001e e e I'd like to call the meeting to order may I please get a motion in a second to approve tonight's agenda for the regular Board of Education meeting question on the agenda correct yep on December 10th I sent an email to the superintendent said we are overdue for an annual requirement uh that calls for a public hearing annually by a board by our board and prior dates for that for were done on October 24th in 2023 and October 11th in 2022 so we're about 5 months out of compliance with that now is there a reason that has not appeared on the agenda and it's not on tonight's agenda either out of compliance for what public hearing for CTE yes 52304 point1 and I also mentioned this again at a few board meetings ago
002Dr Wesley yeah I addressed this in a Friday update a couple weeks ago I actually attached the policy I explain that we are in compliance that we've met the compliance so if you want to send me again what you're talking about noting a public hearing then you're more than welcome to but I've addressed this in a Friday update to you and the board a couple of weeks ago and attached the policy and I gave a very thorough explanation of how we've met this uh requirement all the ways in which we've met it through a workshop where we analyze the CTE data where it's a part of the Strategic plan which is I did a report on that last week so we've more than met that requirement however you have not met the requirement where it
003states the governing board shall conduct public hearings for purposes of reviewing the participation of these pupils and for the adoption of a plan required under this section so when was that public hearing yeah again if you want to send that to me which I've requested in an email to you a couple of times you're more than welcome to I've addressed this in an update I attached the policy and I responded to every aspect of that board policy so we're just not going to disagree and I don't know that this is the setting to have that disagreement but you're more than welcome to share that with me and you've had the opportunity to share it with me prior to this meeting I don't know why you didn't but you're more than welcome to share with me
004what you're referring to no you haven't but I'm more than welcome you're more than welcome to and I will look at it and if I'm wrong I have no problem having a hearing but otherwise I have written a report to the board as to how we've met this compliance okay thank you that's all I have to say about that second point on February 4th I sent an email to the superintendent requesting an agenda item States in accordance with board bylaw 9322 the following agenda item is requested to be placed on the February 11th 2025 regular board meeting agenda as an action item subject to board vote that item was stated as appro approve public release of email correspondents from Jay Larson Routan to n Wesley at rbusd.org dated October 26 2023 at 28 p.m. R
005expense allowance of BB 9250 and under that is the compensation aspects of BB9 9250 at that time I stated it's clearly within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board it's not merely request for information and subject matter of this agenda item is not qualified for Clos session that also has not appeared on any agenda nor will it I'm I'm going to call a point of order here and ask um Miss Campos if this qualifies as agendized discussion or how we handle this at this point because it's not on our agenda and we are just approving the agenda I'm asking why it's not on the agenda I right I understand but I don't think that's agendized for discussion that we can have discussion on other items I don't that you can well I can share that
006it wouldn't be going on as a discussion it either because after speaking to our attorney and confirming that the mere fact that we got an opinion from our attorney is attorney client privilege so we would not be disclosing an email from the attorney between the attorney and myself that's at the board's discretion okay again we can have a conversation about this but given our attorney's advice um even a discussion about it would be in violation of attorney client privilege okay so you don't wish to discuss anything under there I'm going to object again I'm not sure what the process is but this is beyond our agendized items for discussion you don't want to talk about it we shouldn't be having these discussions today and now especially about attorney client privileged issues it's under the board
007discretion if a majority of the board wants to wave attorney cry privilege is what you're saying should forwarding the agenda okay so um can I I have a motion in a second can um all those in favor say I I any opposed no okay so 31 any absten sorry student advisory vote okay and that can go forward with the 31 agenda a 31 approval okay let's do the Pledge of Allegiance Mr Brandt principal of Adult Ed and director of institutional instructional support thank so much there it is good to go all right thank you everyone if you're standing if you're able appreciate it please face the flag right hand over your heart ready begin I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one
008nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you okay we did not have a closed session this evening so there is no report may I get a motion and a second to approve the minutes of the February 28th regular Board of Education meeting so moved second any discussion student advisory vote I all those in favor say I I any opposed I will abstain because I was not at the meeting um moving on to reports to the board we are not going to have the redond Union High School JV g game day cheer recognition tonight they're busy cheering at our boys basketball game and we will be have them invite them back at a later date so I will call on Patricia dler continuation High School presentation by Mr Yen Brandt thank you
009so much and good luck to our boys tonight all right good evening RBD board president Raymer Flynn members of the board Dr Wesley and Leadership my name is Yen Brandt and I am the very proud principal of Patricia dler high school I'm honored to be here with Miss unique Campa our fantastic art teacher and two of our truly amazing and exceptional students sage and Jordan when I started off at dler over three and a half years ago one of the first things that really struck me was the incredible art in Miss Campa classroom and around our campus our school is particularly unique as every senior completes a senior tile with their name and any artistic creativity that speaks to them these tiles are then placed on our walls each summer student legacies dating back many
