001Sydney yes that your family the guy too hello everyone 6.0 reconvene Open Session procedural business 5:30 p.m. 6.1 call to order the Board of Trustees are hereby reconvening Open session at 5:32 p.m. 6.2 down um 6.2 will call trustees to identify themselves by first and last name to formerly established Quorum Dan Dan ridland trustey area 2 Cindy Gardner truste area three Jord trusty area five running Spring Lake Green Valley Dr William Ming trusty area one and Scott scottt Craft is unable to join us this evening he is um at the Masters for wrestling that he had been asked to help out with and so um so unfortunately he is not able to be in two places at the same time um 5 5.3 Pledge of Allegiance Mr Turner if you like to lead us in
002the Pledge of Allegiance absolutely CH ready begin the United States of America to the rep for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty J 7.0 close session report on agenda item Public Employee been dismissal release pursuant to government code section 54957 in close session the board took action to accept the resignation for purposes of retirement of employee inter intermediate teacher number 1530 under the terms of the retirement agreement in general release the RO vote Ro call vote was as follows unanimous for zero 7.1 announcement of reportable actions taken during close session there were none 8.0 public testimony 8.1 public comment period for items listed on this agenda and non agenda items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the governing board the public comment period is administered by state law and is the
003point in the meeting set aside for members of the public to share their opinions with the board open meeting laws do not permit the board to engage in dialogue or answer questions though it may not take action on non-agenda issues raised at the public comment period the board for example May refer any matter to the superintendent with for review or take action to direct staff to a place to place a matter of business on a future agenda protocols for speakers any person who wishes to address the governing board on agenda and non-agenda items within the subject matter of their Juris must complete a speaker's form and submitted to the executive secretary to the superintendent before the meeting is called to order individual speakers are allowed three minutes to address the board on each agenda item
004the board limits the total time for public input on each item to 20 minutes speakers who have complaints against board members or staff are encouraged to seek resolution to those complaints by using the room of the world Unified School to District written complaint procedure rather than orally addressing them at a meeting the board will not respond to such complaints until the applicable complaint procedure BP a1312 has been followed and has reached the board level where are complaint concerns of District employee identifiable by name position or other facts the board cannot respond until proper written notice has been given to the employee pursu to government code section 54957 the Quorum the governing board is interest interested in the ideas and opinions of all stakeholders and Endeavors to incorporate Community views into its deliberations and decisions at
005the same time it must be able to conduct its business in an organized and efficient manner free from Material disruption therefore in accordance with board bylaw 9323 in government code section 54957.6 audience members may not disrupt disturb or otherwise impede the orderly conduct of this meeting open meeting laws do not confer any privilege or protection for expression beyond that otherwise provided by law The public's understanding and cooperation are appreciated 8.2 public comments Sydney mcook representing teachers and topic class size reduction and if make sure you turn it on please see the timer working this time awesome okay sorry my heart's always Racing for these things I'm not not a lover of public speaking okay hello uh board members and District leaders um I might be a little mean in this speech so I'm sorry um
006I see none of you took me up on my offer to come to the front lines and teach one of these bloated classes that you think are acceptable which saddens me because I would pay good money to see some of you attempt what is done every day here at room so it it's been a while since many of you have been inside an actual classroom or even taught let me give you a snapshot of our world in the past these class sizes that we currently have seem to have worked but the kids are different now every child has high needs and the learning divides are astronomical I will start off by saying um I have no real experience outside of subbing in the middle and high school world but I can't um but I can
007imagine how difficult it must be for secondary teachers to reach some of these children in a veritable C of up to 37 students um there are less than 37 people here in this room who get paid to be here by the way and it's hard enough to keep their attention so um there are so many problems that could be alleviated or even solved if we had smaller class sizes a colleague of mine teaches fourth grade in her classroom she has students that are reading at a 12th grade level and students as low as a first grade level tell me how she's supposed to meet the needs when she can have up to 33 kiddos in her classroom did you know every time a TK kindergarten or first grade student has to be assessed is all
008oneon-one how this works is a teacher pulls a student into the side of the classroom still in the classroom and prays that the other 24 to 28 5-year-olds stay on task to get through 52 letters 31 sounds 30 site words five CBC words 10 Blends and consum of prints and that's just in ela no real teaching is happening during the week of Assessments just imagine how much more manageable this could be with only 21 kiddos like big bear and what happens if a student elopes or has a severe tantrum how can I use any of the strategies when I have 27 other students to also keep safe with lower class sizes and more individualized intentions the odds of these events even occurring are significantly lower um these are just a few examples I could fit
009in these three minutes I could easily fill five hours on how lowering class size benefits everyone but I have kids at Bed times um now before you tell me that we are an underfunded district and how it really sucks how Sacramento funds districts like ours I'm going to straight tell you I don't want to hear it in fact I'm kind of sick of it when the district needed $300,000 for new Chromebooks you found a way when we needed to hire a new superintendent and pay for the old one too you found a way when RI employees and families sue the district over not following basic laws and regulations and then they win or resettle you found a way to pay for that too so when we are asking you to do something that actually matters
010to the heart of all of this the students my children maybe find a way you are smart and talented individuals or you wouldn't be sitting here before me find a way to serve those who need us most thank you thank you Sydney 8.3 uh R teachers Association RTA representative Cali um actually and we have representatives from RTA right okay you would mind com [Music] up good evening is it on no is red is H good evening board members I hope you are well you were probably expecting a high turnout of teachers in green sheets tonight that will probably be happening in the future the truth is we have been working with CTA and our negotiating team to try and find the best way to break the news on the outrageous counter proposal we received last
011Thursday in negotiations despite having a 17.9% reserve having a bond pass that will free up money from the general fund applying for Community School France that will help our schools and receiving good news from the governor in January that included a greatly increased Cola the district and Schoolboard have decided to ignore the requests and needs of the teachers yes I know about the Doomsday projections that were made before the governor's update or the bond pass the predictions that are made in every sing that are made if every single position were to be filled And if every stien were to be paid which doesn't happen the predictions that are made every single year and never come to fruition in fact these declining budget predictions usually go the opposite direction the reserve in fact seems to go
012up and up and up it's at 17.9% when 3% is required the San G area settlements have started to come in I am looking at the raises raises being given to the nearby districts they are in fact getting raises and I don't believe those districts have a 17.9% reserve if we don't want to fall even further behind our surrounding districts we will need an increase on the pay schedule you are losing talented talented certificated members I see evidence of it right there on tonight's Personnel page too high case loads and class sizes for too little pay more and more people are making the decision to drive down the hill thank you thank you Amanda csca Susan good evening um I'm happy um to report that our substitute situation for classified has improved um we do
013seem to be able to to get substitutes for bus drivers or um um instructional assistants um custodians even of where we had had been having trouble in the past so I'm happy to report that that situation has improved so whatever was done in the personel Department we appreciate that um I'm also happy to report I haven't heard any reports recently of Resident teacher Subs taking classified work and working alongside classified people which we um have a big issue with um getting the teacher salary teacher pay um doing classified work um I do have to express a frustration that uh our members are feeling with the classification study um there seems to be a delay um and with that in in our chats we've been talking about um having fewer having people have more responsibilities on
014their plate and and and trying to cut the budget with um fewer people doing more work and and we're trying to see your point of view we're trying to work but we're we we're not seeing eye to ey yet um so like like it's already been stated today um it's easy to sit here in in a beautiful building like this without a lot I don't know doesn't seem like a lot of chaos going on where you know you're in the classroom you're in the the schools there's constantly stuff going on and um just to try to ask people to do more with less less people is it's I don't I don't see that being a successful solution to to the budget um so that's that's my two sets for tonight thank you suzan 9.0 reports
015and presentations 9.1 student representative report Ethan Smith RM of the world High School good afternoon not quite evening yet all right we'll start off with the elementary schools sanman Mo has generously granted V another year of funding for Southland sings Live classes at Vie are currently participating in a 14 Session program excuse me where the students write compos and perform their musical Fe to work for the entire student body that sounds really cool yes add that it is the hfd team will be at Boe on February 28th supporting our students by finishing their dentals sealant and health programs Le is off to a strong start with read Across America many students have been guest readers in other classrooms um are visiting our local library and are creating posters of their favorite books we also had
016a very successful book fair with our PTA center around leader cross La celebrated the 100th day of school on February 19th and some of our students and staff really enjoyed dressing up eating a 100 snacks yikes for wearing 100 items 100 items CH has had a wonderful kindness Week full of kindness challenges and activities we celebrated our 100th day of school with staff and students and we are getting and we are gearing to kickoff read Across America next week with our book fair and breakfast with books family event moving on to mph our sixth graders enthusiastically dissected frogs some with surgical precision others with sheer curiosity and maybe a few SPS with a riveting [Music] experience I didn't write that where is he mph hosted its first semester award ceremonies from honor rooll to principal's
017honor rooll to except to exceptional attendance mph parents clapped smiled and celebrated as soon as crossed the stage in addition this year M added our Mountain line award which which recognizes students who have made outstanding Improvement and or modeling the mph way our ELD students completed their 2024 to 2025 outpack tests shout out to ELD teachers Mr I'm sorry if I pronounce this wrong Neo Bliss and Mrs Hernandez for providing a structured and supportive environment to ensure students perform their best NPH leadership partnered with the counseling office to celebrate random acts of kindness week uh from 14 to or till tomorrow uh tomorrow our students will show up either in their country club wear or country western wear yea moving on to Mountain High School February has been a triumphant month for Mountain High School
018students as we celebrate four of our outstanding students graduating Octavio Jasmine Ethan and Diego these Eagles have shown a remarkable example of what a mountain strong student Community looks like amidst power outages wind advisories line fires and snowfall we couldn't be more proud of their student of of their stories as they continue onward in the world let's get a clap to them we are additionally thrilled for our new incoming buzzer gate and additional cameras currently being installed currently being installed for added security support on campus thanks to the cops Grant RVA RVA hosted our faf swell Workshop virtually where our student counselor or a school counselor excuse me and 12th grade uh teacher guided prospective graduates on completing the benefits of FASA and how to support postsecondary education in two in two to foure colleges
019thank you for your efforts Mrs Mills and Mrs Phillips rba's Valentine friendship mixer event was a was literally a heartfelt experience as students delightfully showcase their creativity and connection with heart mural paintings while enjoying hot chocolate cookies and board games on that rainy cozy day thank you to those who were able to to attend a cast practice test escape room mixer is in for SEC the second week in March for those who dare to to prepare for the up upcoming tests stay tuned next month for more details an escape there you go see that turns up uh room of the world high school girl soccer dominance a huge congratulations to Our Lady Scott soccer D on Tuesday they played in the CIF quarterfinal game against desert hot springs and won the game in penalty kicks
020our Scots will host Marshall High School at home Saturday at 2 o'clock for a chance to play in the CAF final game that's to PM not to a. uh the semi-final appearance marks the deepest playoff run since 2011 and a chance for our soccer athletes to advance to a CF final for the first time in school history we hope to see you all Saturday oh we have a lot of we have a lot of accomplishments in wrestling RS had 13 wrestlers compete compete in CIF individuals and three Advanced to the CF Masters meet this Saturday at Sonora High School we are so proud of our hardworking athletes on January 30th and 31st rhs hosted days of understanding in this event our upper classman Leed activities with our sophomores to build connections and understanding this was
021a very powerful event and we thank Mr Keith Hawkins for coming up to facilitate this event for us I not cried that hard since RI and I wasn't even like a member I was just facilitated it's crazy our was visit is right around the corner on March 16 to 19th uh rhs will host our was committee as we seek to renew our accreditation the the committee will be listening to employees students and families on how RS is serving our students this process started nearly a year ago and we are excited to showcase our embay school in just a few weeks on March 3rd our Avid Juniors will begin their 5-day College trip touring campuses around the state every year we take our Avid Juniors on this exciting trip thank you to rimad Foundation for their
022ongoing support which makes this trip possible and that is the end of school support thank you aan uh um 9.2 governing board members um anybody want to start off well first off um I had the privilege uh last week of attending the leadership awards it's called leader in me uh at at Lake Arrowhead Elementary wow that was so impressive and I know that you do that every single week but it was so impressive as the kids were reading their mission statements and and their plans and how each one was bringing up the their leadership abilities and their leadership skills so this long to wonderful really really proud of lake at elementary so great experience um also getting ready for the dental screening so I'll be out there as a volunteer at Boe and I know
