001and we were going to start with our Pledge of Allegiance so if you will please join me for that of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice courage thank you we acknowledge that we begin tonight's meeting that we are on the ancestral lands of the bay knee walks and the yogurts and um at this time I'll do my roll call trustee Fowler here trustee Mayo here trustee and zaywe trustee McFerrin here trustee count here and trustee Mason is here as well that takes us to review and potential approval of the agenda are the proposed change I'm asking that we move item 17.1 and that we place it at 13.0 any other request if not I'll accept a motion I move that
002we approve the agenda with the proposed changes second thank you Rusty Fowler yes foreign with the approval of our student now we do the uh report out of our flow session and we 7.1 was negotiations and board received information from the negotiating teams item 7.2 and closed session by a vote of five to zero the board took action to dismiss employee ID number 3102 to excuse me 31027 effective immediately in closed session by a vote of 5-0 the board took action to accept the resignation of employee number 43569 in closed session the board considered the non-re-election of employees number 44755-10610-44576-43752-43771 25728-383-52-39373 and 42926 the board voted 5-0 in favor of that to direct the district to send notice that they were not elected and released at the end of the 2021-2022 school year from their
003certificated positions the board in closed session voted in 5-0 to release employee number 44784 from their temporary contract effective March 10 2022. number 7.3 possible expulsion of student number 1-22 from the mount daily Unified School District Madam president I move to approve the expulsion of student 1-22 from all schools in the Mount Diablo Unified School District prior to readmission student 1-22 is required to meet the following conditions participate in 20 hours of counseling to address conflict management and social emotional learning attend mdusd Saturday workshop for Anger Management show evidence of a successful School experience with no suspendable infractions earn 30 credits maintain a 2.0 GPA or better and have a 90 attendance rate thank you second okay there's word has a motion and a second trustee Fowler oh you don't vote on this one tone
004I'm sorry trustee Mayo oh we're gonna do this I hadn't come up yet foreign [Music] foreign thank you foreign okay it's time for public comment the public May address the board regarding any item within the jurisdiction of the board of education at the Mount Diablo Unified School District that is not on the agenda these presentations are limited to three minutes each or a total of 30 minutes for all speakers or the three-minute limit may be shortened 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 uh just a reminder because we act under the brown act we cannot get into conversation in back and forth with you we're just here to listen to your comments
005and we can ask a clarifying question or refer to the proper staff members so Martin lehano you're first yeah good evening board members Dr Clark uh I'm dressed like this because uh in 35 minutes there will be about a thousand people in Concord gym waiting for the area band Festival um but I had to make it here to public comment to share some thoughts about the PKS um I just want to acknowledge the fact that your hands are not tied that you do have the ability to save instrumental music in this district and it is a reasonable ask here's why the district budget's 12.1 FTE for fourth and fifth grade instrumental music and and we proposed to cut 6.1 ft you'd only cut fourth grade but the reality is we currently exist at 9.7 FTE
006not 12. furthermore we have said that we can go down to nine and survive it's not ideal but it keeps the door open to fourth and fifth graders three FTE is what's being asked by thousands of members of your community three FTE um I'll talk about this 3ft in a moment but first let's reference some points from February 23rd's board meeting um Sharice you talked about Mount Diablo and yv not being in the room so I get that you're alluding to inequity but the reality is their absence because of these exact Cuts in 2011. northgate's program remains strong because it's an affluent Community College Parks program remains strong because they have the largest school in the district and Concord I I don't know because I teach there like they have culture like you saw my
007students supporting in full force for the little ones we don't come from much there but the boosters believe that all students regardless of whether or not they can afford an experience should be given that experience so they just they raise a lot of funds all these things I've said are privileges for sure um but these things also existed at Mount Diablo and yv about 11 years ago the the cuts to Elementary music in 2011 decimated those programs to what you see today so it's ironic to talk about Equity because the people who sat in your chairs back then are the ones who created the inequities that you're referencing but you right now have the ability and the power to address these inequities by keeping fourth grade music in all of our elementary schools so that
008these students learn and move up and fill the high school programs and then at that point we can be Equitable once more um at one point you said that we want to save instrumental music at the secondary levels which is why we're cutting Elementary but as you can see from yv and Mount Diablo this cut to Elementary in fact estimate secondary levels but this board can save all instrumental music programs in the district by Saving one line item this one line item again is three FTE it's not six FTE per transparent in California a new teacher salary in this district with Benefits is somewhere around 74 000. so we're talking roughly 000 to save instrumental music in our district again that's thousands of people begging you to save a program and it would cost less
009than one person's salary in this room and if not even one administrative salary in this district is the amount that we're talking about and thousands in the community are rallying around it like I think that you have an obligation as as people who serve the community to at least entertain a solution um and and and Deborah like I I appreciate the fact that you had advocated to save instrumental music last time and um and Charisse you had said that if we get more funding we'll put a good amount of that money to additional salaries the second interim budget is out and you have five million dollars more than anticipated your community is asking to use 220 000 to say three teachers and then furthermore that would save like music in this District because uh it
010will be designated because of it I think someone should make a motion to change it from 6.1 to 3.1 anyone can make a motion to do that do that in the name of serving thousands in the community and and lastly your time is up your time is up thank you tomorrow happy to have it thank you sir okay next up we have Ryan Claussen um right now oh um Ryan Clayson uh 15-year teacher uh currently at Concord High School um an eighth year teacher can cost uh seventy thousand dollars and a 15p took him back to 34 students you get 12 500 per student this teacher sees about 400 000 with the students that teachers about 18 19 of the cost in terms of raises who are asking to be maybe 0.5 more that's all
011we're asking of the total cost within the classroom according to transparent California uh 19 of our top admin cost about four and a half million dollars in the salary to admin under Dr Rubio cost three hundred thousand dollars if giving a minuscule a raise to teachers means 22 Elementary School uh Elementary School teachers and more staff have to be cut is top admin willing to take a two million dollar pay cut to save those 22 teachers uh Elementary School they'd be paid as much as like an elementary school principal uh is the district's uh approach to sel akin to Professional Service a medical provider would give do an abundance of medical professionals endorse District methods why are students told it's mandatory to enter data using the system's language what do we do when a student
012is not meeting standards what if our efforts lead to further damage we cannot track personal experience if our methods do not result in worse conditions kids go home with like strategies and then end up becoming abused because they're employing those strategies what is the district's plan for learning loss and how do you touch the Personnel help if there are shortages and Personnel where how frequent is turnover include admin and District Personnel in the superintendents last around five years and how can we build sustainable systems systems of turnovers so frequent uh if we are paying Subs more before that decision uh to create the expense how many classes did the superintendent cover for or board members why pay a sub if admin's already paid I'm already paid and covering classes why is this District about Cuts
013instead of investment if you added three teachers to Concord High School our students could compete with Brentwood students and the transcripts they have for college uh how do we facilitate a comparable education with other districts one way you can tell the quality of the business is how management treats the employees if you agree with that conclusion how are you all doing resolve the contradiction of attending a job fair but also laying off employees or other teachers more valuable see this is called transparency even if all these questions are irrelevant transparency is not start with the maintenance records posted to each site in case we Precure Millions for repairs go back 10 years I can't think of any valid arguments against this if this is a reasonable request there's literally a crack in the foundation of
014my classroom app metaphor for the district if you want to pass tax measures the public needs to know that there was a sewage leak at Concord the last time it rained thank you next we have Eugene King do I need to push the button or anything you don't need to do anything we'll take care of it all right good evening everybody um I am here uh I was on behalf of I work at Monte albu High School I'm a former student of Lynbrook and Montebello High School um and I've been teaching that at Mount Diablo high school for for 15 years I'm just gonna I guess talk a little bit about about my experience there and also what I have seen uh I've been in the position where you know as many of other other
015teachers have said that you have to work multiple jobs and and all of that uh I figured out how to survive at Mont Diablo uh but one thing I drive a a 98 Toyota Camry that you know this old paper I don't make no no payments I was lucky to have been able to purchase my house back in 2008 when when I moved up up here so I'm very I come from a from a humble background and I'm not a a flashy type person so my my expenses are low and I'm able to survive what uh what I see from a lot of uh of you know from what I hear from other teachers and what I see at Mount Diablo especially there's a lot of passionate people that come talented that that that we
016lose uh not just because of of you know what their pay is uh but just also the the the the cuts that are made uh and it's it's funny how we how they they make the cuts in it and it'll fix our our school particular because we don't have teachers covering classes such as the the language classes math classes and uh is it's uh it's unfortunate because the students are not getting the the the education that they should be getting from having the proper instruction from the beginning of the year till the end uh and that's that's gotten and for me there's one way that I've been able to survive stay in that mountain because as as a bilingual uh educator I can step in teach besides my own my own curriculums I'm a physical
017education teacher I've taught uh you know substituted all the classes I've taught Spanish soft there's granted opportunities that that we get but I think that the not that it didn't do a good job but I think the students need to have uh you know staff that are that are there all the time especially at Mount Diablo that we're uh Academy and we have all these these systems that are supposed to be carried on from year to year but it's it's this unfortunate that we can't retain the teachers because we don't have uh competitive uh hey I live in Antioch and I figured out how to survive at Mount Diablo but I do you need a math teacher you need a language teacher like I'm there for whatever but if I was uh if I just
018applied a an Antioch for Pittsburgh I don't have to teach no extra classes and I can have that time for for my family and stuff like that so uh and I would like to see the teachers that we are getting which are also former students to stay there because I admire I look up to these people like wow you're you know the the what they bring so thank you thank you thank you [Applause] frolic I messed it up last time too didn't I don't worry about it it's fine but you have beautiful handwriting that's no problem good evening I want to take a moment to acknowledge the board members and superintendents for the admirable position at the previous board meetings in regards to speaker time limits there is clearly a lot that needed to be
019said the last few meetings and speakers frequently went over their time limits myself included thank you for respecting the messages being communicated by the speakers allowing them to finish what they had to say even when that was not possible to communicate in the time limit allotted now I want to address budget cuts and ask why are we selling for quantity over quality if the district is in a deficit cutting programs that add value to the lives of our children in the name of having more physical locations for them to receive an education how precisely is this a solution apparently there is no real objection to school closures or Diablo day providing a very necessary service would not have been on the chopping block and approved to be eliminated in The Last board meeting are we
020okay with it or aren't we we've been told that the district has already been in a deficit even pre-pandemic in unprecedented times where there are so many who are already struggling why are we taking it to tasks now to solve the fiscal insolvency it does not seem like the appropriate time look at our country as a whole and you won't see a stance to solve the national debt in this trying time in History either in fact we're spending more not less yes it does need to be addressed but what if we can afford to address it a year from now when as a society we will hopefully be in a better standing with regards to the pandemic seems like a good position to do that after we can see what our enrollment numbers look like
021after the dust has settled not to contribute to chaos but to bring some stabilization while we wait for an opportunity to strike a balance and in the interim work on obtaining the funding we do need in order to sustain what we already have in place if not look for space to improve even further I appreciate the board taking into consideration the fourth graders this year that they have the opportunity to be in music class will be able to continue next year as fifth graders because the cuts were amended but with that in mind you seem to be painfully aware that the community members in your District appear to have a huge mistrust of what you do here where you cut why help us help you these meeting agendas after all don't seem to be getting
022any shorter we were told if new funding comes in later this year that the program for fourth graders could be reinstated but when I heard no discussion or even a proposed date where this might be brought back to the table I think everyone who passionately spoke in the last few months on behalf of music programs throughout the district would like to have something like that in place so we know it won't be forgotten and when we can bring it back to discuss it more to say but I will leave it there and just say that our music programs and well-funded libraries are not a luxury they're essential and our children need them to be vibrant well-rounded citizens that our community needs thank you good evening thank you okay that concludes our public comment for tonight
