001Here we go. Like to call to order the regularly scheduled meeting for the April 22nd Board of Education. Can I get a motion and a second to approve the order of the agenda, please? So move. Second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? Now move on to close session. Public comments on close session items are for members of the audience to address the board on any listed close session items. 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, but it is not required. The items we will be discussing tonight are items 3.3 public employee discipline dismissal release, 3.4, Four, public employee uh appointment certificated title director 2 and 3.5 conference
002with real property negotiators, RBUSD owned Anderson Park Senior Center and Associated Parking Area and city-owned parking lots serving Adams Middle School. Would any members of the public like to speak on these items tonight? Do we have any written requests from the audience? Since there's no audience, uh is there a motion and a second to recess to close session? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? We will now recess to close session. Good evening everyone. Um, I would like to ask our newest board member, Han Archer, to please leave us lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Right. Oh, look at that hat off. Please take our flag. So, let's just begin. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
003stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. Um, for our close session report, um, on item 3.3, the board gave direction to staff. And for item 3.4, I have something I would like to read out. I'm pleased to share that in tonight's closed session, the board supported the appointment of Eileen Lechenby to the position of director 2 in our educational services department. Eileen has been a valued member of RBUSD for the past 18 years, beginning her RBUSD journey as a teacher in 2007 at Adams Middle School, later serving as an educational services TOSA in 2019 and the educational services coordinator in 2022. She was promoted to the principal of Bernie Elementary later in 2022 and has successfully led the school for the past three years. Eileen holds a
004bachelor's degree with honors from the Ohio State University and a master's from CSU Northridge in educational administration. Her appointment completes the restructuring of the educational service department under the leadership of Dr. Garland. This position replaces the coordinator position and is made possible through the allocation of designated categorical funds. Eileen is an excellent excellent leader and is widely respected by staff and families alike. We're confident she'll thrive in this new leadership position. Congratulations, Eileen [Applause] Lechen. Yay, Mrs. Lechen. And then on item 3.5, the board gave direction received information and gave direction to staff. Um, moving on. Can I get a motion in the second to approve the minutes of the April 2nd, 2025 regular board of education meeting? So moved. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed or abstensions? Okay.
005Reports to the board. The Roondo Union High School JV gate day cheer day cheer team recognition by Mr. Marvin Brown, principal of the best high school in the South Bay. Hello everyone. President Flynn, Ford, Dr. Wesley, and Cabinet. Uh so excited to be here. Uh thank you guys for allowing us to be here. I am um I have the privilege of introducing our coach and I have fully taken on the role of girl dad, cheer dad. Um this year you guys sent me, supported me going to Orlando, which was a blast. Uh the parents can acknowledge that. I had a lot of fun. and I had sequins on the whole thing. Um, it was it was special. And so you're there's a lot of enthusiasm in this room. I'm not going to be up here
006much longer. I'm going to turn it over here to coach Headsp, but I just want to congratulate our JV team on their game day um awards and you'll hear more about that. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. And I do want to thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts that we're able to come in here and represent the most amazing high school in Southern California, California, and I'm going to go nationwide. So, we're super excited. Uh my name is Lisa Hedesbath. I'm activities director and chair advisor, cheer coach along with our head coach, uh my daughter, uh Coach Izzy. Um she, you know, she pours everything into all of our teams. Um she is equally focused on our JV team as our varsity teams. Um that doesn't always happen, but she is a
007firm believer along with myself. They're our future. Why wouldn't you pour into them? And here we are today. and it shows that it works with dedication and the most amazing parents and they are so fun. And we've had a great season. So, we took on game day last year uh with our varsity and Isabelle and I looked at each other and we said, "Why not? Let's take a JV game day team." With that, it meant that they would always have to compete against varsity teams. Not ours. We put them in different We don't do that. Um, and so they would have to compete against varsity teams and they did and they would repeatedly win regional after regional after regional. Then it comes time for USA nationals. And I wrote a little note and I said,
008"You know what? It'd be great if JV was able to compete with JV, like-minded athletes." And so for the first time at USA Nationals, they opened up a new division for one of the titles that they won. and that is crowdleading and that's a three minute um performance and they did extremely well with a 97 I think it was five out of 10 97.5 then we moved on to the second uh title that they brought back to our wonderful school district community and high school and that was band chant not only when the scores everything the dust settled we go back and we look at the scores for the entire USA nationals. They won and they beat out other JV teams with their score. They beat out other varsity teams. And yes, every single college
009team that was there, our JV girls, these 17 athletes had the highest score of the entire nationals. [Music] We are super proud of them and we believe under the guidance of Mr. Brown who is very supportive. Um that if you put your mind to it, we can get anything done and do it well and have fun and work hard. And we're going to take our JV team along with our varsity team and we're going to Florida and we're going to make this happen. And we are super excited. Mr. Brown, you ready? All right. I knew that. And I knew that. So without further ado, it's about them. But parents, again, we cannot do this without you. We have loved working alongside you the entire time. But we're not done. We have many years together. So,
010um, athletes, when I call you, come on up and you will get your certificate from Mr. Brown. And then if you could stay right up here and we'll take a group photo. Um, without further ado, Miss Lola, come on up. Ursula, congratulations, [Applause] Ursula. Congratulations, Ella. Congratulations, Lily. Congratulations, [Applause] Maddie. Congratulations, Rory. [Applause] Congratulations, Marina. Congratulations, Juliet. [Applause] Congratulations, Sophia. [Applause] Congratulations, Isabella. Congratulations, Samantha. [Applause] Congratulations to Vivian who's not here today. Congratulations to Ryan. Congratulations to Paige. Congratulations to Giana. Congratulations to Valentina. And congratulations to Gabby. [Applause] and not only bringing back one, but bringing back two national titles to Redondo Union High School. Congratulations to our JV game day [Applause] team. And if we would be able to get a picture from all of you, uh, that would be great. Mr. Brown in
011the middle. Girls, if you have to switch [Music] backing, jangling. I love it. Fantastic. Thank you so much. I was like GG. All right, ladies. With that, turn around and say thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you everyone. It almost sounds like Christmas. How are you? Congratulations. Oh, yes. All the time you do. Okay. Yes. Okay. I know. Oh, we we promise we don't bite. That's all right. Okay. So, next up, that's a hard act to follow, but I would really like to call up now Jane Deal, Beach City's Health District board member to do a Beach City's Health District to present RBUSD with mental health awareness month proclamation. Good evening, board members, staff. Um, a special hello and congratulations to Miss Archer for joining this team. uh you're going to find these are
