001If you have a comment that you'd like to make, you can do so via Assembly Gamut uh or you can do so via the live chat there in YouTube. With that, I'll give uh give folks online a minute or two to comment. [Music] Doesn't look like we have any comments on light. So, let's go ahead and move forward to reports. We'll start with the Robla Education Foundation. Oh, that's right. Mr. Revan is not going to be here today. >> Oh, he did send. Okay. All right. On behalf of Mr. Raven, the foundation report. A funding request has been sent out today for RF members for the strings request of 4,000 and another request for students with trauma for one-day basketball camp on August 30th, 2025. End of his report. >> All right. And also on
002his behalf, I want to give a special thanks to everybody who came out and helped out during the fireworks booth. I know that he very much appreciated the uh the assistance and support. And with that, we'll now move on to the Robble Teachers Association. and uh CSEA. With that, we'll move on to superintendence report. >> Good evening. Um kicking off our 2526 school year. I'll keep my report short, but I wanted to acknowledge that we had another um successful great summer. We had more teachers involved in our summer program as well as um our um after school programs with freedom school and start. So it was another great summer. You'll hear a presentation by Miss Kabis um during the presentation section um before school and after school registration is open. We opened it on August
003Monday, August 4th. So families can register for a before school as well as after school programming online. Um, last Saturday we had Ready for Robla. I do want to give a big shout out to Ramon, Miss Horowitz, the social workers, all the staff, and I say staff and their family members because we did put them to work. Um, thank you to uh Miss Claudia Madano, our um director or supervisor of child nutrition. Her husband and son did all the barbecuing. So, thank you. Um thank you to all the community partners because we had a wonderful turnout of students and families and all the things that they provided were really really um helpful. So thank you for their partnership. It was another great event. Um HR department has been really really busy. We did a lot
004of wonderful hiring and I know when we get to that section, Miss Sullivan is going to announce all our new uh members to join who are joining our red roba family and we have many in the audience today. So you'll see who they are and what position and we are so excited that you are joining our team. Um Monday is our all district professional development. Um the first day of school is Wednesday, August 13th and then um back to school nights. You know, parents, I want you to be aware that there are three schools that have their back to school night before school starts. So, um, Taylor and Maine, their back to school night is Monday, August 11th. Glennwood is August, excuse me, Tuesday, August 12th. And then Roba and Bell will be two weeks
005later, Thursday, August 21st. So, I just wanted to say officially welcome to school year 2526. It's going to be amazing. Thank you. >> All right. Now, we'll move on to board member reports. We'll start with Trusty Divine. >> Nothing at this time, but I would like to say I hope everybody had a great summer vacation and is looking forward to the new school year. >> Mr. B, >> I'll keep this quick. I am looking forward to this school year. Um, want to thank everyone for all their contributions as said about all the successful to participate lifetime grad but I do appreciate all the work hard work and effort that went into them um and thank you for that and I really am looking forward to this school year and just one real quick statement I
006know that we didn't end um our last school year on the most positive note that we were normally used to but that's okay we made a lot of progress and we learned a lot and u we've moved ahead and I just want to give an open invitation to our community. Um we have a very friendly we're friendly and um we have a friendly superintendent or friendly superintendent assistant. We have friendly board members. We're here for you. If you have questions, if you want to know something, if you want to get to know us, come talk to us, okay? We're all here for you. We all want the best for our children. And yes, we're here for you. So if you have questions, comments, concerns, whatever, um had a chance to participate. Uh my my granddaughter
007Jane was a was a part of Freedom School this this summer. So had a chance to to participate with them on a on a few things. I went I was a uh I was a guest reader. Um I read my daughter Jane's favorite book. wasn't the book I picked, but she wanted to choose the book I Love You, so I wound up reading that book for her. Uh, also participated on went to a couple of field trips with them. Uh, and then also was part of the day of social action at River City High School. It was really kind of neat to see students from all over the region, the Sacramento area, uh, there gathered promoting public education. So that was that was a lot of fun and and participated in their uh video that
008they did on on freedom school. Uh and then also attended their back to school night. So that was kind of my my quote unquote education summer other than reading every day with my granddaughter. But it was a it was a busy summer. And I'm going to add on um we should post the URL of u of your video. Um he gave a great speech and u nice and powerful and empowering and people who know us they know that argue all the time but we really um and it's just nice to see some of those in poverty. So I think you should share that URL or put it out somewhere so that we people can see the messages that I I will definitely do that. Okay. And with that, we're going to move on to presentations