023oh that's your public comment okay okay yep you're right sometimes we make assumptions because we think it's for the next one not a problem thank you good evening I wish that Martin was still here to hear me say that I thank him for his passion and his advocacy and I hope that he is here in our district bringing music to our students for many years our students deserve the best I appreciate each of you for your efforts to ensure that as parents of District students as educators as a student board member as you make decisions I hope that you are continuously considering what programs what services and which educators will ensure that our students get the best in your budget Reserves in your Revenue this year in your future Revenue you have the funding to
024provide music programs to our fourth grade students you have the funding to provide secondary librarians you have the funding to provide and continue the Diablo Day program you have the funding to sustain teacher preparation time you have the funding to add support for nurses you have the funding to increase educator salaries by 12.5 percent you can support our counselors you can support rtk students our students deserve the best and you can support our students thank you thank you all righty that takes us to 9.1 District district organizations regular board meetings a single spokesperson of each recognized District organization can make a brief presentation items are limited to those that are informational nope we have Adrian zadi and that was because of your writing uh his mask down okay I just wanted to make sure yeah
025so uh my name is Adrian Zandy I'm the representative of mutzpah the school psychologist Association uh so I'm just going to keep it brief I'm only here to make three points uh the first was uh we appreciate uh being able to come to an agreement with the district as it's been over a thousand days since we had a contract with the district and so and we appreciate the positive behavior during the negotiations the past couple meetings uh secondly uh we hope the district can be able to come to an agreement with the other bargaining units as we stand in solidarity with them and third we urge the board to approve the TA with with our Union Anita Johnson okay good evening I'm Anita Johnson president of the Mount Diablo Education Association my pronouns are she
026and her Medea is a United group of Educators working together for the benefits of the students of the Mount Diablo Unified School District Medea has three goals in mind as we engage in discussions with District management investing in student learning lowering class sizes and valuing employees for example all students deserve a great place to learn to ensure this the district must make sure that Educators have the support and time needed to do their job secondly increasing investment in student learning means paying Educators a fair return for the work we do the district's salary schedules have not changed since 2017. we all know that students deserve the best and the students need Mount Diablo Unified School Districts to attract and retain the best Educators for every classroom in every position the district's bargaining team has rejected
027our proposals regarding Staffing ratios and class size limits and has actually proposed reducing prep time the district's most recent proposal regarding compensation is unacceptable because it does it is not in the best interest of students and Educators the district cannot attract and retain Educators if you are not willing to pay a competitive wage the district has sufficient sources of revenue to fund Medea's ask of a 12 and a half percent increase over six years and remain financially sound Medea's proposal is reasonable salary schedules have not been increased since 2017. a 12 and a half percent increase is necessary to remain competitive and to mitigate the impacts of inflation over the six years between 2017 and the end of the contract period in 2024. 12 and a half percent over six years is barely more than
028two percent per year inflation is much higher than that Medea's proposal is Affordable the per pupil funding from the state has increased by over 12 percent over the last four years and is projected to increase by more than nine percent in the next two years compounded this represents more than a 23 percent increase the district has sufficiently reduced Staffing to mitigate the impact of declines in enrollment Management's refusal to share financial information has undermined the trust that is necessary to reach agreement and now is the time for this school board to request from management a spending plan that prioritizes students we can't sit by and let management continue to put students education at risk we don't want to strike but we will if it means we are doing what is best for students and the
029future of Mount Diablo Medea joins with parents in opposing the cuts to the instrumental music program the Diablo Day program the elimination of secondary libraries and other reductions that will reduce services to students now is not the time to eliminate services that provide social emotional support and learning of any kind I invite anyone who can hear me to attend our community information tomorrow March the 10th at 7 pm the meeting will be virtual you can find the link on our website ourmedea.org at the on the community information page we want to talk with anyone who can help us resolve this conflict we've reached out to management and gotten no response we've reached out to board members we've had a few conversations but not enough please talk with us about these issues both of the bargaining
030conflict and Dr par Dr Clark's proposed budget reductions stem from the same problem the budget projections management is proposing over-inflate expenses and under an estimate revenues there is no structural deficit the district receives enough funding to provide a quality education with qualified employees our students deserve the best do you believe the multi-year projections represent the spending plan that is best for students the district's ending balance grew last year to 89 million dollars the second interim report estimates that the ending balance will grow Again by more than 5 million dollars five million dollars that could have been spent on this year's students but won't be this five million dollars could be assigned and earmarked to support the fourth grade instrumental music program for 10 years the new projection of an ending balance of more than 94
031million dollars is more than enough cushion to address any surprises there's no need for Budget projections that significantly overestimate expenses the excessive padding that management has built into the budget will very likely result in an additional 60 million dollars in unspent funding this year bringing the ending balance to over 150 million dollars if the ending balance grows this year will you realize the Lost opportunities that that represents will you regret your decision to support an overly conservative spending plan and if so what will you wish you had done differently now is the time to request from management a spending plan that prioritizes students in conclusion please hear me this is no longer the appropriate time to be asking employees to make sacrifices we expect that you will honor our work value US and conclude negotiations
032quickly with a just and fair settlement we will fight for the district our students need if your management team will not engage in dialogue and you will not engage in dialogue what other option do we have to resolve this conflict what do we need to do to get your attention what other option do we have thank you hey that takes us to 10.1 review and potential approval of resolution 21-22 57 in recognition of Arts Education Month [Music] thank you yep I have this thank you madam president um I bring before the board tonight resolution 21-22-57 in recognition of Arts Education Month whereas Arts education including dance music theater and the visual arts is an essential part of basic education for all students kindergarteners through 12th grade through grade 12 to provide for balanced learning and
033to develop the full potential of their minds now therefore be it resolved that the governing board of the Mount Diablo Unified School District proclaims the month of March as Arts Education Month and encourages all schools to commemorate this occasion with appropriate instructional materials and be it further resolve that this resolution be distributed to all schools within the district Madam president this resolution is now in the hands of the board and I see we have a speaker Josie Bromley hello good evening I came here to demonstrate and let you know the way that the instrumental music staff celebrate what we used to call music in our schools month it's become Arts education we don't mind being under that umbrella um and the way I wanted to do that was to extend a personal invitation to each
034of you to our um area festivals every High School will host two concerts that include students from each Elementary and Middle School in their feeder pattern since the reinstatement of Elementary instrumental music back in 2014 these festivals have had such a large number of participants that we've had to put on two performances at each High School one for band and one for orchestra before 2010 we didn't have to have two in all areas but the string program has grown so much in six years that we've had to give them their own night at each school and I wanted to share some additional data with you Concord area Festival starting tonight as Mr lohano mentioned we're expecting 172 Elementary fan students and 166 Orchestra students tomorrow night in the Mount Diablo area we are expecting 68
035for ban and 57 for orchestra the College Park Festival 194 for band 143 in Orchestra Ignacio Valley 130 for band 104 in Orchestra Northgate area 196 per band 133 for orchestra it's a memorable event for some 1300 elementary students alone not including the high school and middle school students or their families it's the first year for high schools to have a majority of students that started in fourth grade to perform at this event covet forced us to cancel the last two years I encourage you to come to at least one of these concerts to see and hear for yourself the impact a strong Elementary program can have on the secondary programs and then go again next year and compare it's also an opportunity to connect with your constituents here's a list of the dates for
036you I'll hand that out to you in a second but I'd also like to inform you of the proposed ballot measure to increase funding for arts in schools in California this initiative would call for one percent of the overall State education budget some 800 million dollars to be dedicated to Arts and Music education in public schools without raising taxes the measure also calls for a larger portion of the funds going to schools serving low-income communities it would provide jobs by allocating eighty percent of the funds towards hiring teachers and staff there's more info on the back of this handout that I have for you to consider and I'm just asking that two things that the board attend our events we have 10 opportunities and support go ahead and finish your stock support the endorse the
037ballot measure in a good faith effort to support all music and arts in our school district thank you for your time thank you thank you exactly perfect okay now it's the board's turn any comments we can make comments we can make a motion whatever is your pleasure okay I'll comment um I'll make a motion I move that way past the improve the resolution and recognition of Arts Education Month oh second and now I'll comment it is not lost on me the irony that we're passing this after making these cuts um budgets are a value statement and we are passing this saying that we value Arts education but we made a really hard decision um to cut um Elementary fourth grade elementary music instruction um it's not lost on me that Arts education is a privilege
038of a few um I remember I did dance in theater my whole childhood but there was a time um in um Elementary School when my parents could no longer afford my dance lessons so I had a huge gap and got dance lessons between fourth grade and eighth grade is when they resumed um so I know what's up that's like and I also know what a privilege my daughter has for having started dance in like at four years old and theater in the fourth grade and that I continue to pay for those opportunities privately on the outside when these are things that in fact at least the theater I got in public school it was a given um band I got in public school I never had a private music lesson ever um and so I
039just I just want to recognize that us making those cuts as um Mr lujano mentioned at the beginning of how we have still have a robust Pro instrumental program at Northgate and at College Park it is it is not by accident it is by Design it's it is by those families being able to afford to continue um to keep their children engaged in in the Arts privately um or paying for it at school because they can raise the money um and so and and so [Music] um I just want to recognize this irony tonight any other comments before we vote okay trusty fellow um I just wanted to say that I'm really happy that we're bringing this to the board and I I know we have a lot of great programs in our district and
040I hope that we can give the students the Arts that they deserve okay foreign yes um 21 22 58 in recognition of March as prescription drug abuse awareness month doctor yes thank you madam president I bring before you tonight uh in recognition of March of prescription drug awareness month or whereas prescription drugs are strong medication which require a prescription from a doctor or dentist such as Vicodin Zyrtec Advil Prozac and Ritalin and whereas every medication has some risk for harmful effects doctors and dentists consider the potential benefits and risk to each patient before prescribing medications and to take into account a lot of different factors described below when prescription drugs are misused they can be just as dangerous as drugs that are made illegally foreign therefore be it resolved that the Mount Diablo Unified School
041District does hereby declare March 2022 as prescription drug abuse awareness month and encourages all community members to participate in prescription drug abuse related prevention programs and activities be it also resolved that the Mount Diablo Unified School District board members encourage all community members to pledge spread the word one pill can kill Madam president this resolution is now in the hands of the board thank you board members Madam president I move we approve the recognition of March as prescription drug abuse awareness month resolution 21-22-58 thank you second thank you um [Music] I have definitely seen like firsthand what drugs can do to students at such a young age and it's really really hard to see I see it all I see it all the time I'm a very social person so I I do see people
042from other schools and I think it really Alters not only their personality but you know their path in life and I'm really happy we're bringing this to the board and I hope that we can spread more awareness about it and the harmful effects I know we had a two-way presentation in the beginning of the year and that was really good um but I hope that uh the district and the board and our community can really spread the word about what this actually does and what it looks like because it's it's really hard and it it's terrible um I just wanted to mention a lesson that I got to learn in the last two weeks having a prescription drug prescribed to me that I ended up not meeting to use so I asked my doctor what
043do I do with it because you should not flush it down the toilet and things like that and you can take those types of prescriptions back to the pharmacist um so that was new that was like so that's what I can do with this drug that could be like have value on the street but I'm going to take it back to the pharmacist um and secondly I appreciate that we um that we bring forth this resolution as um my grandmother I like like a little um a woman who became you know a mother and a wife in the 40s and 50s and um six people and my my mom's the youngest if she graduated high school in the 70s but um my grandmother was addicted to prescription pain pills and that's actually what led to
