RBUSD Board Meeting 12/16/2025

001I would like to call to order the regularly scheduled meeting of the Rhonda Beach Unified School District Board of Education on Tuesday, December 16th at 5:00 p.m. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda, please? >> So move. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I. >> Any nos or extensions? Agenda is approved. We will have close session tonight. Public comment on close session items. Members of the audience may address the board on any listed close session item. Persons wishing to address the board regarding an item scheduled for close session are asked to submit a request to address the board prior to the start of close session. Comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless the time limit is waved by majority of the board. The board shall limit the

002total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. member of the public would like to submit a written public comment to the board of education about an upcoming agenda, please do so by visiting our website and submit your the electronic public comment form. Tonight for close session, we have item 3.3, public employee discipline dismissal release. 3.4 4 Conference with Real Property Negotiators, Valor Christian Academy site. 3.5 Conference with Real Property Negotiators, RBUSD owned Alta Vista Park Site, RBUSD owned Anderson Senior Park Center and Associated Parking Area, RBSD owned aviation park site, city-owned parking lot serving Adams Middle School, RBS RBD owned Franklin Park site, and

003RBSD owned 200 North PCH. Would any member of the public like to speak on any of these close session items? All right. Is there a motion and a second to recess to close session? >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> All right. We'll be back in about a half hour. All right, the board is reconvened to open session at 5:37 p.m. Leading us tonight in the Pledge of Allegiance will be Dr. Christine Kim, Lincoln Elementary Principal. Stand up, please. No, no, no. Good evening. Today we are joined by our students Amina, Bo, and Lauren and their families. And they will be using different communication modalities to do the pledge of allegiance. Please face the flag. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

004United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you and please be seated. Wonderful. Thank you for that. In tonight's close session, we had item 3.3, public employee discipline dismissal release, where the board received information and gave direction to staff. Items 3.4, conference with real property negotiators, Valor Christian Academy site property, where the board received information and gave direction to staff. And item 3.5, conference with real property negotiators, RBSD owned Alta Vista Park site. RBOSD owned Anderson Park Senior Center and Associated Parking Area, RBOSD owned aviation park site, city-owned parking lot serving Adams Middle School, RBOSD owned Franklin Park site, and RBSD owned Tuner North PCH. The board will reconvene after this meeting to continue that discussion. >> Is there

005a motion and a second to approve the minutes of the November 18th, 2025 regular board of education meeting? >> Second. >> Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. This takes us to reports of the board. Starting with 7.1 Redundan Union High School state cross country team recognition by Marvin Brown, principal, >> President Dan Elder, members of the board, Dr. Wesley, thank you for giving us this opportunity to recognize our boys cross country team. I have a few words written down so I stay on time and stay on script. So, it's a great time to be a Seahawk. Tonight, I have the honor of recognizing seven outstanding student athletes. Mario Mononttoya, Matteo Sanchez, Desmond Voss, Gavin Hassan, Matteo Figureroa, Michael Beris, and Logan Garcia, along with our head

006coach, head cross country and track coach Bob Leech for an extraordinary and historic season at RUHS. Coach Leech has been coaching at RUHS since two since 2005 and is now in his 21st year as our head coach for cross country and track. His excellence has been recognized at the highest levels including national coach of the year in 2011, coach California coaches association coach of the year in 2013, and most recently being named the 2024 Brooks Running Most Inspirational Coach. This season marks a historic milestone for RUHS. For the first time in school history, our boys cost crunchy team won the CIF Division 1 state championship. They [applause] >> they then earned an automatic birth to Nike Cross Nationals in Portland where only 22 boys teams nationwide qualify out of more than 33,000 teams. I had

007the privilege of attending along with our athletic director Andy Saltzman where our where our team finished in nationals as the top team from the state of California among four schools competing. To put this accomplishment in perspective, California has nearly 1500 high schools with cross country programs and our cross country and cross country is the third most participated sport in the state behind only track and football. What these student athletes and coach Leech accomplished this season is truly truly exceptional. Coach Leech has also built a lasting legacy at RUHS dating back to 2011 when he helped lead our girls program n to nationals in Portland with two qualifiers. Coach Leech, Mario, Matteo, Desmond, Gavin, Matteo, Michael, and Logan. Thank you for your dedication, your leadership, and representing Roondo Union High School with such distinction. It's truly

008a great time to be a Seahawk. And I'd like to congratulate Coach Leech with a certificate of recognition from our board of education. [applause] >> Um, we're very proud and honored to be honored here today and to um be allowed here. Um this group has worked very hard. The um it the training really begins uh years ago, but after track season, this group had collectively um each one of them had run 1,670 miles, did 10,800 push-ups, 12,300 sit-ups in their journey to get to the state championships. Um the California State Championships um is broken into different divisions. We are in division one which is the highest rated division. Also um we had the fastest team time in the history of the South Bay. So not only are we the first Cal um Redondo team to

009win a state championship, but we're the fastest team in the history of the South Bay, not only just the school. Um, this whole program is built on great physical preparation in the work that they put in, but also tactical intelligence that they executed on the course, especially on the day and then the mental strength to get through this season. Um, we had some issues with health um and they were able to overcome that adversity and come together and execute the plan and here we are. Um we're so proud of these boys and what they've accomplished and we um I know they're very excited to to represent um their high school. And then when we were up at nationals, it was exciting as well. Um as Marvin said, one of um one of 22 teams that

010was selected to be at the national championships um out of 33,000 schools in the country that offer the sport. So congratulations, boys. Thank you. [applause] Great. And we have these certificates for each one. So, let's bring them on up. Um, Logan Garcia, bring them up first. [applause] And the next one up is Michael Beris. [applause] And one of our real glue guys that kept everyone together, one of these middle pack runners for us, Gavin Hassen. Gavin, one of our seniors. [applause] And [cheering] another one of our real key middle scoring guys, our fifth scoreer, which is really probably one of the most important scorers on the team, Matteo Figureroa. Fantastic job, Matteo. [applause] And really probably our MVP of the day. He was our number three runner, but really ran the race of his life.

011All I heard about up at nationals was everybody talking about his performance from the week before at the state championships. Uh Desmond Voss, congratulations. [applause] And our two superstar sophomores, the first one, Matteo Sanchez, [applause] and our number one runner, Mario Mononttoya. [applause] These two were our first and second runners. They just happen to be sophomores. Um they are also the two fastest sophomores um in the state and also both broke the course record at Mount Sack, legendary Mount Sack which has been going on for 70 years. Both shattered the course record there for sophomores. Um this group is an amazing group of young men. Best we've ever had. Hard workers, great students, and um terrific teammates. So congratulations boys. [applause] And don't go anywhere, gentlemen. If you don't mind, we'd love to get a

012photo with you. >> [laughter] >> Where's Nikki? We got to put Nikki right here. >> Someone has to lay down. >> We appreciate everybody. You guys have been amazing. We have an amazing administration. >> We really do have a great administration here at the school. Great support. [applause] I know a second. >> Sorry, coach. And again, don't don't feel like you have to stay. This is a good time to leave if you want to, but I just had a few questions. So, I'm obviously a little bit biased because my son's in the program as well, and it's incredible. Uh, it's just amazing to see the work that these kids put in day in and day out. Um, but I mean, to have high school athletes on billboards is absolutely incredible. Um, you one of the

013things I heard was, "Is the entire freshman girls team all scholar athletes? Did we confirm that?" >> Yes. First time we've ever had that. We have a very high percentage of our athletes that are scholar athletes. And to do that, you need to earn a 3.4 GPA or better in your season. And we have a large freshman girls class, about 20 girls, and all of them were um scholar athletes. We're really proud of that. >> Just outstanding work all around from the program. Thank you all so much for representing us as Seahawks. And thank you, coach, for all the time and effort. These are great kids with great families in a wonderful school district. Best in California. >> Hope you guys absolutely absolutely feel that way. [applause] >> Great leadership all the way through. >>

014All right. Thank you all. Look forward to seeing you out in track. >> All right. Thanks, Dan. Bye, guys. >> Thank you. Congrats. >> All right. Up next, we have item 7.2, 2 Lincoln Elementary School presentation by Dr. Christine Kim, principal. Good evening everyone. Board President Dan Elder, board members Dr. Wesley and cabinet. Thank you for the opportunity for our Lincoln staff to be here tonight to talk about our brand new curriculum called Teachtown. Uh we have four SDC teachers at Lincoln Elementary and joining us today are two SDC teachers, Miss Michelle Brooks and Miss Evette Hinahosa. And we also have our special education TOSA, Mrs. Amy Martinez joining us today. And earlier we had some of our students, Bo, Amina, and Lauren that were in the SEC classrooms along with their families here today.