010decades Circle our campus thank you to miss Campa for keeping this tradition going and improving upon it unique also deserves further praise as I'd argue our student artwork compares to or even exceeds s any continuation or Comprehensive High School's product yes we are both proud and competitive at pdhs as you can see we have a brief agenda and we're trying to do this under five minutes that Pride can be seen in our students and you will soon hear in their words what both art and dler mean to them their sh shared passion for art exemplifies two key aspects of arc's strategic plan social emotional learning and post-secondary opportunities both sage and Jordan will soon share their perspectives on Art their well-being and future goals as Pablo Picasso once said there is only one way to
011see things until someone shows you how to look at them with different eyes and here to tell you a bit more about art at pdhs and then introduce our students Miss unique Campa thank you again hello I'm unique Campa and I'm the lucky art teacher at dler I just wanted to quickly share about the goals that drive the art curriculum at our school student Choice student voice self-expression and self-reflection as I'm sure we already know the Arts are not just a subject they're a powerful tool for fostering creativity crit critical thinking and personal expression by supporting the Arts and all Ted settings we allow students to discover their voices by adjusting and building curriculum in response to their feedback making meaningful choices and selecting which projects they want to explore and express themselves in unique
012ways through classes that let them figure out if they like cring or embroidering all while learning about themselves and the world around them by prioritizing student Choice voice and expression we ensure a well-rounded education that nurtures the whole child and prepares them for future success here's Sage to tell you a little bit more good evening the art program at dler has had a life-changing impact on me in Miss campus class I've explored mediums from Micron pens and graphite to acrylic and textiles I I've even contributed to a campus mural through each project I express myself creativity most importantly Art became a source of comfort with Miss Camp's art curriculum and classroom environment I've realized that art is more than just a class it's a way to heal in difficult times I've lacked healthy coping mechanisms
013but now I turn to Art sketching helps me process emotions and led to a positive shift in my well-being it's not just about the final piece it's about the healing that happens during the process as a Hands-On art dosent I get to share my love for art while strengthening my leadership skills watching my classmates gain confidence in their artistic abilities reminds me of Art's power to connect us additionally I'm involved in my school's yearbook and newsletter which introduced me to graphic design and photography pushing me to think outside the box thanks to the dler art program and Miss Camp's unwavering support I found passion and purpose in art that I'll carry into my future I'm grateful for the foundation this program has given me a foundation I'll bring into a career fi a creative field
014like cosmetology thank you so much for your time and contributing continuing to support the art that dler and next I'd like to introduce my friend [Applause] Jordan hello everybody thank you for being here and thank you for all that you do I like the idea of freedom freedom is something many of us keep in the back of our minds our subconscious existing passively and undisturbed flourishing alive yet stagnant it's comforting in a way an uncertain fragile way composed of undying hope and protected narratives including the Curiosity of what it could should or were be how it would will and can be something beautiful Freedom art I don't just like the idea of art I like art itself from the art-centered group project students participate in toed of the School murals painted tiles uniquely decorated social
015spaces students physically artistically established the events that altered the courses of their lives so greatly through interpretive art photography art of threads paper art myself me joyously attending Hands-On art seminars and being granted the honor of contributing to the spread of artistic influence to my friends to my family to my peers to all of us here today the individuality the importance the learning the understanding and the resonating of the history of art its importance those that allowed us the ability to apply that a beautiful contrasting Beauty to all of our lives here today to learn about it art here Pisa dler teaches me teaches us teaches we to search past the shallowness humans often apply to numerous aspects of outside experiences the materialism involving how much something is worth what established opinions it possesses how
016it is displayed what side it represents how it is represented who it exists for why it exists I ask myself often why it is what it is why why I find we all here find unwavering Beauty extraordinary individuality perspective experience composition narrative thoughts opinions beliefs love hate happiness sadness negativity positivity distance togetherness understanding confusion Comfort discomfort history freedom freom even beneath the shackles the chains of prevention stemming from the rules we all must follow within our lives the responsibilities we each must tend to the consequences we may perceive the experiences we each possess art here P drives our continuation school teaches us that art is free free to do however whenever whatever it pleases with whoever it demands art is freedom we here learn how and why art is Art thank you thank you so
017much any questions for us wow it's going to take me a while to process that you guys both be very very proud of you and the amazing materials that you shared with us here today thank you so much they're very talented as you can see appreciate it I uh this sage and Jordan where are you th this to me is what dler is about um and you are two phenomenal students and I could not be prouder Sage remind me were you the one who did the DIA delos moros or worked on that last year no I did not no okay um because I saw that at DOR and I think that was somehow with the art as well and it was amazing and looking through the books and seeing your teacher says otherwise oh my
018God yes I made all those tissue paper flowers Sage I tried to take it out of my mind oh my gosh I was there and you were showing me the whole thing and I specifically remember how amazing it was and I think I even told people cuz that was just yeah we were were both there that day um and just the artistic and Jordan the writing it's unbelievable so thank you both so much for today yeah thank you it's our pleasure thank you thank you have a great [Applause] night okay moving on to the 20242 second interim budget Financial report presentation by Dr Annette alurn Deputy superintendent administrative Services where's our artwork here isn't that special yes I'm gonna talk to unique about doing my presentations at least putting them together um well thank you