023that we're getting ready to do that at believe for through all the schools and hopefully we'll have numerous Volunteers in from the community as well as rotary participating and like Greg and know in Lake Gregory Andross the mountain um I thought it be significant today by the way um having personal experiences right now some personal loss I'm in in the middle of preparing for my Mo mother-in-law's service on Saturday um viewing tomorrow and gravide and I am the pastor responsible for the family so um it's going through a lot in our own family but I thought um it would be helpful for us to have a reminder that this is Black History Month and why do I bring that up because we need to understand that there are value in people of all different um
024backgrounds that experience uh and having been on the equity uh committee I think it's important for us to recognize people and it's more than just the people like Martin Luther King Jr who obviously had a significant effect on civil rights in our community more courageous Rosa Parks who was willing to stand up and take a place in the front of the bus and and not be forced to move and so thankful she did that or associate Supreme Court Justice thur Good Marshall who I recall being on the Supreme Court that shows you how old I am uh or or President Barack Obama but then I thought of some other people that have really that have stood out to me Harriet Tubman an American abolitionist who personally risked her life after breaking free from slavery risked
025her life to rescue other people help set up that full train system if you will that uh the Underground Railroad that went to homes and and it was interesting there were a lot of people along the way who were helping rescue slaves out of slavery uh or George Washington Carver an incredible scientist and educator he was born in mid 19 1860s and um he initially was enslaved with his mother uh and and Carver was an incredible scientist and inventor he actually promoted um developing crops that would would take the place of cotton so that the soil would not be depleted by the the cotton that was being grown um probably one of the most prominent I I read somewhere most prominent black scientists I thought no he was probably one of the most prominent scientists
026of the early 20th century period not because he was black just because he was an incredible man um as has anyone here had a blood transfusion has anyone given blood for blood transfusion you ow a debt to Charles Richard Drew whose immense U contributions to the medical field made one of the most important another important scientist in the 20th century Drew helped develop America's large scale blood banking program in the 1940s earning him accolades as the father of the blood bank if you want to go online you can find other people um these are ones that that I I recall their names and um I just thought it's important for us to recognize that there are people even here during Black History Month there's people that that we need to affirm that are part of
027our community part of our world that are making a difference and have made a difference so sometimes we think that doing something like black history month is meant to somehow segregate us or create more animosity I think there's value in all people and I just wanted to recognize some tonight thank you thank you Bill Jordan you want to go next good evening um appreciate folks coming out to our board meetings and uh yeah speaking during public comments and always coming out to know what's going on and stay on the latest and greatest of what's going on in our district and you know just uh what's happening around that affects our district um I'll say some of it because I know we have a legislative report coming up so I think there's plenty discuss there and
028uh um it's not excited but I you know looking forward to the legislative session that we have there have been a large number of bills introduced in the state legislature and uh there's just a lot of advocacy needs and advocacy work uh that is going on particularly to uh Preserve um protect uh uh increase uh public education funding as much as possible and ensure that uh uh our classrooms and particularly our district are not left behind in anything uh that comes out of the legislative session this year so uh I'm also looking forward to our renewed uh time with trustees or uh Banker with the board I'm not sure what we're calling it yet um but I'm looking forward to having those um at events that people attend like back school night for example uh
029why create uh we had talked about in our last board Workshop why create a a a time with trustees event and have people come out just to you know come out to naos to talk to two board members and um that's really hard to fit into your work schedules and your work days but if we could go to events that folks will already be at making it easier to talk to us about whatever it is that's going on you could always email all of us or uh uh meet us out in any meeting that we're at or any event that we're at but um just looking forward to that time with trustees or B B with the board whatever it is but you don't need to wait for that like I said you can reach
030out to us all anytime thank you okay so I did want to congratulate um R High boy soccer they went to CIF Unfortunately they lost in the first round as one parent said the boys were a little off kind of weird so to I I feel badly for them because I know how much they have worked hard to all these years to really strive for that excellence and and I was fortunate enough I was at a PTA meeting at R high school and they were having their team dinner girls and boy Sockers together um in the in the cafeteria and it was great to see um the two teams eat together support each other camaraderie the family feeling down there with with everyone was just really special and so I I feel for them that
031that it didn't go their way for the girls I'm really happy I'm really happy um my older chick was on the 2011 team we lost one to zero we had 5 million shots on goal to their one shot on goal and we should have won that game so I'm just saying that I'm really excited I'm hoping that they can go to finals and and win that would be really special for the girls to finish that season so watching some of the seniors play over the last couple years um the the forward I love I love Miss Ambrose she is just amazing to watch they all are I'm just saying I love her little footwork um so I'm really excited please go out and support them it's really important I know it's a Saturday everybody has
032their own sports but this is a big deal for our little schools so please support them um next student board member I know he's gone but I think that it's really kind I think it's important for us as a board to to surround our student board members with opportunities to understand what student board members can do and Empower their voice in the process of being on the board and there's several ways to do it there are several student board member trainings um during the summer and before school starts there's one during the conference our csb conference I that's a little hard because it's about before finals um but I think that listening to student board members who have really had great training they are Dynamo and they are fearless in in representing their students their
033their peers and I just think that we should encourage that because developing leadership here at this level those are our future leaders and if we can give them the skill sets to really really Advocate advocate for themselves and their peers they're just going to be that much more ahead the csba is is Pacer that we have for our area Janita Moore is creating student board member networking opportunities the next one is March 3rd and I'll pass that info to you but I think that we we could could be as a board a little bit more better at really laying that Foundation to to get our school board member if they said choose to to mix with others because they they're feisty they're feisty when they have power so I really appreciate that and I want
034I do want to congratulate La PTA for raising so much money during the book there like they they they're profit even though they don't take the money is like $4,500 and it all goes towards books and birthday books and putting books in the library all the pts do that they don't really take profit they turn it into books so I just want to shout out to not only LA but all the ptas for doing the work of doing the book beirs because it's not easy and being able to convert that to to meet the needs of the library and the classrooms because they do classroom sets as well so shout out to the PT and and LA's recent success and then just I'm going to Sacramento for Led committee I won't get into too much
035but I'm excited about that and looking at the different bills being proposed and um I am I am I I decided I'm going to coast to coast to Washington DC with superintendant and other school board members in April so that'll be interesting hoping there's a Department of Education to actually talk to you so we'll see um or else it'll be interesting when we get to talk to you so anyways um anyways great work everybody um thank you for supporting the schools and the students and really focusing on the work on the students with all the challenges thank you um keep my comment short my glasses um ripping off of uh stuff that was already said by Ethan and other board members um he mentioned Boe Southland sings I went to it last year it was
036a blast seeing um watching the kids perform something that they completely put together and seeing in different grades all grades it was just so phenomenal and so um as it gets closer to that time hopefully we find out about it again and I would urge everybody who has the opportunity to come and um watch um Mrs M Coke I would love to come I would not be able to Rally kids like a trained professional would be able to but as I've helped out in the past I would like to sometime you I would like to take you up on your invitation okay I hear that I'll go through official channels though um girls soccer I went last Saturday to the quarterfinal game um caught the second half and oh my gosh it was so fantastic
037two direct kicks not penalty kicks two direct kicks went in for goals and then um third goal just again in the second half it was a 5 nothing um win against dear no no no this was on Saturday Mr William nor against Norwalk that's right and I was struck by how petite most of our girls are yet at the same time being are they strong they're fast and so incredibly talented so um again those two D two direct kicks shot four goals from at a distance put up tucked right underneath the um crossbar phenomenal and then the third goal that I saw in the second half was from a breakaway but amazing defense strong strong Midfield and what a team and just um I'm definitely going to be there on Saturday at 2 o'clock I
038urge everybody to come out and cheer hard and support our girls who are doing an amazing job um we see here I will be at Lae tomorrow thank you Mrs longto I'm going to be able to also see the leader in the presentation I'm excited about that and participate in um read Across America so um I need to get my bottom onto campuses more and I pledged to do so and um I don't know what I don't know and it's an opportunity for me to learn and so you can learn a lot more than what you get in the classroom just by being there but I think it's important to be able to support our staff and the work that they do in the ways that we can um let me see here and then
039wasque again Ethan mentioned that was will be happening um at High School in March and I know that Crystal cob must be working her bottom off and putting it all together she's a saint and um I am excited to hear what the was committee and Happ M say I know that there's been a lot of heavy lifing that's been happening in the past couple years and so good luck but at the same time I don't think luck is going to be needed um we have amazing things going on there and then finally as far as student board member I know one of the things that we've talked about in the past thank you to for bringing that up is um ideally having our student board member being selected and approved by the board early enough
040to be able to allow them if they so desire to go through training in the summer and to be able to have that Network and be able to make connections so if there's a way for us to be able to do that early enough that would be do you want sh then I'm okay I was going to say Amanda does it in May I think that what we lack is putting it on the agenda in June for approval so that but she doing the job cool okay yeah no I didn't mean I actually have all my notes for the governance calendar seeing if we could add it into June but that's another topic to see if we can make sure that we're doing what we need to so that if they wish to take that
041opportunity it would just benefit everybody to have them be engaged in such a way that they so choose and I think that I've said enough thank you everybody I my apologies I'm teasing all right um moving ahead to 9.3 superintend Dr PA good evening everybody how's everyone doing tonight good yes thumbs up okay we'll take it uh just a couple of quick updates one is I want to talk a little bit about generators uh we um talked in our last board meeting quite a bit about generators and really the need to have functioning generators at every school with the um with the change in Edison's power outages up here on the mountain we believe that's a kind of a new normal in our community and we need to respond to that appropriately uh I want
042to first of all thank uh Mr Zimmer our director of Maintenance who has uh now has all functioning generators and all School sites except we're getting Mountain that's next but they use the high schools we know that but I want to just commend the maintenance staff for repairing and getting a new generator for Lae where the LA friends with our kids and I understand we had a test run and yesterday and it was successful we ran on a generator on so congratulations Mr Zimmer's team and La for putting up with our you know constant work on that you know during this time period but necessary work because what we had to do was close schools when when these power shutdowns happened on our mountain and we couldn't send one group of students to school and
043another not another not to school so I think it's now we have functioning generators at every school or one of the few districts that actually have that so I want to just commend our our staff M hin really pushing for that as well and then the board tonight it is listed on our agenda item or approval oh not sure how they're gonna respond to that sorry easy okay so I want to again thank Mr Zimmer's team and really um how we respond emergencies is key in our community we've had a lot with the line fire you know we've had power outages and we had some snow dayss as well and I know we've had some extreme snow weather in the past years so thank you for that work the last area I want to just
044touch on is communication uh you know families really trust school districts more when they're satisfied with their Communications and we all contribute to that as a district and I want to start first of all thank uh start with our teachers they do a lot of communication I know I have a couple grandchildren in school here and they're constantly communicating with our with with with in my home with them and I know they do that across many different homes so I want to thank the teachers for their use of Class Dojo Aries we have a variety of ways to communicate and there's never a bad thing with too much communication and the research bears that out you continue to build trust the more communication you receive I also want to thank Our IT staff Mr Malone
045for managing the sheer number of apps that are out there and Communications that go across you know on a daily basis and how to manage those so they're seamless I want to just commend you for that word and then also I want to also thank our principles because they are communicating on our our edge of Excellence that goes out every every other week and updating the parents on what they want to know you know what is happening in the schools what are the current events that are happening or upcoming events that are happening and then highlighting the good things that have happened in our in our school district the positive aspect of our work and again I want to just continue also our rid Education Foundation is another group that really communicates out there on
046behalf and reaches out to our community as well on behalf of students and I had a we had a three-hour meeting with them yesterday and we we have reached some some agreement where they can start to post some things on our web website and I think it's very a good place to be in terms of having that community outreach and last I want to just kind of continue we continue to build on this communication that we have set forward as a goal the board has set that as a strategic goal and uh and we're moving in that direction to build that trust and continue that good communication in our district so thank you very next time thank you Dr Savana just um side note here for those of you who have the red printed out
