in the middle. He uh is is is writing text, but in the notebook are kind of his notes and and things like that. and now he's putting it on paper. And on the left we have math problems and things like that the students have worked through. Um as we talk about learning environments, this is also a learning environment. Um these are you know just a small snippet of our I see Kelly Hoover back there. I did see her and I know um you know our our VAPA offerings in the district are extensive but here goes something at conquered high. It's uh choirs. You can just see all the students who are

118participating in music and being exposed to that. And then on the bottom you have some students doing instrumental and I even see violins here in the district. So um I thought that was only at Stanley Middle School but here that's happening that's happening here. So very very proud of that. Also a learning environment is our athletics. I know a lot of our coaches and parents think that like, you know, they're in the NFL or they're in the NBA or the MLBs, but athletics is a learning event. We want students to learn learn commitment, learn teamwork, learn how to how to win, how to lose, how to all those types of things. And so, we offer a plethora of um of athletic opportunities for all of our students. And again, you know, we have, you know,

119it's all self-explanatory up there, but that is part of our classrooms. Um, as we go out to tracks and fields and baseball fields and basketball courts and pools and things like that, that's a learning that's creating that engaging learning environment. Now, as we go to as we go to goal three, families and community. So this special education is is something that um you know as as you have parents who have who send us uh their students who learn differently and need a different you know sometimes a different way to learn. I embrace that. I not everybody embraces that and sometimes there's there's issues there but to try to deal with those issues these are the types of things that we put forward to help in guiding families through this process and recognizing our students. So,

120we have um IEP training. We have um where we're talking about dyslexia there in the middle. And over on the right, we have our student program where we recognize those students who learn differently, who don't often get recognized um in the in the general ed in the general education environment. So, that's just a small example of of what we do to engage in our community and families. And this is how we engage with parents and families who have students who learn differently. These are literacy nights and these are just wonderful kids who are welcomed to the to the literacy night and this is over at Mountain View Elementary and these students have put together bags and packets to bring families in to engage in in in literacy. Um you know we have our our DAC

121we have our African-American uh uh uh we have our Apac meetings and things like that. Um our our DAC has grown over the years and we have more folks we have more folks coming. we have new uh uh uh multilingual, you know, the the um leaders in that department who are bringing different energy and different different things to to our um to our DAC committees. Um but this is a way to bring those families in and make them a part of our district. This is also an example. Here's a flyer on the left of parent conferences that we do at the beginning of the year. And so the parent conferences alone, I could just stop at that and say like great. But look how it's look how the flyers are done. We have in English

122on the left, we have in Spanish on the right, and we have in um I'm going to say Arabic, but I parse or whatnot. But what I find interesting if you look closely the and like you wouldn't know this like if you didn't ex examine other things, but we go from left to right with time. So it starts at 8, ends at 8:45. But over in um here here it starts at 8:40, ends at 8:30 or starts at at 8:30, ends at 8 o'clock. So it's like I don't I don't know, but now I I know that, right? And so but but I mean, but look how we're connecting with our families, right? And and so again, as we're trying to partner partner with folks, I'm giving examples of how that partnership is happening in

123in real time. And again, this is this is just a flyer, but what about the meat and potatoes behind what's what's taking place in the flyer? And again, if I jumbled up the the name and stuff, I I apologize, but I'm just excited that that we're doing this as a as a district and we do this stuff all the time. Um, our staffs and our teams. Um, here goes, you know, back to school nights on the left and just, you know, those are those aren't kids in the in the seats there on the left picture. Those are all parents coming in and engaging with the classrooms and what's going on. This is a breakfast. You can tell from the from the sunrise coming up. This is a breakfast of families bringing their bringing their students

124to school and and and creating community. Um, you know, here's a family on the left. Here goes more parents there in those seats and some of them brought their kids with them. But again, we're doing all this to partner with our families and to um you know, and to you know, just let them know we we need them in the educating of their of their kids. And that's what our LCAP says for us to do. Um I'm very proud of of this work. this these are social work uh specialists here and they are at San Jose State um recruiting folks to come and um serve in our social work in internships and our wellness center programs. So So again, we're sending those folks out to to go out and recruit folks to come and and

125serve in in Mount Diablo so they can connect with our communities and find out what our communities need. Extremely proud of of them. And then I just I have some pictures here just to show like what this community engagement. So our counselors who do um um uh I'm gonna jumble the word of course but counseling confiscas um they put this on and these are students who who they've had interactions with or they've supported or students who have made um you know made gains at their schools and whatnot. But again, an inclusive environment um you know down at Willow Creek certificates, but just bringing people together and just saying we care about you, we see you, we hear you. Um all those things. This is a Willie Mims award again where we're bringing families together to

126recognize students. just bringing people together and and again as we partner with our families and if we see families that historically have not partnered with us for various reasons um how can we be intentional on getting those folks into the door and when you recognize their kids for something you will get families in into the door. um probably, you know, no offense to all of our high schools out there, but you know, one of one of our signature programs out there is our College Now program. And these pictures just continue to grow and grow and grow. But to hear the stories of these students and one thing that's really nice about the College Now graduation is that they're there with their families and sitting at a table with their, you know, with their parents or

127with the, you know, with the relative or whatnot. But just getting to know these kids and just knowing that these these students historically are not your 4.5 students or your ones who are, you know, just got everything figured out. These are students who are trying to figure things out. And I respect them for trying to do something different. But in the in the in the effort of doing something different, they are lining themselves up for success by engaging with DVC. We have this jewel over there that students can either use it for a pathway into the UC system. You can use it into a pathway for free into the automotive technology um um you know career. You know, I got my car fixed the other day. It was it was over $200 an hour to,

128you know, to to work on the car. Labor is always the most important thing with your cars. And and they have programs over there, free programs for our students to go in and take. So, I want and again, Dr. Fella is going to probably just, you know, I want every I wish every single stu high school student in our district would take a class at DBC if not more. So hopefully that that happens and I'm going to keep advocating for that and hoping for that. Um just other ways how we just connect with our students. Again, look at the families. Look at our kids. Look at our kids on stage there. These are fifth graders. They're not graduating. They're just going to middle school. But it's just a graduation. Okay. All right. Well, in the

129Okay, in the eyes of the state of California, it's a promotion. All right. All right. So, it's a clap off. They should move on. But like, look at them. I mean, they're so funny. They're so like they're so like engaged. And look at the parents. It's a packed house. And this this was at all of our elementary schools. Again, like I said, the content and the evidence that we have is overwhelming. and and we put it in our Friday letter every single Friday for anyone out there who wants to learn like how do you implement in LCAP. We raised our pride flag again. We're we're going to continue to do this. We did this, you know, um it didn't start I mean it started when I got here, but I wasn't the one who brought

130it. It was here, of course. I embraced it. And and like I said at this um flag raising ceremony, if if raising a flag is going to make students, families, and staff feel accepted here, raising a flag, um then I'll raise the flag each and every day. Like again, I want people to be accepted. I want people to feel safe. And if there wasn't a need to do it, we wouldn't do it. But clearly, there's been a need to do it. So that's why we do it. So, I'm very pleased. We had the mayor of of uh Conquer there. We had the Marijuana Creek. We had most of our governing board there. We had employees there, staff there, the team there. Um it's just something that we do. And then, okay, our kindergarteners graduated up

131to first grade. I'm not going to get in trouble. So, there goes the there goes the first graders, but I mean I mean like look at this. So, so again, you know, we just we just we just want to celebrate our kids. I'm not going over LCAP goal four and five. I don't want to keep you guys here all night, but that's an example of our of our LCAP in in action. Now, are you going to see a bunch of numbers in our LCAP? You're going to see this and that, but there goes a visual thing for those who don't understand what an LCAP is. That's that's what an LCAP produces um with our eye on our students, on our communities, and on our staff. Um with that, that concludes my report. Thank you. Thank