009and information. And uh let's see here. Let me go over here. Oh, here we go. Uh 2025 summer academic and enrichment program overview. >> Can you hear me now? >> There you go. >> Um good evening. Uh my name is Alejandra Cabris and I am the assistant principal over at S Street Elementary. Um but during the summer I was summer school administrator. This is the second year that I've been the administrator for summer school. And this year we housed it at uh Glennwood Elementary. So I'm just going to do a quick and short presentation about giving the program overview. Uh staff there should be two Fs right there. enrollment and that's also wrong too. It should be student engagement and activities correct. >> Yeah. >> I'm not I'm gonna just keep on moving. And so,
010like I mentioned, um our summer program this year was at Glenwood Elementary School and it was open through the entire school district. Um, our instructional time began at 8:00 in the morning and it went till noon. Um, and then after that they went over to the start program. Um, our focus was a lot of language arts and math. Um, language arts, most of our teachers focused for about an hour to an hour and a half on language arts with the component a K through third really focusing on phonics and improving that phonics and fluency. Uh, we also did a reading comprehension, fluency and writing in those grade levels, but that was the main focus. Phonics was the main focus for kindergarten to third grade and then four, five, six, it was really really pushing the
011writing and the comprehension, reading comprehension. Uh for math, our teachers did a minimum of 45 minutes daily. Um and that was either reteing lessons uh focusing on key components uh with math or using our SABS uh curriculum that we currently have. Um we did have enrichment. I was lucky enough to have one music teacher and two PE teachers. And so every classroom had 40 minutes weekly of music uh TK through sixth grade. And uh physical education, they got 40 minutes twice a week. Every classroom TK through sixth grade. And then um other teachers threw in some science and some art in throughout the day. That supposed to say our staff on top. of our teachers. We had 16 classrooms, TK through sixth grade. Um, out of our 16 teachers, I will say that 11 of
012them came back that taught with me that taught the previous year for summer school. So, while we were at Maine, um, each classroom had an instructional assistant. Um, there was one aid in each classroom, uh, helping and supporting that classroom teacher. Um, like I mentioned before, we did have enrichment. We had one music teacher and two physical education teachers. And ours, we were lucky enough this year that we had also extra support staff. Um we had an inclusion specialist. We had our behavior specialist. Uh we had our one of our social workers during there. And we still and we had two additional IAS to help and support students uh with their needs. And so whether those students had an ST or an IEP, we were we had extra support to help them out this summer.
013Okay, here we go. Um, our enrollment uh a decline as the week went on. So, summer school was from June 23rd through July 11th with uh the exception of July 4th of July. We had that day off. Um, our average for the first week was up 220 about 228 students. Um the highest we had was 252 on the given day. Um and then it declined a little bit. Not too bad, but it was about 15 students per class for the first week, 14 for the second week, and about 13 for the last week. Um our least day that we had enrollment was about 197 I want to say. Um it's about the same as the previous year. We had around 230 kiddos daily as an average the previous year. Do you know why behind or
014have an idea? >> Um, what I noticed is that so the previous year it was held at Maine and more students from Maine I want to say from that more in that area went there. This year we although we have it's open to the entire district and we had students from across the district since it was at Glenwood this year the majority of the students were we had a bigger bolt of Glenwood students. So, I think it's just since we move throughout the district, I think it just the area that's around usually attends the most. >> Do you have any ideas of what we can do for combat? >> Well, I know that some of the teachers did talk to me regarding about maybe inviting like physically inviting parents, students, and sending letters out, reaching
015out to those parents, uh, especially the students that are in higher need of academically. um and personally inviting them to summer school um not just the open invitation to the entire district to see if we can get more. >> Do you think um any transportation concerns or anything? >> No, we uh but the transportation we work with the transportation department and they bust kiddos in. Um Patty's great, fantastic. She sets up a bus route and so um I don't think that's an issue. student engagement. Um, so the teachers had the flexibility of using uh technology. Um, they were they were able to access Chromebooks for the students. Uh, they did a lot of hands-on hands-on manipulatives. I walked through a classroom. They were planting seedlings um and different things. Uh some of the teachers brought
016manipulatives from their own classrooms and um added added more engagement activities hands-on into each of the lessons. Um since our each classroom had a teacher and an I aid, we were able to provide a lot of small groupoup instruction and even one-on-one instruction throughout the day. And they just threw I think some of the teachers felt that they can throw a lot of variety different variety types of activities during the summer to make it more fun and engaging. And so that's some of the things that we saw throughout the three weeks that we had. And then that's just some pictures of some students um out at PE uh working with some math concepts. And the last picture is actually our kindergarten class uh very engaged throughout the entire day. And short musician myself. >> And
017I want to clarify um Miss Coast is just doing a presentation on our summer piece. We will ask um start as well as freedom school to provide their regular updates. They nor normally do it I don't know if it's August or September where they're going to give a summary of the whole year as well as um whole year the academic year for 2425 as well as the summer. So this is why this is just for Miss Congress. >> So um it says that you had TK through sixth grade teachers. So we had TK students in school like going into TK or coming out. >> So was our T current TKers uh move transitioning into kinder? And so it like our sixth graders were our past sixth graders before they move on into middle school. >>