044her what I think is early demise and it wasn't that she was continuously prescribed um because I think that doctor's been through the 80s didn't take it seriously um and I know that we see it a lot more in youngsters like it wasn't something this was not part of dare which that's a whole nother thing but it wasn't part of dare back in our day right um as kids um but it should definitely be part of drug prevention education now because of the variety of types of pills that children can get their hands on and then thus become addicted to so I appreciate that in the comments if not trustee Fowler yes and that passes 5-0 with agreement from our student representative okay 10.3 review and potential approval of resolution 21-62 Dash 61 for personnel
045with variable term waivers we have Dr Rubio is going to present this item good evening board members I have before you for your review and potential approval resolution for personnel variable term waivers as you know variable term waivers provide applicants with additional time to complete certain requirements and we have one individual for your consideration thank you Madam president I'll move to the board approved resolution 21-2261 for personnel with variable term waivers second okay did you get the second was from trustee count I don't think there'll be any comments on this so trustee Fowler yes and that passes so I go with agreement from our student trustee all right thank you thank you we're now at 11.1 presentation on the Deferred maintenance plan and proposed 2022-2023 projects all right and we have um Eric uh Morales
046is again here too and and Melanie coxlow are here to present this item and um they will do so welcome yeah all right thank you all right board members um Adam Dr Clark uh thank you for your time today just we're going to be showing you the uh deferred maintenance plan that we've created for the district um we're very happy and excited to present that to you um the Deferred maintenance uh we'll go to the first life here first to start um the Deferred maintenance program but you know the purpose of it is to address our school district's ability to plan for major repair projects and the replacement of existing School building components so our educational process May safely continue why should districts have a deferred maintenance plan a deferred maintenance plan is a scheduled
047repair of long life cycle systems for example the Golden Gate Bridge takes four years to paint because the life cycle of the paint is four years so by this so by the time they paint one end of the bridge it's time to start again on the opposite side when they budget for this they don't buy all the 10 000 gallons of paint needed to paint the bridge at once instead they allocate a tenth of the cost per year and that's what we're going to show you today um one thing that the Deferred maintenance plan will show you is that it'll identify the major maintenance needs for the project and when I say that this is to identify schedule and fun The High Frequency maintenance needs to the project for example when we replace a when
048we replace paving at a campus we need to also look at what's underneath the paving like electrical conduits and plumbing to be along in that repair the specifications of a schedule for completing uh excuse me specifications for scheduling my goodness I can't find my words here um specification for specification of a schedule for completing the major maintenance this is a schedule for capturing high frequency maintenance needs specification of current cost estimates for scheduled maintenance this speaks to the cost projections for the Deferred maintenance plan and then the specification of scheduling of of the schedule of funding for the scheduled maintenance this is how we'll be funding the project itself review of the plan annually as part of the annual budget process this speaks to we'll be updating the Deferred maintenance plan annually going forward that
049will show the completed projects of last year and the proposed projects of the current year and then we also want to show you in this deferred maintenance plan the availability for public inspection of the plan we'll be making our deferred maintenance plans available to the public so there's no so so there is transparency in all of our projects going forward before is and after and making sure that transparency is clear with the public that we're accountable to as well as the board deferred maintenance data in order to create the Deferred maintenance program we had to identify the cost of each of our Building Systems just required for each campus to identify the DM cost we use a combination of formulas to provide the best estimated cost possible for budgeting purposes the life cycle systems that
050we focus on for this deferred maintenance plan are HVAC Paving Roofing flooring and yeah and flooring um we had a question come from a trustee member regarding other building systems that weren't listed like Plumbing or electrical the reason why they weren't listed is because they typically don't get replaced at once like these systems do and they're in instead they're replaced if and when needed foreign how was the plan created all campuses were assessed by our staff to confirm information gathered by LPA in its initial assessment and to update missing and incorrect information assessments for each site were developed based on each material's expected useful life and the estimated replacement costs at that time or at this time rather summary tables were created that also include all work with projected replacement costs within the next 10
051years suggested major facilities projects were identified that would allow the district to leverage in economies of scale approach to provide the greatest value foreign and then this is a snapshot of the Deferred maintenance spreadsheet so you'll see in the left column there under sites all of our campuses in our district and then each of the life cycle systems in each of the columns so if you look to the asphalt pavement cost that's based on its life cycle so we have like the cost to repair there uh and it's total and that's for each of the uh each of the campuses we have the cost of HVAC concrete the roofing exterior and interior painting costs and the roofing costs as well we worked really you know closely with our contractors to get accurate numbers this is
052a projection and an estimate but we tried to make it as accurate as possible with using square feet and cost of materials taking that approach and this is just one example when you look at Pleasant Hill Middle School you'll see in that column expected life cycle that's the life cycle of those um of those systems so like our asphalt our concrete that's our all of our building envelope or some of it um you'll see that concrete made this list generally you wouldn't include concrete because it has a really long life cycle but we do have identified problems at certain campuses that where it needs to be addressed and so that's why for specifically for this one it was identified um and so you'll also notice that we have the cost for replacement for uh each
053of the uh systems of the building envelope and then the projected uh budget for Year One and then I'll hand it off to Melania thank you good evening um so as Eric stated we um reviewed our um building components our School site components to identify what projects of each um division needed to be completed based on where the greatest need were so we looked at projects that we've completed over the last several bonds as well as where we see an increase work order request depending on the need so as far as painting goes we've done quite a bit of exterior painting through the measure c bond and some other funding sources at our secondary levels um so after we complete this coming summer we're basically down to a few of our specialty sites and elementary
054schools So based on need age of the last exterior painting we've identified these School sites um as projects for the next um that round of exterior painting excuse me um so we have Ayers Elementary School Delta View Elementary country Silverwood Sun Terrace wanted Acres Woodside and Olympic High School and Crossroads so the exterior painting cost with the formula based on current costs for painting and some dry rot repair included we established a budget for a little over two and a half million dollars to paint the exteriors of these campuses and to identify that this would be the following summer so we're identifying the need in our 2223 budget but not to confuse with projects we're completing this summer would be the following year because Roofing so um as many of you know we've been doing
055a roofing program throughout the district for about the past six or seven years um based on measure c ending which is sort of like their last funding source of roofing we're looking at where um our greatest need are Pleasant Hill and Valley View Middle School are two School sites that are on next on the list um you will notice that we're proposing projects of a little bit lesser overall value we've done you know three to four to five groups per year based on funding but because we are looking at different cutting options we're going to bring that down just a little bit Pleasant Hill Middle School is a large campus with a large lot of need and we've identified um not only the roof we need but also some other deferred maintenance as far as
056driver repair and that sort of thing within the campus um so those are the two School sites that we are proposing for the 22-23 fiscal year Paving um so paving's gonna look a little bit different than what you guys are used to seeing the last several years um one of the things that Eric identified in his breakdown was not only are we scoping out some uh budget sums for the actual asphalt repair but also the utilities that are underneath during measure C the majority of our asphalt repair with the exception of some really big need we essentially took care of the The Superficial asphalt repair we either replace certain sections and then seal coated the rest of the play yards we handled um you know a lot of need and parking lots that sort of
057thing the way that the formula works for the Deferred maintenance plan we're identifying asphalt as well as the utilities that made may be underneath that need repair doesn't mean that we're going to touch all utilities but when we look at what was the installation material all do we believe that there is a breakdown of that material where do we have work orders that identify we have great need Etc um so where we're typically looking at doing a couple million dollars in Paving um over a summer um over you know 12 to 14 to 16 sites we've really narrowed that down in order to be able to take care of the full scope of work so we're identifying a little over 3.3 million dollars for baby flooring projects I do just want to identify I apologize
058for the mishap on the slide where it says glenberg Academy that actually should say El Dorado one of the things that we've not tackled in quite a while is actually our interior flooring um so when we go and we look at where our greatest need the the oldest school sites that potentially have you know very old or broken down flooring we've identified Riverview middle El Dorado middle and Valhalla Elementary as our sites with our greatest need for flooring replacement um and in that formulated cost we're looking at replacing um you know vinyl flooring carpet if there's any potential um multiplier for any abatement we may we may come across that sort of thing so we've identified full School site flooring replacement at a little over 1.2 almost 1.3 million dollars between those 13 three campuses
059I think uh Dr Gonzalez is going to come talk about some funding of course the money piece is always the big question so we wanted to really talk about the different types of funding sources and what they're for because it there always seems to be a little confusion and I think sometimes we use terms synonymously and then we talk to our citizens upon oversight committees and we use them all synonymously so we wanted to just sort of break these down into three categories the first one is routine restricted maintenance so we are required to have three percent of the expenditures in our budget encompassed in the category of routine restricted maintenance it allows us to do things and if we think about it in the category of break fix right an HVAC system you might
060have a little bit from routine restricted maintenance but really you know every I think what HVAC is 10 years so 10 years 10 sometimes 15 you would not be seeing that really in routine restricted maintenance you might be going and doing a little bit of Maintenance but if you've got to repair entire things that would be something other than break fix so break fix then we have a number of our bonds so we have measure J and that's where more of this work could come from if there are funds you know our biggest challenge is that there's 150 million dollars for uh measure J in about 1.3 million dollars as of three years ago that was estimated in the facilities visioning so those are all voter approved capital projects we still have a little bit
061of measure C left we do have some measure C that is going to be going toward Clayton Valley High School we have some measure a but measure a is really much more restrictive so while we can play with some of these they are not the end-all deal uh deferred maintenance is something that we're going to need to take a look at in our budget as we move forward because we have major facility means that we have not taken care of over the years it used to be back in the good old days that we would dedicate three percent of our budget and the state would do a match that matching component is no longer required and as a matter of fact we're also not required to have a deferred maintenance plan except any smart District
062that is really planning ahead and budgeting appropriately needs to have one which is why we're working on one now um so there's again a great deal that we have to take a look at but in trying to take a look at what the costs are per year and starting to set that side so we really do have those funds is going to be something that we continue to work on but we really wanted to make sure that the board and the public and the staff really understood there are three main funding sources and they all go for different things Thank you Lisa so this is our uh proposed 2023 project cost you'll notice uh you'll remember from an earlier slide we identified around 18 million dollars so what I did was is I used 18
063million as a well I use that from the actual number of what we got for the whole District but then I just used 75 percent of that for construction costs only and identified 75 of that for construction costs that way the remaining 25 that'll be used for soft costs like designs and also unforeseen uh repairs that will be needed at the time as well as other incidentals um you know like inflation supply chain issues that sort of thing and so um we plan to use this uh they'll be funded by a combination of funds um you know mostly measure J but we really need to save the measure J Money for other projects I mean you know we want to do these projects but to it would be great for us to have a general
064fund you know a percentage of that used just for facilities so like an ongoing basis because we're going to use measure J in the next three four years it's going to be gone you know we have some uh projects coming up with the uh district-wide Network redesign that you know it's going to use a lot of money for all that new cabling and conduits that we're going to be running and switches and it's going to get really costly there so yeah I just want the board to know um that we're really going to need some money to put aside for facilities in the future and so with that I thank you all for your time and I'll open this to our questions and comments the board for questions go right in and I apologize for
065the last minute um question um the I'm going I'm looking at Fair Oaks Elementary School for Paving that uh Fair Oaks in my memory my site plan is a small campus uh yet it is one of the higher has the higher costs for the facility for Paving is that because it has a very large playground and also the access road uh from the two points because one part of that access road is completely deteriorated is that the rationale right yeah it is so it's based on the way that I calculated those numbers were based off the um square footage of all the paving so anything that has asphalt on it you know it got you know we got the square footages and then multiplied that by the cost of material so that would be the