132you. That was really beautiful. Thank you, Dr. Clark. Okay, we're ready to move on to 15 um.0, the consent agenda. Items listed under the consent agenda are considered routine and will be approved or adopted by a single motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items. However, any item may be removed from the consent agenda upon the request of any member of the board and acted upon separately. Okay. And chair, I would like to pull 1527. Thank you, Miss Mason. We have uh three cards. Shall we? Um, I'm figuring out how to do this. Thank you. Um, um, Mr. Schneider would like to address us about 157 and 1527. Mr. Schneider. I guess we could move his public comment since we're going to be considering it separately to that particular item. All three of

133these. Well, you have one item that is not considering to be pulled. Okay. Would you like to address 157? Yes, I would like to address 157. Um, I know this is the YMCA contract. I believe it's mostly in the city of Pleasant Hill servicing our elementary um kids uh TK through six. Um my concern with this is that Bajala and other elementary schools. I think we're up to six of them are still not on the CARES program. We still have unduplicated pupils at those locations. My own son has never had academic support beyond um after school even though he qualifies in the third grade in the fourth grade fifth grade and now as he goes over to Valley View the whole after school uh summer program was cancelled but I didn't get notified until May

134even though the board kind of knew about this in March when they had to do the the repairs on the roof. So again, I'm hoping that we can look at that CARES program, look at the expanded learning program, and get all elementary kids TK through six exactly what the CDE says. And if it's not a capac if it's over capacity, if it doesn't exist, it's in that grant that you need to bust them to and from the closest afterchool program. So that's why I'm kind of worried about this expansion when we're not expanding. Thank you. You all right? Do you wish to pull any other items besides 15 27? All right. Is there a motion to adopt the consent agenda? I move that we adopt the consent agenda items. Second. We already pulled 15.27. So

135um there's a motion by trustee and Zwi with a second by trustee McDougall to adopt the consent agenda with the exception of 1527 which will be heard separately. Trusty Ooaha, how do you vote? Yes. And the consent agenda is adopted on a 5000 vote with support from Trusty Ooa. Thank you. So, it'll take a moment for our staff to um adjust the menu. The menu the agenda. It is a menu. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, um 15, it is now 16.1 and it was originally item 15.27. We have two speakers on this particular item. The first is uh Gina Haynes. Good evening, Superintendent Clark, Board President Mayo, and members of the governing board. I'm here tonight to formally express concern regarding the recent action of Superintendent Clark and his staff to prematurely dismiss six of

136the eight members of the Measure J Citizen Bond Oversight Committee without proper notice planning to assure a functioning oversight committee in clear violation of Prop 39 accountability laws and section 15278 of the educ Education Code, which legally mandates an active and functioning committee with two members remaining, no chair, no vice chair, no meeting date set, um, and lots of unfinished business, including the annual report that should be coming up next month. This was uh this mass dismissal appears to be motivated by a desire to silence the concerns of the oversight committee. Despite the lack of support from the district, our committee has fought to ensure accountability and transparency in the expenditure of voter approved Measure J bond funds. Our existence is not intended to serve as a rubber stamp for poor policies or decisions, questionable

137award of contracts, and procurement practices that are downright criminal. I should have known after the last Measure J CBOC meeting when Miss Coslo asked several of us if we could just drop the issue with the Schneider contract that that was the litmus test of moving forward with dismissing many of us at the first possible chance. except district staff, superintendent, and legal counsel must have not read the bylaws that state our term starts at the first meeting of the CBOC, which was August 22nd, 2019. So now we are left with a defunct oversight committee and no plan or ability for it to carry out its legally mandated responsibilities under Prop 39 in the ED code. A defunct committee not only weakens pro public trust in the oversight process but raises doubt about the district's commitment to

138any sort of bond oversight now and in the future. The doubt is compounded with the civil grand jury report just released with five recommendations to the make the measure JCBOC a truly independent and not controlled by Mount Tiablo Unified. So, where do we go from here? With five, six months for Measure J spending spent out, I don't see how you're going to find members to fill that gap. With some members serving on the Measure CBOC for 12 years, it doesn't make sense to deis dismiss the current members. Thank you, Mr. Schneider. You're the next speaker. Welcome. You again. I was kind of hoping that this would have been pulled because of the timing of everything that's going on with this, but my it has been pulled off the agenda, completely removed from the agenda. Excuse

139me. So I just want to say out of the committees that I have seen within the district, the CAC and this particular committee does the hard work. They ask what, when, where, why they don't take everything on face value. They follow the data. They follow the procedures. And then they start working on the house. How can we do better? How can we be more efficient? This committee was absolutely just doing what an independent oversight committee should be doing and it's just very disturbing that we continue on this track instead of looking and giving them the information that they need that's already been given to Schneider Electric especially on utility usage so that we can see and verify from all angles. Did everything get done right? And if not, let's learn from it. Let's not go

140ahead and try to bury it. Thank you. Okay, we'll bring this back to the board. Yeah. I I probably created this problem, Gina. I you and I have worked together. When the issue started coming up that there was issues and the board gets the information, I looked at it and you know me, I'm process driven. I like my my tees crossed, my eyes dotted and I said, "Well, wait a minute. Why have we not opened this up to other community members in like six years? It's supposed to be you there's a term and then you reapply and term." And I didn't in all the years I've been here, I didn't see that happen. So that's all we're with this. This is more me than Dr. Clark. This is just this is just trying to get

141it where it should be. So we're not trying to get rid of anybody. We're just opening the process again because there might be other people that would like to serve as well. So, with that in mind, I would like to make a motion that we move to approve that the board recognize and thanks the above named individuals, which are listed in our um program for their six years of dedicated service on the Measure J Citizens Board Oversight Committee, thereby concluding their terms as of August 21st, 2025, except that the member may continue to serve until a successor member has been appointed. So, if no one else is interested and you want to continue, that's fine. So that's where we stand. And if any other board members have a comment, now would be the time. We

142need a second first to discuss. Second. Thank you. Now we can discuss. Um, let me state the motion. Well, I won't restate it because I don't have it in front of me. Uh, Trusty Mason has made a motion and Trusty Enzwi has made a second. Mr. McDougall, I think uh the thank you is in order for these people who are unpaid and put a lot of work into this and we do appreciate that. So the thank you is definitely in order. Uh what I would like to see is that we strive to make this uh committee as independent as possible. And I am not familiar with the education code, but I believe there is room to make them more independent. And that's what I would suggest on this, but I don't want to change the

143motion here. I do want to open it up for those people who uh will not have a replacement to continue so that we have continuous process going on here and we don't lose any momentum. Uh, but I do want them to be encouraged in their work because it is hard work and we appreciate the fact that they're really unsung heroes and uh I would like to see us strive to get them more independence in their oversight of the bond issue because this is all taxpayer money that all of us here pay and we'd like to have good oversight on it. Thank you. So, um, I would like to thank Mrs. Mason for pulling this item for discussion so that the board of education can publicly thank Gina Haynes, John Ferrante, Mark Willis, Jay Bedare, Jack

144Weir, Jim Walsh who have served on our committee uh our communities uh who have served our community's interests for the maximum allowed six consecutive years um according to the ED code. We appreciate their dedication to attend at least four meetings a year and the frequently called special meetings by the committee chair. The committee has selected the dates of their meetings um requested information and special presentations by staff and contractors. The committee has reviewed numerous documents and has held lengthy uncensored discussions. their work and the information provided by staff is evidenced on the CBOC web page schedule of meetings included in the meeting minutes and viewable via video recordings. Besides being a thank you, this item is about highlighting the ED code requirements and their service and seeking new applicants to begin service on the committee,

145which has been discussed often by the bond oversight committee. So, thank you for your service and as you heard, there is an amendment to the motion um and we will be considering it. Further discussion. Trusty OOA. How do you vote? Yes. And the motion is adopted on a 500 0 vote. Thank you. Dr. Mr. Clark, we're ready to begin uh the regular business of the meeting. So, I'm going to have um Christina Filios and Samantha Allen. They are going to um begin the start of our public hearing in regards to the LCAP. Oh, do I do it now? Wait after. Good evening. You would do it now. Do it now. Okay. I open the public hearing. Thank you, Miss Allen. Please proceed. Thank you so much and please forgive me. Glasses on, glasses off. It's