012great board members and you have a great team uh to work with including the staff and I know you're going to be an asset to help the students of Roondo Beach have a successful career. I have brought two of our folks with us. One is Karen Blanchard and she is a volunteer ad on advisory committee. Uh we can't survive without our volunteers and we're so fortunate that we have adult volunteers and Alana Rasheed Faruki is I messed it up is um a youth advisor for Alco. So without the people supporting us uh we couldn't do what we do. Which brings me to what we do with the schools in the cities. without your support of our mental health efforts, we couldn't get things done the way we have been able to do. Um, you all
013know better than anybody else that uh students uh who are lonely will have more difficult in a school situation than those students that are not. Same as adults. That's the um thing that our surgeon general has pointed out over and over again that loneliness is a is a very serious issue. You're we're so fortunate though that we have teachers and counselors and board members who understand how important that is. And we now also have an additional help which is al cove for our high school students. Um and we have a great advisors. It's a great place for people to to come in. They also are actively help and counsel other individuals as other peers as well. Peer counseling. Um unfortunately what we did find out was we are providing more services than we thought we
014would. There isn't people are un in the impression that this community um how can things be so bad? Well, we have many students that need our services and it is something that uh I'm not sure everybody understands ALOV right now is a pilot project. So, we need once again the community support because in order for us to continue it. We'll need that support um to continue alco we're working through that for another year. We're hoping the state will come and continue to add to our funds. So, we understand fulfilling relationships and connecting with each other is a key to happiness, health, and longevity. that goes for students and adults. One of the things that uh we're talking about is if people would just take some time to create a sense of belonging and go talk
015to somebody that you've never talked to before and see if you can deep or deepen other relationships. If you are interested in more information, um you can visit beachcities.org/mentalhealth org/mentalhealth awareness and you will find out every May we will come you will find out there is a board calendar and you will get these proclamations and things on a calendar basis. So we will be back again next May to uh thank you all for all that you do for the students um and all that you've done for Beach City South District. Well, with that I've been asked if somebody would like to take our picture. Thanks. Great. Yeah. So, come on folks. I will hand the proclamation over One, two, three, Thanks everybody. Okay, we have our student board member report by Key Gold. Okay, good
016evening. The RBUSD Unity Spirit Week has officially started this week. Today was tropical Tuesday. Tomorrow is Unity Blue. Thursday is wear your favorite sunglasses and Friday is cozy all day. Shout out to all the young leaders for their hard work in putting this together. Last Friday we had an amazing spirit rally with a Seahawks in Wonderland theme. Students had so much fun watching band, the hip hop team, salsa club, dance team, and JV and varsity cheer perform. They were also excited to watch and participate in rally games. Battle of the Bands was kicked off last week with lots of amazing performances and so many students present to watch. On April 27th, the Harlem Wizards will take on local Rodono Beach Heroes in a two-hour basketball game in the RHS gym put on by Paris Middle
017School PTSA. Be sure to come for some comedy and laughs. April 25th will be multicultural night over at Washington Elementary where attendees can learn more about the amazing diversity within our school and community. That's all. Thank you. That's great. Dr. Wesley, superintendent report. All right. I just want to thank uh Dr. Toronto publicly for playing in that game on behalf of the leadership team. He'll be our rep. So, uh that'll be fun to watch. Okay. Um for my superintendent report, just want to give an update um or just uh accolades to all the students who participated in the invention convention this year. takes a lot of work and effort um for the students to um come up with these ideas and create projects and present them. So I want to take thank all the teachers
018and staff that support our students for making this happen. I want to thank Ed services, Roy Lopez and um and Bri for um also being the facilitators um of the invention convention on behalf of our district. Um so we had all eight elementary schools and two middle schools participate this year. Um like previous years, we had 63 inventions representing 76 students. A couple students paired up across our district um with a lot of really cool inventions. So just want to kind of give a highlight there of what uh how many inventions we had compete. Last year we had 44. So you can see we went up um almost um actually 20 20 participants. lots of great inventions. So, you can see there the titles of them. So, if you went to the fair, you could
019actually see what these inventions were. Um, a lot of them represent creativity that again there's some staff. This was highlighting Burl staff. So, how did we do? Um, we sent 63 inventions to the Southern California regional level. and 59 of those inventions um went on to El Camino uh on that in March to represent RBUSD. Here's some spotlights. Um we have Rehea here. She won the best pitch and best overall invention of the California State Finals on activity dice. So when we go next, we can ask Rehea more about dice. It includes different games activities that you can do. you roll it and when you're bored it'll kind of give you some ideas of games that you can play on her activity dice. Uh we have another student who qualified for the national invention convention
020in Michigan um which is ranking 1.8% of 3288 inventions. So Madison created the my perfect lunchbox. It's a lunch box that you have a heating and a cooling feature. Seems pretty cool. I mean I need that. You can keep your food warm and cold and it has a room temperature pocket. So, just a few of the inventions going on. And then we have a first grader um who earned a grade level winner title and received multiple certificates of achievement including top log and book and top pitch. And her invention is the buddy cards in which they use a variety of cards someone can use to play with someone new. So, it's a way to engage new friends and classmates. Okay, on to the middle school. Also had some amazing conventions. Um, again, thanks to all
021of our teachers that helped support these our students. Here's uh highlighting some of the projects from Adams. There they are receiving their awards. Um, so what are the outcomes? 72 of our students competed against 652 total in Southern California from 71 schools. the regional level there is a total of 652. So of that 72 that's pretty good showing for RBUSD. You can see we're one of 71 schools. We swept five out of the 12 industry sectors and representing um the projects. Now this is what's really impressive. 11 of the 66 inventions advancing to nationals are from RBUSD. And that's really amazing. And so we will have students going on to the national level in June uh representing RBUSD. And remember we have someone who actually's made the the double-handed umbrella, Na Nathaniel. So you never
022know. Um we want to highlight those 11 who are going on to nationals. Um the grade and the school that they represented and the name of their of their project. And so we're very proud of our students and again staff who supported them um who are going on to the invention convention. It takes creativity. It takes the ability to come up with an idea and execute on it and compete against other peers. Um and again we even have a kindergartenner going on to the nationals. Uh so that is really impressive. Okay, I'm having a hard time forwarding so maybe Susanna can do that for me. Okay. So, I want to turn it over to Dr. Stephanie for our uh faces and stories employee highlight. Yeah. This uh month we are excited to recognize Romy Sarah
023Golie who's our administrative assistant three in educational services. And thank you to Sam for putting these together every month. Well, while we wait on that. Oh, there it is. My name is Romy Sarah Jolie, administrative assistant in the educational services department. I have uh my name is Romy Sarah Jolie, administrative assistant in the educational services department. I have worked here um 15 years total. For the past 14 years, I've been at either Alta Vista or here in the district office. I love that working at RBUSD, every day is something different. Um even though you know what your tasks are supposed to be that day, you often are thrown a monkey wrench and have to deal with something different. What do I want to do in my future at Roondo? I'm actually pretty content working here