018And your your presentation was not short. It was right size. >> Now this was the first year we had TK in the summer school. >> No, we had TK last year also. >> Oh. Uh yes. >> Uh we have uh one person for public comment, Blake Cudworth. >> Good evening to the board. Um as you know, my name is Blake Tudworth. Um it's great to see you all again. Uh Superintendent Chen did just mention that we will be, you know, back in either August or September to give our full report. Um but we did uh just want to take a moment to um one I definitely want to thank Trusty Doo for your involvement in Freedom Schools this summer. Um which we will discuss in the next board meeting. Um but I also want to
019take the time to introduce um someone who will be a part of the team this summer uh or this school year that is given that you know the school year will start in this coming week um before we get to that next board meeting. Um and so myself as you know someone who's been fortunate enough to oversee the afterchool program at Taylor Street at Miss Cabver's campus the last two school years as well as the Freedom School summer program the last uh five summers now including this one that just passed. Um I will be taking a step back from the robo district um when it comes to my role. Um and I will be uh still staying with Roberts Family Development Center in uh a tutoring space and mentoring space. Um and so I'm really
020looking forward to that change. Um, but Miss Martinelli here will be uh our new uh coordinator for the afterchool program. Um, I know uh Ramon and Superintendent Chen, you may have got a chance to speak with her a little bit. Um, for the board members, I also just wanted you to get a chance to meet her and to give her a chance to introduce herself to you. >> Good evening. Thank you. Oh, sorry. Um, good evening. As Mr. Cudworth said, I'm going to be the new site coordinator for Roberts Family Development Center. Um, and I'm looking forward to working with both Taylor and Glenwood this year and getting to know all of you. Um, I'm very excited. Thank you so much for having us in our program. >> Well, welcome to the Robbo family and
021know that you have some very big shoes to fill. Not not just because he's so tall. >> Thank you. >> Looking forward to working with you. Can you tell us a little bit about your your new position? >> Um, yes. So uh the position that I will be entering um is being uh a tutoring uh like specialist and coordinator. Um so our organization uh has beyond just our afterchool programs uh where we have usually about a 15 to1 ratio uh with each staff member having about that many scholars in their classroom. Um we recognize that a lot of times certain scholars may need a little bit more support academically in specific subjects oftentimes English and math. Um and so uh as the tutoring uh coordinator for the organization uh I will be finding uh college
022students who are on the pipeline to become uh teachers or uh teachers assistants um vetting them making sure that they are you know someone that wants to do this work in the future um and is qualified to start working with the kids um and we will be bringing them in primarily in the Twin Rivers district but also looking for opportunity to do so in Roba and the Thomas' districts um and having them work with focused small groups of four to students who are currently a little bit behind on those key subjects um and getting a chance to kind of uh you know use a curriculum to help speed those scholars up so that they are getting back to grade level and feeling like they're prepared for the next school year. Obviously the last couple of
023years a lot of our scholars have been falling behind academically and so the goal is to get those scholars who are further behind um you know caught up uh and the easiest way for us to make that happen beyond our normal after school supports is to bring in um people who are learning to become teachers right now to work in those settings. So that will be my new are you looking for students who are you looking for students who are um in their master or even undergrad >> or even undergrad as well. Um we uh will be working with the SAK State um teacher credentiing program um and finding some of their um students are interested. But we will also be um partnering with SAK City College as well as UC Davis um to uh
024also find scholars or you know undergraduate and masters um students at those schools who are interested um in this work and then they'll apply the way you would for a typical other you know position. Um and then once we have that, you know, situated with those staff, uh they will primarily be working with our Twin Rivers District, uh where Roberts Family Development Center has been involved for quite a few years, but we'll also have the opportunity hopefully um which we'll be communicating with, you know, uh Superintendent Chen about, um potentially bring some tutors to the district here as well in Roba. Last year we did have three SAK day students um who helped the Roberts Family Development Center after school program at Taylor Street um working with uh about 15 of our after school students
025in total um and three different you know groups uh to make that happen. Um the local universities um some of the local community colleges also participate in college course um you should take a look at that students that are very interested in the education department of education. >> We definitely will I appreciate that suggestion. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay. And with that we're going to move on to the consent agenda. I'll entertain a motion to approve. >> So move. >> Second. Been moved and second. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed. Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. >> If I could pause um and allow Miss Sullivan to introduce some of the individuals that who are in our audience that are on the consent agenda. >> I too am short. Um >> right size.