066reason why Melanie if you look different there wouldn't be access if the one road was completely deteriorated correct it does have you know for being um potentially you know a smaller uh square footage School site and we do actually have quite a bit of um land there the parking lot has um with maybe some incidental repair here and there we have not dealt with any of the actual Road um deterioration and as we know roadways have quite a bit of different um costs just based on you know the base versus asphalt um as well as it's got a decent sized play yard and we've only really done like I said incidental work there okay thank you very much go ahead trustee count I just want to say thank you for providing this detailed plan it's
067really great to be able to see not only the plans you know for what's going to happen this summer as you as has been presented to us but really looking ahead and having very specific costs for each of these areas and I appreciate you also answering the question about um things that were not on this plan that was my question about um you know like earlier today we heard about a sewer line that broke somewhere right so how are we handling that so to know that that just because sewer lines were not specifically listed here doesn't mean that they're not being addressed whatsoever so thank you okay thank you very much all right thank you for your time okay that takes us to board member reports trustee Fowler uh mine's fairly short I attended a
068community service event listed by college parks in a rock Club a couple weekends ago and we made yellow and blue ribbon to show support for what's happening um in Ukraine right now uh and then also student board member applications are up they're on mdusd.org we're looking for the new student board member for the upcoming school year I will be holding a q a slash info session on the 11th and 18th of this month from 4 30 P.M to 5 30 p.m and the more information regarding the zoom link is found on the website and you can also email me at Fowler Ka mbsd mdusd.org this position does take a lot a lot of responsibility but it allows you to make really significant change um and it's a really great learning experience so please apply it's
069super fun and then also apply for the state fellow Civic engagement the application is due on mid-april I believe it's April 27th and then Happy women's History Month uh trustee and Xavier you were here last meeting but I just wanted to let you know I really look up to you alrighty trusty Cowan thank you um just a couple of things I really enjoyed attending the Riverview Middle School Black History Month event um really well done uh not only presentations um about black history but also um you know poetry and art and um just incredible Expressions by the students so I really appreciated that and the leadership shown at that school site um we had our uh Contra Costa County School boards uh meeting on March 3rd with a guest speaker from the County Office of
070Education about their new wellness and schools program for mental health they're really trying to make connections across the county as far as a student mental health programs and part of that is to learn uh from each of our school districts um programs that are working that can that can be um shared out to to other school districts as well um I attended the csba ledge action week orientation so looking forward to speaking with our legislators next week um with uh along with our fellow County um school board members from around the county um also have the opportunity uh to um hear from and and meet with the PTA at Valley Verde Elementary School with Dr Clark who we're invited out there um so appreciate always appreciate the opportunity to go speak and uh and hear
071from parents um out at the school sites um and I got to attend the musical America choral production at Northgate um which I had actually never been to before um though I hear about I hear about it every year and how amazing it is and it was it was pretty fantastic um and um I also had the chance to volunteer to to help students fill out their FAFSA and Kata form um so that's the federal financial aid form or if you're um but not a citizen um you can also fill out the cata the three math application so there's really there's so much opportunity out there for for ongoing education Beyond high school for every single student and I think we need to continue to share out that information one thing I learned in the
072training was that um the the applications open in October every year they're not due till March 2nd um but the students who apply and fill out their form in October or November get twice as much money as everybody else so let's not wait till March 2nd next year okay and I really think that all of us can share the share the information out together and not just put it on any one staff person to for that to be their job but you know any role that we play in the school whether we're parents students teachers counselors uh we can we can easily make sure that every single one of our seniors fills this out right um the other miscommunication or misinformation out there was students felt like if they're going to PVC or if they're
073going to go to Mount Diablo Adult Ed that they don't need to fill out the form but actually you do still fill it out you it can cover your cost of books it can cover all kinds of things for any kind of advanced education out there so um huge opportunity um and then lastly I think with all the conversations um about our finances and and about our negotiations negotiations um I've been sharing out a couple of Articles one in particular is the Oakland school closures might be a warning sign for California articles um from The Wall Street Journal and then also our our superintendent Dr Clark was quoted in the Ed Source article that's uh that also talks about the declining enrollment that it's not only our district but faces but many districts face um
074and thinking about um for those people out there who are um voting or intending to vote to strike I just want to throw out a few questions for you um one is why would you vote to strike at this point when the fact-finding report is not yet out and so we don't have those numbers um why would you vote to strike without Clarity of what the win is and um I understand that there's a huge desire to believe that we have plenty of money for absolutely everything for for high raises and for no cuts I want to believe that too but what it comes down to is even if there is a strike we as a district cannot use Dan's spreadsheet as our numbers that we say to our public to our taxpayers we can't
075do that we have to use numbers that have been validated and checked um which is what we've been working on for over a year now we continue to update the numbers as best we can and um and have experts uh validate them so not only our CBO but um you know experts at the at the county and state level and we're going to continue to use those numbers and so if um if it comes down to it then we need to find the money our choices are very limited up here as a school board we really um end up only having to make more cuts so I just want everyone to be really mindful about how serious that decision to strike is um and for for people to consider what how much do you want
076to put at risk and for specifically what when thank you trustee McFerrin foreign good evening um I'll be kind of brief tonight um I am I'm very excited um to look over this list of concerts um especially because they are after my work day and so I will definitely attend um at least one of these events and I'm looking forward to that um I uh recently we had um kind of a much anticipated abar meeting last Monday we hadn't met um in kind of quite some time um and a lot of the work um the work in the focus group that I've earned that in the breakout room group that I was then focused around and looking at the bird process and looking at the Bert form um that um the district is developing um
077and we had a really engaged group um and I really enjoy being a part of that group and it felt like probably our most productive meeting yet um so they encourage anyone that is interested in joining us in this works please join us um I also attended the cic meeting and the group was really excited about pledge day coming up and advocating for better funding um to support our students and special ed programs so that was exciting um and all I have to share tonight thank you trustee Mayo thank you um I too attended the California school boards Association a meeting and uh was attended the CAC for a meeting for special education along with Mrs McFerrin um and for the CAC uh there will be the you make a difference program of awards and
078sites are submitting um nominees for that presentation and I believe it's on April 20th but I need to look at my calendar um so please that's a wonderful event that recognizes individuals in our community and students as one year of students and another year at the adults and how they uh work to improve uh special education experiences for our students then um I participated in best day as did Miss pound that's um a community event uh it's business Educators shadowing together in this event of business es hosts a teacher from our school campuses uh on a visit to their sites for an example it would be one that individual went to Bishop's wife's Carver one went to a bfp energy in Martinez uh another went to a printing company in Concord businesses all over Contra
079Costa County and they spend a day in the workplace it's actually about four hours in the workplace reviewing what is happening what skills are required for that particular business um and they discussed uh what's best what they're looking for from our student graduates and the then the um individuals and business partners as well as the teachers meet during uh lunch and discuss what they observed and what they will take back to the classroom this makes the information students always ask why is it important that I study math well this is why it's important or why is it important that I uh study English or have it be able to speak publicly this is why it's important and um repeatedly the number one priorities for our businesses they say we can train graduates to do the
080work that's necessary but what we need are the soft skills that the students need to learn attendance dress code um okay all of those things that are important in everyday life being on time they are looking for uh students who will listen with that help their earbuds that students who are on employees who are willing to put away their phones employees who will follow directions and more than three directions at a time and they are also looking for employees who are mindful of safety it was interesting that that topic came up with several of the teachers I mean when they were talking about the businesses they visited because safety was a number one priority within those particular plants it's an enjoyable day this event has been held since 1999 so it's this was the 23rd
081year that we've held this with our business partners in Contra Costa County and I apologize I didn't count the number I think they visited 15 to 20 businesses so I enjoyed the event and it's always a great opportunity to see the interest that a business has in public education and the outcome of our students thank you thank you um vice president and zaili excellent good evening um my fellow trustees you did a I'm sorry I wasn't here to experience the heavyweight last month I guess yeah it was two weeks ago but it was last month um and but I was watching on my couch I was a peanut gallery your very own peanut gallery um and so I appreciate the I appreciate you and and the difficulties that experience was and will continue to be
082for all of us I want to also really appreciate the really amazing student Advocates who both wrote and spoke you were like you made me so proud and not and whether and even though you can be mad at me and us and whatever you were amazing you are all extremely like the writing was beautiful um your ability to speak publicly was wonderful and it makes me so hopeful um for our future um and just in general that you're just very thoughtful and had excellent talking point all the things that you know I didn't know when I was at that age that I would grow up and be a policy Advocate all the things that are needed to be an advocate in the world in the grown-up life so kudos to them so I haven't done
083much but today well one I've read a lot of emails and I've replied to many of you so if you haven't received applied a reply to me some of you it's on purpose most of you it's not um for today though I did a really cool thing immediately preceding this meeting um part of my expertise is early care and education and I presented on a forum um as a lead speaker around Universal TK and the implementation in California but going Beyond it was around diversity equity and inclusion I don't use those words but that was the title um and I had um just a really great response it felt good that because the state hasn't set districts up for success in my opinion to do this and they haven't set up um families and parents
084like to have the all the choices they need um they've made a great step in including TK like making showing that four-year-olds young four-year-olds um are worthy of of their care and education being part of the public good and I continue to fight to make all care and education from zero until they reach an elementary school as part of the public goods so it's One Step but there's just unintentional consequences um around around um the current early care and education Workforce and our and our current TK Workforce and our families and these 48 month old children that will then come to a school that was never intended physically to accommodate them and our state doing nothing about very little I can't say nothing not to laugh very little um to that to accommodate that so
085um that is my contribution to trying to stop to try to prevent these this train wreck at each local level because it's really going to take each of our school district is going to have to do this on our own all of our neighboring school districts throughout the state to just do their best um to serve our youngest children and their families and the Educators well um but I was inspired by the response and by people's ideas and the thoughtfulness that they brought to the table so I think like I'm like we're gonna be okay we don't need to listen to the state of California so that's the end of my report thank you thank you I'm glad to have you back uh mine will be very brief I attended the wellness meeting and the
086a bar meeting both with trustee McFerrin and I missed a couple this week because Sunday I got food poisoning so I'm feeling okay enough to be here tonight but um I apologize to those events that expected me like the best at Mount Diablo High School I was supposed to visit but um I will be rolling again soon here so that takes us to our superintendent support yep and again we are going to go with um the second interim presentation and um that was item 17.1 that we moved to 13.0 so I'm gonna have Dr Gonzalez uh present Dr Gonzalez and staff present that item foreign [Music] uh board members members of the public thank you for allowing us to present tonight's second interim uh budget report uh secondary report is something that is required by
087the state of California similar to the first interim report it is a snapshot in time it is a snapshot in time of one day January 31st 2022 and we are always required to do the first year of a budget plus two additional years we call those the out years those three years make up what's called a multi-year projection it record requires the board to both approve and certify uh the report there are three different certification levels that we can put on our own budget the first one is positive which means that the district can meet its Financial Obligations for the current year and two uh subsequent years the second one is qualified qualified means that we can only meet our financial we may not meet our financial um requirements or obligations for one of the
088three years and then you have negative which means you can't meet it two or more years so those three options what we do is we have the board certify our budget and then it goes to the county office and they either say yes we agree or no we do not there's some factors that we take a look at for budget development and for our multi-year projections this is part of a screenshot of the dartboard the dartboard comes from school Services of California there's a lot of information that is on this page but there are arrows going to three specific locations that I would like to to have everyone take a look at the first one has to do with the cola the Department of Finance identifies the cola each year so we have nothing to