024right now in the district office. Shout out Ed services. I love my team. In my personal time, I like to do anything um that is physically active. I love to work out. I love to exercise. I like to be outdoors. [Music] And I and I wanted to conclude with um also congratulating Dr. Alpurn who has now won a state award as the business administrator of the year. So I know she's really happy. So we're again very proud of all of our employees and we're very thankful to have the support staff and Dr. Alpern especially. Thank you Dr. Wesley. I just wanted to point out that I think I read in the over the weekend that Prismax you can buy at 7-Eleven locally. One of our inventions from the Paris convention there. He's already gotten distributed
025into stores and I remember the Shark Tank performance for the umbrella that was here as well. So, it's such a great thing our invention convention. So, congratulations to everyone who participated in that. Okay, we're going to move on to the hearing section with the guidelines where members of the audience can address the board on any topic regardless of whether it's listed on the agenda. However, due to Brown Act regulations, the board cannot engage in public discussions 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 3 minutes unless the time limit is waved by a majority of the board and
026will limit the time for public input on each item to 20 minutes. With board consent, a president may increase or decrease the time allowed for public presentation depending on the topic and the number of persons wishing to be heard. We usually start with advanced written requests which for the first time I have none. Is that right? So is there anyone from the audience who did not turn in a written request that wants to address the board? Okay. Hearing none, we will close our hearing section and move on to communications and hear from the Roondo Beach Teachers Association. [Music] Hi, good evening. My name is Janelle Tanaka and I'm here with Sue Carlton and we are uh the RBTA leadership for this year. First, I want to say thank you to Tracy Kelly uh and Jennifer
027Bell who have been almost at every single board meeting and so they're not on camera most uh meetings, but I do want our membership to know that we have teachers who are showing up consistently as well. Um this last week we had our open houses at Adams in Paris. So, thank you to our staff. Uh this coming Thursday we have open house for uh for elementary and I just want to take this time to thank our staff because I feel like back to school night and open house are very challenging based off of the timeline right so see for middle school they did open house the first week back from break spring break uh back to school night obviously we're kicking off school and and when you walk into classrooms it's amazing right and teachers
028are excited the kids are excited to show their parents what they're doing all year and introduce them to their teachers. And so I just want to give a shout out to all of our staff members uh because it becomes very long days and you couldn't tell. You can't tell that they're tired. You can't tell they have other things going on. So kudos to them. And um that's it. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Do we have anyone from California School Employees Association? American Federation of Teachers, Berdono Beach Council Parent Teacher Association. Good evening everybody. Um, I'm Jessica Long, executive vice president of the council here tonight. Um, and we do have one event that we wanted to publicize, Water Safety Day. It's coming up on May 18th. We're hosting it at Roondo Union's amazing aquatic center.
029So, if anybody's wanted to go in that pool, who hasn't yet, I think this is your opportunity. Um, so we will be featuring free swim assessments. If anybody would like to have their child assessed to see where they're at with swimming, um, hands-on CPR demos, learn and practice safety skills. There will be information tables, food for purchase, games, and more. Amy told them that we'd have 500 people. So, please bring everybody that you know and any strangers you find on the street. Um, and yeah. So, and wait, let me give you the time. 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Thanks everybody. Thank you very much. Rodo Beach Educational Foundation. Good evening, President Flynn, members of the board of education, Dr. Wesley, and the cabinet. Um, I'm going to take a page out of our previous superintendent
030and our current superintendent by introducing myself as the proud president of the best educational foundation in the South Bay, Rodondo Beach Educational Foundation. Um, I'm super excited to be here this evening. On the behalf of the board of trustees, I'm really pleased and so excited to announce that Gloria McCree has been named as our new executive director of the Roondo Beach Educational Foundation. For those of you who don't know Gloria, I'd like to share a little bit with you about her background. She has been a huge part of Roondo Beach, PTA, RBF for many years. So, um, let me just share a little bit with you. So, Gloria brings a unique combination of her academic achievement, nonprofit experience, and her deep community involvement to this leadership role. She earned her PhD in communication studies from
031Dublin City University in Ireland in 2012 and spent several years working in academia in both Ireland and the United States before choosing to channel her passion into the nonprofit sector. Since joining RBF in 2018, Gloria has remained an active and impactful leader within the Roonda Beach School community. Her work exemplifies the strength of collaboration between both RBF and the PTA, having served in key leadership roles such as the vice president of membership at Jefferson Elementary, Paris Middle School, and the RB PTA council. also vice president of communication at both Jefferson and Paris and as PTA president at Jefferson from 2021 through 2023. We are confident that Gloria's strong ties to our schools, her leadership experience, and her deep commitment to public education will serve RBEF and our greater Roondo Beach community exceptionally well. Again, RBF
032looks forward to continuing our strong partnership with the district with Gloria at our helm. Thank you. And at this time, I'm going to hand it off to Gloria with some updates that she has to share with you. Thank you. Thank you so much, John, for the introduction. And um I am so honored and uh privileged to to be taking on this uh this position and um so grateful to continue to to lead this uh this amazing team and to continue our BFF's mission. Um, so with that in mind, the announcements that we have for today, I'm going to keep it very short. We have the RBF gala coming up on May 16th at King's Restaurant. Please do not wait to purchase the ticket because tickets because they're uh running out. Um, so and we have
033early bird pricing until April 30th. So don't delay. Buy your ticket today. Um, and then there's amazing food, there's amazing music um there. You won't uh regret attending. And then my second announcement for today is the summer sessions. We have a wide range of um classes and opportunities for our middle schoolers and our high schoolers. At the middle school level, we have a mix of academic enrichment uh classes and also CT experiences. Uh we've had amazing feedback from from the past couple of years. So we're continuing to do what we know best. Um and then at the uh high school level, we have um a range of uh credit based classes and uh workshops. So that's all for today. If you have any questions, we're going to be happy to answer them. Thank you all
034so much. All right, congratulations. Any comment, Dr. Wesley? Okay, we're going to move on to general consent. Does anybody want to pull anything off the general consent items, which we have 27? Yes, please. Yep. May I pull 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, and 1020, please? Anybody else? Okay. So, then I need a motion to approve 10.1 to 10:15 and 10:21 through 10:27. Second. Student advisory vote. I All those in favor say I. I. All right. I need a motion and second to open discussion on item 10.16, adopt resolution R 242532 recognizing May 2025 is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. So moved. Second, Mr. Cho. Thank you. Um the purpose of my pulling of these items is to highlight the importance of the resolutions that uh this board is passing on behalf of our school district.