026>> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> Welcome board members, Superintendent Chen, Mr. Ardo, my colleagues here in the audience. I'm excited to introduce some new faces tonight and all of our visitors here and online. So, um we have had the opportunity to welcome eight new classified leaders in our district. Um and we're very excited to have them. Um some of them have started already and some of them have start dates in the next few weeks. So, we're very excited to have them join us. And what they don't know is they're going to get to come up and speak on their own. So, um, what I would like you guys to do is I'll call you up one by one and I just like for you to share with the board, uh, where you're coming from
027and a little brief snippet as to why you're excited to join the robo family. So, I'm going to go ahead and start you. This is Alexi Vacas and he's joining us for our ELOP ASUS coordinator position and I'll put that up. >> Good evening everyone. Super excited to be here. Um it's truly a blessing to be part of a community building aspect that you guys have provided here for Robla. Uh I'm coming from SUSD Sacramento City. I was a program manager there for expanded learning specifically in the Oak Park area. So you know I'm used to high up rates and the thing is that differentiates here Robla and SUSD is that community aspect and I will do everything in my power to contribute to that because we have such amazing resources and we have such
028amazing staff, families, students. um is just so wonderful and it's truly a blessing to be here. Thank you. >> Good to have you. >> Welcome. >> All right. Next, I'm gonna ask Charerelle Branch to come up. She's joined us as our community schools district coordinator everyone. Um so yes, I am Cheryl Branch. Um I'm excited to be part of the Rob District. I was uh previously in some other districts. Um and as far as the schools is concerned. I was at the Folsson Cordova Unified School District um at one of the elementary schools as a site leaison. So um I love the the all of the different ways of the community schools, all the different um pillars, all the different uh ways that we're reaching families and it really fell in line with a lot
029of what I've already done in my career over the last 10 11 years. And so, um, I really fell in love with it last year and I got involved and so moving to Robola was really that it's closer to home for me and it's in like putting all of this work into my own community um, which I really love and I get to see it transform my my own neighbors and my own community. So, I'm actually excited to really work with uh, Jay and um, and then there's like five three other rooms. So, >> thanks for having me though. >> Good to have you. All right. Next, I'm gonna pick on Monique Benjamin. She's going to be our site liaison for Main Avenue. >> Good evening. My name is Monique Benjamin. I previously worked in
030the Golden Unified School District as a long-term sub and then I was promoted to the technology instructor. From there, I kind of moved it on to higher education, worked in a few high schools and a few different districts. And for my love, I've always been for I understand the need that starts young and you can get a hold on it now and they get a better service later and working with the community is something that is very very truly a passion of mine and I'm grateful to be here as well. Thank you so much. >> Welcome back. >> All right, next I'm going to invite Jennifer Guzman up and she's going to be a sight leazison as well at Glenwood School. >> Hi, good evening. My name is Jennifer. Um I was previously at United
031Way and did sisters. Um, and I've worked with Rob for about four years now, and I am very excited to focus on Rob and really just hone in on the community and get to know them better. >> Good to have you. >> All right. Next, we have Mr. Jay Ridley and he's going to be the liaison at Taylor Street. [Music] Can you hear me? Uh, good evening. My name is Jay Ridley. I'm pre previously from SAK City Unified School District. Um, I worked at a community day school and um I'm really excited to be here and uh lend my my skills and efforts to the new community. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Welcome to Hi. And finally, we have Magda Chavez and she's going to be the site liaison here at Roba.
032>> Good evening. My name is Magda Chavez. I'm super excited to be part of this family. Uh my experience, I started in public education since 2007. You guys do the math. I work with Tech City Unified for almost 10 years. uh wearing different hats working with the US families and um children in need and uh recently I was working with migrant education under BCOE. So because of title one funding uh he got eliminated. But at first I was devastated but then when I met you guys and just the welcoming since the beginning with the interviews and the smileies and the happy faces, it made my my choice to become part of this family and I'm super excited to be part of the robot district and I'll be at Rob Elementary. Thank you. >> Thank you.