015and they helped us with the pledge of allegiance and we are excited that they were able to join us. >> There's a here. >> So, Teachtown is an adapted core curriculum and it has these evidence-based instructional strategies that's designed to help support our students with extensive support needs. And in addition to addressing the academics, Teachtown also addresses social communication and life skills. And you'll find that the instruction is explicit, hands-on, and it's engaging, and it really addresses the whole child approach. You'll also find that Teachtown is flexible. It's individualized. And that the lessons account for the different levels that our students have in terms of their um different academic levels and their abilities because even within one classroom, you'll see that there are different levels. And this curriculum accounts for that. and our students um

016can reach their fullest potential whether it's in or out of the classroom in small groups or in a one-on-one setting. And most importantly, it aligns with our RBUSD's goal for academic achievement. Um so that it we can increase academic achievement for all students. And what Teachtown provides is that it ensures that our students in our special day class programs are also held to the high expectations of achievement and also individualized success. And all means all and our students are part of the all. And today we have some of our SEC teachers that would like to share some of their experiences with Teachtown. So Teachtown offers different programs depending on the age and the student needs. And one of the programs is the launch program for prek. And this is a comprehensive program that's aligned to

017the early childhood standards. And it covers multiple subjects like early literacy, math, sensory exploration, and fine motor skills. So what I've enjoyed with Teachtown, especially in the launch programs, that it's playbased, it's themebased, and it's data driven. So, for example, right now our students are going through a farm unit and our students are learning about different animals and how to take care of the animals. And one of the activities that they recently did was um they were taking the animals feet and dipping them in paint and then they were creating patterns and then they were also making animal noises while learning about different animals. And what's really exciting is in this program there's a lot of resources and um ways that our students can physically interact with their learning. So that way they can learn

018um the same unit, same theme but through different ways through math literacy and just you know overall sensory experience. >> And Dr. Kim, really quickly, what is the age group of the the prek? preks are TK students >> and our teachers like that all of the subjects are connected to the same theme and that the resources have um differentiation so that our stu our teachers can give our students what they need. And now I would like to introduce to you Miss Brooks. >> Hello. I work and teach second and third grade at Lincoln. We use Teachtown Encore for grades kindergarten through fifth fifth grade. Teachtown keeps my students engaged through interactive individualized lessons that meet their learning needs and help them build foundation skills across subjects. Teachtown supports ELA, math, social studies, and science by

019providing engaging stories. My students truly enjoy using the clear visuals that helps them build better understanding concepts and stay connected to every lesson. Teachtown has lessons about daily routines such as activities you do at different times of the day and the difference between day and night that keeps my students focused and participating and eager to share examples from their own lives. In social studies, my students especially enjoy unit 10 where they learned about neighborhoods, community helpers, and identifying places in their own town. The visuals and reliable scenarios help them apply what they've learned to their real life environments. Teachtown has made my job easier by providing structural, engaging lessons that help me to effectively teach and meet the diverse needs of all my students. Hi everyone. I am the kinder first STC teacher. Uh so

020teach I'm going to do touch base on technology in action. So teach town uses technology to make lessons engaging and interactive. Students can work on iPads, smartboards, computers, and even physical workbooks giving multiple ways to access the content. My students absolutely love Teachtown and they find it so engaging. The technology component has been amazing because it shows learning to be individualized for each student and really meets them where they are. Students can access content in different ways like videos and audio and interactive activities which helps every learner be successful. The visual supports including animations and clear modeling help students understand components and stay focused and build confidence and independence. Earlier this year, we did a unit on Peter Rabbit and months later, the same story popped up in the app. One of my students instantly

021recognized it and got really excited. He remembered the story and wanted to show me right away and he was eager to interact with it. Seeing that excitement and connection really showed how meaningful and effective the technology is for our students and it was really a special moment for me. Hey, my name is Amy Martinez and I'm our special education TOSA and I want to talk about assessments and progress monitoring. Our teachers find it really helpful that Teachtown has assessments and progress monitoring embedded into the curriculum and we can see how the students are performing with state standards. We love the detailed reports that show mastery, the areas needing review, and the overall skill growth. This will allow us to have very explicit and meaningful conversations around data, improving our teaching practices, and be able to

022use that information to support individual student needs. We're excited for the upcoming training in the spring on how to add and measure growth on IEP goals using Teachtown as well. Thank you. So by the end of the year, we hope to see that our students are continuing to progress in their goals and all of our teachers are continuing to learn more of what Teachtown has to offer and just overall we're really excited to use this program here at Lincoln and we just want to keep seeing the positive impact that it's having on our students and our staff. That's the end of our presentation and do you have any questions at this time? Do you want to introduce the students that came this evening? Yes, of course. >> Come stand up, buddy. >> I know. My

023name's >> I'm gonna say hi. My name is >> Hi. >> My name say hi for [laughter] a little. >> Okay, you stand up. Come on. >> Can you tell them? Can you tell them hi? Oh, tell them hi. You could say hi. >> Hi. >> Yeah. [laughter] Okay. Can you tell them what your name is? Ready? What's your name? >> What's your name? >> Bo. >> Yeah, your name's B. >> These are two of my students in my class. >> It's wonderful. Pleasure to meet them. >> My my mom. >> Thank you. [laughter] And Lauren Hopkins who was here. She left after we did the pledge of allegiance. She's also one of my students. >> Oh, thank you. It's for me. >> It's wonderful seeing these innovative ways we're able to support our students

024and how you're trying all these different approaches. I love it. Thank you so much. >> Yes. Thank you so much. >> And and do not feel like you have to stay for any more of the meeting. [laughter] [clears throat] >> Thank you. All right, up next we have 7.3 California Dashboard 2025 presentation by Dr. Allison Garland, assistant superintendent educational services and Roy Lopez Jr. Executive Director Educational Services. >> Good evening, President Elder, members of the board. Dr. Wesley, my fellow cabinet members and our community. Uh Mr. Lopez and I will be presented on the California dashboard this evening. So, we're going to review the 2025 California dashboard. We're going to highlight how we performed on the dashboard. Um and we're going to talk about the equity report and then we're going to finish up with

025what our next steps are. This is really part of a four-part series. We had the first part in October when we shared the cast results with you. Tonight we're sharing the dashboard. In February we will have our LCAP midyear review and then in June we'll have the end of the year review. So Mr. Lopez is going to provide the dashboard overview. Good evening uh board of education. Uh let's begin with a dashboard overview. [snorts] So the dashboard is an online tool developed as part of the state's accountability system. It highlights student progress in gates in grades TK through 12th. It reports information on multiple state and local measures ident identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses ensuring needs uh of all students are met and that results are available for uh our districts, schools and student