019I'll I'll try to make this you know attractive and pretty but it is what it is um I definitely could use some art tonight I'm here to um share with you and share with the public our second interim report it is um the second of two interim reports that um is given to the board over the course of the fiscal year it includes all the transactions that take place in the district between July 1 and January 31st so it gives a picture of where the district's financial position remains relative to the adoption of the budget back um last June um what's included in the second interim report is um everything but really not a lot of changes from the first interim report that was provided to you back in December um for example our reserve
020for economic uncertainties in December at the first interim was 10.77% now it is 11.8% um hopefully CSA will approve their tentative agreement um if and when they do that then our Reserve will go down into the low 11% range which actually very close to the 10.77% back at the first interim we were operating with a 2.93% um projected Cola it's now adjusted to 2.43 and when it's time to um provide you with a budget for next year it it will go down further because the economic um the economic indicators are such that it does not appear that we will get to a 2.43% cola but that's what is assumed because that's what was assumed as of January 31st so that's what's in the report okay now I'm going to talk to you about um our
021multi-year projections um multi-year projections anytime we submit a budget report an interm report any financial report that comes out of the business office must include multi-year projections and um they're anchored in reliable information but that reliable information is only good as the date we engage in the projections um so they're not forecast we don't have a magic wand to be able to um pull the pull these things out um anytime we change underlying assumptions then um we change we change our our multi-year projections um so our for our purposes here um we are assuming an annual declining enrollment of half of a percent and a daily attend rate for students of 95% so those are our underlying assumptions we have a cost of living adjustment this year that was at 1.07% next year we're anticipating
0222.43 and in 2627 what is published right now is a 3.52 so those are the assumptions we build in to our multi-year projections um again we are assuming declining enrollment um if you're a staff member and you've seen my um budget Road show this year so far you know that um you know the direction of enrollment if you haven't then you'll you'll see it when I come to a school near you um and so that is an assumption that we are making it's a conservative assumption but um our projections are have generally been pretty on On Target and again our funded Ada is um what we actually get funded for so it's not just how many students we have in the school district it's the combination of the students we have in the district plus
023their attendance so we want students coming to school we want them learning and we want them um generating revenue for us um we also have obligations in our multi-year projections uh related to um um retirement iions um the Cal sters or the teachers and administrators retirement system is the stir system certificated uh administrators it's a 19.1% so in other words for every $100 an employee makes where can the school district can puts in $19.10 into the stirs retirement system um for they have a um calsters has an authorized ceiling of 20.25% Calpers which is our classified staff they do not have that same ceiling they don't have a limitation and so um while the calsters rate has more than doubled in the last 10 years so has the Cal Pur rate Cal's Pur rate has
024also more than doubled um during the last 10 years so it is an obligation for school districts and for our operating budgets um it's not an option it's an an obligation um and we want to make sure that our pension system is strong so that our employees when they get to retirement age they have a pension system that is viable and we able to sustain them throughout the remainder of of their lifetime um but our Cal Pur rate is much higher than um our calster rate our Cal Pur employees do not make as much money um as our Cal ster members so the raw number may not be as high but the percentage on top of their um salary is quite a bit higher okay here's the fun one um our multi-year projections so um
025you can see if you if you look at the first three columns um or I'm sorry the first three yes the first three rows um the revenues the expenditures and then the net increase or decrease um you'll see that this year and next year we are as a school district are deficit spending and in the 2627 school year we are no longer deficit spending so we are managing our deficit we are managing our deficit spending that's what we show in our Figures it's what we show in our reports to the county and it's one of the main reasons why um we get good ratings um in terms of our our strength so that's our that's kind of over the course of the next this year and the next two years um when we talk about
026our Reserve that's at the bottom the bottom half of this chart um so we're looking at what do we have at the beginning of the year basically what do we have in the bank um at the beginning of the year what do we have at the end of the year how much of those dollars are committed or in restricted funds so that um maybe they're spent for special education or maybe they're um spent in other um pockets of the school district that are not uh free um we have to spend them as like the law requires and then we have the that reserve for economic uncertainty so that's that that's the number that we really look at and where we see what is our Reserve as a school district so this year you can see
027uh this term you can see we're at 11.8% um next year we're looking at 11.27 and in 2627 11.8 so um we are keeping ourselves solvent solid with an appropriate reserve and um and the next pieces for for the board to consider obviously is approving this interim report tonight um in the middle of May the governor comes out and provides his um Revision in January he gave his projection in may he gives the revision and then be they're kind of negotiating in Sacramento up now but it really starts to starts to intensify in May once the governor um gives his May revision uh because um because the state has legislature has to adopt a budget um by the end of the by the end of June so they basically have you know six weeks five