146about phase of life. Um, thank you so much, uh, Dr. Clark, uh, Madame President, and board of trustees for having us here this evening to share with you the draft of our LCAP that we have been tirelessly working on, uh, throughout the school year. Um so um tonight we'll be sharing with you our this this LCAP at this stage is a draft and on the 25th we will be back to share with you the finalized version for those of you that need it in Spanish. We also have it in Spanish. Um I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is is that I'm going to be a little quicker than planned because uh Dr. Clark stole my thunder and note to self my part of the presentation was all about what's

147the LCAP. So um so I appreciate that and you know um he's always the mentor to me and I learned next time I'll be putting pictures in my presentation so it'll be far more interesting as you as you uh watch us present. So uh I will move this right along. So, we're going to start with the purpose um of our presentation tonight. And we are here to refamiliarize our community and our board um with what the LCAP is and what it does and how how we utilize this plan to uh improve student outcomes. So, um, that we're going to talk tonight about what is the LCAP, what is the cycle of improvement, how we use data and feedback to adjust our plan, how we use our metrics, and remember the metrics are the tools that

148we use to measure our outcomes, um, and our goals and actions, which are the meat and potatoes of the plan. That's what we utilize every day as a team um, to further our students growth academically. Okay? Okay. And forgive me, I'm going to read a little bit on this one because I want to be really succinct and make sure that you that you get all the parts. Um, the LCAP is a three-year plan supporting the needs of all students. The local control accountability plan um is a three-year strategic strategic plan that outlines how students and districts will meet the academic, social, emotional, and equity based needs of all students. We are currently completing year one of a three-year plan. Um each district LCAP must include and so these lists you see up here are what

149what we the guidelines that we follow as we build the plan. So um it must include student achievement indicators, goals, actions, and their related expenditures. So you'll see those things this evening. services that target each major student group, including underserved racial ethnic groups, low-income students, emerging bilingual students, students with unique needs, foster youth, students experiencing homelessness, and we have a new addition to our dashboard, and that group is our long-term English language learners. And if you don't mind, I want to say a little something about that. When students remain English language learners for six or more years without making progress in the last two years, California classifies them as long-term English learners. Many of you have heard the term ELTELS, and that is a common way that we refer to this group of students. To

150support this group of students, the California State Board of Education added a new LTEL category this school year to the California dashboard, the state tool for reporting performance and school uh student groups. So you will now start to see goals um that are connected to this particular dashboard measure on in our plan. Okay. So the LCAP is guided by the eight state priorities and this is really what we go over with the uh county office of education as they are auditing and providing us feedback on our plan. Number one is basic services. Basically this is access to credentialed teachers standards align materials and safe facilities. Number two, implementation of state standards, ensuring students are taught the California academic content and per performance standards. Parental involvement, increasing engagement of parents and families in decision-making, pupil achievement,

151academic performance in English, math, and other areas including assessment and college readiness, pupil engagement, attendance rates, chronic absenteeism, dropout and graduation rates, school climate, which you saw all these pictures today. This is I I don't even really need to read this to you. um and school climate suspension, expulsion rates, safety and connectedness, course access, student access to broad course of study, other pupil outcomes, additional indicators of student uh performance. These priorities are reflected in our ALCAP goals, actions and metrics, progress as measures both statewide with statewide measures and our local measures which is which were announced by Dr. Clark, our star and MClass measures, star math, reading and math. So um another thing we want you to be familiar with with is what what our LCAP means by uh indicating unduplicated uh count. So the

152LCAP also places special focus on the needs of unduplicated pupils. Students who fail into one or sorry students who fall into one or more of the categories. English learners or one of those categories, students who qualify for free and reduced price meals and foster youth. The term unduplicated means that even if a student meets more than one of the criteria, they are only counted once for the purpose of funding. Okay, so this visual is really important and we used this the other night at our PAC meeting and we found that uh there was a really strong response to it. Uh the visual represents the three-year plan. We talk a lot about this plan, do study, act, continuous cycle of improvement that we utilize uh through our plan. Um but what this shows you is that

153the it's not one big cycle. It's multiple cycles that are supposed to feed into the next cycle, report out and adapt to the next cycle. So um as you look at this, I want you to think about the adjustments that we make to the plan. We're only going into year two. you will not see enormous changes in the plan itself. What you'll see is our response to the data that we have collected and the new data platforms that were utilizing adding those to the plan. Maybe some grammatical changes. Um a few we moved some of our things from one goal to the other. We took some our LTEL information and moved it down to goal four as we do feel like they're part of our focal scholar group. So um again as you look at

154this at this model let this be the representation of the three years of work we will be doing and um as you as you think about a plan do study act model think about the school year and the way that we move through the school year and you can even use community events to sort of represent that cycle. We come back to school and we implement the plan that we created, right? We we adapt, we use the plan, we collect the data, then we come into our first report card season, right? And we start talking about how those things that we're doing are impacting students. Then we make some changes to address the students or the groups that are not meeting the goals that we had hoped for them. And that continues throughout the entire

155year. So on top of your large plan, do study act, we have smaller cycles going at our sites. So um I hope that helps you understand our cycle of continuous improvement. Um so we have four broad goals. I'm not going to go over them because Dr. Clark did a beautiful job of going over them. Um and then we have one equity multiplier goal and that's the goal that has um crossroads and Olympic and now we are adding uh Glen Brook Academy to that uh equity multiplier goal. So, I'm going to hand our presentation over to uh Christina Felios. We have a team of people who work on this LCAP. Everyone in this entire building does something that impacts our LCAP or contributes to it. So, I want to make sure that I stand here and

156just announce how proud and appreciative I am of the team in this building who contributes to this very, very laborintensive process. That being said, it also holds us hugely accountable for our students outcomes and that's really important to us. So, um I'm going to hand this over to the person who makes the magic happen. She fills in all the blanks, uh Miss Christina Felios. Thank you, Sam. Good evening, President Mayo, board of trustees. Dr. Clark, we're going to say thank you, Dr. Clark, for summarizing the LCAP and pictures. I um will not have to go over every action. Um I will be taking some time to go through each goal. It is important to us um in this public hearing that we help our community to have an overview of the plan. We know it

157is long and dense. We want to make sure our community understands overall what is in the plan um and our goals and actions on behalf of students. Um so I will uh go briefly through each goal. I will try to highlight what might be changed or different. Um, I'm also going to highlight some of our um, educational partner priorities that came out through um, our various methods of engaging our educational partners. Um, so again, as Sam mentioned, the um, the LCAP is a three-year plan. So, what you will notice is that other than goal five, our four main goals of the plan have remained the same. we are keeping that um large vision for all students in our district stable and then making small adjustments again based on data and feedback. Um one requirement of

158the LCAP is that we engage educational partners and I'm really proud to share with you that in the spring we had over 1,800 parent community members and staff provide us um input on the LCAP through our survey process. And for me, even more exciting, over 3,500 fifth through 12th graders answered our survey questions for us and gave us feedback and they're really our enduser and the whole reason that we exist. And so I was very excited to see their feedback come in and I will share some of that with you in the goals. Um, I also want to take a moment to note that this year the state has a new requirement for any LEA that is expected to have unspent LREBG, which stands for learning recovery emergency block grant funding. And that requirement is

159that the LEA conduct a needs assessment that looks at CASP ELA, CAST, math, and chronic absenteeism data at the district, school, and student level. And then based on that needs assessment, uh, plan for actions within the LCAP that will be funded with the unspent LREBG funds. So you will see that funding in actions 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10, and 2.1 in the LCAP. That's a new requirement. Okay. Goal one. We saw those beautiful pictures that Dr. Clark shared. Goal one is really focused on um standardsbased instruction, our safe and welcoming environments, and our college and career readiness for students. Goal one has the most metrics for our student outcomes. So, you'll see a long list of data points in goal one. Um most of our dashboard is there as well as our local indicators. And