035Um, as mentioned by President Flynn, May is Asian-American and Pacific Island heritage month. I'm just going to read a one paragraph uh from the resolution being passed. It's it's a lengthy one. Uh it says, "Whereas despite the hardships and barriers of the past, the people of Asia and the Pacific Islands who came to this country and their descendants have made a substantial contributions to California's economic growth and development and have woven clear distinct threads into the state social fabric and I may say nation's social fabric. It is important to acknowledge and I thank our leadership uh for having this uh recognition of this important group of our society. Thank you. Okay. Any comments or questions? Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. All right. Uh 1017 adopt resolution R 242538 recognizing
036April as ArabAmerican Heritage Month. Can I get a motion and second? Second. Do you want to speak on this, Mr. Cho? Yes, please. Thank you. Um, same reason uh for pulling this item to to draw attention to what this body is is is passing uh recognizing tonight. Uh, National American Heritage Month. This is month that we're in April of of this year. I'm just going to read out a short section from the resolution that we're uh passing this evening. Whereas there are estimated 3.7 million Arab Americans in the United States with California being home to the largest number of Arab Americans of any state with the largest population of Arab Americans calling Los Angeles home. And whereas Arab-Americans have been integral part of the American fabric for over a century contributing significantly to the fields
037of science, medicine, business, education, government, and culture. Thank you for uh letting me highlight this important matter. And I'll just point out this is the first public meeting we've had to be able to acknowledge it while we've been celebrating for the month of April. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. 10:18 adopt resolution R242539 recognizing May as Jewish American Heritage Month. Can I get a motion and second to discuss? So moved. Second. Okay, Mr. Cho, thank you once again. Uh, same reason for my speaking on this item. It's acknowledged National Jewish American Heritage Month, which is upcoming in May of this year. Going to read a small portion of the resolution we're considering this evening. Whereas Jewish Americans have played a pivotal role in the history of the United States,
038contributing significantly in fields such as science, art, literature, law, business, entertainment, government, and military services. And whereas the stories and accomp accomplishments of Jewish Americans are essential to the narrative of our nation and provide rich examples of commitment to faith, dedication to community, and contributions to national progress. Thank you. Okay. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. 10:19. and adopt resolution R242533 recognizing May 5th through the 9th as National Teacher Appreciation Week. Can I get a motion and second? So moved. Second. Okay, Mr. Cho. Thank you. Once again, uh I would like to make sure that this important week is highlighted. Uh we have wonderful teachers amongst us. Thank you educators in this room particularly. I'm just going to read off a small portion again. Whereas the board of education
039recognizes the contribution made by these educators in the development of future citizens who successfully occupy a position of leadership and service who treat their fellow human beings with respect and and who values the tenants of a good citizenship. Thank you. Thank you. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. And finally 1020 adopt resolution R 242534 recognizing May 18th through the 24th as classified school employee week. Motion and second. So moved. Second. Okay, Mr. Cho. Thank you once again. Uh many times we may not see our important staff, classified school staff making things possible and making the entire environment ready for instruction any instructional day. Um so wanted to make sure that our our value classified employees are um appreciated. Just going to read off briefly. Whereas classified employees ensure the
040smooth operation of our offices, the maintenance of buildings and property and the safety of our staff and students and the community trust them as important messengers about our schools. Whereas classified employees serve a vital role in providing for the welfare and safety of Redand Beach Unified School District students. Thank you. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. I. All right. They all pass 5-0. We're going to move on to action items. Can I get a motion and second to begin discussion on 12.1 approve and adopt resolution R242531 for Proposition 2 facilities master plan requirements? Second. Okay. Dr. Alpern. Yes. This is a new requirement. Um um in order to be eligible for us to participate and receive matching funds at the state level um with the school facility program, there are proposition
041two creates new requirements on uh for school districts for eligibility. One of those includes um the submittal of a facil an updated facility master plan um which we have and so when it is time to apply for the school school facilities program we would be submitting an updated um school facilities plan along with this um resolution u from tonight's board meeting. Does anybody have any questions or comments? just say thank you to you and your team because I know there's a long line for these matching state funds and so it's a lot of work to get in there early. Um just appreciate everything you're doing because that is something we talked to the voters a lot about is trying to get these matching dollars and how much more effective we can be with that. So
042thank you. You got it. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Motion passes. 12.2 Two, approve of the memorandum of understanding for joint powers authority for participation in the career technical education incentive grant. Can I get a motion and second? Second. Okay, Dr. Stephanie. All right. Right. So, this is anou as you said to uh enter into an agreement with SoCal Rock uh to provide funding for our CTE programs to the tune of about $237,000 um in the consortium grant uh to support our CTE programs at mainly at um the middle schools for the career exploration program. And this is money they're giving us or the grant is giving us, not money. We're getting money from the state going through SoCal Rock and coming to us. Yes. So, it's new money that
043we have for middle school career technical education. Yes. Awesome. Any comments or questions? Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Great. 12.3. Approve the 2425 reopener tenative agreement between the California School Employees Association and its chapter 57 and the Roondo Beach Unified School District. Can I get a motion and second? So moved. Second. Dr. Stephanie, so happy to see this. Yes, this is the tenative agreement bringing negotiations for 20 24 2025 to a close for CSEA. Um, and I guess we'll get ready to negotiate again this summer. Okay, any comments or questions? Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Okay, we have an agreement. Can I get a motion and second for 12.4 Four to approve and adopt resolution R242537 providing for compensation of board members pursuant to California