028weeks to really negotiate what the details of the budget are at the state level and then we locally have June to both hold a public hearing on the budget and then also to adopt our own local budget by June 30th that's all I got questions sure who wants to go first do you have any question you want to go I don't you don't have any questions do okay go ahead okay um hi uh my question and I think I asked it before but I just wanted you to remind me on the reserve there's no percentage now limit that correct okay so um the average in the state for unified school districts is 24% oh wow okay and can you remind us what the reserve is for okay a district R size is required to have
029a reserve of 3% that's a state law um our our district policy um and practice and board practice has been at least one month of operating expenses which is 8% I had a our financial adviser ask me in the last week what I was comfortable with and I said I would be more comfortable with two months of operating expenses but it's just one person's opinion okay so so in times of trouble that's what we have yes is that it anyone else have any questions Mr Cho Mr sh okay thank thank you Dr alurn um so we have um I guess I'll call a vote to approve or we're not doing that yet this is just the presentation we do that later in the agenda but we'll move on to our student board member report by
030key gold okay good luck to our boys basketball team playing in the D1 State Regional finals today at Sierra Canyon students who wanted to go to support the basketball team had the opportunity to take a bus down to Sierra Canyon and get free pizza the spring musical Hades town is taking place at the end of this month and tickets have officially gone on sale ticket information can be found on the RS Theater Arts Instagram all seniors are getting TK Burgers next Monday because of their participation rate on the CP testing and battle of the bands will also be taking place next week thank you great Dr Wesley superintendent report yes my report U mirrors the um monthly newsletter that went out yesterday so hopefully people have a chance to look at that so just as
031a brief summary of what we're talking about this month it's spring so spring represents New Beginnings um and so while we are finishing out the year strong you know gearing up for testing season as we call it we also want to let families and students know what we're doing to prepare for the next school year because we know transitions can be difficult especially when you're going from elementary to middle middle to high and there's a lot of change picking classes all that's getting ready um to go that's my student advisory Council um in case anyone's wondering I love those guys they have a lot to share so that'll be another board report coming up uh so really quickly just going to go through the Elementary Middle High um Elementary School our schools have been doing
032tours U so that's uh some parents of TK and Kinder parents have been visiting that's the Title Wave over at toita woohoo um and so um our parents are able to look at classrooms see recess and just really get an idea of what it's like to be at our school sites and so if someone's interested in that just contact the principal and they'd be more than happy to to give a tour if they weren't able to go on one already um we're very proud of our program so um this month just highlighting all of the different ways that our kids are engaged on our campuses and some of the unique programs that we have thanks to our PTA and our rbef um sponsorships these are two programs here that we're really lucky to have um
033we're very proud of the curriculum that we adopted the only District in the South Bay that has adopted what we call the trilogy we can give kudos to Dr Wilds for that when she was here um but we're in three of the wit and wisdom curriculum and um which includes fundations and just words which are intervention programs and so uh we're really excited about the progress we're seeing with this curriculum Ela curriculum um if you're looking at a great District again I know we have some shoppers out there so I always want to make sure folks know that um our students do have the opportunity to go to science camps three times between Fifth and e8th grade and so that's a lot of fun engaging ways to learn in an outdoor setting so we're very
034proud of that and this is um right now our students are a lot of our students are at science camp or have gone or getting ready to go um Middle School there's our Adams Eagles cheerleaders um just some dates again this is going to be posted on the website I know if you are a fifth grader family going to one of our middle schools you're going to get a lot of emails and a lot of information but we are gearing up uh to get our fifth grades fifth graders ready as they transition to one of our two amazing um schools and one of the ways we do that that's coming up on Monday it's so exciting is our fi day Phi day is again a unique experience that only Rondo has and our fifth graders
035and our eighth graders go to the high school and all of our student athletes host them as they get to choose three activities to participate in they get a t-shirt with their future year and I think it's class of 32 coming up anyway they get a t-shirt that they get to wear proudly um and it's just such a fun day and so um again another way that we we we help our students transition before they even start um so there's some fun pictures of our students again all run by Redondo Union High School students um for future Seahawks um Invention Convention I'll be sharing an update on that soon but we're in we're KNE deep into Invention Convention we participate every year we have kids go all the way to the National level we're very
036proud of allowing this space for them to utilize their creativity and actually come up some really cool new ideas um our middle schools have wellness centers I've spoken about that just want to share that and um and board members and I have been visiting schools and we see a lot of focus on learning um but one of the things that we did with prop 28 is we added choir classes um at both of our middle schools so we're proud to offer that um again sharing ways in which we prepare our students these are uh counselors from the nest and um making sure that we're starting to help students on their journey to their post-secondary goals including college early on and now for our high school um uh we have one amazing high school and as