047agendas it looks like 9.4 was not listed also okay so for online is correct and also the um so I'm going to go ahead and read from here 9.4 Educational Services presentation of the local control and accountability plan El VI your update and services yay I like time it's fun and I haven't even had all right good evening board members and cabinet thank you for the opportunity to share our midye update um on the lcap um this year's update is quite a bit more condensed than previous years um last year was a three-year cycle so you had a lot of data over multiple years so with the start of a new cycle um we're going to give you those updates on the metrics on those expenditures to date um and essentially where we are in
048the process so here we go um rim of the world Unified School District again looking at our goals we again start with our um increasing student learning professional development and support goal two facilitating safe and positive School climate and goal three engaging our family and Community which has been a huge initiative with our community schools our partnership grants and now the upcoming implementation grant that we hope to hear about very soon um so looking at that we build all of that um through relationships and communication with families um and and through our core beliefs mission and vision all for the purpose of our students and I always like to keep the picture of our students up there at the C because that's who we're doing this for um the initiatives you've seen this graphic before
049in terms of how we connect initiatives as student learning mtss in our community engagement um and then how we connect our assessment process all of the things that we do the metrics that we measure the actions that we put forward and the the money that we spend all essentially is there to build our student learning outcomes and this slide is essentially connecting our assessment process from our formative assessments on The Daily to our Diagnostics with bu ready to our Common Assessment development and cast uh and elpac so when you see those things and kind of see those Graphics what does that look like so every year we do now do the midyear update that does align with the Ed code 062 um and that's essentially to create that transparency um but between what we plan
050to do what we shared with you in June and then where we are about mid year um we'll kind of go through those those requirements again we do present that to the board sh where we are on the elap those expenditures midyear data and we go from there so if you look at the buckets essentially what you'll see if you're looking at the full version which is in your board packets that would be the DTs version or the document tracking version um of the midar lcap um you're going to see those metrics all laid out but you're also going to see all of the expenditures across the board um you also have um another cheat sheet in front of you it is um and I didn't bring a copy up here for me but it's
051a blue chart um that there you go that one breaks down the metrics that's basically you're at a glance of the midyear update so if you don't want to go into the 70 page version you've got a condensed version there for you um and essentially where we are with the buckets is this something that's pending is it fully implemented and encumbered or is it fully imp mented and will be um completely encumbered by the end of the year so you've seen that dashboard data just wanted to give you a reminder it is in your presentation slide of where we were from last year to this year um with our major uh priorities both state and local um and that's going to include your English your math um your science your LP or your English language
052General progress indicator chronic absenteeism suspension rate grad rate and student population and so you can see and compare the change from 2023 to 2024 and you have the color indicators there to see where we have um changed in color and so this is where the me of the lcap uh update comes in and what I did for you to like ease a view if you will anything that is bolded and kind of a greenish blue color um indicates an improvement so if it's a English a math um that's going to show you an improvement in percentage or a reduction in the distance from standard um when we looking at suspension rate of course that would be a reduction chronic absent a reduction as well so looking at um lcap goal one metrics are lb um
053that is an area where we did decrease from 51% to 35% and our Target is 70% um we did talk about this in our dlac meeting last night and making sure that we have Clarity on what creates the lb the lpac is based on four levels and so to break that down even more and give students an opportunity to improve they've broken it down into level 1 a 1B 2 a 2B 3 a 3B 4 a 4B for a student to demonstrate Improvement they have to jump two levels for example you go from a 2A to a 3A um and so that percentage did change but what we talked about in deac last night is that when let's say a previous year you had a large reclassification rate you may have a a smaller percentage
054of students that are taking the L pack now so this is a different um group of students that that me a benefit though you looked to 1.2 you see a positive there um we did increase our reclassification rate last year so that is a huge celebration great job um 14% to a 15.5% and then as we go into 1.3 uh 1.4 and through into 1.7 um again I want to bring your attention to the bolded areas that are like kind of a greenish blue color um for those improvements 1.3 we look every year at the DF rate um both for a rim high as well as for MPH um we saw some improvements in English and math with a reduction of your DF rate um and again when you look at these metrics it's important
055to talk about what are we doing right and how are we working together um something we started back up this year was our counseling Network and our counselors from elementary through High School are meeting uh about on a quarterly basis and one of the things we're looking at is the a through or I'm sorry the DF rate um how and also the yes yeah we also talk a through G you see Compass to come in your board agenda item later um but essentially looking at how do we support students that have at least one D ORF um on a semester report card and our counselors are working on that vertical articulation on what they're doing by grade level but also how they're supporting students throughout the uh throughout the school year um 1.4 is um
056looking at our I ready so our I ready diagnostic um we are in our second to third year we did kind of a pilot with one of our schools um and then last year we did a full implementation now we're on second year of utilizing Ira um the scores that you see for 1.4 are based on third grade reading proficiency um we see a little bit of a dip from 58% to 50% in the the proficient range um but we do see that that varies a little bit um for example when we have an extended line fire or a power outage or in you know impact to instruction um we may have opened an I ready window and potentially had to stop mid I ready Diagnostics um we're seeing that that does impact the students
057having to stop a test and if it expires having to jump back in not meaning to make excuse but recognizing that there were some uh components that that did create some more challenges this year um 1.5 looking at our grad grate I know we've talked about that in previous presentations but I do want to highlight an increase for Mountain High School from 41% 57.9% great to see in the student update today couple of those graduates um during our site visit the other day Mr Montiel and I were able to congratulate Diego um and also walking through the classroom having to see students who had their a through G tracker on Aries open while they were working on it well when they were finished up with a quiz um so it was really cool to talk
058with students about how they're working to get there and that sitting next to a student who was graduating that day was she's like okay I'm going to open up my areas a through G I'm going to start looking at my tracker what do I have left how many credits and then having those conversations with their Mountain High School teachers about you know what their next steps are so it's really positive to see that and you know they they didn't know we were coming in that day it was really cool to see that was one of the tabs that she had open S question oh yes that um go for it needed you to help no I asked him if I should ask the question he said no and so there you go um so I
059did get my butt to De yay for me last night and part of the conversation on graduation rate was that you really were great at explaining is that sometimes when our students are um leaving us to go out of state or even out of country we lose track of them but they still end up on our books so my question I guess is because I know it's frustrating for the principles for mountain for RBA and for R High School to know that their graduation rate is being dinged through no fault of their own so is there any way can we ask for another code for we lost them I mean I I don't know but what I'm seeing is it what kind of what do we need to do to be able to protect pure
060data for the graduation rate right is a great I don't know if there's a solution but I'm just putting it out there right and it and it is um in calpads and I apologize I'm forgetting exactly what the code is at the moment but there are four codes that we look at and there was a um kind of a misuse of one of the codes not intentional but just hey we couldn't track that they were out of state or out of country there's there's there's one you can use that doesn't us and there's one that you can use that that does right and depending on what our knowledge is what we're able to to document is how we use those codes and and so it's just working with our register working with our our counseling
061and our guidance offices and Mr willamy has done a great job working with this team um and we we see that there will should be less of an impact based on the code moving forward because we did have that conversation so in checking that before our data goes to the state which impacts the dashboard would we do an um a once over a review of calpads entries like in in June or July well and as we go through our certification process it's absolutely something and we um so Mrs poo who oversees our cowpats inut in ed services U Mr willamy and I met together to look at how to streamline that process and work with the counseling office so that it's minimized or highly unlikely so there are going to be a few that unfortunately
062if we can't identify that could still you know be counted but the uh impact should be minimal in the future awesome um all right one point see Jordan said it was a great question so I feel Vindicated right now good question good question um and we're on top of that Mr williy the team at rimh high is on top of that as well so and this is Balo um looking at 1.6 and 1.7 that's your English and your math specific to 11th grade um a little bit of a a dip there but those are some continued work that we're working on with our TBC and our our Common Assessment development um on lpac or I'm sorry the see I'm still on D from last night um lcap go one many of these um on this
063slide 1.8 is looking at your College and Career indicator um and that one went just a slight dip from 30% to 29% so about the same again you'll see the green or blue highlighted bold areas we had an increase in our College and Career indicator for AP so that's the first time students taking and passing an AP test with the score of three or hired um so going from 62% up to 73% so quite a huge jump um quite a lot of great work happening with our teachers um at Rib high and increasing those AP scores coming down to 1.10 College and Career indicator percent of students prepared um we see increases almost across the board um and the only area you didn't see an increase is an area where there's 11 student students or
064less which the information is is hidden because of the the Privacy component anytime you see a gray and there's no numbers um that means there's 11 or less students so the identities could potentially be identified if you put the percentages there if they are between 11 and 30 you'll see a gray and um and a number and that means they're between 11 and 30 they're not going to give you a color indicator but they will tell you your data um once you get Beyond 30 then you get the color and the data um some of the indicators you see on the right are all that um indicators will get at the end of the year so no current data for the mid year for the seala by literacy um AV to the fouryear universities um
065and then some of our surveys that do go out through the remainder spre um for the next two slides you're going to see English and then math I did only go into the district wide since you've seen the scores across the board for each of the schools and you can see our improvements across the board all students El's are students with disabilities um are are socioeconomically disadvantaged two or more races and Hispanic groups in in those areas all saw gains for our English and you can look at those percentage rates lots of improvements across the board um that you're seeing in that exceeded as well as in your distance from standard and color indicators um this one is math again we see Improvement across the board all students El students with disabilities socioeconomically disadvantaged two
066or more races um Hispanic and white um and again just to indicate you have two subgroups that aren't indicated because they had less than 11 students um or between the 11 and 30 and and so what we see from these metrics is that we are seeing already some of that growth and development that's happening with our grade level teams and our guaranteed and viable curriculum and that process that they're going through to align the standards to aline the Common Assessment development um and so we're already seeing those gains and we're excited to see what we come with on 2025 the remainder of goal one is your Williams Act no Williams Act uh um concerns there no Tex efficiency concerns 97% to 95% fully credentialed and appropriately assigned teachers and what that might mean in terms
067of that dip is that you potentially have interns or um you know you've got uh students who are I'm sorry teachers that are new to um teaching and having fig their credentials yet so essentially this this means just not fully credential but they're in the process um and working with their universities our CTE pathway completion from 17 to 14% um and then access to broadc course of study and then our a through G and CTE completion a little bit of dips in those areas But continuing to see progress I'm going to pause there because that's goal one for the metrics make that pretty quick it's possible anything on those on all right goal two and three are quite a bit shorter um of course goal one is on your instructions so goal two we see
068our highlights from our Kelvin pulse I'm going to save that for the climate and culture presentation but we do see that we're maintaining both participation and favorability from our students our staff and our families um care Solace we do continue to use our care Solus um through the warm handoffs and support for counseling services and mental health um we do see a little bit of a dip in our inquiries and Communications from last year to this year but it's a continued use and something that our coun share they continue to U see a benefit from 2.4 is our suspension rate across the board we did see an improvement for our foster year students um but overall this is an area um of opportunity that we're working with our mtss teams um on that suspension rate
069so car Caris um in response to the de we do we communicate on frequently or in what AVS for to our parents and our that it's available because I think we just forget about it right and there's um there are parent notifications we can send out on parent Square many of our side administrators will include include a care Solace note in like an out of office reply if it's like a holiday giving you some of the basic examples but um whenever a student has a concern on campus and we refer to counseling we refer to all of the opportunities and Care Solace is definitely one of them um but I think that's a great Point made that could we provide more communication on that opportunity and that support I I abely I know that the
070students when they're in crisis or whatever that's one of the things that are s that is suggested I was just I know that it's one of those things where if it's not communicated regularly not just once a year but periodically hey you need some supports well let's go let's go to carice so I'm not sure if maybe it's we just forget about it and that's a great that's a great idea car Sol does have like notifications at different times of year and different positive social emotional um components that we can share with the community so thank you we'll do that see next week idea but I'm also wondering if possibly pinging care Solace maybe they've seen simil it's about quarter of the inquiries that we've had a year ago it car sols the seeing is