044ed code section 35120. So move second. Is this Dr. Wesley? Yes. So um I am bringing this to the board because the voters did approve measure SD which did strike language in the city charter allowing the board to receive um compensation $240 a month. Um Uh I'll leave my opinion about that. Not enough. Um uh so at this point u with the approval of this resolution, the board would be able to receive this for their time in preparation and attendance at board meetings. Um and so our recommendation is that you approve this resolution per the the outcome of the the voters um of measure SD. Any comments or questions? I would just like to thank our community for passing SDS. I think this is taking this off our plate. Just a quick question. This the
045um what you just shared with us, the outline of the background is is based on California ED code. Oh yes, thank you for pointing out. Yes, California Ed Code allows for school board members to receive compensation on a monthly basis um as outlined in this resolution in addition to any necessary expenses that they have in serving as a board member and reimbursements that they're um entitled to as in serving and board members serving as board members. So, yes, it's based on ED code. Thank you. And that monthly stipen of $240 that's determined by the number of students in the district. That's not some arbitrary. It's set there in that code. Correct. Um, based on our attendance, you're the board is entitled to $240. Correct. Any other comments or questions? Student advisory vote. I'm looking at
046you. All those in favor say I. I. I. Okay. Motion passes. And finally, 12.5. Approve the 2526 dates, hours, and location for regular meetings of the Roondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education. And a motion. Second. So moved. Second. Okay. Dr. Wesley. Okay. Um this is in alignment with um this last year in terms of the board meeting dates and uh the times and the months in which they fall. You'll notice that in most months we have two board meetings second and fourth as as normal. Um there are some months where we have one based on um holidays per our agreed upon calendar. um then those board you'll see that those dates are one month. So this is consistent with the last year's um board meeting dates and how many we have per month.
047And I reviewed this with the cabinet just to make sure that we believe we have adequate time to bring to the board um recommendations for approval regarding personnel or upcoming bond projects um business services etc. These are just our regularly scheduled meetings. They don't include workshops or other special sessions. Yes, that's correct. Thank you. Board generally last couple years has been participating in workshops as well. But um even those fall under the um the Brown Act in terms of when we post for those, but this is just our regularly scheduled meetings for the upcoming year. This is something that we do during the reorganization meeting which is Yep. Any other comments or questions? Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. All right. Thank you. Moving on to information items. We get an
048unofficial attendance and enrollment report from Dr. Alfren. These are always fun. Oh, I love the dips. Can we kind of cut off at the bottom? Oh. All right. This month is um not super unusual. The patterns are fairly similar this year. This is February of 2025 compared to February of 2024. Um there aren't quite as many highs and lows this year. It's a little bit more moderated. Uh but our attendance is a little a little off relative to last year. Uh we talked about that uh when I talked about January because in January we saw a dip due to the fires and people's concern about um the air quality and um you know students with um health conditions, asthma, etc. But um January and February we were really hit quite a bit with um student
049upper respiratory infections and they tended to be a little bit more severe than we usually see and they tended to last a little longer. And so um that slight decline overall in February we believe is likely a result of that but but nothing highly unusual to um point out. Okay. Any comments or questions? Thank you Dr. Alpurn. Um moving on to discussion items. We will receive for first reading the following board policies, administrative regulations, exhibits, and board bylaws. Does anybody have anything they want to comment on in this first reading ofund how many 50 pages that we had? I'm looking at you because I see I see 115 115. I didn't mean to exaggerate. Um the first I have two. The first one is 3,100 which is uh page 19 I think. Starting on page
05020. Um, and this is Dr. Alpurn. I wanted to find out where the um the reserve fund how we determine the cap on that. Yes, I'm happy to share that. Um prior to COVID the board policy had was the 8% reserve was written into um policy that was our practice and it was in our policy language in the spring of um when um COVID hit and the governor first proposed his budget for the 2021 one school year, he was recommending a negative cola. And the only way for us to pass or for the board to be able to pass um a budget was to remove the policy language that had 8% as a reserve. So the so that um policy language was removed in 2020. Since that time, we have continued to operate in practice
051with an 8% as so the the the board's um position hadn't changed, but the language had changed. So when this policy number came back up for review, I decided to put the language back in to solidify and make public what we have been engaged in in practice. So that's where the 8% comes from and it equates to u one month of operating expenses for the district. Is that normal one month? Well 8 * 12 is 96. So it's about but but what is recommended as a reserve? I mean that that's my recommendation to the board that has been our board's practice. Some boards have a much higher number. No, a requirement for a district our size is 3%. But no financial advisor is to recommend a 3% um because there are just too many fluctuations
052um in state taxes for a school district to operate responsibly with that lower reserve. I thought I had remembered that precoid we were at 10%. Am I making that up? It was at 8%. We may have been at 10%, but the policy was eight. Oh, that's the difference. Okay. Yeah. Um because the purpose of this, right, is to protect our employees and our staff like we did during COVID. We were fortunate that we had those reserves in place. So, um I just wanted to bring it to the board's attention and discuss it with Dr. Alpurn as to whether or not we are are happy with the 8% or whether we wanted to have any discussions on that. This was the same board policy I was going to talk about. So if you'll piggyback as well
053because I was going to exactly going to highlight the same thing um because and I'll talk about this more in my board report but the fiscal outlook is um deeply concerning at this point for the future. So there are, you know, considerations when we are deficit spending. Um there's a lot of lot more risk than there is upside at this point. Um that 8% buffer also does things like lets us avoid uh trend notes um having to borrow to make payroll because we don't always get paid on time by the state. Um and when you've got the threat of federal funding being withheld and all kinds of things going that on the environment, um buffer is important. increasingly, you know, we we could set our policy right now at 20%. That wouldn't change our fiscal