026groups. The data derives from multiple sources such as Calpads, the state's longitudinal data system used to maintain individual level data, state assessment results like the CASP, ALPAC, CAST, and additional student uh level data as well. And really the essence of the California dashboard is that it promotes continuous improvement for all student groups. So shortly I'll share with you the equity report that's built in within the California dashboard. Continuing on with the overview of the dashboard, there really are two sets of indicators that are included in the California dashboard. One of which are the state measures um which includes such areas as academic, college and career and graduate rate just to name a few. You see all uh of those listed here. Uh identified under each of the state measures are the grade levels for which

027the measure is reporting. To note the state indicator uh the state indicator for science isformational only. It was first introduced to the California dashboard a year ago with there was no um color performance level attributed to uh the science indicator. This year uh there is. So on the dashboard, RBUSD receives one of five performance levels for each eligible state measure. At the two extremes is red representing the lowest performance level and blue representing the highest performance level. uh and how we uh are attributed a particular per performance level is there on the 5x5 grid where the two um areas intersect which is the current performance and the change which I'll explain uh shortly is how we are attributed the performance level and the color so the dashboard uh for the uh performance levels are uh

028identified through status and change. The California dashboard uses status, which is the current performance, and change, which is the yearover-year difference on a 5x5 grid with colors blue, green, yellow, orange, and red to show school district progress across key indicators and performance level placement for all state measures. So, you could see here that the status would be for the 2425 school year and the change is from the 23 24 school year. So that's what this particular um uh slide highlights. So in addition to the state measures, there are also local measures. Local measures are included for such areas as the implementation of academic standards and access to courses. Identified here are brief descriptions of each indicator [clears throat] measure. The reporting is different than the state measures. here local the local measures attributed one of

029three ratings uh for each of for each of the measures. So you can see there that uh underneath is a description of met not met or not met for two or more years as the ratings. I wanted to highlight one particular uh area that's attributed to uh the basic conditions uh local measure. There are eight state priorities that are related to the local control funding formula LCFF and the LCAP which state priority one is connected directly to basic conditions. This slide highlights RBUSD's progress on pri priority one basic services for the 2324 school year. Unfortunately, the state has yet to catch up in providing more current uh data when it comes to um misassignments for teachers. And so what is reported and it actually came out very late this year is the 23 uh 24

030school year reporting. Also on this particular slide, other areas for basic services includes uh if students have access to instructional materials. So you can see here the number of percentage of students without access to um their own copies of state aligned instructional materials which is actually at 0% and if our if our facilities are meeting the good repair standard which again they all are and 0% are reporting that are not. I'd like to move on and share with you uh how the uh California dashboard for RBUSD looks currently and how it was reported um in November. Here's the current 2025 RBUSD dashboard that includes performance level colors for each state measure uh and how it's uh reported individually. In addition, the ratings for each local measure are reported as well. You can see here that

031all five measures RBUSD received the standards met rating for basic conditions, implementation of academic standards, parent family engagement, local climate survey, and access to a broad course of study. Again, in the upper uh right hand corner, you see the science indicator. Not really yet included uh in the California dashboard with any performance level color because it's the first year that it's reported um with a performance level color. Before highlighting each state measure progress, I wanted to explain the purpose of the equity report that identifies gaps among students. These reports shine a light, if you will, on the student on student group successes and challenges while providing districts data to address disparities between uh student groups. There are 14 student groups and the equity report shows the number of student groups placed in each performance level

032or color for a particular state measure. because the equity report does indicate um information uh about students um ethnicity. Uh for the purpose of the equity report, I'm providing on this slide what was reported for the 2425 school year enrollment by ethnicity. I wanted to provide this particular slide to provide context when we start looking at um our disagregated data uh for our student groups and how they get reported on the California dashboard especially around achievement student academic achievement. Part of the equity report also includes our unduplicated enrollment. Unduplicated is a fancy term that's used within the LCFF and the LCAP which includes English learners, foster youth, homeless, and our socioeconomically disadvantaged students. And you can see here the percentage uh again that are reported for the 2425 school year. Some additional enrollment that also

033gets reported on the California dashboard are students with disabilities. So you see here that they are also represented The subsequent three slides will highlight each indicator by state measure along with equity focus results for students in the yellow, orange or red performance level. So what I wanted to draw your eye here for um first is uh this is the English uh language arts uh indicator. Uh and you could see here that for as a district we have been attributed the performance level of green. Off to the right you see the performance levels for the equity focus areas. So you see that long-term English learners are in uh the red performance level. African-American and students with disabilities in the orange performance levels. And then uh for our socioeconomically disadvantaged students they are in the yellow performance

034level. Here's the academics perform academic performance for our students in mathematics again as a whole district-wide in the green performance level. And then off to the right you see the performance levels for students who are long-term English learners in the red, African-American students and students with disabilities in the orange, and then our Hispanic and socioeconomically disadvantaged students in the yellow. And same um same rule applies here with status and change when looking at our particular subgroups. Continu continuing on with academic performance for our English learners. So the English learner uh indicator reports the progress of our English learner students m uh making progress towards English language proficiency. Uh and it reports it not only for the district but also for the schools starting in 2024. Long-term English learners were also included as in in the

035uh English learner uh indicator. Long-term English learners are students who have yet to redesate from English learner to uh reclassified fluent English proficient. Typically, those students have been designated as English learners six years or more. And so, we use the results of the summitive alpac, that's the state's English language proficiency assessment to monitor students progress on uh the LLP. Also indicated on this particular slide is the college and career uh indicator. You could see that as a district we are in the blue. Um a little later we'll note uh notable changes uh that we noticed uh for the California dashboard. And then again uh off to the right are is the equity report for the college and career indicator. The next two slides will highlight academic engagement as reported on the dashboard along with again

036with the equity focus area. This slide highlights a chronic absenteeism. On the dashboard, districts and schools serving students in transitional kindergarten through grade 8 receive a chronic absenteeism indicator. This indicator reflects the percentage of students who are chronically absent, defined as those who miss 10% or more of the school year. And again off to the right you can see the equity focus areas for students in the orange and the subgroup in yellow on the dashboard. Districts of schools that serve students in grades 12 receive a combined four and fiveyear graduation rate um for the graduation rate indicator. This rate is based on the number of high school students who graduate with a regular high school diploma in either four or five years. The 2025 graduation rate indicator includes students from the most recent graduation cohort,

037which is 2025, as well as students from the prior cohort, 2024, who graduated in their fifth year of high school in 2425. I'm happy to report that all student groups had graduation rates higher than 96% in the district. Some with 100% um indicator. If you go into the California dashboard, those are our African-American students and students who are two or more races. On the dashboard, districts and schools that serve transitional kindergarten through grade 12 students receive a suspension rate indicator based on the number of students who have a combined total suspension of at least one full day. A student is counted only once in the suspension rate, regardless of the number of suspensions or total days suspended. For most state indicators, the desired outcome is a high percentage of performance in the current year and

038an increase from the prior year. However, the suspension rate indicator, the desired outcome is a low rate in the current year and a decrease from the prior year. So, you can see here that the suspension rate indicators in the green and off to the right is the equity focus area for students uh in the red and in the orange. Yeah, thanks. >> Okay, now we're going to move from the equity report back to the dashboard and talk about the notable changes. So, you'll have noticed that the chronic absenteeism went from green to yellow for 2024 to 2025. Some good news to share at this point in the year. Our rate has declined. Our um our chronic absentee rate has declined from 10.1 last year last year to 9.4 this year. And in addition, 10 out