071similar top with the other districts in the Ser whether we're an anomaly or whether this is pretty typical right that's a great question it's definitely something we'll follow up for um to see if we're seeing that across um all right um so continuing on with Goal two chronic absenteeism Improvement across the board as well go into a little bit more detail on that on the climate and culture um presentation but we see increases with all students Els um I should have mentioned in the previous slide ltel long for English Learners is a new subgroup um this year that we were looking at um our socioeconomically disadvantaged to are more races um our homeless youth Foster youth Hispanic and white all saw improvements in chronic absenteeism so definitely want to applaud the great work of our
072site teams our site administrators our attendance clerks working together to get those um uh supports to our families part of that is also communication like you mentioned about car Solus is sharing with our families what is available and unique circumstances like do they have a unique circumstance medically where they need a home hospital we have families that that aren't aware necessarily of what that what that entails or short-term independent study um or other intervention supports but also the site in centers that many of our sites are doing to increase um attendance and to make those phone calls and make sure that those supports go at the families but also some incentives um at each of our sites which is really exciting to see um so for 2.7 I didn't give you the school side I
073know you can look in the full range for that um in in terms of the DTs version 2.8 uh High School Dropout rates again about the same um a little a little bit of a hike at Mountain from 16.9 to 28.6% um and then middle school dropout rate dropped from 5% to 0% expulsion rate 0.3% to 0% and we maintained our fit rate yay Jim yay Jim good job notay attention no I'm just kidding yeah all right so um any questions on r i could make some up go three is your engagement in family and Community um our end ofe family climate pulses are what we typically look at I did give us the midyear data so that you can see the change from U participation rate and favorability but again it's very similar add
074about the same or a little bit of an increase for favorability um and then a couple of those components will be available at the end of the year anual update um and then going to parent and Guardians who are contactable in Aries we continue with 97% what does that mean in terms of our families about 102 that are still need to be contactable and that doesn't mean all of their data that may mean they are missing one piece of their data so while 102 sounds large 97% of our families are still contactable in some way at bottom one 3.4 is your parent Guardian communication um and that's a number of parents Square posts that have gone out this year um so that is an increase from 4,332 to 4532 direct messages wow shitty CH increase
075in direct messages many of our teachers utilize the direct messages to go directly to like a period two let me give you an update we have a quiz tomorrow right they can give those direct messages and then our posts at this point from 9955 to 74 or 774 and that's at the mid year 955 was total from last stre right any questions on the those three all right so the next section essentially breaks down your midyear expenditures and where we are um from the budget that we put in place in June um to the midyear point so you can see a breakdown of each of our actions each of those actions does have to be analyzed based on one of the metrics that we just reviewed and so as you look through for example number
076one professional learning communities having those uh plc's every Wednesday instructional technology establishing our assessment Systems Credit Recovery and support through Mountain five is our electives Arts music and Athletics goal uh six English learner goal supports seven site language assistant supports eight secondary counselor support nine AB 10 our instructional coaches 11 our PB Days 12 our professional development for English Learners and long-term English Learners um uh 13 School library and literacy support 14 rbaa 15 summer school 16 our high impact tutoring 17 RCT 18 District English learner specialists and 19 alternative education Specialists from Mountain RDA and so as you look at the midyear update essentially you're at about half um of your expenditure for the year um or exib there's only a few that aren't at about that half range some of our high impact
077tutoring was able to get started a little bit later than we anticipated based on you know a lot of things happening this year um but through doing a great job continuing with that um you know and getting that happen which is really exciting um they have that tutoring opportunity so I streamlined the expenditures to one slide for goal one questions goal two um again breaking down your your safe and positive School climbing is your mtss in ACS one and two transportation in three for facilities five are health aids um that be there I apologize six health aids seven Foster Youth and low income um liaison eight Child Nutrition nine High School Wellness Center 10 mental health support with car Solus and 11 Saturday school again you're going to see either about a um half of
078the use for the school year or you may have an Initiative for example like care Solace it looks like we tripled our budget it's a three-year license so we paid for the three years that one so you can see why that that is triple but then next year you'll see that inside a zero here um Child Nutrition is covered through our school lunch program um and some of our mtss supports it's a smaller budget there we are have yet to uh utilize so the majority of the rest of those are at about a half goal three uh parent engagement surveys and workshops um with action one action two resources for parents and students with special needs and then three communication with families um something that we have been working on you'll see Z doll amount
079on action two um but something that we're in the development stages of is working on those resources but there's nothing budgeted for that or it's going to come out of some other right not it's not currently budgeted because it's something that's going to come out of special services and work with our inclusion committee and and being able to build um resour resources for our parents so that current it does not have a budget so would be built within um systems that are current one of the examples of parent engagement surveys and workshops that we're looking at um is the workshop for our English Lear Center long-term English Learners because I was excited I had a feeling it was coming um and so we talked with our families at deac last night about um supports to
080learning more about the reclassification process learning more about the lp um learning on tips to thrive at the various levels elementary middle and high school um but also some of the pieces our our parent shared last night um specifically shared um just getting some of those updates and connections to the school um would be great through an engagement Workshop where they can talk oneon-one with our teachers and learn a little bit more and you know build those relationships um so it's something that our sites are working on with their um e coordinators the one thing I thought was interesting the parent brought up though and I'm super happy you addressed it was the fact that she's been involved in daac and elac and um having things proposed and never followed up on so she's excited
081about having the workshops and actually doing that she she explained her frustration with us not following through lot things in the past so I thought that was really cool and it was interesting that that it was brought up by by both by both of us essentially and me not knowing she was going to bring it up and she not knowing I was going to bring it up but I also have to commend our EO coordinators and our principles at each of the sites who are already working on what that parent Workshop is going to look like and how they'll develop that yeah just one uh point to bring up that as we look at developing our adult education program one of the courses is really a an ESL class designed to help parents navigate the
082school system system where we would provide you know those types of workshops for them on you know how to navigate students through the education system so I think that's coming and it'll be one of the courses we'll offer all parents yeah and then it also the conversation which was very organic I didn't butt in too much but but the the whole idea of think more help with college like basses and stuff and and we talked about the barriers for for parents and so one of the things that we talked about is having because there are FAA workshops um that were having at the high school but having a translator and that that could be something that PTA helps with and if it can't be paid in a different manner that PTA could step up because
083they are doing College and Career supports and they could pay for the translator there at fast and night and that it removes that barrier for parents to be there and understand how to fill out a b so that was kind of a cool conversation and that generated from the parent not for me and will that course actually be offered in Spanish or multi language what yeah there we'll have a bilel teacher kch course as well yeah that's cool stuff thank you all right and so when we look at those metrics those actions those goals uh essentially you've seen that slide before and as we're working at our on our GDC our teachers are working on their their guaranteed and viable curriculum their common assessments aligning student learning outcomes and utilizing that data um as we
084look at our actions and look at you know if we have a platform or a software or an initiative that we're doing how effective is that initiative based on the metric um and so so again I know you've seen that slide before I gave you some listings again restating some of the Committees trainings professional development that our teams have been involved in quite a lot of opportunities across um different components computer science stem math we have a math one coming up in March um and a multilingual Network um again you can see the the list there um but we're constantly looking at and thinking of our data both at the site and District as a whole in terms of you know what supports our students need what supports our staff need and how we can
085support that with professional development training um across the board and then how how we connect with our positive safe and school climates which again you'll hear in the next presentation but our mtss teams our site teams our cubby coupons our our Rocky rewards our sore I'm trying to remember them all kind of spot there our lion loot I know that one um and then all of our community initiatives that we're doing with our community schools I'm really excited to see what comes with our planning uh after our planning Grant with our implementation Grant um because all of our principles our schools our our staff our our leadership teams are working so hard to really bring in the community doing things like mixers at rbaa doing parent nights science night and be a we and I
086could go on um but these are the things that connect our families like we were Hearing in daac so that they feel like this is all something we do together to support our student learning outcomes we appreciate our board our cabinet our administrators our bus drivers our custodians our instructional AIDS I'm going to miss someone so all of them and as well as our students our families and our parents for partnering with us and being part of the process I do have to shout out as I'm ending our elcap presentation um our student focus group um I I don't have favorites but I really do like that one um because I'd love to hear from our 11th and 12th graders um from rimh high mountain high school as they share their insights on what they're
087experiencing with taking the I already diagnostic what they're experiencing with um artificial intelligence um what they're experiencing with applying for college their a through G um and their Insight really helps also guide uh next steps and get their Insight so again we appreciate them all and thank you and question thank you I don't have any more question thank youcome moving on 9.5 educational Services presentation on the climate and culture at rim of the world UniFi School District based on Panorama and Calvin data during the 2024 2025 school year and I'm back back it's like I never left um all right so a climate and culture presentation what I'm going to go through with you today for that is can share with you um some of the platforms that we utilize or that we're starting to
088utilize um to gather our data and inform our needs assessments around climate and culture in our district and in our schools um so you've heard of Kelvin you've seen the little dog it barks at you and kind of does a little wiggle in the bottom corner and says answer my survey um and that sends out to our students staff and families and each year that we share that data I thought you might have some questions on what we ask right if you're a parent you don't see the student one if you're the staff one you don't see the parent one so I'm going to share with you what some of those questions look like on those surveys um and as you can tell we do use that in the out panm is newer to us
089we have uh recently done a training for our site admin our counselors and school psychologists and mtss leaders our goal is to wrap that uh or to roll that training out um a little bit further but we're still working on some of the back data with Panorama um and so as we roll that out you'll probably see more of a full impementation in 25 26 um but we have started to gather some data already and it has been used at our various sites um so and then of course Aries has we our student information system so looking at our Kelvin data I gave you a couple of screenshots so that you can see the favorability um and participation rate across our um student staff and family Pulses from last year to this year very similar
090very very similar one area that um I do kind of want to point out it looks like it's just favorability twice so I apologize looks like I have an error there so I'm pointing that out um so when you look at your participation rate and you look at the favorability one area that we're looking to increase um is participation rate across the board um a little easier to get students who have it on their Chromebook popup um but getting a lot more of that family um that family component um uh and participation it's about 10 to 15% in terms of our parent participation U but we're averaging in about the 70 to 80% range and so you might be wondering how do we use the Kelvin data well as you saw we use it in
091the elap we share it with our principles we share it with their mtss teams their School site councils their ptas and our Kelvin data was used in our community schools Grant so what do some of those questions look like um what are some of those questions that we asked to our staff um essentially you can see those examples of those questions but um those questions have been multi-year believe we started using Kelvin in1 uh 2021 and so we've utilize those questions over time um so that we can see the longitudinal data u based on that favorability of participation for our staff we look at emotional safety School participation instructional environment and physical safety so if you go back to that previous slide you can see on the staff favorability where they rated for those four
092categories and then you can compare what questions were asked to acquire that 82% to to remain or for that 72% to jump up to 75% you can see the questions spased on those tees so I gave you an example of that for our staff for our students looking at sense of safety instructional environment growth mindset and then for our families instructional environment physical safety and school participation it's not an exhaustive list of of all the questions but you can see an example of what they're best so going to Panorama um this is what the dashboards in general look like if you look for um a specific school and so you can see that you've got your U academics attendance and behavior for each of the schools for the next couple of slides there I'm sorry
093it's kind of small in terms of the writing um the attendance and the behavior data are coming straight out of Aries um and that's going to pull directly from your um discipline uh Tab and then from your attendance tab the academic component is one that we're working on it is pulling I ready data for the elementary schools as well as um your grade transcripts for your secondary schools so when you're looking at your percentage growth in attendance behavior um and academics academics is still in progress um and again looking at those percentages this is just a small snapshot of what Panorama can do there is a lot more disaggregated data that we can look at by subgroup by um um specifics by grade level um we can look at these things to support building um
094our student study teams our ssts at our school sites the other cool thing that Panorama does is it builds Trends so once we are using it for a longer period of time you can actually have it tell you give me a trend for academics and then give you a list of students that potentially maybe are in that DF range that are potentially in danger of failing so that our counselors can provide that um intentional support for those students so being able to utilize that data in support with your like your mtss site teams with their site plans and with the district as a whole um it's another location to acquire our data looking at Aries we're going to go to assertive discipline um something I would really love to highlight is a real Improvement across