037well as padria gisler glad to see them here tonight um transition to high school can be again somewhat overwhelming but we're here to hold hands and support people along the way and we kicked off with our are you ready night but we just want folks to know that um anyone interested in a sport or cheer please get ready May 1st uh 6:30 put that date down it's a great event to just explore what we have to offer um R UHS has over a 100 clubs so there's no reason why students can't be involved and as well as a lot of other award-winning programs like our band and our journalism yearbook Etc um lot of Pride and amazing flock student section great school spirit as I've shared before RS flock um got number one in the
038state for school spirit most spirited student section so no other district has the South Bay has earned that I think that's exciting um again I have a child at the high school so you want to provide that environment for all students um we are excited about some new classes at the high school thanks to you board for approving these classes um the course catalog is out it's on the RS website and I linked it to my newsletter that went out yesterday if anyone's interested in looking at it it's never too early to start looking at all the different classes that we have and all the amazing Pathways there's unfortunately the problem is there's too much to choose from so um good problem to have but not easy uh moving forward so um a lot of
039fun classes going on and this is one of our newer teachers Dr Cole in a computer science class she's doing a collaborative uh program with um Cal State Dominguez Hills we're excited about that if you didn't know there's a tradition at the high school The Nest one of our Traditions is you ring the bell in the nest when you get your college except so we have seniors going up ringing the bell um this student here is I think has got into USC but um that's going on um we have students who do get athletic scholarships and so we honor them as well this is in the fall and we'll be honoring our spring and this is a picture from last year but another tradition is students will wear their college sweatshirts and take a a
040picture coming up um at the end of the year so um I now I want to just quickly turn it over to Dr Stephanie because we always like to highlight new staff but um there's a lot going on as we prepare kids for the next school year yeah so this month we'd like to feature um on faces and stories of RBD to recognize our employees uh a TK teacher at Madison Miss Carrie Carpenter Miss Carpenter personifies everything we love to see in our staff she goes above and beyond for her students even visiting one of them in the hospital recently so let's see the video about Miss Carpenter my name is Carrie Carpenter and I am the TK teacher at Madison Elementary I've worked in rbsd for around 20 years I think this might be
041year 21 um what I love about my job is that I get to work with kids every day and see those moments where something really clicks and then they're so proud of themselves well rboc is a district that seems to um care about its employees they have um great organization um our our teams here both my TK team and my school teams here are all amazing and I think that's just a testament to um our district as a whole the way they create family and Community um my all of my years in education have been at rbusd uh I did do some subbing at other districts prior and um our Rd just seemed like where I I belong and I've stayed for 20 years so it just shows that it's um definitely a place where
042people should want to work and do want to work outside of my job I really enjoy spending time with family we do a lot of outside things we camp a lot we go boating um we go off-roading motorcycle riding um I really just like being with family [Music] I love seeing the TK kids okay so now we're going to move on to the hearing section where members of the audience May 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 discussion on items not listed on the agenda topics not on the agenda which are brought to the board's attention may be investigated by the administration and report made to the board either publicly or privately at a future meeting
043comments from visitors and admin visitors shall not exceed 3 minutes unless the time is waved by a majority of the board and the board shall limit the total 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 so we have advanced written requests first and just to give a translation of what that means if there are questions brought up in public comment the board is not allowed to answer those questions but there will be a way to follow up at a different time so first we have Aiden Becker hello my name is Aiden Becker I'm a senior at Rondo Union High School and I'm a part of
044many vapa programs such as um marching band uh spring musical Hades town which we of course would love to invite you all to go see this spring um but on the topic of prop 28 funding I would like to ask the board that that they would consider forming a student advisory committee to provide input on how prop 28 funds are used and have a voice in determining uh how prop 28 funds are used and their priorities I would also see uh like to see measures put in place to track how effective these funds are and how they um when they are used uh having about one to two students per vapa program I also think that this having uh students at the school board meetings even though I I'm here of course as part of
045uh a school project but of course having more students at these meetings is a great educational opportunity and could help uh keep them informed on current events along with the programs that they're in thank you thank you very much um next we have Jenna Matson did I say it correctly hello my name is Jenna Matson and I serve as the CFO for the Ronando Union High School abandon guard boosters I am joined tonight by our president Christine alsen you just heard from my son Aiden Becker and my husband's here to obviously take pictures of me and support me so you know and I'm so glad that we joined today's meeting because hearing from sage and Jordan on what art and expression means to them and seeing the board's reaction makes me really optimistic that you
046guys are going to be open to what I have to say and take what I have to say seriously first and foremost we would like to express our sincere appreciation to the new Administration and district for their collaboration this year your support in reimbursing equipment and instrument expenses as well as recognizing our student achievements in newsletters has made a meaningful impact on our program we are also incredibly grateful for the hiring of our new band director Fred Steiner since his arrival he has brought discipline rigor and organization to the classroom and his dedication and strong communication have set a positive tone for the program's future we will we are hopeful that he will remain with our UHS for years to come under the leadership of both our new principal and Mr Steiner we have made