039of our 14 grade levels have decreased their chronic absentee with second grade having the highest decrease. Another notable change that I referenced earlier is on the English learner progress. Uh there was a change in performance color from green 2024 to orange 2025. So the this is an interesting indicator because the English learner subgroup on a yearly basis does not remain constant. Uh I know I share um very proudly that we reclassify about 18% of our students uh from English learner to reclassify fluent English proficient on a yearly basis. Once that cohort of students reclassifies, they no longer take the summit of LPAC. And so the English learner performance indicator is based on students performance on the summit of ALPAC. So if they're no longer taking that particular assessment, they're no longer considered part of this

040group. >> And another notable change you'll see is the college and career indicator. We went from green to blue. Um due to the hard work of Joy Scarcliffe at RUHS and Will Tyra from IT, they worked with Dr. Toronto to ensure that the data is being captured appropriately in powers school so it is monitored correctly with cowpads and now we're going to move to our next steps. So I uh part of this information is shared or actually all of this information is shared with our LCAP committee which I have the pleasure of facilitating. So we take a close look at the um results of the California dashboard. We use the metrics found within uh the California dashboard to make any uh changes to our actions um that are related to our four goals. So, we'll

041continue to do that. Um that's something that I've already shared with our LCAP committee. Um we meet uh and reconvene in February. uh spec specifically some notable changes for this particular uh uh from the 2425 California dashboard is to continue to utilize school status as a tool to monitor attendance with a specific focus on responding to students who are at risk or chronically a uh absent. Uh that system has proven to be quite um uh helpful and useful for our school sites uh as it uh provides several dashboards for reporting um uh letters to families indicating if there's any risk of being um chronically uh absent or just absences in general. In addition, uh we want to identify actions that support language acquisition for our English learners and long-term English learners. So, one um exciting

042uh activity that we're taking a close look at is actually uh a journalism opportunity for our long-term English learners to really focus on the four domains, which is listening, speaking, reading, and writing at the secondary level. Again, long-term English learners are those English learners that have been identified as such for six years or more. So, we want to target uh our students at the secondary level. In addition, I've worked very closely with our special education department as a number of our English learners are also what we call dually identified, meaning they not only are they English learners, but they're also um students with disabilities and have an IEP. So, I've worked with our special education department to uh ensure that um any type of English language support is uh discussed at IEP meetings and then

043when students meet the reclassification criteria that's also discussed within the IEP meetings as well. >> And we are working on our improvement of our alignment with our CTE pathways. So, the CTE team at the high school spent three days updating and aligning their pathways with the new CTE standard standards. We also as part of the strategic plan, we partnered with LEGO and the LA College Accelerator Network to create a dual enrollment action plan. And as part of that work, um the RUHS staff completed a credential and degree survey in order to help us identify possible teachers uh to teach some dual enrollment courses. And of course, our goal is to um offer the dual enrollment courses during the day with with our teachers. And then also as part of the strategic plan, we held a

044college um fair in September and hosted author Jeff Celingo in November. And then tonight on the agenda is the contract with the National High School um career network who will help us with our student oriented career day at the high school in February. And we are happy to answer any questions that you have at this time. Okay. I know you touched on it already, but recoding [clears throat] for Calpads, I know that's been an area of focus. Is that primarily driving what we've seen in a lot of these cases for college and career readiness? >> Yes, a lot of it is the coding and and they've worked really hard on that. We're going to continue that system this year. >> Thank you. Yeah, I know getting good data in is important. That's one of the

045things we looked at. You know, I'm appreciate that we've done these deep half day sessions with the board where we dive into the data for CASP and all these other results. It's helpful for us to understand the the good, the bad, and the ugly because it is just data. Um, but it's also important to have accurate data. So, making sure that everyone takes these tests seriously, knowing that a good score or bad score doesn't help you individually as a student, but it does help us understand as a district where we need to focus our efforts. So, um, I know there's a lot of efforts underway to make sure that uh, there's more focus on that and appreciate everyone's efforts on that. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you so much. That was a lot of

046lot of research and data. Thank you for sharing that with everyone. Thank you. Coming up next, 7.4 student board member report by Key Gold. >> Thank you. I wanted to start off by mentioning how smooth my experience was at the CSBA conference. Travel, transportation, and everything in between was made super easy and I was able to gain another great experience and such great information. So, thank you. Last Saturday, December 13th, the girls wrestling team was hosting the second annual Carla Espironza girls invitational in the big gym with a formal former UFC strawweight champion and former RHS wrestler in attendance to support the event. The RHS Chinese program has been named one of the only 12 national outstanding K through 16 Chinese programs by the Chinese language association of secondary elementary schools. After such a successful

047production of Women of Lockerby, the theater department has already began holding informational sessions for their winter for their fall play, Something Rotten. Auditions and interviews will take place in early January. The Seahawk Marketplace holiday edition was last Friday and a huge success with over 40 student vendors and performances by RHS RUHS jazz band and salsa club. Students showed up to support our RUHS and Dryler student creators and entrepreneurs. The last RHS spirit week of the year has kicked off this week and to end the spirit week there will be an event called Frosties on Friday at lunch for all students. We are hosting 25 students and three staff members from Japan this Thursday and we are so excited to welcome them. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And up next 7.5 Superintendent Report by Dr.

048Nicole Wesley. >> Okay, so my report is on you all. Um >> uh >> can we table this or [laughter] >> um well it's informative and the and the reason why is because um I I have the privilege of working with you and being with you at all these events and activities and there was a comment early in the year um where you were asked to sub and board members cannot be employees of the district although I because I know some of you actually did try to sign up to be subs and we appreciate that but you can't and so I thought it would just be great for the public and you to just to see how much you've been doing and we're not even halfway through the year. Um, I also have the privilege

049of working with other superintendents and I really am learning over the years how fortunate I am and we are to have you five as board members because you're all very actively engaged in this district and you take your responsibility um to the next level. You're not just about the budget and the finance. you're really interested in all aspects of our student achievement and experience. Um, and so this is just a highlight of some of the things that you have done um, so far this year. We did go to the CSBA conference together. U, Rachel and I had the privilege of actually um, presenting and talking about our partnership with SoCal Rock and sharing how much our students are um, making progress and really discovering their passion and future careers through that program. Um you also

050had an opportunity to go to a lot of um a lot of different workshops on governance and budget and all the other fun topics that are going on in in our in our state and nation in terms of policies. Um in alignment with the presentation just now um you have been looking at data. So uh you are shared this CASP data and the dashboard data in advance. You look at it. We had a full um retreat in here, a special board workshop with all the data on the walls and you were able to ask a lot of questions um because ultimately you are holding us accountable to the student achievement data. So we appreciate you asking these questions and being engaged at that point. Um there is actual bylaws that require or um actually require

051you to visit schools. And maybe some folks don't understand that, but the bylaws do state that board members shall um visit schools twice a year. And so here are just some highlights of some of those visits. Uh we have visited together two board members per visit along with myself um every schools for the fall semester and then we'll do it again in the spring and I know you guys like to switch it up with each other but here's just some highlights of our school visits engaging with students and um with Mr. show there's uh look showing the the fence and how we are um doing that project. But anyway, you can just see for yourself. Here we are at Lincoln. We're at Jefferson. That's Rmmer's tree. >> Dr. Tree >> from Leadership Roondo. Yes, the