095the board while you didn't necessarily see that in suspension rate on the dashboard when you look at the data for our um it think it's I forget the list that they have a weird term for what the list is called um but you can it disaggregates based on Education Code um a 48900 A1 is cause attempted to cause physical harm to another individual and that went from 118 last year down to 87 um so we're seeing a reduction in some of these higher leveles that um districtwide is that a similar time frame yes so um at the top it lets us pull a date range so we can pull it from one year to the next and again as we talked about our suspension rate is an area that we're working on with our students
096um and with our mtss teams across all of our sites um and again looking at that our foster youth is the area that had it impovement um but that suspension rate is based on a student who was suspended at least once so if they are suspended more than once it doesn't add to the percentage it's just per student suspended one and then our area to highlight for chronics and TM um across the board doing some great work um across the board and across our district on attendance um we're seeing great improvements um in the reduction of chronic absenteeism and again highlighting our Saturday school has been quite popular in the last month or two a lot of great activities happening at our sites so again we have another Saturday school coming up soon welome that
097whole so our cycle of inquiry is to look at this data meet with our teams and create those actions as you just saw with the elcap when we look at our goals we look at the actions and we look at how we're funding those actions it's important to Monitor and and review how effective those are and to bring that data to our teacher teams who are working with our students on a regular basis so that their guiding coalitions or leadership teams at the school sites can make informed decisions on you know what actions are working and maybe you know some new creative ideas to support their uh school climat so we study that process and we reflect and essentially create new goals or adjustments in those actions um and in our school um plans for
098for student achievement asses so what we've learned through our journey is to be proactive be relevant be rational responsive supportive and thoughtful and to recognize that we grow as we go and um as we work through um our climate and culture every year it's the great work of our staff and our teams um ongoing every day creating those Smiles creating that engagement and inspiration that brings our students into our classrooms our schools and the district thank you any questions too late too I'm sorry but do you do you have any idea why it is that the families feel less safe it's not significant but 2% that and and yet the students and staff went up and a feeling of safety any well and that is a really great question in terms of who is going
099to see that any changes and like a new action from an mtss plan who's going to see that first is likely going to be your students and your staff right and sometimes right as a mom like how was your day at school good you know I have teenage boy at home who says good right um and getting getting that shared sometimes um is part of our communication component which I'm so grateful to see um our communication uh Outreach specialist who's been helping us with those parent squares and getting that connection there but sometimes that that sense of safety or that sense of belonging um can be part of the past can be part of um a misunderstanding it can be part of things unfortunately that that can't be shared because there's a lot of confidential
100components as well um things that are being resolved wonderfully by our site and our staff um but we can explain the details of that so that we can protect the privacy of students so um you know a 2% change not a huge one but I'm sure there's a lot of factors involved and then one your graph do I'm sorry I don't quite understand under Panorama what those graphs actually mean when it shows the green 177% 17% what for example in attendance on Panorama I'm looking said the very first one from Charles Hoffman so Charles Hoffman you're looking at that 177% on academics that First Column there um we're still working on the academic column for elementaries it's not pulling all of their academic data yet I still don't understand what those right oh okay oh
101the green the yellow and the red yes perfect so your green is going to be like your proficiency um that your meeting Proficiency in the green area the yellow is going to be that intermediate and that red is okay this is the area that need Improvement yes like the dashboard and so Panorama can pull Trends so when we see those areas of red we can actually disaggregate just to the red so there our support teams at our schools can and can actually see a list of what students they are by School site and what they're trending on and what supports they might need okay you give suggestions on supports it's kind of like real time data yeah because it is pulling direct from areas or student information it's pretty nift it's a Nifty tool thank
102you Dr s all right thank you 9.6 Educational Services presentation of the annual update on the special education program this we see thank you all for is this on M red light red light on thank you all for having me today this is the special education update I apologize I wasn't able to give it last year I was home with a newborn so this is the special education update kind of for the last two years a little bit about the department currently um a snapshot we are currently at 437 or 73 students that have uh IEPs in our school district that is an increase from previous years last year we were floating around 435 with that we have 31 pending assessments currently um active in Stace our special education information system um there's a handful
103of things that are contributing to this increase in number one we got 33 students from August into our school district with his existing IEPs um and we never know when those kiddos are coming we don't know what those IEPs entail it could just be a speech IEP with a speech service it could be an extensive need Student that has a one-on-one and needs specialized Transportation um we we don't we don't know when those kiddos are coming and so um that has LED and will always lead to unpredictable Staffing um um with that we are continuously building the confidence of uh our IEP teams to exit students when they meet their IEP goals and no longer have areas of need so that's something that we're continuously working on and then building the confidence of our school
104psychologists to have those difficult conversations um and initial assessments when we um when a student does not qualify it could be something that the parent doesn't necessarily want to hear but building the confidence in our school psychologists to not qualify students and maybe to suggest a 504 if they have a disability that qualifies them for a plan with that we do have some current pressures we have 196 students currently receiving speech services um and it's not a rim thing it's a it's a national thing speech language Pathologists are impossible to find um and so we've been really struggling with that for a few years um we also continuously hear um and experience and witness um just the increasing behaviors of students not just students with disabilities but there are some students with disabilities that have
105increasingly um difficult behaviors and so we do have a part-time bcba who is at her um be board certified behavioral analysis um through a Contracting agency and she's at her capacity she's um 20 hours a week and she's running across all of the sites she now is at the high school for her first student assessment um she's at the the elementary schools but um her she stretched thin and then we also continuously work with the ed services side of the house on our ssts and special education assessments um really focusing on the M mtss teams um making sure that we have good plan du study act cycles and inquiry cycles and uh research-based interventions to slow down the referrals to special education assessments a little bit and then um the chart on the side is
106primary eligibilities um for our 473 kiddos we continuously and it's a it's a common theme that uh sld specific learning disability is the number one eligibility primary eligibility but um I know I discussed this last board meeting we are seeing and it's across the TPA uh Board of Directors for the Salpa ESP Salpa had the conversation just yesterday that um students with autism was very low percentage 10 years ago um and now you know we have 177% of our students with disabilities their primary eligibility is autism and so we're seeing a hike in that calwide and Statewide so um any questions about this one okay use myot um I do this is something that I I enjoy talking about um because I a data person um I call this or I frequently reference this as
107our special education report card but the real name is the annual determination letter and the annual determination letter is a letter sent to superintendent and SAS once a year and it's based on 17 special education indicators called the spis and I'll review what those are um on the next slide some of the indicators are compliance based and some of the indicators are performance-based and they all have moving targets so CDE published a graph um that says at you know in 2223 this is your target for this indicator and it either increases or decreases like suspension decreases cast scores increase so they all have moving targets um and our letters that we get are based on lag year data so the letter that we just got on February 3rd was for the 23 24 school year
108um with this this annual determination letter determines what compliance status and monitoring status we are for uh uh are placed in for CDE uh there are three monitoring statuses Universal which one school district in the state of California achieved so nearly imposs one so it's nearly impossible to achieve Universal um targeted they break it down into three subcategories targeted level one targeted level two targeted level three and then intensive level one intensive level two and intensive level three uh we have been at targeted level three monitoring for the last 2 years um our scula predominantly stays in that targeted level two or targeted level three area there is one school district in our Sala that last year was intensive and they moved to targeted um and then vice versa we had one District in our
109SAA that was in targeted that moved into intensive and it was because of a very small percentage I'll talk about that um coming with that here are the 17 indicators um the first is graduation um which I know Jennifer Miss Whiteside discussed um we did drop in our graduation rate for our annual determination letter this year um we went from Orange to red on the dashboard um but it attributes to um that data piece of of how the dropouts or the graduation rates were being recorded in calpads so um we predict to see an increase moving forward um something to note um not all of these indicators are weighted equally when determining what level of monitoring we are placed in for example level five um which is our least restrictive environment uh environment indicator is
110heavily heavily weighted in compar in comparison to let's say indicator 8 which is parent involvement um indicator five is something that the state is really focused on as that's our inclusion Initiative for the state and that's been a lot of uh the topic of conversation in our sua um many other SAS as well as internally in our school district which we'll talk about our inclusions studing committee any questions about the 17 indicators so I'm seeing the 2526 school year on there so that's uh projecting forward yes so uh for example for next year the CDE would like students with disabilities to graduate at a 79 percentage rate and as you can see it increases 1.5 it keeps increasing from the 2021 Square Year all the way to the 25 26 s year and that's the
111all moving targets so we could be increasing but still not meeting the Target because we increased but not enough for the moving Target um with that I wanted to hone in on least restrictive environment we have done some really good progress in this area students in the general education uh general education setting 80% or more the 23 24 school year Target was 64% and we came in at 6.66 but this was an increase from the year before um the year before was 56.81 so we are showing a positive trend um students in a separate setting we we meet that Target almost every year I haven't seen a year that we haven't met that Target and it's because we do a really good job at keeping our schools out of um nonpublic settings and So currently
112um and this is a smaller number than we have seen in the last handful of years um we only have three students at NPS schools and four students in County programs and then with that um something to uh note about the upcoming this school Year's data the data that will be reflected on the 25 or next February's annual determination letter is I did an audit of these percentages these percentages are calculated when um the IEP team meets and it's one Fiel on the IEP and if it's not calculated correctly um we are placed or our data is not clean so I did a audit of these uh in October and what it showed was the way that the calculations were calculated it wasn't calculating for lunchtime um you know our students with disability spending Lunchtime
113with their non-disabled peers or passing period with their non-disabled peers and so once we were able to do some training and um provide our teams with some resources we were able to make some corrections and now when doing internal audits those numbers look much more accurate so we're hoping that the 2425 school year annual determination letter coming up next February um will be meeting Target with that uh we do have a handhold compliance achievements um our parent involvement uh percentage is 99.77% compliance achieved for child find and then um significant reductions of overdues so our annual IEPs um from 22 to 23 went from 44 overdues to four and then trianal overdues from 21 to 3 and these two graphs show it really well so um over this last past year there's been a lot
114of significant a lot of hard work the administrators and the school SES and the case carriers have been really really working on holding IEPs on time and so um huge commendable you know Round of Applause to administrators on on making that a priority a focus with that we did also have some performance achievements um while the target is still not met because the target is to land in the yellow green or blue California dashboard um category we did have increases in both Ela for students with disabilities and math for students with disabilities um for the 22 from the 2223 school year and I know Jen is that's like the fourth time heard about it today good for that with that we do have a handful of areas for growth we um are still focusing and
115I know Miss Whit side referenced it on early uh tier one and tier 2 interventions really diving deep into the sst's um student study teams we did um launch it's called Beyond SST um It's A system that tracks the interventions that we are trying with SST teams um to hopefully gather better data on is the interventions that we're using for student study teams having an impact um so that's something that the elementary schools are using right now and um so that's something that we're continuously to focus on uh preschool LR which is um what I referenced earlier one school district in our Sela went from targeted to intensive and it was a very very small thing that pushed them over in conversing with our Sela directors and program managers we had less than 11 students
116in our preschool last school year and so we weren't able the data wasn't recorded if at the time of fall collection um on census day we have more than 11 students in our preschool our data will be reported and recorded and it would likely push us into intensive because all of our students in preschool are in a separate classroom in a um in a self-contained classroom they're not with their general education pierced and so that is something with um you know the preschools coming to our campuses um in the near future something to definitely consider is is to make sure that our students with disabilities are Incorporated with their non-disabled peers um with that just the continuous development proactive systems making sure that our educational Specialists are having focused time with our general education teachers