089do with the cola other than we receive the information and we plug in the numbers the second one has to do with the CPI you can see that down in the second section it's the middle red arrow there it is expected to be 3.69 for the upcoming school year the CPI is the Consumer Price Index it changes over time and it really takes a look at a mix of things that are prices that sort of Encompass typical products or services that um that we would purchase in our country um some of those include utilities fuel food items and so we really watch the CPI because it kind of gives us an idea as to where prices are going to go in the future and we use that as an indicator to increase some of our
090expenses so those three things along with actually the third Arrow that's there we have both calstrs and Calpers employer rates these are the rates for our two retirement programs for our employees our certificated employees are part of calstrs the State teachers retirement system um that would be our teachers our psychologists many of our school administrators our counselors are all part of calstrs then we have Calpers we have some of our classified managers in there but for the most part it's really all of our support staff our office support staff our bus drivers our custodians um everybody that works in human resources and fiscal are all part of that side and the reason that this number is important is because this next year the employer rates are jumping up on both of those we knew that
091this was going to happen um so it it jumps up this next year from 16.92 in calstrs this year up to 19.10 and then it pretty much levels off we'll wait to see what happens with some of the Investments um we also wait to hear if that number is going to change right now this is exactly what it is as of the dartboard on January 17th and we use this until a new dartboard comes out this is also the same exact fact actually if you will that every single School District in California uses the calstrs one we're hearing information about the fact that these numbers might change but for right now they will be jumping from this year's 22.91 up to 26.10 and then pretty much uh getting a little more stable in the future
092uh the only other thing I want to point out and I want to thank many of the community members for is the unemployment insurance rate was actually expected to have gone very very high this year and because of the public outcry for that we were able to get that reduced we will see 0.5 percent for one more year and then that will drop back to where it was pre-covered so those are all important things there are some notable changes since our adopted budget our adopted budget was done back in June of last year so probably we could have five or six slides on notable changes but we decided to point out just a few one of the things that we've taken a look at is the Ada adjustment for this year we are looking at
093an ADA of 90 Ada is average daily attendance we don't get funded based on the students that are on our rosters we get funded by if you will butts and seats every single day so when a student is not in school or if they do independent study um and they do not turn that independent study and we do not get the funding for that day a ballpark number that we periodically use is 55.55 per day so anytime we don't have students here you just start multiplying that out and so it's fairly unstable for this year due to a number of things but we know what happened in January and February with covet in attendance our attendance paint across the board as did every School District in California pending completion of independent study it's a big
094unknown and then labor unrest does affect Ada as well we did include the 10 million dollars at the board passed a resolution for and ongoing reductions that was done two meetings ago the selta base or the special education base is increasing 105 dollars per student there were two notable assignments that were removed since the time of the adopted budget the first one had to do with deficit mitigation we had approximately I think 12 million dollars in for deficit mitigation each year to sort of cushion the blow as we were going through and we just yanked that out entirely and then the third and fourth year of textbook adoption were also removed we've recognized vacancy savings as we do at first interim we do it at second interim also which means that all the money that
095we have saved between first interim and now on positions that are not filled end up dropping out and we actually recalculate all of our expenses for that and the other thing that we've done in order to really paint an accurate picture is um we have included in our myp our last best and final offer and I'll explain that in just a few slides these are our projections and assumptions for the next three years again because we have to look at three years at a time we're using the cola that you saw on the prior page we talked about the impact to average daily attendance but that second bullet there um I just want to point this one out because this is one of the big unknowns so something called harm hold harmless it will continue
096to exist but what we've had during covet is we've been held harmless based on 1819 numbers 1920 1920 um enrollment numbers which means that the 1800 or so students that we've lost in the last couple of years have not been accounted for they can they get accounted for this next year however there are discussions and proposed legislation to change the funding for average daily attendance there are a few models that are being vetted in Sacramento right now there's the potential of a three-year rolling average which we are hopeful for because that's the one that actually plays best in our favor but we can't build that into our budget until it is chartered into law the timeline for that is the end of June beginning of July and then if there's any trailer or cleanup language
097it would come a little after which of course means it looks like we'll probably be doing a 45-day revised budget but we've gotten really good at that um so there are a number of other calculations here that we're just pointing out for the sake of um being sure that we're transparent it's also included in the narrative but what we're starting to do here and we realize the numbers are are really small here um but what we're doing is we are including in an assignment on the bottom where you see the red arrow this is future employee compensation this is our last best and final offer and what we did with this was we created an assignment to be able to capture the cost of that so that we can see exactly what type of financial
098position that we're in we value our employees and we know that the the board's priority as well as the staff priority is really to make sure that we're compensating as highly as we can while we continue to to balance our District budget and remain positive in our certification so I'm going to come back to the slide in just a second but I want to point some things out about the future employee compensation because there seems to be some misunderstandings that we would like to use this opportunity to clarify first of all what has been offered is three percent on schedule and three percent off schedule for year one year one is this current year year two is two and a half percent on schedule year three is one and a half percent on schedule the
099total increase of the compensation is a approximately 48 million dollars for those three years and those amounts again that assumes all of the assumptions we have in our budget it assumes the Staffing meant that we have is that we're fully staffed that we don't have tons of vacancies all over and and again these are just things that we build into our assumptions there are also three contingency language components the first one says that we did our bargaining groups will receive an additional one percent on schedule in year three that's uh 20 23 24. if our lcff Revenue that's the main Revenue that we get from the state of California if that increases by 3.5 million and then you see it exponentially increases so one percent for 3.5 million two percent for seven million three percent
100for 10.5 million all of those on schedule not one time on schedule they're all built around three components of contingency language that I want to make sure um that I point out but this again this future employee compensation allows us to account for what we've offered and what we've built in with this contingency language there are three data points that are used for the contingency language the reason we've selected all three of those is because none of those are calculated by the district right so there's no way for any of us to go in and change the numbers because of the way that they're calculated the first one is average daily attendance average daily attendance is calculated based on staff taking attendance every single day and putting that into our tenant system that is verified
101by office staff and teachers sign off on it and it is uploaded to the state of California fiscal office doesn't touch that the second one has to do with the unduplicated pupil counts this is a calculation that's required by the state of California with very clear definitions and most of that information comes from our parents and is input either by our parents or it is input by our school staff it goes straight into this the state system and there are hyperlinks that are in here so anybody can go to this presentation and if you click on these hyperlinks you can go straight to the definition and the explanation of how the state of California requires that we calculate those two the third one is Cola cost of living adjustments as we saw in one of
102those previous slides that comes from the Department of Finance the Department of Finance announces it it goes on the dartboard and that's how we use that so we felt very comfortable with this contingency language because it has nothing there nothing about it is subjective these are three numbers that come straight from the state of California's databases or their announcements that we plug in to calculate those those numbers the last thing that I want to explain is the difference between restricted and unrestricted dollars because they are very different we've color coded them because they are different the colors on the left side are blue those are unrestricted dollars no strings attached you can spend them however you want to spend them the ones on the right side are restricted they are green dollars I can use
103blue dollars to pay for green programs but I can't do it the other way it's kind of like having the the left side there let's say that you've got uh let's say that you've got a Target card right and the other side is you've got a Starbucks card you can only use it for Starbucks you can still get coffee over a Target right but they're entirely different groups different rules different pots of money so on the restricted side that you see there we've got some examples special education state and federal funding they all have strings attached they all have plans attached um some of our contributions for unrestricted we'll explain that one a lot of our covet funds against again very restricted uh grants contracts donations and then what you see at the very bottom
104is you see it says but and you see the red arrow the programs that exist on the green side we never quite have enough money for it so the blue side has to contribute over to the green side right and so that's really what we take a look at in our budget and you'll be able to see that in another slide but this um for this current for this current year we're expecting that the restrict the unrestricted blue side of the house is going to have to contribute about 69 million dollars to the restricted programs in order to balance out we just showed this one we've put the slide back again because it's really important for the sake of argument you see the future employee compensation as the assignment on the bottom so what we
105did was we took it from an assignment and then we actually moved it up to the top so you'll see zeroing out on the bottom where it says future employee we moved it from the bottom sorry it says future employee compensation we moved it up to the top so we moved up the classified increases the certificated increases and the benefits and additional costs that go with them in order to take a look at the five important things that we constantly say are important to look at in a budget the first one has to do with Revenue trends after we provide raises in this current year as we're expecting to do our Revenue Trends show they're not highlighted there um the arrows go to I'm having a really hard time reading this my font is too
106small next one so what you see with with the revenue Trends is you actually see the revenue dropping from 422 down to 386 down to 380. that means that the money we are expecting to get every year decreases you want to look at that Trend that's the first one you want to look at the second Trend you want to look at are the expenditures what do we expect we are going to be spending how do we get this information we get this from taking all of our current positions and rolling them into the next year we take it by taking a look at our purse and stirs and doing the comparable increases there it's what departments have said that they're going to spend it's it's funds that are at school sites that they may not
107have entirely spent and so what you look at there with the expenditure Trends is you see that every single one of those years um will actually see it in the next slide you look at the over under and what you see is that each of those years we expect to spend more than it is that we take in a deficit is when you have more spending and less money coming in more expenditures less Revenue a structural deficit by the definition of the California Department of Education School Services of California the County Office of Education and fixmat all remind us that a structural deficit is year after year spending more than you're taking in and so when you take a look at the over under over time what you see is that that number um is
108always negative it is always in the red and they're large numbers in the red number four the fourth thing you take a look at is you take a look at the increased decreased Trend in the unrestricted general fund why that one because that's the blue side that's the side where you can have some flexibility on how you're going to spend it because on the restricted side of the house you can't spend that for General operating expenses right there's again very very different amounts here and so what's important to take a look at here is that the there's a net increase decrease in the fund balance you see that line right there you see negatives all the way across and so that's something that we have to keep in mind as we're moving forward because we
109are continuing to have year after year of negative spending there the last one that you want to take a look at is the unrestricted ending fund balance and that Trend what you see in those three numbers and where the arrows are going is you see those numbers are dropping so it drops from 60 down to 39 down to 22 million dollars what's helped us so far in the last year and a half has really been the one-time covet dollars that we have we've spent a lot of one time covered dollars very in a very transparent way on permanent positions and now we're going to need to move a lot of those back to where they went or we have to eliminate those positions so um it's helped us for a while it's not going to
110be helping us into the future because those funds will be spent probably by the end close to the end of the next school year if not the beginning of the following year so where are we in our budget cycle uh this is the same slide that we've brought back time and time again we will continue to use this slide we are at the second interim right now the next thing that we are waiting for is the governor's May revision that will come out in May and what ends up happening after that is we get a better idea as to what the governor said in January and what he's planning it's been an opportunity for the legislative analysts office bipartisan grape up in Sacramento they win on a lot of things they don't have much power