052TK class right there. And they were doing the uh the heart challenge. Are getting ready for that. This is our trip to Alta Vista. Uh I think the students were doing a presentation as a witten wisdom on the heart and so they they were able to present to us while we were there and show us what they were doing which was a lot of fun. We are able to see students in the classroom, outside the classroom. We see snack, we see recess, we get to speak with teachers, we get to see students um in all aspects of their day. Sometimes it's not always pleasant, but it's good for us to see um what our what our staff experience when um students are struggling. Here's here we are at Toita. I took pictures, but I somehow

053didn't get any of you in it. I know it was Dan and Young that day. We did a lot of recess supervision that day. Washington. And I know you also attend a lot of PTA meetings and events. Here we are at Adams. This the students were really excited to show us their new broadcasting equipment thanks to the grant money and they were doing um their first broadcast with that. It was really cool to see I think and an elder was in there as well. We were at Paris Middle School being serenated by the band among other Chinese class etc. Mandarin and then we went to Patricia Dler. I think Miss Silverman Neimoth had a lot of fun that that school as you can see went into every classroom. Mr. Cho was started to give a

054a lecture. It was a lot of fun. You even made it over to Drysler which was fun. Um but we did a tour there to see the programs and progress as well. A lot of you are able to make events. Um this is a sketcher walk just really supporting the activities. So thank you for that. Uh, we made it over to the high school. Went into a lot of classrooms that day. You supported our students at homecoming and we our CIF champion historic championship game as well. Some dignitaries and we just thank you for how actively involved you are and look forward to doing it again in the spring. And that's the end of that report. But I also want to remind you that I need you all to show up to the jingle jam

055tomorrow because we have you participating in some fun games. So I want to take a moment to thank all of our vendors. um with the help of Miss Compost here who's working with all of our district leadership, we've raised nearly 30,000 um in prizes and um monetary donations and so that we can have a holiday party for our employees that is going to be super fun and engaging. And just reminder that no money for that party comes from our general fund. It's all donated thanks to all of these wonderful partners and donors. That concludes my report. >> Thank you. [applause] And one thing I would highlight real quick about that because I do get sometimes get questions from teachers or staff or parents about why there's only ever one or two schoolboard members doing a

056site tour, things like that. Um, and the reason for that is the Brown Act. So outside of an agendaized discussion of a specific topic at a meeting like this, you don't want to have a quorum of us because if we start talking about something, um that's making decisions outside the public's view and the public doesn't have a chance to participate. So that's is called the Brown Act. We don't want to violate it. Um so it's not that we don't want to all come near your school or come talk to you or come to different events sometimes. It's that we have to be very careful when there's more than two of us that we're not talking about something that will be on a future board agenda or things like that. So just wanted to clear that

057up. >> Yeah. And that's more likely to happen at a school site >> than at a football game. >> Yes. >> Or a conference. >> Yep. >> Thank you. This brings us to our hearing section. Uh members of the audience may address the board on any topic regardless of whether it is listed on the agenda. However, due to Brown Act regulations, the board cannot engage in public discussion on items not on the agenda. Topics not on the agenda, which are brought to the board's attention, may be investigated by the administration and a report made to the board either publicly or privately at a future meeting. Comments from visitors shall not exceed three minutes unless the time limit is waved by majority of the board. The board limit shall the board shall limit the total time

058for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, the president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. Do we have any advanced written requests? Would anyone like to speak on any agenda or non-aggenda items? Okay, quick and easy. Uh that will bring us to our communication section. This section provides an opportunity for the board of education to hear reports and communications from our employee associations and the community support organizations listed below. All reports are limited to five minutes. Members of the public may address the board of education concerning this section. Each speaker will be permitted to speak for three minutes per item. The board may limit the total time for public input on each item to

05920 minutes. Starting up with Rodondo Beach Teachers Association. There we go. Hello, board president El Dan Elder, board members, Dr. Wesley, cabinet. I am the elementary director of RBTA. I want to begin by acknowledging the incredible teachers and staff that I have had the privilege to work with. Roondo truly is a remarkable district and the dedication of our members inspires me every day. 12 years ago when I arrived at Toledita, I was fortunate to work with teachers who genuinely care about their students and education. Angelique Nitzotus welcomed me like family. She works tirelessly in and outside of school to help children. Angelique is my sounding board when I need help at work or with life. to Jen Bell. Everyone should have a Jeb Bell in their lives. If you have ever have never seen her

060in action, you're missing out. Her energy, enthusiasm for learning is contagious. She never stops and is always reading and researching for new ways to reach all her students. To put it simply, she is the only one who makes me wish I could go back to being a first grade student just so I could have the privilege of having her as my teacher. to my partner teacher Wendy Dearia who tackles the heavy lifting. She is brilliant and has taught me how to love Common Core Math and yes, I do love it and how to motivate students to love our curriculum. Wie shares her knowledge generously with anyone who asks and is an inspiration to the teaching profession. Her ability to connect with students academically is shown every year in our test scores. It is not an

061easy task, but one she helps me constantly revise and refine with each new group of students. To the entire Toledo family, you are amazing, and I'm blessed to experience life with you. What makes Roondo special is that many teachers at Alta Vista, Burl, Bernie, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Washington, Adams, Paris, Roondo Union, Drysler, and the South Bay Adult School share the same dedication to their colleagues as I do at Toledo. We work, live, love, and support each other. That is what truly makes Roondo a special place. We rally when someone is sick. We support when someone is having a rough day or year and we celebrate the joys of our lives. This is not just a job. It is our profession and we share it with the people we grow to love. Being an education is

062demanding but supporting one another makes a significant impact. Together we are stronger. Keep supporting, advising, and celebrating all the efforts you make for your students and each other. Keep showing the community the difference you make through your passion for learning and commitment to your profession. Continue uplifting one another because you are the reason this profession is possible. Enjoy your well-deserved winter break. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Uh up next we have the California School Employees Association. >> Good evening board. Uh Dr. Wesley, Dr. Stephanie and cabinet. Hello. Mark Lewis, the president of our chapter here, CSCA, and I'm excited to present the results of our um tenative agreement uh ratification vote that just finished about an hour ago. Uh before I present them, I would like to thank everyone that came out to

063vote and the administration for allowing time for our members to be able to go vote throughout the day and staff members that helped cover the people that had to go out to vote during the the day. So we had a total attendance of votes of uh 100 71 votes with 14 oh sorry 149 yes votes and 22 no votes. So, verification passes our membership and uh yeah, [applause] uh and also um I look forward to seeing everyone over at the Jingle Jam tomorrow and um hope everyone has a great holiday break. >> Thank you so much. Thank you for that update. Uh, up next, American Federation of Teachers, Roondo Beach Council Parent Teacher Association. >> Hi, good evening. I'd like to introduce the PTA president from Lincoln Elementary, Charma Gar. >> Hi, I'm Charma and

064um, thank you for having me. Um, I guess I'm supposed to talk about some things that we do at Lincoln. Um, I know every year everybody talks about multicultural night. Last night, last year I tried to mix it up and I talked about our wellness spaces, but um, I do think that this time of year it's so important to celebrate love and um, so I'm going to talk about our multicultural night. Um, I think we send our kids to school to to learn to read, to learn to do math, to learn to do other things. And I think this district just and all of our schools um really celebrate diversity. And I think that that's such an important lesson for our kids as well to um just learn. I mean, just to kind of express