054situation. So, I'm I'm not advocating for changing this number, but I think it is important for everyone to understand why it's there so that we don't have these extreme financial um issues that you've seen in other districts where there are layoff notices going up year after year or things like that. So, um, being very prudent with how we spend our money helps us maintain that stability, which is so important for our staff and also for our students, of course, because, um, you know, everyone needs to to know what's what's coming forward. But, yeah, this this is where this lives now in policy so that it's clear to everyone. Any other comments or questions? How how does the board feel about adding something to this that we're we're to say our policy um something to the
055effect that it's the minimum of 8%. So that we're not stuck at 8%. Which seems well does it read that it makes us stuck there or does it set the baseline? The sentence prior to the 8% policy is that the board intends to maintain a minimum assigned and unassigned fund balance and an amount the board deems sufficient. So I think that sentence defines the minimum and in previous years due to the state funding levels we were actually capped at 10% was it for a couple years? Yes. So there was some but that cap has been that's gone now. Correct. That's a a rare condition we don't expect to happen very often. Right. Certainly, it's only when the state has so much money flowing in their in their reserves. Don't have that problem anymore. But we
056were over the 10% at that time and we had to we were but we had committed funds and one time funds that were going away and being expended anyway. So it wasn't a significant risk. Yeah. So the issue that that you're discussing just um for clarification is really about trying to create a model that staff can utilize to build out a budget, right, that you would then approve. So we we know the target that we're aiming for, but also um to not have such a large reserve that um that both employees and the public are feeling like the school district is just sitting on money and not serving students and staff with programs and compensation. So it's like finding that healthy balance. That's a hard medium to find. Yes. Yes, it is. Because they're gonna
057they look to us when there are hard times to be able to protect. But um are you are you comfortable with the 8%. I am. Well, and again, when our budgets are brought to us, that's a guideline for her to come and we can know what the actual situation is. When the budget is brought to us, if we feel like we need to change it, we have every board does at that time as well. I don't think we should change the policy. I like the idea of having the target. I think it's a good reminder for us, too, because I know there's all programs and staff and different positions we'd love to hire and do amazing things for our students, but that would there would go our reserve. Um, and we would be in catastrophic
058shape if finances change, things like that. So, it's good for reminder for the board of why we budget the way we do. Um, but thank you for holding us to that as well. Any other discussion on it? Okay. Did you have another one, Miss Neman? Um, just on 6174 and it's more of a formatting issue if I can find it. I'm getting 88. Oh, look at him. 88. um on this one and I think this is reviewed by Dr. Garland. Um on hold on when we take out um at the bottom of page 89 where it says in addition language acquisition programs offered by the district may include but are not limited to the following. because we're deleting number two. I think that language needs to change um just to incorporate that number one into
059that paragraph. Does that make sense? So is that a matter of like there's no number two, there's no number one. Exactly. It just should follow the the instead of saying limited to the following, it should just include that. Yes. I'll clean that up and bring it back. That's just going back to our whole option one, option two issues and trying to keep it clean. It'll look a little cleaner. That's all. Okay. Any other board members have items they want to pull? All right. So, then we're going to move on to board member reports. And since you're Mr. Doom and Gloom, Mr. Elder, let's go with you first. Tell us about the state of our financial affairs in the state of California. All right, I'll I'll start with the bad then. Um uh yes so you
060know anyone who's seen the stock market knows that uh you know along with a lot of other things it the fiscal outlook is bleak because California in particular is so heavily funded by our high earners and when the stock market goes down California tax revenue um takes a huge hit. So we don't know what that looks like yet. We won't know for some time but it is something we should be prepared for because um you know other agencies are planning appropriately as they can. there's there's a tremendous amount of uncertainty. Um, but just something to to highlight for us as we head into our budget along with everything else. Um, so that's the doom and gloom. Going into this the happy stuff though, you know, since the last board meeting, we've had some fantastic school
061site visits. It's wonderful being in the classroom and seeing how excited kids are to be there, seeing all the things they're learning, hearing witten wisdom, hear all the fun things going on. Um, the open houses last Thursday were fantastic. Love how excited our students are just to show their parents everything they've been doing. Um, that enthusiasm is amazing. it shows that great things are happening in our school. So, really love being able to be part of that. Um, also really appreciate our governance workshop. That was fantastic last night. Uh, Dr. Rutherford does a fantastic job working with all of us and getting us to, you know, sometimes a little bit like hurting cats, but that is important for us to be able to work effectively together. Uh, you've already heard the results we did at
062the city school subcommittee meeting today. There's more to come there. Um, the esports competition, very, very fun. Uh, go Eagles. They did a a great job there. Uh, another fun meeting we had was our a AI literacy. Um, so thank you to Susanna Garcia and her team. Um, it's been uh really great seeing all the ideas coming out of that and it's very organic and it reflects our school district and our educational community. There is a draft executive order right now covering AI uh policies in schools. It hasn't been released. We don't know what that would look like. But I really like the homegrown approach. Um it's very thoughtful, very deliberative, and it really reflects our community um I think very well. And so that AI literacy effort and understanding where these tools fit and
063how they can be used responsibly. Um I'm really happy we're embracing that. So thank you for that. Um we also since our last meeting uh we celebrated our outgoing council members um Mr. Loenstein and Narrenheim and as well as city attorney Mike Webb. So we were part of that. Um you know again we have a great relationship with our city leaders. That's important for us to continue to build on because we all serve the same community. And then also got to attend the first bond oversight committee meeting. Um, so that was exciting seeing them get started because they're going to have a lot of work to do. U yeah, we we've got some things coming up there. And other than that, just want to thank everyone. Hope they had a great spring break and uh