117and I know that Miss whites side and her toes have been doing a phenomenal job at including the educational Specialists on those guaranteed and viable curriculum days I've heard nothing but positive feedback from our um educational Specialists on how important that collaboration time is with their general education peers um this year uh of frustration in the past um is that um our fifth to sixth graders and our eighth to nth graders have really tough Transitions and our beautiful wonderful amazing mph team has to do all of those transitions because they get the fifth graders and they're um pushing the sixth or the eighth graders up to the high school and so they're inundated with Transitions and it's a lot of moving pieces towards the end of the year and so something that we are going
118to launch this year is we're going to have a full release day for MPH teachers and we have um uh portions or schedule where um three Elementary School teachers will zoom in with the mph teachers and talk like talk about each fifth grader going to mph um talk about what services they need what are their goals what would their best calendar be like or schedule be like who will be their case manager so that when the school year starts those aren't still questions up in the air um and so we're really hoping for um much more smooth transitions for our fifth to sixth grade and our uh e8th to nth grade students this year with that proactive system being put in place is that transition support strictly for special ed students or is that for
119all students we are having our Special Education team come together so um and then something to note about that a previous law was that when a student turned 16 they had to have what was called an individualized transition plan in their IEP which focused on um what they wanted to do post secondary with the ab 438 that now says by the time they enter high school they have to have that in their IEP which then put the um writing of and developing of these individualized transition plans on the E grade teachers um so we partnered with East Valley Sala and we did a whole training a whole day training on itps um last week two weeks ago and the second half of the day uh Rim High School teachers came and met with mph teachers
120and talked about what assessments they use for um transition goals and um services and what those Services look like at the high school so that the mph teachers can truly tailor and write those individualized transition plans because the eth grade teachers are writing them but the high school teachers are really implementing them so um and then we did transition to a new IEP system a web IEP retired and we got Stace um which most of California uses Stace and it's been a really good system but it has been a big learning curve and so we still have a lot of questions surrounding that um but we have found a lot of really good resources um and the St help desk responds within like 15 so once um once teachers figured out that they answer questions
121really quick we've actually seen an uptick and States help bests so with that my last two slides are focused on the inclusion steering committee we had our first steering committee a handful of weeks ago and um both Miss Whiteside and I were there and we had two East Valley Sala um program Specialists help with that and I went in very nervous a lot of anxiety because I knew it was a really difficult conversation um a lot of different mindsets about what inclusion is and what inclusion is not and a lot of different experiences throughout our district with inclusion and so what we really focused on was mindset we looked at the results pyramid and that pyramid says our experiences create our beliefs and those beliefs Drive our actions and our actions create our results and
122we cannot put new actions on on PO experiences with current beliefs and expect new results and so we really focused on what experiences have we all experienced in terms of our experiences with inclusion and what are our current beliefs surrounding inclusion so really focusing on the uh on the mindset and through that we were able to all come together and agree on um a mission statement for inclusion and the three catch lines are inclusive Partnerships safe learning and supportive collaboration and and so with that um something that this committee is really focused on doing is we plan to come up with a cohesive K12 inclusion road map which entails recommendations of of how are we going to have a cohesive K12 inclusion road map um with that we also are going to go to Arcadia
123Arcadia is a demonstration district for uh uh supporting inclusive practices they um K12 have really good inclusion models and so we're taking a team of 12 to Arcadia which was funded through a grant for um those sub release days on March 11th and then we'll be able to bring that experience back to the inclusion steering committee uh talk about what we saw talk about what we learned and it will help us um develop our recommendations for that 12 K12 cohesive inclusion model and that's where we are with special education any questions no I just I'm just I'm just excited about the um production in overdue annual IPS and the trian by we're really excited because we were several years ago Mr st came and we were really out of compliance so I'm just really appreciative
124that of the work that you guys have done to really get that number down so yeah Jackie is pointing at you so it was my weekly Monday emails to the principles and the cas carriers saying this this overo when is it being so what whatever that you're doing is working and it's so appreciated because having those overdues which lead to really not okay conversations and education AOC I mean attorneys getting involved and stuff just creates anxiety as a board when you see those numbers and you realize how out of balance and out of compliance we are so appreciate and Kudos everybody who's worked on this so hard to I'm not hyperventilating this year so I'm feeling very happy three and four are a are a getting to zero is almost impossible because there will always
125be a this is great yeah there will always be a reason as to why one is late it snaps to everybody he Shar enthusiasm do have a question but I don't necessarily know if there's an answer to this or whether it's been thought about as I do know um the first couple weeks of each school year it's incredibly challenging for our TK in case teachers where they're suddenly having a full classroom of kids that they're trying to get to know and there could be some real challenging kids within that group but there aren't the supports yet because these students have yet to have been formally identified and like right here you have a focus on support systems and early interventions another supped you also Ted Talk talked about early tier support so I'm wondering if
126there has been any plans to provide those additional supports or systems or procedures so those first weeks of school might find it to be a little bit easier to be able to get those students identified and um supports given for those students I do know at the beginning of the school year there are typically less assessments or trianal um than there are let's say in the spring or at the end of the school year and so our school cyes typically have a lighter load at the beginning of the school year um I know that we have a brand new school psychologist um at CH and VOE and his passion is working with students that have some difficult behaviors and so he um has done a really good job at um helping some of the kiddos
127that that need a little bit more Behavior Support I can think of two students at Boe in particular he talked to me about them today he has done some some magic work with those two two kids um I think we can also talk a little bit about the tomorrow's Readiness starts tomorrow whatever trust Grant okay and the resources that will be provided for the zero to 5 age group uh coming out of that Grant with what's on the agenda some positions you got it you got it so tomorrow's Readiness starts today as the the trust grd that we're working on with Sero county superintendent schools um and that's also part of building our preschool initiative that we're working on and some things you see in your agenda today um but the zero to5 initiative is
128not just preschool but creating connections referral opportunities for our families between the ages of zero and five and creating those connections and relationships at an earlier age so that we can build the connections to R of the world right and they know where they can go where they can go for support um and that's through our partnership with the early Ed director of Sam County Superintendent of Schools Dr Smith has really been helping us um support those initiatives and get some things up to the mountain that we know existing Yeah couple questions so first before you mentioned preschool I was wondering how close we were from moving from how close we might be from a targeted three to a intensive one or Worse about one or two preschoolers and but if we have preschool classes
129and we integrate our um we include our students with disabilities into those um classes with their non-disabled peers we'll be in we'll be in good shape and in the past did we target special needs students is that just because our preschool was more appropriate for special needs students what what got us to that place um historically it has been a a class there have been times a few years where there were non-disabled peers in the preschool um from my five or six years here maybe Jenny you have more history it has been a special day class for students with disabilities we have had one classroom and future promotion will go for broader BAS and this annual determination letter is is relatively a newish thing so um it's really highlighting the need to have inclusive settings
130for our preschoolers and then can you tell us who's on the inclusion committee there are so many people on the ining committee we have um a handful of uh Elementary School teachers um we have general education teachers Cindy Mooks on our committee um we have special education teachers at Elementary level we have a healthy representative of the middle school we have four or five Middle School teachers and then we have a very very healthy representation from the high school we have uh Mr Keeny who on the committee we also have um four general education teachers and three special education teachers from the high school how much experience how much experience is there um within our school district of inclusion past experience yeah and we have um that's something that we focused on in our first
131meeting for the inclusion steering committee is each site or um grade level was able to separate out in groups and and illustrate and paint a picture for the rest of the District of what does inclusion look like at Rim High School what does inclusion look like at Valley of Enchantment because it is vastly different and so um it was a really eye-opening experience because the you know Valley of Enchantment didn't know what inclusion looked like at the high school and the high school didn't know what it looked like at mph and so it was a really good experience for um each of the different levels to understand the different models and then realize oh the transitions are are difficult for our kiddos and so it's happening um at all of the levels it's happening a
132little bit different at all of the levels and that's one of the goals of the of the committee is to come up with a cohesive plan so that it's it's good for our kids I'm me it and and it's um I guess in some way sad the number of people number of students that are coming in with autism and how that's a growing I think unfortunately I think see appears it's going to grow and be a growing meat and and those kids have a challenging life that they're facing thank you for all your work and all the people that work with you 9.7 9.7 business services update of budget and en enrollment report by Jenny hin Chief business [Music] official hello thank you very much I don't really have much I mean I can maybe
133do this in under a minute maybe under two minutes Mr Hanson just asked me how long I'll [Laughter] be so he'll get me back for that later but it's all fun it's all fun so because I normally can I normally can go really long so the joke's really on me so I but really um that um we don't have much budget because we did talk about it um a bit last board meeting and then next board meeting which is just a couple weeks away we'll be presenting our second interim financial report um which will include um updated budget um projections with the um uh um the governor's the budget and some um outlook on what we might expect as the governor um prepares to issue our um our May Revis which will build the 2526
134Budget on and you one of the first um kind of blocks and building the budget is getting um um an idea of what our enrollment of course is because that's a known factor and then what it will be in the future in projecting that as accurately as we can because it's the major driver in um what determines our staffing needs and then what also determines our Ada which in turn um determines most of our unrestricted revenues so um you building on um enrollment is really that that first block and then it's of course multiple assumptions which we've talked about um I think at um you know extensive about colas um and um you know what what those look like and those are moving Target until the um Governor signs the budget in June and so
135right now you know we started the year with projections um for 2526 um at a two .93 Cola we went um in December it was um you know stated it could be 1.82 right now the governor thinks it's going to be 2.43 and then as we move forward you know there's um you know a couple more data elements before the um state will publish the cola and that we'll get that um in May so those data points are telling us some um negative news about what will last at um probably closer to what we were called in December more around two so and so all of those assumptions we start building on but we'll go into that more next uh not next year uh next board meeting with enrollment just real quick though 30 seconds
136um you have a um just a several of our monthly printouts as you know um business gets the enrollment and the attendance reports from the sites um uh my staff audits them and then we just kind of compile some some data for you we're Sal um uh officially have been um finished with month six which was ending um 131 2025 and we do um you know we'll go through the the end of school we do have you know an attendance month is um a 4-we period so that's not necessarily a monthly cut off date although it happened to be in January it work out that way and we're still sitting you know just around um 2900 students um an overall attendance rate though um of 90.5 eight and that's what I think we need to
137um you know look at because as we identify reductions needed in our budget um to address the you know spending less that we're bringing in um we can also look at Revenue increases which improving our attendance rate would give us some Revenue increases so um you know that I know we talk a lot about about that as well on ways to improve attendance in our district attendance rates in our district um and then you know how can we incentivize or get students excited to come to school and educating parents on um partial day versus full day and um how how we're funded um you know with that so we can maybe um try to capture a partial day which is a full day of funding for us um or take take advantage of our Saturday
138school opportunities which um allow us to recoup Ada for a student who goes to a Saturday school that has um an absence so those are opportunities that students can get service academically but also in turn um help the district recoup some of this low attendance so the other um there's there are some other items just for your review we have enrollment broken down more by um gr span and um and site um but just and then um uh you know picture usually um has wor a thousand words you can see on our enrollment graph you can kind of see where we are at you know kind of preco the co years all clustered right here um so that's the trend on you know um every year that goes by in a kind of a postco
139we can rely on projections maybe a little bit um better on you know what's the the um newent students coming in is our enrollment stabilizing and whatnot so you can see we're kind of in still that covid postco same same cluster um and then cor corresponding um 8 very similar um you know our Ada um is doing better now than it was during the covid years um very typical to dist all districts um in California um so we have seen an increase in ada8 but the rate is still far below what it should be and then our stride for 95 campaign I know we've talked about you know make maybe making a new initiative but I'll keep reporting it until we do we like it keep going well until we change it um uh you
140know we're at um um uh CH 92.9 for Brick and water school and RVA 95.4 um is you know they they hit the the 95 but brick and mortar um the CH and LA are are right in their neck and neck um so they can peek at that and except if you have any questions that's all I actually have for you today thank you that was more than minutes was it discussion action items 10.1 superintendent legislative and advocacy report fisal inact M do you want to introduce what you want introduce absolutely um so uh let me see here um we were through through um Dr savano um Caleb king um contacted us asking for us to um take a look at AB 327 which is a um assembly bill um for protecting schools from swatting