065their curiosity and to like celebrate other cultures and just respect. So, um I think that's probably why it's one of my favorite nights. It's also really fun. Um, this year we had Scottish bag pipers and uh I mean dance performances and I really like when friends jump in and want to learn cultural dances that are not their own culture as well. I think it's like just um such a love message and such a a an indication of respect and I just feel like we're raising really good humans in this district. So I want to thank all of you for um all the efforts you put in and for allowing us to do what we do. So that's all I've got. So thank you and happy holidays. >> Thank you. [applause] Up next, Ronda Beach Educational

066Foundation. >> Yes. So, coming from Lincoln international night was also one of my favorite PTA events back at Lincoln. Um, good evening RBUSD. Um, I'm Stefanu. I'm part of the board of trustee of RBF. Um so we are mid of December and we are entering the year end fundraising window of the year. Uh so would like to reach out to the community inviting families and alumni and local partners to make a gift before the 31st of December. These donations are essentials to help us close our annual goal and uh continue funding the programs that our students rely on. Um we are currently at $637,000 uh dollar raise as part of the investor drive and so we are close to reaching our our yearly goal of 725,000 so we have roughly you know a bit less

067than $100,000 to go. It's usually the toughest one to get. The first 100,000 are fairly easy. The last ones are complicated. Uh thank you as always for your support and partnership through the years throughout the years. And then on behalf of RBF, the board and the staff, we wish you joyful holiday season and a restful winter break. Thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> And finally, Superintendent Comment. >> Yeah, I just want to make a couple comments. First, just wanted to thank Mr. Lewis for his leadership and for um coming to share the that news with us this evening. That means a lot to us. Thank you so much and look looking forward to seeing you at the Jingle Jam. um wanted to thank Charma for representing um PTA because all of our schools have

068multicultural cultural nights and for those of us who have gone um it's a huge undertaking and it wouldn't happen without our PTA. So, we're really lucky to have them. And also for RBF, um, want to thank all of the those who have who generously have donated to RBF because if it wasn't for RBF, there would be many activities and programs like elementary music and band, etc., esports that we the district just couldn't afford. So, um, going with Charma's theme of love, uh, as the year ends, we are very blessed and thankful. And so I just want to take a moment to point that out from this perspective. Thank you. >> Thank you. Up next is the consent calendar. Does anyone have any items they wish to pull? Is there a motion in a second to

069approve items 10.1 through 10.10? >> Second. >> Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. There are no separate consent items, which brings us to our action items. Is there a motion in a second to begin discussion on item 12.1, adopt resolution number R25-2618, approving the process and authorizing the issuance of lease lease back request for proposals. >> Second, >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. This item is a resolution that approves the process for the district to put out a request for proposals for a lease leaseback services for lease leaseback services to build a new career technical education building at Roondo Union High School. Lease leaseback procurement is a construction delivery method commonly used by school districts in California to modernize or build new buildings. Under this approach, the

070district uh leases property to a developer or contractor, often for a nominal fee, who then consults with uh who who then constructs the facilities on site. Once complete, the district leases the improved property back from the developer, typically under a financing agreement. This method of construction allows the district to select a contractor based on specific scoring criteria contained in the request for proposal documents. The least spec method enables greater collaboration among the dis amongst the district uh contractor and architect resulting in more efficient project delivery while also complying with public contracting laws. Again, this item only authorizes the district to put out a request for proposals. The uh the successful lease lease back contractor will be selected based on the criteria established in this request for proposals and recommended to the board at a future

071meeting. The board will need to approve the final contract with the selected firm in in the coming months. >> Thank you. Questions or comments? Student advisory vote? >> All those in favor? I. >> Any abstensions? Motion passes. >> Motion in a second, please, to begin discussion item 12.2, approve change order request for Adono Union High School fencing project. >> Second, >> Stephanie. >> All right. This item is a change order that modifies the original proposal to reflect the work currently required to keep the RUHS fencing project on schedule. Staff recommends the approval of this item. >> Questions or comments? Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or extensions? Motion passes. Item 12.3. Motion to second, please, to begin discussion on approving the change order request for Toledita Elementary School retaining wall

072project. Motion >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. This is another change order for the Toledo retaining wall. Uh we originally believed it would not require board approval in the fall, but the work is just over slightly or slightly over 10% of the original bid. Therefore, it requires a formal board approval. The work on the wall is complete and this change order represents the final invoices that need to be paid in order to close out this project. >> Thank you. And I know it's been a substantial amount of time and effort just for a retaining wall. Uh very happy to have it. >> Yes. Sorry it takes so long to get through DSA approval for something as simple as a retaining wall, but that does not bode well for the rest of our project. So hopefully

073uh hopefully others go faster. Um any questions or comments? >> Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. Congratulations Toita. You've got a retaining wall. Uh a motion in a second, please to begin discussion on 12.4 adopt child development fee increase for preschool and school age programs effective August 2026. >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. As we turn our attention to January and February to uh to for the planning of the upcoming school year. Uh we are bringing forward a recommendation to adjust the child development center CDC program fees beginning in August 2026. information has been provided to the board in previous updates. Um, we are requesting board approval at this time so that the CDC can publish updated fees in advance of the upcoming enrollment dates. It

074is worth noting that we have not increased CDC fees since 2022. The increases will not take effect again until August 26th. Additionally, the um CDC would still offer rates that are about 10 to 35% lower than those of neighboring districts. >> Thank you. And this is just preschool, correct? >> Sorry, it is preschool and school age. >> Yeah. >> So it's both. >> Yes. >> Oh, >> yes. It is a green light. Sorry. So it is the both preschool and school age. And perhaps you can share um what's new with the fees in terms of employees and siblings. >> Yes, there are three new things that we are also incorporating and one is halfday preschool option because other districts do that. It kind of went away with co we're bringing that back and the two

075other things are 10% discount for employees and then for siblings. So that first sibling that you get will also get a 10% discount. So that's the first time we've ever offered any discounts. Thank you for doing that. Yeah, of course. >> I realize higher fees are not something any parent ever looks forward to, but given the inflation over the past few years along with rising costs for everything else, um it's still an amazing bargain in my mind. Both my kids went through CDC. I was incredibly fortunate. Uh it is a wonderful program. We have incredible teachers and field trips and so many things that go into this. So, um thank you to everyone at CDC who gives our our families that option to have uh such a high quality experience for their kids. >> Thank

076you, Dan. Any other questions or comments? >> Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. Motion a second, please, to begin discussion on 12.5 approved beach unified school district construction management services agreement extension with Balfurb. >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. We've already come to the end of the uh the end of the first six months of our services with Balfurbatty as our construction manager um for all of our Measure S projects. Uh for a lot of our measure S projects, we have reevaluated our needs for the next six months and recommend a reduction in the number of Balffor staff assigned to our projects. Uh this I this item is a contract extension with Balffor Batty for 6 months and is $665,000 300 about $300,000 less than our

077original first uh six-month contract. >> Questions or comments? >> I was just going to add that um as you know we have a lot of projects going on. So, it's been very helpful to have um you know, a contractor management service with Balf Forbatty helping us get these next few projects kind of going. Um and there's going to be a a board I'm sorry, a bond newsletter update going out to the community um tomorrow regarding these projects. So, I think there's going to be a lot of excitement, but it's been very helpful to have an expert on the team. >> Yeah, thank you for sharing that with the community. I know the board receives that information regularly. Um, but I'm very happy we're able to share that with the community so they can know what's

078going on behind the scenes and when things are happening and can look forward to it as much as the rest of us are. >> When it says um full-time construction manager on site for six months that's on any of the sites, right? >> Correct. >> It's correct. >> Just one person. Yes. >> Yeah. And we Go ahead, Fred. We have him here actually. >> We have Balfury. This is Trevor. I wondered if that's who that was. >> Yeah. >> Your question again. >> Um your when we when the contract says that there is a construction manager on site, that means just the one person on any of the sites. >> He's he's in the district. >> Okay. >> They can be at any site. And there's a lot of front-end work before you bid a