160what you'll see is that we've added baseline measures for STAR and MClass, which are our new u metrics. Um, we are also adding a CCGI metric for college and career readiness that our counselors are starting to use that state platform. Um, and the other thing you'll notice is that our actions and services mirror our 2425 plan very closely. So, uh, standardsbased instruction, our foundational literacy, class size reduction. Um, I did want to share that across all of our community partners, not our students, but our other community partners, parents, families, staff, community members, and advisory members, uh, class size reduction and positive school climate and safety were, uh, very highly prioritized across all groups. Um, and, uh, in the LCAP, you'll see, for example, we have an action around class size reduction. and we've allocated $6.5

161million to that action alone. That allows us to support smaller class size averages across the district as well as smaller electives and specialty classes. Um, interestingly enough, for our students who completed the survey, some of their highest priorities were these kinds of learning experiences, electives, career pathways, field trips, college fairs. Um, so when we are able to offer classes that are a little bit smaller but specialized, we're really serving our what our students are asking us. Um, we also have um, as I mentioned our new local measures there. And um, in addition um, as Sam was talking about the smaller cycles of improvement in the coming year um, our district support is going to be focused at our Bayoint Peter Pattern Schools. We'd like to help accelerate their improvement. Um we have high concentrations of

162our unduplicated students in those schools and we want to support um the school leaders and the teachers and staff at those schools um so their students can make even um faster growth. Goal two um goal two is focused also on creating a safe and engaging learning environment with a focus on highly qualified staff. So many of the actions in the school really focus on staff development and leadership development. Our actions and services are around training, coaching, supervision, our classified training, recruiting and retaining uh diverse staff and highly qualified staff and our teacher induction and support program. Some adjustments to this goal are that we've added metrics for our unduplicated students in this goal. Um and we've added an intensive focus on plan do study act improvement cycles which our sites are working on and um

163even grade level teams are working on at our sites or departments. Um again our cycle of improvement is focused on theories of like starting on a smaller scale and testing theories of improvement and then figuring out what really works for students and then scaling those. Um we we're very large district so sometimes we have to work a little bit smaller and then take it bigger. Um and that's what we'd like to do. It's really um find out what works best. Again our community priorities were professional development for teachers and principles commun classroom assistance and training for those um support personnel and then training on inclusive environments and restorative practices. Goal three, we saw wonderful pictures of fostering family and community engagement. Um this is uh creating supportive partnerships on behalf of our students. And uh

164we are continuing our outreach and engagement efforts through family nights and education offerings, translation services, uh free and reduced cost fingerprinting, which was a high priority in our community. um community liaison positions and communication tools like parent square. Um and interestingly enough even with our um students um in their voices they asked for educational opportunities for their parents as well so that they could understand um our school system and what is happening in our schools. Um so again those priorities included the family engagement activities, the free or reduced cost fingerprinting. Um this year we added um contracted translation services because that is one of the ways that we've been able to expand our outreach to families who speak languages other than Spanish and partnerships with community agencies. Um that's one of the successful strategies that

165we employed this year to ensure cultural responsiveness for um families um who are coming into our community and with whom we may have um less experience working in a culturally responsive way. Um some exciting celebration. We're very close to meeting our three-year goal for percent of families with emails in Aries. Our goal is 90% and we are at 89. So that's a celebration. Goal four. Um we know that this uh goal originated as a requirement from the CDE uh for any student groups um that had three or more consecutive years um of performance on the dashboard that the CDE um uh was not that was not progressing. And um although this is no longer a required goal, I am very proud that in MDUSD we are continuing to have a goal for um really calling

166out the needs of specific student uh focal scholar groups and um calling out the actions that we're committed to on behalf of each of the groups. As Sam shared, um long-term English learners have been added and we've um moved a few metrics into this goal specifically for our multilingual learners and our long-term English learners. So again, um, some celebration. We did see some increased metrics for our focal scholars, including our African-American students who do not qualify for differentiated assistance based on the 24 dashboard. Um, however, we still have a lot of room um to grow in these metrics. So um, we are continuing um, some of our actions that have uh, proven to be successful for our African-American students, including our H.B.C. DCU college fairs and college tours. We know we had some students being

167able to commit to schools right on the spot. Um, one of our most successful um actions has been the recruitment of um families of African-American students to participate on advisory panels and in particular the growth of our APAC groups across um our district sites. So very proud of that work and will continue supports for foster youth and students experiencing homelessness. These are um student groups that qualify as our unduplicated students and we do feel that it is an important priority to call out specific actions for them. Uh we are very fortunate to have our SOAR office and specific personnel who are committed um to working not only with our foster youth and stu students experiencing homelessness, but with several several other uh family groups that uh need additional uh resources and and connections in the

168community. Um some of our metrics show decreases in data for our homeless and foster youth. They do tend to um be a smaller groups of students and so the data can shift significantly. So it is important for us to continue um monitoring these metrics for our students. Um it's very important for us to continue to have a a wraparound support services and a menu of supports in all areas academic, social, emotional, um basic needs. um and to again connect with community agencies. Supports for English learners. Again, this is a requirement um for any district with 30 or more English learners and 15 or more long-term English learners. Uh we have, I think, a little over 6,000 English learners in our district. So, we're well within uh the range. um and very proud of the focused

169work that our uh especially our MLL department has been doing, but also the collaboration across our district on behalf of our English learner students and our long-term English learners. Um we are focused on professional development and monitoring reclassification metrics um and especially um some support through our TOSAs and EL support teachers. We have moved the reclassification rate metric here to goal four so we can monitor reclassification rates specifically in this goal um and not have it in that very long list in goal one and get get kind of buried for our support for long-term English learners. Um so this is kind of a dual a dual uh focus here. one uh reducing the number of students at risk of becoming long-term English learners by increasing the number of students we are reclassifying within that sixy

170year to sevenyear mark that um Samantha mentioned. Um and so that we have also added a new metric here which is monitoring students at risk of becoming long-term English learners. So for example, if a student starts in our schools in kindergarten, we would be monitoring fourth and fifth graders, third to fifth graders for this metric for our students with IEPs. Uh later we will have public hearing for the Sulpa plan. So we have an entire plan um for our services. But in addition, in our LCAP, we really want to call out that we're focused on increased training um and refined MTSS processes to be able to support academic, behavioral, and social emotional needs for students at all tiers of need. Um and we're also going to continue monitoring how our IEPs are implemented and monitored

171in order to uh meet student needs. And then in action 4.6, this is our supplemental funding and accountability for schools. So we do provide supplemental funding to our school sites so they can implement their own cycles of improvement and address the needs of their students through their SIPs. Um and as part again of our increased improvement and accountability focus and our technical assistance work, district personnel will be supporting our Bayoint feeder pattern schools and conducting these cycles of improvement. So goal five, you'll see a significant change here again. Um the equity multiplier focus goal um in monies and equity multiplier monies are allocated to schools that had prior year non-stability rates of greater than 25% meaning that students change schools. And then also the prior year socioeconomically disadvantaged pupil rate was greater than 70%. And

172so this year we have um Crossroads and Olympic continue to qualify and Glen Brook Academy is newly qualifying. And so our goal has changed to include Glenbrook. Um they've been added with a one-year improvement timeline. Equity multiplier goals must be timebound specific and measurable within the goal. So you'll see those um metrics right there. Um so by 2026 all three um schools are working on improved graduation rates, improved attendance rates and improved ontrack for graduation rates. Um we also changed and added a few actions in this goal. We had only personnel actions in last year's goal. Um and now we've added some um funding for transportation and basic needs support. uh just for example, one of the schools is interested in purchasing a washer and dryer to be sure that students have access to clean

173clothes and that that's not a barrier to coming to school. And then also more incentives and recognition activities to bring families in connection with school, but also to incentivize our students and recognize them when they're making that progress on attendance or earning those credits. Um, and now I'm going to bring up uh Gustavo Aguilera, our executive director of fiscal services, and he's just going to very briefly explain the budget overview um that's in the LCAP. Okay, thank you. Um so the budget overview for parents the the total projected revenue for the 2526 uh school year is 470 million. Um the local control funding formula is the primary source uh contributing 353 million u which represents 75% of all revenue. um within the LCFF 33 million is allocated through the supplemental grant. Um and the other