111but they do weigh in on a lot of things they may be able to sway some of the other calculations that we're taking a look at but you've got the governor's May revision our estimated actuals that come right after that and we are already preparing for Budget adoption in June at two different board meetings as well as a public hearing um so in summary we are pleased to say that there are three things we'd like you to remember here first of all we can maintain our three percent Reserve we can provide the proposed salary offer that is based on our current assumptions and we are bringing you a positive certification for the second interim financial report so with that um happy to answer any questions but I certainly want to um call out and and
112greatly thank Mika arbelbeid who is our director of fiscal Services she's worked really hard on this as has Nancy Chen the standard in a way many other staff members over in the fiscal Department one of the things that we don't have a lot of flexibility in is the fiscal department and timelines um while we may have flexible timelines in other departments there are always hard stops which means sometimes we're getting emails at two and three in the morning and we know that's because they're committed to their job and the work that they do in this district and um I don't ever want anybody to think that I'm not incredibly grateful for the work that they do every day so thank you thank you and we have a couple public comments Dan Reynolds foreign I'm looking
113at page 44 of 168 of your second interim I would encourage each of you to look at it I would encourage the superintendent to look at it considering how often he likes to insinuate that I am spreading misinformation this is your document your second interim budget report the exact document you are being asked to vote and approve here is what I see on page 44 of 168. this shows your general fund unrestricted and restricted summary so all dollars all budgets all spending column A shows your original budget column D shows your current projected year totals here's what I see certificated teachers salaries you're now projecting spending four million dollars less than you budgeted for certificated people support salaries you're now projecting spending a million dollars less than you budgeted for certificated supervisors and administrator salaries
114oh you're now spending more than you projected budgeted for total classified salaries you're now projecting spending less than you budgeted for teacher retirements you're going to spend less than you budgeted for Calpers retirements you're going to spend less Health and Welfare you're going to spend less but uh oh materials and supplies you're now projecting spending 23 million dollars more than you budgeted for non-capitalized equipment you're now projecting spending 2.5 million dollars more than you budgeted for sub-agreements for services which includes outside Consultants you're now projecting spending six million dollars more than you budgeted for travels and conferences you're now projecting spending 2.1 million dollars more than you budgeted for rentals lease repairs you're now projecting spending a million dollars more than you budgeted for all this increased spending in other areas makes it look like
115you're spending beyond your means but it is not because of the Educators who work directly with our students every day teaching them making them food driving their buses counseling them keeping their schools clean working with them in the library helping them learn how to play a musical instrument you are spending Less on these Educators instead your CBO is showing you a budget that says you'll spend Millions more on other things it's as though when you need to bargain with your employees to improve learning conditions for students to increase nurse support and counselor support to do something about class sizes to increase educator salaries after years with none after years of inflation and rising cost of living it's as though you're now spending millions of dollars Less on employees and millions of dollars more on conferences
116outside contracts administrators materials and leases your budget is a representation of values please value students and their learning environments please value educators thank you thank you next is Kip enovich good evening um I also am going to make some comments about some patterns uh I think I've mentioned this before I've gone back through all of the interim budgets and all of the United actuals for the last five years there's a big picture flow to the budget and that usually means that the second first and second random budgets are pretty far off when it comes to the bottom line and the major places where they tend to be off are one of the biggest is books and supplies and so in the second interim budget there was six million dollars less than in the first enter
117a budget but you still have a total expenditure listed of 43 million dollars and the highest this district has ever spent in the last five years is 16 million dollars in that item so if that comes in even at the highest historical number where's that 27 million dollars going to go then because that means it's not going to be spent there and preemptively speaking you can ask why do we have that number so high there in the first place another one of those is in services and other operating expenses between the first to second interim it went up 7.6 million the total is 50 just about 57 million dollars the highest that's ever been spent is 41. so that means there's about 16 or 17 million dollars more in there than has ever been spent
118by this District so if at the end the highest gets spent where does that other money go there are other Pockets that are like this and I have never heard an explanation about why there is this inflation through the first and second interim budget and then things magically change if I was having somebody monitor my money and they said look this is what the year looks like if you're that far off I don't think I'd be very happy with him and I would say you at least have to explain to me why this happens if it's a misjudgment it's a misjudgment if it's on purpose that's horrible if you're not going to spend it you shouldn't put it in a spendable bucket you should let people know look this is this is out there to
119be used as needed this happens year after year so people might say well they're the professionals I haven't seen a great deal of accuracy in that regard over the past years and so I will be looking at where does it come in in the United actuals it is unfortunate that that does not come out till September but I will be watching thank you I had one question for Dr Gonzalez since I'm assuming you're you hopefully hear the newest stuff that's coming down from the state has there been any talk yet about the expected um effect on the CPI across the country compared to what's going on across the world I hear rumors but nothing concrete but that's that's a that's a major concern I mean we're seeing right now gas prices going up a dollar
120a gallon if not more and so we're really honing in on what the dartboard is going to say when that comes back out um yeah nothing definitive yet but by May when the governor's May revision comes out there should be some type of change in that number we just don't know what direction yeah because I think the thing that until you sit in the seat and you have to deal with these budgets I mean we all have budgets at home but we know how much we make every month we know what we make every year we we can guesstimate if we're going to get a raise or not but we get numbers that aren't real numbers that are guesstimates and we have to make a guesstimate on a guesstimate and then hope it all comes
121out in June when we're ready to go back to school and ready to go that they actually all match up and my experiences in the many years I've been with this District they never do they never match up so it's very very difficult to understand and it's very difficult to have to deal with as a person that has to make these decisions having said that I will open it up to questions from the rest of the four comments from the rest of the board if there are any doesn't look like it so I believe this is on for action I would be willing to entertain a motion and if there are no other comments Madam president I moved the board approved the district's positive certification for the second interim report of the 21-22 fiscal year
122second we have a motion in a second trustee Fowler yes pass this five zero with agreement from our student trustee thank you madam president I just have one comment related to that just came to mind um uh I appreciate that we have achieved a positive certification yet again I know that um that was a challenge for uh for a while there when we were at qualified and I know that we have some neighboring districts that are uh qualified or even negative um and so um I think the other reason that it's important for us to have a positive certification um is for our bond ratings um so I don't know if that is coming up in a different part of the agenda if you wanted to mention the bond reading our bond rating did come
123out today we stayed steady on our bond rating what was it okay I'm trying to think of the exact number um there was no change uh which is a good thing um because a lot of districts have have seen their ratings go down we are in the process of selling approximately 75 million dollars worth of additional bonds for measure J um and one of the things that they commented about in many of the nine pages that you can now find on the district website is um commending the district and the boards were for Budget reductions for really trying to live within its means and there as long as they continue to see those Trends they've already let us know that we should expect that our bond ratings would continue to increase and so that's a
124very good sign thank you okay Dr Clark both thank you appreciate all the work so I have um two things to go over however I um I'm gonna take it a little bit out of order here um first of all I'm gonna make an announcement that I've already shared publicly but I'm going to share it in this meeting about our um about our mask mandate um so this was this was posted on our agenda um and it reads um it reads as such Mount Diablo Unified School District will follow the guidance from the California Department of Public Health and Contra Costa Health Services although we still strongly recommend students and staff continue to wear masks indoors the mass mandate expires on March 11 2022 at 11 59 pm mdusd will no longer require the wearing
125of mass after March 11 2022. um I don't know if any of the trustees have any questions or any comments but it's it's pretty straightforward we had um always agreed to to follow the mandates and to follow the guidance from from federal state and local health professionals and um and we were thankful that the state came out with very very clear guidance here in dealing with the math and so um just wanted to again bring this to the board and open it up for questions and I see there's a board member has a question I have a question I just want to thank you sorry thank the adults in the room today and the previous meetings who are really good examples to our students of following the roles um and wearing their masks on a
126school campus until this Friday at 11 59 pm and I will really appreciate the people who um who also follow the best practice of when you're indoors with Beyond Friday when you're indoors with a lot of people um the the guidance does say to continue to wear a mask and today I was reading that mask wearing in schools reduces transmission by 25 that we've seen a reduction of that in compared to schools who did not mask um so thank you Dr Clark um and I hope that you accentuate um the the encouragement to continue to wear masks and um voluntarily and I know that many families will I know that many staff and teachers will because we care about each other um in ndusd and I would just say at this point it's people with
127making decisions and their decision is their own and I would hope no one would criticize or mock someone else for whatever decision that they make um um I know some students may be concerned or relieved that the mass mandate is not lifted I know everything will be very very new so just take it one step at a time especially regarding um seating charts when we're sitting indoors I think student input is um really necessary if I don't feel comfortable sitting next to someone I think that should definitely be taken into account it's going to be super new but I think if we all cooperate and don't pass any Judgment of one another I think that's very important to respect each other's opinion um regarding also what the state is telling us too so I would
128definitely encourage teachers to really listen to their students on their opinions about where they want to sit or the mass mandate yeah and again I'm just um you know I'm hoping that we can continue to move forward and I know that this is a very controversial issue for many folks and I want to respect that of uh individuals thoughts on on both sides um I am pleased that at our board meetings um in the in terms of the topic of mass they've been we've been very civil folks who have come out to speak on both sides have been very respectful and um and we haven't had any disruptions at our board meetings um or on our school sites or whatnot in terms of this and I think that that's a testament to to our communities
129to our students to our staff members who have just done what the law required us to do and so um so again I'm glad to move on into the next phase and um and continue the the the very heavy lift of making sure that all of our students are highly educated and able to reach their goals so um so again thank you board for your support in this and community members who are out here to hear this item I hope that this brings them some closure to this to this situation if we've learned anything with kovid we don't know what the we don't know what next week or next month or the summer is going to bring and we'll just deal with as it comes so thank you all right I'll move on to my
130to my next item I just want to I want to ask my tech experts over there which screen does the public see oh okay all right so if I point to it if I point with the but the pointer doesn't matter then right all right okay so um so again as always I just want to just start off just just putting up our lcap goals for the um for everyone to see um this is what we this is what we value and these are the goals that we are all striving to to meet and um and so we have goal one goal two goal three again uh goal one is around safe and welcoming environments with Equitable high expectations summarizing goal two high high quality culturally proficient and responsive staff goal three parents family and
131Community will be informed engaged and empowered um that is that is our goal through and then as always the um this is our um ccee systemic instructional review triangle these are these are aligned with our lcap goals also and we value learning acceleration and we value educational equity and social emotional learning so I want to share last um last spring we did we did administer the um the cast test this is our state standardized test and um and here we have a breakdown of how our students did and I know that families have received their individual reports but this is this is reports at the I'm at the district level and um and so as I'm sharing here we have four columns we have exceeded we have met we have nearly met and we have
132not met I like to summarize these as if we were to assign a letter grade that would be an a this would be a b this would be a c and this would be a d and so overall in terms of English language arts um 19.2 percent of our students exceeded the standards in ela as it was measured on on this particular assessment and 25 met and so what the state does is we combine these two numbers and that gives us our percentage of of students who who basically pass the the assessment in ela and then the state makes us or gives us the data in these categories we have to break down the categories in ethnicities and so you can see how our different ethnic groups scored on the on the test and here