141incidents um swatting if you know I imagine you all have done your um reading up on it but as far as swatting is concerned it's a recent um phenomena of people doing bad things calling um uh legal authority to be a then saying that there is some sort of an emergency happening somewhere um necessitating um legal um uh law enforcement to um go into high gear and go to that location to be able to make sure that um they're able to handle whatever bad things have been reported and actually nothing bad has been going on so SWAT you know being like a a legal Force um it's costly when these false alarms are being made and some school districts are being incredibly affected by it yes also um other kinds of businesses homes all sorts
142of different ageny it's a form of harassment so um uh assemblyman King has um asked for our school district our board to take a look at his proposed policy and see what we if we wish to possibly Provide support to his effort and make commission to support AB 327 officially is there a second discussion we don't have a resolution in favor of supp that's true agenda well I'd say at this point this is a um discussion and an action item so we could forward that we have supported and then they can back okay so is there so in terms of being able to discuss supporting it we can as a discussion and an action it okay thank you so let's have further discussion any thoughts two thumbs up there you go all righty then um
143if we wish to put for some sort of a resolution I think that would be the next the vote right here as moving forward as far as a resolution so end of discussion we I'm going to call for a vote for us to move ahead with um putting together a resolution support in support of A7 thank you all in favor I I'll oppose that motion passes unanimously will be further further discussion on this topic anything else in terms of this uh legislative and advocacy with yeah um so with s i put in your board documents several documents from Sand and the updates I did put in the S dos report the um specific calendar for the California legislation so that we have an idea I know that in the workshop for March we're going to
144be discussing advocacy so that you guys can see where we want to Target because we want to whatever tomorrow is the deadline for Bill introduction there's going to be a ton of them tomorrow so we can sort through them and decide which ones we really want to have conversations we can also zero in on our own as Jordana you said R Centric although I have to say that that when csba does legislative week or we do meetings with legislators they ask in specific that when we're talking about whatever piece of of legislation or platform platform policy that you bring a story from your District to talk about facilities or talk about Transportation so um I know I've talked a lot about transportation and facilities in discussion so it has been Rim Centric in terms of
145the stories but if we want to develop a advocacy you know process for moving forward at least we can start meeting um in their legislative uh breaks and we just need to be cognizant of the dates of like when June 6 is the last date at for for each house to pass their bills then they convene in August and they switch houses so we want to make sure there's anything that we really really really want to oppose that we are cognizant of where they are in the legislative process so that's why it's really important for us we're too late to work with in this year within legislator to introduce anything that that of our need but we should looking at what really would adversely affect our district and get into the proper cycle so that's
146why I'm thinking March is the perfect time to develop the strategy to work with this calendar so I'm not going to go through all the federal advocacy report you guys can read that there's a lot of uncertainty um as I said going to Coast to Coast wondering who is there a Department of Education where is it where is this all going to happen so it'll be interesting um a couple of things that I do want to point to I also gave you what has been introduced it's the bill report you guys can look through and we can pull forward but I think that the more interesting conversation on Bill report will be happening after tomorrow but what what is the concerning bill for me is ab68 which is the school safety armed school resource officer
147I know that csba opposed this last year is being brought back what it is asking for is that every single school have an armed armed and that gun is armed and loaded resource officer on each campus and not only is it during the regular day it is also at each of each time children are on that campus so PTA has the glow dance at Lae or V an armed resource officer has to be there if there is a youth sports tournament at High School using the football field armed resource officer has to be there all sporting events the drama plays anything has to have that armed resource officer they make more than a teacher their salaries are up to $200,000 a pop and then you have they have the the need like are they going
148to be Avail um available or are they going to be like slps where it's really hard to get them because we are in unincorporated area so this one is concerned concerning um not not sure if this is going to have teeth so to speak as it goes forward this is a very expensive bill so I'm putting it forth to your attention if you would like to take a position or move forward on it um sanddabs did oppose unless amended um it well not this one sorry csba opposed it they're opposing it again the expense is too great um two-thirds of the of the districts in the state of California are doing budget cuts so if you have this money would come out of Pop 98 so you would have if you have a plan you
149really love to address school safety and and student wellbeing you're going to have to make some choice if you have a really great school psychologist but you have to put you have to have the armed resource officer and one has to go guess what who has to go it will the school psychologist so there would be hard choices um by districts if this was put in place because it is very expensive and that's why um csba we understand the intent we understand that there's many school districts that have this however it should not be cookie cutter fit to every single District every single District address addresses their safety differently um the other one that is interesting Mr Shannon is ab6 65 which is the paid disability and parental leave the um additional 14 um weeks
150for pregnancy um and for issues surrounding that um this is being brought back and the the reason why um this is a difficult Bild while the intent is great the problems have to do with the fact that you you haven't changed this we've gone back to the 30-day sub so if you have someone who is out for weeks and weeks and weeks and you only have a sub for 30 days you're going through that process of the kids are getting someone new over and over and over again and that doesn't do our kids any good so so the the whole appros unless amended by stabs is take care of the sub isue and then the other one is um pushing back on perks allowing for right retirees to come back and not having the issues
151with her and um being able to bring them back into the fold so to speak so that's why it's opposed unless amended because it really does have problems and the other part is it does cost money it will come out of prop 98 so again these are taking away from your other needs and classroom and it's difficult last question on that is there any and I haven't looked um this yet is there any language in there is if this 14 weeks how this will affect the teachers stes their um year calendar didn't get into that into that the weeds so to speak on that one yet um I can I'm going to legislative committee on the 28th so I'll bring it up I'll ask yeah because you have to work 75% of the school year
152in order for them to get SS on credit so I wanted to bring that up because it's has emotionality to it and it sounds like a great thing to support the teachers however there's pieces that need to be put in place so that the the students are not harmed and then the other things is that we're going to see bills on AI they are already coming in um concerns about um the inappropriate use of AI um AI in um things like the generative AI to attack critical infrastructure and that kind of stuff so it'll be interesting to see what happens with that just a point of reference the district's hosting the March 14th staff development day we have a a renowned researcher for public schools on AI we presenting on providing some guidance on um
153on a policy to address some of those concerns that that are coming out regarding the use of the AI so I just wanted to bring that up and to ensure that uh those welcome for anybody to attend that meeting do you guys have any thoughts so far a couple of thoughts um one I was surprised to see in the news yesterday that RFK Jr is is proposing or is talking about there hasn't been any official proposal to have late start for middle and high schools Bea National Endeavor so um when it comes to trying to tell our story you did a beautiful job in Sacramento but it may it may be helpful to that conversation at the state at the federal level yes in terms of how it's uh it could be it could impact
154students negatively and the interesting part is that there like his F unified um did L start for one year and it just didn't work and across the board staff um as well as parents pushed back on it so they went they went and took a look where they could um say that they are rural or they had um met the criteria to be exempt and then other school districts are looking at the impact of students that are Tri athletes they they they play three Sports they're in P classes they're missing a lot of instructional time because of the amount of periods a day they're missing for their gains and parents are like freaking out they didn't realize they didn't realize how much school their kids would be missing it sounds like a great idea but
155in practice it doesn't fit everybody it's hard especially for students who wish who are you know High performing students Miss that much school because the last couple periods of the day if they're athletes they're off at these athletic events and also those students who have had after school jobs those opportunities are not as available because they're getting out of school later um so unintended consequences um with with good intentions but um I think that that is going to be pretty dang horrible if it gets you know if it's rolled out to the rest of the country if if um they're not aware of all the different impacts of making such a choice um you should be invited to our school district and ride our buses and figure it out exactly um also well actually um
156from an advocacy stampo um it may be worthwhile for us to delay talking about this until March like you mentioned but in terms of as a school district and generators Dr saano mentioned one of the few were one of the few school districts that have working generators at every school side out of necessity to be able to make sure we can have students on campus and that's a lot of money that we're spending to be able to have those generators put in and maintain them and that's money taking away from other necessities that we have and it's a an additional burden that we are encumbering that other school districts are not having to deal with when we already have limited resources so in talking to jiny Dear csb so she was bringing after collecting information
157she was bringing this up to Chris re um at at csba so she's asking to hold up on going full force on generators until the and that's where I I know you talked to jonita and independently i' spoken to Jo and then I don't want to step on your toes and we're both doing the same thing and we couldn't because of brown act we can't have this conversation right and so until so anyways we'll get an update let's get an update of where her efforts are so that we can support and I'm going to if you want to be the point person person for her what was that you can I'm good either way I just don't want to have to split her time well s 28 fantastic Okay then if you want to sure
158I'll give fantastic and then just fair funding in general um I asked uh Dr Savana to share this lovely kind of dated spreadsheet and it really struck me how much within our County how much more we spend on Transportation um per student and our expenses are so much higher and our income tends to be so much lower and again it's it's really punishing and that's why I end up with the transportation talking point every single time yes anybody else want [Music] China okie dokie um then moving on on 10.3 superintendent actually no 10.2 superintendent approval to vote for up to five candidates for the 20 25 California school boards Association csba delegate assembly for sub region 16-b fiscal impact none um we need to select the five so we can go ahead and um determine
159which five we wish to have before we go ahead let's go ahead and move on to discussion and then we'll go ahead and gra a motion and um once we have that that those those proposals made so everybody has a [Music] packet that yeah everybody has one of these yeah do you want to take a moment and look through and see if there's anybody that you would um you want to come up at five ideally I'll do it okay awesome okay Maria Gomez Gwen Rogers Dr Gwen Rogers she is an amazing articulate person Eric Swanson um is very energetic and motivated he's the one that um started the desert mountain region economic blah blah blah blah um Kathy Thompson she's great that's an elementary uh School District um not really familiar with Ronald Newton from
160Mountain View I really had a lot of opportunity and ask Alan Williams from Victor Elementary he's that is also an elementary school district but I want I would like Maria Gwen Eric and Kathy that's four I'm torn between the last one and and Bill you were gonna say something no I was just asking which one it was last two so we are having we could have five I have five that are written down here I don't know who I'm missing I've got Gwen Eric Maria Cathy and Allan I didn't make a it's a coin for me between Ronald and Alan okay um mean just kidding just kidding there TV Land do you have any any thoughts on the matter not the spot well I I definitely want yeah you go Shader yeah no that was
161hanging out with him csba got a chance to experience him that was really good I mean you could you could determine area you could take an area because Ronald is from Mountain View which is you know out west because there are several from the high desert already you could take it in that conversation if you'd like right I got you so um and then where is Alan Williams from oh so yeah so that's why I'm saying is that we mix it up a little bit that sounds sounds compelling to me any um additional thoughts B in Jordan so I do like the idea of increasing the representation a little bit um I'm not familiar them either okay so their application I should say yeah um I would love a motion to um have us let
162me see every's the word um to vote for us as a body to vote for Gwen Rogers Eric Swanson Maria Gomez Kathy Thompson and Ronald um Newton um for uh as candidates for the 2025 California school boards Association delegate assembly for sub region 16b I have a motion [Music] second anybody sick is there any further discussion I'll say that um I did you know I did like his emphasis on increasing funding particularly around Ste that was kind of cool he a lawyer yeah okay calling for a vote all in favor I I all oppos motion passes unanimously okay 10.3 superintendent consideration and approval of the first reading of the board policy 7310 naming a facility board policy was submitted for revisions by csba and reviewed by the administration FAL impact none sove second bill any
163discussion I just going to say appreciate the time and effort me too calling for a vote all in favor I I all oppos motion passes unanimously 10 one4 Personnel Services approval of the coordinator preschool job description fiscal impact approximately $100,000 budget Source unrestricted and restricted General funds Personnel various accounts Grant funds motion so move second any discussion calling for a vote all in favor I I um all opposed motion passes unanimously 10.5 Personnel Services approval of the preschool sightly job description fiscal impact approximately $55,000 per position per position budget Source unrestricted and restricted General funds Personnel various accounts Grant funds so move Bill second dordan any discussion can we get someone for 50,000 the interview process so we'll find out um we we um I was contacted today personel was contact today about the coordinator