064you know, it's the final final rush to the end of the year, but uh hang in there. Thank you, Miss Archer. Thank you. Um prior to actually joining the board, I was able to attend uh the production of Hades Town. Blew my mind. impressive uh the students at RUHS. Um the fact that it is a student production, the talent, not only on the stage, but the pit crew and the orchestra. And so I just want to say that I am so proud of our district that we support the arts and a place for these students to have a voice. And so I encourage Sorry, I failed my job. Sorry, he's supposed to turn on my mic for me. So I'm going to repeat this again. So, I had the pleasure of attending one job. One
065job. Dan um to attend Hades Town. And again, I was just saying that I'm so proud of our district for supporting the arts for our students. It's not just the actors on the stage, but the crew and the behind the scenes. And I encourage our community to just buy a ticket. You're just going to have a wonderful time. Um I did also have the pleasure of doing school site visits with um Dr. Wesley and board members at Alta Vista, uh Barl, and Madison. I love watching um what our teachers are doing. It's been a long time since I've been on an elementary school campus. Um the engagement of the students and the way they're learning and adaptive learning and the creativity. I just love what I was seeing and it's a huge reminder for why
066we sit up here and who we're trying to serve and who our bosses are really. Um so thank you for that. Um I was able to attend the uh Capitol comes to campus. Thank you to our um PTSA at the high school. Very impressed by the high school students who showed up the Friday before spring break and our assemblymen um our mayor, our new elected mayor was there and my takeaway were these articulate high school students who asked very pointed questions of our presenter and just to know that they were fully engaged. So I hope to see other events like that engaging our students in civics. So, that was really wonderful. Um, I also was able to attend Paris open house. Huge shout out to Mr. Erskin's band. It felt like I was at a
067college like halftime show. They were so good. Um, and also to see the parents and the students excitement. But, um, just to echo what was, uh, said earlier, these teachers have been there all day long. And if you walked into their classroom at open house, you would not know that they had been there all day long. Um I got to see Mr. Lemoodi who has, you know, been my poor science teacher three times and uh same energy. Um but anyways, it was such a pleasure to be on the campus for open house and I look forward to the middle school um open house I will get to attend this week. And then uh I'm sorry, elementary school, two school sites. I'm excited to um to do those open houses as well. And then last and
068definitely not least, I was remissed in my first official board meeting, which was when I was sworn in. Um, I failed to thank Miss Inz Campos. Um, who honestly like when you're being on boarded, there's just a lot. And she spent a lot of her time sending me information, getting me signed up for training, putting things on my calendar, helping me with so much. and I couldn't be ready to sit in this seat and start doing what I needed to do without her help. So, thank you so much. [Applause] All right, Mrs. Neoth. Um, thank you, Enz, because um I think for all of us the transition was seamless and um it feels like Miss Archer has been here with us and stepped right into her role. So that helps us all. Um I also
069attended many of the same events um the school um site visits. I was at Paris last year for um the open house. So this year I was at Adams with my nieces and just being able to go to their classrooms, having them lead me around um and talking to the staff and seeing the parents and the kids above all um so excited about everything that they had done and what they had worked on all year. Um, I also wanted to mention that a lot of us attended the Rise Williams film at Roondo Union. Um, that was produced by a um, RUHS student, graduated in 2016, I believe. Um, Matthew Yanamora. Um and he produced a film um highlighting the life of one of our basketball stars um who passed away a day before his high
070school graduation. Um so it was a rough uh film for some of us. A lot of us were around when that happened, but spectacular. Um and it was so nice to see all of Rise's family there. And on behalf of Roondo, I just want to say that I really hope that we continue going forward to honor him and highlight um his role and and the story behind it in our programs. Mr. Cho, thank you. Um I would like to u highlight a couple of events that took place recently um that also focused on our our our staff's work. Um we had an unlikely event that had power surge and power failure that took out some of the infrastructure um at high school and also Paris. And in Paris's case the switch blew out. um you
071know without a switch there's no phone calls there's no I mean there everything is out uh f first and foremost I'd like to thank the teachers who had to deal with the teaching environment without anything available understanding that clearly our IT team did what they did best which is let's get this fixed uh instead of waiting for the parts to be shipped to us by Cisco they called around found a friend who had a spare part, drove themselves out to Ontario, middle of the day, you know how far Ontario is in traffic, brought it back and and as as you can imagine, these are not something you plug into all work. You have to program this thing. So, they stayed behind way beyond ours and made sure it was up so that we have a
072minimum downtime of instructional time. Um, same similarly, we had a power outage um at a high school. You can't imagine it's a large high school and again kudos to our teachers and staff there and and because of Edison's part blew it blew our our part and counterpart that they needed to get that fixed instead of waiting around um has anybody called utility company and and and see when they ship did anything for you? Well, they didn't wait around. They did everything they could to get that whomever is out there at the utility company to come back and and do things and they worked around the clock to make it work again minimizing our instructional time. And I want to highlight this because it goes it's it's a repeated theme throughout our school district which is
073singular focus what's best for our students and it was clearly demonstrated by these teams led by our CTO um Miss Garcia and also yeah I mean operation Laura uh Franco Gayto as well as Dr. Alurn just wanted to say thank you for all you do and remembering the singular focus that we share as a as a group and obviously again once again thank you to the teachers having to deal with very challenging teaching environment and thank you to students who also dealt with that change and and rolled with it. Just just want to say thank you. Great. Um, I just want to say a big thank you to Amber Keller and Cynthia Graio who are teachers at the high school. I was honored to be one of the three chaperons that took the AP African-American
074history class to New Orleans during spring break to um bring history alive. It's a way I've never seen New Orleans before. We had the two different plantation tours that were amazingly impactful in the World War II Museum. there is not something to miss. And um the kids on this trip were amazing. They were very grateful, very kind, well behaved. I mean, they were like, you're taking how many 18-year-olds to New Orleans? But they were really an amazing group of kids, and they worked really hard and fundraised to make this trip happen. And I know they're looking at ways to make something like this happen again next year. And I know there's such a demand for the class in the high school. They're looking to open up even a third section of that class. It's quite