133just as as we talk about Equity gaps opportunity gaps things of that nature where we're looking for gaps is when you see particular groups of students that are either performing higher or students who are performing lower than their counterparts and so if you look closely you can see several different gaps you can see gaps with our African-American students you can see gaps with our Native American Alaskan students our highest performing student group is our Asian students and you can also see our Filipino students Latino students Pacific Islander white students and two or more races we further break the data down is these are our language fluencies so so we also track that and um and we also um track in terms of disability status so the Top Line are students with a disability and you
134can see only four percent um exceeded and 11 met and so that is definitely an area of of um you know that we want to pay attention to especially when we look at numbers like this 65 percent of our special education population not meeting standards and you can see the equity gap between students without a disability the students with a disability we also see in we also see a gap between our economically disadvantaged students which students with uh who um fill out the parent income form and they've fallen for a particular category compared to students um who are not economically disadvantaged and you can see that you can see that Gap there roughly 25 percent to um you know close to almost 60 percent um met or or exceeded then we also break it down
135in genders and can see how they perform there and again this is all on English language arts we also break it down to Foster youth students who are in the Foster system and again an area of concern that's 61 percent and then we also and you can see the the difference between Foster and not Foster and you can also see with homeless and not homeless and um and and again if you remember we are we are working with CCE because of the performance of our homeless students Foster youth students and our African-American students and um and their lack of progress over the last three years we also break this down by grade level so you can see within the grade levels these are the only grades we test so just so everyone's clear we don't
136test every single grade these are the these are the grade levels it comes out to half of our district participates in in this standardized test and you can see how how each grade level did there as we're talking about English language arts then very quickly let's go over to math math scores are typically a little lower than Ela and um and so you can see you can see that evidence here when we look at all of our all of our students um and then as we break down into into our different subgroups you can see how they perform there definitely um you know a concern here with zero percent um you know here's a 61 so we're always looking for um we're looking for those numbers that really stand out and where they're those those
137big inequities we want to encourage students you know we want all of our students to to have the best opportunity to do the best that they possibly can and so um we don't just focus on the students who didn't meet but we also focus on the students who succeeded and we want to make sure that we're providing um the support and the the opportunities for those students as well we really want to serve all of our students but this is just one measure just one measure that we use to um to determine progress so so again when it comes to ELA and math less than half of our students exceed or meet standards in both of those areas then we break it down again language you can see the difference between English only students and
138our English learners and then you can also see the difference with disabilities and students with no disabilities and you can see the difference of economically disadvantaged versus not economically disadvantaged and then we break it down again um Foster youth that is a huge concern that is of huge concern you can see why those those students are are targeted and why they need additional support um and you can also see here with our homeless students those are two numbers that that really stand out um I also just want to point out 11th grade math students that they are our highest performers and [Music] um again more more percentage of them meet and also our eighth grade students are doing are doing quite well in comparison people so that is that was our our standardized test now
139I also just want to dig a Little Deeper out at Bel Air Elementary they um earlier they were awarded the early literacy support block grant and um this is awarded by the California Department of Education to an elementary school to support students who have been performing significantly below expected Targets in English language arts and um this the site if you remember the site submitted a plan to this to this board in August which included their goals and actions and strategies to improve literacy instruction um based on intensive root cause analysis A needs assessment and targeted instruction in the early grades and um we want to recognize the Bel Air leadership team and that consists of teachers site administrators district office staff and they meet weekly every other week and reviewing data and and also reviewing
140their smart goals and so I just I'm just going to share a couple of slides of of of that data so what were and if I go back here what we're looking at you're going to see two you're going to see two percentages the first percent is the Baseline that we took at the beginning and the second is the um the diagnostic that just took place in in winter so if we look at this our categories are mid or above grade level early on grade level so beginning of the year one grade below two grades below and three grade below now these are kindergarteners so clearly we're not going to have two or three grades below but in the in the in the Baseline only two percent um we're here 16 we're here and the
141majority were here but what we want to look at as we look at the second number at least here on students who are working below grade level we want this number to go down this is one of the one of the few times when you want the percentage to go down so here 82 percent of The Kindergartners were working below grade level and now just after winter a little more than half are working below grade level so you can see that Improvement which were which we're really excited about um it's clearly in different grades there's there's different stages here but just to highlight a couple so here in first grade you can see the difference um here unfortunately it went up so there's still some work to do and we still have some of those
142first graders I'm working below grade level now second grade first grade in kindergarten you know obviously um you know our second graders and first graders miss school you know they they missed the actual opportunity to come into school every day when we were when when we were on distance learning um last year um not that that's an excuse but that could be something that could factor into this if we go into third grade we can see um there was a two percent growth here here we have almost double growth and um here it increased a little bit but it's going down here and it's definitely going down here so so lots of work to do with these third graders we know that they've missed considerable amount of schooling but that team over there is working
143really hard on getting them where they need to be um and here's how the fourth and fifth graders panned out so and and again the assessment that we're using here is the i-Ready reading assessment this is in our our local assessment this is I ready is there a question trustee and they would it's just that although like in the first grade although that number went up the one next to it went down so those that were set to grade levels below moved into the one grade level below so in fact it's an improvement yeah it increased I just wanted to continue yeah yeah no I'm a I'm a glass half full person and so I I want to look at the positive here but but I do I'm bringing this forward to the board just
144so you can really see and our public can see some of the work that's taking place and some of the some of the um you know the results of that work and again when we talk about return on investment um when we talk about breast practices we want to make sure that we're really examining the data closely a couple more slides um this really this breaks down here what they are actually testing um so um phonological awareness phonics high frequency words vocabulary comprehension within literature comprehension informational text so this is that um you know I think this was something that um schools really shifted to with common core was was reading that that informational text the academic text or whatever you want to call it but that's right here it's that comprehensive informational text so
145manuals not you know not fairy tales not stories things that that nature so so again you can see house how students progressed in in those particular areas and um and again I know that um uh trustee count and I we did visit the school we did see we did see this work in action there was a high level of excitement taking place on the campus amongst those who we the classes we visited and speaking with the principal and even speaking with kids they they were excited about this work and so I did want to bring this this work forward and and and highlight the work that's taking place out there at Bel Air um here goes first grade again I'm not going to go through all these but just wanted to just we have we
146have slides for every grade level and whatnot and we're not going to obviously go through all of those but I do just want to um you know show you some of those highlights I mean look at this look look how these you know first graders are are improving here improving here and you know these numbers are going down going down and doing quite well we're hoping to to hear more about this I would have liked to have invited the team out but um want to be conscious of time and and whatnot and then again it's broken down into um you know into into student groups and so um this is a um this is a a high minority school so it's primarily uh Latinos and African Americans at the school and so those were our
147um highest groups so that's why you that's why you see there but also you can see our emerging bilingual students and how they're doing and and grasping the language and you know just thinking about the the struggle and challenge that that is for those students but also just want to commend the staff that are working with them so that um that concludes my report just again I'm committed to um sharing data with this with this board and and the public we will um post this on on online it'll it'll be on the I don't know where's Laura it'll be on our be on the superintendent's webpage or it'll be on the on the board agenda but again we want to be we want to be transparent with uh with this data any any questions from
148the trustees I just wanted to say thank you for including non-binary students I saw that online so thank you for that foreign yes thank you for sharing the data and the breakdowns um I think that's really important and um and I really would like to hear more from Bel Air about what strategies they're using I know there's a lot of debate out there right now about what street what reading strategies work um in our state versus other states um and the science of reading and a focus on Phonics versus some of the other more balanced literacy strategies so I would really be curious to know what they're what they're seeing out there what strategies they're using that they think are really working not only for their English-speaking students but for the emerging bilinguals in particular
149as well thanks and then you all know on um on Monday during our professional development day all of our schools went through a process of examining their their their data from the local assessment we are going to be sharing reports um publicly and and with the board on on what that data what that data also um informed us on so so again I mean this is the process that that was um you know that we've worked with the with the experts who really came in and and audited our practices and and gave us recommendations and gave us feedback and so although we're just halfway a little more than halfway through the school year this is a three-year plan so we're just we're just starting and so as more more individuals become more comfortable with it
150and more familiar with it and as our students get you know get get used to the process then we're hoping to really um hone in on on those on those best practices for for our students it really is all about educating our students and I know that we often talk about so many other things in that that I really want to make sure that our public knows that we are focusing on that and and it is a priority to us and and show evidence of what we are doing so so again kudos to the staff out there and to the students and to the families consent okay so um we're now at the consent agenda so I'll go ahead and hear from Mr penovich before we see if anybody wants to pull anything this will
151be quick um every so often you do a fiscal monthly transaction kind of a summary I don't know if you've tried to print out a hundred pages and then try and look through it and make sense of it it's not very easy and I don't print out that much paper but I haven't asked if possible if you could put that that document in a spreadsheet form available to the public then a person could open it up in a spreadsheet and do things like sort so when they look for hey what was the biggest transaction or that they can do some data diving into it because it's almost impossible in a PDF form so my comment was more an ask if if there could be a spreadsheet version because there are ways you can try and
152work around it but it would be so much easier if there was just a spreadsheet version that somebody could download so if they wanted to do some looking into stuff they didn't have to go and look for something that had converted and it's a it would make life way easier so that's all I wanted to ask thank you thank you for your comment okay items listed in 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 are there any requests to remove anything from the consent agenda at this time foreign [Music] I'll move that the board approved
153all consent agenda items thank you second promotion and a second trustee Fowler yes [Music] and that passes 5-0 with approval from our students all right that takes us to 17.2 review and potential approval of mediated agreement between Mount Diablo school districts psychologists Association and Mount Diablo Unified School District so we're going to have Dr scudero present this item and I just want to I want to recognize he and his team and also the the team from mudspa for their for their work together and and really um you know figuring this out and coming up with something that that both parties can live with so Dr scudero thank you uh and also I know I said the server but I like to uh come in the mudspot for thinking outside the box uh coming up with
154a way to meet the needs of their farming unit members and also help the district main financially healthy uh and in that regard I'd like to ask you I'd like to recommend that you review and approve the mediated agreement between the Mount Diablo school psychologist Association and the Mount Diablo Unified School District thank you Madam president I move that we approve the mediated agreement between the Mount Diablo school psychologist Association and Mount Diablo Unified School District second we have a motion in a second trustee Fowler yes all right okay very nice 17.3 review and potential approval resolution 21-22-59 reducing or discontinuing the number of classified employees based on a reduction of discontinuance of a particular kind of service for the 2022-23 school year and I'm going to back and present this item so this uh
155this classified layoff is directly related to the decisions about budget cuts last uh the last board meeting I believe there are also two principles who put in uh site Council reduction from their Science office so we would ask the board move to approve resolution 21-22 -59 to reduce the number of classified employees thank you questions comments or emotions Madam president I move to approve the resolution 2122-59 reducing or discontinuing the number of classified employees based on a reduction or distancing units of a particular kind of service PKS for the 2022-23 school year you second your Motion in a second further comment trustee Fowler yes and that passes five zero with approval from our student board member [Music] which takes us to 17.4 yep and I have Dr Rubio who will present this item foreign yeah