033>> All right. We had two additional managers who couldn't join us tonight, but I'd be happy to share a little bit about them with you. And the first one is Abigail Gomez, and she is joining us from Center Unified School District, and her role was much the same there as it will be here in Robo School District, and she's going to be supporting Bell Avenue um elementary. And then we also have um Crystal Martinez, and she has joined us from Elkrove Unified School District. um and she's actually our uh director of child nutrition services. So, she's taken over for Miss Lee. Um and we're very excited to have all of them and just welcome them to the Robo family. So, thank you. Thank you. >> Well, welcome to each and every one of you. We
034are honored to have you here with us. Uh we look forward to working with you to benefit our kids and we just I just thank you for the uh time, energy, and effort that you're about to put in. It's going to be an amazing year. >> It's going to be an amazing year. >> Should we let the public know what their position when they say they're going to be working with say robot or what exactly what they're going to be doing for the community outreaching? Explain what those positions are. Did I put that right? Did I phrase that right? >> Yeah, I did. >> Yeah. So um so we'll start with Alexi and his position is the ELOP ACES coordinator position and that is um the person who will oversee and support our afterchool programs
035that uh and also the before school programs. We do have one vendor who's supporting that effort as well. Um so he will coordinate all of those efforts and and help us with the reporting and things that are required of um the ASES grant as well as any reportings that are required for ELOP. >> Oh no, I meant the support staff each site like they're going to be positions, right? >> The community school community school positions. Sorry, I meant to specify those. >> No problem. Yeah. So um on the community schools grant we have the district level coordinator who will oversee all you know the efforts of all five sites and that would be Miss Charelle and then the site liaison u four of whom you met tonight. Their roles are to help bridge and develop
036relationships um with different provide service providers that can help support families um and students in a variety of ways. and um and those some of those services may be specifically tailored to that school site and whatever that school site's need is or it may be something that'll be beneficial to all of our our campuses. And so the six of them will um spend a lot of time collaborating on what's working well and what's not working well, looking at data um and determining what kind of partnerships really can enhance our families experience and our community's experience in our school sites. Is that helpful? >> Yes. Well, I I knew what their jobs were, but I wanted the community to know why we were bringing them in because they're really here for the families >> to help
037provide the best support for them and their children. >> Definitely be a friendly face at drop off and pickup because one of their main roles is connecting with families and determining what the needs are for each campus. >> Thank you for that. Okay, we're going to go ahead and move on to action items and we're going to start with I'm waiting for it to come up. Item A, approve the 202526 expanded learning contract for the Roberts Family Development Center. >> Move. >> Second. >> Move and second. Discussion on it. No, this is just um the official contract to have Freedom School at Glenwood and Taylor for the 2526 school year. >> Any additional discussion or debate? He know we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries
038unanimously. Item B, approve the 25 202526 service agreement with Spark Inbound Marketing. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Discussion. just continuing the partnership with um Spark Inbound Marketing. They do our rap cards, website updates, LCAP infographic and things um marketing for the district. >> Okay. And this is the annual contract for for those services. >> Yes. >> All right. Uh any additional discussion or debate? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item C, approve six crickets expanded learning management software contract for school year 2526. >> So moved and second. Is there any discussion? >> This is the platform that we um piloted over the summer. Um we have requirements starting for the 2526 school year in terms of attention attendance reporting and
039so six crickets truly speaks with Q. So, we're going to pilot it for the 25 26 school year. >> Excellent. [Music] >> It was a learning opportunity for sure because it was Zoom, but overall it was a good experience. Any additional discussion or debate? We will move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item B, approve 202526 declaration of need for fully qualified educators. >> Second move and second. Is there any discussion or debate? >> Yes. I would just like to share with the board that this is an annual requirement of CTC um California Commission on Teacher Credentiing that if we're going to hire any staff members who don't have their either preliminary or cleared uh credentials like somebody of an intern status or
040on a provisional uh permit of some type. Um we have to have a declaration of need on file with CTC in order to approve their status. How many um I know you've already given me this number as part of another report and I completely forgot it. How many uh folks do we have that fit that description? >> There are presently 11 who fit that um description. Um that includes two. Um I did the declarations of need for more so that I don't have to revise it in the event something comes up to be fair. So, the numbers that are on it are higher, but I presently have 11, two of which are long-term substitute teachers who were on the consent agenda for approval who are backfilling some of our maternity leave, which allows us an
041opportunity to um have some salary savings as compared to paying our vendor swinger scoops. >> Got it. >> Any additional discussion or debate? Hearing no, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed? Benton. Motion carries unanimously. Item E, approve 202526 services agreement with Scoot education for substitute teachers. >> So move second. >> We moved to second. Is there any discussion or debate? >> Just the um additional vendor that we use for substitute services. We use their services about equal to what we do swing. Um and it's just to provide that support in the event of an absence. Any additional discussion or debate hearing? No, we move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item F, approve 202526 certificated assignments under
042a provisional internship permit. >> So moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? >> So the conversation about the declaration of need. Now we're approving those individuals who will be under a provisional permit. And this one does specifically require board approval as they are individuals who are not fully prepared. Um they are ready for an internship program. They just haven't been able to enter one yet. And so we fully expect them to enter one either midyear this year or at the start of next year and then they'll be in their full internship process. Is >> there any additional discussion or debate? Hearing now we'll move forward to a vote. All those in favor please say I. >> Opposed extension. Motion carries unanimously. Item G, approve 202526 substitute salary schedule. >> So move. >> Second. Been moved
043and second. Any discussion or debate? >> The last time we addressed the substitute teacher salary schedule was in 2324 school year and we recently did a survey of local districts to determine what their current daily rate is. And we're proposing this as a slight increase to what our former rates were. It's about a $35 per day change. Um but it will keep us competitive with our surrounding districts. Um and we're working on efforts to recruit day-to-day on call subs so that um we can have a salary savings again and taking some of the money away from the vendors and bringing that service inhouse. >> Any additional discussion or debate? >> Will this affect what we pay our substitute teacher vendors? >> Yes, it will. um it should reduce that cost. And um last year, Herardo,
044remind me, we were at about a million dollars on a was not only substitute teacher services, but also instructional assistance substitutes in the areas in which we must provide that support. And so we're looking to reduce that cost overall. Um it's about a a 10 depending on the vendor um and the position. Um it's about a 10 to 13% savings overall for that daily rate. Oh, so overall it could save us $100,000 a year >> potentially. Yes. >> Fantastic. Thank you. >> Any additional discussion or debate? Hearing no, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item H, approve approve add nine instructional assistant one early childhood 6.5 hour 10-month positions effective 202526. moved. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Discussion. >> Okay.