047tremendous progress this year but there is still a lot of work to be done tonight we are here to formally request that the issue of parents funding this is parents paying for instructors for graded music and dance courses at Redondo Union High School a public institution be added to the next board meeting agenda along with a discussion on the allocation and distribution of prop 20 28 funds over the past 3 years our booster program has contributed over $111,000 to fund instructional staff for courses that are graded and that are integral to the public school C curriculum and should be publicly funded the 101,000 is not on top of the practices we pay for all the practices this is for instruction class at a public high school we are paying for teachers to teach these classes
048the r UHS program is whoops sorry over the past three years our booster program has um has contributed over the $101,000 and in addition the school previously approved a 60% reduction in employment for the former abandoned guard director without securing a replacement to cover the the remaining 40% of his teaching duties the boosters had to fill the Gap the r UHS and Bandon guard program is deeply committed to inclusivity ensuring that all students regardless of financial means have access to music and the Arts how I know I'm a little over can I continue um do I have a motion to extend to extend by 30 seconds 30 seconds yeah okay the ruhs Bandon program is deeply committed to inclusivity however due to to insufficient School support we have relied heavily on significant financial contributions from
049families this year alone we requested $1,980 per student as our funding resources were completely depleted last year to cover coaching salaries for the 2425 school year 26,000 was allocated through prop 28 for a dance guard coach however the previous prop 28 budget was subsequently revised online without any notation of these changes I have sought clarification on the revisions of prop 28 budget for both last year and this year but have yet to receive a response okay thank you all right um next up we have Jeff Gul hi good evening everybody hi Jeff G I'm one of those annoying PTA dads from Lincoln Elementary um so my mom was a sub here back in 1990 I remember I was out in the parking lot getting paychecks and stuff before we drove back up to PV and
050she got her Masters in special ed and I made a donation this year in her honor to the Toros and they invited me to go to the robotic Symposium and I met the people from from uh SC Center for stem education and I thought you know maybe I'll just send this over to Dr Wesley and Dr Toronto see what happens sounds like an interesting program maybe Lincoln will get some additional robotics resources and I talked to uh Dr Toronto last Friday and it sounds like Sparky went away and uh you know when the the Lions uh Roar the uh the Seahawks uh fly so we've got a credit class for the high school students we've got toita Elementary I think Burl Heights is next year getting the support they need from Dr hamdan and uh
051Robotics and doing stuff either on campus or at school sites supported by Toyota and Apple so I thought oh this might be a good time to say hey uh Lincoln would be a great candidate for Science music art art great fencing more science um we'd be delighted to be part of the team that uh or schools that uh get uh support as well whether it's through SC or any other programs that you have available through rbef or um through the district monies but I'll just say uh Go Lions go Seahawks and go Redondo Beach and you can talk to of course Dr Kim uh charmila or Kelly for any ideas and brainstorming I'm just that annoying PTA dad just getting the word out and I wish you all a good evening thank you those are
052the only Advanced written requests I have is there anyone in the audience who didn't turn in a form that would like to speak okay we'll move on to our Communications section how about Rond Beach Teachers Association hi um Tracy Kelly uh Elementary uh director or speaker did not show up but I always have something to say um I want to first thank uh all the elementary teachers who are right now busy doing uh parent conferences we finished our first uh round of comments on the back section of our report card um so we're going through that uh working out some Kinks um we're happily waiting for our trimester break on Friday or welld deserved and our middle and high school teachers will be in PD um I'm sure they're happy about that um but they'll
053be there and they're working into the second semester working hard at the middle and high school as well so shout out to all the teachers we appreciate everything you do thanks thank you do we have anybody from California School Employees Association American Federation of teachers redond Beach Council of ptas or Redondo Beach Council parent teacher Association hi good evening um I'm here just to introduce our wonderful PTA from barl Heights and their uh president Chrissy [Applause] Walsh I got my crew hi everyone good evening my name is Chrissy Walsh and I am the proud PTA president of burl Heights Elementary School um uh our PTA is very active and very busy um and I love everything about it we put on assemblies um all kinds of events like movie night trunk Retreat Makers Market uh
054we have a big race to the Finish event like our fundraising event we have family game night at dve Busters family art night steam night talent show sweetheart dance and lastly my favorite is our Multicultural night this is our fourth year um having Multicultural night and I love seeing our community and our school come together and just celebrate each other um all of these events are not possible without our Burl Community a big shout out to our um principal Mrs Jennifer freedlander and um our amazing teachers at Burl Heights um also a special special thank you to our all of our hardworking and dedicated um proud PTA parents um at our school none of this is possible without everybody coming together and um putting it all on um we as parents we just want all
055of our kids to have an amazing and enriching experience at Burl we want all our kids to create core memories and um during their time I can go on um but I'd like for you to hear from some of our special guests that will tell you what their favorite of PTA event is at our school um maybe there's a we have a stool there's a stool underneath yeah perfect thank you all right you want to introduce yourself hi my name is is Riley I am in third grade my favorite PTA event is movie night I like it because one year My Girl Scout Troop and I got to sell [Music] [Applause] stuff we had so great um assemblies um cuz we got multiculture night um we get triy foods from other countries celebrate our differences