174funding sources include uh other state funds of 82.5 million uh local funds of 16.7 million and uh federal funds of 18.2 million. The total projected expenditures is 515 million. Of this uh 67 million is directly tied to the LCAP um actions and services. The remaining 448 million is allocated for general operations uh which include employment compensation, facilities and maintenance, transportation, special education, legal and administrative expenses. Uh so now I'll turn it back to uh Christina or Samantha. Um okay. So thank you. This concludes our presentation of our draft of the LCAP this evening and we will remain for any questions that anybody might have. We'll just add that we are taking feedback from the community through uh Wednesday, June 18th at 400 p.m. You can email lcapmusd.org or fill out the survey that is on

175the community um website. Thank you for the presentation. We have one speaker uh who would like to make some comments. Mr. Schneider. Long night. So, I would just like to say thank you to the staff of Mount Diablo for working on this. This thing is a monster of a document. Many school districts have elected in the last few years to create more of an open window for gathering and collaborating and having meaningful engagements with the community to help them through this process. Some of them starting as early as November, definitely by January. And um as I look at this document um I do do comparisons, I do do data analysis, I do all sorts of of data that is being used for multiple sources across the state of California, including what can we learn from

176districts that are similar to ours who may be doing better and what programs, resources, and how do we get them here? Um my main concern is um the lack of engagement with the community. Um we need in my opinion looking at what is working um is more family engagement and um that's going to require not just as a district educating our kids but educating our families. Um, LA County has two days, 90 minutes of training for their staff and for the families. Um, Saddleback Valley who's very similar to Mount Diablo in population and unduplicated, their number one goal is family engagement. And in that goal, they have about 23 action items to go ahead and improve. And I think in our current LCAP here, I think we're at seven. So there's definitely room to grow.

177Um the other concern that I have is the readability of the document itself. um create paragraphs breaks in these very long descriptions so that it's easier for families and the community to actually be able to read the document. Right now it's just all cluttered into a big little ball of yarn and you just got to really really got to focus it. it it needs a little bit better readability and um and think of the community, think of how can we make this information easier to digest. Um the other issue is we're going to year two now. And as we look at the metrics from year of the baseline, they don't line up with the uh year one or the year two. They're offsetting and it's very hard to describe. But if you look at it,

178it doesn't go straight across. And so we can create more readability in this document and get parent engagement with a family engagement model from the CDE. Um this is how we can grow engagement with the community. Thank you. Remind me. Did you say that this uh parent input was 1,800 and the student input was 13 uh 3,500 written comments? Okay. I realize that Mr. Schneider probably wants face-toface comments, but yeah. And just so you know, we also have uh PAC um CAC and DAC where we do activities and we train parents um around the LCAP and and receive feedback in person. Um and we absolut Mr. Center's not wrong. We absolutely could uh have more involvement in in our groups and we're working on that. So, thank you. Other questions from the board. Thank you

179for that report. I do have some questions. You mentioned that you have a class size reduction goal for which you had $6.5 million allocated and I know this is a complicated process because you need classrooms, you need teachers and a lot of other logistics to work to reduce these class sizes. So, I want to ask where did you accomplish class size reductions? And was it because they had the classrooms available? You found a school that did have the rooms and what about the additional teachers you need? Where were you successful? So, I'll start. Christina can add in. Um when we look at class size reduction, um many of the places we're spending that money are in courses like band, choir, CTE, electives, AP. The reason is many of those I'll use I use this all

180the time as an example. Jazz band, our class max is 45 for band. Jazz bands don't run at 45. Part of that money goes to making sure that that course can run and it has run for a long time at many of our schools. Um there are certain art classes that have a higher class max that we supplement um so that they can meet the station requirement for like a ceramics teacher or a specialty art class, digital art class, something of that sort. Um there are many electives that we want to continue to provide but we uh you know there have small class sizes and we can't fill the classes but we want students to have opportunities because the students want those classes. One of the things that comes up a lot are higher uh

181level like um Spanish 5 or AP those courses tend to not be as full and we want to continue to offer those. Uh we have been doing that for a long enough time now that we have teachers in classrooms and and we have been utilizing those funds to contribute to or supplement those courses for quite a while. Anyone? I would just say that when we supplement those smaller classes, it also helps ease the burden off the other classes. So students would be going in and filling all the other classes as well, right? So that's why it's an average sort of overall but that's where the the supplement is happening and and we have done things like um projects where we we've said okay algebra 1 is a place where we want to make impact. Let's

182make a commitment across the board to um keep our class sizes as close to 30 as possible rather than the class max. Now again we're not turning a student away from a class. So some of the classes might have been over that that number that's lower, but the intent was to reduce the class size to see if we could make an impact. Okay. So $6.5 million isn't a heck of a lot of money to do it. So I can see you're doing it in areas that uh uh you mentioned jazz, you mentioned art, you mentioned Spanish. The one that I wanted to hear was the maths and the in the English and I heard algebra. Um but it seems like um yes, you can reduce classes in those specific areas. How about we use more

183money to reduce classes sizes in English and in math? And how much would it take? I don't know what the cost of that would be, but when you think about reducing class size in English or math class, um you're talking about, you know, grades 9 through 12, right? Every student. And one of the things that I will tell you is that um when you reduce class size, which is something that we would love to do across the board if if we could so afford, um it you know one or two students is not necessarily the same impact that or the impact that that teachers are looking for or that staff is looking for in a perfect world because we have you know our class maxes are over 30. Um, so again, picking and choosing and

184making decisions and prioritizing. Um, I'm I'm not I'm not saying that uh we haven't done projects where in which we've picked subject areas, but English and math across the board. We've got um that would be every student across the district would that we would have to be able to fund. Okay. Yeah, you're doing a good job with $6.5 million. Thank you. I'd like to see us spend more money on that. And I even um would suggest that maybe instead of an increase in pay, maybe the teachers would like a smaller class. And uh I know that I have some friends in the area who live near me who are teachers in the district and they say, you know, the pay is nice, the the insurance coverage for 100% is nice, but I'd sure like to

185see a smaller class. And I think that's got to be one of those goals that we really strive to. And I know the superintendent's been doing this for this term here. And so I'd like to encourage us to continue on this path to increase it to to be more successful in other classes. Thank you. We appreciate your feedback. Thank you. Anyone else have any more comments? All right. This will come back to the board of education on June 25th and I will close the public hearing. Thank you very much. Please remember to submit your comments about the LCAP to lcapdus.org by June 18th, I believe, is the date. Thank you. Thank you everyone for your hard work on that very large document. Yes, please. All right. So, moving on. So, um I'm here tonight to

186present the 2526 proposed budget and to satisfy the public hearing requirement. And I have uh our executive director of fiscal services with me, Gustavo Aguilera, that will help present. But go ahead. I'll open the public hearing. Please move forward. My apologies. So, um so part of the proposed budget, uh we're required to adopt a budget by July 1st of each year. Um, as a reminder, there is no financial reporting certification that goes along with your adopted budget. So, we won't be talking about qualified, negative, positive. The budget is either approved or disapproved by the county office of ed. The proposed budget is a tenative budget. It's based off the May governor's May budget revise and the state enacted budget uh may be different. And um we will be coming back on June 25th uh for

187the adoption of the budget. And as I stated in the earlier bullet bullet point, if there's major um changes when the state enacted budget is approved or um enacted, uh we'll come back with uh material revisions within 45 days, which will be the first board meeting in August. Um, in putting together the proposed budget, we're using School Services of California's uh May Revise projection dart board. Um, also the common message uh that's provided by the county office of ed. Um, also our internal team has been working since January with our sites and departments going through the budget development process. Um, and that ended probably miday. Um and that um is and what you see today is the result of all that work. Um, another thing to to keep in mind in terms of the proposed

188budget, um, our enrollment projections were updated to include uh, our expanding TK uh, classrooms as of this um, as I was preparing this PowerPoint. Um, we had pre-registration numbers at that number, 1,225 students. So, um, kind of get that number in your head and then just think back to the 2425 school year where RTK was roughly about 950, I think 960. So, we've made an adjustment to accommodate that. Um, as well as the closure of um the charter school, Coco Spa, within the school boundaries. Um so our uh enrollment is roughly about 300 higher to accommodate um those changes. And just know again um in terms of TK, I talked about it at the uh May revis update that um and it's also in my next slide, but we still have the ratio going down

189from 12:1 to 10:1 and we're still waiting to see if that TK additional add-on will be part of the state enacted budget. Um, so getting into the May revise highlights, um, the governor's May revise is funding the COLA fully at 2.3%. Um, it does include 1.8 billion in LCFF aortionment cash deferral. So basically what that means is that they're delaying our cash June uh, LCFF aortionment to the next month. and that's to help fund the COLA and some of the other proposals in the May revise. Um the other thing that is part of this May budget revise is that we still have $1.3 billion not appropriated in the current year for our Prop 98 funds. Um so that is also part of that to help pay for 20. So they do this in three-year increments.