075um an impressive class. So I was grateful to be able to do that. Uh I want to congratulate Miss Lechenby again. She'll be an amazing addition to Dr. Garland's team. Congratulations Gloria and Dr. Alpurn. And thank you specifically for you and Dr. Wesley working over the spring break to get our bond sold. For anybody that watched the markets, we were not we had a great plan and all the bestlaid plans were swept away with a couple of announcements from some people and um we had to postpone and wait for an opportunity for us to actually sell our bonds and I want to remember I want to say it correctly but we did get an amazing rating better than some of our local partners who have other bonds are trying to sell bonds and that's because
076we are so fiscally strong and your team work so hard. But what is that rating, Dr. Alpurn? I feel like the community should know. The Oh, double A2. Double A2. So, thank you and your team for working so hard to get that rating and to sell our bonds and we had a a high demand. Right. I was just going to I just spoke with our underwriter before the meeting today and I wanted to share that um they had put an announcement in the local papers for um community members if they were interested you know on the date that we went out for sales and he said that he's never seen so much local demand. So, he said among our residents um they the minimum I think is $5,000 um to purchase, but he said among
077the sales that um RBUSD residents um purchased um half a million dollars of the $80 million in bond sales. That's fantastic. So, they're investing they're investing in themselves. There was two there was $781 million in demand for the 80 million that we 781 in demand for 80 million that we were selling. So good job and thank you to the residents of Roondo Beach who not only are paying for this but are investing in it and we promise to be good stewards of that money and make sure that we are doing the most that we can for kids. It's a countdown to the end of school. It's hard to imagine teachers. There's a lot to happen between now and the end of school, including AP exams at the high school. How many days? 35. 35. That's
078You're going to get me emotional because that means graduation is coming. So, um, yeah. Anyway, I know this is a really tough time. We see you. We feel you and we thank you. And students, it's you. You're close to the finish line. you know, you're going to get there and make it through your AP exams, your MAP testing, all the great things that we have and the fun activities to get us through to the end of school. So, that ends my report and we'll move to the organizational um organization of the board part of the meeting. So, I have a script. So, we will start with electing a president of the board of education. Would anyone like to nominate a board member for board president? I would nominate yes. Dan Elder, do you as board
079president? I will accept the nomination. Thank you. Okay. Would anyone like to nominate another board member for board president? Hearing none. Nominations are closed. Do we have to vote if there's only one nomination? Okay. Student advisory vote. I. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. Mr. President, I'm going to pass you the gavl if you'd like to finish this meeting. [Applause] All right. Thankfully, there's a script here. Uh now we are going to elect a vice president of the board of education. Would anyone like to nominate a board member for board vice president? I would. May I nominate Bang Cho for board vice president? Do you accept? Oh, sorry. Do you accept that nomination? He's just sitting there smiling. Would anyone like to nominate another board member for board vice president? All right, then.
080Nominations are closed. Student advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. Congratulations. [Applause] 16.3. Elect a clerk of the board of education. Would anyone like to nominate a board member for clerk? I would like to nominate Miss Flynn as board clerk. Do you accept this nomination? I do. Would anyone like to nominate another board member for clerk? Nominations are closed. Can I get a motion and a second? I'm sorry. Oh, I guess we do need Can I get a motion and a second to vote for board member Flynn? Oh, we didn't do that. We did not do it. I don't. So, you're not president. Give me the thing. Could I get a motion and a second to vote for board member Flynn as clerk? So, move. Second. All right. All those in a student
081advisory vote. All those in favor say I. I. All right. Should we go back and get a motion for Dan to be voted as president? Hon would you like to vote for Sorry, we're going to go back. We're going to go back. We do need a motion and second to vote for Mr. Elder. So moved. Second. Okay. Do we have to take the vote again? Do an advisory vote? I. All those in favor say I. I. I. Okay, now you do my script because you didn't read the script either. I Nope. Nope. I got there eventually. All right. Uh, we will do this again. Uh, board member Cho, do you accept the nomination as vice president? I do. Uh, nominations are closed. Can I Anyone else? No. Can I get a motion and a second
082to vote for board member Cho? Second. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. All right. Now it's official. Um, and we already had the first and the second for you, so yours was Yes, mine was seven. But now you're the board president, so you have to point. Excellent. Uh, so 16.4 board president appoints a board member to serve as a member of the board of education of the Southern California Regional Occupation Center, SoCal Rock. Is anyone interested in serving on the SoCal Rock Board of Education? I would be honored to serve on the SoCal board. Gro rock board of education. I can't first assignment is going to be to learn how to uh say the name. Okay. Scrock. There's a reason we called it that. Is anyone else interested in serving? Then you are
083appointed. Congratulations. Uh 16.5 board president appoints a board member to serve as a representative of the board of education of the beach to the beach city's health district blue zones committee. Would any board member be interested in that position? Yes, I'd like to continue to serve as uh the board member working with Beach City Health District and Blue Zone Committee, please. Is anyone else interested in that position? Congratulations. You continue the good work. [Applause] Uh 16.6 board president appoints a board member to serve as legislative representative of the board of education. Is anyone interested in that position? So I've served that I've served that role. So I'm I'm happy to do it again if no one else wants it. I think you're really good at it. Right. Then I will appoint myself. Excellent. Good for
084you. Excellent. That brings us to the calendar of events, item 17.1. We have coming up on April 24th, our open houses at our elementary schools. On May 13th, we have a regular board of education meeting at 5:30 for open session. May 26th is a holiday nonwork non- studentent day. It's Memorial Day. And then on May 27th, we will be back for a regular board of education meeting with the 5:30m open session. Uh, with that, is there a motion to adjurnn? So move. Second. Student advisory vote. All those in favor? I. All right, we're jjourned. All right.