056cuz we all are the same but um um in and out we got for race to the Finish because we race and hit our goals I like the race to finish the best because um there was so much jumpy houses and everyone got to compete um yeah so um all of us got to compete and everyone got some food at the end [Applause] good J hi good evening everyone I'm vivon and I'm in fifth grade um we're so grateful for our PTA um they have all these fun events my favorite one um is probably Multicultural night it's pretty much the only way to celebrate um my culture and we don't get off on the holidays that we have for culture [Applause] hi my name is Ana and my favorite events are family art night and
057David Busters I'm also very excited for our upcoming steam night and that's it from us thank you thank you all very much did you want to tell your tell us your name oh you want to come tell me your name because you don't anounce your name and tell them what grade you're in I'm Liam Atwood and I'm in second grade and I'm here because I used to be the Principal for a day okay look out Mrs freedlander I think there's someone giving you a run for your job there thank you so much you guys is there anyone here from the BD Beach Educational Foundation any superintendent comment um I know Dr Al's been working with ban boosters so um we'll provide an update as to what was said tonight thank you thanks okay moving on
058to the general consent calendar does anybody have anything they'd like to pull okay hearing none can I get a motion and second to approve 10.1 through 10.5 okay student advisory vote all those in favor say I I any opposed okay it's moving on to our action items I need a motion in second for 12.1 to adopt the 2425 second interim budget financial report that we just heard about uh do you have anything to add Dr alurn from your presentation does anyone have any questions okay student advisory vote all those in favor say I I any opposed K 12.2 approve participation in the California multiple School awards schedule Cass contract 4256 006b for the purchase of roofing materials from the Garland company for a 2025 Roofing projects can I get a motion and second to discuss
059Dr alart yes um thank you I just wanted to share that um this five, 238,000 projects um will be coming out of measure s bond funds attached to tonight's um board agenda I also um I I included the locations of the schools that we be having Roofing done and um if you'll not note the pink colored buildings are buildings that are being re-roofed and the green colored buildings are the buildings that are getting new coding does anybody have any questions okay student advisory vote all those in favor say I I any opposed get some new roofs on these schools that's great 12.3 approved bid award to the low to low bidder for South Bay Adult School multi-purpose room abatement to integrated Demolition and Remediation Inc can I get a motion second Dr alurn yes um
060this is South Bay adult school funding a batement that will occur between tomorrow and April 1 because April 1 um the demolition begins of um for the real work at the adult school but um but abatement needs to occur before that so they've got a twoe window basically to make it happen and is this to create the the kitchen yeah the total redo of the multi-purpose room multi-purpose building excuse me any comments or questions student advisory vote all those in favor say I I 12.4 can I get a motion in second to approve Rond Beach Unified School District measure s citizens Bond oversight committee members Dr aler I'm very your agenda tonight yes I'm very excited first i' would like to thank all the individuals um from the public um who um offered their service
061offered their volunteerism um there was definitely interest we did not have a difficult time um achieving enough applicants um to serve uh we Dan Elder and Laura Franco Gallardo and myself we um sat on a panel and we interviewed all of the applicants so we could make a determination as to who to recommend to you this evening and um you know as I noted in my attached document their category that have to be filled and so we were able to identify individuals that could fit the various um categories and so tonight I am proud to recommend to you Andrew avick Doris donl Richmond sndi Foley Scott Palmer Karen Reed Jason soon and Nikki Vasquez to serve on the measure as Citizens Bond oversight committee with our first meeting scheduled for Monday March 31st great any
062comments or questions student advisory vote a couple of comments go ahead sorry so on here is Andrew aick who is the spouse of Anita aick and Anita aick while a school board member received $24,000 in violation of Law and apparently has not returned that I don't think that's appropriate for someone like attached to someone like that to be on this committee and also there's a sndi Foley who is supposedly from the record show was the treasur of the committee that was formed to raise money for the measures school bond and violated multiple times fppc law in not reporting the amounts in the timely fashion that's required so understand there's going to be an fppc investigation into that it has not happened yet I don't think either of those individuals should be serving on a committee
063like this I I want to comment on that briefly um to say that that that that is your opinion that there's been violations of law there's been nothing on a record or in public that I'm aware of that anyone has violated the law except Mr strutzenberg who I think stood up in front of city council and stated um that he believed he violated law um but to make those allegations in public you know against people who are volunteering their time and love for our district is I'm shocked um so and and how do you know there's an fppc investigation that's what happens when you violate the fppc laws okay so Mr strutzenberg is now judge and jury um and I think it's important that we keep in perspective that these are volunte and we value
064and respect those people that volunteer and offer their time to our school district any other questions or comments student advisory vote all those in favor say I I any opposed no okay moving on to 12.5 can I get a motion in second to adopt resolution r R 2425 colon 25 authorizing the issuance of General obligation bonds for measure s not to exceed 80 million that's 80 million I got the N zeros can I get a motion in second please Dr alurn yes um I just want to introduce we do have Bond counsel in the audience tonight Reed gler is our bond attorney um so he offered to come here if you have any questions is a lot of information um that is attached to this resolution it includes um a purchase contract a preliminary official