190So there's the 2324 year, the 2425 year, and then the 2526 year. So we still have funds on the table, so to speak, for the current year. Um we're they're drawing down completely the rainy day fund, so 8.4 4 billion for the 2324 year. Uh 540 million um for the current year and it's a full depletion in 2627 which means that the resolution that we normally do with our reporting or interim reporting or even the adopted budget is not a requirement the 10% cap. Um also um there is the proposal for the TK uh add-on or additional add-on of 1.2 billion. Uh but we were uh the guidance from school services as well as the county office of ed uh was to not budget that. So that is not included in the proposed budget. And

191then um the 1.7 billion for the one-time student support and professional development block grant. We were also um got guidance from school services and the county uh not to budget that. Um I did talk about those two particular proposals. Uh the TK additional support was roughly about an additional 2 million of ongoing dollars for Mount Diablo. Um, and then the one-time block grant, the way that it is written, uh, would have generated roughly about $314 per ADA, which would have equated over $8 million and onetime funds for Mount Diablo. Um, but I will share just recently, I read an article probably two days ago that the Senate and the Assembly uh submitted their proposal to the governor. So, it includes the TK add-on at that the way it is written. However, in the one-time block

192grant, their proposal is 500 million. So, there in lies why the county and school services said do not budget that in your proposed budget. So, we we will see what happens with the onetime block grant. Um so with that I will turn it over to Gustavo who will go through the revenues and expenditures um for the proposed budget as well as the multi-year assumptions. Okay, thank you Adrian. Um so the unrestricted revenue totals 371 million um which is 95% of the unrestricted uh revenue that comes from the local control funding formula and the the combined total revenue is 470 million uh which is 75% of the LCFF cont that contributes to the total revenue uh about 4% for the federal revenue venue about 17.5% for state revenue and about 3 3.5% for the uh local.

193The total proposed expenditures amounts to 515 million. Uh 92% of the unrestricted budget is for salaries and benefits. Here's a visual of these expenditures in percentage. 90 million is the total proposed for contributions in sped special education RRMA and local programs. Here's a summary of fund 01. Um the table on the left shows the total revenue and the total expenditures which which have a netted projected uh deficit of 44.3 million. The table on the right shows the components of ending fund balance with commitments and assignments with a projected ending fund balance of 114 million. This table provides uh fund balance changes for all all of the district funds. All of the funds are projected to end with a positive fund balance. Um and now I'll turn it over to uh Adrian. Wow, he went he

194went through those slides pretty quick. Um, so just as a reminder, uh, California AB2756, um, really just talks about the use of multi-year projections. And so, um, as we think about multi-year projections, it's just a reminder that, um, these are our estimates with the information that we know today or as of probably a week ago. Um, as we're putting the presentation together. Um, of course, this could change. I mean, as I stated earlier, just even the onetime block grant, when we come back in August, I'm pretty sure that we're going to be doing some kind of update with some material revision. Um, if we're going August 13th, we we might have some more information on our enrollment because school will have already started, but it'll be very early on. Um but again multi-projections are just

195what we know in the moment and um and that's what we're presenting today with the proposed budget. So just these two slides are just a reminder um that is not a crystal ball and uh we do our best to project with the information that we have. Okay. for um for the out years uh 2627 and 2728 we are projecting relatively uh flat enrollment and ADA at 93%. LCFF revenue increases are um are modest and federal state law and local uh revenues are expected to to be stable. However, um interest income is expected to decline and special education contributions uh will rise adding um further pressure on unrestricted uh funding. The uh expenditure uh assumptions begin with the stepping column increase for certificate and classified staff. uh benefits such as uh stirs remain steady and purr

196rates uh increase while books and supplies show slight decrease as one time uh funding expires. uh contracted services and uh operating expenses uh will decrease by 4.5 million following the removal of one-time expenses uh but are offset by increased expend expenses in special ed programs. So, I I do want to point out one thing in terms of the multi-year projections. Um, for contracted services, we are including um 1 point almost $1.5 million for liability insurance. So, um, SEL is a a liability company that, um, is doing back assessments related to AB218 or the sexual molestation, uh, uh, legislation. So, our, um, our bill that we received in May, so it was probably the third week of May, was roughly $2.6 million. So, it was the fourth assessment. Um, this is something that can be paid

197uh over a two-year period. Um, so that is being built into the multi-year. Uh, just to give you a reference, the prior three assessments on average for Mount Diablo is roughly about a million dollars. So that increase was a a major shock not just for Mount Diablo uh but for all districts that are getting these back assessments to help um mitigate these these claims that are coming out and the settlements resulting from those claims. So I just wanted to point that is a pretty big adjustment to our my talked about in the interim reports or even in the budget update. But um like I said, we got that in about the third week of May. So I just want to point out like you know there there are some major things that go on and

198that can cause the the budget to change. So moving into the proposed budget multi-year projection as Gustavo stated we are projecting a deficit and again this is in alignment to our planned spendown of the fund balance. Um again we we we are well aware that we had a fund balance going into 2425 that was over 200 million. We are deficit spending 44.3 in the proposed budget year. Um and then we continue that deficit spend uh in this in the two out years. But the the one thing about the two outy years, which is new for at least my time here at Mount Diablo, is that I'm including projected reductions that may be needed uh beginning July 1st uh 2627 and then an additional 2.75 million in for the uh fiscal year 2728. Um, and again,

199this is based off the proposals that may or may not be included or the amounts may change with the state enacted budget. So, we we are looking at some reductions. Um, and I think I talked about that with um the second interim report and showing you a 4-year multi-year. Um, so, you know, I think increasing the, uh, enrollment based off, you know, our pre-registration numbers um, helped us offset I think it was 11 million is what I was looking at as a deficit. Um but that that kind of offset that and just also just going through the budget development process and seeing where we could have some potential savings but as it stands we we are looking at some potential reductions. So with that this is just a highle summary showing um the three years

200and the overall deficit spend. So, we are trying to utilize our restricted uh programs or our restricted funds to help stave off some of these uh reductions. Um so, we are continuing to spend down our uh learning recovery block grant. Um also our discretionary materials or arts, music, and discretional materials block grant. We still have some funding in educator effectiveness that we're spending down. So we're we're trying to utilize all the different funding sources and making sure that you know the those uses are allowable within those uh restricted funds again in the effort to stave off reductions as as best we can. Um but again you see that we are deficit spending and if those proposals don't go through as written then you know that we will figure out what we need to do uh

201in terms of re reductions. But when we come with the proposed budget, more than likely it will be accompanied with a resolution basically saying that we are committed to looking at reductions if needed with a projected amount. So right now I'm looking at 2.75. And then just in the PowerPoint, I included um if the proposals were passed um as written in terms of the TK additional add-on and the onetime block grant, if you flow those things in, again, I've mentioned the TK additional add-on is ongoing. So, you see that moving across all three years. And then the one-time block grant would be a one-time uh receipt of funds. you would see that we have an excess of 6.6 million in the third year out which means that we would not have reductions again based off

202the information we know today. Um but there's a lot of things that um and then here's just a summary of that with the proposals going through. Um, but in terms of of the future, um, I think we're all kind of watching, you know, how the state budget's going to, uh, pan out in terms of I mean, we still have LA County that's delayed or had the delayed tax returns. And if I remember, school services, they make up 20% of our personal income taxes. So, we still have that that's still out there. Um, I think the the number one thing that everybody is talking about is the federal policy changes. I mean, I just read an article this morning about uh President Trump's, you know, proposals and all of the the different types of funding that's