045This is a new concept for Robla. Um we're adding these positions in order to um better serve our preschool community. Um what it does is it allows us to have some consistency between the morning program and the afternoon program to where we can keep um one single aid throughout the day with that single teacher. Um so it'll bring some consistency to the instruction amongst other things and help the students have the same face every day. How we have formally functioned in this role is we've had a 3.75 hour position in the morning and then one in the afternoon. So you have two different personalities and skill sets and so you're not really bridging that consistency for instruction. That's the first um bonus. Um the second bonus is that it will allow us the opportunity to
046have um support um on either side of the instructional day because the students tend to attend two three-hour blocks. So that extra half an hour allows an opportunity for that supervision at drop off and pickup for the students um and makes sure that we meet the licensing requirements for title 5 and 22 because the students have to be in a certain ratio um between qualified staff members and the number of students. It's a 1 to eight ratio. Um so there's three staff members per classroom that meet that requirement. And then the final bonus is that this brings a more full-time position to our staff members who will have the opportunity to participate in full-time benefits. Whereas when they were in the part-time 3.75 positions, they had no option of benefits or retirement. So this will
047hopefully bring some longevity to those roles as well. >> I can tell you as my my wife started off working in the preschool. If this had been an option, she probably would still be working in the preschool. >> Yeah, I understand. She loves what she does now. She loves what she does now, but she love she loves working with the little >> What will this be bring our student to um I forgot the word wrong summer. Um student to instructor ratio in the TJ program >> in the TK program or >> this is preschool sorry in the preschool program. For the preschool program, it'll maintain the 1 to8 ratio, but it'll just bring that continuity between the morning and afternoon sessions. And then also in our full day child care program, the kids will see
048the same people all day rather than in chunks of smaller chunks of time. Yeah. Less transition for the kids. >> Okay. >> Any additional discussion or debate? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item I, approve the 202526 agreement for professional legal services with Danis Wallver Kelly. >> Second. >> Moved and seconded. Discussion. >> This is the contract for um legal advice regarding land acquisition. [Music] >> Any additional discussion or debate hearing? No. We'll move forward to a vote. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. Item J, approve 202526 service agreement with Madison Enterprises, Loy Madison. >> So moved and seconded discussion. >> This is just a rate contract that we need to
049do every year. Mhm. >> We bring that to the board >> in order to obtain that big discount as we update our technology to them. >> Just for for uh public's uh understanding, how much does uh do doesate actually wind up saving us each year? >> 90% of the cost for the rate. Yeah. >> So, this is well worth what we're paying. >> Yes. >> Okay. Any additional discussion or debate? Hearing move forward to a vote. Those in favor please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item item K. Approve roof contract change order one and two with BART roofing company for replacing the roof at Taylor Elementary School classroom wing 2 and rooms 11 and 12. So >> move second. >> Seconded discussion. I think it's self-explanatory. There was a lot
050of um more work that need to be done and so that's the change orders one and two we need to that's what we got to the board is work that I we we already fully transparent completed at the school but we went to the board for the change order that we did. >> Okay. And is that all >> it's done? Yeah. >> All right. >> Yeah. There's a lot a lot more than than >> Okay. Any additional discussion or debate hearing? Hearing none, we move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed. Extension. Motion carries unanimously. Item L, agreement for special inspection and testing services with Ranny Geotechnical, Inc. and Main Avenue for Main Avenue Elementary preschool modular edition project. >> Second move and seconded discussion. Yeah, this this contract and
051and many of the following are regarding the the work that we're doing on main avenue replacing those um those portables that we talk about it and start the constructions. That's a required work in order for under the DSA approval and the specific work that we accomplish. So, so we kind of that's that's what it is. It's a required work. This uh I want to just say we're new. All of these contracts um the contracts provide some estimate and they have been um passed to Bmp first or process to review the the cost that is the the the work that is needed and the staff ask questions to them and we go back and forth and and um that's our new something that has been working um very well with our new construction company. Those all
052these contracts that you will see that's that's what it is. That's a lot too because in the past the main construction company used to do a lot of this work and this year we have like a contract individually so we could save more money for the district so we don't have to pay the extra cost associated with it. >> Okay. >> Any additional discussion or debate now move forward to a vote. All in favor please say I. >> I opposed abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item M, approve agreement for DSA inspection services for Main Avenue Elementary preschool modular edition. So move >> moved and second. Any discussion or debate? >> This is just the inspection cost from like from now all the way to the to the end of the construction. So that's again required by