164um so um we're going to be speaking with somebody um on Monday but we feel very confident that we'll be able to um fulfill these positions thank you okay calling for the vote all in favor I all opposed motion passes unanimously 10.6 Personnel Services approval of the instructional assistant preschool job description fiscal impact approximately $34,000 per position budget Source unrestricted and restricted General funds Personnel various accounts Grant funds so Mo second discussion same question yeah um the actually this one would probably be a little bit easier to fill uh because it falls into our instructional assistant um with CCA F in with the uh instructional assistant job category so um we've already had some people interested in this position so this one will be fairly easy to feel um within our preschool and Shannon might
165just be helpful for anyone listening to bring out the fact of why we just said it's a csca position because it's not a um certified person in education right no so which one are you talking about one I was just saying so the instructional assistant yeah that's a classified position because it's a non certificated position to the California I remember right high school diploma is required for that position correct any high school diploma is required for that so that's good for the community to know have to be a certificate person no you do not have to be a certificate for the instructional assistant um but there is criteria for the teacher position and for the coordinator thanks welome calling for the vote all in favor I I all opposed motion passes unanimously 10.7 business Services
166approval of sanber Dino County Superintendent of Schools emergencies award contracts without bids for Lake ared Elementary this sorry okay I do second Cindy any discussion here calling for the vote all in favor I I I'll oppose motion passes unanimously 10.8 Business Services approval of purchase gen 300K va3 pH John Deere generator from multiquip Inc for use at Lake Arrowhead Elementary fiscal impact 172,173 it and and now I don't think we should do it I don't think we should give something to L Arro yeah I don't think they need a generator I don't know if I'm gonna call for a discussion just go to the boat emphasize that or reemphasize I think Dr seani you said in your report that LE ran on the same generator that were're voting on not the same exact one but
167same model anduse that is correct uh very successful pilot uh at the school I'm thrilled we need to do this every one of our schools need this and we are in a new era where we are going to have more times for the powers going out and we cannot be closing the schools because Edis whomever has caused does to not have power is this the same brand of generator that we have at other uh School sites is different um and then follow question if you don't mind um uh uh the these folks will not be our Service Partners for this right uh or more specifically it's not the same uh service folks that uh who servicing the Boe generator going to defer to miss hin my understanding I don't know if it's the same make
168and model gem I know it's a similar to the um it's a actually a higher level generator than Boe currently has um and it's because um um and it would be able to um run I mean because VOE generator we know that was too small for that site when um the decision was made to to put that in um and none of us really know the conversation around I was not on the board um but it would be um able to run um an elementary school um but U with the current load um I have my notes from after Jim's brain so I'm looking at him to say am I repeating it correctly um so but um like an elementary school and Below but it wouldn't be strong enough to run um like mph in
169high school and then um for servicing of that generator um is that a separate company I'm going to have to ask it will be under warranty but is it a separate company it's separate company I only bring it up because we have some issues with the V maintenance folks um so just curious I'm going to goe and call for the vote all in favor I I all opposed motion passes unanimously 10.9 Business Services approval of bid number 24 25-2 Cal shap ventilation and pound 24/ 25- 03 calate plumbing and acceptance of Master agreement and task order forms with Alco business Sol Building Solutions that might be Alco Building Solutions thisal impact approximately 1, 383,000 budget sources Cal shape restricted Grant funds and unrestricted general fund so move B yes second [Music] Jordan discussion calling for
170the vote all in favor I I all oppose motion passes unanimously 10.1 Business Services approval of resolution 25-12 establishing a Citizens oversight committee for measure e fiscal impact to be determined budget Source unrestricted general fund second discussion just a quick question or maybe it's tangential I apologize if it is but this is uh we we did agree to at the last meeting to close out major W committee and this is just reestablishing a new commit gr that is correct Jenny you want to speak on that same answer saw that you're okay um and then I also notice that you put an application on um gave each of us a paper copy application for anybody who wishes to serve on that oversight committee and then you also said that there's um applications that should be in
171the back table for any um community members who wish to serve on that on the um on the oversight committee and where else with there we have um all ready and geared up to go we have some public notifications um out reach that's going to um start tomorrow um we do have an email ready to go for anyone who reached out to us directly um and we have a spot on the um website that Mr Malone created that measure will have his own spot easy to find and the application will be there would it be appropriate for us to forward the email to say organizations like the local press for senior citizens okay yeah the parents we and it'll be available to parents forward it as well to the measure e committee to get it
172on their measure e site absolutely if somebody would take care of putting it on to the meury website someone with the power to log on and do that for us and and looking here it has a deadline of being at the district office by March 7th does that need to be a hard copy or could it also be a digital copy scent it can be a digital or a hard copy Dr Sano I think it might be helpful just to have a review of the timeline we don't have $71 million yet that's well down the road uh this committee will be overseeing that so just might be helpful to review that what's going to happen with the bond yeah good point Miss H and I were on a home conference today about developing that timeline
173please have share little B more sure I know we um spoke as we were gearing towards do we initia and move forward with a bond on what that looks like um and um so the um the $71 million Bond will be sold um for proceeds and and kind of Chunk it will chunk it out um you usually that happens over um 10 to 15 years period but what we need to develop first is a priority list of projects um which we're simultaneously working on we need to issue um an a request for proposal for an architect which we are 95% ready to issue that um and we had various meetings with Bond Council our financial adviser today um and what that looks like um we have um we're right where a district like our should
174be and as far as the timeline goes and um what that also entails is um you know working towards um putting budget numbers to um to that initial um project list because we do not want to sell you don't pass a bond and just all of a sudden have $71 million in in our bank account we have to sell those bonds and so um we have to look at interest rates we'll be working with standard and fors to get um a credit rating schedule and we'll have to re realistically um identify budgets to um those projects because we do have to um use the um 85% of the proceeds within three years of when we issue the bonds um because we're we're not allowed to sit on that $71 million and just collect interest on
175it because also our taxpayers would have to start paying on that right away so we want to make um make it as conservative chunks as possible to kind of ease those um payments um uh on behalf of our taxpayers and not also um we don't want to be unable to complete projects within our time frame that we have do so we'll be we've already um we talk I think daily and weekly about it we have Consultants that will be on board um on to help us uh wrap up our facility master plan that's required to have some tweaks to it with prop two um that's that that does not prevent us from moving forward because we wouldn't actually need that completed for a couple years actually because you submit that completed plan um with when
176you request funding and so we'll be really working with an architect um looking at kind of like a um phasing in um I'm sure several board meetings on what projects look like um renderings um yeah and um C about some of the fun stuff and um and start putting budget numbers to that and then we'll just kind of Chun we'll want to strategically chunk it out to be able to realistically complete the projects and be mindful of interest rates at the same time how much do we we have to pretty much hold to the facilities plan that was present publicly announced online with the vote facility master plan was written um knowing the language in prop two I mean I think we enlisted a a real um pro at it we've been really happy working
177with him um uh and thank you Dr savan for that contact too um and he wrote the plan um already knowing some of the pending language that was coming with prop 2 so and it's also vague enough to um really for have if we um start a project and there's unforeseen circumstances we have that at r modernization that you know you open a wall and sometimes you don't know what you have if you haven't opened it the wall in 50 years so um it's broad enough and vague enough to address those unforeseen um um circumstances but it also identified um over $114 Million worth of projects and we only sold 71 Million worth of bonds and we have about $14 million of matching funds that we're eligible for at the state to um and we're
178trying to maximize grants wherever we can Cal shape is one of them um one of the Cal shape um assessment tools will be able to be utilized um uh by an architect that we hire so so there's not going to be a duplication of efforts there and so we're going to try to the cops are one source that we are doing some work at cops so we won't have to use Bond dollars for some of those so we'll maximiz maximize as many matching possibilities as possible I haven't followed the news on this but has the state said anything as to how those funds that from the state bond that are going to be affected by the fires by the schools that were destroyed I don't think I have a good enough I wouldn't be able
179to answer I think as well um off the top of my head without having prepped that yeah I did attend a workshop related to that there are some um priorities that will be considered for some of those schools who suffered damage or lost completely Lo lost schools during the fires so um the advice we were given is to try to uh submit your projects the sooner the better and what else do we have to do to get ready to submit we will be meeting with our Consultants on modernization to really and look at those projects that are eligible and then to develop a timeline with us we still have not received the guidance top two so we're still waiting on that and and um we're not expecting full Guidance with prop two for a minimum
180of three months so um that's you know we um jumped on you know we hit the ground running real fast with our Consultants we got I think on their plant list one of the first in lines um because you know we're doing a lot of school districts um uh pass Bond so um you know that that's several months away on knowing exactly those um nuances under pop to I also want to share that many school districts have not even uh because the guidance is developed the master plan many school districts have not done that work so we're further ahead in that regards thank stay ahead please and so just guesstimate Jenny when might the first project start if we were to say to the to the to the community here's when you might see something
181when might that be that's a loaded question but what I can tell you is that we've already started um identifying needs um on more the operational side um between Mr Zimmer and I need more Mr Zimmer he's um and his hard work on um on some that's not necessarily classroom um but just so we can kind of be ready to um uh you know with more of our um our our equipment at at the sites um on infrastructure level but what we are bringing a um agenda item next month um to discuss um that in more detail what we can possibilities that we can do I didn't want to um Jump Ahead with knowing that another agenda item coming but okay so what about Jim Jim's not g like this but what about like the
182quote unquote easy projects like replacing the carpet the really nasty carpet no we can't do that we we really have to wait and we talked about that too we are starting a what are those easy projects that wouldn't even require DSA ex we're going to be working on that but we really aren't prepared to bring it to a board level for approval yet but when you think of carpet and even roofs we have um electrical needs at every single School site we have hbac needs at every single School site so we're not going to probably break into a wall um or break into a ceiling um and uh but have done the carpet first because knowing that we're so we have to also plan J smiling now you got Applause because I miss him he
183helps get it so we worked good together um so I mean we have to really plan that's why we were really strategically working on this comps and cow shape because we don't want to do something even if it's not our money if it's grant money and then have to just rip it out in two years when we're doing a modernization we want to stretch our dollars so we have to be mindful of yes maybe we can do carpet but if we're going to have to touch the ceiling why dep par it now so we are having those conversations she see yeah yeah I had a question about our B laws here that are being proposed I brought up last time but uh 5.4 the term no one shall more serve more than three consecutive terms
184so that's six years um so at six years maximum over say 20 30 years are we concerned about that pool of potential citizens um I've only been involved in my position on one of those turnovers in all honesty um and so but what I the small amount of um a a firsthand experience I had is that the excitement dwindles over the years because maybe you finish a project and our with measure w we had so much time lag because we were waiting for that St State money that we were eligible for and one project we waited seven years so we were having to just do tiny little projects until we got that that that round of of State money so I think you start off and then it dwindles because you finish a project you're
185waiting you're selling more bonds and that um um probably would be um great timing for someone also to maybe like it's busy and they are tired of the commitment um and then you get that kind of fresh round so we have to really set up because um for the next people too because who knows who will be here in six years right and so we set it up for um you know an easy transition and calendar um and there are some I highlighted it I thought somewhere but um I probably can't find it starting to stagger you know the um CH and kind of keep that excitement going make sense just want to ask yeah thank you question any further discussion then I am going to looking here call for a vote all in favor
186I I'll oppos motion now passes unanimously my mouth is stking all function 11.0 cons set calendar um we wish to have any items pull for separate V like to remind everybody that for item number 114 the earlier on the meeting went to post session we revised that agenda item so there is an updated Personnel page anybody need more time no then in that case I'm going to um ask for a motion on 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 11.18 11.19 and 11.20 a motion still mov cind is there any discussion I'm just going to say Yahoo for 11.9 UC see compass for yeah and of course fight on but I didn't want to be obnoxious thank you I am obnoxious but okay I'm calling
187for any other discussion call for the vote all in favor I I'll oppos motion passes unanimously I'm going to skip 12 for the 130 governance team future agenda items planning 13.1 time allotted for the Board of Trustees to request agenda agenda items for future meetings do I have [Music] any I have one for hopefully in May or June for us to um haveit calendar to vote on our new student rep for the following for for the 25 26 school year depending on what works with ASV we're dark in July no either may as or could be late May depending on we have our meetings in May this thing depending on what csba when they do it to get it done as soon as possible oh the CSP yeah just in August really August okay um
188and any others okay 14.0 future meeting dates regular board meeting regular board meeting March 13 2025 4:00 p.m. close session to 5:30 p.m. Open Session 24740 samway Chine California 92325 and then regular board Workshop meeting March 27th 2025 4:00 p.m. 24740 Sam way CR California 92320 92325 excuse me you do not need to reset clst session so 16.0 adjournment second now so Bill Cindy Jordan's not voting for it he's voted off the island we have a quum so it doesn't matter all in favor of uhing this meeting at 8:22 P.M