079project, putting together specs. When you get plans from the uh architect, there's constructibility reviews. We go through them through the page by page to avoid change orders, which we didn't have the benefit of Toita, but uh we're projecting that that won't happen again to that extent. That's what we're here for is to control costs and quality and schedule. >> How did you um determine that we could reduce the number available jobs that are coming out of the DSA. It takes about a year to get a big project through. So, we have two members that will do all the front end pre-work and then when we start getting plans, we'll probably have to boost that demand power up a little, but that'll come after 6 months. And so our contractor is Trevor Perry. So you can

080meet him. He's in um all of our Measure S meetings um in our architect meetings. Uh he also accompanies us when we go to speak with staff members about projects like we did last week at [clears throat] Lincoln. We're going to be going to Madison. Um he troubleshoots issues. He's constantly communicating with Dr. Alpurn and I and principles if needed the fence project. So he's he and Fred um work hand in hand. And so Fred ultimately assigns him and tells him where we need his assistance, but he's involved in all of our Measure S projects. >> Thank you. And I realize a lot of the work we've done so far has not been that disruptive. Um, but there's certainly a lot of projects coming that are. So making sure we do them with as minimal

081impact to the school sites and students and staff and everyone else is is vital. So thank you for your help coordinating all those efforts and making sure everything gets done the right way, on time, on cost. >> We pride ourselves on that. Any other questions or comments? >> Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any or abstensions? Motion passes. Thank you for your help. >> Thank you. >> Uh motion to second, please, for item 12.6, approve agreement with National High School Career Day Network for Career Day Services for the 2025 2026 school year. >> So moved. >> Dr. Garland. >> Thank you. So this is the contract that I referred to at the beginning with the dashboard presentation. So we are planning on partnering with the national high school career day network to

082provide a student center career day on Wednesday February 25th the high school. So using data from the student survey that we will be sending out of industry sectors and careers interest students will be provided a schedule once they complete that that will allow them to hear from the professions that they're actually interested in. And we recommend approval of this contract. >> I think that's great that they can actually see you know again the careers that they're interested in because I know that's been the challenge in the past is cycling through a lot of things that they're not interested in might be somewhat useful because at least they know they're not interested in it. I really appreciate that we're giving the opportunity to see more particularly because we have seniors and whatnot who could be going

083to those fields very very soon. So thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. Motion a second, please, to begin discussion on 12.7. Approve the memorandum of understanding on independent study athletics between the Rodono Beach Teachers Association and Rodono Beach Unified School District. So moved. Second, >> Dr. Stephanie. All right. Uh there's been a lot of work done over the last year um by Dr. Garland's office and RBTA uh to kind of put some of the uh finer points of independent study athletics or uh independent study, yeah, independent study athletics in place. Um this is the final piece of that which basically um assigns compensation to a teacher that will oversee the program. Um

084we'll give a PE teacher uh a period u to oversee the independent study athletics program going forward. for this year, for the rest of the school year. >> Thank you. Questions or comments? Student advisory vote? >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. Motion is second, please, to begin discussion on 12.8, approve the memorandum of understanding on salary schedule restructuring committee between the Rodono Beach Teachers Association and the Rodon Beach Unified School District. >> Second, >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. as part of our um contract agreement uh that we just recently approved with RBTA. Part of that was to put together a committee of uh district folks as well as RBTA to look at the structure of the salary schedule. This is an exploratory committee um to see if there's

085things that we can do um with the salary schedule, but makes no promises of any changes impending. >> Questions or comments? Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I >> any nos or abstensions? >> Motion passes. Motion is second, please, to begin discussion on 12.9 approve the 202526 tenative agreement between the California School Employees Association chapter 57 and Roondo Beach Unified School District. >> Second, >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. As we heard uh Mr. Lewis say earlier, uh CSEA successfully ratified their uh tenative agreement. Um so we're done with negotiations for this year. Um but I'd like to thank Mr. Lewis and the CSEA team uh for their leadership um and look forward to working with them going forward. Um this is a one-year contract um because this this was the final year

086of their successor agreement. Um so where the other unions were a two-year contract or a two-year salary agreement, this is a one-year um but CSE has indicated that they want to come back as soon as possible to figure out next year. Um so we'll hopefully jump right back into negotiations soon. >> Excellent. Thank you. And like Mr. Lewis, I hope to see everyone at Jingle Jam together. >> Absolutely. Any questions or comments? Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any or abstensions? Motion passes. And that concludes negotiations. Thank you to everyone who's been part of that. I know it's a lot of work to get here. Um, so thank you for everyone for the collaborative spirit of, you know, working together to find ways to support our kids ultimately, but also make sure

087that we're all doing well doing it. Motion second, please, to begin discussion on item 12.10, 10 approve and or ratify between RBOD and Concordia University. So move >> Dr. Stephanie. >> All right. So we'd like to set up um a relationship with Concordia University to provide um their counseling and psychology uh credential candidates with fieldwork experiences. Uh Rachel Andrews in um ed services is going to be working directly with them and providing those experiences in different schools uh in our district if this is approved. Questions or comments? Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. >> Final action item uh 12.11. Motion to second please to rece uh to begin discussion on receiving for second reading and adoption board policies, administrative regulations and exhibits. >> So these are

088the board policies. you had an opportunity to discuss them at the last meeting and this uh we are recommending that you approve the the changes um that we've submitted with this uh batch of CSBA policies. >> Thank you. I know it's a lot of work goes into reviewing these and making sure that they they're a good fit for us and uh appreciate that. Uh one suggestion I have for the next trunch is to consider board policy 6153 uh dealing with school field trips overnight. um because there are sometimes situations where there's not a board meeting in time or things like that for last minute travel. Um but that'll be for next time. Any questions or comments on >> and do you would you like us to include that in the next um batch of board

089policies or do you want to bring that earlier? >> Do we anticipate there being a situation before the next batch where we would need that? >> I don't I don't think so. We don't know. You know, we'll work on it. We'll just work on it and bring it >> as appropriate. bring that one back for review. >> Maybe it might be better to get it done sooner. Okay. >> Okay. Staff discretion. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Any questions or comments on any of the board policies? >> Student advisory vote. >> All those in favor? I. Any nos or abstensions? Motion passes. We have no information items, but we do have a discussion item. 4 point 14.1 city charter article 16.7 term limits. Uh this is a discussion item as well last time and

090um just want to allow the board to um have any further discussion if necessary or ask questions and um what I'm hoping that would come out of the discussion is some direction on u whether or not you would like to move forward with putting this on the ballot. If so, that would need to be an action item at the next board meeting. Um, otherwise, we would move forward without any further action and that's up to you. >> Thank you. >> Questions, comments? >> When you say you're looking for direction from us, >> so we'll all be dead silent. [laughter] >> Um, >> well, I I've I've shared my thoughts at the last meeting. I was quoted in an article. I do believe it [snorts] provides more continuity. you just went to a conference where you

091could I think we could clearly see that districts that have board members that are serving for um terms more than two eight year two four-year terms have the ability to serve as delegates. Um and I don't know that our district has ever had had that opportunity just as one example of the advantage of someone who's on a board longer than eight years. It was amazing as it always is like to realize as we're at these conferences that we're the youngest of people serving board terms. Um it seems for the most part every people people have been on the boards a lot longer. >> I don't know. >> Yeah. When it comes to statewide education policy, um you do certainly see that veteran presence that some districts have um that ability to influence that more. Um,