203on the chopping block. Um, is and we just don't know. granted, you know, school services put out. They've never passed a budget on time at the federal level or they've passed it four times in the last 51 years. Um, so I will share that school services said at this moment I would not make any adjustments to your federal revenues um just because it's going to play out a lot longer at the federal level than it will at our state level. Um, and I think that if they felt like it was in jeopardy for the 25 26 year, they would have advised us not to include it, but what the future holds, we we don't know. Um, also I talked about the expiring and spending down in one-time funds. We're trying to do as best we

204can to do that. Um, and again, uh, you know, try to save off reductions in any amount. Um, and then also we we are not um finished with our collective bargaining with a couple of our units. So, we still have that uh that could cause an impact of the multi-year. And again, it's great that we have these enrollment numbers because we've been growing as a district. Um, but we also have to deal with student absence rates. And it was great to share, you know, P2 came in at 93% of our Cabbeds enrollment. Um, I don't know that a lot of districts can say that, you know, they can hold their enrollment like that at P2. Um, but we're still using that as an assumption. And again, the rising cost pressures. I just mentioned the self

205assessment for liability insurance. And then we have utilities that are always going up as well as our health benefits. So, moving forward, our next steps, we'll come back in June 25th to adopt the budget. We'll wait uh the state enacted budget will know by July 1st. Uh we'll come back with a 45day revise with any material revisions in August. Um then September we'll present the unodudited actuals. So we'll be closing the books in the months of July and August and then um December we're you know we're starting all the interim reporting again. uh we'll submit our audit to the state controllers's office in December as well as present first interim. I w I was going to put January 2026 but I was just like I'm going to stop at first interim because it's a lot.

206So with that I will Gustavo and I are here for any questions. We have one board member's comment. I mean board members community members comment Mr. Schneider, thank you for that. um the way that uh California's um public schools and how they are transparent with uh district money, it doesn't really flow down into the LCAP and it doesn't flow into the actual schools where communities and families really want to know when they start seeing when there's extra money or if there's coming cuts, how is the district going to make sure that this is going to be equitable if we are having to start to do cuts. Um, one issue is the uh LCAP. Even though we have 15 million more in revenue, the amount has reduced 9 million in the LCAP. So, um, we're actually

207becoming less transparent. And the other thing is I'm concerned that um through this we're setting aside um some of the dollar amounts that are in the LCAP. And when you compare to what was set aside that we would say that we're going to put into student services once you look at what the actuals are if we're holding on to a million dollars per se like for family engagement which I think the LCAP which was set aside 1.7 million just for family engagement um we we we haven't been able to to even get up to 700,000 000. So that's a million dollars. And if we could get the LCAP to be more transparent, more 100% of what is actually in the budget, then when we have our interim reports, when we have our LCAP update midyear,

208we have a better understanding of, oh, okay, we can shift this money around on an equitable scale that is not being spent. And that way we're not waiting until this time or in December to find out that oh we didn't spend $30 million because we set it aside and we just fell short of getting the services or getting the plan itself implemented. So, I'm just want to be uh um sure that every that once you do do this um it's just more transparency and it's much more relatable to the community as to yes, we understand this is what the district has, but how does that relate to my school? Thank you. Trustees, do you have questions? I have a comment. my compliments to you guys. I I was just talking to a college student and

209he said, "What's what's the main thing you do as a board member? What what is it you do?" And I said, "Well, one of the things we're going to be dealing with tonight is the budget." And he said, "Well, I took the economics class. How how how do you do that?" I said, "Well, here's the trick. They tell you in January, this is what they have. In May, they change it. And then when school starts, it's different. And it's usually never more. It's almost always. And he goes, "That's crazy. You can't budget that way." And that is true. And that's what we're faced with every year. And I know it's confusing. And I know it'd be really nice if we can say, "We're going to have exactly this much left and we're going to spend

210it on exactly that." That is not the world we live in. So, I appreciate you guys giving us as much information as you do so we can respond to the public when they don't understand why we can't just divide it into little neat pots of money and spend it here and there. that that's not the normal reality. And now our abnormal reality, knowing not what's going on in Washington, how that's going to affect us. We're just trying to keep the doors open right now. Comment. Yeah, Mr. McDougall. Thank you. I appreciate all the work you go through. I look at those charts and all the figuring you have to do and it's like keeps my head spinning. So, I got to hand it to you. Um, okay. $44 million deficit spending in the next year.

211And maybe we'll get the block grant, but maybe it's going to come in at 500 million, not 1.7 million. So, take a third of that. That 8 million, they're down to 2 million right there. And maybe we get the other one that was 2 million. We got 4 million. That only takes 10% off of the 44 million. And I'm thinking that scares the heck out of me. If I were a private citizen and I spent like that, I'd be in jail. So, I don't know how we can continue to do this. But what I see is we keep spending that reserve, the ones that we're told we have 200 million in reserve. It ain't there because it's all got to be spent on these sort of things. And when I look at the bottom of

212this proposed multi-year projection, it shows encircled in red there. Yeah, there you had it. 6.6 million is really what you have left over um after all the expenses are accounted for. And I think Are you looking at the one with the proposals? With proposals. Yeah. Oh, I should go back further, shouldn't I? It's back a couple slides, couple slides on that one. So, if you were going to equate the 6.6 million and I had a circle, it would be around the 265 265,000, right? So, that's how close we're getting to zero. Well, that's above the 3% reserve of 15.4 million. Okay. So, there is a 3% reserve that's accounted for in there. I see. You can't spend it. No, you can't spend it. But that's how close we're getting down to the zero factor. And

213and u it's not easy for a person to figure that how to do that, but for a school district, I you're doing a darn good job at taking the money that's going to go away and using it up so that we spend it where it can make some effect. And I I thank you for that. So that's all the comments I want to make. Thank you. Um so um couple of things. Um one is I want to say thank you for um looking very carefully for what adjustments you can make to find the money. Um so the fact that you were able to make an adjustment in our um enrollment um to be able to find $11 million is huge, right? Um, and so making sure that we're making every little adjustment that we can

214is incredible. Um, and it's crucial at this point in time because there is so much uncertainty out there. I mean, the only reason that we are one of the few districts this year to have not had mass layoffs um already is because we've been so careful to make sure that we have enough of a reserve. Um I think oftentimes people look at the uh the total number that is unrestricted and restricted together and that looks like a large amount of money but the 3% reserve is of the unrestricted right so um so we have to be very careful about that piece as well for people to understand um and then there is so much uncertainty out there I mean so in my day job I work for a state assembly member I can tell you

215this week is very very stressful Um, and the legislature may be working through the weekend if they can't come to an agreement on Friday for tens of billions of dollars of cuts that none of them want to make. It's it's in all of the things that we all care about. If it's not education, it's health and human services. Um, it's a very very challenging situation at the state level and part of that is because of funding that comes to the state from the federal government. Um, so we can't just when we think about what the federal cuts could be if this big beautiful bill passes, um, I'm not sure what's beautiful about it, um, for our kids and for the most vulnerable in this society because, um, you know, if we just look at our

216federal funds and say, so maybe we lose 18 million, right? Because we have 18 million of federal funding right now per year. Um, and so we could think maybe we ju we would just lose$ 18 million, but actually we would lose more because of the money that goes from the federal government through the state government to us, right? Um, so there is a lot at risk right now. Um, so I appreciate all of the work that you've put into this and I'm very concerned about what is to come um over the next week from the state um next month when the legislature tries to come to agreement with the governor um and with whatever is going to happen at the federal level. And I think the other risk that we have is as long as

217the state continues to use um ADA um attendance instead of enrollment, um we are at risk because right now there is so much fear out there with so many of our students and families with these uh immigration raids and all of that. people are extremely fearful to participate um in general public um go to work, go to school and so as long as that continues um I think our ADA is actually at risk as well. So sorry but I'm very uh concerned about the budget overall and anything that we may commit to and uh promise to do over the next year or uh three additional comments. Well, thank you. Thank you very much for uh the presentation. I will close it. Give me a minute. Thank you. There are too many people telling me what