053DSA inspector of record. >> Any additional discussion or debate? No, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item N, approve agreement for hazardous material testing and removal for Main Avenue Elementary preschool modular edition. >> Move. >> Second. >> Moved and second. And discussion or debate require >> pretty much what it is. Okay. Uh, any additional discussion or debate? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed. Extension. Motion carries unanimously. Item O, approve agreement for special inspection and testing services with Rainey Geo Granny Geotechnical Inc. for Main Avenue Elementary preschool modular edition project. >> Been moved and seconded. How is this one different than >> Lain? That's a good question. And I think that's one is for the
054for the the way I understood this general I let you explain that. >> Well, yeah. O and L. I mean they're >> Oh, I know one L. L actually is for Glennward and uh and O and O is for uh for for Main Avenue. >> Don't say me. >> Yeah. So the title is on but actually >> the is is the because we're moving the modular from let me try to explain modular. So it applies for both right we're moving the module from Main Avenue to Glennwood but it's actually I was actually a question the same question that you asked. I >> because because it needs to be installed at Glenwood that there needs to be testing at Glenwood as well and we're using the same company. That's that's the difference. It's the same amount
055of the same work a different size >> and it's for the same project. So it's under the name of the project. Got it. Okay, that makes sense. >> We're paying for I want a separate. So for parent I'm paying for Glenboard I'm paying from from me. >> Excellent. Okay, now that makes sense. All right. Any additional discussion or debate >> hearing? None. We'll make move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. Item P, approve agreement for disconnection and safe uh safe off sewer and water connections in existing classroom portables for Main Avenue preschool modular edition. >> So move. >> Okay. Okay. And I'm assuming this is to shut everything off over at Glenwood so that you can move it. >> Got it. >> Any
056additional discussion or debate? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. >> Maya, you say Glambo, but we carry it out on May. You Yeah. >> Okay. Then you are you are correct, right? All right. Approve uh item Q. Approve agreement for electrical disconnect of existing classroom portables for Main Avenue Elementary preschool modular edition with EGA network inc. >> Second. >> It's moved and seconded. Any discussion? >> This is just for the electricity with the other one was for the water. >> Any additional discussion or debate hearing? None. We'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Opposed. Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. >> I I actually have a question. Since we're turning everything off and moving
057everything, do we have a plan in place to like block that whole area off? Like what? I I didn't see anything on the votes for that >> to block everything >> like at Main Avenue where the the portables are being moved since they're I'm assuming the sewage lines and the electrical. >> Yeah, there's a there's a fence around there that you go there that you went to. It's it's all done. Okay. So, they can >> I'm sorry, I just I didn't see anything about like paying for something to protect the area. >> Safety is one. Number two, it's very prior. Yeah. >> Okay. That's actually part of the whole main project. Okay. Part of uh Magguire has >> Sorry to sound ridiculous with the question. I just wanted to make sure we were No, it's
058a great it's a great question. Yeah. >> Okay. We'll move on to item R. approved purchase and op purchase and optional installation of two ADA compliant ramps for the Glenwood Elementary School portable. So move >> second. >> Been moved and seconded. Discussion. >> Yeah, I just as part of the ADA compliance and DSA, we need to uh ramps at the new uh portables. That's what it is. It just all metal rams. had to be build for for the specific for for a new portable sorry I would I would imagine a portable would come with a way of getting into it. >> Yeah. So the long the ones that we have when this is just you can explain that better because I say like why we had to pay this again every time we move that
059we have a new portable because this is um ADA compliance and through DSA you had to put a new RAM the RAM that you have from before you cannot move it. Um I don't don't ask me why the rule but that's the rule. Okay. Anything to add? No, you try to read them. >> Yeah. >> Big ramp. That's who that is right there. Getting that money. Okay. With that. Okay. So, uh any additional discussion or debate hearing? None. We move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Opposed. Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item S, approve agreement for geotechnical services for Glenwood emergency portable installation. So move >> second move and seconded discussion. Anything? I'll entertain a motion. We already have a motion on the table. Uh seeing no discussion, uh we'll
060move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item T, approve agreement for construction of new foundation and installation of portable for Glenwood emergency portable installation. So move >> second. >> Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Sounds pretty explanatory, self-explanatory to me. But any discussion or debate hearing? No. Move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed. Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. Item U, approve agreement for installation of carpet tile with 4in rubber base for Glenwood emergency portable installation. >> So moved. >> Second. Been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> Opposed extensions. Motion carries unanimously. Item V, approve 202526 service agreement with learning Genie for preschool and transitional kindergarten academic assessments.