156she's entitled to her opinion okay so um I have two comments on this you want to hear the comments first or do you want the presentation we'll do the presentation first good evening board members this is before you as a resolution for a reduction in a number of certificated employees uh based on a reduction of particular kind of services tied to the last board meeting um and I will let you know uh and I don't know if this address is one of your comments that while we are eliminating positions that exist in the structure of our District's budget a good example when you look at the 27 FTE here for multiple subject credentials we are we've had over 1200 media members responsive surveyed in the last seven days they are informing us many most of
157them are coming back but we are getting resignations in so in terms of notifications we're doing our best to try to encourage people who know their plans so there may not actually be 27 people but it is before your consideration based on your actions the last board meeting thank you for that Dan Reynolds thank you at your last school board meeting you voted to make a list of cuts those cuts were listed and that list included FTE full-time equivalent employee positions so when it lists it there it's a number and that's the FTE that list last board meeting included 22.0 FTE of Elementary classroom teachers but this particular kinds of service reduction PKS lists 27. why are you cutting even more the list at your last meeting included 6.0 FTE of secondary classroom teacher positions
1585.0 which were called classroom teachers and 1.0 labeled honors and AP but this PKS resolution lists 7.82 FTE why are you cutting even more the list at your last meeting included 5.0 FTE in alternative education which included positions at Diablo data this PKS resolution includes 9.0 FTE what other alternative education programs are you cutting where are those other 4.0 FTE being cut what site what program are you cutting the Virtual Academy are you cutting homeschooling are you cutting independent study are you cutting staff at a continuation site in total the list at your last meeting included 56.1 certificated FTE and this resolution in 174 is certificated only this PKS resolution has 73.88 why are you increasing the cuts by 17.78 FTE what are these additional Cuts going to be where are they going to be
159made if you value transparency you will tell the community why you are making these additional cuts and which schools and programs they will impact before you vote on this resolution there was a lot said last time in advocacy over the list that you presented this one makes even more cuts that haven't been discussed at all please be transparent and demand to know why you're cutting more than the list from last time and where those cuts will happen and who they will impact thank you thank you Kalyn Wilson hi um before I start start speaking I would like to apologize for my unsuitable appearance um I just came from a lacrosse thing um we enjoy seeing the school colors so hi everyone my name is Caitlin Wilson I'm 16 years older Nicole Junior at College Park
160High School as a student who has been a part of the Mount Diablo Unified School District for the past six years I would like to start off by saying that the staff who have helped me through these past few years have been amazing the teachers and any other staff members have been nothing other than supportive kind and truly helpful in trying to better our education a big part of my life in education has been music I've been playing the flute since fourth grade playing flute and being with my peers in a safe environment has been an amazing opportunity the class where we're not only learning an amazing fun skill but also developing our brains in an important way has definitely been extremely useful in encouraging me and others to do better in school taking away
161this opportunity for the new and upcoming generation is like taking away their potential to express themselves if the energy younger generation has the inspiration to play any instrument and are willing to learn we shouldn't be taking it away instead we should embrace it and give them an option to pursue something they'll cherish for the rest of their life where will we be today without all the artistic and creative minds that we've been educating creative minds are the ones that make an impact not only is music something that can improve a student's life but is scientifically proven that it can improve language capabilities memory hand-eye coordination good study habits teamwork mental processing and problem solving according to cf6145 one of your board policies is to encourage extracurricular and co-curricular activities by taking away music is that
162really encouragement well considering removing the elementary school music program from the district did you ever take a second to consider that maybe a little fourth grader might have been so excited or still arrived ready to learn how to play an instrument and you restrict that opportunity from them as my wonderful band director director and music teacher Mr Jimenez likes to say if you mess up on something all you can think of it as is an is a missed opportunity well this is that time for you to make the right decision and execute your decision well not miss that opportunity to do better now answer me this why take away an opportunity for the students in this District today to gain academic scholarships Matt Stark he's a junior at Northgate High School him and I are
163good friends he's been playing saxophone for about the same time that I've been playing flute and he currently has a scholarship to Stanford University due to his continuous efforts in the music program and the support he's previously received from us currently knows how to play more instruments than I can imagine including the three main types of saxophones and even flu now here are some good solutions that and to the budget cuts that you can use instead after having used iready in my middle school years it's not as great of a program as you believe it to be any student that I have at least talked to can back me up on that all it is it's a slow paced lesson on something your teacher could be teaching you it's not very interactive and when it
164is it's not very helpful again you could be getting that help from your teacher or tutor or peers another solution from the mduc mdusd website that caught my attention was that summer school could be held at fewer locations that be available at to all schools thus teachers working at summer school means that the district saves money right um something that caught my eye was Slide Five the ninety percent um attendance rate keep going okay thank you um something that can fix that is to encourage more students to be more coven safe by encouraging more students to be more covered safe is encouraging parents to bring their kids back to school which will increase our rise in attendance as well um now is the time to take students views into consideration it won't only impact the
165younger generation but will also impact anything and everything music related coming forth thank you thank you Caitlyn alrighty questions or comments from the board I would like to know Steph would like to respond to the public comment question sure um you know we do continually crawl everything that our budget our positions our vacancies the board usually I believe sees these all at once in one PKS and it's a combined list of cuts that either you have decided on and or the staff is bringing to you but it also usually includes at one time parent PTA or parental funded position so the reason you're seeing a difference is because it's come over too so what staff has done is carefully ensured that the FTE equivalent of what you said in the last meeting is embedded in
166here but we have to add the parent-funded positions until the so we have to do it by law to meet the March 15th deadline of course and so that's why it appears to be different and then many times the ptas bring those people back on the phone absolutely absolutely thank you okay any other questions if not I'll entertain a motion I move that we approved resolution 2122-60 to reduce the number of certificated employees based on a particular kind of service a reduction of a particular time service second okay you have a motion in a second and I guess we will vote my computer here and that passes five zero thank you thank you okay next up review and potential approval of additional compensation for substitute teachers yes we have uh Mr Shahidi if you're going
167to take this um take this next item yes so as you remember on January 12th we brought this item in front of the board at that time we asked to uh to have the amount of up to fifty thousand dollars as we ran this um item we had over 87 substitutes sub in our classroom 20 or more days so we're bringing it back to ask if we can increase the amount of fiscal impact to not exceed a hundred and six thousand dollars and that includes statutory benefits thank you any questions if not yep Justine mail asks when does it expire and mine is just clarifying I'm sorry but it is clarifying it's because they subbed for more than we expected or anticipated sub for the however many days we've set up where you get a
168bonus yeah so it ended at the end of February and so we had uh more uh substitutes take us up on that then ex than originally expected okay thank you another question Madam president I moved to approve the additional compensation for substitute teachers thank you okay we have a motion and a second foreign yes okay nap house is five with the approval from our board member or student board member and I just want to say thank you it's it's clear that the program worked and it was so um urgently needed it was really great to be able to see um students be able to have a substitute teacher when they need to pick those desperately so thank you okay takes us to 17.6 review of courses that studied for secondary Avid courses in uh mid-saxon
169team is going to take this item oh here we are we're very busy over in the curriculum and instruction Department so this is uh these are courses of study for secondary Avid courses and these are a little bit different than the other more content area ones we've provided to you in the past Avid are courses that actually build up from sixth grade all the way up through 12 but I really need to have the public understand that this is a program that's been embedded in many of our elementary schools we are a k or actually a tk12 Avid District which is actually quite unique Avid used to just be a secondary class and then over time really what the focused shifted to were school-wide practices these are not books you give to students in a
170classroom this is not some extra different type of curriculum there are lessons and strategies and things that not only affect the student in that one class but are also strategies that are shared across the school the school-wide model is something that the elementary has again no separate elective it's something that they actually build with the um the little ones all the way up through fifth grade and then as they walk into Middle School and High School it does end up being elective at many of our middle schools they have it actually as part of their rotation so they learn study skills they learn these very important organizational strategies how to take notes effectively and then that just builds up all the way through high school this is a program that has been his existence it
171started in San Diego at an extremely high needs High School where they really took a look at the students that were not passing classes and not being able to go to college and trying to determine what were those skills what had nothing to do with their cognitive abilities had more to do with how are they making meaning of the curriculum how are they getting access to really engaging instruction and how are they just organizing their life in general and attacking problems of practice so these courses are ones that we knew we did have to revise and we grow schools each year currently AVID program is actually at 21 sites and this is not something that the district puts on school sites this is something that's actually organic from the school site itself in their leadership
172team so I'm going to see if the team has anything else to add nothing to add but if you have any questions we're happy to answer them questions I just had a few comments um I think this is really good I think it's great especially regarding like college applications and um students need all the help they can get regarding that process but for mine Intel regarding on students that are taking these classes I feel like there's kind of a fall um in 10th Grade when they don't take these classes due to maybe the teacher who's um not qualified enough to teach the class I feel like from the student input that I've gathered as they stop taking the class because they felt like it wasn't helping them so how do we ensure sorry this is
173like a new question but how do we ensure that um the teachers will support and actually advocate for what the program is supposed to do that's a great question and it does have everything to do with the training and the onboarding of the teachers that only teach the electives but really the School site themselves getting the professional development and truly the understanding of how Avid fits across the school but also very specifically in that elective one thing that we did build into the early no the Edna one of the grants um was that we would continue with a an additional prep for Avid coordinators and is to that end to make sure that anybody engaging with this program that it's high quality it's super engaging and the students get exactly what they need which is
174that ability to engage with problem of practice and make sure that they get that support for college essays and making sure that they're on track with their courses and that when they do struggle in a class they understand how to advocate for themselves so we appreciate that feedback because we agree that that teacher needs to be really the champion of it but they also need to be somebody that's fully engaged with it not only with individual students but across their School site thank you okay any other questions or comments if not I'll entertain a motion information this will be brought back for um action later president Mason we appreciate your enthusiasm okay so the next item is reviewing potential approval of revision to job description to Student Records technician this is for action here we
175have Dr scudero we're going to present this item that's what our last board meeting you actually approved this uh job description I'd let you know I was going to need to bring it back for some last minute revisions these are those revisions so we asked if you approve the revision to the job description for student methods okay um okay remove that we approve the revision to the job description for Student Records technician [Music] second okay we have a motion in a second trusty Fowler yes I have passes like what classes five zero with approval from our student trustee all right and that takes us two reviewing potential approval of revisions to high school history courses of study this is the one that's returning so the board has no questions I will entertain the motion Madam
176president I moved the board approved the revisions to the high school history courses have said that's presented thank you I'll second question in a second trustee Fowler yes and that passes 5-0 with approval from our student trustee and now we have review and potential approval of nomination of one nope is that right okay we're moving faster than I could have to keep up with reviewing potential approval of nomination of one new member to the budget advisory committee is that Dr Gonzalez or just go ahead okay unless anyone has a question of her no okay Madam president I moved to approve the nomination of John Ferrante as a representative to the budget advisory committee and thank you John because that wasn't out of spite was it she likes to tease okay we have the motion in
177a second trustee Fowler yes and that passes five zero with approval from our student trustee and enlist Dr Clark knows different I think that concludes our business for the evening looking that way thank you so much board members and we are a jerk thank you