092but some of them have been on the boards for, you know, over 20 years as well. Uh, which is interesting. But >> this wouldn't require any of us to run for a third term. It just would give the opportunity. Correct. >> That's correct. Nobody's bound to running for three terms. It just allows for that as an option. >> And Dr. Wesley, there was a direction to staff and gathering some um feedback from our constituents. Have we done some ground work and getting some feedback from our our community? >> Um we have um so we've gone to the PTA council meeting and that's the meeting where all of the uh each of the school has their PTA president and shared this information with them or this desire. Um I've had the opportunity to reach out to

093the city manager to learn more about um what the next steps would be. Um, so anecdotally, yes, there's been conversations just to see if there would be any opposition. Um, but I think at this point, my recommendation would be that, um, we allow people to make that decision based on their vote. >> And I think we were also looking for a cost estimate for the election. Do we have a good idea of what that cost would be? >> Um, we are hearing that that cost would be about $80,000. That's about what we paid for the last time we did a charter amendment. >> Yeah. Cost of uh going through the CSB, Masters and Governments training and all the conferences and everything else um to train a new schoolboard member is also not insubstantial. >> That

094is true. It's a lot of time as well. >> Yes. Um yeah, I do appreciate that there was an article written about this. Um it's interesting. I' I've talked with a lot of people and I haven't gotten much in the way of feedback. Nothing strongly positive or negative, right? >> Um so I don't know if anyone else has gotten different feedback. It's >> kind of seems to be ambivalence as much as anything else is the response I've gotten when I propose it to people. >> Um I haven't gotten any negative feedback. Um I don't know if it's ambivalence. It's more of oh that makes sense >> is usually the response. And um just echoing, yes, coming back from a conference where I had an opportunity to speak with veteran um schoolboard members from all these

095districts across California. There's such a benefit to their historical knowledge. Um so it was really helpful just speaking with them. Some of them were serving like [clears throat] their last 12th year. Um and again, this is not mandatory. It is optional. It's still something that we're leaving up to our community and our voters at the end of the day whether or not a board member is going to serve a third term. So, are you asking for us to move forward and put it on as an action item to proceed and that's the direction you're seeking? >> Yes, that's correct. >> Yes. So, formal action would be needed. So, that would be our next step. If we think that's where we want to go, um, we would agendaize it as a action item at our next

096meeting or as appropriate. >> I I would be in favor of that. >> Okay. >> I would as well. >> I think there's a general consensus that we'd like to move forward uh as have this as an action item um and understand, you know, all the steps that would be needed to put this on the ballot for voters to decide. >> Okay. So, we'll add it to the January 20th board agenda and um during that vote we I can share what that entails. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments around that? >> Excellent. This brings us to announcements and communications for our board members reports. Starting with board member Archer. >> Dr. Wesley did my report already earlier, [laughter] so thank you. Um, but to all of our Seahawks

097seniors and their families that are awaiting um, college apps and um, acceptance, um, you're we're already so proud of all of you for the work from preschool, TK, kinder through um, 12th grade, almost finishing 12th grade. So, you've already accomplished so much. um wherever your next journey is, just know that we're so incredibly proud of you and that you are a part of and will always be a part of the RBUSD family and we can't wait to hear um where your journey leads you next. So, happy holidays to everybody. >> Thank you, Board Member Silverman Nas. >> Um so, we've all spent a lot of time together in the last couple weeks. Um, and I know each board member is going to talk maybe a little bit about all that. And um, we we always

098get the option to go first, so I'll try not to repeat what what you all may want to talk about. But it's been truly amazing as always to serve on this board with my fellow board members especially and with the staff and admin. I mean, I don't think there is a better honest, honestly, there is not a better place to be on a board in California. Um, and after we were at this conference, it just made even that much more sense. Um, so wishing everybody a happy holiday season. Um, we're going to have some fun tomorrow, so come out and join us. >> Thank you, Board Clerk Flynn. Congratulations to the Seahawks again. That's such an amazing accomplishment and love to see us as another state champion. Um, and as we head into the winter

099break, I want to wish our students, our families, our staff, and our community a peaceful and restorative holiday season. And I also want to send my personal love and deepest consol condolences to the Foley family on the passing of Shawn Foley, who recently lost his battle with brain cancer. Sandi Foley has been a longtime dedicated supporter of our district and her family is deeply connected to our schools. To Sandi, her sons, and all who love Shawn, we hold you in our hearts and send strength and comfort during this difficult time. >> Thank you for that. Um, board vice president Cha, >> thank you. As mentioned by my colleagues, this time of the year, um, we also spend time reflecting and also watching our students performing at citywide events such as tree lighting, board parades, and

100whatnot. Um, is I was reminded how lucky I am to be serving in this community. And I was also reminded it's because our wonderful teachers, staff, and our awesome students that makes it extra special. So, I want to say thank you to all of you and thank you to all of you and um like to wish everybody merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Quanza, happy holidays. >> Thank you. Um yeah, I would echo what everyone else has said as well. Um Keely in particular actually took my report today. Well done. Um the uh the Carl Esparza uh the second annual Invitational girls wrestling tournament was just amazing to watch. Uh congratulations to our girls for winning. But to have a two-time UFC champ come out who's a former Seahawk. Um you know it's it's great seeing

101what our students accomplish and they go off in the world and they soar, but it's amazing when they come back. Um and to to see that was really special and see, you know, how inspirational that could be for our students. So um really love that as well. Uh but yes, I'm I'm deeply appreciative of our board and so much of the district leadership and teachers and staff and everyone I get to work with. Uh because particularly this time of year, there are so many things going on and it's all wonderful stuff, but it is non-stop. Uh and we get to come together and we get to celebrate and see what our students are doing and see what each other and it's wonderful. Um but yeah, hopefully everyone will take this holiday break to recharge, refresh,

102be ready for January. Um just appreciate it so much. Um some of the fun things, you know, going to the business class for Mr. Soohoo and getting to participate in their market and haggle with kids. Somehow I was able to haggle my way into an entire pie which fantastic. Um so much fun there. But uh but yeah, a lot of great things going on right now. I hope everyone has a wonderful winter break and they uh come back ready. Moving on to calendar of events 16.1 events, activities, announcements. December 22nd is the start of winter recess all the way through January 2nd. I know everyone's looking forward to that. On January 5th, students and teachers return from winter break. I think they're less looking forward to that. January 19th is a holiday done, work, non-

103studentent day for Martin Luther King Day. January 20th will be a regular board of education meeting right here at 5:30 p.m. January 23rd, quarter 2 ends for middle and high school. Uh January 26th is semester break. It's a non- studentent day, but it is a teacher professional development day. Sorry, and thank you to teachers. Uh we will not adjurnn because we are going to reconvene into close session to discuss item 3.5 conference with real property negotiators. Uh is there a motion and a second to reconvene to close session? >> Second. >> All right. We are reconvening or clo going to close session at 7:08 p.m. >> But for our students that are here, if you need a signature, I know Dr. Garland would be willing to sign for you. >> Sorry. Thank you for sticking

104it out. All right, we are reconvened to open session at 8:09 p.m. Uh, in closed session, the board discussed item 3.5, conference with real property negotiators, RBSD owned Alta Vista Park Site, RBSD owned Park Anderson Park Senior Center and Associated Parking Area, RBSD owned aviation park site, city-owned parking lot serving Adams Middle School, RBSD owned Franklin Park site, and RBSD owned 200 North PCH. Uh the board received information and had discussion. And with that, is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Second. >> All those in favor? I. >> We are adjourned at 8:09 p.m. Thank you.