061So move >> second move and seconded discussion. >> Um this is a um services that we that we started last last year for uh we have two contracts. One is for preschool and one for TK. Yes. So that way our our staff can access and continue our students continue learning um better. This is um science um a service that has been proved through science. If >> if I could add that okay go ahead Mr. >> Sorry about that. Um yes this is um they have three components for the TK teachers. First of all I want to say thank you to director Saledo for bringing this to us last year. There's a very cumbersome part to collecting the data piece for the DRDP which is a major component that we worry about collecting all the data
062pieces for that. It was very cumbersome took a lot of time and energy for the teachers. So when we use this platform it's all in a hand on an iPad put all the information into this source. Um it was very easy for the teachers to use um and they were thrilled to have it this school year. So we of course wanted to continue it for them this this school year. But there's also other two components for for TK that was very important to us. One was a family piece of engagement and the other piece was um a very high curriculum piece because a lot of it was AI generated lessons and they have all kinds of foundational lessons in there for all everything that they have to cover and deliver with their instruction is in
063this site. So it's basically a lot of their curricular pieces. Um so we are very happy to continue with this if we give this get this opportunity. >> Okay. >> Any questions, discussion, debate? Marina move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Abstension. Motion carries unanimously. Item W, approve the 202526 memorandum of understanding with Sacramento County Office of Education math piloting program. >> Move. >> Second. >> Move the second of discussion. >> Um yes, we um have a wonderful opportunity work to work with our Skoey partners. I've had many times where we work with them on many projects throughout the years that I've been here. They are great partners for us. There's a math pilot that is coming. It's going to come in November. There's about 60 vendors
064that will probably be on the state list to choose from. So, what we're going to do is work with them. Um, and they will do some planning with us. They'll help our team with the thinking processes of what we want to prioritize as far as the component components and elements to what we want in our curriculum. Um, they'll be working with us probably on that in the spring. We'll go into piloting the following school year and then we'll adopt after that. Um, this is free to us. They got a um funding from the Gates Foundation. They got they gave us $9,000 to work with them and they're really helping us out being thought partners in organizing and planning this with us. So, it's a great opportunity. Once again, >> I'm just curious because I know
065that the state department state uh board of education uh had put out kind of a a ma math guidelines kind of uh discouraging algebra before the nth grade. Does participation in new programs like this does that affect the pacing of of the math of the math curriculum at all? In other words, are they designing it to slow down the pacing uh such that you know our kids may not be necessarily be getting the the the opportunity to have more advanced as I guess as as advanced as you can possibly get in the sixth grade. >> Haven't heard that it's hit us because we do algebraic things in our system. >> Um and we have been not told not to. >> Okay. I just I just wonder whenever I hear new programs and new curriculum, I
066know that because those that's kind of the state recommendations. I'm just concerned. I want to make sure that new things that are coming in aren't include aren't according to that guideline because I really want to make sure that our students if they are prepared to be to have more uh uh higher higher level math that we are that we have that available to them. >> They will. >> Okay. the math curriculum is more than I think eight years old and usually when we do adoptions the cycle is around 8 years but they just released the math frameworks and they're hoping that the vendors or publishers um will be in alignment with the new math framework and that's what the pilot will help >> that's a great point I just my experience in education is that
067we generally tend to reward the innovative not the effective and so just because something is innovative does not necessarily mean it's effective In fact, earlier we were talking, they're talking about the summer school program. They were focusing on phonics after a couple of decades of being away from Oh, I'm sorry. Now they call it, what is it? Science of reading. Yeah, phonics. So, I just want to make sure that we're uh once again that we're giving our our students every opportunity to succeed. I I very much appreciate the the answer that you were given. All right. Any additional discussion or debate? And now, we'll move forward to a vote. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed? Abstensions. Motion carries unanimously. >> Um, and let's see. Now we're on to board member requests
068for future agenda items or reports. Trusty Divine. >> Nothing at this time. >> Trusty Barnes. >> I would love to hear about um our vision services and what we're going to be doing this year. Which schools and what services? I I ask about this every year. Yeah. I always ask about this, but as an ending, so on that. Um, I know I brought this up before, but the incident that that occurred at Fort Stewart really made me think of this. For those of you who don't know, there was an active shooter situation at a at a military base in Georgia. And one of the things that really made a difference in that case was, you know, there were five individuals who were shot. Uh, all of them received immediate trauma uh trauma uh uh medical
069care. I mean, they were people who were there, soldiers who were specifically trained in first aid, trauma first aid. And I know that as we continue to do our campus safety stuff, I've always say if we could look for a vendor who can provide, uh, that sort of training, uh, I really would like us to look into that. And, uh, with that, uh, this meeting is ajourned. Thank you so much. access and I know it's geometry and then my son was at my son was at started