218to do. I'm the president. I I apologize. I guess I appreciate the effort that went into the preparation of the budget documents. I know you've spent sleepless nights thinking about some of the things that are coming down either from the state or the federal government. We also have wildfires to worry about. We have unrest in certain areas of our country. Um and um who knows we might have another earthquake so we won't jinx it. Right. Um there you're work you're worried about those things. My husband's worried about earthquake bracing and firestorms. We all have different things that we're worried about and um our budget is critical and thank you for the efforts that uh went into prepare preparing this. All right, I'll close the hearing. Next item, Sela, do we need a meeting extension? Because

219it we have like Okay, a gazillion more. There are one, two, three, four, five more. I six more items. Maybe more. Um, I know. I think we'll be okay. Do you think we'll be okay? Yeah. Amy's presentation is going to be about 20 minutes, so no. Yeah. All right, you're on. Good evening everybody. Dr. Clark, madam president and the board. We are here to discuss the every year we have to update our SULPA budget for our special ed funding. I believe all of those documents were provided in the agenda and I'm here to ask for any questions or comments. How do we mute them? We also discussed them at CAC. Correct. On page 62, I'm wondering. No, I'm joking. Sorry. I'm joking. Would you Would you like to open the hearing? Your pardon? Would you

220like I'll open the hearing. Are there any comments? There any comments from the board? I'll close the public hearing. Make him sweat. Next item, Dr. Clark review. Oh, no. This is um Kelly Hoover, Prop 28. Come on up. Good evening, Dr. Clark. Board trustees. Um, as we mentioned in our Prop 28 update in April, uh, we are back to present the AMS annual report for tonight. Um, and so just if you could scroll down just a little bit there to our data. I just want to highlight that the bullet points there. Um, our total number of full-time equivalent teachers that we were able to hire this year was 9.96 FTE. Number of classified personnel was 7.84 FTE. Our number of teaching aids is 1.0. 0 FTE total number of pupils served 27,892 and our total

221number of school sites providing arts education programs with AMS funds were 44. Thank you. Any questions board? I move to approve the 2425 arts and music in schools AMS annual report. Second. We have a motion by Trusty K with a second by Trustee McDougall regarding the approval of the arts uh report. Trusty Oella, how do you vote? Yes. While they're waiting, what's the what's the dollar amount on on almost 10 teachers? On how much? 10 teachers? Yeah, it depends on how far in their career. I'm not sure. Can help you too. Might be an Adrian question. Great. Thank you. The motion is adopted on the 500 Z vote. Good. I just want to say thank you for all of your work on this and I look forward to seeing the program continue to grow and

222reach all of our schools in many different ways. Thank you. Thank you. Next item. All right. Next item we have um second amendment to the 2011U Northgate High School stadium lighting. I'm not used to standing over here. This is an amendment to anou between Northgate High School and its neighbor or the condo association. It only involves those two parties to recognize all the changes in um sports and times when kids play sports and also adjustments for the start time of school. We request your approval of the second amendment. Right. I'll take questions. So I would make a motion that we approve the second amendment to the 2011 memorandum of understanding for Northgate High School stadium lighting project. Second. We have a motion by trustee Mason with a second by trustee and Zwei regarding the second

223amendment to the Northgate uh stadium lighting project. Trustee OOA, how do you vote? Yes. Thank you. All right. Motion is adopted on a 5000 vote. Thank you very much. Thank you, Trustee Ochilla. I President uh Mayo, we have uh 18.6, which is review and potential adoption of revised developer fee certificate form and I believe we have Gustavo for that one or Adrian Okay. Um so after um some internal review and um feedback from fiscal staff and legal uh staff, uh we identified a few uh areas that needed to be improved on the form. So, we're bringing forward the the um revised developer fee uh certificate form for approval. So, could you explain how it's used? So it's um the developer fee uh developer fee form is used to certify and document the amount of developer

224fee um and andor defer in connections with real estate uh development. I'm all for improving our forms for clarity and for for better use. So with that, I move to approve the revised developer fee certificate form. I'll second that. So we have a motion by trustee count with a second by trustee Mason regarding the revision of the developer fee certificate form. Trustee OOA, how do you vote? Yes. And the motion is adopted. 500 0. Thank you very much. Yes. So, next item is 18.7 which is potential approval of renewal ofou between Mount Davo Unified School District and Eagle Peak um for financial and operational services. Uh we have a car speaker card. Yeah. U Miss Hammonds, would you like to address us? I don't know. It's half my bedtime. I'm not sure if it makes

225sense anymore at this point. And Dr. Clark, um, I'm not sure that I can forgive you. My board president is sitting right next to me, Bernice Hernandez. And she's like, where are your pictures for the LCAP? I was like, I despise the LCAP. I'm sure you have many. Uh, well, I've never included them in the Elcap. Now I'm going to have to I have to up my game. But I just wanted to come and say thank you um for the continued relationship with Mount Diablo and especially in the times that we have to know that we have an educational partnership with um a school board that reflects what we want to reflect for students and give the same kind of atmosphere um that we give and to have the opportunity to provide monastery education in

226the public setting as well. Um we're finishing up our 24th year, Linda, and next year will be our 25th. So, uh, we're going to be looking for some celebrations. I want to thank, um, Adrian and Gus. Nice to meet you face to face. Um, and Suzanne for their help on this. And hey, Melanie, if you want to come play Gaga Ball, uh, just come on over. So, but thank you very much for the continued relationship. We appreciate you. And I do have two board members. Um, Bernice Hernandez, who's our board president, is here. And Maddie Carson, who's our community, one of our community members, is here as well. Thank you. Thank you for attending tonight. I know it's been lengthy. Trustees, do you have any questions or um we ready for action? I'm ready to

227make a motion that the board move to approve theou between the district and Eagle Peak Monastery School for Financial and Operational Services through the June 30th uh through through the June 30th, 2027. Um and just want to say thank you all. It's wonderful to see you here. Um thank you for your longtime partnership. I think Eagle Peak is one of those examples of um that what we look for in a charter school, right? Something that's very specific, differentiated like Monasuri um that really works locally in the community with the school district. So, thank you. I'll second that. Right. We have a motion from Trusty K with a second by Trustee Mason regarding theou uh with uh EPMS for financial and operational services through June 30th, 2027. Trusty Ooa, how do you vote? Yes. And the

228motion is adopted on a 500 vote. Thank you very much. You guys can now go. You can get out of here unless you want to stay for one more item. You've been very patient. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Are we moving? Sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. No, it had to turn my paper over. Yes. Yes. Last item is review uh potential approval of the revisions to the high school science courses uh course of study, living earth, chemistry and earth systems and physics of the universe. And where's Samantha? I have Samantha on here. Oh, well, Dilios, but I think this is a fitting item. I I think this is a fitting last item for uh Vice President Count with her math and science background. So, we have to arm wrestler for the motion. Uh so we

229even when we have courses of study that are approved we go through a review process with uh appropriate personnel including district uh team toas and our science department chairs and other teachers who teach the courses. So these have been reviewed andor revised and are being brought forward for approval. All right. With that, I would like to make a motion. Um, thank you for all your work on this. Uh, to approve the revisions to high school science, courses of study, living earth, chemistry of the earth system, and physics of the universe as presented. I'll second that. Okay. Um, there's a motion by trusty count with a second by trustee OOA regarding the um revisions to the high school science courses. Further discussion. How do you vote? Trustee. Yes. Motion is adopted on a 500 Z vote.

230Thank you. Every offer the science classes you took. got to go there. Um, the next item that I'm going to move to is item 22, future agenda items. Um, do you have any items you wish to consider for future? Well, we have one more. I have no future agenda items. Wait a minute. We've got You're not allowed to speak. Okay. All right. I guess you want me to adjourn the meeting, huh? The power is in my hands. Thank you, Trusty Ooa. Thank you, Trusty Count. The meeting is adjourned. We have some documents.