065statement that's very lengthy um and a continuing disclosure certificate so in addition to asking you to adopt this resolution which authorizes the school district to sell um up to $80 million in general obligation bonds um just wanted you to have an opportunity to ask him questions and have him in attendance thank you for bringing him there does anyone have any questions of our bond counselor Dr alurn on this maybe we could just have Bond Council come up and give us a a brief overview because this is the beginning of selling what the taxpayers have authorized us to help improve our schools that's right I don't need the stool uh all right so this is the first series of bonds issued under the bond measure that was approved by voters in November of 2024 um you
066know it's up to $80 million of General obligation bonds these are bonds that are secured by property taxers of Voters within the district the documents before you tonight are a resolution which authorizes the issuance of the bonds and approves the various documents that Dr ALR mentioned earlier but just to go over those briefly you've got um probably the most important document is the thickest one called the preliminary official statement this contains all the material terms for the bonds the uh tax base for the district sources of repayment as well as a discussion of risk factors associated with buying into the bonds uh the second document is a bond purchase contract this is the document by which the district sells the bonds to the underwriter which is then used to lock in the pricing for the
067bonds the final document is a continued disclosure undertaking which is appended to the back of the preliminary official statement that's required by the SEC anytime a public entity issues uh bonds it's obligated to enter into an undertaking like this in order to provide annual reports to keep the market informed on uh the the finances of the district so to speak so that's kind of a general overview of these I'm happy to answer any questions we have any questions well thank you for being here yeah absolutely thank you um student advisory vote all those in favor say I I any opposed okay 12.6 can I get a motion and second to approve the pro proposed revisions to the 2425 for daab Beach Unified School District Board of Education regular meeting schedule Dr Wesley um yes just
068making a recommendation to move two meetings um and you can see uh moving up one week from April just wanted to get work done sooner um and then moving up the meeting in June does anybody have any comments or questions student advisory vote all those in favor say I I opposed all right that gets us through our action items we get to hear about our unofficial attendance and enrollment reports now Dr alurn this is really your meaning I forgot about that yes yeah you forgot yep no I mean I'm ready for it but yes okay so um January not a good month for LA county for redond Beach Etc um you can see the impact of um the LA Wildfire right those three days you know the fire started on a Tuesday afternoon and so
069those three low marks um where the a is are the Wednesday Thursday and Friday of that first week of the fires right lot of air quality issues lots of concerns people with asthma Etc and also just people who were I mean I know I myself had friends staying at my house for a couple weeks and so you know there's just we're all part of a larger Los Angeles community and so that impacted our our attendance um um you can also see that in both years last year and this year the Friday before Martin Luther King weekend we also our attendance takes a hit um and as families choose to make 4-day weekends out of three-day weekends um also um the same holds true you know we have a student free day in January it's the
070semester break for the high school but it's a student free day um for student students so that occurs on a Monday the Friday before also turns into a 4-day weekend for individuals um so that is not a new phenomenon as you can see year after year um but it is a phenomenon that we do have to acknowledge and and I report to you so that you're aware and that's taken into account when we fund ourselves at a 95% attendance we're only paid if students go to school we're not not paid if they are not in school correct so in January we did not hit our 95% Mark okay does anyone have any comments or questions all right moving on to board member reports do you have one Mr Stenberg none this evening thank you thanks
071Mr Cho thank you um we have visited um our school uh sites as a part of our board uh duties and I'm happy to report that I was so pleased to see so many happy students at all levels elementary middle school and high school and just another reminder how remarkable our district is and shout out to our teachers and the audience and all the classrooms and all the amazing work you do each day uh every day and all the uh staff that support to make sure that classrooms are ready every morning and all the uh support that people uh our staff provideed for all the things that we don't see typically so so shout out to everybody for making this school district a a great one awesome one and thank you students for being happy
072and learning and we got few more several more weeks to go to continue on before spring break thank you neth um I think I'm just going to add on to that and say I'm always Blown Away by the students that we come have come speak to us and some of them have left from from the elementary students to the high school students and the way that you address us the way that you're all able to um you know stand up kind of for what you believe and let us hear from you I think is really important so I just want to make a note that that's really appreciated shout out to all the seniors here because March is a hard month right seniors are almost there and I want to congratulate you on picking one
073of our shortest school board meetings to attend in order to fulfill your government classes you did a nice job so I won't keep you here any longer I will just remind you of our calendar of events coming up uh I think that was mentioned earlier a well-deserved break is this Friday we will um and thank you to our middle and high school students teachers that will be in professional development we'll be back here on March the 25th at 5:30 for Open session for a regular Board of Education meeting we'll have a special board meeting on April 2nd to swell swear in our newly a newly elected board member and reelected board members um here at 1:00 and then we will go on spring break from April 7th to the 11th okay with that can I
074get a motion in a second to adjourn this meeting student advisory Mo vote all those in favor favor say I I meeting ised